skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is any of that a bad thing?

If you can't utilize someone to their potential because of some political or social barrier, that's an absolute shame.
Ask HN: Privacy Respecting Fitness/Sleep Tracker Recommendations?
Any recommendations for good fitness and/or sleep trackers? I'd love to use some, provided the data they gather stays mine and local to the device. I'm savvy enought to use apis or setup a local server if needed.
Six per cent of bots spread 31 per cent of fake information on Twitter
With $15 an hour working 50 hours a week in Brazil you’d be in the country’s top 5% earners. So yeah.
occasionally i need to restart the GUI. using tmux locally is very helpful for that. also sometimes i log into my workstation from remote, like when i am travelling. it's nice to be able to access the running session.
They will if EU citizens report them.
Network effect of medium could be one
"People tend to put greater trust in messages that appear to originate from many people. Bots prey upon this trust by making messages seem so popular that real people are tricked into spreading their messages for them."
"There is a law in China that says citizens and corporations are required to cooperate with its intelligence services."
The US and its intelligence services have been doing the same with US tech companies. " The US National Security Agency (NSA) infected hard disk firmware with spyware in a campaign valued as highly as Stuxnet that dates back at least 14 years and possibly up to two decades – all according to an analysis by Kaspersky Labs.The campaign infected possibly tens of thousands of Windows computers in telecommunications providers, governments, militaries, utilities, and mass media organisations among others in more than 30 countries. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/17/kaspersky_labs_equa...
Error-correcting code. They're referring to ECC memory, which is more reliable to bit flips than normal memory, useful in cases when sensitive tasks can't afford an unexpected bit flip.
"The index is unnecessary complexity. Amend to commits instead."

How is that easier than the index and how do you undo changes?
Maybe. Time will tell.
If it were so simple and accessible why don't American citizens migrate to those countries to take advantage of the low cost of life?
My old 2015 MacBook Pro without a discrete GPU had amazing battery life. I'd get at least 8 hours, and over 10 if I wanted to sacrifice some of the brightness and turn bluetooth off. I got upgraded to the discrete GPU model and I could get at most 6 to 7 hours for the same workload.

Nowadays, you can't even get a 15 inch MacBook Pro without a discreet GPU.
> this entire country is the size of a single, largeish US state

So why is there no comparable railway network in those largeish US states that are comparable to EU countries? Or in the many (almost all of them) states that are smaller than France and Japan?
> Every government will spy on their citizens to some degree, but that doesn't make them equivalent.

I only got my girlfriend a little pregnant; not like Joe over there, who got his girlfriend fully pregnant.
The comic is eye opening but kind of one sided. My partner never wondered how the car (that she rides in every day) gets cleaned or the oil gets changed, how the tires seamlessly switch between seasons, how the filter on the dishwasher or washing machine get cleaned, how ours is the only shower drain in the world that doesn't get clogged with long hairs, how every hernia inducing item just moves to the right spot by itself, how computers get updated, and dozens of minor annoyances get fixed around the house, etc.

The difference is I don't ask her to do it, and I don't broadcast what I'm doing to end up on a list. It needs to be done so I do it. If you keep tally you will not have a good time either way.

On the other hand stuff I don't need or want moved (my work stuff in my closed home office) always gets "ordered" according to her standards so I have my doubts about whether much of that behavior is society's fault or some people's innate wish to see some things done a certain way or in a certain order. It has to be done based on an internal list of needs or ideals, not because society says my stuff has to be ordered by her standards.

When you're substantially better at something just do it. Your partner will do the stuff they're better at. The rest gets split or shared with a simple prior arrangement. If the result is what matters don't get stuck on the how. And if something doesn't need to be done, don't do it. You'll expend mental and physical energy for no good reason.
"anonyfamous" is an awesome word / concept. Looks like a couple of folks are using it as a handle, but I say you go get a book deal now. I'd buy a coffee table book with a dozen examples unmasking anonyfamous folks!
That is the popular HN narrative about Nacchio.

Another narrative, to my mind equally plausible, is that Nacchio was essentially a crook who got caught up in a wave of corporate crime enforcement in the wake of the Enron scandal for making somewhere between 32MM (Nacchio's experts' take) and 100MM (the USG's take) selling stock he knew, sometimes within days, would be worth a fraction of what he was selling it for.

But die by the sword, perhaps live by the sword: the NSA scandal provides Nacchio's best tool for rehabilitating his image.

I think a read of the case on PACER sort of bears out that narrative. You can just skip to the competing sentencing memoranda (note what Nacchio stipulates to) to get the particulars of what he's charged with, and get a sense for how sweeping the behavior was and how likely it was to have been tied specifically to NSA.

I don't like NSA any more than you do, but I think I like corporate crooks even less.
Selling games direct from your website in 2018
I'd love to know why people downvoted me with no explanation.
Should be required reading for anyone pushing the “teach kids to kode” mantra in Western schools. Or the myth of the tech talent shortage.
The Fading Battlefields of World War I
Because they have a lot of other things to deal with. I have enough other things I have to learn and I simply don't have the time to become a git expert.
Is that really so bad if said country hasn't done anything for you? People are not born with the duty to support "their" country in any way possible even if said country has not supported them.
And I tried to acknowledge the difference in my original post, by saying it’s “just a different way to skin the cat.”

But that’s why I added the edit, because I had to acknowledge people in the US love the credit system like people in China will love the social credit system. That’s unfortunately probably the most important parallel the people welcome the systems.
I feel like this could be the prelude to a high school math question on exponential growth.
Does it matter if the website doesn't have any physical presence in the EU?
Never said they built it. But at its peak (I'd say around 2006-2010) it was owned by Yahoo.
Well, I know it very well. I just don't understand why the ugly glyphs need to be combined into one font.
What are these dozens?
> When you live in China what you get is basically 0 crime

This is far, far from the truth.
When they talk about the train in Russia, they really only talk about the train in Moscow. Everyone I know says stations are very nice, and schedule during peak hours is like a train/min. BUT, at the same time, it's much much more packed than here in new york. Even during rush hour I don't feel pressed against other passengers here.
I was responding to your false assertion that f`s` is the exact equivalent of f("s"), which only holds true without interpolations. f`a${b}c`) becomes f("a", b, "c").

Secondly, the answer is Babel. Since the string's components are part of the AST, it can optimize and compile it as the original poster claimed.
> All of this to say that I think Chicagoans find some odd reasons to put themselves high up in importance.

This comment doesn't ring true in general.

My experience is that most Chicagoans usually correctly rate their city. Chicago has been historically perceived as one of the great American cities, with indisputably great achievements (Chicago architecture, economics, transportation, mercantilism, etc.). And today, people love living in Chicago because it's a major cultural center that has many things to offer over smaller U.S. metropolitan areas, while still being much more affordable than coastal cities.

But unless they are very young, immature and non-world-savvy, most Chicagoans usually also confess there are problems with crime, crooked politicians and (ever increasing Cook County) taxes. Chicago today feels like NYC in the late 80s, but with modern infrastructure.

Not that many Chicagoans will gush unreservedly about their city. Chicago is not the kind of city that invites unexamined boosterism.
No, trust me. It doesn't matter what languages I use to express myself, if I post about one specific topic I'll be banned every time. There are probably others too but you'll never know because the moderation is opaque.
In Moscow, for example, the last trains from the end stations depart at 0100 and arrive at 0200-0230 or so at the other end, and the first ones depart at 0500 or so depending on the line.

I wouldn't call those 3-4 hours closing down for the night. Even so, this break is used mostly for track maintenance where one can't have trains rolling.

Station cleaning and rolling stock maintenance is ongoing, construction/repairs that do not require cutting electric power to the trains are being done 24/7.

So, no excuse for NY.
Free travel? By your own definition China has the defining characteristic of a totalitarian state:

https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/07/13/one-passport-two-syste...

https://eurasianet.org/xinjiang-uighurs-grapple-travel-restr...
> but for third worlders, $15 USD must be mana from heaven.

For acceptable Indian developers this is normal wage. You get all the benefits of outsourcing from something like this as well as all the problems.

He's bought out many contracts through companies that were not doing so great. Over time the companies that he's servicing contracts for will understand the quality of code they are getting for their money and perhaps change their minds. I give it 10 years.
During WW II, the US and GBR allied themselves with Russia. Russia was run by one of the biggest mass murderers ever (#2 after Mao). He violently suppressed any opposition and violated peoples rights with impunity. Even people who fled to other countries, he had hunted down and killed.

Just looking at that, it makes no sense. But, looking at the bigger picture of Japan and Germany, it made sense for a time for these democracies to ally themselves with a monster.

Iran is controlled by monsters, and Egypt/Saudi Arabia are the primary force opposed to them at this time.
All batteries decay.
Well, the NYC subway is still grossly mismanaged, about 20-30% of it is down even on the best days, with tens if not hundreds route changes and station closures. On weekends and at night up to half of the system may not work. Because the system is poorly maintained, the trains run slower than what they should be, causing even more delays.

EDIT: edited percentage to 20-30%
That’s the rationale. Of course, the Saudis do a lot to promote terrorism themselves.
I thought MuleSoft (that did RAML) joined OpenApi a couple of years ago. https://swagger.io/blog/news/mulesoft-joins-the-openapi-init...

What type of features would you like to see in openapi?
I don't intend to be indifferent, but no one deserves anything. Not pain, not freedom from pain. This sort of entitlement is what leads to suffering.
Well, perhaps you'd like to try harder? Or do you think they don't deserve your empathy? In the end, people with infinite money have to deal with many of the same issues we deal with: relationship/personal issues, health problems, death of close ones, etc.
Insulin shortage could affect 40M people with type 2 diabetes
Daniel Herriges wrote some great articles about the "activation energy" of walkability, and what significance that has for suburban America:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/8/14/the-activation...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/8/17/the-catch-22-o...
it's downward pressure on US wages without the benefits of having an employer, but for third worlders

Right, this was the deal offered to Western factory workers: you, your family and your friends will be tossed on the scrapheap when the factory that employed most of the town goes offshore, but some people you’ve never met 10,000 miles away will be slightly better off, and some other people you’ve never met will enjoy slightly cheaper consumer products.

And people wonder why those people vote as they do.
LinkedIn processed 18M email addresses of non-users for targeted advertising
And that’s different from the Saudis how?
Not a great analogy there are governments and there are governments who gove you social credit scores and stuff.
Chinese cities literally use face recognition to publicly shame jaywalkers with their name on big screens:

https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/2174564/facial-...

Bad record on human rights doesn't exactly cover it when the full stupidity of that fathoms on you. Jaywalking in itself is a manufactured crime.
> Will you go to a lawyer that requires a bus+train? A restaurant? A party u r not too sure about ?

I live in Madrid, which has only a decent public transport system, not a great one like Tokyo, and I would absolutely do all those things you mention. Those thresholds only exist if your public transportation system is really bad.
Being reelected during the time of war almost always happens. Bush's victory was predicted.

Trump seems like a wildcard but his actions are predictable.
so what, they could've made a version with optional GPUs, problem solved.
And over here in my university in the UK half of the students are Chinese and most of the ones that I talked with plan to continue their studies and careers here and in the US. What you claim goes both ways.
You say that "it would take days or a couple weeks to learn XYZ framework/library/whatever to the level of competence that is required for the position", but in my experience finding people capable of self-learning XYZ framework/library/whatever are exceedingly rare and almost impossible to interview for.

Conversely, teaching is really, really hard especially when you have other work to do. There are just so many gaps in a newbie's knowledge that, unless you're prepared for it, add significant friction to support and development operations. I would dearly love to hire someone at whom I can throw work and have them mostly be able to figure it out on their own. Instead, I've had to hire people who don't even know the fundamentals of my various technology stacks. This means I spend a _lot_ of time teaching new hires how to (e.g.) use the Unix command line before I can even think about teaching them how to follow our good current web server deployment practices, use our version controlled configuration management infrastructure, and troubleshoot problems in the front or back ends. Meanwhile, my management expects me to complex offload work items (including service package design!) onto junior staff while not taking into account the effort required to train them. Here on the other side of the hiring line, it's frustrating to say the least.
I have an Amiga and C64, so I'm very familiar with the art form. Again, I don't understand the value of combining them in one font. I can understand implementing each of the respective fonts as modern fonts, but not this.
Yes, but teens are using other platforms than Facebook:

http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/05/31/teens-social-media-tec...
PySyft Step-By-Step Tutorial
You cut your losses is what you do. If a relationship isn’t working, you cut your losses.
I doubt that's the reasoning, but even if they could've made it slightly larger. No one cares if their mini is 5mm larger on one side.
Project Blacklist3r
The UK? Not gonna happen.
howzit bru
Would they still do that if we made friends with them?
probably a secondary system for auditing..

previously worked on-site at a web hosting company which had similar sorts of spy systems in place - these weren't really checked or used as a primary measure, but more that spot checks were done to see if people were 'generally busy', and also when actual productivity (support request qty/quality) was down or discipline problems occurred the systems would be used to inspect/audit other performance.

programming is for sure less 'mechanical' than routine system support support requests, but I can see the same sorts of measurement as useful in a remote work / no trust environment.
Anti-vaccination stronghold in NC hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in 20 years
How do I actually make a GDPR complaint? Like is there a .eu website with a form for it?
So weird that the same company that invented phishing for email passwords turned out to be unethically and hopefully illegally using data.
Has nothing to do with citizenship, but residence.
Northern Ireland was always treated differently to rest of UK
I switched to Safari when it added favicons to browser tabs the other month. The CPU-usage/battery difference is huge. I also like the new Safari extension paradigm and have ported some extensions of my own that could be improved by moving CPU-bound work to Swift.

I only use Chrome for development now.
> you can do the same on linux with the compose key. But it isn't very intuitive, discoverable or rememberable.

Well, LaTeX itself is not very discoverable either
Declassified 1949 CIA manual gives warning to disinformation on social media
It's all about Israel. Iran wants to destroy Israel, erase it from the map. Saudi Arabia is happy to keep its mouth shut in exchange for weapons, oil money and influence.
The Iranians are very aggressively attempting to take over the middle east. The Egyptians Saudis are attempting to prevent this. The battlefields today are Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.
You can, of course, compare countries to states but sadly too many of these articles make sweeping generalisations and don't mention the compromises. Most people would much rather have the convenience of a car if possible and cheap but in Japan it is often neither due to space constraints and generally parking is illegal on most roads.

Compare Texas, lots of open space and historical reasons necessitates car travel except for major urban to urban transport which could be done by train but why bother? As in the UK, the acceptance that cars be supported for some journeys means that on balance, they are better to use for most others. Even for me, the coach runs direct from my town to Heathrow airport in a similar time to a car and pretty cheap but it won't always run when I need it so why not drive (or get a lift)?
Of the Government, by the Government, for the Government?
As long as it serves content on EU territory, GDPR applies.
I just reported them to the UK ICO.
It's not rhetorics. It's perspective.

* Power structures never favour the weak - it takes a democracy (distribution and separation of powers, education, free speech) to handle that, however imperfect it can be, it's the least imperfect we know as of today. And, there's no prospective new system at play anywhere today.

* Automation favours who controls the machine.

* The state controls the machine.

* No democracy, no control. Failing democracy, no control either.

* That's dangerous.
anyone pushing the “teach kids to kode” mantra in Western schools or the myth of the tech talent shortage wants this to be the case -

the opinionated well paid tech workers who have more hard skills than the managers are a political threat..
From everything I know about software development, I can't imagine anything of value being created under such circumstances. 50% of software development is not coding. I suspect what is getting created is crap, but crap that can be leveraged to make money and get that 3 billion to keep going up.

That's the sad part about the article to me - at one time the emphasis in computing was, well computing. In our modern age, it's money.

Glad I was there for the good part.
as an aside there's a super easy keyboard shortcut for screen locking now in OS X 10.14 cmd-ctrl-q.

As I've swapped caps lock and control in the keyboard settings, it's very easily became second nature - due to where my hands sit at rest on the keyboard I only really need to move my 3rd finger to q to hit it - even easier than having to look down at the keyboard/touchbar
That is a super risky proposition. It is not so easy to just pack up shop and leave a country. You will have to leave behind most if not all your friends and family. Also, you need to have adequate savings to make that leap, which most people do not have.
The 2020 launch window is going to be an exciting one indeed.
ConsenSys: Sustainable business or billionaire’s folly?
>While xfitm3 was being rude, do you honestly think the OP was unaware of suicide hotlines?

Do you think the parent was informing of their existence, or reminding a poster who may need a nudge in stressed state of mind?
What stops the Saudis from doing the same? Given current events, it looks like they are.
Dunno about you, but I'd prefer to have one top spec box than two mid spec ones (assuming you're working on a fixed budget here).
I guess only if they were really neglectful, e.g. giving a asian guy the dna of a caucasian man
I was thinking something similar, but honestly, getting wtf. Few months back I was traveling from Bronx to Brooklyn, pretty much opposite sides of the area. Normally it should take 2 hours and change. This time it took me 4... and a half.
I left earlier, around 10. Didn't help.

What's the point of 24/7 schedule, when it takes an hour and a half during the night for your train to arrive?

Idk, I think I might've preferred them to shut the train down say 12pm-6am to give them time to improve whatever they need to. It would be much more useful to know the exact time it would take me to get places. Trains at night are pretty empty,
I think with some adjustment, it wouldn't be a big deal for people, but maybe there is more to it.
Trade war has nothing to do with it. It's rising wages in china.

For more than a decade, manufacturers ( even chinese companies ) have been shifting production to vietnam.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/business/worldbusiness/18...

Labor costs a much cheaper in vietnam.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/744071/manufacturing-lab...
So (never used WhatsApp), how is it better than email or SMS for those things?
Real-time 3D Face Reconstruction
Yeah, I think you are right.

"Older" would be my choice between those two.
The Anatomy of a Rut
Reluctance to go ahead with ARAMCO IPO; surprise move on Qatar; buying S400 from Russia; neutralizing "Bandar Bush" elements; etc. Enough reason to let the "Kingdom" know who and how the world is run.
I did this for a while and found it fine. I did keep 2 verions of all the necessary cords at each destination though.

One benefit of the mac-mini is that monitors usually outlast hardware. Think of how many laptop/iMac screens still look amazing, and amazing you paid for, but have to be ditched with the rest of the machine because the screens is so tightly integrated with the rest of the hardware.
The other problem with zoning is that it is not a decision made in isolation.

When governments are under financial pressure (aren't they all?), why not zone for what makes the most short-term or long term cash? The environmental benefits of mass transit or even the idea of high density living doesn't necessarily appeal much financially.
I measure profundity of novels in ink expended, and the success of my parties in the amount of confetti cast. According to the spec this is the perfect procedure. My pet hamster has his doubts.
Can you get meds by mail or even go buy meds every x months ?