skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's so ridiculous! This is the hypothetical confusion scenario: "Oh I want to waste a tonne of money watching sports and uglify my house with a dish. Ah Skype! They do that, I'll call them up and get an install done this week." Calls them up and Skype taking advantage of the trademark confusion pocket some money from their Skype dish installation.
I've encountered some false positives in Panera Bread -- some Japanese sites were falsely blocked, I remember.

I honestly don't understand how this will be any good, other than making a false sense of mitigation, perhaps other than deterring most casual viewers. Considering circumvention technologies are readily available, and actually they don't even have to circumvent, they can use their phone...
Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA
Spouse: quit the job; the family only needs one

School: homeschool

If learning how to socialize and form bonds with people is a major goal, then being uprooted is good practice.
This article talks about an epidemic not limited to America. It's brought on by social media all over the world.

The terrific CGP Grey did his best video on this topic: the viral spread of anger on the internet.

https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc

It'll be interesting see which countries navigate this new world best. Will Chinese censorship of such be more successful in keeping a productive society? Part of me is afraid the answer could be yes.
If China continues down this path to stealing everyone's tech, it's in the interest of all other countries to shut them out of the international market until they play fair.
I highly recommend others to do this if you have the time. Printers are dirt cheap nowadays (relatively). I designed and printed our cake topper. We painted each other's topper which was super fun. My wife crocheted all the boutineers and crosages. It was great since they were soft enough to be handled but sturdy enough to last probably our lifetime.
I don't think that it was Javascript per se. I do use NoScript, but I did "temporarily allow all this page". Twice. However, I do block WebRTC, and I didn't disable that.

> Websites that "need" javascript to display a 26 year old image format and/or text(!!!) can go pound sand.

I registered at MeWe. And ever since, I've been getting "Updates at MeWe" with just this: "Please view this email in an HTML compatible email client." Why they can't include plaintext of the actual update is beyond me. I emailed them about it, but never heard back. So I've written them off as clueless.
You do not know how powerful chiense culture and money is. Also, all those new graduate even from aboard ... let us see who made new twins and rumour is that the guy may have said he can handle any unhealthy babies if the ccr5 or other area gene turned bad

And anyone sending helper

Similar to 6m Jews are gased or how many million is jailed for re-education to be killed mentally. Ok they are Jews, they are catholics, they are Muslims, they are ... we are all Hans one day and you will have to be as well.

Or using technology to monitor and control 1/5 humanity down to each and every movement. We can laugh that their AI is no good to do photo and id wrongly. We can improve I supposed.

This they-will-improve approach still do not get it. It is the soon to be no 1 economy in the world. You will be changed. The Beijing consensus will rule. You are just helping them not you them la.
People who do outrageous things outraged that it is reported on! News at 11.
It’s also “wittiness”. Everyone is trying to be funny without considering whether it’s warranted.
The first time I loaded this, I got an error, “We couldn’t find a channel with this name.” In the console, ServiceWorker errors on Google Analytics (blocked), and a bunch of unhelpful “Unhandled (in react-apollo)” errors with long stack traces that I shan’t reproduce here. A reload fixed it. Curious and a little concerning. But even then, the document has no title or favicon, which is… what!? (OK, when I looked back five minutes later, after much scrolling through several pages of comments at the end, it did eventually get a document title, but only eventually.)

The big image at the top of https://spectrum.chat/features is also broken.
Well news media on "both sides" have a vested interest in this. They get more eyeballs. I only trust ft, Bloomberg, wsj now a days.
Chapter One: Most Entrepreneurs Should Not Raise Capital
I just read this post and thought it was a really shitty move on Google's part. For those that don't know, as part of Google's initial application you have to submit an "unofficial" transcript. This means that Google had this person's transcript through the entirety of the interview process from beginning to end, but only after extending them a verbal offer did they decide to inform them they can't hire because of their low GPA.

The coding challenges and whiteboard interviews are ridiculous enough as is. It makes me sad to see such a lack of courtesy, though. If the GPA was going to be the barrier they should have just rejected the candidate outright from the beginning and not wasted their time.
Personally I'm really annoyed with Scala community's obsession with Gitter. It's such an inferior tool.

Gitter search UI is the worst, and search itself is useless, often returning no results when you can spend an hour scrolling to find what you want manually.

This is inexcusable when Gitter is your project's de facto Q&A place instead of more structured places like StackOverflow or Github issues.

And so the users are left with a messy stream of collective consciousness that is impossible no search or navigate effectively.
Addressing any shock and revulsion following this story:

Because capitalist organizations are literally founded upon the act of constant appropriation of the surplus value created by their own employees,
it's not reasonable to expect these organizations to somehow indulge a higher standard of treatment toward outside persons who aren't even their employees, to persons who are just dropping by to share ideas and work. Such organizations will seize with both hands whatever of value is presented to them. They seize, that's what they do. All day, every day.
Actually, Africa is a continent not a single country, and moreover the population of the entire continent is less than India.
Stringle allows beta users for limited time
https://outline.com/pAr3mP
My teenage son's take is that when teen's express outrage these days they are mostly being ironic.

Edit: He didn't grow up where I grew up. He grew up in a college town bubble, not in a rural ghetto of dirt and chicken coops where I grew up (and left). I think, in all things, your experiences shape you.
Subaru already makes the Legacy/Outback domestically. They just complained justifiably when non-trucks like the PT Cruiser were classified as such for CAFE gaming.
Um. An overly socialized economy incentivizes counterproductive behavior. The early puritans in Massachusetts /started/ with the extremity of a socialist system of non-ownership with the hope that all would collectively contribute to a wonderful Christian society. They starved until they based their society on ownership and focus on equality of opportunity instead of equality of outcome.

My point is that once you start just giving money away - you shift to the early Massachusetts model...which leads to poverty and starvation. Even the most moral of men (can you argue that early puritans were more focused on morality than us?) will fail under a system that rewards sloth.
You need customers who use your equipment to close the product improvement cycle. Both Japan and South Korea have (or had) competitive chip manufacturers who could help their domestic suppliers improve. Chinese equipment makers don't have such luxury. Their potential fab customers are hobbled by US export control and are surviving on thin margins. So they couldn't or at least haven't been able to get into the positive feedback loop.
I wish somebody would make available the Civil War Generals code base. It's getting painful to keep a VM ready to be able to play it. I would gladly pay for a legal modernised version
Hypergiant Sensory Sciences raises $5M to track critical infrastructure
There are plenty of people with a good income and reasonable housing costs, and from memory that's about all that's asked for on a credit application. But they spend everything else on vacations and private schools and whatever, so they'd go down fast if their income stopped.
Read about Chicago’s Tunnel and Reservoir plan.

It’s a 60 year underground water infrastructure plan that’s been miraculously more or less on schedule and budget.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan
What else do you pick if you have >=3 kids? Or if you're a travel guide with up to four passengers?

I have two kids, and we're thinking about a third, so we're looking around at options to replace our sedan. Here's what I've decided:

- SUVs with a third row suck for anyone in the third row, and they get horrible gas mileage
- few sedans and SUVs are big enough for two car seats and a booster
- minivans are expensive and frequently have annoying mechanical issues

I think I've settled on the Mazda 5 because:

- three kids + cargo (fold down one back seat) is doable
- reasonable gas mileage
- comfortable for six adults (going out with friends with a babysitter at home)

Unfortunately, they aren't making them anymore. I really have driving SUVs and trucks, but sedans are too small for my family now. Minivans, while completely "uncool", are the best option for people who need to haul people and stuff at the same time.
Slack has threads. I don't know why nobody knows this. And unlike Zulip they aren't mandatory, which is a bit nicer for small channels.
Kei cars are also surprisingly roomy inside. I'm 194cm tall, and I fit better in a Suzuki Alto then in the old Volvo 740 (there was a dark spot in the cloth ceiling of our family Volvo where my dad and my heads would rub against it).

Of course the sacrifice is the complete removal of crumple zones...
I'll bet they saw it and thought you were just being insulting (what-the-fuck-16), but it apparently stands for wobbly-transformation-format. Had to look this up myself to be sure.
Or just...i'm joining the system, and i'm going to do whatever I can to help it as little as possible, while providing a valuable service to its people.
We tested Lime’s new car-sharing service, LimePod in Seattle
Chinese people criticize the government/party all the time when talking to each other. What even was your perception of the situation that would lead you to talk about "outing" lmao
It is probably non native speaker like a Russian for example where it does work that way. (Of course posting in English one is expected to follow rules of English.)
$200k for a household is not high income by any measure. That sentence explains your entire perspective in your comment.

E-Class = Poor people

If you consider these cars expensive, that’s your problem.
IMO the killer blockchain app is voting. It makes use of the features that are unique to blockchain: censorship resistance, decentralization, and trustless transactions. I've been working on a paper for the last 6 months that details a system that makes use of crypto innovations like zk-snarks and some other novel technologies that lays a blueprint for how to use this tech to provide a voting system that would be beyond any central party's influence and would securely allow for voting from mobile devices and a host of other things that are beyond the capabilities of centralized tech - at least beyond the ability to be done in a manner that anyone would trust.

I've been watching the space since 2010 and can honestly say most projects are solutions in search of a problem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18504457

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17807056

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17767666

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17486112

But the main issue is using HN primarily for ideological or political battle. That's directly against the spirit of this site, and destroys it more insidiously than incivility does.

Positive vote scores, alas, aren't an indicator of whether comments are good for HN or not. The most indignant and ideological comments routinely get upvoted. That's one reason they're insidious.
Or at least attempted to educate yourself by reading a fraction of the widely available literature on the topic, ranging from personal histories to neurological studies.
What software did you use to model the rings?
Another piece by the same author:

"A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage... Let America explore the rich reciprocal possibilities of the fatwa. A policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span. America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred... This is the moment of clarity. Let the civilized toughen up, and let the uncivilized take their chances in the game they started."
I don't, really.

Sure, cutting-edge intellectual property these days is more complicated and unlikely to be completely and fully understood by a single person. That's a function of the progress of technology.

I don't see how one person, or one country, stealing IP via memorization (the technology of the 1800s) is meaningfully different from someone stealing IP on a USB stick (the technology of today).
China suppresses free speech, yes. But it doesn’t go so far as citizens being terrified of being known as someone wanting Google to enter China. It’s not like 1984. The secret police isn’t going to come stick you and your family in an underground prison for wanting Google.

People are pretty open about what they want. Google is something many people (who know about it) want.

FWIW, yes, I could be propaganda. But if I were, I’d be doing something much more useful with my time than browsing hackernews and trying to argue against opinionated software engineers who don’t want to be convinced otherwise.
Sure, cryptocurrency is the perfect use case if for some reason you think currency should not be be tied to anything of physical value in the non-digital world.
It seems you can play it natively with Steam Play for Linux, DosBox, or WINE.
To be honest, I'm neutral. I don't think Google should ransom their sole to be in China, but them being there, even if much more censored, wouldn't be a net negative. Its kind of the same way I feel about Chinese Bing, the censorship is annoying, but in a pinch it is 100 times better than Baidu.
Just a curios question: since bitcoin.org was initially bought and maintained by Sathoshi. Is it possible to track some info from domain registrar?
You mean, other than the fact that they pulled out in the first place for ethical reasons? And that it's long been a contentious issue among the founders of the company, again, for ethical reasons? I'm not sure I can take this question seriously.
Valve’s new Steam revenue agreement gives more money to game developers
For the sake of the entire space, I'd hope this belief was whispered about in darker corners than HN ;)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmonic_nanoparticles

Plasmonic nanoparticles are particles whose electron density can couple with electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths that are far larger than the particle due to the nature of the dielectric-metal interface between the medium and the particles

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_plasmon

Surface plasmons (SPs) are coherent delocalized electron oscillations that exist at the interface between any two materials where the real part of the dielectric function changes sign across the interface (e.g. a metal-dielectric interface, such as a metal sheet in air). SPs have lower energy than bulk (or volume) plasmons which quantise the longitudinal electron oscillations about positive ion cores within the bulk of an electron gas (or plasma).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmon

In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillation. Just as light (an optical oscillation) consists of photons, the plasma oscillation consists of plasmons. The plasmon can be considered as a quasiparticle since it arises from the quantization of plasma oscillations, just like phonons are quantizations of mechanical vibrations. Thus, plasmons are collective (a discrete number) oscillations of the free electron gas density. For example, at optical frequencies, plasmons can couple with a photon to create another quasiparticle called a plasmon polariton.
“I didn’t meet my girlfriend until 12 years after our daughter was born”
If he can't give the source away on github because he doesn't own the IP, then he can't sell it either. But he is.
Do you have reason to believe that exceeds their current capabilities?
For one, Kicad is extremely unintuitive.
You do it anyway because it is best for your family.

My parents did 1500 miles twice while having 3 kids. My brother did 350 miles with 2 kids. I did 1300 miles with 3 kids, and then 120 miles with 5 kids.

Being willing to move means that we get short commutes, cost-effective (high goodness per dollar) houses, and plenty of good employment choices. You're giving up a lot if you are unwilling to move.
The EU revealed in it's ludicrous capriciousness. I like Europe, but fuck their governments if they want to do stupid things.
And that's different from Baidu in what way?

If it's not worse than the status quo, then it's not a negative impact of bringing Dragonfly to China.
How to Get Rid of Mouth Yeast Infection?
I understand that poor people aren't to blame for being poor (the vast majority, at least). But this mindset only serves to keep them going in the same rut. "Poor people deserve small luxuries", "Can't you just allow them to have a few rays of sunshine in their bleak lives?", etc.

In order to escape poverty, at some point you need to stop thinking and acting like a poor person and start thinking and acting like a middle class person. When and how do you propose that happens? Frugal middle class don't smoke and drink their money away, nor buy top shelf electronics and food products if money is tight. They cut coupons, buy off-brand, save, and invest. At some point, poor people need to be somehow taught these things that we intrinsically know.

Poor people need money, but they need (perhaps even more) education and role models to emulate which is something the government can't easily provide.

It's probably the oldest and most difficult problem to solve in the history of humanity because it requires a large amount of people to be empathetic and charitable with not just their money, but their time.
Yup. If you have a child ever other year (pretty reasonable) and have four kids, the oldest will still be in a booster when the fourth is born.

We have two kids (oldest is four and still in a booster) and we're considering a third, which is also making us seriously consider a larger car. We'll either need a larger car or a smaller car seat because we cannot currently fit three seats in our sedan (or at least, I don't think we can).
> You are Chinese?

Do not go down that road, please.
I've done the same thing; had OpenBSD installed on my desktop and loved it, but one piece of software I use wasn't supported very well on it, so I had to go to Void and avoid systemd, but pleasantly happy with the experience. I virtualize OpenBSD so I can have the same environment as my servers.
A bit of unrelated, but since it is important for chips development posting it here. There is an initiative [1] to make FPGA/ASIC design tooling more universal and interconnected with sharing the LLVM-like low level intermediate representation (HDL), which is more powerful than Verilog or VHDL. At this point many people see FIRRTL[2][3] as a viable candidate for this position, with some enhancements.

[1] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/ideas/issues/19

[2] https://bar.eecs.berkeley.edu/projects/firrtl.html

[3] https://github.com/freechipsproject/FIRRTL
Because these said people don't live in the fictional mental construct you've created where they're cowering in a corner, shivering in fear of saying the wrong thing and waiting for the white man to swoop in and defeat their oppressor.

They're just normal people living normal lives. They have 2 legs and 2 arms, eat ice cream, complain about traffic and politics in person and online the same you and I do. Google is a nice to have but at the end of the day, not that important.
I think you're taking him a bit too literally. In these examples, you're not looking at simplifying anything. You're not getting rid of unneeded code. You're getting rid of debugged and stable code in favor of writing something new from scratch because fuck all knows why.
Competition and survivability are great economic indicators of health. As far as self-indicative criteria the difference between independence and insanity is simply deliberation with which a decision is made based upon supporting evidence.

Some people who were regarded as crackpots to be ignored:

* Alfred Wegener (plate techtonics)
* Ernest Duchesne (antibiotics)
* Alfred Russel Wallace (evolution)
* Galileo Galilei (astronomy)
* Marc Andreessen (internet commercialization)

I believe the appropriate term for this sort of behavior is personal exceptionalism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532575
Is it really any cheaper to build things in China? There are enough broke-ass places in the US where you could open a plant and offer $9 an hour and get the cream of the crop
Announcing Amazon Aurora Global Database
I don't agree. The right person most likely had spent 5 months prior to get to the point of being able to do it in a day.

This 5 months of trial and error is called learning.
Training ResNet-50 on ImageNet in 35 Epochs Using Second-Order Optimization
Unless it turns out that strong protections for intellectual property rights isn't correlated with the survival of a sovereign nation. Then it won't matter how loudly the international community complains; China will just do its thing. They're large enough and have the agricultural and industrial base to weather isolation in the way that Iran/Russia do not.
yeah give back what Westerners robbed from summer palace
Kicad is not easy to use. I would recommend designspark PCB (free but not open source) for now if you just want to make PCBs. It still has some crazy quirks but it gets most things right (unlike Eagle).
Or purchase a replacement kit from iFixit.com, it's cheaper and you'll be supporting a group fighting for repairability.
I’m hearing Morse code... what’s being transmitted?
Heya, Gitter developer here

You can track https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/irc-bridge/issues/52 for seeing more users in the member list/roster. There is a proposal there to trickle in new users to the list every time a new message comes through the bridge with relevant code linked (merge request welcome).
I'm not even sure if its possible to tell ownership these days. Here in Silicon Valley I saw some contracts I wasn't supposed to see - all with labels saying "disclosure not required" and "not legally required to provide copies". Basically, ownership can be held by a company, and that can be a legal casino, so it can place bets which transfer ownership to anyone in the future (eg. if support costs over 10% then 50% is owned by China). These documents were used to arrange Russian ownership of several NSA "front" companies - all without any public disclosures since they were potential futures, not current reality. That is the world we live in. (And I don't claim to really understand those contracts. I just know somebody who knows somebody who was working on the contracts for foreign entities to secretly hold ownership of a bunch of Silicon Valley companies. I took a look, saw the list of famous companies involved, and happen to know a couple of NSA front companies which were also on the list.) And in a court of law I will claim that I made all this up.