skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is having Google in China going to get anyone killed? If Google isn’t there they’ll just search Baidu or Bing and whatever was going to happen is still going to happen. It’s just another search engine, albeit a much better one than what’s already there.
My wife keeps reminding me that I started building the shed 7 years ago.
Heya, Gitter developer here,

Search definitely needs improvement and is on the roadmap. You can track these issues,

- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1925
- https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/387
We need platforms for constructive arguments, ones where we can clearly state our assumptions and derive our conclusions. When outrage takes place, it would be up to those willing to invest their time on such platforms to establish various conclusions from the various disjoint assumptions found in the public discourse. Once that is done, people can link to these pages. There are a lot of issues with such an idea, I'm very aware, but it's what we need. We need more logically rigorous and data driven discourse that is accessible through platforms which are more friendly to modern tastes, not long treatise. I'd like such platforms to include interactive models, like Bayesian networks (https://www.bayesialab.com/ has many good examples of how captivating these models can be if given the right UI treatment), so that users can interact with the model by changing various parameters in order to observe the resulting propagation of what a change in the belief of one factor has on other components of the issue. Interactivity may make such a platform more engaging and successful, because it would allow users to "engage" with the structure of the argument rather than being a passive consumer and perhaps explore why one side of the argument emerges when different beliefs are held.

What platforms for constructive discourse already exist? Would accessible clarity quell outrage?
Sure, but weather isn't climate and fluctuations over a 30 year period of the weather aren't indicative of the trends in climate.
Survive? Sure. Thrive by global standards with trade restrictions? Not a chance.
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It would depend on what the screenshot contained, but in all but the best-case scenarios, I think you'd have to use a lot more blur than what I'd consider "slight".
Christmas of what year? They're not going to space, anyway. Low earth orbit is the best that can be hoped for.
Google should leave the EU. Drop an IP block and be done with it.
Can you? I didn't think dosbox handled windows games. I've been keeping an XP vm around just for this.
That's a pity because then you can't use that resistor to measure current by a measurement of a voltage difference.
Thanks, we've changed to that first URL from https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-the-ex-autonomy-b....
Better yet, programmers have the right to curse at bad code because often they curse at their own code.
Also everybody has their mouth full of "right of speech", cursing is speech too as it communicates something and communication is speech.
Ah! There always has to be one moron in every serious conversation!
Designing language bindings with xtensor – johan mabille – Medium
So, you got lucky and found your soul mate when you were young, correct? Not everyone is so lucky. For some, they don't find them til they're in their 30s, 40s, or sadly never.

You wouldn't have been the same without her, so once again - lucky ;-) Many modern men, I'd estimate at least 65%, need to settle down (happily of course) to truly become men, and civilized human beings.

Seemingly unrelated, but what was your relationship with your parents like?
Can you get ~1000 9$ an hour employees with engineering degrees though?

In China and most of Asia, you easily can. While these people won't be MIT grads, you can expect significantly higher scientific temperament compared to $MiddleOfNowhere, Utah.
Hmm.. You mean having sex and filming it? Hard to imagine that would be listed as verboten in the terms and conditions. How would you know such a thing anyway unless they told you?
Heya, Gitter developer here,

If you want to stop email notifications, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/blob/develop/doc...

You could also adjust your notification settings to "Mute", https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/blob/develop/doc...

But the real problem is that unread item count is coupled to the emails being sent out, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1205. So if you have notifications set to "All" or "Announcements" which track unreads, you will get emails for any unread messages in the room which isn't desirable.
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Are there any Chinese companies that don’t operate under the influence (if not direct ownership) of their government?
Dr. Oalkley's book

https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/

Added a lot of clarity to my process of thinking.
Highly recommend as well (I did not take the course, though, just found the book by accident).
"you can have anything you want, but you can’t have everything you want." I heard this quote for the first time in ray Dalio's book Principles. It's one I intend to use in the future lol
Sending key codes in a batch should not cause their interpretation to be changed!

It might be the least bad solution right now, but it's not good.
Computer history books
What about someone who's located on another VM on the same hardware that hosts mine breaking out of their VM and in to mine and compromising my packages?
The trick to learning any software program in mere minutes
My project does that.[1] Since each profile has its own profile.js and extensions. One application is that I hate triggering financial portals to re-authenticate. So all of my finance happens from my home IP, no matter where I am. And instead of a heavy VPN, it is just an ssh tunnel. When I was in university, my school browser profile always routed through my school proxy. If I start using facebook again, I will use Facebook's TOR public gateway, but only for the Facebook profile.

[1]: https://github.com/unqueued/foxbox
I cannot trust a system that trusts an oracle.
SEC fines Floyd Mayweather $600,000 over cryptocurrency promotions
Blockchain requires distribution for trustless implementation though, which is the duplicated expense (versus an append-only secure database).
Harmmonica, Because we build in a factory, we do almost all the inspections and building safety checks with the State, which is a custom process we've developed with the state specific to our building system. This means that our process is faster and more certain than building traditionally. If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@cover.build - our team would be happy to see how we can help!
That's a lot of what ifs.

I bet that they'd be happier with a crappier phone when they lose their job and have enough savings to ride out looking for a new one. In fact, they'd probably find a better paying job if they didn't have to take the first one they could land.

The problem with poverty is that many think "that's how life is" and don't realize that they can get out of the cycle. If people in poverty saved just $20 per week, they'd have $1000 in one year, which is nearly a month's pay at minimum wage. $20 per week is likely the amount they spend on "luxury" items, like fast food and a fancy phone bill. In fact, the average cell phone bill for an individual is ~$70, or around $1k per year, and nearly half spend over $100[1]. Having a month's pay in cash means you have that much longer to find a new job, and can withstand emergencies like a broken car that often result in taking on payday loans or the like.

Yes, they probably think that their fancy phone makes them happy, but I think it's quite the opposite because it's increasing the frequency of financial stressors.

The happiest people aren't the ones with the most stuff, but the ones with the most financial stability.

- [1] http://business.time.com/2012/10/18/47-a-month-why-youre-pro...
I'd tried Arch long ago, and was really disappointed to see the install instructions tell me to check the distro's blog for security updates.

Seemed really amateurish. Hopefully that's changed.

Also, it was really immature compared to Gentoo back then. Now it's had some time to mature, so I might give it another go sometime. But I'd really have to feel I'm getting a huge win over Gentoo to bother.
So can you help the authors of this article with their quest to find any success stories at all?
Or maybe everyone should join them and remove the redicoulus concept that you can own an idea
I'm sure Intel could/does get tax subsidies for land/building. But I don't think that's major the driver of cost for what we're talking about here. It's cost of skilled & specialized labor, and externality costs of supply chain availability.
See, I use the "There is no cloud, only another person's computer" comment as a lesson to both my students and less tech-savvy friends - for privacy reasons. It may be an incredibly powerful computer, but the core issue is, it's someone else's. You can't control what they do with it, and you certainly shouldn't trust them to have your best interest in mind. I don't care what buzzword you use. If data is stored remotely, it's not secure because the one storing & hosting it can choose to see it.

Good way to teach kids how to be properly paranoid on the Internet and the Web.
Yet another strong case for legalization.
Like I mentioned in parent comment, my project has had a lot of success with that. I know I was able to fool the Evercookie[1]. I can even have different profiles have different browser engines if I want. They each use individual prefs.js files.

[1]: https://samy.pl/evercookie/
In Kevin Hart's audiobook he talks about how his ex-wife beat him until he was visibly damaged. When he called the cops the first thing they did was ask his ex-wife "Is everything ok?"
Keep in mind, Kevin was the one who called the cops!
Regardless of which perspective you choose, moral actions which sputter into no moral results are just morally disappointing.
Yes, the 6 months includes all that for flat lots in Los Angeles City. Hillside lots are a totally different ball game because of the regulatory and additional engineering complexity associated with them.
We have both types. A lot of Indian contractors get paid very little money and they are often hired through two or three agencies that all take their cut. The Infosys guys are paid a little better but still under market and from what I have heard Infosys is slow in processing their green card application. I think in both cases it would be better if the H1 people didn't need a company sponsor but could change jobs easier and apply for visas themselves so they can't get held captive by the company.
It's more like, hey wow, look at all these little trinkets that don't really change anyone's lives.

In the long run, 3D printing just seems like a niche, elitist version of hoarding.

Fill your house with arts and crafts that serve no practical use, other than to occupy space, break up a fear of the void.
True, I was more thinking about the bit I should have quoted instead, about how few Chinese named Google engineers signed. That's a much more public statement with negligible upside.
> it's niche but it happens.

Do you have an actual example?
Though, to note, Google Voice is US-only.
People always use the same old argument that it's this "you can do anything" that's ruining this generation. There's no real evidence to support that, and I can tell you there are many people who were able to advance to high places using that mindset.
But you have over 20 years of experience. Most H1Bs aren’t at that level so your six figures isn’t a good comparison.
Best is to have a credit card but never use it.
That sounds like a great way to avoid people I won't like. If someone will judge me because of the things I own or don't own, I don't want to associate with them either.

In fact, I think this is a fantastic reason to avoid iPhones. I'm super excited about the Librem 5[1], and I'll be extra happy to be even that less desirable to these types of people.

- [1] https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
And every one of those I've looked at in my area required a clearance, and wouldn't consider "clearable". You can't get a clearance without having a job that needs it. Without a clearance, you can't get a job that needs one unless the job accepts clearable candidates.

By requiring a clearance they are fighting for people from a very limited pool. If they really want to fill those jobs they'd allow clearable candidates, which would allow them to pull from a much larger pool.
Kore 3.2 web framework is now released with async/await support for Python
I don't think you can compare Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency to semiconductors at all. Cryptocurrency is really not all that complex a technology. Once you grasp it it's pretty simple, especially if you understand cryptography and a little bit of game theory.

I do still hold out some hope that the tech will evolve and eventually catch on, or that it will lead to something else, but the first big incarnation cycle of cryptocurrency seems like a total failure to a shocking degree.
Anybody have any idea if bots (or fake accounts) are involved in increasing the subscription count?
The problem is: lock-in is a feature, not a bug.
The country mainly works from the top down instead of the other way around. People don't really vote, and the vote doesn't work the same way it is in the US. There are also some things no officials would like to touch at all, for fear of pissing off the party and lose a career / future. Information censorship is one of those things.

In fact most of the censorship is not enforced by written regulation, but are conducted by the website / company / media themselves for the fear of being shutdown overnight. Therefore companies differ from one another a little, and people hope in the worst form Google is still better than what's already out there.
Good point about the conquistadors. I've always thought that many of them probably did come here with utopian ideals about founding pure societies and bringing the word of God to the natives (in a positive way at least as they thought of it), but once they got a whiff of gold and riches greed took over and pretty soon they were committing genocide.

People really do get weird around lots of money, especially if there's an opportunity to get rich quick. I think some really atavistic predator instincts can kick in.
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The objections to DragenFly are not about what is best for the Chinese citizen.

This is not the concern in the signed letter. It is also not related to any of the core concerns from commenters here, as far as I can tell.

Yet somehow, many people are feeding the idea that the primary question is a cost-benefit analysis from the perspective of a person living in China. Of course, access to a pseudo-Google in China would be better for people there. It would be another option, and probably a tad closer to uncensored.

The concerns are simply not about that.

This is about setting a precedent of a company in a liberal democracy bending to the wishes of the government of a non-liberal-democracy.

The concern is that this compromise is not only something that happens in China, but also something that happens next in UK and then in Germany, and then in the US.

The concern is that any society with an "unfiltered" Google becomes a thing of the past. The concern is that the largest organization in the world controlling access to information begins "partnering" with governments and we step into an accelerated path towards disinformation.
Two practical software engineering rules
This started as a little data science experiment. I analyzed 15,000 reviews and was surprised by what I found. A lot of reviews contain phrases like, "I took this [probiotic] for my gut health but then I noticed my eczema went away." The top 10 lists I was generating suggested supplements that weren't always suggested by the lists you find online when you google "supplements for eczema". I suspect this is because those lists are generated based on mechanisms we already understand while working backward from reviews also reveals effective supplements whose mechanisms are still not understood.

The ranking algorithm is still flawed and my database is still too small, but please check it out! I will improve both over the next few weeks.

Please let me know your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions. Especially if you have ideas for where I could promote this.

I know how to monetize it, I just don't want to yet.

On the backend, I use supervisor and gunicorn and a web server to manage and serve a python/flask API that uses flat files as a database. The scraper uses scrapy. Part of my motivation for this project was to learn new technologies, and so I built the front-end in Gatsby, which uses React.
TIL about printing ASM from debug JVMs.
> You can make a Messenger-only account with just a phone number, provided that phone number has never been linked to a 'real' Facebook account.

Wait, how does that work? If my phone number previously belonged to someone who had it linked to a Facebook account, then I can never use it for a Messenger account?
"Hacked" = people left their printers open to the internet.
> If you want to hinder the Indian meat market companies, how about putting in a per country quota, as there is for Green card?

How does that help the stated issue?

I think you are asking to be rewarded for the hard work it took you to be born in a tiny low-population country. /s
>[the court] said, in this particular case involving a deliberately non-confidential source, the “state’s interest in the investigation and prosecution of crime outweighed the media’s right to privacy in gathering and disseminating the news.”

seems reasonable to me. if you're talking to a reporter and don't want the government seizing their notes, do it confidentially.
The only thing surprising about this is that these printers hadn't already printed enough random garbage to get disconnected/firewalled off from the internet.

The number of printers from a simple search [1] that have no authentication is staggering.

[1] https://www.shodan.io/search?query=printer
It made a crucial difference in the 1980s but now? Who cares if your CPU is a couple of generations old?
Is China stealing everyone's tech, or just the US and US allies?
I have always somewhat naively assumed it is best to never use a password manager plugin but instead use a separate binary with less convenient integration to reduce the possibility of browser exploits exposing my entire password db. Is there any truth to that?
Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps have normal BMIs. BMI is very sensitive and not very specific, meaning that it has few false positives and lots of false negatives, the opposite of what you suggest.

In this article[1] "Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI), Percent Body Fat, and Leptin" you can see this dramatically illustrated in Figure 1 [2]. The upper left quadrant (different colors for men and women) is the most populous. It contains the people who are obese by body fat percentage but not BMI. The lower right is the least populated. It contains the people who are not obese by body fat percentage but who are flagged as obese by BMI.

The small fraction of the population that have devoted such attention to the cultivation of muscle over other goals, such as athletic performance, are surely well aware of their body fat levels and are unlikely to be impacted by this edge case in BMI measurement. (Their excess muscle may also not be healthy for their cardiovascular system.) Dismissing the utility of a easily applied and highly sensitive screen like BMI is a mistake, both for individuals and for public health.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
[2] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=...
I'd mention my attempt at cloning a simple video game (Berzerk) that I started two years ago, which has only wound up with my having built, destroyed, rebuilt, scrapped and rebuilt an ECS framework, but technically I haven't given up on it yet because I decided I should just make Pong instead, because if I can't manage Pong then what am I even doing, and so I'm working on Lua bindings for SDL for ... reasons. Research, that's what it is.

Five months? Five months isn't anything.
Since we just warned you about this, I've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564254
Yeah, the feature should simply be disabled. It's like this for 4 years now
> Perfect example of how companies only want free markets when it benefits them.

There are many cases where corporations show hypocritical behavior, but this criticism seems off the mark as the companies actually do want free market in this case (i.e. free labor market where they can get a labor from anywhere), and in this case, they are not getting it (there's a lot of legal barrier making it difficult to import labor - thus it is a protected market). They want less protection in this case to favor them. It sounds like you want more protection, which is a reasonable position, but that's not a free or free-er market.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-may-eliminate-countr...
china has been doing this for years. what makes you think that this time will be any different?
I get checks weekly to borrow against my credit card for a 3% fee and a year before interesr is charged. If I get laid off because of micro economic issues (my employer went bust) and not macro issues (the entire economy sucks), as a software developer/architect, I can basically email my list of local recruiters and have a job or at least a contract within two weeks. That’s not theoretical. Over 20 years it’s never taken me more than a three weeks from the time I started looking to having another job.

I’m not saying using a credit card instead of savings is a good idea.
I recently looked into ways to do this outside of the US. Seems to be basically impossible other than using an iPhone/Mac with Continuity. :(
I know nothing about this app but am excited to see GitHub has done a single thing to move their boring featureless application forward.
It's probably a good thing, security hygiene in the private sector has been laughably neglected for far too long.
Lending Club didn’t ask me for proof of income awhile back.
I'm surprised it's not doing a left shift for the x2.
Often for the price of an SUV you could drive a luxury/sport sedan and have better driving dynamics, fit, and finish as well as comfort.
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And how much does that cost compared to less expensive options? At $1k for an iPhone, you're paying $200/year if it lasts you 5 years, more if you stay on the upgrade wagon.

My phone cost me $250 (Moto x4) and it's an improvement on my previous $400+ phone (Nexus 6). I could buy a new one nearly every year for the price of making payments on an iPhone.

But people see a top-of-the-line product at a monthly cost they can afford and jump on it, not realizing that they could buy a cheaper option and get much more financial stability, and thus much less stress.

And yes, it's not just phones, but to me it's a symbol of the other decisions you make it life. Nearly everyone I know who complains when payroll is a day or two later than expected has a way nicer phone than me, drives a nicer car, and eats out a ton. I, on the other hand, have a house I can afford, am well above average on retirement, and have enough cash in the bank to survive without a job for several months without touching my investments.

If people realized that they could be out of debt in just a couple years of living more frugally, I'm sure they'd do it. But people just assume they'll be stuck, so they don't even try and spend everything in luxuries now.
I’m not entirely clear what they are proposing. They want to reimagine housing, and something about more energy efficient.