skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The recent rhetoric of fear of rise of China as a competitor are super interesting as an observer.

For most of post-world-war era, the US tried to make (sometimes bomb) countries into making them more like America. China did that. Then they were called copy cats. Now China makes more and better goods and services and America (at least the local fear mongerers) seem shocked, taken by surprise and adversarial.

Which begs the question, didn't America always want other countries to be like them?

Another interesting aspect of the rise of the "others":

For so many years, American higher education invited (and also sucked money) off of foreign students. For the large part, they stayed here and innovated and started companies and made America a tech powerhouse at the expense of the countries that raised those kids.

Then America started becoming more protectionist, which caused these budding young well-educated adults to go back to their own country with American education and American experience. What did the protectionists think these kids would do in their home countries? Twiddle thumbs? Of course they'll make competing products. They are skilled, educated and already such risk takers to go to a foreign land when they were young. The complete recipe for entrepreneurs and leaders.

Really really funny to observe. As a non-partisan observer, it almost seems like a high school bully scrambling to protect their turf while the nerdy kid built themselves up over the summer and is doing everything better.

It's funny and sad at the same time. I wonder if there's a phrase for this feeling.
I don't see the word 'migraine' mentioned anywhere on the linked site?

Update: the title has since been changed to 'LED Strain'.
I have very different expectations from YouTube than I have from Netflix, and my viewership patterns are very clear.

If I have 20 minutes to kill, I'll follow some food vlogger on YouTube.

If I have more time, I'll opt for something that requires "deep" engagement like Narcos

But I'll admit that there are times I wish Netflix had a stronger library of shows I can watch without thinking too much about them. Like The Office, but original to Netflix
Don't stop at the first sentence. Read the whole article. It answers the propaganda claim of "less radioactive waste":

"Less" is only if need thorium would magically materialize out of nothing, that is, if you ignore the whole process. In reality, thorium inevitably has to be prepared with uranium rectors:

"Thorium cannot in itself power a reactor; unlike natural uranium, it does not contain enough fissile material to initiate a nuclear chain reaction. As a result it must first be bombarded with neutrons to produce the highly radioactive isotope uranium-233 – 'so these are really U-233 reactors,' says Karamoskos.

This isotope is more hazardous than the U-235 used in conventional reactors, he adds, because it produces U-232 as a side effect (half life: 160,000 years), on top of familiar fission by-products such as technetium-99 (half life: up to 300,000 years) and iodine-129 (half life: 15.7 million years). Add in actinides such as protactinium-231 (half life: 33,000 years) and it soon becomes apparent that thorium's superficial cleanliness will still depend on digging some pretty deep holes to bury the highly radioactive waste."

Not to mention that these hypothetical reactors simply don't work: if they would be viable means to produce energy, nobody would wait for the taxpayer subsidies, there's enough money which couldn't wait to make huge profits, if they were possible:

"'Without exception, [thorium reactors] have never been commercially viable, nor do any of the intended new designs even remotely seem to be viable. Like all nuclear power production they rely on extensive taxpayer subsidies; the only difference is that with thorium and other breeder reactors these are of an order of magnitude greater, which is why no government has ever continued their funding.'"
Growing a startup on the side
Given that .ng is the Nigerian TLD and n is next to j on the keyboard and this is about japan, I guess OP typo'd the URL.
Mappingjs 2.0.0 released – Super easy MVVM with it
No one ever argued that in a free society, no one would get scammed. The argument is that freedom is worth its inconveniences.
Site appears to be dead due to slashdot effect, a better URL is: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-china-huawei/japan-...
Docker App and CNAB
I will never conduct a white board style interview, and in the future while interviewing the company, never take one. That is an automatic pass. Hell I'd recommend hiring someone that simply said "no" to that style of interview
Yep. You'll find structurally similar examples from the late 19th century when England passed the torch of tech innovation to the U.S.

Same goes for business history. Companies built from the ground up on the new technology tend to have the wind at their back.
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The thing is that it's a bit more complicated than that. The business models are different. Even if we don't do the full analysis we can see that someone spending 60 minutes on youtube instead of netflix means that netflix is not paying for that 60 minutes of bandwidth. Netflix doesn't have ads paying for everything, they have to pay for everything other ways. So that business becomes about more than just blindly getting eyeballs. You want the right eyeballs, based on the content you pay to offer. That implies some fairly complex modeling.

Now of course we'd need more information than Netflix would likely provide us to do a full analysis, but my sense from what we can know is that this guy is likely close to correct about what his enemy is.
What do sheep and data have in common?
All the ones listed are ERC20 tokens on Ethereum. Maybe Ethereum's much greater security against a 51% attack was a factor in the decision.
"Tickets, in the JIRA mindset, are taken on, focused on until complete, and then passed on, never to be seen again. They have a one-way lifecycle: specification; design; development; testing; release. Doesn’t that sound a little … um … waterfall-y?"

It does, because when cold, hard reality hits, the waterfall workflow is the one and only way to system engineer high quality software; there is nothing else and there never was any other technique to achieve that. Agile is a gimmick to give non-engineers free reign, carte blache to keep on hacking like mad until something somewhere finally starts half-working; that's the hard reality of the IT industry.
Very interesting. This guy not only seems to attract rich people, but rich people who display their wealth. I wonder how "hard“ it is to live a fairly normal, modest life with that kind of net worth. Could you restrain yourself and not buy that Porsche?

It‘s hard to say if you‘re far away from being able to afford things like that, and content with it. It‘d surely weaken the problems with relationships they mention at the end.
quora did SEO right. It has huge visibility, and thus, high quality answers get huge votes, even from people who aren't from that field of expertise. So perhaps post quality is lower than SE, but vote quality is magnitudes higher in my experience.
Nitpicking but I don't think this is quite right:

> The BitSequence type holds infinitely many values. In fact, it holds an unconscionable number of values. It has more values than String does.

Assuming UInt is infinite precision and Strings can be infinitely long, there is an easy injection from BitSequence to String, therefore String is at least as equinumerous as BitSequence.

If we bend the definition a bit and allow UInt to be infinite precision (which it is not), there's no reason not to allow String to have infinite length as well.

Also, the article mentioned multiple times how awesomely large the cardinality of BitSequence is. But in fact, the cardinality is the same as that of the real numbers—both have cardinality $2^{\aleph_0}$. So its size is rather intuitively grasped.
> I would be very surprised if you could live worry-free with the investment proceeds of $100,000.

I think you have made the assumption that I would stop working. That might be the goal of many people, but it's not mine, and it's not how I would define being comfortable.

Aside from that, yes, I was using a fairly arbitrary number to make a point. I hadn't done the math. Which, here on HN, was probably a mistake. But for somebody who has never had more than $3K to their name, $100K in the bank still seems like a very comfortable safety net.
if you do it right: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
Which use cases?
AlphaZero really is that good
Then it's high time to get one, otherwise those people have no business being in the IT industry.
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Absolutely fair point. But don't you think there's something profoundly wrong somewhere when cities in all kinds of climates and conditions around the world manage to solve their problems. With the pooled knowledge of all those projects, isn't it likely that the NY project could find solutions there? Presumably sourcing knowledge and solutions and adapting them would in hindsight have been cheaper than developing a system from scratch?
Sleep goes you one better.

Often enough sleep provides fantastical entertainment content indistinguishable from reality. Every genre, from comedy to horror. Only thing is, you can't choose what content you want to experience. (At least, not to my knowledge you can't pick what content you want?)
Ghosn and Nissan charged with underreporting of pay
I wonder why he cut gear teeth with a triangular file. As long as he was using a lathe and drill press, I mean. Is it just that gear cutting requires nonstandard machine tools?
That says more about how bad the curriculum is than about them. Still, anyone doing any serious programming has either had to or will need to write such an enqueuing scheduler at least once in their career, because such a solution is really useful.
> New Jersey is not New England.

In case anyone else is wondering, New England is (geographically) Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Every state north/east of New York state.
They don't have to produce the same type of content to be competitors. They are competing to produce video content you spend time on, albeit different types.

But YouTube is hinting they are considering making "TV show" style content, what with most of their YouTube Red exclusive content being of that format. While I find none of it interesting, except Mind Field by VSauce, they clearly have the idea on their radar.
The way he described the organically grown city is certainly a way to do things in Jira. Just write your tickets that way. Don't have a ticket for a whole block, or a whole airport. Have a ticket for the dirt airstrip. Don't write all your tickets in the beginning, write them as things progress.

Going back to the start of the article: have a ticket for the caching of the 3rd party service, have a ticket for your data model (your engineering team might be the person the story is centered on in these cases).
The solution is simple and there are other problems with having a modal dialog (I can't think of many dialogs that should be modal when they only affect one tab). For example if you want to lookup a password for the dialog you have to open a new window.
I wouldn't like to do without it. Its not so often I come across a professionally composed picture of a big steaming pile of plant food.
Let me try to explain CSS in JavaScript to you
Because there's no way to get started for most ordinary people.
I'm actually kind of surprised, given the Chinese government's "social control" surveillance ability which is enabled by Alipay and Wechat payments.

reference: http://harvardpolitics.com/world/wechat-the-people-technolog...
Day 10 – jmp-starting your workflow
This part of the post is what amazes me the most.

"PERSPECTIVE. The wealthiest person I have spent time with makes about $400mm/year. i couldn't get my mind around that until I did this: OK--let's compare it with someone who makes $40,000/year. It is 10,000x more. Now let's look at prices the way he might. A new Lambo--$235,000 becaome $23.50. First class ticket internationally? $10,000 becomes $1. A full time executive level helper? $8,000/month becomes $0.80/month. A $10mm piece of art you love? $1000. Expensive, so you have to plan a bit. A suite at the best hotel in NYC $10,000/night is $1/night. A $50million home in the Hamptons? $5,000. There is literally nothing you can't buy except."
Devops is dead – long live devops – Patrick Debois
”For me, it is easier to see flicker in my peripheral vision rather than my direct vision”

That applies to (about) everybody, for large enough stimuli. Rods are more sensitive to flicker than cones and you don’t have that many rods in your fovea. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold.
I think Poweramp does this as well
>Do you have a cite that the ambiguity was intended to reduce the chance the Japanese would surrender? I don't know the history well.

If fairly clearly shows that they were not listening to the requests made in the Szilard petition, which is what I am claiming. They did not publicly offer the terms of surrender or wait for a refusal.
This sounds like a trust issue, not a Jira problem
As an Indian, I have to agree. My feed is filled with questions about salaries and IT jobs, even though I've never held an IT job or want one. The answers are insipid, the burden of proof is entirely anecdotal, and brevity is apparently not a thing.

Plus, the platform is now filled with spammers just promoting their own companies. Ask a question about how to manage a project better and you'll only get some spammer promoting his software instead of actually sharing tactics.
As someone who first had carpal tunnel symptoms at the age of eight I have spent a fair amount of time on this problem.

Check the temperature of your working environment. Cold joints can be the cause of or exacerbate various issues. Wearing gloves may help if you can’t control the climate. A personal heater can be another good option, but make sure the heat is indirect (pointed at a wall for example) to avoid other issues from prolonged exposure.

I use a keyboard arm with negative incline positioned at a height so that my elbows are at 90° and my wrists point slightly downward. (Height of the keys relative to the wrist rest should be as close to equal as possible.) This is the opposite of what most people do with the terrible kickstands that come with keyboards. I find that the more negative incline I can get the better. My current setup allows for 20-30° Of downward wrist incline. A typical keyboard tray or palm rest will not do this, as the height from the desktop must be adjustable and it must hold the keyboard in place. Mine grips the keyboard to hold it in place.

I personally find that a trackpad is good at preventing some rsi because you can use it in a variety of positions and it forces you to stretch all of your fingers when it is below the keyboard. For my keyboard arm I designed and 3d printed a mount for an apple magic trackpd that holds it below the keyboard making it much like a laptop. This had the added benefit of keeping my fingers on home row which is more efficient.

Remapping modifiers on the keyboard is extremely helpful for reducing strain on some fingers. Things like spacemacs or ergodox which use thumbs are great. Vim keybindings help a lot too and I have almost everything vimified.

Having a large (40”+ for 4k) monitor prevents you from leaning in to read small text or “hunching over” the keyboard. (poor elbow and back alignment) The same can be done by using a larger font or lower resolution at the cost of more keystrokes for navigating long files or between apps.

Taking breaks and changing positions frequently helps of corse. (Use a sit stand desk, try kneeling on a soft mat occasionally if your desk goes low enough.)

Drink a lot of water. Hydration helps almost any bodily issue to some extent and I find that my productivity is significantly impacted by dehydration and greatly increased when I drink a lot. Soda is fine but offset the dehydration from it with extra water. This has the added benefit of forcing you to take breaks.
CI/CD at Betterment, Part II: Standardizing the Interface
Japan to extend copyright period on works including novel, paintings to 70 years
Love it. Especially like that it's actually difficult. I used to think I'm good at geography, but after getting just 4/7 on the capital cities quiz, maybe I'm not so hot after all.
When in the US or EU : Kaspersky or 360.
When in China: Mcafee or F-Secure.
Etc.

All big commercial names are sufficient; just not at keeping nation states out of your machine.
I developed a... not quite an obsession, maybe a strong interest, in olive oil six or seven years ago. My interest was initially piqued by a report I heard on NPR about the health benefits. I learned the importance of the date the olives were pressed (fresher is better, go figure) and that, while countries in Europe might produce high quality olive oil, the quality stuff typically gets sold in Europe and the dregs get shipped to America and other countries.

I have tried many different brands of olive oil in the interim years and I can say the best I have personally found in America come from California. I have absolutely no personal interest in either of the companies below, they just produce quality olive oil.

My favorite by a wide margin is Sciabica, the oil they produce has that peppery bite people describe that makes you cough when you take a swig of it. I have never seen it sold in stores though, only online. Also, it is a little pricey.

The other quality oil I have found is Californian Olive Ranch. It is not as good as Sciabica in my opinion but they have a wide distribution. I have found them at grocery stores on both the west and east coast of the US. There is one BIG caveat with this brand though. More often than not stores are carrying bottles that are one or even two years old. It's easy to tell how old it is because they are one of the few companies that print the pressed on date on the back of the bottle.

In general the two most important qualities of an olive oil in my experience are purity (not mixed with other oils) and pressed on date. If a brand doesn't print the pressed on date on the bottle walk away, it is garbage; very few brands do this. Olives are typically harvested between September and December, that is when you are going to get the freshest best tasting oil.
Personally, as a developer who’s main strength is JS but who is okay at CSS (but doesn’t love it!), I can’t imagine working without CSS-in-JS these days. The main selling points for me are keeping styles local to a component (I was using BEM before using CSS-in-JS so this was an easy sell to me - the reality of the cascading part of CSS is it is hard to manage on a team or if you aren’t a CSS expert, so in some ways I see this as damage limitation by introducing boundaries, and making things easier to reason about) and the ability to use JavaScript rather than a bespoke template language to express logic in CSS.

I’m currently using the Styled Components pattern (with emotion and React) and I quite like it... feels quite elegant in practice and makes the code nice and maintainable. Interested to get others opinions anyway!
> JIRA unfortunately binds the concept of sprints which is more of a team thing to projects

I believe this has been fixed for some time.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-do-I-c...

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/combining-...

I agree about the too small number of hierarchical nesting though.
The problem in this article can be easily solved by carrying out 'Story Mapping' - the problems mentioned come from not carrying out story mapping in a visible way.

The best Product Owners I know have been carrying this process out manually for a long time, but there are also plugins for this:
https://www.featuremap.co/en/integration-jira (I am not affiliated with this product).

This is a case of a bad workman blaming his tools.
Its also not clear how easy it is to get that kind of net worth if you live a fairly normal and modest life. Lunch with the president is not just about bragging rights. If you are rich enough, it can pay for itself.
I think the assumption is that String is a possibly infinitely long ordered list of fixed-size characters, in which case it is countably infinite.

Edit: I actually meant "arbitrarily long but finite" instead of "possibly infinitely"; thanks dagw.
Belgium had similar rules for cyclists, but recently updated them. Cycling around like a strobing christmas tree is now allowed. sigh
It's on its way though. Better late than never I guess.
Market cap-wise, not quite so insignificant.
>if it's filled up with watching youtube videos it can't be filled up watching netflix...

Correct.

And that's pretty convenient for Netflix' bottom line if that person is paying the monthly fee, but using only, say, a quarter of the netflix bandwidth of a heavy user.

The modeling to figure all this out is a lot more complex than just "are they watching?"-"are they not watching?". We need access to Netflix' internal data to determine viewing patterns, license fees, bandwidth costs, etc, but I suspect that people using Netflix more than a certain amount in a month end up costing netflix money instead of making netflix money.
Maybe we should. Because assholes of all ages tend to be blamed on kids - thirty years old someone being toxic on the internet is assumed to be teenager even when his/her age is known.

The follow up question is: if we truly assume it is all kids being jerks, why do adults dont voice disapproval the way they would in real life, but rather sheepishly enable it? Role modeling and it takes a village and all that.
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I agree. Netflix aims to be a sort of global tax on TV and Movie based entertainment. Their business model runs up against biological constraints (with regards to the desire for perpetual growth).
It's the end game for sure. The whole ICO utility token thing we've seen over the past couple years has just been an intermediary step while companies navigate the regulations.

The idea is that stock certificates, and the Depository Trust Company will be replaced by block chain tokens and dividends would be paid directly to the holder on the block chain. When he says it makes sense for everyone with a cap table to have their own token that is what he is talking about he isn't suggesting that every company in the world should jump on the ICO bandwagon.

There are a bunch of companies pursuing this right now Coinbase is one, that's why they bought a broker dealer. Overstock / tZero is another.
wechat and Ali pay are still paying in RMB. I'm not really sure what hohre talkint about here, it's still a centrally controlled state currency.
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Indeed, and by many accounts Afghanistan was the highlight of the trip. There some nice photos of Afghanistan in 1960s here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/07/afghanistan-in-the...
You're in the wrong forum if you're going to get caught up in facts. (materially wrong info to shareholders, in this case). Feelings matter more. If its Intel, oracle, windows, etc just say something bad about them.
Standard Clear Badge Holders
These holders are also sold in singles and the badge holder is mutually available in vertical and horizontal orientation.
https://usingeverythingsimple.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/standard-clear-badge-holders/