skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The false dichotomy of comparing the “evils” of USA whenever horrifying news comes out of China is worrying. Stretched to the extreme it’s the equivalent of bringing up Obama droning killing innocents when comparing The Nazis and Hitler. Our minds conflate the 2 things as bad and we compartmentalize them as such together.

There is a world of difference between the 2. Imagine if the world order was not created by US and instead China, things would be 10000x worse. When you are the sole superpower, other countries would abuse that privilege to benefit themselves a thousand fold more than the US does. We didn’t think about China as a serious threat 10 years ago because they were poor and not powerful yet the barbarity was worse then. It’s just more pronounced now because they have more power.

The same is true for all countries going to the world stage. Nigeria doesn’t seem like a threat now but in 50 years when it’s more population than the US the racism and backwards beliefs will result in terrible world crimes. The same can be said of Vietnam, and India too. (I am Indian). If these countries get as powerful as China you’ll see them expanding military, bullying neighbors, petty tribalism stuff.

It seems nationalist but I agree with trump to bring our economic industries home. Improve quality of life in these countries and improve human rights, wealth etc. but not to the degree where they are untouchable militarily and economically. Because China is not the worst to come, they are not even close. We don’t think of Vietnam and others as a threat but their tribalism runs deep as well. It takes 1 nationalist leader to increase the pace but when they have power like China almost everyone will abuse it.
Snowplow[1] is an alternative to this. While they have a managed solution, their backend is open source and can be self-hosted. And they have a forked version of the Piwik client side library designed ot work with Snowplow[2].

Snowplow is a bit more generalized than just Piwik, and it shows in Piwik having a more robust featureset for website analytics specific. But Snowplow has a lot more usefulness if you're having to merge a bunch of data sources together to get a picture of what's happening.

[1] https://snowplowanalytics.com/

[2] https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker
Economic Sanctions- possible, but only effective with Allies and a clear set of demands on what it takes to lift the sanctions
UN Resolution- China is a veto holding member of the security council, not happening
Boots on the ground- not worth it, even morally. A ground war with China will kill hundreds of thousands at a minimum.
which three major groups were you referring to?
They fly the plane downward, matching the vertical acceleration with the acceleration caused by gravity.

You owe it to yourself to see these amazing videos filmed on planes that simulate zero G:

OK Go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co

Physics Girl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_AJWZajEk

Veritasium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAQ-iIJkLzA
Would be fun to build a GUI app atop an event loop like that.

Subject: Fwd: mousedown 52 48

Then you could trigger interesting dialogs to the user:

Error: failed to receive a mouseup for 72 hours. Do you want to cancel clicking? Click one (Ok) (Cancel)
I think I'm missing something here. What is the operation that this tool is meant to simplify?

This takes five minutes because you're copy-pasting a 250-line file. Which otherwise builds the layout manually. Doing that from scratch would easily take, what, an hour? even for an experienced Qt developer.

During that hour you can definitely read an introductory tutorial (from Qt's excellent documentation). Assembling that UI with the GUI builder then takes all of five minutes, maybe ten if you've never used it before. And you don't need Docker and a VM for that (!?).

Is this meant to showcase how easy it is to package the application? If so, that's definitely cool, but I'm not sure how it relates to the article, which starts with "This article shows how to program a Linux GUI. In five minutes from now, you will have created an app and a downloadable installer. We'll build the following GUI, but you can also create any other" -- and then goes on to show you neither how to program a Linux GUI, nor how to build that application (unless you count copy-pasting code as either of them?)

Edit: it's worth pointing out that cross-platform packaging Qt applications, especially written and Python definitely isn't too easy. If this is the point, then this program doesn't look bad at all!
It is simply rope given to the oversight committees... which are now interesting as the opposition party controls the House.
>> ISS constantly falls down to earth. It is also moving so fast that it constantly misses earth.

I'm gonna have to roll up some herb while you explain this comment further.
The word 'harvested' is so much nicer than 'stolen'. That makes the 'optics' better.

(i feel sick now)
> The word "substantial" is very vague and a bad sign for any scientific and evidence-based publication.

That's true. Have an upvote. There are some troubling stats that can be pulled up in regard to transplant stats:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

Admittedly, it's a little backhanded to complain about the accuracy of statistics that are intentionally withheld by a totalitarian dystopian regime.

Downvoted, but relevant all the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18611084
I believe in all(?) public windows COM interfaces, methods can only be added, not changed or removed. So it’s at least possible, modulo any concerns about the design or cruft of the windows api surface
I don't think the logic here holds up, and the issue is the author's ignorance of the technology and dataset involved. It's very easy for Google.com to show non-toxic results in its Video tab; it basically limits itself to retrieving results from sites humans have whitelisted for inclusion in Google News. They don't whitelist QAnon crackpot sites, so naturally you'll never see those results come up.

YouTube, however, is a completely different paradigm - no human pre-filtering happens before content goes online, and its _point_ is to search a catalog of millions of amateur-produced videos. That's very different from searching a few thousand media orgs and their indexed results. Hell, if you only got the results of the media orgs (from their YouTube channels) you could reasonably conclude that YouTube search is broken.

My conclusion is that there's no technology solution being held back from YouTube; it's just that Google Video tab just has a completely different point to it.
Many free-software and open-source advocates would of course not be shocked at this. They would tell you that this is why it is a grievous mistake to rely on proprietary software for your baseline computing needs. And of course Microsoft LOVES open source these days, so it has selflessly embarked on a mission to prove them right.
Appraisers can only go by comparable sales (“comps”). In a rapidly rising market, comps always trail market value. I experienced this with my own Bay Area home purchase and had to shell out $40k to cover the difference between my offer and appraisal. Home prices at the time were going up 2% per month. Redfin et al now value my house at $90k over my offer
Plant and legume sources are also very fiber-rich, which offsets most of the carbs, even in fruits. While fruits have lots of sugars, the fibers also slow the digestion of the sugars.

Kelp is high in Omega 3s, as are Brussels sprouts. They're not as high as meat sources but they're still sufficient.

The vegan diet is extremely low in Omega 6s...not sure why you would think it's high, since grain-fed meat is the primary source of Omega 6 in the Western diet and dwarfs any source you'd find in the vegan world by many order of magnitude.
Interning millions of people on the basis of their ethnicity/religion, and then harvesting their organs ... now where have we heard this one before?

I won't make the direct comparison because it'd normally seem hyperbolic in 2018 ... but this is happening in 2018.

If this is true, it has to change the narrative quite firmly.
> They fly the plane downward, matching the vertical acceleration with the acceleration caused by gravity

"Contrary to popular misconception, the 0 g freefall phase of flight begins as the aircraft climbs, and does not occur solely as the aircraft descends. Although the aircraft has upward velocity during the initial 0 g phase, its acceleration is downward: the upward velocity is decreasing" [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598414/
Titanic could have easily been venting steam to achieve the same purpose
They're trolling.
A ground war with China will leave most of the United States a nuclear crater.
When I was younger, maybe five years ago or so, I was living in Boston and I'd consistently see a pack of Chinese protestors outside the public library at Copley (very popular area) holding up signs, looking to gain attention for this very issue. They spoke to me as best as they could, handed me a pamphlet with hard-to-parse English but nonetheless gruesome descriptions, and asked for my signature along with any other help I could offer.

I was pretty skeptical that this story was as one-sided as they (along with any other protestor/activist) would represent it to be. I remember wondering what I was really signing a petition for, and hesitation in doing so.

This report fills me with regret for not feeling more empathy, as I must imagine they knew people or knew of people who this had happened to, in order to sit out there all day, so consistently. I haven't seen any of the protestors in years, despite their previous frequency-- I hope they're all well, as are their families.

Has anyone else seen this in other cities, or had other experiences with these folks in Boston?
Meat allergies are on the rise. The weird part is that we know what’s causing it
At first look, from a Western perspective, this is 100% clear-cut morally bad.

But I've also learned a limited amount about the Chinese moral perspective in college, and it can be a useful exercise to examine how someone who doesn't have a Judeo-Christian/Locke moral framework may view this practice.

In some ways, the harvesting of organs from political prisoners can be viewed as the trolley problem. Killing one political prisoner (an 'undesirable' in Chinese society) could save a number of lives of upstanding citizens.

The practice disgusts me personally, but I can see a reasonable argument in support of it.
The face montage building trains a linear classifier on top of the pretrained embedding network - it’s the portion that talks about creating a training folder of your face.

But yes the photomosiacs strictly don’t use ML, unless you count the internal fun stuff Faiss (the similarity search lib) does to construct fast indexes.
I'll move my ~$100K emergency fund into there just to get free money. And move it out somewhere else when the rates change. Over the years I've moved accounts between Dollar Savings, Emigrant, Orange, Ally, and probably 2 or 3 others...
Not just you, but I don't see how it's any easier. Most of the same stuff is on that start menu as is on as the Win10 version, they're just arranged slightly differently.

People like what they like, you don't have to justify why. I hate carrots. Why? Doesn't matter, it's still a valid choice, same as start menus.
Has been happening all over Denver, CO for the past few years.
pure evil, not quite sure what this has to do with hacker news though
This is ridiculous. This is why I hate installed third party software on my computer.

Thank you. I have blocked all incoming traffic on that port.
The _key is an ID, not a key as in "JSON key". It's metadata.

"style" is optional, so it doesn't make sense for "h1" to be a key.

More importantly, JSON is harder to work with when a key can be anything. A schema is more uniform and easy to make strict if all keys are reserved. This also makes it easier to map to data structures used in languages that have struct-type types. Think of the JSON objects here as structs, not key/value pairs:

type Block {
Style string
Children []Block
Type string
}

or whatever.
Yes but we either validate what was already proven or something else for which the theory doesn't yet exist. Both are completely unhelpful for scientific progress in my opinion.
The article limit only applies to their "premium" content. Any random article you post there can be read by anyone.

Still, post primarily on your own domain!
Honestly, I think "harvested" is worse than "stolen". You "steal" from another person, you "harvest" a resource that has no humanity.
Linux in mixed-criticality systems
especially if it has significant connection (like through common investors/execs) to a huge database of DNA.

> identify involuntary donors

err... dissidents. Highest political crime - being a 100%-match for a Central Committee member who needs liver transplant.
An invasive surgery: upgrading a full-stack Dart application to Dart2 / Angular5
And this right here is the exact reason the EU is pursing upload filters.
Naw I had used the Kmeans part for extracting dominant colors. I was thinking about using it to generate cards and using the top K colors for the background of the card.

As I mentioned above the only ML is the face classifier. There’s a flag that allows you to only include face pics in the photomosaics as well
Prime Fresh relies heavily on Whole Foods where I live.
That's misrepresenting what I said. I never said anyone doesn't have a right to organize.
Please don't put Show HN on blog posts. This is in the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Writing doesn't count as "something you've made", because then every post would be a Show HN. We make exceptions for books because those are so much more work.
> If I was fired because of a legislation change I'd sue my employer for unfair dismissal.

It wouldn't really be unfair (of the business) though. It'd be more a case of legislation making the operating environment untenable, thus the business having to let go of Oz staff.

That's not the business's fault, as much as the situation clearly sucks.
It is always accelerating straight toward the center of the planet at ~1G.
On the contrary. Harvesting organs is terrifying.
Is it? In the context of people's organs they're both pretty abhorrent.
Same here, they also have very good service. 24/7 chat assistance and I haven't waited for more than 30 seconds to be connected to a customer service representative.
Closed Captioning: More Ingenious Than You Know (20 Minutes)
Tbh you can see a conpiracy everywhere, even with your comment for example: you could be geniunely suspicious.

Or you could be a die hard trump supporter who prefer to say its suspicious because you don't like that attacking china whill lead in the future to attacking trump policy.

I wonder which one
what are the advantages of choosing Qt over Gtk for cross-platform purposes?
Ha, that's funny indeed!

I emailed with Josh a few times (regarding GDPR stuff) and he seems like a great guy!
Do you have to be a Prime member to get the delivery? That's crappy, as we're looking to retire our Prime membership after this year.
> Income is deposited wherever you indicated to your employer. This can be separated between savings accounts, retirement accounts, checking accounts, investment accounts, or even deposited directly to prepaid cards.

As an American, I agree with all of the corrections in your comment except for this one.

I'm willing to accept that your employment history is different than mine but I've never had an employer that supported this and I'd be really surprised if most Americans did.

My employers have given me a choice: paper paycheck or direct deposit of the full amount. Full stop.
A Withering Light
> cross-platform packaging Qt applications, especially written and Python definitely isn't too easy. If this is the point, then this program doesn't look bad at all!

That's what it is about, yes, sorry. I should have written the article shows how to create a Linux GUI. I let myself be distracted by SEO considerations ("Linux GUI programming").
I've noticed my computer now restarts, reopens all the applications I had running, and sometimes even has them all in the same positions I left them in. If I didnt get signed out of Steam and my VPN wasnt open I wouldnt even notice half the time.

I want to be able to decide if my computer updates... It's not even that big of an ask.
Microsoft have a long history of overriding and ignoring hosts configurations to their own addresses so I am skeptical on the utility of this. I think you might be a little too trusting.

I do not have time to repeat the efforts outlined by government contractors in the above links with this add on applied, I doubt you do either.

Better for me to avoid the OS altogether.
> Go nuts

Let's make error code optional, too.
I wonder if they will consider expanding the cloud report to things that are not necessarily relevant to Cockroach labs use-case. In my work, latency to the block store (especially outliers) is very relevant. It would be great to see latency distributions of various workloads (sequential/random and read/write/mixed) to the patform's distributed block store.

edit: I missed that 95th percentile latency for read and write was included. That is helpful; I also typically look at p99.99 and p100.
Came here to say exactly this - the underlying principles of propaganda never change, and this book will do a good job of laying out its foundations.
Whole Foods' quality has definitely taken a massive hit post Amazon acquisition. The most obvious place I've noticed it is the Bakery, the produce has less diversity as well. I've also noticed more empty shelves in the processed food aisles.
That article says "There was less than 14 feet (4.3 m) separation between the bottom of the Air Canada aircraft and the tail of the Airbus A340." That's still far too close, but it's more than five feet.
The US would break its sanctioning tools if it took on China unilaterally with sanctions, but if they managed a coalition that included the EU and a few others it could work.
A blend of certain northwest pine needles can make for something that reminds me of white teas (they served it at my son's preschool).
It didn’t make a ton of difference empirically when I tried it.

But you’re correct, generally that’s the space you want to be in.
Howard Zinn pointed out that History is always biased. In my own work, I've noticed that Machine Learning is always biased. Basically, any historian picks out which facts to discuss, and is not immune from social pressures when they interpret those facts. Similarly, after running enough machine learning algorithms, I realized that the features measured, the way they are measured, and their relationship to other features is considered "factual raw data" - yet it is the very essence of subjective while often ignoring the greater and more important reality.
Waymo self-driving cars face harassment, road rage in Phoenix area
From Google results:

"China is estimated by the Federation of American Scientists to have an arsenal of about 260 total warheads as of 2015, which would make it the second smallest nuclear arsenal amongst the five nuclear weapon states acknowledged by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons."

"As of 2017, the U.S. has an inventory of 6,800 nuclear warheads; of these, 2,800 are retired and awaiting dismantlement and 4,018 are part of the U.S. stockpile. Of the stockpiled warheads, the U.S. stated in its April 2017 New START declaration that 1,411 are deployed on 673 ICBMs, SLBMs, and strategic bombers."

EDIT: No one wins, it's who loses the least. The whole point of having them is so the other person doesn't use theirs.
Because the Goliaths bring more to the table in terms of revenue and bragging rights for politicians who can say they brought [insert high number here] jobs to their city. I'm skeptical of these deals and not sure the math works out for the average taxpayer but I'm not surprised that cities are operating this way.

From a city's perspective, why should companies of vastly different sizes, impacts, and expected lifetimes have the same leverage in terms of negotiating tax benefits today? Companies are getting the same "deal" in the sense that they will be eligible for these benefits when they bring enough to the table to make a city desperately want them.

I'm not saying it's just, but creating the "same deal" for all companies is only likely to occur if it's federally enforced - otherwise there will always be cities willing to offer these incentives.
I remember first hearing about this in the context of the Bodies exhibit[0] and concern from some people not to accept "donations" from China, as they might've come involuntarily from political prisoners.

Looks like their concern was well-placed.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:_The_Exhibition
Uyghurs, Falun Gong, non-communists?
It's not just Las Vegas

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/09/california-housin...

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/11/sacramento-housin...

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/10/seattle-real-esta...

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/12/denver-real-estat...
This lack of FDIC is slightly worrying:

"In an email to Barron’s the head of the SIPC cast doubt on the idea that it would insure checking or savings accounts."

source: https://www.barrons.com/articles/robinhood-app-is-offering-a...
The US had plenty of its own Nazi Germany moments, and - unlike Nazi Germany - which was completely dismantled by the Allies - the repercussions of them are still being felt today across its native and black populations.

In more recent history - of the 21st century, at least, China hasn't started any conflicts in the Middle East, that have killed hundreds of thousands of people, and turned millions more into refugees. On the scale of 'how much harm has each empire done', it is not three orders of magnitude away from the competition.

China's repression is targeted internally, for reasons of internal security. The Department of State targets it externally, for reasons of national interests. Comparing the two, or trying to argue which is worse, is apples and oranges. Both groups, here, justify their behavior, by claiming that if they didn't take action, something worse would happen.
Think of firing a canon sideways: it takes a while for the cannon ball to drop and hit the earth. Now imagine firing it faster and faster, till eventually it's dropping at the same rate as the earth curves. That is essentially what the ISS is doing at a height of about 400km above the surface.
I like this analogy: it's like writing about a difficult or nuanced subject using only "simple English"; each sentence is superficially simple, but the work as a whole is much more difficult to make sense of.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17763922

The problem with bringing such links into arguments like this is that no one does so for reasons of intellectual interest. For example, in this case, people aren't actually interested in the plight of the Uighurs. Rather, it's convenient ammunition for justifying pre-existing political and national feelings. Such a move is not part of thoughtful conversation at all; it's just ideology and tribal loyalty, which explains why the discussions are so utterly repetitive—and therefore off topic for HN.

It turns out that people are in fact interested in the plight of the Uighurs.
These microservice design patterns bring back horrible memories of the design overarchitecture that was in vogue back in the J2EE years, where you basically need patterns to deal with the issues your new patterns bring up.

Of course in practice most reasonable people choose to deal with these things by dealing with complex failures in the most simple way, but the proliferation of these "solutions" IMO bring in more trouble than it could be possibly worth.