skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you fine Facebook, you have to fine the small companies too...

Absolutely nothing wrong with that. If a small trucking company has a driver that speeds, that driver gets fined the same way a driver for a large trucking company does.

> Of course the fines have to be proportional to the number of affected users.

Of course.
You certainly also can get amoeba infections from swimming.

https://www.allaboutvision.com/contacts/acanthamoeba-keratit...

If you're a contact lens wearer, you should be careful using them while swimming or rinsing them with tap water. A hydrogen peroxide cleaner like Clear Care will help kill amoebas.
Apple to seed a software update in China to comply with court's ruling
Andreesen left and went to Silicon Valley as fast as he could. While NCSA Mosaic was written in Urbana, he started Mosaic Communications (the original name of Netscape) in California, and was hated for years at UIUC after that.
Clearly there are some differences of opinion, given the context.
is there difference in polish language between town and city? i would think they distinguish only between towns and villages, cities basically don't exist and town it's their language equivalent
They wipe out pretty much all debt and financial history. Although it doesn't apply to actually doing it because it was uncontrolled and caused the collapse of the dollar and was done in a way more like a terrorist attack than a debt forgiveness.
You don't happen to know why nobody wants the air-bearing system? It seems like all Musk's announcement did was give cachet to tube train maglev.
That's an uncomfortable number of laws against African-style braiding.

Is licensure the new oppression meta?
Sure Google can and does shut down products but they tend to give more than two weeks notice during the holidays.
Can a keto diet reverse diabetes?
Voiced like a central banker. Of course debt is generally bad, unless you are enslaving the masses to your interest payments on cash you created from nothingness.

It drives inflation, which then drives higher need for debt to buy assets reduces incentive to save and the cycle continues until the payments stop being made and it all implodes.
Comments by a few users (like “derp_dee_derp”) ignore that this isn’t preventing people from building parking, it’s simply letting the market - customers - decide how much they’re worth.

The closest analogy is a city requiring that all housing units contain at least 2 bedrooms, then eliminating that requirement. 2 bedrooms will still be available and, if they’re valued, will appreciate and then more will be built.

If buyers pay a higher premium for parking than for other uses of that square footage and expense, developers will still build parking. This is the city accepting that the city isn’t the best entity to decide how valuable parking spaces are; buyers are.
I meant that in the US everyone expects the government will provide roads, and there are already many good roads to use for free (eg the Interstate Highway system).

As a result, people are not willing to pay much for more roads, so they aren't going to be built. It may not even be legally possible in many cases under current regulations.
On the contrary, SCMP is HK based and can often be seen to publish articles openly critical of Beijing, despite mainland ownership.

(Edit: response to below: Yes, I think "formerly independent" as Wikipedia states is perhaps a good summary of SCMP's status, but I don't follow China media much. Used to read FEER a lot years ago, that was great but switched to a closed model and the best journos (some of whom I know) all left.)
I think it may be an average amount between those who hold debt rather than everyone in the world.
With those inflating costs, maybe a satellite phone becomes economically viable...
It lists a goal as "compiling real-world programs such as the linux kernel"

The last time I investigated the linux kernel had so many gcc-isms that it was probably true that if you could compile the linux kernel, you could probably compile any program targeted to gcc.
how is trabant distinctly polish? more like DDR or whole eastern block, but not sure what's polish specific about Trabant
Better in every regard including -immediate- costs, maybe. If we go worst-case climate change in 40 years, not putting massive development into fission and fusion power will clearly become the most costly mistake we've ever made as a species. Yes, we've got some promising renewables, but they are coming in the eleventh hour and it may be too late. We could have nipped this in the bud half a century ago. Your style of reasoning has been trotted out as a common-sense justification not to stave off the literal apocalypse for all those intervening decades, and here we are.

I don't think this can be overstated enough. Yearly budgets and disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima are important, sure, but they're on an entirely different tier from what we're about to wreak on ourselves. We're evaluating the risk of these technologies all wrong. Accidents and sacrifices would have been worth it. Even nuclear proliferation leading to all-out nuclear war would have been preferable to what we're about to experience. And that is truly harrowing.
The value of Yahoo is the $5B tax write-off it buys us.
What’s the value of Facebook? Serious question as you think people should have alternative
I bring in stock data. I query it. I make tables to store models for future reference or historical purposes. I have tables for order tracking, metrics, statistics, etc. it’s all automated.
I love all these "You are also right" comments. One of the skills I hear about being prized in Chinese culture is the ability hold two conflicting ideas in your head at once, without feeling stressed about it.

And that skill seems to help when trying to understand China itself!
From the JIRA comments:

Adam Farley added a comment - Yesterday

After discussion with the community, three determinations
were reached:
- "Damn" and "Crap" are not swear words.
- Three of the four f-bombs are located in jszip.js,
which should be corrected upstream (will follow up).
- The f-bomb in BitArray.java, as well as the rude typo
in SoftChannel.java, *are* swear words and should be
removed to resolve this work item.

A new webrev will be created and uploaded to reflect these determinations.
I think this (and an 'English language media on China bubble chamber') is probably far closer to the truth than the "conspiracy" being put forward by others. Quite amused at multiple "Googled so it must be true" responses.
..down voted, hmmm, that was a serious comment.
I don't think you understand what went wrong with Nokia and what got iPhone to Win out in the first place.

And it wasn't because iPhone was a gadget and others were just phones.
I think that it’s worth paying attention to, but doesn’t outweigh other achievements. Firing him over such comments was the wrong reaction, especially since the goal is to improve people’s viewpoints on equality. Not create some Galt’s Gulch of geniuses who are also flawed in a substantial way.
RF transmitter using a graphics card
> By the government giving money to people? But where does the government get the money? By taking on debt? Then the government's even more deeply in debt, which means that we the people still are in debt, too.

But it's a lot easier to pay off, especially if you prioritize high risk debt to nationalize, so the government has a lower cost of borrowing (especially if the government, instead of paying off distressed debt, instead purchases it at current fair market value, since then the cost will be below the face value; “healthy” debts don't need a correction.)
How much are you willing to gamble on the prospect that you're in the top 0.1%? And before you answer, consider that you haven't been evicted so you're obviously not in the top 0.01%.
Saw this concept used as a plot point on a show recently and it sounded plausible enough to me to look up other examples of using a gpu as a type of antenna
I meant when taken together. Each on their own would likely be more common.
>The result of terrible city planning starting in the mid century that is going to be expensive and difficult to undo. 2040 is a good plan that will fix this.

Or the result of people that want a yard and a house that isn't 4ft from their neighbor.

No plan is going to fix the fact that not everyone wants to live downtown.
Bingo. It's meaningless to talk about debt without mentioning assets.
Why would they want a economic slowdown?
It’s pretty awesome to have a common name. There are five people in my company with my name. There are at least two in my very small city.
>There is a significant difference between saying "that's not accurate" and saying "the person who said that is a drunken loser who has been out to get me for years."

Did Kavanaugh ever say the latter? In fact this line of criticism seems to work in his favor: the label "drunken loser" was applied to Kavanaugh much more frequently than it was applied to Ford, at least from the coverage I saw (admittedly, mostly from left leaning outlets so that may be a factor).

I'm not sure why you brought up #2 given that you later state that you don't know of any instances in which Kavanaugh lied. Yes, if Kavanaugh lied that would be significant. But as you stated in your own comment, you do not know of any such instances. I am not aware of any statement that was proven to be false either, at least outside of tangents that stretch my idea of relevance to the accusations (e.g. contents in his yearbook). So, yes if Kavanaugh lied that would be valid criticism - but we both agree that this was never demonstrated, so this point is moot.
And they have reduced this, government issued: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/18/china-moves...
Good recommendations. In addition to the UT, MIT and Stanford courses you recommend above, for developing your visual intuition, 3Blue1Brown's Essence of Linear Algebra video series is second to none. [0]

Another good one is MathTheBeautiful [1] by MIT alum Pavel Grinfeld [2]. He approaches Linear Algebra from a geometric perspective as well, but with more emphasis on the mechanics of solving equations. He has a ton of videos organized into several courses, ranging from in-depth Intro to Linear Algebra courses to more advanced courses on PDEs and Tensor Calculus.

Esp note his video on Legendre polynomials [3] and Why {1,x,x²} Is a Terrible Basis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYoGYQOXqTk&index=14&list=PL....

Gilbert Strang was Greenfield's PhD advisor: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/29345.
Pavel has a clear and precise teaching style like Strang, and he makes reference to Prof's Strang and his MIT course from time to time.

NB: Prof Strang has a new book Linear Algebra and Learning from Data that just went to press and will be available in print by mid Jan 2019. A few chapters are available online now, and the video lectures from the new MIT course should on YouTube in a few weeks. [4]

[0] Essence of Linear Video Series (3Blue1Brown): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw/pla...

[1] MathTheBeautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYoGYQOXqTk&index=14&list=PL

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Grinfeld

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre_polynomials

[4] MIT Linear Algebra and Learning from Data (2018) http://math.mit.edu/~gs/learningfromdata/
Show HN: Generate cli code in Go using static analysis
Yeah as someone else said, basically just create an offline account (there will be an option at the lower left of the screen when it's asking you to enter your Microsoft account address, IIRC). Then throughout the process basically just uncheck all the options for various metrics reporting. I believe there are some open source scripts to disable even more stuff, but I haven't tried that myself.

Oh also, I seem to recall I had to disable/hide Cortana _after_ the setup, as there was nothing in the initial computer setup that allowed me to turn it off (again, IIRC).
the facts of the article are interesting. the opining is not.

one of the lead statements is how the flush popout door handles are a signature tesla bit and that musk foresaw their importance. LOL! like the falcon doors, they are stupid. many cars have flush handles, or even no handles. (e.g. corvette)

i think i saw it reported, but it may have been word of mouth, that engineering hated the handles. they ended up having to ship broken ones. the second gen are just buttons that are decorated as handles. like many other cars. for the article to state that the handles are something that ultimately worked (they didn't) and that are a critically defining part of the car (they aren't) demonstrates the author's lack of deep understanding of what he is reporting on.

the falcon doors are stupid because of the extra cost (design and manufacture) and reduced functionality. it excludes the possibility of a roof box or roof rails, which is important for an SUV.

On the plus side, back to facts or maybe anecdotes, I did love the quote "We have to stop hitting ourselves in the head". Musk using the royal we. It's too rich.
Essentially, you can write CLI code using functions and struct types following a certain convention, and then use these tools to generate code for flags, env vars, config files, subcommands, etc.

func AddTask(opt Opt, path string)

...will be turned into a CLI command "add task" where all the fields of "Opt" can be set via flags/env/yaml, and the positional args are mapped in too. Default values are taken from "DefaultOpt()", if it exists.

I've written a number of Go apps now, and I always feel like CLI + config is a struggle. This is my latest attempt to distill all that experience into something I can reuse. It's still rough around the edges, but the armature is there now. Hopefully you can get a feel for what it is and where it's headed. There's still a long list of additions and cleanups I want to make.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!
Naegleria Fowleri were found in public water systems in Louisiana last year. I don't know of anyone dying because of it though.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/brain-eating-amoeba-found-...
I believe the statistic referenced in this headline is roughly total sum of debt in the world (184 trillion) / earth population (7.6 billion) is the total number of debt per person. I think what you are driving at is exactly why this article is misleading.

edit:
I don't think debt is exactly zero sum. When a loan is made, the person who took the load has a debt of the present value of future loan payments(ie with interest accrued and adjusted for inflation). The lender has an asset that is the present value of the loan payments times the probability the loan will be payed off. I might be missing something here though.
It sounds exactly like customers got last minute notice right before the holidays when everything shuts down.

Of all the times they could have chosen to shut down, they chose the absolute worst.

If I still programmed, I would never use this guy's products ever again.
> You just don't launch a financial product of this nature, out of your ass like that.

… not without prominently mentioning the block chain, at least.
There has been some coverage however it seems to me to be notably less frequent. Maybe because I read too much HN so catch a lot of China articles here from US sources.

(Edit: Reply to below: Domestically there is a common acknowledgement of slowdown versus a few years ago, largely effecting real estate, high end discretionary spending such as luxury malls, and high end restaurants and nightclubs. I have not personally noticed any mass unemployment despite often visiting seasonal worker factory areas - including Dongguan pictured in the article - which would nominally be the first affected. Over the last 15 years, food retail prices have risen ~6-10x, faster than salaries (~3-7x?), but you can still get a good breakfast for under USD$1.)
> 1. It offsets labor cost to the generosity of customers, putting an employee's take-home in the hands of the customer.

But the customers are not obligated to tip (and some don't), giving them the option of cheaper food, and employees make a much higher average wage than they would otherwise.

There's no way this is a negative.

> 2. This creates an interaction with the staff where they have incentive to try obtaining an additional ambiguous amount of money from the customer.

> 3. Sometimes this means being overly characteristic, other times it means trying upsell you to raise the total amount, effectively raising their tip

Sure. If you have a really high care factor on a particular day you'll try to be nicer and work a little harder than you might otherwise. Most days you really don't put any more effort into it than you would in the kitchen. It's a job. I'm not seeing why this is a problem. And certainly upselling is going to be encouraged by management regardless of whether you get tips!

As an aside, even though establishments (and servers, naturally) encourage it, I don't believe in tipping based on the size of the bill. I tip based on three factors: 1) how many people are in the party b) how long we were there and iii) how much I like the server.

> while bad tippers get what they get (not something you want from a food serving establishment: watch the movie Waiting and try telling me foregoing tipping is a good idea).

In general, watching movies to understand real behavior is not well-advised. If you are a regular, and recognized as such, and known to be a good tipper, you will most likely get better service. If you are a regular and stiff the server, 99% of the time you just get average service and a server complaining behind your back. Nobody, as a rule, messes with your food. I am saying this with not only the confidence of someone who did that kind of work for years, but as someone who now will quite readily stiff a server that I don't think deserves a tip. If you're eating at the kind of place where people would screw with your order because of your tipping, they're going to screw with it for other arbitrary reasons too.

> Tipping is an abomination of a custom that we should reject as a society.

Your "important reasons" seem a little specious. I get the feeling your main reason is you don't like doing it for some personal reason, but you're afraid of the social consequences if you don't. Look, if you don't like it, leave a perfunctory tip or none at all. I paid for most of my degree with cash earned from waiting tables. It's one of the best options available to people in the lower and middle classes who need flexible schedules and have no skills. There are a lot of people who don't tip. It won't hurt anyone's feelings too much, and will certainly generate less eye-rolling than the people who leave religious pamphlets or advertisements as a "tip."
Didn't seem to stop them for long:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/tech/uber-self-driving-tests/...

To be fair, they're proposing significantly improved safety procedures. To also be fair, there are not many people (as opposed to corporations) who would be out on good behavior 6 months after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter.
As with all science communication, it is highly specific to the audience.

I would say if you are completely unfamiliar with machine learning then this article accomplishes the job of informing you that we've proposed something exciting and a bit different, and gives some flavour for what kind of problems we're interested in (like continuous time medical data).

However, this article assumes essentially zero technical background. So if you're comfortable with concepts either from machine learning (at the level of vaguely knowing some details about a neural network) or mathematics (taken some calculus or know about differential equations) then you will probably find this article lacking in details. Again, this is just that you're not in the target audience.

If you don't know where you fall on that spectrum of prerequisite background I highly recommend taking a look at some of David's responses in the thread I linked where he gives a pretty good quick primer with a bit more technical detail.
I believe that licenses ensure that employers will struggle to commoditize and exploit their workers. Highly licensed professions manage to capture significant value in their industry value chains, the alternative is that shareholders and the providers of leverage (banks and shadow banks) get everything.
It's the default on asp.net actually and it makes sense, had a lot of spam at first.
The problem with Kavanaugh isn't what he did as a drunken teenager. It's what he did as a sober adult - his angry, petulant outbursts at senators. A Supreme Court seat isn't just a question of experience or background. It's a question of temperament. Even if he was completely innocent (and being too drunk to remember or too arrogant to think it important isn't the same as innocent), he should have been completely calm and peaceful with the senators.

Think of it another way - it's a job interview. If you were crying and screaming about a conspiracy of your interviewers, would you get hired for any other job?

The GOP should have pulled him and put forward another candidate, one without that controversy. They've managed to find such candidates before. The resemblance of the Kavanaugh vote to a bunch of men having their way with women and covering their mouths while they screamed was unsettling.
You are basically arguing that most people should never be able to own real estate, doomed to live as perpetual tenants. Over the course of a lifetime, that is actually more expensive than a 30 year mortgage.
> I don’t feel that the lack of “diversity” has negatively impacted my development

They said they want diversity for their children. That has nothing to do with how your environment impacted you. People are allowed to have preferences so long as in the process of acting on them, they don't trample on others' rights.
Scratch is the closest thing that comes to mind. Minecraft used to be bundled with the raspi distro.

In my opinion, anything more hands on is a bit complex for kids. Maybe show them how to do a few silly things on the bash shell? espeak is a fun text to speech cli application it should be in your distros repo, it's sort of like the Microsoft Sam voice app that came with early Windows. Text editors, games, all fun for kids exploring.

I'd eventually show them how to add software and update it. Then they'll discover fun things naturally. Maybe not necessarily programming.
Plus we have a pretty good gauge of trillions of $ of stuff that goes into China and trillions of $ of stuff that comes out that is not the same.

Like really people, China is probably faking some stats, but they're clearly rich and making a ton of money and stuff.
Cooks and other individuals have to get their food handlers cards. The class is fairly simple - you show up for a few hours and then take a test - but they still have to have a valid food handlers card in order to be employed.
Thanks!

Have you taken a look at the other HN thread I linked to above?
In which David answers a similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18677947

If you have any follow up questions there I will try to get to them!
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The end result of this is that the number of software companies drops by 99.99%. Does your company run anything on Linux? Too bad, there are vulns in the kernel and now you are fined into the ground.
My guess, China #1

On another note interesting to see a point of view from someone that lives in China... pretty much what I expected.