skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with this statement

If you live in heavily populated Asian communities, there are a lot of business oppurtunities, specifically in Mandarin. For instance, a law firm specialized in one ethnicity. You'll find a lot of well off wealthy Chinese clients coming overseas starting businesses in America. Controversally, if you do any overseas importing, you'll have a larger selection of manufacturers to work with if you speak Mandarin.

I don't speak Mandarin all that well though, granted I speak Cantonese and studied 3 years of Japanese. I do agree that your time is better spent learning a tech skill though.
Maybe in a perfect society, we could get all these religions to form a persecution ring, where every religious group can persecute on other and get persecuted by one another. A perfect stable balance of victimness and evilness.

Imagine what happens with blame and crazyness, like for example from the social justice cult, when you put them into such a accelerator.
I think you’re making the mistake of equating Christianity and Catholicism. They have the same roots but all of the things you’re assigning to Christianity is really the machinations of ‘The Church’ weilding Christians beliefs as a cudgel for the aspirations of ruling bodies.

There is definitely a fine line between the two that is often blurred, but Christianity at its core is about people who are oppressed finding freedom in faith. It’s one of the reasons it is easy to ‘spread’; every culture on earth has oppressors and oppressed.

I think your other point is super interesting however, in that when the oppressed are ‘free’ and become the majority, Christianity doesn’t have much to offer and then becomes the weapon of the ruling class ( or majority ) keeping people ‘in line’.
I followed these instructuions: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/69m2ol/running_le...

If you have the jdk installed (https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk...) you can simply run:

$ appletviewer http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/
I always feel bad when asking to pack the leftovers at the restaurant.

is it rude or a sign of being poor? I'm unsure.
I wish we could see more logical long term ideas. So much of it is short sighted I feel. I often describe stuff such as Facebook as immature technology that doesn’t understand what it is capable of, and doesn’t seem to care about the negative impact.
China is secular, for them it's about the 'power of the people' and community.
Blender was my first modeling software, and learning on it made everything else frustrating for many reasons beyond controls by comparison. I also come from a Linux background, so modal softwares like vi were not a new concept.

So I wouldn't say that Blender's controls are inherently obtuse or more difficult than others, but that other popular software follows conventions that are more familiar to people with a subset of similar experiences.
> Normally you would pick a font size or line length, and find a fitting lineheight last.

Agreed. In my experience building for the web, line length is usually the constraint that other dimensions are chosen around: the width of the device, a fixed-width column of content, or a specified width for a dialog or modal.

In this game, I was able to easily score perfect for line height and font size sliders, but it found it quite difficult to score anything above 0 for the line length slider.
Scala Wish List survey: sbt, implicit resolution, new features
I don't consider myself a Chinese troll, but I'm going to downvote you for trying to guilt people out of downvoting you.
> However, whether countries should allow the propogation of religion and mythology is entirely up to them.

Would you be okay with the country you're subject to the laws to "deciding" to put you and your family in prison for holding that opinion? Why is one thing "up to them", but this presumably not?

> If action is being taken against the people who propagate "falsety" rather than against the "mislead", the ethicality of such action is quite defensible.

Then show that is the case, and then defend it. Until then, why even mention the possibility? Isn't that kind of a rhetorical trick? Wouldn't you agree this straddles the line of deception, that is, that you're either "just" deceiving yourself with, or trying to deceive? Can you prove it wasn't your intent, but a honest mistake? If you err on the side of guilty, because "it might be defensible to persecute" is good enough for you, wouldn't it be fair to simply assume the worst of you?

That's not how I would treat people, but when someone makes an ethical argument, the first thing you always, always do is do a quick scan of applying it to them, when it's obvious that they can't be meaning what they're saying, to explain to them what they're saying.
‘Gimp’ is such a terrible name it’s comical. It’d be like calling your piece of software ‘Shit’.
I don't believe I confused pornography with nudity, I am merely stating that pornography and nudity are both fairly accepted outlets in the US. I do believe that many foreign people (largely Europeans) believe the US is very conservative in regards to nudity and are just flat wrong...likely because they have very limited experience in the US.
Yikes, this is very unfortunate timing for the regions who have holidays this time of year.

This reinforces my constant reluctance to update anything around holidays or other chaotic travel periods.

I wonder if Apple shouldn’t have waited until after the holiday season to push major updates. I mean, we all know stuff happens, this is just reality, but waiting a few measly days would not only have saved the inconvenience for the iOS team members who were surely pulled in to work during family holiday time, but probably more important to Apple, it would have saved the customers ability to communicate during the busiest family travel time of the year.
Migration to Scala 3. ﻿Yes, there are porting problems. Macros are the problem
Every politician that we don't like is accused of corruption, in one way of another. I have seen this happening everywhere, and I see no reason to suppose that these denunciation of corruption is not politically motivated itself.
Great first start, but talk is cheap. What happens on street level will be more informative, I wish there was a way to measure this ...
Yes. See here:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1505 Frisch, Hasslacher, Pomeau - Lattice Gas Automata for the Navier-Stokes Equation (1986)

Citations (5k+) here:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=5993777633272177716

See also my other comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18757946
My three year old will happily run around the block, far past the point that you can see him, obliging you to give chase, but he is very careful not to run into the street, if he wants to cross a street he stops and holds out his hand. We also taught him to stop and look for cars before crossing a driveway, which he usually does. I would feel completely confident letting him walk down the block with his sister, in fact I do frequently, since I don't like to walk fast.

That said, I definitely have met some three year olds that would run directly into oncoming traffic without restraint, so I think this depends a lot on the specific kid.
I think after Best Internet exited he likely did quite well, it’s possible he’s just doing DragonFly as a full time hobby. But I have no idea.
> any time file synchronisation or Dropbox is mentioned

This is one of the most relevant topics you could quote it on, really. The post is tackling one-way sync and calling it a rough equivalent to Dropbox.
If you want some closer to C arrays, you can use Python array.array, which is part of the standard library.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/176011/python-list-vs-ar...
the leftovers are food for my enemies <- my mom

so I always had to finish.
I've eliminated all snacking and soda calories from my life and I still have a big problem with maintaining/losing weight. Definitely should be helping though.
If there is an official Dr. Katz web page it should use this.
I am asking for some kind of substantial material validating the frequency of such opinions.

What are the odds that I could go to ten different blogs from ten different Joe's from across the internet saying how bad it is for Christians in the world, come back here, link them, that you'll backpedal more to say that the sources provided aren't authoritative enough?
I would argue that a western perspective is to wait for harmful action to connect with harmful intent or harmful planning. Then, for the act of harming, a person should be held accountable by society in a reviewable way.
Completely agree. The political behavior of the Christian church is well known across history, and entails basically getting the best benefits of the government for itself and persecution or suppression for other beliefs. People in this thread trying to support the political activity of Christians in China seem that have no historical perspective of what this religion did and does up to this day to advance its agenda.
For anyone curious in an in-depth look at how we got here and the unintended consequences, check out Jonathan Haidt's book "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure". This gets into what happens when these kids leave home and no longer have parents bulldozing their path.

Here's a short talk from the same author about how overparenting backfired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMAJYtRPPM

"In the mid-'90s there was a sharp shift to overprotective parenting. In previous generations, kids were allowed to out of the house unsupervised from age 5-8, which has now become age 12-16. As a result, their independence, resilience, and problem-solving skills suffer."
> A person's beliefs are up to them not their government.

How do you square that with the fact that most religious people were indoctrinated at an early age by their relatives and community, rather than developing their beliefs on their own? At the end of the day, it's not a struggle for freedom versus government control, it's a struggle over who gets to do the indoctrinating.
Our household rule was "if you put it on your plate you had to finish it; if someone else put it on your plate you don't have to" (with some parental modulation such as "yes you are having some of these Brussels sprouts" or "finish the beans before you go for seconds").

Parents don't like to see food wasted (it took money to buy and time to prepare and the alternatives aren't good for kids) but these rules were also on us: don't put an unreasonable amount of food on the kids' plates.
I don't know which most of the US you're describing; if anything they err on the side of over-investigative around here.
> "There are starving kids in China, eat all your food!"

This does not make much sense to me. If eating all your food is the only alternative to throwing food out, it is sort of OK, but even then, it does not solve the issue at all because you are the one eating all the food, not the starving kids in China.

Additionally, why come up with such nonsense? This is one of the worst things you could do to your kid. You should instead educate them and tell them the actual reasons for why one should not waste food.

Mind you, if you cook less instead, then you would not have to eat them, nor throw them out. :)
We're actively using Pull Remainders! Love the direct messaging feature on comments and assignments! Keep up the good work!
(Presuming that you are using the word "atheism" correctly here, and didn't actually mean to say "agnosticism"...)

I may be an atheist, but I'm not going to pretend that it isn't its own philosophy.

Of course, in the eyes of most technical personnel, atheism is much simpler than any religious philosophy.

But, at the end of the day: atheism, mythologies and religions are all sets of answers to the same set of otherwise-unanswered questions that humanity beholds.
Hong Xiuquan
This seems like an under served market. When I was in SE Asia I loved the fact that I could purchase small meals off the street at regular intervals. They were inexpensive and hassle free.
This is not true in the US.
Exactly, all kids are different, even when they are raised the same. When my son was 3 he also was very cautious and never ran on the road, however my daughter at the same age will run everywhere thinking that it’s a game, without putting much thought into weather it’s safe or not.
I think that may be largely filtered through us audiences.

Of course Christians can be persecuted. Any minority is likely to face some level of persecution.

But in the US, it is so commonplace, so entrained in our society that it's hard to take the persecution claim seriously, particularly when weilded in response to things like bakers and their cake businesses.

In fact, that's an example of American ideals working as applied to government action. In an otherwise zero sum game it seeks to shield the minority at the expense of the majority.
Not entirely accurate - Tiananmen square was just under 30 years ago, and that was a particularly low point. Though I suppose one could argue that pretty much anything after that was an improvement.
One Man’s Quest to Outrace Wind (2011)
Just as a counter to your anecdote. I'm 35. My mother wouldn't let me so much as cross the street. I live in a small rural town with little to no crime.
Merry Chrismas from the mid-south US!
"Addresses an issue that could affect cellular connectivity in Turkey for iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max" [1]

What exactly did apple do here? Kind of suspicious that they made adjustments to the eSIM specifically for Turkey when Erdogan announced he would be banning iPhones because of coup fears [2]. Did they enable Turkey to listen in?

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209084

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/business/turkey-erdogan-a...
> you need to drive you kid to school until they are 14

As in you aren't even allowed to walk with them to school, you have to drive them in a car? Why's that?
It really depends on the 3 year-old. Some kids are more cautious and attentive than others; and families with multiple children often have a decent "chain of responsibility" where a 3 year-old will look to a 7 year-old for leadership and guidance. Many kids recognize when they're being granted extra leeway, and they're accordingly extra careful. And some kids are utterly out of control and won't mind the simplest instructions. I wouldn't let my 3yo out on a journey with any 7yo, no matter how responsible they seem. Responsible parents will accurately evaluate their kids' readiness and maturity, and should give opportunities to practice independence where it's safe.

It also depends a lot on the local environment, time of day, day of year. And it doesn't sound like the kids even needed to cross a street. This parent didn't let their child run free: they stood out on the street and watched the kids on the "dangerous" part of their journey.

The biggest risk these days is that a busybody will call CPS, break up your family and traumatize your kids in foster care. Stop the fear-mongering.
The true workhorse behind this one-liner is inotify(Linux) or FSEvents(Mac) API. Not sure what is the Windows equivalent.

If your favorite language has access to those, then you can basically build your own file syncing client.
Listen. There are more noble ways to achieve euthanasia than posting about Google advertisements and entangling strangers into what is either a personal crisis or a very sick prank. Consider what you have been doing here. You have posted this twice in as many days. Pay attention to your actions.
I’m trying really hard to do as you’ve wished and only address the question. So my thought is that Google probably thinks you are advanced in years (giving away wealth, getting your estate in order, etc), and that’s why it recommends adult continent assistance.
It's mentioned on reddit, that passing the -r flag will pick up new files, right? Link @https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/a92m1u/comment/ecgqf...

EDIT Oh I see what you're saying; that's confusing, though, how's it supposed to work in the first place, then?? :))
Is it more difficult in the English-speaking part of the Internet? My captcha for small sites entirely consists of a decoy <input type=submit style="display:none"> for, like, last ten years.
This is kind of a grey area it seems. Manitoba IS one province that specifies a legal minimum age of supervision (12) but it applies only to being left at home or in a car (edit: I was wrong about these specifics. They leave it more generalized in the actual law) and is still left with a clause about "unless reasonable situations exist". Meanwhile the age to allow kids to walk to school, while unofficial and no limit exists across canafa, seems to be 9 years by majority opinion agreements.

Sounds like this social worker stepped out of bounds. If Canadian government is by and large okay with kids walking to school themselves at 9, surely walking a block with a 9 year old is reasonable enough. It's clear the parent was still aware of where they were so I'd say it's an arguable case, but IANAL.

Tbh I don't know if this is just one isolated case, but it kinda sounds like it.

Edit: here is the law and I linked the subsection that is relevant. It more clearly states what I paraphrased above. https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/c080e.php#17(2)
Greater access to television and the evening news ritual did us in. Watching constant daily reports on murders and robberies in your city tends to cause people to think that the sky is falling, when of course, crime has been collapsing since the 1990s. [0]

In fairness to the current generation of parents in their late 30s to early 50s, violent crime spiked dramatically in the 1990s and has only recently returned to 1960s levels, and people cement their worldviews in their teenage / early 20s and rarely change their minds afterwards. So as faulty of a process as their reasoning is, they did grow up in a generation of the most violent crime our nation has dealt with in recent history; add that to the media frenzy (and that weird obsession / fear of satanism in the late 90s too) and you get a generation of overprotective parents.

[0]: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/dec...
Religions don't believe things, people believe things. Many religions, if the text of their holy books are taken literally, support violence, sacrifice, slavery, etc. And religions are practiced in different ways in different times, and different places. Not every religious person is an extremist.

My opinion is that you should judge people by the way they actually behave, not by the worst possible interpretation of how their religion says they should behave. Many people follow supposedly "violent" religions peacefully alongside other faiths.
Yeah, maybe they should consider legal action against this person as well.

(Not surprising this is Canada t.b.h. this is the country where it seems people can't follow common sense in place of procedures and where people are too worried about anything that "might be dangerous")

And of course kids die because of such stupidity https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-mom-urges-scho...
Was IQ ever meant to be a measure of financial success? Or rather, did anybody, at any time, ever think that the “smarter” people were the more financially successful? I know I never thought that or observed that anybody else appeared to think that. Being “smart” meant that you were (under the just-world hypothesis) guaranteed a certain level of comfort: you’d end up with an office job where you say all day in an air conditioned office rather than breaking your back under the hot sun, but the super-successful types were either (depending on your biases) the ruthlessly selfish or the risk-takers.
Impose? Is that really the word you wanted to use?
You’re a professional cook, and personal food waste bothers you?

That’s surprising to me given my own experience behind the scenes with institutional food service, which involved massive amounts of waste.
This was a pretty big story at the time here in Winnipeg. The context is that CPS has a bad rep here. Note that they took a whole month even to follow up on the complaint.
The amount of scallops is probably reasonable, but the pound and a half of pasta you get is not.
Syncthing does have a mobile app https://f-droid.org/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/
Let’s just be supportive. A lot of times, people with no one end up turning to strangers.

It’s no way to spend Christmas. I hope he comes and chats with us.
These posts rarely point out incredibly strict immigration policies and the stark racial makeup of the countries that rely on group dynamics for rather inconvenient reasons. When you have a largely homogenous population that has been stable over decades - centuries in the case of Japan - then these types of relationships evolve.
tl;dr PWAs are on the brink of being a "thing": technical abilities are accumulating, but it's not clear if the political will to "commit to the web" exists. If you have experience developing native apps, just do that. There's no reason to jump ship and make a PWA because it's not clear if they're going to take off or not.

Google has shown some investment in PWAs on Android with the development of "WebAPKs", a way to manage the installation of progressive web apps through the Play store.

However, this mechanism is not entirely public: Chrome for Android will create a WebAPK when asked to add a PWA to the home screen, but currently you cannot create a WebAPK yourself and list it in the Play Store.

The point I'm trying to make is that while PWAs are slowly gaining technical abilities, Google hasn't yet gone "all in" wrt PWAs being a true form of "app". It's not clear where exactly they're headed; there are some indications that there is a kind of "cold war" between the Chrome and Android teams.[0]

Microsoft has shown much more commitment to PWAs by making them available in the Windows app store. I believe Firefox has some support, and I'm only aware of Safari recently starting development of Service Workers, a necessary component for PWAs.

As far as adoption in the wild:

- Google has created a PWA version of Maps, Maps Go, available in the Play Store. This shows that PWAs are technically capable, but still not "blessed", in that you couldn't make a PWA and list it in the store like that.

- Twitter Lite in the Play Store is a WebView wrapper around a PWA, getting around the restriction I just mentioned.

[0]: https://medium.com/@firt/is-there-a-cold-war-between-android...
It's not just the cooked food you're throwing away, it's also the parts of the vegetables that you're dumping.

For years I had been throwing the stem of the broccoli into the compost only to find out that it's not only edible but it's really tasty.

Then I hear that the leaves of radish is also edible, so that gets thrown into a stir-fry / omelette / stamppot / salad for another meal..
Demo works great! https://i.imgur.com/hmplvqu.png
Underground churches are stronger every time they are persecuted. Success, prosperity are much more dangerous for most of the christian churches in the western world.
Speculation, but does food waste reduce food prices?
If I were to change careers, I think I’d go into politics and become some type of political operative. I like the process, I like the issues, I like the strategy. It would flex a completely different set of mental muscles than my software engineering job and to me, that would be quite a welcome challenge.