skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think when compared with Chinese imperialism, people will miss the US

Could you clarify which people you are thinking of and your specific meaning of what they would miss?

I'm thinking about those historical track record. I'm thinking of those millions of Vietnamese and Cambodians whose lives were ended. I wonder about the millions more whose futures were ruined. I'm thinking about those millions of Iranians trapped by blowback to the Mossadegh coup. Nicaraguans? Guatemala. Honduras. Pakistanis? Afghans? Somalis? Iraqis? Yemenis? Those are just the ones we see in the news. Who knows about all the ones we don't see.
Thanks for your commitment to transparency!
Can someone explain the math behind the ‘p hacking’ for this study?
Does this fake news?
‘The Great Derangement’
That may be true in percentage terms, but it definitely appears not to be true in the absolute terms that would predict spending. States with households below the poverty line are, as you'd expect, dominated by the most populous states, which tend to be blue states.
The issue is that transpilers didn't implement correct ESM (both ts and babel have opt in flags to enable more-correct-mode, but its still not 100%). they implemented the syntax but forgot about the actual semantics like dependency graph verification and such. Node is an actual implementation of js and so we must perform these tasks, even while transpilers don't.
Or more realistically get a job working on a Martian probe
The clouds don't do any filtering or mitigation for free. They just have enough bandwidth to pass the attack through to your servers and services. You're just moving the bottleneck here, as now you need to use a cloud DDoS mitigator like Silverline, Cloudflare, prolexic.

You probably would have been better off using a cloud mitigator from the start. Their pricing is competitive when you factor in all of the costs.
After observing the behavior of many Silicon Valley idols, popular posters on Quora and Medium, the public presence of Elon Musk, the head of GoogleX[0], etc., I've long suspected that anything that impairs your brain function would also lead to a higher likelihood of "entrepreneurial"[0] behavior.

[0]: The roller skates thing.

[1]: Imagine I'm making a jack-off motion in the air as I say that word.
PDF is a file. Books are anything but. That’s a lazy alternative that did not succeed in 30 years. Why would that happen now?
Not so much if the local economy is not developed enough to be able to utilize it.
A little amusing that PHP, everyone’s favorite whipping language, eliminates this particular footgun (it uses ‘o’ for the week-based year).
West Africa, the region with the most greatest number of Francophone states and influence is largely the poorest African region(some like to argue Central Africa, but people debate its composition and shape more readily than West Africa). My experiences in the region often reveal great resentment with the nature of French involvement within their political economy. Now you may disagree with that and think its all hunky dory in those countries, but for me its quite strange as a Ghanaian American to see, and we often feel sorry for them. We feel especially sorry for Togo, our bordering country next door which has lived under a family dynasty for 51 years, a dynasty overtly supported by France.

And we definitely felt sorry for Ivory Coast when French special forces busted into their presidential palace to resolve a domestic electoral dispute. But hey CFA Franc, stability and all that, yeah!
Browsers don't care what extension you serve something as, so it doesn't break the interop we want with browsers if you put your files as `.mjs`.
> Speaking furthermore, I do find it highly concerning just how much of an echo chamber this place is in regards to this notion of "Chinese colonialism" and Chinese "debt - traps". Most African countries still owe far more to the IMF/World Bank than they due to China.

I don't think that the amount of debt and the amount of countries in debt is a correct measure of influence that the IMF/WB or China has in the region. The IMF offers highly concessional loans in relatively moderate amounts with many strings attached. These 'neo-liberal' strings [1], which include mandatory monetary reforms and privatization could indeed be considered 'colonial', and their effectiveness can be doubted (or even seen as destructive), but they do seem to have a semblance of responsible debt management in their intentions (but perhaps not in their outcome).

China on the other hand, itself being on the brink of a major debt crisis, is handing out seemingly no-strings-attached YOLO-money, especially to debt-vulnerable countries that previously had large parts of their IMF/WB debts forgiven [2]. In some cases, especially in infrastructure projects, China requires the hiring of Chinese labor and further redirects money because there is a huge technology gap between local and Chinese companies.

These are no concessional loans, and China must know that (some of) these countries are inevitably going to default with major losses of land, infrastructure and natural resources as a consequence, to China's gain. It perhaps is too early to tell, but these measures seem far more 'colonial' to me in intent than the loan programs of the IMF/WB in the last 50 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_adjustment

[2] https://www.cgdev.org/blog/yes-chinas-lending-problem-debt-v...
> Amazon S3 is an object base store.
> Highly durable, 11 9’s of reliability.

My eye twitched when I read this, considering that I remember more than one aws outage that affected s3 availability/reliability.

AWS own pages mention 10 nines for /durability/, however, I doubt this durability number, this level is almost unachievable by any end customer product. Could it be some clever durability accounting?

I'm quite disappointed on AWS service status reporting when the service may be disrupted so so badly, to the point of not being serve a single request, however status pages not mentioning problems at all, or just reporting "increased error rates".
Looks like this is the actual paper: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/12/eaau3275

Note that this is about replacing the use of gold as a catalyst for synthesizing alcohol from coal, not any electronics usage.

I don't know enough about the science to say if this is promising for electronics usage or not.
I feel like this is the reason stuff doesn't get shipped. If you couldn't release v.01 without adding in a robust analytics suite, nothing would ever get released.

Nothing wrong with releasing a .01v and not putting priority on anything but basic functionality until you start to grow. Half of this means you need to build out functionality that doesn't require heavy monitoring, metrics, and logging to get the job done. All that infrastructure stuff is more fun to code when you've blown through the free tier of S3 storage anyway.
China does not need to be functional to abuse other countries.
You say you are more productive than ever. Is it possible that you are actually a "lark" and that you forced yourself to stay up late, because of social pressure or simply because that is when you were able to do the things you wanted to do, but now you have found your preferred sleeping schedule?
So saying you have the entrepreneurial bug is a real thing? Seems like correlation without causation, to me.
Somewhere there now has to be a person thinking "Hmm, I've been eating cat poop for a month now and have not seen any increase in business revenue - am I not eating enough?"
18 striking findings from 2018
This is a pretty good breakdown but to the author: i would like to see a better explanation of defaults. Node will ship with the defaults needed to perform tasks logically and unambiguously. This however doesn't mean that a user's use case is locked away. ESM in node has hooks which allow people to override resolution behaviour, which means you could put esm in `.esm` files, or cjs in `.sadness` files, or have all files in a specific directory be esm, or read package.json and pull metadata out of it, etc.
To further butress DanielBMarkham's excellent comment below, here is a HN discussion [0] from early this year where China gave Africa a no strings attached helping hand that turned out to be "Greek gift" where they snoop on all communications.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16272033
I've been looking for a book on this topic for a while now!
In several of those the US split the bill with Russia, don't forget about that.

While US's action in Iran had a strong effect, I'd say the blame doesn't last forever (return of sanctions notwithstanding)
They are NOT turning copper in to Gold. They're altering the properties of copper using a process a little like sputtering to make it resilient enough for use in applications where Gold is currently best utilized.
The App Store's incompatibility is by Apple Policy, enforced via digital restrictions management. See the license says that after Apple distributes it to you, they have to permit you to change out libraries and code and still have it be runnable. As this would permit you to run custom code on the iDevice without Apple strictly controlling what computing you are permitted to perform on an iDevice, Apple cannot allow this.

So Apple bans GPLv3, because they do not permit you to do what you want with your device, the device does what Apple wants and permits you to do with it.
Many (if not most) quantitative hedge funds are dollar neutral, which means they have one dollar short for every dollar long. There are typically additional constraints about having equal long/short exposure on each industry and investing style (momentum, value, etc).

So contrary to the article, most of these funds don’t take broad bets for or against the market. What they are really doing is correcting the relative valuations of each individual company by shifting bits of capital away from overpriced companies and towards underpriced ones. That doesn’t have the effect of raising or lowering broad market indices.

Now there are of course other investors who take broad directional bets on the market but those are probably more likely to be discretionary bets rather than systematic.
Aside from fake news, I can't help but wonder: what is the probability that the “generated” faces do not closely resemble people IRL?

An immediate use case that jumped to mind was DIY stock photos or even movies. But, with the above question still hanging, I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be using this.
I think the best way to explain it is with this link: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/
Switzerland has 76000 illegal immigrants. The quality (education, earning potential, skills) of legal immigrants to Switzerland is very high.

Italy has more than - half a million - illegal immigrants. [1]
Italy has five million+ legal immigrants. [1]

The quality of illegal and legal immigrants to Italy is very low. I hope that better explains the differences between Italy and Switzerland.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Italy
babel/register: https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-register
This concern about breaking only seems true for the Node.js side. The HTML/JS/CSS running in the web view should be pretty resilient to version upgrades; web devs are used to defensive, backward-compatible design that handles multiple browser versions.

The bridge itself is API stable. evaluateJavaScript:completionHandler: isn't going anywhere.

So the question is whether it's okay to use a native web view while still bundling your own V8 + Node. That seems like an improvement to me!
1. Continue to lose weight - i've lost 10 pounds the past month, would like to lose 30 more.

2. Work through PentesterLab Pro - past couple times I would get halfway through the first badge and just stop. This time I am pairing it with Anki cards.

3. Continue getting 7-8 hours sleep, been doing this since I read 'Why We Sleep'

4. Learn Ruby/Rails build a handful of applications.
You can go to any bar on a vacation in Thailand and just ask for Marijuana. They wouldn't sell it so easily if there would be a death penalty. Anyways police is so corrupt you have to pay them sometimes even if you did nothing illegal (I was a jet ski scam victim, and went to the police...later I found out that I should have gone to the tourist police)
I was in Paris over the summer; it wasn’t a “dump” by any means, though there was a layer of grime to everything that many cities have. Also the amount of smoking was shocking and to me, very unpleasant.

On the other hand, Normandy and it’s various towns and villages were so heartbreakingly beautiful, quaint, and filled with joy, I could barely believe that such a place could exist on Earth.
What makes this better than just a larger wheel in the right position?
Maluma, Becky G, Anitta – Mala Mía (Remix – Lyric Video) – REACTION
people demonize the IMF alone?

Nobody demonizes the IMF alone, there's plenty of internal criticism inside the countries "helped" by the IMF.
Except no? Only servers where stuff making requests expects the server to behave that way. The interesting thing about this is that every server in the world already works like this: they expect the person calling the server to know how the server works.
I'd love to know more about this project.. having worked for a local independent bookshop for a dozen years i've seen a lot of folks impatiently waiting for books to print and ship.

How do you propose to get access to the contents from the publishers? What will convince Penguin Randomhouse to have me have a copy of a bestseller in electronic form on a local device I can use to print copies?!

I know I can access a huge amount of titles that are in the public domain, or even as e-books... which might be convertible and printable on such a device, but that means the reseller needs a better deal on e-books to make money, or charge the client twice for the privilege of owning the book in physical form. Once for the content and once for the printed version.
Over 19,000 Orange modems are leaking WiFi credentials
How is that any different from previous bear markets? I swear I remember reading the same analysis in 1987 after the crash.

Human behavior (even human-programmed behavior) is pro-cyclic. Everyone wants the same stuff and makes the same decisions with the same input. I don't see anything notable about this market cycle as compared with previous ones at all, only the jargon is changing.
I'm really interested in this, how far have you got?
I think the sleeper in this article is at the end where they are applying the same technique to inanimate objects. Imagine what this could do to inspire designs and help people that have a good eye but aren’t able to pull it all together in the form of a finished product. With the degree of automation we’re heading towards, the era of bespoke commodity goods is going to be a money maker.
Non paywalled, and cleaner version: https://outline.com/9s3xTZ
What happens if someone sends a layer 7 DDoS that you do respond to with a 200? Or 300-level?
Hoarding gold when TSHTF is stupid anyway. The only commodities in that event will be booze, ammo, and women.
What is Shakedown?
There's so much BS around toxoplasmosis online. Here's corrections for two common misconceptions:

1) Almost everyone who has it got it from eating undercooked meat, not from cats. France has the highest rate of toxoplasmosis in the world because of their propensity for rare meats: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312802/.

2) Unless your cat lived a long part of it's life as an outdoor cat, it is very unlikely to have the parasite (like any parasite).
Hacker steals ten years worth of data from San Diego school district
This bear market took a week to develop. The crashes of 1929 and 1987 happened in a day. I don't think that point holds.
Alan Kay's take on Jobs and Pixar is pretty illuminating regarding this -

>Steve wasn’t capable of being friends. That wasn’t his personality. Besides the Apple stuff, I had a lot to do with his Pixar thing. I was contacted by the people who became Pixar–I knew them well, and they wanted to get out of Lucasfilm. They called me up and asked me for advice, and so I said, I can talk to Steve. I explained very carefully to him who these people were, and you shouldn’t fuck around with them, like he did with his normal employees. He did a good job with them. [Pixar] was the most honest billion he ever made, because he put a lot of his own personal money into nurturing those guys. They got fabulous. That was Steve’s best hour.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-ab...

The whole article is worth reading for Kay's take on a variety of stuff.
This new product is certainly entrepreneurial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2yWAD5OzhM
Show HN: Subscription Box for Gourmet Ingredients
Woah first time I've seen "This story is for Medium members". I guess this is when people will start abandoning Medium.
$92,400 in a day. How little. For a single song (released in 1994 at that). How detached from reality can people be?
Ask HN: How is there not a full-featured open-source PDF editor/viewer?
For almost anything you can think of there is a pretty awesome open source version of that software but for the life of me I can't find a truly full featured PDF editor that's 100% free. As PDF technology has been the preferred document of business for the last 15+ years I'm really surprised there isn't at least one open source project that's been a mainstay in this niche?!? What am I missing?
Fountain codes and animated QR
Thank you, this is both awesome and terrible.
Software companies simply use tooling chains instead of written bureaucracy. Sometimes it takes more time to manage the tooling than it does to solve the code problem. Good tooling is simple and gets out of the way of the real task, solving the damn problem.
How Exercise Affects Your Brain
Depends how fast you can play a scale :)
What's your definition of huge? Just curious as it's still really cheap to rent racks even in top tier datacenters.
Did I read that correctly we are going to lose the ability to require paths and modules eg import {} from './services' or import {} from 'lodash'?
'Hunger Hormone' Ghrelin Aids Overindulgence
I’ve seen it done. Had to patch a few, too.
The most interesting tidbit from this article: paper sales are up, ebooks are down.

“Publishers’ revenues from hardcover sales rose 3.5 percent in the first 10 months of this year, while revenue from digital books fell 3 percent in the same period, according to the Association of American Publishers.”
You guys taking notes? There is no software in this thing!
The Histories of Today's Wars Are Being Written on Facebook and YouTube
PDF came out 25 years ago.

Replace "PDF"/"Books" with "PNG"/"Photographs", or "MP3"/"Recordings", and you'll see how well that argument went over. One should make the argument via YouTube to double the irony.

A group of hipster book snobs jealously guarding their century-old first editions are welcome to their hobby, but the mass media will blow right past them as soon as the economics are favorable. What's remarkable is how much more sophisticated 35mm film and vinyl are versus the old staid book.

Why now? Consumers are getting fussier (I want what's hot now, not in 8 weeks), and production equipment is getting way cheaper. Laser printing costs (even quasi-consumer-level) have plummeted to the point where equipment manufacturers have to resort to gimmickry to keep their margins positive. While all the paper textbooks you've read to date probably originated roll-to-roll, I see laser (and the flexibility it offers) finally breaking into that market.
Is something evidence or an annoyance that someone has an opinion that does not agree with yours?
>I would argue those are mostly shims for a pre-moudule era and they should just be `required()`

Modules are always strict, so loading something intended to be a module as commonjs could break the code within, which expects strict mode.

Consider the following source text: `delete Object.freeze({ a: 1 }).a`

It will return `false` in sloppy mode, and throw in strict mode. So loaded as commonjs, it will do nothing, and as a module it will be an uncaught exception.

>perhaps they could use some special comment at the top to let Node know it should be treated as a module even though it doesn't look like one.

This was discussed, but one of our goals is to be able to know what type of file something is before reading its contents. our ESM implementation, unlike CJS, doesn't assume that everything it uses comes from the local fs.
When was the last time you had someone refuse to deliver a letter to YOUR NAME in YOUR CITY? Ever have trouble catching a plane because your drivers license says Alice but your boarding pass says ALICE?

Normal people don't think of case as changing the value in the same way that even abbreviations or alternate spellings do — I know people who've had trouble boarding planes because they have ID/boarding passes which are inconsistent on, say, using ü or ue – especially annoying when the latter usage was just to work around a bug in someone else's system.
Are you sure you're not confusing GNU tar with gnuplot? http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html#x1-70001.2
Sound waves levitate multiple objects
Re: First of all, you don't just blow air inside the instrument: you buzz your lips, as if you were making a sort of fart sound without using your tongue.

The dirty secret of brass instruments. I wonder if they could make a direct air-powered vibrator so that one doesn't have to torture their lips. It may also make life easier for amateurs. I imagine it may result in loss of control for subtle effects, but some amateurs will accept that.
'Justice' is our Word of the Year 2018
The quoted 11 nines durability number is saying that you won't lose your data. Availability has nothing to do with it. It seems the OP used the wrong word and should have said "durability" instead of "reliability".

> this level is almost unachievable by any end customer product.

Not sure what your point is here, unless you're highlighting the benefits of using a cloud provider. AWS is not using an "end customer product" to implement S3. They're providing a managed service, and their implementation and management is what allows it to achieve those levels of durability.
Depression is just as serious as cancer. There is a lot at stake. In some cases ketamine may be a good alternative.

But harsh side effects seem like they would be acceptable if depression is as problematic as you claim.
Personally, I would go for food, clothing, and shelter
Mortality rates rising for Gens X and Y, too
I actually use Kitty with tmux/vim. I noticed a massive improvement in rendering speed over iTerm. This was after messing with iTerm's own accelerated rendering which wasn't as much of an improvement as I had hoped.
Hi HN!

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Well, taken a random human from the population, what is the probability he doesn't resemble anyone else alive? This is not really a mathematical question, since "resembles" is undefined and it really depends on the biological nature of human morphology, but I'm pretty sure that except for pathologically abnormal cases the answer always will be close to zero.
Yeah but after splitting up the money between various parties, it's what maybe a Toyota camry each? Nothing right?

I finished paying off my toyota camry a couple years ago. It took 5 freaking years.
> make spaces allowed in identifiers

IIRC from my days at Cambridge, Algol68 allowed that. (Our local variant was Algol68C.)