skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I asked a Chinese national friend of mine. He said that the system sounded good, because it would decrease the rate of crime.

The only time I've ever gotten an objective opinion about China from a national was when they became a citizen of another country, had no remaining family there and no intent to return.

> The sorts of things you're talking about are genuinely not on the radar of the average person over there. It would require education they specifically and intentionally don't have.

This is a bit...presumptive, at the least.

Why would you assume ignorance just because people living within reach of the long arm of a Stasi-equivalent refuse to say anything but positive things about the current regime?

They may not have access to science fiction or accurate domestic history books but that doesn't mean they can't see what's going on.
The average mainland Chinese person may also have legitimately nothing to fear from a social credit system. I'm not defending it, but as long as the system does not escalate (which is probably not a given, despite all the slippery slope arguments), the average apolitical person might not even have to care.

I guess the combination of social credit system and censorship makes things particularly insidious, because if you are unjustly affected then you can't appeal publicly. But at the same time, enough people will get good social credit scores that a majority of the population might support the system still.
PUBG has gotten a lot better the past month, it still has the best feel and fun factor of any FPS out right now.

See you on Vikendi. Bring your snow jacket.
Considered the black pipe stuff...but I'm not convinced the plastic doesn't leach nasty crap into the water.

I assume you have gas heating & cooking then? If they're elec its usually cheaper to buy new ones than up-spec the solar PVs.
> The average mainland Chinese person who attended their public school system will simply not be aware of a great many historical events, such as:

> Tiennamen Square (they'll know it exists as an innocent landmark in the capital, not the history of what happened there)

False. I was born in China in the early 80s and I witnessed the 1989 riots during Tiananmen Square on TV (I was in kindergarten). Average mainland Chinese people knows more than you think they do. Albeit, a lot of them would have very different idea of the same historical events.
You do, but the points needed to buy a new champ (I believe it's 6,300 IP) doesn't take too long to get.
Given that Apple, Amazon, and Google together pay less taxes than a middle size company thanks to their "fiscal optimisation", the answer is pretty simple ;)
Turns out that buying from your local dealer is cheaper than going to someone who had to jump through regulatory hoops. who knew?
Bitcoin is 10 years old and may or may not be broken depending on the end use case, but that isn't the only crypto/ blockchain project. For you to center the conversation around those arguments shows you're not very informed on the topic.

A lot of developmental progress in the ecosystem with models/architectures, tools, and infrastructure hasn't happened until recently (past year, give or take).
Sounds like my impression from Jazz concerts I have been to. They often felt sterile and emotionless to me. I like it when musicians feed off their audience's emotions and don't just do their thing.
Oh, totally. It's an important part of modern defense in depth. 'Just because they said they turned on the IOMMU doesn't make it bulletproof' is all I'm saying.
Champion advantages can be mitigated with playstyle and itemization. You can do well in League without having too many characters; Champs aren't hard counters to each other in the same way Dota heroes can be. Buying a certain champion is no guarantee of victory, especially if you don't play them well. Skill plays a much larger role than the champ you play.

As for runes, IIRC you couldn't buy them with the paid currency, Only with the currency earned from playing. It's a moot point since they merged runes and masteries anyways.
I am pretty sure there was an Arma mod that directly inspired pubg in there somewhere. Maybe even older then then hunger games mod.

Edit: Oh I just looked it up. The mod was PUBG. I just realized it was the same guy who made it. It was released as a mod for Arma in 2015 by a player who went by the handle "PlayerUnknown". So I guess it was after the minecraft mod.
I do not notice that space at the beginning of the line act like a pre tag. Sorry for that. For the rest I do not think having posted anything more "flamebait" than the article itself and certainly not violating any site guideline.

Few times I use all capitals to emphasis a single world more than simple '' or '_', veeeery rarely I use all caps for very few worlds as I do in the real world when I civilly and polity I raise my voice a little bit.

I do not* find that nor impolite nor flamebait. Also to my European eye certain kind of news like "copyrighted tattoos" sound really a joke. I understand that the world is vary so something normal in a country may not be normal in another, and I do my best in general to respect others, as others respect me.

I do not think HN is a diplomat discussion platforms like G7 o similar high-level meetings so I assume that in any country of the world, on a formally free speech platform, especially if it's named after Hacker cultures, one of the most free modern cultures we have seen in human history certain kind of relaxed expressions are ok.

I do not buy the idea to be all silent, to ban all "strong" concepts, to say that anything is ok etc typical of certain dictatorial regimes. Hacker culture is free and remain free even on a proprietary platform with certainly not free communication model by it's nature.

Also I do not see anything disturbing in remark how certain kind of use of "gamification" are not proper to a free culture nor can be considered positive or kind.
Moreutils Unix utilities
Totally agree that the features I mentioned address shortcomings.

And while I think Rust could do just fine without GATs, specialization is something I'd really hope for.

People will never be satisfied though and always ask for new features.
A lot of it is based on http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html, which I used when first learning org-mode. I made some modifications, mainly around easier task switching and reports
When I was in the middle of the first paragraph I was prompted to sign a newsletter so I gave up reading.
> The only time I've ever gotten an objective opinion about China from a national was when they became a citizen of another country, had no remaining family there and no intent to return.

This appears to be the key. Which of course, takes a generation or two, because its rare that someone leaves and absolutely everyone in the family tree comes at the same time as well.

And of course by that time, the person in question no longer has experience with China.
Jazz has always bee like that back in the 50's there are incidences of actual fights at trad Jazz gigs, over arcane arguments over which sort of Bass should be used - this is Metal Vs String not a Double Bass vs an Electric Bass (which was beyond the pale)
Ah but this was a British system. You should have said "naught-naught-seven"
Another big issue might be the financial industry. Marijuana is still illegal at the Federal level so banks might be reticent to get involved with providing loans or services to these businesses. Without access to credit and banking services, a lot of people who might otherwise go into business, won't.
Chinese here. I dont wanna argue about other misinformation this thread have presented so far but just one thing: Access to the book 1984.
jd.com is like amazon equivalent in mainland China (amazon.cn has less traffic there)

Searching 1984 returns: http://search.jd.com/Search?keyword=1984&enc=utf-8&wq=1984&p...

the first item has 93k reviews. On taobao (by alibaba) the search results are:
https://www.taobao.com/list/product/1984%E5%A5%A5%E5%A8%81%E...

I dont know where you get the idea that average mainland Chinese person who attended their public school system (we dont really have a private school system yet, for better or worse) are not aware of those things.
I still have hope for Diabotical if it ever comes out. It has the seal of approval from Cypher which says a lot to me.
Yeah, well that's what happens when you let local cities/counties shit all over it, and have the laws/regulations written by the alcohol and tobacco lobbies.
I can also recommend "The War of Art" to people who encounter internal resistance when trying to get things done.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007A4SDCG/
The failure of QC has nothing do with them not embracing the RPG/ability aspect of MOBAs, that was always just a gimmick anyways (when QC introduced gametypes without abilities they ended up being more popular). It has everything to do with Bethesda utterly mismanaging the entire project into the ground. They hired Saber Interactive (probably the cheapest studio they could find) instead of going with more expensive in-house development with iD. The engine is a frankenstein monster of old iDtech with Saber's console-oriented crap piled on top and the result is woeful performance, memory leaks, desync, and laughable netcode all of which has not been addressed in the 2 years it's been in "beta". Add in the cancerous "games as a service" model that does not allow for any custom content, maps, or community servers (which were always the lifeblood of quake) and there you have it
Cryptocurrencies are the worst possible store of value against the collapse of civilization. Did you forget that you need a functioning internet and electrical grid to use cryptocurrencies? This type of thinking does not reflect a realistic perspective of how the world works.
I'd like to understand more about your second paragraph, since it shapes some of the work I want to do in 2019. What should I be reading or looking up?
32 drinks per hour is a low average that’s already including downtime.

“8-4 shift with 2 other baristas on a 6 group synesso hydra, is 986 coffees. That place averaged around 750 a day.”

986 / 3 people / 8 hours = 41 per hour.
750 / 3 people / 8 hours = 31 per hour.

If your comparing somone making 20$ per hour vs 10$ per hour that’s 24 to 31 cents a drink. Which is not meaningless but does demonstrate that wages are a low percentage of the cost of a coffee.
I'm not sure what you mean by this comment. How does it relate to the discussion on racial equity?
From the same site - moreutils, Unix utilities; just posted it here, after seeing this thread, and due to seeing moreutils recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18772237
Cuckoo – Sandboxed Malware Analysis
> they warn Googlers not to push themselves too hard

I don't think this has anything to do with Google, the company. It just happens to be published on Google Docs. Here is the official website of the organizers AFAICT: https://www.ultraworking.com/
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Some may see high monopolized prices and having to jump through hoops as "fair": that is, cannabis use is not "good" and thus should not be made easy or cheap. See alcohol and tobacco.

IDK if this mindset is widespread enough in California. But coincidentally such an approach does improve the bottom line of large / established sellers.
Be careful with this.

While it may sound like a good idea, it literally violates the U.S. Air Carrier Access Act and SAS (the airline) was recently fined for doing exactly what you describe[1].

This solution may also create a situation where the accessible website becomes a "second class citizen" in terms of content because managers are not willing to allocate resources to improving the dedicated accessibility-friendly version. I argue it's much better to make a11y a part of the specification process just like we did with the responsive web when we abandoned WAP.

[1]: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/dot7418
Used to do a call center job for the unfamous EA.

Back then (and it still probably is), FIFA Ultimate Team was all the rage.

What's FUT : a bunch of e-cards of players to get from packages you buy or you trade with players.

You can spend 20 bucks but you can also spend hundreds, if not thousands to get your collection.
The ecosystem is gathering a lot of contributors and researchers. A lot of the issues revolving around tools, infrastructure, scaling, security, user experience have various solutions in development, which are expected to come to fruition in (roughly) the next 2 years.
Haiku uses FreeType, so yes, it's nearly identical to that of Linux.
Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers
Reid Hoffman denies direct knowledge of funding disinformation in AL Senate race
You’re comparing a) word of mouth that might spread across parts of a company, maybe a little further, impacting you when you apply for a job, to b) a nationwide, government-run system that will be involved in a wide variety of life situations. A) and b) are of wildly different scope, formality, import.
Or it could give managers leverage to accuse people of slacking when they say what they're really capable of. I really don't see how an event like this does anything but concentrate bargaining power.
Good point, thank you! This problem can be mitigated by using random increments. If initial random value is 79-bit and increments are in range [M, 2^n], where M>1 and n<=78 , by varying values of M and n you can find the right balance between density and security. This way server may also detect brute force attacks on IDs with specific millisecond value (by simply catching the misses) and progressively increase response time to make them ineffective.
FAANG is a cancer on society (ask the Rohinga) and they don't pay their taxes. The same is true for IKEA & Starbucks but their damage is at least limited to loss of tax revenues (double Irish with a Dutch sandwich etc).

The damage FAANG does (and how their toxic business-model is copied by EU start-ups) deserves imo this intervention by regulation. But yes it's not disputable that this is also an attempt to level the playing field for local companies.

I think EU is more technophobic than the US (and Asia) because there are many that still remember the horrors of the Stasi. Many don't want to embrace the Silicon Valley & Asian surveillance capitalism. Disruption (by moving fast and breaking things) is quite a disgusting to many of us ... and the rise of right-wing populism (globally) sure is rooted in this ignorance by technologists (to a large extent).
Page speed impact on advertising revenue
I turned up one morning to find two of my coworkers in a project meeting conference call with the PM. Later in my weekly "all projects" call with the PM I asked why I wasn't invited. She told me it wasn't my project. She also doesn't think it's necessary for me to continue attending the weekly "all projects" meetings where we discuss progress and priorities on all the engineering projects company wide (across 3 sites).
I dunno. I really like Epic and the Fortnite general tone, but as a mobile player I very much prefer PUBG. For one, even with all the talks about bad optimisation, PUBG runs (or at least at the time of launching ran) way better than Fortnite. Fortnite was totally unplayable on iPhone 6S whereas PUBG ran smoothly. Another thing is that Fortnite mixes players from various platforms and thus had to add autofire to the game which ruins the gameplay for me.
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And POSIX plays the role of an additional runtime library.
It should be noted that almost no for profit developer willingly builds housing targeting anyone but the highest income.

Maybe if the big tech companies set up non-profit housing organization at various price points, it would help. Maybe even at least get the working homeless off the street. After all, a huge percent of bay area corporate expense just flows through employees into rent or mortgage interest.
If you are building large-scale systems that take weeks or months to train, you are at a point where you shouldn't care about this. Throw more compute at the problem, it will pay for itself.

If we are talking days or hours: start parameter search on Friday and return best parameters on Monday.

Do research and iteration on heavily subsampled datasets.

If you are building models for yourself, or for Kaggle, you may care in as much as your laptop gets uncomfortably hot.
I think we might be talking about different kinds of optimality.

I think the chest style is best for total energy consumption. But as we saw, his biggest problem was around thermal stability. If we put the freezer/fridge fan under computer control, you might be able to get more stable fridge temperatures despite the air loss because you can drive the freezer temperature much lower, getting more stability value from the thermal mass. (And it's also worth filling in any big air spaces in the fridge with more thermal mass, so that opening the door is not a big deal.)
I have in no way mischaracterized the possibilities. Do customers think they have some sort of natural right to cheap lattes, or that it would be terribly unfair to pay more?
I believe if they were to provide bus commute as a benefit to contractors, the state would force-convert those contractors into employees.
For perspective Colorado has 549 retail establishments and 574 medical establishments (although many overlap) while having ~3/20 the population of California. While obviously Colorado has had retail cannabis since 2012/13, both states have areas strongly for and strongly against legalization.

Considering that the cities that do allow rec cannabis include Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and San Diego, the number of retail establishments seems very low even if they were limited to only these cities. Whats interesting is that California's licensing is done through their Food and Agriculture Department while Colorado's is done through the Department of Revenue.
It’s coming back in London. Check out artists associated with Total Refreshment Centre.
I'm pretty sure l looks like I more frequently than 5 looks like S. You have to draw the line somewhere.
So Electrum was not hacked itself, but was not designed to avoid fishing?
I prefer Netbeans for what little Java programming I do anymore. It doesn't seem more intensive than Eclipse is (I've never used Intellij. I know, I know). I love Netbeans' code completion engine, in that it takes types into account, e.g. if it knows that you need a string for this parameter of the function you're calling, it will suggest string variables first, but in, say, Eclipse, it will put everything in there alphabetically (down to things like ints), regardless of type.
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Doesn't that type of inefficiency already exist when a patient may need (or want) to go to a "network hospital", when there are multiple competing networks instead of one enormous one (that has say 95% of the "market")?

> paying twice effectively lowers the access of care to the people that can't afford to pay twice

My private insurance that kicks in if I e.g. need a knee surgery with 14 days wait instead of 90, will often require me to fly to a different city, likely even a different country, to get the procedure performed at a specialist private clinic. This care is something completely different to the regular care I need day-to-day for a child delivery, cancer treatment, appendectomy or whatever. As there is so very little overlap I'm also not paying twice. There isn't a private insurer that will offer me cancer treatment, child delivery etc.

They don't exist because who would want to pay twice for that?
From one of the world's foremost experts on the brain: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/revising-fault-line
Because their funds are easier to track. And easier to prove that they belong to them. Someone just needs to get your keys off you and there's that. You've got nothing on them.
> Right now, I've put bitcoins in blockchain.info on completely different pc and backed up the keys to raw paper secured in safe.

That seems like a great approach. But whatever you do, don't disclose what you have to anyone. See [1] for details.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/7lb7rm/be_your_own_...
I have a real problem with modern jazz. It's always trying to be something that it really isn't. It's just these people who grew up listening to the greats from the 20th century and imitating that sound. There's zero invention to it. Anything since the 70s and rise of smooth jazz is just rehashed mockery of a thing that once was. "Jazz" was something that happened at a specific time and place, with a specific group of people, and then it was over. It's not some transcendental overarching genre in itself to be explored. I'm far more interested now in hearing whatever some weird new electronic artist is coming up with than listening to someone perform Giant Steps note-for-note, or do a perfect Ella Fitzgerald.
While I agree that PUBG is a dumpster heap technically, it really is a legitimately fun game. I enjoy it much more than Fortnite, and if it performed halfway decently it would be one of my favorite games of all time. I think Fortnite's success is great and it is very clear why it is more popular than PUBG could have ever hoped to be, but I will always be partial to the slow, suffocating, horror of feeling alone in that giant world. Not seeing someone for 10 minutes, but always wondering who is around the next corner is thrilling to me and it's something that Fortnite intentionally lacks.
On the good end of the policy they're trying to correct "human nature", so the western approach is basically c'est la vie humans are terrible. I don't agree with the Chinese system either, but I don't see a good look in the mirror being a bad thing here either as that there are very real world consequences in the west penalizing doing the right thing.
The continuous growth of CVE entries shows otherwise.
> Thats what gravitates people towards randomness in games, where skill is taken out of the equation. Then you don't have to practice or actually "be good", you could just get lucky, and thats enough for most people - they aren't looking for challenges in their games, just dopamine kicks, and we are wired enough to get similar effects to chance we get to perseverance and the later doesn't even require hard work to get there.

That's how many people feel about the abilities in QC, yet you linked a QC style mod. Are the abilities toned down in the mod compared to how they are in QC?
Bipartisan Nuclear Modernization Bill Clears Congress
The underlying fallacy is that there's such a thing as an unbiased, impartial human being in the first place.
GitAhead open-sourced: Now on GitHub
Milk costs about $3.50 per gallon in the USA.

Milk prices vary wildly from market to market in the U.S.

Where I live, where cows are rare, it's $2.39/gallon. In greener regions nearby it's closer to $1.89/gallon.

When I lived in Ohio, the hypermarkets always had it for 99¢/gallon as a loss-leader.

I can only assume that $3.50/gallon is normal for... San Francisco, maybe? Or if you're buying organic, free-range, ultra-filtered, sustainable milk.
If there are no strings attached.... there's no reason to send the gift.
Here’s today’s CCC talk about hardware wallet vulnerabilities.

Apparently some can’t be fixed without new hardware. I can’t watch until later :(

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events...
Empty employment offices are not evidence of a shortage. Plenty of workers will appear right now, today if you offer sufficient wages.

If you don't believe me then post a help wanted ad with a >$50 hourly wage for unskilled work and watch the applications roll in.
As the technology develop, tracking for everything will be inevitable, I rather have transparency for everyone (including the government), seems to be more pragmatic this way. Besides, keeping thing private has its cost too.