skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I ever implied that free trade is always harmful. Just that at times tariffs and protectionism may be beneficial.

The onus is on the other side which claims that free trade is always beneficial, and any tariffs or protectionism is harmful.

Their analysis seems to work with the assumption that every participant in the economy practices free trade. That the effect of 10$ spent in USA is equal to 10$ in china, so that they don't have to take money circulation in their model.

I find that assumption very false. 10$ that go to your local country is largely spent as tax to the country, rent, food, and healthcare services in the local economy. If you send 10$ to China, they won't be spending it on American restaurants, housing, or healthcare. Clearly USA should have some preference to say 10.1$ being spent in USA vs 10$ in china.

It is fairly easy to see what I mean, and why "free trade is always good" is only true for the whole system, not individuals or groups of individuals (countries).
on red, i do like its syntax. very minimalistic, yet powerful.

i hope, as it matures, someone will create a neat application that is useful for me.
Do you consider the cold metallic palmrests typical in laptops to be somehow more functional? I find the rubber palmrests quite comfortable.

Also your wrists are _supposed_ to be elevated when typing.
Only that mandarin may open up a world of 1.2 billion people, a whole universe to explore.

The case with japanese is a great one tho! Japan is way more advanced and still a huge place to learn about, and although it has less population, its way more relatable and maybe even more practical.
I would have written the sort differently

%bag.sort({ -.value, .key })
Any links for the standing desk? 3m keyboard tray looks perfect. I had a great keyboard tray at Nortel in the nineties and all my workstations have been sub par since then.
Yuk. Speaking of dark design patterns; the link hijacks my back button in Safari. So when I go back, I'll get a popover with some ad.
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Most people have heard of this "method" of performing invasive brain surgery (so that the surgeon knows he/she's not messing with the patient's ability to play the guitar, which may be linked to other abilities etc.).

But I've literally never seen a story where they did this, and they found that the patient stopped playing the guitar/stumbled playing it/played better than ever before.

So what happens in any of those cases?

1) If they stop playing ? Does it mean they have 'damaged' a part of the brain ? Can you actually fix it ?

2) If they stumble/forget parts of the tune? Have you partially damaged the part of the brain that's responsible for that muscle memory?

3) If they suddenly become Hendrix? Have you found a way to turn mortals into gods with a metal stick ?

I'd think the distribution leans heavily towards 1) than 2) or 3).

But I've never seen any (1, 2 or 3), either they don't occur (i.e the surgery is just routine without any adverse effects) or I've not bothered to dig that deep into medical journals.

Any links would be appreciated.
The problem with the C solution is that you'll get hanging pointers. Try using i1 after the code above executes and you'll get a runtime error.
JavaScript. I know this could be a little controversial but with more and more people learning JavaScript and porting of tensor flow,torch into javascript, I believe this is the language which will take data science to masses of developers.
It's these small, stupid things that actually were the reason why I couldn't hack it on a Macbook.

You just get stuck in your ways when everything is set up _just right_, and the little things that Macs do that Linux didn't, and vice versa, just drove me up the wall, even though it was small and stupid.
I dunno, I'd say there's a very long tradition of safety in construction.

"If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death." (Code of Hammurabi)
--one driver per chipset (vs one per branded add-in-board)

--smaller without crapware

--just empirically true:

tv@tv:~$ df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda5 28G 11G 17G 39% /

this is my bloated as fuck ubuntu media machine. could be much smaller if it mattered, but that's pretty small already, no?

anyone remember damn small linux? I used to have that on a 128MB (yes MB) flash drive found in a desk at work. but bytes are cheap...
Like someone else suggested, this is likely a case of automated flagging by fraud detection systems, but it does not excuse such terrible communication on Patreon's part.

I have been following the recent Patreon backlash with interest, which I think was triggered by Patreon banning a youtuber who goes by Sargon of Akkad for using the phrase "white [n-word]" in a youtube video. Sam Harris, who was one of the highest earning people n Patreon, closed his patreon account and explained why he did so [0]. Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin (popular internet personalities who spoke out against Patreon's trust and safety policies) are planning on launching an alternative [1] to Patreon that is more pro free speech. It would be interesting to see if they manage to build a free speech alternative since the problem usually is that the worst elements on the internet flock to it before regular people and the site/service will be labeled a hub for nazis/white supremacists and no bank/financial institution will want to do business with such a service. It also sounds like companies such as Stripe and Paypal can do little even if they wanted to support a free speech alternative to Patreon, since that would cause issues with their payment networks.

I am interested in learning a little about how the financial infrastructure works (banks, payment processors, regulations), who decides what types of service should not be allowed even if it's legal and what it would take to build a free speech alternative to Patreon, so if there are some good resources that you know about, please share them in the comments.

[0] https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctw...

[1] https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/10772442911251742...
> Tokyo’s population has tripled over the last twenty years

No, it hasn't? Tokyo's already an anomaly in shrinking Japan by staying roughly the same size, and last I checked it was also forecast to start losing people around 2020.

http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/ABOUT/HISTORY/history03.ht...
This is great. I am interesting in stuff like this .
Meh. Blender is free software. Mac is almost (or is) the polar opposite of free software.
Please could you be free to explain the systems you used to produce your video ?
This is "The Biodeterminist's Guide to Parenting" by Scott Alexander (of Slate Star Codex fame)

https://archive.fo/7RULL
Idaho lab protects US infrastructure from cyber attacks
Here's an article on nootropics for children

https://www.topcognitiveenhancers.com/nootropics-for-childre...
“The ethos of the company is trying to switch the paradigm,” BamBrogan told The Verge in 2017. “Mobility and transportation are both words that talk about the ‘getting there.’ And we want to make it so seamless. I don’t want to get to dinner with my friend, I want to be at dinner with my friend.”

It seems that anyone who would fund this kind of garbage talk might have more money than sense.
I quite enjoy watching successive generations of programmers rediscover prolog in particular and rule-based programming in general. It's well worth learning even if you never really use it, because it expands your understanding of the art.
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It looks horrible, but at work I’ve been putting packs of A4 paper under the too low monitor stands of every flex desk I work at.
From a software engineering point if view, the problem may be not A/B testing correctly.

From a sociological and personal point, problem is the companies which effectively make money off of stealing people's time and data for profit by making them agree to short term gains through addictive content.

What we as responsible adults need to do is to find out what addictive psychology is and put an end to these opportunistic constructs through law making.

In my opinion, time is better spent on cultural skills and pursuits, not flocking to "the next big thing" you are spoonfed.
I think it's specially useful for small laptop screens, this is how it looks trying to have 2 windows open at the same time on Windows 10 (1280 x 800): https://i.imgur.com/vCWuoYA.png

- Code is too small to be readable by some (this extension allows zooming with mouse-wheel and pinch-to-zoom)

- Stacking console under makes it so you can only see 15 lines of code at time (unlike the 30 you get without stacking)

- A lot of horizontal space is wasted on scroll-bars, the edge of chrome and a few other elements
Is there a more legible version of this that's not grey on oh-so-slightly lighter grey?

I'd love to use it but I was looking at the grey box for about 3 minutes before I realized there was text in there.
It's definitely easier than General Relativity. I read Goedel's original paper when I was 19, whereas there are aspects of GR I'm still getting my head around.
It's because my projects are universal application, that's why Javascript. But JS is not the only choice.
What i mean is, we want a programmable config file, not "static one"
The author has written an explanation that is worth reading before starting the game: https://css-tricks.com/equilateral-triangle-perfect-paragrap...

To be honest this game is a bit of a mess. Normally you would pick a font size or line length, and find a fitting lineheight last. Here we are for example guessing line length based on a given line spacing. But, still useful to drive the point home there is some relation.
This should come built in in all modern browsers.
Already exists

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP_tunnel
This is insane. Any of these cities could fit 25m within city limits if they just upzoned. Shanghai has 25m and half the municipality is farmland or two or three story buildings.
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How do you test your website across old versions of Internet Explorer?
This is guilt-trippingly sweet, there's a certain charm I get from this, kind of like that of tacky Christmas sweaters or unironically used comic sans :)
I worked in the analytical lab at a chemical plant for a while. And I always worked Christmas, for the massive overtime. And isn't this sort of a toxics issue for Patreon?
I would like to get into games programming, would you mind having a free hand around?
Not necessarily about intelligence, but trace lithium could improve mental health which is certainly going to be related to school performance and success over one's lifetime.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-...
Why is Hong Kong (predominantly Cantonese speaking) used as the image for an article about the need to learn Mandarin? Most people in HK do not speak Mandarin natively (although English is spoken almost everywhere here).
It says "THIS WEBSITE WILL BE CLOSING DOWN ON DECEMBER 31, 2018" - anybody knows why?
San Francisco has attracted many sects of contrarians over the years. It is like a leftist museum.

While leftists have all kinds of diverging attitudes, there definitely is a large population who don't want Lyft or Uber -- especially Uber. When companies reach a certain scale, no matter how liberal they are, there are large portions of the left that push to see them taxed or hemmed in somehow, because deep in the leftist world view is a sense that something unfair has happened. Part of this is due to the contrarian ethic, that rejects playing by society's rules; and part of it is due to communism's lasting influence. Entrepreneurs enjoy only tenuous legitimacy, and inevitably lose it when their company proves to be just like all the others.
True. But he just tweeted today, and it quickly hit HN front page.
> To be clear, I'm Christian now, as of August. I take the Bible seriously now. But to be extra clear, I believe it's all metaphor.

Isn't that an odd position to take when parts of the Bible insist that it is not metaphorical? (e.g. Paul's argument in 1 Corinthians 15 about why he believes in Jesus' bodily resurrection and his conclusion that "If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.") I can understand those who believe the Bible to be true (mixed in with some metaphor) and I can understand those who do not believe it to be true. It seems odd, though, to believe that it is entirely metaphorical and decide to take it seriously, given some of what it says.

In Romans 7, Paul makes the argument that he cannot set himself free from sin and he needs God. If you believe the Bible is entirely metaphorical but take it seriously, do you believe you are setting yourself free?
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(edit: this assertion is incorrect, I skimmed the code too fast) I had no idea that you can draw on any element, not just canvas ones ... I thought there was a semantic meaning there ... apparently there isn't?
Did you search for it? :)

http://springpython.webfactional.com/

Not sure about it's activity though....
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Strange claim. From what I can tell Trump has likely never practiced and would probably be an "agnostic" if not for seeking the Republican nomination. He might be the first atheist president actually. It's hard to tell.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-religious-tal...

As someone who "stockpiles" weapons and ammunition and with a large number of religious friends who also do so, I can say religion plays no part. It's about readiness to defend the country against totalitarianism.

That being said, I'm truly interested in what you think the demon is here. And I'm also interested in the mechanism behind losing friends to Christian extremism. I don't doubt that it happened, but I have no reason to believe you were innocent in the exchange either.
Thanks. I knew of Tso of course through his impressive work on the RNG and was vaguely aware of some scandal involving him. Under the CoC as I understand it personal attacks are forbidden and surely dredging up something from 2011 out-of-context counts as that.

Oh, and my use of "sharp" in my original comment was obv unintentional, how funny
Please don't do religious flamewar on HN. If a comment is provocative in some way, please resist the provocation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I meant the phenom of frequent name changes observed among some Hong Kong companies
When the Japanese JJY station shut down because of the tsunami, some people made signal generators using audio signals eg http://jjy.831337.xyz/ Would something similar be possible for WWVB?
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Eh, I think that's discounting it too far in the other direction.

MBTI is a mostly arbitrary and limited categorization system with very shaky psychological/sociological grounding, but it still is grounded on parts of personality / who people are to some degree. There are tons of misuses of MBTI from trying to gain personal predictive insight, adhering to a single "type" because you tested as it once, and the written descriptions of the types themselves on many sites do indeed use tricks used in horoscopes.

However, when you take it for what it is, an arbitrary classification tool with very light social science backing, there are insights you can learn from when it comes to how people interact or at least how they approach different problems/ideas/situations in a broad sense, as well as a few other actual practical but limited applications.

You would never be able to use it to say "I'm high strung because I'm INTJ", but you can use it to the point of "Oh hey person X and Y are having issue Z communicating, perhaps it's explained because one is an S and the other in an N. Not because one is S and one is N, but because, if properly categorized (big if), it would make some general statements about communication that could be applicable to a situation.

All this said, I know MBTI comes up in some offices and I have never once heard of a proper/successful use of it, so it's wide misuse and misunderstanding of its nature probably does make it the programmer's version of astrology. Just wanted to point out that astrology and MBTI, as much as people love to compare them, are quite different.
This website has been around since 1993 and now it’s closing down?

Edit: It’s said that for over a year.
If the business objectives lead to a design so bad that it hurts the business, surely the people who came up with these objectives didn't do a very good job?
That video is hilarious!
There are a lot of community initiatives to measure and map air pollution data. They operate independently of each other because of known data quality issues that is characteristic of the low-cost sensors they use. However, would be great if there was an initiative to bring all these measurements in one platform.

There is OpenAQ (https://openaq.org/) that aggregates all publicly available air quality data from government and research-grade sources. They don't have the funds to aggregate low-cost sensor data, and one big reason is the poor data quality.

You will see from the OpenAQ map that much of the world is without government monitoring of air quality.

I live in one such country, and I run the Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (http://twitter.com/pakairquality) where we work with concerned citizens to monitor air quality in a number of major cities using the IQair AirVisual air quality monitors. Our data currently shows on the (www.airvisual.com) website, but would be great to have the data available through an aggregation platform similar to OpenAQ
Anyone interested in this article may also be interested in this discussion from a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18115696

Also of interest is Godel's AMS Gibbs Lecture, which unfortunately I have not been able to locate on-line. It can be found in Volume 3 of Godel's Collected Works, alongside his paper / lecture notes on closed time loops in general relativity.
Apparently J. Peterson is building something to solve this problem.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWz1RDVoqw4

I wonder how they handle the payment part.
Strange and fascinating. It raises interesting questions about we consider "life". The implementation [0] contains a whole taxonomy tree of variations, of which Conway's Game of Life is but a branch. It's certainly an ecosystem of mathematical "life" forms.

Reminds me of one of my favorite books, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology [0].

[0] https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vehicles
Five Top Procurement Trends in 2019: Cloud, Blockchain and AI to Dominate
Your comment made me realize that New Coke is essentially a cautionary tale about A/B testing.
You can say a lot about Trump. But he was the most honest politician during the campaign. He told America exactly who he was and exactly what his base wanted to hear.
Ambassador API GW and Keycloak Integration
You don’t ask the cattle if it wants to be slaughtered.
It’s really painful to browse Netflix, I want to read the descriptions, but I get a loud trailer with every selection. There’s no way to turn it off afaik, so I mute my tv whenever the Netflix app is open.
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I interpreted the text as saying that the doctors would probe with an electrode to stimulate the areas of the brain (or tumor) that they intended to remove, and use that response to judge whether or not to remove it. They don’t do any damage until they’re confident using that metric.
I look at that the other way.

The need for effective regulation and proper enforcement come with a long tradition in construction business.
So...you think Facebook and Google don't already track individual devices, even with IPv4?
Nice catch, but the title is also about learning Chinese, not Mandarin in particular. But indeed in the text you see Mandarin...
Have you actually used the techniques mentioned in Deep work in your real life? Just curious. Thanks
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How is an MBA or marketer evil in a way that Zuck isn’t?
The problem is that Linus has transformed a technical disagreement into the language of a breach of trust. There is no argument that Eric can offer to demonstrate that he weighed the factors and determined breaking userspace was the right call (it's certainly a call commonly made in kernel development, even by Linus himself on occasion!). And Eric can't argue fully because he feels a duty to his users to continue the rest of his work, which is now being held hostage. (Should he refuse to concede the point, then permanence kicks in. It reminds me of certain teachers I had in high school who I still believe were wrong on the facts but the threatened social consequences for pushing the point weren't worth it.)

So fundamentally we have the same practical problem as with personal attacks: that it's bypassing what should be a discussion on technical merit. Maybe Eric's feelings aren't hurt, but it's still not clear we're building the best kernel we could.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Charles Stross' "Accelerando" (where this is done in Ch. 2. "Troubadour" [1])? It's been a while since I read "Rainbows End" [2], but I don't recall autonomous companies in it, and I don't see an obvious way that they would fit in the plot.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
I've had success with this situation in the past by working in a vm or docker container.
You can use C++ unique_ptr and turn on Clang warnings about "use after move", if you want that level of protection.
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait, or any flamebait, to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
that's different. that puts data into the ICMP Echo payload.

IPing packets contain no data at all, but the data byte is encoded in the destination address
I think Gab.ai did, and IIRC it was suspended within an hour.
I think panpsychism is a bad approach. If we look at consciousness as we encounter it in nature, it seems to be a property of self replicators in their competition for life and reproduction. So it can't be a property of laptops, unless they are self replicating laptops responsible for their own existence. Or could be a property of a virtual entity running in a sim in the laptop, but then it's not consciousness of the same world as ours.

The role of consciousness is to keep the body alive: fend dangers, find food and reproduce. It does that by taking into account the state of the environment and the internal state of the body and acting in such a way as to maximise its own rewards, learning to avoid bad situations along the way. Evolution has shaped the body and rewards in order to maximise survivability. It's interesting to see how surviving bootstraps meaning and consciousness out of itself (and its environment).
Banks specifically DON'T want you doing that because they don't want undesirable businesses funneling money in and out of their banks

Not sure I understand this objection - the recipient of such a transfer would already have to have an account at another bank, and that bank would have to do the full AML/KYC checks anyway. There should be no issues with someone with an account at reputable bank A sending a regular payment to an account at reputable bank B for any purpose.
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I pay for Hulu (it costs about as much as Netflix I think) and there are no commercials, unless you're watching content from one of their partners.
Probably Amazon going nuts.

I bought it from a local used book store for $6.