skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate to be a naysayer but I disagree. English is used in international dealings and is spoken in a very large number of countries due to the british empire's wide reach and influence compounded by americas dominance after WW2.

Mandarin is a great language to learn in as much as Japanese,French and German are. Japan has long had a strong economy and exports a large number of goods,same with France and Germany except their colonial past and EU leadership positions makes their languages profitable to learn.

China wants to influence the world and be the dominant super power. however,much like Japan and Korea,they are not interested in expanding their cultural reach. Westerners wanted everyone to dress like them,speak like them and act like them -- the "civilized" way. Sharing your culture eventually leads to immigration and the cultural influence of others impacting yours. Their ambition is purely for the success and prosperity of their own people,not a "manifest destiny" conquest and as such I strongly suspect they have little desire to force others to speak mandarin.

What I'm trying to say is that while Mandarin has good ROI if you learn it,even 50 years from now it will likely still be comparable to learning French,German,Arabic and similar languages,and even then only if you deal with international trade and relations (or read tech/science publications -- seen some great write ups from Korean and Japanese security researchers FYI).

Mandarin should not be thought of a replacement for english but rather a complement. I can see a future where people speak both languages for academia and international relations.
Thanks. We should have a bot that automatically does this for all paywalled links.
The blink tag of Web 2.0 has arrived.
I'm surprised infowars hasnt created their own patreon clone.
https://hatreon.net/

It's been tried before. You have to play ball to a certain extent or upstream service providers can and will cut you off.
Definitely.

I suppose this was meant to say "outbound allow all / (inbound) deny all".

Nitpick: please make sure ICMPv6 is allowed inbound though, else you'll get PMTU issues among other things.
The author's talk at the Royal Institute is here
https://youtu.be/xRel1JKOEbI?t=2817

Overall, I'd say we are no closer to understanding consciousness than we were 30 years ago. As a science, we are still poking at the brain to gather data and proposing hand-wavy models of low level behavior. As philosophy, we still don't agree on what the phenomenon we need to study is.

My gut feeling is that consciousness/intelligence is an emergent phenomenon of the physical brain (a very high-dimensional non-linear system not amenable to reductionism) and that the simplest model of the brain will be
too complex for our brains to understand.
Transposing Instruments
I’m an electrical engineer and I also do the initial design with pencil and paper and only skip over to CAD once I have the design space understood. But I do everything in paper notebooks and old notebooks do get lost and/or damaged (or they’re somehow always in the wrong location), so I’m curious what iPad apps you use for notes and handwriting recognition as maybe they could work for me too. Can the handwriting recognition software understand mathematical equations too? That would be amazing.
The IMDB scores are one of the biggest benefits of the Amazon UI. The ratings are actually meaningful unlike the totally useless Netflix ratings. Netflix ratings typically range from baffling to insulting.
This same story played out 10 or so years ago with Wikileaks, PayPal, and major card processors and banks.

The sad realization was that private companies can control who gets to speak very effectively.

Lots of people hoped cryptocurrency would fix this, but so far it hasn't.
right, "IP over ICMP Echo" will be the formal title for the RFC.

"IP over ping" is the street name that everyone is going to call it, or IPing for short.

also: TCPing and UDPing will replace TCP/IP and UDP/IP respectively.
I think this is a feature of Rust's ownership model.
Well right now, the alternative is mostly oil/gas, which is cleaner than coal. Nuclear would be nice, but doesn't seem very likely :(
No it's not. Case in point, I've had a misconfigured router provided by an ISP with proper NAT but bad firewalling, and hacking on routes allowed me to jump into neighbors LANs on the same ISP. Crazy.
> he felt as if he wasn't allowed to take bathroom breaks the month before he was fired

Clickbait headline from business insider. And people wonder why pubs are dying.
Annecdote: I often find that buildings in Australia vibrate / shake. One that stands out in my mind, there's a shopping center in southern Sydney suburb of Hurstville, at one particular spot, it feels like a short tremblor is striking every 10 mins, to the point where I looked up if anyone else may be concerned. There are a lot of cracks in the concrete, but I think that I've read somewhere that as long as the cracks are vertical, that's not bad. However, I'm somehow not convinced that this building would survive should a small real earthquake occur (rare for Sydney, but there was a Newcastle one in recent memory).
It’s not about the quality of education. The educational institutes post date the industry cluster. Paris was a centre of fashion before fashion was studied in universities, ditto Nee York. Los Angeles was the place for movies in the states for three or four decades before film schools existed. New York was the home of American finance long before commerce or finance were more university centred than apprenticeship, if that’s even true now.

Agglomeration economies of expertise lead to large, deep labour markets. I doubt California is much behind Boston in biotech research but the industry is all in the BosWash corridor, mostly near Boston.
The other major python implementation, pypy, effectively implements CPython. (And insofar as it doens't, it's heading that way.)
Too late. The term has been co-opted. There are Artifical Life conferences that have been running for more than 15 years now.
http://2018.alife.org/accepted-papers-oral/
Perhaps they're using SQLite compiled to JS via Emscripten: https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/
To be brief:

The problems associated with NHST are well documented (three that are especially awful: multiple comparisons lead to uncontrolled rate of false positives; large sample sizes leading to statistically significant but substantively irrelevant effects being "accepted"; hard thresholds of statistical significance are arbitrary and the difference between a significant effect and insignificant effect is rarely significant). In addition, there are problems that emerge from using NHST as part of an A/B test: namely, using live, rolling samples to identify significant results rather than prespecifying sample sizes; and making atomic changes as though they are additive without re-testing joint hypotheses of multiple changes.

But when you come down to it, the question you want to ask is "Is B better than A?" and the question you do ask is "If A were truly no better than B, how often would a sample of size n drawn using the same sampling procedure I think I'm using produce the impression than B is as much better than A as it is apparently in my observed data?", and two problems are that these aren't the same question and almost no one knows they're doing the latter.

To be totally fair, one of the most common problems with NHST (the null hypothesis is patently absurd) isn't necessarily a problem in the A/B UX case.

Not sure which of these in specific the grandparent is referring to, but I suspect they and I are on the same page in general.
I would buy one in a heartbeat if true. I moved and neither of my watches (one Citizen and one Seiko) can get the Colorado signal anymore from the Northeast USA. But as other posters point out, I cannot imagine the FCC would allow those devices. But, OTOH, the propagation characteristics of any small device/antenna running at 60kHz would be abysmally bad and perhaps unworthy of notice. I would still not bet my several FCC licenses on it though.
World GDP 1960-2017 a visual animation
What about physical energy storage? Flywheels, weights, water-dams, molten-salts, etc. When it's sunny, you store the electricity in one of these systems, then you can draw it out anytime you want.
All of the recent Elon Musk companies have been economically questionable if not for government subsidies.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, this is a personally nasty comment. Please don't post those to HN. That's the kind of community we're trying not to be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So the usual Meriton SOP is to retain control of the body corporate for the duration of the builder’s liability so that they can’t start proceedings against the builder (Aus strata title, body corp coverered here: https://www.lawsociety.com.au/for-the-public/know-your-right...).

Strata title laws have been changed recently, but the system is slow to catch up to these cowboys.
It's already here: Material Design "ripple" effect.
nice like it
Yes, that was my fault, I overlooked "result," and I also appreciate the clarification.

I think the point remains that, while this is not a breaking change from a contractual viewpoint, most type systems would deem it incompatible.
You are very polite in that conclusion. And you are also more correct.
Yes! At one point there was a way to get all movies by score paginated in a simple HTML table without even pictures. Just nice, dense, sortable and filterable information.

The only better interface for me personally was when I used their API via Ruby and was able to sort exactly how I wanted.
Lots of people are buying them, and anyone developing windows apps is developing for them. I dual boot my surface book 2 with Linux and I have a decent Linux machine, a decent Windows machine, a decent tablet and a decent gaming machine in one device. It's not cheap though!
It seems to still be competitive in some regions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power#Costs

But, ya PV prices have fallen so much they're breaking people's expectations; and they work without direct sunlight.
"The left" is a broad group with many different ideologies. I don't think ride share companies that flaunting regulations to even be a left vs right issue. It's more entrenched encumbent/rule of law vs anti-regulation/technocracy which doesn't fall into any neat categories.
Quite bearish on learning Chinese; and bearish, too, on articles such as this one. These articles are a type. You would see similar articles in 1989 regarding Japanese. That was not a worthwhile investment for most people. Trends about a country being ‘the hot new thing’ rarely pan out. The author of this article should know: he’s the “founder of a crypto asset manager.”

Meteoric national growth curves don’t continue; and the closed nature of these societies tends to mean they get hamstrung by unpredictable things in the future. No one can say why China’s growth will slow (and it already is slowing dramatically), but we can say for sure that it will be because of a lack of willingness to change.

Learning Chinese will be a worthwhile activity for leading Western businesspeople when the Communist Party is abolished or faces strong open competition for power.
That may be part of it, but maybe more importantly, it's also cheaper, which I think was the grandparent's point.
IQs of Famous People and Celebrities
The first answer is from someone claiming a BS from the University of Autodidacts, who finishes with an unexplained dig at the Democratic Party.
Soon we will award the wikipedia article also is a joke iphone x
Trump's 'poor me' ChristmasEve tweet draws mockery asfederal workersgo withoutpa
One useful piece of advice I recall, perhaps from Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya, was to write defensive code for predictable errors, despite the happy path coding that Erlang allows.

So losing connectivity to a database should not result in a process failure, and thus is something that a supervisor should never have to deal with.

You’re right that there is no silver bullet internal to the language. Even the BEAM itself can fail.
There’s no engineering reason hosing in these areas can’t grow as fast as jobs. Tokyo’s population has tripled over the last twenty years while rent has been pretty much flat.

Seattle has produced way more hosing lately and house prices have crashed.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/why-are-se...
How would you be able to take every true statement as an axiom? Without proving anything I don't see how you could identify any statements as true.
Clickbait?

Let's quote a bit more:

>Stopping a test vehicle for a bathroom break could disturb it and ultimately require up to an hour of rebooting or troubleshooting, Kelley said, which would decrease the number of miles it would drive.

>"They made it clear you probably should hold it," he said.

What more would you expect to justify the headline?

"Uber asked its employees to avoid taking restroom breaks" would be a better headline, but, let's be honest, it really does mean the same thing.

Also, whoever built a system so shoddy it would be disturbed by a restroom break should really reconsider whatever they are doing right now.
To Get Drivers to Yield, St. Paul Uses Psych Trick
This is better than his old style.

If Linus doesn't put his trusted submaintainers into line, they'll think they can violate core rules of kernel maintenance ~ something as bad breaking userspace.

Linus was right to reply exactly the way he did for such breakage.

There's nothing terrible about reprimanding someone you trusted, especially in front of everyone else.

Helps to tell people to not repeat this level of mistake.
> Since the led wall was being flooded with inappropriate content we had to implement a whitelist system...

That was probably inevitable.

The last scrolling LED message I read was "Uncaught type error: Undefined is not a function."

Is one of you out there trying to fuzz this poor tree? :)
Following up after the thread has moved on -- but I think if you spend some time in the "tidyverse" and read the Advanced R / R4DS books, you'll find that the tidyverse extends the language's core competencies in a way that fixes a lot of the inconsistencies, and it is possible for people to basically never have to interact with base R if they don't want to. We train our incoming PhDs in R focused on the tidyverse and they generally get the hang of it pretty quickly.

The problem you're highlighting was pretty bad 5-8 years ago where core R developers were pushing three different object models. These days pretty much everyone has agreed to use S3.

The bigger challenge in data science is that statisticians are generally shitty programmers and so many of the packages are very much v0.1 releases designed to accompany a journal article and never iterated on. The reverse tends to be true in Python -- the notorious thing with scikit-learn defaulting to penalized logistic regression last I checked is insane.

If none of this is news to you, then agree to sort-of disagree for sure, but if you haven't checked out R4DS or spent much time with modern packages you'll see that you can pretty safely leave behind a lot of the stuff you used to hate.

I re-wrote the analysis for a paper I wrote I think 4 years ago, and I was surprised at how little code didn't change in that time.
I don't see an issue with InfoWars having a platform or even to be on the same platform as me but I'd have serious reservations about having them as the platform manager, mainly because I'm not trusting them to have sane opinions (it's not like InfoWars strike me as vanguards of free speech in principle).
The idea of programming in green text on a black background with no syntax highlighting makes me shudder.
Why not make the version you send to her the default experience, then progressively enhance with flexbox and grid, while only iterating on the grid version?
The window crack discovered in September is believed to be caused by an external impact:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Something-hit-Mi...

There was another one discovered in late October, but I haven't seen any updates on that one.
I sat on an Intel session at GDCE 2009 about introduction to Larrabee programming and how it would take over the GPU programming world for game developers.

Making it a niche product only available to a selected few, instead of mainstream GPGPUs, meant most of us hardly cared about it.
I made a playlist of all the youtube links form this section: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh6DLqe0B3ZCLi1bYvQrn...
Also anecdote: I've lived in 3 different Australian states over 30 years and have never once felt the ground or a building shake. This is not an "Australia" thing.
I think the hope is that won't also be super protectionist too
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
As a minor nit, it may be better to use `@list.keys` to get a Sequence of indices. Especially if you want it to work when `@list` is `lazy`.
This is nice and it gets past the paywall. Thank you.
Lxd uses distributed sqlite for it's config: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/database.md

And there's this simplified fork of K8S that replaces etcd with sqlite: https://github.com/ibuildthecloud/k3s/blob/master/README.md
Interestingly enough, most of the boilerplate and straight jacket rules from Algol language stream, that cowboy programmers used to complain about, are being adopted again thanks to the age of rising CVEs in always connected devices.
HT1380 drifts 10 seconds every 20 hours under normal conditions. I don't think this is outside the realm of possibility if they chose a cheaper chip or had weird temperature fluctuations.
I keep harping on about this at work - a sqlite file carries its schema with it so you can inspect it. With foreign keys, notnull, check and other constraints you can easily make out what the data is about. There is a driver in every language it seems, and if not the docs are very good so if you are handy with FFI it is easy to build one. It can be far more compact than XML (gulp! SOAP) with the equivalent amount of data as the amount of data gets larger. Being a single file, it can be sent over the wire like any other. And you use SQL to interface with it.

Currently building software for the ATO (Single Touch Payroll) which uses SBR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Business_Reporting). The SBR project is listed as having on-going problems, and has cost the ATO ~$AUD1b to date (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_and_overbudget_...). One of the reasons cited is that it uses XBRL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL). Now imagine if it used sqlite...
Yeah, and there are a large number of americans that watch Christian/Biblical movies and consider those to be more Christian. Otoh,there are also a lot of people that think hallmark movies are Christmas movies while some disagree.

It's a celebration,societal consensus is not needed to determine how smaller groups of people want to celebrate it. Lets not force our celebrations on each other. My definition is the latter but I don't care one bit if others watch die hard and home alone while I watch the Gospel of John or something that has nothing to do with Christmas.
I've always been curious about the characters in ASCII for this, but I've never seen them used in the wild. Stuff like "Group Separator" (0x1D), "Record Separator" (0x1E) or "Unit Separator" (0x1F)

Is there a reason why nobody uses these? Did someone work out back in the 90s they were pure evil and we've just never used them since?
It's hard enough that you should always use the library that handles the 5 weird cases, of which you'll only think of 3.

I made the mistake once and learned.
A secondary wide monitor (Acer).Having dual monitor setup definitely multiplies productivity. You can go with any brand but make sure it's atleast 24" plus and Full HD.
A lot has to be accounted for his brain which is quite different from ours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14503404
"Current Indian govt headed by right wing political party with track record of human rights abuses have passed this order without passing through Parliament using a loop hole in the IT ACT". It's your opinion without any fact. The law was introduced by UPA.https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-arun-jaitley-s-st...
> It's a still.

I'm referring to the video in the article. On 2:00 and 3:00 you can see the earth rising.

When I first saw this photo years and years ago I instinctively believed that the way we see the sun rise on earth due to the motion of the earth, the earth rose on the moon due to the motion of the moon (because the photo was titled "earthrise"). I learned later that the earth did not rise from the horizon like this, but wobbled in the sky. That's all. No need to change the title. But I still think it is misleading to call it "earthrise"
Beyond Limits – The Many Benefits That iOS Apps Can Bring to Your Business
God, the new Netflix plays that godawful loud noise on startup and there are no settings to tell it to shut the fuck up.

But somehow Hulu is worse so there’s no impetus to clean up.
Ask HN: How was your Advent of Code 2018 experience?
I really enjoyed this year, the thing that made it quite interesting for me was the amount of people streaming in all kinds of languages with all kinds of approaches.

For me I found it quite a nice learning exercise, though oddly enough ( I was trying to do them as fast as I could ) I often resorted to mega functions and basic data types to solve the problems. This worked out well early in the event, but later it would lead to many simple bugs. I also found that it's nice when your language has a lot of toys to make life easier. I started with Go, as a learning exercise, but swapped to C# as so many problems fit nicely with "Linq", however there were lots of missing niceties, so I spawned a NuGet package with a library of extension methods which I hope to polish now that AoC is over

What are your takeaways?
Have a look at the James Hardie Industries case to see how large Australian companies avoid legal consequences for killing large numbers of people.

"The total number of past and future claims made against James Hardie for asbestos-related diseases is estimated to be more than 12,500, of which 8103 will be claimed after 2006."[1]

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hardie_Industries
Yes because I like to move my legs around a bit to the sides too and those little foot stools are too small.

Or I roll away from the keyboard to use pen and paper and then have to move The foot rest.
Move Fast And Break Things became Build Fast And Things Break.
While fingerprinting was the public claim, the City also demanded ride level trip data. That one didn't get the same coverage. Of course, it came out later the City wants to regulate all online transactions including Craiglist, Airbnb, and even Tinder. I still don't understand that last one.

I wrote about this in great detail quite a while ago and quoted Mayor Adler:
https://medium.com/@CaseySoftware/mayor-steve-adler-is-scamm...
When I was working as a forensic data analyst, I felt pretty much the same. If you request CSV in discovery, there's no telling what you'll get. I mean, the data may come from custom COBOL, and then get reviewed by someone using Excel.

So yes, TSV. However, I've seen TSV with spurious tabs :(

Sometimes I ended up pushing for |-delimited data. Or even fixed-width format :)
React Native. It's great to go for simple to medium complexity apps. Flutter could be another closer choice because it appears to be more Dev friendly and android's ownership of Google.
React will help you share large amount of code and concepts within web, iOS and android.