skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in other words, it sounds like a Peter Principle but applied to government pay control.

The incompetent ones stay with government because they couldn't get a job in corporate, and are stuck with low pay and (usually) stability. Well, except for furloughs.

Whereas contractors take the "squeeze'em till they squeal" approach and get paid much much more.

It always made me wonder why when the govt takes the lowest bidder, and it has all sorts of riders and exceptions to charge a pile of money more... Why does the government accept that arrangement, instead of saying "Nope, you should have calculated that in your costs." If there was an answer, I'd have to say 'incompetence'.
Another solution is making smaller portions. The sizes restaurants give you are ginormous.
I have a friend who preaches this. But then she also has these regular high-tea parties where everybody brings cake. Ok, they eat all the cake, but since they are eating more than they actually need, it's still a waste ...
11,000 Km cycling. Not sure it is really an accomplishment nor that I'm really proud of it, matter of fact it wasn't a goal to begin with, but it happened naturally so it's all good I guess. One thing I learned is with all this time spent on a bike your mind has plenty to reflect and even to debug and mentally compile your code you struggled with before during the day. It's somehow often diffcult to totally disconnect your mind from your day job.

I've also came to really appreciate the efforts done by endurance athletes. It's so much more than just training, it's nutrition, sleep, rest, preventing injuries, so it can be mentally exhausting. Recently I remember reading the headline of an article stating that too much sport is as bad as too little on the mind, there is truth in it I think. The (relative) difficulty of this kind of endeavour is well summed up by Kipchoge: motivation + discipline = consistency.
what is "borderline terrorism"? the churches in the article were targeted for criticizing corrupt officials, in china
>Finally someone has the balls to call out what is a total & unequivocal anti-mankind force.

That would be nice, but it's not the case of China. As the article mentions, the crackdown merely affects independent churches.
I wonder if this has been replicated - wasn't immediately obvious to me, and I'm now perhaps overly suspicious of any and all food science claims after the Wansink disaster:

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/19/17879102/br...
This is why it's frustrating when some make it seem that Christians are incapable of facing persecution, based entirely on their experiences in the US.

The Christians in China are very brave for standing by their faith, and I wish them luck and peace.
That is happening. The Church is extremely powerful & extremely rich. They are also a minority, which is Hindu majority India is a gold medal. Minorities are kings. I hope Christians will stop persecuting Hindus by playing victim at the drop of a hat.

The church is known to fund the Naxalites, which has been a big terrorist force in North & North East India.
How would the body we able to get sustenance every day without consciousness? We wouldn't be able to find the kitchen. How would we reproduce without it? How would we defend from dangers without it? I think it's pretty clear what the role is. Consciousness is a manifestation of life with the purpose of serving life.

On the other hand, what are emotions? They are predictions of future cumulative rewards/bad situations. The role of emotion is to guide actions, they are not just an 'abstract layer'. And rewards are signals based on circuits designed by evolution, to maximise life.
The real innovation here is - to-go bags.

Just keep a spare zip-loc bag in your pocket, ready for the sudden and embarrassing situation when you are full with food left on the plate.
Quite frankly everyone's a terrorist to a totalitarian machine like China, it means nothing.
As an ignostic, I'm horrified that people would go through such things. This is plain oppression.
Restaurant portions of of crappy food (high calorie, low nutrient, heavily over salted) are large.

Restaurant portions of food you’d actually do well to eat on a regular basis aren’t large. They’re usually tiny compared to DIY at home.

Order a “pasta with scallops” for an extreme example of how many you actually get vs what you could get if you cooked it yourself.
KFC and Google in China – Shanghai Theme Store Opening
The above is a great answer.

To expand on this (from some googling).
All of this requires root.

1) Create a sparse file (actual size depends on usage)

truncate -s 100G /home/zzz/Dropbox.image

2) Create a ext4 filesystem on it

mkfs.ext4 -m0 /home/zzz/Dropbox.image

3) Mount it as a loopback file system

sudo mount /home/zzz/Dropbox.image /home/zzz/Dropbox-fs

4) Create / Copy your dropbox folder to Dropbox-fs

sudo mkdir /home/zzz/Dropbox-fs/Dropbox
sudo chown -R zzz.zzz /home/zzz/Dropbox-fs/Dropbox
cp -r /home/zzz/Dropbox-original /home/zzz/Dropbox-fs/Dropbox

5) Start Dropbox and point it to the new location

6) If we want to mount this automatically at login.
Adding it to /etc/fstab may not work because of encryption.

But perhaps some script at login to mount it will work.
For example, we can create a script at /usr/local/bin/mountDB.sh and then add a line to /etc/sudoers

zzz ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/mountDB.sh

Then somehow call this script at login of user zzz.
Wow, this is better than getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
Yes, I am gobsmacked by their bravery. And as a Christian myself, I am amazed by how they root their bravery in their faith, and not in some idea of social justice. The lead pastor wrote a letter going into this (published after he was detained): http://www.chinapartnership.org/blog/2018/12/my-declaration-...
Not only LGBT, religion (not only Christianity) had done an enormous harm to women in all times (and still does).
> How is this different from an app dying because of an unhandled exception in Java or Python?

It isn't different, which is my point: Supervisors don't magically make running apps with year-long uptime "easy". You're agreeing with me but in a tone (hard to tell, obviously) that says you aren't.

Restart forever w/backoff isn't the most unreasonable or complicated behaviour to provide. In some cases, writing rigid code can be simpler to test, read and maintain. Go-like error checking / matching can be excessive when you expect something to work 99.9% of the time, and just dying and restarting [until the network restablishes itself, or a human can look into it] can often be preferred.

Otherwise, people who point to my exaggerated example and say "you're doing it wrong", seem to be implying that supervisors are great as long as you write bug-free code and consider every possibility upfront.
Mom Lets Her Kids Walk to the Bakery Down the Block. CPS Chastises Her
A lie about adultery that just got way out of hand and is now being cracked down
Stupy. China is in peace with religions during at least 2000 years. Why so many evils and devils after the Black century?
Why is the church indulging in criticism? Who are they? What right do they have to do that? How do they know that the officials are corrupt? How do you know that is the only thing the church did, if they even did that? How do YOU know for a fact that the official was corrupt? Too many questions & you seem to be naive enough to take everything at face value. Again, why does the church interfere in such things? Isn't that why the word "Secularism" was invented??

We need a church ... christianity free world. There is nothing but death & destruction we have gotten from these desert cults.
> The problem is that you can perfectly fail at implementing a firewall without breaking access to google.com, whereas broken NAT will mean no google for you.

Broken NAT:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o outside0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT

Google works fine, but when somebody sends the external interface of my router a packet with destination address 192.168.1.42 (as can often be done from any compromised router on the same cable segment), it gets forwarded to 192.168.1.42 on the internal network.

NAT is not a firewall.
Ridiculous idea to downvote. I almost never finish restaurant meals, I’ll take the second half for lunch the next day or give it to someone on the walk home.

But suggesting portion control would be advocating more personal responsibility, so maybe that explains peoples’ “disagreement.” So much easier to toss in the trash, right?
Ask HN: Google recommended adult diapers - why?
I'm an American citizen who has been googling for suicide for over a decade. I've given my data over to Google for two decades. Suffice to say, Google knows more about me than anyone or anything. All of my email is hosted by gmail and has been for a long time.

I've been making final preparations for suicide in the past few weeks: Gave away my net worth, cut ties with peers, wrote my suicide note (also indexed by Google), and so on. I inked and submitted the formal documents required to donate my wealth last week (no income or assets remaining), and sent a gmail informing recipients of the substantial donation, and that I will be falling off the grid.

I've been googling for / obtaining items needed to successfully complete a peaceful self-termination. One thing I forgot to consider was adult diapers. A few days ago, after I had written my google-indexed suicide note and after completing the wealth transfer (confirmed via gmail), Google showed me an ad for adult diapers, which is an ad unlike any I'd ever seen before that. I wasn't searching specifically for items related to completing a peaceful self-termination at that precise moment but did search for fireman's masks a week prior. The gmail-confirmed wealth transfer was completed 48 hours before seeing the ad.

As it turns out, I do in fact need to obtain such diapers and had forgotten to consider obtaining them. Thus, Google was spot-on the mark in recommending them to me for a highly relevant purpose (to complete self-termination). Since Google almost certainly has algorithms to determine probability of suicide, is it possible that Google determined that adult diapers were a relevant item to advertise to me after concluding that my suicide was imminent?

This isn't a coded cry for help, etc. Thanks for respecting my privacy and addressing the inquiry about Google objectively. Please do not flag this post. With God as my witness, the above is 100% true to the best of my recollection.
It's the communication version of diffusion.

It's also what makes things like "Secret societies", and massive conspiracies to be so damned hard to maintain. Information in a high level area wants to equalize to lower levels.
Not a Jazz musician, but this back and forth reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tIvfP9A2w
Are you sure I wouldn't just wind up in Cleveland?
The US has been doing that for the past 30 years. It's not working.
It works when you serve yourself or otherwise have control over your own portions. When I moved away to college I found that suddenly I usually cleaned my plate and didn't overstuff myself. Ditto when I cook for myself.

Not everybody eats under those conditions. When I was a kid my parents would always put food on my plate, and I was expected to eat it all. They usually put too much, because nobody wants to be the parent who starves their kid. Similarly, restaurants always tend to err on the side of serving too much rather than too little, as do family gatherings or dinner parties where the guests do not serve themselves.
So all your clocks need to be on outside walls?
Merry Christmas from the warm heart of Africa, Malawi!
Mulungu akudalitseni nonse! (God bless you all!)
As another poster mentioned, don’t think that g is necessarily in opposition to bundles of domain-specific abilities.

I see g as an attempt at dimensionalality reduction - can the essence of what is admittedly a complex phenomenon be boiled down to a single metric which, while clearly not complete, is at least directionally correct / helpful.

g in some sense could simply be a low dimensional projection of these more complex bundles.

Just theorizing here, not an expert
1. The Doom engine is arguably a work of art. Not for the faint of heart, surely, but well done, very well optimized and carries a simplicity that only a few of us (ie John Carmack) can achieve.

2. It was also open sourced a very long time ago by id software, which enabled a lot of tweaking by the community, and, therefore, a lot of knowledge.

3. Doom is a very famous game, having made a lot of success during it days. Everyone with even the smallest interest in games or computers that was alive back then probably played it.

4. Both Wolfenstein and Quake are also open source but the former is too simple when compared to Doom and Quake is too complex. As others have stated, Doom has 2.5D maps whereas Quake have full fledged, 3D maps.

All of this together surely makes it a good candidate for this type of experiment
I'm a left wing atheist. While people like Dawkins and Hitchens may declare religion the root of all evil, I try to have some self awareness on the subject. I look at the 20th century and need only pick two names, Stalin and Mao, to find left wing atheism being drenched in blood.

Killing for a dogma is the issue. And those who claim that religion is responsible for all misery are precious few philosophical steps away from doing exactly that.

edit - for some perspective, here's Tony Benn on the many links between socialist ideologies and christianity. - https://jacobinmag.com/2018/12/tony-benn-christianity-social...

edit2 - For another perspective, while the crackdown on christianity is harsh, the crackdown on muslims is next level. Which is odd on the face of it as muslims tend to be more left wing in practice than christians.
Except china has a population of 1.3B and economic progress is the only thing keeping people subservient.
Good luck with that. My girlfriend works at a German airport and she told me that even the shops and cafes in the airport are closed.
The author recognizes this for certain cases:

> Turns out that at this small level of nested looping there is no performance to be gained here.
The only religion that I can think of that doesnt do that is Wicca.

Even Buddhists, along with Shakyamuni as this source, laid down much more restrictive rules for women adherents to Buddhism.

Edit: go figure. Mention facts and you're -1'ed to currently -3. And it wasn't even demeaning or harassing.
I've probably said this around here before, but I wish people trade SQLite files instead of Excel workbooks. Excel (and the like) can operate on top of SQLite. This way we have data portability, data integrity, and ease of data access.
One common refrain is that trade has massive material benefits to all parties engaged in it, but when one party is engaged in immoral behavior, one has to question if one wants to strengthen them with those benefits.

Personally, I think a unilateral severing of economic ties would be extremely counterproductive. However, I think eliminating the policy compartmentalization between trade and human rights issues should be seriously considered. Basic democratic representation and de jure and de facto protection of basic human rights (or at least concrete and verifiable steps towards that goal) should be fundamental requirements for having an open trading relationship with any country. Then it's up the the human-rights abusing country to make the choice about whether it wants to trade or not.

My understanding is that many of these trading relationships were liberalized with the idea that trade would bring political liberalization and human rights with it. That idea has been shown to be false, so policy that's based on it should be reconsidered.
But then look at the front page, look how it never applies to everything, not even close, and how trivial, cute subjects never get these complaints.

People are avoiding their own responsibility and don't like when others exercise it. Since I can only guess anyway, that's my guess. What I know for a fact is that the reasons against such a topic simply being where the interest of people puts it, do not hold water, that is, are always selectively applied. That in itself is intellectually interesting, but we are not allowed to personally question posters on HN too much, even when it's done it's barely rewarded with an honest reply, so we aren't intellectuals enough for that stuff. It's pointless to talk about the aggregate of a group when individuals remain opaque, so the whole subject is simply beyond our reach, as intellectually stimulating and important as it may be.

We should know what a double standard is though: If we can pretend wiggly lines satisfy our intellectual curiosity, we can take note of a country that already build massive concentration camps to "re-educate" millions of muslims now does this. We can also take note of the comments welcoming it, and ponder those. But again, that's mostly homework, we don't have the culture capable of doing this as a "community" apparently. That's a "flamewar" or whatever. We don't like growing pains, so we won't grow, that is pretty much settled.
Terrorism is often motivated by religion, sure. But racism, nationalism and many other grounds for terrorism exist. You can't be suggesting that people who are peacefully trying to celebrate a holiday are terrorists.

If you think that allowing them to gain power would end up with them supporting terrorists - welcome to the wonderful world of authoritarianism!
In America, "terrorism" is a term used to justify all sorts of suppression of fundamental rights—usually directed as a religious minority. There is both government and social suspicion of Islamic groups that have no connection to terrorism, they just make people uncomfortable. I strongly, strongly support the freedom of expression of people in the US under vague suspicion of terrorism.

And even Christians in the US can get on the wrong side of this. My old church has a Hispanic congregation that worships in the early afternoon, and some ICE agents came by, not to worship, but because they heard there was a "large Hispanic celebration." My pastor dragged them out. https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/ice-new-sanctuary-moveme... I can see a very small distance from where we are in the US to declaring that sanctuary churches are aiding terrorism, to defining (as in China) a state-friendly Christianity that is acceptable because it reinforces the desired social engineering of the powerful and a rogue Christianity whose believers need to be arrested for reasons of national security.

(Full disclosure, I am ethnically an Indian "St. Thomas Christian," and although I was born and live in America I was baptized in India, so I might be slightly reacting to your comment out of that. I don't think I am, though, although I certainly haven't kept up with the facts on the ground in India.)
>This is why it's frustrating when some make it seem that Christians are incapable of facing persecution,

Literally no one does this. Western Christians are incapable of facing persecution in the current social and economic climate. This is because Christians by and large make up every pillar of Western society. It has nothing to do with someone being a Christian else where in the world. The sentiment you are attempting to inaccurately portray is rooted in the fact that you have silly things like the "War on Christmas" and actual citizens (who are Christians) complaining that obeying the constitution and not imposing their religion on others is somehow equivalent to persecution.

Your conflation of the two is your own error, not others.
both. I doubt it will stop it in China directly, but if you continue to support them economically this is more likely to spread as they gain more global influence. Ideally there should be none, but if you can't have that containment is the next best thing otherwise you expose a larger population to it.
Groute: An Asynchronous Multi-GPU Programming Model for Irregular Computations [pdf]
Don't get too happy, they won't last. Christianity put a real dent in the Roman empire and Islam annihilated empire after empire out of nowhere. China will be child's play.
What about saving for the next day, composting or donating?

As a former professional cook it burns me to see such a casual suggestion to waste food. I’ve worked for people who would weigh the food you swept up off the floor at the end of the day to illustrate waste.
10 years ago or so the story was the opposite: economic progress will lead to a rising middle class, which will lead to more political freedoms.
Wrongly criticizing an official is not a crime. Nor does it result in death and destruction.
The pope leads Catholics. As an Anglican, Methodist or God forbid (pun intended) a Quaker if the pope leads them and they’d get a good laugh. There are absolutely Protestant denominations that accept biblical stories as absolute truth.
> Adults sure, but what decent human sets out to get kids addicted???

Quite a few. Have a look at the free-to-play games in the app store of your phone/tablet; it's both edifying and horrifying. Psychological addiction has been refined into a high art and, unfortunately, has been quite successful at separating children and young adults from their money.

It is not at all surprising that interest in these techniques is spreading beyond the games industry.
This is horrendously inaccurate. Yes, if you're a part of a sect controlled by the Communist Party, you're ok. The idea that this is a viable alternative ... I'm beyond words. The fact that you cannot purchase books at the heart of those Abrahamic religions says enough. You cannot even practice in the safety of your own home.
Interestingly, the my parents were the ones serving me for the majority of my childhood. I guess they had already internalized this rule and knew how much food I needed ;)

At restaurants, we would usually skimp on appetizers and other “fluff” before the main course, which I have found makes the total amount of food not overly large.
> There is nothing but death & destruction we have gotten from these desert cults.

_Nothing_? That’s quite a bold statement
IMO — There is no such thing as "independent" churches. It's a very big ecosystem, an ecosystem that has forced us to invent the word "Secularism". Not sure if you have forgotten...
I feel like that, I am from a violent family who would force me to finish my plate, now it’s very hard for me not to finish at the restaurant.
I'm a paramedic, so I'm at work today. Fortunately it's not at my 911 job but at an urgent care, so the chances of it being a little less busy are much higher.

Even better, the nearby Starbucks still has my favorite holiday drinks.

We did all of our Christmas stuff at home last night.
> Islam and Christianity are just two sides of the same coin

As an agnostic Indian (Hindu family), I’d prefer if you don’t color entire religions and people with a broad brush. As for Christian missionaries abusing laws and forcibly converting people, please cite sources.

Religious and tribal dogma isn’t confined only to certain religions; feel free to believe what you want but try and exercise restraint against unequivocal labeling of others.
> This is why we need to sever economic ties with China

Then someone else will step in. What needs to be done is clever diplomacy. A carrot and stick policy and long-term thinking.