skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to watch China try and exert soft power. Like everything they do, it's going to be a top-down affair. Hard to imagine the Standing Committee coming up with anything as influential as rock-n-roll or blue jeans.

Japan proved that East Asian culture is perfectly capable of capturing the global imagination. But that didn't happen until the culture had decades to develop in a prosperous and free society.

I imagine that for the most part we'll just see a lot more of this. Throwing money at nations that have a hard time saying no, and simply trying to buy cultural influence. I don't imagine it will be a huge success.
Autonomous robot struck and 'killed' by self-driving Tesla ahead of CES
Super fun, your little brother did a great job!

Only criticism I would say is to add some directions if possible, even though for most people it's common sense it took me a little while to figure out I needed to use my keyboard :P.
How can you continue to eat other animals if you feel the way you do about other animals?
> There is fear of food fraud (fillers and ingredients sold as other things) for example from chinese imports.

Apparently this fear exists within China as well, especially for baby formula. This stems from the 2008 milk scandal. That incident had 300k victims, hospitalized 54k babies, and killed 6. Four years prior 12 babies died from watered down milk [0].

In 2007, pet food produced in China killed ~3600 pets around the world after being contaminated. On further investigation, the FDA later determined that 2.5mm to 3mm Americans had consumed chickens who had been fed tainted vegetables imported from China [1].

In 2003, the State Food and Drug Administration was created to improve safety of the food supply. However, it seems that individual farmers may not be incentivized to make safety improvements, as produce from multiple farms is typically combined prior to being sold to distributors [2]. There have been several publicized incidents since 2003, often involving counterfeit or contaminated foods [3].

I'd argue it's entirely rational to have concerns about the safety of these goods, especially since Chinese companies (as recently as 2014) have demonstrated they are willing to export unsafe and expired goods internationally.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_China
I played so long, I forgot I was at work.
My parents bought processed cheese because it was all my little brother would eat. I focused my complaining on dyes and sweeteners in order to get the the kind of food I preferred, but really I just like how simple foods taste.

To this day, things that I buy or bring and leave on the shelf will still be there the next time I visit. It's probably a matter of different palates reinforced as culture.
The headline could read:

Uber Driver Tries to Run Over Police Officer, Gets Shot.
Very nice. I had fun with it. Maybe a little description of the goals on the page underneath the play area would be good? Took me a while to realize picking up the red squares was actually reducing my score. I initially thought they were just meant to be more challenging to pick up since they moved.
> It only becomes an anonymity problem if you are careless or if you cash out using known KYCd gateways.

This means you can't use it for currency transactions, with anyone you don't trust, or on any system which might be compromised by the authorities you're trying to evade. If you ever make a mistake, all of that not only won't help you but will be strong evidence of intention. There are very few threat models where “use cash” is not a much safer answer.
She didn't like me very much
I didn’t say country “Taiwan.” I referred to it as “Taiwan,” just as you might say “California” or “Hong Kong” or “Singapore.” Those can be place names, right? And all three have varying forms of government. Surely a place known as “Taiwan” exists? And it is, for now, a place that has self-determination and democracy?
We could start stacking it up along the southern border :-) More seriously though it seems to me that we could use with more cheese factories that make "exotic european" cheese, I much prefer a Camembert after dinner than slices of American. The Marin Cheese Factory[1] is a good example, more of those would be nice.

[1] https://marinfrenchcheese.com/about-us/visit-us/
Companies are profit-maximizers, so if it were beneficial to move, individuals would not need to press them to do so.

If their calculation is to stay and even expand in the Bay Area, it would be best to understand why (concentration of talent? network effects? etc?).
Fermi Paradox
Impressive, I wanted to make an RPG type of engine in Processing[0] and did similar, just made blocks that could move around based on keyboard input. Didn't continue on with it though.

[0]: https://processing.org/
It's not the language, it's everything that comes with it. The Congolese weren't happy to be learning French in 1900, either.
No source link? No access to this "magical pipe"? Is this a showcase of proprietary software?
On a side note, I don't even think Kraft singles is considered cheese by the FDA, which is why they have to label it as "Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product."
Sort of; if the other party is making clear what evidence he’s looking for to disprove his thinking, I think its fair — especially when his ideas run counter to the norm (which naturally people put a lot of belief in, with nothing to support it, because everyone else believes in it). Ofc, if he just counters everything with citation needed, its pointless.

But in this case, evidence was requested for a particular idea, and the response was completely tangential to the request. And it wasn’t really an issue of citation needed, I think, so much as just anything to support the idea that colleges actually offer non-job value (and that they offer courses across multiple fields is insufficient, which is true, its a thing they’re doing but says nothing about effectiveness).

Ofc, the difference is in the intent. And the problem I have with “its not my job” is the intent; it’s a belief/defense whose primary purpose/outcome is to kill communication, and I very much like communicating
So, taking a dig at capitolism and rational thinking in one swipe? This is a website devoted to exploiting technology for capitolism. Yc is literally an investor. But go on and tell us how not advancing ourselves benefits the world at large, Ill wait.
For twenty years I made and sold LSD across the East Coast. I spent my youth and perhaps most of my sanity doing it. For the longest time I lived by only one rule: Are you kind? Now I can pretty much do whatever the fuck I want. It's great, but not for everyone.
> Here in Sweden someone had pigeons flying to their balcony all the time and they got reported for keeping them as a pet. The city dropped them off in another town but they flew back and were ordered to be put down because native species are not allowed to be kept as pets and they were unwilling to adapt to not living on the balcony.

If the motivation of these laws is to protect the animals, I can't think of a more backwards response.
servers were in Canada?? interesting
Repeated radio signals coming from a galaxy 1.5B light years away
>Python is the new Perl, not sure what the new awk is.

Red, said sed.
I haven't looked into gRPC at all, but I know for a fact that Protobufs can do whatever is needed in regards to serializing data.

Being limited to types that Java supports is a huge limiting factor for some use cases, thankfully there are extensions to the spec to get around these limitations (but then you have to use libraries that all supports the same extensions, and that limits your choices, so yes this can become an issue!)

On the flip side, compared to JSON with its anemic type support, Protobufs looks great!

Of course at the end of the day, a huge % of apps have to talk to the web browser, so everything gets dumbed down to strings and doubles. :(
> Object detection isn't enough, and drawing paths isn't enough. You need to know which player is which, where on the pitch they are, the phase of the game (knowing who has possession is enough, but knowing current score and minutes of play elapsed is also helpful), how long the player has been on the pitch, etc., etc.

The players have numbers on them on several sides, and you have the priors of what position they play. And then there's skin tone and other features you might be able to use.

Time and score has got to be something that's already there?

What kinds of things do they want to turn it into?
There are several reasons:

1) I am finding sports betting difficult to scale, financially it is ok but not great.
2) Bookmakers are getting better and better every year. So am I, but I can imagine a scenario where they reach a stock-market like efficiency and it will be impossible to beat them (also, there is no growth like in stocks). I feel like I need to get some work experience under my belt and become more employable so that I have something to fall back on.
3) Bookmakers limit or ban winning players so there is the hassle of obtaining new identities (typically friends or family members who let you bet in their name) all the time.
4) I no longer like the industry and I am not proud of what I do. I live in central Europe where sports betting is legal but that is not the case everywhere else in the world. I have the dream of living in an English speaking country one day and that doesn't go well with my current "career".
5) I miss social interaction.
Repeat after me: There are no behavioral differences between boys and girls.
Marie's process is basically Map, then Reduce - for your home.
> "Great fighters have to kind of like getting hit."

I'd generalize it to: "Great craftspeople have to kind of like the part of their craft that is unpleasant to 99% of the population."

Someone who excels at playing violin, writing computer software, public speaking, etc., generally does not find the "unpleasant" part to be "tiring", "boring", or "work". Instead, it's just part of the overall experience, which is a net positive.

When I was younger, I had a classmate who's an excellent violin player. Her practice schedule sounded awful to me, with well over an hour spent even on weekdays. I played musical instruments, too, and I liked a little practice, but rarely more than 30 minutes in a day.

I asked the violin player about this schedule, and the way she answered the question made it clear that practicing didn't seem unpleasant, or like "work," like it would to many other people. It was something she truly enjoyed.

Similar things can be applied to software development and liking the idea of investigating obtuse error messages and things breaking without any clear root cause.
DEA /FBI offers /can offer millions to cooperating witnesses and a new identity. Or life in prison. Or death in the hands of the cartel if they find out about the chat. They kinda make it very easy to choose.

Jorge Salcedo that took down Cali cartel got million$ for his cooperation.
It’s the repeated/oneof issue that’s causing me problems right now.
Yes, all those subjects are taught with a focus on Austrian economic theory.
They stopped development of it because to keep accounting simple you had to return to the swap point to get your original battery back. As a result, not very many people used their proof of concept swapping location.
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Yggdrasil
A Crypto Thesis – Open Financial Systems
Not productive in what sense? Knowing your limits let's you focus your energy in other ways and areas
Are we both reading the same comment from kirro where he calls a starving baby "basically a parasite." Because "parasite" is a very loaded word in Austrian Economics/Anarcho-Capitalism.

Edit: This is the problem that I have with people that espouse Austrian Economics. Either you have a very shallow understanding of its philosophical system or you are being deliberately ignorant of its deficiencies. If you expand out its propositions to its ultimate conclusions it basically requires the genocide of the poverty class, or as they like to call it "the parasite class," in order to work reasonably.
Bitcoin is less secure than most people think
>Question - could your parents have afforded real cheese and not the plastic processed stuff?

Not the person you asked but I'm nearly 34 and 'real cheese' wasn't really a thing when I was growing up. You had shredded cheeses, Kraft, Velveeta and maybe up to 4 cheese rolls in the deli counter at the grocery that could be sliced.

Now the non Whole Foods/Trader Joe's grocers are exactly the same with the exception of having small refrigerated sections, away from all the other cheese, with more 'fancy' cheeses at considerably higher costs for relatively small amounts. With several of those 'fancy' cheeses costing 10-20% of my weekly groceries I just don't see myself trying them anytime soon.

I've never seen any of my friends or co-workers eating, or even discussing, 'fancy' cheeses either but I bet you can go to 90% of their houses and find Kraft-style individually wrapped slices and/or a block of Velveeta.
Interestingly this is in stark contrast to the recent article about learning C++ in 2018 and being perfectly happy with it. I think part of this is because C++ is such a vast language with a huge and diverse ecosystem that it's kind of like saying you should stay out of Africa because it's so dangerous, when it's such a huge place and many parts of it are relative safe. Maybe the two authors experienced different "parts" of C++ and are referring to that subsection only.
A second source of repeating fast radio bursts
> And the issue here is pretty clearly that users have to resort to adb to disable these apps

No, you can disable (not delete or uninstall) nondeletable (system) apps on Android without adb. adb also lets you “uninstall” them for a given user (but not from the device), which makes them less visible to the user than disabled apps, but it's not clear to me that it does anything substantively different, since neither disabled nor uninstalled-for-current-user apps run.

> Why does Android force this? There is no reason, it could easily be built into the Android GUI.

The only difference I am aware of between disabling through the GUI and uninstalling for a particular user with adb is that the former allows you to reenable through the UI if you later choose to, whereas the latter removes it from the All Apps list in Settings, making it invisible from the UI and impossible to enable.

Requiring the latter to require the user to use the same tool necessary to reverse the process makes it less likely that users will accidentally do something that the same user can't reverse if they change their mind.
I don't have any examples, having not touched Rails in an extremely long time, but as I recall the core philosophy of Rails was "we're opinionated about things so you don't have to make decisions", and it's no surprise at all to me that a framework that prides itself on being opinionated would be hostile to differing ideas.
Widespread Gas Shortage in Mexico as Government Tries to Thwart Fuel Thieves
Yet it seems that these industries are "moving" ie virtually to the Bay Area when they are being technologized.

Hotels -> AirBnb

Taxis -> Uber/Lyft

Automobiles -> Tesla

Video distribution -> Netflix

Tech in the Bay Area is expanding its footprint, not reducing it.
Could be better, but this is what I did:

for i in `brew ls`; do brew info $i | grep -e 'Built.*with:' >/dev/null && brew info $i; done

Out of 144 formulas installed, I've only got one with an option (mpv --with-bundle). I hope the Homebrew folks will use that option as default, but I suspect they won't, and will recommend the cask instead. Which isn't really what I want, but ok.
The Problem of the Missing Satellite Galaxies Gives Way – Now There’s Too Many
I think we order from staples....
Yeah, not the OP, but if I had sensitive information I don't know what I would do. I know this sounds shill-like, but I absolutely love Overleaf for Latex. It has every package you need, decent templates that you can then customize, and the Dropbox and GitHub integration are great - uploading an image is as simple as saving it in the right Dropbox folder - very useful for when trying to upload a bunch of images or update a figure in Illustrator. I end up using MikTex like 2-3 times a year when I'm on a plane, and then everything syncs once I'm back online. Being able to see who changed what is also great, and much less overhead than trying to convince non-programmers to use git or something like that for the Latex files.
Putting aside any theories around the "Cult of Silicon Valley", the typical answer I get when I ask others that same question is that "tech" companies group in these areas, especially SF, because it makes it easier to get the best talent; since everyone already lives in the same area, there's hypothetically no moving expenses that would stop candidates from accepting a job, especially when it comes to candidates with families.

Personally, I don't completely buy that explanation, and think there's an unspoken cult-like quality to the tech scene of SF/SV that confines it to a few cramped spaces in the country. Big "tech" still represents the modern form of the American Dream and the Gold Rush to countless people, and San Francisco is symbolic of that idealism in and of itself. Making six figures and living in the outskirts working for a company nobody's heard of isn't as cool as working for Unicorn X in Mountain View, CA.
Top 5 AI trends 2019 (with cool infographic)
this embedding is common with fb google and microsoft products, and has been around for years. this is not new and no one is desperate
If that's him he's going to get really annoyed at me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8nzTjJXOI
> It is largely because of the previous Soviet invasion that Ukrainians would today fight to the last to prevent a future Russian invasion.

Read some history of the cold war. USSR was happy to invade and subdue its weak neighbors in the past, in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, all the way up to the 70s. It won't do the same today because of international retaliation, part of which are sanctions.

Russia had no right to invade Crimea. They just did because they had the military might to do so. If your argument is that they should be allowed to do so without consequences, then I strongly disagree. Your position makes you feel morally superior, but in reality it will pave the way to WWIII with Russia increasingly emboldened to extend militarily until an inevitable clash.

> AQI developed in Iraq after we had completely destroyed civil society there and created a vacuum of law and order.

By that logic, UK and France are responsible for the Nazi regime and all the evils it has done because they defeated Germany in WWI and created the conditions for the rise of the Nazi party.

There's a fashionable trend to blame the US as "directly responsible" for everything bad that goes on the world, by applying preposterous liability standards that nobody has ever applied to any other nation in history.
3D-printed guns may be more dangerous to their users than targets
Patch Tuesday, January 2019 Edition
Wait until you hear about all the ways government applies that same authority to "protecting" people
App Launch Checklist
Unless the intention is to preserve wild behavior and prevent domestication, i.e. removing some individuals from the population to (in a way) preserve the species.
> But the notion that Word is some kind of underpowered little toy no real author should ever possibly use is just, well, wrong.

I wouldn't characterise it as underpowered so much as wrongly-powered. Just the ability to use macros etc. is not the same as being a real text editor.

I actually started out using word processors, and really wish I had discovered proper text editors sooner. For me, word processors are just miserable working environments.
Mine downloaded them after initial setup. I simply cancelled the downloads of the crapware messaging apps that hadn't started and uninstalled the ones that had already downloaded.
I dont think so, this would probably go against PCI DSS.
Understanding SQLITE_BUSY
Astronomers discover evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals
>doesn't make much of a statement about the practicality replacing hanzi with a phonetic writing system for everyday use.

What is everyday use? Surely a writing system should be capable of more than "Hello, my name is Knolax?". If a proposed new writing system was incapable of representing Shakespeare in any comprehensible way, would it be suitable for English?

I realize now that you consider Classical Chinese as a seperate language from Modern Chinese. I and most Chinese speakers would probably disagree, but I don't think that's a line that can be drawn without a lot of nitpicking from both of us.
About Jackie Chans’s image in the West, for what it’s worth there are still some people who have recognized how great he is, I remember reading a laudatory article about his movies in the French movie magazine “Cahiers du Cinema” way back in late 2001, and the Cahiers du Cinema people are generally known to be pretty insufferable and elitist. I think they also focused one of their famous Hors-Serie issues on Hong Kong cinema in the ‘80s (that one I didn’t read).
Courts simply reject these cases because you "voluntarily" agreed to waive your right to a a court proceeding.
Yes, it is, and I wanted people to be even more aware of something they might have glossed over in the article.

Here is even more of his thought process: “Noting the strong tensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan, he said, ‘I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.’”
> “...have a hard time keeping gendered pronouns straight.”

ha, i see that in the english captioning sometimes when watching chinese dramas. at least gender is only in the pronouns, rather than (nearly) every word via gender suffixes (like the romance languages).
You made POPfile? I remember using it in the nineties, good job! Small world, huh.
Success by what measure?
I'm curious about the applications of this to machine learning in public policy. In papers like Big Data's Disparate Impact (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2477899) we see misguided and underbudgeted policymakers using very sketchy and very opaque ML algorithms to, for example, decide who stays in prison and who does not.

If we can prove that the "decision problem" of who stays in prison and who does not is undecidable, invariant of the specific implementations of the ML algorithm, this could make a case for stopping such overreaches of ML.
> Wow you're really passionate about your cheese huh? :)

Living in the Bay Area makes foodies out of people ;) Don't get me started on my sustainable seafood, alt-milk or simulated meat preferences.

> Question - could your parents have afforded real cheese and not the plastic processed stuff?

Absolutely. They were solidly upper middle class. But they were also immigrants from India, a society that doesn't eat as much cheese beyond paneer (though a lot of dairy in other forms) so their first exposure to western style cheese was the dominant American cheese culture of the time, which was Kraft-style slices and powdered Parmesan in a can. They were also super-frugal, so perhaps there is some truth to what you are saying, but really, to this day, they have a very simple mental model of cheese, so they don't know (or care to know) what they are missing.

Admittedly, cheese also formed a smaller portion of our diet - mostly on sandwiches.
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