skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You lose nothing by learning other people's language

That's not quite true. Bilingual speakers tend to have a smaller vocabularies in each individual language than monolingual speakers (even though they have a larger total vocabulary across both languages).

According to some studies monolingual speakers also have faster word retrieval and better verbal fluency overall.

Of course this has to be weighed against the benefits of learning another language, but there are costs.
This is a hoax for those who don't know.
The value of one's total compensation fluctuates with stock price appreciation, even if you sell immediately.

Stock grants vest over a period of 4 years, and are targeted to equal a certain dollar value at the time of grant. If your grant is supposed to equal say $80K/year of stock compensation at the time of grant, and then 3 years later the stock has appreciated 3x, then your effective stock compensation when your stock vests, assuming you sell it immediately, is $240K. Combined with salary and what was supposed to be a $200K/year total comp package is now $360K/year.

I'm told (by a mortgage specialist at a Silicon Valley Wells Fargo branch) that the big banks often count stock compensation of big public tech companies as income for the purposes of determining how much mortgage you can afford (because you can always just sell it as it vests), so this increase in average income is absolutely reflected in housing prices.
Relevant context: Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos filed for divorce today. (that Amazon Reviewer is indeed her account; if you check the history you'll see reviews from 2001)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/01/09...
This happened at Halloween but the police asked the media to not report it and they seemingly complied.

Is this kind of arrangement unique to Norway?
I'm looking at ten year averages from Global Finance magazine. Over ten years, Ireland is at 3.3%, and even that makes it an outlier among western nations (it's the highest ranked European country). By comparison, the US is at 1.4%, and most of Europe is around 1%.

Libya is at -9.4% over the decade, largely due to the civil war there. Much of Africa is over 5% average for the decade (Kenya is 5%). Except for a few failed states like Libya and South Sudan, almost every country in Africa is above 2.5% growth over the past decade.

I'm really bullish on Africa. The numbers support it.
Nice game, shortly after I started it dawned on me... Because it allows wrap-around you can just hold down the up arrow key and it becomes more of a 1-D game and seemed easier to play. Then the red thing showed up and started getting in the way and I found it easier to use all the arrows again.
There are just as many tools for reproducible builds of polyrepos, between various package management strategies and CI tools.

> Projects terminated, going in a different direction, servers moved, down, forked, ... it all just doesn't matter. Your stuff works. Network or no network.

I think it becomes a forest/trees thing. People that prefer a monorepo are most focused on the forest, and people that prefer polyrepos are most focused on the individual trees. The end goal is usually the same (a healthy forest), and done right both approaches are generally isomorphic (the "canopy" of the forest looks generally the same to the users either way).

To push the metaphor perhaps to the breaking point, a lot of the arguments between monorepos and polyrepos break down into management of the "root system" in the forest. Monorepos often don't care as much how deeply the roots are entangled between trees so long as the forest is healthy, and polyrepos tend to encourage a more "bonsai" approach of tending to each tree on its own. Either way, it rarely seems to affect the "canopy" (end user experience) of the forest, but can matter a great deal to things like technical debt and project management structure and project deadlines.
That's cool, also similar idea to a game I made some time ago for a lisp game jam

https://orbaruk.github.io/

https://github.com/OrBaruk/squares-lgj
Colonizing Africa is a futile effort. The Chinese should look at South Africa to see how Africans will deal with unjust ownership.
See also (more details): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzhDsojoqk8
But it IS sad. Jackie Chan is one -- ONE -- success story in a pool of what must be thousands of boys who will never see success and will always be poor and uneducated.

I was honestly shocked to learn how little Jackie Chan is educated -- and how little he wants to be -- despite his tremendous wealth.
Also, if you've got some friends you can get a train car and get some sleep on the way on long trips.
> You're probably going to have a seriously underpowered ICE in it as well (snip) which makes it less suitable to highway driving

Why? You can put a powerful ICE in it just as easily.

My Chevy Volt can easily do 90+mph on the freeway, irregardless of whether it's on battery or gasoline. (Of course, I've never personally verified that...)
So fun. I like the AI logic, if he wants a fun addition he should add more enemies as the score increases and implement something like the pac-man ghost logic so that they all behave differently: http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-m...
Ghost Blogging Platform can now be used as a headless CMS
It varies by state/city. In my state, basic care is ok: ER pretty much works, same weekend appointments for general practitioners, maybe more for specialists. I don't have direct experience whith surgery, but I had family members on cancer treatment, and the public health system was better in some cases than the private one.
Satoshi Nakamoto: I Don’t Mean to Sound Like a Socialist
Alexa Privacy Nightmares
old ladies should be able to keep their houses if they chose to once the house is paid of and they retire.
Finally, one of these stories that didn't make me feel like an utterly talentless moron. This feels like what someone might be able to learn how to do in a week, but so often it seems like what you see here are 10 year olds writing real time ray tracing engines that use deep learning for some reason, and have source code that just happens to be a radiation hardened quine.
I worked as a chef for 8 years. I might have some ideas about this.

In the below, I will use the pronoun 'he' purely for convenience and may swear a bit.

When you're in a brigade, you're called 'a chef', but there's only one chef called 'the chef' and you are cooking his food. If he had 30 arms he'd do it himself, but he doesn't, so he employs 14 wastrels to make up the deficit. Make no mistake: you are an extension of the chef's body, your hands are his hands, your garnishes are his garnishes, and your mistakes are his mistakes. (Indeed, in the trade, you don't say 'I'm going to work at Noma' , you say 'I'm going to cook for Redzepi').

The chef probably sacrificed the best years of his life toiling on his feet for 70 hours a week, saving, learning, forming opinions and dreaming of the day he can cook his own food. Most people cave in, change careers or hit 50 and can't keep up any more. Chef is balancing years of agony and reverie on the improbable fulcrum of his restaurant, which he genuinely believes could come toppling down if his peppers aren't julienned properly. Except he doesn't julienne them. You do.

'What the fuck is this?'
'Peppers, chef.'
'Don't fuck with me. I wrote the menu. Read it. READ IT!'
'Raw scallop and peppers julienne.'
'Well, these are diced, we're behind on checks already, there's no peppers left and now the most important critic in the country is going to think I don't know what a fucking julienne looks like. Get in the prep kitchen and get Robbie on the pass. Fuck sake.'
'Yes, chef.'

What's the first thing that commis is going to do when he gets home, exhausted and aching? Crack open his Larousse and learn his damn cuts.

Chef made it through one of the most brutal industries in the world and is wagering his life savings on the bullshit odds of running a kitchen not for fame, not for money, but for the all-consuming joy of seeing his food, on his plates, being served to his customers. It is pure, beautiful, passionate narcissism. And fuck me if he won't let it all slide way because your sorry ass never learned how to properly julienne a fucking pepper.

Add that to the sincere hell of standing tooth by jowl with your sweaty, tired comrades in immense heat and pressure serving your last grilled octopus at 11:15pm, adrenaline dumping as you put your section back together to get ready for the breakfast shift in 7 hours and, yes, things get a little tense.

Not all kitchens are like this, but it is the default setting in those environments and preventing it takes conscious effort.
I have a tinc + asterisk setup to my cell phone (for my personal/home line) and openvpn + asterisk to desk Yealink phones (They have built-in openvpn clients) (for business)

Fairly easy to maintain + grow once you get some basics out of the way. The net result is that all the signaling + transport is encrypted as far as non-VPN nodes are concerned.
That might be true, but I think HN readers are not commonly aware that he is one. He once said in December 2012, that “Hong Kong is a ‘city of protest,’ suggesting that demonstrators' rights in Hong Kong should be limited. The same month, in an interview with Phoenix TV, Chan stated that the United States was the ‘most corrupt’ country in the world.” This is a man whose made plenty of his fortune in the US.

Before we heap praise on Jackie Chan, I think it’s important to know his full background.
> objectively tastier

“tastier” is the archetypical example of something subjective. Heck “a matter of taste” is a common synonym for “subjective”.
> China has a literacy rate of 96.4%

So what? Literacy raises the average but doesn't prevent huge class gaps in populations. OP's point is valid in the same way that the 1% in the USA can pay for their kids to attend elite schools, be hired be elite firms regardless of ability, and continue the elite family tree often at the expense of the poor. China is no different.
> Does your comment not reiterate the article's core ideas in a nice little package?

No?

> Maybe I am arguing with you because I can't do the same with the author.

Indeed.

Because my post was very short, let me quote it here in its entirety, and please tell me how it "resonates" with the article and what point you think I -- along with the author, apparently -- am making, or should be making:

> "Interesting how difficult and rough Jackie Chan's childhood was. He certainly succeeded, but at what cost? This article reviews how Chan downplays the hardships he was forced to endure (e.g. being essentially sold by his parents as an indentured servant when he was seven years old, complete with beatings and dismal living conditions) and instead chooses to focus on the end result, his success as an adult."

As you can see, I'm not trying to make any point. I've no idea what the article's author thinks, but you may have surmised I think the cost was too much. You'd be correct: I wouldn't wish this childhood on any kid, from Hong Kong or elsewhere. I'm glad Jackie Chan managed to survive and become successful, because I like him and his movies.
I've seen several deterministic tokenizers for payment cards.
iOS came with Facebook and Twitter not too long ago, not to mention Yahoo Weather, Google Maps, and a bunch of others. https://www.axios.com/apple-removes-facebook-and-twitter-int...
Wrong, a store is a public place, they have cameras, more to the point I can take a photo of you in a store and you can't stop me nor do you own it.

> take upskirt shots of women walking over. That’s illegal at a federal level in the US

Only since 2004, and that's a specific exception that was made and only applies when there is a clear expectation of privacy, i.e. wearing clothes to cover your privates is a clear indication you expect that to be private. That doesn't stop anyone from taking pictures of you you don't like though and it only makes the area under your clothes a private space, it doesn't make the public space your in a private place.
Further context: Note that the date on the review is 2013.
The demo shown in the talk was in an emulator, I have no doubt that he actually added his script into the filesystem in the emulation.
How to Measure Remaining Sunlight with Your Hands
“As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,”

What does loving exploration mean?
Pigeons hardly need protecting. They are nuisance animals in most areas.
That's how the Tesla chargers work.

It also looks like CHAdeMO has a 'Plug and Charge' protocol defined:

https://www.chademo.com/chademo-releases-the-latest-version-...

But that's pretty new, and not the SAE standard used in the US. So, it'll be a while...
Nice work. Hope he keeps it up!
Almost all of the apps you listed can be deleted just like any other. Are you trying to create a misleading comparison on purpose?
Fun! Wonder how high people will go. 69 points.
If this were a material advantage, it would probably be considered insider trading.
Tl;dr - This is an Amazon review of a book about Amazon, by the founder of Amazon's wife.
It is possible to use also radare2[1] for this, along with radiff2. It provides more options and has zero external dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/radare/radare2
No, a lot of media outlets will not report on something that will definitely put someone’s life in immediate danger, unless the public interest outweighs the risk. In this case the public interest is well served as long as it’s eventually reported, and a scoop at the cost of a life would be pointless and cruel. It doesn’t always work out of course, and the smaller a media org is the less likely they are to abide by norms.
This is a test. tensorflow.
I'm one of the weirdos who actually appreciated Zed Shaw's outrageousness back in the heyday of Rails, until everyone decided he was toxic and he jumped ship for... whatever the hell he is doing these days, Python maybe? He wrote the Mongrel webserver using the Ragel parser-generator which succeeded by sticking strictly to the HTTP spec unlike apparently everything else at the time.

I also thought he was funny:

> He sarcastically stated in November 2016 that "Python 3 is not Turing complete" due to claims from Python project developers that Python 2 code cannot be made to run in the Python 3 VM.

Oh come on, that is hilarious.

DHH is full of himself, but who wouldn't be, if they singlehandedly developed a world-changing webserver API?
Because they're delicious :(
Snoozing on the job: Japanese firms tackle epidemic of sleeplessness
Mobile will become as essential as internet in general has become to participate in larger society.

I see it starting at the bottom. Tired of being tracked and trapped inside class barriers, the homeless and destitute will be the first to adopt extreme privacy-oriented protocols such as regularly cycling burner phones, using mobile VPNs, stripped-out GPS modules, and anonymous software such as Signal but which don't rely on phone numbers as identifiers. The poor will stop using phone numbers altogether. Perhaps charity services will exist which help aid this transition.

It will also start from the top, as we already see high-level CEOs using encrypted messaging and privacy-oriented protocols. They will see the obvious need for such services.

The overwhelming majority, the middle class, will be the last to adopt such practices and take back control of their privacy.
This is terrible. I wonder, what is the comment about the ransom note intended to signify? That the kidnappers are not Norwegian? ISTM that extreme confidence would be required to commit a crime of this nature in a foreign country.
Is it opensource? I've been looking for a location tracker to use for my family that isn't storing our locations on the side.
Stocks are trading as they did in 1957, just ahead of the ‘Eisenhower recession’
Tesla had a working automated battery swap system, but it was a paperwork headache to use so it looks like it was discontinued:

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-shuts-down-battery-swap-prog...
It is interesting to see the dichotomy here, and sad. I suspect that some neighbors never saved enough for retirement and so having their home "worth" a million dollars over what they paid for it is what they are counting on to live on in their retirement. So they are highly motivated to have house prices stay high, while people who are looking to buy their first home are looking for affordable options.

Sunnyvale at least has been doing a good job of adding housing in spite of the NIMBYism. It isn't a popular opinion on Nextdoor but every fora has its taboos.
> the 2008 milk scandal.

In the wake of that, so many Chinese came to Hong Kong to buy milk powder that a new law was introduced in HK restricting its export (to 1.8 kg per person), with violations punishable by 60,000 USD or 2 years prison :-)

(promptly giving rise to baby formula smuggling rings, naturally...)
Fair enough, I see where you are coming from. I am curious how widespread the poor working environments are at Amazon outside the workhouse, as it is difficult to extrapolate from a few examples. Thanks for the response.
These kinds of things need to be considered when arguing about privacy: you could argue that having completely private payments with no link possible to the receiver is bad, because it facilitates this type of crime:
Before crypto, you had to either demand money to a bank account (traceable) or demand cash on a certain location (which could then be surveiled by police to find the criminals).

I'm not saying there are kidnappings because there is crypto, but maybe some kidnappings are easier when cryptocurrencies exist, and that is definitely a downside to consider vs the already low upsides of crypto.
That's true, but if you were at conferences for SuccessFactors or Workday about 4 years ago, you'd have heard lots of presentations about the rise of contingent workforce and the gig economy. In fairness to management consultants, most of them are not "contingent labor". Most of them are employed by companies. I think the major distinction is that "gig economy" tends to reflect contracting individuals only, while contingent labor includes both gig workers and those who are contracting through some kind of corporate entity like an LLC.
The late Hans Rosling's Factfullness is good for many reasons, but it also espouses Africa's coming demographic and economic explosion. I'm skeptical as well on the 2040 date, but the 2099 date has Africa becoming a major player in world affairs. Changes are already taking place at incredible rates for western minds.

Let's do a quick quiz for readers to introspect about their current views on the 'dark' continent:

1) How fast is the bullet train from Nairobi to Mombasa?

2) How much hydro-electric power does Guinea sell to it's neighbors?

3) How many riders/day does the light-rail serve in Addis Ababa?

4) In terms of current-day 'Californias', how many people will live in the city of Dar Es Salaam by 2099?

5) Where is the Great Wall of Nigeria? Hint: It's not dry.
Searching deep in oneself for the love that once existed.
Shutdown delays TSA data-security efforts
>This sort of stuff isn't taught anywhere though, you have to either be shown it by someone else in a previous job, or have it annoy you enough to figure it out with some serious google fu (and the freedom to follow that path).

Sure it is taught. It's taught by some people ( including me - plug here for my Linux and Python courses, with testimonials: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/p/training.html ) in their Unix / Linux courses, as examples of how to really put the classic (and oft-quoted) Unix philosopy + command-line tools + shell scripting to good use, synergistically ("write small tools to do one job each, well, and connect them by pipelines and I/O redirection, etc. etc.").

It's not even rocket science; bread-and-butter EDP/IT folks (programmers and even operators) (not just clued-in software engineers in product companies) have been using such scripts for decades, routinely, without thinking they are doing anything great or out of the ordinary. (And similarly for other OSs, I'm sure, such as Rexx on some platforms. Not sure what was used on Windows before PowerShell, maybe Perl and/or one of the Unix toolkit clones like MKS Toolkit or Cygwin or UWin - apart from clunky batch file language and DOS/Windows command-line commands).

It's just that it is not so well known nowadays among the (often mainly JS-using) generation, who even write CLI apps in Node.

>It's an unknown unknown, a lot of programmers will simply not know you can use quick and dirty scripts to process data if you're only going to do it once.

It's their loss (and that of the industry), comes from not trying to learn about prior art.

There's even a name for it: NIH syndrome [1], and heck, even that is not new :) Dates from early IBM days or earlier ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
They would have needed to get on Verizon or T-Mobile to really make a dent in the US, being only available on Sprint was never going to be enough.
Your last sentence really makes the point. I'll be quoting that, thanks.
Tokenized? One-way digest: SHA-512 the card number, iterate SHA-512 on the results 100 times, store that as your tracking code.
Hah, good catch ;) I'll offer "just tastier" as a logically consistent, and transparently opinionated replacement.
Any context on why it was posted damn near 6 years ago and no one noticed???

Edit: I guess they did
George Mason very much the case of the exception underlining the rule though: it's the go to place for Austrian economics, has massive Koch Foundation endowments to encourage it to emphasis Austrian economics in its teaching, and yet it's still populated by people who are somewhat sympathetic to Austrian ideas that write "why I am not an Austrian Economist" essays and has a pretty non-Austrian sounding syllabus.

I think the status of Austrian economics in academia is best represented by the Mises Foundation's short list of best places to study Austrian economics, which concedes "some only have a sympathetic faculty member" and warns that some places have a lot of mathematics...
That's a total strawman but the answer is yes. Even before the "Russia story" broke, the story of Brad Parscale the Digital Director of the Trump Campaign and how FB embedded employees with him was a national news story. It was covered on 60 Minutes:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-...

And even before that back in 2012 the Atlantic did a piece on the emerging role of FB in politics entitled:

"Did Facebook Give Democrats the Upper Hand?"

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/did-f...
Kenyans are poisoning other Kenyans by cooking things in PCB-laden oil. You know, a chemical that causes places to be labeled Superfund sites in the US.

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/12/thieves-f...
In what way have the victims failed to fight for themselves? The beach access issue is kind of a thing all up and down the California coast.
Some of the best cheese I've ever had was decades ago when there was another cheese surplus and the government was giving it away. My grandparents got some from some senior citizen group, and it was delicious. I remember it being some kind of cheddar cheese. They had more cheese than they could handle -- they had like 4 5 pound blocks of cheese, so they gave most of it to my parents.

Though I was in my teens at the time and prior to that my idea of fine cheese was individually wrapped slices, so I'm not sure what I'd think of it now when I barely consider processed cheese slices to be "cheese".

https://www.history.com/news/government-cheese-dairy-farmers...
The records have names, but how do you correlate that with nationality? I.e., there are plenty of people with Chinese or Indian names that are Americans.