skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that confusing or damaging to the animal?

Do they perceive the "stops existing" as dying?
Should the handler remove the sock puppet out of view of the animal?
What kind of limits are you seeing?
Teaching German kids Turkish feels like it has a political motive more than anything else. I can see Kenyans gaining opportunities of improving their lives by learning Chinese. What do Germans have to earn from learning Turkish? Are you sure the backlash was racism and not just a lot of "what a terrible waste of time and public money"?
The Euro is living proof that a shared currency with individual monetary policy is a lot of trouble in the long run. Greece is still learning this lesson.
How the shared family computer protected us from our worst selves (2018)
There are usually more superchargers than the route planner shows you. That’s just one possible plan. Cancel the route temporarily (for others reading, it’s two taps to get it back) and just look at all the superchargers and you’ll see ones that were not shown in the route planner.
Well, we did actually enter an official bear market (-20%), or at least really, really close, briefly in late December. And typically the stock markets leads the recession by a year. So, no, bear market and then recession.
I think what the previous commenter was reacting to in your post was not your defense of Chan an his memoir as inspirational, per se, but rather the specific phrase "If he can do it anyone can" as ignoring the fact that Chan -- and celebrities like him -- are extreme outliers, and extremely lucky for their success. Yes, Chan worked his ass off. But to have the success he did, he also had to have an insane amount of luck.

Using phrases like that excuses a system that keeps people oppressed by pointing to the outliers who manage to escape them. It's the old "lift yourself up by your bootstraps" argument.

We should recognize and change the system, not point people to the outliers and say "See, you can do it too!"

Chan's memoir can be inspirational, but we can also read into it - as the article does - and recognize the oppressive system and his luck in escaping it.
Doesn't he do a lot of frivolous and light-hearted movies though -- I'm a huge fan.

Take a movie like "Who am I", it's like Johnny English meets Drunken Master.

"Kung Fu" films to me always have a notion of slapstick, even the beautiful ones like House of Flying Daggers; Chan's background in Opera I imagine helps to fulfill that element of slightly ludicrous spectacle (at least if Chinese opera has any similarity to its Western namesake).

I mean Shanghai Noon, great film within its genre, but goofy as anything; actors doing those sorts of movies just aren't treated as serious actors I guess.
That's pretty bad. Yet another sign of increasing Chinese dominance. I can't imagine an autocracy like China becoming the greatest superpower will work out well for anyone.
This is really interesting. Is there a connection between this fact and the universe being continuously expanding?
I'm also curious
Verified Compilation of CakeML to WebAssembly
Bad for American fracking companies exporting oil, but great for green energy business.
> I think how people work is a key advantage.

Yup, which is precisely what an Operating Model is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_model
This is directly quoted in the linked article.
For some reason I read the "she" as your coworker and the "he" as the raccoon
Was? I wouldn’t today - the benefit used to be access to the European market. I’d probably go for Ireland these days if I was really hell bent on the isles.
Show HN: Scipy.optimize.linear_sum_assignment with wings
“People ask me about the positive side of clutter and I say, ‘There isn’t any positive side.’”

This is incorrect, of course.

I dislike clutter and I personally maintain a relatively clutter-free existence but of course there is a trade-off to be made between short term expediency and lack of clutter.

Understanding this trade-off has been helpful to me - especially in designing and acquiring living spaces.

Here is an example:

My current office space requires two rooms. However, I went out of my way to find a suite with three rooms - the third of which was not, and continues to not, be necessary. What this "buffer space" allows me to do is stage, or cache, incoming items and/or projects while allowing me to make full (clutter-free) use of the necessary two rooms without interruption.

Running my office without a third room would be like running a CPU without a cache - it is perfectly workable and there's no reason it can't be done - but it requires immediate, real-time interruption of work to maintain the empty (clutter-free) pipeline (really stretching the CPU analogy here, but you get the idea).
I don't see how this is a good investment for them. Keeping it empty means, they're loosing 1.3% + the cost of maintenance, HOA, and insurance (1.6% total) every year. And since we're towards the top of the 12 year micro bubble, the long term appreciation won't be significantly more than inflation.
I agree. I use and like LaTex but also use other things as well and am a bit surprised something better hasn't come along.

My overall sense is that the underlying reason for this is that supporting math in typesetting is an extremely difficult problem, much more so than people realize. Most typefaces don't come anywhere near being adequate for math, and those that are functionally ok are often really not very good aesthetically speaking. The equation typesetting can also be really difficult, in terms of "under the hood" implementation issues as well as the specification of standards. etc. etc. etc.

As a result, it's not so much LaTeX is good, as much as it is that it's been around for so long, and the domain is so much of a slog, that it's hard to develop something better.

I think a lot of people have a limited vision of what things could be like, and tend to base impressions on limited experiences with alternatives. The proprietary nature of Word does create problems in sharing written documents sometimes; the "black box" nature of WYSIWYG programs in general can be infuriating when you need to be careful with typesetting equations. On the other hand, constantly having every typesetting detail in your face with most LaTeX implementations can be intrusive and leads to "forest for tree" problems sometimes.

There are lots of beautiful texts typeset in LaTeX. But there's also a lot of LaTeX documents out there containing correctly typeset equations that are nonetheless really unpleasant to read or look at, for visual design reasons.
Sorry to ask, but what is he use case for a hex viewer like this? What are the kinds of projects you might be working on when you use something like this?
>Shadowrun is the canonical cyberpunk RPG.

Aside from the dated and weird essentialization of Native American cultures, Shadowrun's setting is really good and fun.

Unfortunately it's hard to run a game with a decent narrative flow just because the combat system is so complicated. My group decided to shame people out of playing mages or riggers just because we didn't want to have to deal with simultaneously doing combat in cyberspace and the astral plane at once. It really puts a damper on having a fun game that flows. I wouldn't recommend it for someone new to pen&paper RPGs.

On the other hand, the tedium of combat gave us a strong incentive to talk our way out of problems instead of going the murder-hobo route.
TIOBE crowns Python as the programming language of 2018
I have no idea. I'm not an Austrian, but I can tell you that stating they are "nonexistent" in modern academia is just wrong.

Go look up Peter Boettke at George Mason -- he is a current, publishing Austrian Economist (he gave a talk at my uni).
Washington state is a community property state. She could end up with an 8% stake in AMZN since Bezos has around 17%...
I know a few people in the clothes design industry and they all say manufacturing is moving out of Asia and into Africa.

According to them, by next year most of their stuff will be made there.

China has made a huge investment in Africa - so they will get a piece of that action.

Feels like the US is resting on their laurels.

Why the downvotes? This comment got a few reasonable responses and is within HN guidelines. Help me understand what is so offensive about this post
My current preferences are

Large or complex apps (such as those at work or things I intend to have a long lifetime):

- Backend: Rails

- Frontend: Ember

The combination of these two is really powerful. I can focus on my complex problem domain and not have to make too many choices about project structure, testing setup, and other decisions that lead to bike-shedding.

Smaller applications (such as side projects):

- Backend: Rails, Phoenix, or Amber

- Frontend: Ember, (P)react

Rails & Ember are still very productive for small apps, but I'm finding Amber (written in Crystal, similar ethos to Rails) to be a faster, smaller alternative when a side-project is resource limited (plus, it's an interesting new community). Preact and React are quite good for building small things quickly or dropping into existing projects, so I've enjoyed them in that context. Ember and Rails are phenomenal over a long period of time, because they tend to have a relatively smooth upgrade path (in many cases with Ember, there are automated tools.)

I'm a strong proponent of Postgres. It gets better with every version and is great for both development and production use, especially if you want to do zero-downtime deploys (Postgres has some cool tools for avoiding locking of whole tables during updates, e.g. concurrent indexing, etc.)
A History of Postgres
While LaTex is nice (and Texmacs is almost perfect), it seems the future is in automatic recognition of the mathematical handwriting. (I cannot imagine a professor giving a lecture using LaTex and a large screen instead of the whiteboard.)
The last language I would take as an example for string is python.

The disastrous handling of the transition python2 to python3 with UTF-8 string and the idiosyncratic nonsense like " ''.join([str1, str2]) to concat anything speaks for themselves.
You can remove all of the Google apps, though. (You can't remove the storage space they take up on the phone's ROM, as they ship on the stock device so that they don't need a download at setup time, but you can completely disable them so that they're treated as not installed.)

Also, these days, people consider photos, music, videos, email, and similar to be core phone functions; frankly, many people use them more often than they make phonecalls.

(Personally, I disable around half of those apps, along with Chrome.)
I've heard from multiple sources (including a former Seattle police officer who taught the first aid class I took last fall) that 911 operators here do not get any location data from cell phone calls.

Maybe that's the intent or justification behind collecting the data, but it isn't getting to those people.
Takes about 5 seconds though.
Yeah, I’d love to see an a modern cleaner language that fills the same role as LaTeX. Markdown + CSS doesn’t really fit the bill for a multitude of reasons, but markdown is a good example of how easy it should be to cleanly write simple content.
Ask HN: Why Apple put a whitespace on iCloud Path?
Genuine question.

Why on earth an engineer, supposedly good since she/he is working at Apple, would think that putting a whitespace on a working-space path is a good idea ? (+ Now way to change it.)

Reasons to not do that :

- It costs nothing to not do it
- No one sees the path ever, no need for it to be "pretty"
- It breaks so many things, especially dev-wise
- It's not a good practice in general

Reasons to do it :

- I have no idea

For reference the path is : "/Users/<user>/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/"
I don't think I'm trying to say something difficult. I'm replying to the post above mine:

1- "I suppose you'd have to ask him if he'd rather have lived a normal life": we don't need to ask Jackie Chan what he thinks, because he already answered in interviews: he thinks his life was worth it. That's sort of the point of the article.

2- "kids in Africa become slaves or child soldiers and end up dead.": yes, some kids have it worse than Jackie Chan's life. So?
This january I am turning 40 and it will be exactly 10 years since I quit my last job. I am a pro sports bettor so I have a fair degree of flexibility and time freedom. However, I am strongly considering applying for work again, in fact I've already sent my resume to two advertised jobs.
I love Deckset-- using it is like having presentation creation superpowers. But since it's OSX-only, I've moved to GitPitch, which is cross-platform and has the added benefit of hosting the slides.

https://gitpitch.com/
Survey Shows Drastic 42 Percent Decline in Authors Earnings
EOS? Staking your tokens to the system provides you compute power on the network.
Know Enough Not to Act Like a Know-It-All
I kind of casually fell off of using facebook like 5 years ago–it just kind of slowly lost my interest. Those useless notifications–via push, sms and email–wound up prompting me to unsub from all facebook communications and ultimately delete the app.
How does it ASCII to sketch work?
(I am particularly interested in this "sketchy" example.)
I'm excited this as an option in the toolbox.
(See section 7.)

Yes, I, too, fellow human, like reading rectangular 7.5" × 9" blocks of space-and-a-half 12pt Times New Roman.
Not possible in high earthquake risk areas
American cheese is cheap. And when you have an oversupply of milk, you have to either dump it or turn it into something that can be stored for later sale. Thus cheap cheese.
Would you please read the guidelines before commenting further here? This isn't a flamewar site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Hopefully you could enjoy the irony of the situation.
Counterpoint: I'm an academic, and almost no one I work with uses LaTeX, and I've found that the pain points between the two are different, but not particularly better.

And if I never saw another beamer presentation again I'd be a happy man.
You come across an undescript binary. It might be a jpeg with an altered extension, malware or basically anything. You open it in a hex viewer and try to gather some info.
Extracting “user profiles” out of your permissions system
> everything Vinod said was fairly reasonable

He was promising he could beat gasoline at $1.80/gallon by misstating the yield of ethanol per ton of wood chips.

From the Fortune article I posted:

> The Securities and Exchange Commission has been examining whether the company made false statements, including on a critical point: the yield of its biofuel (the amount that can be made per ton of wood chips). Two KiOR executives and Khosla himself are also facing a class action suit alleging that company executives misled investors about production volumes and yield.

...

> During investor calls in 2012, CEO Cannon said KiOR expected to achieve 72 gallons at a larger commercial production facility in the future and would aim to reach 92.

> The problem was that the company wasn’t regularly producing anything close to 67, much less 92. In the summer of 2011, after the company’s IPO, its new chief operating officer, Bill Coates, told management that it appeared that the company had grossly overstated its yields, according to a KiOR consultant who spoke with him and was quoted in the state’s court papers.
TLDR: Blockchain-based distributed PKI.

Does it come with its own 51% exploit?

Yes, it's a product, monetized by yet another crypto-coin: https://remme.io/
> Throwing away the idea of using ‘engagement’ as the sole or primary metric.

What are some alternatives that are not a synonym for engagement?
i really do not like magnum. They were the ones responsible for google removing the save image link in google image search.
> We don't need categories to be so rigid.

For the purposes of law we do.

> I don't particularly like the idea of laws getting in the way of my relationship with animals, even if they are wild.

And yet there is a case to be made for these laws to prevent animals from abuse, etc. These kinds of laws are usually well-served by having an attached definition of what constitutes a pet as it is used in the law. The more defined a law is, the less likely it is to get in the way where it isn't supposed to.
Bitcoin/virtual currencies are a study in Austrian economics (free market for currencies instead of state/gov/central bank control)
I just did haha I wish I wish there was an easy way for me to import all of my Pocket articles into Polar without doing them manually. I guess i'll do the research to figure out a way to script this.
I agree with most of this dude's points, except about not starting new projects with C++.

I think C++ still has good strong merit but it definitely needs some critical thinking about where it's used. Other languages are likely better candidates for most things.
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I recently had dinner with a friend who spent 8 years working for the US State dept all over Africa.

His take was simple. When the US shows up offering to build a road to the oil refinery we want to build we first ask them to make human rights reforms and so forth.

The Chinese just start handing out cash until they get what they want.

This strategy will result in the wholesale ownership of several African states by China if it hasn’t already happened.
> But there have to be a limit, someone spending their days at home or out shopping is not worth millions or billions of their partner's money

I have a hard time believing anyone's time is "worth millions or billions".
Not a biologist, but I've always found my dog interesting if I step on him by mistake. He barks and snaps at my shoes, trying to attack them. Stops if I take them off, and it doesn't alter his relationship with me in any way. It's like the shoe on me is a distinct animal from the shoe off me, and neither of them is related to me in any way.
I was forced to submit a lab report in Word. I'd tried to use the LaTeX feature, and I couldn't even get it to properly understand limits of integration. After ~5 minutes, I just gave up and used the annoying Gui interface, since at least it worked. This was last year, and I haven't tried again (since if I need to typeset math, I'll just use LaTeX). Word has its advantages, mostly ease of use, but it just can't handle math and bibliographies as easily as LaTeX.
In Kenya, that would be more like Mandarin as a fourth language. They commonly know their tribal language first, then Swahili and English, which are both official languages of Kenya. From fourth grade on English is the primary language used for teaching in school.
The whole point of crypto is that its not centralized. Your argument has little merit.
As the other commenter noted, I think there are several folks at Mason who are Austrian leaning. Don Boudreaux was someone whose writing I followed back in the late 20-aughts, I'm sure he's still doing work.
Just looked at manpages on someone else's account with no colour highlighting, definitely missed it.
shrug, I wish I could do that. But for 99% of all my friends and family members Facebook is the social network of choice. All events are planned and organized on it, all the personal news and status changes are posted on it, most of person to person communications are using the messenger, etc. My brother has deleted his account on several occasions, but he keeps having to re-create it simply because he doesn't want to get cut off from all the family communication.
I am glad you used the word trapped - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/07...
Something tells me that Bezos can afford to hire a lawyer who won't allow that to happen.
Bad for whom? For the kids getting to know a new language, for increased trading activities, or just for the American?
One guess: Sometimes this is done to force other 'consumers' of paths into properly handling file paths with spaces. If they handle this, then they should also handle user created filenames (which will /very often/ contain spaces).

Is this the real reason? I have no way to know.
I'd love to have this verified but I don't think #3 is applicable because SPI is push-pull and not open collector.

If you think this writing is feeding FUD do you believe the demo is fake?
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I think that's fair. Their retail operations don't qualify them as a "tech" company -- that just makes them a tech-savvy retail company.

However, their cloud (and other IT) services do qualify them as a "tech" company.
It's unclear to me why you would want a distributed PKI to authenticate a centralized app. Or maybe it's only for dapps?
> `brew upgrade` now runs `brew update`

Is that documented anywhere? I guess it makes sense for most people, but I often do `brew update && brew fetch $(brew outdated)`, then later rely on `brew upgrade` working without hitting the network. I'd hate for that to change.
Customer satisfaction, perhaps?

I can be satisfied with products that I don't use at every moment of every day.

I am usually more satisfied with my life when I am not being gamed to be addicted to something such as a "free" product.
True; but I don't care about that; never been to the EU and likely never will, same as most Americans.
AES standard document unavailable [pdf]
Hell has frozen over. Gradle supports Maven