skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently in an EU country receiving a 2 year stipend of 750 euros a month as I attempt to build a business.

The magic of having that money come in each month is that it removes the cognitive load of uh oh, how do I survive? allowing me to fully devote myself to work.

Rather than slack off, I work 16 hour days, 7 days a week.

It's not enough to have a social life, or do much of anything, and that's fine. After all why would you be out playing if you've a business to run?

Perhaps it doesn't work on a wide scale, but for the sincere and serious, basic income is a gift. And one that I believe every recipient is obliged to repay in the form of job creation, tax revenue or some kind of contribution to society.

In the same way that washing machines 'liberated' women in developing countries[1], UBI could be a similar revolution - freeing up time and energy spent in drudgery and reassigning it to (potentially) more worthwhile and value-creating pursuits.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2013/04/24/hans-rosli...
I have family pictures taken on a Kodak Discman from the 80’s, which is of similar thickness but the photos are terrible.

So I appreciate the quality of mobile phone photography in such a small form factor
Which language course?
Finally we can put to rest this dark matter conspiracy.
It’s funny how many supported the idea. Science by mob rule huh?
Now we have a great example of how scientists are ignorant.
Like blaming climate change for unusual weather. Give it a rest, climate change is a ruse.
"Materials" section from my "Quantum mechanics for high-school students":
https://p.migdal.pl/2016/08/15/quantum-mechanics-for-high-sc...
Finally we can put to rest this dark matter conspiracy. It’s funny how many supported the idea. Science by mob rule huh?

Now we have a great example of how scientists are ignorant. Like blaming climate change for unusual weather. Give it a rest, climate change is a ruse.
Oracle wanted to be the apple of enterprise to offer an all in one oracle package that would be deeply integrated but they failed to assess the market.

It is not about Oracle not having competitive producta or services but about Oracle being stuck with their thinking in the 1991-2008 era.
It's very rare in history to have some long-term trade with asymmetric gold movements.
Well, many different notations are convenient in different contexts. The compiler they target is a bit more flexible than developers', so they are free to just describe what they are doing on page 1.

Human languages face the same trade-off: in some word order is very important, in others less so, but they need to compensate with some kind of case labels.
Find a local Meetup? Skype with native online teachers?
Congrats for your courage!

On a slightly personal note, how was your social life been for the past year?

If you want to have a family do you see yourself staying in this city?
Racism in China is a big problem, but the laundry advert alone isn't certainty not a big issue and is pretty over blown: being overly political correct around lighthearted comedy.

The skin pigment 'melanin' is what causes a black person's skin to be black, and is also the same as in a non-black person's tanned skin. It's a added pigment that the absence of causes light skin. Removal of melanin can happen (through non-laundry!) causes such as developing vitiligo, or being born with albinism (a genetic condition which exists in all ethnicities not just black people). Removal of melanin literally turns a darker skinned/haired person white (but obviously not changing other features).

The American TV show Everybody Hates Chris, based on comedian Chris Rock's childhood experiences made almost THE EXACT SAME JOKE more than once [1] [2], making fun of the very strict African-American mother trope of threatening a misbehaving child with 'slapping the black out of you'.

The laundry commercial may have some problematic connections with the ideas of 'clean' and 'attractive'.

America has a long history of minority TV shows aimed at mass audiences tackling stereotypes, Everybody Loves Raymond for Italian-Americans, Fresh Off the Boat for Asian-Americans, and a huge number of African-American cast shows including The Jeffersons, The Cosby Show, Fresh Prince of Belair etc. Comedy shows with characters with minority experiences are a good way to improve understanding. It will be unfortunate if lighthearted comedy dies because excessive political correctness.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mTfEcP76o
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPmqVW_qLmk
Agent tells Chelsea top target Koulibaly will leave Napoli for £87.5M
> some people have gotten left behind, which is certainly true.

Yeah, which probably shouldn't happen in an 'elegant' system, you know?

> I also don't understand the mindset that it's somehow somebody else's fault when a person accumulates student debt. Like, I'm sorry you made a poor choice, but nobody physically twisted your arm and made you take this loan.

That's a grossly simplistic view of the matter. I am saying that if your parents did not have to take out a loan to get higher education, why should you? If capitalism is so elegant why? It should elegantly allocate resources so that it's not necessary.

As for nobody twisting your arm, you're of course right in the literal sense, but many higher paying jobs require candidates to have a higher education, so if you want to get on that economic ladder at all, in many cases you're forced into it by societal expectations. But even if it weren't so, what 'elegant' system makes progress by allowing the next generation to grow within it to obtain less free education than their parents? That doesn't seem like progress to me.

Moreover, student debt is a problem for the broader society as well, because if young people cannot participate in the economy to the same degree as their parents, be ready for some stagnation.
> Yeah? Like what?

Most people try to support an argument with something stronger than "I don't know very much".

You can sense acceleration.

You can sense temperature.

You can sense the position of the various parts of your own body. ("proprioception")

You can sense whether you need to eat, and what you should eat. ("hunger")

Note that from a physical perspective, hunger appears identical to taste and smell. That is to say, it is implemented by special receptors that bind to a particular molecular shape. But unlike those two, it is not general-purpose -- it is a computational artifact, the specialized means by which your digestive system sends messages to your nervous system. But it is no less of a sense than your others. A sense is a means of receiving input. This should tell you that the number of senses you may experience is not limited by the number of interactions one atom may have with another atom; it is at least as large as the number of different types of computation you might want to do.

If you're really interested in a catalog of senses, I suggest checking out the psychology literature. And whether you're interested or not, I suggest trying to base your arguments on something more than bluster.

Believing that humans have five senses has all the scientific backing of believing in the tongue map.
Also there could be the Kruger Effect[1]. But what is most important, we have to assume, that parents do their best for their children and trust them in it, as simple as it is.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Frederick Forsythe's "The Shepherd".

Look for the podcast with Alan Maitland's reading on CBC.ca or YouTube. It's become tradition for CBC to broadcast it every year on the last weekday before Christmas.
One might ask in a first place : who needs $10,000/month to live (including water, food, private place to sleep, and some entertainment) ?

If some people can live with $1,500/month, how come other receive so much and for what?

I guess it's related to "capitalism", "liberatism" or whatever. But please can someone explain to me like I'm five ?
what is dark matter? is it the opposite of matter? how can it be called matter when it doesn't exist?

or are these objects from higher dimensions as Michio Kaku postulates? that galaxies are essentially in a bubble of dark matter preventing it from hurling in every direction.

as well as the presence of dark matter in orbits, could it not be the space-time curvature from the mass itself but from the encapsulating dark matter around it?

I no very little of this subject so I can only ponder and fantasize.
DNA evidence combines two of the worst characteristics:

1) Taken as if it's the gospel of God to establish guilt

2) Very easily stolen/taken from a person and planted to a crime scene. Perhaps not for something like DNA found in a pool of blood on a fight scene, or semen at a rape, etc, but anything involving e.g. hair, nails, and other easily obtained body scraps...

As someone from an area of the world that used to have a large "deep state", police routinely planting stuff, and so on, I hate this kind of "proof".

People from Latin America, Africa, certain places in Asia, East Europe, etc will probably identify.

But even in the US, I've read tons of such stories, where the police had it for this or that person and planted evidence. Doesn't even have to be corrupt police, they just might be "certain" that "this n...a did it" without actually having evidence.
Would these be solar powered, does anyone know? I should think a few solar cells on the roof would easily power a multi-ton loaded hovercraft.
I am working on something similar but from a slightly different direction. The project is mainly focusing on compiler infrastructure for now, but I have a reference interpreter I use for validation. The short term goal is to make it able to run the erlang `compile` module. https://github.com/hansihe/core_erlang
No, you're arguing as if every single act one can perform is the same, morally speaking. You're reaching 'an obviously false conclusion', because you start with a reasoning that I don't hold. I don't think every action is morally equivalent, yet that's the premise you use in order to attack my argument.
The price of a bigger Fallus
but how can you put a start and finish to something that is eternal and infinite?

god knows how many iteration of terrestrial universes we have gone through already.

alls I'm saying is we ask these questions like asking Google and expect clear cut answers when reality itself is uncertain, until it is observed.
Who said anything about a deity? My only point is that hubris and embarrassment play a huge role in holding back the evolution of human understanding.
A workflow I'd like to see: you write your code and ensure that it is functionally correct, all the tests pass. Then you go home and overnight, some ML/DL/NN whatever tool works on your code to find the best way to compile it (fastest binary that passes all tests). Repeat this every day for the duration of the project. At the end your artifacts are the source code, the shippable binary, and a model perfectly trained to produce the latter from the former. It's a shame that Itanic was too soon to take advantage of ML going mainstream.
Quantitative facilitation brings a qualitative change.

Even if you already have a justice department you don't trust, the abundance of tools that can be abused, can make the situation 10 times worse.
Interesting! Is it at all comparable to how Scandinavians can read each other’s languages but most have a hard time understanding the spoken languages?
I'm working on react-qml[1] to pursuit that exact goal: bringing React model to desktop UI development. Thought you might be interested. We're running this in production for over a year now and quite happy with that. Team's productivity improved a lot, mostly because of better tooling for desktop development:

- Write codes in ES6/7 or TypeScript (transpiling using babel).
So the syntax is exactly like what you're writing on the web (not React-like syntax)
- Bundling using webpack (with a sensible default, zero-configuration FTW)
- Use any front-end library (redux, lodash, rxjs, redux-observable etc.)
- Supports Hot Module Reloading (sub-second reloading)
- Supports react-devtools & redux-devtools (Time Travel Debugging possible)
- Super easy to test & debug in multiple platforms

The problem we're facing now is that it required both React & QML knowledge. In the new version, I'm working on completely new APIs to support developing desktop application using only React. Would love to hear your opinions on this approach.

[1]: https://github.com/longseespace/react-qml/tree/next/packages...
Munchery Folds, and These Local Businesses Are Paying the Price
That's not 'more relaxed' pronunciation, it's a set of different accents (not a phenomenon unique to English). People don't arbitrarily mix and match between them, and any particular accent preserves enough vowel distinctions to largely keep different words distinct. That's different from a learner using the wrong vowels randomly.

The underlying linguistic issue here is that when we're young our brain trains itself to classify speech sounds into categories based on the speech we hear around us -- so sound differences that matter in our native language(s) go in different buckets, but differences that don't matter in that language are ignored. That makes it harder to learn a different language later where the bucketing is different because our brains naturally ignore sound changes that should be significant, and need retraining.
> √74 = sec arctan sec arctan … √44.

He meant "sec arctan sec arctan … √74 = √44." (sent him a message)

Also why not just applying the power 0 (assuming numbers are different than 0) both sides. Would be a school-level operation and very likely the shortest.
> Every other release fails to compile on FreeBSD.

But in later message you also state:

> Our toolchain is actually GPL-free

It's obviously the conflict of the goals, where you, the way I understand it, can't complain that the GPL-based tools "don't always (in every release) perfectly (i.e. without any adjustments) work" on the platforms whose goal is to avoid the GPL.

You should be lucky that they indeed fix the issues when somebody submits the patches. But the other communities can't expect from the GPL contributors to do the very work for which the said non-GPL communities exist.

Or, in the words of my favourite Microsoft (i.e. non-GPL) developer:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110118-00

"Don’t just stand around saying somebody should do something: Be someone"
>So anyway, if they were doing a total DNA sequence, fakes would be a lot harder.

Wouldn't they be as easy as taking some hair from a person and dumping it to the crime scene to be collected?

Doesn't even have to be the police, someone wanting to frame them could do it trivially.
This practice has been going on for decades. And Oracle isn't close to be the only company.

But don't worry you shouldn't feel sympathy for enterprise companies as they are often just as bad as the vendors.
That's just what monopolies look like I think.

For them moving to another platform doesn't make sense because they wouldn't get the same reach/make enough to justify the time and effort put into their channel in the first place. So it's either they are on YouTube and complain of its faults, or they aren't anywhere and you don't hear about them.
Qt's QML is React with 1/3rd the bloat in terms of code
Via Wikipedia[0]

Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is thought
to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe,
and about a quarter of its total energy density.

(...)

Its presence is implied in a variety of astrophysical
observations, including gravitational effects that
cannot be explained unless more matter is present
than can be seen.

Also, since it will inevitably come up as it always does in threads about dark matter or dark energy , here is an article[1] and related[2] HN thread arguing the theoretical justifications behind the existence of dark matter, what is known or can be inferred about its properties and why chances are no one missed whatever simple solution you can think of, like "maybe it's just normal matter but they can't see it because it's far away" or "maybe it's just black holes" and why it's also not entirely hubris or ignorance on the part of the scientific community.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

[1]https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-the-real-reaso...

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18207276
Much more difficult. You need to do a break in, and more importantly, to create a convincing fake footage.
Low-carb vs. low-fat? Both led to –12lb loss after a year, regardless of genes
If these "holistic qualities" can't be detailed or measured, they may become merely a reflection of the interviewer's personal bias.

> On average, alumni give white and Asian American applicants similar ratings, but Harvard staff give whites substantially better reviews than they give Asian Americans.
It seems simply employees got the task of dealing with it. But not doing anything would seem bad, so ... they reply as if every new subthread would be a genuine "bug report".

Amazing instance of how not to do teh twitter if you are a corporation.
GitHub Spray: Draw on your GitHub Contribution Graph
And if I understand right, the reason is that the written language is more distinct from the spoken one(s) than in the west. Perhaps more like written mathematics, is this a terrible analogy? Russians write the same formulae with the exact same meaning, but say them over the phone completely differently.
that is quite chilling but not surprising from the US.

I wonder if this had impact on the drop in crime rates during the 90s.

Imagine a carefully targeted campaign against genetically disposed to violence and allergy to education. You can sterilize entire 'hoods bye putting guns, drugs and alcohol there and just wait for the environment to infect all others.

Like considering the overwhelming prison population in the US is black or latino, you can't help but wonder at some grand conspiracy that's aimed at sorting out the unfit from the normal.
different approaches ?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is correct.

Mandarin and Cantonese are regional dialects, Mandarin gained prominence because emperors from about the 1600s resided in Northern China and in Beijing which used a lot of Mandarin Chinese, thus it spread due to being a prestige language used by the royal family and their courtiers. Cantonese is prominent in certain areas of Southern China in the Guangdong and Guangxi provinces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese

Hong Kong and Taiwan uses Traditional Chinese, Mainland China and Singapore/Malaysian Chinese uses Simplified Chinese for their text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters

I personally find fangyan as a better descriptor than dialect:

http://dictionary.pinpinchinese.com/definitions/s/%E6%96%B9%...
Culture of ‘Bending Rules’ in India Challenges U.S. Drug Agency
"The Marvelous Stamps from El Dorado" by Robert Arthur. I first read it in maybe 7th grade, and I still remember.
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Some business require money to start, some don't. Starting some kinds of business look pretty much like getting a job. (But then, there are also certainly laws in place that put a few barriers on starting those last one.)
background connections !== polling loops

Many services use an open tcp connection (e.g. websocket) rather than polling. Mobile platforms are doing the same thing, just on a system level. I guess service workers are the closest web analogue.
I think 'lisper wasn't interested in a catalog of senses, but whether they're "going to lead them to new physics that we haven't discovered". Once you listed are less about physics/external world and more about internal status of the body.
Could you elaborate a bit on what went/goes wrong with wizzair? (We fly with them about once a year, and so far no problems.)
Basically, if you eat less, you lose weight
Gödel’s sentence comes to mind. Yes, it is not “practical” but it is undecidable.
"I don't know anyone who buys new softwares from Oracle."

I do - I doubt that there are many organisations licensing just the Oracle database these days - I suspect most of their sales are in the ERP/finance areas where there are relatively few competitors.

How many competitors are there for Hyperion FM/Planning?

Edit: Note that I'm definitely not defending Oracle, but the market for their products is quite complex and much wider than a relational database engine.
The feelings of trying out 'test commit or revert' with the FizzBuzz problem
I create a "Library" directory on my machines because of this, it's not a great fix at all but it makes it a little more sane.

With this I can also more easily sync my files across machines.
I found it immensely useful to speak English with my Thai tutor in the beginning when I was trying to get the pronunciation correct and train my ear to hear tones. When I listened to four different words that sounded the same to me but actually have different tones and meanings it would been totally baffling if my tutor did not point out the (to me) subtle tonal differences. I doubt I would have made much progress otherwise. After that, of course, force yourself to stay in the target language and not fall back to your native language.
The picture in this tweet is very timely and appropriate to this post.

https://mobile.twitter.com/effyzhangmy/status/10916881464487...
That's an interesting characterization, that people who don't agree with Oracle's approach to licensing are "Oracle Bashers"?

Do you feel that the surprise audit approach to license compliance is a good one?
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> Less than 1 percent of American adults today are proficient in a foreign language that they studied in a U.S. classroom.

Is this really as notable as the author suggests? Are there more people proficient in other subjects learned in the classroom? I don't think more than 1% of people from my classrooms are proficient in maths / chemistry / physics to a "fluent adult language" degree.
Amazon Is Abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificates Too
Whilst I may or may not feel sympathy for the companies themselves (although not everyone who uses Oracle software is an "enterprise" by any means), I can feel sympathy for the poor IT teams who would have to deal with a surprise audit from a vendor.
If you think this picture is photoshopped, it's not. Check out the video: http://v.ifeng.com/dyn/m/video/32078215/index.shtml
That utilization is an arbitrary metric is exactly my point! Why use any metric in a minimum wage regulation? The regulation should be “drivers should make a decent wage, that is they should get enough hours and enough pay for each hour”. That’s it.

How the different market actors are affected (whether it strengthens the incumbent) and how it affects congestion etc shouldn’t even be a concern! Road congestion is one thing. Competition is a separate thing. Minimum wages is a third thing. I don’t see any reason why regulation needs to consider any 2 at the same time. Predatory pricing is (often) illegal, congestion should mean raising congestion fees, min wages should be simple. Am I oversimplifying it?

If a $15 min wage was imposed in other parts of the market such as retail, who would care if WalMart was unfairly benefiting from it and would there be suggestions that regulation should be using a more complex metric so smaller retailers would be allowed to dodge the min wage requirement somewhat?
Honestly I thought they ditched the itanic a decade ago.
So, did after a decade did somebody get an way that is missing from the list?
Rough sleeping has been almost eradicated in Helsinki
I've decided to use it to host some artsy stuff as well. I don't know what will happen when I reach the 5GB total storage limit though. I'm not keen on paying a monthly fee for the rest of my life so my videos, including the older ones, stay available...