skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great writeup. Save it for now. Will think about your points later because a little bit long.

HNers are most rational netizens as I know. However quite lot of us still believe misinformation about China unintentionally spread by Western journalists and some travellers with their simplified misinterpretation upon a huge complex topic. Sometimes those who look intelligent behave like superstitious cult believer that there’s no way to have discord discussion.
Your input is valuable. Maybe not always have correct source of information. For example you believe Chinese are less informed about individual liberty because they haven’t read books from George Orwell. On the contrarily some Chinese who still promote George Orwell’s books and open society meme are considered by other fellow Chinese as simple minded blind followers of old idea with their beliefs can not be bayersianly updated on new facts. Both groups are still very small educated portion of whole population that’s why you don’t know them. Most people are not aware of both groups but only care about daily life like all other societies over the world.

Anyway thank you for your idea.
If I'm understanding correctly, the suggestion is to run the migration by hand and handle issues as they arise. Not nearly as nice as an automated migration.
> why don't we use any software that comes out of east Asia?

I assume by "east Asia", you mean the People's Republic of China, and not, say, Japan or Korea.

And do you mean software that comes out of Chinese companies?

Certainly I use software developed in China, but usually by individual developers rather than a company.

But think about smart phone software - certainly there is plenty that comes out of China, Korea and Japan.
No it can't because there is no direct, empirical relationship between children born in neglectful or under-resourced households and medical illness in other children. You can mount an abstract argument that there are secondary or tertiary effects that increase e.g. crime, violence or what have you. But that kind of relationship is not nearly as tight nor as evident as the reduction in herd immunity effected by fewer children receiving vaccinations.

It's a difference of category, not degree.
They received $2B in revenue but spent close to $3B.
First, refusing to leave the reserved seat has happened, and more than once in China. Secondly, the punishment is not by the government, but by the train company.

When videos of people refusing to leave reserved seats went viral on the web, most people wanted them to be punished by not being able to take trains, at least for some period of time. So the punishment is actually a populist opinion, rather than designated by the government. The government didn't want to step in before the people's outcry.

So it's not a conspiracy of the government to "tame" the people. Perhaps you can say the people were "silly" to summon such rules unto themselves. Just like how the American people voted Trump onto the throne.
We will look into that. If it’s not some arcane format we will get it done ASAP.
From a narrow physical aspect, pretty much everyone peaks sometime in their 20s. Your brain is a physical organ and it declines along with the rest of your body. Like your eyesight, endurance, strength, etc. It's the inevitable biological aspect of aging.

But from a holistic wider view, you don't necessarily peak in your 20s as your gains in knowledge, experience and wisdom compensates for the decline in pure physical performance.
Does your employer allow you to reimburse these items without receipts?
Dude implies something about how he was dressed and acted. If someone in a 3 piece suit delivers your car, that's less insulting.
They specifically mention repositioning the logout button to make it more accessible. That sounds like a micro-optimization.
Whatever happened to kids not allowed to sign up until 13? The world moved too fast!
It sure is! Tell you what, I'm all on board for a massive awareness campaign by Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Netflix on the dangers of sugar intake as well.
Every car manufacture deals with fatality[0], this isn't about carelessness. Cars today are dangerous and the safety of a specific car shouldn't be judged by only two bad accidents.

[0] https://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatali...
Nietzsche Family Circus
Money attracts thieves. Especially combined with irreversible transactions and at least partial anonymity.
You wouldn't say something is free to watch for Netflix customers would you? The service is what you're paying for. Using the word free at all seems wrong here, and I am a native speaker.
Not high-speed trains, more like first class seats in the trains. Most of the people in the list refused to pay back debts, even though they got enough assets. If the people are actually too poor to pay, they should not be able to afford the first class seats anyway. That's the logic behind the rules.
This channel is full of nonsense, like "Best Remedy for Remove Bad Energies and Evil Eye"... Really?

I feel like this guy is a charlatan taking advantage of the gullible and superstitious. I know we're supposed to give people the benefit of the doubt, and assume people are acting in good faith, but I can't take anyone who calls himself Enlightened Life Guru seriously.
This is a classic example of Betteridge's law.

Edit: QED

>It seems that the question "When does intelligence peak?" is actually a rather meaningless question. Not only do our various cognitive functions peak at different times, but past a certain age it might make more sense to view adult intelligence not through the lens of youthful general processing speed and reasoning, but through the lens of expertise, wisdom, and purpose.
That's a very interesting insight.

Music editing has the same issues as well. Even in the short term - over the course of a day your ears can get tired of a specific set of sounds and you don't hear with 'fresh ears'.
I suppose I was being a bit confrontational there.

Insulation and air sealing makes a huge difference, especially in cold climates like where I live, where it often gets down to -25°C or colder in winter. I live in a basement with very old, leaky windows, so the floor never really warms up. When I'm at my computer I tend to not move much, and in that position there's poor blood flow to my hands. I turn up the electric heater when I need to (electricity is very expensive here), but I normally rely on the gas stove at the other end of the house.

I actually have no problem being outside when it's cold, and even prefer it over summer. The difference is that I don't stand in one position when I'm outside. When I'm outside I'm shovelling snow, turning a wrench, or walking.
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Your list seems long and repetitive, until you compare it to the set of dogs that currently exist.
All I will say is I like their current reboot of office365 Outlook webmail
Basically, you know lots of shortcuts.
Are Small Cities the Smartest?
I'm really torn here between React Native and just building a PWA.

I'm building a tool for managing your reading across devices. IT basically allows you to suspend and resume your reading easily and supports caching web pages offline and reading them like you would a PDF.

https://getpolarized.io/

Right now I'm torn between a PWA and React Native.

Our PWA code is React, just not react native.

Being a PWA means I don't have to deal with React Native issues and I can keep the same code across my entire app.

The changes that Microsoft has made to their app store to support PWAs are really nice.

Additionally Google has their new 'custom web view' that allows you to compile a PWA into an Android App.

Part of the whole thing with the app store is being discoverable.

You might be a PWA but people are taught to go to the app store to find new apps to install.

However, with React Native I think you would have to do a bit more work but your app would look better on that platform.

Has anyone had to make this decision lately? Would love to hear your feedback.
Lab grown diamond... brand new Tesla... lab grown diamond... brand new Tesla...

I'd go with the car, personally.
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As I mentioned, "guy" wasn't the problem. But while everybody's so torqued about the word "guy" I'll take the opportunity for a gedankenexperiment. A poll among straight men, where the questions "is the word 'guy' gender neutral" and "how many guys have you slept with" are asked in random order, followed by "how many men have you slept with."

Because for all people pounce to excuse "guy" as gender neutral, this article only composes that with "he/him," which actually aren't gender neutral pronouns. Counterexamples to the "gender neutral" claim are far to easy to come by.
> their price is entirely about what people are willing to pay and not at all connected to the cost of production

You have a source on that?
It is not that simple.

While premature optimization is definitely a problem, In my experience not handling it correctly before the app is in prod usually results in having to fix logical bugs , refactor for performance and add new features users are clamouring for at the same time.

We don't get lot of chances with users to say you will eventually fix these issues for them, you will simply loose them .

As all things there has to be a balance between both ends
Martial Arts. Any decent school you go to will probably have men and women of all ages, sizes, races and social backgrounds. Many schools will also do "community events" which provide opportunities for families to get involved more.
Or the implementation of an actual new and good idea was interrupted by the arrival of a new CTO that stops the presses and convinces the funding company their "new direction" is the way to go, leaving the better plan on in the trash, unlikely to be resurrected until the CTO's plan fails, years from now, or the knowledgeable staff goes off and starts their own company.
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I wouldn’t buy any diamond.
You might want to take a look at the books by Timothy Masters. Though i have not looked at his Deep Learning books, his earlier NN books were full of practical advice on the various models/architectures and how to map them to real-world problems.
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Drones help scientists count koalas in Australia
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It's almost never self-contained. At the most basic level, if you don't know the language, writing is just meaningless scribbles. Scales and chords have no particular meaning by themselves. Associating a major scale with happiness and minor with sadness is something you learn.
Most redesigns have a goal. More ads, more cross-selling, better engagement are common metrics. Redesigns are very rarely done just to make a site "look better", they're done with some other goal in mind.
I.e. Lord of the Flies
Don't see any reason whatsoever to pay more than a fiver for a shiny rock. As in $5, not 5K.
Pydis: Redis clone in Python 3 to make points about performance
I just bought a bunch of these; how can you tell?
What I'm saying is that <5% of revenues on technical infrastructure for a technology company at Lyft's stage doesn't seem that crazy to me.

I agree that it would be a serious undertaking to move off AWS today. But it's probably also going to provide marginal benefit. No one on the finance side of their business is probably losing sleep over it. If/once it makes sense to move off then the finance dept will tell the eng dept they need to reign in infrastructure cost...and eng will do that.
Certain holidays like Christmas have double the limit, and you can always buy a garbage tag for a few dollars to put on any extra bags. Or just bring it to the landfill, which is located right in the city. Dumping doesn't seem to be a problem.

The majority of our trash is plastic bags (milk, grocery, cereal, etc.), which aren't recyclable. And those don't take up much room at all.
I was a bit of that mindset until I worked close to a team that worked on such a redesign for a consumer product with hundreds of millions of users.

The really amazing thing to me was that even though the redesign didn't add any new functionality, and there weren't really any glaring usability problems with the previous one, users would still blog about some cool "new feature of the redesign" that had in fact been in product for years.

Basically, changing the skin of the product caused users to poke about and try new things.

Now the flip side of this is the design upset their routines, and there was certainly an element of that, but it was managed ok by giving people the option to switch back to the old design for a while.

On the whole, the redesign caused increased feature awareness and usage, which definitely wouldn't have been my guess going in.
Israel is actually constantly debated on US news. Yet Israel doesn't indoctrinate Palestinians in giant reeducation camps, doesn't control their speech, and doesn't arrest family for doings of family members, nor punishes for having faith in Islam. China is a mindless, heartless machine. Comparisons to Israel are silly.
Value creation, they're fixing/entertaining the customer.
It just doesn't work like that in the UK, even FAANG pay peanuts because they can get away with it.
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Yeah. It's a bit of column A and a bit of column B.
Like many I always thought I wouldn't buy a diamond, I saw no reason to buy what was basically just a rock (to me), but when I proposed to my girlfriend, since the ring didn't have a diamond, she said no.
This is an excellent article with a lot of original research instead of the typical security guides that I see that are pretty much copy paste jobs (look up anything about Apache HTTPD for a very good example of that).

A couple of things about Linux security that really hinder ppl / I don’t think are promoted enough:

- People forget to secure VIM. Even if you’ve secured everything, very easy to use the built in mini-shell in VIM to move to the actual shell.

- Look at / focus on your SSH key fingerprints. These things matter. I didn’t pay attention to these things nearly as much as I should have the first two years of my career, but it’s so easy to just intercept your request, grab your private key, and then just pass you on to your regular server without you even knowing.

- Please please secure your web servers. The default configuration can be very difficult to argue is secure, e.g. the fact that every web server reveals out of the box the exact semver of the Apache/Nginx or the lack of automatic HTTPS redirection that would be useful for 90% of modern deployments. Check out Caddy which helps with some of this.
> But in this case the parts are poorly documented or require lots of manual work to get the most out of them, or the documentation is only given to some people, and the interplay between these parts and other parts is unclear.

Then I would tell you to quit doing business with such companies. There are lots of companies that are quite happy to give you information (I would cite TI, for example).

If you don't like these kinds of policies, then, for example, do your work on a Beaglebone (TI, with almost everything documented) instead of an RPi (Broadcom, good luck with that).

Now, I will say that sometimes documentation is just terrible. But, sadly, even big customers can't always avoid that.
I am not asking for more regulation. Regulation often creates barrier to entry for the little guys. Good luck.
The smartest people on the "other side" might not even be people you want to listen to. Are they arguing in good faith? Are they subject to conflicts of interest? Do they represent a special interest, or an ideology?

Then, for some, you are dealing with an "other side" that represents an existential threat. Do you listen to seemingly-rational statements from someone who, at turns, has suggested it would be better for you or people like you to starve, or be killed, or be thrown in jail? If character speaks to the intention of an act, can an act that seems righteous still be trusted?

Do you see how this can become complicated very quickly?
Seconding PC, it’s fantastic.
We should stop posting links to article posts that block and require payment. I have no idea why no one else has mentioned this.
First-ever video shows a tarantula eating an opossum
Webauthn is pretty popular these days, and there’s little built in terms of ecosystem.

I’m sure there’s plenty of opporunities for modules. One silly example: I bet everyone in the world has uint64 for user ids... webauthn wants a byte array... good luck with that.

If you end up doing anything in the space please lmk, we want to highlight it!
This is very nice! Allow me to make a post about it :)
Manufacturers need an easier way to sell and ship directly to the end customer, without Amazon in-between. That, combined with an unbiased 'directory' site that has legitimate customer reviews will be the end of Amazon and counterfeiting.
I wonder if that would play out the same now. That was a long time ago.
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Those were the days!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving
> Wouldn't it be better to have a simple program that inputs regex and outputs a DFA than one that handles the entire lexing process?

Like... re2c?
What’s the name of your app again?
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Backups...
I have been seeing these links for CVD diamond for almost 10 years now, and yet I still can't buy a CVD diamond in any store.

I wonder why that is?
The principle of explosion is hiding in x = x itself!

The complexity of the task is O(1) to O(∞) !!!
Damn seriously? I know you're not looking for unsolicited relationship advice, but that's a bit of a red flag...
> Visual design quality does have an impact.

A negative one, based on what you quote:

"This aesthetic-usability effect can mask UI problems and can prevent issue discovery during usability testing."

Which seems to be saying that the uglier you make your UI, the better your chances of having actual usability issues surface.
Is that just for the sake of having it alongside your other financial info for the year? I thought the tax filing itself just needed the total
This doesn't sit well with me.

As a community we're wanting to increase and change what the common persons expectation and perception of privacy is for our societies benefit.

On the other side of the spectrum we have parents who are using their children as a profit centre through advertising.
The History of the Vocoder – Putting It Into Words
I would like to think even a 13yo is smart enough to make anonymous account to bully the teacher with.
Environmental constraints (like width, height) are not bad. I would have argued Mr. Stuart.
If that entails working on OSS tasks on your personal time at the expense of spending time w/ family/friends (because you can't justify spending company time on it to your boss), I'd say a lot of people would choose to not "benefit society" / pamper demanding freeloaders / whatever you wanna call it.
PROTIP: The downvoters were onto something; I'm just butchering an old Oscar Wilde line and applying it to an ambiguous headline I found dark humor in. The trash-tier comment you're replying to has nothing to do with Tesla.
I wouldn't pay $32 for a lab-grown diamond... or any diamond
If it were not for the reactive trends, would there be much benefit in ordering the elements periodically?
Could you provide some link to the project?
> Holocaust denial isn't victimless.

I never mentioned holocaust denial... but let's go with that. So long as it never happens again, it's victimless. And because it's not going to happen again (nobody of consequence in any position of authority over govt, the media, or academia is a holocaust denier). Antisemitism certainly has victims, but in any case that's not the same thing as holocaust denialism.

> In fact, I would argue it's far more dangerous than these vaccine hoaxes.

Are you unaware that children have been dying of measles in ever greater numbers in the developed world due to the anti-vaccine movement? You certainly must be because some hypothetical danger that might occur in the future can't compare to children dying today.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/21/measles-cases-...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/national-today-newslette...

https://www.livescience.com/64523-anti-vaccine-movement-top-...
Of course not. I’d rather it be used for some useful scientific purpose rather than a gaudy jewel. Young couples have way better things to save their money for, like a down payment on a house, or child care, or a college fund. My wife and I got matching tungsten carbide rings that look way cooler than any diamond, and we spent less than $600 on the pair.