skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sigh

Why do people feel the need to comment on subjects of which they are glaringly ignorant.

There are hundreds of Bitcoin wallets. They're extremely easy to use. Try one. I'll send you $20 worth of Bitcoin that I paid $2 for a few years ago. Hang on to it for a couple years, and it will be worth $200.

Bitcoin is literally going to save the world during the next economic crisis, and anybody with two functional neurons will have at least a little bit to prepare for that contingency.
There are show notes at the bottom of each slide.
It does say that the Qing committed genocide against the Dzungar Mongols. So that goes beyond "conquered".

But the aspect that's hard to keep in mind is how far back China's relationship with Xinjiang (and Tibet, for that matter) goes. Centuries. So this is not just some post-WWII thing. Like China just occupied Xinjiang, and they're oppressing the locals.

I mean, there's support (albeit fringe) among Mexicans and Mexican immigrants in the west and southwest for Reconquista. The argument that California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas ought to be part of Mexico.

There's also some Native American support for secession from the US. The Comanche, for example. And really, indigenous Mexicans are really just Native Americans. In Mexico and Guatemala, once you get away from large cities, especially up in the mountains, Spanish is a second language for the locals. They fled to the mountains during Spanish colonization, and they've been there ever since.

So the time frames for the colonization of the Americas by Europeans and China's interactions with Xinjiang overlapped considerably. And the many millions of Native American deaths could be considered, at least in part, genocide.

Really, the Chinese are managing Uyghurs a lot like Americans managed surviving Native Americans. And how Canadians have even more recently managed the Inuit. So I get how China might tell foreigners to fsck off.

Edit:

> If you're going to start talking about what things have been like in the region for centuries, this is kind of an embarrassing question to have to ask.

There are no "embarrassing questions".

> The name "Uyghur" goes back quite a long way, and originally refers to a Turkic group. Modern Uyghurs are only tenuously related to the ancient Uyghurs -- as noted, modern Uyghurs are visually distinct from the Chinese. Modern Uyghurs are a recent hybrid population between a Turkic group and a Caucasoid (Iranian?) group. Compare the Mongols, who do look like Chinese.

OK, so you argue that TFA is wrong about current Uyghurs being a "Turkic group".

I'm getting the feeling that there's some anti-Chinese propaganda at play here. Just as there was anti-Russian propaganda about the Ukraine. Not that either the Chinses or the Russians are beyond criticism.
The solution to the housing crisis is:

- Improved public transportation (bring more homes in commuting distance and you increase supply, which decreases cost)

- Better building codes so we can build up. The NIMBY landlords who insist on height caps are artificially decreasing housing supply so they make more money.

Let's not strawman tech jobs in place of poor public policy. Creative destruction built the modern economy and cities need to plan for growth.
I think people feel more comfortable in chat than a forum. People often feel hesitated to ask simple questions on forums thinking it's stupid. Plus forums take too long to reply.

It's often better to have both, I think.
> I don’t keep backups of my content

I think I see the biggest problem here.
Granting purchase access is similar to handing someone my bank statements every month. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that with friends let alone companies without a big guarantee of compliance and security. Mainly it's due to years of seeing data breaches at companies big and small (along with shady secondary business models). Again, this looks like a great service and is actually useful to me but if I'm passing over my info I want bank-level guarantees these days. Best of luck!
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This[1] is the paper they quote. The paper is pretty confused, mostly by their own fault. For example:

Recent evidence shows that whereas short-term memory for names and inverted faces peaks around the age of 22 years, neither short-term memory for faces nor quantity discrimination peaks until around the age of 30, a fact difficult to assimilate into the fluid-/crystalized-intelligence dichotomy (Germine, Duchaine, & Nakayama, 2011; Halberda, Ly, Wilmer, Naiman, & Germine, 2012). Whether face memory and
quantity discrimination are exceptions to the fluid/crystalized rule or represent more systematic and previously unrecognized patterns of age-related difference is an open question

First, there's no "fluid-/crystalized-intelligence dichotomy", since the two factors are highly correlated with each other, to the point where psychometricians prefer to derive the higher-order order factor, g.

Second, clearly the authors will be very confused by results like this if they don't actually calculate g-loadings, and at the very least correlate the vector of g-loadings with the vector of age declines.

Now compare the above paper with a paper studying basically same question, but using proper factor analysis[2]. In particular, if you're low on time or background, look at the graphs in Fig 2. Clearly, being able to separate g-loading from group factors and test-specific measurement error gives us much clearer picture of age-related decline.

[1] - https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/0956797614567339
[2] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637652/
JMS, the creator of this show, was way ahead of his time, and did some amazing tricks to get this show produced.

He drew heavily from technology culture, and found innovative ways to save money on production.

He was able to get consultation from the NASA JPL (and credited them), and he pioneered early CGI; season 1 supposedly built a rendering cluster out of 486 computers.

Another way this show was trailblazing was that it was the first network television show shot in 16:9.

You can read more about it on the Lurker's Guide[1] (That is a usenet reference), which contains excerpts from the newsgroups where he gave feedback to fans after each episode.

[1]: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/
Generally just the company's site, any other stuff they have posted publicly, news stories about them, etc. I rely mostly on my own personal impressions of the team and leadership. I have only worked for one public company and with that one I did also have a look at some financial returns, but I can't say it mattered terribly to me as long as they were not losing money.
FDA chief hands the WH his plan to restrict flavored e-cigs
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Some minerals only form when the reagent minerals are wet. So if they can identify these mineral it's a good indication that there was water.

As a home experiment, you can get some cement power (for home masonry) and put a small amount in two discardable plastic glasses. Then you mix one with a small amount of water and the other with a small amount of cooking oil [1]. After a while, you will get a hard rock in one glass and a horrible goo in the other. I'm not sure how geologically accurate this is, I hope it is somewhat similar. (Discard the plastic glasses after this.)

More details from an accurate source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars#Evidence_from_ro...

[1] Actually gasoline or kerosene is much more similar to liquid methane than cooking oil, but cooking oil is more safe, so please forgive the chemical inaccuracy.
Informations about car prices that attracted Amazon to invest in its production
Private water companies are definitely an option (for example, the San Jose Water Company provides the water utility for much of the city of San Jose). I've yet to hear of a non-government sewer though (outside of individual and small group septic)
> San Fransisco has a housing crisis BECAUSE of all the $150k jobs

More accurately because it has lots of $150k+ jobs (and growing numbers of them) and lots of jobs at or barely above local minimum wage.

Absent compulsion, there's no reason for any marginal increase in housing stock available on the market to serve the latter market when it can be directed to the former, even if that involves a delay (e.g., for remodeling.)

> The presence of wealth doesn't CAUSE poverty.

Yes, it does; the presence of concentrated wealth drives up costs, increasing CoL, producing poverty. Outside of the situation where the production possibilities curve doesn't actually suffice to provide reliable survival-sufficient food, clothing, and shelter for the population such that with equitable distribution people would not be dying of starvation or exposure except by choice not to avail themselves of what what accessible, essentially all poverty is a result of the presence of concentrated wealth, because resources are directed to serve the interests of those with wealth, which is, after all, fundamentally just he power to command the direction of resources.
The scientific reason you find that Momo picture so creepy
Semi-identical twins 'identified for only the second time'
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MVP = Embarrassing
If LIC doesn't want it then they should should deck over the Inwood rail yard and put it there instead. There's plenty of space to build the entire campus, as many residential buildings, parks, schools, and restaurants as are needed, and it's already within walking distance of some of the nicest places in the city.
Nobody seems to care...until the company literally runs out of money. The difference between a SaaS and a Lyft is that Lyft has huge operating expenses. Burn rate is order of magnitude higher.
Bitcoin is going to drive research into renewable (cheaper) energies faster than all of the G20 combined. The reason is simple: Mining profitability is measured in Hashes per Joule. Increasing hashes means bringing down the price of mining equipment, which is happening already, and it is reaching the limit of Moore's Law, meaning that the mining equipment will have a much longer lifetime, and the amount of energy it will burn in that lifetime will dwarf the cost of the chip. In effect, the "Hashes" in the above equation will become negligible - mining profit will be measured solely in Joules.

If miners want to remain competitive, their profit will be the difference between the bitcoin reward and the cost of their electricity. The mining reward is unpredictable, but the subsidy is going to decline over time. The clear path to increasing profitability then, is to reduce expenditure on energy!

Miners have an absolute requirement to invest in cheaper energies, because if they don't their competition will, and they will go out of business. Industrial mining is a race to see who can develop the cheapest, most abundant, lowest maintenance energy solutions.
Periodic table of Pokémon
Yes, that'd be the equivalent to this specific situation. Airbnb incentivizes that as well. I don't remember the exact details, but in an interview with one of the founders, he said they have a program for employees who host Airbnb guests.
> Secondary sales is existing shares changing hands, there's no dilution

Sorry for being unclear. I was positing an alternative mechanism, apart from dilution, through which the founders could have ended up with a small share of the company.
A BTC transaction arrives within minutes. For merchants, that's huge. Why wait 36-72 hours for your credit card sales to hit your bank account? Why pay 2% or more for the "privilege" of that clunky old system when you can use Bitcoin for free and offload the fees (.1 percent) to the consumer?

Watching you naysayers takes me back to the days when I used to try to get business colleagues to use e-mail, and they would be like, "But I have a fax machine. It works just fine."

Really they were just scared of this newfangled computer stuff, but the better tech wins out eventually every time.

It's funny to see so many so-called "techies" who are so incredibly ignorant of the most important technological advancement since the Internet itself. In fact, it's probably an even bigger deal than the Internet. lol
If you actually try and implement your ideas, or can successfully get other people to do the work of trying them for you, you're not an idea guy.
Do you have a better way of doing things? Because you formally prove that the code you write has no bugs? Give me a break. You are as bad as the rest of us. Maybe you haven't realized how bad you are, but that just means you have some learning to do.
Do You Do Security Due Diligence Before a Merger or Acquisition?
Good point. I was only looking at it from an engineering point of view, not legal. Although the strict liability doctrine is common for environmental offenses because it makes prosecution a lot easier * , it might not make sense to bankrupt PG&E for something they couldn't have actually prevented while still fulfilling their service mandate.

* Imagine a company spills 50,000 litres of oil into a river. You don't have to prove what happened or anyone's motivation for doing it, just that the oil was in the river and it came from their facility.
Can't talk about crazy Finnish declensions without inviting Estonians!

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Koer // sg ab, mata, //
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Edit: typo
Public archives is definitely on the Zulip roadmap; much of the preparatory backend work for supporting was merged last year.

One thing I'd be interested in feedback on is how folks would feel about an ugly/janky version? There's a few different versions we've talked about:

* Being able to use the main Zulip user experience, with "public user" data (no unreads, can't send messages, etc.). This would be best as an actual browsing experience.

* Having a totally new webpage that's mostly just HTML+CSS (better for search engines) similar to our digest emails.

Possibly we'll eventually do both, but I'd love feedback on which of these open source projects care about the most.

(In any case, it'd be configurable at the stream level, so you could have some but not other streams that are public in the organization be publicly archived; we already have the data model for doing that).
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Somebody tell the author about youtube-dl.
Taking the “User” Out of Design
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To color this even further, at UC Berkeley I had intro courses with 1,200 students.
We are using https://github.com/Canop/miaou to stay productive, loads fast, markdown support, replies, channels
(declensions)!
haven't read through, but two things

- forks is important to easily find out alternatives, when a project has been abandoned

- i like the overview, but it should be more prominent ... when was the last time the owner of this repo took interest in it ?
Simple to use != simple to implement.
There isn't one position in politics...

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A quick Google search says it's $2000/year. Don't know if that's accurate.
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I'd not call CDK an intuitive replacement for Cloudformation.
It is like, hey guys! we don't have a better solution to give them a common tool/language to provision their stack. So lets make it an object-oriented abstraction, at least give them auto-complete.
Here’s Everything That Just Went Down at Tesla
I don't either and I assume there aren't any. The thing I would recommend to anyone living off of Youtube revenue is to diversify so you're not left with nothing if your channel gets taken down or demonitized.
It's fairly hard to buy Bitcoin or ETH for fiat without uploading your passport and then subsequent transactions are logged on the public blockchain so it's not that bad for the regulators.
Tax rates and deductions have nothing to do these income and wage numbers.
> They have received a bank license recently so they are in process of becoming a full fledged bank.

Sounds great, and I hope TransferWise go down that route one day too. But it still doesn't mean your Revolut account is the same as a Lloyds one.