skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why banning phones from schools is a backward step for education
If the US wants to counter China's Belt and Road Project, it should offer a suitable alternative instead of merely talking about how it's debt trap diplomacy.
"But it can be done if you're willing to trade some financial security for freedom"

Financial security IS freedom. If you have enough money, you can do pretty much whatever you want with your life.

"it's options trading to scalp enough for monthly expenses"

If you have anyone else to support besides yourself, and you are only making enough for monthly expenses intentionally, so you can enjoy your life in an exotic location, you are doing a complete disservice to those people.

One bad month or emergency, and they will suffer...and options trading? You might as well be gambling at a casino.
Those are different roles. I meant job levels when I said titles.
I remember having heard this same idea in the 80s
You see, this is the problem when logic is expounded using clever syllogisms.

First of all, If an empirical experiment expects me to only acknowledge something, then it will raise my suspicions higher for nefarious intentions of controlling what I should think or conclude. You laid out its intentions clearly here.

Second, you say talent pool will increase if opening this career for girls and at the same time say some boys aren't able to be pilots for lack of talent. Now combining these two, having more female women in this sector would benefit our economy. Tada!

You didn't consider the case where some women won't be pilots for lack of talent and with opening up of new generation of men to this sector, the talent pool expands just as much.

Look, here are one fact: The tech industry will do fine and surprise itself with high quality talent even without women in it. This is true had the industry been without men in it as well. It doesn't increase or decrease had one sex been not allowed. The economy doesn't benefit except for maybe by diversification and that too can be compensated by methods of reaching out to those spaces where only one class of people could have immensely benefited. So lets say sexual harassment apps. Most of them are made by men only teams in Google Play store and they get reviewed great! Lets say Periods and menstrual conscious exercises and diet. Men have designed great apps in this as well.

This in itself is not reason for discrimination of women or men either way. That is to say, neither women nor men should not be excluded by this reason.
Secure Bitcoin wallet over tor.
DataGrip is my #1 DB tool for my team for reasons like this.
Microsoft's store also includes Windows. A customer base that tends to attach a dollar value to operating systems probably has some potential for a business based on paid software.
That's a good point. I guess I'm looking at this from a UI / usability standpoint. I feel it is Mailchimp's job to speed up my email marketing-- that's the job I've hired it to do. If I just wanted to send email I would use a leaner service at a lower cost.

Mailchimp already filters out bad email addresses (nospam@gmail.com, etc.). Most addresses have a format like "sallysanders11" or "michael.smith." The chances of there being another user on the same domain are scarce and indeed at least on my mailing list, 70% of the people signed up are on Gmail.

There's no reason why a good piece of software should not be able to use a little bit of intelligence and ask me if I want to auto-correct my addresses-- within reason, of course.
>Because landlords operating in poor communities face more risks

>Since losses are rare, landlords typically realize the surplus risk charge as higher profits

The author of this study appears to be confused as to what risk is.

Behind a paywall unfortunately, so it's difficult to tell if he's just made two contradictory assumptions in his abstract or if there's something deeper going on.

I suspect slumlords actually yield higher profits because of basic supply and demand - slumlording is a market, after all, that most would find it distasteful to get in to (who wants to evict somebody who lost their job at walmart on to the streets?).

It's sort of like the "low salaries for teachers/charity workers" effect in reverse - there are certain kinds of work (or investments) that people can be proud of and certain kinds that they aren't.

"Risk" sounds more laudable than "there's a restricted supply of investors who are prepared to be assholes to protect their investments, though.
Hey, author of the post here... reframe does seem very similar conceptually (I wasn't aware of it, thanks for the link).

Another interesting parallel between the two is that I implement a "loop" mechanism as well. Essentially, if no actions are fired for a while, and APP_IDLE action is dispatched which just updates "appTime" in redux store. As a result any selectors that depend on time as an input will recompute. This allows for actions to be fired over time based on age of the data, etc.

Elm and others are very cool. I just think a pure JS solution is nice, since that's what the browser runs.
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The definitions are frustratingly vague. "Any customer data excluding sensitive personal data", which doesn't exclude stuff that isn't relevant to them, or things that don't fit in the API.

Also, it states that apps "not use an alternative to Shopify Checkout for web checkout or payment processing, or register any transactions through the Shopify API, without Shopify’s express written authorization".

That's from 2.3.17-18 of the api terms of use: https://www.shopify.com/legal/api-terms
could be. reminds me of the times when Twitter/Facebook and all others first acted like a platform to build upon and after watching some companies become successful these 'platforms' tightened data access for the the apps/clients and pushed them out of business
Wait, when you supply your data to vendors … do they own rights to that supplication, ergo the data?
Take a look at C++ AMP https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/parallel/amp/cpp-amp-cp.... It’s smooth as melted butter.
Homosexuality in giraffes and other non-human animals
I wonder why you still managed to use the term "loansharks" when trying to defend their quite obviously predatory business practices.

"Higher interest rates" doesn't even begin to define the exploitation of these people who are desperate for cash. The rates for these loans are on the order of 400%, which makes the comparison laughable.

It's almost like saying "the US national debt is $22 trillion, which is more than the average American makes in a year."
Isn't that how investing is supposed to work? More risk more profit?
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Rhymes with "quarterly stock reporting"
as someone in almost the same situation (about 50 instances), but chose to go with docker, I just want to say you made the right choice.

Of course a few years ago, being young and a one man ops team, I wanted to use the cool new thing and so did everyone else. I went with Ansible after being a Chef guy for a while due to ease of getting started. That was the easy part. Love Ansible, but it was slow to get new Docker functionality for a while, and not having the built in functionality of having Chef runs happening periodically without paying for Tower means I have to be more mindful and deliberate with keeping my infra in sync and up to date.

Enter Docker and months and months of headaches just to get something usable on the local workstation level. So much wasted time dealing with breaking changes and figuring out exactly which version to use and very rarely upgrading. Debugging and troubleshooting becomes an unintuitive nightmare. Even after all that, our site still ended up running really slow locally in Docker. This is because with apps (such as CMS) that handle many, many files, I/O slows wayyy down. Ended up discovering Dinghy (shout out to codekitchen) and got it to a decent state (but make sure developers don't accidentally install Docker for Mac as it is and always has been a CPU gobbling mess).

Then on top of that there is the container orchestration (consul-template), monitoring (Prometheus is cool, but takes a bit to understand what is needed to get the metrics you want), logging (fluentd is again, cool, but oh man is parsing logs a PITA to understand), debugging tools etc.

I can't even imagine what adding k8 on top of the many quirks of Docker would mean. I luckily took one look at needing a whole zookeeper cluster just to get started, and immediately gave up on that.
1. Many states is 4.

2. The Supreme Court has ruled that these laws are unconstitutional, so they are completely unenforceable.
You'll Soon Be Able to Buy and Redeem Golds Digitally via Google Pay
‘How to Find Simple Treasures in Complex Numbers’
Not possible in the current position, how can the US ( no offence) work together globally with the current leader.

He has some points ( eg. Military spending fot countries of the EU), but he's clearly unstable as a leader. I even think that the wall would just mean, a lot of money coming his way, as a real estate developer.
From the sound of it, the cost to acquire customers outside the app store ecosystem is significantly more expensive. Let's say it costs them x dollars. And gross profit per month is y dollars. The average customer stays for z months before churning. profit is thereby reduced by (y*z) - x. In the app store, x is somewhat reduced, but y is greatly reduced due to Apple's cut. At the same time, Apple has its own competing offering which it makes a first class citizen in the app store, violating policies it enforces on others. This further increases x, presumable to the point it doesn't make economic sense anymore. So they must then compete without the app store on an even more unlevel playing field where their x is much higher than Apple's x.
Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.
Stroustrup, Bjarne. The Design and Evolution of C++. pp. 207..
Clearly the solution is for Verizon to call their network "6G E"
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How Many Times Can Silicon Valley Be Wrong About Cars?
I'm a hobbyist woodworker and so I wear a half-mask with either a simple flat P3R filter [1] or a bigger A2P3R filter stack [2] a lot when doing that. When it's hot it is a bit annoying that sweat and moisture tends to condense in the mask. Another annoying thing is that these kind of masks tend to put pressure on the nasal bridge which gives you similar issues like a poorly adjusted pair of glasses. This is a larger problem with the filter stack because it is much heavier than the flat filters.

As for efficiency, I found a paper (DGUV IFA 0233) saying standard P3 particle filters are highly efficient even against ultrafine aerosol particles (particle diameter below 100 nm); for "larger" stuff (PM1 and larger) these are specified to remove more than 99.9 % of them.

This actually leads to P3 filters already removing a lot of smells, e.g. when you machine steel or wood, sand wood or grind steel, you don't smell it. However, gaseous stuff like solvents get through. That's what the A2 filter is for.

[1] https://asset.conrad.com/media10/isa/160267/c1/-/de/831230_A...

[2] https://assets.tooler.de/cimage/700x700/media/catalog/produc... [note: outer particle filter isn't installed in this picture, it would go under the translucent hood and is about the size of a Leibniz keks [3]

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Keks
This sentiment really, really bothers me. Yes, in reality humans are all sorts of weird, creepy, flawed, not super happy or good looking.

If this is what you risk when sharing on the internet, then maybe highly curated social media and the anxiety that it brings had it right all along.

We need more of this. More weirdness, more real human beings. If you don't like something, move along. Also, you never are the only one.
This is great and extremely interesting. I imagine me and you (and many others here on HN) fall in the spectrum were many of our interests converge so reading some of the things you wrote is in many ways a different take on my own interests and chances of finding something new of interest are quite high!
I agree, while meaningless in some rational sense it is still quite evocative.

My grandmother was born in the reign of Queen Victoria and while again, meaningless (she was an infant, in Australia, when the queen died) still has always made all that 19th century history feel more contemporary to me.
They’re a disaster when you consider the human suffering and impact on the biodiversity of the species currently living. It doesn’t matter if biodiversity ends up great over the next millennia if large portions (or all) of humanity die off and suffer during an adjustment period. People are concerned about the earth and environment but they’re also worried about humans because they’re humans too.

You’ve built a straw man and can’t understand why it burns so brightly.
Cross compilation and static binaries.
Also, manufacturing and charging li-io batteries for cars currently still produces more CO2 than petrol vehicles:

https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/lithium-bat...
The dangerous shifting cultural narratives around suicide
> ... are not maintained ...

Section 8 housing must be maintained to minimum standards which are well defined. If not, the renters can report the facilities for being deficient.
Actually, Peter Frankopan has recently written an even more relevant (though confusingly named) book, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World, which is precisely about China's Belt and Road initiative and the US (and EU's) lack of pace in keeping up with the scale of China's foreign infrastructure spend.
Another minor correction: Each base pair is one of 4 things, so 2 bits of information. Each base is half of a base pair so can really only claim 1 bit of information.

Of course even when you said base you did the math with # of base pairs, so it doesn't really matter.
This sort of thing is why I've started to wonder if employment rate is really all that meaningful as a general socioeconomic index. It is what it is, of course, but I'm not sure it's use as a proxy for well-being is really justified.
If you look really closely, and look at the right index, the development of homosapiens today is in a very dare situation. In gross industry out, which should be the true measure of national power, most major economis grow less than one percent even recession after deducting inflation. We human beings are at a historical low since the last industrial revolution. The reason is simple. We are no longer building amazing infrastructures in a large scale as we used to do.

However there's one exception, China. The gross output of China will soon be equivalent to the rest of the world combined. China consumes more cement and steel in five years than the US did in the last 100 years, and China has built more than half of the world's high-speed rails, in just 20 years. It's really a miracle.

That's why I think the BRI could be a real opportunity for many, where China tries to replicate its model of development to other countries through infrastructure building, and investment that those countries desperately need. The new silk road project will be the project of the century. For sure the Chinese will build influence upon it, even a new world order. Time to perfect your Mandarin skill!
Is there a public database of section 8 rentals/properties?
> However, by subsidizing a majority of the rent, the low income people will live there. The buildings are cheap to buy, are not maintained, boom, lots of profit for the landlords.

Also the tax laws of CA in particular actively discourage you from improving properties. Rent growth is effectively capped whereas property tax growth (a percentage of property price) is only capped as long as you do not perform major renovations.

That combination incentivizes renters to remain fixed ("I'll lose my years of rent control!") and property owners to do the bare minimum ("Why should I improve the property if it'll cost me more taxes and I can't charge more?").
How far down the rabbit hole must one be to not think that is monstrous?
Agreed. I feel modern tech could enable a style of government that combines central planning with fast cycles of democratic leadership selection, allowing a sort of "fail faster" approach to policy experimentation so-to-speak, but only when combined with a strong safety net to catch the people who fall through the mistakes.

But such a thing would probably require forming a new society from scratch. As you mentioned, the USA was the "Great Experiment" that many old-world royalists scoffed at. Maybe the time will come for another?
>An an interesting aside, these individuals are almost all involved with close-knit religious groups to which they contribute great deals of capital.

Before an edit, the above comment referred to "close-knit religious groups" surrounded by triple parentheses[0]. These are used by white supremacist and anti-Semitic posters to denote or refer to Jews. They are not, to my knowledge, an idiom commonly used in any other context.

If you're going to go there, "kjbfojbejib," remember that editing your post doesn't also edit people's memories. I assume you were just trying to be funny but that kind of humor is not welcome here. Nor is that kind of prejudice, if you were being sincere.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses
Objectively better? I don't think you can say that.

Objectively different, more complex, and intricate? Absolutely.
> "The seemingly innocuous move comes at a sensitive time for Europe and the European Union, where there is suddenly a great deal of trepidation not only about China, but about working out how Europe or the EU should adapt and react to a changing world," Prof Frankopan told the BBC.

Forgive my ignorance, but aren't many EU decisions required to be unanimous? So if China has close ties to Italy, could it use it's influence to convince Italy to "veto" hypothetical EU sanctions against Chinese human rights violations or other actions that are good for the EU but against Chinese domestic and foreign policy?
If risk is higher, wouldn't expenses also be higher? And wouldn't the higher expenses due to the risk offset the higher rent charged due to risk, so there wouldn't necessarily be much effect on profit?
I find it hilariously ironic that most commenters on this thread express their concern over China for their supposed attempt at "gaining control over foreign lands". As if Western nations haven't been involved in military campaigns in most of the middle east and now even Africa for decades now.
Centralised planning will beat democratised decision making if they indeed manage to respond in time to a changing environment. The advancements in tech and communication allows you today to be more effective than ever. Think about global corporations with offices around the world. They are effectively operating under a centralised model and they do it very well.

What China learnt in the past 4 decades was how to manage the beast, not behead the messenger and have an effective planning anchored in true market signals.

Another point worth mentioning is that the Four Tigers are working with a planning and investment horizon of 30-50 years. Since they don't have to justify every four years about what they've been up to, they can be more effective in chasing bigger investments that have a longer-term ROI such as research, education, strategic industrial branches.

Now how do you compete with that?
>There is no natural scenario when one's eyes would diverge

I like to look out a window at something distant, like a tree or car outside, then adjust my focus on the window pane itself (perhaps the little flecks of dust on it, or better yet one dot of paint on it).

That is a very natural scenario, and at least for me. super easy. I've done it for decades though, so maybe it's just natural for me, lol.

I can FEEL my eyes slightly squeezing to change shape (and thus change focus), and at this point it's simple muscle control, and it's fun.
Thanks for this. Do you think it would be different if it's an EU member state? i.e., with EU oversight (assuming there is any), the BRI funds and investments could be applied and used differently.
I have no idea about Philadelphia or the area "around NYC" that kjbfojbejib was talking about. But for NYC itself, here's the official landlord watchlist (ranked by number of violations and complaints) that was compiled by the public advocate's office: https://landlordwatchlist.com/landlords

Good resource for finding where not to rent, if you have the option.
Is this actually helpful? It seems like there are really two options here.

One is that you can have your own database of copyrighted works, let anyone submit one, and the law considers that sufficient. But then everyone has their own database that starts with nothing in it, none of them really ever have more than 1% of the total copyrighted works in them nor ever really catch anything, and uploading everything to everyone's database is completely intractable so nobody bothers.

The other is that having an incomplete database is insufficient, but having a complete database is still intractable because anyone else can at any time create a new copyrighted work that isn't in it. And then troll you with it because they know it isn't in any database but can have someone upload it to your site just so they can use the law to destroy you. No database will ever contain more than 1% of the total copyrighted works, because they're created by the millions every minute of every day.

So does pooling together like that actually buy you something? It doesn't seem to change the "are you screwed" calculus much one way or the other.
A first look at Microsoft’s new Chromium-powered Edge browser
Didn’t that just start happening?

Edit: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-cambridge-spin-out-graphene-co...
And I quote

"Time has always been part of my music. Consider the song “Got the Time”… Time has always been part of my life and it will never go away since it is a wonderful remembrance of my Pop-Pop. Sadly, everyone has the time on their phone today and timekeepers have shifted from a need to an extreme luxury."
I should be noted that the only way to keep budgets that low is if most people in front of and behind the camera work for free. This is in no way sustainable in a professional industry.
I use and like discord but pretty much everyone I know thinks the 'brand voice' is extremely annoying. It would be really nice to at least have the option of not being subjected to it during the 30 second loading splash screen every day.
I saw them on the Persistsnce if Time tour, opening for Maiden. Of course they had a giant clock on stage, probably influenced by the watches.

Speaking of ergonomics, why do they hunch over with eye loupes when inspection microscopes with over 12” of working distance are available? I have hand placed 01005 parts, so why don’t they use them for watch making?

If you have a proper hand rest under the inspection scope, you can do very fine movements while sitting upright.
On a more serious note, I do think it’s probably related to group identity (or described as “tribes” in popular media) that explains it.

A large project using their language of choice (Go in this instance) gives external validation that their tribe is growing, and thus having made the correct choice to join it.