skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Chinese, I dont really understand the utility it brings to the table of people here criticizing Chinese government on issues like this NYT article. I dont see that it will make China a better place or bring new knowledge to the HN community. So I agree with the moderator's approach.

The reason being we (me included) are not subject experts on the issues.

>what’s the point of a community where I cannot freely express criticism of a government that takes a lot of risk by real journalists to put stories like this in front of the world.

The problem is you are probably not at a position to be able to differentiate whether this piece is by journalists taking risks and unveiling the truth or just a subtle propaganda to some degree. (And i'm very surprised by your confidence in Western media on issues related to China, yet most of HNers understand how inaccurate media are when dealing within their respective fields.)

I can go on and on about this topic. I also encourage you to talk to some Chinese around you who are first generation immigrants, rather than forming a China criticizing bubble here or somewhere else with other Westerners.
I don't care, dude. I'm not traveling to China. If I do, it's not to stay. But, really not even to visit. The place doesn't interest me.

It means less than Delaware to me. It means less than Wyoming. It means less than Alaska. It means less than the North Pole.

It's a world away, and I'm not interested in seeking conflict. I'm not interested in driving 30 minutes to deal with conflict at work. I'm not interested in conflict at the Taco Bell drive thru.

I'm not here to fight. I'm not here to fight with you. I'm not here to fight about another country. I'm not here fight over what people should do about some place I have absolute zero direct involvement in.

I'm not here to fight about places I do have direct involvement in. I'm not here to fight.

I don't care about your stance. I don't care about right or wrong. I don't care what you think. I don't care who you are.

I don't care.
He has a point though. You can imagine that all c code lives implicitly in an io monad and define evaluation the same way Haskell does. Then c becomes pure by your own criteria.

If you say that c is impure you have to admit that any program with the io monad also is. That is, any working Haskell program, even if Haskell allows you to write part of this program out of the io monad.
You are right, and I probably overstated the frequency of that particular form of agency to point out a worst-case-scenario. I likely should have stuck with the main message that for a variety of reasons, an agent who is showing you a house does not necessarily have your best interests at heart. Do you happen to know how common it is for current buyers to be represented by an agent who does owe them sole fiduciary responsibility?
> The problem with this is that the stakeholder might not understand what simple means. It happens here all the time.

"Do the simplest thing" means don't overengineer, not necessarily that the feature won't be complex. You only code up what helps fulfill that particular story's definition of "done."

As for complex features. when my stakeholder asks for some big complex change it's almost always decomposable into much simpler stories. Maybe those have to be hidden behind feature flags until the whole epic is done, but they're shippable individually. Doing that decomposition up front helps demonstrate the complexity to the stakeholder and takes some pressure off of me. It also makes them feel secure because they have more granular insight into progress; that they're not sending me off on some Lewis & Clark expedition.
Well, they are granting you a license to download the copyrighted content. That's the consideration you get in exchange for paying subscription fees. IANAL but it seems doubtful to me that copyright law on its own (without the anti-circumvention parts of the DMCA) could be twisted to produce criminal penalties for downloading licensed content in a non-streaming way given that it's legal to download it in a streaming way. And ToS violations are not criminal acts.
isn't all companies subject to the laws of their respective host countries? The narrative of "party rules all" is way too simplistic to form an argument. At least I would be curious to look for past events of how the party exerted influence on non-state-owned-enterprises.
Non-Compete Clauses Are Strangling Our Lowest Paid Workers
Avoiding overtraining is one reason to train with good heart rate monitor. In some days you must run much slower than other days because of stress, lack of sleep and rest. When you hit your upper limits, it's a sing to slow down.

Suddenly reduced HRV is another sign of overtrtraining. Good heart rate monitors (some Polar models with a strap) can do Orthostatic Test and give even more accurate information than heart rate.

https://www.polar.com/blog/heart-rate-variability-and-orthos...
Second this on the repetitive stress injuries. Strong breaststroke swimmers can have knee issues due to the lateral force on a joint that doesn't move laterally. For shoulders - rotary cuff injuries are incredibly common, especially since the muscles developed by swimming are far larger and stronger than the muscles which hold the joints in place.

20+ years after finishing my swimming career, I still have to deal with both of those repetitive injuries.
It's sadly low in combat due to the chaos and lack of time to engage properly. It's similar to the police. It's something like 18-20% direct hits. What people who have never been military or police may not realize is that when your body goes into fight/flight mode, you lose your fine motor skills for gross motor skills. This is a very real thing. Training can compensate for this to a degree, but doesn't remove it. As the Corps used to say: "The more your sweat in peacetime the less you bleed in war." Also a person falls to the lowest level of training they have received during an incident. If you have developed great muscle memory and train hard, you should do fairly well. So many things come into play: learning how the weapon operates normally, how to tap/rack/bang, clear malfunctions, magazine changes, weapons maintenance--all these play a role in how well troops do when the chips are down.
Yes, ":" appears a bit overloaded, though many of those cases are actually one and the same.

What would be more regular sample code? Do you mean just writing "find([ 1, 2, 3 ]) x: x > r" with explicit () and explicit variables? I agree that is easier to read, though the extreme terseness is also a feature..

Yes, everything can be one line, but in this case it would look a bit ugly:

def find(xs, fun): (for(xs) x, i: if fun(x): return i); return -1
How do you know it doesn't affect CentOS 7? Please provide a citation for your claim. :)
The author did mention that some urgent issues don't fit inside the sprint window and should be tackled immediately. I can only assume he meant hotfixes for bugs and things of that nature.
Cancer runs pretty deeply in my family, and I had read the same about breast cancer screenings years ago, re: false positives causing more harm than good, so it'd make sense to see the same trends for other cancers as well.
You must not have had many conversations about transit policy. Anecdotally, it's by far the majority view to treat the costs of car infrastructure as handed down from God for free, often in the same conversation as complaints about a given transit system making less revenue than its costs and thus failing to justify its existence.

Just because the dynamic implied by the article is irrational doesn't mean it isn't ubiquitous. Most people are horribly stricken with status quo bias, and the costs of car infrastructure and usage is one of the worst examples I've seen of special-casing costs and taking them for granted.
Whole week just for talking? Stopped reading after this.
Or, more succinctly,

map' = flip map''
map'' = flip map'
To circle back 80% of all hashpower is concentrated in 6 pools, 5 of which (>70%) are in the PRC. (https://news.bitcoin.com/chinese-mining-threatens-bitcoin/)
Yes. Our two biggest budget line items are defense and entitlements. Defense very much pays out the megacorps more than the poor. Entitlement spending favors the rich who tend to live longer. Also, social security and medicare are regressive taxes.
>The fact is that in all population centers cost increases closer to the center, many types of business and locations with shorter transit times to these desirable locations. In other words, the poor live furthest away from their jobs.

Jobs only attract people that can survive with the income it returns, meaning nobody is going to take a job from a poor person living in the opposite end of the city if living near the location costs more than what is being paid; meaning the proposed incentive still works because this poor person still gets the job over some other poor person living in a near-by city willing to commute from there.
With China, you mean the regime of Xi ( and some of the Chinese culture => foreigners are doomed to fail).

Don't put China on board with Xi like we ( Europe) should generalize America with Trump though. Even Chinese don't agree how it works now ( eg. 996ICU)

You mention Project Dragonfly, but have you ever considered that it could actually save lives? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18574181

Not everything is that black and white. I do have to agree, i have nothing against Chinese. But i have a big "problem" with China vs the rest and what they are doing now ( one road one belt).
If no one can claim you as a dependent the bottom 40-45% gets every single dime of that FICA tax back (through credits/etc.) on their tax return.
I think that there is a strange phenomenon of Whataboutism [0] that takes place in intellectual circles anytime that someone criticizes a group they are not a part of (country, religion, etc). We should be encouraging rational, respectful critiques of society to improve the world - be that in China, the US, wherever.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
So person 1, who made the assertion, gets a free pass on doing research, but person 2, who doesn't know the basis for the assertion is being lazy? Nope, no. This is shifting the blame.

That's the entirety of my problem with the term "sea lioning", even in the comic that spawned the phrase/meme we see this happening. Person makes a pretty wide and generalized statement about sea lions, and a sea lion politely asks for an explanation.

I suppose maybe I'm just not surprised to see how conveniently it gets ignored that the entire conceit begins with a completely unfounded position that can't very well exist in a vacuum.

The Sea Lion was right to demand an explanation.
Wikipedia talk pages are a perfect example of facts ignored and removed from articles to push an agenda. You can see how a narrative can be pushed with half-truths and selective editing. Same thing is happening in News, its agenda driven, not truth driven. Entertainment opinion pieces that pretends to be news. People are just bending the facts to support their personal politics.

If Wikipedia can't be factually accurate due to editors personal politics, how do you keep those personal politics out of a fact checker?
WiFi Password Hacker App for Mobile
What has Elon done or think he has done that is similar?
How does it track that unless you upload the file somewhere public?
How can a dollar taken from me by the government and given to a poor person generate a positive cash flow overall? Has no one taken economics 101 when they get to government that they cannot understand the broken windows policy that Baathist put forward?

Step 1. I earn money.

Step 2. The government makes fallacious claim using whatever economist dujour is will to prostate themselves to the political party in need of economic justification (no worries both parties here in America have them).

Step 3. The government taxes me based on this reason a dollar. I am negative a dollar that I may have spent on something.

Step 4. My dollar is used to pay the administrative and bureaucratic needs of the system, god bless them if they can do it for less than thirty cents (after healthcare, salaries, fringe benefits, building costs, etc.) my dollar is down to $0.70.

Step 4. The money is given to a person in the lower quartile who then spends the $0.70.

After this process, anyone is going to say with a straight face that there is an overall increase of 12% to my dollar that was taken from me?

What if I was going to save my dollars up to start a business, which could really create wealth, instead I have to save up longer to start it.

If the economists were honest with that statistic, they would admit it is not the percent increase but the turn around time to spend the money, or a pull forward to quickly juice the economy.

Examples of the government being spectacularly wrong about telling me why they need to listen to economists:

1. Cash for Clunkers, hurt the poor with a destruction of used cars, pulled forward purchases.

2. Stimulus 2, is shown to have no impact on the economy.

3. Trade Tariffs, supposedly to help protect industries, they just happen to be the industries that are rent seeking. Hurts the poor by increasing prices.

4. Minimum wage: started for racist reasons, still has a disparate racial impact.
Interviews Lead to a Diseased Brain:-)
Just a hopefully humorous personal anecdote.

I have been preparing and taking interviews for full stack the past few months with not much luck.

Head is filled with DP, palindromes, zigzagging binary trees and other perfectly useless stuff.

To a person with a hammer, the world's a nail, you know.

Today is my birthday.

Wife, a Chinese said will make a Fan Bing. Its a pancake that is flipped while cooking. Because its flipped, my luck will also flip and I will have good luck from today - so says my wife.

At this point the affected algo mind took over: flip once, ok. What if she ends up flipping two times? Then, back to bad luck!

So an odd number of flips is good, even number no good. So, told my wife to make sure its flipped odd number of times.

Will report back the results in a few days. Small sample size, I know, but something better than nothing....
Presumably you could have a redundant drive system for the combined stabilizer/elevator. The L-1011, for instance, had a safety record Boeing should be envious of.
Half of FICA is paid by the employer. And low earners actually pay negative federal taxes (Earned Income Tax Credit).
In our state, there is a well known realtor who has grown his practice using unethical methods. As one example, his agents routinely hang on to bids and don't present them to sellers within a reasonable time, using them to get buyers who have contracted with them to put in bids. ("You better put in a bid above asking - other people have put in bids"). This allows him to get the full commission instead of sharing it with other companies.
Apple cuts price of HomePod worldwide, now $299 at US Apple store
But they also refuse to consider charging for popular products that users would be happy to pay for, like Reader and Inbox. So there's more in play here than narrow bean-counting.
Spot on. Agile, scrum, standups are just tricks to enforce micromanagement and take agency away from engineers.
That's what it would take in this case as well, it's just that the manufacturer doesn't provide any.
I think it's a Silicon Valley[0] reference

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uMEE7eaaUA
Do you have references for those figures? I'm quite interested.

I'm especially interested in how those figures account for the feedback loop as the poor typically work for the wealthy, so I expect the gap in those figures is potentially larger.
How is it better than Pingendo?
I think the publishers strong-armed Amazon on this one. For a long time Hatchette would not allow Amazon to list its books unless they supported a price floor, and Amazon refused to comply. Eventually [1], Amazon crumbled, and now the prices are mandated across the board.

Your assessment (protecting non-Amazon booksellers, or Walmartization of the book market) is generous, and probably correct. My less generous assessment is that the publishers would prefer to completely kill off ebooks, lest authors notice that by employing a skilled editor they can just sell their books directly to customers for a fraction of what a book publisher charges, if they can live without the marketing spend and the addictive pull of advances on sales revenues.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/13/amazon-hachett...
You are right that it might be a particular problem from Denmark but I also see it is common to share the positiveness of EU across all States (like saying assuming quality health care is universal across EU) but single out negativities when convenient.

The use case pointed with Mississippi is one of those absurd edge cases. It would be more suitable to say you don't generalize the USA as a country full of pick trucks or people carrying concealed guns, even if that might be more common in some states and illegal/uncommon in others.
Effective rates. The child tax credit; 401k and other income deductions; the standard deduction, - it all adds up. Your tax can be much less than the minimum rate if you want. (of course this is about trade offs, if you don't otherwise want a kid the child tax credit isn't of much use)
Maybe you're right. I just like that joke.
Wouldn't SELinux disallow writing to the cgi folder, unless that attribute were explicitly set?
Unconstitutional? The carriers are private companies, I'm not sure what in the Constitution would apply. (I'd agree with "illegal" for the same reasons Ma Bell can't require that you use one of their phones on their phone lines, but that's just because lawmakers decided it should be illegal; they weren't constitutionally obligated to make it illegal.)
Fuck royalty. The whole idea is stupid. Actually, as far as that goes, fuck "celebrity worship" in general, royal or otherwise. IMO, too many people spend too much time worrying about what some "famous" twit is doing.
Lab Resource Management
Can someone give me suggestions what software to use for Lab resource management.We have a lot of equipment (test rigs) that are used shared between different groups and projects. The equipment can be used for just few minutes up to months.
The problem we face is that is almost impossible to plan when certain activities can start and end.
Especially due to constantly changing start of testing due delays (parts for testing not available at the agreed time, etc.)
We would need something that would daily update the timing based on the progress on a certain day.
Love this. I've got an old Pentium box I thought I was going to have to hack up the BIOS to get larger IDE disks working, but don't you know it the motherboard manufacturer (AOpen) still had the BIOS update files on their site and after updating I could boot 32 GB disks on a board that only claims to support up to 8 GB. I think the lesson is, at least check for BIOS updates before you throw in the towel :) Maybe not everyone needs to go as far as hacking ACPI tables in memory, but it sure sounds like fun.
I feel like the UK is there or close to it... the elite managed to fool half the population to vote for economic self-destruction (with a bus!), and hiding behind it is a future with less regulation, which means more chance for exploitation...
Nope. When it comes to tumors, doctors always play 'better safe than sorry', but the treatments available for cancer are so detrimental that it's going to do way more harm than good to receive treatment for something that was benign.

A little bit of information can be a dangerous thing.
Where would you say that Rust core folks stand, regarding usage/overusage of such patterns? Sugar for common unwrappings?

Appreciate the pragmatism =)
I can see the case that it might be harmful for the GDP, but how would less investment translate into a separate internet?
There are some releases which come with pre-built exes for e.g Windows: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/releases

I'd highly recommend you build it yourself though, which can be done rather easily with VS (2019) on Windows or CMake on Linux. On Windows just press build in release mode and you're done. More notes here: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent...

Then cd lobster && lobster samples/pythtree.lobster for example should run something. Or see here how to use from command line or from your fav editor: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aardappel/l...
I would be concerned that there’s some electrical reason why it’s detected intermittently, and that the extra 8GB could easily disappear while the system is running.
>Don't do sprints. Have a continuous backlog. Don't do overtime. Don't make estimates. Always do the simplest thing. Only ever do the most important thing, as defined by the stakeholder.

you just described doing agile wrong...

You're advocating for a version of agile lite, not agile.

Or alternative, agile is different to everyone you talk to and your agile isn't the same as someone elses agile.

Take your pick, but sprints, estimations, not only doing 1 thing/most important things are basic tenants of agile as most people see it.
As an MIT grad, I am pretty certain they used up the last penny of their last grant, so with ZTE near bankrupcy, and HUAWEI radioactive these last 9 months, this was a convenient time to make an announcement as the MIT PR director had nothing else to do and had free time on their hands ...
You can’t just pay for roads as a one time thing. You have to continuously pay for them.

Also, congestion pricing is less about revenue and more about discouraging demand (meter parking on the street is often the same).
This kind of word game in agile drives me crazy.

It’s like points aren’t hours, but if I estimate (er, forecast) how many hours it will take, its pretty easy to turn that into points, and vice versa.

I suppose it’s like one of those, “There is no word for it in English, but it essentially means...”
"I made the decision!" is not an argument, the ability to make decisions (e.g. I decided to run you over!) bear no weight if it goes against a better alternative rule for everyone else.
I buy ebooks for two reasons:

1) To give some money to the authors (I'd rather bitcoin them)

2) Because it is a reasonable format for books I'll read once from start to finish.

Searchability is baloney in most cases (index is better), and it's definitely not a better experience, even on paperwhite type technology -the only way any sane person should read an ebook other than quick lookups. I de-drm everything, because it's mine, so that's not a consideration.

Textbooks, ebooks are basically useless unless you're remote and have no other options (and in this case; koreader on rooted hardware). It's for novels, philosophy, history books which are for fun; that sort of thing.
shrug, someone made a poor choice when assigned the task of triaging the product returns. Should've used a database or some other sort of private index, this publicity looks bad.

> Tsla was always storing cars at 761 but not this many

Production is up, ergo returns are up.

The count of units returned is useless without normalizing it against the units produced. Of course, even with that it's likely a bad score for Tesla. There have been many public reports of poor quality product leaving the factory because of Tesla's challenges scaling up production. These returns are just the inevitable outcome from those earlier reports.
I mean the overall incidence of lung cancer is too low for this to be the case, even in smokers. It's around 5-6 percent.