skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BESON, short for Binary Extended JSON. Beson library is similar to BSON format used in mongodb. The major difference between beson and bson is that beson allows primitive data to be encoded directly. Beson is designed to transfer or store data in a binary format, not specialized for database storage.
I worked with Polymer-based components ~2 years ago (an eternity in frontend-land), and I want to share my biggest pain point: you may want to integrate a `<cool-carousel>`, but it does not "look right" in your design (eg white website, but the carousel has a black background). If the author did not set up CSS variables, you have to either try overriding stuff, or fork it.
This problem is why every organization (eg GE with Predix or Electronic Arts) had to create their own components, so they can share the same "art style"/design.
Can you share your experience about that?
Yes nearly every country is in some sort of hybrid state. In Europe you have the UK with one foot in the empire, but other countries also mix in e.g inches for tv’s, car wheel sizes and so on. It’s almost not a measurement, it’s more like a size scale (you don’t measure your wheels in absolute terms but you know what 19” rims look like compared to 17”). Ironically we put mm sized tyres on these rims.

I think the US should try to switch one area at a time. Just like we will eventually measure Tv’s in metric (Australia does already I believe) the US could probably ease into metric by adding more and more areas that use it.
You tube music downloaded 3M times in a week
Wait, is that how shitty cabs are in the US?

In Germany, we have two types: Funkmietwagen (kinda "callable cabs") which can't pick up someone without being called and proper taxis which both get dispatched but can also wait at taxi ranks to pick people up (or pick someone up on their way somewhere when empty).

Neither of those would abandon someone they've been dispatched to and dispatcher estimations are usually pretty accurate.
I see your point but how is Dairy toxic exactly? Also, by that logic, we should also ban alcohol for example
Hey dosy, I apologize.. it wasn't your fault.. I was behind a firewall at work.
Web Components are an anti-pattern
> 0.1% the budget because they didn't have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to research and build the last 60 years of space technology

That sort of argument isn't very honest or reasonable. Would you believe it would make any sense to point out the centuries of R&D work and countless money spent on it prior to the creation of the US space program to insinuate that the US freeloaded its way into one of mankind's most important achievements?
Kona ev.
Thanks for teaching me a new Latin proverb. I like that very much.
Just learn a little bit is enough for you to start using and configuring Emacs.

However, when you want to do more advance configuration (e.g. write your own feature), you will need to learn more about Emacs lisp and Emacs’s API.
> and binary spyware in it "phones home" to its users' masters in Redmond

Not a problem, https://vscodium.com/
He's got an extremely valid point, and morale at Lyft IS low, largely because of the reason above. Definitely not arguing for the sake of arguing.
I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Kanji has aided in my study of the Japanese language in ways I couldn't fathom before trying to do so. I made it to N5-level proficiency [1] after a few semesters of study and only begrudgingly studied Kanji because it was required by the text. I hated it and really only wanted to speak and understand spoken Japanese.

Then I discovered Wanikani [2], a spaced repetition service that focuses on teaching Kanji reading. Unlike Anki decks, Kanji is literally the only thing Wanikani focuses on, but it does so incredibly well. With diligence it's even possible to learn all Joyo Kanji within about a year.

After taking Kanji seriously I began to understand the root meanings of the vocabulary I had known all along. It let me form associations I previously wasn't privy to and enabled a much faster uptake of new vocabulary. Instead of remembering why the syllables さいこう (saikou, pronounced "sigh co") means "best" or "utmost", I can simply recall the kanji: 最高. The character 最 means "most" and the character 高 means "tall". "most tall" = "utmost".

Japanese is extremely logical like this, as is their grammar. For fans of logic it's really top-notch.

If you're learning Japanese, please don't do yourself a disservice by skipping Kanji. A fully-integrated learning approach that includes reading will yield dividends in the long term.

[1] http://jlpt.jp/e/about/levelsummary.html
[2] https://www.wanikani.com/
>Do Japanese users actually expect names to be sorted phonetically?

Yes. Usually when there's a list of things you'd see subsections like あ (words that start with a vowel), か (words that start with "k" or "g"), さ (words that start with "s" or "z") and so on, and there's a specific order within each subsection.
It's coming up.

https://godotengine.org/article/abandoning-gles3-vulkan-and-...
i think so.
here is a wayback machine link to the previous blog post
https://web.archive.org/web/20190412000400/https://matrix.or...

it stated "Having fully flushed out the attacker [...]" which i guess turned out to be false :-/

also im getting invalid HTTPS certs on the blog now. for some reason im getting a cert that looks like its for github.com ?

edit: now im getting a lets encrypt cert on matrix.org, but a cloudflare SSL error page when i go to www.matrix.org ? the lets encrypt cert looks like it was just issued about an hour ago.

edit2: i guess both with and without www. are lets encrypt, but the with www. cert was issued back in february (and gives a cloudflare SSL error page), while without www. was issued today. (and gives the current hacked message)
China Eyes One Belt One Road Initiative to Expand Renewable Energy
Nope, no nonsense, but the issue has already been repeated in a bunch of comments here, so I don’t really need to any more.

> Fully ten percent

Citation needed. I’m sure it could be true, but it seems a high number for something that I’ve literally heard about for the first time today.
May be the Apple II of AI-driven robot arms
Should cannabis use should be treated any differently by societies or governments than alcohol use? I'm struggling to come up with any exceptions.
This is sensible. As long as the safety sensitive professions are exempt from the ban (as they are in this proposal,) this is good policy.
Surprised by the sheer number of naysayers on the thread. What is wrong with you people?

7th country to get that far in space, 4th to attempt to land, those are enormous achievements for a country that's has 2/3rds the population of New York (city, not state) and doesn't have a hundred billion dollars to burn in a dick-measuring contest. They'll launch another one and land next time.

If Israel knows anything, it's how to persevere.
OP here. Please note that this piece is a review of Daniel Immerwahr's book, "How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States".
A.I. Is Changing Insurance; Some technologies are better left in the laboratory
Holy crap, this has blown my mind.

I've always thought that "visualizing" something is a metaphor for "think about it" or "list the properties you know".

This explains so much, at least for me.

How I always skip the long visual descriptions in books since they add nothing to the story; there is no visual component to reading a book. Why meditation is nearly impossible unless I manage to think about nothing, which is extremely hard. How I can recognize faces but not describe them, even those close to me, other then a short list of features that stand out.

Or how I can recognize a smell, but I can't tell you what the smell of a hamburger is unless I actually have one in front of me. Why people describe dreams or memories like watching a movie, while it's more a combination of emotions, situation descriptions and something that feels like the echolocation of a bat. What some people mean when they can hear a person speak or have a discussion in their head.

It explains why it's so easy to recall emotions and factual information, but nearly impossible to recall anything else. Why my "now" is so strongly affected - emotions experienced in the current moment tend to influence the vague feelings of the past, as if it's always been that way. Why it's always been so difficult to work towards certain goals, unless they're divided up into sub goals that are so close as to be easily attainable. Anything further in the future is nearly incomprehensible. Why it's so easy for me to navigate through bad experiences, but not for others, because beyond needing to process the emotions, the rest will fade away like all other experiences.

Some of those might be because of something unrelated. But somehow, reading this article, has answered a ton of questions I didn't even know I had.

My mind is truly blown.

Though one aspect I don't have: If I think about a song I know well, I can play it in my mind. The experience is almost, but not completely, like hearing the song in reality. So at least there's that. And that also explains why music is so much more "real" then anything else to me.
I had similar experience living in Sweden, where the market is present but ride sharing has not quite penetrated yet. For the most part (90% of the time in my experience) the ride share driver wouldn’t try to pull anything like you describe. About 10% of the time I would have an experience very similar to what you describe. Every time I was able to continue the normal transaction, however, by being firm with the driver and insisting that they continue the ride. It’s an interesting power dynamic that reflects supply and demand though, because I noticed that if you’re calling the ride at a time where there aren’t going to be a whole lot of drivers, the driver was a lot more insistent and willing to fight back on the deal set by the rideshare company.
Thank you for the explanation.

It would probably be good if you made all that clear on the pricing page though (along with the extra cost I would actually incur).
Improvement on Python Algorithm for Hackerrank Encryption Challenge
If you want to dabble with prototyping games, Godot is the way to go in my opinion.

I've played with Unity and Unreal a bit, each with their own pros and cons, but for me Godot is the one I found most intuitive and easy to test new ideas with. Worth checking out.
I seem to be doing well and living nicely off mostly toxins, then.
Does a day go by when an article about some version of Google Is Evil doesn’t make it to the top of Hacker News? It’s ruining the site, imo.
You can hash the data at regular intervals to make sure it's intact. For example adding this command to crontab:

/usr/bin/md5sum --quiet -c md5sum.chk
Well, think of it this way: imagine that you were trying to help someone else hack the Australian Department of Defense. Should you face an investigation and trial for it or are you immune because you're not Australian?

The US might extradite you if Australia could make that case. Especially if it could be proven that you would receive a fair trial and no cruel or unusual punishment. That's what's happening here. The UK can still refuse to give him up if they don't make a good enough case.

For context on the issue of "fair trial": look at cases of worse charges than conspiracy to hack, like Maria Butina, for instance. She still received a proper trial and chance to defend herself against the evidence. Our legal system is broken in many ways, but mostly when it comes to racial or income inequality and local law enforcement. On the larger stage the rules for these things are pretty clear.

If you want to see some contrast take a look around at other large nation's justice system.
The word "woman" exists to describe a human female. Just as "bull" describes a male bovine and "hen" describes a female chicken.

If you want to stretch the term woman past the historical biological meaning, you can. But nobody else need participate in your re-imagination of terms.

Even with your stretched definition, however, you are still either a woman because of biology or a woman because you choose to live as one. Chelsea Manning was not born a female and was not "living as a woman" at the time of her arrest. Therefore, it is still unreasonable to claim that she has "always been a woman". At the time of her arrest, she lived as a man and she was biologically a man.
FWIW, it didn't work for me either.
Some like this, with some sort of diff checker, then take the diffs and commit them to decentralised storage + IPFS so they then have no territory.
I doubt AirBnB actually has a moat either, in practice. I think I'm using the right income - AirBnB's profit margin is something like 3.5% [0]. You don't need much of a moat to defend 3.5% profit margins. JP Morgan is sitting at around 30% [1] - that is the sort of margin that needs a bit of defense.

That aside, yeah, Uber has a negative moat; I don't see why the car drivers themselves couldn't band together to make a competing app if the mother company started to take a real cut.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbnb
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase
Apple and the Craftsmen
Key point: her algorithm was not actually used to create the image.

As a scientist, I think the shitty thing about these media hype stories is that it can create massive resentment in a reseaerch team when one person is suddenly made out to be a "historic figure".
I love that I can see a word I don't know and get good grasp of its meaning (you can somewhat do that in Latin languages if you have a good grasp of latin and greek roots, but not as reliably). However I still cannot read it since I don't know with any certainty how to pronounce it if I've never heard it before.

And in the old analog days, even if you're an expert with keys and stroke counts, it was still much faster to search a roman character word in a dictionary than a Japanese word you don't know the pronunciation of.
Yes, I think they would. Why do you have to bring gender into this?
:is()

can make concise CSS of some of what nesting does in Sass

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:is

there's a lot New coming into web all the time. I watch chrome status for drops.

https://www.chromestatus.com/features
I wasn't? They passed on my left side?
Yeah, the DOM the web layout engine isn't complicated at all ...

display: block;
display: inline;
display: run-in;
display: flow;
display: flow-root;
display: table;
display: flex;
display: grid;
display: ruby;
display: block flow;
display: inline table;
display: flex run-in;
display: list-item;
display: list-item block;
display: list-item inline;
display: list-item flow;
display: list-item flow-root;
display: list-item block flow;
display: list-item block flow-root;
display: flow list-item block;
display: table-row-group;
display: table-header-group;
display: table-footer-group;
display: table-row;
display: table-cell;
display: table-column-group;
display: table-column;
display: table-caption;
display: ruby-base;
display: ruby-text;
display: ruby-base-container;
display: ruby-text-container;
display: contents;
display: none;
display: inline-block;
display: inline-table;
display: inline-flex;
display: inline-grid;

Of course that's just CSS/the layout engine. The DOM itself is sort of unrelated. But to that effect, I'd like to mention two filesizes.

React 16.6.0 base library, minified: 6.21 kb

React 16.6.0 DOM integration, minified: 100.39 kb
> src / ui.ts
From TFA: "These examples are written in neutral pseudocode that should be adaptable to most any imperative language."

False. The examples are written in Go, a generally easy to read language. Maybe the author thought it is a funny joke. Low bar :)
Being a witness to history?
Breaking Down the Hacking Case Against Julian Assange
And Pakistan won't change because the camels wouldn't agree.

That's the story I heard, anyway. They were considering the change but then someone pointed out that the camel caravans continue through the night with the driver asleep on one of them and the camels know which side of the road they go on and if you tried to argue with them about it, well, they can be cantankerous, apparently.
Yeah, I work with some brilliant people, some of whom are women. But I would include them in people group, not create a women group. Congrats on missing the point and getting tunnel visioned
Given that cannabis is far less dangerous than alcohol, both to the person having cannabis and to those nearby them, I think it should be treated very differently indeed! Alcohol use is responsible for like 90,000 deaths per year in the USA and cannabis close to 0 (there may be some related car accidents, I don't know, but no direct deaths and far fewer related ones).

Cannabis should be far more acceptable to use in modern society than alcohol. Persons having cannabis are much less likely to cause violence than those with alcohol, and are much more likely to think calmly about ways to improve the world.

I can think of 1000s more reasons why cannabis should be treated differently than alcohol by our governments and societies!
It has secondhand smoke problems (like tobacco) which alcohol does not
>Most people I know hate taxis. Uber can nearly raise prices to parity with cabs.

If they are willing to let their ridership fall to just above cab ridership numbers? sure.

That's the biggest problem with the market; demand is elastic. Uber's major competitor for my transportation dollars isn't lyft; it's me going out and buying a honda and driving myself. If they charged taxi prices, I'd buy a honda, and I'd use the rideshare less than 5% of the time I use it now.
Leader of UK opposition says not to extradite Assange
I've read a lot of these types of articles, which are heavy on hand-wringing and light of suggestions that would actually help things.

I think the core problem is that under our current model of free-market capitalism, there really is no way to constrain what companies like Google and Facebook are doing. You can add on some additional privacy protections like Europe does, but it only goes so far, since the core model of these companies is to make products that people want and give them away in exchange for data. Google and the like will continue to get the data they want because people will keep giving it to them voluntarily.

Me personally, I don't want to give up my free gmail, or my free maps app. I was on a trip in Japan and Google Translate works amazingly well. Way better than a few years ago, and also free.

Even if I am uncomfortable with some of Google's practices, I'm not going to stop using their products.
Not sure what you expect. Apart from purely illegal content like CP, what's the reason not to use Reddit? For anything else Reddit is great for topic communities.
The drug test is pretty flawed since the fat solubility of THC metabolites makes it stay in your body exponentially longer than harder drugs.
Not sure why downvotes, its a fact google it.
> The next time I get caught trying to hack the government I'm going to try the "but it was for journalism" defense.

Shouldn't it if that access revealed information about war crimes? Or an artificial conflict that cost about 500.000 lives?

That should remain undisclosed because computer sabotage is bad? This is missing perspective left and right.
Russia has adopted the final version of new ‘Internet isolation’ legislation
It should definitely be treated as more benign than alcohol. Cannabis not only doesn't impair you as much as alcohol (e.g. balance and coordination), it's also much safer. The LD50 for alcohol is of the same order of magnitude as the amount you need to get blackout drunk. The LD50 for cannabis is orders of magnitude higher than the amount it takes to put you to bed.

The exception here is probably with edibles. It would be far easier to OD on marijuana by ingesting concentrated edibles than it would be to OD on alcohol by ingesting shots. The irony is that edibles are probably a safer way to ingest cannabis (e.g. compared to smoking the flowers) assuming you take a normal dose.
Jeff Bezos' annual shareholder letter
BananaPKG – Low Level Package Manager Linux
Hello guys!
If you have built your own GNU / Linux (Linux from Scratch) system and do not have a package manager.
Or if you need something lightweight and portable for virtually all Linux distributions ...
I'll introduce you to the Banana Package low-level package manager.
BananaPKG was written in Shell Bash, with it you can (Create, install, update, search) packages.

Packages have .mz extensions that are simple packaged packets and compressed with the TAR + XZ utility.

The project is Brazilian, all Portuguese speaking.
If you are a good translator, we could make the site in English;)
"bananapkg dot github dot io"
I understand how scientific research works. I'm on author on more than ten papers. I don't think it's silly to credit people properly.
I suppose the differences in psychoactivity might be relevant. Alcohol has generally a predictable intoxication curve while as marijuana can have quite variable effects at a given dosage. Basically, I might argue that marijuana’s “safe” dose is harder to quantify. However, that being said, they should perhaps be treated equally and certainly ought to be a no factor when it comes to employment screening for non safety sensitive positions.
In the instance of Predix (I peripherally worked on that during my time at GE) and likely EA and every other large Web Component ecosystem you're thinking of, that's desired behavior. The real want is a design system such that things look consistent, but as design systems are CSS only, they aren't smart enough for interactions that require JS. So then the need for a design system becomes a need for components of some kind that include the design. You're looking for components with more adaptable design, but that's just not the intention of these ecosystems. If done with that goal, yes CSS vars take you a little bit of the way, but I think we'll see more power coming to help out soon with Shadow Parts/Theme, CSS Modules, and Scoped Stylesheets. But really, just styling a background? If the component author just left the background: none, you could do whatever you wanted from the outside. It just takes planning - even without the Shadow DOM you still need to plan for proper themeing.
To the people responding with downvotes instead of counter-arguments: If you can't make an intellectual counter argument to something you disagree with you're responding with emotion and you need to reassess your position.
THC has many more delivery methods than smoking leaf.

Edibles. Tinctures. Vapes. Salves.

Your argument isn’t very informed.
Also a lot of countries have an advantage in space access over Israel: Israel prefers to launch on retrograde orbit flight paths so that any debris falls into the Mediterranean instead of on their neighbors to the east. I don't blame them for hitching a ride.
Focussed Workflows for Your Projects
The way the media handled Watergate was very different not because of the internet age of information, but because they weren’t trying to maintain their access to a vindictive, racist party that has abandoned all decorum and sent sitting Congressmen to “investigate” Facebook for not prioritizing Breitbart in its rankings.

There was no real information in the leaks, no crimes and certainly nothing as criminal as their theft, but that wasn’t the narrative the media wanted and so that wasn’t the narrative we got.

If anything, the internet is our only way out of this: we don’t have to buy their narrative. We could insist on legal conduct from political operatives. We can choose not to be manipulated.
It's interesting that there's no mention of sperm count.

I mean, given that the US government funded studies where state prisoners in Oregon and Washington sat on X-ray machines. After tracking the time course of sperm-count recovery, prisoners' testicles were typically removed. This was back in the 60s, in support of the space program.

https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/achre/commeet/meet8/...