skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not Chinese and not a fan of the PRC, but you can't honestly believe all research from China is stolen. Assuming proper nutrition and exposure to education, there are intelligent and innovative people everywhere. Probabilistically speaking, with those assumptions, the larger the population, the more of that innovative potential they're likely to have.

Also, it's efficient to steal ideas. I assure you, given the opportunity, businesses in the US frequently steal ideas/IP as well, they're just more careful about it because there's more consequences. Why do you think so many IP lawsuits exist.

Furthermore, stealing or copying a successful process is in human nature for survival, heck, it's part of the foundations of evolution. Most people are only concerned when it's their ideas being stolen but not when they "borrow" others'.
Agree with all of this, especially:

> have a good integration/e2e testing set up early - mock tests ended up being very brittle for us.

Unfortunately microservices also can make good integration testing difficult when it comes to testing full e2e functionality. The results of testing e2e, by nature, rely on the sum of the services interacting with each other properly, thus creating testing dependencies between services that negate some of the advantages of having separated them in the first place.
I constantly feel like American workplace culture is evolving very fast in order to avoid people ever having to sit down like adults and have potentially difficult and stressful talks.

(Of course, "sitting down and talking" might be impossible, depending on the severity of the incident - but how are we to know in this case?)
The argument was not that they are different, but that they are more collectively minded and put less value in "individual freedom".
Totalitarianism seems an obviously bad thing wrt to individual freedom, but if that is not so important, it may not matter as much as we westerners think it should.
https://twitter.com/mrsjoeerl
Do you have any tips on finding a project manager whom you can videochat or email with and ask for help with the project of navigating the healthcare system?

(uk private in my case, though I imagine people in other places would benefit from wider answers.)
Opinions are not progress. Policy, spending, facilities, and service delivery would be, if we had any.
"fell by the wayside at the beginning of the AI winter"

I believe the various aspects of the Semantic Web are a continuation of symbolic AI. My two cents as a complete outsider on the topic.
"Self-censorship" is much scarier to me than the "traditional" censorship.

It's terrible when a government takes away your voice. But it's so much worse when people do it voluntarily to avoid the consequences.

(in this case, of course Leica is a business that doesn't want to lose a market with billions of people, but still... Leicas have been used for a hundred years to expose this type of nonsense, and now they're doing this...)
I wonder how increasing the forestation of the planet by 40% would affect the planet's average albedo, and by extension the solar thermal energy retention.
Likewise, is the water needed for 1.2 trillion trees calculated?
Essentially all non-toy real-world deployments of DNSSEC (perhaps outside of the DNSSEC root and TLD infrastructure itself) requires online signers, not just for basic operational reasons but because online signing is how defense against zone dumping (NSEC+"whitelies") works. So, yes, there are definitely servers that do online signing.

But then you're left wondering: why would we deploy a protocol that took profound tradeoffs to facilitate offline signing, when it turns out most of the real-world use cases were going to be online? If the protocol had been designed for online signers in the first place, it would be cleaner and more powerful in a bunch of different ways.

Instead, DNSSEC advocates propose that --- despite the fact that the industry has essentially not meaningfully deployed the protocol yet, after 25 years of standardization effort --- we just say "fuck it" and deploy this 90s protocol anyways. Something must be done! This is something!
Very interesting!

In case you hadn't noticed: the “ASCII video” has been archived by asciinema (whatever this means), meaning there's a dead link in the first paragraph of the Lumail home page.
"HN is here to pass judgement on whether a organization in our industry responded with an appropriate process when an accusation was made."

How can it be determined if judgment was appropriate with
absolutely no reference to the facts? That is like saying that we should be able to determine whether it was right or not to imprison a criminal without knowing what crime they committed!

Yes, the "noindex" is an issue, but this feels much bigger than just that.
We need to stop buying stuff we don't need, chucking food we didn't eat, and eating beef like there's no tomorrow.
The browser extension named Momentum is also useful for this.
Filters didn't catch it, though eventually this will be removed as well?
You assume rich people spend all their money. They don't. The accumulate, to buy more renting power to accumulate more. It's getting the economy more and more static.
Uses kernel 3.x and latest commit is dated 2014 though.
I believe there are more actively maintained mesh networking options in OpenWrt.
I don't think that's the right metric for assessing feasibility. Humans can do more than one thing at the same time.
A few of the things I do have the most impact: make sure I lift / exercise regularly, skip breakfast / cut food off at a certain time, and avoid drinking calories (stick to black coffee, no soda).
Here's the official party version of the story[1]:

Political turmoil in 1989:

"In the late 1980s, a wave of bourgeois liberalization was launched in the society. Liberalists promoted bourgeois democracy and freedom, carried out anti-Party and anti-socialist activities. Under this influence, in early April 1989, young students from some colleges and universities in Beijing carried out various forms of activities in response to real problems in the society. On April 15, the former General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Hu Yaobang passed away. The masses and young students held various forms of mourning activities. However, very few liberals used this opportunity to engage in anti-party and anti-socialist activities. Under their instigation, students from some universities in the capital and local areas flocked to the streets to hold demonstrations. Some unscrupulous elements in Xi'an and Changsha took the opportunity to fight, smash, rob, and burn. The student movement quickly developed into social unrest. On April 26, the People’s Daily published an editorial entitled “There must be a clear-cut against social unrest”, pointing out that this was a planned conspiracy. The essence of this movement was to fundamentally negate the party’s leadership and deny the socialist system.The editorial called on everyone to take urgent action and take resolute and effective measures to stop the unrest. However, the situation has not improved. On the evening of May 19, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to impose martial law in parts of the capital, but a few rioters incited some people to confront the martial law forces. At the same time, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places have also experienced serious incidents such as thugs hitting party and government organs and damaging transportation facilities. In this regard, the Party Central Committee, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission took decisive measures to calm the riots. This political storm has destroyed China’s normal social order, disrupted the normal economic construction process, and caused great losses to the party, the country and the people. The victory over social unrest and counter-revolutionary riots has consolidated the achievements of our country's socialist position and the decade of reform and opening up, and has also provided useful lessons for the party and the people."

[1] http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/33837/2535031.html
Honestly, the few times I've tried to bring it up with Chinese students at USA universities they have all been blasé about it. They have all been, "that's just the way it is."

That could be because they just don't want to talk about it. Or because they are mostly from rich families and so they really don't care. Or only kids from loyal families are allowed to go to school overseas.
Yes, I had forgotten about them too
It is not difficult but doing it without the right machinery requires back-breaking labor. It looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUzeruQT8xE I did it one full weekend and I was totally exhausted. Of course, there exists machines to do that, but then you can't have every person in the world chipping in.

But planting is just the first step. If you own a growing forest it needs to be culled periodically, meaning that you cut down the worst performing 10-20% of all trees.
Analyzing widely differing cultures and peoples under the unitary framework of “totalitarianism” isn’t terribly compelling either. The Chinese government has shown remarkable staying power, and it’s important to analyze the ways/reasons it might continue to hold power, since that seems to be a quite likely outcome.

The intuition that western liberal democracy is some sort of inevitable wave is very possibly just an artifact of the US winning WWII.
> I don't care how good your hiring practices are, there is zero chance you get 5000 devs using this stack correctly.

Google is able to pull it off. Obviously people make mistakes but there are systems and processes in place to take care of that. It actually does work pretty well.
For anyone interested in not lying with charts: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
FYI, planning a trip to a new country is a pretty Executive Function intensive task. As an immigrant and frequent traveler, I would say this could be a bit Hard Mode.
>A growing body of research has linked social media to religious and racial violence.

>Social media platforms build their businesses on sophisticated algorithms that serve up content that will keep users engaged. This favors posts that tap into negative, primal emotions like anger and fear, studies suggest.

I think governments, and researchers, are going to find that censoring social media doesn't have as large an effect as they imagine. Most of it is noise anyway. Buzz buzz.
CO₂ is a precious and much coveted resource in nature. It's predicted to become all sequestered under ground eventually, on a billion-year timescale (making it quite troublesome for life!).

More pressingly, when it comes to plant life RIGHT NOW, we're still dangerously close to CO₂ starvation levels. The current ~400 parts-per-million are a good deal healthier than the ~180 ppm we've had throughout Quaternary (which nearly killed off all plant life). But compared to ~4000 ppm during the Cambrian explosion, we're still in a dire CO₂ drought.

Interesting science tidbit: not all plant life is equipped to handle CO₂ equally well. To combat the "recent" CO₂ drought, some plants evolved a new photosynthesis pathway called C4 over the past ~5m years [0]. Only about 3% of flowering plant species use the C4 pathway (notably tropical grasslands), but these account for 23% of the carbon fixed (primary productivity) in the world.

OTOH, trees in the OP fall under the older "C3 pathway", which cannot make use of CO₂ nearly as efficiently, and as a consequence struggle the most in CO₂-impoverished climates [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation#The_evoluti...

[1] https://phys.org/news/2018-04-carbon-dioxide-boost-plantgrow...
That's not how it works at all. The point of growing the money supply is to match the growth of wealth in the society. The reason central banks have target levels for inflation is it's one way to ensure they're doing that correctly.
More likely this is motivated by Tokyo 2020. The trend in ceremonies these days is to tell the history of the country. It would be awkward for Japan's Olympic organizers to make a big show of Ainu being the first people on the islands while the government refuses to acknowledge them. And they couldn't well leave them out with the eyes of the world watching.
I've only seen glimpses of this great man from his conference talks on YouTube, but he came across as a very intelligent, relatable and humble person.

It's a great loss.
I would guess because this has a social media and business aspect to it rather than just pure politics.
How you parse and manage the inputs is significantly different between those types.

With NLP as one example, you need to determine when are you going to do tokenization? - aka break up the inputs into "tokens." So do you do this at ingest, in transit, at rest?

With CV you don't need to do tokenization at all (probably).

So the tools really come out of the use case and how/when you put them into the production chain.
How would that help the government achieve its goal of maintaining power, in any way?
This is one global-scale geoengineering project I can rally get behind. It has the smallest chance of catastrophic second-order effects of any of the several methods I've heard of.
You are mischaracterizing the top-level comment and presenting a false choice. Nowhere in the original comment did the author suggest that he/she wants someone else to make your choices for you. They simply pointed out a few common, well-understood failure modes of unfettered capitalism as implemented in much of the western world today, namely unaccounted negative externalities and markets that can't be characterized as efficient with any sort of straight face.

It's possible to honestly acknowledge these failures and speculate about possible solutions without being a socialist. But apparently it isn't possible to have this conversation without libertarians asking you if you're a communist for even thinking about possible limits to no-rules-at-all capitalism.
This is more about how politics affects the tech world, not politics for its own sake. Mueller investigation drama doesn't really have anything to do with tech.
Yeah, stuff like note-taking software, Doom remakes, video playback, etc. used to be such amazing features to me, but they just aren't relevant anymore now that I have a touch-screen phone in my pocket.

Just give me theming, the Rockbox media playback support we know and love, the DSP system, playlisting system, etc. and I'm good to go.
Who in 2019 is going to buy a CD...?
A coworker found a company that handles most of it, and they call when they're tasked with fixing something, he then figures out if he wants to pay them to fix it or what have you, or if he just wants to do it himself. He says it's basically paying for his rent. Of course it's all about researching the companies. Worse case you sell off the house. Totally worth looking into though.
Thanks for the Datomic link, didn't know of that database system :-)
It won't work without a central authority. See Soundcloud as an example. People tag their music with whatever they think will get them traffic. So, in order to do this you'll need a mass of volunteers which will lead to politics "XYZ should be classified as G! No it should be F!", "classifying ABC as DEF is racists/sexist/..." and other arguments. You'll also get people lobbying to have things removed (right to be forgotten, pornography, drug ad, prostitution ads, disparaging the government -China, -Thailand, etc..., etc...

I'm not saying it shouldn't be done but I think it will be way more work than expected and there will be all kinds of issues.
Sounds like a great investment, I'm paying several hundred a month unfortunately cause my market got cold. Might sell the property for a small profit if it keeps burning a hole in my pocket.
The same number of years passed (15) between the Game Boy (1989) and Nintendo DS (2004) as from the DS until now (2019). That surprised me, as the DS does not feel like the 'half way point'. Probably a lot to do with my age during these time periods, (10 years old is 1989) and how that affects the passage of time.
> I stated that what is described is not microservices.

You're sliding the definition of microservices over from the obvious one (many small services[1]), that's what's a 'No True Scotsman.'

With that said, I don't think you necessarily committed a fallacy, it's just a matter of phrasing. "You weren't doing microservices at all" is the fallacy, but the underlying message is sound: It's not enough to split a monolith into services, you also need to spend some time architecting the services to play well with each other.

But I think it's unhealthy to say "you didn't do multiservices" instead of "this issue isn't inherent to multiservices, you can overcome it," because the former sets up multiservices to be a silver bullet.

[1] We can expand this definition to how Fowler and the like define it and still run into 'split monolith' problems (dependency issues being the biggest in my mind).
There are two sets of facts in play:

1) Something happened between some people.

2) Something happened when an organization associated with them responded.

It is totally fine to discuss #2 without discussing #1. They are an organization, not an individual, and their quality of response should remain high regardless of the specifics of #1. The post judges the quality of their response to be unacceptable. That judgement is valid to consider and discuss without regard to the circumstances that causes their response to exist.
Ask HN: What short activities/projects have had the highest yield in your life?
Long projects can obviously have high returns, but what have you done in less than, say, 5-10 hours, that’s had an outsized (positive) impact in your life? Can be in terms of satisfaction, or something more pragmatic.

Couple examples for me:
- writing a blog post
- learning countries of the world and their locations
1) It's associated with hacktivist groups bordering on actually criminal.
2) As a British person, it's associated with Guy Fawkes, who was a terrorist.
Good news! That crash (RGB24ToARGBRow_SSSE3) is fixed in Firefox 67 Beta, which will be released on May 14:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539220
There are no tricks. Being healthy and slim is hard work. Hit the gym, run more, eat less.
Recognize what unmet needs your habits are grasping towards.

If you spend too much time on facebook, it could be because that is the lowest-effort way to keep up with friends you value. Message 4 of them and schedule a time for a phone call. Better yet, schedule a recurring phone call.
One thing I've thought about a lot when people like Joe pass away is that it's somewhat sad that they never are able to receive all the appreciation people give after they are gone.

In a parallel culture timeline it is easy to imagine the announcement of someone soon to die (when possible of course), and all these kind words of appreciation from strangers being passed on to the one dying. On the other hand, I guess that the time is better spent with close family, but regardless, I hope that he somewhat understood his importance to so many people all over the world.
Thats neat but I dislike that you need the original media to play it.

https://play0ad.com/ - this is a completely open source project being built.
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>As for risk of accidents - nuclear is responsible for less deaths per MWh produced than coal, including all the accidents (Chernobyl and Fukushima too).

Do you have a source on this?
What's the prior art here? Specifically,

- Support for thousands of related and unrelated codebases in the same repo, with a nuanced understanding of dependencies so that all "dirty" objects, and no others, are rebuilt/retested for each change.

- Hermetic builds to weed out undeclared dependencies.

- Support for remote build cache / remote build workers.

- Understanding of many unrelated languages.

I can't imagine GNU Make being reasonable in this kind of use case. What would you choose?
Buck and monorepo is a disaster (there). A bunch of people from Google forced that stuff down everyone's throat. Concerns and real life problems were simply discarded. Another solution in search of a problem. Not invented here at the extreme.
Other DataCamp employees did "sit down like adults" and talk about it.

https://dhavide.github.io/a-note-to-our-commuity-on-building...

http://third-bit.com/2019/04/15/an-exchange-with-datacamp.ht...

They got fired because of it.
Supposedly started as TuxKart 19 years ago.

Go Irrlicht Engine! It says their improved version is called Antarctica. I assume Antarctica is GPL-only? I could really use an enhanced Irrlicht for my program but copyleft is incompatible.
Another western corporation loses its spine in pursuit of profits. "Hey, sorry we mentioned that time you murdered thousands of your own citizens, it's totally a fake event. Please let us keep selling things in your country."

One day, maybe, this cowardly behavior will end.
I think everything you said could be true and you completely missed the point of my comment.

If I lived in a third world country, I'd be more astounded that there are places I could never work a day in my life and be fed, sheltered, have access to incredible healthcare (yes even in the US) and probably lead an intellectually satisfying (with free access to books, entertainment, computers, Internet and FOSS etc) life.

The fact that there are thousands of billionaires that have possessions and power beyond my comprehension as even a very well off American doesn't mean much. No more than the fact that there is a Pope or Presidents or professional athletes or any other demigod I will never be. It's just another modern form of feudalism that humans seem to be hardwired for.
I often do the same thing with more critical functionality. Though I'm not quite as thorough, usually calling it at iteration 2 or 3.
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A lot of marketing efforts in various forms are designed to subtly persuade you that owning a car is cool, that driving it is a pleasant experience, that it signals respect and social status. Even people who don’t need cars are influenced by that. Same techniques are used in real estate advertising.

Keep in mind that marketing also influences other people, including those whose opinions you value.

If PR/advertising/marketing became illegal tomorrow, people would still continue to spend most of their income on a place to live, food to eat, utilities, a car and their kids education.

Yes, and the commercial entities providing those services would have devised ways to influence you despite all those restrictions. Unless you’re talking about North Korea style society, where marketing is replaced by propaganda.
What kind of boats? Do you have a site?
I agree that discussing #1 beyond what is strictly required to be able to assess DC's response would qualify as derailing, however I respectfully disagree that "It is totally fine to discuss #2 without discussing #1".

I believe that, to assess the quality of the response, it is required to understand what was the level of severity of the event. How the event should be handled, and hence the response, is a function of the severity of the event.

Of course, if we view the response as being to a broader "climate of suspicion" surrounding DC, it can be assessed differently - but it still would require contextual information for assessment, specifically regarding what circumstances have created this climate of suspicion in the first place.

While some actions on DataCamp's part - specifically, the noindex tag - are definitely shady, it is difficult to understand whether their response (which seems to be mostly to attempt to reassure the data science community that they are listening and focused on being a positive actor in the community) is appropriate or not without understanding what they are responding to.