skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taiwanese people I know don’t believe this, and my impression is that the Taiwanese government’s continuing claim over China is mostly a matter of historical inertia and symbolism rather than a serious practical goal.

But many mainland Chinese do, and the government spends considerable effort cajoling/bullying the rest of the world to not recognize Taiwanese sovereignty. From what I can tell there is a real threat China might sometime attempt military conquest.
Special projects also often get handed to a consulting company and not to in-house staff
For just 10% of its military budget USA could have 71 of these running.

(I know, I know, of course, US labor is more costly than the Chinese).
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It seems like most flat cities (and even some hilly ones) in Europe have successful city bike programs running, no?
> Computers are capable of using mice.

Not all of them. The iPad is a computer and it doesn’t support mice. To be less flippant, neither did a lot of computers prior to the original Macintosh, but they were certainly computers that were capable of real, professional work. Even today, many programmers still favor text editors like vi and emacs for which the mouse is an afterthought if it’s supported at all. You don’t need a mouse to make a computer.

> In fact, Even a WinCE box sitting inside a touchscreen ATM will support a mouse if you can hook one up to it.

If WinCE is your example of “advanced technology”, I think we’re done here.

Almost all technology becomes obsolete eventually. I’m not saying that’s happened to the mouse (in fact, rumors suggest that the next version of iOS will support mice), but I also think you’re failing to acknowledge that progress sometimes means removing vestigial features. I don’t see too many people complaining that it’s hard to find floppy disks these days. You don’t have to buy the pencil. It’s a value-add. You can use your fingers. You know, the world’s most natural, intuitive, and (in almost all cases) inexpensive pointing devices. On touch-screen devices, they’re a pretty good substitute for a mouse in the same way that a USB drive is a pretty good substitute for a floppy disk.

I don’t really understand why you’re so concerned with marketing copy. My guess is that you just don’t like Apple and nothing will convince you that you’re wrong. But you are. The iPad is a computer. A pretty powerful one too. That fact that it doesn’t adopt the 40-year-old WIMP-based user interface scheme doesn’t mean much.
Good luck!.. I've referred two people to Lambda who start later next month. They're both excited to start and I'm looking forward to hearing how their experience is before I go all-out and refer more people - it's a program that has a structure and philosophy that I can easily agree with.
Where do you expect tech workers to sell their RSUs?
Whoops! That was my fault. I sent a repost invite without noticing that the link was broken.

The article is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170919110036/http://archive.or...
GP didn't suggest "Handing out throwaway projects", you did: I think you misparsed their comment.

You ask the intern to do work that you want them to succeed at and you think they will succeed at: like the example given.
I think Sonic Youth won't stand the test of time, like a few other bands, because they weren't very good. They were basically 'abstract art in sound' - and essentially their sound was 'breaking moulds'. It was very different, hyper alt. But it wasn't necessarily, in and of itself, very great.

So, Sonic Youth 'works' in the culture of the late 1980's and early 1990's. But it doesn't work beyond that.

Very timely, but not timeless.

So Van Halen, kind of the opposite of Sonic Youth ... I was never a fan but dragged to see them live a few years ago - it was monumental. A sound created to fill a stadium, just 4 dudes and not a lot of fuss/electronics or gear. A clean big sound from just them playing. A little like Chilli Peppers in terms of 'just four guys without much else'. Ironically I only ever saw them with Pixies opening.
No, Hong Kong should lead the way.
People are responding angrily to your comment about running a red light. That’s understandable as it can be extremely dangerous for everyone involved.

There is however a good rule I heard was in use somewhere: Cyclists can regard stop signs as yield signs, and red lights as stop signs.
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I don’t disagree, but we lack direct evidence for how resident these animals where to radiation.

Water is a great shield vs most kinds of radiation as is their bulk which means these animals may have significantly lower resistance. Worse they would still be getting ~1SV over 30 years at ~1km below the oceans let alone the few feet of their bodies. Which is vastly above background radiation levels.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400291
The Chinese govt's oppression of Christians, Falun Gong and Muslims is ABSOLUTELY fascist.
I wonder how many activists in Hong Kong have been pinched by Mainland China Ministry of State Security in recent years?

I’ve read of a few missing persons in Hong Kong suspected of being put in the bag.

If I had to guess, Xi will not allow opposition and the temperature will be slowly increased over time in Hong Kong.

I believe extraditions will be allowed to Mainland China, openly legitimising what has already been done in recent years.
"It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. "

the new generations are already hard at work building their own oppressive ideologies.
This is the 80/20 rule, except applied to the proportional contributions made by a group of developers on a given project, rather than how time is allocated relative to problem solving related to software development...

You know, a similar argument could be made for history... that 80% of societal progress was created by 20% of the individuals living in that society...
This is really fucking cool.
I agree to what nickjj said but hopefully decisions like that are not taken in chat but rather on a mail or an issue so it is documented.
The problem with scooter rental is that cheap scooters are not very reliable at all.

I own a £300 Xiaomi M365. I expect it to save me approximately £300 of transport cost before it falls apart.

But I care for it. Rental users won't.

Scooter rental needs to be done using far more sturdy equipment if it's going to truly be profitable (e.g. not a VC pump and dump) in my opinion.

That said, I love scooters - I'll probably buy a better one when mine inevitably breaks. It saves me a bunch of time and is fun to boot. I'm just skeptical of the economics because these aren't like rental cars, they're made of Chinesium, have no suspension, etc. They're built to be disposable at present.
But we're working in the integers, so 1/2, for example, doesn't exist.
I didn't think Hong Kong was particularly democratic. Free market but doesn't it have system where the electorate votes for some seats and business interests vote for others?
No, it's not.

Running a red light is pretty dangerous in almost any context. Running red lights consistently will 100% yield accidents.

Speeding is normative, it's something that everyone does, every single time they drive.

For speeding up to 20K above limit, you often don't get a ticket. Doing 120 on a 100 km/h road is normative. If it was 'very dangerous' the police could easily enforce a 100 cap.

Running red lights consistently will probably kill you, and if a cop sees you doing it, you will 100% get pulled over.
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Does Loquo still exist? I used that probably 10 years ago to find a short term rental in Barcelona. It was/is the Spanish equivalent of Craigslist, which wasn't popular in Spain at the time.
Something I learned very, very rapidly when I started building things that other people actually used: one of the absolute worst things you can do is assume that the people using what you make either 1) know what they are doing 2) skimmed the manual/docs 3) are capable of doing anything that isn't explicitly stated in their list of things to do.

There are of course underlying reasons for these issues - lack of sleep, the marathon of raising children, the struggle of staying on top of bills, too many things to do in too few hours - but that does NOT invalidate them and you cannot design a system that ignores those issues and depends in part on human interaction and expect it to actually work consistently and properly.

A couple things I have read this past year suggest that mainstream economists are finally waking up to what people in tech support have known for decades. Never assume someone is acting rationally/has all the information/doesn't have extenuating circumstance, because you will probably be wrong.
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...and in so doing, performing a great public service.
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dockless bikes are very handy, especially if you're a tourist.

but God, it is annoying when there are many and left everywhere on the sidewalk.
There is a huge surge in men in their 20' who don't have sex, it is as simple as that. There are couple of reasons for that but that's the reality and many of them are not happy about it.
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>Whoever gets their hand on that first is going to have a massive economical - and probably military - advantage over the others.

If you were China, would you rather fight the US military (not going to work), or fight the US grip on world power via oil? Wow, if China switches us all to batteries and fusion, the petro-dollar and Texas economy are done for. That's far more than any military threat could ever hope to achieve.
Which element does not fit:

The primacy of the group. Supporting the group feels more important than maintaining either individual or universal rights.

Believing that one's group is a victim. This justifies any behavior against the group's enemies.

The belief that individualism and liberalism enable dangerous decadence and have a negative effect on the group.

A strong sense of community or brotherhood. This brotherhood's "unity and purity are forged by common conviction, if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary."

Individual self-esteem is tied up in the grandeur of the group. Paxton called this an "enhanced sense of identity and belonging."

Extreme support of a "natural" leader, who is always male. This results in one man taking on the role of national savior.

"The beauty of violence and of will, when they are devoted to the group's success in a Darwinian struggle," Paxton wrote. The idea of a naturally superior group or, especially in Hitler's case, biological racism, fits into a fascist interpretation of Darwinism.
"It's worth noting that this is more expensive than many/most universities, which charge less than $30,000 per year (9 months of instruction) even at the sticker price (which no one actually pays)."

Unless, of course, you date someone of the "wrong" race or gender, convert to the "wrong" religion, join the "wrong" political group, or do anything else that your parents don't like. Then you'll have to pay sticker price, because your parents didn't submit all the forms the college required them to.
My guess is that it is slightly higher than that because often times the label “asexual” is applied to people who have 0 interest in sex, while others experience a reduced emphasis on sex, hence the “spectrum” part. Also it isn’t something people openly admit to it, so it suffers from the same problem as trying to quantify the numbers of people who identify as bisexual.
"the org, blaming the language".

I didn't see anywhere in the article blaming the language - can you find a quote to support your assertion?

From the article: "After two years of iteration, the code has become difficult to maintain. No one on our team is an Erlang expert, and we have had trouble debugging downtime and performance problems. So, we decided to rewrite it in Python, the de-facto language at Mixpanel."
If you drive “crazy,” Elon Musk said, “your insurance rate will be higher.”
> I am always amazed by the (low) price of those projects, compared to the potential benefits

What would be the potential benefit?

In an optimistic scenario you'd end up with a technology that will likely have very high capital costs for construction and also very high infrastructure costs for transmission lines, because you create a lot of energy in one location.

Even in that best case I don't see such a technology playing a huge role in a future energy system. You end up competing with Wind, Solar and Storage decades into the future (i.e. they'll be much cheaper than they already are today).

Of course there's also the much more likely case: It just won't work.

Given that there are much more pressing needs in energy research (how do we manage storage once we get to higher rates of renewables? how do we decarbonize sectors outside of electricity?) there isn't that much in favor of fusion imho.
Hi, I'm a doc. Just wanted to add a few corrections: The AMA (American Medical Association) has nothing to do with residency slots. Residency slots are funded by CMS. I am in a shortage speciality, and we have been pushing for more residency slots for a long time. While there are probably some physicians who are self-interested enough to oppose this, I think it's unfair to characterize them as even a significant minority. Even if you think of physicians as ruthlessly self-interested, this still wouldn't serve us as the shortage has largely led to the influx of people with a small fraction of the clinical training (such as nurse practitioners) taking roles traditionally filled by doctors. Interestingly, they are not generally held to the same standard of care, so I'd hardly call that a boon to patients, either.
WW2 killed 55 million people. What's your point? Yes there are costs to liberty and freedom.
AFAIK it is only static content.
I mean, I doubt everyone working on Dolphin has a 100% legitimate IDA license ;)
A lot of council staff too. Election administration is a local government responsibility in Great Britain, and so many councils use their own staff as well as temporary workers. When I worked for Darlington council there was an all-staff email sent before the elections inviting us to sign on for an extra shift of counting for a modest-but-reasonable amount of extra pay.
Redux also has some more nice features around middleware which is great for data interception and manipulation, and selectors which can be great for performance if memoized. Also, you don't need redux for it, but the idea of separating pure view code and code that does network calls and implements business logic is really useful.

At the end of the day, you can write whatever you want from scratch, but it becomes a cost/benefit analysis.

I like this repo for getting into the guts of how popular tech works: https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x
Taiwan only holds on to the historical claim to ruling China because a change in status is feared to trigger the China's anti-secession laws, which in turn would lead to an invasion on Taiwan by China. Better not to "rock the boat" at this point.

(Taiwan probably also sees this as a bargaining chip, to be given up at an opportune moment (like the Kinmen Islands), in exchange for something else, e.g. China accepting Taiwan's independence. I suspect this would have been possible at some point when China was weak but seems unlikely now.)
That depends - this divide is not just "USA English Speaking People" versus the rest. Within the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, there is a split between people who say "minus 5" and people who say "negative 5".

For some "minus five" is an operation, not a number, and for others "negative five" is meaningless, the correct expression would have to be "the negative of five". There are entire PhD theses written on the topic of how to avoid confusing young children when introducing them to numbers less than 0, and the words we should, and should not, use in that context.
Most likely an issue with that website/service in particular. Other sites list more properties, but still a limited number. So your point about something not adding up may still be correct.

https://en.sekaiproperty.com/search/japan/wakayama

In my experience, when looking at real estate in Japan, going to a local agent is really the best bet.
I feel this is the Pareto efficiency Isa play which is a very common phenomenon.
Windows 10 got an emoji picker some time ago, opened by `Win+period` or `Win+semicolon`.

it's okay, except that the emoji search seems to use the current keyboard language and not the system language, which is kind of annoying. I don't want to have to remember which language my keyboard is set to to search for a plane emoji!
Any reasonable compiler will time out before you can do anything too fancy at compile time.
Also, sadly, many ISPs dislike you serving stuff from your own home.
I like Andrew Yang, but is UBI a proven model yet?

Progressive Finland ran an experiment.

YC itself ran(is still running?) a UBI experiment.

Is UBI a proven model or does it yet provide compelling evidence to further experiment or roll out?

Seems very vapourware-ish or too soon to tell.
“But Ms McRae is also concerned that programmes like Lambda School, though well-meaning, risk undermining existing educational institutions by offering a quicker route to work.”
Being in management is way different than running your own company.

One side project doesn’t have to earn 200k/yr. you can have 5 of them, each making 50k. Running them as single software company is way less management work than managing your team in big company environment.
If you have no time information (i.e. no rtc), then yes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
One could pin a cert, hope the device is powered on in the validity period to update it? Obviously a bad idea for other reasons but maybe it's the best worst choice.
I'm a software developer, a pretty good one, and I agree with them.

Writing code is, for the 95% to 99% case, easy. (That last 1% to 5% requires anywhere from cleverness to brilliance.) It's figuring out what needs to be written that is very difficult. It's the part that involves actually talking to people, understanding their needs, having empathy for those needs so as to help you refine a solution from "it'll work" to "it's good", and only then does hands-on-keyboard programming matter.

And most of it doesn't; it can be slapdash and it can be duct-tape-and-chewing-gum and as long as it correctly solves the problem at hand--which was identified and planned against long before a programmer ever thought about a line of code!--it's fine.

Programming is not easy. Programming is specialized labor. But it is the implementation of a strategy. Why would the implementation matter more than having the strategy in the first place? This is why well-paid programmers (outside of the inflated FAANG market, at least) are positively brilliant and working on high-value technical problems, decision-makers and leaders of people, or both.
Places with partisan vote counting can avoid problems with this kind of thing by having partisans for multiple parties working on the same ballots, perhaps with a neutral overseer.
MobileSafari on my iPad running iOS 12.3 (16F5139e).
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Not Reed College decades ago??!

https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/25/technology/kottke-lsd-steve...

>Just a few years before Jobs' death, it was psychedelics that put Kottke back in touch with Jobs. Albert Hoffmann, who discovered LSD, was turning 100 and soliciting financial support for psychedelics research. Kottke was asked to connect Hoffmann with Jobs, which he did; but Kottke doesn't believe that the introduction resulted in any monetary contributions.
Building good documentation and sharing knowledge is crucial for such teams to work, according to Brooks. Brooks is all about (good) communication. The "Surgical Team" chapter comes right after the "Communication" chapter in MMM.

And I don't think that having other members of the team supporting the vision of the leader is monopolizing the vision... it's just being focused on a single goal.
Hence the “de jure”

Anyway it’s complicated. Some in ROC want independence. Some don’t. Some would like to join Beijing (many investors from ROC). Most probably want the whole thing to be on the low and the ROC ignored lest the dragon is awakened.

But regardless what civilians want, being part of China affects the actions of Taipei more than any other issue.
They lend out MORE than was deposited. They literally create money out of nothing and lend it. That is how fiat money is created.
> where they can continue and be evem more motivated, because now they have been censored.

or demotivated, because they are fewer in number (most stayed on reddit) and have been censured

and the ones who stayed -- now their radicalizing pals are out-of-sight, out-of-mind
Well.. I have yet to post a GIF to my work Slack. I don't even allow emoji.
Thank you! :) it’s a project built with lots of love
Should have prefaced the whole thing with "in my experience".
Is that accurate for Indonesia? I haven't looked into it deeply, but they have a relatively low median life expectancy and the mortality rate under 60[1] is quite high.

[1] https://knoema.com/atlas/Indonesia/topics/Demographics/Morta...
It sounds pretty close to jury duty in the states. Picked randomly and paid something, not much but something.
Those numbers look high to me, an inexpensive meal you can do for $0.50, and the average salary is definitely less than $350, that’s an entry level software engineer in many cities outside of Jakarta. Plenty of people get by on $200 or less.
Vox has an excellent video called 'China is erasing its border with Hong Kong' which details how the Chinese government is tightening it's control of Hong Kong. It's well worth a watch. Here's the video description:

"When Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997, Chinese leaders agreed that Hong Kong would be able to keep its economic and political systems, including some of the civil freedoms denied to China’s citizens on the mainland, for the next 50 years.

Although Hong Kong still has nearly 30 years of semi-autonomy left, China has started tightening its grip, and many believe it is chipping away at Hong Kong’s freedoms."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQyxG4vTyZ8
"Toxic" means not aligned with the left "progressive" values. It is just a political ban of opposing views, nothing new here and it never worked, the views find their ways to air themselves in one way or another.
Not sure if my sarcasm was properly illustrated.
If true, and if the two jets that went down had sensor warning systems that were deactivated, then people at Boeing are criminally liable.
There were two attacks on perceived minorities in California this week alone. Literal fascists are killing people in our communities right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/us/poway-synagogue-shooti...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/27/sunnyvale-c...
To reiterate a point I've made several times here: I'm not advocating for running red lights. Quite the contrary. I think all cyclists should stop at stop signs and wait for red lights.

My broader point is that cyclists running red lights gets a lot of attention, but ultimately drivers speeding causes much more harm, yet that is accepted by society at large.
That would break my heart.
This is a terrible way to look at it. If the labor pool is fractured into hundreds of millions of pieces, each acting in their own self-interest, how can you keep big businesses from exploiting them?

We'd just be back to the wild west of employment law pre-1880s, except without even the meager fallback of employment contracts, everyone would be at the mercy of the owners.