skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone curious about what was meant by "legalizing gangs" as policy, here's the relevant snippet:

> The country allowed the gangs to remake themselves as cultural associations that could register with the government, which in turn allowed them to qualify for grants and benefit from social programming, just like everybody else.

Turns out offering people money and the opportunity to make a difference makes them want to fight less.

> There was a job training grant, and a grant to set up a community center. The Catholic University of Quito paid for 15 Latin Queens to study to become nurses.
Direct link to the article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_law...
I don't think that config file (or even script code) obfuscation is a sensible way of hardening a system. If the database access credentials are really the weak point of a system (I don't think so), the database authentication itself should be replaced by something more sophisticated, such as public/private keys, host based authentication, etc.
Airlines eye crueler ways of making passengers miserable
The original link is the first result on Google for "galaxy fold teardown" even though it now redirects to the new blog post.
Yes, proof of immunity is required at registration for UCLA. https://www.immunizationrequirement.ucla.edu/Portals/98/Immu...
As someone who has had far more failures at evaluating candidates than successes, I find it very hard to wade through the BS in a meeting that lasts an hour or two. The strangest people I've met seemed normal for that short of time. I usually have to work with someone for up to six months to get a real feeling of their ability to adjust to new situations, learn new technology, and strength of work ethic.
This reminds me of how Apple fans used to love to quote Fitts Law to convince themselves that the Macintosh OS UI was any good. Meanwhile, Apple never really followed Fitts Law very well with the Mac OS or iOS and they quite obviously can't even get the most basic functionality right, like Window or File management.
On the bright side, this is a hard lesson to those who seek the hype of digital transformation without actually knowing it's about people mindset and skill before software and fancy technology!
Keep in mind the odds of joining the next Google at the startup stage are probably close to one in a million...
>Michael Leggett is even more annoyed with Gmail than you are.

Then why he doesn't give Google the boot?
When I was younger, like many people, I thought of all-nighters as a thing to brag about.

Now, I see sleep deprivation as a serious health debt that you pay nosebleed compound interest rates on. If you get less than your preferred amount of sleep, everyday living can become more complicated. Simple tasks can become dangerous. Do not walk down stairs without holding the hand rail if you are tired!

Also, my sleep tracker confirms that, on average, it takes about one hour more of being in bed to get X hours of sleep. So if you need 8 hours of sleep, you need to be in bed around 9 hours! I aim for 7 hours (8 hours in bed).
> It also occurs to me that many people hang their cloth with hangers in closet instead of folding. Business proposition seems to be bit limited.

The logic does not follow in these two sentences. I hang my clothes instead of folding, because I am lazy. If a machine with a reasonable cost could do the folding for me, I would buy it, since folded clothes occupy much less space.
Have you worked for the government? I have (as an external contractor) and the level of bureucracy and waste was on a entirely different level than at even the most inefficient private company (a large bank) that I've worked for.
There is more to it than just dying.

A child being severely sick for extended periods can be really expensive. Especially for those countries like the US which don't have universal healthcare.

And of course there are long term complications that can result in children becoming deaf or having an intellectual disability: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/complications.html
Cool project. Why is this being downvoted?
Because elm is elegant. I have written web-app with elm on the client side and rust in the backend. It was great, except for duplication of code when serializing/deserializing json data when making API calls. With sauron, I save up a lot of duplicated codes, and gotta squeeze that webassembly performance as well.
> Shanghai has major, major negatives in terms of quality of life and especially if you don't speak Chinese (because almost no one their speaks English).

FYI, Shanghai is the most anglophonic and westernised city in China, other Chines megacities are much worse in that regard.

In fact, the biggest appeal to those moving to the city for its classiness is it giving you that "Western living" life style.
Too many things in China is just a veneer, and look good only at a distance.

The infrastructure is generally shoddily built, projects that keep digging up and rebuilding a same road are not uncommon, people with connections landing projects and then seeling on or subcontracting multiple rounds to some foremen and farmers with the thinnest margin possible is industry standard.

There were foreign reporters invited to China to see staged scenes and they proceeded to claim there was no Great Chinese Famine, which in reality killed tens of millions.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/23/archives/china-unobserved...
This is sorta tangential...

I immediately thought of these sort of flops when I musk/spaceX announce the boring company.

These things happen all the time. Where I live (dublin), the overcoat scandal du jour is a big hospital build that is costing 300% over budget, due to this sort of failure.

Then follows the finger pointing, moral righteousnous, promises that heads will roll, long, boring speeches (we are very good at these here) about greed and accountability.

But... like enterprise software contracts... all the agreements are carefully designed so that liability doesn't stick to you when failure inevitably comes.

Anyway... Musk. Being this name-brand business magnate makes avoiding liability much harder. If they were contracted to do a boring priject, they'd naturally have something riding on success. Boring company is just an example, but name brand contractors for city level projects may be useful... A good name to put on the line.

Just a thought.
Google has a long history of "oopsies" where they deliberately cripple the competition and blame it on unintended consequences [1].

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3389882/former-mozilla...
Darn that's sad. Once money is not a primary issue, I would much prefer working 80%, or 60%, whatever compared to just gaining more stability. Pushing papers, playing politics, losing touch with progress in real world (affecting employability), that's a bad direction in any age.
You can also have more than one device set up for TOTP - phone, previous phone or tablet, desktop using WinAuth or similar. Authy and the password managers will also track those seed values, though it's best to store them separately from your actual password storage.

Another thing that will not migrate phone to phone is Signal conversations if you're inclined to keep those.
Yes - crazy, isn't it?!
Agree that precaution is good but this is dependent on what the researcher deemed as 'horrifiying'.

For example, if I learned that these "mini brains" had semblence of human consciousness that I weren't aware of. My reaction would be 'that is interesting' instead of horrified or disturbed.
Per usual web tradition, FastMail has a logo in top left corner, which opens the menu when clicked. Source: I have it open in another tab.
I suspect it's been generated from the generator part of a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network); you get two ML algorithms - one to pick real from fake pictures (a classifier) and one to generate fake pictures (the generator) - and then pit them against each other. I wonder if this image is possibly a high quality generative example that the classifier failed to identify as 'fake'.

Also - the generator probably uses an autoencoder to generate the images, which might explain the 'how' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder.

I hope that explanation wasn't too dull!
https://onemileatatime.com/berlin-brandenburg-airport/
Over half of USAmericans buy stock via 401k/403b or pension
HN isn't a promotion platform for snake oil and click bait, so please refrain from misusing it as such.
Google Study Destroyed Some of the Assumptions of Representation Learning
> The Ethereum address 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (EthAddrNull) has had Ethereum erroneously transferred to it. It is all but certain that this was due to user or code error where a null destination address was provided.

True if the transfers were from external addresses, but transfers from contracts were likely intentional. Transferring to 0x0 is the standard way to burn ETH, and there are all sorts of reasons to do it, like destroying a bond as a penalty.

Some of the others were well-known issues in older clients, though I'm a bit surprised to see it's still happening. And of course brain wallets have been known to be vulnerable since early Bitcoin days.
> Had the article been about Mumbai, Lagos or Karachi I'm doubtful such reactions would have been elicited.

I think this is the key point. We're coming up on the thirtieth anniversary of the crack down:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

The protests starting 1989-04-15; martial law was declared May 20; tanks rolled in June 4.
There's this great thing called a flexible curve ruler. Assign each unit a movement speed in centimeters of map per turn, apply penalties and bonuses, and measure out the path that you want them to take.

They're expensive compared to cheap dice and cheap compared to expensive dice. With high-end board game prices the way they are now, bundling one in is reasonable. Then you can use any map of the right scale.
You sure about that?

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/03/19/apple-mi...
I think an article newer than from 1964 would be more persuasive to your argument.
I guess I am saying that the intrinsic nature of the two topics are so different that arguing about them is a matter of deep philosophy rather than right vs wrong and point scoring.
That’s interesting. In japan they’ve gone the complete opposite route:

Instead of telling you the web address they tell you which keyword to type into search, sometimes even with an animation of it being typed into the search bar.
No, what seems illegal is forgoing vaccination. You want to forfeit a proven system to prevent widespread disease, then you should give up your right to live in the country. How vaccination isn't a mandatory thing by law, is beyond me.
Thanks. I think I'm pretty good at naming. I have a few repo with good names as well.

rustorm - an orm in rust

diwata - a database UI in rust.
The main goal of pirates is to access the database configuration quickly. By hardening it, pirates will move on.
Wordpress, Drupal, Prestashop and Joomla have the same problem
Thanks for sharing, didn't know the story. Absolutely astonishing.
I blame mobile, and the desire to reuse design (and often code) between devices. Touch interfaces need big things because phone screens are small relative to fingers. On desktop, such interfaces are unbearable to me; I hate them to the point I actually installed Stylus extension and now hot-fix websites I visit frequently with quick CSS work, to increase information density (and by increase I mean double or triple).
Analyzing the First Images of Russia's Special Missions Sub
Protect your customers from family member fraud (2015)
I don't know... having the threat of having a pension removed sounds like yet another terrible thing about working for the government. My private sector pension is my property, in a managed fund. The company can't do anything to it.
"Less people killing each other" is a perfectly valid end in itself, obviously. It improves the lives of the people who don't get killed, the people who don't go to prison for murder, and all their families and friends.

Maybe they could do more beyond that. But being cynical about a big drop in murders is kinda weird.
Popularism of anti-vax movement is directly tied to social media and the ease of which people have been able to form communities around the issue. Combine that with Russian trolls and targeted advertising and you have can see why it's spread.

Question is whether Facebook in particular is going to do something about it so it is just a passing fad.
It reminds me of https://www.earthexplodes.com/comics/200/
(NSFL ?). It is probably what this experiment looks like from pigs perspective.
Lots of IT leaders specifically hire firms like Accenture, PwC, etc, to take the fall if their in-house ideas don't pan out.
In fairness, "Opinion", is always "sponsored shilling of [[some] product]". Whether the product be some political idea, some "latest, greatest" consumer doo-hickey, some backup QB after an agonizing loss, or indeed, some city or geographic region.

There really is no "Opinion" piece that is not shilling something.
thank you for bringing the absolute truth about what should be or not on HN
Old as hell news

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_seat
Maybe it is, but that's not saying much.
He quit Google last year, he's working at a blockchain startup now.
Smart speakers: a major battle in music
For short flights, I do not mind the development of "standing seats." Airline margins will remain razor thin and the savings will be passed to the subset of customers who choose to be more cramped. There WILL continue to be "premium economy" or similar for those who choose it, that is undoubtable.

If the price sensitivity tradeoff of customers ultimately dictates that these standing seats do not gain adoption, I would not be surprised.

History has shown that customers want cheap flights more than they want comfort, but complaining all the while.
Some common high paying skills that could pair with programming:

- IT Security

- Database engineer (specailized)

- AI or Machine Learning

- Block chain consulting (ughh)

- Financial analyst

Any one of these specialisations would make you a highly paid consultant... I assume
For the future, if you use yubikeys, yubico authenticator is a drop in replacement for google-authenticator and you can save your google-auth setup on multiple yubikeys. So, even if you lose one, you still have it on another. Then it is independent of the phone. Also the yubikeys themselves can be used as 2FA for google accounts. However, sadly, you can't set them up on firefox the last time I tried.
Also this is an easy way to claim that people were fired fairly and they weren't picked out because the manager didn't like them or was racist.
This is correct, IgG has a half life of about 21 days; generally this is good for 3 months of immunity
> "private is more efficient"

Who are you quoting there? Nobody in this thread. Nobody here was claiming private was more efficient - you've imagined that.

We were saying it was less beaurcpatic and a more pleasant working environment in the private sector.

Look at basic things like expense policies in government jobs. The pettiness of it will astound you. In the private sector I just get given a credit card and treated like an adult.
GerdaOS, a custom ROM for Nokia 8110 4G which aims privacy, security and freedom
We are contractors that identify the most valuable features for the least amount of money.

We have worked with two state agencies and learned that entire philosophy is moot in a government agency because they dont care about the value of features and they dont care about saving money.

It was incredibly depressing and so we generally try not to work with government agencies.
Google is doing the embrace and extend - same as Microsoft did in the 90s.
I hired Accenture while I was an MD at an investment bank for a data migration project. I was convinced by another MD who used to work for Accenture.

Anyway, we spent about £15m over a year, with literally no results to show for it. I was less than impressed - in fact, I was furious at the gross misrepresentation of the status of the project by the partner.

My own experience leads me to believe that the distribution of talent is most certainly non-normal - perhaps skew-normal, with most of the weight in the less-competent zone.
I don't know man?

I'm pretty sure you'd get the same sort of comments if someone made a positive article about Lagos. (I'm fair certain it would even happen for similar articles on Mumbai and Karachi. Just maybe not quite as bad as for Lagos.)

It's natural for there to be cultural insecurity during times of realignment. And I think it's fair to say that we are living through a period of realignment, transition, whatever you want to call it.
Urbanization is a thing. We cram ourselves together more than in the 60s. Epidemics would be worse without vaccinations and other modern medicine niceties.
> This attitude is strangely pervasive on Hacker News, and it's very annoying.

Hard and annoying.
I went to Beijing last year and had the same experience. What really surprised me was going from Beijing to Tokyo, Tokyo was absolutely filthy in comparison to Beijing.

Air quality is still absolutely horrible in China, but the streets are clean, the trains are spotless and incredibly convenient, and even walking around dark alleys after midnight felt safe. My biggest problem is that scammers targeting foreigners are common, but I suppose it beats the more in-your-face or straight up pickpocketing/mugging you'll find in non-East Asian major cities.

The progress of China in terms of infrastructure and economic development really something incredible. I know people who worked there under a decade ago and said it was an absolute wasteland and still have that idea today, but everyone I know who goes there now (myself included) feels like they're getting a glimpse of the future of the rest of the world, for better and worse.

If it weren't for the restrictions on personal liberties, I'd gladly pack my bags and move there longterm.
I got the impression that the money isn't all salaries. They need the funds to help with the research they do with the various agencies. Do they have staff during the summer meetings who assist? Do the agencies they work for need money to provide the information the Jasons need to do a study for them? The article doesn't have enough information to answer these questions, nor does it imply that the money all goes into their pockets.
since there are no requirements
Microsoft doesn't get a bad rep like facebook or google, because their business model is not based on pushing ads onto their users and selling their users' data, which everybody hates.

Apple's bad rep is probably due to high pricing, tech lock-in, horrible apple store experience, bad behavior regarding right-to-repair, pretty bad software overall.
When I was in Shanghai some years ago it felt as if it was being given to cars versus public transport which was a huge missed opportunity. I don’t claim however to have seen the whole city only being there for 4 or 5 days as a tourist (and as a native NYC resident I know how misleading this can be). Was this impression correct?
There may be a workaround here: configure your own mailserver to relay outgoing messages through a service with a known good reputation. For example relaying via sparkpost or mandrill should be trivial to do. You might be able to do that under a free developer account if you don't send a lot of email.
And cargo-culting.

Most email templates are set up from old instructions hanging around confluence or a wiki. And they are rarely, if ever, actually vetted by legal.

It 'feels' good, so it stays.
Some of this is just aging, though. When younger, I could do all nighters regularly and bounce back quickly. Can’t do it any more without, as you say, nosebleed interest.
Why do people cite breitbart like it's an actual source of trustworthy information
That's how a lot of these consultancies scale. The up or out policy means they need to hire a lot of young consultants to build out the ranks. Training and aligning that number of people is hard so they go for a cookie-cutter approach.

All their standardised templates and processes mean that the Accenture 'experience' for clients is consistent but it does seem to reduce the capacity for creativity and flexibility in approach.
What was the name of this consultancy and are they hiring???
I spent first half of my life in Asia, and second half in the West so I am very much under influenced by cultures on both sides. I've always tried my best to view these issues as objectively as possible and without any biases.

China of the past has always accepted that they were inferior, but they were always willing to learn which was why most people accused them of copying from others. However, human knowledge and innovations have always been about replicating what others have already done, and then adding your own tweaks to it. Nobody could go from 50 to 100 without climbing up through every step, and China was willing to climb those steps at all costs. They have studied Western society extremely well over the years. China were able to extract all the best elements from the West, removed the not-so-good ingredients, and then applied those filtered results back to the country.

On the opposite side, it's understandable why most people are criticizing China because psychologically it's very difficult to accept an inferior opponent who was only considered as "copier" not long ago could now in fact be as good, or possibly even better in the future. It's not easy considering they have been leading by a wide margin for such a long time.

The danger here is while China has quietly concentrated all their effort to adapt the best formulas from the West, people on the other side continue to ignore an inevitable reality. Instead of investigating China to see why they have done so well and to obtain some of their knowledge in return, many are still refusing these facts and trying their best to hold onto old ideas that just badly need updates. If not careful, we have seen this scenario played out time and time again in business (Kodak, Myspace, Blackberry, etc...).

Despite what others may want us to believe, majority of today world are still operating based on zero-sum game. Italy has seen its real GDP in decline and is the first G7 country to endorse China's "Belt and Road" initiative. In their own view, China of today no longer believes they're an inferior opponent.

It's about time people should forget about the past and start looking more into the future. Our world is changing very fast and failing to do that may quickly leave people behind before they even realize it.
If anything, the advent of low cost airlines shows we haven't yet hit the cost/comfort sweetspot and that air travel is still too expensive and comfortable (at least at the <4 hours category).
Meta, but the text on that page renders awfully. Seems they're scaling the elements by 1.64297 instead of just setting a font-size?!

Result is incredibly fuzzy https://lol768.com/i/AmpAbuseDormMendez
Rubbish. This type of "news" is cheap brand name advertising by low cost airlines. The 5-pound toilet from European Ryanair was a similar campaign.
Though news coverage may appear negative, it is aligned with the impression of the brand as "low cost" and therefore strengthens the brand.
This concept has been doing the rounds for a long time. I can't believe that any airline would be seriously considering it. Ryanair will occasionally drop a hint that they're looking into it when they're desperate for some free publicity, but that's about it.
That's what I saw my whole life. People conducting interview don't know how to spot BS and fraud.
It sounds like an appropriate description of Shanghai and Beijing to me.
I don't know why you are downvoted.

However, I still really enjoy spending time in China. Local young people there are very nice.

My experience in Shanghai is that the only place you can reliably find people that will talk English to foreigners is Pudong airport.