skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Don't hate the player, hate the game."

It's possible to be ethical in a capitalist system. I don't believe it's acceptable to give them a free pass because they chose the option that might be the most profitable (and that's arguable).
Team lead
I don’t know how by cutting down exports Xi plans to consolidate power? Could you please expand on the mechanism by which this could happen? Tariffs are breaking backs of exporting provinces, may be they could be ill informed and Chinese propaganda can spin this to blame US.
I think that's because no one is suggesting that things shouldn't ever come to end of life. Ford stopped making the Model T.

If you already bought them, Microsoft Money, Encarta, Flight Sim, SBS, Works etc etc should all keep working. If you still have the CD you can probably install just fine, and keep on using them (if it's still meaningful). I'm sure plenty do just that, and perhaps some will for decades. Just no more new versions are coming. Sure MSN Messenger and other online offerings have been hard stopped.

For most of your list, no one hit what's effectively a remote kill switch, and stopped them working for everyone at the same moment. That's what killing an API does for an internet service, or hardware device dependent on that service. On such and such date $thing will cease working. Google does that all the time, hardware and software. So much that they got themselves a reputation for it.

Didn't wear out, die of old age, become obsolete, but they reached out and killed. It's qualitatively different.
> Most consumers care more about the dash system (...), mileage, and size of the car than the way it drives

They care about things they can choose. They don't care about responsive cars because responsive cars do not exist.

Actually, they did exist until a few years ago: they were VW! Why do you think they cheated?
That's curious. I can't find any statement from Google saying that this was intended, though; seems more an oversight than a feature.
UK has some tariffs with a cheaper electric charge at night called Economy 7. This is used to heat storage heaters for properties without gas central heating.

Industrial load will also play a factor, as will lighting homes during the dark hours.
He doesn’t get it. It’s obvious at this point that he’s just not very intelligent and makes it worse by putting in zero effort to understand.
Interesting example.

Vatican City was granted 0 H1B visas in all of 2018, as well as all previous years I could find. Are you aware of any years where Vatican City used the H1B visa? You must be since you use it as a counter example.

2018 Vatican City was granted a total of 42 non-immigrant visas across all categories. Most of these were consular visas for embassy staff and government officials on official business. H category work visas are totally non present.

In 2018 India was granted 125,528 H1B, 111,242 H-4 (family of H1B), 42,694 F-1 (student), and others coming to a total of 1,006,802 non-immigrant visas.

Only Mexico and China had more visas overall, with Mexico at 1,372,420 and China with 1,464,810 non-immigrant visas. Nearly all of China's and Mexico's visas were B-1,2 which are for very short tourism and business trips. This was also the case with India, with 616,312 visas being B-1,2. As to H1B visas, China received 27,482 and Mexico received 2,524.

Looking at work visas, India dominates all other nations by a large factor.

Bringing up the Vatican is an amazing argument given that they receive zero temporary work visas each year.

Yet you still continue to argue that India is being unfairly discriminated against by the United States. You are privileged to argue this, and also disingenuous.
Don't forget that yield curve inversion
Here’s how you can disable IPv6
May I ask if you've actually watched the show?

In context, this was a list of the words that are being monitored by the NSA. It stands to reason that the NSA would want to track people who discuss assassinating the president.

I don't understand why this is controversial.
But publishing is not a problem for Chiang. He even publishes short stories, which should be the hardest to publish (I understand that publishers belive the larger the better).
And people on economy 7 tariffs heating storage heaters, although in the summer months that wouldn't be usual.
> like ecmascript's "do"

Keep in mind this is only a stage 0 proposal, and thus is not really part of the language. This is how statements behave when entered into the repl, e.g. the browser dev console.
> Their algorithms are based more on the age of your domain and other technicalities

One of which is "dwell time" and another is "bounce rate". Both those correlate highly with how well the site matches the users intention.
It's an arms race situation; games, or at least AAA games, have to be more complex because they have to be more complex or they won't sell like the previous complex game. I think you're picking up on the circularity there, which I fully agree with, but it doesn't stop it from existing. (Technically back in the past there is a recursion base case for all this, somewhere around when the hobbyiest-level game scene, where 1 person could create a professional-quality game, and where professional-quality games took a staff to exist at all. This would be in the late 8-bit era; by the 16-bit era, a professional game took a staff.)

I'm not sure I can Google this up, but I remember when the PS4 era was just starting up, Shamus Young (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/ ) hypothesized that the gaming industry was going to have an even harder time justifying the expense of a "true" PS4 game because of the yet-again increased expense of the asset pipeline. Assets are technically getting cheaper to generate over time, but they're not getting cheaper faster than they're getting more expensive. The PS5 may yet make this worse again, and the continuous PC market is definitely getting crazy to build for the top end. Eventually, even microtransactions aren't going to be able to cover this, and the only games that can be made are going to be so "safe" that nobody at all will like them. This is a sort of bubble that is going to burst at some point. It's arguable that it's already starting to burst; it seems like we're seeing a slowly increasing number of very high-profile, very expensive failures, and that can't continue forever. Keep an eye on Nintendo's strategy (if they continue making boatloads of money with their Switch on the complexity foothills while the rest of market is climbing so high up the complexity mountain that they are gasping for breath, eventually people with lots of initials in their titles in other companies are going to start asking why they can't do what Nintendo is doing), and the indie market.

I do sometimes wonder if movies will see this as well. Right now, most movies that cost significant fractions of a billion dollars will make it back, but as that number goes up, it takes proportionally less and less to screw up things really quickly, even if you're profitable most of the time. Star Wars, for instance, is quite unexpectedly in a dangerous spot right now, profit-wise. If for instance the Marvel movies had the same problems, we could see a sea change in movie finances in a few years. But it doesn't seem to be happening yet.
Because the amount of spare effort people have available is correlated to class, and thus adding more hoops to jump through is yet another way to favor the idle rich over the working poor.

But I also don't see why the first sentence is inherently bad. Why is it good to police what type of people may vote? Why is it good to police the reason for voting?
Additionally, to support the idea that we evolved to detect and dislike body odor, you'd have to make sure that humans even have this trait. Too many evolutionary just-so stories generate hypotheses from limited cultural observations.

This article about one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer people left, the Hadza, might lead you to question the idea that humans have a "dislike body odor" trait:

> While Hadza have a word for body odor, the men tell me that they prefer their women not to bathe—the longer they go between baths, they say, the more attractive they are. Nduku, my Hadza language teacher, said she sometimes waits months between baths, though she can't understand why her husband wants her that way.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2009/12/hadza/

And this despite the theory that hunter-gatherers are probably even better at smelling than we are: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180118142744.h...
Team Lead
Indeed, good work by the Trump admin. here.
>The Good Fight makes a lot of strong political statements that I don't think would fly on many other platforms.

Such as?
Before damming CBS you might want to hear their motive. According to them the 90 second segment was removed because "such a sequence would endanger CBS executives on the ground in China". If that is the true motive, I personally give them a pass. If this is about preserving safety of employees and not about profit, can anyone condemn them?

This article written by a friend of one of the performers in the 90 second animated short that was cut out has what I think is the best coverage. It includes a good amount of detail including a play by play of the cut content:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cbs-censors-t...
China imprisons and engages in psychological torture of a peaceful religious group. There is strong evidence it engages in systematic organ harvesting of these people.

China regularly threatens the sovereignty of Taiwan.

It is not at all above criticism and I really am surprised to find your comment suggesting so. Were you being ironic?
I don’t know why and I am not a Chinese citizen but this kind of thing bothers me deeply. I hope Streisand effect takes over China in a self-propelling feedback loop until this whole show comes crashing down. People of China deserve better (once they’re a solid middle class and taken out of poverty).
I use just plain text file opened in plain text editor with following conventions:

# Topic
[ ] A task. @tag #ticket
[ ] A subtask.
[ ] A sub-sub-task.
[+] Completed task.
[-] Failed task.
[.] Partially completed task. WIP.
[!] Urgent task.
[^] High priority task.

Easy to store. Easy to share. Easy to edit at any device with plain text editor.

The only feature I miss is grouping of sub-tasks. For example, I may want to group all subtasks from all projects(topics), which I need to do at place X (e.g. at parents home), so I will prepare for them. I cannot select them all without using of SQL engine or grep like tool. If editor can highlight a search term, it helps, but for long lists it easy to miss.
Continuing the trends of the last decade.
I live in florida, so I'm well accustomed to the humidity! But thanks for the tip, I actually hadn't thought about that.

Part of my home automation system is humidity sensors as well, and while they do spike over 65% sometimes (probably when we have the windows open), they stay around 55% to 60% for the past 30 days. Since I'm only running that fan cycle at night, when the AC tends not to run or not run as much, I'm guessing that helps mitigate the effects of that.
Ask HN: Best website to meet part time cofounder?
I'm a full time software dev and I build games and projects on the side. Seeking a cofounder or collaborator to work on projects with. Where should I be looking?

Here's my analysis so far:

AngelList: Sparse, dated

CofoundersLab: Seems Ok, met a few here

Reddit/r/cofounder: Hit and miss, mostly miss, not targeted, bad ux

ShapR app: Seems good, but not targeted to cofounders

I'm based in Chicago and have connections to Silicon valley too. Expecting to work remotely with my future collaborator.

Hack: if YOU want to build stuff with me, check out www.vannorman.ai

Thanks!
You're well on your way to dying.
Team Lead, I'd assume.
Sure, I wasn't trying to suggest they were completely equivalent.

The fact that the parent was objecting to every member of a group of people treating all members of another group of people similarly struck me quite strongly when reading it, separate from the discussion about differences in culture.
> The real solution is that your build system should separate the CSS from JS during build time. Not many popular build systems (such as create-react-app) support this.

The real solution is to fix the actual protocol issues, instead of imposing arbitrary limitations on what scripts can do with the page. If you pause and think about what these security measures are aiming to mitigate, they themselves are at best amateurish.
"The new Tencent title bears a striking resemblance to PUBG but there are no dead bodies, while it plays up to a nationalist theme with a focus on China’s air force — or, per the Weibo message, “the blue sky warriors that guard our country’s airspace” — and their battle against terrorists."
Bounce rate is a metric. If the person clicking decides to stay on your web site after the click-through, then that's a good measure of ad relevance.
Julian Assange is to journalism what Aaron Swartz was to civil disobedience.

Nothing.
Ask HN: How do your company manage test cases
So we have > 10k test cases, we built an internal tool to document them. But it is not ideal. Sometimes QA waste time on testing already broken test because they don’t know the current status. Sometimes dev can’t reproduce because the reproducing environment doesn’t match. Any test case management system can do better?
The pool only needs to function for a few days during/after an accident until heat energy from fission product decay reduces to lower levels. The pool's function is as an accident mitigation measure - and when any accident occurs the reactor enters a "shut down" state. The decay heat energy that needs to be dissipated is much lower than normal reactor operational power output.
If they're concerned about the safety of employees in China over the content they produce, perhaps they should not station employees in China.

Unfortunately it's such a big market it's apparent that companies are willing to forego ethics to do business with China, despite the numerous human rights violations.
Most of the cities are likely correct, thus they made the correct move. They will be bailed out just as happens everywhere else. Perhaps the central government even likes this arrangement, because it allows them to basically wipe out cities that don't fit into their plans for the future.
I expect that if solar becomes a dominant source of electricity, time-insensitive industrial uses (eg, aluminum smelting) will happily become daylight operations.
http://tinypic.com/r/2u5dgyv/9

Ironically, I had to turn off ad block to view it. Does anyone know of a better service like this?

[edit: the screenshot is for a different article, but I get the same spy-wall on the one linked above]
Strangest Scientific Discovery of 2018: Your Memories Are a Viral Infection
Does his understanding matter? If Mnuchin and Lighthizer are hitting all the right notes in the negotiation, does it matter if Trump understands any of it? Let him bluster and take credit for Mnuchin and Lighthizer's good work.
>> ... if this can compete financially with batteries.

I don't think there will be competition. With storage costs dropping I don't see why nuclear plants would be any different than solar or wind. If solar+wind can cover current demands, why turn down the reactors? Why not keep them running and charge up some battery capacity for the day that solar+wind isn't enough?

The ideal grid would have all energy sources running constantly at their most efficient, usually 100% rated production, and use batteries to smooth out the load. The reactors wouldn't need to throttle. All that entropy would be pushed to the batteries.
I disagree with the notion that Julian Assange is a journalist. I don't find the way he goes about his activities to be commendable. I contrast his/Wikileak disclosures with the way the Snowden materials were disseminated and reported on as the the boundaries of proper and improper journalism of these subjects.
For progressive or moderate candidates, sure.

However, given events like this: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/406437-google-execs-la...

Any conservative Republicans running in 2020 would have to be morons to trust their entire communications infrastructure to a company who openly opposes their policies.

(Cue jokes about how the 2nd half of that last sentence is redundant...)
The NYT doesn't seem fazed by that just saying.
This research in 2017 and the many studies it references on page 4 beg to differ with you: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311844520_Carbon_di...
Wow. This is a nice find - luckily I never click on ads links but this is extremely misleading and dangerous.

Imagine a link to your bank or crypto exchange, and it takes you to a phishing site - boom - money gone.
and unusable on firefox (on my up-to-date pixel c) with it being a bit better on chrome... ipad pro though, actually not too bad in safari (though it makes me wonder about how much of a hit in battery it would cause)
King-Beyond-The-Wall visits Castle Black; understands he must join forces with the southerners to fight the army of the dead because Winter is Coming.
Because the altercations included pro-Chinese language.
It used to be that on some web browsers, the background color for adwords and organic search was hard or impossible to distinguish. eBay is paying for placement and it also wants to mitigate potential issues where the organic result is not their site, they have top of page presence (if adblocker is turned off).
You can still grab vTask Studio via the WBM, thanks for that, shall be trying it out;

https://web.archive.org/web/20170927151003/http://www.vtasks...
Python uses the `elif` keyword if you want to place an `else if` on one line. And column indentation isn't very "pythonic", apparently.
Their webpage [0] has the construction cost at $3 billion for a ~700 MW reactor. This is about the same as the originally projected cost for the Flamanville EPR with 1600 MW, which now is expected to end up costing ~$10 Billion.
Now even if we assume - and thats a big assumption - they really can build the reactor for $3 Billion, that still equals ~$7 Billion in construction costs for a Flamanville sized reactor.

They do not put any number on their operating costs which makes it impossible to calculate the electricity price they need to break even. If there is any information out there it would be appreciated.

[0] https://www.nuscalepower.com/benefits/cost-competitive
I mean ... millions of people who barely maintain their homes avoid pool leaks, and when it does leak, it tends to be slow enough that they can call in a professional to fix the problem. Imagine a fastidiously maintained facility ... I think they can probably work it out
Ask HN: If and WHEN to open source software
I've written an API to handle forms on static web sites (like formspree.io but with different focus on features and architecture) and think about open sourcing it.

What keeps me from doing that is some questions/concerns I think I want to think through are holding me back.

1. It's not yet covered with tests because I started the project by prototyping with trial&error

2. The code quality is not bad but I wouldn't consider it being good either (I'm not sure if it's ready for prime time)

3. I haven't figured out what license I want to choose

4. I don't have time to maintain any open source project at the moment because I'm drowning in other tasks right now (just took the time to write the tool because I don't want to use services that rely on other services which complicates the legal stuff)

On the other hand I know I could learn something from issues, pull requests etc. and it would be a good way to:
a) improve security and code quality
b) give something back to the community (as I can't donate that much money right now)

What are your thoughts on this and do you have any advice or questions to help me sorting this out?

Thank you very much in advance for your time.
Python Community Interview with Bob and Julian of PyBites
I don't mind that. The slower transitions help showcase exactly what the animations are, and anyone should be able to change the css transition from 0.25s to whatever else they'd like it to be.
If you have to fight in court, there's a chance you already lost.

Get it to market first, holding the market is marginally less difficult when you move first.
This is something that cannot be fixed with electronic votes, because if the powers that be cannot corrupt the system, they won't choose to use it.
Show HN: Bambuser – Ultra low latency live streaming SDK
Only for major claims though. If Uber stole $25 from me, it isn't worth taking a day off work to go to the arbitration session.
I guess it depends on how core you view certain parts of your personality as being.

If "you" is "an introvert who isn't good with people", then "learning to be good with people" must be some kind of faking it. Rather than a change in view/approach which actually makes you like people and not be afraid of them.
Signaling, Victory, and Strategy in France’s Military Cyber Doctrine
Comet looks great, thanks for the suggestion.
It's also strange how quick people in this very thread are to brush it off and shift the blame. "An authoritarian communist regime is engaging in human rights violations? This is capitalism's fault :^)"
Interesting that this is "news" when the medical understanding of fasting and ketosis is pretty far along.

Highly recommend the book "The Complete Guide to Fasting" by Dr. Jason Fung.

When you think about it, while the "naturalness" argument is always suspect, it's very odd that humans eat as often as we do in the US, and unsurprising that negative health consequences follow (and positive health consequences follow fasting).
Building from Source in Homebrew and Chocolatey [video]
The shoots are supposedly edible, but the farmers of japan use so much pesticides I never attempted it.
Those things are true, but the OP said that "Japan" has to be taken down.

As a not unrelated aside, nationalism is on the rise everywhere and if this doesn't change there will be new wars and possibly another (very) big one. I am personally freaked out very much by the rise of nationalism in the EU where I live. I'm not one to trivialise waving flags at a war memorial.

But- again, why does this indict the entire of Japan? Are all Japanese likely to go wave imperial flags at Meiji?
It's fun, it's visual, it's a whole new dimension!
"It's always blowing my mind that smart/rich people invest time/energy/money in such useless ventures"

Consider that they are trying to make money, and from that premise, they are not 'useless ventures'.

All food products are commodities: even cola, energy drinks.

Coca Cola, RedBull are by far and away brands more than they are 'good products'.

Evian water sells for 30% more than unbranded water, that's the power of brand.

From a certain perspective, of course it's useless, because it's just branded water obviously, it's in a way offensive to our sensibilities ... but it's smart.

The brand is pretty good. It's a little risky but it almost makes sense.

In restaurants, they charge you more for branded water, and they make you feel like a dolt for drinking 'tap water'. They make a lot of money selling it.

This is the 'bar' equivalent: you can drink 'tap water' like a broke school kid or have a can of 'liquid death' while your bros drink up. Then you don't look like 'sissy' (or choose your own term if that offends the sensibilities). Obviously it's ridiculous, but that's what consumerism is.

I saw this in the news yesterday and immediately flagged it to my marketing friends. It's not a stupid idea.
Dune (which was based on the concept of a hydraulic empire)

"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." - Frank Herbert, Dune
> If that is the true motive

I'm going to go on a limb and say the true motive is financial, the motive for PR is "safety".
The Magic of Roundabouts