skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one eats on the Beijing subway anyway.

Some context for non-China subway readers:

Compared to NA/EU, staffing is very high.

All bags must go through x-ray scanners when entering any station. Any bottle of water is suspect and needs a sip from, a trusting nod from security (like: supermarket shopping) or to be discarded. 2-4 security staff and an x-ray machine or two are at any entrance to a ticket hall at all subway stations.

I've never seen someone chomp down a hamburger or jianbing when going through an entrance. I've actually never seen someone eat on a train on daily subway commutes in Beijing, Shanghai yes but not a lot and not in rush hour.

Beijing subway also has an 'attendant' (someone in uniformed black with an arm band, not police, just 'security') for every 2-3 carriages of every train going through 'downtown' (not sure Beijing has a downtown, but within the 3rd rind road). Other China subways don't have this, it's a Beijing thing.
I was talking about Flexport, not Amazon.
OpenFL Next
Japan to ask municipalities dispose of industrial plastic waste due to China ban
Self driving cars will be a godsend to congested cities, maybe not in America where there won’t enough political will to ban manual driven cars in mega cities, but definitely in Asia, and especially in China.

I haven’t seen anything like Beijing or Manila since moving to LA and then Seattle, America has first world traffic problems only.
Extreme low-carb diet may speed aging and dull cognition: Japanese mice study
Act of Kindness: Dubai Restaurant Offers Free Meals to Jobless People
As it turns out I don't actually have any original ideas
Reddit's status page has some interesting stats. The vote backlog on posts is over 5.6 million https://reddit.statuspage.io/
That's not the issue and not the cause of this.

The problem is the extreme power imbalance, where any woman you interact with can snap her fingers and destroy your life/career.

Let me put it this way: It's incredibly rare that a bear attacks a human. But pretty much everyone will still avoid a bear if they can. This has nothing to do with "don't piss off the bear and you'll be fine" and everything to do with "if that bear does decide to attack you, you are completely defenseless".
Japan's 7-11, Lawson to discount foods close to expiration in bid to cut waste
That's not really a solution. The problem with nuclear is the risk of a meltdown and risk of radioactive release. Both risks must absolutely be reduced to 0% chance of occurring. In other words, reactors need to be created such that it is virtually impossible for a meltdown to occur. Likewise, the reactor needs to eliminate all radioactive waste from even being created or to confine it permanently at the site of creation.

If we are using existing reactor technology then basically these nuclear plants would basically have to built thousands of feet below ground in some sort of solid rock area and then waste areas would need to be created such that it can contain the waste for hundreds of thousands of years. If an absolute disaster were to occur then the entire underground facility would need to basically be completely sealed off permanently before radioactive dust or materials are leaked. The facility would also need to be designed such that even if a disaster occurs that an underground nuclear explosion does not occur and if it does occur that it is not so massive that it somehow bursts out to the surface or creates fissures.

Currently I am anti-nuclear based on the existing way things are run but if nuclear is implemented correctly, with safety as the most important priority, then I would support it. If I recall correctly, there is a company funded by Bill Gates that is creating micro reactors. That might have potential in the underground nuclear facility I have.
> We're accustomed to that after Gutenberg: it wasn't that easy losing every copy of an important document.

The effort has been made. Look at what happened with Tibet:

> Caroe pulled off a rather notorious subterfuge in order to buttress the British claim to Tawang: he published the Simla Convention for the first time in 1938 with a note misrepresenting that it had included settlement of the border (and alienation of Tawang); and he arranged for the publication of official Survey of India maps that, for the first time, showed the McMahon Line as the official boundary. To advance the narrative, he also corresponded with commercial atlas publishers to put the McMahon Line on their maps as well.

> In a telling indication of Caroe’s jiggery-pokery, to avoid the awkward question of why he was first publishing the Simla Convention twenty-four years after the fact in 1938, he instead arranged for the surreptitious printing of a spurious back-dated edition of Aitchison, deleting the original note about the Chinese government’s non-signature, and replacing it with a lengthy note stating, quite falsely, that “The [Simla] Convention included a definition of boundaries…”

> Since 1) the McMahon Line had been concluded in secret bilateral negotiations between Tibet and Great Britain outside the Convention and 2) the Chinese had officially refused to recognize any bilateral agreement, boundary or otherwise, between Tibet and Great Britain and 3) had declined to sign the Simla Convention itself and 4) had notified Great Britain in 1914 that the specific sticking point was “the boundaries” this was hoo-hah.

> The replacement copy was distributed to various libraries with instructions to withdraw and destroy the original edition.

> The subterfuge was only discovered in 1963 when J.A. Addis, a British diplomat, discovered a surviving copy of the original edition at Harvard and compared it to Caroe’s version.

( http://www.unz.com/plee/the-myth-of-the-mcmahon-line/ )

Wikipedia confirms this, if you look hard, in a shockingly non-judgmental way:

> Simla was initially rejected by the Government of India as incompatible with the 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention. The official treaty record, C.U. Aitchison's A Collection of Treaties, was published with a note stating that no binding agreement had been reached at Simla. Since the condition (agreement with China) specified by the accord was not met, the Tibetan government didn't agree with the McMahon Line.

> The Anglo-Russian Convention was renounced by Russia and Britain jointly in 1921, but the McMahon Line was forgotten until 1935, when interest was revived by civil service officer Olaf Caroe. The Survey of India published a map showing the McMahon Line as the official boundary in 1937. In 1938, the British published the Simla Convention in Aitchison's Treaties. A volume published earlier was recalled from libraries and replaced with a volume that includes the Simla Convention together with an editor's note stating that Tibet and Britain, but not China, accepted the agreement as binding. The replacement volume has a false 1929 publication date.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simla_Accord_(1914) )
He literally gave a good example for the question that was asked. I'm so confused by this thread.
I deploy to hundreds of machines at work, but that is just load balanced RPC and message queue processing workloads, interacting with other load balanced RPC and message queue workloads. The little information I can make sense of about “HPC” does not seem familiar through that lens.
I remember people used to do this in Germany when I was a kid ~20 years ago at bigger shops. They would walk up to people loading their cars and ask if they can return the cart for them. I always perceived it as a form of begging. Nowadays I don't see it anymore.
My gut feeling tells me not to believe their promises that it's impossible to deduce the data from the model updates. That there should be attacks.

My stylistic criticism is that they portray white men in a demeaning way that they would never dare do to any other group.

edited to make a weaker claim
This sounds a lot closer to Pak'n'Save of New Zealand than the Aldi's we have in Australia.

Seems like they might have quite a lot of variation on locality.

Ive noticed this in the small too, some suburbs have much better Aldi's than others when it comes to selection.
Yes. My mom uses Keto as a way to manage her Type 2 diabetes and my doctor says that she keeps herself...juuust under the threshold to be diagnosed as diabetic.
Title is clickbait.

It should be “how to unfold your folding boat in 60 seconds”.
There was a proposal a few years ago to add array comprehensions to the language, but it was ultimately rejected in favour of using .map/.filter instead.

Not sure what came about of object comprehensions though.
If there's one thing Hacker News lacks, it's biting criticism and pessimism :P

Kidding aside, I see your point. I guess it's important to distinguish between criticism and dismissal of an idea. "Dropbox is just rsync" seems like a dismissal, not a critical look at the validity of the idea. And Lily Allen turning down bitcoin? Well honestly I'm a little with her on that one. "Oh yeah can you perform and we'll pay you with a totally legit online currency we swear." Not exactly a great sell.
You literally accused me of “personally accosting” the other poster. I’m starting to think you are not posting in good faith
I thought it went too crazy on the tech. The ring habitat was fine but the spinning things that catapult them into space seemed a bit too far fetched.
Broke in Berlin – The city risks repeating history with its housing proposals
The problem with the Jones Act isn’t so much that the ships have to be US flagged - that’s a natural requirement for a domestic operation. The problem is that it requires them to be US built but the US no longer has a competitive shipbuilding industry.
Sony shows 2% YOY growth for its 'Imaging Products and Solutions' division
A multi-million insurance fraud that preyed on disease, poverty, desperation
> I wouldn't be surprised if companies started having everything recorded at some point.

More and more I’m seeing managers have their 1:1s in public areas, such as cafeterias or outdoor seating.
I'd expect them to increase the price for decrypting this particular file you've chosen rather than actually decrypting it then.
I've been getting someone's utility bills, monthly payment reminders, and monthly payment confirmations at myname@gmail.com. I contacted the power company, said they were emailing the wrong person, and asked if they could make the emails stop. Even though I emailed from the account that was receiving the messages, they said they can't change the email preferences since I'm not the account-holder. A nice little Catch-22.
You forgot another important bit: the pickup area after their conveyor belt is one of the shortest out there, which forces customers to pack in a hurry so as to keep up with how fast the cashier is going.

Speaking for myself, it's the part that annoys me most when I shop at one. I get why they designed their POS it, but it's just obnoxious for the elderly and for parents with by small children.

It would seem simple enough to solve, too: just add two such areas.
Boeing 737 Max Simulators Are in High Demand. They Are Flawed.
Rustler doesn't get the notice it deserves. I see people talk about using Rust to extend Ruby and Python and Node all the time, but none of those value concurrency-safety as much as Erlang does, and in the domains people tend to use Erlang for, the difference between using C and using Rust for NIFs matters even more than in typical back-end serverland.
No Starch Press (https://nostarch.com/) also may work, they care a lot about their craft.
Probably caused by decouling between buy price and realised sell price.

You might also find the white is partly a byproduct that needs to be made no matter what.

And this brings me to what also is truly good at, they own the full chain and leverage it.

There are certain products I notice that only come in stock some years and it seems like they're made out of excess produce.

I.e. a cereal I like is made entirely out of these chunky things that usually go in as additives to other cereals. It looks like they only stock it when they have a cheap wheat price.

Another one is the nut bars and what kind of fruits they have mixed in.
I was with him until the middle.

Lack of inter-generational knowledge transfer doesn't cut it. Most of the people who rolled this stuff are still alive. And as for the whipper-snappers: people don't get very far writing programming languages/video games/operating systems without knowing their stuff.

The real boogeyman is feature combinatorics. When making a tightly-integrated product (which people tend to expect these days), adding "just" one new feature (when you already have 100 of them) means touching several (if not all 100) things.

Take OpenBSD for example: When you have a volunteer project by nerds for nerds, prioritizing getting it right (over having the fastest benchmark or feature-parity with X) is still manageable.

Bring that into a market scenario (where buyers have a vague to non-existent understanding of what they're even buying), and we get what we get. Software companies live and die by benchmark and feature parity, and as long as it crashes and frustrates less than the other guy's product, the cash will keep coming in.
Most GM crops fall into one of two categories: either engineered to resist chemical herbicides, or engineered to produce insecticides themselves. When herbicides are used on resistant crops, over time the weeds develop resistance, leading to the use of even more chemicals. Crops engineered to produce insecticides on the other hand produce toxins that are not only harmful to pests but other insects such as butterflies, moths and insect pollinators.
This looks great, maybe I'll go on May 23rd when it's in theaters. A new doc on B-17 using unseen footage, the real experience of flying (and some who died apparently) as a gunner.
Well, I disagree with that characterisation of the affair, but ultimately it’s irrelevant. He was literally fired for making people (in this case, women) uncomfortable.

Doesn’t matter whether you agree or disagree with the firing, but that was unquestionably the reason.
> you have to think where you mine

Never straight down. Or straight up. Ye gods, the lava.
The analog of General Magic is not a smartphone company 12 years post-iPhone. It would be something more forward-looking, but hardware wise I am not sure of the next big idea that would have that same magnitude.
As Deadline Passes, Riot Games Doesn’t Budge on Key Walkout Issue
> Just pick a new name every week.

Can't a bitcoin (or whatever a cryptocurrency) recipient ID be used as a brand name?
I'd love to move over to FastMail, but I'm not sure that 100% of all my outgoing mails will land in people's primary inbox. I've heard Gmail sometimes marks non gmail (and even @google.com) emails as spam and its imperative for my emails send. Does anyone know if Fastmail is reliable?
Without knowing it exactly I have an idea that Norway might be a harder nut to crack because it is outside the EU and some rules don't apply there. I seem to remember something like a butter (?) crisis over there some time ago. That could never happen in a country that has fluent trade with its neighbors.
I'm kind of getting tired of his proclamations. He's done incredible things, but a major major reason their q1 was such a disaster was they had a bunch of cars on ships and they didn't get delivered in time to have enough sales to cover the costs of producing and shipping them. That was just stupid.

Use your 'genius' and ability to push through changes at your companies to get to a continuous delivery, production and sales company.
Linked paper on using this for Google Keyboard (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.10635.pdf) highlights that there are nevertheless still privacy issues with this approach:

While Federated Learning removes the need to upload raw user material — here OOV words — to the server, the privacy risk of unintended memorization still exists (as demonstrated in (Carlini et al., 2018)). Such risk can be mitigated, usually with some accuracy cost, using techniques including differential privacy (McMahan et al., 2018). Exploring these trade-offs is beyond the scope of this paper.
Secure aggregation isn’t meaningless, but you’re right that it’s the wrong tool for the problem you’re talking about. The right tool is differential privacy.

Differential privacy is exactly meant for this, in fact. Differential privacy adds a certain amount of randomly-generated noise to client inputs. The result is that, statistically speaking, it’s impossible to tell the difference between a model with your data in it and a model without your data in it.

Arguably the reason the comic doesn’t mention differential privacy is that it’s neither new nor invented at Google. Or maybe just because it’s not technically part of federated learning. But the “federated learning at scale” paper Google put out mentions it, and says they have implemented DP techniques.
That was a description, not an accusation. If you can think of a more accurate phrase to describe when someone cuts abruptly to a bald personal question without clarifying why, or establishing good faith, while hinting ("I assume") that they don't mean it neutrally—I'd be happy to edit my description. It's hard to find precise language for these things.
Where's the community? Interested to see what they're building.
Thanks! I tried Thunderbird a couple of months ago and abandoned it because its UX seemed to not have really progressed in a number of years -- I hadn't used it since the Netscape Communicator days but it seemed... somewhat the same.

Although I realize these days a number of modern clients store copies of your email on their own servers for push notifications (or more nefarious) purposes, so maybe Thunderbird really still is the best option out there. Regardless, thanks for taking the time!
So what are these people proposing?

1. we should uncritically believe any woman who makes any claim of sexual assault

2. We shouldn't have any expectations of women who makes any claim for sexual assault - essentially behavior inconsistent with sexual assault should not take away from a woman's claims of sexual assault.

3. Despite the enormous risks this presents in the form of false accusations, and the gravity of the harm he suffers should he be falsely accused, men should still seek out women and feel when around women.

Do they really think any one who isn't insane would invite that kind of risk to himself?

As a criminal lawyer I can attest that there are judges and prosecutors, at least here in Canada, who take just this type of stance. Given this new reality, why would any sensible man put themselves at such risk to be near a woman? Would you feel free around someone who can at any time arbitrarily have you locked up? Would you want to be around someone with that much power over you?

I understand that often preached "no means no" and "consent." But the reality is nothing sexual has to happen for someone to make an allegation. Clearly some people make false accusations, that's why public mischief is a crime and people are locked up for it. What's the prevalence of false accusations? Nobody knows. Advocats of me too say it's less than 1%, others say it's over 80% but the reality is nobody knows for sure.

We're basically in communist style governments where any kind of accusations of impropriety could get you thrown in jail without any reasonable analysis. In such a world the only reasonable solution is to stay away from members of the official party and their supporters.

If we want women to be treated as equals in the workplace than female victims of crime should be treated no different than male victims of crime. The burden of proof should be the same for accused on all sides and it should be reasonable doubt not "believe a woman."
The number and extent of laws is proportional to the populace's incivility.
Interesting. Over here they're called footpaths in everyday spoken language.
To Build a Better Teapot, Researchers Create Liquid Helix
> By their first day of work, employees at Riot waive their right to get any lawsuit against the company in front of a jury.

This can't be legal... can it?
> sure they might have to catheter themselves a few times a day and give themselves enemas and sleep with a CPAP, but is that better than not existing?

Existing when everything's fine is barely better than not existing! This is horrific.

> I think so, but I don’t think it’s my place to tell other people what to believe.

It's even less your place to tell other people they have to live with conditions like this their entire lives. I will never have kids because of these risks, not until self euthanasia becomes completely legal.
I have a feeling there are plenty of excellent NIFs for most situations so most people using Elixir haven't been very dependent on Rust optimizations. Especially the web people who usually don't need that level of optimization, unless you're a giant like Discord, which is relatively unique.

Although I wouldn't be surprised to see more and more of Rustler as both Elixir and Rust gain in popularity. There's probably plenty of low-hanging performance fruit for any future rustler devs.
I would think that the most lucrative thing would be to create permanent space colonies for

1. Sending most of the people there instead of destroying slowly but surely our environment here

2. As an insurance against point 1 failing.
This exists now :)
Ok, but thats just screwing over everyone, right? Is that really the kind of "equality" that we want?
Nanoscale ‘Signatures’ Could Keep Counterfeit Parts Out of Military Equipment
That actually seems to be the de-facto Python style. Even Guido said at some point that that's his convention.
I agree. Unfortunately we are heading in the other direction with less and less useful stuff being possible because “data”
You’re not wrong, but it does say those privacy risks can be mitigated with differential privacy. That McMahan et al. paper (which is also Google) makes the accuracy cost seem low.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06963
Oh, that's a simple one: lack of time. I too have some very old data in an archive that's on some old hard drive somewhere in a storage. Assuming the HD still works, I could go in there, destroy the data, and trash it. But I'm fairly certain I will never find a moment to do so.

Managing what data you keep is just too time consuming. Hoarding it all is simpler.