skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ancestral post of this thread is bemoaning supposed cultural deracination in Japan because of changes to immigration policy. It is hysterical to presume that the Japanese are about to flood their country "with change on the scale of a generation".

> does not mean that it is not itself pure

By what metric is a culture pure? How can information be pure? How far back in the timeline do you want to gauge purity? And at what point is it relevant to policy?
Crunch only supports one family of formats, DXT. (Unity has a fork that supports the ETC family, but it does not support decoding ETC and DXT from the same compressed file). Efficiently transcoding one compressed file to multiple compressed texture formats at load time is the key new feature that only Basis provides.
Big discussion 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14661239

(Provided for interest purposes. It doesn't qualify as a dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Putting the sim in another phone is a nasty trick. Seems to get around 2fa.

If what 2fa is protecting is more important than your phone, I think a SIM PIN is a good idea.
>Online porn is a million women at your finger tips that will never reject you so why go talk to woman in real life?

Online child erotica with a million cXXXXXXX at your finger tips that will never reject you so why go creep on primary schools in real life?
Made it the default in the update to be available tomorrow!
Is it really gender, not sex?
Check out BlockStudio [0] (disclaimer: I'm the creator) -- it lets you make simple retro-like games with a text-free program specification method (Programming By Demonstration).

[0] www.blockstudio.app
"A smart contract is written in program code, in which the logic of the program's execution enforce the terms of the contract. Smart contracts reduce costs by orders of magnitude, leading to a more cooperative world."

A. Most written and oral contracts aren't terrible expensive, especially when there is no disagreement between parties. I want to rent a property, I sign a lease and obey its terms. There's no extra cost unless there's some disagreement.

B. The situation where there is disagreement between parties is where things can get sticky. But with "smart contracts" being just automatically executing contracts, I can't see any way they really solve the problem. A smart contract can't by itself verify that goods are delivered, that the landlord has maintained a habitable space or that I am not destroying the property - except with third parties, who may be reliable but aren't automatically reliable and are something an ordinary contract can employ.

C. The legal system now actually takes into account the degree of sophistication of the parties involved in a contract. Contracts that tend to effect legally naive, average people generally don't allow unconsciable terms[1]. On the other hand, in most sophisticated markets nearly everything can be up for grabs. Which is to say the legal system provides a significant umbrella of protection for most people. Contracts that automatically execute would rip that away - except they wouldn't, because the legal system isn't going away any time soon. A person's ability to create and enforce a "smart contract", an automatically executing financial effect, is limited to what is ... legal. However automatic your effect is, you will find lawyers involved if your effect also isn't legal.

[1] https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/unconscionabl...
I'm not sure where it would help. The encoding process is slow so it wouldn't make sense to encode anything that changes like the inputs or activations, or the weights during training. You could maybe encode the weights after training but you'd really have to massage the data to fit into these formats, and the lossy perceptual tricks used here are designed for the human visual system, not high-dimensional convolution filters.
> Why not come up with a new name for the project instead of rage quitting?

Why should he change the project name when he originally have it first?

Also why did you have to frame it as rage quitting?
Time to give up on the UN.
More and more irrelevant every day.
Maybe you never worked in a company with good ansible practices.
I don't blame them, we in the developed countries have a duty to develop cost efficient carbon neutral growth strategies for our/their future...

We would be hypocrites if we tried to suppress their development after we've had our turn on the ride.
Passing laws like that is usually seen as "weak on crime" and is unpopular with politicians.
Hong Kong is significantly smaller than even Manhattan and still employs distance-based fares quite successfully.

I can go from my local station to the CBD (2 stops, around 5 minutes) and it costs roughly US$0.60; another 5 stops on the same line to get to my favorite restaurant bumps the journey to about 12 minutes and costs me ~$0.90. Crossing the harbor from Hong Kong island to the Kowloon peninsula takes less time but actually costs more (almost $1.50) thanks to tunnel fees.

On a side note, public transit timing is one thing that has been irrevocably ruined for me by living in HK. On my usual travel routes the train frequency is typically 2-3 minutes and during rush hour it’s on the order of 30 seconds - the next train often enters the platform just as the last car of the previous train leaves. Granted it does shut for a few hours each night, but even the other top Asian metro systems can't match it.

When I used to spend a lot of time in NYC (before moving to Asia) I had no problem with the subways; now it’s a significant consideration for me when thinking about moving.
Would a loophole be China labeling them as “enemy combatants” and then drone striking them? [1]

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

1. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
> For all the insane crap happening in the U.S., it has healthiest demography among all (large that is, not counting say Israel) developed countries.

Granted, it's better than in China, yes. But life expectancy is declining in the U.S. And France has a healthy demography and a stable population.
My experience is different. Believe it or not the type checker is actually inferior to Python + mypy. For example it is possible for variable to be nil, even when it is not a reference.

Types, it has int, int8, int16, int32, int64, uint, uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64 and also float32 and float64.

If you use anything besides int, int64 or float64 you will just have a lot of fun casting.

math.max() and math.min() only work on float64, you can easily use it with different types, and actually it is discouraged to use it with integers. So you need to roll your own if you want to work with integers. But ok, it is math so when you do math apparently you should work on floats because that's what scientists do, but then why it doesn't work with float32? You actually have to cast like

result := float32(math.max(float64(left), float64(right))

If you want to convert a string to an integer, you have nice strconv.ParseInt() where you can specify among other things a bitSize, great, but the resulting type is still int64, you will need to cast it. What about other types, using them is a nightmare, if they were not supposed to be used why not just have int and float type?

If you try to implement a data structure that stores objects, you either have to duplicate the code, use interface {} (looks like that's most common, but then you no longer get help from a type checker) or use generator (this seems best to me, but it is just automation of the first approach).

I don't understand why Go is getting so much good opinions, it is not an enjoyable language to program. The supposed killer feature which were go routines and channels are kind of meh and nothing that you couldn't replicate in other languages. Seems like people like its simplicity, does that mean the other languages are overwhelming?
Domain registration/DNS, Namecheap. For renewals I might try CloudFlare.

Hosting plain VMs, Vultr. Good performance/price and they give you an IPv4/IPv6 block stack. I also like to support Digital Ocean because they write such good docs.
> Remember when Linux and open source were paragons of security? Man, how times have changed....

I remember a time when Linux was a paragon of security compared to the corresponding Windows version, Windows 95. I do not remember a time when Linux had no vulnerabilities. What happened is not that Linux got worse but that Windows got much better.
The initial disappearance of even this minority is significant enough to impact the rest. Ecosystems are fragile, symbiotic systems.
You mean like the past 2 decades?
Dogma is a real problem in this industry. When OO came up suddenly everything had to be objects. So instead of writing

A=add(B,C)

You had to write

Adder AA;
A=AA.Add(B,C)

I remember endless discussions about this and people always argued that functions are not OO whereas I said OO is about state so no OO needed for adding two numbers.

Same with goto. In FORTRAN it was an essential tool but suddenly it became illegal and you had to write complex if statements and other things just to get the same effect.

I guess software is so complex that it’s very to always understand all drawbacks and advantages of something so you have to live by a set of rules that usually work and follow them blindly.
Nope. Definitely not just regulation. China has regulation in spades but the culture breaks it.

Culture plays a huge role. Source: first hand experience living in China (highly broken culture), Taiwan (pretty mature and functional culture, but with some problems like “the boss knows best even if he doesn’t”), India (seriously broken with the caste system but also a strong sense of propriety) and the US (mixed bag, comparable to Taiwan in a lot of ways).
Amazon doesn't have a majority shareholder. Most of these huge companies don't. Gates doesn't own a majority of Microsoft, Page and Brin even together don't own a majority of Google, etc. These companies are owned by everybody's retirement fund.

It's actually becoming rather a problem because you have these gigantic containers of wealth but there is no one captaining the ship who can do anything bold with it, because that requires shareholder approval but the underlying shareholders don't even know what companies they own much less have any idea what comes up for a vote. Meanwhile the fund managers are the most conservative people imaginable and are far more interested in stable returns than making the world a better place, so the entities that have the resources for moonshots don't have the stones to actually attempt them.
That’s the wrong takeaway from the recent Australian election.

The only reliable takeaway is that jobs are more important than climate to majority of voters in Queensland.
And dictators have a tendency to use expensive infrastructure that was built before they came into power. Setting everything up so that switching from a free society to a mass surveillance and state control hellhole is as easy as editing a config file is not a good idea.
that 30B in sales is revenue and not a profit. You combine all stuff sales they do together in all their warehouses and logistics and they don't combine together enough to beat the money that their AWS brings in. That 30B revenue costs almost 30B in expenses as well. You take out revenue in the form of advertising and it's almost nothing or negative depending on the quarter. As impressive as the revenue is, it's nothing if you can't turn a profit as a business. Anybody can buy something at wholesale, ship it to your door , not make any money on it and then take it back if it the company is unsatisfied.
Thanks a lot! That led me to find this November thread:

https://discuss.python.org/t/switch-pythons-parsing-tech-to-...

And I posted here about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/brz2y...

It looks like the set and dict literals I noticed weren't so much the motivating use cases, but even more fundamentally assignments and keyword args!
It's not even about the freedoms you get working in other countries. Once had a Japan client change some settings in their account which cause a different workflow to occur. I had to write an incident report for the issue.

It's like "if you change A to B, B will happen instead of A... If you want A to happen, select A..."

Another job we were processing the POS system records and tracking sales / inventory. The dates were converted from JST to UTC. Oneday the client rang and was raging on the phone because all the dates were wrong. Turns out they changed their setting from JST to some other time zone, so we converted from UTC to this other time zone. Incident report about why we store in UTC and why the values displayed wrong etc. Threats to drop us as a business because we "obviously don't know what we are doing"...
I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you,

On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird,

And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -

For goodness sake don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother,

And here is not a match for there

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,

And then there's dose and rose and lose -

Just look them up - and goose and choose,

And cork and work and card and ward,

And font and front and word and sword,

And do and go and thwart and cart -

Come, come, I've hardly made a start!

A dreadful language? Man alive! I'd mastered it when I was five!
I've been wondering - how much would it cost to hire people to subtly sabotage a large city in order to cause financial losses. Say you're a nation state and want to mess with your rivals. There's some optimum for how much you can spend to cause your rival to lose a dollar and still come out on top. That will depend in who you are and who your rival is.

It seems like it should be fairly good bang for buck, in this sense, to just hire people to drive around kind of slowly and badly. Nothing overtly aggressive, but a few dozen people driving slowly around a few select traffic circles around rush hour should really gum things up.

Even better if you can cajole some people into, say, pulling emergency stops on subways. Note I don't think that's what's happening in NYC, but this case does seem to show that a few people could cause outsized disturbances just by being assholes.
They are not blocked. They refuse to comply with Chinese censorship laws. There is a difference.

Not blocked in China: Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Tesla, Nike, Adidas, Polo, Gucci, Coach, Channel, Armani, General Motors, Ford, BMW, Mercedes, etc., etc., etc.,
Prime age labour force participation is looking up lately:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/08/02/the-recen...
C++ has solid "cleanup" constructs so I wonder why CPython is in C instead of C++. Is it portability, compilation speed, complexity control, transition cost, something else...
Are you sure that's the whole point? Undisputed superpower of the world isn't exactly a minor detail, I'm pretty sure China has that at least in the back of their minds.
Under the hood, there is already a very very long list covering those 35 years.. virtual memory, pre-emptive multitasking, micro kernels, mandatory and discretionary access control, advancements in file systems, system administration, etc, etc

As far as the UI is concerned, are you talking about increased productivity or just looking for the wow factor? I'm not convinced a change in UI paradigms is necessary for what people use computers for. Touch UIs are OK for consumption, but I feel severely handicapped without a keyboard/mouse when doing any moderately involved task. Email - slow, chat - slow, browsing - slow, file/photo/document management - slooow, content creation - slow, gaming - okay, programming - heh.
Python Debugging: How to Improve Your Skills
I decided I wanted to try this about a year ago.

So far I've learned C [0], x86 asm [1], read OSTEP [2] and begun hacking on xv6 ...and I still feel like I have years to go.

[0] http://www.knking.com/books/c2/index.html

[1] http://opensecuritytraining.info/

[2] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
Because corporations and governments always follow the laws they write and laws never get repealed and overridden.

The fourth amendment already has a bunch of exceptions to it, and the constitution is the highest legal framework in the land. Other laws mean diddly.
That’s not true. Tesla in China is a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise.
Say hi to Tony the Pony for me.
This is a British source that describes why the Chagos islands are so contentious:

https://politicsfirst.co.uk/editorials/britains-shame-the-et...
The decision to depend on an external device is going to suck in 30 years. This is where the OP1 shines. Meanwhile I have synthesizers from the 70's and 80's that still work well and sound amazing.
Driving is a privilege and if the government arbitrary removed it from a certain class of people it would be considered unjust. Here an example. California revoking all drivers license to people who moved to the state in the last 5 years. It’s perfectly legal and could have a good justification with easing congestion but is pretty unjust to people who need a car to get to work.
Ah. I was not aware of Forestry until I came across your post as well. Now I’m not sure which one I should go with.
How to Onboard AWS GuardDuty Data into Splunk
I appreciate your story and hope you're doing better now. I wonder why there's so little done about not only homelessness, but simply shelter. The homeless don't want to get in the way of people and the people don't want the homeless to get in their way. Yet the side with the resources doesn't seem to care to do much about it.
What are your thoughts on sharing your script? I have a few VPS and would love some new tools / proper setup. I have been learning as I go, learned a few day 1 things not to do, but would like to learn more about networking/coredumps. Cheers!
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You can set up a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise in China so no local partners are needed.

It’s what Tesla has done.
Isn't "keep it simple" also dogma?
The US being flooded with Chinese Fentanyl has always seemed like an echo to me, if not specifically engineered to be vengeful.
Eh? There absolutely are plausible scenarios. For example, the Permian-Triassic extinction event was probably the result of runaway warming, perhaps as a result of the "clathrate gun": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

This event resulted in 96% of marine species dying and 70% of land animals dying. I don't think anyone thinks such an event is certain or likely, but it is surely a "remote possibility".
I generally agree.

I've also defended Apple a lot in the past for usually "getting most things right" where other manufacturers just don't. And you're right, they deserve to be cut down for stupid solved-problems-a-decade-ago like coil whine and rattling fans.

My viewpoint comes from expecting better from Apple because they've been better in the past, and only have a small number of SKUs to deal with. 2006-2012 saw Apple introduce new generations that solved problems and almost unilaterally improved upon their predecessors. They made a few hiccups (such as 2008's glass displays), and 2009's non-removable batteries, but they were reasonable well-thought compromises. Apart from serviceability, the 2012-2015 Retina era did the same.

On the other hand, Dell/Lenovo/HP etc vomit product lines all over the place and have done for as long as I can remember. Seldom do they keep the same basic chassis for more than 2 releases, and even when they do they don't seem to learn lessons and iterate to improve.

In saying that, comparing 2019 XPS, Latitude, Inspiron, and ThinkPads to their 2012 counterparts show marked improvement in many aspects, and few regressions. I guess that's a sorry indictment of PC notebooks at the start of the decade more than anything else...

I guess you could call that unfair on Apple, but then you look at the price they ask for their machines and quickly forget about fairness...
Was there some kind of big breach in 2017? My account wasn't even pro! I just logged into my account after a couple months and someone else was using it!
I’ve read these articles as well. However, I don’t think one can infer generalisations about the culture of > 1 billion people by reading a few articles online.

I also don’t think that a ‘culture of dishonesty’ is an actual thing, or at least an appropriate application of the word ‘culture’. More close to reality is that China has a system of incentives which, perverse or otherwise, make ‘dishonesty’ more likely. This operates in Western culture as well, for example the activities of investment banks in the subprime loan crisis.

The distinction is important because it is difficult to change a culture but incentives can change overnight.
Culture is shaped by enforcement of regulation. It's the same thing.
I wonder if the personality test Amazon has during the prelim-interview can detect if you've read such books in the past.
Cutting off your thumb and half your forefinger is one-third of your hand, and I'm ok calling that 'most of' in context, especially if I hope to ever grasp things again :P
Right, I left the Bay Area as a child. I still have a grandmother and 5 of her 7 children there. Things were more affordable back in 1963.

I think it would be possible for a non-beginner Facebook employee willing to live in a 3-bedroom. It's not something I've seriously considered.

I've grown to like Brevard county, FL. It's cheap and peaceful. Walking to work is often possible, and for driving there isn't much traffic. Out here it is a long commute if you drive more than 20 minutes. You'd do that if you wanted 5 acres of land or an affordable beachfront property.
Is that supposed to be a problem?

Large data centers are strong candidates for renewable energy conversions because they need backup power regardless. If the "backup power" is supplied by renewables then that becomes the primary generation source and the power grid becomes the backup. Doing it that way is sustainable and profitable.