skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's frightening to see how a company can simply be banned from the use of common technical infrastructure like this. This is obviously a coordinated direct assault on Huawei, and whether you approve of the company or not, I think it's scary that this sort of attack is even possible.

With what we've been seeing domestically, people being banned from social media, payment processors, and banks and the like in a coordinated way, I suddenly feel very concerned when I see this happening to Huawei. It feels like we are rapidly entering a form of totalitarianism in the West.
that's some beautiful javascript code and great project structure here. got me thinking about a few things:
1. is the "index.js" in subfolders a nodejs thing?
2. does that turn subfolders into modules?
3. can you write and run that kind of javascript without nodejs?
Minor distributions have a minor impact. And the few people who use them presumably do so because they like the weird choices the distributions make.
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Firefox has a mode where you can choose from a dropdown of phone/tablet types, and it will set your user agent and screen size appropriately. I believe it's called "Responsive Design Mode."
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This http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/manual.php was set with the Coherent version of nroff. Result is damned excellent.
The reporting I saw on this was:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/us/politics/pelosi-doctor...

Video at top has her speaking at normal pace, and then shows a slowed-down version. Is this something you dispute? I have not followed the story at all, beyond seeing that article.
I think you just did.

Perfect world achieved!
That is not enough. What if I need three clearly distinguishable background colors to convey different states for list entries?
I also think it is true that local economies have been devastated by hand outs. It's a complex issue but it's also not.

There is no real excuse here as far as human cognitive ability goes. The problem is with morality.

I think these examples show that as humanity goes forward I think moral integrity/intelligence/bravery is more important to develop than our purely technological and scientific capabilities.
His follow-up, The Dichotomy of Leadership is almost as good, and his podcast is a constant source of motivation. I am a Marine so I feel like I am extremely biased, but, everyone I've shared his work with has felt it equally as rewarding.
> 6) for a very long time, FT’s top leadership (and I mean like the top 4-5 management layers, including all the excom and the CEO - basically anyone at VP level or above) came almost exclusively from a small group of engineers, the “Corps des Télécoms”

There will be plenty to write about the incredible damage done to France by polytechnicians in the last fifty years.

I used to work for another state owned company and they were still catapulting freshly graduated polytechnician to important management position when I left a couple years ago. It was beyond funny because all the good elements who had already proved they were good at the actual job were getting deprived of promotion and just weren't listened to when it came time to take decision. They then either became jaded and stopped contributing or just left.

Top management (themselves former polytechnicians) would keep communicating about how the rank and file was so ineffective and expensive while all their improvement plans kept failing.

Meanwhile, Polytechnique keeps using its clout to sabotage any effort to reform the French higher education system.
That's why they're users and not developers.
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NASA not Nasa. It’s an acronym not a word.
It is their main business. It has always been the first step before war against other country to support revolts and popular movements.

Sometimes, countries protect themselves using revolution in other countries. For example Lenin wanted to make the revolution in Germany, as they believed Russia was not prepared for revolution. Lenin was captured in Germany and released with the condition of not trying it again on Germany(or he would be shooted and killed) and sent to Russia, where he started the Soviet revolution.

For example, United States wanted to control the Panama channel, so they supported an "independence" movement against Colombia, so a new "free" country was created, that by "coincidence" gave the US the total control of it for a long time. Even today, the US is in control of it.

Before that, when the US felt the Spanish Empire was weak, they supported the "Cuba(and Philippines) libre" movement. People in Cuba and Philippines were very happy for the help until they realized the helpers army did not go away after the "independence". In Philippines the US exterminated over a million people, forcing everybody to speak English.

After Panama, the US continued supporting coups in other America's countries and around the world.

One of the most important movements the US supported was the popular movement in Persia, now Iran, because they wanted the British Empire to leave(so their own companies could enter and control the oil).

In the end, this movement converted Iran from secular country to a radical Islam one, and the Americans were ousted.

For the US it is routine creating havoc around the world, as the hegemonic power in the world that they are. All empires before had done that too.

They would love to be able to support popular movements in China or Russia as it is a threat for US hegemonic power in the future. Getting united China to disintegrate in several smaller countries would be a great victory.

But Chinese people already play the game.
Haha yeah I no longer use the device, since I use ear plugs. It’s a bit excessive for sure. Glad you got a kick out of it!
You're reusing a function, not a lifecycle.
I believe it's not a matter of "noise". Rather, metals and plasma are conductive up to a certain frequency. Beyond that frequency, resistance goes up and the material becomes transparent. This is basically because the electrons can't "keep up" with the electric field's oscillation so they are ineffective at screening it.
Was it the case here?
> This may be hard to realise with lots of devices and wireless connections.

Assuming that the latency of the wireless connections is at least relatively predictable, you could just introduce a suitable delay like with NTP time syncing, right? Of course, it's possible that the latency will be wildly unpredictable and in that case it's pretty much impossible, but that doesn't have to be the case.
I'm not sure if you mean, "Like most Lisps, it's more demo toy than practical tool," or, "Unlike most Lisps, it's more demo toy than practical tool." Depending on whether by "most Lisps" you mean most established Lisps or the numerical majority of Lisp implementations, I could see either reading, and your punctuation doesn't make it clear. There are a lot of zero-user toy Lisps out there.
Brave browser is far ahead of the game on this front. They enable you to disable scripts on a per-domain basis with a single click. Go to the site, lion icon -> click on block scripts, paywalls are gone with none of this bother with incognito modes, email generators, or other awkward work arounds. Works for NYT, WaPo, and most any site that relies on bait and switch paywalls.
Agreed. I feel it would also help to know why they recommended it. One sentence, no more than two. Sum it up, Twitter stylee.

That said, allow for down-votes would also help to add value. More or less, "read it, wouldn't recommend it." As it is, 5 recommends looks solid, but what if there were 10 don't recommend?
Number two is the enforced theme I was tslking about. Offset colors can be problematic for a number of reasons. The main one is that you don't know if the color that is generated that way has the right amount of contrast to each of the other colors it appears with and that the end result is something that is visually pleasing.
I remember in a conversation with a school friend taking about the superiority of Macs and how Windows had the reserved forward slash, and he replied that Macs had reserved the colon. I was shocked, I had never come across it before and immediately tried to or colons in my file names.
The terror stuff covers it from a negative perspective, from a more positive perspective the extensive legal documentation and case law for ethics might clear up a lot of definition questions, with a simple inversion applied.

For example, the DOE ethics of government conduct employee handbook lists 14 principles per Executive Order 12674 and principle number 11 of ethical good government conduct is:

"Employees shall disclose waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption to appropriate authorities."

So... if ethics executive order specifically defines good government conduct as disclosure of abuse and corruption, it seems legally realistic to argue that the logical inversion would be terrorism would be preventing disclosure of abuse and corruption.

So there is a very realistic legal argument that the government employees hounding Assange are clearly acting as terrorists, and he's the good guy, which is the whole point of the long form article, the deep state may regret essentially making fools of themselves. So is the deep state so strongly in power they don't have to care about making fools of themselves, or ...
Sorry, I don't read stuff by people who watch tentacle porn with their family. Fun fact about ol Kurt: He had an internet troll arrested over a flashing tweet because Kurt is too fucking stupid to turn off auto-play and gets seizures from flashing lights.

Sorry Kurt, you're SUS.
The challenge of lignin decomposition is why we have (most) coal.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01...
There are tons of resources at https://www.tug.org/texlive/. If you download it there are many included.
Okay, this is maybe more reasonable than I expected. I believe distros shipping non-default stylesheets are the target here? They seem to explicitly acknowledge users can do whatever they want.

> If you like to tinker with your own system, that’s fine with us. However, if you change things like stylesheets and icons, you should be aware that you’re in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.

Which is a sentiment I can get behind. Telling distributors that they need to make it clear the styling might break things is not wholly unreasonable.
Some articles to consider:

Myths and Truths about Fiber
https://chriskresser.com/myths-and-truths-about-fiber/

The hot air and cold facts of dietary fibre
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2659900/
> Time you “waste” looking out the window, thinking about life is not instant gratification and doesn’t beg you to come back whenever you can.

Exactly.

Now compare the difference between what you said and the trite "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time" that I responded to. That's my point.
This sums it up well. If all your achievements, with the exception things like professional growth, was not directly derived from these high level OKRs then middle management has failed in the assignment of work.

The hilarious thing where I work is at the end of each week I have to manually enter the hours I worked and I have N charge numbers to split up those hours. If you read the line item for each charge number it's basically a synopsis of one or more OKRs.

All this to say, from an engineer's point of view it seems with just a few tweaks in JIRA and Gitlab, review input could be created by running a report on commit history over the date range the review covers.
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> There were also assignments given to each student in turn, of the type "this is the position you are going to defend -- you have two hours to prepare, then you must front a debate in front of the class where you defend this viewpoint, regardless of whether you agree with it or not".

Unless the positions were somehow inherently dangerous (i.e. advocating violence or similar) that's how you learn to debate. It forces you to consider viewpoints that don't align with your gut instinct.

In the US, high school debate competitions all revolve around a single topic, and you alternate rounds between defending and opposing it. One such topic I recall a lot of people struggling with (compared to other topics) was "An oppressive government is better than no government" or something along those lines.

Now, if the debate were something like "Women deserve to be paid less than men" I can understand being exceptionally uncomfortable being forced to defend that position.
Your assertion is incorrect. Even if it weren't, giving my distro permission to brand my desktop would not give anyone else the right to do the same.
Disable all notifications except direct messages, and reminders that you create yourself.

Delete all apps that are designed to be checked over and over.

Put all other apps that could be checked over and over (finance, video streaming, shopping - believe me) inside folders, on screens behind the main screen. You should have to consciously look for them when you actually need them.

Don't sign in to any social sites in your browser, and don't let favorites or recents give you colorful icons for your frequented sites. Force yourself to type in the website you want to go to.

My home screen consists of music, direct communication, maps, notes/calendar/contacts, and the web browser. None of these can be idly checked except the web browser. They all encourage intentional interaction or none at all. Sometimes I open my phone subconsciously, look at the icons, and put it away again because there's nothing to be done.
Pretty sure I got some interviews just because of how "pretty" my resume was.

Definitely. I've had interviewers start by thanking me for my CV being well-formatted and also short.

Ha. I've just noticed that as I type this, I have literally in front of me on my desk Eijkhout's "Tex by Topic", Lamport's latex book and "The Latex Companion" by Goosens et al. This must be where I do most of my pretty document making.
> Property Exchange uses JSON inside of the System Exclusive messages.

For some reason this made me lol. The idea of cramming some JSON inside a SysEx seems crazy.

Hopefully the timing is actually improved in 2.0. Once you are past “hello world” getting midi gear to sync up has always been a nightmare.
The ability to run what you want and modify what you want is different from design freedom.
Solving problems the Clojure way
You beat me to it! For those who haven’t read The Iliad, and prefer audiobooks, check out the Robert Fagles’ version voiced by Derek Jacobi.
I'd welcome an example if you can find a media group that's neutral and factual about everything they cover.
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This is what it was initially designed for.
I'd be interested in seeing additional options for grpc/gogo support for the proto generation, as well as integration with myitcv's gobin.
> It wasn’t the conclusion of the study, or its researchers. But in the bombastic world of science reporting, it didn’t really matter.

This right here is the crux of the whole thing. Science reporting biases towards clicks and shares instead of accuracy. There is still some good science reporting out there, but it doesn't sell like the sensational headlines.
My experience has been there are definitely people who become very proficient with sql while not knowing any other programming but they generally hit a ceiling. For most people they can do joins and some basic nesting but they start getting out of their elements if you mention window functions, ctes etc
Org rifle also does word (substring) search in any order in the title+description if you type multiple words separated with spaces.
I see your point. But beware that if you make app developers go mad, they can stop using gnome and use some fw that doesn't allow theming (there is only certain level you can piss off the people :).
I do this but then I just type to an unsigned-in Reddit and get the crappy front page instead of at least a controllable selection of topics. The web browser is the killer of this strategy.
Very poorly argued. The premise ignores that many of those superpowers are available on your computer. So giving up the phone is not as big a sacrifice as is being claimed.
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Ray Dalio's Principles is becoming my favorite book of the year; despite it being ~500 pages, there's so much super relevant content to company building and generally very applicable principles that help with day to day conduct.

While most books I've read are tactical or strategic, this book talks about the philosophical -- especially recommended for founders beyond the scrappy MVP stage, perhaps a team > 10
This quote is amusing:

"there’s even an open archive maintained by Cornell University where authors of papers in physics, chemistry, and other disciplines can directly submit their LaTeX manuscripts for open viewing."

for two reasons:

1) sounds like 'there's even a church at Vatican' seen that arXiv.org is the biggest ever collection of scientific articles submitted by their authors

2) and there's no chemistry section in arXiv.org, but a half is mathematics and some computer science
They don't. The biggest thing people on HN tend not to realize is that they aren't the target market for this kind of stuff. Alerts drive engagement, otherwise devs wouldn't waste the time to put them in. Same with ads and analytics stuff, they are a nightmare to put in and maintain but it's the surest way to make money.
Yeah I disagree that the users have to contribute something back. Half the value of a project comes from the users. The other half comes from the developers. If no one uses your software then it's worthless and it wouldn't matter if you spent all day playing video games instead. If someone else does end up using your software and builds a business around it and you don't like it then you should either start a business yourself or alternatively think of your work as returning the favor to all the other open source developers who have worked for free and will benefit from your project directly or indirectly by making proprietary software cheaper.
> I personally don't see the point in elaborate theming systems (I'd prefer to just have control over the colours, and maybe one or two of the spacing variables), and it is obvious that they cost a lot of cycles at run time....

Consistency and overriding bad decisions.
> "selectively editing" a video to make someone look drunk

No, I don't have anything that specific in mind, but there's enough examples even in recent history of "selective editing" clearly aimed at taking people down, out of context. And yes, let me say it again, "on both sides".

This is probably driven by the fact that outrage brings views, and views bring money + influence to such media groups, and then it's just an extra step to manufacture outrage for your own benefits. That's why all sides do it: same incentives at play.
Just removing my email from the home page so I have to go to a web interface instead has made me far less neurotic about checking it. Before I’d check hourly, now I check it a couple times a week. And nothing bad has happened because of it.
It seems lignin actually has flame retardant properties, so unless they are adding some additional chemicals to make this wood fire resistant, it is probably even more flammable than normal wood.
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Yeah. This has a whiff of that "let me disable the back button!" whining from 1990s webdevs.
Tiananmen Square: China 30 Years On
Above I only described the general concept which can be implemented with various tools.

I personally use Autohotkey on Windows for the global hotkeys which when pressed activate my running emacs for new note or search (I use orgmode in emacs for notes). And for searching I use the org-rifle package.
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NPR, BBC, Reuters, PBS, C-SPAN. You may have also heard of the Associated Press.

You know what would be REALLY neat? Like it'd absolutely tickle my pickle? For people trying to blandly "both sides" this to provide substantial evidence this is an endemic, inherit problem and that's it not really just one side who consistently misrepresents scientific and civic issues? Because even if you take the claim at face value, there is clearly a very appreciable gap in how these biases are applied and used.

This style of rhetoric and view point is irritating to see and engage with, because it's just cynicism masquerading as wisdom or insight, and it completely stifles constructive progress around these subjects.
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Then you should fix your app so it can be used by color-blind users. Aside from that, you should use distinguishable background colors A, B and C specified by the system color theme. It's more likely that its designer has considered accessibility issues than that every single app developer has.
Good info. You should write more here; lately HN is gaining an anti-meat bias, but it seems that is starting to change.
I sure hope that those who are dismissive of a wealth tax are offering alternative proposals that would fix this problem. I don't want a world where a handful of random babies a born into more wealth than the bottom one billion humans will ever have.
Re downvotes: the problem with that is sometimes book recommendations can be very personal or context-dependent. Sure 10 might not recommend, but what if the recommendations come from people whose background / experience / goals better align with yours? I included profiles for each founder under every book for exactly that reason — so you can learn more about them and about what might have driven these recommendations.
It's always a good sign that you're communicating clearly when you have to add a big yellow disclaimer at the top.
+1. if you want to take it a step further, move all apps to folders in the second screen. this leaves you with a blank screen when opening the phone, and essentially forces you to search for the app you need instead of browse through your apps and potentially get distracted.

i tweak my (iOS) spotlight settings to only search apps, which makes the whole flow as simple as:

- unlock phone
- swipe down anywhere on screen
- type first 2-3 letters of app name
- open app

within a few days, this gets to feel intuitive, and much quicker than paging through lots of apps. even better, it forces you to know which app you want ahead of time, reducing chance of distraction.

this may seem subtle, but it’s been huge for me in reducing idle/wasted time on the phone.

edit: formatting
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
Nobody is saying that you must not apply your favourite theme to whatever apps you like on your own computer. Not me, not the linked article.

If themes are so important to you, pick your app based on that criteria. If you think an app is garbage because it doesn’t theme well, fork it and write a better version yourself.
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Can they figure out and are they comfortable maintaining their site with Jekyll now, like including images into their posts? Are they in for a surprise when you leave and they need to make an edit?

You usually can't just replace Wordpress with Jekyll and call it a day since non-technical people need to maintain the site. Though it's super nice when you can.