skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaders always know they have to answer to voters. So They cannot just do whatever they want. The communist party in China does not have to answer to voters. So they can do whatever they want.

I concede that perhaps there are internal checks and balances in the communist party that I am unaware of.
This is the cause of many mongodb and redis woes as well.
That doesn't help if the problem is a bandwidth congestion problem.
That's great for the both of you. But workaholics shouldn't get to dictate the norms for the rest of humanity.
Why is it unethical? They are upfront about what you are paying for (or not paying for) and they are upfront about the hardware being present in the car.
the biggest advantage I see is that the game is open source instead of proprietary
> Japanese consider cetaceans just another fish.

And Japanese are short, can't speak English, too ?

We don't eat whale at home, never have, nobody we know eats whale, neither can you see whale on display as a matter of course around you in Japan. Sure, you can find it if you want it. Also, even children as a rule can usually explain what a whale is, and how is different compared to, say, tuna or mackerel. Schools are a wonderful thing.

That said, your other point is quite apropos on the massive hypocrisy in general when it comes to meat and fish consumption.

The horrific process that brings chicken or beef to people's plates would be something to consider way before looking at whaling.

( Edit : Not vegetarian or vegan, by the way. )

( Edit 2 : And for clarity's sake : Not in favour of whaling for any reason, myself. )
Disney’s Moana already taught me everything there is to know!
He starts off with a decent point:

"The idea that any elite–let alone the child-worshipping Chinese–would murder its own children for demonstrating peacefully over legitimate grievances is even sillier than the notion that they were demonstrating about democracy."

Although the author is an obvious China shill:

http://www.unz.com/author/godfree-roberts/
I miss the pre-merger XM. Back when I was a subscriber you could listen for several days and hear virtually no repeats on a single station, there was a depth to the song selections that exposed me to lots of new artists. There were actual DJs on the air and there were only a few minutes worth of commercials per hour.

I recently had a SiriusXM trial and it seems like all the stations now have a fixed playlist that's limited to around 60 songs at a time, it was very much like domestic radio and it wasn't uncommon to hear the same song played multiple times in the same day.

Granted, it's still significantly better than local radio (RDU MSA doesn't even have a hard rock or modern rock station) I just can't justify spending money on it when I already have streaming capabilities via my phone - but I do miss the curated content of a human actually into the material.
Yes. Along 'chopping' - or reservation of seats using tissue paper, not returning utensils after eating in a hawker center. You die your problem. You suffer I sleep well tonight. Just google ugly Singaporean.

Yes those ugly habits are "in the Singaporean culture". I find it a lost cause to fight against it.

If everybody cheats, do you not cheat? Does that count as "in your culture"? If everybody takes bribes, do you not give them? Is that "in your culture"?

Our government wanted to ban spitting in public places. I still see old folks do it.

You need generational change to change culture. Or some catastrophe.
How Google is using Project Treble to improve future Android releases
That’s also making the point if you need to edit your message because you stand corrected, while very nice and very honest of you, it was misrepresentation at first shot.

Beside you can also imagine than two decade experience with replaceable batteries might also have come to play when they decided that they’re phones will never have one because of constraint on this form factor...
you can already do that without hacking anything, Spotify exposes that information through Apple Script:

if application "Spotify" is running then
tell application "Spotify"
if player state is playing then
return (get artist of current track) & " - " & (get name of current track)
else
return ""
end if
end tell
end if

source:
https://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/#scroll60

You can also install a collection of scripts from here: https://goldenchaos.net/goldenchaos-btt.html

You will need Better Touch Tool for that: https://folivora.ai/
I've seen "play for fun" slot machines in bars in states that don't allow them. If you won, the bartender would discreetly pay you.

A few years ago there were internet cafes where you could buy internet time and receive "sweepstakes tickets," then play games that revealed if you won. They were effectively casinos.

If you ever look at a prostitute's website, they'll often emphasize that you're paying to spend time with them, not for anything sexual.

The problem with these workarounds is that they're basically an invitation to corruption.
competition can be a good motivator, but generally it isn't. especially not when it comes to something as complex and vaguely defined as learning.

competition matters when there is something scarce to win. but if we apply that to education we already have a problem, because education should not be scarce. hence competition is not the right way to decide who should get access to it.
I’m in Tahiti now and in preparation I started reading Sea People [1] which explores Polynesian culture and the westerner discovery of it. It’s a truly incredible story, most of which I never knew. Highly recommend the read, and doing so with a map handy.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sea-People-Polynesia-Christina-Thomps...
Same, technical and hands on, people love my work. Had a lot of trouble getting hired last time. Was unemployed for a year and whole family was a mere couple of weeks from homelessness when a govt contract finally came through. Next time I won’t be so lucky as little has changed, and feel the winds of recession picking up.
I'm not sure if you are in the industry, but attendance tracking is high up on most institutions lists of metrics to track. Aside from helping out the usual back office data, it's often a key indicator for students who are in trouble. The institution can then reach out and assist these students.
A video of how those look inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwyPEFC4Tsk&feature=youtu.be...
This expectation of yours does not sound reasonable. If a bakery has made 100 croissants, should they give them for free after breaking even, because the cost has been sunk anyway?

(Yes they can give them away for charity if they want, but that is charity, not business)
Just a week ago I wanted to factory-reset an old router before dumping it. Because my modern laptop doesn't have a LAN-connector, I used my old Eeepc with a 7" display.

Everything worked just fine until I was on the page where I was supposed to press the 'Confirm' button for the factory reset. It just wasn't anywhere and I was wondering what I was missing. So I started to dig into the framesets and finally found a frame where the code looked like there was that button.

Took me a while to find out how to press it (simply opening the frame in a separate window didn't work because there was some JS magic involved). The solution was to zoom out. So much fun when a task that was supposed to take 15 minutes takes 2 hours because someone built an over-the-top web-interface.
Hm, really, you are right. Now I need to visit Sagrada Familia again, multiple times - at different hours. And it's a good thing :) Thanks!
What I meant to say, there was a bit of an arms race going on, especially in higher education. The professors and teachers knew many (if not all) students were cheating, so they adjusted the difficulty accordingly, so that, as you point out, not everyone gets an A. I don't know if it's still going on.

And I did have a few professors which considered it a problem if more than half of their class passed the first time they took the exam.
I work on PSD2 implementation for a local bank. Will solve is correct, not many banks implement it yet (but "final" deadline is approaching). Also there are rate limits for PSD2 APIs. And also the extremely costly license, which means that there will have to be middlemen reselling PSD2 access.
Security and usability are always at the opposite end of the spectrum. Balance it wisely.
KDE Usability and Productivity: Week 74
Seems to me that the degeredation they discuss here operates on a very short time scale, completed within a few hours. This result is unlikely to matter significantly for lifetime.
Me: Sign up for service, don't use it until the trial runs out, probably forget I signed up.
How do you vacuum plastic from a beach?
Here in India, the University I attended requires a minimum attendance of 75%, or they won't allow you to sit the end of semester exams. Your attendance even accounts for 5% of the score of your end of semester exams for that course. Quite insane when you think about it.
Apple's recent forays into privacy rights has really lightened my opinion of them.
What if the proof is in metrics like lower rates of burn out, less sick days taken, higher morale, etc.?
The Day When Computers Can Break All Encryption Is Coming
In a company developers are fixed costs. Therefore estimating time is equivalent to estimate cost.

Requesting to estimate LOCs makes no sense. Worse, as any metric developers may be assessed on it can only lead to manipulations (i.e. wasting time on making code longer/shorter to fit the estimate).

I've never heard of such policy. Unfortunately (sorry to be blunt) often the "project manager" is the most clueless person the technical team has to deal with, and managing the project manager is a skill.
They needed some time to implement the software locking. So it was a choice between delaying delivery by a few weeks vs delivering with extra features and turning them off later.
I tried reading the paper. Seems relevant. if changes to manufacturing processes can eliminate the problem then you get a 10% improvement in power output.
Political affiliation? What would that have to do with working as a software engineer (for instance) at most companies?
Uber prepared their employees for this:

"At least two dozen times, the San Francisco headquarters locked down equipment in foreign offices to shield files from police raids."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/uber-s-se...
Such an effort is also quite different from salaried work. When you are taking an undergraduate course you put a lot of effort into a finite project. You tend to have the energy reserve for something bounded like that, but it does come at a cost. Usually, at the age where you would enrol in an undergraduate program, the gains outweigh the cost, and the cost is often lowered significantly by the intrinsic motivation of working on your own interests.

With salaried work the only effective limit is your retirement. Working more simply means more income, but if that extra income isn't needed, or doesn't net you enough extra benefits compared to simply having time off, the cost of being mentally engaged for such a large part of the week just doesn't weigh up to the gains.

Sure, if your work is so engaging and rewarding that work itself is a pleasure, than it might pay off. But for most of us it just doesn't work that way. Work often means doing things were mostly others set the agenda, and while you may be good at what you do and find motivation in doing it, I've found that it rarely means that you can do it with the same sustained level of energy and quality for more than four eight hour days — and even that isn't a given.
I'm not seeing that in the tarball?
Does anyone know how to read this article for free? Ironically relative.
This seem to be the default on most G services.
Data loss. Behavioral bugs can be fixed, but if you hose your customers' data, it's gone forever.
Just so you know, if you're using regular Google-infused Android, then depending on how you ‘kill’ Maps it may still be running in the background. And it may start in the background without you running the app.

I'd also bet that Google's other apps transmit your location anyway―if only because other apps use it too―and that it's not necessarily reflected in the timeline in the web profile.
Thanks! One more suggestion: It would be easier to browse through a category of pictures if there was a way of advancing to the next picture without having to close the current one and go back to the thumbnails. For example, maybe clicking on the photo could display the next photo in the category.

I also agree with other commenters that using the term "porn" can have adverse side-effects in terms of getting the site banned in workplaces. It might also get your site misclassified by search engines. Not to mention that people who are not aware of this usage of the word could be confused about what the site is really about.

Finally, I also had problems with Firefox 67 (on Windows). The errors I'm getting in my console are:

1. Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/hot.json. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).

2. The resource at “https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/hot.json” was blocked because content blocking is enabled.

In error #2, the content is blocked because Firefox thinks that www.reddit.com is a "tracker" site. If I disable content blocking for your site, it works OK in Firefox.
Some may oppose whaling on ethical grounds. I don't. But I thought the problem was the declining whale population.
I do believe there is work being done on this. That said, removing carbon from the oceans, burning it and releasing it back into the atmosphere feels a little bit counterproductive to me.
Well he was half in my lane by the time I overtook him without telegraphing his intent. Truck drivers are some of the worst drivers on the road, at least in the US. Though fatigue is probably a large factor.
I attend a public school in the United States, and attendance is de-facto enforced by questions that you answer during class (using iClickers, or by quizzes you turn in at the end).
I had to turn off Firefox content blocking to see the thumbnails.

:-(
Presumably software updates that improve stuff/add features are allowed, but not if they make things worse. E.g. VW is being sued in Germany because their "removed dieselgate software" update makes fuel economy worse than advertised. It might fix the emissions to as advertised, but the owners aren't getting better emissions as promised, because the promise was a lie.

If that is the case for NZ Teslas, a cute hack would be to trick the car to think it is in New Zealand. Calling the Ukrainian hackers... (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farme...)
> It’s no different to software providing both free and premium versions in the same binary. What are you paying for? Not the number of bytes.. the R&D hours behind it.

I think the reason people tolerate this arrangement with software is that they are not actually buying ownership of the IP that this R&D capitalizes; they're buying a license to use that IP.

Here, they're purchasing ownership of an actual car. Tesla is actively denying them full use of something that they own.
My reading was that you lose 2% for the whole life of the panel, until now no one knew why. So, you could do 2% less installation or get 2% more for the investment, if there is a fix for the issue.
I somehow expected a NN-Pictureviewer, that takes an NSFW-content and converts it into a landscape poster.
I was going by the twitter thread, but I looked and found this in Wikipedia:

> the Zanzibar Archipelago, together with Tanzania's Mafia Island, are sometimes referred to locally as the "Spice Islands" (a term borrowed from the Maluku Islands of Indonesia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar
That's the opposite of the Raines Law, which I believe said bars could only allow drinking in areas visible through the window.
This is really cool! I hope this will happen with medicine at some point in life...
After 40 Years of Searching, a Key Flaw in Solar Panel Efficiency Is Found
Why not produce artifical steam - aka clouds when the wind is right and make it rain over dry country?
You can consider a VPN service as sitting between you and any server or site you access. The traffic still has to go through your ISP and the public Internet (for this scenario). The VPN service does encrypt the traffic from your device to the VPN server (and back). This allows you to hide your browsing history from your ISP and anyone snooping on your ISP. They’d just see encrypted packets going to the VPN servers.

But the traffic from the VPN server to the site/server you want to reach may or may not be encrypted, depending on whether it would or would not be encrypted if you were to access it directly.

As far as the end site/server is concerned, it gets requests from the VPN server, and so it cannot (easily) know that the request is really coming from your device’s IP address. This is how circumventing geographic restrictions works. If you want to access, say Netflix US, you’d use a VPN server with a US IP address, while you may be in some other country altogether. There are content providers who detect VPN usage and try to block them.

P.S.: There’s a lot of simplification in the above descriptions.

Edit: This page [1] has a good explanation on VPNs.

[1]: https://thebestvpn.com/what-is-vpn-beginners-guide/
I'm sympathetic to farmers who hack their John Deere tractors which they only use on private land. I'm much less sympathetic to people who hack the software of cars they drive on public roads.
In Louisiana, I believe breweries have the opposite problem: the majority of their revenue must be from beer, so if they sell too much food they're in trouble. I think some get around this with pop-up restaurants, maybe paying a fixed fee to be there.

Another weird rule is that Louisiana bars cannot allow children, even with parents, but breweries can. So breweries are often full of children. One in New Orleans has a bounce house on weekends.
And yet we have analog neural nets in our heads which most likely don’t need more than a few bits of precision.
That's not the distributed computing that the OP was referring to. Explicit reference was made to WAN-style networking that makes the crossbar switch effectively seem like motherboard traces.
The research into emotional well-being this article cites interestingly appears to be in favor of highly targeted advertising, as a means of showing only highly relevant offers and not making one feel inadequate by showing offers way out of the price range.

That said, I don’t know if such a system, if it was possible to be 100% accurate, would also have unintended consequences of denying people that are not as well off some important deals, such as a lower APR, because they are less profitable overall.

Still, this is an interesting concept to ponder - if advertising was as relevant as possible and goods attainable without undue stress, people would likely feel better about themselves.
> especially not less than 4 days in the office

Why? Remote work is a thing. If your processes demand having people on premises all the time, your processes may need improving. If a programmer want to work one day from home to cut down on their commute and be able to focus on a task, why would you want them in the office unless they aren't trustworthy? For colleagues to break his concentration when they need him?

Meetings can be scheduled, work coordination can be done electronically, and you surely have something like Mattermost or Slack set up?
How can something like seat heaters be considered a "free trial" if it requires hardware that was there when you bought the car and remains functional afterwards? Tesla is free to stop "trials" of services that require its continued attention, but to disable functionality built-in to the car when it was purchased, no matter how you spin it, is just plain wrong.
This scheme comes up quite often, and the answer is always the same: autorities are not dumb, and this scheme offers you no extra legal protection whatsoever.
See Tim's video https://youtu.be/ZtYle7Rqn0Q
A good reason to use a swype-style keyboard? Good thing Apple is integrating this in iOS 13!

Although of course swiping doesn't work for entering passwords, which are (hopefully) not dictionary words that can be algorithmically predicted/guessed!
How about the fact that Apple created an unregulated, opaque mesh network from its own devices?

No guarantees are provided that this network, under Apples's exclusive control, won't relay other type of information.
I used to get, can you start Monday? pretty often after an hour interview back in the day. Sure miss that, and considering I’m a much better dev now it’s a travesty.
The authority to own slaves was also explicitly granted in the 19th century.
At least it will slowdown oceans acidification until people find how to give enough power to the planes without liquid fuel.

In this particular idea I don't like the ship - it will pollute the ocean while transferring the fuel.
Changing jobs is very stressful for me. I have put up with a lot of BS to avoid that stress, can seem to get better but worse actually.
Simple React State Manager
Makes me think of the BMW i3 REX, an electric car with a gasoline engine that generates electricity. It's a hybrid, but to qualify in the US it needs less range on gas than on electric. So what has BMW done? They lessen the gas tank volume in software! Something like, the software will claim it's empty after using 7.2 liters, even though you filled it up with 9 liters.
It is no different from the question how any other dimension suddenly existed. Time and space are connected.
I know absolutely nothing about cryptocurrency.

What's the easiest, and safest (as in won't get scammed, not too concerned with identity but it would be nice), way to pay via cryptocurrency with a credit card? Mullvad lets me mail in cash which is what I was going to do but I'm not a patient person.
It's one metric, not the only one. Im my residential installation, I was constrained by roof surface. Given certain subsidies, it would have made economic sense for me to pay more per watt if that had meant I could have produced more overall (up to a point, of course).
Good attitude, thanks.
What about animal vectors like birds?
Mine: Being a tech lead with a lot of people management involved.
I wonder if that is sustainable as features are built on top of the new system and their codebase diverges further and further from chrome as a result.
It's actually highly inefficient to do (general) computation with photons. In contrast to electrons, photons really don't like to interact so you need a lot of optical power to implement an optical transistor-like, this was studied by Prof. David Miller some time ago (doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.240, I think this is the correct citation am on the phone right now). Like others said, the device proposed in the paper here is more like an analog computer (with ML they have really seen a revival, both in electronics and optics), for a specific "calculation" they can be vastly more efficient, but they can't do general computation. The device here relies on interference and the photodetectors provide the nonlinearity, people have been researching these type of devices for neural networks for quite a while.
It's simply amazing how Apple could make P2P mesh networking viable for production use. This is highly inspiring!
For some reason, I don’t find that story believable at all. It sounds like somebody read “Reflections on Trusting Trust” and decided to exercise their creative writing muscle by passing it off as their own experience.
Good riddance. They'll have to come up with yet another pesticide. The whole way we're doing agriculture has little regard for ecology and endemic species. Palm tree crops are replacing jungle, GE crops already replaced what used to be bison prairies. The bison are an almost extinct species.

Also the EU will stop buying wheat that is known to have been GE contaminated.