skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the US: you don't ever talk to the police for any reason unless you have a lawyer with you telling you what to say.

How far do you take this? Here are a couple of hypothetical situations, and in both of them I would answer police questions. I've had people tell me that they would not, and have cited the popular video someone else cited earlier as the reason.

1. You are walking down the sidewalk and pass a parked car. You are a car enthusiast, and recognize the make, model, and year of the car because it is one that is sought after by enthusiasts, and this one particularly stands out because it looks like it some options that were only available in a limited edition.

A moment later, you hear a commotion, and see a man run out of a building holding a baby, followed by a woman who is shouting "help! my baby! he took my baby!", and then faints. You see the man get into the aforementioned car and get onto a nearby freeway, heading South.

Police quickly arrive. None of the other witnesses saw where the man went or could describe anything about him, because they were distracted when the woman fainted. The police ask you if you saw anything that could help find the man or identify him.

Do you really wait until you cat get a lawyer to advise you before you describe the car and tell them he appeared to get on the Southbound freeway?

2. There is an explosion in your small office. Police are the first emergency responders to arrive. They ask if everyone is accounted for. You saw a coworker go into the bathroom shortly before the explosion, and did not see them come out, and looking around at your coworkers gathered across the street watching the office burn and being given first aid, you see everyone except that one coworker.

Do you tell police that you still appear to have one missing coworker, or wait to run the question by a lawyer first?
Some notes

* French yellow vests are ignored week after week. This is all over the place.

* HK already has extradiction with the USA.

* USA debacle demanding a journalist extradition to prosecute.

* Protesters posters are in english.

* Mainstream narrative, small HK will be successful independent. UK brexit will be terrible because it will be a insignificant country.
> 2. Avg social security is ~25k/yr (mostly untaxed)

Where are you getting that number?

One source I found said that the average SS benefit in January 2019 was $1461/month which works out to $17.5k/year. [0] This seems to agree with the SSA's snapshot from May. [1]

[0] https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/social-security/ar...

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/
Couple this then be used to reduce the storage required for phones to capture slow motion video since it can simply be done with regular video in post server side?
Filing for bankrupcy doesn't sound even nearly as scary as being extradited into China.
Have there been any cases of someone being exonerated for lack of evidence despite pleading to be arrested for their bloody cannibalistic rape spree?
Citing a much smaller company means there's probably no media exposure. This move is as much as a PR stunt as it is an actual legal claim.
I first learned to program playing with TI-BASIC on my TI-84 calculator in high school.

I would never recommend it for a new, fully fledged software project these days. But I would consider it a great learning tool. Can't speak to other BASIC dialects, but TI-BASIC to me was perfect due to how limited the syntax was, and because of the TI-84 interface, to program directly on the calculator you had to select the keywords from a menu interface, which was great for feature discovery. Even if you weren't programming in a menu interface, you could probably have a single page keyword cheatsheet/language spec sitting alongside you to remind you of basically everything supported by the language.

To this day, I suppose I wouldn't completely scoff at someone who was using BASIC for very basic scripting or doing a quick computation. It is still kind of enjoyable due to how simple it is, and I'm guessing non-professionals probably could figure out what it's doing as long as the program is short enough.
> opens the door for Google and Apple to inject proprietary crap into Linux

This doesn't make sense. You can compile proprietary code with gcc without problems already. Clang doesn't enable anything new here.
Even say, a fully patched iPhone. Especially if it is stolen/seized and assuming the security can’t already be bypassed...they just wait a couple months and an exploit will emerge that will slice through that now-unpatched phone like butter.
There are two kinds of people; Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
Erm, I count five?

"Constantine, king of Dumnonia (the area around modern Cornwall and Devon); Aurelius Caninus; grey-haired Vortipor of the Demetae (in what is now Pembrokeshire); Cuneglas, who probably ruled the area around the Dinarth Rhos peninsula; and Maelgwn of Gwynedd"

Constantine; Aurelius Caninus; Vortipor; Cuneglas and Maelgwn of Gwynedd.
ALOHAnet
> the first time one of those trucks crushes and kills a toddler, the liability is going to rise tremendously

Human driven trucks kill people now and have done so for decades. IMHO, the liability comparison that will matter, the one that regulators, insurance companies, the courts and the market will eventually embrace will instead be: are automatic trucks as safe or just a little bit safer than human driven trucks?
Really great work by the OpenMandriva team. I've spoken to some of their contributors before and even looked into one of the bugs they reported. Now that I think about it, I need to send that patch for fixing asm goto detection in glib.

Android and ChromeOS are also built with Clang. I'm curious about the distinction of "first." Does anyone know the timelines here?
That's not obvious. Hong Kong has its own political dynamic, and is deeply divided between pro- and anti-Beijing camps.
I've written a series of very similar articles, and seeing as some of the ones in this site don't seem to be available yet, and otherwise as another point of view, they may be of interest to anyone looking at this: https://ctidd.com/2017/css-ui-patterns/content
You do realize that most projects do not target ie11 whatsoever right?

I do mainly ecommerce and private web apps for clients. I have never needed to worry about if one of my users is on any version of internet explorer.

If you are building some enterprise platform for the government or something, sure. But basic sites and apps are not trying to attract 90 year olds on xp using ie6.

I'm not going to avoid using a css feature that is supported by modern browsers that makes my job much much easier.
Yep, pretty much it.

Saying the way HN readers can understand, the fear of Beijing is nor "people hearing" as much as "people talking"

Just every political commotion starts with people coming and talking with each other, forming groups, and confirming their views and positions, and not simply passively receiving information.

Central Propaganda Department works a lot to prevent negative sentiments from becoming rallying points for political opposition exactly for the reason above.
I wonder how many doctors (truly) understand that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Heuristics are a hell of a drug.
Chinese and English are both official languages of Hong Kong under the Hong Kong Basic Law (article 9) and the Official Languages Ordinance (chapter 5 of the Laws of Hong Kong).
But are they protesting for the Chinese to listen or the English?
We can include Boston if you'd like; it's awful too. The commuter rail fails on a daily basis in the summer and winter. The buses are persistently late and/or bunched up because they get stuck in traffic. (Feedback loop here, of course: the worse transit is, the more people decide to drive.) The T is overcrowded during peak hours and utterly unpredictable outside of them.
Let's be fair, Yellow Vest has been going on for months. And France has a democratic system in place. Use it!

>* Protesters posters are in english.

There are just far too many Chinese Poster you don't get to see.
Yes, and those plants release more becquerels of radioactive material into the environment when they reprocess fuel than would be released if the fuel elements were left intact in dry storage. I'm not saying that reprocessing plants release a dangerous amount of radioactive material. I'm saying that reprocessing makes things worse if your top priority is to prevent releases of radioactive materials into the environment. It also makes things worse if your top priority is to make nuclear-generated electricity affordable.
This seems an offtopic generalisation and looks unhelpful to me in this context.

I’d like it more if it linked to a study. Or if it had more details, preferably addressing placebos too.
Since Sweden has already been mentioned in this subthread... The case of Sture Bergwall / Thomas Quick comes quite close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture_Bergwall
Good comeback, reminds me of:

"Did you win the Putnam?"
Yes, I did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Will you use this website?
I am preparing for the interview. I think there is information overhead and so many same algorithms, system design, articles written by different tutors on YouTube, medium, blogs, so many courses.

As for preparation we go into loop and think that something is missed or we watch that 45 min video which actual content can be read in 5 min.

I have created list of good articles, videos, study materials which should be used and clutter should be avoided. I will link to those articles with originals authors copyrights preserved, because those will be just links pointing to content on authors websites or platform.

I will also write my own notes on as blog post on this website.

Will you guys use it ?
Me too. A solution for this is a laptop stand plus an external keyboard and mouse, if you are not willing to use a desktop.

Or a MS Surface plus a little external mechanical keyboard (like a Vortex Core or Apple Magic Keyboard 2, which is surprisingly good in terms of latency and wpm). The Surface Go is actually a great cheap machine for Linux, although the screen is a tad small. But it's 3:2 aspect ratio.

Laptop ergonomics is not good. I know this from long term neck problems due to 20 years on laptops, before switching back to desktops.
The majority of the posters are in Chinese.

https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1064900

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1463276-20190617.h...

https://thestandnews.com/

https://www.hkcnews.com/article/21374/616%E5%A4%A7%E9%81%8A%...
A website that is maintained in a long term will be worked on by many people, and CSS will become quite large and complicated. So using the simple constructs like pixel units is better than using rems that create implicit dependence on main font size. This way there are less chances to break something in one place when editing code in other place.

The same is about CSS variables. An example with one variable might look nice. But what if your code has hundreds of variables? It would take more time to understand how they are related and how do I change the size of this button without breaking something on another page.
Because most people don't actually care about biodiversity, and efforts to make them care have failed.
You have to think given the context he believed (or at least claimed to believe) in post-electricity scarcity. It's hard to imagine that anyone would seriously think electricity demand wouldn't rise significantly as the efficiency of producing it grew. In fact, I can imagine a stronger effect with electricity than with many other things.
The benefit is linear but the distribution of people getting it is not evenly distributed around the middle of the benefit range. Therefore the average benefit is not just the mean of the min and max SS benefits.
That construction can turn any residual N digits out into a first digit difference. It wouldn't matter without making comparisons with tolerance way under the noise floor of the dataset. But yes, you have technically invented a situation that differs from that real-world anecdote in regard to that property, in an extremely literal interpretation.
Since this is from 2009, an update is in order:

https://medecoproblems.com
> I know this is a troll

I can't understand how my point could be considered trolling.

People seem to vote with their feet - they often choose US employers over European ones.

The employers with the best conditions and pay in Europe are often US employers! For example local offices of Google.
"Most of the employees I come into contact with have jobs that could be automated with a few days or weeks of programmer effort."

After looking at some of the business processes at my company I am not so sure about this anymore. There are a lot of jobs that are pretty mundane but when you look a little closer most of the processes have a lot of exceptions where the employee makes decisions that don't follow the process exactly. From what I have seen it's really hard to come up with a recipe that can be 100% automated because of all these exceptions. It seems to me that humans are a buffer that sometimes corrects unforeseen things and without that buffer the organization would do stupid things.
Maybe I'm getting tripped up in the terminology here but to me this case is still a JIT jittin' - you look at runtime data and decide it's worth it to crank out a special case optimization for the input of 2. You produce that that optimization, which is sound along with a check to make sure it is applied only in the special case. You get to defer other optimization. The advantage here still seems to come from the runtimeness of things rather than from being clever about soundness and there's really no guessing about soundness. So perhaps that's not it.
Am I.
> I think it is a really good idea to start accumulating capital, even at today’s valuations.

This is an interesting take. The alternative to individually trying to each become capitalists, is grouping together and making sure we all have access to the proceeds of automation.
>There is a common misconception that the number one driver of TV pickup is the boiling of kettles. In fact, this only creates a pull on the local network for a short period of time until the water has boiled, and can therefore be managed relatively easily, whereas flushing the toilet causes a longer surge at the water and sewerage pumping stations, and opening the refrigerator lets the chilled air escape, causing the compressor to run. These loads are more of a problem for the grid.
The lawyer will stop you from going over the top with your defense though, clarifying all statements such as changing the panicked reaction to a serious accusation:"I've never even been to that city!" with "I haven't been to that city recently" which is a huge difference should the police later discover a tiny piece of evidence like a social media posting or receipt showing you did indeed go to that city once upon a time 10+ years ago. If you don't clarify then they can say you are a liar and made a provably false statement to the police during court.
The ancient Artha Shastra had an interesting take on this. Thanks to its time period, it advocated torturing suspects during interrogations (of limited duration). However, due to the near certainty of false confessions in such an interrogation, it instructed the interrogator to attempt to obtain knowledge through the torture that only the guilty could have, such as the location of stolen property or murder weapons.
Tech was pretty hot in '99 too. If the next dotcom hits and your tech portfolio loses 90% of its value in the next two years, what will your real returns be?
One use of the term was in reference to novel biological compounds. In that context species diversity means quite a bit with millions of samples not being significantly more useful than hundreds.

With so many medical compounds arising from plant or animal life it’s not an unreasonable idea that a major drug has been lost with the loss of tropical species. Though, this seems to be less important with advances in biotechnology.
30 year treasury bonds are currently yielding around 2.6%. Doesn't that mean that investors are pricing in a significant risk that they won't get a better return on other investments over the next 30 years? The world might be following Japan's lead here.
> But it's only an offence if it's there for self defence.

Well yes that was the situation described that I was replying to.

> you have a self-defence baseball bat
This is plain FUD, sorry.

The rem unit is remarkably well supported, going back to IE9, Android 2 and iOS 4.

It has a specific meaning: it's relative to the root element, which usually means it's relative to the font size the user set as the default font size for the browser — 16px by default in most devices. It's not just a stuffy alias for the px unit, used by sneaky developers to make maintenance harder.

It has a semantic purpose, which makes it useful for maintainability: if your body text is 1rem, when a heading should be double the size of body text, writing it as 2rem makes the sizing relationship between these two values immediately recognizable.

https://caniuse.com/#search=rem
I don't know, I don't work there anymore. But my understanding is that it's essentially the same size.
This technology (or at least variants) already exists. Image upscaling with convolutional neural nets is an old trick at this point, but with Nvidia integrating real-time denoising into their RTX technology I suspect that real-time upscaling is right around the corner if someone hasn't done it already.

[0]https://developer.nvidia.com/optix
[1]https://topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai/
Innovation and Applied Failure (1989)
Invisible Internet Project (I2P)
The chief executive is basically a pawn of Beijing, where democracy is limited and many delegates who elect the CEO are appointed by pro Beijing groups.

If HK got rid of their appointed delegates, the anti-Beijing group would have a clear majority.
I can easily see plastic surgery in many instances having much more significant benefits than 15-37% improvement in memory formation/recall.
Shamelessly pitching our own project here:

https://www.exodusorbitals.com

A crowd-flyable satellite! Only second of its kind.
I'm particularly interested in those giants, even if it's just two skeletons to compare. And surely someone made a rendition at some point!
That was the right tradeoff for the situation. I think any attempt to use this case study to draw conclusions about maintainability would be a mistake; that's just not what this is useful for.
Sending certified mail only can prove that something was sent. Doesn't necessarily mean that the mail you sent contained an opt-out notice.
5% nominal returns, then ~2% inflation and income taxes on withdrawal. That's going to require a high savings rate.
> US and Canadian citizens can get Permit C (unconditional residency permit) after 5 years on Permit B (employment-bound permit).

5 years satisfies the time requirement for American and Canadian citizens (and certain other countries) but they still have to satify the other requirements, the most burdensome of which is learning the local language. In Zürich, you have to learn A2 level German specifically (which actually isn't too hard) but this varies by canton.

> Citizenship is 5 more years after that.

Mostly, just note that in addition, you have to have been living in the canton and commune in which you want to obtain citizenship for a certain amount of time.

Also, integration is a requirement for citizenship. What this means varies by commune but the main thing is that you've learned an official language to a working level (B1 I think).

> For all other countries it's 10+10 years.

As a third country national you can obtain a residence permit (C) within 5 years by integration. Integration mainly means learning the local language to a particular level, which varies by canton (in Zürich it's B1 German).

I believe time spent living on a B permit counts towards citizenship so you can do it in 5+5 no matter where you're from, just like the US.
I do wish we could just buckle down and figure out diet and exercise related health knowledge. So many diet and exercise related studies just have too small sample sizes and are too narrow. This makes sense because it’s expensive and time consuming to track a lot of people’s diet and exercise routines to get rigorous results. I think, however, we should just bite the bullet and pay $10 billion (or however much) to precisely track several thousand people’s diet, exercise, sleep, etc and figure this out. Basically pay people as a full time job to eat and do what you tell them (ethically of course. They aren’t slaves. We just need better data than sample sizes of twenty people trying to track their own health with self reported diaries).
Have you never gotten a flat tire? With a full size spare, it takes ten minutes to change, and you're on your way like nothing happened.

With a doughnut or run-flats, you have to limp to a tire shop to repair the tire or get a new one, and if you don't have a spare at all, it's a serious inconvenience at best, and a crisis at worst.
And now the US is now excluding and even ejecting top researchers due to their nationalities, sending them elsewhere so some other country can grow instead.
If you hard-code everything in pixels, you have the same implicit dependency as with rem. It's a design, after all! Things have to "fit together". You're not changing every element's font size to an individual value and on a whim.

But now you have to keep all those relevant "main font sizes" in your head and do constant divisions. rem units give you the ratio directly.
The existence of bend points in the formula means it’s non linear. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/bendpoints.html

PIA formula
For an individual who first becomes eligible for old-age insurance benefits or disability insurance benefits in 2019, or who dies in 2019 before becoming eligible for benefits, his/her PIA will be the sum of:
(a) 90 percent of the first $926 of his/her average indexed monthly earnings, plus
(b) 32 percent of his/her average indexed monthly earnings over $926 and through $5,583, plus
(c) 15 percent of his/her average indexed monthly earnings over $5,583.

Note the c is capped 11,075 US$ per month as income above that is not taxed.
Ah. Understood. I solve this problem by forking every Quicklisp repo I use, and telling ASDF to look in my local clones first. This also solves the problem of making it easy to submit a pull request when I fix a bug in a Quicklisp library.

Also -- and this is very important to me -- it means I'm in control of which version of every library I use. I've been burned too many times by Quicklisp "updating" a library that was previously working which doesn't any more. Now I have direct git control over my version coherency and I'm a happy camper.
I've condensed the relative source code sizes and notes for quick ref:

Rust_1 1.0 using recursive descent, visitor
Haskell 1.0-1.6x depending on how you count for interesting reasons
C++ 1.4x for mundane reasons
Python 0.5x fancy metaprogramming, dynamic typing, single author
Rust_2 3x different design decisions
Scala 0.7x LR table generator, online Java grammar
OCaml 1.0-1.6x depending on how you count, similar to Haskell

> AST visitors and recursive descent [...] weren’t taught in the course
After consulting your attorney before answering anything, you answer their questions through your attorney. If they want your testimony live, they can subpoena you.

I was in a real estate investing meetup at Halloween where people were sharing scary stories. The scariest was told by a guy who was, unknown to him, dealing with a corrupt mortgage broker. Two FBI agents knocked on his door and "wanted to ask some questions". He told them he would be happy to talk to them with his lawyer in their office the next morning, but he wasn't saying anything at that time. He figures that stall potentially saved him tens of thousands of dollars by not being dragged into a blanket indictment.