skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China's economy is fine even if HK struggles

eh? That's an rare statement outside of china. From Michael Pettis:

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Overinvestment – Its political and economic systems are now dependent on elevated levels of investment spending. Moreover, a decreasing amount of those investment dollars are able to generate net-positive financial or social returns.

Currency undervaluation – Money printing and excessive foreign reserves are creating imbalances that will be very hard for the central authorities to unwind without painful repercussions.

Over-indebtedness & low interest rates – Much of China's new borrowing is used to pay interest on current debt. Any material rise in interest rates is sure to create a cascade of insolvencies.

Asset bubbles – Much of Chinese wealth is tied up in assets that are exhibiting dangerous levels of price inflation, real estate being a prime example. (Property prices in Beijing and Shanghai are higher than Manhattan, which is astounding considering the much lower average Chinese income)

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<https://www.peakprosperity.com/michael-pettis-the-future-of-... which to be clear is from 2013 but I don't believe much has improved since (not an economist or china-watcher though)
Great new feature!

But sigh I just built a PKI infrastructure provisioning system using a gigantic shell script, maintenance user with sudo permissions and ssh access where a master node would command a fleet of slave nodes.

I guess all of my work was for naught since this seems to cover some my needs for user and ssh key provisioning.

Oh well, it'll work elsewhere on all other clouds. And I guess I should release it publicly, it's just not pretty enough yet. Every time I do, gremlins come out of the bushes complaining that the code isn't elegant enough for them.
I don't know about their process, but I always make my release tags myself. I wouldn't want to give the signing key to any CI system.
So you need Apple's yearly approval to run your own software. Personally i consider this a major dystopian flaw of iOS and one of the main reasons i do not buy their devices (the other being their disregard towards backwards compatibility).
Let's hope they do so we can meme it to death. It shouldn't fly any more mile anyway, just out of respect for the victims. It's like trying to recertify the Hindenburg at this point.
Fortunately, "creating revenue" is not a factor in determining if someone is an employee or independent.
MIT's new interactive ML prediction tool could give everyone AI superpowers
How would you propose to fix these; what system, according to you, would not have the same flaws as the current ones? There being an Us and a Them has been the way forward for most of human civilization's existence.
At least reshot, even better write a small program to output each page in base 2/4 (with characters chosen for very easy distinguishing) plus a checksum.
This is really shit. Fuck Google. First they offer services on good terms to attract lots of users to their platform. Then when they have enough users for network effects to take over they change their terms to keep competitors out.
Thanks for uploading this. It is very helpful. It can save someone so much coding time.

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/116139
And if you call it with the right parameters, you can fly.
Worse fuel economy and increased engine wear are probably the big issues.
I had the same alert.
That would have been important information for the article.
That's in interesting point. It's not so much that the sense of fair play is lost, but that it changes. Somehow, we lose track of the human factor when we don't see it and focus solely on "logic" or our own self interests.

In this example "unlimited", which actually means "unlimited within reason" works perfectly well (even though it isn't well-defined) in a human setting. We naturally and instinctively understand that people don't mean "take as many as you want" or "make yourself at home" literally.

But on the internet, if it's a data/storage plan, we might get angry at anything less than infinity, because logically
> "There is no point offering Unlimited storage and then stop people from using it."

I see this also apply to our "moral ease-of-use" for adblockers/paywall bypassers/torrents etc.
I think it's to do with the way the Wayback machine API is used and the site altering the code of the webpage (removing incompatible JS and stitching together links).

If you're on a coorporate network or have some kind of security firewall setup this could be flagged as a tampered URL.
Knighthood isn't bestowed on people the monarchy likes, it's given to citizens who contribute greatly and above expectations to England's civilian, military, and peacetime achievements.
Talk about compensating...
I've lived and worked in both America and Europe, and while I find the living conditions in Europe generally better - healthcare and social safety nets are awesome - the environment for working in America was just more vibrant and lively.

I much prefer working in America, or at least with Americans - but in terms of lifestyle, Europeans have it much, much better.
Everyone switched to ublock once adblock+ starting taking payments to not block certain ads.

Most people who care about adblocking will choose whatever browser suppoerts adblocking over anything else honestly.
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Which other package repos are those supposed to be?
This happens so often in Devops that a good rule of thumb is to really think it long and hard before doing any handrolling.

Today's dev ops stacks move so fast nobody is an expert on a single stack for longer than a week.
So you are saying: having a built-in hdmi port would have been useful.

There is very little reason not to have all ports - hmdi, mini display port (+display port) readily available; connected straight to the video card. There is plenty of room.
Just one day. Someone uploaded thousands of junk and since we had versioning it took a long time to delete. And I think we were being billed extra on the high load being given to our bucket. So could have been multiple someones. I revoked the keys, deleted the bucket, even my own account, and reset everything. Lucky for me the CTO was understanding. I don’t remember the exact bill amount but it went up in relative terms by something like 2x
We all know that the NSA will never be regulated. They have the most dirt on everybody.
This isn't exclusive to blue collar jobs. Software engineers seem positively allergic to unions!
I doubt it will be most new devices that actually use data are now being shipped with it, even my drone came with usb-c

Soon enough there will be a major shift
NSFW:

FYI if you click that link and the referrer is hacker news it redirects you to a nice picture of a testicle in a cup, first thing in the morning.

(it redirects to : https://imgur.com/32R3qLv )

The link is fine, just don't click it from here -- well, unless cup-testicles are your bag. Pun intended.
The Sikh history provides at least one explanation for this. They're a very new group, formed around the 1600s. For a long time they lived in adverse conditions, at odds with local rulers, disadvantaged by numerical inferiority.

Given that monk culture is a form of specialization, similar to how a professional army is a specialization, and that specialization can't appear in adverse, numerically difficult situations, that could explain why Sikhs don't have monkhood, instead preferring rounded jack-of-all-trades social roles.

For an opposite extreme, there's The Kingdom of Tibet, which until Chinese occupation had 1/3 of its (male?) population in monastic life. That's extremely special; if only it had lasted.
> committed an act of war

In a legal sense, may be. I don't find this important though.

> cost/benefit-calculation turns against you if it becomes public

It has become public, and I'm yet to see any actual cost.
I don't want a refund. I want to keep my books.

"yeah, we take back your transplanted heart but don't worry we will give a refund so it's not immoral"
And what do I do with the parts of the status bar that don't fit on the ears?
On the topic of time estimates, why doesn't Google Maps let you add extra padding time to trips? Especially with public transportation!
Spoiler alert: There is a GSoC student working on getting GraphBLAS working together with Julia.
They explain all this in the notice I linked above:

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Because PGLAF operates as a legitimate non-profit organization, however, it is appropriate to act as the German Court ordered - pending appeal - even though it disagrees with the order.

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The decision to acceed to the German Court's order to make items inaccessible from Germany is intended to be a temporary appeasement, while the appeal occurs - this is because the German appeal Court will likely look disfavorably on PGLAF if it shows contempt for the German Court. Ultimately, PGLAF seeks to establish that any complaints about copyright must be brought either to the US Courts (where PGLAF operates) or WIPO processes (as guided by international treaties).

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Does anyone have digestible youtube video that explains this?
I'm curious why you say that. Seems to me that the two companies are still quite different in that regard culturally.
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> What's the formula to calculate the volume of a conical pyramid, off the top of your head?

I don't need to know the formula off the top of my head; I need to know what a conical pyramid is, what volume is, what a formula is, and how to use it. I guarantee that between me and someone who's never done geometry at all, I can find the volume of a conical pyramid faster and more reliably.

You're right that memorizing specific formulas isn't useful; but using a large number of formulas over and over to gain mastery over the general idea certainly is.
> this isn't about any naughtyness competition

But it absolutely is. Whataboutism is an illogical thing if you're judging actions of some actor on some abstract moral scale, this is true.

But that's not the conversation here here, as we're talking not about ethic, but about public perception and rationality of offensive actions. And in this game, the context of actions of adversaries matters a great deal: if your opponents do something much worse, smaller on your behalf are expected to draw much less scrutiny and therefore, become much "cheaper".
I really wish Google and Apple maps had better support for planning trips in advance. I live in an area where weather conditions in winter could make it potentially deadly to blindly follow GPS instructions, due to road closures or steep grades that Google has no qualms about routing people through. So if I’m heading somewhere new in winter, I always make sure to plan the trip in advance on the desktop version of Google maps - making sure to stick to main roads wherever possible.

The problem is that there really isn’t good support for planning and saving a precise route in Google maps (and I assume Apple maps as well). I can sort of hack it by setting a bunch of intermediary destinations along the way to force certain roads, and share that trip with my phone. But that’s clunky and even then Google has a tendency to want to change things on me at the last minute. I also live in an area where there is no support for downloading maps to use offline, so there is a risk of going out of cell service range and losing GPS support.

Maybe I am asking too much of free software and should be using paid navigation software. Does anyone have any suggestions? Particularly something that has good map data in Japan?
Giving refunds isn't sufficient.

The reason why trades happen is that both sides value what the other party has more. So I value a book more than I value the money the seller wants to charge for it, so I buy it.

So that means that I would lose out with a unilateral unwinding of the trade.

Imagine the outcry if this happened in the financial world: "Yeah, we sold you that stock, but we're taking it back now, you'll be OK because we're giving you the money back." Isn't going to fly.
The tools weren't "originally Linux", some of the functionality was inspired by similar Linux tools. I thought that was explained pretty clearly, tbh.
It doesn’t specify the award so it could have been anything, like the Big Brother privacy invasion award.
I sincerely hope that the ongoing trade and business war will lead to nice new competitors to Android and iOS. The more countries they ban the higher the chances.
I did NOT see this coming.
paper books are better and you can get them cheaper than ebooks most of the time
> I'd strongly prefer if my government used the expertise of the hackers for fixing the security issues that enable these hacks instead of keeping them secret for the use as weapons

How have you come to this conclusion?

The reason I'm asking is not that I hold the opposite opinion. It's that I think that this dilemma is inherently hard as there are very good arguments for both points of view and I cannot see an easy way to find any solution to it.
Great to hear that tag based auth is coming. I'm at a loss about how to use it without something like that. It looks like you either have to handle each instance individually (which makes no sense where AWS has been pushing auto scaling and spot instances for a decade – instances are ephemeral in our world), or have one rule that applies to everything in the account. To me, being able to limit access to groups of instances is a required feature.
The phrase "this is why we can't have nice things" applies.

Life shouldn’t be about trying to take advantage of people or things to the maximum possible amount.
Make a background call to check whether a password is used for the given email, and hide the password field if so. There will be a delay, but if they’re confused that gives plenty of time to do this.
I don't think engineers have any special insight into running governments, or are even particularly likely to beat lawyers at running governments. I know it's tempting to believe this, given how many of us here are engineers, but I suspect the mentality of lawyers might be better suited to being democratic politicians than engineers and democratic politicians are clearly better suited to running countries than dictators - history is very clear on that point.

What matters in a politician is primarily gathering wisdom from around the population and combining, synthesising it into policy. Reality is complex, nobody can see the big picture, there are millions of factors that can affect any nation-level decision. See it as hand-crafted logic (dictatorship/engineers) vs machine learning (votes/lawyers). Lawyering is likely especially suited to creating decent leaders because the heart of being a (trial) lawyer is debate and being able to represent people who you may not only disagree with, but actively suspect are criminals. You have to do your best to be the devils advocate anyway - which is a good skill to have if your job is or should be primarily implementing the decisions of the electorate.
Sure that's fair, but that only expands the circle of condescension, which is perhaps _slightly_ better because it weakens the element of class snobbery. The notion that anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot who doesn't understand what's good for them as well as you understand what's good for them is what I'm pushing back against. The very phrase "voting against their own interests" is dripping with condescension and the presumption that you understand their lives better than they do. It's the same justification used for every historical and current violation of freedom in the social sphere: gay conversion therapy, the drug war, mores around gender roles, etc etc. The fact that economic constraints don't evoke the same immediate reaction as social ones doesn't mean that economic policy can't have an immense impact on people's lives, and cause or alleviate immense suffering.

Now don't get me wrong: I'm not some extremist hyper-individualist believer in Homo Economicus, and I think there's plenty of scope for paternalism in policy. I think that it's entirely possible to talk to a specific person about their policy beliefs and come away with the view that they don't understand what's going on and are voting against their own interests. I just think that a little humility is in order when making assumptions about other people's lives and struggles a d choices, and applying this approach en masse with blanket statements like the GP comment (and your own, to a lesser degree) is a lot more likely to be ignorant of the realities of the variety and complexity of these people's lives.
that also isn't new: https://github.com/widdix/aws-ec2-ssh

This will lookup your username in AWS iAM, and if it has the right permissions, it creates an account and copies the public ssh key associated with that user.
Typical MIT press release balognia; their publicist really should get a job in industry and stop misleading the scientific community.

What they really mean is "new probabilistic graphical model language." Yet another BUGS/JAGS/Stan like system.
Maybe i'm bitter, or old, but my exclusion from a service is #1 reason to stay away from patronizing it.

It's my opinion that the excluded, Iranians in the case of this article, should be having hard discussions about how they could get away from the likes of Google and Apple, not talks about how to integrate into an ecosystem that appears hostile.

I understand the difficulty of that in practice, but integrating into a group that makes hostile world-changing decisions about groups of people based on geography and cultural differences seems to just empower that group further the next time they try to inject political maneuvering into their business -- making them an even larger threat to those it disagrees with in the future.

In other words : Second verse, same as the first -- vote with your dollar, vote with your participation.
I've had terrible, terrible experience with Superhuman! I got an invitation and some lady wanted to me to do a screenshare and show her how I use Gmail. I told her if she's nuts as I'm not letting anyone see what's in my Inbox and this kind of intrusion is not something they should be doing, but the stupid "Subhuman" employee said they cannot continue onboarding without this. I told them that I don't want anything to do with such blatant privacy invader and cancelled my onboarding.
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But DanBC explicitly said the person admonishing the speaker was wrong, so how are you expecting him to answer that?
There is no chance of Saudi Arabia becoming a great world power any time soon. Fear is the combination of disagreement and power. The USA may disagree with how Saudi Arabia runs things but the KSA has no real power, so it doesn't get much attention and can be an "ally of convenience".
I think you can take the average knowledge worker employees 5 day week and make it 4 days and they’ll get as much done. If you get the same amount of slack on a 4 day than on a 5 day it’s quite a bit more noticeable. My current co does half days for summer Fridays. The amount that gets released doesn’t change. The amount of incidents over the weekend goes down also.
I have my 486 online running IE under Windows 3.1, now I actually have some sites I can demo on it when people ask me about it! Definitely bookmarking this one.
A few years ago, I was holding out for a new MBP for ages, and when it didn't come I decided to bite the bullet and buy a Surface Book.

I own the first-gen Surface Book, and it's probably the best laptop I've ever owned, Windows or otherwise. The keyboard is great, the screen is fantastic, and while the trackpad isn't as good as the MBP it's a close second-place.

The touch-screen and pen are nice, and they work well, but I never use them. I'm not much of a tablet guy anyway, so it was never going to appeal to me like it would to others.

In terms of OS, Windows continues to improve while OSX deteriorates. I used to do a lot of work with .NET, so my opinion is probably biased, but I'd consider Windows to be a better development platform than OSX, especially with WSL. It's still a pain in the ass with some languages like Ruby, but it gets better every year, and if OSX continues to get worse I can see people ditching it and going with Linux or Windows.
Looks like the year is not correct.

The text has clearly been written right after Terence Tao sat the exam, and given that he received his Ph.D. in 1996, most likely the notes are from 1993 or 1994.
Well it's a bit like browser fingerprinting right? You don't need seven billion different UserAgents to distinguish users. A few features is enough to distinguish this Chrome user from another. That's especially true with small population size: all these traditions started out small.
One common use is to drive hardware directly, either to learn how it works (prior to e.g. writing a linux device driver) or just for performance reasons. Reading and writing bits to a parallel port takes about 1us or so; there's no latency involved (no USB polling for instance), and no hoops to jump through (e.g. iopl()/mmap ) to access the hardware.
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