skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The success of the IC3 from the 1980s lead politicians in the 1990s to decide not to electrify the tracks, but instead count on diesel, and so the IC4 project was initiated. It was a bad decision then, particularly because the IC4 project was vastly different than the IC3 project. So one could not count on it having the same success.

It's a worse decision in retrospect. Fortunately, though, both the former and the current government agree that the tracks need to be electrified along all major routes, and that we should purchase electric locomotives that are already rolling in other European countries.
static ip addresses are a blocker. i want my phone to sync to my laptop when i am traveling, connected to whatever wifi is available, without needing to rely on internet working.

another comment suggests that it should work with avahi/bonjour. if that's the case, that would solve my problem.
Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store credits
As our economic productivity centralizes around cities, zoning laws protect existing property owner interests, which in turn, restrict supply. Foreign investment certainly plays a role, but I think it misses the forest for the trees.

Also the fact that people can leverage a home purchase 5-to-1. If mortgages weren't a financial instrument, few could afford today's prices. I won't go into detail here, since the chances of mortgages going away is near-zero, but the possibility of zoning changes is somewhat reasonably possible.
> because thy are both behind a different NAT for example

More specifically, a case where they are both behind different NATs which both do not respond to UPnP.
Not that one.
Or some employees had some fun as part of the Amazon protests.
That shouldn't bother you, however if you know Slow Horse Luke Review that the real best bet is in another race and you use that information to identify your own best bet of the day.
Horse racing is widely popular all over the world, and it is the most bet on game, large wagers change hands every day on the sport. The horses that race are all what we call throuhgbreds, that means they are born for this sport all out of good stock. The sport itself derives when two or more of these horses ridden by jockeys "professional and amature" compete against each other on who is going to be first past the winning post.

Those that are watching this race then put a bet or wager on who will be first past the post, they will bet also on who will come in second or third.

What you will usually hear in this betting game is the term horse racing odds. If you follow racing, these terms are easy to understand but if you are a newcomer to the sport it can be a bit difficult to pick up.

Horse racing odds refers to the probability of which horse will come first in that race is shown on a tote board. The tote board shows the odds that are based on the amount of money you will win in relation to the wager that you put on.

How these odds are worked out is determined by deducting the amount of bet and its percentage in the total amount of money that was bet on the horses less a portion of the tracks fee which is estimated to be between 10-20 percent of the sum total.

https://healthadviserpro.com/slow-horse-luke-review/
FWIW, I have zero affiliation with the app, I just happen to really like it :)
Here an example (in Dutch): http://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:G...
It is kinda weird though - if an alien race basically arrived with trillions of gold bricks and started buying US properties (and obviously not showing how many gold bricks they had or that they were aliens) there would be an effective take-over of the country. There would be absolutely "rich" people with gold bricks in their trunks driving around realizing they can't actually buy other homes. edit - I'm talking about space aliens because hey ;)
I’m still looking at Dropbox replacements, is it easier to admin than Seafile? Along with native iOS/Android/win/macOS/Linux clients (not 3rd party)?
Oh I think you may be right. They might have been understating their GDP. I remember few yrs ago Bloomberg wrote a piece explaining why the Chinese bureaucrats have incentives to under-report.
I think that if Amazon does ship these (and it seems some already did) it's actually pretty neat advertisement for them. Any publicity is good publicity, right?

I wonder how much an advertisement campaign with this amount of buzz usually costs.
Strategic skills are understanding the context and constraints that you operate under and acting to maximize the advantage that things you do not control give you. Things like positioning yourself in the right market within the right industry; understanding how the market will change and how you can capitalize on that change; knowing who the other players are; predicting what they're likely to do based on their incentives; building alliances; making trade-offs; and identifying underutilized resources that you can capitalize on.
It makes sense, because in SF it was really parking that made public transport more attractive than driving... it was always faster to get somewhere driving than public transport, but once you got where you were going parking was impossible. This meant the slower public transport was a better option.

Ride sharing services give you the speed of driving without having to park, so lots of people will use them until they cause enough congestion to make them as slow as public transport.
I was thinking this exactly. How much would that kind of advertising cost?

And the money essentially goes to their customers rather than an advertising agency.
There's never a crisis until the crisis actually hits.
You can read the government's formal justification at http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201903/19/WS5c9033f0a3106c65c... . Their argument is basically that foreign influence is trying to make Uyghurs more extreme in their religious beliefs, causing them to commit acts of terrorism. They argue that if they can completely prevent this foreign influence, and brainwash everybody who's inclined to extreme beliefs into avoiding those beliefs, they'll eliminate terrorism and keep Xinjiang safe for the majority who are not religious or not extremists. Essentially their argument is that if you can stamp out non-mild Islam, you stamp out Islamic extremism, which is a logically consistent argument (although of course whether their approach could actually stamp out extreme Islam, as opposed to just breeding more resistance, is a matter of debate). In this context their justification for preventing travel and separating families is preventing the spread of extremism and preventing communication between extremist groups.

Another way to look at it. Imagine you're an amoral government bureaucrat ruling Xinjiang, and you're getting pressure from above about the terrorist attacks there (especially when Xinjiang residents are committing terrorist attacks in other provinces). Your KPI is to reduce the number of terrorist attacks to zero, and you have near unlimited funding. What's the simplest approach? Lock up anybody who has even the tiniest possibility of committing a terrorist attack, and institute the maximum amount of surveillance and monitoring that's technologically possible to identify any planned attacks. Also prevent your residents from going to other provinces, so even if they do manage to conduct a terrorist attack, it won't piss off anybody important (other province governors). That's the logic behind it.
My first trip overseas was to the UK, during university, as a term abroad kind of thing. One night, some of my peers and I went round the pub, and I got to talking with an older local. I commented that it was a strange and perspective-shifting thing to be around human structures so old, "which we don't have back in the States".

He offered the counterpoint of, e.g., Chaco Canyon as something even older.

Time is indeed relative. That kind of perspective-check is awesome.
Housing held for investment, which is usually rented out, is tied to the economic realities (e.g., wages) of a given area. People can only afford to pay so much. You can always choose to rent or buy. Prices to buy are quite high in hot markets. But the cost to rent will be tied to wages. So, the basic human need should still be getting met. Ownership, though, is becoming a smaller and smaller pool-- which meets the ongoing trend of progressively growing income inequality.
It really feels like it's very explicit at this point that you want to cast whatever value interpolated into your format string to a string...

I don't want a type error for the most clear use case, in the same way I don't want one for print, because if I wanted a behaviour other than the basic string representation then I would still need to call something differently anyway.

Given that explicit control of the __str__ method is also baked into the language it's also very clear what to expect.

I like type errors when handling something like '1' + 1 because the JavaScript alternative is surprising and hides bugs. No surprises that a string formatter would coerce to string for me automatically (although I get that's maybe just personal feeling).

I love the f strings, they have made my codebase cleaner and clearer. Definitely a pythonic win.
My own government in Australia has the official unemployment rate which is contradicted every time with independent analysis by a well-known multinational firm. Not fractions of a percent either, full percentage points difference.

Argue about pennies all you want. China are eating up more and more of world GDP. In 1998 they produced 3% of the worlds total output. Choose whatever source you want to see where it is now.

Either people can wake up to it or continue consuming media pleasantries that make them feel better.
Did they edit the article? Now it says:

> per-capita gross domestic product of $14,000 to $18,000 a year
In a previous post he said it's 8 years old
Again, not an expert on Syncthing, but I'm pretty sure that Avahi/Bonjour do pretty much exactly what Syncthing's local discovery protocols do.

edit: here's a discussion on GitHub about adding avahi support: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/5460

It seems they've dismissed it as unnecessary:

>Avahi as far as I understand is essentially the same as Bonjour/mDNS/dns-sd. Regardless, bonjour is just multicast unicast bla bla thingy, same like we do with local discovery, the only difference is that bonjour/mDNS/dns-sd etc has support in the routers to forward the service announcements to other subnets, which they won't do for syncthings local discovery.

But that thread does have some other information if you want to continue trying to use avahi/bonjour

edit again just to be clear: there's a difference between local and global discovery. Global Discovery is the "discovery server" you're referring to. Local Discovery is simply your device sending an announce packet on your local network with your device ID, so that other Syncthing device's on the same network can see it. Local Discovery does not run a "discovery server". I'm not sure exactly what your requirements are, but I would think that just using local discovery would be what you're looking for, or at least worth looking more into.
Similar, yes. You can also choose repositories in Java, as well, which is closer to your Linux package repo. So there's just another tier in the hierarchy, there, basically.

You can run your own private artifact repositories for NPM and Ruby, and select which concrete artifacts they contain; but that's not the publicly hosted repositories. One option could be to centralize into a cluster of public repositories, which is closer to what the Java and Linux ecosystems have, and that may be a sufficient compromise in many cases. I think the layer of abstraction between repositories and concrete artifacts is still useful.
That's unwise, you can call the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) up and ask them how they arrived at their numbers. In the UK you can go on field trips with the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to watch them measure inflation. It's materially different.
Wiki says China is the third largest, after Russia, Canada. US is the fourth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
HK relies on China for power and water, not to mention economically. If push comes to shove China is in no hurry to get tanks in.

I'd be interested to set what sort of damage they could do by turning off wechat.
What's your source? Mexico's per capita GDP is the same as China's and Mexico's data is probably more accurate. Mexico is a middle income country and NAFTA has been transformative for Mexico in the last couple of decades.
What is wrong with TOML?
It never even occurred to me to give up my microwave until a coworker recommended cooking popcorn in a pan. We have a popcorn maker which is already better than a microwave at making healthy unflavored popcorn, but the idea stuck. What else was there that I needed a microwave for? Everything else can be cooked in a pan or oven.
It's all concrete, they don't use wood.
Feeling a bit snarky there?
6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18832517

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13856552

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734114
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It needs context. Are 100% of American home buyers foreign? Wow, that's quite dramatic. Are 20% of buyers foreign? Okay, so that's an aggregate decline of 8 percent-- while impactful, not nearly as exciting of a number, which matters in a journalistic sense these days.
> is involving third parties for app functionality (including the banking info)

like credit card processing the bank connection is something you want to be done via third parties. it would be a much bigger deal if he was intercepting bank logins and scraping.
> Oh and for AT&T in the later 2000's I used to buy import phones that weren't in their system and use them on the non-smartphone unlimited plan until they got wise to that

These 22gb then deprioritized "tablet" plans are available for $35/mo. It requires generating an iPad or similar IMEI to register. I've tethered and used video chat/games/VPN and had no issues.
Treating this more as investing is very promising and maybe something we'd consider. Currently most of these solutions do not generate a profit that could be an ROI for investors on Wren or a similar platform, but some projects will have an ROI and it would be interesting if we (or someone else) could offer an easy way for anyone to invest in profitable ideas that are good for the climate.
ICJ finds Pakistan has acted in breach of Article36 of the Vienna Convention [pdf]
A lot of Gabfolk seem to want the freedom of speech while directly denying others' freedom to not listen to what they say. That's... a literal lack of consequence in their train of thought, to put it lightly.

Gab is free to speak everything they speak: yayyyyy that is the right way we are indestructible

F-Droid is free to remove their app: what the fuck do these <a paragraph of notmentionworthy stuff here> this is unlawful and illegal and mandates prison

And when it comes to "not all Gab people are like that": these Gab users don't seem to perform much action against the harassers that exist on that platform - contrary to many other places on the Internet, whose communities actually do something about the hate speech problem.
> Hong Kong was popularly pro-China before the extradition bill.

Depends. For economic co-operation or dependency, probably yes. But Hong Kong people has very little faith in the Chinese legal system, most of us know it's a facade, from the grass-root to the super-rich.

That's why, by pushing for the extradition law amendment, which, if passed, would allow the Chinese government to extradite "criminals" from HK based on their laws, the HK government has kicked the hornet's nest.
> Maybe my sample size is too small, but when I was in Singapore they very clearly felt Taiwan was a (rebellious) part of China. To claim that PRC has no claim on Taiwan ignores the fact that even the US recognizes Taiwan as part of China (though to keep status quo we still sell arms to Taiwan)

The US has agreed not to have official relations with the ROC, but the US has _never_ recognized the PRC's claims of Taiwan and the rest of the land controlled by the ROC.
Pretty sensational article. As early as 21 hours ago the reddit thread on this event clarified that the craft looks fine and had apparently been refueled since the flames. This article was written 9 hours ago and lacks basic info from that reddit thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/ce7rkw/spacex_starh...
The problem is when the local official is clearly implementing policy from the central government, such as the case now with Lam implementing an extradition treaty with the PRC. If you replace Lam and try again, the same protests would appear again because Hong Kong’s issue is not with the Legislative Council per se, it’s about this treaty from the CCP.

And, the CCP has a very hard time convincing the people of Hong Kong they won’t be prosecuted for dissenting speech after the Causeway book sellers were kidnapped.

Their release valve has hit a bit of a snag here. Democracy is tried and true though, maybe they could give it a try in Hong Kong?
House orders Pentagon to review if it exposed Americans to weaponised ticks
But they already have 4chan viewers and that's fine? lol
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It's weird that the app is still under his personal account especially when he just raised like 5MM from institutional investors: https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1146544737622433792
Only if its in your hand. They have ways.
I wasn't citing the per-capita numbers. Here's total GDP:

China, 2000: 1.2 trillion USD [0]

China, 2017: 12.2 trillion USD [0]

Mexico, 2000: 700 billion USD [1]

Mexico, 2017: 1.15 trillion USD [1]

If GDP is a proxy for wealth, China --over the past ~2 decades-- had way much more potential in investing in foreign real estate. I don't understand why per capita GDP would be more relevant in determining which nation would have more capacity in investing in foreign real estate. That capacity for investment seems independent of how the wealth is divided among a countries citizens.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=china+gdp

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=mexico+gdp
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> Re-integration in a few decades would have gone smoothly.

You over-simplify the integration of a region which has its own strong identity, liberal rules and culture. One can't tell which measures will lead to strong resentment and which will get accepted - among the many that will eventually be needed.

It's probably gonna get worse unless China itself opens up. But in any case, it seems fairly evident that Hong Kong will have to fight this fight alone and the rest of the world will merely watch.
It sounds to me like you are trying to get him to conform to slave morality. I could argue at length why pirating is not immoral, but I know it has been already repeated enough by people like Lawrence Lessig and David Bravo.
These sentimental words definitely serve better as triggers of trading algorithms.
Maybe related?
> There was a bunch of hubbub around a preemptive promotion of the `pipenv` package to be _the_ package for managing dependencies in python.

AFAIK that never happened, and was only marketing from his side, and never an official stance from the PSF (or whoever would be the authoritative source). That's just one the many questionable things that has happened with him in the past.
One-child policy is long gone though. A two-child policy exists perhaps for some. The article does an excellent job summing up the demographic hurdles they face.

I personally think any country that can economically prosper without resorting to unsustainable population growth or environmental damage should be congratulated on the world stage.

China is managing to do one of those things.

Technological advancement should be the focus of developed nations wanting to thrive without taking the easy gdp heroin hit of over-populating, which is essentially unaccounted future debt heaped upon younger generations.
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There is a difference between facebook/twitter that disallow those things, will remove them and app that when presented with those behaviours says that they are welcome. You know that.

Unfortunately nobody taking a stance will lead to that horrible behaviour increasing.

The argument "Because X and Y have similar technical implementations in what users can do" is irrelevant here, it's about the intent/goals/policies/how widespread it is.

I welcome anything that reduces hate speech that is officially accepted on some platforms. That is a real problem and one that needs to be dealt with in any way possible.
A lot of "ghost cities" that were reported on in the Western press are now thriving communities. Although some major property development schemes do end up becoming white elephants (particularly in the poorer north), most "ghost cities" aren't abandoned, they're just in the process of becoming occupied. Properties in China are normally sold as a bare undecorated shell, which makes new developments look derelict to western eyes. Clearly many of these projects are of dubious quality, but that problem is by no means unique to China.

https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/09/24/chinas-ghost-...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/02/new-build-home...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47826166
Having a portfolio showcasing your accomplished projects is very important

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/123523
The Wall Street Journal declares state Communism a failure.
rcloud (https://rclone.org) is great too if you want an open source client solution for syncing to the commercial storage service. If you can setup your own server for rcloud like you'd do with Syncthing, rcloud can be enough.
Well if I listed a house for $60,000 instead of $600,000, but I owned $1 trillion of houses and was selling several hundred of them every single second of the day, then sure there isn't anything wrong with buying one for $60K.
Show HN: Historical tick-by-tick cryptocurrency raw market data replay API
Good read, thanks!

I’d be interested to know how long this all took and how many developers were involved.
IIRC in the WD drive case the drives were on backorder so Amazon had a longer time window for cancellations.

Similar things have happened on past Prime Days / Black Fridays, I remember some smartphones (Moto?) being sold for under $3 - some were canceled, but some shipped before Amazon managed to cancel them.
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For those who have not followed US media coverage of China, this a very enlightening piece : The Land that Failed to Fail.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/ch...

I recall the New York Times, WSJ, and particularly Bloomberg from 2011 to 2014 have run uncountable number of articles unanimously, unequivocally predicting the collapse of the Chinese economy. I really hate to use the word "western media bias", but if you look at the facts, it's hard to see otherwise.
That’s how you defer an expensive function. The fstring part is the joke.