skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got towards the end of the post and found myself thinking thinking "I wonder how the comments feel about this"? He makes a fair point, but my rebuttal is that I do learn interesting things from the comments here, but it is important that you read the article and know that someone may feel different about it than you. It's important to stand by your convictions and not give into groupthink.

I think the "quiet" brand would be very useful on a service like Reddit.
> Chenoweth and Stephan collected data on all violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 that resulted in the overthrow of a government or in territorial liberation. They created a data set of 323 mass actions. Chenoweth analyzed nearly 160 variables related to success criteria, participant categories, state capacity, and more. The results turned her earlier paradigm on its head — in the aggregate, nonviolent civil resistance was far more effective in producing change.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolen...
Everyone that is anyone knows that the movie industry is highly corrupt. That is why someone that is guaranteed a percentage of profits often gets nothing. The books are so cooked, that many famous movies are chalked up as a loss.
The BIOS/MBR Boot Process
If you speak a small language reviews might still be valuable for everything but restaurants. I have not noticed any systematic spam reviews in neither swedish nor danish.

The problem with restaurants, being an overall shady business, is probably that way too many customers are too easy to please or hard to please, so the reviews doesn't say much.
Breathing per se should be fine. If you've ever been in a sauna, you'll know you can breathe air even when it's above the boiling point -- not for very long, to be sure, but that's got more to do with the extreme rate of sweating than your lungs. The lungs are always wet, which keeps them cool from evaporation.
I get what you mean. I've been applying the skillset to Kaggle problems, each of which I imagine contain multiple subproblems which companies might face. But kaggle standings, in my experience, dont seem to be too convincing a metric for job openings.

The problem with the MOOC ecosystem at the moment is there's no clear path forward with them. I'd have imagined the MOOC certifications solving this problem, but I feel networking plays a much bigger role in the job market rather than credibility.

The only exception I see is Udacity, which, by its pricing has created a limited pool of graduates, and therefore are valued much higher
Chill+Mattress+Coupon+25%+Off
Sadly this seems to be becoming a common far-left tactic of the police being ordered to stand down while masked assailants attack a crowd of people espousing incorrect opinions.
Yes, but urban cities. Not "just 3-4 urban cities".
Why does it matter what the Chinese mouthpieces say? They will always find a reason when they want to fuck someone up.
Which does not work well. At the time the item is posted, there are mismoderations. For example, one person can mod a post as off-topic because they don't like the narrative. You're not allowed to bring up such moderation right away. By the time you are allowed to, the momentum is gone. Effectively the post got silenced.

Discussions are more mature here anyway.

Although Tweakers used to have a moderation system akin to Slashdot back then funny comments (or "funny") comments were much more allowed. I'd say funny without intellectual basis or cleverness is not acceptable anymore. I suppose it still is on Slashdot and Reddit.

Hiw does lobste.rs deal with this?
This is weird. I usually find something in the comments more insightful than the articles. I've gotten pretty good at skimming over the dross, though, I suppose.
Parent made the wrong argument.

First, the Iranian state does not have a policy of finding and murdering gay people. You'll note that basically all press reports of the execution of homosexuals ultimately refer to acts of rape, possibly statutory. The argument, roughly, would be that this is a pretense, and certainly, Iran's legal system is very flawed, its laws regressive and offenses such as "enmity against god" ill-defined. Nevertheless, they are not ISIS, and merely being homosexual is not a crime.

Second, if you want to morally justify sanctions based on the idea of improving LGBT rights in Iran, find at minimum some evidence that there is significant percentage of those people in Iran who would welcome them.

Third, Saudi Arabia (see [0]). The west simply has no, absolutely no leg to stand on when it comes to the human rights argument. It is blatantly obvious that Iran could continue as it does with regard to its treatments of minorities, so long as it stops opposing our geopolitical interests, and starts to provide some benefits instead.

To summarize, this is not an issue of moral relativism. This is an issue of dishonesty and jingoism.

[0] https://www.out.com/news/2019/4/29/saudi-arabia-kills-5-afte...
Hmmm...

This means that it is possible that Grand Theft Rover, the new Rockstar game (one can dream) will be more expensive to make than actually going to Mars and steal a Mars rover.

I suppose that if you want as much realism as possible, then simulation is more expensive than doing an actual real thing. I guess that makes sense. We didn't create an AI yet that creates games for us at GTA-scale and quality.
Slowly. And it is hard.

To be honest I only got these conversations 1 to 1, with reasonably close friends (i.e. we know each other for several years, meet regularly, e.t.c)

To get there, make friends. Work on those relationships, indulge others despite the fact that they might not think before they talk, have big egos, and don't really want to be challenged ... you can survive i.e. one boring/weitd conversation over lunch right? :) Maybe after few rounds of conversation you realized you clicked with the other person and then you start going for coffe breaks, discussing geopolitics or something. Maybe others join you ...

... in general it is improbable that you will be just handed a group of people that just fits, and even if you are so lucky, people and group dynamics change.
Iran to Execute Members of Alleged CIA-Trained Spy Network
Kojima seems to have two distinct sides. One is pure genius, the other is not so great. The former made Policenauts, Snatcher, Metal Gear 2, MGS, MGS3, Peace Walker. The latter fired Jeremy Blaustein, David Hayter, came up with vampires and flying whales for no good reason, wrote endless unnecessary cut-scenes for MGS4 that take themselves too seriously, came up with the script for MGS5.
>Almost any thread that has even a hint of politics will always turn into an echo chamber. Where anyone who doesn't agree with the echo chamber will be down voted.

Which also leads me to question subjects where I'm less informed or don't have an opinion. I have to assume that the echo chamber is in full-effect there too, right?
> Even if I wish they could just gain independence, it seems unlikely, and it's not like any foreign power would go to war to protect HK.

I never understood this. Why would HK gain 'independence'? Why would a foreign power 'protect' HK? (protect from what?)

HK has been used to build a narrative that is rather strange... Frankly people in HK calling for independence are a bit like, say, the Texas Nationalist Movement or calling for Seattle independence. It's a fringe movement at best.
Banks are some of the most conservative institutions on earth. They also have a lot to lose if they do it wrong, so progress is usually slow. There are some who go against the grain, though, like for instance Revolut.
Yepppp. I hate these two, and I'm a novelist myself (well, I pretend to be sometimes).
If you check the actual content, you'll see that it includes both the 2003 and the 2007 leaks: https://archive.org/download/HalfLife22007Source/HL2%20Sourc...
Always. The people always get the politics they deserve.
Maybe you meant 'oil'?
Is that really a new phenomenon? I’m thinking back to Usenet in the early through late 90s, many of those debates had the same pattern
Is there a symbolism with the white? Or was it an arbitrary colour?

I believe Brown was chosen for the Nazi SA uniforms because they were cheap.
What about the many, many other functioning democracies with incredibly strict gun control?
Pure nonsense. Terror is not the same thing as economic sanctions. To suggest it's the same is to make language meaningless.
Bangalore's loss is going to be Hyderabad's gain. Bangalore's traffic and water woes will drive more and more companies to switch to nearby Hyderabad.

Though I do wonder how the downturn in the automobile sector is going to affect Chennai in the long-run
I think you are missing the point. That someone calls their own solution "shitty" doesn't mean that it's shitty by your standards, its shitty by theirs. The reality is that people have different standards. I don't understand the hate you seem to be exuding for productive people.
There is one advantage of this script over an equivalent document: it provides the instructions in the same context that it's being used (the command shell).

Unless we have script shells that can universally launch a web document side-by-side from the shell prompt where it needs to be used, having it being displayed from the shell itself step by step will reduce the mental load required to follow the instructions. Also, the benefit of having an already semi-automated process in order to build a script in the future is not negligible.
I would describe this line of reasoning as tautological. A proper analysis would compare total violence and eliminate other factors like income inequality and education. The preoccupation with "gun violence" is like fixating on, say, truck collisions-- it provides no actual insight into what variable is driving traffic fatalities, but trucks sure are big and scary!
There is a point where the combination of heat and humidity means that humans can’t cool themselves adequately and die, even in the shade. This is happening more and more, and seems likely to start happening in places like eastern China and the US sooner than people think.

https://robertscribbler.com/tag/wet-bulb-temperatures-35-c/
Why don't they cooperate and avoid making their own wheels?

Um, have you seen how group projects normally turn out?
We'll be fine as a species. There will be a lot more sob stories about this or that village in some less developed nation starving because they can no longer farm their land, there will be wars over resources, etc. Humanity will be just fine.
> How could tax evasion not be correlated to the rate?

To make such a statement you need data. I can argue for the opposite to be true and an inverse relationship exists. Look for countries with very low taxes (like South Africa) and the to ones with high taxes (like Sweden). You will see that lower taxes correlate with higher evasion.

My data is not very rigorous. That is why I think that i requires further work to get to a conclusion. Can you present data that justifies your point?
https://twitter.com/justincormack/status/1153060402495991808...

Indeed. I prefer this title over "Fuzz rising" as well.
I want to know how did they acquire this technology. I've heard china simply steals technology (or atleast accused of stealing by western media), but what about india, does India too steals technology or what exactly is their process to get the technology they need?

Are these scientists working for Isro previously worked for other organizations like NASA where they acquired know how from?

And if it's really homegrown technology, then why we haven't seen better phones or drones or 3d printer or whatever new, coming out of India?

Or does it mean, in India innovation which is not supported by government, doesn't take off?

Not sure why I am being downvoted , I asked this question in good faith.
Are you sure this is the structural core and not simply how they built the fire exit and satisfied the municipality that the material for this fire exit is non combustible? I doubt this is structural.
That you can run from the shell.
I recall from my trip in 2008, doing camel safari from Jaisalmer (west india, Thar desert, amazing place). I counted plastic bottles and drank 6 litres of water just on the camel, and literally nothing came out of me. Sweat quickly evaporated in that low humidity environment. It was around 45-50 degrees outside, just sitting on that animal, slowly moving around.

At one point, I nearly collapsed from heat fatigue. It was just a sudden weakness, my head spinned a bit, I had to sit down and after few minutes I was a bit better. This was 3rd month backpacking in india, so one would expect at least slight adjustment. In cities, you just move from one AC place to the other and suffer through short periods outside of it (in fact heat subjectively gets much worse if you stay predominantly in AC place).

I can't imagine people doing any physical work under these conditions. There are some hard limits on human biology
Is that thing even scannable? Or do they paint the embossed parts for extra contrast?
Equifax to pay up to $700M in data breach settlement
More astroturfing. The only difference in this model is who has access, and how low the bar is set for the potential of corruption.
I did not comment on medicine. So there is no "starvation".

> "not entirely honest"

You are possibly projecting your own family's character. Kindly refrain from discussing matters regarding which you have zero insight. Tashakor.
There is a fine line between DRY and human-Huffman-encoder.

Just knowing that the line exists makes a big difference!
Iran says it arrested 17 CIA spies, some sentenced to death
I assume it was for maximum contrast with the black that many of the protesters wear, to help distinguish friend from foe.
100 Days of Rejection Therapy
Yes. I think this "raising up the team" is called servant leadership. Not many people know how to do it, and it seems not many want to, because it does not help then look like heroes.
The average age of NASA engineers on Apollo 11 was 28
It sounds like a traditional email client would fit your needs perfectly. Check out Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/
How Much Is a View Worth in Manhattan? Try $11M
The quest for infinite cities – Making urban landscapes with algorithmic design
Architects usually specify to include a sound dampening material on each floor.
This is not necessarily a bad thing for the protesters in HK.

Considering the humiliation that the colonisation of HK had been for 100+ years and the resulting nationalistic tendency of the people, if CCTV (Chinese state TV) had shown the pictures of armed protesters storming the HK parliament and some of them flying the Union Jack then the Chinese government would have been forced to fall on the protesters like a ton of bricks.
I'm just surprised that it hasn't taken off in the West. It's super useful for a lot of things. I suspect that a lack of QR code implementation in apps for Facebook and Twitter has a lot to do with it. Kinda prevents mass adoptions when they haven't found a usecase for it, though all those Asian sites clearly have.
"...test an underlying contributing factor that I believe led to all this: a reduced trust in journalism and Internet content on the whole. The comments sometimes were more fulfilling, informative and truthful than the link itself - not to mention advert/tracking free."

This was a fascinating thought, that I didn't expect to read most of the way through the blog post. I think it is a very good sign that the author was able to consider two quite different perspectives on the same topic: that the comments were a cyclic predictable pattern capturing his attention for the wrong reasons, and that at the same time the comments were potentially valuable as a source of truth and trustworthy information.

Fascinating, and I see some parallels to my own usage of HN. I will sometimes 'vet' an article I'm not sure of, by reading the quality of the commentary to assess the potential quality of the article. I certainly recognise the pattern of ctrl+clicking numerous links to read later when time permits.
That’s an SMTP requirement too.
Libra: Friend or Foe?
Lasagna Code
It's a hell of a lot harder (or at least more costly) to violently impose your will on people who can violently defend themselves.
"In your example you are explicitly breaking factorial. In my example I'm just defining `pred`, and it's unexpectedly and implicitly breaking factorial."

In all mainstream languages with OOP features methods by default are not virtual and cannot be overridden by a successor class. You cannot accidentally create an opportunity for breaking factorial by defining 'pred', you'd need to explicitly declare 'pred' as virtual. If you don't do it, factorial cannot be broken and there is no problem.

If we pretend that you did it, the question is how is it different from taking 'pred' as an argument in the functional example?
The population of Hong Kong is apparently 7+ million, and 2 million went on one of the marches. Doesn't seem 'fringe' to me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-48656471
I don't speak any languages with less than a couple hundred million speakers, so I find salvation in some of the smaller, more niche communities, preferably with invite-only registration process, or simply less well known.

Increasing popularity never made anything better.
And cyanobacteria is a small deal compared to the formation of earth or supernovas. Which are absolutely nothing compared to the big bang or the heat death of the universe.

Humans should definitely make a big deal about their own survival.
That is a self-defeatist view that encourages and amplifies the "hate the rich" sentiments in the society.

1 of 5 children of John D Rockefeller (richest man in history) died at 13 months. In the past 130 years, child mortality has decreased massively in the developed world. If that's not "real" or "satisfying" and the only achievement that truly fulfils you is beating other people, that's a fairly sad life to live.
That looks like a high horse? The consequences will not be borne by you but by the HK public, and when that hurt their daily lives you better wish they won't change their mind.

Also, you don't care what they say but there are 1.4 billion people that do, and lies will become truth.
Excellent analysis here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20492145

The Chinese and HK governments have realized they've lost the culture wars and public opinion so they've resorted to the tried and tested handbook of authoritarian governments, to create a cycle of violence to create justification for cracking down.

This is a provocation. Protesters will now counter arm themselves with similar bats and sticks, which in turn will give the police extra justification when they uncover "weapons". It will be used by the Chinese domestic media as justification to crack down hard.
Trying to claim that these 2 million people campaign for HK independence is not honest.
Hashing names does not protect privacy
CO2 levels have increased by 50% over the past couple of centuries. Are plants growing bigger as a result?
These sound like the assessments of someone who read a critique of the articles, but not the articles themselves.
I thought about this for months some years ago. Is there a way to bookmark, tag and index only parts of a web page? Like paragraphs, diagrams or bits of video. I often find true gems of advice and insights among mountains of fluff and later forget about them.

Edit: I don't want to watch the whole game I just want highlights.
By using a hypothetical to support his argument, the author is implicitly asserting that his hypothetical is representative of the real-world situations we’re trying to discuss. He had the freedom to pick the strongest example possible, or several varied examples, and chose to use only this one.

Specifically, he’s using the failed outcome of this hypothetical refactoring to argue that new_sequence_number should never have been broken out into a separate function in the first place because it separated the foosoft==3 case from the conditional, which made the bad refactor more likely to happen.

Certainly, in this hypothetical 1500-line function, it’s possible that they would have appeared close to each other and it’s possible they wouldn’t have. In this particular case, it’s entirely possible that the refactor was made easier to execute successfully because the programmer can leverage the compiler to find all the locations that need to be updated.

In the end, he’s demonstrated a flawed hypothetical procedure and asserted that it’s worse than an imagined alternative.
As usual, the argument being unsound doesn’t mean the conclusion is incorrect, only that it hasn’t been demonstrated here.
What is the value of this over a checklist?
Personal Projects Make You a Better Developer
It's explained at the end of the post.
By switching to HipHop for PHP and later HHVM they saved lots of servers. 90% is a bit too much (consider: they went "services" first, where different tasks were done in different languages in independent services) And yes, for the ecological argument that is true (even more ecological it would be to shut down Facebook ... )

However using PHP allowed them to hire lots of staff quickly and adapt to changed requirements quickly. Which is economical valuable. Finding the right time for a switch is simpler in a retrospective though ;-)

(I have no insight to Facebook, but was heavily involved in the PHP project and talked to different Facebook engineers privately and professionally)
If I bash your head in, I’m merely returning you back to an earlier state.
Is anyone else bothered by how they were handling ssh keys in the example?

The whole point of public keys is that the private key never has to leave the box it’s generated on. Once you go sharing them you might as well just use a random passphrase.
Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat
What's surprising about that? The HK government is necessarily compliant with the Mainland. Isn't that one of the root issues here?

It'd be unexpected if they didn't stand down while PLA grunts, I mean "triad gangsters", put a beating on the protestors.
Money Laundering via In-App Purchases
I spent about 2-4 weeks learning clojure (also in a similar boat at the time) and in that brief time I was wholly transformed into another FP cultist, where I then found my current love- Elixir, I have been meaning to give rust a shot as well though.
I have interviewed many people just out of school. They never gained anything from school. They aren't any better equipped for the job than anyone else.

Frankly, I know what the textbooks have in them; it's not like the content was missing. Do we blame the teachers or do we blame the students? It really doesn't matter.

How about another reason why people quit IT?

https://www.ontario.ca/document/industries-and-jobs-exemptio...

In Ontario, Canada if you work in IT, you dont get breaks, lunches, overtime, weekends, you can work until 2am in the morning and then be expected to be at work at 7am.

The MSPs in Ontario pretty much all do this. Don't like it? Quit or be fired.
Voting and protesting are resulting in oppression and physical assault.

Your argument, such as it is, is equivalent to saying people should not be allowed to defend themselves, because someone might get hurt. It rests on the hidden assumption that guns cause violence, which isn't supported by the evidence you offer; and flies in the face of the actual violence in HK.
ZSH Multi-line prompt: The missing ingredient