skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At 5M+ it doesn't really matter if you pay $1000 or $10000 for insurance.
Yes, because this activity is totally invisible to China and they will not ever notice F-35s, AH-64s, and American-made Air Defense weapons just magically showing up around their borders.
One day I will learn to spell. T_T
What about recycled plastic? I've seen parks use it well for durable bridges, benches, gazebos, etc. For some reason I haven't seen it used for homes and that confuses me. It seems like a generally durable and even weatherproof material.
> Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act

What is up with the delusional nature of Hong Kong proponents? I mean I get that there are no other options but come on we have to watch this slow motion trainwreck for 50 years straight? Just get it over with already!

The US is merely going to re-evaluate Hong Kong’s independence, not this thing on the other end of the spectrum.

Everything I ever hear about Hong Kong residents is oozing with delusion. “We’ll get UK passports!” Remember that meme?

Im going to be on the edge of my seat if she requests the military though
This is mostly rhetoric and political posturing. Chinese government has so far refrained from taking any action. Beijing is not an benevolent actor, but is smart enough to leave Hong Kong people alone and let Hong Kong people see for themselves what a HK version of Arab Spring/Orange Revolution can deliver. If the protests lead HK to a state of chaos and recession, Beijing will gain more leverage.
Speaking of exercise, anyone want to go for a run together in Hong Kong?
You mean like the US liberated Iraq ?

EDIT: damn it, Irak (french) is spelled with a q in English.
Kids need boredom - the best ideas are born of being bored and needing to figure out what to do for yourself.

We did this with our kid, no smart devices in the back seat. We didn't make sure she had something to do at all times. Most of her toys were (and still are) stuff that need some creativity and imagination (just wooden blocks, Legos etc.)

Now she can sit in the back seat for an hour, just staring out the window thinking about stuff. She seems to be able to play with just about anything, any object can be a source of play and games for her.
I don't think BMW ever had any kind of advantage in this field, never mind huge.
The SCMP isn't as unbiased as it used to be, but it's closer to the situation. They seem to have talked to all the players and quote them, but avoid drawing any conclusions.
Mostly managerial positions. Meh.
Required reading. Have you worked as an SRE?

> Item: Rollbacks need to be possible

This is the dirty secret to keeping life as an SRE unexciting. If you can't roll it back, re-engineer it with the dev team until you can. When there's no alternative, you find one anyway.

(When you really and truly cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die can't re-engineer around it fully, isolate the the non-rollbackable pieces, break them into small pieces, and deploy them in isolation. That way if you're going to break something, you break as little as possible and you know exactly where the problem is.)

Try having a postmortem, even informal, for every rollback. If you were confident enough to push to prod, but didn't work, figure out why that happened and what you can do to avoid it next time.

> Item: New states (enums) need to be forward compatible

Our internal Protobuf style guides strongly encourage this. In face, some of the most backward-compatible-breaking features of protobuf v2 were changed for v3.

> Item: more than one person should be able to ship a given binary.

Easy to take this one for granted when it's true, but it 100% needs to be true. Also includes:

* ACLs need to be wide enough that multiple people can perform every canonical step.

* Release logic/scripts needs to be accessible. That includes "that one" script "that guy" runs during the push that "is kind of a hack, I'll fix it later". Check. It. In. Anyway.

* Release process needs to be understood by multiple people. Doesn't matter if they can perform the release if they don't know how to do it.

> Item: if one of our systems emits something, and another one of our systems can't consume it, that's an error, even if the consumer is running on someone's cell phone far far away.

Easy first step is to monitor 4xx response codes (or some RPC equivalent). I've rolled back releases because of an uptick in 4xxs. Even better is to get feedback from the clients. Having a client->server logging endpoint is one option.

And if a release broke a client, rollback and see the first point. Postmortem should include why it wasn't caught in smoke/integration testing.
Concrete_plant
> this activity is totally invisible to China

Deterrence doesn’t work if done in secret. If China intervened in Hong Kong militarily, Taiwan and our allies need to be able to credibly threaten the mainland with retaliation.
I don't get why you referred to the year 1989, absolutely nothing happened in that year.
Tiananmen? What's that?
> I never would have expected China to profess/commit violence openly

Seriously? I'm surprised they held off this long. Remember Tienanmen Square?
> Beijing is not an benevolent actor, but is smart enough to leave Hong Kong people alone

Nothing Xi has done in the past year with Hong Kong has been smart. It’s short termed decision making, optimised for his political survival over the country’s long-term interests.

When dictators’ economies slow, they tend to pick from one of two handbooks: scapegoating a minority or launching pointless wars.
This is truely a game changer for Laravel and PHP.
WW III - the missing CC mitigation plan in project drawdown.
It is because if you can't time the market you don't know whether you are in a slump or in a rally. If you stretch your investment in time you partially avoid a possible crash after a rally when you got in just before the crash.
That's not what I mean. Look inside NPM repository.

Individual libraries compete against other libraries doing the same thing.
Hong Kong is not Taiwan. It’s a part of China and pretty much indefensible geographically.
Defending it from military forces coming from the mainland is foolish.

US should strengthen its support of Taiwan in retaliation.
I recognize the value of these studies but I don't think they're worth the pain and distress inflicted on these animals.

I can't put myself in the place of these researchers and see myself injecting things that cause harm to the rats without feeling really shitty about the situation. Are they just numb to what they're doing?
> In most of France, Belgium or Germany it's impossible to find apartments with ceiling fans or air conditioning.

I live in Germany, in a house that's nearly 500 years old. There's one room that's holding up well against the heat, but the rest of the house is getting uncomfortable.

In the past there used to be days that were this hot, but now it's the second year where we get weeks and weeks of >30 degrees. Air conditioning was just not necessary so far, but I'm seriously considering adding some.

> Possibly the worst offence in Germany and especially in Belgium is that you can't ask restaurants/bars for tap water.

The discussion is a bit unclear what you mean here, if that's about tap water at the table, or tap water in general.

When it's hot, I never had issues asking for a refill of a bottle I bring along or a glass of water "on the go". I'd stand near the counter, drink it, thank them, and go my merry way.

Tap water at the table is a different matter, and yes, it's uncommon here and you might be considered a cheap-skate, as drinks are part of the calculation to make things work (food really is cheaper in Germany than in many other Western countries though).
That they ignored Ukraine means they will ignore just about anything, even if it happens on their borders.

A loose union like the EU is unlikely to ever even threaten war, which is more or less the point of it I guess.
Native Chinese Hong Konger here.

I don't like Junius Ho myself, but I think the LA Times translation of that quote is incorrect.

生路 and 死路 in Chinese don't literally mean "path of being alive" and "path of being dead". They are figurative, more appropriately translated as "free/open path" and "dead end". So Ho isn't really making threats about Chu's life, but more like abstract "consequences", maybe legal, maybe career-wise, maybe popularity-wise. Frankly, I don't know what Ho can do. I don't think Ho has enough evidence that Chu's supporter(s) vandalized his parents' graves and that Chu knows the exact perpetrator(s). Otherwise Ho would have provided that evidence to the police and the police would have made arrests already.
> HK belongs to China

And the USA belongs to Britain.
Oracle: China's internet is designed more like an intranet
Yes, the ownership situation isn't great. But as someone following the Hong Kong situation, I have to agree with Animats. They have the best coverage so far - it's really quickly updated and pretty balanced.
Yup. Many of us had chores magnetically attached to the family fridge with a red and black dry-erase marker conveniently nearby. Sure, we didn't have 'sprints' or weekly meetings like the families in this article, but if I missed my chores my parents were absolutely going to take some time to talk to me and ask what was going on.
> the idea that someone on the left can't be an extremist

Well of course it doesn't, which is why nobody was saying that. There's been plenty of horrific deadly left wing violence historically, both in the US and other countries. It's just that in the last few decades and limited to the US, there has been little to no deadly left wing violence, a time period which has seen quite a lot of deadly right wing violence.
GitHub is blocking all Iranian accounts
Sounds like a brand of instant ramen.
Coursera Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications - Xavier Serra & Prof Julius O Smith, III @ Stanford
Are there any specific eating disorders that these men you are describing are more inclined to be victims of? I feel like this whole intermittent fasting trend is a little eating-disorder-ish but it doesn't seem that bad overall.

I do agree the dysmorphia is getting bad. I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that anabolic steroid use is growing rapidly. I think it's really analogous to how in certain sports, athletes feel like they need to use anabolic steroids to even compete; now because of instagram (and even just more people in real life... I've seen a few people at my shitty gym who almost definitely are juicing) it feels like these huge juiced up guys are everywhere and it threatens regular people's masculinity
It's not a rip-off. That doesn't even make any sense in an environment where you see people taking programs and basically remixing them or improving on them all the time. Taking inspiration, maybe. The weaknesses of SS are generally well-known (such as criminally low amount of volume), which is why people recommend programs like StrongLifts, GZCLP or 531 for beginners instead.
Why not Russia? They’re closer and they love annexing stuff.
But this is getting so ridiculous I find it hard to believe. Aren't people at Google supposed to be one of the smartest in the world? Don't they see what they did to their flagship product? Are they completely blind?
About 3.4m Hong Kong people have British National (Overseas) status and can immigrate to the U.K. tomorrow should they wish to do so. I imagine a substantial number of those not entitled to BNO are children of those who are and would be able to migrate with their family if their entire family leaves. All the Chinese who moved to Hong Kong after the handover are screwed however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_(Overseas)

> Applicants were required to be British Dependent Territories citizens by a connection with Hong Kong.[30] While about 3.4 million people acquired the status,[41] 2.5 million non-BDTC residents (virtually all Chinese nationals) were ineligible.[42] Those ineligible who wished to register as BN(O)s were required to have been naturalised as Hong Kong-connected BDTCs by 31 March 1996. Acquiring Hong Kong BDTC status other than by birth was no longer possible after that date.[37]
What has Xi done that you feel is in short-term interests?
Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? Do they also want SpaceX to fail?

Elon can be an asshat sometimes, and he oversells and is over-optimistic. But even if the short sellers are right and Tesla will go bankrupt (which, btw, does not equal failure in many ways), why are so many people excited about that?

Most tech giants of recent times have done things I would consider to have made the world a much worse place. Why is Tesla, which has done a lot for humanity and is a key advancement in tackling climate change, hated so much? Why not save your hate for companies damaging democracy or workers rights, which seem like more serious charges?
Did you try the app? I avoid it, but if it functions independently, it could be a stopgap.
What do they drive the electric cars on? I agree about mortgaging the future, but roads + (electric) buses makes a perfectly sensible public transit system for a lot of density levels.
Looks like his blog with GitHub pages have been restricted bu GitHub.
> Remember Tienanmen Square?

Worry not, they're busily working on making sure you won't.
It's not just the tech industry...it's the whole world.
Unlike France the UK has long since checked out of being a colonial power. And even if they wanted to do so, the great naval power that was Britian seems unable to stop Iranians from hijacking their ships.
It is always students that protest the most. Remember tiananmen square? Remember protests in Soviet Union satellite countries? Framing it as a millennials problem omits the actual pattern at work.

It is also not surprising. Who has the most incentive for long term sensibility in nation management? People that have many years left to live. On top of that students often live in ideological bubbles that are ripe with underutilized manpower.
Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScript
They could just ask for routing/account #. Yes it allows for unauthenticated push & pulls, but when they ask for username/password they're just scraping the routing/account number from your account and doing a normal ach transfer anyway. Except now that they're logged in they can verify your account has X funds, see transaction history, and be yet another security breach waiting to happen.

Transferwise switched to requiring this and it's a miserable feature. Lost me as a customer because of it.
35 countries would beg to differ, but I guess you know better?
Gator Panic Game in CSS, No JavaScript
Hong Kong is not now and has never been a democracy. The PRC government informer the British they’d invade if they instituted democracy and they haven’t gotten any friendlier to the idea since.
> I wonder who would win such a conventional war.

In a defensive war, probably China. They've got more tanks, more people, more manufacturing capabilities, lots of artillery and no doubt they've spent years preparing themselves militarily for such an event.
Required reading. Have you worked as an SRE?

She was both a long-time SRE at Google and a long-time PE at Facebook.
To be fair I think they had no power, only influence, inside the EU. Now they have no influence but only a small amount of power and no real leverage.

Given China's silk road deals with Italy, I don't think any EU action will be forthcoming UK or no UK.
> What has Xi done that you feel is in short-term interests?

Most Hong Kongers, until recently, identified as Chinese moreso than Hong Konger. The transition in 2047 would have been uneventful.

Now, Hong Kong is pissed off. Taiwan has seen the writing on the wall. China’s multi-decade integration strategy must be rethought because Xi didn’t think he could survive Hong Kongers criticising his leadership.
That's a strange view. Goof programmers are supposed to be smart people than can focus not only on little implementation details, but also the overall vision. Part of your overall vision as a human being is a healthy lifestyle, so I can see being fit only as an advantage, especially for a programmer.
A bunch of jawjacking in this thread about how the US should "intervene", whatever that means.

He's a quick rehash of what the American military has been up to for the last 2 decades:

* Fighting a failing (read: failed) counter-insurgency, that has surely atrophied the necessary skills and experience of field-grade and above officers needed to fight great land and sea wars

* Mopping up the mess left from the above

I don't doubt the fighting ability of the line infantryman (I was one), but this idea that we could do anything about Hong Kong without engaging in a full-scale war is ludicrous. It ignores a) the actual military engagements this country has gotten into for the last 20 years, and b) the actual geo-political situation in the region. Perhaps consider what strategic interest to the United States Hong Kong represents before advocating that we get into yet another endless war with nebulous objectives and mystical thinking about how easy it would be.
Interesting, sounds challenging! Would you mind adding this to the issues? Maybe someone will be able help me tackle it then https://github.com/thomaswangio/minimal-twitter/issues
If you want to link to native media better link to Hong Kong Free Press.

SCMP is not at liberty to tell "the truth" (by western standards).
Also Keep in mind what the Chinese gov is capable of, notably that there are up to a million or more Uighers in 're-education' camps at the moment [0].

0: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45474279
The only thing that you nées is a hash fonction. I think thé added complexity ils negligible on any modern System.
Thinking about careers is fine, but if they're choosing subjects then they're potentially making some life long decisions and shutting themselves out of many career paths early.
At least in Vienna / Austria you can get excellent free tap water from the mountains on the street all over the town. (hydrants)
https://www.wien.info/en/sightseeing/green-vienna/viennese-w...
Mainland Chinese are well aware of what’s going on in Hong Kong. And whether you’re in Shanghai or Shenzhen there’s no question of you being next; this is already the reality you live in.
They're in twitter.com/explore :)
Interesting dynamic. It's also behind the theory why NASA missions tend to become huge and long lasting. No iteration. Failures avoided at all cost.
Probably because everyone knows JavaScript, but not everyone use it by choice, giving you a higher than average ratio of people who both dislike and know the language.

This is actually one of the reasons I think every language except for JavaScript sucks for open source web-development. Not that I particularly like JavaScript myself, but everyone knows how to use it. I work for a Danish municipality, we use a lot of open source software, but we’re roughly 10 developers and ops technicians that support 7000 employees and around 300-500 IT systems. As a result we can’t use every tech-stack. This is pretty standard for average sized muniplacities by the way.

We don’t share tech stacks, but we do work together, and as you can imagine that leads to wasted resources. We’re a C# shop our direct neighbour does PHP, because of limited resources, we can’t utilise each others projects. That’s just a silly waste. Good luck convincing anyone to change their overall and often cohesive strategy for tech choices though.

The one technology we can all use, however, is JavaScript and everything build within that ecosystem can be put to good use everywhere. So while the language sucks at a lot of things, it’s also the only universal web language that we’ve got.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 5 plate, but if you're talking about 5 x 20kg plates on either end of an olympic bar (which is another 20kg), that's a 220kg/495lb deadlift and is still very much a solid deadlift.

For an 85kg man (average in UK is 83.6kg) that's as near as makes no odds 2.6x body weight.

For a 70kg woman (average in UK in 70.2kg) it's more than 3x body weight.

Generally anything more than 2x body weight is considered a solid deadlift for both men and women. Sure, not in powerlifting, but powerlifting is still pretty niche even amongst people who lift regularly.

(For comparison, I weigh 97kg (14-15% body fat) and would be over the moon with a 220kg deadlift. I'm heading in the right direction but a couple of unrelated skiing injuries have prevented me from getting there... and of course, I'm getting older, so who knows.)

EDIT: Corrected with ONS figures for average weights in UK.
> FWIW, any Americans looking to (try to) help may write their Congress representatives to support the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.

Please don't. We don't need more concrete excuses for the central government to claim that there is foreign meddling. If the people of the country cannot awaken to fight together in solidarity against the authoritarian government, then it's just too bad. So be it. I still live in Hong Kong and it's a scary thought, but it's also the only correct way.

In fact, nobody can expect the US or any foreign government to want to "save" Hong Kong in good faith. We don't need your saving.
Or maybe you're facing an existential crisis here because you don't care about travel to other stars.
If anyone is interested, we are working on a solution to the dirty data problem at http://treenotation.org.
I can’t understand what you mean by the Vue or React apps being insufficient if there’s a backend. What else would they be except an interface to an API?
Good. As a wannabe indie game developer, this pleases me.
Guns are so dangerous, is it really worth it just to have "a popular recreation"?
Simple -- because basically everyone is forced to use JS. If 10% of the people who use JS complain about it, and 20% of the people who use Perl complain about it, there are still more people complaining about JS.
Except that requirement makes working on code as data trivial, which enables proper macros, which lets you raise the level of abstraction you're working on to arbitrary levels, and hide all the machinery supporting it.

So in the end, you end up writing code much closer to the domain (and thus, more human-readable) than you would in a non-Lisp language.
> this idea that we could do anything about Hong Kong without engaging in a full-scale war is ludicrous

Fighting a land war against China for Hong Kong is ludicrous. Making a second Tiananmen Square painful for Beijing is not.

From sanctions, to weapons sales to Taiwan et al, to providing protesters and resistance pockets with intelligence, there are options. Whether they’re worth it is the question.
Yes, if for no other reason, that calling someone adds friction.

People don't phone you for stuff that could have easily waited till tomorrow morning.
A bit like those heat packs where you click a metal disk inside them and they solidify, releasing heat? You could imagine doing the same but it 'turning on' a 'permanent' magnet.
> About 3.4m Hong Kong people have British National (Overseas) status and can immigrate to the U.K. tomorrow should they wish to do so.

No, they can't. BN(O) was created pretty much exactly for the purpose of allowing British Hong Kong citizens to retain their British passports without any sort of right of residency in the UK. The UK didn't want millions of foreign refugees with a claim to residency to appear on their doorstep any more than any other country would (have?)...

https://www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality/british-nati...

"you: are subject to immigration controls and do not have the automatic right to live or work in the UK"
Point (4) strikes me as a bit off because Jane Austen is generally among the easiest classical authors to read. Pride and Prejudice in particular is a simple romance story that can easily be read and appreciated by almost anyone with little to no preparation. Compare this to, say, William Faulkner or James Joyce and calling Austen an example of difficult literature seems almost absurd.
It's fucking down now! What happened?