skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is exactly one country with a comparable populatuon, India. It's not doing exactly bad, too. The next largest country is USA, with roughly thee times smaller a population.

Most countries with larger landmass have most of its landmass barely usable due to climate: Russia, Canada, Australia, Algeria. Most others from top 10 largest countries are doing OK: USA, India, Brazil.

China has a unique combination of very long subtropical shorelines, a decent amount of arable inland, and a very large population.
I don’t know when but hitchhiking from roadways (it’s okay from parking lots and similar) became an offense in California sometime in the seventies I guess. That said I’ve picked up hitchhikers a couple of times but not just random people. The context is broken down car, but not s beater, and people didn’t look out of place (suspicious). But yeah it’s s rarity.
All tyres are in a state of slip when you are accelerating or braking, it's unavoidable.
Is 2 stroke really that common for personal-use boats? I've only heard of them running on 93 gas, which is all I see sold at marinas, no oil to mix in.
Regenerative braking certainly is reduced by EV's; a Tesla may never replace its brakes during its lifetime.
Reading the paper, the dominant source of PM2.5/PM10 is resuspension of dust already on the road, rather than tires or brakes.
At 1080p on 100hz+ monitors...
That whole function could be rewritten to just the following one-liner, no?

return !!(getEmployee(id) || getManager(id) || getAdmin(id));
It's because we fixed lead pollution. Adding more pollution isn't going to help.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...

That said, I can't think of an easier problem for evolution to solve than this. I'm sure we'll get kids immune to plastic in a few more generations.
From experience, DSPS (delayed sleep phase syndrome - the blanket term for what you describe) is terrible to have. I have found that most people I discuss it with who have normal sleep cycles will staunchly refuse to consider that such a thing could possibly exist. "Have you just tried going to bed earlier?" (wow, never thought of that thanks), "You just need to form a good sleep habbit", "You're just lazy", "Stop making excuses", "Just try harder" etc. - pretty much the same as telling a depressed person to "just be happy"...

Having had a look, that's really interesting that Bupropion helped, since it seems to quite commonly cause insomnia as a side effect. What kind of dose is that?
Disabling chunking is often not an option.

EDIT: Basically, chunked transfer encoding is not an option for any front-end systems (reverse proxies / load balancers of any kind). Also note that because there exist apps that associate authentication state with connections (though they're not supposed to), one should generally avoid mixing traffic from different users onto one connection.
Gamma ray to the visual cortex.
You know economics isn't just macroeconomics, right? "It assumes people are rational" is like saying physics isn't a science because "it assumes cows are spherical."
The trans fats in animal products are mostly conjugated linoleic acids, which are actually good for you as far as we have been able to tell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugated_linoleic_acid

In other words, the trans fats that result from heating a vegetable oil are almost certain bad for you -- probably really bad -- whereas the trans fats in meat we don't know a lot about, but what we do know suggests that they are good for you. (Conjugated linoleic acids are sold as nutritional supplements.)
i was just thinking about this yesterday. The khan academy website became so complex in its layout. I think the old school web will make a comeback. Things are too complicated these days
> The only question is how they managed to fall so low that they weren't a competitive superpower.

Well, first of all, they had two thousand years autocratic Imperial rule. This was overthrown in 1912, but then came the Japanese invasion, then WW2, then a civil war.

The civil war ended up being won by a somewhat anti-intellectual group of people (the Communists) who had all sort of economic backwards programs (not to mention social upheaval by sending intellectuals to "re-education" camps).

As for the reason why things remained static during the Imperial rule: this was actually the norm for most civilizations. If you look the world in 1600, just before the invention of the telescope, Western Europe, the Ottoman's, the Mughals ruling in India, and Imperial China, weren't too different. The non-Europeans were actually ahead of the Europeans by some metrics.

Once the Scientific Revolution was embraced by the Europeans, and generally rejected by everyone else, the Euros left everyone else in the dust. The real question is: why were the Europeans the only ones to embrace it.

The book Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution by Toby Huff explores this question. Highly recommended.
Oh no. I've been a digital subscriber for years! I hope they release their archives.
To me, economics being a "science" implies the use of the scientific method.

You cannot study economics in a vacuum...in other words you cannot conduct the "test" part of the scientific method, because the real world will always produce some other unknown imperfect variable that affects the theory.

This is why behavioral economics are so important. IMHO it's the first truly concerted attempt at isolating economics to its core science in a repeatable and testable form (albeit not perfect). For example - understanding things like anchoring, recency bias, nudging, etc.
I asked this question the last time this came up and the answer I got was "Project Zero does not accept bounties. They generally ask for the money to be donated."
> I disregard PPP estimates since so many subjective and cultural decisions have to go into PPP calculations, and during a civil war there is a wide space for the PPP decisions to include the political factors that we should ignore when discussing the real economy.

Please link to alternative data that supports your argument.

> Likewise, why would it be valid to convert to USA currency? Why not measure year to year growth directly, from the perspective of China?

In most economic studies values are converted to US dollars because it is a stable point of reference.

Again, if you have data to backup your wild assertions in this thread that go completely against conventional wisdom then I would be very interested in seeing it. Great claims require great evidence.

> The variations in the currency exchange would again introduce those political factors that a person would want to ignore if they were curious about the real strength of the Chinese economy.

Of course it's not a perfect measure. But you said in an earlier message that "During the worst year of the Cultural Revolution, China still managed to grow 8%." However, the data we do have shows the opposite: the worst year had negative (-8.1%) growth. I don't think any adjustments to currency would account for such a large swing.

Sometimes it's best to just admit you're wrong. It certainly would lead to less down votes.
> Likewise, why would it be valid to convert to USA currency? Why not measure year to year growth directly, from the perspective of China?

So provide some data from that viewpoint. It seems that you’re just making data up. e.g. What is your “During the worst year of the Cultural Revolution, China still managed to grow 8%.” claim based on?
I’m not sure where 30% came from.

But - given the data we have available - the only conclusion left is yes. Yes, there are more people than we’d like to admit that are capable of these horrible acts. Given the frequency of gun violence here, it’s very difficult to draw another conclusion.
Hear hear!

If you're a techie and want to understand the financial world (particularly big VC and public equities), I highly recommend reading him daily. He breaks super complex things and makes them very easy to read...and SUPER entertaining.
Meanwhile, more than half their audience likely had ad blockers in place.
Intel's shortage is due to I tel's 10nm screwup not "high demand'.
> saving the world is paying taxes and keeping our kids fed and out of trouble

That's a reasonable approach I suppose, although rather localised. Is there any merit in thinking what's the biggest problem I can help with humanity?

I would think, even without talents like Aaron Swartz, it's worth trying... but I can understand your point...

I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds and looking at the stars and saying, "I want to go there."But I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in. This is the kind of person I am. - Linus Torvalds
Wow that is some demented autocorrect right there...
Regarding Chinese economic liberalization, it's mostly happening in the country and villages.

I would recommend you to read Steven Cheung. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_N._S._Cheung#Selected_b...
See also this video he did on How the Economic Machine Works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
I use xiaomi to measure temperature, and send it to homeassistant.
From the article: Imagine the more mainstream boats, like bass boats, that can use 20-30 gallons of gas in a day,

So taking your minimum... 100 hours a year, at 10 hours/day.. that's 10 days * 30 gallons = 300 gallons/year.

A car averaging 30mpg, would use 300 gallons to travel 9000 miles. The average car travels 13500m/year.. so that's equivalent to 2/3rds of a car co2.

It gets worse for your hardcore enthusiasts... day or two a week.. so 50-100 days or 1500 to 3000 gallons/year. That's equivalent to 45,000-90,000 mi/year.. or 3-6 cars worth of co2.

If you have better numbers, then please provide them.. but it doesn't look like it's a co2 savings just for "commercial boats that are often in use"
Please don’t call a NeXT a “hopped up word processor”
Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200B in I.O.U.s
Sure it is, oxidizer MIPCC. It's a lot easier/cheaper than SABRE and works when the air thins too much to support combustion.
They were getting kicked around by other powers in the 19th century. Communism isn’t the explanation.
I own my own home, so my main concern is travel.

We visit family 2-3 times/year, and I don't really want to charge at their house since it's a fairly significant cost. There aren't any charging stations near their houses (my family all live in relatively small towns). They also live fairly far away, so we'd have to stop a few times (10-14 hours driving). Stopping once or twice is reasonable (need to stop for lunch anyway), 3-4 times would be annoying.

So, we're probably going to have a gas car for the foreseeable future. We could have an electric car as a second car (for local trips), but that means having a second car (we're a one-car family) which has its own set of expenses and inconveniences (car seats, insurance, etc).

I've thought about getting an electric car and renting a gas car whenever we need to go on a trip, but so far the numbers haven't worked out. I'm definitely keeping an eye out.
No, if you embedded malicious code (say a full blown RAT, like this tool gives you) into an exe, modern av models will do static analysis of that code and flag it as potentially malicious. Because none of the JavaScript code in this backdoored electron app is even looked at by any engine(none of the engines on virustotal do analysis of JavaScript) the binary features are indistinguishable from the legitimate version.

Backdoored ccleaner flagged as malicious by multiple ml based products:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6f7840c77f99049d788155c1...

Backdoored xmanager flagged by multiple ml based products: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d484b9b8c44558c18ef6147c...

Countless other examples.
I’ve looked at a lot of the benchmarks and the difference was in the ballpark of 1-5%, which isn’t dominating from my perspective... did I miss a few?
The trouble is when they're managing money for other people who done have a say - pension funds or whatever - and the government wants to have some way to regulate them. Because not restricting then from "dangerous" things would bad, whether or not it actually helps. (And with the way things went bad when the regulation stopped working, maybe it even does help?)
The whole "people as rational actors" isn't a major underpinning of economics anymore, or is being phased out.
From Global Heroes to Rates Near Zero, Rock-Star Economies Flop
That's pretty much the truth.
Issue download archive: https://secure2.linuxjournal.com/pdf/dljdownload.php

If you have a big hard drive sitting around somewhere, please save these! I'll see if I can't get them uploaded to IPFS myself eventually. (edit: Got too excited, should probably wait and see what they're planning to do w/ respect to licensing)
Your first paragraph is exactly my point. Because in an SPA, you have to handle it in both places, not only on the server. That makes it twice as hard as an old fashioned server-side mvc page.

> Data being "an sql query away" on the server is similar to being "an AJAX call away" on the client.

This is a bit disingenuous, since sql calls in most back end languages are synchronous. Also an ajax call needs to update the UI to tell the user something is happening. This might mean disabling controls, showing spinners etc.
All of this goes away if you only use server-side rendering since form requests are natively handled by the browser.

> It's certainly not the case that asynchronicity makes you write shit code.

But it expands the number of cases you have to deal in the UI, to show all the loading states, error states etc.
That nasty CRT whine (15KHz) made me instantly guess Siemens old timely brushed system :( You have to be really old to not go insane from hearing it.
These sensors also need calibration every week or so, which basically involves opening the windows to feed fresh air.
Compared to getting an engineering degree, law school was easy (time consuming but otherwise untaxing). The hardest part for some people was learning to think like a lawyer.

Also, some people seemed to have a lot of trouble analyzing fact patterns from different points of view. Where it may be easy for some to argue vigorously in support of an issue they agree with but difficult to form arguments for the other side.

Profs would listen to students argue from their preferred position (often the good guy position) and then ask them to argue why the other side is right. Some people just couldn't do it (future prosecutors?).

I found LS fascinating -- it was like learning a new kind of physics. One that described how society works rather the describing how nature works. And, like real physics, "legal physics" works whether you understand what is going on or not. E.g., previously I had a small business and entered into many contracts even though LS taught me that I had no idea how a contract really worked.

On the other hand, in my experience, the practice of law is much harder -- taking far more concentration and mental energy than SW development. Good lawyers are as nerdy and as smart good devs.
Wouldn't removing CDA force tech companies into more censorship, not less? Where is the elegance with that approach?

Here's the EFF on the importance of CDA 230 for people not familiar with it: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

Edit: also no entity does control social media. There are a decent amount of different sites (Reddit, 4chan, twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Hackernews, Discord, and a bunch of smaller ones) I think a lot of the issue is that the goalposts for what we consider okay as a society have moved in the last decade or so. For example people care a lot more about hate towards LGBT people, and conservatives are way more likely to run afoul of that. As a interesting side note there have been social media sites started to try to get away from the "censorship" but they have yet to actually catch on.
Science communication for anything important to people (e.g. economics, climate, psychology, health) is generally terrible. On one side, you have people saying "looking at statues makes you atheist" or "this bubble is about to burst." On the other, you have "psychologists are garbage"/"climate change isn't real"/"economists can't predict recessions so they're idiots."

The solution is the same for all of them. Effort. When you see reporting you're interested, find the original paper and skim it. At least read the abstract. Turns out the people actually doing the work are usually pretty sensible. There's a lot people don't know, but with this "one simple trick!" you can learn what we're less uncertain about.
As a security specialist, 100% agree. It’s just not provable that we are worth anything. There is so much theory and guesswork and companies still get hacked because you can’t prove if I’m wrong or right until you actually get hacked. There’s too much ground to cover and not enough people watching the alarms. And of course he alarms trigger whenever a stiff wind blows.

Everyone wants to do security but no one knows what security means so they just cut a fat check and pretend like it is working.
Well, he's a well known car fan and has an impressive collection of all varieties of car. He's also fabulously wealthy, so I doubt he's interested in being paid to say things.
Huge bummer; I've used to read LJ for many years and have fond memories. Hope they release the entire archive before shutting down for good.

* edit 1: a better link would be https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pu..., directly to the article.

* edit 2: also, lots more comments from staff and readers on Kyle's twitter feed, at https://twitter.com/kylerankin
It is already being tried with Plan S. But the problem is to choose the right alternative, of which the alternative pay-to-publish model isn't.

https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/86
It’s fairly graceful with btrfs, and Ubuntu has been doing that by default if the root fs is btrfs for quite a while. The only trouble is that you’re liable to run out of space in /boot/ eventually.
Yeah, totally. You can open React Devtools on Facebook and inspect it yourself. Twitter uses React for mobile and judging by their HTML, they might be server side rendering React for their desktop site too, since there's the hallmarks of React (react-root) and CSS in JS.
Late to the party but thought I'd clarify because some comments are extremely misleading.

He's a member of the Astronomy Club. Also 7 Aug, the following night, is the "Seven Sister's Festival", a traditional festival in Hong Kong which stargazing is a common activity to do during.

Stargazing was a perfectly legal and reasonable intent. Not to say he was definitely not involved in the protests, but there was absolutely no evidence that he intended to use them as weapons.

The officers who approached him didn't show their warrant card at first. They also held his throat. Given the current situation in Hong Kong (triad members attacked citizens in public on 21 July and 5 Aug in 3 different places, and NO POLICE arrived at the scenes until well after the incidents, and so far no attacker is being prosecuted, despite the abundant video footage of the attacks), running away also was what sane people would do when they're threatened by 4 men with dubious identities.
How much bandwidth? I doubt people will want to pay $10/GB like some cellular networks charge.
Fitting that this was one of the last articles they posted (by Eric Raymond): https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/loadsharers-funding-loa...
TensorFlow Dropout Explained
An individual is a person, a corporation/platform isn't. Especially when we're talking about YouTube, which (for now) has no alternative equal in size or reach.

Free speech is being stiffled by corporations that offers shared spaces, that even a government is unable to provide.

The government is bound to the Constitution, while some companies bigger than some countries in terms of capital, are not bound to these checks and balance.
It's a term that's been adopted out of necessity.
Did Churchill Cause the Bengal Famine?
Kyle! I'm so sorry to hear this. It's a long shot, but I'm interested to see if we have the resources now to give this another life. I FB'd you about it, which is I think now a dumb way to reach you.
>>"Technically, it is possible to remove the microcontroller chip from the original battery and carefully solder it into the new battery you’re swapping in, restoring the Battery Health feature—but the procedure isn’t for the faint of heart, and it’s an unreasonable requirement for any repair, much less something as simple as a battery swap."<<

it seems a razor and a low wattage solder iron will fix it.
and im guessing a few little guys may end up fattening thier wallets this way. Im wondering how apple might catch the play, and how they would change the hardware so a chip transplant is no longer a workaround.
>it imagines people as rational actors, and we know they are not always

Maybe so, but almost all of the irrational actors that still have any savings know not to get fancy in the securities market.
Goddammit Apple! You keep on finding new reasons for me to hate you! I want names! Who’s responsible for this crap?!?
My God really? Slavery was the uniform norm for almost all of human history [0]. If nothing good can come of a society that enslaved others, then the logical corollary is an incredibly short sighted and unnecessarily nihilistic view of the journey of humanity. Can we give history a break?

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Sl...

Edit: before somebody says blah blah race, there isn't a race on Earth that wasn't subjected to slavery in history.
It’s actually worse than 3.4. You can’t average growth numbers like that because that under-represents down years. e.g. A decline of 50% followed by an increase of 100% does not equal growth of 50% per year.
> I see a number of large corporations starting to standardize

My current job in a nutshell.

It's like handling children (No, you can't add a new technology because you want something fancy on your resume)
yeah the Java thing stopped me cold. That's bizarre on a Pi.
There is no plugging all of the holes. Not in a general case. It's like the halting problem (it's technically equivalent) - maybe you can say for one program there are no holes, but not for arbitrary programs, for arbitrary definitions of holes.

This is rice's theorem.

More practically, you can simply assume that for an arbitrary program of 'reasonable size' with a moving codebase there are effectively infinite exploitable vulnerabilities.
The actual act of snapshotting doesn’t do a whole lot. I believe ZFS uses CoW for that purpose. If you modify a file after a snapshot, the file (or block) will be copied first. Normally, with CoW, the original would then be marked as free space available for writing, but if a snapshot exists, it will be preserved. (This is a general concept; I don’t know the nuances of ZFS’ approach.)
90 KB is probably bad for a marketing page, but it’s nothing for a B2B or internal use app, particularly when the second use is just the “you already have it” HTTP header response.

Good or bad depending on context.
Yeah, but their opinions on hot dogs are terrible.
Some big firms have electronic discovery departments (and there are vendors in that space too).

Though, if you are interested in law tech, law firms are not the place to be. Seek out law-tech companies that are building tools that enterprises may use to manage their contracts or licenses. Also, compliance management (SOX2, etc.) is a growing field.
It's the same thing as formal software engineering specs.

Unless you're doing software for airplanes, ain't noone formally proofing anything being done.
True, you are absolutely correct, my bad. But it tells the story I guess.
And never will be until they fall down or open all borders. In 1848 Canada wouldn't be a country yet for 20 years.
How can you tell it is not been read?