skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That statement bears repeating with italics for emphasis:

"China could be designated a currency manipulator if it stopped intervening to prop up its currency."

In other words, if China stops manipulating its currency to tilt the table in favor of the US, the US will designate China a manipulator to reflect the fact that they are no longer manipulating it!
I got 34 calls before noon a few weeks ago - all of them unknown numbers. I clicked the 'screen call' option or ignored it. One single person left his name and message - an old friend. Everyone else I marked as spam, so the next person may get a warning, and blocked. It works great.
Even without a non-compete, you can’t divulge company secrets to new employer. NDA’s are enforceable.
Well, today it was easy to spot the daily anti-car and climate panic articles. This is not why I read HN...
Makes me appreciate working for a large cloud with a core value “don’t be a jerk.”
If you believe in the principle of free speech you might be better positioned by saying that everyone is welcome to come to the town square, but if you make poor speech then you will be refuted.
golden rice isn't free if you want to make money off of it (more than $10k it seems). And none has ever been grown for consumption it seems.
The issue is probably two-pronged:
1. There is pressure from the department (and funders, as the article mentions) to produce publications. The need to publish leads to researchers to spin null results as a way to "cash in" the time and effort put into a research project (I'm assuming good intentions here on the part of the researchers).
2. Articles get published if the authors can argue that their work makes a new and unique contribution to the field. This argument usually rests less on the article's results and more on the discussion of these results. I am not surprised that authors spin the results in their discussion sections.

As a side note, most readers only read the introduction and discussion section of a paper. Those two sections usually have the most spin as they are written to "hook" readers in the paper (and to an extent, to be accessible to a non-technical person sometimes outside of the field). Lit review, methods, and results sections are usually more dry as they report on the technical aspects of a research project.
I'm pretty sure I manually integrated (and differentiated) polynomials that large in my calculus classes.

As for the "you don't want to put effort into things", I did put in the effort, I took the classes in question and graduated. I just happen think that particular effort was a waste of time.

There's always a deeper or shallower understanding to be had of a subject. Finding what is appropriate for a given task is the question.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear: Anyone who uses SJW as a carefully chosen pejorative is the hateful one in these situations.
> Notice how Adriaan links the Hacker News way with [1]. This shows he knows the platform and also puts his links in a more prominent position.

Unacceptable!!! The first link should always start with [0], not [1].

Joking of course! But I still prefer [0].
>Unless that is an absolute certainty then and this is a game of high stakes chicken, then I would say the USA has more to lose.

Nothing is ever certain and that's not how people make decisions. What are you waiting for Chinese to use manipulated currency to buy local factories all over the world? It's already nearly too late.
Re-investment for the long term is government subsidized growth? That's a new one. I have to disagree pretty strongly that this is a distortion of anything, it's capitalism 101 in the face of a progressive corporate profit tax. If the US government wants to tax all business activity regardless of profit, they can do what the rest of the Western world has done and introduce a VAT.

Amazon is otherwise doing a masterful exercise of long term planning and competition.
OpenStreetMap PBF Perfomance Tricks
On a quick read of the paper (thanks for the link) I was bothered that I found no mention of the fact that the per-acre yield also goes up with increased CO2. Each grain of rice (likely) has slightly less nutrients, but more grains of rice are produced in a given field. From other articles I found, it looks like the yield is expected to increase by about 13%. Omitting any mention of this feels like a political decision.

It's also worth noting that the paper doesn't really try to prove that nutrition levels will drop, but instead concentrates on showing that if nutrition levels in rice drop that more people may experience deficiencies. In particular, it cites a paper that actually did the experiment, and found no decrease in nutrients other than Nitrogen: http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2004.01.004. This experiment implies that it's at least possible to grow rice under high CO2 levels without experiencing the drop.

I also thought the mitigation section was odd. It points out that only a few countries currently fortify rice with Vitamin B. It notes that fortification is inexpensive and effective, although it would require a major effort to begin doing so in other countries. The paper also shows that nutrient deficiency is already a large problem, and that increase caused by a decrease in foliate levels in rice would only be 1.5%. Maybe a better conclusion would be that these countries should really be fortifying their rice?

I didn't think it was a bad paper, and it wasn't "bunk". I agree that knowing what sort of changes to expect from an increased CO2 level is a good thing. But it did seem like it might be pushing an agenda more than just trying to lay out the scientific conclusions.
That's pretty much true for every country.

I had a boss who used to say, "Civilization is only three meals deep."
I did look at it. And yeah, you need dozens and dozens of small nations to get the population of one superpower.
Now, if they were clustered together like for example in one continent maybe you could actually compare, and you can, but that doesn't look as good for the US.
Well there's always the 1971 HP 2100 minicomputer version of Oregon Trail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_g...

>Prior to the start of Rawitsch's history unit, Heinemann and Dillenberger let some students at their school play it to test; the students were enthusiastic about the game, staying late at school to play. The other teachers were not as interested, but did recommend changes to the game, particularly removing negative depictions of Native Americans as they were based more on Western movies and television than history, and could be problematic towards the several students with Native American ancestry at the schools.

But they partially addressed that in the 1974 MECC version:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_g...

>He also added in more positive depictions of Native Americans, as his research indicated that many settlers received assistance from them along the trail. He placed The Oregon Trail into the organization's time-sharing network in 1975, where it could be accessed by schools across Minnesota.

Now the developer, Don Rawitsch, would like to create a version of the game from the Native American perspective.

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/it-s-a-white...

>But developers still field questions about the game’s stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans. During a recent gaming conference, Don Rawitsch, one of three aspiring teachers who developed The Oregon Trail, said he has dreams of reimagining the game with a Native American perspective.

>“If I were to create something like Oregon Trail today, I would create the Native American version,” he said during a panel discussion at the Game Developers Conference in March. “What would it be like on the other side of the wall, so to speak?”

But even the cowboys-and-indians-movie 1971 version of Oregon Trail was a far cry from 8chan.
> Trump family will make a bunch of money on the volatility,

Why not just set up a foundation and request all the governments who want arm deals or other favors to donate it. Forcing China do devalue its currency seems like a very complicated way of going about it.
My alternatives are to break my lease or get all of my packages at a P.O. box. Even if I never purchase a single item from Amazon, all packages sent to me from anyone go into the Hub.
>The American Constitution argues free speech is a human right, not granted to us by government, but by nature.

The American Constitution doesn't argue anything about free speech, define it or make claims about its origin, or even refer to is as a right, much less a "natural" right. It only declares that Congress (explicitly, and exclusively, meaning not even inclusive of any other governing body or private entities) shall not pass laws that abridge "the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble."
China has started invading Europe through Tsjechie also.

Just read a disturbing dutch article and Europe should join the US.

I wasn't sure before, but I'm sure now.

Here's a small report of the EU : https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?re...

Yeah, it's disturbing and it doesn't even contain all the info...
How does that work out during the winter up there?
No, a tropical rainforest and the South Pole have very different weather patterns. Those trends which generally includes seasonal variations are called Climate.

In a broader sense, the "climate" of a region is the general state of the climate system at that location. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate
I think you've got the causation backwards, most people don't start off with extreme views, they start off far more moderate until they account their extremist group. Once they're in that group the become part of the self reinforcing bubble.

> How much more effort would you have to put in to locate a similarly sized group of like-minded people who vehemently confirm and reinforce your views than you would now?

That will be highly variable, but IME not too hard. The punk/metal scene used to have a lot of overlap with neo nazis so exposure was easy. I've twice been invited to migtow groups from people at my local drinking hole (a progressive club in a progressive inner city area), not to mention some other fringe but less violent groups. If your a social type of person that enjoys chatting with a wide range of people your often only one or two steps away.
This is actually a rather involved thing that you want to do here. Short answer is that you really need a presentation switcher or something similar that uses FPGA. If you want to roll your own, you can do it, but it's probably not gonna be worth the time investment.

NETV2 (Libre mode) is probably the best bet for hardware that will both do the job and has at least some example stuff that will be similar. It's FPGA based, but it will require a lot of effort to implement.

Other than that you are looking at the HDMI or DVI TxRx cards along with an FPGA dev board. Terasic's Altera boards and expansion cards, for instance will do the job and they offer VGA, DVI and HDMI interfaces for a large number of their dev boards. Anything along this vein will cost a lot more than NeTV2

IMO If you want to rely on something for a large commercial public presentation, I really wouldn't hack something together. Just buy a presentation switcher.
As long as they let you take unpaid leave, you can negotiate that into your salary ask.
It would be naive to assume that the only people who want to push America to fascism are from other countries. There are a lot of people in the US that support that too.
The time/cost savings from not having a physical book is well offset by the amount of time needed to a) support patrons use of ebooks via apps and backends which deliver the books and b) administrative time purchasing and dealing with the publishers.

Income is lost because ebooks are never overdue and so fine income is significantly reduced over physical books.

Floor space is not reduced (we have plenty of books that need to be shelved) and reshelving costs are the lowest of any costs in the organization due to the fact that a lot of reshelving is done by volunteers.
Fortnite changed the way video games were marketed
I suspect the parent poster is pointing out that you might not be aware of political issues in your workplace because they don't impact you.

How is your access to a gender neutral restroom or shower facility? Do you have a quiet place to pray multiple times per day? If you need a place to breastfeed (not a restroom), is that something available? What about dilating post gender reassignment surgery? Does your workplace offer the same benefits to same sex partners? Do you have to take a badge photo, if so, what name gets used? Can you wear head coverings in your badge photo? Have you ever heard expressions like, "Let's see what's under the kimono" in a business meeting? How is wheelchair access to your site? Can I operate all the machines you use if I am blind?

All of these are 'political' issues that most people are blind to.
> if you read the information in your own link

I'm intimately familiar with the policy outlined in that message. I suggest you reread it. It doesn't suggest any of the things that you say it does.
Whatever protects your skin from the elements :)
Market retribution would take time, and I'm not sure the impact on market usage would be as big as you suggest. Certainly the market retribution on Facebook invading privacy has been slow a minimal.

And that aside, Warren would certainly lose the election if that happened. The election would be materially interfered with, regardless of whether the market responded to the moderation or not.
Good news for the people of Hong Kong, since the Hong Kong Dollar is tied to the U.S. dollar, and not the Chinese currency.
At least in the area I work in (ML on fluorescence microscopy images used to estimate cellular and molecular phenotypes), the problem is extremely similar to the book reader that Google made. Heck, when I worked at Google I even built (20% time, open source) a prototype that could easily have been improved into what I describe (https://github.com/google/cncmicroscope-cad). We have to do the same kinds of distortion corrections (well, actually ours are far harder to do properly) to make the images useful for ML.

I've always been sad that Emerald and Transcriptic haven't been insanely successful. I've tried to put my scopes into both systems (I know the founders), but never made any headway. I like OpenTrons better, but having spent enough of my time knee deep in tubing and stepper motors, I have more appreciation for well-engineered systems.
We don't see the price to use amazon to sell things. We only see the retail price. A marketplace can be using monopolistic-pricing to capture returns from the retailer.
Every dollar of funding that Uber receives comes from an investor that believes there is a long term business model in Uber. Even the short horizon investors have to believe that, otherwise they would have nobody to sell their shares to in the short term.

In terms of killing competition, price wars almost always benefit consumers. Prices go down during a price war, and if the industry is susceptible to them, then another one will occur after the war is over. Look at the airline industry, it’s full of price war cycles. A carrier will try compete on a route, drive prices down, and sometimes this will result in carriers leaving the competition, and prices going back up again afterwards. When that happens, some time will pass, and it will happen again.

The worst outcome for consumers is that the market returns to a non-competitive state when the dust settles. In that case, consumers are just back where they started, after having temporarily enjoyed the benefits of the price war. If the market ends up in an unreasonably non-competitive state after the price war, then the victor has just set themselves up for anti-trust action.

Every mainstream capitalist economist I’ve ever heard of has firmly believed that regulating competition is an essential part of a capitalist economy. So if you think that’s not happening, it would seem to be a failure of government more that a failure of capitalist economics.
There is a thing called road diet, take 4 lanes (2 each way), reduce it to 2 lane and add turn lanes and bike lane.

Car traffic hopefully slows and makes things safer for pedestrians crossing the road and much safer for cyclist.

The wikipedia only lists a few examples where it has been implemented:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet#Examples_of_implemen...
Once Microsoft unbundled the browser they started using their monopoly position to force OEM's to include the browser or facing increased costs for the Windows OS, and since and OEM couldn't sell a computer if it didn't have windows installed it left the OEM no option but to add the browser the OS.

Microsoft's grip was so tight that they prevented IBM from bundled OS/2 on IBM pc's, windows was alwasys installed and OS/2 needed to be a separate line item.
Intent matters. When it’s -20C, it’s fine. When it’s +30C...
Me, I would go with Java as it is the "standard" language and I have a lot of experience with Java outside of Android. I have looked at Kotlin and my feeling it is on paper better than Java but in practice it is not much better than recent Java versions, not enough to be worth a new language.

If you are familiar with some other language that would change the equation.
Russia has the population of Nigeria and the GDP of Italy.

The cold war ended a while ago. Worrying about them today makes about as much sense as worrying about Autria in 1930 because Austrohungaria used to be a world power.
It really wasn't intended to be rhetorical question. I was hoping the parent commenter would answer the question, because the fact that he seems upset about Soph getting deplatformed indicates that he doesn't think that death threats should be grounds for deplatforming.

I'm really hoping that what actually happened is that gfosco didn't read the article and is unaware about what Soph specifically said to get her kicked off YouTube and Patreon.
You can be as wordy as you like; Show me where Trump supports and advances an ethno-state.
The Dutch roll example is actually very similar from a regulatory standpoint, except that it concerns dynamic instead of static stability. FAR 25.181 requires positive damping, i.e. if you let go of the controls, the Dutch roll has to diminish on its own.

There has never been been an accident due to the airframe's pitch instability and MCAS not accomplishing its intended function. Both of the accidents happened because the MCAS system itself failed and activated when it shouldn't have.

If they had made a reliable MCAS (by which I mean the whole system from sensors to controls to actuation and pilot interface), there would have been no problem.
Boeing doing 500 test flights to rebuild trust
What do you suggest people do when workplace must intersect with politics. For example, you need access to a gender neutral restroom or shower facility?

Should you not advocate for that internally?

Let's say you are an ally for someone who needs an affordance like a gender neutral facility, should you not speak up on their behalf?
If someone signs an agreement to this effect,
what possible job could they take after leaving
Amazon that wouldn’t potentially run afoul of this
clause? I’d have said “writing a newsletter making
fun of AWS,” but—lo and behold—they’re already in
the business of making fun of themselves by
launching services with names like Systems Manager
Session Manager.

I wouldn't be surprised if they've automated out an RNN system to generate names
Yep, and some of those people die because of it. The temperature is CHANGING from their normal to extremes. People aren't prepared, that's the point.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/world/asia/india-heat-wav...
I see, I saw that you guys were doing a huge amount of value-add with things like segmentation for self-driving but didn't know you were differentiating yourselves from other competitors in the general labelling space like e.g. Mechanical Turk. Cheers!
> it forced me to come to terms with the fact that I won't be working on that idea, ever.

I think this is a feeling so many people working in the web sphere have to contend with at some point.
Whoever sells the treasuries gets the money. That's how buying and selling works.
That's the point of much of this research. The elevated levels of CO2 enable the plants to grow faster, but absorbing the same nutrition, and then we absorb the same amount of calories, with a lower nutrition level, so we become malnourished.
Came here for the 3D printing of unicorn animals using lasers. Disappointing.
The only thing conservative about Trump are his judicial picks, which is because he agreed to allow the Federalist Society to give him screened/approved candidates.
Rubbish.

The papers analyzed here are reporting the outcomes of randomized controlled trials. Political motivations, opinions, and interpretations have nothing to do with any of these papers' results.

A fair number of HN commentators have this bizarre caricature of psychology as someone lying on the couch, chattering about feelings while a tweed-jacketed man scribbles away. However, it hasn't been 1920 for a long time and the field has grown up and moved on. It's an actual science, with experiments and quantitative analysis\* and all that. The problems it tackles are really hard, in some ways evenmoreso than physics: you can generate an endless stream of identical electrons, but every human is different and has their own motivations.

\* Yes, yes, replication crisis, fMRI salmon of doubt. It's serious but psychology should get some credit for a) identifying it in the first place and b) fixing it. These problems certainly aren't confined to psych--it's mostly that psych experiments are easier to replicate.
I agree. But migration can be difficult when your restaurant supply store is on a 20 year lease.

There’s a store near me that sells just hockey goalie equipment. Moving to pedestrian-only would be a net negative for them since most of their business isn’t local foot traffic.
Statistically, approximately nobody is worse off for 8ch being inaccessible.

Presumably you have some threshold of statistical significance that would cause you to be worried about risk factors, but that threshold is itself subjective. Besides the questionable proposition that the number of deaths below that threshold don't matter, a lack of interest in the problem impairs the ability to make future predictions, since by the time you do take it seriously, you'll have to do a lot of catching up before you can assess the future course of events.

you might like to think about this in similar terms to epidemiology. while a small number of fatalities from a disease outbreak in a remote location isn't that troubling to most people, epidemiologists are in the business o assessing the potential scope, speed, and severity of communicable diseases and seem to prefer nipping things in the bud to waiting to see whether they develop into a pandemic if left alone.