skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you actually spent your entire days gardening, you'd soon feel an irresistible urge to bake a working docker-compose file. You'll procrastinate and dream about YAML files instead of paying attention to your plants.

This is why some advanced communities have a weekly/monthly duty cycle where people switch activities.
“full utilization at any batch size, including batch size 1”

https://www.cerebras.net/
I carry around an offline copy of Wikipedia on my phone using Kiwix, including the pictures! It's amazing how much space it doesn't take up. It's quite useful if you're often in places without cellular coverage.

https://www.kiwix.org/en/
This makes total sense.

It's in Twitter's business interest to have open unfiltered internet as much as possible. By keeping Hong Kong open (and possibly getting China to open at some point), they'll help their bottom line.
That doc isn't dated, but it was true as recently as three years ago.
Right. This part of the work is left to the foreign-living chinese nationalistic diaspora. They get their directions from the CCP nonetheless.

Again, for casual readers: Chinese people in the US who don't support squashing democracy fighters in HK (I think/hope that's the vast majority of them - maybe more hope now that I'm being downvoted) are awesome.
As long as you're doing this without incurring debt, then maybe.
I had a World Book and then an Encyclopedia Britannica growing up. They gave me many many hours of pleasure. (I still have the Britannica in my garage. I've cleaned out a lot of things over the years but I can't bring myself to toss that.)

And, yes, I seem to recall the price was something in the $500-$1000 ballpark. Which was definitely a lot of money in the early 70s(?) when I got it--and, yes, the salesman came to the house.
My productivity hack is coming to terms with the fact that my life can't, and will likely never, be as optimised as the processes and routines that I like to optimize for work.

There is something about the oppressive guilt of being "unproductive" that, for myself personally, far outweighs any of the benefits gained from being hyper-productive.

Although I do feel a certain "high" when coming off of a full 8 hours of get-$#&+-done mode. I try to realize that isn't a switch that is flipped. It's just a derivative of my current state of mind.
Facebook and Twitter Say China Is Spreading Disinformation in Hong Kong
It is a sex discrimination if you offer different conditions based on sex, not on hours worked. If part time workers have the same offer no matter the sex, then it is quite bizarre to build a sex discrimination case.
But then carriers would have a financial motivation to not upgrade tower capacity. The more congested - the more money they make.
Vintage Watches Too Hot to Handle
its implications
I can't login to my business gmail account using Google Chrome, but I can login successfully using Internet Explorer and Firefox. Duh. :-)
Some of my questions for anybody who's successfully implemented this at a 30 engineer+ company:

How do you tie in to version control?

How do you QA this? (Can it be QA'd locally?)

Would you have unit tests for serverless code? E2E tests?

How would you catch/diagnose a more junior engineer making an infinite loop of events? Would this potentially bring down production or eat the budget?
Build your PWA with Ionic and you're only five minutes away from having something which can be packaged as a hybrid app and made available in Apple's App Store.
I used Grolier’s and thought it was great.
$4t was printed to bail out the banks. What is stopping more money from being printed this time, in the form of economic stimulus?
I've written about one of those that I got caught up in:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/a-world-without-power/
>>"Japan was never considered evil in the 1980s"

I suppose we remember differently. An example: in 1991 George Friedman (the respected analyst, who, by the way, is predicting now the collapse of China) published "The coming war with Japan". Obviously the title is just "click-bait" but I think reflects what was in the zeitgeist then.

>>"China has always had a much more complicated relationship with the USA [..]"

Absolutely agree with that. After all, the constitution of Japan was basically redacted by the USA and militarily depends on the USA.

China is going to be a different matter and, that, I think, it's the real reason because China is considered even more "evil" than Japan, because subdue it it's going to be very difficult (if possible).
"foreign interference" is bullshit. Anybody can express their opinion about US politicians, and if US electorate is too stupid to decide for themselves what they want without excluding any outside information, like Soviet Union did and North Korea still does - it's not a democracy anyway, it's idiocracy and thus would not have any value to preserve. Fortunately, it's just a lie - US people are just fine and capable of independent reasoning, and there's no threat of "foreign influence", it's a canard invented by political operators to mask their failures and provide excuses for censorship.
What's the difference? PaaS platforms can accept code from a single function (lambda) all the way up to an entire container (knative/cloud run). The scale of code deployed doesn't really change the definition of a platform.
It's hard, and it's an explicit tradeoff made when deciding to prioritize secure communication. One thing Facebook did with WhatsApp was limit group size and monitoring forwarding behavior (which can be done via metadata without needing to know the content), but it's an imperfect solution at best.
I don't see how you can control it.

Which makes it very worrying that lots of people get their "news" from social media now.
My users are reporting that it's back up, or at least intermittently working now.
Sure, I'm not arguing against it, just pointing out what we think as AI isn't what a non-tech person sees as AI.

> in practice people are always just going to interpret it as the brute juxtaposition of the two adjectives that compose it.

Indeed.
Same :-/
That link is pointing to a research paper on the intersection of media and politics, not Twitter’s advertising policy for state run media?
Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time.
This is a bit revisionist. As a kid I remember japan being pitched at the economic enemy quite a bit in the 80s and early 90s. "They're buying our country" was one refrain, like the claim with "the Chinese are why I can't buy a house" right now. Also things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_(novel) and a lot of other fiction showing us (americanos) working for japanese business overlords. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_17xMmmLY for another example.
Survey about Daytrading
Famous Birthdays Is Wikipedia for Gen Z
22 here and I remember Encarta very fondly. I did not use it very often as back then paperback encyclopedias were still a "thing" and Wikipedia was pretty ok too; but I definitely reading about random physicists in Encarta. It was fun!
Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate (2015)
> interns start pushing to prod

hey everybody, I spotted the problem! I'll keep an eye on my mailbox for the giant consulting fee that I assume is enroute.
I'm not arguing that either way, I'm just pointing out that the often repeated mantra of "Europe has banned fluoridated water" or the many variants of that which I keep hearing are not exactly correct.
I don't know why people rag on eBay so much. eBay is great. Well, for certain things at least. The thing people don't get is that eBay is basically like one giant outdoor sale that one company has organized, and then leased space to a bunch of small vendors who have all set up their own little tents. Some of those vendors suck, others don't, and you're going to find stuff there that you won't see at a large brick-and-mortar retail store.

If I want to find some used auto part for a MY2001 car, Ebay is the first place I'll look, and I'll probably find it there, because tons of auto recyclers use Ebay to sell their parts. If I want to buy a small quantity of some odd item, or some item only available in other countries, Ebay is again the first place to check. In short, Ebay is perfect for finding weird things you won't find anywhere else. You do have to be careful who you buy from though, but the feedback ratings do a tolerably good job of helping you here, and you won't find this on some independent website.

Amazon has indeed gotten pretty bad in a lot of ways, because you actually don't know what you're going to get, depending on who ships the thing to you. It's still OK I think with sellers that are more independent and ship their own stuff, but for those the prices aren't usually very good and you might as well just go to Ebay.
As someone who had never contributed anything to this forum other than mediocre jokes, I can attest it's allowed (but more often than not downvoted to oblivion).
> But what is the "main text"

Right. See this incredible example. Both versions are authentic, in a way.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/10/cloud-atlas-as...

> Mitchell himself explains the reasons for the discrepancies in an interview quoted in Eve’s paper: they occurred because the manuscript of Cloud Atlas sat unedited for around three months in the US, after an editor there left Random House. Meanwhile in the UK, Mitchell and his editor and copy editor worked on the manuscript, but the changes were not passed on to the US.
Oh! I have very fond memories of Encarta. I basically stopped playing video games because of it.
A couple of weeks since what? The Hong Kong protests started on March 31st.
If someone tries to buy a part of a property but you don't reach the 100%, where does the money go?

What happens is a property is buy, but you can't rent it? Who pays the bill of the empty place? What happens in case of a massive destruction by the tenant?

> + appreciation on your equity ownership over time.

Is that true most of the time? Is that too optimistic? Has a lawyer review that statement?
In Encarta’s case, cheap, high density storage mediums were passed by something that already existed and had existed for quite some time before, the internet. In other regards maybe the storage medium was just a side detail and the important part was what could be done with that data thanks to faster computers.

There might be some parallels here today with machine learning. Neal Stephenson's quote about the future already being here but not being evenly distributed seems appropriate.
It's not "profiting from other people's work", it's "profiting from making other people's work more efficient". That includes providing the capital (tools) to multiply the productivity of labor, securing customer contracts, ensuring all legal requirements are met, forecasting market conditions, managing the long-term strategic business plan, ensuring employees get a steady paycheck, etc. These skills are far from universal and those who have them rightfully earn a decent share of the profits. If it were just a matter of profiting from others' work then everyone would choose to be self-employed and keep that money for themselves.
Again you’re only discussing things at a textual level. Encarta wasn’t like other encyclopaedias - Encarta was a fully interactive multimedia experience.

The issue yourself and others who haven’t used Encarta is that you’re thinking about it as purely a text document store, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Encarta is more like a museum than it is like Wikipedia. It has a smaller curated set of write ups but has all the interactive exhibits, games, and multimedia content that a good museum has. Wikipedia is about breadth of content where as Encarta was about engagement.

This is something you’d expect the web to excel at but unfortunately the race to breadth of content has resulted in a less interesting delivery of said content.
For some markets, it is even a competitive advantage. :)
Are you not approaching it a bit too much from a high level perspective?

From assembly(x86), most conditionals and loops break down to cmp/test and jmp,jx,jnx type instructions.

Computers need to make decisions based on comparisons of data or program state. You can abstract decision making however you want (e.g.: switch statements in place of if/else or usage of goto's) but the computer needs to test or compare and decide on what instruction to execute based on the result.

Let me invent a new condtional 'alot':

for i in range(0,100):
alot i:
exit(1)

instead of testing for boolean true/false. My conditional "alot" tests the result of the evaluation against the value range of the type,if the result is over half of the value range it executes the conditional statement (exit())

Of course I am being a bit silly but my point is my silly conditional much like if/else breaks down to comparing and jumping based on evaluation (i.e: instead of a jz/jnz it will break down to jge)
> The Internet cannot remain free if we allow governments to use their power to control narratives and suppress the truth. US-based Social media companies are not ideal judges, but at least they publish their methodology.

Would it be too cynical to suggest the only reason they're doing this is because they don't operate in mainland China? Do you think they would write a report like this if they found the US government trying to push a pro-democracy narrative into China instead?

This puts them on the right side of US regulators where as exposing a US propaganda campaign, not so much. It's not about truth, or what's morally right, it's about money.
I would advise you to just make it pro-rata. Don't fiddle around and worry about the relative pocket-change of overheads. You will save yourself lots of headaches, and my experience is that you will get more value out of two employees working 20 hours a week than you will out of one employee working 40 hours. It all evens out in the end.

Aside: I really want to encourage you to do this. In my previous job, I went to 40% time so I could spend 60% on my startup. This let me make enough money to get by, while freeing up a huge amount of time. This was incredibly valuable, and the experience of working part-time like that will be something I will definitely consider in the future when personal circumstances (like children) make it desirable, and I think I was contributing more than 40% of my previous full-time value.
Twitter rules are not law, so by law they can do whatever they damn well please. Including banning your account randomly, deleting any tweet they like, or anything in between. Legally, they owe you or any of their users exactly nothing. However, you also owe them nothing - you can stop using Twitter any second. Which I wholeheartedly recommend to everybody. I did it years ago and it's not hard. If you don't like what they're doing - just walk away.

Of course, that doesn't mean we still can't criticize Twitter - but walking away should be the first step.
Is any of the Encarta content available in public domain or other?
> However, buying a percentage ownership in a property still remains a difficult problem.

If I want to passively invest in income from real estate, can't I just go to my brokerage site and buy shares in a REIT?[1]

And wouldn't having the diversification of a REIT be safer than owning a percentage of a single rental property?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_investment_trust#U...
They meant that Twitter's new policy applies only to ads.
Cloud Atlas 'astonishingly different' in US and UK editions (2016)
thanks for this link!
I suppose without a CDN that makes sense
At the bottom of a glacier in Greenland, climate scientists find troubling signs
Just because you don't see a particular value in something does not mean it lacks that value for others.

Frankly, I find this to be far more a "My way or the highway" kind of attitude than the quoted bit from The Fine Article — you don't seem even to concede the possibility of marriage being more than a "contract", when, for most people, that's among the least of what it's about.
Here in Poland Encarta is probably best remembered for its ridiculous entry on Poland, depicting it in a rather outdated manner, to put it mildly. It caused quite an uproar back in the day, and went sort of viral.

See http://of19.internetdsl.pl/bzdury/encarta/ (in Polish, but includes the screenshots in English, which are self-explanatory)
> I'm going to watch it later, but I'll ask ahead of time-- is the author really stating that the feeling of watching that single video on Encarta was more enthralling than what I'll experience with that HTML5 interface?

Encarta and Apollo in Real Time are not opposites, but the same: interactive experiences.

In contrast, Wikipedia is very static. I don't recall ever seeing an interactive visualization on Wikipedia like this animated and highlighted/annotated jet engine: https://s2.smu.edu/propulsion/Pages/variations.htm It's much better at getting information across than text or static images, but harder to put together in standardized text editors/languages like markup, so somewhere along the way we lost the colorful interactive animations that Encarta was known for.
I don't think there's any valid argument that Fox News is a state-controlled media organ. Whether the United States is a media-controlled state, however, remains an open question.
Recently I was shown a promoted tweet from Purdue Pharma (makers of OxyContin) about how they generously support drug abuse education. I'm not sure I immediately see the moral difference between state-sponsored propaganda and corporate propaganda.
In NH, landowners get a significant discount on their property tax if they allow hiking, fishing etc. on their unimproved land.
I think that one was started by vyzo, and I'm happy to see it with ongoing git activity. I'll have to take a closer look.

vyzo previously contributed to Racket (then called PLT Scheme): http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?owner=vyzo

(PLaneT is the nice earlier package system. The current one is "https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/", but I think vyzo had left by then, or at that time. I should mention: I wouldn't read much into the Open Tickets on that page not having action -- tickets were a feature someone added without some prominent package authors even knowing about it, at a time when authors were expecting to be emailed, so it could be sadly counterproductive. Even if you did eventually learn it existed and people were posting tickets, but didn't want to keep checking and using a Web site (this was before current GitHub conventions), nor wind up with the situation of bug reporters you couldn't contact for more info, you couldn't turn if off.)
FYI: Your about page is empty, so no contact info is displayed. E-mail addresses on HN are not public. If you want to display contact info, you need to put it in the about field. (To see what it looks like to others, start incognito mode in your browser and surf to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=random42)
This is one of my most favorite inventions within the past 5 years that still sticks out. I think it's ingenious and a great gateway to game development for anyone, be it a hobbyist or professional.

I've spent a ton of time trying to get into game development only to get stuck in researching the many frameworks, programs, and even the idea of making my own engine. Pico-8 just packs everything you need in it including code editor, mapper, pixel editor, sound editor, etc. so you can focus on making the game instead of figuring out your tech stack. Highly recommend it and well worth the money ($15)
That is a even a bit more revisionist, our relationship with Japan was very friendly in the 1980s, and the economic competition aspect was more benign even in the rust belt. As long as we are drawing from pop culture, the movie Gung Ho (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_Ho_(film)) is a more accurate reflection of the sentiment of the time.

There has just to be a gung ho kind of movie for China, as far as I can tell. Likewise, Japan continued to be a top strategic ally of the USA in the 80s, it was never seen as a strategic competitor like China is today.
It’s in the article, you should read the content as your comment is coming off partisan.

Perhaps you know more than I about how different news orgs are funded and can contribute afterwards.
Website. Read any one of I don't recall how many threads on what it is like when your source of income gets cut off by some third party you decided to trust as a platform to build on.
I've made a game with PICO-8 with my 6-year-old watching along with me and telling me what to put into it. It was a great experience.

I do think it's very nearly almost too constrained, specifically in the code editor. But, it did it's job. A QBASIC-like interface would be appreciated.
Ask HN: Any non profits looking for one click financial transparency?
I've been considering an idea to make it easier for non-profits and local government to transparently declare their financial records.

I thought you could use Europe's open banking api to automatically connect to a bank account and display transaction history, which would the be easily linkable or embeddable into your site.

I have a couple questions:

Do non-profits want this? Or are the more useful ways to be transparent?

Is this robust enough, it'd be pretty easy to create another bank account to do fraudulent activities. Is there away to make it more robust?

Is there a better way to solve this problem?
> Do you think they would write a report like this if they found the US government trying to push a pro-democracy narrative into China instead?

Yes.

It might be framed differently. But besides being something that can be uncovered by a myriad of legal mechanisms (FOIA, state AG suits, sunshine laws, et cetera), it would almost certainly emerge in quarterly risk factor disclosures around political retribution.
"China bids up the price of the dollar relative to the yuan by buying dollars with yuan, and then sits on these dollars by purchasing U.S. treasuries with them"

Is China printing yuan to buy dollars? I thought the USD was accumulated from payments (in dollars) from exports to the USA.
"We’re taking down these Pages, Groups and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted."

Hmm...
> I still have the Britannica in my garage. I've cleaned out a lot of things over the years but I can't bring myself to toss that.

Same here! The knowledge was obsolete but the memories of my childhood were a part of it. I eventually recycled most of them after I last moved but there are a few books I still have somewhere.
There are places where you can find well-paid work that isn’t for ‘capitalists at the top of the chain’. Well, at least not directly. Do you think you’d find the public sector equally meaningless?
.NET Core and Systemd
I came here looking for someone to have mentioned Cinemania— it's crazy to me that Cinemania '97 is now 22 years old. Even a classic like The Matrix is too new to have been part of it.

But yeah, it was a terrific resource; if nothing else it solidified Roger Ebert for young me as a source of truth on movies. :)
More readable: https://gist.github.com/kimsk/a8dc99eb9dd491152bcc9f4a58a33d...
Sounds like you are saying similar/same thing.
The British museum had an exhibition called “Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds” which included Heracleion. There is a book about the exhibition available and the BBC made a documentary which is available on iPlayer (for those with a TV license in the UK)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lss20
> I told him I am pretty sure they can't because the regime is not communist but instead totalitarian.

Honest question: which communist government isn't / wasn't totalitarian?
Toxoplasmosis (which is due to a parasitic protozoan that is passed on by cats) effects men and women's personalities differently. It may be due to this effect that there would be a sociological difference.