skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I wanted to contradict you, then I thought better and didn't want to bicker, but then saw you had gotten 3 downvotes in this short time, which I also don't like -- so I'll just say what for me is the main thing:

> For the record, I'm not saying that Hong Kongers are wrong for protesting or wanting freedom. I'm just saying they'll fail, and the consequences won't be pretty.

You may be correct, you may not. I wonder if people said the same thing right up to the end of segregation, and other things. But that doesn't matter: might does not make right. Our predictions don't matter, our individual stances do.

> Finally, it is the act itself that matters. When instrumental reason is the sole guide to action, the acts it justifies are robbed of their inherent meanings and thus exist in an ethical vacuum. [..] the moral good of a moral act inheres in the act itself. That is why an act can itself ennoble or corrupt the person who performs it.

-- Joseph Weizenbaum

Everybody dies at some point, anyway. All wealth goes down the drain. What these people are changing, and what cannot be taken from them, is themselves. If the results will "not be pretty", there will be no end to songs about them in our lifetime and maybe that of our children and grandchildren -- the kind of songs that would excactly not get written about people with cushy finance jobs, not even once. This isn't meant as snark against you, it's a compliment for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebKrqHdJaak
I totally agree, but that it's "the basics" now.

I remember a time when jQuery was considered so standard that every StackOverflow question about "How do I X in JS?" had as the top voted answer "Use $X() in jQuery". All that accumulated knowledge is now essentially a graveyard. I feel React too will be supplanted by something more closer to a WHATWG standard in the future.
By the definition above, clearly a “tech company”, no? Uber produces highly scalable tech, and can deploy it rapidly amongst a sea of contractors and riders- who are essentially consumers of the app.
"Claims without evidence" is one of the polite euphemisms that the press must use with distressing frequency these days, even though it is much more accurate to say "lied through his teeth."

By the way, could you please change the title to reflect the actual headline of the story? "Jair Bolsonaro claims without evidence that NGOs are setting fires in Amazon rainforest"
There's a great PDF (British action group I believe? I read it ages ago) which goes in to depth on the various mechanisms the tobacco companies employed in order to increase the addiction potential of cigarettes.

A modern cigarette is not just a roll of tobacco. It's pretty much been 'bred', A-B tested, into being a drug delivery system.
One downside is shared locks. You can't compile multiple projects the same time. Don't know of any other downsides.
Tech isn't an industry, it's an operating model. The misnomer here is that it's being peddled as an industry in order to drive up valuations.
A metabolic profile of mortality risk identified in observational study
Hodl!
California and Alabama are basically the same.
The interesting thing about the way things have developed with using third party dependencies early on is that these dependencies provide us with data.

We don't have to just guess or make biased claims about what would be useful to move to the standard library. We can look at the numbers and see what people are actually using.
Can someone explain what I just read?
Then keep checking, as local rules keep evolving so that products they used to consider acceptable stop being so. Sometimes new items become acceptable, but our experience is mostly of things being removed from recycling over the years.

It's insane.
How is this different from miniKanren? Isn't this logical programming? Or is it more of a simplex NSAT solver?
I... don't see the rebuttal. There is no demonstration on inaccuracies in the original reporting, just a bunch of complaining about bias.
You're right about the Chinese having lives through an economic miracle. But it's important to remember that the miracle was in large due to China's liberalization and integration into global markets under D Xiaoping, J Zemin, and H Jintao. Xi Jinping decided he didn't like the order, made himself an emperor, embraced extreme race-based mercantilistic nationalism and is hell bent on destroying the liberal world order which lifted millions out of poverty in the first place.
Acquiring drivers can be seen equal to customer acquisition within a software company. Yes the bottleneck of Uber is recruitment, but is it also not customer acquisition at any software/“tech” company?
A McSweeney's piece about Bentham vs. Mill utilitarianism.

If you're interested, they also have some interesting things to say about the upcoming decorative gourd season.
I mean c'mon, individually plastic-wrapped apples? It's crazy how much unnecessary packaging there is at the grocery store.

But yeah, it is possible to avoid a lot of it. And if you're really dedicated, you can essentially get to zero waste. Here's someone that was able to fit 5 years of their trash into mason jar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0uqEPzbd0
That's a shame. I'm not sure what the rationale is for such clauses - especially where performance of your tech is known to be pretty good (as is the case for KDB+).

There's definitely a huge opportunity to displace KDB+ as the mainstay for timeseries in capital markets. It is a premium product, but it obviously comes with a cost - both for the product and its operators.

Assuming all use cases can be catered for, if one needs an extra N machines if using TimescaleDB to cater for the same workloads, it might nullify any savings. If only there were a way to understand that without breaking their EULA...
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is ablaze
I'm from the bay area and moved to Vietnam 3 years ago. I'm watching all of this happen in realtime. I've recently completed a 8500km motorbike trip around all of Vietnam, southern Cambodia and Northern Laos.

In the south of Vietnam, HCMC, there is massive growth. Huge amounts of construction. The city is over populated and growing rapidly. Millions of kids work for $200 a month.

In the north of Vietnam, there is many illegal roads being cut through the forests and jungles to ship things from China. I've ridden these same dirt roads on a motorbike and seen the trucks. Did you know that Vietnam is also building a wall between themselves and China?

All over Vietnam, people are making babies in huge numbers. There is a lot of family pressure to do so. They may only have 100m people now, but every single shack and house has 2-3 babies in it. It will be very interesting to see what happens to all these humans over the next 20 years as this country grows at a rapid pace.

Cities in the north like Hai Phong are expanding rapidly. It is a massive port city that does trade with China and elsewhere. There is a road leading to the airport where all the super wealthy old vietnamese guys spend their 'retired' days riding their bicycles. Anyone who thinks Vietnam is poor should see the absurd size of the mansions here. This is where Samsung has their factories. A massive car factory (Vinfast) was recently built here as well.

In Cambodia and Laos, the Chinese are building a trade route directly through the two countries. Literally cutting a huge freeway and railroad from north to south. Buying up all the land and stripping it. Zero concern for the environment. Even cutting holes through mountains. In return, China Power is also building hydro dams, which are causing lakes to dry up and rivers to flood in the wet season. Google 'china Sihanouk' to see what's happening there. My guess is that if you look on a map, this will give China a great water route directly to Africa. Here is an example of the roadway: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/28/c_138264471.htm

I feel like nobody is talking about this, but it is happening. I've seen it first hand. This tariff situation is making huge waves that will affect this whole planet.

Edit: I just noticed the overhead image of the factory complex in Binh Duong. I've been to those same buildings!
There are 2 major data points that are forgotten in this discussion

#1 The founding fathers responsible for the american revolution risked everything by creating the constitution and the electoral college. They literally went against the most powerful empire in the world. They determined that the electoral college was the best system to defend the freedom of the naescent Republic.

Then on the other side, you have a bunch of armchair bureaucrats and talking heads trying to change the system they inherited thanks to the blood of others. They want the benefits from the change ("more votes") but should the system implode, they will surely socialize losses among USA (they wont even join the army , let alone fight for what they believe in ).

Then you have switzerland. The longest continuous government in the world operates as an extreme version of Republic, giving ample powers to small groups, where they can undo anything enacted by the majority. Nothing gets done as people bicker about small things. Majority does not get its sat. Yet the country is the most stable in the world.

Maybe its time to consider what is the price for changing something that was forged with the blood of tears of more brave men, and has proven to stand the test of time.
>My moral judgement basically comes down to: How did the 16yo feel about it?

It keeps getting better!

I'll just note that on HN people think there's a question about how a 16 year old girl feels about having sex for money with a 55 year old known child abuser (old enough to be her grandfather).

Do I need to underline every word of the above sentence for people here to stop pretending this situation is something else?

This forum is full of programmers. Here, let me try logic:

IF ((girl.age == 16)
AND (girl.had_sex == TRUE)
AND (partner.age == 55)
AND (partner.is_rich_and_powerful == TRUE)
AND (girl.is_rich) == FALSE
AND (partner.paid_for_sex == TRUE)
)
THEN
girl.has_been_abused = TRUE

If you insist on "grey areas", replace the last line with

girl.has_not_been_abused.probability = MACHINE_EPSILON

But sure, go ahead and paint me a world where the above doesn't hold, and Jeffrey Epstein just happened to be the right 55 year old for the 16 year old girl(s) he paid to have sex with.
Won't sandboxes impact performance of video games? I don't know much about sandboxes except that VMs are often used as sandboxes, and I definitely don't want video games running inside of VMs
Splunk is a cyber security company.
Even then, your curbside recycling probably can't deal with random scrap metal. The one at our house only wants aluminum and tin containers. Anything else, you should probably give to a scrap metal recycler.

It doesn't matter what is theoretically recyclable. All that matters is what the recycler can handle.

So the rule of thumb is: there is no rule of thumb. Follow the local rules.
FTC Head Says He's Willing to Break Up Big Tech
Looks neat, but no table of contents is available.
I agree, if you're testing someone else's website or servers, you should comply with the scope and disclosure rules or not do the testing, unless the vendor has something else on their website that implicitly authorizes testing (like an email address to send reports to).

But that doesn't apply to Steam; nothing they write can really impact your ability to conduct security research on your own computer.
I'm under the impression glass is worth recycling as well. Prove me wrong.
There are certain ironies. I don't think you can attribute the initial growth in 1980s to the U.S. investments. The initial growth in 1980s was largely driven by Hong Kong and Taiwan investments.
"For young Hong Kongers however, they didn't live during British rule. They were born into wealth, and now their own career prospects (like many millenials around the world) aren't great. So they protest."

Almost everything in these sentences are wrong. It's not just the young people who are protesting in Hong Kong, and most people in Hong Kong have never been born into wealth. There's a great divide between the wealthy and the poor and that's always been the case even in British time.

Source: I was born in Hong Kong 30+ years ago and our family of 4 shared a bunk bed in a room that's probably not much bigger than 100sqft
Also as the user hliyan notes.... you don't have to do all that stuff.
If the media still kept connecting the group behavior to government propaganda, it's never going to get any closer to the reason behind this.
The Chinese students in western world are not just showed up in recent 5-10 years, a logic from "they have different opinions" to "they must be brainwashed by their evil government" is pretty ignorant, or rather naive. I think the right question to ask here is why they were not heard before.

hypothesis 1, they were silenced. Chinese students were in great disadvantage no matter in population or in capital compare with groups holding different ideas. The students from hong kong, taiwan are more exposed to the western world because there were more chance they could get into the social groups financially - think if there are person in your social group paid 10x less than yours, and emotionally - you might have visited there because it's easier to get in and out and enjoy as foreigner. Media tend to report things you might interest with, either it might show up in your day to day life, or those odds could catch your eyes - people pays more attention to stories from those escaped from mid-east than those actually living in mid-east. This factor changed in recent years, because both number and wealth have been increased a lot for Chinese students.
hypothesis 2, they silenced themselves. The culture difference, language disadvantage and huge gap on life quality, the 1st generation migrants are tend to stay low profile - the mexico migrants also had that in history. This factor also changed a lot in recent years.

These two factors exist in all minority groups.

Back to this topic itself, Chinese students are heard now(and ironically thanks to their HK peers), and why they hold different opinions?

The Chinese students' background could be vary, but one thing is in common - they were from China, and the CPC ruled China helped their family gained wealth so they could stand in the same street with you. Due to the same reason, they are naturally more vigilant when the medias are reporting news completely fell into one side, and when they are trying to find different view, there is state media - the same thing happens in US, the media are pushing people either towards right or left, especially when the a situation can't be simply marked as "good" or "bad", being labeled negatively make them join the group protecting their identities. Not even mention for this generation, HK has been part of China since they start understanding the world, they would try to look at the similarity between them and hker, meanwhile hker were still showing off their superiority (like girlfriend who keep showing gift from her ex)

Everyone has their rights to express their opinions. But the role media playing that divides us, is more dangerous
Yes, am showing minimum time from 10 runs.
Yes, but that's pretty rare, because it doesn't make much sense.

A much more common carveout would be something like this:

- A $15M acquisition of a distressed company that may very well be insolvent if the deal is not completed

- $10M is owed to investors to repay liquidity preferences

- A founder is gone who would get $1.5M of the remaining

- Any reasonable escrow fund, etc, on the $3.5M that would go to the remaining shareholders is not enough for the acquirer to be sure they retain key talent.

This deal can't be reasonably done with $15M split according to the capitalization table.

So instead, the investors take $9M (10% haircut, since they're first in line for any fall-back plan); $4M goes to existing shareholders (20% haircut)-- including that missing founder who now gets $1.2M; $2M is held in an escrow for people that the acquirer needs to keep.

This isn't a breach of fiduciary duty, because it's mostly being dictated by the acquirer and because no shareholder class ends up worse off than they'd be in any likely alternative.
For your last question. Can you swear to the police or even hit him with you hand without much fear? You can do that in China...
Yes, someone needs to write a really good web app, like those that exist for transit.
Some people have asked, if US banks pay a minute amount of interest in savings, and the Fed pays like 2% or more on deposits by banks, why can't someone just start a bank that stores deposits at the Fed and passes through the interest?

And the answer appears to be, because the Fed won't let them, because they are afraid it could undermine the regular banks.
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Agreed. Incentivize the correct materials.
free migration, free trade, subsidized education and health, subsidized social security.

Louisiana can certainly give all that because they cannot force TX, NY, CA, etc to bow to their whim. But that would be sort of dumb.
Authoritarianism breeds corruption. When the next scandal hits, and the corruption is revealed, maybe the citizens will revolt (again) against the CCP.
"For young Hong Kongers however, they didn't live during British rule. They were born into wealth, and now their own career prospects (like many millenials around the world) aren't great. So they protest."

Everything here is just wrong...Are the elder citizens also protesting? Yes. Were today's young protestors born into wealth? No. Are they protesting their career prospects? No. Are they protesting for their human rights? Yes.
I've seen this pointed out, and absolutely do not see it as a problem. What's wrong with politicians paying more attention to the needs of more people?

They're going to campaign somewhere, why should they pay more attention to Cleveland, Ohio (metro area population ~2m) than Los Angeles (city population 3m, metro population over 13m)?
i think those reduce to the first two types. paid shills is subjective and can be a domain expert. some even think krugman is a neoliberalist shill.

many hacks are also the first type. see degrasse tyson, jared diamond, malcolm gladwell, arguably pinker. very little substantive base, but great storytellers

activists reduces to the second type imo. if you have domain expertise, you usually hold a more nuanced view and don't come off as an activist even if you are very active. those with a preconceived notion are typically not a domain expert and just use their superior communication ability to prove their axe
> chains of custody, tamper proof seals, bipartisan poll watchers, bipartisan election judges, and enough transparency

Does closed source software allow for any of that?

- The chain of hardware custody is difficult: did any components come from China? The chain of software custody is similarly difficult: are the dependencies disclosed at all? Who wrote all the components it uses? At least paper won't surprise you

- Poll watching and judging still involves a handoff to a black box. The poll watcher and judge cannot confirm or deny that the software or hardware performed as expected.

- There is no transparency with closed source software, period. It could be doing <X> and we wouldn't even know it - until it was disclosed, sort of, in an impossible to understand TOS document that was just updated. This is the entire story of the scandals facing tech for the last 10 years or more.
You seem to fail to grasp the difference between belief and behavior. Believing that what Epstein did is OK is a belief. Doing what Epstein did is an action.

That said, tolerance of differing opinions exist on a continuum and no perfectly tolerant society exists.
There never was a need to record and transmit votes electronically. All that we really needed was improvement in how the paper ballots were encoded.

We could have done that with PCs and punch card machines, which have been around forever. No network required.

But companies wanted to make money and elected officials needed campaign contributions. So they decided on over-complicated solutions that we don't need.
200M America's don't have to show ID to vote!

Sure, neither have ever had any real problems. But what if?
In the US, the government also withholds taxes from your paycheck, and in other circumstances.
Yeah, agree in this specific case about local research (baring DMCA issues). Most H1 scopes seem to be remote targets as opposed to downloadables though.
And this is why many of the researchers I know are based outside of or have left the United States and work out of places like Thailand.
Alright, there was a startup doing self driving trucks in YC this batch. It’s far from a solved problem, and scrappy teams can still make headway.

But anyway, the point is that there are a lot of new opportunities opening up because of that new enabling tech, and many of them are accessible to small companies.
It's typically not immediately after it's fixed, but usally about a week or so, to let the majority update.

The vendor can also usually request an extension, as per the Project Zero guidelines, of I believe 1 month if they confirm to be actively working on a patch.

The goal of responsible disclosure is to help the vendor and their users' be more secure, so having a policy that is balence between the two is important to let the vendor fix it, and to not let the users be possibly hacked
Different perspective: In Java, PHP and C (I've worked with each), comes very close to "no assembly required" to get a simple project running: install, write code, optionally compile and then run. In JS, unless you're doing vanilla JS, you need to select and bolt together a lot of different third party tooling first, or you have to use a boilerplate, of which there are many versions to choose from.
Why would there be 6 million illegal votes in California? That's a pretty far-fetched premise to base your voting system arguments on.
Depends on the area, or so I learned recently upon moving to Montana, where they don't recycle it. Apparently most recycled glass is crushed up and used as roadbase. In MT, gravel is dirt cheap, and so it's not economical to use glass for construction, so into the landfill it goes.

As for recycling glass into other glass, I can't say.
Haha, so the author actually found that 2019--like the last several years--has been one of the lowest-singing years of the last few decades, but they decided to torture the data until they could find a perspective that confirmed the opposite.
You know Taiwan and Korea are successful democracies right? Why do you think people choosing their leaders is a western attribute? The PRC itself is even ostensibly run by the people (it obviously isn't).
A parody of how religious parents raise their children so that churches who allow adult baptism or female pastors barely even count as Christian, presenting these differences as though no good person doubts them.

I may be projecting a little bit.
I just reviewed roughly 20 vendors. Doesn't feel crowded at all when they all basically do the same thing.

There's a ton of room in this space for real innovation. Instead, as mentioned, we get substitutes for innovation, like "AI".

If infosec weren't a dark horse, we wouldn't be miserably to protect against breaches. Clearly there is a need not being addressed.
Isn't that only in the trump budget, which is only a request?
And people has to work from young age if I am not wrong...and because they don't have electricity they also work shorter hours.
As a Boy Scout, my troop visited the Air Force Academy in 1984 and the public relations officer showed us a film of the A10 taking out armored vehicles. What was memorable to me was him saying that when they leaked the film to Russia, tank troops didn't want to be in tanks anymore.