skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I see this in my Facebook feed: My Latina friends are not afraid to tell sexual jokes or have sexually charged images on their timeline (one of the girls I dated, in fact, is a nude photographer); my US friends, on the other hand, never tell dirty jokes, and they only time they talk about sex is in relation to a sexual harassment allegation or a sexual assault story (my Latina friends also do this, but they aren’t afraid to admit they like sex).

This is certainly an accurate description of my wife's Facebook feed.

My wife has been attempting to play matchmaker for friends and family in Mexico I have a few takeaways:

- Latin America is flooded with women that are looking for a guy with a stable job, not a drunk, and wont cheat on them at the drop of a hat. (Men of means cheating seems to be the rule, not the exception)

- Most of these women are not looking to get out of their country. They would very much prefer it if the guy could just move there and continue to make a middle class or better income. (Colombianas especially love Colombia. Something to consider for fully remote workers.)

- The proliferation of location based dating apps like Tinder have decimated the feeding mechanism for a lot of international dating sites. If anyone knows what the viable options outside of Cupid Media properties are in 2019, she would love to know.
Hmmm, so is the prose intending a logical AND? If so it would seem that we couldn't discount the prior quantity of non-duck happiness and would somehow need to hold the two types of happiness in balance.

I'm not familiar with Mill or Bentham. What would a "preponderance" of the evidence on both sides look like if there were to be a balance, I wonder? Can we even compare quantity and quality in any way?
A lot of people complaint about Webpack.

But most other languages only provides up to Grunt and Gulp equivalent, namely Gradle, Fake etc.

As who had maintained large Gulp scripts, those Scripts would eventually become a huge pile of non-standard and ad-hoc scripts.

Webpack is complicated, I admit. But it's much better than Gulp I my experience, so why is everyone complaining?

It turns out the problem Webpack or JavaScript solves are more complex than other language solves. JavaScript is the center of the Web, you cannot expect let CSS bundling itself, so do images and fonts. Let alone compression, prefixing, and giving fonts and stuff size thresholds to in-line them in JavaScript.

There would definitely better tools in the future like Parcel and Pika are trying but the problem doesn't go away.

I'm looking forward to see other languages facing the same issue in WASM age.
But jQuery was just syntactic sugar on top of a broken API. For all intents and purposes, React _fixes_ HTML and DOM. The reason we _have_ such complexity in the front end these days is because _we can_. We've eschewed all the bullshitty parts of web development (global styling, unpredictable browser APIs, hand-holding DOM through complex interactions) and opened ourselves up to actually writing applications.

The problem, as I see it, is front end developers are still expected to churn out features like they used to in large scale organizations, but we've matured as developers. It's no longer throw a .js file, a .css file and an .html file at a browser and woo hoo you have a site. It requires more time and bootstrapping, but the promise is code that breaks less often and is easier to maintain. It also means we have front end developers that are now specialists in different facets of frontend, such as builds, data layer, typing, feature development and framework design. Notice these are meta jobs.

In order to meet the demands put upon us by our former velocity, we often have to resign ourselves to blackbox libraries and such, which don't always contribute positively to one's stack. Just today we ditched a node module we'd been using because the owner refused to update it. We should be building more internally than we do.
Depends on the use case. I'm thinking about GUI, where on Linux you can write code that links against (say) Gtk, and thus can pull in lots of libraries while the executable itself is tiny. With the current state of the Rust ecosystem, you basically have to build the GUI toolkit and bundle it with your app.
Also would like to know how this works for multiple accounts...
This article is somewhat surprising. It does not seem to account for variation in the intensity of work at different times, for example planting and harvest. At those times it's hard to imagine that people worked anything less than dawn to dusk to ensure they had food for the next year.
The same amount as the vast majority of of people in China: 0
Also the Echo Nest which was bought by Spotify, Affectiva, Little Bits (created by Ayah Bdeir just after graduating), expansion microscopy. Limor from Adafruit did her master's thesis there. There have also been many smaller but interesting projects by graduates.
> Sure, let's do like Russia and ban opposition candidates[0] from running in the first place

Holy whataboutism. Yes Russia is a far cry from a healthy democracy but that has no bearing in any way on paper ballots. You seem to have just changed the subject entirely.
I took the OP’s argument to mean that, even if you can get a consensus that the electoral college should be changed, people should hesitate to do so where close races mean that the change will be outcome determinative for particular races. My point is that we still routinely have candidates winning massive electoral college majorities. If people otherwise were in agreement that a change was warranted (note that more than 50% of republicans supported abolishing the electoral college as recently as 2012), there are still opportunities to change the system where it won’t change the result of the current election.
> British kept it the same without granting freedom or democracy

Well they tried. Shortly after the Chinese revolution, HK was receiving an influx of refugees from China. Mostly well educated and skilled people. Britain was moving to bring in democratic reforms in the 1950s. China threatened to invade to "liberate" the territory if such reforms continued.

https://qz.com/279013/the-secret-history-of-hong-kongs-still...
But the likelihood is that vaping is order of magnitudes less harmful than smoking burning cigarettes, but the way narrative is being spun is that vaping is a grave danger to health.

Normal cigarettes have established to be undisputedly harmful, whereas ecigs while possibly addictive, the long term effects of consumption are merely not well known/studied.

Despite any studies, I would be very interested to hear a theoretical assessment of the safety of ecigs.
Common usage comes from users. Us have every right to apply our pressure on the common usage.
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Russia? Climate change? I thought we were focusing on China. Or was it Mexico? I know it's not North Korea for now, and Trump is really trying to keep us from paying too much attention to his ongoing failure in the Middle East. And how did Greenland manage to get so distracting? We still haven't seen Trump's taxes, and Mueller absolved him of absolutely everything apparently, so it can't be that.

What are we supposed to be focusing on?

Guns? That must be it... there can't be much else, can there?
The article argues that even when they had a chance to work more they didn't. Maybe they were all being shortsighted, or maybe that happened in a brief climactic golden age.
Honestly, I haven't done any research on Ticketmaster so I'll spell out my thinking more hypothetically.

Ticketmaster has a $0 marginal additional customer cost. That's great. That's the model of a tech company. The real question is where the ceiling is for scaling event offerings. I don't know if Ticketmaster has enough dominance in negotiation to basically get listings for free and 100% penetration of events. I'm sure Netflix doesn't get shows/movies for free. Most tech companies have a ceiling. Generally, that ceiling is defined by the market.

If ticketmaster already has monopolistic dominance in event tickets, there's not really a way to increase the size of the business. At that point for valuations, you start using a discounted cash flow model with some risk built in for the competition.

The reason companies like Facebook and Google show enormous multiples is because the size of their market is basically the internet. When pricing the stock, people expect Google and Facebook to continue growing. Once everyone is online, the multiples should decrease substantially.
> similar to Heroku buildpacks.

In fact Heroku is one of the founding contributors for Cloud Native Buildpacks (along with Pivotal, where I work).
I've struggled with reading recently (past 5 or 10 years). I used to read so much and for so long, and now I hardly read at all - maybe one or two books a month. Some months, sadly, none.

Part of me thinks it is all the modern tech that has shattered my attention span. I'm too used to seeing something new, refreshing a page, opening a new tab, browsing my twitter feed, etc, that focusing for too long is difficult. This is covered in the article as the first reason, and I think it is the most compelling.

Lately though, I've started rereading some of my old favorite books and I've been pleasantly surprised to find my attention holding up better. As I have less time to dedicate to reading now, I think it's more important to focus on finding good books - and one way to know you've found them is that it isn't a struggle to read them, but rather a struggle to stop.

What success I have with continuing to read has been rereading old favorites to build the momentum and focus back up, and sampling lots of books, finding good recommendations, and not hesitating to give books up if I don't like them or if I think I already understand the point. If I have limited time to spend reading, I'm not going to waste it reading stuff I don't like.
Mozilla is a little late, to be honest, because now the testing of a "security certificate" is over and the government (temporarily?) gave up an idea to force everyone to install the certificate.

But I think it is important that OS or browser's UI would display true information about consequences of installing a certificate because government usually lies about it, telling something like it is necessary to protect users when browsing the Internet. For example, Android shows a reminder when third-party root certificate is installed and offers a quick way to remove it.
#2 withdrawal of "riot" characterization and #3 unconditional release of all arrested protestors, then by implication #4 independent inquiry into police behaviour.

Because if #2 and #3 come to be, then #4 will surely severely censure the police for firing tear gas, bean bag bullets and rubber bullets, which will demoralize the police, greatly damage their ability to maintain law and order and incentivize rioting as the proper form of making demands going forward. Supposedly Hong Kong's laws/ordinances governing the conduct of independent inquiries contain provisions against self-incrimination, which is possibly another means for rioters and their organizers to safeguard themselves against prosecution by presenting at the independent inquiry. I say "supposedly" because while chapter and verse were quoted, I haven't looked them up myself and IANAL anyway.

The "protestors" are demanding non-negotiable acceptance of all 5 demands.
The table at the bottom is in units of hours.
Well, I'm glad I didn't get one. They always seemed a bit sketchy to me (can they access my video without permission?), and I'm glad my fears weren't misplaced.

I'm not buying any cloud service without E2E encryption, it's just not worth it.
The fact that twitter is restricted to a single key is mind boggling to me. Is that a common restriction elsewhere?
This issue gets discussed over and over again.

Rust does need a better package curation story, a Rust "expanded universe" of recommended packages whose provenance is more carefully tracked than the average package and whose APIs are stable. The Rust community needs to encourage other packages to depend on stable versions in that recommended set to reduce duplication.

But going further and actually making that set to be part of the "standard library", and thus released at the cadence of the Rust language itself, and managed under the same umbrella, would be harmful.
China's Warning to Global CEOs: Toe the Party Line on Hong Kong
Imagine writing this in a code review
I made this because I have a bunch of .sql files that I want to run against Postgres and then process the results with other tools. I cannot simply go and add json_agg to them.
I'm guessing the use cases they see don't involve query shapes that need to scan a lot of data. A columnstore along with vectorized or batched execution is a much better storage layout for fast scans with filters and aggregations (i.e., the top TPC-H and TPC-DS analytics benchmark results are from columnstore databases). A B-tree with tuple at a time execution is orders of magnitude slower [1][2].

[1] http://cidrdb.org/cidr2005/papers/P19.pdf
[2] http://db.csail.mit.edu/projects/cstore/vldb.pdf
JavaScript itself has a complicated, hairy history. It's hard to write a single line of code without wondering, must I query https://caniuse.com to be sure this API is supported by all of my organization's targeted browsers? It shouldn't be all that surprising, that in order to rectify the lack of parity, we have to accept come additional levels of complexity in our tooling.

Sure, I could import all of corejs and call it a day. Everything would be polyfilled, but then I'd be wasting precious bytes and negatively impacting page load times. Some will even say the concern is no more than bikeshedding. But if you give little thought to bundle optimization, your carelessness will add up, and materially impact TTFB. It's a death by a thousand cuts.

My personal answer is no. Whether it's Stockholm Syndrome or not, you can conquer the complexities of shipping web applications written in modern JavaScript.

Becoming aware of the nuances has made me a stronger developer. Developing a deep understanding of polyfills, bundlers, transpilers, module formats (CJS, SystemJS, UMD, ES Module) and which browsers support which APIs has made led to me being more thoughtful in the code that I write. For people just looking to solve a business problem, without understanding the more tedious parts of JavaScript, it absolutely is too complicated for them. I empathize. But if you want to be a skilled front-end software engineer, it's in your interest to tackle these tools with some zeal.
Artificial intelligence could help data centers run far more efficiently
Most of pudding's stuff is good, but this was seizure-inducing horror.
Whatever else it might be, it is definitely true.
There is a replica of the Demon Core in the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos.

A sphere of metal, a bit larger than a basketball, it's just the right size and shape to be manipulated by hand tools.

I wonder if that contributed to normalization of deviance. It doesn't look weird enough to kill you.
The US assassinates its own citizens without trial occasionally.

Don't judge by the anomalies, judge by the everyday life for regular people.
There's always a million reasons not to do something. Vague economic fears should rank low on the list.
So we'd be no worse off than we are now? And just in that one case?
I’ll be happy to give it a go in a VM to start :)
Yes, it's essentially one line of code but it makes my daily routine of running queries against Postgres and then processing the results with other tools much easier.
Is there a theoretical model for the effect of ecigs on the effect on the human body? What would such a model say about their safety in comparison to normal cigarettes.
"Behind the scenes, the media outlet’s ownership and operation is closely tied to Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual community with the stated goal of taking down China’s government."

Falun Gong is meditative exercise, like yoga. The tactics used by China to suppress Falun Gong has since been used against Tibetans and Uighers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15pCyhL_9wA

It is shocking to see one of the big three American broadcasters parroting Chinese propaganda.
My facebook account has been disable, so now i will recover this account, do u help me? Please
Are you proposing using the DOM for state management? (of data, not document elements)?
It was an election of a majority leader. The majority of electoral votes were for Donald Trump, by a large margin.

The house is elected by population, the senate by state. The electoral college is designed to be a blend of the house and senate systems.
Meh, I think this lacks perspective. Maybe you 'worked' less in that era in the sense that you provided a smaller portion of your time to a third party for pay. But, you worked more overall. You didn't work for a few hours then order food for dinner; You probably worked a few hours, then spent the next many hours either harvesting and/or creating all the requirements for life. Maybe you spent 2 hours hunting a deer, then an hour creating clothing, then an hour cooking, then an hour mending the hole in your roof, etc.
Show HN: LineFlow – Simple NLP Dataset Handler for PyTorch or Any Framework
Enterprising EV Owner Taps the Sun to Power His Chevrolet Bolt
Sounds like a sort of inverse Omelas.
I'm not going to debate you after you accuse me of wanting to disenfranchise voters. Honestly, you should be banned from the site.

It is however factual that fraud happens. People go to jail every election cycle.
And states were never intended to be drawn to balance out slave power. And political parties were never intended to exist in federal government. Guess someone fucked up.
I am proposing that, in many cases, data is trivially representable as document elements. Lots of websites don't actually have much state to store -- at least in terms of the front-end developer's idea of state, of course you often need a database and user sessions and stuff -- beyond what's currently being shown on the page (and occasionally display:none'd, reordered, or scrolled off-screen).

"State management" is a problem you think you have only because you're trying to use React for things it isn't good at.
Firefox is open source. You can changing anything in the code instead of demanding that Mozilla compromises everyone's security for your particular case. All you need is 40 Gb of free space on HDD and 4 Gb or more of RAM if I remember correctly. And if you are working for a government organization, they probably have someone who can fix such issues.
"None of that stuff will get through Congress"

I have a different opinion. Sanders and to a lesser extent Warren have created massive volunteer networks that do have a pretty big impact, like everywhere. Obama had that too, but it was dismantled when he took office (insanity). There's a good argument to say Obama would have been far more impactful had he kept it going.

Sanders has no intention of shutting down his "revolution" (not my words) whether he does or doesn't get the nomination. There's going to be some serious pressure (like there already has) on congress in the years to come. I don't think the same ol' same ol' will continue much longer.

I don't mean to be a fan boy, but it's pretty phenomenal what he / they have done since 2016, and it resonates with a lot of people. CNN and MSNBC don't talk about it too often, but it's very real.

Don't take my word for it though. Easily researched.
Confidence of rapid re-leasing in the event of WeWork default (which makes sense in a high demand area like Austin).

Disclaimer: Landlord
re: California

It's also worth considering the distortions that illegal aliens put on electoral college numbers.
The phone OS must natively implement the WebAuthn protocol by using built in biometrics like fingerprint/iris scanner.

Windows Hello is also starting to support this for desktop PCs.
Yep. Get out. Sooner rather than later. Like today - just pack up your stuff and walk out. Interim CEO isn't going to talk any nicer about you if you spend any more time there...

Go sit in a cafe, or the park, or in a bar, or by a river. Way better use of your time than getting blamed for shit at work...
It's a 100% app to wedding ratio. Best stats one could hope for -- not too low, not too high.
I'm having trouble thinking of a single researcher that has left the US for legal reasons. There are lots of researchers now in Southeast Asia! But that's because bounty programs like H1 let those people work remotely.
"Minority" does not always mean skin colour. John Stuart Mill wrote about the tyranny of the majority[0] in 1850's England∗, which I'll hazard a guess was 99% white, even with steamboats and the British Empire reaching right around the world.

∗and he appears to refer to it as a well established idiom so I suspect it goes further back

[0] On Liberty https://www.bartleby.com/130/1.html
Who is starting, building these factories in Vietnam? Who is lending for capital projects and providing industrial expertise to local enterprises.

I'll give you one hint, the name of that country starts with a C.
You can tear the top off and recycle that, and discard the greasy bottom. While some pizzas will also soil the top of the box, you sometimes get one that's pristine.
This is a "cutesey-perhaps-too-cutesey" reminder of the stuff I forgot after my highschool time doing Lincoln-Douglas debate on the speech team.
Macau actually experienced a big recession while Hong Kong has grown steadily, overtaking the US in GDP per capita. [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_#...
You seem to think that science do not have the ability to predict the effects from causes, it is possible to say if vaping is safer than normal cigarettes now itself, rather than have to wait for 50 years to make that declaration. Theoreticaly ecigs are much much safer, due to the lack of combustion and presence of carcinogenic smoke components.
Among other reasons, because the site is literally stuffed to its gills full of people reporting bullshit security issues, like "user impersonation possible" (if you convince a user to open developer tools and give you their session cookie), and H1 wouldn't be doing any good if it generated a constant stream of people "WONTFIX-disclosing" those reports.
Python's standard library is where things go to die because of the terrible adhoc versioning system (the module name is the version number) and dynamic typing means they are afraid to change anything. But even then it's still better than having no standard library at all.

The advantage of a standard library is that you only need to learn one API instead of a dozen different APIs for doing the same thing, which means you can develop a degree of mastery over it. It also reduces the friction for using better abstractions. e.g. Every professional Python programmer knows defaultdict, whereas I rarely see that data structure used in other programming languages, it's too much of a leap to install a dependency to save a few if statements, but it all adds up.
French farmers did nothing 1/3 of the year now many are hyperstressed and a number are taking their own lives.