skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this actually work cross-culturally?

My understanding of advertising is that it relies very heavily on building associations between the product being advertised and existing positive social norms. The reason truck commercials in the U.S. always feature scruffy broad-chested men driving shiny vehicles across wide-open rugged terrain is because in the U.S. we have this cultural mythology about the frontier and conquering nature and we associate manliness with this (and with facial hair, muscles, etc.). And this works because there's already a shared cultural norm that's been built up over centuries, which most of the people who develop advertisements are familiar with and can mine for ideas. When I visit my in-laws in Taiwan, the advertisements look very different (although somehow the skinny-but-buxom-blonde has made its way over there too, despite representing basically 0% of the female population).

In a past life, my primary job was getting people to click on search results faster, and my secondary job was making sure Google stayed in the press for positive reasons. A lot of this was data-driven, but when it came to adapting changes to individual countries, we'd always defer to the local teams. Google.kr looks different from Google.ru, both of which look different from Google.com, and in many cases these differences were simply because a competitor had gotten to the local country first and that's what the population had become accustomed to.
There is an unbelievably small quantity of nuclear waste produced from traditional power plants as compared to other power sources. Coal plants likely release more total radiation into the environment than nuclear plants -- 100X per unit energy according to [2]. Breeder reactors and Fast Nuclear Reactors (FNRs) produce orders of magnitude less total nuclear waste [1] than traditional plants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-neutron_reactor

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
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It is also worth noting that the first two prototypes (they are building 2 in parallel on different sites in Texas and Florida) are already quite progressed and planned to do their first testing soon (according to Elon possibly in September even, but that is likely to be optimistic).
Just stop openly criticizing everyone and everything. Be super-compliant and everything will be sweet.
It should have been dealt at a different level.

His student visa should have been accepted anyway, and open an investigation on him as a US resident if you think he could be a terrorist threat. He passed several layers of heavy screening already, it shouldn’t all be canceled on a single agent’s presumption based on social media posts.
Something like making the producer of the thing causing remnant environmental leftovers fiscally responsible for cleaning them up? That would price cleanup into the sticker price.

Should probably be a thing for plastics, coal, natural gas, meat, etc.

But hey - that would undo the indirect subsidy of offloading pollution onto governments and future generations, and we can't have that now...

Man, the biggest con these companies played was dodging upstream responsibility by pushing PSAs of individual personal responsibility while lobbying frantically to avoid actual regulation. "Dear consumer, turn off your A/C when in the other room to save the environment, rainbows, and cute furry creatures" instead of "hey energy company, clean up your crap."
Please read the Crimson article. Only CBP was involved, both in the interaction and in the public relations around this.
Oh, that ship has sailed. It has already happened. We don't realize it yet because we haven't lost any wars because of it yet, but it has happened.
I would not precisely segregate the bias of HK protest reports by language—some Cantonese (though very rarely Mandarin) outlets report news with protester bias, and vice-versa, there are English takes that sympathize with the police and/or mainland—but overall the lack of balanced reporting is frustrating.

That said, I have come to empathize with the disadvantaged side. When you have the information about the Tiananmen massacre, oppression in Urumqi, and everything else available through non-state-controlled sources; you see your home headed to join that system (a completely another country compared to 150 years ago); and you are facing a formidable entity well-versed in informational warfare and with extensive control over media—even if I condemn particular actions, I would find it hard to judge you for attempting to employ any means you find available, including one-sided reporting.

I do still get depressed every time I see attempts to fight bias with more bias.
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A simple Python socket programming

http://net-informations.com/python/net/socket.htm
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> The US’s strength lies in the scores of bright immigrants who come to the universities here to study and later join the work force.

No it doesn't, what a ridiculous statement. Its strength lies in many factors, immigration of bright students is a tiny part of that.
What can someone concretely do to help prevent things like this happening to other people in the U.S.?
I haven't seen any studies that imply that fasting increases or decreases metabolic rates, which would mean that most people probably won't implicitly gain or lose significant amounts of weight just by switching to intermittent fasting.

There are people that literally just start skipping breakfast while keeping lunch/dinner/snacking the same. This is both technically intermittent fasting but also a reduction in overall caloric consumption. These people sometimes attribute their newfound weightloss to IF, when really they just started skipping a calorically dense meal every day.
> Keep treating them like shit and competition will soon step into that role.

Canada says hi.
Google is very very very very nice about product sunsetting - generous timelines and no bandwidth throttling. Also photos and videos are part of their core business now, i don't think they'd ever abandon the space unless something seriously disrupted the market.
I am glad you asked because this is an interesting time in the nuclear waste world. The simple answer is that you put it deep underground in geologically stable places like crystalline bedrock or salt beds where it will sit out of danger until after at least 100,000 years, when it will have released all of its excess energy and reached stability.

For example, the Finns, being a pragmatic people, decided collectively to build and operate a deep geologic repository for nuclear waste called Onkalo. It's mostly complete and has test canisters in place as we speak. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-nuclear-waste/wor...

Relatedly, a company in Berkeley called Deep Isolation is now working to commercialize a new waste disposal technique called deep borehole disposal. Rather than mining out something a few hundred meters deep, you use modern oil/gas techniques (ironically, the same tech that allows fracking) to cheaply drill down 5-8 km and put the spent fuel down there where it really has no credible way of making it back up. This particular company is run by a woman and they focus on community outreach first. It looks to be a good approach [2].

[2] https://www.deepisolation.com/technology/

Also worth noting is that once it's out of the reactor, there's no more high pressure coolant or nuclear chain reaction to drive its dispersal. It sits in incredibly robust canisters on parking lots at the plants where it's almost impossible to imagine anything going wrong. See my buddy Jim doing a walk-through in Washington state to get a visual [3].

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvvIzH2W6g

The comparison of risk between stored nuclear waste vs. things like air pollution and climate change is astronomical: nuclear waste risk is incredibly low. In a high-carbon, high air pollution world, it's hardly a footnote in the world risks.

Yet, for every person I talk to, this is the primary concern. I feel like we've let too many MacGyvers and Captain Planets and Simpsons and HBO's run wild without correction. Nuclear PR people have been hiding under rocks since Three Mile Island. The millennial new nuclear people are much more aggressive because we got into this to cut carbon emissions, and this appears to be pretty urgent.
Shame, it is a wonderful place with wonderful people in it. So is Canada, who gave me grief last time I went there. Still worth it.
Because I don't like it. And for small businesses I don't think it makes sense because team members end up sharing accounts and it just becomes a mess of who did what.

I'm competing on making a CRM that's actually enjoyable to use and not just a way to keep track of your sales team :).
I think I did better than your quant way :-)

Without having to resort to any kind of estimates[0] I have demonstrated for anyone interested that a purely vegan alternative will render lots of land unproductive, so - even given an optimal use of the rest of the land - you will still leave unused resources on the table.

I can go deeper into this subject, but I think this will suffice for now.

And: I'm all for reducing consumption and waste, and actually enjoy the reduce-reuse-part of the reduce-reuse-recycle-idea so this shouldn't be seen as a defense for overconsumption, bad farming practices or anything but rather an attempt to bring some realism into this thread.

[0]:really my only given is that not all land is usable for effective production of anything except grass.
I just typed out a detailed response to someone else who asked the same thing in this same thread. I hope you'll excuse me just referring you to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20817030
This, exactly. Here we had a chance to impress on a foreigner that US society is great and filled with good values and all we did was kick him to the curb because of social media connections. We don't make the world think we're their friends by treating impressionable foreigners poorly.
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How about cross mobile apps (ionic/cordova)?
...and only make friends with others like that? We are going towards 1984 I guess.
Eh, its perfectly doable to make those atoms wind up as O2, it is just expensive. All we need to do to solve climate change, today, is accept a drastically lower standard of living. Hence why it isn't happening, (and won't happen until people start dying).
China has inserted agents who monitor students political views abroad and if they start liking democracy too much start putting pressure on.
I find this to be equally as frustrating. If I don't use social media then I don't use social media.
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Since were on the topic, what do you think about the Chinese social Credit score?
Maybe, but if you claim just WeChat, they will probably give up since they don’t Chinese.
We put it in breeder reactors and extract the remaining 98% of the energy it contains.
You don't need a market to build things of value. The wealth creation happens with or without navigating laws. That's not true of capturing some of that wealth.
The answer to colony collapse is medicinal mushrooms.

https://beemushroomed.com/

Extracts from certain medicinal mushrooms have been shown to have surprising efficacy against the leading viruses responsible for colony collapse disorder. You can participate in the solution by purchasing and using a simple bee feeder in your own backyard. Thanks to Paul Stamets for figuring this out and providing the means for all of us to participate in the restoration of bee populations.

Save the bees, secure the food supply, and all of us will benefit.
Vote for the party that doesn't demonize immigrants, and get all your friends and family to vote. The US is still a democracy no matter how broken the Senate is, and the responsibility for state actions ultimately falls on the citizenry.
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The biggest benefit I've found to fasting is the sort of reset it provides the digestive system. I've suffered from some pretty frustrating gut health issues over the past few years, and taking a 1-3 day fast every few months significantly improves most of my symptoms. When talking to my doctor, a combination of "reduced inflammation", "digestive rest" and "gut biome health" are all things that get thrown around, but generally "Who knows, but if it works keep doing it" is the general result.
>>Sure. But that’s an absurd response to the assertion that it’s “enough for any reasonable person for several lifetimes”.

The response assumed that he was NOT a "reasonable person" and wanted to move to the billionaire status. Almost did it, atually
> Mr. McCarthy noted that Mr. Ajjawi could reapply for a visa.

Usually after a denial, it becomes much harder to get an acceptance. You have to put down answers to questions like "have you ever had your visa denied and why?". The next agent now has a bright red flag to look at. "Oh anti-American social media posts? Interesting. Hmm, ... well you can pay the fee and try again next time".
The usual speach goes like "If you don't have anything to hide...". But do you know if your friend on facebook has anything to hide that will connect you by association? The privacy debate got stuck on the "If YOU don't have..." but that is not the whole problem.
I don't bother disabling js per site so I don't know about that, but I'm pretty sure there is an uBlock Origin build for Safari since I'm using it.

https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari
The investments I've made in learning Linux well have paid off so many times over. Like VIM, there is a hump, some annoyance and then you get all your time back invested and so much more.

At this point I find Windows so hideously unpleasant I believe if I were forced to use it as a daily driver I'd go into another line of work. Life is too short to be annoyed all day and not have control over your surroundings.
That's a bad diet compounded by a bad lifestyle. Working in an office does not mean one has to stay indoor all the time and at weekends.
Bebop was an acqui-hire, not a real product. All they wanted was the CEO. I don't think anyone took the product seriously except for the person who started it, and once she left Google, there was no reason to continue pretending that it was a real thing.
Also a file syncing tool by the same name, written in the ... functional language Ocaml.
Without seeing the comments it's difficult to know if this is a reasonable call or not. I can certainly imagine posts from Facebook friends that I think would be disqualifying for a visa, but I can also imagine government employees overreacting.

One imaginary scenario that occurs to me is the one where he is admitted, commits a terrorist act, and then everyone looks at his friends on Facebook who are posting the kind of content that would make you suspect terrorism, and we'd wonder - why is a person so obviously terrorist adjacent admitted to the country?

On the other hand, my immediate thought on reading this is that I wouldn't let my phone, and definitely not my accounts, get searched on visiting a foreign country. I'd also support people encrypting their phones and turning them off prior to government checkpoints. I just don't know how to square my intuitions there with my doubts about this case.

Finally, it strikes me as a bit elitist of the NYT to add "Harvard Student" to the title. If this choice is wrong, it's wrong regardless of which school he's been admitted to. If we can't judge people based on their friends, then we should apply that standard to the Harvard-bound and non Harvard-bound alike.
As someone who has never had a social media account, I have wondered if US customs would believe me if I traveled there and they asked me about it?
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> Once the jump table is constructed, the actually vector dereference and call is O(1), but that’s beside the point if each invocation requires linear construction.

Not necessarily. What matters is the ratio of calls through the table to the number of times the table is constructed. If that ratio is bounded, for any size input, then you have a point. My response is simply that programs for which such bounds exist are relatively rare in practice; the common case is that such a table will be called through many more times than it is constructed, and furthermore that the ratio of calls to constructions will increase without bound as the size of the input increases. Then the fraction of time that the program spends constructing the tables asymptotically approaches zero.

Admittedly, this argument is of little comfort if you're actually writing a program that constructs many such tables, only to call through each a small (and bounded) number of times. But the force of that fact as a criticism of a language has to take into account the likelihood of needing to write such a program in the first place.
One of the worst misconceptions many people have is that the world works on policy.

Policy simply does not matter in such situations. This is entirely about identity, signaling, and sending nativists messages from the top.
The anti-American sentiment draws from the Boxer Rebellion and the Eight Nation Alliance that sacked the Summer Palace as well as America's support of the KMT during WW2. In the eyes of the Chinese, America eliminating Japan in WW2 doesn't absolve itself of its past grievances (nor its present ones i.e. playing world police and inserting itself into the South China Sea disputes).
A lot of the charts should have an exponential y axis. Otherwise the climb gets steeper and steeper.
React hooks for form validation without the hassle
> Why not just look up manual or google instead of wasting time on laborious packet inspection.

When you've got a load balancing layer, and virtual machines, and interacting with the real world, there's a reasonable chance that the problem is not a (relatively) simple application configuration issue. If you've looked through enough of these, getting a pcap (especially with an identified customer) and looking through it with Wireshark is relatively quick.
Isn't C-section for some people like a luxury to keep the body nice or something like that? Genuine question because I heard (yes, hearsay) that C-sections are for people in the USA like fashion? The again, I can't imagine any doctor, in my country at least, doing a C-section unless it is absolutely necessary.
You're tarring all law enforcement officials with the same brush.

In the article, there's some very honest-sounding acknowledgement by officials of the efforts of the company to cooperate on some concerns (e.g., child exploitation), and also some apparent straight-laced belief in higher evidenciary standards for illegal things they seemed to believe/suspect were going on (e.g., intentionally facilitating adult prostitution).

I think the perseverance of that kind of honesty and belief in principles gives some hope, despite various discouraging things we can also see in society, from all directions.
Anti-scientific, or we learned from our mistakes? We can barely build a bridge that lasts for 50 years, but somehow we are going to magically build containment units for waste which last 1,000s?

The science has shown us that Nuclear electricity is incredibly dangerous, and that humans are mostly too incompetent to maintain it safely. I say this as the child of a Nuclear Physicist who spent half of his life working on weapons, and half at a power plant. Dad didn't think we were up to the responsibility either.

I was just in Belarus, a friend of mine told me that since Chernobyl 20 members of her family have died of cancer. Cancer isn't fun, I will tell you from experience.

There's more to consider than "does it work in the lab?" and "will it be cheaper"?.
This one was never worth running from the beginning. It existed mostly to prevent a specific person from feeling bad.
Fast breeder reactors make sense when uranium is expensive or scarce. They and their reprocessing facilities are universally more complex, expensive, and unreliable than their water-cooled brethren. In today's fracking world, we need to bring nuclear costs down. Breeders will make costs go up, almost for sure (I study the history of this, and current efforts, very carefully).

Honestly just disposing of nuclear waste in deep geologic repositories is a really pragmatic and relatively cheap approach for now.

If we do end up ramping nuclear to 50% of the world energy supply, then breeding will likely become important. With breeders, we can use uranium dissolved in seawater effectively forever (hundreds of millions or even billions of years at 10x world scale consumption, effectively fully renewable).
Where did you look for them?

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/2174006/...
What sort of person worries about having led a frivolous life?
I can guarantee you that's the last thing I'll be worried about on my deathbed (assuming I have my mental faculties, which is not a done deal these days).
At one point you could ask what the difference is between not treating a condition and euthanasia.
Nit: Santa Clara City has a population of 116,000.
> waiting for the Google photos clone to get up version 1.0

What is the closest open source alternative to Google photos?
While commit messages are always there, they get lost. You fix a bug in your code, with a commit message. Later, you realize that this function is super reusable, so you move the function to another class in another file. Now, for all intents and purposes, the original commit message will never be seen again.
I think that is just your opinion, it is a different kind of product which has direct feedback from an active readership that is directly funding your product. Leads to less snafus like George RR martin who is ostensibly making a product for readers but is so disconnected from the readership that he thinks 5+ years between books is ok.

http://topwebfiction.com/ is good example of works that are mostly funded by patreon(young adult focused) that sidestep this problem.
This article is 2 years old, but quite relevant to current situation.

Deep learning and computer vision has progressed quite a bit in the past 2 years, mainly due to incremental algorithmic advances / improved engineering. Unlike fundamental advances, these can be scaled up with increased investments in a more predictable way.

Face++, the unicorn company mentioned in this article, is actually the product division owned by Megvii, a machine learning startup based in mainland China. They are planning to IPO soon (see: https://reut.rs/2L7zzGn ) to raise more funds from overseas investors (hence IPO'ing in Hong Kong).

There's some irony when a China-based computer vision startup working on facial recognition technology used in Xinjiang is filing for IPO in Hong Kong, rather than in mainland China.
This argument doesn't hold weight for me. Google demonetizes because advertisers don't want their ads on that content - and that is true no matter what platform.
What is the link with immigration? The CIA murders people abroad, and uses the peace corps for spying and influence, does that means that all the countries should randomly send Americans home at the border?
Ultimately the parents should get to decide, but we should make all means necessary available to them to give them the option so select, or engineer, a healthy embryo.
What are you referring to? There was a video of people tearing down a cisco street light with weather sensors.
Funny how you missed the part about multibillion dollar "loans" which instantaneously disappeared into thin air.
Yup, otherwise the all seeing-eye will be upon you all. Wait a minute, it already is. And we technologists made it happen