skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why isn’t there a similar outcry about China’s mounting attack on the film industry, not just in Hong Kong but also in the United States? Over the years, the U.S. government has often praised and defended Hollywood films as a key component of American soft power—that is, as a story-telling medium that can, without engaging in blatant propaganda, convey American ideals, including free expression itself, to foreign populations around the world. But Hollywood has long since abandoned that role. Indeed, not since the end of World War II have the studios cooperated with Washington in furthering the nation’s ideals. Instead, the relationship today is purely commercial—on both sides. For example, Hollywood frequently enlists Washington’s help in fighting piracy and gaining access to foreign markets. But even while providing that help, Washington refrains from asking Hollywood to temper its more negative portrayals of American life, politics, and global intentions. (The exception is the Department of Defense, which insists on approving the script of every film produced with its assistance.)

Well, cry me a river.

For one, it's funny how the author mentions the "Department of Defense" as some small exception, whereas it's where the most blatant propaganda happens (in war and spy related blockbusters, touching foreign policy, US wars and meddling, the enemies du jour, etc).

Second, Washington doesn't have to temper with Hollywood's "more negative portrayals of American life, politics, and global intentions", because they are either "art house" films which few globally see and care about, or major films, which play into the national narratives and more often than not have "just some rotten apples/feel good" endings by design.

Third, the author seems fine to regard films "as a key component of American soft power" but is enraged if they wont be anymore (and cries about foreign influence preventing that)? How about films just being films/art, and not "soft power"?
So what is the parse and execution time for jQuery on a low-end device? Genuine question, I have no idea.
You should probably consult with a startup lawyer now, because your employer (he does not view you as a cofounder) will try to screw you out of your equity sooner or later.
Apparently people have forgotten that China is governed by a communist dictatorship, or they wouldn't be surprised by this behavior.
The company I work for recently switched TLDs from .io to .dev, because apparently the former has some serious reliability issues.

I don't know the details, but given how painful the process of switching email addresses of everyone in the company is, it must have been really bad.
If Religion Fuels All Conflict, What Fuels Religion?
You can even see the hexagonal pole from Hubble! Amazing!

Full size image: https://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/origin...
I've always found Hollywood to be ideologically mostly one-note, and a very disproportionate representation of US culture, as informed by its owners [1]. It was no bastion of free expression, even before China's influence.

[1] https://jasonbayz.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/demographics-of-t...
Scepticism requires work. He had done no work before supporting abuse of children. He hadn't bothered to look for any research; he hadn't talked to survivors of abuse; he hadn't spoken to people who work with survivors of abuse. He didn't know what he was talking about, but he still felt it was fine to say that fucking children isn't a problem.
I don't typically tdd, but I'll say TDD is also awesome when you are in a crunch and working on some feature that has, say more than one dependency and more than say four corner cases and you are all amuddle about which one you should do first. Especially, london-style? Is it? Where you write out your trivial stub implementation first, helps me sort it out and not worry about thinking of everything.
Thank you for your question. Yes, you're right it's a one time payment.

Depending on the plan you choose, you'll get approximately 35 ~ 55 leads between 30 - 40 days.

After you receive that amount of leads the paid plan comes to an end.

I set it up this way because if developers are following the application instructions that come with each lead then they'll be landing a freelance position within 30 to 40 days. Most times it's less, but that's the median when talking to customers.

And, if you want to use the service again 2 months later then you're not paying for the time you don't need it.

Let me know if I can answer any further questions, and I'll make sure to update my FAQs as well to make things more clear.

- Derick
On Linux, most (maybe even all) of the data structures that must grow with memory size can be carved out of the memory being added. The main culprit is 'struct page' which typically needs 64b of metadata for each 4k physical page (on x86 at least). Much of the code to do this stuff is in Linux's "sparsemem" infrastructure: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
At some point, I want to talk about CDs as well.

A proper CD archival format would include the lead-in sectors, with which it is absolutely trivial to extract track information from the Q-subchannel of it. Easier than parsing a CUE sheet, or MDF, or CCF, or whatever else have you.

I do understand it's hard to rip this data from CDs (usually requires an older Plextor drive), but worst case, as bad as it'd be, generating the TOC from a CUE sheet is very simple, and if it's marked with a special entry to denote it being machine-generated, I feel that would be a good compromise.

Then you'd have a single CD image format in a single file that captures all data on CDs. If you wanted to, you could then compress that image with either ZIP, or a custom-purpose tool that combines things like Reed-Solomon prediction, subchannel prediction, FLAC encoding for audio tracks, etc, resulting in images not any larger than ISO+FLAC.

But well, https://xkcd.com/927 and all, right?

> I for one would definitely welcome a format with built-in cheats

A thing I do with bsnes is bundle a database with most known cheat codes for all games, so you've got all the cheats nicely labeled and ready to go whenever you play a game.

I kinda wish this idea caught on more for all the other systems and emulators, but it hasn't been all that popular.
You're doing it wrong: B-heap 10x faster than binary heap (2010)
Honest question: is it really worth it to try to change them?

For people older than 60 years the internet is still so new that many still might think it is a "fad". It will be very, very hard to teach new tricks to old dogs. As the article says:

> "There are a lot of things about the internet that get less useful as you get older," he said.

OTOH, for people younger than 20, the proportion of not connected will most certainly be very low. As the article says:

> "Virtually everyone is online before age 50," Dr Blank told the BBC

I suspect that the effort to get the last and very reluctant old people online is just not worth it.
Hmm, I may indeed be wrong. I guess that the fob won’t start transmitting R2 until after it receives all of R1, so the early guess doesn’t help. This does assume that the fob doesn’t accept higher-than-expected data rates. That last bit could be a real issue if the physical later can operate at multiple data rates and the attacker can convince the car and fob to disagree on the rate.

But I think your xor register is no good. The attacker can just send all zeros to learn R1 xor R2 and then can emulate the fob at whatever range it likes when the car sends the real R1. Also, the radios are likely to be half-duplex, which may make it impossible. Instead, I think F just verifies each bit and stores a single bit of state indicating whether the bits were all correct. Then, after the last bit is received, it transmits R2 if all bits of R1 were correct.
This is really bad since China doesn't have a working court system to fall back on:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/1...
is that not almost one fifth?
A SFC should do a single thing well.

Check out atomic design, it might help you :)

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/
Perhaps I misunderstood the original comment, seemed like they meant implementing identical APIs to jQuery, I thought they meant simply writing an abstraction in JS (I.e. not a native impl). That’s my bad
So is Go not a “new serious language”? You can definitely have nil pointers panic in Go if written poorly.
I used to use this app frequently until my workspace required me to switch to iOS. I need to manually set all my OTPs to OTP Auth due to its backup incompactibility. Does anyone knows a way to do that?
Basically everyone but AMD and Apple is still on 12nm (or a similar density process) for scale production.
That's why people invest in Vietnam instead. Oh wait...
WhoTF is the Oxford Internet Institute?[0]

I understand I'm just a dumb American, but is the OII something anyone knows anything about?

[0]https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Toss Bombing
Testability, Performance, Readability, Maintainability are all vectors we can judge software by, and while they are not orthogonal, they are also rarely colinear. TDD optimizes on Testability to the expense of the others. This is rarely a good idea.
It has been tried many times, but it just didn't work that well: network was a lot slower than the interconnects in a NUMA machine are, and even those are noticeable in application performance. If you need to modify your applications to use it properly, you're quickly at the point where you instead are better off to make the application distributed.

It seems to come up again a bit in research, given recent hardware developments, but I doubt it'll see widespread use.
It’s entirely possible to create a native implementation of jQuery without breaking compatibility with it.

It would be insane not to. I don’t really see your point.
Google Workers for Action on Climate Joining Amazon Workers in Sep 20th Strike
Nick Szabo, ‘Libra Is a Cryptocurrency in the Same Way That a Doll Is a Baby’
You can export your keys to JSON from andOTP, I'm not sure if there's import functionality in the iOS app, though.
Last I checked NSA had spent 10 mil on an ops center modeled after a Star Trek bridge, so frankly I'd be disappointed if they didn't also have a precog-themed room. I just hope it's complete with a cool spatial future UI.
The title says that 65-year-olds are learning how to code, yet the article itself only mentions one example. It does not provide more data, except about the decline of productivity and the aging population.

A 65-year-old learning how to code is still probably very unusual.
I think you're probably going to be ok if you aren't related to anyone wanted by the Chinese government. I'm not trying to downplay the severity of what they're doing by holding people as bargaining chips, but a random person should be safe. Unless you get framed for something, which is entirely possible. Or you simply piss off the wrong person.
"So you can even install or remove memory or CPUs from them without turning them off." - I did that with IBM pSeries servers decades ago and with commodity Linux servers running on x86-64 hardware within the last couple of years. That's not reserved for mainframes.
I'm talking about when not doing something strange. If someone approched me with an active camera (and a microphone), until it's turned off, the only conversation we'll be having is about turning it off.
> Which would you rather have? A wealthy society with inequality or a poor society without inequality?

This is a good as in goodwill and honest point here. However, I think it isn't a dichotomy based on evidence. For example, most of northern Europe has these programmes and they are not poor, and there exist many poor countries without these programmes. If I thought these programmes would leave the people less wealthy, healthy, happy, I would be against them.

If the programmes create negative incentives in people as to not be productive and successful to a degree that offsets the advantages in reduced crime, more tax because of higher educated people and thus salary and countless other and not easily measured advantages like progress on science, culture, and art, then I would be against those programmes. This is however not what we are seeing. It is a scary shadow on the wall while we can see the cute bunny in the foreground with our eyes directly.
> Where in that article does it say anything like that?

That newspaper is based in China, which can do with information and people within its borders as it pleases. Why do you think he gave out that information out to begin with? There is no benefit to Americans.

He leaked all of that and more just to expose one illegal US program (phone metadata collection). Anybody with a high school degree would think of a better way to handle that.

> No, why would China let him go and publicly release things? There would be so many better ways to handle him.

He did that before China knew what he was going to do. There are so many better ways for Snowden to have handled that data, yes.
I believe that study was peer reviewed by Roger Ebert.

Edit: off topic, but I just read that review from 1993 and it was pretty good - https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jurassic-park-1993
"and very regular in their nightly movements"

I see what you did there.
Right, so as the author suggests, maybe TDD's real benefit is that it makes you think and plan a bit more before jumping into coding.

Therefore, we should have MDD - miniplan-driven-development: make a mini plan for the feature being developed, not so dissimilarly from what you would do with the first pass of TDD. The difference is, once you start implementing that plan and realize the problem is much different, you don't have to go back and keep modifying your original miniplan. You just do what you would normally do.

What you gain is probably a partial improvement in your development process without much cost.
I posted this because I think we tend to live in a bubble where everyone carries multiple internet connected devices on their person at all times (only a slight exaggeration!). But there are over 11 million people in a first world country who don't use the internet at all, and likely many more who have access but it's limited to eg only an old desktop PC or only at work. How should internet-based start-ups react to this?
Agreed. I'm pro-TDD, but it does nobody any good to ignore honest-to-god data. I would love to know how folks can get access to the data for study.
Ask HN: Self-hosted take-home management system?
I'm wondering if there is a good self-hosted option for administering take-home projects for interviewees? Ideally a system would:

1. Send the project out at an appointed time
2. Allow the interviewee to interact with the system as if it were a remote git repository.
3. Allow easy comparison of diffs, etc. to see what the person added/changed.
4. Allow easy tracking of different aspects of what we're trying to evaluate (e.g. readability, efficiency, etc.)

Currently we do this via email and then upload the changes as merge requests to a private repo. We try to keep track of different pros and cons as we go along.

I didn't see anything at github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted so thought I'd ask here.
upvote my post
I hate the verbosity of it. The “fun” part of jQuery is important to its success.
Very few people are replacing JQuery with super lite pure native JS implementations, it is getting replaced other libraries like React which is a wash, at best, for users.
E-books at local libraries: Inside the fight between publishers and librarians
This stuck out as strange to me since they defined microplastics as <5mm. If you run water through sand it would filter things this large, and that's a common wastewater treatment practice.
>what makes you think it's not? not like it would be overtly disclosed if so..

True, though if I were to guess they probably have their hands full, and ransomware is likely a pretty low priority at the end of the day.
Null pointer exceptions are typically avoidable though, running out of file descriptors (at an OS level) is really difficult to predict or deal with. Same as running out of socket handles or pipes. I've hit quite a bit of both doing HPC admin/setup.
Fighting back against binary blobs! (freedreno, 2012)
Application servers take care of that.

All data should come from databases, which also don't matter on which OSes they're running on.
It's a department in the University of Oxford. Unlike all those "Oxford School of English" type of places, this one is actually noteworthy and part of the real university.
> Is anyone going to take my opinion on Emacs seriously, knowing that these tools take time to master?

Maybe not, but you're welcome to publish an essay on what you think.
Yup. If anything, it's quite interesting to see the Chinese film industry beat Hollywood at their own 'film as national narratives/ideals' ("in which heroic, righteous Chinese soldiers kick some serious ass, including cowardly, decadent American ass, in exotic foreign places that are clearly in need of Xi Jinping Thought") soft-power game. You'd expect that Hollywood would seek to respond by shifting towards the "artsy" direction, not away from it.
America’s power is on a financial knife edge
>Now she uses her new-found skills to automate work processes like doing reports, drafting budgets and other repetitive tasks, saving her hours in her day.

lol i have been using computers for along time and i still have not done that yet. Rather than lots of repetitive tasks it seems i have to focus on a few tasks that require precision and cannot be automated. Very seldom can i recall ever being in a situation where i would spend hours doing something that could be automated. Also trying to code a program to automate the task would take longer than doing the task. I think i can recall one time 2 months ago needing to check 70 accounts and doing it by hand which took a half hour was way faster than trying to spend hours trying to code a program to do it.
I will show this comment to my grand kids one day - Do whatever you can, think whatever you like - By the end of this decade, we will have at least half a dozen such currencies with a couple of them in active circulation. Whether Facebook succeeds or fails - they have covered so much ground in pushing existing establishment on value of an universal currency, offered by firms that provide services directly to customers - that it now becomes hard to ignore.

Crypto currencies such as Ethereum and Bitcoin will ride on the coat tails of these currencies to be truly first class citizens of the banking world.
For heating a surface you'll want a material that absorbs the solar spectrum, but is extremely reflective on the heat spectrum. Optimizing the material absorbtivity does not lead to much gain, while optimizing the reflectivity leads to huge results.

This material absorbs every spectrum, what makes it really bad for that application.
Translation: Singapore's government is failing its elderly generation. A very small percentage are able to keep working and supporting themselves for a few more months / years by learning how to program, in probably the most basic sense. Everyone else is unable to find work but unable to receive retirement benefits that they've paid for during their working years in taxes. This circumstance is due to either corruption or ineptitude, or both.

This will probably be a more prominent story in the US soon as well. Save your money as best you can and don't count on governments to fulfill their promises.

When I was growing up, the retirement age in the US was 65. Now it's 66 and will soon be 67. By the time I retire, it will probably be higher. It's blamed on the population living longer, yet the average lifespan has been decreasing recently. The government failed (or ignored) the fairly obvious result of modern medicine making people live longer and did not plan for it, and continues to not plan for it other than cutting benefits. How many 66 year old programmers do you know?
I would suggest reading the original report. https://oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2019/0...

Quite interesting to see that the majority of people who don't want to join the internet is because of choice and worry that they will lose their privacy.

Anyone done a study of how people who don't use the internet usually vote in elections and generally feel socially about the rest of the world?
ac.uk is reserved for academic institutions in the UK (akin to .edu for Americans).

ox.ac.uk is Oxford university.

OII is a project stemming from this university. Something like this is akin to MITs IPRI[0]

[0]: https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/
https://www.fionnferreira.com/2019/04/a-minor-planet-was-nai...

He got that for winning the Google science award in the article.

https://www.googlesciencefair.com/projects/2018/2c3f6207b15f...
I think we're thinking of different definitions for a high speed train?
There's already a train that connect SF and LA that fits your description.
I felt good about buying cotton tees which need less laundry due to hydrophobic and silver ion coatings. But they contain a bit of lycra. And they are hard to recycle. What should I buy instead?
Not sure if this will help but for me a company and its products are two separate things.

Sometimes the company is (from a brand perspective) the same with its products. But it might also be that you name your company in a way and then be more thoughtful about the name of the product.

Sometimes the customer remembers more the name of the product and not the company. Also sometimes the customer remembers a USP which could also be the domain name and not the actual product name.
I thought parent comment was quibbling as well but it’s actually closer to one-sixth and surprisingly this does affect my reaction to the information. So I do think 18% would be a better title. The article does get there in the second line at least (but not before saying “almost 20%” for no reason other than to exaggerate, I guess.)
I also like that the articles concern seems to be less that Hollywood is losing its freedom to the Chinese and the fact that the US govt doesn’t exert the same pressure on Hollywood (with the major caveat of the DoD, which sounds like one of those “other than that, how was the play, Mrs Lincoln” statements).
Have there been any developments on glass technology than can repel water? I use a anti-rain coating (a la Rain-X) which works pretty well, but you need to be above 80km/h for it to work effectively.
Anyone have access to the full paper?
A Cloud Guru education startup is doing what universities can't
Which RSS client do you use, if you don’t mind? I’m on my personal quest to find a good RSS client, without success, for now.
if i had a dollar for every stupid, unjustified downvote i would probably be able to buy a bitcoin
Thanks for taking it constructively!

For anyone reading this, I originally was taught assertions etc. at university but really got to use them after reading this ppt presentation by Tony Hoare (PDF here. Only took 1/2 hour to find, thanks for getting crappier, google).

Really recommended! http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs2110/2014sp/assignments/...

Honestly, it's short, please everyone give this 10 minutes of your time. It was one of the main things that started my move from rando programmer to something closer to engineering practice. I just wish companies I worked for gave a damn for it.
Assuming the survey methodology allows us to scale this number to the whole population, it would be nearly 12 million people (0.18 * 66 million = 11.88 million). Quite a staggering number no matter what percentage it is.