skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted this was many years back now, but when I was familiar with the Westinghouse Award world there was invariably an adult scientist somewhere in the background pushing a research agenda.

Go to any R1 university and talk to the postdocs, they are the same teenagers with ten to fifteen more years of knowledge under their belts.

That's not to say there is no such thing as prodigy, but they tend to be in a few fields where it is possible to substitute sheer raw brilliance for knowledge of the literature (e.g. certain subfields of math) and they are extremely rare.
Agreeing with you...

""but the government is incompetent/corrupt/inefficient""

There's always some kind of overhead. Open markets and open societies require infrastruture.

Rules, government, lawyers, accountants, judges, cops and so forth are cheaper (for society) than anarchy (laissez faire).

I'd take the Freedom Markets™ advocates a bit more seriously if they offered any kind of alternative. Something a bit more constructive than "taxes are theft!".
Yea, I totally agree. And like you said, it may highlight things you didn't think of when you start analyzing search trends etc. So you have more ideas & information to talk to potential customers before you go all in.
But also

> Earlier versions of the survey found the 50-plus drop-off in net use had persisted for a long time, said Dr Blank, suggesting it was not tied to a particular age group that grew up without the net.

Given that the different survey results didn't really agreec on the basics, I'm not sure the correlation means much. But if that is true it would definitely make it more worth it.
I've found Nicorette brand mini nicotine lozenges to be an excellent, easy way to quit vaping. The instructions are very easy to follow, and it really takes you down off of the addiction nice and easily. I can't imagine it taking more than two weeks on even the most gentle schedule. For me, it took only about a week. A single box of three vials of lozenges was enough to quit completely.
Works fine on iPhone
Commonwealth Bank of Australia -- they were on mainframes, but spent a few hundred million dollars to get off.

One of the other big Australian banks (Westpac) has an "exit IBM" project as well, but it isn't complete yet.
There is no jokes without real reasoning behind.

You have to know governments are worried when they need BBC to calm down the situation.

Do not trust a bit any BBC agenda.
It seems we are splitting hairs here on the definition of "war" and missing the actual message. Since you brought it up again.

War (Noun)
" - a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism

- a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end

- a struggle to achieve a goal:

"

War (Verb):
"
- to be in active or vigorous conflict

- to carry on active hostility or contention

"

The point still stands. War is an isomorphism for competition, conflict and tension between parties. One could probably use something like category theory and prove it.

References:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/war
Large surveys used to be done via the phone. I think they're moving over to online surveys now.

Id be more concerned about the self selecting nature. There must be quite a limited demographic willing to sign on to Yougov say, and complete surveys for a very small financial reward.
Is that not extortion?
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> For people older than 60 years

I think the threshold is higher now, I'd say 70 years+.

60 year olds were 40 when the Internet started to become a thing and were in their late 20s when personal computing took off in the 80s. Those are quite receptive ages still.
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The majority of people don’t browse the internet like people on hacker news. They type the domain name into the Google search home page, not the URL bar for the browser. Chances are they are going to type .com at the end. So in my opinion after observing this from many different people in all parts of life I think domain name is still very important. I personally only use .com. This has forced me to think outside of the box and I have come up with, in my opinion, some great company names that have a .com available.

Depending on what your company sells SEO is either going to be really expensive or you aren’t going to have to worry about it. In my experience and opinion from a purely SEO stand point you should have your business name or primary product / product category in the domain name. I typically don’t trust companies that out the product in the domain name though. For example, bestgloves.com or babyclothes.com. I try to buy based on honest reviews (getting harder and harder to find) but the majority of the internet just clicks on the top Google search result and typically buys from there.

So with all that being said, in my opinion, importance of domain name all depends on your target audience.
>Thoudands of Chinese citizens have been subjected to the ban, including an unknown number of foreigners.

A good question here would be if the "foreigners" as defined are, for example, Asian-Australians or Asian-Americans who are not Chinese passport holders but were raised by Chinese parents.

I imagine that anyone can be accused of spying, but so far it seems it is mostly happening along racial lines.

The reason I am asking is because my girlfriend is an H1B Chinese citizen and she is required to return to China next year to renew some paperwork. I want to come with her to visit the country and I'm curious what the (small) odds are that we would have a problem.

Out of the many millions of people who visit China every year, it seems like you roughly run a 0.01% chance of having a problem, which is non-zero but also not terrible. Theoretically you have to piss off some authorities at a high level to warrant de facto house arrest.
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For issue #1 - try going into settings and enabling Account Name, I believe it's off by default. I, like you, had to edit each entry after import; Aegis has multiple metadata fields and I think the old data imports into the (not visible) Account field if I recall my experience correctly.
I once purchased quite an old premium .COM domain name. It didn't have any content for several years. I created a prelaunch page with a basic subscribe form and the website immediately showed up #1 in Google Search. It consistently outcompetes everyone, including companies' websites that have very similar company name and been around for a few years.

I'm not a SEO expert by any means, but I'm confident that the domain name still does matter. There must be something about the domain name age, its length and TLDs.
By leaving those people alone to continue living their lives as they like?
The vendor lock-in is having to code/deploy against AWS API instead of Kubernetes API. It is no different than coding to Solaris or windows API.

The problem with AWS (or any cloud provider) is that nobody can create its own cloud services. See the case of Mongo DB.

AWS is a closed source platform, which can be extended only by Amazon.

This will be more evident once more operators will be created for kuberentes.
Bright kid. If he's going to study something related to hydraulic engineering, he'll very likely accomplish good things along this line.
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> Backward Compat? IBM guarantees that your code from the '40s will run today.

I hope this is exaggeration, because I don’t think you’ll be running Colossus “code” (from the first programmable digital electronic computer) on your z15 :)

Your point still stands. They’re in a different class from x86 machines.
They exit ban foreigners for unpaid debts. Apparently this extremely common
I feel that going from 8W to 3W, while gaining a more usable system that also sits on ZFS instead of ext4, is more than enough reason.

ext4 doesn't detect corruption. How am I supposed to trust it?
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This is true. The mainframe has hardware support for fixed point instructions (I don't know the details). IIRC, the POWER line (p and i) also have hardware support.
I feel this is an unintentional false dichotomy caused by the name "test-driven". An alternative might be automatic-verification-driven or something like it.

Basically I want the computer to automatically point out errors, and I want to prove that it will do so by prompting that error detection first. Whether that's by types or test cases is secondary.

Personally I prefer types to test cases for many purposes (a good type system sweeps away a lot of toil in my experience), but I will use whatever tools a given ecosystem gives me in the mix that makes sense for that ecosystem.
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What is jQuery though? From the author's standpoint, it was a library built to smooth out the edges of bad browser support. This is a problem that doesn't exist as much these days. If you're looking for a way to select one or more DOM nodes and manipulate or jack content into it/them, browsers already provide an easy way to do that now days. The other abstractions it provides ($.get/$.getJson, $.each) have no reason to exist anymore. What's worse, the entire promise-like ability in jQuery is incorrect. (but has to be maintained for backward compatibility)

So we're left with what? The $? One could simply do `const $ = document.querySelectorAll;` and get quite a bit of the functionality (I wouldn't really recommend this as it's not a drop-in replacement)

Now if we mean the entire jQuery ecosystem. Please.... NO! Tons of bloated non-performant libraries for things like carousels... when a simple `overflow: scroll` could have worked. It was such a nightmare to deal with on mobile devices!
Yes the domain names especially getting a .com domain is pretty irrelevant now.

It was very important very google used to give a lot of weight to .com domains and exact matches but thanks to SEOers exploiting that I don't think a .com ranks higher than .info or .co either just because it's a .com

The only thing that matters is the tld reliability imo. I mean stay away from domains like tk etc which have a known bad history.
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Can we get rid of this? I'm pretty sure it's been universally discussed here how insecure it is and how it allows google to track our movements.
Sorry, but this seems to be a naive view.

China is known to arrest people and/or grant extreme sentences in retaliation for things going on in world politics.

Recently China has been executing Canadians in retaliation for an arrest of a Chinese citizen at the request of the United States.[1]

Many people view these arrests at retaliation.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/china/china-canada-executions...
Prof. Hu has a delightful pop-science book about animal-inspired engineering called "How to walk on water and climb up walls."
Reeder, both on macOS and iOS. NetNewsWire is pretty good too, but doesn’t support syncing to inoreader
I think you and I are in agreement. Sharing this data gives others power in their negotiations, and you benefit from others sharing. That seems like enough of a reason to me...
Thanks I'm getting a referral from a friend who has a startup based on your advice and others in this thread.
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What magazines, newspapers, blogs and other publications do you regularly read?
I wonder how many returnees were only able to improve their salaries by that foreign experience (warranted or not).
Are you sure? I just logged out and back in and it worked without any Google mess loading.
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> If we take the 10000 hour rule as an example it takes 5 years of continuous effort.

While your point about about teenagers having lots of discretionary time to become better at what they choose to pursue is very valid, the 10,000 hour rule is a distortion of the findings of a study on accomplished violinists. It is not broadly applicable. The tradition of violin playing has hundreds of years of teaching and quantifiable and measurable performance indicators. Other fields, not so much.
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So a 2% step change in voltage regulator setpoint for any individual WTG would be non oscillatory but in aggregate, or in interaction with the statcom it oscillates at 6.5 Hz?

When I’m setting the gains for any control loop I tend to prefer choosing lower gains that still meet the performance requirements rather than having high gains closer to the edge of stability. I would not leave a system behind that had 13 oscillations after a step.
I don't think LOC is a good measure of complexity (which is typically what LOC limits are trying to stop). Generally I try to split things up once the component is trying to accomplish multiple tasks that could be separated. So something that handles the file upload API probably shouldn't contain oauth checks, instead calling an oauth component, separate business logic from domain logic, etc. Typically this ends up limiting them to ~500 LOC, but that's just a coincidence.
This. If you're some some random scrub going to China, the government isn't going to bat an eye if you enter the country. Thousands of American citizens go to and from China every day. Detaining you for no reason is not what they're looking for.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783482
I couldn't believe this username was available:D
I found this username in the weirdest way lol.

I on another user's profile page on here and then I meant to go to rappad (the website) so I typed in "rap" and hit enter (it usually autofills with the whole site).

It didn't select the whole text in the URL bar so it went to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rap instead which showed a "user not found" message.

Too crazy xD
I'm OldSkool, I still check domain names first, a .com.
It's painful when I come to a project and the process for developing a feature is...

(1) install database (or point to dev,) configure app, run seed data.
(2) creating the state in the database manually.
(3) change lines of code for feature
(4) reloading app, navigating through to the feature state, manually verifying.
(5) fix runtime errors or bugs
(6) Repeat as needed. Commit.

We don't need to swing around the entire stack to craft some pixels or make sure some message is displayed under specific circumstances. How do we get developers to think beyond this workflow?

I think TDD at the very least is a education/comprehension exercise in abstract thinking which will discourage scenarios like the one described above. Once someone is able to TDD and 'gets it' then sometimes the way they approach arranging code even without TDD is better. I think this is why we may have mixed messages like "TDD is great!.. but we don't practice it at work."

Using a test harness any sorts to test something in isolation will speed things up. We can better understand where a module begins and ends (i/o, side-effects.) Develop it rapidly in the harness and then a few (automated) integration tests at the end. It doesn't have to be a TDD-specific testing harness.

React Storybook is an example of a UI test harness. It's still manual testing, but we get that great separation-of-concerns goodness that makes for better designed (and easier to maintain) systems.
I also prefer toe clips alone, but a big part of why is that it forces you to push from around the ball of the foot instead of the arch/middle, and there's practically nothing to think about like with clipless. I was in Amsterdam a few weeks ago and rented bikes with my family - we all had sore arches after riding around 10 miles because without thinking that's what you naturally do. I ride pretty often and since I started using toe clips for every commute and clipless for every weekend training ride I've never had any foot discomfort.
> Or you simply piss off the wrong person.

I tend to do this regularly, so that was the other reason ;-)
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Everybody that hasn't realized that the alien space ship actually existed - and was prototyped by Skunk Works - should read through the A12 Oxcart project.

Because the alien space ship sighting was reported exactly when they did the first radar test (14th Sept 1959) with the shiny silver prototype of it far out in the desert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12

Lockheed engineers on the project were the best ones, I guess. I mean, 60 years later people still believe it was an alien space ship. That's gotta count for something.
Because google can already identify you through your cookies etc. If you turn off tracking and cookies it makes you do it when you login every time.
Shorting a stock isn’t just a matter whether it’s going to go down but predicting when it’s going to go down. As Buffett says “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”.

Private investors don’t care about the fundamentals. They are just hoping to pawn their stake off to the public market to make a profit.
I was expecting an electrowetting/microfluidics solution.
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It adds one throat to choke. You won't have separate vendors for the OS and the hardware to point fingers at each other. In the case of the mainframe, there's usually a whole raft of other software that's all from IBM to add to the one throat to choke: TPF, z/OS, z/VM, CICS, DB2, etc.
Likelihood of change and cost of change are different. A codebase which is very large is, all other facts held equal, much harder to change. While a small, early codebase may iterate very rapidly, drag will increase. The question is whether in the expected lifetime the higher upfront cost of providing tests pays off in average velocity.
More so when the sample sizes will be within a timeframe (during 9-5 usually) as well as being limited in size (very small samples given the scale) and in this case 2,000 people is about 0.0003% of the population they project those results upon.
I've just gone through the decline and death of an elderly relative.

She was able to use a Mac and browse the web a decade ago. Then she began to forget how to do things she'd been proficient at a few years earlier. In the past four years her ability to use the computer dropped to zero, and attempting to get her onto an iPad instead failed (it was too complicated/required too much learning -- I'd left it too late, not recognizing the early signs of decline).

At the time of death she had medium to advanced vascular dementia; the point is, cognitive decline in old age is a real thing, and people lose the ability to do stuff they knew how to do at an earlier age.
Further to this the 12V battery effectively acts as a big capacitor while the car is running, to smooth out the power that is available.

I found this out the hard way a couple of years ago. My 12V was dead, yet I managed to jump start the car and get it running. I thought it would be ok to drive to get a new battery, as long as I kept the engine running high enough. After a couple of km the dashboard lights started to dim, so I tried reving it as high as I could, but the battery wasn't able to buffer the power and supply the ignition system, so the engine stopped. It was rush hour and I was in the middle lane, so it wasn't a particularly fun wait for the tow truck.
I would call it a capitalist dictatorship at this point.
I only read a few paragraphs of this article, since it's behind a paywall.

The financial system in China may be technologically advanced, but it's scary. The Chinese government uses this system to track every transaction for every citizen.

I've been banned from selling on Amazon for over a decade, with no recourse. A customer (who I think was competition) bought one of my products, claimed it was a counterfeit, and then never returned the item or sent pictures. Nobody at Amazon will ever respond to me and if I login to another seller account from my computer (not related to mine), it will be suspended within a few minutes).

I really don't care about selling on Amazon anymore. I can't imagine if my entire financial future was dependent on a company like this, like it is in China.
I don't know what 1/6 is as a percentage off the top of my head though, whereas I know that 1/5 = 20%. So either the journalist didn't know either, or thought that enough of the population didn't know and that 1/5 was more informative.
So do you put 'Content Type' and all that other stuff on every fetch call over and over again?
It doesn't necessarily require work; in fact, the default position on many things is skepticism, and he provided at least one reason to be a skeptic in this case (i.e. that the stigma around pedophilia emerges around parents being afraid of their children growing up). He even supported it with some reasoning (discussing how he thinks "voluntary peodphilia" between a child and an adult in a position of power does not count as abuse-free).

I don't need to consult theology to be skeptical of God, I don't need to consult Marx to be a skeptic of capitalism's exploitation, etc. Nobody had hitherto presented him with an argument he found sufficiently compelling. I can probably pick any topic outside of my field of knowledge (or yours) which is well established within the field but we are skeptical of, simply because we haven't heard the argument.

Lets say you publish somewhere saying "I am skeptical that Emacs is the best editor." Are you skeptical that Emacs is the best editor? That requires work. You haven't bothered to look for any research; you haven't talked to users of Emacs; you haven't spoken to people who work with Emacs. You don't know what you're talking about. The issue here isn't that he published it (and you didn't publish your skepticism about Emacs). The issue here is being skeptical whether you express that to others or not. With the amount of things Stallman comments on, it's unreasonable to expect him to research every topic he's skeptical of.
if you need to ssh in to a box you are not ready for fargate or lambda. think about what commands you would actually run on the shell. what are you looking for or reading? you can find all that information from cloudwatch or other logs / metric services. you'll find at scale, sshing into a particular ec2 box also doesnt make sense