skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NBA tried to placate China on Weibo here,

> However, a statement posted in Chinese by the NBA on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging site, appeared different, according to translators.

> “We feel greatly disappointed at Houston Rockets’ GM Daryl Morey’s inappropriate speech, which is regrettable," the statement read. "Without a doubt, he has deeply offended many Chinese basketball fans. Morey has clarified that his stance on this issue does not represent either Houston Rockets or the NBA. From NBA’s perspective, people can be interested in different subjects and freely share their opinions. We take respecting Chinese history and culture as a serious matter. We also hope that sports and the NBA, as a unified source of positive energy, can continue to build bridges between countries and bring people together. "

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2019/10/07/nba-chi...

Regardless of whether the NBA has control over what is said on that account, it's pretty shitty to have it one way in one country and another way elsewhere while hiding behind a language barrier. If this kind of double-speak continues, they're playing us all for fools.
Here's a description of a "press-pulse" protocol that includes fasting, calorie restriction, and ketogenic diet scenarios (main goal seems to be to limit glucose intake as part of the treatment as part of an effort at stressing the energy systems of the cancer cells to cause cell death):
https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...
Check the references for some other papers on fasting and chemotherapy. Also, here's a related human case study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29651419
The climate argument is not factually weak... but when it comes to actually persuading lots of people to change their ways... its just so weak. It's just a sad fact about our political reality today.

And even among those who say they are concerned about climate change and the environment - it still can be very difficult to actually inspire some sort of productive urgency in them. Climate change is the most gradual disaster to ever to befall humanity and our psychology isn't built for that at all, en masse.

On the other hand, when you see the air is turning black from the bumper to bumper traffic in your city, and then you notice yourself coughing, and your lungs hurting, at the same time... well that's a different situation.
Passive solar design can improve comfort levels wile dramatically lowering energy use.

No real sacrifice involved -- other than giving up our entrenched mental models that dictate we can either be good or we can have satisfaction, but not both.
I’m gonna report to my ET boss that earth can be safely destroyed
I hate this attitude. It's the same attitude that anything that happens on a computer is work because someone uses a computer at work. I also use chairs and desks and toilets at work and I eat food at work and talk to people at work and walk to diffenent places at work so I guess walking, sitting, talking to people, pooping etc all all work.

No, rather a computer is a general purpose device on which I can make music, listen to music, edit video, watch moives, learn a new language, look up recipies, talk to friends, chat with experts on all kinds of topics. I don't stop using the computer "because I use it at work"

The same is true of programming and side progects. Programming is not work. Programming is something I do at work like I alos talk to people at work, sit at work, walk at work, eat at work, write emails at work, chat at work.

Programming is also a fun activity in and of itself I get lots of enjoyment out of just like I get enjoyment from those other things. That fact that I do it at work as ZERO influence on my enjoyment of it. I might not enjoy certain things I do at work but that has nothing to do with "programming" and everything to do with goals or don't believe in or busy work for the sake of busy work or having to do things someway I don't agree with, all of which disappear on my own stuff.
There wasn't a real conclusion because the tests were always small. Governments became afraid of triggering toxic blooms and otherwise messing up coastal ecosystems and then being liable for damages, so they put a moratorium on testing [1]. Then in 2012 someone illegally tried it again anyway, with mixed results [2].

Basically it's like most geoengineering projects - everyone is too afraid of negative consequences to really try anything at scale, so instead we get endless inconclusive studies. Personally, I think we're going to pretty quickly get to the point where we need to make decisions about what negative consequences are acceptable to prevent complete environmental catastrophe.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/453704b

[2] http://www.planetexperts.com/two-years-russ-george-illegally...
One solution would be to force the source code of non supported devices to be released (by law) so that third parties could be paid by individuals to update and patch them as long as there is a market.
We got your email and will reply, but as long as the question is here publicly, I suppose the answer should be too.

I finally got to look at this. There's no single pattern with these accounts. For starters, their comments are not all on the same political side. Some are defending Chinese policy and some are criticizing it. I don't see much of a pattern in the provenance of the accounts, either. Some are throwaway accounts being used by established users; in one case it's because we warned them to stop engaging in nationalistic flamewar, in other cases who knows. Some are breaking the guidelines by making a new account for each comment or two that they post. One account has existed for 3 years and the rest are new. To judge by IPs, one is posting from Hong Kong, one from Taiwan, and the rest from North America.

Based on the comments and other data I looked at, my best guess is that these accounts are all people who have spent time in both China and the West. Perhaps some are Westerners of Chinese background while others are from China, Hong Kong, and/or Taiwan and are either working in North America or did so in the past. Most likely they were motivated to create new accounts either because the active discussions going on provoked some reaction in them, or because they don't want their main account to get banned after we warned them, or because they're creating new accounts routinely. Some of their behavior definitely breaks the HN guidelines, but I didn't see anything that suggested more systematic abuse. Nor are they breaking the guidelines in ways that plenty of older users aren't already doing a lot of, unfortunately.

It's always possible, of course, that I missed something important. We don't know what we don't know. But we've spent years working with this data and user behavior and, to judge by the occasions when some real-world verification has been possible, have learned to make reasonably informed guesses.
I didn't follow this at the time but I can immediately see that there exactly two ways to interpret the "Chinese pig" comment and one is very insulting. I'm guessing that the person who said the quote did not mean it as an insult
4-Kilometer Planet-Killer Asteroid Headed Towards Earth in 2020
Have you tried pinning the IDE to one NUMA node? Text editors are pretty random access and will not have a fun time across numa nodes.

Also, what range of CPUs is your xeon on? Buying a current-gen consumer chip could yield a huge performance uplift if it's not from this gen.
Wow. It is only semi-structured, but incoherent? Surely not.
For one, I got the point of the writer, and got it well. I could feel how she feels. Sure it doesn't follow some rigid way of "how things should be written*, but I trust a monologue that looks written as if by a human, with the rhythm of a human, than any polished, structured piece.
It might depend on the location or the species. Behind my dad's place, there is a field. White-tailed deer come out of the woods at dusk to eat at the edge of the field. Every 15 seconds or so, the adults look up with their ears raised and wait a few seconds, then flick their white tail as they lower their head back down to eat.

I'm not sure I can judge distance well, but I'd guess it's about 100 yards/meters across the field. There have been times when just by standing in the window watching them, they look and see me and get spooked and trot back into the woods. (On the other hand, there have been times when I walked out into the garage, opening and closing the door, and they look at me for a while but decide to continue eating.)
I only got glucose/ketone strips around day 35 of the 60. Lowest I recorded was around 50mg/dL, highest was 110mg/dL, with the average being around 75mg/dL or so.

Ketones were always at or near the limit the meter is designed to test for. I think anything over 8.0 mmol/L and it would yell at me to see a doctor. Lowest I recorded was 7.0, and almost every reading was over 8.0. Felt fine the whole time.

Echo what you said about the hardest part being social though.
Please see my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199884.

It's really, really important not to jump to conclusions about other posters. When people do that they usually make serious mistakes and sometimes quite regrettable ones, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195898 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403358. In the latter case the user really was hounded off the site.
HN was called Slashdot then.
It's slow and freezes even on tiny projects.
They're aware of the issue and apparently the next release will be focused entirely on trying to address those.

At the moment that's my number one issue with CLion.
Maybe some years ago it was just models. By now we have also a lot of direct data. Make yourself up to date with recent developments.
The jerseys are probably made in China anyway. Unlicensed = the NBA doesn't make money from license fees. Maybe wearing an NBA shirt in China would equate to wearing one with Winnie the Pooh?
Couple that sold their home to Zuckerbergs gets a $60K property tax surprise
As support expires or EOL the manufacturer should be forced to release their firmware code to ensure older devices can be patched, if they want to keep operating and selling new devices.
this requires legislation though.
If the cost is the same as nuclear, it should be preferred, as there is no nuclear waste.

And that's probably even also considering that both the actual cost of nuclear[0][1][2][3], as well as the risk of failure[4][5] and the therein resulting costs[6] are often wildly underestimated.

[0]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4631737.stm

[1]: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/01/31/debunking-the-low-cos...

[2]: https://financialtribune.com/articles/energy/9386/nuclear-de...

[3]: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/true-cost-of-nucl...

[4]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4543400/Scie...

[5]: https://phys.org/news/2017-05-nuclear-greatly-underestimate-...

[6]: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/16/fukushimas-final-costs-...
It seems like the common wisdom in Artifact is that the economic model was bad. I think Zvi is correct in saying, Artifact was just not a good enough game.

Personally, I enjoy fairly complex games, and I’m willing to spend money to try games out. But I just found that Artifact was way too complicated to be enjoyable. It is hard to follow what’s going on while watching a stream on Twitch.

If Artifact was fun but expensive, it could have found a core that loved playing it. But no, there are more people streaming and watching the indie card game Slay the Spire (which isn’t free to play) nowadays on Twitch, than there are people watching Artifact.

So I don’t think the biggest problem was the price; the biggest problem was the gameplay.
Here is the Weibo statement for those who haven't seen it,

> However, a statement posted in Chinese by the NBA on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging site, appeared different, according to translators.

> “We feel greatly disappointed at Houston Rockets’ GM Daryl Morey’s inappropriate speech, which is regrettable," the statement read. "Without a doubt, he has deeply offended many Chinese basketball fans. Morey has clarified that his stance on this issue does not represent either Houston Rockets or the NBA. From NBA’s perspective, people can be interested in different subjects and freely share their opinions. We take respecting Chinese history and culture as a serious matter. We also hope that sports and the NBA, as a unified source of positive energy, can continue to build bridges between countries and bring people together. "

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2019/10/07/nba-chi...
There's no need to be mean about that. Also, please see my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199884. Most likely these are users of mixed background, meaning they've either grown up in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan and worked in the West, or vice versa.
I was trying to use 'import substitution' like that as well. And that is a useful concept.

But since eg Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrial...) only uses the term in the other meaning, I'm going to concede the term.

Let's find a different term to describe the process 'local population creates competitors for some steps on a production chain, replacing a foreign industry piece by piece. [...]'
Emailed a link to this comment to the mods.
Luckily, lawyers and bureaucrats don't have that much power over this industry, yet.
Some unflavored sweeteners have been shown to produce mild insulin responses. For me it was more of a psychological thing, especially on a fast that long.

And no, no cognitive decline whatsoever. If anything I had more energy. Also, I was supplementing electrolytes, and I ended my fast at like 25% bodyfat though, so keep that in mind.
Well first of all, we need to abandon the concept of the 40 hour work week. Very few people are actually working all of those 40 hours and even if they were, it's just a bad way to work for any client or company.

In all likelihood, the people managing you aren't technical and have a very small window into the work you're actually doing. On top of that, even if you can outperform your colleagues by as much as 200% by working more or working "harder", there's no point in doing so because our work world doesn't really understand how to deal with exceptional individuals. You'll just get 15% more pay and some meaningless title for all of that hard work anyway.

So you work up to the point where people tell you "that's amazing", then you go work on side projects. Simple customer management. They're happy, you're happy. No more exchanging hours for dollars, we all get what we want.

Just focus on what matters, both for your own longterm happiness (building skills, scratching an itch, whatever) and for the happiness of your customers (they won't get their project completed if you're burned out and disengaged).

Reject the 40 hours. This isn't a factory and we aren't slaves. It will all be fine.
You can't have it both ways, we gave Iraq and Afghanistan the opportunity to elect a representative government, it is not our place to complain about the representatives they elected.

How many revolutions and dictatorships did the French have to go through until they settled on a system that works for them?
> A city-state is a completely irrelevant comparison to an entire continent.

Well, breaking the countries on the continent up into city states might be one way to go, if you think that a smaller scale is more conductive to good policy.
Ah... China has been a one-party police state with intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles for my entire adult life (I'm in my 40s). The only thing I don't understand is why anyone ever thought they weren't a threat.
The Sentinel anyone?
This is some Kafkaesque bureaucracy right here.
Telling is lazy and ruins the immersion, so it should be avoided where practical. That being said, rules are meant to be broken, and one of the marks of a good reader is knowing when to break them.

For the "nervous" example, I think it's far better to make the prose make the reader feel how nervous the character is. It may be more verbose, but it'll leave a bigger impact on the reader if you do it properly.

I really like Cormac McCarthy, and he does a fantastic job of using prose to create a feeling in the reader. When there's an intense action scene, words become simpler, sentences sometimes become longer (I've seen sentences span nearly half a page), and the prose moves along faster. When there's reflection/boredom, the opposite happens, with more complex words and sentence structure and generally slower moving prose. He's a master of using prose to convey emotion.

When I read something like this:

> He was nervous. Not the waiting in line to get your picture taken kind of nervous, but the first day at a new school in a new city kind of nervous. He'd been on dozens of dates, why was this one tying his stomach in knots?

I just think the writer was too lazy to paint a picture of the scene and instead expects me to do that for myself. I would much prefer something like this:

> He glances at his watch. 5 minutes to. He motions for another round. Sir, your table is ready. Thanks ma'am. Right this way. He checks the clock by the front door. 3 minutes. Plenty of time. He starts for his napkin, thinks better of it, then adjusts the vase. 2 minutes. He takes a sip, rolling it around with his tongue, and checks his watch. Still two minutes...

Or something like that. I much prefer to experience a story than read about it.
I did not create this. This is a demoscene production released yesterday at Deadline (Berlin) 2019.

Details from the README https://demozoo.org/productions/268459/info/2923/

----

Hello Deadline!
This is a raytracing engine contained in a single Mysql SELECT statement. In the beginning of the code there are a few parameters that can be modified. The scene can be specified using the @triangles and @squares parameters, but everything is explained in the comments. The whole query returns a bitmap file which can be written to the filesystem using the "INTO DUMPFILE" syntax at the end of the query, if mysql has filesystem write permissions.
The raytracer supports shadows and reflections, which makes it, to my knowledge, the most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market right now. However, it is not really polished and kinda slow. Since I didn't really know how to present this work in a demoparty friendly way, I just included two finished renderings.

Contained files:
sqlray.sql - Contains the code and a standard box scene with a few spheres
sqlray-bunny.sql - Contains the code and a scene with the stanford bunny model, about 950 polygons.
sqlray.bmp - Contains the output of the query in sqlray.txt. With a resolution of 1920x1080, this image took about 10 minutes to render on a Xeon E3-1246.
sqlray-bunny.bmp - Contains the output of the query in sqlray-bunny.txt. With a resolution of 200x200, this image only took about 2 hours to render on a Xeon E3-1246.

Requirements:
To run this code, you need a running mysql-server to execute the query. The code is only tested on mysql version 5.7.22 running on Ubuntu 16.04. MySQL also needs file write permissions to write the bmp file to the filesystem.
If you want to render more than a few pixels worth you usually also have to increase mysql's memory and execution time limit settings.

Released under the do whatever the fuck you want license. If you use it for commercial purposes, like rendering your Hollywood studio's new big animated A-Movie, please let me know at holtsetio@gmail.com.

Have fun!

-- Nick / Holtsetio
Am I being whooshed? They had a Cultural Revolution..
GOP defends Trump as second whistleblower comes forward
It sounds like most of the people here want prop 13 repealed but from your suggestion that would just make every pay the high tax so the "people often don't because the taxes would increase to a point where it wouldn't be worth it." would be true for everyone always right?
You can change the default download permission from "ask" to "allow" in Safari's websites preferences.
It could win you some time to resolve real issues, wont work as permanent solution as stopping would have quick devasting results.
To be fair, tail calls don't require stack frames.

If it's just a matter of keeping up with the bounds of the partitions, I can see that being done in constant space.
You’re mental if you think that this is normal. We’ve been on a huge bull market since 2008. It’s not due to Obama or Trump but Obama got credit and got re-elected and the same will happen with Trump.
There may be some evidence this is true for certain specific features, but I think particularly with AEB, the vast experience most drivers have with the feature are just the false positives. Most people just get annoyed by it and want it off.

The very few times someone will have a positive experience with AEB it’s likely to be a huge adrenaline inducing panic response. As in, oh fuck fuck fuuu.. phew!

It think would take quite a bit of psychosis to actually drive in a way that you were “relying” on AEB.
> The only way that AEB might conceivably make you less safe is if you pick up bad driving habits because you expect the all-knowing robot to keep you safe. This certainly applies to some people, but that's the person's fault, not the manufacturers fault for rolling out systems that are better than nothing, even if they aren't perfect.

When you bring up fault, it implies you view this as a conscious change in behavior.

It could be. But many driving habits can't really be conscious decisions as they're judgement calls that one couldn't explain if pressed. If visibility is poor and you decide to drive slower than the speed limit, you are picking a speed that feels right. The way you approach an intersection or a curve with bad line of sight is based on your sensation of the possible risk.

It seems impossible to figure out how people respond to a moral hazard individually, but there is a strong enough signal in aggregate that the phenomenon is well known by insurers.

If the unconcious factor outweighs the benefits of the system, an AEB is a net negative.
I did and watched the whole 2 hours. He curiously glosses over the apparent frequency of the events as in, did it just happen in those 2 weeks, and no mention really if there is enough data to prove that these are truly solid objects with mass. That’s why I’m curious to know if the radar is sensitive to mass.
Strange lights off the Outer Banks spark UFO debate: Was it aliens?
The point of a database is probably to index via arbitrary columns, allowing for fast lookups and filters of files. The current model is to find something you more or less have to walk the directory tree.
ePub 3.2
Unprecedented [PGE] power shut-down coming as winds bring critical fire danger
These are all new permissions.

So there is no database of applications that need access to read/write Documents or Pictures.

So a UI like you are suggesting is not technically possible to create.
Uhh, I have a log of that somewhere one second...

This is day 61, I'd estimate like 4k-ish calories.

07:51 - Woke to Alarm
08:34 - Weight 199.8 - Bodyfat 26.1
08:41 - Start First Meal - Handful of Spinach Wilted in 2 tbsp Butter - 5 Olives - 1 Dill Pickle Spear - 6 oz Pickle Juice
08:45 - End First Meal
08:50 - Drank 1/2 Liter Water
08:57 - Start Sauna 165.0 F
09:00 - Drank 1 Liter Water
09:12 - End Sauna 182.5 F
09:15 - Shower
10:23 - Finished 2nd Breakfast - Single Egg omelette, cheese, olive oil, more spinach wilted in butter and 3 pickle spears.
11:35 - Lunch /w Dave - Bunless Burger, Bacon, Cheese, Fried mushrooms, Onions, Pickles and a Fried Egg on top. Salad with blue cheese dressing.
12:18 - 16 oz nitro cold brew
13:25 - 32 oz San Peligrino Unflavored Zero-Cal
16:23 - 5 Guys Bacon Cheeseburger - 2 Patties - Bacon - Mushroom - Lettuce Wrap - Mayo - Side of Mayo
18:09 - 9 olives - 3 Servings
19:23 - 9 Jimmy Dean Sausage Links dipped in 6oz Chunky Blue Cheese dressing.