skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in the Middle Eastern'ish backwater that I grew up in, "Made in Japan" was colloquially synonymous with quality and class during the 1980s and 90s.

People prided themselves on owning Japanese TVs, radios, VCRs, sound systems, ACs, flashlights, water dispensers, beauty products and of course, cars and wristwatches.

Now the whole region is inundated with Chinese knockoffs for everything, and people understand they're not as reliable, but they're good enough for the average person and cheap, and that's what matters to the importers and buyers in the end.

Flimsy enclosures whose screws get permanently dislodged if knocked around in the slightest. Rechargeable lamps that dim after a month of regular use. Power strip sockets and power plug prongs of various devices have mismatching dimensions so they wobble all the time, often cutting power. Nothing is properly grounded so you often get static shocks. The same manufacturer making the same products with slight variations under dozens of brand names. There's no way of getting official support for any product, and forget about warranties or refunds.

There are astonishingly identical replicas of all major Japanese and Western products, even the latest iPhones, Apple Watch and game consoles, but of course they don't have the same specs or software when you turn them on (which is usually something like "500 games in 1!" kind of emulator menus.)

But more people can own them and many will never know what they're missing.
Yeah this is just a status update. Here is the TLDR:

> Efforts continue to find the incompatibility in the networking configuration change. Additionally, we are exploring improvements to our tools and processes to facilitate a finer grained, more incremental deployment method for wide, system-level changes.
I also find HN's pro-drug culture disgusting:

>Test your drugs folks!

As if frying your brain with dope, weed, coke, and more exotic poisons is perfectly normal and OK, and just needs to be gone about with extra care.
Former Navy Pilot Details Tic Tac UFO Encounter
They may need to apply separate CoC's to different SE's.

You can't have bona fide Religious SE's and the compelled use of personal pronouns co-exist.

If they think otherwise they are delusional, one will end up waging the other, and dogs only have one tail.
The first quote is in bad taste, though the context is not as bad, and the comment as a whole lead to a pretty interesting exchange. I see nothing wrong with the second quote, it is not intentionally made to offend, it's part of a reasonable argument. Even if you disagree, or the author is not as informed as you on the issue - that doesn't mean they should not be saying what they did. The purpose of the comments is to discuss things, not to display your ideological allegiances or be right about everything.
Are you saying that as a Bloomberg subscriber?
I was looking for replacement lightswitches; the old ones are probably 25 years old, some are broken. I got a new one that looked more or less the same, but I got home and realized it doesn't have the same feel as the old switch. And it isn't symmetric - it has a different click "on" vs "off".

Here's the thing - if you take your comment to the logical limit, the only engineering requirement of a product is to make the sale. With this switch, I took it home and installed it, and probably will not return it, so even if I decide to throw it in the trash, it wasn't "underengineered".

But everything is becoming like this, and so people and companies that "irrationally" overengineer stuff are becoming more valuable, as are their brands. Even if you don't care about what I care about, there are too many factors in any product for either of us to track. So there is always incredible value in someone that pays attention to the aspects we are not paying attention to. But that is overengineering. There is no alarm bell that tells you you have crossed over from optimizing what your customer cares about to screwing them over with a piece of crap. Assuming anyone cared.

If you optimize everything, you destroy your brand.
Linux Linux Linux.
Beautiful, beautiful. I look forward to playing with it.
“capsule” Scotch whisky doesn't require a glass
Does this apply to RSU accounts opened by companies for their offshore employees too?

The brokerage some of my colleagues pay to E*Trade is huge. $15 per trade to sell RSUs. And sometimes it gets too costly for them to sell RSU because of the brokerage costs.
That's not "pro-drug culture". That's realism that drug use is going to happen, despite the large efforts spent on fighting it, and testing is a fairly easy way of saving some lives.
He did say ‘for his family’. I don’t expect older people and children to not enable that option if convinced by an advert to the lure of free pirated apps.
Side note/joke...

If worldwide governments don't want to deal with a popular revolution in the next decade because of the huge change in employment due to major technology shift, they will have to pay for an universal revenue comprising a monthly Steam susbscription plan.

Better keep people busy if we don't want them to revolt and bear arms or vote for suckers like Trump and the likes.
What is 'aggressive' misgendering and aggressive refusal ?
New info from a pilot involved:

- The object had been tracked for 2 weeks by radar, SPY-1 (ship) and E-2 (AWACS aircraft)

- Pilot made visual contact with the tic tac from above, watching it move over the water

- There was a cross-shaped wake under it

- It jammed their radar when they attempted a lock, which is why they switched to passive tracking (IR)

- Visual estimate of the speed puts it at faster than mach 3 (SR-71), with instantaneous acceleration
> ...if someone has an onerous or complicated preferred pronoun, that person is rude and can't expect others to comply or remember.

To the extent that there is any controversy here, it's in this guideline. I'd just soften 'rude' to unreasonable.

1. I have not seen any code of conduct make room for this scenario. It's taken as a given that pronoun preferences are reasonable.

2. Some people think singular 'they' and 'their' falls in this bucket.

3. Some people think writing in passive voice, etc., should be considered a good faith effort to be accommodating.

Pedantically applied, most codes of conduct make room for the judges and queens to insist on "his honor" and "Her Majesty" as pronouns, at least in some contexts.

I honestly wish some people would decide that this whole thing is too complicated to legislate completely and institute some sort of jury system, at least on appeal, to decide what counts as reasonable.
With major design centers in Austin (A76) and Sophia-Antipolis (A53) as well as Cambridge.
Also from that article:

> Cellio, for what it's worth, does not include any preferred pronouns on her Twitter account.

Yet, when they refer to her, Stack Exchange puts pronouns next to her name, clearly against her own “preferences.” It’s like they’re literally forcing onto her an ideology or worldview which they know she does not share.

What bizarre, hypocritical, vindictive behavior from Stack Exchange.
You can buy them on Adafruit in the form of a device with battery, display and camera (but no wifi). Modules can be bought from Seeed or other usual Chinese places. No "bulk", you can even buy a single module. This, IMO, is one of the most exciting things I have seen in the embedded hardware space in years. At least all that Bitcoin money ended up producing something of value (the company that makes the chip stated out manufacturing bitcoin mining ASICs).

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Sipeed-MAIX-I-module-WiFi-versio...
> the problem is when this rule broke down

When did this rule break down, in your opinion? When has a society ever fully agreed amongst themselves? There’s certainly not a moment in American history that qualifies, and I doubt you’d find much simultaneous global peace in world history too. It’s never really existed.

There’s actually a fairly compelling argument against the golden rule, often referred to as the platinum rule[0].

The problem with the golden rule is that it assumes everyone wants to be treated the same way, because doesn’t everyone else want to be treated the same way I do? Not necessarily.

0: https://www.inc.com/peter-economy/how-the-platinum-rule-trum...
Would you please stop taking HN threads into ideological flamewar? It's off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Weird. I’m in Mississippi, of all places, and, without asking, my optometrist always sends me off with a printout containing my prescription and PD.
I've never had the flu, and I'm curious to know why. I have a few theories:

1) I think not having kids might play a part, as every parent of young kids I know always seems to be catching stuff from them. Edit: maybe the stress of having young kids also plays a part.

2) I don't think it's the food I eat as I eat a pretty poor diet, but I do wonder if it might be the amount of food I eat as it's relatively little (I'm at the low end of the healthy BMI range), and scholar seems to have a few studies relating constant CR to a better immune system.

3) I'm a lifelong public transport user. One the one hand people say this might help build up the immune system but it doesn't quite fit with 1).

4) I avoid touching stuff like public door handles and taps.

5) Obligatory Simpsons explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0euMFAWF8
VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN
I've learned the most from struggling through the end problems in a PhD textbook; where when I go to sleep I feel so stupid and defeated that I wonder why I bother. Somehow doing this long enough you actually learn things...
While this is technically true, many of the EVs sold at that price in China (especially at the lower end) more closely resemble fully encased modern golf carts then the actual "Electric Cars" many would expect. On top of this, very, very poor quality production and low quality/longevity of some Chinese EV batteries has meant that, even still "You get what you pay for."

It was this poor level of quality that made the Chinese government try to entice competition within the space by pulling back EV subsidies.

Links that are somewhat related:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-26/china-sca...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-26/china-sca...
Construction is temporary. Stereos and bands are played to bring enjoyment; the sound produced is the point, not a byproduct of some other motivation so those should get more of a pass. Many cities already enforce laws against persistently barking dogs and those laws can work just fine.

I'm with you regarding motor bikes and public transport but the same rules should not apply to the others. They can have their own rules.
They have plenty of funding, so if it solves a real problem for people, I expect they are here to stay.
The function is named after the person.
AgileFall – The Trap That Software Development Often Falls Into
Cold showers have helped me. I've already had a reasonably good immune system though. I am on the weird side and probably take 2-5 cold showers a day though.

If I feel a little off, I'll take Vitamin C and Lysine as early preventive measures. The rest of my healthy habits are quite subpar. I exercise frequently, but I eat garbage and I sleep even worse. Averaging about once a year in being sick?
Firstrade has been doing so since the middle of last year. Although if you choose to actually EXERCISE an option, rather trading it prior to expiration, then there are fees involved in that.

ETrade's annoucement says that they are eliminating commissions for stock AND option trades. But the fine print says that they're still charging $0.65/contract. Apparently, it doesn't count if they use the phrase "contract charge" instead of "commission". https://about.etrade.com/newsroom/press-releases/article?qmo...
Doesn't this just encode a list of all the primes in a real number, then define a function which extracts each subsequent value? This seems exactly equivalent to defining an array of primes and a function which indexes that array, and passing that off as a function representing all primes. That we can multiplex datagrams into a stream isn't particularly novel.
The stackoverflow family I’d sited is good for discussions like this and is often nicer than the halo site when it comes to inclusion of questions (I use SO everyday but trying to give back by answering a questions or even asking one I have had not so great experiences). I really like the astronomy and physics exchanges.
> You receive a job offer from a startup currently valued at $10m, with a strike price of $2.5m.

Isn't backdating employee stock options like this kind of sketchy/illegal? If the company is worth $10m and you accept a job offer and get an option grant, you don't get options priced as if you accepted the job offer back when the company was worth $2.5m.
Thanks for reminding me about js1k.

It's a fair point. But common practice emerges in communities, and the npm JavaScript package proliferation is real.

I can find similar dependency hell problems in every platform I have used.

Maybe it's me. I could charge a fee to stay away from your favorite platform...
That's the classic example but doesn't apply because in a teacher student relationship there is a level of trust and control with each person at a different level.

If you find someone to mentor you in programming and they are on your team at work you are more like peers. Equal and in some cases the mentor becomes the mentee when another subject is in focus.

It's more of a peer to peer relationship.
Honda and Toyota are the reference models for this premise. They completely owned multiple segments by offering a better quality product.

Hyundai is another more recent-ish example. Hyundai cars were absolute garbage for a long time, they improved but the market didn’t know. So they their money where their mouth was by offering a 100k warranty. (Audi did something similar in the 80/90s).

I’d be cautious in assuming that electric cars will be better. Scheduled maintenance is reduced, but there are plenty of quality and repair issues with Tesla as evidenced by consumer reports. Unscheduled maintenance is still a factor of assembly and engineering quality.

Also, from a cost POV, franchise laws aren’t going away right away. So the price of that ICE maintenance dealer margin is going to be baked in, or the dealers won’t move the cars.
I'm reminded of the formula whose graph is an image of the formula:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s_self-referential_fo...
Sound from a lawn mower or a leaf blower is local and temporary. Yet cities do ban gas-powered leaf blowers.

http://files.meetup.com/4709972/Leaf%20Blower%20bans,%20etc....
You cannot compel people to talk in a certain way. To do so is totalitarian and evil.
There is a 4th scenario: the population peaks and begins to fall. The article talks about how growth rates are falling all over the world. Many countries already have birthrates below replacement level, and the world as whole will reach that by 2085, according to UN projections. People living longer is a countervailing force, but declining population is still a pretty likely future.

(Can't link to the specific stat, but take a look here for raw data and projections https://population.un.org/wpp/DataQuery/)
No, no it isn’t. In a private forum, you lose your rights as soon as you walk in the door. The host makes the rules, not you. You stay at their pleasure.

Also, I find it odd to describe lack of empathy and courtesy as “civil discussion.” If anything, it is the opposite of civility.
Read their fine print. There's still a "contract charge" of $0.65/contract. Apparently many of these players are eliminating commissions by using a different word for it instead.

As far as I know of, only Robinhood and Firstrade have true zero-cost option trading. And even then, there can be fees involved if you actually exercise options.
You don’t need a reason to kick someone out of your house.
Cryptocurrency and blockchain are regulated when a true corporation appears, but there exist many entities that are wholly anonymous and unregulated because they simply don’t exist outside of software and the blockchain.

A prime example would be Bisq[0], which is a decentralized exchange that also has a profit-sharing token. If it were a company it would be violating trillions of regulatory laws, such as security and money laundering as its exchange token is obviously a security and it has no KYC, but there is simply nothing to shut down.

The government likes to believe that they have a handle on cryptocurrency but the truth is there is a thriving and growing suite of tools that exist to explicitly be uncensorable.

[0] https://bisq.network
What year was this? It sounds like English standards 10-20 years ago. Not sure whether this would recur today.
Stop Using the Flesch-Kincaid Test
CERN's Future Circular Collider (FCC) Conceptual Design Report [pdf]
Are you using the right word?

cybernetics is "the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine."

I have seen it use to mean classical control theory, machine learning, UX design, and general computers -- but this is the first time I see it being used for implants.

I guess you can say "cyborgization"?
Dymaxion: Infrastructural Games and Societal Play (2016)
CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
100x quieter than a helicopter, with a few thousand people using them, is louder than a helicopter. A glance at any urban interstate would suggest that mass adoption would be loud...
It is not a unitless constant like pi though. Like the speed of light, Planck's constant has units which is problematic (how can you define the meter in terms of the speed of light if the speed of light depends on the definition of the meter?) Thus, you simply assign a value to the constant to break the unit dependency.
> In other word, "real" learning is hard, it takes work, it's not fun.

The article compares active learning to passive learning like listening to lectures, and sees evidence that active learning is better. I don't think many people consider academic lectures more "fun" than active learning. The article also suggests that the reason why increased cognitive effort makes people feel like their learning less isn't because it isn't fun, but rather because students associate increased cognitive effort with poor learning:

> Most importantly, these results suggest that when students experience the increased cognitive effort associated with active learning, they initially take that effort to signify poorer learning.
> That's just disingenuous, or at the very least shows that they haven't given it any actual thought.

Or maybe they are thoughtful, caring people that are generally kind but have a different take than you do.

At any rate, your arguments in this thread do not settle the question, even if they were irrefutable. Point being, you just replied to "the issue isn't settled" with an impromptu attempt to finally settle things.
Cold showers are great for immune system. Been taking them daily for the last 3 years.
I'm not among this group we speak of, but I will never accept that view of them. They are not malicious, they are just different, and we should be tolerant of them even if they are not tolerant of transgenders.... in the same way that we are tolerant of Islam even though Islam is not tolerant of women's rights.

I consider them (Christians) to be mentally ill what with all that christian god stuff they preach. Do you therefore think I also have no place in "workplaces, large-scale online forums and polite society in general" because I consider this "group of people -- other people that participate on the site -- mentally ill"?

I think this way leads to a Oberton window that only narrows, like a boa constrictor. I prefer broader thinking and more tolerance for a wider set of views.
> while also offensive to some

You would think that would be a strong indicator to not do that thing in a public forum conversation, but no accounting for taste, I suppose.
> This is indeed plausible and has happened for other commodities but note: 1) since the model-T, inflation adjusted consumer prices for automobiles have never dropped and 2) car manufacturers have historically replicated or bought any serious profit centers in their supply chain.

While that may be true, the word 'car' is hiding all of the consumer surplus. Cars are not simply repackaged model Ts. Todays cars are orders of magnitude better in myriad ways than a model T. The fact that the price merely hasn't dropped in inflation adjusted terms really means nothing here. What consumers are getting for their money has increased dramatically.
> "normal pronouns"?

What english language speakers normally use when refering to a person, usually based on the perceived gender of said person.
Where are all those people arguing that unions don't impede progress now?
Statistically speaking, powerplant failure is not a leading cause of accidents for general aviation aircraft. A small popup thunderstorm will rip this thing to shreds like confetti. A moderately gusting 30-40kt crosswind will result in this thing landing upside down in a ditch. A lightning strike from 10-20 miles away will result in an entire wing shearing off. Hit some precip on a cold day and structural icing will take this thing down in minutes.

Speaking as a pilot, if I were flying (or being flown) by this thing, the electric powerplant would be the least of my worries.
Generating Words from Embeddings
Same, it really set the bar on what I would try and create during that time. I really liked Flash and its creative tools - I was really hoping the web would continue to make awesome sites with even better tools based on pure HTML.

Mobiles pretty much destroyed all of it as we focus on making sites that can render well on any screen size now.
People pay for order flow because retail customers are, on average, idiots. If you didn't get paid, you'd still be just as smart or dumb as you ever were, you just wouldn't be getting a rebate.
Hey guys,

I made a blog post a while back on Generating Words From Embeddings. It's a simple project which aims to create new meaningful words by generating them character by character, conditioned on a word embedding.

Now, I finally got around to making a simple colab notebook (https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1f_vW0k8YyoyiPIgX7eH...) which makes it very easy to play around with the model and sample new words in a matter of minutes. I'd love to see what weird and interesting words you encounter when messing around with it!

Also, I made this quite a while back, so I only experimented with a simple decoder RNN (GRU/LSTM). Given the leaps and bounds by which NLP research has grown since then, it might be worth trying out more models (perhaps transformers) and seeing if they can generate qualitatively more pleasing words.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/rajatvd/WordGenerator
The goal should be to shift the overton window towards greater justice, not simply broaden it.

Yes, a view that all Christians are mentally ill has no place in workplaces either. This does not mean that you cannot privately hold such views, but that you should not act in the workplace in ways that show you hold those views (so you should not misgender a trans person, for example).
Ask HN: YC W2020 Site Contains GoogleMap API?
I was checking my YC W2020 status, however I found something interesting. Why did it load "Google Map"? I did not remember that there was a google map widget inside the application form. Did I miss out something? Feel free to check my screenshot below.

https://twitter.com/richajak/status/1180696826216775680/photo/1
I think his interests are not exactly in alignment with Bloomberg...that's why you can subscribe to his column for free, without paying for the rest of Bloomberg. I have a feeling it won't last forever.
To be clear, cheap base-model cars are still being manufactured and sold, just not for the U.S. and other wealthy markets. They’re being sold in droves in India, Africa, Asia, and Central and South America.