skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to truly know the sentiments, statistically, of what the Chinese citizens perspective on HK was. I've asked a few people but they dont want to talk about it or dont seem to really care. A lot of Chinese I know are nationalistic but dont care about the day to day to news. Plus I imagine the bulk of people would only know whatever news they were plugged into. It somewhat analogous to Americans who I talk to and wonder how they came to the conclusions they did and then it all makes sense when they tell me they are only plugged into one network or media outlet. And both parties dont want to look deeper at all and have no desire to. It's a shame.
So, who is interested in making scientific papers read more easily?

Paper authors are not: they want to look sophisticated, whether their findings are sophisticated or not.

Paper reviewers are not: they want to preserve the usual style, at least for consistency, and also because they are authors of other papers, too.

Readers who are specialists in the field? Maybe, but they are used to the jargon and easily see through it.

Readers outside the field? Maybe, but nobody has an incentive to care about them, they are not reviewers, not potential co-authors (unless you plan a rare cross-disciplinary study), and if they approve grants, it may be better to impress them with the jargon and look important.

The rare curious non-scientist reader? These are a rounding error.
This sounds like an episode of Looney Tunes.

I wonder how long before the flies evolve to bother zebras?
It appears that Whittingham did his work at Exxon, and Yoshino did his at Asahi Kasei. So both were at industrial research labs when they did the Nobel prize-winning work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Stanley_Whittingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Yoshino
Basically this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass#Plot
He influenced me, and others too based off the replies to his message. Why are you so upset about someone speaking out against injustice?
As far as I recall, NATO was always seen as a organization of western democracies. IIRC there are and were only at least nominally democratic countries members - Spain was only admitted after Franco. And genocide was always the line every country drew - e.g. Bosnia, Rwanda...
If I had a dollar for every time somebody called me a psychopath for not being a bleeding heart, I'd have... oh, a few dollars.

Sometimes it's just time to cut bait.
Tuply Singleton v2
You should care because the next time America makes promises to someone with life and death on the line, they won't believe us.
Man busted trying to lip sync in Skype job interview
A lot of the intelligent people I know who distrust scientists became that way after seeing repeated patterns of poor science and incomplete knowledge being held up as absolute truth, and that "absolute truth" being used as a weapon to bludgeon dissenters.

The most familiar example is nutritional science, and the whole fat vs carbs debate. There are a lot of easy examples in medical science and economics as well. The scary thing is the more scientific articles you read the more you see this pattern everywhere. Scientists have greatly oversold the degree of their knowledge in most fields.
You can charge for expansions directly, though. Just pay and get all the new cards.
Hey, interesting idea! How do you plan to deal with the sparce dataset in models? Let's suppose I have a biomedical dataset of 200 images, is there a minimum dataset requirement?
Is your username an ode to this somehow? :)

Mr. Asdf sir
Intel kills Kaby Lake G, vows to offer drivers for five years
No way as of yet. At the moment the best bet is to ensure that images accomodate for dark mode (particulary in email clients such as Outlook). Hopefully on the future this can be done with a line of CSS -_-
Trackpoints slow you down, a lot. They're good for more precise work like dragging bezier handles, not so good if you want to navigate UI's imo.
I was able to log into his facebook and twitter accounts using that same password!

Edit:
Ha ha, this is a bad joke!
Ken Thompson:

> congrats.

https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/CAG=a+rj8VcXjS-ftaj8P2_duLFSUpmN...
>Same is true of ABS and traction control,

I have to disagree. After using a car in various slippery conditions the way ABS and traction control works is very predictable. This new system is more like an airbag than ABS. You can't really test it in a controlled environment and get familiar with it. You will be surprised when it activates. The key question everyone is asking is: is it going to be a positive surprise or a negative one?
People hardly remember the Bay of Pig...CIA armed/trained/funded Cuban dissidents to overthrow the Castro regime and promised air support, the US let the go in and reneged in the support and the CIA backed Cuban's got slaughtered. The only difference is imagine if JFK had taken to twitter to mock the deaths.
I would like a json-game like csv-game[0] that benchmarks all of these together. Here is an example with a /lot/ of C++ parsers:

https://github.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark

[0] https://github.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark
In this case they wouldn't care because the external bank debt is senior to the debt in question. The author doesn't really know anything about corporate finance as I would expect from a publication called "Left Foot Forward".
It is the beginning of the closed game, which is what the article says.

Seems like a vacuous nitpick.
Typing on a teletype is painful at the best of times. One reason why common Unix commands are so short.

Edit: Yes I have used a teletype, connected to an Elliott computer, I believe it was a 903 or at least it looked very much like this: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/32480/Elliott-903
A fun thing I've noticed among HN and HN-adjacent crowds (e.g. the rationalist movement) is - and I'm sorry to be disparaging here - this fetishizing of some of the worst and most boring aspects of science: opaque, always serious and long-winded writing, an obsession with citations and links ("do you have evidence to back this up?"), mindless statistics even if they don't make sense, trudging through bibliography and literature, and so on. I get that the intentions are noble (of course assertions need to be backed up, of course statistics are essential, and so on) but the end result is that arguing on HN feels like passive-aggressively LARPing as scientists, but not with any of the good stuff.

Actual discussions between scientists are much more lively: either both participants know the literature so no one bothers with citations and we try to directly jump to the key insights using our and other people's intuitions; one side knows the relevant literature and one does not (happens often in collaborations) and blindly trusts the former; both sides don't now anything (happens often in bars and conference cocktails) and just speculate wildly without any seriousness or defensiveness.

The writing part (with all the seriousness, opaqueness and citation overload) is utterly boring and mindless drudgery: I know very few people who actually take pleasure reading or writing papers, and the few ones that do are considered weird.
I'm always reminded of Dan Aykroyd's line in the 1992 movie "Sneakers". His character, Mother, was huge on conspiracy theories.

"Cattle mutilations are up."
We should all boycott Blizzard and not buy their games regardless of how good they are. We should try and convince everyone we possibly can to join us. Freedom and preventing unjust state beatings and murder is more important than having some fun.
LBOs don't create value, they exist to transfer value from stakeholders to shareholders. PE buyouts have something like a 10x rate of bankruptcy filing compared to the benchmark.

LBO's require buying a healthy cash-rich business, loading it up with debt, an then forcing repayment and management fees to the PE fund through cost cutting, dividend recaps, and other measures to transfer cash. Plus since the PE firm themselves puts in 1-2% of their own cash, they face little risk and huge upside for taking on large debts on their PortCo. LBO firms aren't responsible managers because they don't have the same capital stake that a real owner would have.

LBO's wouldn't exist if funds were responsible for the financial liabilities they place on their PortCos.
Big Cloud Is Trademarked by Dollar Shave Club
New York Times is deliberately avoiding mentioning the Kurds by name but that's the typical New York Times MO. The NYT's foreign policy position has always been low-key pro-imperialist. They'll never flat out explain that the US will never do anything to protect Rojava from Turkey because Turkey is a more valuable strategic ally.

Maybe in 5-10 years they'll leverage guilt of our inaction in Rojava to justify invading some other country.
Even the opinion not to speak about power and people is a political opinion.
Harmful Things
You probably signed a form saying you would. As long as they have a signed form and you have the keys, everyone is happy. Nothing is really secure anyway, except the stuff that matters.
A single person on-call “rotation” is a critical vulnerability
18x optical zoom lens/USB camera kit with open source SDK is now available
'On the Genealogy of Morals' was the most coherent, accessible, and IMHO relevant text to out times, that Nietzsche ever produced.
Specifically, these are image macros[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_macro
Supreme Court hands victory to man who sued Domino's over site accessibility
Writing software is hard. These guys have done it a bit meh but there's ten thousands of steps between hello world and what they've done. Their mistakes have got a lot of company - Dropbox once allowed any password to sign in and Steam shipped an "rm -rf /"!

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/045228/dropbox-...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/17/scary_code_of_the_w...
You will get many glowing recommendations; here's a negative one. Skip "Disease as metaphor" and the follow-up "AIDS as metaphor".

Maybe she has good works, those aren't.
In the future, there won't be any need for passwords.
Nope, but by an old internet meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/asdfmovie
It's worth searching on their site / calling them, since in my experience every time over the last couple years I have dug, I have found it offered.
Information overload in group communication: conversations in Twitch chat
Any US company that sells technology to China supporting these sorts of big brother population control should be held criminally liable for its end use.
Li Ka-shing files bankruptcy petition against Chinese electric carmaker
The 5 eyes are a totally disproportionate amount of the worlds military spending. They have a lot of faults, but they also look a long way into the future to spot potential threats.

America has been implementing a worldwide strategy against Russia for a very long time. If you look at a map US allies make a nice little fence around Russia.

It seems unlikely that trade agreements are being made with gay abandon and no consideration for the geopolitical situation. People like to pretend that there isn't a scheme afoot, but that is a ruse. Integrating with China would have been given extensive consideration beyond "cheap goods, aye?".
It will be boring only if you're seeking some philosophical or moral insight in it. Entertainment is the opposite of boring by definition. The entire industry is built around optimizing the value of (average interest * audience size), which means that successful streams aren't going to be boring no matter how little freedom the streamer has to voice their political opinions.

I mean, take your favorite sports/e-sports stream. How much political opinions does the streamer voice? Would you really recognize, from just watching the stream, if they were censored by the Chinese?
Many governments would rather bear a certain load of cybercrime than become less powerful themselves. In that sense, the back door argument is for them irrelevant.
I'm disappointed that it followed a pattern like that, since that's supposed to make it easier to brute-force guess.
But the point is, the theory with the most current support for why zebras have stripes is that they help the zebras avoid biting flies. As far as I understand it, it's not about intelligence, it's about confusing the flies' ability to detect movement. That's where this idea came from -- from research on zebra striping.
It's not the American Republic, it's the Neocon Empire that is falling apart.

Pointlessly spending blood and treasure on endless overseas brushfires and internecine squabbles is something I would be very glad to see expunged from US foreign policy.
Uh, okay, technically true, touché.

But it's "the beginning" of roughly 50% of all chess games ever played. It seems very strange to call out one particular line it _might_ end up being the beginning of.

It's also "the beginning" of game 2 of the 1929 Bogoljubov-Alekhine world championship match, among millions of others, after all.
Any source for the 20-30% claim? I find that very hard to believe.
EDIT: Just wrote a quick article elaborating/demoing what I'm talking about: https://www.jbernier.com/dark-mode/

Also I made a small mistake in the code there, it's `isDarkMode = window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)').matches`
Sure but using diesel saved carbon emissions as its more efficient than petrol. Surely that makes it worth it?
That’s an extremely tall claim, that minimum expenditure is minuscule and irrelevant, maybe taller than the original unlikely claim that a car might be more efficient than a bike rider. Regenerative braking does not invalidate the laws of thermodynamics, we just have to identify the regeneration efficiency.

So how much of the energy expenditure does regenerative braking in a Model 3 recover? From what I’m reading, it may be in the single digit percentages for highway driving. Tesla’s own web page says the theoretical max is 64% [1], and that’s only in a perfect situation (accelerate & immediately stop), it’s not accounting for driving for a long time without braking or using the electric features inside the car, e.g. aerodynamic loss, rolling loss, & heating & a/c. Wikipedia says including the accessories, typical best-case efficiency is around 50% [2]. But if you accelerate and drive for a mile without braking, you’ve already lost most of your initial energy to air & tires & battery conversion loss, the brakes can only capture energy from what’s left.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/magic-tesla-roadster-regenerative...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_brake
> Putting ethnic minorities in concentration camps is an early-Holocaust atrocity today.

Yep. But maybe we should fix Guantanamo first
Indeed: the actual votes are among the least important parts of it. It's not whether you're voting up or down on something, but precisely what that something says. The actual vote is generally a foregone conclusion. The writing is, like any other collaborative document, a vast exercise in managing people's differing priorities, both on this issue and in other outside issues.
I was sure it was going to be Matt Levine with a title like that!
Chinese Citizens Will Be Required to Scan Their Faces to Use the Internet
What’s the average annual return of the DOW since its inception? What’s the average annual return been since Trump’s inauguration?
I think that as well, though the map seems mostly concerned with canals available to big vessels.

I think you are thinking about the "Canal du Midi", which is still a quite famous construction work form the 17th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_du_Midi
“We're Rewriting AMP in React ”
Explained that way, it's a good aptronym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
Last Name: "Lazywriter"
I think Jeff Kaplan said something about that, maybe in a GDC conference? About how even perceived imbalance should be fixed even if the numbers show things are balanced. I think players just don’t have the words to describe what is bothering them, so its just “broken”, “unbalanced”, etc
Techlash in One Article
I got a similar call a few months back. They didn't ask for my PIN, but did ask for some other sensitive information. Fortunately I was able to verify afterward that it was legitimate by initiating a call to the bank using the number on their website (in case the original was spoofed), and they confirmed a record of the call in their system. But this was after I'd given them some information.

Phone number spoofing has to stop. There is no excuse anymore.
> Some parts of the world are still living in conditions resembling the Great Smog of London

Those parts are usually in the same economic stage that London was when it had a similar air quality.

When a society crawls its way out of crushing poverty, there are more important things to use the new resources for than air quality. Once those are taken care of, all known societies have fixed the air situation.
China Takes Aim at Apple for “Betraying the Feelings of the Chinese People”
And, unless you're willing to say "tough noogies" if someone loses access to their token/app/codes you're back to the original problem of reliably verifying identity and ownership, especially in a virtual setting where telling someone to show up at a physical location with all their paperwork is not really viable.
30 years ago I cracked everyone’s Unix password on an old Sun computer.

It didn’t take long because everyone had a password that was in the dictionary.

Needless to say, people were not happy with the messenger.
What if someone would say: "god hate gays"? Would the same Blizzard actions be justified?
Hide Private Mode for Firefox prevents private browsing mode detection
Some additional thoughts about why Taiwan has low wages:

https://www.quora.com/Why-has-salary-growth-stagnated-in-Tai...
> Finally, I must point out that the Chinese Wikipedia don't have the culture of deletion, unlike the English version. Some experienced Chinese editors went to edit the English version, only to find many edits have been reverted and canceled.

This is a really interesting bit. I've largely stopped contributing content to Wikipedia because almost every contribution I've made in recent years has been reverted with little/no explanation. And I'm not talking about controversial topics, either: it's just mostly adding clearly objective information to computer science articles. My impression is that it's territorialism, where a few academic subject matter experts have gained enough reputation to control a page, and now won't let anyone edit it.

Do you have any thoughts on:

1. Why the difference in cultures of deletion?

2. What are the implications?
Maybe both have the same cause, the need to publish important(-looking) results, or perish? Being scientifically rigorous may take a back seat: unimpressive papers are hard or impossible to publish.

Structurally it's similar to clickbait. I heard that such an incentive structure did bad things to journalism.
Wow, I didn't expect the thread to go this far
Because it doesn't contribute to the conversation?
This book changed my life, and sparked my interest in philosophy generally. Highly recommended.
I've been working there this summer and they're already requesting personal information and ID when logging in free Wi-Fi spots (although they don't verify it) . They probably log some other information.

They usually do it through third party providers who manage their wifi spots, probably in exchange of some ads.
It seems likely that someone will write an archaic chess notation pattern engine into the crackers now that this has been discovered and shared widely.
Just as importantly, they use that key very infrequently which allows for a great deal more ceremony around when it's taken out and a lot more restriction around who has access to it. I'd expect that the key is only kept on air-gapped systems, for instance.
Whenever this conversation appears in the news and I listen to various law enforcement and political folks defend some sort of need for breakable encryption, I always jump to the logical end. Or at least one possible one.

In the future there WILL be brain computer interfaces. Memory offloading, recording of visual and auditory cortex data, and other more mundane uses. This may seem like fantasy/scifi. But barring some societal/technological collapse, this will eventually happen. If the precident is set for breakable encryption/back doors, this will absolutely be used to "supoena" people's "brain information" in that context. The invasive-ness will have no end.
I would imagine not, but do you think those two statements stand on the same footing? At some point you have to examine what is actually being said. I understand that can get murky, which is really the entire problem with censorship, but "don't murder people for being gay" and "God hate[s] gays"? C'mon.

The larger issue at hand here is the motivation behind Blizzard's actions.
Is your argument that adopting democracy and the rule of law are risky to elites and the ruling party? Well, yeah - that’s sort of self-evidently true.

> How about tweak the thinking a bit: What's in there for China to totally embraced democracy?

Tweak your thinking a bit: the advantage would ultimately be to the anonymous Chinese citizen 50 years from now who wants to vote, express an opinion, join a social group, participate in a religion, petition their government for redress, etc.
I find it interesting that you told this story without linking to the video, in light of admitting you posted the video itself. Curiously you do not admit having posted it until called out on the discrepancy between your paraphrase and the actual words RMS spoke. You paraphrased his words even though it would have taken seconds to get the (utterly different) exact wording from your own video. I think you are deliberately spreading misinformation. An honest commentator would have posted the exact wording and the link, especially if he is the source of the very video in question.
Thunderbird to support OpenPGP encryption standard in 2020
I am definitely not saying there absolutely is no police brutality, especially when there are so many violent protestors. If HK police have the same protocol as US police, many extreme violent protestors would have already faced a much more serious consequence.

And I am certain there ARE lots of efforts to delegitimize the protestors. However, it's also true that the vast majority of US media choose to not report on the unimaginable violence activities carried out by many protestors on daily basis.

A few friends of mine in HK (not trying to generalize it but a valid argument) feel frustrated that they are the ones to suffer all the short and long term consequences while the "friends of HK" western media would be more than ok to watch HK burn in the fight for the true democracy that's so important and HK never had under both UK or China's governence.
My wife heard about it, and she doesn't follow any gaming at all. She said that writers and beauty bloggers she follows on twitter were talking about it. US politicians from both sides of the isle were criticizing Blizzard as well. Blizzard made it a big deal everywhere.
This is cool! I think I'd prefer playing against this though - but at a quick glance that seems difficult.

As a "cheap" way to support playing, perhaps playing the note after 10s would allow you to ear-match the note to confirm whether you got it right or wrong? And just auto play?

Come to think of it, I'd love trainers like this that let me use my real guitars.
Show HN: TameWords – Daily Discover new useful idiom・slang hard to find in books
They have the incentive. Despite having a totalitarian gov, the economy is still largely capitalistic. The issue is that environments which lack freedom of expression also tend to lack the creativity needed for great leaps of innovation.

If I were to guess, a large percentage of China’s captains of industry spent a decent amount of time living abroad
Search session is expired.
Why Skills Training Can’t Replace Higher Education
It's easier to be a creative thief than it is to be a good businessperson.
still 13 characters...

edit: LOL, I guess I'm a little dumb today