skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Context #1: there has been a years-long trend for Western entertainment media (movies, games) to cater to the Chinese market. This ranges from voluntary censorship that seems odd in the West (no skeletons?) to more sensitive topics like sexuality.

I .. take your word for it. I'm not sure what the "no skeletons?" references and I'd argue that sexuality is already a pretty weird thing if you - say - take the US and Europe (during the 2006 soccer championship US visitors got an "informational leaflet" that - among other things - said something along the lines of "On tv back home? Gore is fine, sex is bad. Here? Expect less gore, more nudity"). But again, without said context and without catching your references I .. can't really disagree.

> Context #2: the trade war and Hong Kong protests have brought a lot of attention to China in general. The Hong Kong protests seem to be particularly popular with younger people online.

Not sure how that's related to HK per se, but I agree that this was on the news a lot (I'm.. using a Huawei phone myself).

> Context #3: Blizzard's reaction seemed particularly swift and heavy-handed

Fair enough, that's true.

> Further, Blizzard's support for LGBTQ suggests that it's not just about political statements on the stream

I .. don't get this. What does LGBTQ have to do with .. anything? How does the fact that BLIZZARD can make public statements one way or another on BLIZZARD streams or elsewhere have anything to do with private unrelated individuals making their own loaded statements on BLIZZARD streams?

> Combine all that and Blizzard put themselves in an impossible situation with no good way forward.

I guess there's no debating this: They're in a bad spot and I don't know what they could/should do.

> My personal opinion: it probably was about China

I don't even disagree with this, I'm not thaaat naive. I assume it was mostly about China. My problem is that I still think that the guy was out of line and should be banned/punished for hijacking the event.

Pro-gamers often lament the fact that they aren't considered "athletes" in the general public, that people like to say things like "eSports aren't real sports" etc.

But in this case I feel this professional Hearthstone gamer got treated like an athlete - just not in the way he probably would've liked: If you're representing your sport, if you're on camera/in public, then you're not a private person and keep your private agenda to yourself. Otherwise there will be consequences for your career and your club/league/whatever association is relevant might remind you of that in fines/bans.
The best part about this comment is that any errors or new best practices will automatically be updated with the entire knowledge of the world.
People get amazed after Watching this
"This one school performs well and it has a start time before 8" is anecdotal evidence. Only one school's performance or start time is considered.
In that case, should we not count how badly Foxconn workers who manufacturer Apple’s phones have it? While technically they aren’t Apple employees, that’s a distinction without a moral difference. Would the same people who are criticizing how Amazon treats “its” employees change, if Amazon contracted out all of its warehouse workers? Somewhere in every tech company’s supply chain there are some blue collar workers that aren’t treated as well as the white collar workers.
Surely having a firefight going on in close proximity to them is not great for childrens' safety.

Their parents would have to be much crazier than normal for that to be in their best interests.
Because it costs next to nothing to list it on Amazon... and then the link gets passed around on all sorts of sites as people say “you can buy a house on amazon!” Basically it’s just a marketing move.
Amazon has enough money to not care. The marketing from this announcement will make them enough money to not care even less.

The contracts almost certainly have pre-negotiated rate increases. You don’t put the vendor in a position to double your rates after you’ve adopted software.
No issues but the use case is an internet hosted dedicated server so as far as the client is concerned network variance mask any GC concerns.
Python doesn't implicitly conver floats to in ints. As others have commented, there have been changes to how division is handled in that int / int may result in a float. But, to the beat of my knowledge, there's no implicit float -> int conversion. Maybe. Some libs convert floats to into, but its not the norm.
The shipping price was incorporated into the main price. The kit doesn't include most of the things (like windows, doors, electric installation, plumbing etc) and it's just walls, it's actually quite expensive for what it is.
You can buy a lot of SSD storage for the price of an Oracle licence.
Very cool! FYI, double clicking the map is throwing an error for me and crashes the app to a white screen.
Probably just more used to those sorts of discussions. May've been in certain clubs earlier in life, or just had the kind of friends who debate ethical hypotheticals when chilling.
Perhaps a better name would help, such as "Non-hostile communication". There is no such thing as violent communication, and the confusion between speech and violence is precisely what is driving the current pro-censorship wave.
Vs “quit leaving dirty socks under the coffee table.”

That’s direct & natural.
I thought this was really interesting, but also sort of hollow. Had the potential to have a lot of substance behind it, but somehow it felt like it failed to deliver.

Maybe the main take-away was a quote hidden toward the end related to listening to people with differing opinions:

> People don’t change their minds, they just change their opinion about the other side
Senior Twitter PM told me.
Chinese App with Spying Capability
LeBron draws social media ire over comments on Rockets GM's Hong Kong tweet
Dominance is irrelevant, and a law based on that would be completely unreasonable. Twitter might be popular today, next year it could be something else. And how would you even define "social media" in a way that would pass Constitutional muster?
Not single school, school network! I don't know how more clear I can be.
No, the engagement from the outrage drives revenue.
I'm against Trump, but you can't move the goalposts after an election. There is no reason to think he would not have had a different strategy had the system been on popular vote instead of using the electoral college
Ask HN: Could Wikipedia show hashed IP addresses instead?
When an unregistered Wikipedia user makes a contribution, it shows the IP address from which the edit was made instead of a username. In the interest of privacy, could Wikipedia instead display a hash of the IP address? They could still keep track of an IP address's contributions, and ban them when necessary. IP range blocks could still be issued server-side.

The IP addresses of registered users are hidden anyways (accessible only by a few certain users, and only if warranted[1]), so could Wikipedia offer this to all users?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CheckUser
Agree. Doesn't seem like the vendor actually intends to sell one of these through Amazon. That would mean they'd be giving Amazon a cut, and subject to all of their policies. I think this is just a silly attempt to make their product more visible.
Yes. The other replies are missing the distinction. A manufactured home is traditionally a mobile home. There is a wide range of sizes (single wide, double wide, triple wide) with a range in quality/price. These are the ones you see cut in half on a truck trailer on the highway. A more modern approach has become the Pre-fab homes. These can have a wider range of shapes than the rectangle which helps avoid the “mobile home” stigma. The manufacturing is also done in a warehouse to build pieces Of the house on a production line, like the walls, floor and roofs, that are stacked on a trailer and then erected as a puzzle on the building site. The advantage of pre-fab is that there is less waste and because components are built in a warehouse, they can be built during winter for assembly in spring. Hope this helps.
I like the core idea of the technique, but every time I read about it, the phrasing feels very contrived. Maybe sounds better when people are used to it and don't just follow the template.
No, they aren't. The unemployment rate for software engineers was 2.2 percent in 2013 [1].

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-ste...
It has 3 bathrooms, but there's no "master" bathroom. Kinda awkward.
More like "modular homes", where you can mix and match components and swap out a component for a different one if desired.

Project Ara^, only for e.g. "home theater room", "film darkroom", etc.

^ https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/20/11721594/google-project-a...
They would still need to be willing to answer the survey. I have ignored plenty of Blind polls/surveys in my time there.
Your doorbell is ringing, I would answer it. It’s the police, with a warrant.
Then we can include the same foxconn (or insert odm) employees that build echo devices and Amazon still ends up in the bottom of the barrel relatively speaking.
That’s a pretty low bar in a world where a handful of people have literally hundreds (if not more) of times the amount of wealth as you and I, and yet still a significant portion of Americans live below or near the poverty line. I contend, not unreasonably, that we can do better than internet access, drinkable water, and other basic necessities of post-industrial living and still have plenty of inequality to make rich people feel superior or whatever. The U.S. economy is tremendously more productive than it was even 20 years ago, but have wages and prosperity risen proportionately among the lower and middle classes over that timespan? No. Yet wealthy children are able to exploit their privilege to get positions that “ladder climbers” could have gotten.

But yes, let us thank our benevolent masters, who throw pennies from their high castles at us commoners as we bow and scrape for their favor. Nothing to see here, folks, poor children get potable water and rich children get seven figure salaries! What inequality and nepotism do you speak of?
My comment might have come across as bragging. What I should have stated explicitly is that, being a typical HN poster, my experience shows that the GMAT would not be a difficult exam for most HN readers.
A law that someone must do something that cannot be verified is more of a guideline. If the law is audited and compliance measured then that is meaningful, but the US government (particularly post-Snowden) is probably not capable of monitoring itself for compliance.

If the government is not allowed to gather certain biometric data then that is relatively easy for the public to monitor. If the government collects and then promises it is going to delete the data there is a real chance that it won't get done.
"stole" is an unusual phrasing of "uplifted into Firefox": https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-firefox
What motivates you to post thoroughly debunked falsehoods like this?

Don't lecture other people on repeating entirely unsubstantiated claims when they're telling the truth, and you're the one who's actually knowingly spreading lies and misinformation.

You should apologize.
> the consequences for her would probably have been much worse.

Are you assuming that the mugger you encountered would have raped her? (To be clear, I don't think that's a prima facie invalid assumption. It's a sincere object-level question.)
Since America is the legitimate ruler of the world, nothing Americans do can ever be wrong. /s/

Honestly though, there is very little introspection within a country whose foreign policy oeuvre is filled with instances of foreign manipulations and wars of self-benefit, and in all those instances the American people have fallen, like clockwork, for the propaganda that has been put out by their "intellectuals"..... or maybe this is to be expected since they benefit from such hypocrisy.
Why would you get in legal trouble for hosting tor exit nodes? There’s nothing illegal about that is it?
There are lots of benefits to uniforms. In NSW (Australia) public schools have uniforms, and parents pay for them. Low income families are generally able to obtain financial assistance through some grant, or fundraising programme; sometimes through donated uniforms.

Uniforms actually help with socio-economic gaps: everybody dresses the same, regardless of whether you can afford more expensive status symbol clothing or not.
Bollards that automatically retract for certain classes of vehicles (like buses) are very common and have been in use in many places for a long time. That's very much a solved problem, although it's not especially cheap
Big fan of BRT systems, but seems like they're mostly viable in places with low labour. Mexico City Metrobús bus surprisingly competent given it's conditions. Hope they have a future if self driving technology mature.
Obviously Harvard is a really good school and learning English is useful, but it also makes me wonder if dictators and their daughters would be even more radical without a western education.
a few years ago I crossed paths with James Fadiman, a researcher who collects volunteer-reported LSD data. He can’t tell people how to obtain LSD for the experiments, but he says that _everyone_ he’s ever worked with had been able to find it - if you know any college kids, or dance music enthusiasts, or libertarian computer geek types, just ask them and they’ll know who to talk to.
I rarely agree with comments like this, I default to trusting the mob over self-anointed editors of social media, It's actually against the rules to comment on it. But it's true. This will provide little value to the wider conversations and she's largely an innocent bystander in world events, outside of some fuel for low quality political platitudes.

Wealthy kids get the very best schooling since childhood and often have tons of pressure to succeed. Just because some exploit nepotism does not mean all do, and many often exhibit high academic aptitude with all the required side stuff to make them interesting. Not every world leader's kid goes to Harvard either or is capable of either.

It should also be of no surprise that a wealthy child from a country in the emerging/growth stage with a median income of $12k is going to the most advanced country in the world to study.

The children of leaders getting exposure to western society and academia is also arguably a good thing.
I doubt either of these companies would ever want to take on the massive costs in developing these. They are technology companies with large margins, the capex requirements and margins they would see going down a manufactured housing path make no sense for their business models and other people are already willing to do this for them.
The link you provided makes a distinction between mobile and manufactured homes...
The data suggests that the bifurcation described in her article is real https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-women-fall-behind-at-work...
I'd rather not have an intense sit-down over socks. I am not a boor for thinking conversational tricks to manipulate me into tidying up are the opposite of functional intimacy.
Ive both once lost and found a debit card in an ATM.

The one I found was left in a drive thru on a Saturday morning. The branch was open, so I walked in and dropped it off. I have no idea what the bank did after that.

I once left mine at an ATM, the bank cancelled the card and issued a new one before I even realized I'd left it behind.
Yes, but that's true of any conflict resolution framework.

The goal of using NVC isn't to get your way, it's to achieve a mutual understanding. What you do with that understanding is left to the reader.
https://github.com/numist/Switch was a very similar app made a few years ago.
I taught this in a prison, as a volunteer, for a little while. It's useful.
I was hoping for Prime shipping.
> the way this script calls raise()

That actually isn't a function call, despite the appearance. Python 3 raise is still a statement, not a function (unlike print). So this

raise(ValueError, "some text")

does not do what you think; the proper way in Python 3 to spell what you probably expect is

raise ValueError("some text")

Here is a transcript of a shell session showing the difference:

Python 3.5.2 (default, Oct 8 2019, 13:06:37)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> raise ValueError("some text")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: some text
>>> raise(ValueError, "some text")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: exceptions must derive from BaseException

Note that the exception you actually get the second time isn't even ValueError, it's TypeError; it's being raised because "some text" is a string, not an instance of an exception class derived from BaseException.

In other words, you should not be treating raise in Python 3 the way print is treated. The 2to3 tool treats it properly.
The city in the US with the highest rape rate is Anchorage Alaska with 200 rapes per hundred thousand people. Without taking into account any of many relevant complications, that's a 0.2% chance to get raped annually, or a 99.8% chance of not getting raped.

Suppose a woman went 6 years in Anchorage. There's a 99.8% ^ 6 chance of her not getting raped. 98.8% chance in other words.

Would a woman who had not been raped after 6 years in Anchorage persuade you that Anchorage wasn't a more dangerous place than most?

Your comment here is hard to grasp given your previous comment. Mexico has a significantly higher crime rate than the US. As you acknowledge, being by yourself makes you more vulnerable. Being young makes you more vulnerable. A young girl hitchhiking by herself in Mexico is incredibly vulnerable. What are the odds that she will be raped or murdered over a few months of traveling? They may be 10 or 20%. They may be higher!

The fact that a girl had the most likely outcome happen doesn't prove or suggest anything. You can play Russian Roulette and you'll have a 5/6 chance of surviving. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to play. If someone plays three rounds, that doesn't make it safe.

I hope you'd agree that members of vulnerable populations should take extra precautions to mitigate their vulnerability. As per your own example, staying with other people in dangerous times and places.
Context: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/2014-world-cup-semfina...
I don't understand why the walrus operator is needed at all. Why not allow, this to work:

if m=whatever():
do_something

Why create a new assignment operator? For all the talk about making code not confusing, etc., some of these decisions sure seem nonsensical.

Oh, OK, it confuses passing arguments into a function by name? Really? C'mon.

Also, I can't understand the nearly religious rejection of pre and post increment/decrement (++/--) and, for the love of Picard, the switch() statement.

I enjoy using Python but some of these things are just silly. Just my opinion, of course. What do I know anyhow? I've only been writing software for over thirty years while using over a dozen languages ranging from machine language (as in op codes) to APL and every new fad and modern language in between.

As I watch languages evolve what I see is various levels of ridiculous reinvention of the wheel for very little in the way of real gains in productivity, code quality, bug eradication, expressiveness, etc. Python, Objective-C, Javascript, PHP, C# and a bunch of other mutants are just C and C++ that behave differently. Sure, OK, not strictly true at a technical level, but I'll be damned if it all doesn't end-up with machine code that does pretty much the same darn thing.

The world did exist before all of these "advanced" languages were around and we wrote excellent software (and crappy software too, just like today).

What's worse is that some of these languages waste a tremendous amount of resources and clock cycles to do the same thing we used to do in "lower" languages without any issues whatsoever. Mission critical, failure tolerant, complex software existed way before someone decided that the switch() statement was an abomination and that pre and post increment/decrement are somehow confusing or unrefined. Kind of makes you wonder what mental image they have of a programmer, doesn't it? Really. In my 30+ years in the industry I have yet to meet someone who is laid to waste, curled-up into a fetal position confused about pre and post increment/decrement, switch statements and other things deemed too complex and inelegant in some of these languages and pedantic circles.

Geez!

</rant off>
Does defining tau := 2 * pi make math easier at all?
Honestly I don’t know; you’re out of my area here I’m really into perception/slam/planning. Greater power to weight ratio is always good. I never really cared about biomimetism for the sake of it. If the way to get better power to weight ratio is biomimetism then great but if you can get it without trying to imitate nature then it’s great too.
Nor should we pretend "the law" is perfect in application and outcome...or why would anyone try to improve it?
If "certain ideologies" promote lies and violence, then it's a good thing that Twitter locks them out, don't you agree?
I would't put it past the cloud providers to ALSO snarf up the transcript (and possibly the raw audio to help with training).

It might even be a cost savings.
not from castro to church, there's a bunch of traffic and it's not straight forward to get from one point to another.
A big part of it is Russia. RT has been pushing 5G scare videos for a while, and a lot of blogs have picked up the claims and mention them without citing the source. Here's a comment from a couple months ago with links to several of the RT videos if you are curious [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20788559
They don't work in the CBD though, so being in housing walking distance to major transport options isn't important (and thus can work out cheaper housing options).
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychology experiments in history. For decades, we've been told that it proves how regular people easily turn sadistic when they are asked to role play as prison guards. But the story now appears to be mostly fraudulent. Thibault Le Texier is a researcher who dug into the Stanford archives and learned that the "prison guards" were actually told how to behave in order to support the experimenters' thesis. On this episode, Thibault and Julia discuss his findings, how the experimenters got away with such a significant misrepresentation for so long, and what this whole affair says about the field of psychology.

Direct PDF link to the Journal paper:
https://files.osf.io/v1/resources/mjhnp/providers/osfstorage...
One major difference is that the Russian operation was covert while Twitter is just now announcing their intent to do something before they do it, and it will be clear when they have done it.
My thoughts exactly.

It's bait article for those looking to get fired up about something and read far too into it.
What exactly is costing 600 million dollars? thats a huge sum of money to rebuild a few blocks on a single surface level road.
I thought apple already had ML functions like this for facial unlock.

They also used to provide transcripts of voicemail done locally on the phone (although it was not great accuracy)
I just dropped out of college for the 2nd time in 18 months
I decided to fully withdraw from my university after deciding to work full time on my business in real estate. Got to say I already feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. Anyone else take a similar path that would have any advice on dealing with normies and their opinions on finishing college to be successful?