skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can Wikipedia have a gyrocar article and not mention the Gyro-X?? https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/gyro-x-...

https://www.wired.com/story/gyro-x-lane-motor-museum/
Author here. This is not true - I included a link to the manpage (https://ss64.com/osx/wc.html) in the article to avoid this confusion. I did not use GNU wc; I used the OS X one, which, by default, counts single byte characters. From the manpage:

> The default action is equivalent to specifying the -c, -l and -w options.

> -c The number of bytes in each input file is written to the standard output.

> -m The number of characters in each input file is written to the standard output. If the current locale does not support multi-byte characters, this is equivalent to the -c option.

Moreover, I also mentioned in the article that I was using us-ascii encoded text, which means that even -m would have been treated as ASCII text.

Hope that clarifies your issue.
Being worse than an Xbox One _X_ doesn't mean you could run it on an old cheap GPU.

Also the PC version of Stadia seems extra broken compared to the chromecast version right now, and there's a tweet in there saying it looks a lot better on chromecast.
The author seems to be from Finland, so I wonder if it's a difference between "normal" Swedish and Finnish Swedish (finlandssvenska)
Totally me. I’ve read far more than I’ll ever hear. And I’m terrible at pronouncing things correctly because it’s almost pure visual memory.
> why not use the mass of the battery as the gyro's flywheel (s)?
I'm going to guess that the battery technology of 1912 was lead-acid. 200 lbs of sulfuric acid spinning at 3600 RPM was probably too much of a safety hazard, even for the laissez-faire standards of the day. Also, slip rings, which would be necessary to get the current out of a spinning batter probably weren't all that good.
AMD currently does not make competitive laptop CPUs.
This should be calculated on the "take home" pay not the pre-tax value
NSA put (effective) backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_s...

Thread by someone directly involved on why the ISO rejected NSA ciphers in the past (hint: they refused to justify design decisions, lied, and attacked the credibility of people who had put out actually-secure crypto):

https://twitter.com/TomerAshur/status/988696306674630656

Either they're too incompetent to be trusted or are bad actors and should be treated as such.
Another perspective (I learned from a therapist), is that we might already possess the innate ability to be great conversationalist, it's just performance anxiety that gets in the way. So for me, as someone who consumed loads of self-help material without much improvement, it wasn't about learning more skills or anything, it was about giving myself permission to be dumb, boring, lame, and still accepting myself at the end of the day. And once I'm able to do that, there's no more anxiety, and then everything becomes much easier. I feel like this is a path to a more natural sort of confidence, although you might get there by practicing social skills directly too. Very painful though, and I'm still working on this.

Not saying this applies to everyone, but I think it's helpful for people who approach their social anxiety with a type-A mentality.
I think the main danger is when truth and improvement is compromised in favor of niceness. Sometimes you are wrong, and that's definitely not a comfortable position to be in. It's not going to feel good to have it pointed out. And yet it's imperative that it is communicated. Wise individuals should not attribute the discomfort to the person pointing things out, but to mistakes themselves of course.

There are cases where marking errors is done to belittle, offend, portray incompetence, etc.; however it shouldn't be too hard to avoid those perils -- it's just a matter of showing how mistakes are (mostly, and to a measure) inevitable, not disqualify the person for the mistake (i.e. recognize it's something that is not inherent and can be fixed). Avoid broadcasting mishaps (communicate one-to-one), be supportive when pointing things out, and the environment is going to be better for everyone.

Superficial niceness might be worse than sincere harshness indeed. But the best is bold sincerity and support, which ultimately creates trust and robust, enduring relations.
Announcing Firelens – A New Way to Manage Container Logs
Google hires firm known for anti-union efforts
Yup! After each interview a recording of the terminal session is available for you to watch. You can also download a copy of the contents of the user's home directory.
EBITDA is nonsense disguised to hide costs.

If you need to adjust it to appear profitable, then you are not profitable.

(Yes, I am aware that there are valid use-cases for EBITDA, but in general it is used as a way to avoid accounting for actual costs).
Shouldn't U+FEFF be whitespace?
Well, that's certainly not a good-faith interpretation, but you do you.
I do have goals to change things about myself: being kinder, being more patient, listening more, being more self aware and courteous, but I'm doing that for me, to be a better person, not because I care about how people think of me. My goal is to not add to other people's misery, it's not about improving my social interactions.

Ultimately though, I just am who I am and if it doesn't work for people, I'm not going to change in ways I don't want to, and I'm not going to follow a how to list of how to interact with people, because I don't a give a shit. I'm growing at my own pace.
Microsoft Is Bringing Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar to Outlook.com
This video with Gordon Ramsay is just as good. These two videos together will teach you basically everything you need to make scrambled eggs and omelettes.

https://youtu.be/PUP7U5vTMM0
Possibly your client senior executives who don't have - and never knew they could learn - the leadership skills they're employed to wield, are the same senior executives this community is consistently poo-pooing.

"just find ways to lay people off." [..] "The investors squeezed me out of that company."

If that isn't sadly ironic, what is.
Three reasons: (1) a moderation downweight that we put on primarily-political and/or flamewar submissions; (2) user flags; (3) a software penalty called the flamewar detector.

All three elements—moderators, users, software—comprise HN's moderation system. The system works this way because if it didn't, the front page would be dominated by politics and flamewars, which can't coexist with HN's organizing value of intellectual curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

That doesn't mean that all political topics are excluded here, as anyone who pays attention to HN is aware. The main things we're looking for are whether there's overlap with intellectual curiosity, and whether the topic is one that hasn't been discussed recently. Those two criteria tend to support curious conversation.

In this case, the topic has been heavily discussed in recent months—indeed it's one of the most-discussed topics on HN at present and there has been a huge number of flamewars about it—so we would tend toward downweighting the thread. On the other hand, the discussion on this one has managed to stay relatively thoughtful—far from perfect, but we didn't get a wretched flamewar, which is unusual with so provocative a post, especially on a nationalistic topic, which is probably the most inflammatory of all domains these days. So I've reduced the downweight.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The "breakthrough" is better mirror alignment for concentrating solar plants, with an estimated doubling of potential temperature at the focal point. I'd like to see how this stacks up in efficiency with using modern PV panels of the same surface area to run normal electric heating systems.
> It's weird that so many web companies decide to go the sleazy advertisement/tracking/malware route rather than just charge money for the services they provide.

You will find very quickly how reluctant people are to pay for anything despite a few cultural-phenomenon-level exceptions like Netflix.

I'm amazed how many people, like my own coworkers making $100k+, listen to Spotify all day every day yet will endure advertisement after advertisement in their stream of music instead of paying $10/month. If someone isn't even going to pay for Spotify despite it being a central part of their day to day experience, GG to your little service.

I think advertising has played a major hand in shepherding us into this position that divorced us from the idea of paying for content we enjoy. There is going to have to be a major cultural change to bring us back into a healthy relationship with content.

One common response to this is "well, maybe everyone should be hobbyists again making content for free," but surely we can find a better middleground than structuring things such that we depend on people toiling away in their freetime to produce the content we happen to want. For example, I'd rather my favorite content providers be able to feed themselves working on this content. We both benefit: I get to enjoy more content. Depending on hobby work doesn't get us there.
The simplest way to communicate that this anti-feature is unwanted is to add this to your clang-format:

SortIncludes: false
It's a relevant distinction. You're still allowed to put non-compete clauses into your contracts, even though they don't do anything. Many companies put such clauses in their contracts, either because they have a nation-wide template, or because the threat of litigation is valuable to them.
More than residential parking, I feel that double-parking for deliveries, drop-off/pickup, etc. is a major contributor to traffic and congestion. I like the idea mentioned of flex-zones that can be used for different purposes and perhaps address some of these concerns. Unfortunately, allocating parking spaces is a zero-sum game.
You can get >$200k in non-FANG. I know of at least one company in Austin, the position is partial remote, you can work 3 days from home if you want to.
Show HN: EasyDB – A One-Click Ephemeral Database
This is not true, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=21587907
I'm waiting for Firefox to start using a native context menu on macOS instead of the garbage that they are now using and which doesn't behave anything like any other context menu on macOS.

It's luckily on Bugzilla, so I can keep monitoring progress daily.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572
I live in Ireland. Driving is essential here, unless you live in a major city.

Nonetheless, we clamp down hard on drink-driving, to such an extent that I was massively shocked by how acceptable it was in the US.
Before blaming Switzerland, perhaps best to take a look at places such as the U.S. and Delaware, which gets even more of the world's shady business.
VerHIDEzon
"global concept" =/= "global endorsement", nevermind that there are constant reforms and improvements to Chinese legal system, the anticorruption drive for instance which the west dismiss as power consolidation but subsequent analysis has concluded to be a broadly genuine effort. Or to acknowledge that reforms take time, and is subject to regression depending on conditions. How long did it take African Americans to get the right to enfranchisement.

> no longer a developing nation

Of course it is by GDP PPP, comparable to IRAQ. By multiple other other measures as well. Just because it has a few extremely well developed coastal cities doesn't mean the population as a whole as been elevated.

> It's also not an excuse

I wasn't making an excuse, explanation =/= endorsement. I specifically said the situation in XinJiang was an immoral overreaction. Nor was I suggesting the OPs letter was not warranted, just poorly reasoned and articulated. China isn't a monolith, people shit talk the government all the time, publicly. Some third rail subjects are prone to hysteric consensus, XinJiang being one of them, because anti-terrorism makes people irrational everywhere, leading to disproportionate responses.

>whataboutism

Again, when did I justify? I was drawing a comparison on why US moral arguments are not credible with respects to containing China especially when one appeals to international audiences, particularly those who suffered under US hegemony.

> best things

Best things in principle but not practice - hence need to demonstrate actual commitment to values.

> very basic human rule that children learn

I mean the CPC also indoctrinates kids with 2/3 of those values. But what we teach children is simplified platitudes, reality is murkier. The 1/3 (open elections) elected a leader that is rapidly dismantling the global order or undermining allies everywhere. Not that that the last few prior administrations were faultless. That's what children growing up in such countries learn.

>Someone else's bad behavior doesn't excuse your own bad behavior.

Your bad behaviour undermines (but doesn't invalidate) your ability to criticize others, which this open letter and many myopic US arguments couched in moralism refuses to comprehend.

> anyone with even a passing knowledge of US history knows it's working.

And anyone with passing knowledge of contemporary US history knows vast components are degrading. Which makes these appeal to values arguments particularly unsuccessful. And whenever they're met with resistance, the canned dismissal is whataboutism or shills without acknowledging that the shiny city on the hill has been tarnished. Just like there are components of the Chinese system that is working and simultaneously degrading. You have a much rosier evaluation on the US system than the last 20 year warrants.
What do you mean by gatekeeping? It is a slightly clickbaity title I admit, although it's not dishonest.
Fascinating!

Absolutely hilarious to see the elite schools (tried Brown, UPenn, MIT, CMU) completely blow the lesser schools (NC State, Clemson) out of the water for both lower or equal debt with higher compensation. Really puts a dent in the "it doesn't matter where you go to school for a CS degree" mentality.
Archaeologists Find Infants Wearing ‘Helmets’ Made from Skulls of Other Children
It's possible they gave different answers privately and requested for exact numbers not to be released publicly. Seems likely based on reading Amazon's reply to the same committee, which also didn't give specific numbers to some questions requesting specifics.
I read some "pick up artist" literature in college: about two thirds of it is misogynistic garbage, but the remainder has some good tips on general platonic social interaction (and a major issue with insecure men is learning to interact with women in a casual platonic way without acting odd and creepy because they are hoping for more).

- If you aren't good at speaking in a captivating way, literally write out your best stories. People who are good at telling stories get this way from practice: introverts naturally get less practice and thus tend to be less talented at speaking. You can do a significant amount of practice on a story without a partner - develop a few 2-3 minute anecdotes about yourself that have a clear beginning, middle and punchline, and cut all extraneous information that doesn't enhance the listeners enjoyment or teach them something positive about your character. If the conversation with a new person touches on something from one of your anecdotes, you will be able to quickly go into your anecdote and be engaging. The process of editing a couple stories will teach you to revise future stories without writing them down explicitly.

- The Cube is a really great icebreaker when meeting new people and conversation is petering out. https://oliveremberton.com/2014/how-to-connect-deeply-with-a... A couple times, I've captivated groups of 4-6 strangers for about an hour with this. Everyone likes talking about themselves, and it gives people a framework to discuss their self perceptions in a fun way, and everyone learns some things about each other. (The mappings are somewhat arbitrary, I learned it with ladder as work and flowers as friends)
One instance of this I've struggled with (mainly b/c online comms is hard) is when people publicly post that they're annoyed about a confusing thing. "OMG why does it take 10 clicks to do X". This often prompts solutions ("If you turn on Y, then it will only take 2 clicks"), but can sometimes then be followed by irritated rebuttals ("Yes yes I know it's configurable but the point is...").

On the one hand I get the desire to just vent. But if you're going to post certain types of problems (esp technical) very publicly, IMO the expectation should be for unsolicited feedback, especially since others might benefit. Nonetheless, I still usually err on the side of not replying.
> what's happening HK has much more to do with changing economic realities than it does with an evil agenda from the Chinese government

First, 93% of protesters were angry due to the lack of universal suffrage. That’s the number one reason for anger, according to a survey. (http://theconversation.com/hong-kong-protesters-dont-identif...)

Do you have any poll/survey results to support your claim that Hong Kongers keep on protesting because they feel economically less important to China? How can you attribute the protests to purely economic reasons and ignore this even more important political factor?

Second, Hong Kong is still extremely important economically to China:

* It accounts for about 70% of foreign direct investment (FDI) to China (https://santandertrade.com/en/portal/establish-overseas/chin...).

* Lots of mainland companies opt to list at Hong Kong stock exchange rather than Shanghai, e.g. Alibaba

Other reasons why Hong Kong is important:

https://www.piie.com/blogs/china-economic-watch/why-china-st...

> Hong Kong riots where sparked because China wanted to extradite someone who murdered his girlfriend in Taiwan and then went to hide in HK to avoid extradition.

This was an excuse that has been debunked:

http://shanghaiist.com/2019/06/16/taiwan-lambasts-hong-kong-...
How can they so blatantly not answer the question even a little and get away with it?
Do you never make generalizations or broad assumptions?
Time to start selling power-only USB cables with a transparent sheath and two visible copper wires. They don't need to be shielded, of course.
I'm a big fan of Babish! I'd also recommend the Bon Appetit Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/BonAppetitDotCom and Chef John from Food Wishes https://www.youtube.com/user/foodwishes
The comment is getting downvoted because it is a flamewar rant, which is not in the spirit of this site and breaks its rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

When disagreeing, try to respond neutrally and with specific, better information. I know how hard that is to do when representing a minority/contrarian viewpoint, but it's even more important to do it in that case. If instead you lash out and break the rules, you discredit your own truth and reinforce the other side's perception of it.
Apple is plainly saying that they are best positioned to protect iOS users privacy and security. One way they do that is by not allowing any app to use anything other than WebKit. If there's a flaw in some alternative browser that iOS app developers now have a dependency on, Apple would be unable to do anything about it other than wait for that other browser vendor to ship an update.

>All this to say, I'm skeptical of the suggestion that a Blink-powered Chrome for iOS would not "protect users as adequately as our WebKit protections."

Maybe Google is excellent at updating their browser to address security issues, but Apple's concern isn't purely security. It's also privacy. And Safari's track record on privacy technologies is longer and better than everyone.

Furthermore, Apple sells integrated products. They don't sell operating systems, browsers, app stores, and NFC chips. They sell a finished good that incorporates all of those things and more. They take end to end responsibility for their products and it would be frankly uncharacteristic of Apple to have any other position than extreme self-reliance.
I'm really surprised by how much memory this task needs. Using a 16KB buffer and incrementing an integer needs multiple MB.

I guess that's the size of the executable after it's been loaded into RAM that's so large?
The fact that this is a concern should send red flags to everyone that's not in China.

We should not feel threatened to criticize a foreign country. Speak up fearlessly against China. Now is the time.
It's "stjärna" in both, it is just pronounced a bit differently.
> I don't get it: why hassle them over their underdog competitor? Laud them for daring to compete against the market leader. Focus the argument about the walled garden and right-to-repair instead.

Because they gave themselves an edge when competing against Google by not allowing Maps all of the same capabilities from start. And to do that, they abused their OS and store to block GMaps from having same capabilities as AMaps. Even today, GMaps isn't allowed to be the default maps provider.

No customer wishing for a healthy free market should approve of this.
You must not visit Queens, Bronx or Manhattan beyond 110 very often. They have extensive car ownership. I don't think anyone would call them rich.
At least for me, I would love advice that perfectly solves all my problems. But probably this advice doesn't exist, because if it did, I would have figured it out already. I often have conversations that go like this -

Me: I have this problem that sucks.

Other person: Have you tried A?

Me: No, I thought about that already. A isn't a good idea because of B.

Other person: Well, what about C?

Me: No, I thought about that too. C isn't a good idea because of D.

Other person: (Angrily) Well, I don't know how to help you then.

And so now in addition to having to deal with a hard problem to solve, I have to deal with making other people angry about how they can not solve my hard problems.
We're screwed!
How to Talk to People, for Engineers
By number of tabs open, it sounds like.
Looks like clean idiomatic go code to me.
Google Translate can provide a basic sample of the sj sound. Ask for a Swedish translation of "seventy-seven hospitals near the lake" (sjuttiosju sjukhus nära sjön):

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&t...
Ticket opened 20 years ago, damn.
You are right that "West of the Mississippi" is not the actual boundary, which is why I said "majority of the land". The actual boundary curves, being farther west in the Gulf and almost touching the Mississippi in the North, but "Western half of the US" is as good a description as any.

Point being, a lot of people who grow up in the Eastern Half of the US think the Western half has a similar climate, when it really doesn't. It really is an arid climate and the difference between East and West is rather stark.

Here you can take a look at a map of precipitation:

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap17/rain_usa.ht...
Except the content is mixed into the WASM payload...
> Safari is one of the apps that Apple believes defines the core user experience on iOS...

Is this not the same argument Microsoft made about Internet Explorer?