skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you suggest doing this? Fighting censorship with censorship? Banning pro China voices because they must be shills and have to be working for CCP in someway or the other? Establish an Committee of Un-American activity in Congress?
> You are simply wrong on so many levels. NATO is the reason why the iron curtain stayed where it was and why the Russian federation hasn't steam-rolled Western Europe.

There are no historical artifacts claiming that USSR ever had a serious plan to "steamroll" Western Europe. If anything, they were deathly terrified of NATO incursion into Russia and almost pathologically attached to creating a buffer zone of Warszaw Pact states.

Please do not mix up US cold war propaganda with historic facts, those are not quite the same.
the view of the night sky is about to be destroyed by companies
Also true. They definitely asked me how much I drank per week.
What makes you say it's not mathematical?

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/50375/whats-the-mea...
That is technically true for this batch of satellites. However at the next shell out that they're planning on using (1150km) it can take a really long time for an orbit to decay (decades or centuries depending on the size of the thing). There's still radioactive crap in orbit from Soviet satellites that were orbiting at 900km more than 40 years ago.
If you could find any alien living with head and legs, that would be very stranger than finding alien life itself,

or life on earth come from the same origin.
Sign Language in Virtual Reality [video]
Gotcha, I am not a heavy spender, save most of my salary, this must be the reason why I don't see renting forever as a problem
Texas Free Market Surgery offers a near identical business model based out of Austin.

Green Imaging (who I used to work for) offers cash-pay imaging services for all modalities across Texas, and are in the process of expanding nationally. Because they contract with existing imaging facilities, they don't post prices publicly to avoid poaching patients, but if you call in or message them through the website, they'll give you an up-front price for any service they offer.

For family practice/general medicine, there's a business model called "Direct Primary Care" that offers you unlimited primary care services, usually for a cost of $50-80/month, and most big cities will have a few providers following this model.

A lot of progress is being made in terms of transparent/affordable outpatient and day surgery services, but it's hard to get spread the word because the current healthcare model is so entrenched.
California economy law to strip truck drivers of highest-paying industry jobs
You can't enter the country anymore with a US passport, but you certainly still can if you're a dual citizen.

Many tour operators regularly take people into North Korea to see guided tours. Keep in mind though, these are highly structured tours that are designed to keep you in line and only see certain things. You will be extremely safe while in the country, it's basically like a giant airport. Play in the boundaries and you're fine. Tens of thousands of tourists go there annually.

I am actually running a Hockey tournament in Pyongyang as a way to bridge the gap if anybody is interested. Unlike most tour operators, because we operate directly through the Ministry of Sports, we get a lot more liberties that you typically do not get through a regular tour agency that is only looking to provide to provide a cut and dry experience.

https://inertianetwork.com/pyongyang-cup
Implementing the Outbox Pattern
That's all true from the fact that there are real correspondences with math theories. But like, that's the whole point of applied math no? To find correspondences with other things so that we can then leverage and apply the math principles to that thing?

I'm sure there's quite many things in programming language where you can use such correspondence to your advantage, not just ADTs. But we don't teach it starting from the mathematical correspondence and then back.

To put it more simply, most programming isn't thought by first teaching learners about theoretical computer science. Generally it happens either in parallel or you learn the theory after the fact. But for some reason, when it comes to functional programming it seems most teachers want to start with teaching you the theory.

And my above point is that, even historically, it is not always true that theory came first. Often times, the construct were invented and used practically from finding solutions to concrete problems, and later a theory around it was developed. In the case of ADTs, I'm not 100% sure which came first, but I know they were first implemented in the programming language Hope. Not sure if the theory was there prior or not.
My understanding is that's not really a sum type, though -- e.g., you couldn't use it to add a type to itself, only to add distinct types to each other.
Speaking of heads rolling:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/us/jeffrey-epstein-guard-char...

Not defending these people, mind you, or anyone involved. Just saying that either some shenanigans were afoot, or Epstein found himself at the center of an astonishing vortex of stupidity and carelessness, the likes of which is seldom seen in government or anywhere else. It's easier to imagine Barney Fife at Nuremberg.

Whether the people responsible were designated patsies or garden-variety lazy dumbasses, they are not in for a good time.
Well, it certainly changes the equation from being a rogue element on a network to something that is just another management setting. I won't be truly happy until I can setup a DoH server of my own. Does anyone know if there is any value to adding DoH to the external servers that are only used by other name servers? Will anyone's name servers do their lookup with DoH?

The less the outside world knows about what's on a private network the better. Information leaking be it the processor or to someone's servers is just another problem waiting to happen.
From the statute, address issues promptly and you're in good shape:

A business shall be in violation of this title if it fails to cure any alleged violation within 30 days after being notified of alleged noncompliance.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Oh. I still don't understand how the word "Trump" makes the title non-neutral.
The "critical" mass however doesn't refer to absolute numbers. A million users with no relation to each other don't make it work. A few thousand with a tight network relationship cn make a busy place.
Equally I saw "dumb" as positive. In context, it was negative but the whole post was positive.
The prices don't change in a supermarket if you edit your shopping list, eh?

A hospital can't predict everything a patient will need (their shopping list), but they should be able to account for the cost of each procedure/drug/test/bandage/etc... eh?
This ain't new tech, buzzword + solar tower = headlines. I really love this method of solar though, minimal carbon footprint, ~0% efficiency decay. Coupled w a Sterling engine could even be used for small, off grid energy source.
Try becoming an activist, or attend a pro-HK freedom rally in the US.
Uh, that's not true at all. CFC's that most people are concerned with emitting aren't necessarily greenhouse gases, and the greenhouse contribution is not really a primary concern with them.

The primary concern is that many of them are catalysts with very very long active lifespans. As a catalyst (not a consumable reactant), a single CFC molecule is capable of destroying hundreds of thousands of ozone molecules in the upper atmosphere (or more). It's the catalytic nature that makes these things problematic and accumulative even in small amounts. The accumulation of these long-lived gasses would be measurable if everyone were blasting their laptop once a day, which is precisely why a number of them are banned completely. The ones generally used now are relatively better, but there is still plenty of reason to avoid emitting them if possible.

Cigarette smoke isn't comparable when it comes to environmental concern, nor are most common combustion byproducts. Those definitely cause concern for different reasons, but aren't directly comparable to environmental concerns raised by CFCs.
I'm not disputing pharma advertising is profitable for individual products. I'm skeptical if it's profitable in aggregate. Drug demand is a function of the occurrence of disease. Advertising can increase profits by:

1. Taking market share away from a competitors. Profitable for that product, zero-sum for the industry. Competitors respond by increasing their ad spend, equilibrium returns (unless one drug is genuinely superior to another)

2. Increasing demand for unnecessary medicines. Profitable for the market, bad for society.

Advertising is an arms race. Even if I don't want to advertise, I have to because my competitors do. If it's banned, everyone saves the expense of advertising.

Unless pharma companies are engaging in cartel-like price-fixing some of that money will definitely go to lower prices (some will also go to R&D, dividends/buybacks, and exec pay). It only takes one company to do it and the rest have to follow.
And if Starlink inconveniences astronomy, it probably won't take but so many further years before adaptive signal correction algorithms close the gap again.
The implicit collection problem can be prevented by making sure that you put explicit return statements at function ends. This goes contrary to the dense syntax argument but at least there is a workaround for performance critical code.
This looks like an announcement of announcement.

On HN, there's no harm in waiting.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The Orville is the spiritual successor to TNG in my opinion.

If you can get past the somewhat juvenile humor in the early episodes it's surprisingly good.
Get San Bruno police to seize Youtube headquarters with civil forfeiture statutes under suspicion of it being used in the commission of a crime.

We'll get Youtube's attention and rich people will get civil forfeiture laws repealed.
Launch costs are not the dominant cost of building space telescopes, which are ~10x more expensive than equivalent ground-based systems (when they exist).

Ground-based telescopes built in the 1940s are still being used for cutting-edge science today because it's simple and cheap to upgrade their instruments. That's not possible in space--when JWST runs out of propellant, it becomes just a $10B piece of space junk.
> if we’re going to go into a future where you end up losing 30 to 60 minutes, that would be a significant chunk of our observing time through the night

As this comment implies, the worst case impact to astronomy is only going to be about 30 to 60 minutes lost per night right after dusk and before dawn. There will still be uninterrupted viewing time in the middle of the night because the satellites will be in Earth's shadow and not visible at all.

Personally, I think the benefit of truly global broadband internet from space is worth the cost of an hour of observing time per night. Even in the worst case, ground based astronomy can still happen. "Despair" is not warranted.

On a related note, I made a website to predict when the Starlink satellites will be visible for you. They look pretty cool if you can catch them, but viewing opportunities are limited because of that limited time window before they enter Earth's shadow. https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink-201...
>I don't know about suicide or ruining their lives per-se, but people often go bankrupt from medical bullshit.

One study found that only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0... . A tipoff that [insert large percentage here] of bankruptcies aren't actually because of medical costs is that only 6% of bankruptcies by those without health insurance are because of that cause. The biggest cause of bankruptcies is lack of income, which health insurance doesn't affect.
Cloud Dataflow SQL and Cloud Dataflow Batch Flexible Resource Scheduling Release
My ISP. They are regulated and I pay them. If they do stuff I don't want I can complain and switch.

I have not relationship with Cloudfare. I don't want them to have data about me. I never signed a contract with them.
Is it any less reasonable than someone claiming the totality of Chinese culture consists of blind obedience to a political party? He's claiming this kind of indoctrination starts at a young age. If that's the case I would have seen some of that. Also, as I've stated, a good chunk of my family are born and raised in China and some still live there. They're not all of one opinion when it comes to the government. Is it reasonable to believe 1.3 billion people are as one dimensional and robotic as the GP makes it sound?
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not ragey ones.

You could make a good comment out of this by replacing the second sentence with some more specific observations.
I thought about using it, but since it returns only straight lines in the image it's probably not very useful for curved edges and for node shapes there are probably also better ways. For edges the skeleton has been working really well. It might still be useful for detecting whether edges are orthogonal and to better detect bends (right now, orthogonal edges always have a little curve at the corners, due to how skeletonization works).
You'll still be able to run your own resolver that applies DNS filters and configure your client to use it, just like today. The difference will be that connections between the client and the resolver will be secured with HTTPS, so your DNS can only be tampered with and surveilled if you give consent. That seems like a win for user freedom to me.
There are some tricks that are not obvious. For example you can use "ISS" or "International Space Station". If you pick the wrong one, Google will fix it, but Algolia won't. Moreover in this case, both will probably cause the search to fail, the title says "satellite". (In case of desperation, search the comments, sometimes the keyword is in the comments instead of the title.)

Algolia likes exact matches for all but the last word, also Algolia doesn't like apostrophes. Google usually uses more fuzzy criteria, sometimes too fuzzy.

Sometimes you are more lucky. Sometimes you have more google-fu.
Profit is not quite the point. The point is that in order for HN to be a useful site, so that person n+1 decides to join, all they need is that the first n people have something interesting to say. For a Facebook competitor to be useful to person n+1, the first n people have to include a lot of their existing friends and family. Network effects.
I love this idea, it's kind of like an affiliate network for physical goods. The delivery time is probably the only thing the scares me.
There was a big leap, the lithium ion chemistry. Other than that, most improvements were incremental, not huge leaps. Which is the norm in almost all industries.
> Straw man, almost no one is suggesting 50+ floor apartments in residential neighborhoods.

Plenty of people are suggesting massive restructurings of residential areas in major cities.

> Simply adding a few 4-5 floor apartments buildings with retail at the bottom would greatly improve quality of life in neighborhoods.

You're conceding that even your smaller apartment buildings will change the character of the neighborhood. You think it will improve quality of life for some, but they think it will do the opposite for them.

And when you create these apartments you've concentrated a large piece of land under a single owner, who can then after a regulation change eventually build one of those massive apartment buildings. But it doesn't necessarily need to be that massive to have a negative impact on the neighborhood.
Title should read "Zuckerberg takes positive stance for headlines which costs his company nothing"
Sorry, I missed that. My point stands though: I don't think the 737 MAX fiasco sheds much light on NASA's decision-making in this case.
> We don’t call those “invasions”.

Yes, but that's about politics and emotional connotation, not denotation.
As a millennial homeowner, living in a historic neighborhood, I am all in favor of taking the empty lots that do still exist in my area, and turning them into high density housing. I watched a 4-5 story building appear on a empty lot just down the street from me. This kind of housing is perfect to help alleviate housing constraints, and offers people the opportunity to live in a walk-able, historic neighborhood and contribute to the community. Why is that a bad thing?
Idempotency
Have you heard the news that Mark has learnt Chinese very hard, and even placed Xi's book at his office desk trying to please the visited Chinese officials?
He didn't have any spine, and what he's doing right now just because he failed so have to change the strategy.
I work at a company that employs roughly 50 people. Most of them are software engineers. We grew from 3 people to 50 in 3 years. We designed a new office and moved into it a few months ago.

Here are some of the things we did:

- Desks are all in rooms with at most 10 desks in it. Most rooms are smaller and have ~5 desks in them. All these rooms are completely sealed off with sound proofed walls. The temperature can be controlled in each room.

- Throughout the office there are so called phone booths. Relatively small booths, good for quick calls. A single booth fits two people. All booths are completely sound proof. You could yell in there and nobody would hear you.

- Flooring is solid. Rolling your chair around or walking around does not produce a lot of noise.

- Water coolers everywhere. You're not far from a glass of cold (mineral) water.

- Lots of natural light. All windows are from the ceiling to the floor and all the rooms with desks are at these big windows.

There are some pictures here: https://www.facebook.com/todorcosminstudio/posts/24735875227...

The pictures don't show the working spaces very well, just the communal spaces that are all separated from where people have their desks.
It's hardly equivalent, you're just backpeddling because your metaphor was bad. The homeless are bad for the regions they occupy by virtually every metric local residents might care about. Presumably the same is not true of ground based telescopes.
I bet that in 2020 we'll find out that there were "unforeseen" difficulties.

Even if something works perfectly on a lab doesn't mean you can mass produce.
Yeah, I totally believe it can be anonymized, but when they attach geo data, age data, etc you can be picked out of the crowd with just a bit of analysis. Plus I don't think most of them actually anonymize it. They just say they do. There's no one auditing them until a court order happens.
The other scary consequence of these changes that you have even less control over your network than before. You can bring devices into your home and have absolutely no control or knowledge of what they are connecting to or what they are doing.

It's also a problem for obsolesce of cloud connected devices; I'm not able to, even if technically possible, to replace the cloud services some of my devices connect to because of certificate validation and encryption.
Both sides are in the wrong. Comparing the numbers of the first few days to Facebook suggests either ill intent or willful ignorance, while praising a new start-up as a Facebook rival without baking up that claim with some relatable rationale indicates bias or an agenda.

Facebook aims to cover anyone's every need which could come up in a social interaction or how communication could occur. In other words, FB is a communication, an entertainment and a business platform.
WT:Social, on the other hand, seems to be an evolution of the WikiTribune diving into the social market world, yet continuing its focus on reporting and fact-based information sharing. This involves work which isn't all too appealing to the general public.
But will it suffer from the problem of monetizing user data? That seems to be the big thing it's designed to avoid.
> parallels to every employer’s expectation that I should be able to listen to them describe a software problem and quote them a timeframe on the spot

I don't agree with that parallel. It would be like a patient asking, "How much to cure my cancer?" Total cost will of course differ for each patient, but the doctor should be able to tell me the exact cost for a 20 minute office visit or a single session chemotherapy. I think that's all anyone could expect.
Well, Twitter was seen as a failure in 2009 compared to Facebook at the time. What constitutes to mass adoption is if several so-called 'influencers' try it out and if they make more money on the platform than both Twitter/Facebook and if the social network allows advertisers on there too. Then the millions of users will follow suit. Its that simple and it is has worked for Snap and it is working for TikTok.

If there is no gain or incentive for the famous users or the so called 'influencers', then the 'millions of users' will stay where the famous users are.
Privacy at LinkedIn
Us too. We're keeping data on sellers and their fill, ship and complete time. Fill time meaning how fast they fill when the order gets to them, ship time meaning how long it takes from the order time until the shipment occurs, and complete time meaning from time of order to time you get notified.
The post I replied to was specifically referring on the "employee actions". My argument was it's not reasonable to simply discard these employee's claim by somehow suggesting they are only acting because of the pressure from CCP.

But the point you made is correct, activist's family could be punishment.

edit: punishment -> punished
My favorite in particular in this line of "geopolitical I'm not touching you" is what we call "freedom of navigation exercises". The US runs through the South China Sea on them all the time.

Basically, China says it's their territory, the US says it is international waters. And so we "prove" it by regularly traveling through it with US warships for no other purpose then to prove we can.
There are no empty lots because it is a desirable place to live. If I lived in a place with abandoned building/lots I agree they could be put to better use.
Chinese people join the CCP not because they identify with the communist ideals. They join because it gives access to a lot of resources and power that is otherwise unavailable to outsiders. It is essentially a gangster of national proportion, and behaves exactly like one, and they own the army.
Congratulations on the launch.

Would it be fair to say Convictional operates in a similar domain as https://supplier.meesho.com does in India? If not, what are the differences?

Is EDI specific to North America or a global phenomenon?

---

The hamburger-menu doesn't work when I block google-analytics and hs-scripts domains.

The links in the footer viz Retailers -> Marketplace Platform and Brands & Suppliers -> Brands simply load the homepage. Is that intentional?

Personally, I believe Convictional connects online retailers to brands.
Focus on selling, let brands handle fulfillment. is wayy better than the abstract Become the Digital Destination for all of your customer needs without inventory risk.

Another nit-pick is that the entire page is all about retailers, but the top section has a link to Solution for Brands and it isn't clear really why the link exists top-of-the-fold when the entire page has no copy re Brands? That, or I hopelessly misread the copy.

---

All the best!
What was the reasoning behind choosing Javascript as the language, rather than Go or something else?
How to run your own mail server (2017)
Improved protein structure prediction using predicted inter-residue orientations
Um, ya, not happening anytime soon, and not really addressing the multitude of systemic problems that are occurring.