skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some assorted notes / points of fascination:

- With the sole exceptions of Brazil and Argentina literally all of the "green" countries in Latin America have top songs with the Same. Exact. Beat. "One and-Three Four, One and-Three Four..." all throughout. And interestingly Spain, Italy, France, and Turkey have a very similar feel, albeit with some deviation. Not that I mind that beat (it's perfect for the club), but it's still interesting how little deviation there is.

- On that note, Brazil's top song is delightfully weird. Not a single drum except for a ludicrously-overdriven kick. I hate it but love it at the same time.

- Literally every predominantly-English-speaking country has the same exact top song. I would expect at least some variety, but nope, America's got their musical tastes by the balls, apparently.

- A surprisingly large amount of Europe has generally embraced American-style rap, though there are some exceptions (e.g. Spain, Italy, France, most of Eastern Europe).

- Poland's, on that note, has got a neat vaporwave/seapunk vibe to it that's pretty cool. Probably my favorite of the bunch.

- Japan's top song is exactly what I would expect Japan's top song to sound like, lol

- Indonesia's top song fuckin' slaps. Very close second-favorite.

- India managed to introduce me to Melanie Martinez, and I gotta say I'm a fan; very similar in theme, style, and catchiness to Lily Allen's "Not Fair", which is another favorite of mine.
Members in Python are never private. Variables that are supposed to be used internally only are marked with and underscore, but that just conveys intent and isn't enforced by the interpreter/runtime. But you can emulate private data like this:

>>> def a(u, v):
... def b():
... return u + v
... return b
...
>>> b = a(1,2)
>>> b()
3

Like this, there is no way to access u & v from b.
The original WSL(1) was. However, the new version, WSL2, brings a lot of architecture changes. Now its basically a virtualized Linux running in Hyper-V.
The nice thing about that new architecture is that now applications like Docker can use WSL2 to run the containers which was not possible with previous versions.
I think he does not know how to handle the moves being made by China to advance its territorial claims in this chaotic moment. That would explain Donald's domestic diversions.

China is pushing outward toward Hong Kong and Taiwan, in simultaneous fashion. In the former, we have the national security law. In the latter, we have new and uncamouflaged threats that China will use military force in Taiwan if it cannot control the island peacefully.

If Trump keeps our attention away from the China problem, it won't affect the stock market and we won't focus on its impacts on the world economy.
Please look at the Irish, or Canadian, or Montenegrin, or Philippines examples. There are all kinds of intermediate arrangements between independence and annexation, and places can slide fairly smoothly between them.
I feel really disconnected from what is the online mainstream thought. Trump is a huge embarrassment and this tweet should never come from our president. Twitter is doing some real selective enforcement that doesn't seem even handed or even logical. The Tweet in question vaguely qualifies, and there is much worse stuff being posted to Twitter that more clearly and more demonstratively glorifies violence. Search Twitter for "burn it down" (just a example phrase, but you could pick "shoot the cops" or any number of things) https://twitter.com/search?q=%22burn%20it%20down%22&src=type... and you get https://twitter.com/Pork_Soda_187/status/1266287249261424641
https://twitter.com/katie80980282/status/1266287106147508231
https://twitter.com/hengebeat/status/1266286823480782852

and these are all in the last 5 minutes. Selective enforcement doesn't put Twitter in a good light and doesn't seem like something that is in the best interest of their company. Also it is a bad look that their head of site integrity was saying vile stuff about the other half of America.

I really dislike Trump and will definitely vote against him. I don't get the overwhelming support for actions like this from Twitter.
My annoyance with the app is that I discovered by directly searching for one of the highest award winning pizza places in Chicago, Art of Pizza, and being recommended to buy through their app.

As much as I love deep dish and their specific pizza they don't really show up when I try to search for pizza around me. There are dozens of mediocre places with less than 100 reviews and art of Pizza shows up way down the list with thousands of reviews that are much higher up and me being well within their first choice delivery zone.

Maybe they are specifically good for pizza shops but they are pretty useless when you want good pizza and are searching for what's around you.
My guess is that if China decided it wanted to unify Taiwan by force, the rest of the world -- including the US -- would stand by and allow them to do it.
Surely by the same logic OP believes dentists should be slaves???
> Turnout in the referendums was too low for it to be considered valid, at least according to one of their major political parties.

Turnout in the 2012 referendum was 78%.
You can't arrest someone whom you've just shot dead.
> I did a lot of street acid as a teenager and it caused me a lot of problems it seems

Can you expand on that?
The Hong Kong government didn't want their citizens to leave Hong Kong, or at least wanted to disincentive them in the 90's due to a significant exodus of white collar workers. That's one of the reasons the immigration rules were changed.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160424062259/http://www.taiwan...
Should people be shot for looting?

Is looting a capital crime?
You're right. But that doesn't make it easy :P

I think a lot of devs think that project management, business sense and marketing (basically everything but development) are easier. I used to think that too. Until I had to start thinking about business strategies, sharing my product and understanding my customers...

If only I could install packages for that kind of stuff IRL.
This is an example of institutional knowledge. It's part of the reason why you want to have some military production even if you have enough gear already. You might need people with this kind of expertise in the future.
I went to the Antarctic on a (refitted) soviet era ice-hardened (anything up to ~1m thickness) ship a few years back, as a paying tourist - a lot of the more niche operators who go to more remote corners run old Soviet ships - in fact, the only other ship that we saw in a month down there was a similar vintage soviet ship - Akademik someone-or-other.

The bridge had largely been refitted to modern standards and design, but the engineering control room was a thing of beauty - blinkenlights and dials and levers and buttons like goddamned pornography. The aesthetic (cream, green, black, chrome, domed lamps, tactile light-up buttons) was almost identical to that of a soviet missile silo I visited a few years back near Pervomaisk, Ukraine - which isn’t altogether surprising, as they were likely built in the same shipyard - soviet control bunkers were basically submarines turned on end, mounted on shock absorbers, and shoved down a silo.

Fun aside: our guide was one of the button-men back in the day. He explained that two keys, spaced eight feet apart, had to be turned simultaneously to arm the launch controls. He then explained and demonstrated that the slot in the tip of the flag standard which stood proudly behind the control chairs was designed and curved such that you could hook the key in the control lock through it, sit down at the other key, hold the end of the standard, and give it a pull, which would turn the “out of reach” key as you turned yours. It was “officially unofficially official” in his (translated) words, to be done in the case of the incapacitation of the other launch control officer.
Isn't the US a federated country? Surely it's up to the local police to ask for help from other police if they wish to, and then perhaps ask for help from the national guard, not the other way round?

And isn't it state governors who control the national guard, not the Federal president?

I assume the Waco types will be out there opposing "The Feds" trampling over state rights?
HK spent over 150 years under British colonial rule [0].

The vast majority of that time without any real democratic participation of HK citizens as those were considered British subjects and did not have full rights nor citizenship [1].

[0] https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2122508/hong-...

[1] https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1613#tocto1n8
The stream is like oral culture, where expressions exist in temporal sequence and referring to connections often requires indirectly shared context; the garden is like a literate culture, where expressions can directly as well as indirectly link?

Both are fun and useful; I tend to gravitate to the literate side (coincidence: "garden" and "culture" both have agricultural roots) because direct linking makes it easy to discover new garden paths, whereas the oral side requires a much deeper commitment to learning a culture to catch the references streaming past.
> The UK granted those liberties and some measure of self governance only in the last years of its rule

Hong Kong was nearly[1] granted effectively autonomous status by Britain in the 1960s. China threatened a military intervention should that happen.

1. https://qz.com/279013/the-secret-history-of-hong-kongs-still...
There exist many more options and law is notorious for having grey zones where the complexity of context, and intent and outcomes.

In the specific example of child porn, would removing it be protected speech and a copyrightable work? To my knowledge, no, it is not.

However telling someone "this seems fishy, you might want to read up on it.", attached to someone else copyrighted work, is to me speech. It is also a copyrightable work if its original enough. It could also be a defined as a derivative work if it includes major copyrightable elements of the original, which in this context is likely.

The difference between removing child porn and creating derivative work is one that I don't think courts will have a problem to distinguish between. Both may end up being described as moderation, but the outcome, intent and context is very different.
Just meditate, please do not load more pain to head. The article shares some good techniques, use the same techniques using pen and paper and it is healthier.

P.S. Its a personal preference, I'm not trying to put down the tool, its great and can be used as a training material for better thinking.
Twitter is actually required by law to remove child porn, not being forced to keep it up, that would be insane. This isn't a call for no moderation, it is a call for a neutral platform when companies are on the verge of monopolies. They are definitely monopolize your followers, switching platforms is not even a choice. You can work you're entire life building a channel and audience on social media site and they can take it away in a heartbeat and you don't even get a chance to let your followers know what happened, e-mail them even, let them know where they can find you going forward. That's not the worst part, the worst part is they can and do do it without any reason whatsoever, it could be just because someone at the company dislikes what you said. Again this is not about moderation, this is about companies that were built off of being a neutral platform that cannot be sued for liability, like a phone company but are now using their monopoly over your follower's information to hold over you and control what you say. If anything what really needs to be in legislation is rights to notify followers where else they can find you if you are banned or censored.
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Android Emulator has been (by default) x86 for years now and it's using both hardware paravirtualization and even OpenGL passthrough.
True. I would go further and say that but for the US/Russian hegemony post WW2, regional powers would have torn China to shreds over the last eighty years, to include an unbridled Japan, India, and perhaps some of its southern neighbors.

In point of fact, this process had already started in the lead-up to WW2. The war of Manchuria was in fact Russia and Japan fighting over a piece of China like two lions on the hide of a water buffalo that’s still walking upright.
WD richly deserves to be raked over the coals for not labeling these drives clearly.

Their initial customer-facing reaction was even worse if I recall: One customer escalated his issue and asked WD to identify which drives used SMR, WD said something along the lines of We don't share that information with customers.

(If anyone has a pointer to that story I'd appreciate it. I can't find it at the moment).

EDIT:

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shin... cites a comment on a synology board:

"""
Also: “Well the higher team contacted me back and informed me that the information I requested about whether or not
the WD60EFAX was a SMR or PMR would not be provided to me. They said that information is not disclosed to consumers. LOL. WOW."
"""
Nowadays we have video which can cover a large part of things that can't be written down. It doesn't cover all of it though, but it can get pretty close.
Unlike BN(O)/BOC, India's caste system isn't supported by law.
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It is plausible that these projects were done first. It is equally plausible that they were clumsy attempts to copy the big guys, a thousand years after.

The closer you look at the evidence, that far back, the more slippery it gets. Tour groups want a nice, simple story, and the pros are happy to provide one, but the support is very limited, subject to interpretation, opinion, out-and-out guessing, and fraud.
If legality is your concern and you live in europe, it's quite easy to get legal LSD derivatives like 1p-LSD [1] that are legal in most EU countries.

[1] https://m.psychonautwiki.org/wiki/1P-LSD
> The UK should have offered citizenship to residents of Hong Kong prior to 1997.

They did.
This reminds me of the SEO industry, where people apply cheap tricks for years telling themselves they can outsmart Google, then suddenly there's a core update and all those sites get heavily penalized.

This will probably backfire on frontend devs the same way. A browser prefetching files that aren't needed in 99.999% cases (probably higher, who prints a random webpage in 2020?) sure seems like a bug, so that will probably get fixed someday, and people who applied this trick will wonder why their websites are all breaking down at once.

In general, do things that sound intuitive and coherent to you rather than things that are unintuitive and go against the platforms you are developing on. If someone advises you to go against the value proposition of Google Search (find interesting content) or against the value proposition of Google Chrome ("browse the web in a simple, secure, and faster way"), you might want to take a big step back and rethink this.
That's fair, though it's still sad that you need to spend more money for a Seagate NAS drive today when 4 years ago a Barracuda cost 20% less than that and worked just fine.
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This "if I back off, I will show weakness" mentality is precisely what leads so many police officers to use excessive force despite being surrounded by bystanders pleading for mercy on behalf of their fellow citizens.

When the people have to resort to violence to get public servants to do their jobs and relieve the wounds of injustice, the only appropriate response is to give them justice.

Lastly, I remind you that the public did not initiate the use of force in this riotous controversy. A police officer did.
Twitter labels Trump tweet as ‘glorifying violence’
I never suggested that the dose be ad-hoc, nor implied that we should just give people psychedelics to take home and hope for the best.

"One time cure" is indeed not accurate, today, but as a shorthand it captures the promise of psychedelic treatments. A single session can give benefits lasting many months, and some people may remit entirely. This is why more research is needed.

>I'm sure the vast majority of people would prefer a daily pill that has no cognitive distortions.

These don't exist. Existing psychological medication, not unsurprisingly, often comes with severe cognitive distortions - far worse than a single psychedelic trip every few months.
Show HN: Toolbase.io – Get filtered & curated SAAS tools based on your needs
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We do hope you find this product useful and keep it bookmarked to come back to when you need a new tool.

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>> But yeah nobody but the 1%ers are getting jobs in this market

You mean the current and looming crisis or the IT job market in general.

>> Even busted my ass for an AWS cert -- worthless

Thought about that too but then occurred to me that I'd also need to go for a K8S one and perhaps one of the security ones and ... this never ends whilst I might land in a job where I just need to know bash and basic python. (Also these certs seem to offer little basic knowledge and a lot of shopping-list-like details.
If a quantum physics specialist comes to you and starts explaining what it is and you understand, even if you have zero years of experience in it, I'd say he passed the interview. Same applies for this as well.
They're not half of a political spectrum. I can get on fine with most conservatives despite disagreeing with them, but Trump's most vocal supporters are part of a cult of personality rather than a complex polity. The divisions are already there, all the appeals to reason and fellow feeling have been exhausted.
To that I 100% agree. if the intent of an moderation is only to restrict access to or availability of material for those reasons, then that is likely not a derivative work.
In any given fund, true. VCs re always raising the next fund and need to show results.
Some rap songs have very interesting lyrics but the whole environment attached to this genre makes it complete trash: all that hood style, bling bling, idiotic oversized cars,money,drugs,etc. Oh,and visible underware too.
It was explicitly racist, at least in the UK. The cabinet meetings discuss explicitly racist motivations, particularly from Churchill who campaigned for this in the face of the economic need for an influx of labour. Justifications were sought that could be made to appear objective. If you can watch it somewhere, this documentary was depressingly eye opening https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00068sk, but you can probably read the salient points in related articles: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/24/the-unw...
Kashmir was a princely state, not part of the Raj, even though India ran the post and telegraph and collected octroi at the borders. That being said, when Mangla dam was built a lot of Mirpuris migrated to Britain with work permits
Computer Networking a top down approach, currently it's the 7th edition iirc
What data do you think is tracked exactly?
Actions and steps to ensure GDPR compliance
Marriages by Countries
MOST NO MARRIAGESS BY COUNTRIES .
NOW CHECK IT OUT !!!!!
There's always Gab XD
being supported by cultural norms is worse than being supported by law. Laws can be overturned by a stroke of the pen. Cultural norms still persist after the law is overturned. Case in point: black racism and prejudice in the USA.
Show HN: Vuesence Book – Vue.js component for building documentation systems
You could say the same thing about Leap Motion, but sometimes you have to admit that a coincidence of names is nothing more than that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347155
No paywall https://beta.trimread.com/articles/18676
For those wondering what I mean:

To support backwards-compatibility, Java could not simply introduce functions as first-class objects. Instead, it works like follows:

Syntax for a function `foo` which itself takes in a function called `intConcat` that takes in two ints and spits out string:

foo(BiFunction<Integer, Integer, String> intConcat) {
// ...
}

Notice that I have to explicitly state "BiFunction". There is also "Function" for single-argument functions, and nothing for more arguments (there are also `Runnable`, `Consumer` and `Producer` for fewer arguments in-or-out). This is because BiFunction isn't actually a function - it's an INTERFACE! Any class that implements 'apply' and 'andThen' functions with the right signatures will satisfy it, and can be passed in. You can make your own class and Java will happily accept it into this method.

Java then just adds some nice syntactic sugar to make stuff look like functions. E.g., if you do want to define an anonymous lambda like

(x,y) -> "" + x + y;

What happens under-the-hood is that Java defines an anonymous BiFunction class. You can assign it to a variable and do everything you would want to do with an object:

BiFunction<Integer, Integer, String> bif = (x, y) -> "" + x + y;

I can call bif.toString() and all those other default methods defined on objects in Java. It's really not a function, it's an object holding a function:

BiFunction<Integer, Integer, String> {

String apply(Integer x, Integer y) {
return "" + x + y;
}

// ...
}

and if you were to go and implement your own BiFunction as above (filling in the blanks) - you could pass it around exactly the same places as your "anonymous lambda" and it would work exactly the same way because it IS the same thing.

Like I said, a very object-oriented approach to functionality.
Ask HN: Are there “Laptops” that just take HDMI and USB input?
So I was wondering if there are any types of laptop style docks.

Where you can have a desktop in another room but use it with a 10 metre hdmi cable and usb cable for keyboard and trackpad?

The use case seems a bit niche so I was wondering if anyone has seen any products that do this or have tried them
1 - Hardware acceleration can be used if you use the right virtualization tool.

2 - Not really. On paper perhaps. On real life not really. I had Apple support live via screen-sharing and it was about my app (well, my client's app) on their store. They couldn't care less that I was running High Sierra on a VM. Maybe because the project I was working on was a successful app that was bringing revenue to them (and my client as well)? In the end money talks.
I didn't quite have this harsh of an outlook, but I also immediately scrolled to see what "paid" versions there were as a "seriousness" check. That's interesting.