skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a strategy to move politics acceptable lines: present extremely radical thinkers in the media, as editorialist, then the originally radical ones will seems moderate.

To be fair, the conservative started this, at least in France. Now the liberals adopted this around 2017, helping first the regular right then the "center right" getting elected when the regular right got caught red-handed stealing money (i'm simplifying here).

The communists use it now, it is only fair. And i hope anarchists will start too. That's why i'm sneering at "defund the police": it is not extreme enough. "Abolish the police" should have been the initial demands, with defunding an acceptable compromise. But anarchists are not organized enough to make good media strategies.
I could be wrong but I think the following scenario is worth considering. Let's say a client wants to transact money from bank A to bank B. The following steps are taken:

1. Client initiates the transfer request.

2. Bank A decreases the client's balance.

3. Bank A sends the request to transfer money to bank B.

Now, I guess you would expect that steps 2 and 3 should form part of a DB transaction. This however does not really work because it is unclear what conclusion we should draw from step 3 failing. On one hand, it is possible that the request failed on its way to bank B, in which case step 2 should not be applied. On the other hand, it is possible that the request successfully reached bank B but the response got lost on its way back. In this case step 2 should be applied.

Therefore, not treating steps 2 and 3 as a single transaction makes sense if you want to take a conservative approach that does not allow for accidental transfer of infinite amounts of money to bank B in scenarios when the response fails to come back from an otherwise successful transfer.
Assuming you can believe the SPD, the rape calls are already coming in.
Your first job will give you lots of new and important experience. My advice would be to ask questions and say you don't know when you don't know.

When you get the answers make sure you learn from them.

Other than that - enjoy it! I much prefer my working life to my college life.
If Trump didn't know, I suspect that he had adopted the phrase from someone in his circle who does know - can imagine him thinking 'sounds like a catchy way of threatening consequences; I'm going to bust that out next chance I get.'
Wasn’t there a problem where mongo would literally lose records under high loads ?

There was an article on it about it a few years ago.

Did they fix that?
This is like saying 'yes' exists in all languages because there's an equivalent in every language... It's... a bit clikbaity
It took me a few second to look up that (｀ﾟдﾟ ) test in my brain...man it’s been a long time
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People at tiannamem square protested. Tanks turned up and refused to run them over

People in nyc protests, police officers ran them over

Maybe China is worse than the US, but there doesn’t seem to be as much in it as there was 30 years ago.
Right, that is why I said bad national security can lead to wide scale disaster.
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I think of it a little differently. I think as long as their is a potential to exert political power via the internet, then governments will strong-arm companies into doing their bidding.
ACID, that's Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability, right? :)
This actually looks pretty interesting.

They started out as an SVG engine for set-top boxes (embedded devices running on TV's) since browsers at the time weren't fast/light enough for the underpowered chips in set-top boxes. Then when the devices got better chips, they realized perf still wasn't good enough for big 4k screens – and that multicore rendering could help.

So they've implemented a full HTML/CSS/JS browser from scratch, all to take advantage of a multicore architecture (today's browsers all render on a single thread) which has enabled (they claim) greater than 4x better framerate during web animations than the stable channels of Chrome/Blink and Safari/Webkit. Oh, and 60% faster layout on a quad-core machine.

They also claim "extremely low memory consumption", which would be quite appealing to many HN'ers I think, though that may only be true of their HTML engine and not of the full browser (eg; when using multiple tabs and hungry JS apps).
Or you can use Ansible-pull.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.htm...
Photoshopping an armed man into a photograph from days ago and implying it was an on-the-ground example of the area is more than a little egregious.

If this resembled the current situation even remotely, they would have simply used one of the many photos from the countless on the ground photographers.

Saying this is a non-story is absolutely mind boggling.
Ayyy the main reason I named my App Store company Sweatshop : https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/sweatshop/id974916840
Indeed, it’s a major tourism draw in Beijing, why would it be censored?
كوبون خصم اسوس 30% واكثر
خصم فعال الى جميع عملاء اسوس يصل الى 35% على اى قطعة من القطع من ازياء واكسسوارات و غيرها عبر كوبون خصم اسوس 30% خصم و اكثر لجميع المتسوقين والزوار
Nobody is going to disagree that the US treats its citizens better, but we're talking about country's foreign influence here. China doesn't cripple the economy or bomb other countries they disagree with.
I don't disagree with you in general but I wanted to say why I feel comfortable enough with Apple's approach. I looked at the privacy statements for Apple's health apps and the 3rd party sleeping apps. It is my understanding that all data stays on my watch and iPhone unless it is encrypted. My understanding is that only I have access to this data.

I would like to share some data with my doctor and insurance but I want that under my control.

EDIT: just wanted to add that I am also in general deathly against IoT devices re: tracking. I read Surielance Capitalism and took the book seriously.
Per the linked article in OP:

>They recorded bits of informal conversation from 31 dialects across 5 continents and suggested that the word ‘huh’ (and its variants) is possibly a universal repair initiator that exists in all languages, performs the same function and sounds roughly the same across languages.

It is apparent that they were aware that it isn't pronounced the same in all languages (because of course it isn't), but that it's a possible universal repair initiator that sounds similar. The title of the article is linkbait, I agree, but the article explains better.
Decision making on Chromium is pretty seperate from Google - there are lots of subsystems where the final technical say is with a non-Google employee.
it's because americans have a lot of money (collectively) that they can enjoy having high morals

History disagrees with you. America was founded by people with high morals and no money.
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Ekioh have been working on browsers for years, this is new in the sense that it's a rewrite of their previous one. Still an amazing achievement though.
PostgreSQL still the best sql though :-)
Thanks for the links. I was looking everywhere for the information that ended up being in the "quirksmode" post. So far that post has had the most value in answering questions.
I’ve had pens leak 2-3 times while on flights. Several of the pens I use can be closed up for when you fly. But sometimes I forget.
A kind of ‘Magic’:One nerd’s quest to shake up video games and create $1B market
You can find a lot of company, inspiration and resources at https://geekhack.org/ .
Yes that's true, but turning it around: the task is too big (and also sucks too much) for one person to do mostly alone. And also like, why?

There would've been a more active community of companies depending on it and it wouldn't have blocked out on him if it had maintained the momentum it had.
Spamming was not my intent. I agree that spamming “is it ok if I” and “should I” emails is definitely bad. I do think that communication is an incredibly important focus for new hires though. Confirming what they are hearing, asking questions, setting expectations (verbally or written). I think those things go a long way.
The best Smalltalk is Objective-Smalltalk.

It's a beautiful way to go up and down the ladder of inference.

Basically—Objective-Smalltalk is based on Objective-C which is a superset of C. It's like having the two worlds coming together at the same time.

Does it miss some of the beauty of a totally integrated system like Squeak? Sure. But that's kind of the beauty too. Can we make an Objective-Smalltalk takeover?

http://objective.st
The American processed food industry uses very cheap ingredients that inherently taste awful, but they get us to eat them by adding salt, sugar, and fat, all of which Americans are semi-addicted to.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/26/172969363/ho...
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Boy are these good advice.

> Work friends are NOT friends.

This is very hard for people to learn, including me, but it will make you much happier.

And, I'd add something that someone else said:

8) The most important determiner of how happy you are is your choice of life partner.
The Chibitronics kits are great for kids or really anyone who wants to play with laying out circuits and components by hand. I'm not sure there's anything else in the space, but they're pretty reasonably priced: https://chibitronics.com/lovetocode/

> Chibitronics is an evolution of Jie Qi’s passion for combining technology and art through making electronics using paper craft. The circuit stickers were developed as part of her PhD research at the MIT Media Lab. Together with Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Patricia Ng, Jie’s research has evolved into the Chibitronics toolkits.
Money well spent if the fitter is actually good. I've seen some rather unconvincing results.
I stopped using Zoom right after the privacy and the Facebook data sharing issues propped up. Using Skype and Google Meets at the moment, hopefully these guys don't violate my privacy.
it is small potatoes but it's also whataboutism. the article and discussion isn't about the US. There is plenty of room to judge individual cases on their own merit. Just because this is now in the news doesn't mean we should stop discussing it or feel obligated to bring up every bad thing the US does while criticizing China/others.

I personally don't think the US is worse but I think US allies are too weak to put pressure on the US to behave in a civilized and decent way. How would the arm-chair bureaucrats in Brussels even try to mitigate this: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/international...

... we clearly need sanctions against the US but that will upset a lot of Europeans who benefit from an export economy (especially Germany) or the Poles who are ever so fearful against "Russian Agression". The problem really is that no political solutions that we could come up with is going to solve this since US will always be the stronger one for a long time. ... sanctions are a lunatic's dream which will never materialize.

Americans need to step up their own game to sort out their shit politics internally first. No point talking with them about human rights when they're treating their own poor and colored population like that (or talk to them about climate change while they're poisoning the environment in their own country e.g. Flint or many other examples). Problem isn't bad foreign policy but too many truly evil people are in power their, and the general population seems to have abandoned all contact to reality, reason and common sense.

The current riots in the US gives me hope knowing that not everyone is a coward. (though comparing the now to the US of the 60/70ies it is a nation of cowards). While the riots are for a "just" cause (literally reforming the police) they won't solve the US attitude toward other countries ... They still cheer for characters like Hillary Clinton, Obama, Biden, Bush and Trump. And their ignorance against "muslims", or calling poor nations "shithole countries", (again just look how they treat their own poor/homeless).

There is no way that either republicans or democrats will solve this anytime soon. The current system (power structures) needs to burn down first (figuratively) before it can be rebuilt.
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If the tool isn't free, why would one expect freedom using it?
I was talking about it at the peak of that momentum. This is a common problem in open source: companies often don’t contribute or only support specific things they need. It’s much harder to get general ongoing contributions even if that would make the entire community better off long-term.
I wonder if the not-drying-up is to do with the ink solvent mixture?

It has a different smell to other inks.
My experience is that most project managers take a non-probabilistic approach.

Say you have your usual list of breakdown tasks and assign a time/budget estimate for each in terms of “low”, “most likely”, and “high”. The intuitive answer is to sum up the “most likely” for your total estimate. However, this ignores the probability that a delay in one task affects others.

Instead, if you take into account the covariance relationship between tasks (using historic or simulated data) you often find that “most likely” summation has a quite low probability of being met. For the org that applied this, there was a less than 20% chance we’d meet or best that intuitive estimate. No wonder we were chronically over budget and over schedule!
"maximum statutory penalties" are not indicative of "worseness" of a crime. They are usually placed very high to give judges flexibility, and are somewhat arbitrary, but they don't represent the average/median sentence handed down.

Also, there is no single "illegal immigrant" law or sentence, but I'm certain there are some laws violated by illegal immigrants that carry the same meaningless unused "maximum statutory penalty".

It is a common news media blunder of quoting the "maximum statutory penalty" - which is almost always irrelevant.

Having said that, in this case, if it's a political/espionage arrest then they might in fact use it either in negotiations with the Chinese or in sentencing to pressure for more cooperation.
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I did a contract at HSBC in the past. Some teams are good but there are people who will install things out of the box and leave it.. even in a billion dollar company like HSBC.
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And at least the one they claim for German ("häh?") is a general expression of "I don't understand", but it doesn't mean "can you repeat that?", it means "I don't understand", which you'd say if you don't understand e.g. an explanation. If you didn't understand somebody because you weren't listening, they are mumbling or there was a noise, you'd say "Wie bitte?" or something similar, not "häh?"

I suppose if you widen the concept of "is the same" enough, you'll find all sorts of words that exist in all languages. Sure, they may sound different, they may not really convey the same meaning ... but they exist!
Zoom is not a Chinese company in the same way that Huawei is not an arm of Chinese intelligence.
In some situations, yes, but you can say yes and no. 是 (shì, roughly translates to "is" in most situations) and 不是 (bú shì, no is). It's definitely not as cut and dry as the English yes and no, and it gives Chinese kids hell when they're learning English (I taught there for 6 years).
In the US they clear overnight, as I understand (from a previous hn post I can no longer find) it's a big sftp server and flat files.
I have quite a few fountain pens - a few that are somewhat expensive, but my top tip is TWSBI. They make unreasonably good pens with large reservoirs.

Another tip is Noodlers Ink’s fast-drying “Bernanke Blue” ;-)
Start saving money now and planning for retirement now. The earlier you start the more of an advantage you have.

Stick to the 50/30/20 rule: When paid, put 50% into an account for bills, 30% into a savings account, and 20% into an account for spending. Setup auto-billing and never touch bills and savings accounts. Live on less than 50% income and let the extra money in bills account roll over as additional savings.

Once you’ve saved one year’s living expenses, invest new savings into an index fund. Saving one year’s living expenses should only take 1-2 years if you’re living on 50% or less of income and saving 30%.

If you stick to 50/30/20 and grow your income, by the time your 30 you’ll have at least $250k if you only earn $60k, but probably over $1,000,000 if you increase your earnings over that time.

If you start planning now you can retire by 35-40 just by working a job and being financially disciplined.

I could go into more detail with a financial plan, email me (in my profile) if you want more info.
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I don’t have any trouble with the three bottom thumb keys in the cluster, but the top three aren’t very useful. I’ve remapped them to media or macro shortcuts that I don’t use while typing.
Be open to opportunities and do not reject anything based on face value or your comfort zone. Also, friends at work are not your friends so keep your friends talk to yourself.
While personally I applaud this new-found freedom for women, and while I hope we'll figure out ways to adapt, I do share your fear to a slight degree. Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I really think we can adapt.

I think most of my worries stem from an increase in reactionary politics combined with a growing group of young, 'have-not' males. That seems to me like a particularly bad combination.
So, I've seen circuit boards with ground planes before, but what I don't quite understand is: why are the holes that are connected to the ground plane connected by two small traces (i.e., are surrounded by two C-shaped cut-outs), instead of just being drilled directly into a solid, uninterrupted ground plane?
I've been to Chichen Itza and a few other Mayan sites but until I read this I didn't know of the Mayan numeral system.

Being base 20 it gets complicated for high numbers[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_numerals[1]
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In simplified Chinese: 哈哈哈！
Agreed.

On the topic, sí seems to be yes, but backwards.
Smalltalk became Objective-C.

Objective-C has informed Swift.

Long live Smalltalk.
The big downside to going too-far down that road too-quickly is that it might put China in a corner financially. I don't think anyone wants it to get to that point because isolating them quickly will definitely escalate tensions and maybe even war.

Rather: Determined and solid pressure should be put on any expansionist and growth policies that China may have. Reduce and starve them of critical imports, slowly make their businesses un-competitive with tariffs and increasing regulatory requirements for companies that want to do business with China.

Of course, the response to those sorts of suggestions is that they'll buy ill-will from the Chinese people and grown division even further. Agreed, but at this point, that's guaranteed and no matter what we do it'll grow. E.g. Leave it alone and China's authoritarian and technocratic social policies will increase Chinese peoples' division from the West if not downright hatred. But if you intervene, then you're being unfair to the Chinese people that want access to the West in various forms.

What is constant is that China is big threat to global stability and we should be reducing their power so that the eventual conflict is lessened. I don't think we can hope for a "the Chinese people love the world and want peace enough to go against their government" scenario. We're way passed that I would argue. I'm sure a lot if not almost all of the German people wanted peace and weren't anti-semitic, but that didn't stop an authoritarian government from steam-rolling their dissent and turning it into blind compliance. And that was without any large-scale technocratic indoctrination and control mechanisms, just plain propaganda.
> multicore architecture

This works if browser is the only application that runs on machine. So this is limiting possible use cases (like Electron) quite a lot.

> low memory consumption

Sciter's Quark (https://quark.sciter.com) - 5 MB binary and 28 MB RAM by default is probably the lowest what you can get for HTML/CSS/script engine.
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Beautiful use of strong language.
"the n-word"
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Looks nice thanks for sharing! Is there a way to export my data? For info I might need for decades I'd want to have my own personal backup of it.
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I was under the impression that ACID3 no longer represented the web standards as documented by W3C, and a fully compliant browser should in fact fail ACID3?
But isn’t this the case for more than just “huh” ? For example, expressing pain (eg “ouch”) exists in all languages as well, although they all have to be translated as well.
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I use an ErgoDox EZ exclusively. I have fairly big hands and can comfortably hit 3 of the thumb keys on each side and regularly use them.

The other 3 aren't really reachable in a typing "stance" but can be used for functionality that is unrelated to typing but is useful to have dedicated keys for; for instance, I have one that is set to Win + Shift + Q which closes the currently active window in my i3wm setup, and a couple others I use for setting and going to code bookmarks in PyCharm.

Here's my current layout: https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/ergodox-ez/layouts/7JV4o/la...
Finland was still teaching "curly writing" until a few years ago, but it was with pencils for the last few dozen years.
is it not enough to just focus on high level objectives like what you you, when you eat, when you sleep, your social activities, and reducing high level stresses? it's kinda cool reading about the really indepth analyses around health, but they strike me as overkill in some ways. I'm probably bias by my own lifestyle howefer
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Out of curiousity, is your dislike for first person any different when you listen to a story instead of read it?
But it's a commercial product, so it's not that interesting.

Also, any modern web browser should be written in Rust, not C or C++.
Queuing theory is a branch of mathematics. It is useful, in a software context, for things like predicting server capacity and predicting response times of programs. It is also regularly used to predict things like hospital wait times.

Here is a very good introduction, I hope you can learn something new from it (:

https://github.com/ndvanforeest/queueing_book/blob/master/qu...
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Hmm, I think that would be “hein ?” then, without the question mark “hein” can have a lot of different contextual meanings that are quite different from “huh”.
> A quick note about the score: Acid3 dates back to 2008 and the web platform specs have changed over time so a perfect score, using the version hosted on acidtests.org, is now only 97/100. The version hosted on the web platform tests site has been updated to match the specs and so, using that, browsers should score 100/100.

From the archived blog post