skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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There is nothing wrong with using software to correct for instability; the B-2 Spirit is far less aerodynamically stable then the Max and it's only had one crash in its entire 23 year service history.

Boeing failed to provide sufficient redundancy for the MCAS system and proper training to the air crews.
I'm glad to see more stories coming out about Phoenix and Liveview.
And lyrics search sites that index songs for which they don't actually have lyrics.
It's because it's not a wheelchair, so it doesn't need to meet the regulatory standards, nor does the insurance middleman pricing kick in.
This is true for me too, I would often use Vim to basically do quick modifications, and use an IDE for refactoring/completion, and code navigation.

Recently a lot of quality plugins have been made leveraging Microsoft's languageserver capabilities to provide many of these features for NeoVim/Vim:

https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

In many cases it's better than an IDE because the code-inspection, linting, etc etc, can be done using the same exact tools as what your CI is using behind the scenes.

Also, having a languageserver for Rust/C++/JavaScript/TypeScript/Bash etc etc, all configured through coc avoids a lot of the jumping between IDEs/editors/tools to get reasonable completion and code navigation between each.
That's in GDP terms. But lots of money flow through Hong Kong. If HK was to fail and get disconnected, China will lose a significant portion of their exports. Hong Kong imported around $264bn of products from China. These are unlikely going to HK mainland but rather re-routed to other parts of the world.

It doesn't help that China is in bad terms with the U.S. and India. India is on track to become the third-world economy. China is gradually isolating itself from the rest of the world.
Columbus has been a point of contention for a while now. Regardless, corporations are not saying BLM because some tiny segment of the country thinks that. A majority of America supports the movement, and that's being reflected by PR now.

The last line of defense for conservatives is "well actually there's a silent majority that thinks otherwise" and "actually most people don't care, they're just virtue signaling". And this works well when the Fox+ apparatus are the ones creating boogeymen out of minor things like CHAZ.
_Some_ _new_ models? That's a good one.
An important factor in choosing the programming language name Ruby
OK, how about this: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/06/health/trans-teens-bathro... - right wing policies lead to sexual assault.

What about this - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/north-caro... - right-wing violence, kidnapping and sexually violating someone for taking a fucking piss.

Do you want me to spend the next 24 hours finding you news stories of right-wing violence against people minding their own business? Actually, no, you do it.

EDIT: Ooh, this one, where right-wing violence resulted in literally needing bone surgery to repair the victim's face: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/31/us/man-guilty-hate-crime-...

You try and explain to me how property damage is the same thing as murdering people in cold blood for simply existing. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/18/chicago...

What do you want to see? What would convince you that right-wing violence is a problem? Number of hate crimes?
Anyone care to explain why this was downvoted, are we discouraging a behaviour?

(I’m not affiliated with the posting, just weird to see greyed out comments here)
> This is true, obviously,

Is this a dig at Hilbert?
By the way Trevor is a founder of YC
> Christopher Columbus

I’ve been calling for the cancellation of Columbus since at least 2015. In part because he was a genocidal maniac. But mainly because it would give us an excuse to turn Columbus Circle in DC into a proper intersection.
And what happens if you drop your phone, and it's being repaired so you haven't used the app for the full trial?

And what if say, a Sasquatch, steals your phone, and your wallet, and he's using the app and delighted by it, by you've never used that app but you're still going to be charged?

What happens if the universe ends?

Apple must account for this scenarios!
Happiness, Information Alchemy, and Domestic Coziness
This can work really well with the modern tools for traffic shaping and CPU-limiting (either in browser or the OS): set budgets for things like different network profiles and run your tests in each one so you don’t have to argue about whether “good enough” on someone’s tricked-out dev workstation will be that way for a wireless user on a 5 year old device while still recognizing that these won’t provide the same experience.
Certain religions would be a more accurate way to put it than certain races.
I'm very happy to see anti-trust regulation coming down the pipe for FAANG companies for precisely like this
How to list all the targets on a Makefile
If I shoot you to prevent you from falling over the edge of a cliff, is that a fall-related death?

Causation is difficult. Obviously the answer is somewhere in the middle. I just hope that in the coming years, researchers are permitted and incentived to analyze the numbers in detail.
Aus and NZ are still in futile COVID suppression mode, so they are unlikely to be taking in a million Hongkies any time soon.

I'm sure they'll get around to it though - it will reinflate their property markets which have sagged a bit this year.
Train models which clean noise from pictures
A Number Theorist Who Solves the Hardest Easy Problems
They used to run on OpenVMS. I don't know if that's still the case.
The US needs to join the UK and be vocal in support of the Hong Kong people.
And no local government is giving property tax breaks.
Hi gvpmahesh, I think your application was lacking a proper resume. Try to re-apply with either a proper resume or a link to your linkedin. A ink to your GitHub would be appreciated as well.
I'm also curious about this, and interested in a review from someone who has been in the field longer to see how much the advice here rings true. 40 dollars isn't a huge ask for a book, but it's above an impulse buy.

[edit] Rearranged some words for clarity
I rarely have encountered an employer that is truly - actively - trying to avoid like-me bias. If they were even remotely successful, your interviews wouldn't almost always be constructed of 3 races... and various teams at orgs wouldn't have such wildly lopsided demographics.
Injected semiconducting polymer nanoparticles rescue vision in retinal dystrophy
US Employment on Recovery Amidst Corona Virus Scare
India, ruled by some big(!) heads who doesn't understand a dot in technology. They are governed by impulsive decisions of the policy makers and it's a name sake democracy. No real freedom of speech is allowed there AFAIK. Govt / Private / Policing is just too much and a lot of gag order as well. They just can't stand anything and consequences could cost a life too! Technology is being used by most of the population who doesn't even know what is behind the scenes. ISPs utilise it do whatever they want and there is a ruling body known as TRAI / DOT which doesn't care to explain the rationale behind any of their decisions for blocking / banning etc., God save that country!
An overview of V8
He got very political some years ago (trump/clinton stuff) and I unsubscribed.
There was an idea floating around in 1989 to build a "New Hong Kong" in Scotland!

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11920027.scotland-could-...

Edit: I'm sure we could find a bit that was fairly similar to the scenery of Hong Kong, though not sure we can do much about the weather....
It fits every single immigrant I met here, including myself.
Trump claims he's a self-made billionaire in the same way the post-office claims they're self-funded. If all of your expenses are paid for, and you're just reaping profit, you are far from self-funded.
This page took upwards of 20 seconds to allow me to scroll (or do anything) on the page. Shockingly bad performance.

(just checked again in an incognito window, and counted 33 seconds).

I checked the network tab and weirdly it was downloading the same image over and over again. Very strange...
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I'm lost on the broken windows analogy. Projects like software are constructed from these discrete elements; criminal activity is not. Bank robbery doesn't have a dependency on littering and jaywalking.

It makes more sense from the perspective of the real life outcomes of the law enforcement policy. By making an outsized response to trivial infractions a goal divorced from measurement against the desired result, finding reasons to harrass citizens became a performance target, and the policy is widely considered to be a failure in its intended outcomes and unintended consequences. Similarly, "Always Eschew Latency" as a task level target independent of desired project outcomes is likely to result in a product that performs ahead of schedule in every way except delivery date.
> If you don't return something at the end of a contract is that theft? or piracy?

I'll take, “A routine practice of European (including states that are former European colonies) colonialism in dealing with non-Europeans”. So, like, no one would have been surprised with Hong Kong.

> We're you expecting them to go all Hawaii on the situation and just annex it?

The UK was pulling that kind of thing before the US existed, so, sure, why not? I lean, ignoring the poder balance in the región, which is the real issue.
You're not actually supposed to care about errors. It's the C tradition, YOLO.

(bash doesn't care about errors either, by the way.)
Not an answer but a data point: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/google-org-donates-2-milli...
Lots of worthwhile points here.

> And the result is that a handful of tech employees and billionaires can wield outsized influence over the dominant media channels and public forums of the entire world without any democratic input or regulatory oversight.

This is probably the biggest threat to democracy, and to 90% of the population
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To be frank phrasing it like that makes it sound like Gebru has an ulterior motive in trying to cash in books/speakers fees/consulting.

Even if sincere good faith and he has real expertise is assumed that approach kind of raises several "huckster alert" red flags.
Sure but neither do the Bowhead or Outrider vehicles I mentioned. The cheapest Outrider starts at $10k and Bowhead doesn’t even mention base pricing on their site, so a 50% reduction in cost is still really good. Although I will say that I’ve tried an Outrider and those vehicles are way more complex.

Edit: Actually I checked again and Outrider has a semi-off-road vehicle for $5k now which is pretty cool.
I've just read the table of contents and I think I want to get off this industry.
Not just that they also pressure family members that are left behind so that the defectors who left come back; then they arrest them. [0]

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/01/31/china-families-interpol-...
> The Coding will always be the easiest part of a Coding Career

I'm a little triggered by this headline. I understand what it means, and I agree there's some truth to it. It can be good advice when given to developers who haven't yet figured out that their job is not exclusively to write code.

But in my company (which is a big non-tech corporate) I've noticed that a similar phrase often gets used by non-technical people to belittle the work that software developers do. The exact wording varies, but the sentiment is basically that technical problems are easy, and can safely be outsourced to the lowest bidder, as long as there's a good Project Manager who can enforce the right methodology and processes. It's the problems that require "soft" skills that are difficult - these are the kind that Thought Leaders and Influencers work on - and we need to pay a premium for people who can solve these problems.

In reality, technical and non-technical problems are both difficult in their own ways, and both occupy a space that ranges from trivial to impossible.

In terms of career advice, I'd really suggest not perpetuating this myth. One of the tactics that the book lists is "marketing yourself", and repeating the idea that coding is easy (especially to non-technical people) undermines your career and that of your technical colleagues.
If you liked "Ready Player One", you will love it! And no spoiler, but the last scene is sublime :D
just realised the redownloading images was to do with resizing the window. no idea what was stopping the page from allowing scrolling. (this was on desktop on a solid internet connection for context).
There is some unfortunate boilerplate involved for scripting, but the benefits dramatically outweight that minor annoyance, IMO. Also, as the script accretes complexity (which happens quite often for me), the disciplined error handling starts adding more value.
Maybe I misunderstood you, but moving in USA just to have most or all the friends from your own country is not emigrating, it moving part of India in US. It is usually expected that when you emigrate you blend in with the country where you emigrated, bringing with you cultural diversity, not creating ethnic bubbles.
I don't understand this comment. People in Hong Kong don't want to be a part of the British empire. Most want to be a part of the PRC. Less than 20% want to be independent.
Yeah, it sounds like the anti-pattern here is not being up-front about whether it's free, a one-time fee, or a subscription.

Forcing all subscriptions to auto-renew doesn't fix this.

I've seen plenty of apps/services where the selling point is the fact that they _don't_ require a card for their free trial. And people renew their subscription because they've found the product to be worthwhile; not because they used it for 30 minutes then forgot to cancel.
> The Qing Empire made that contract with the UK.

You really want to set the precedent that regime change voids all international agreements, rather than obligations and rights under them passing to successor regimes?
I think this is the truth for me.

I have learned hundreds of tools and IDEs over the years, and nearly every one is defunct and not used any more.

Every minute I've invested in learning vim has remained relevant and useful.
Discovering that the Maxwell equations can be written in this succinct form is kind of mind-blowing, but I'm wondering whether it provides any additional insight? It seems like one needs to do a significant "unpacking" to actually use the equation or gain insight from it. I would love to hear an explanation of electrodynamics starting with "star ddA = J".
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None of that has anything to do with “America” or any other country for that matter; it’s simply politeness and getting he job done.
How is it in a different league? We know why the planes crashed, and we know what to do to fix it. Add some AOA redundancies, and get a new type certification that requires pilot retraining.

Safety is not a complicated goal to achieve. You identify hazards and you rectify them. The hard part is identifying them, which in this case has already tragically happened.
Creating a REST API in Deno
Here's a couple similar components I used to build an e-bike. Get at least a 1500W hub motor [i] and a high capacity battery pack [ii].

[i] https://www.amazon.com/JJBOOM-1000W-Electric-Bicycle-Convers...

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>Take-home coding assignment

That's a big No! No way I'm gonna spend my days doing someone's work for free.
Most exchanges have per trade fees, although many do offer rebates for market makers or liquidity providers.
Introduction to CSS Transitions
The sheet quantity of boards here is another problem - I'd personally much prefer a curated list, with recommendations for different use cases.
This happens all the time, and the criticisms are, in my mind, directed at policy as much as anything about the people having “totalitarian tendencies.” In Muslim countries, in particular, like Turkey and Egypt, totalitarianism is usually invoked to keep out proponents of political Islam. Erdogan was replacing authoritarians who maintained Turkey’s secular regime against a religious populace. When Egypt’s dictator fell, the people replaced him with a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Then a military dictator toppled him to restore secularism.
Don't know if it is bad form to comment on my own post, but anyway..

Guietta (pronounced gui-etta, rhymes with Henrietta) is a wrapper over QT that makes creating simple GUIs a breeze. I was inspired by PySimpleGUI, which had some great ideas but in my opinion did not go far enough. Guietta lets you literally draw the GUI in your python code, with a minimalist syntax. No QT knowledge needed. Have a look at the intro and tutorial on readthedocs (scroll to the bottom for the intro and tutorial links).

It was started as a weekend project, but turned out much better than I expected. I want to share it because, to my knowledge, there is nothing approaching it in sheer speed and simplicity to make Python GUIs.

If you find any bugs, I'll be happy to fix them, or create a pull request on github!
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New Mass Grave of Yezidis Found Near Mosul
It takes a profound lack of understanding of what free speech is all about -- or a marked preference for totalitarianism -- to be opposed to what Facebook is trying to do.

The old story: At first they came for the blacks. Then they came for the Jews. Then they came for me. Right now the Left has lots of power. But it could be some time in the future either they will lose the ascendancy or -- more likely -- the controlling element of the Left will be too extreme for most people who currently associate themselves with the Left. Then it will be too late. We need to fight against deterioration of free speech rights now, while we can.

"But this isn't about _Government_ censoring speech." Wake up. Social media IS where public speech is happening now.
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