skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There doesn't seem to be any to prevent

I think that's the critical difference between your perspective and the perspective of people who are worried about it. China does engage in espionage, as does every other state. Every state also has tries to defend themselves from espionage, and they especially don't want to fund espionage by what is quickly becoming a near-peer adversary.

They're bothering because they think it's a problem. You don't, but you're probably also not the US intelligence apparatus whose job it is to think about this.

I'm sure if these are legitimate paperwork errors, people aren't going to be getting into serious trouble. However, security lapses and intrusions often manifest and are most detectable as, you guessed it, paperwork errors.
I did not think this actually existed outside of Ghostbusters 2.
Some people have 10 years experience. Some people have the same year of experience 10 times.
Sounds like fake it until you make it. People, especially self-taught ones, aren't going to pursue something if they believe they're bad at it. Be nice.
But the percentages weren’t what was reported. I was caught off guard by that, too. I would recommend carefully re-reading where they explain how the integer percentages come about.

Voter turnout is reported as an absolute number of voters, not a percentage of voters. Those numbers aren’t round. Conveniently, when you actually go to calculate the percentage, a lot of them come out the same. They go into more detail explaining how unlikely this is, and how it can’t really be a result of humans rounding real numbers.
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"You list a whole pile of things that when looked at slightly differently are net negatives"

Granted, but that's true of almost all of any politician's work. Kinda makes the point that it's not all bad, eh?

"America's reputation in the world" - give me a break. Out here, in the rest of the world, we don't really care. America really isn't (or ever was) the bright shining light the world looks to.
I am assuming there are ways to turn off health checks to “ Have I Been Pwned”. I never want my local password manager to do outcalls for any reason...
Show HN: Mailbrew Inbox, bundle newsletters in a single email
Before presidential election Polish state TV start to resemble North Korea
Thanks - looks fascinating!
Analysis of Russian Vote Data
It's great that life feels normal for you, not everyone is that lucky. People have already started to disobey and it isn't even winter.
The main point is that any criticism you might level against the US States for its supposed "lack of strategy", ought to just as easily be leveled against Germany. Instead, Germany is widely regarded as having a coordinated/successful strategy[1][2].

Even among the EU States with the fewest deaths / M — that is Hungary, Finland, Slovenia, Estonia, Poland, Croatia, Latvia, etc — you have comparable US States in Maine, Utah, Idaho, West Virginia, Oregon, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Hawaii.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/local-practical-apolitical-insi...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/22/8808032...
As a consumer, you want startups to build stuff up front. That way you can immediately tell if they executed correctly and you want to spend money.

Startups though don’t want to build shit. They want to pass on the risk of a failed product to the consumer. They’ll get consumers hopes up and then say “whoops, not enough people wanted this so we’re not building it too bad”

This is also why even if you do build something people might not even use it until you reach a certain level of success because consumers don’t want to invest time and money into some product that can disappear overnight.
> The last glacial period goes from 120,000 and 11,500 years ago, so the weather in Sri Lanka at the time was probably like Germany today..

When it comes to the paleoclimate of current subtropical/tropical regions during glacial maxima, the question is how the 120 meter lower sea levels impacted the local hydrology. If the endemic species continued throughout one or more glacial maxima (e.g. gorillas, chimps, bonobos in the Congo basin, orangutans on Borneo/Sumatra) then the adapted ecosystem probably remained constant. The climate history of Sri Lanka should be well documented. My intuition is that tropical rainforest is a fine assumption.
With DifferentialEquations.jl and the SciML ecosystem we used SymEngine for a long time and it was great, but we found we could have much better performance with a pure Julia ecosystem, and so we built out the ModelingToolkit ecosystem. It's been turning out great. One of the nice things is that rule simplification uses Julia's task-parallelism, so you get a lot of parallelism for free. It's really focused on symbolic derivation of high performance numerical code, like in https://mtk.sciml.ai/dev/tutorials/symbolic_functions/
From my personal experience, are you still writing things the same way you were six months, a a year, two years ago?

I look at code I wrote a couple of years ago, and not only can I identify how I would write it differently, I can identify /why/ I would write it differently - both what technique, concept, or methodology I have since learned, and how that would make the code better.

If you cannot, you have probably plateaued, like I did for a (far too long) while.
My trust in those who blame the "MSM" for everything is even lower.
My take from your post is that you now see yourself as better than the Hong Kongers you once admired when you were younger. You were never really sympathetic, you just respected HK's wealth, and the power that came with it, until you realized that they no longer have that power. Now that it's been superseded by the mainland, your respect has been replaced with disdain.

>Racism against mainlanders is rampant

That isn't racism. The vast majority of Hong Kongers are the same race as the vast majority of Mainlanders. I don't know what the correct word is.

You are ignoring the primary reason HKers are rioting. Upward mobility in HK is hampered despite it being a world-class city with a highly educated populace.

Many people in HK feel hopeless living in a society where they have to work insane hours and still can't afford property in a culture that places a very high value on owning it. Hundreds of thousands of young HKers want to leave, but can't (at least not for anywhere they would want to emigrate to).

I believe there would have been riots even if the accelerated transition was not an issue. It just happened to be the tipping point that set an extremely frustrated and angry youth population off.
Kind of. Countries have jurisdictions within them, such as states and there is the EU of course, and then countries make treaties with each other so there can be influence across countries.
This isn't enabled by default. You have to configure zsh with some optional features. I found this on Stack Overflow:

autoload -z edit-command-line
zle -N edit-command-line
bindkey "^X^E" edit-command-line

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6620/how-to-edit-co...
From the File menu, choose "Publish to the web", and then choose ".csv" format. This gives you a URL that (up until recently) you could pull with either "curl" (etc.) or from a web page (e.g., an SPA). Now the SPA thing fails with a CORS error. Other people on the web have seen it too.

Thanks!
I didn't see any accuracy comparison in the EasyOCR repo.
Another insight for me was coding the original system to have N slots. This should’ve been a red flag—why is there an arbitrary constraint there? Why allow the system to have a fixed limit there?

If you choose to go down the slots road, then you need to put in alerts and discovery for reaching slot limits—-which means monitoring and tracking them, then setting up alerts.
Indeed the versatile tomato could almost be seen historically as a calling card from the Portuguese. In Brazil one can eat Moquecas which are a spicy tomato-based stew which sometimes resemble the the spicy fish curries in the South of India. And in the US red chowder which is often inexplicably called "Manhattan chowder" is actually Rhode Island clam chowder, Rhode Island being a state with a large Portuguese population. And in Portugal itself Refogado is tomato sauce that forms the basis of many wonderful stews, soups and rice dishes there.
I've had this idea that if we could ever get e-ink displays to actually be paper like (i.e. in thickness, and bendability and hatever other features you attach to paper books) it be interesting for observant jews an people who just like books to be able to sell "placeholder" e-ink books. i.e. books filled with programmable eink pages that you can flip through like a regular book. One would download a book and program it, and then just read it like a traditional book, flipping pages as you go. once done, you download another book to it and all the pages get reprogrammed.
Facebook’s own civil rights auditors said its policies are ‘tremendous setback’
You manually run the audit, and it makes it very clear that it’s about to do an online activity:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/4438
The application does not perform this check automatically, it is a report that you have to request explicitly. There is also a warning upon request that a remote request will be performed.
> Damn, such systemic bias against non-gay person is astonishing. People downvote and don't even understand why.

Your warning was pure homophobia, nothing to do with people being non-gay.
167 tech that does the same thing is a failure of abstraction

Idea: what we're actually measuring is the speed of human reasoning vs the business value of time-to-market.
KeePassXC + Nextcloud has surplanted any other password manager for me for the last two years. The OTP integration is great as well.
In this case the DB9 connector is not just surface-mounted, as it sits on the board edge so the force when inserting it will be taken by the board, and the surface-mounted solder points are at both sides of the board so the pull force will not cause bending as it would in a plain surface-mounted connector.

My hunch is that all that makes up for it. I would be very surprised if it breaks off. I’m however not an expert beyond having repaired several surface-mounted connectors that broke off in my own computers.
This is kind of silly. The title implies “... by dumb Americans.” Sure, GDPR applies to more than just EU citizens, but why would you expect Americans to know about it in the first place? It might be more interesting to here how EU citizens explain it, or how EU citizens explain driving on the opposite side of the road.
Wouldn't you see more "mexican-hat" kind of structures everywhere if they were merely rounding to the nearest decimal/decade? In the >= 95% you can see them but otherwise they are absent or less pronounced. Then again I'm no expert.

A quick-ish search on Benford's law and election results argues that it is problematic at best to determine fraud in election results. Though every paper I see recommends more research.
That isn't correct. JP Morgan and UBS both analysed this with public data and concluded there was no correlation between severity/length of lockdown and outcomes. Not sure where you got the idea that countries with early lockdowns at 'insignificant excess deaths' in general.

Bear in mind you don't know how many people died OF covid, only those who died WITH it at the time of death, which is a totally different thing. Cases where there are no other obvious causes of death (e.g. amongst the young) are vanishingly rare.
To me, these are the big questions. It's also hard to avoid bias, since we have such strong and abstract feelings about "group technologies, such as rule of law and democracy."

Fragility is an interesting question. I think Richard Dawkins' "meme" concept needs some more study. I suspect that "rule of law and democracy" might be extremely antifragile, on some level. The institutions (courts, parliaments) can break. You can even break with the belief system. The memes will still exist though, in some form. They're hard to shake, eve if you want to.

Consider money. If society collapsed and reformed, money would certainly still exist. Even if no survivors are experts in money, it will be near impossible to shake the meme. It wouldn't be surprising if the concepts suddenly reemerge years later. Is this because money is inevitable, or is it because memes are resilient?

A lot of modern ponderings about "human nature" is framed as "nature vs nurture." Simplistically, nature is inevitable. Nurture is not. It is surprisingly (and frustratingly) difficult to nature and nurture apart, IRL.

I would reframe it as "memetic vs genetic." Group technologies are memes. They exist in, and also define culture.

This is ultimately YNH's frame for history. Up until point X in time, genes defined humanity. After point X, memes define humanity. Memetics works faster, but in a similar way.
Hi - author of the post here.

The points in the post are really about GDPR basics. I'm not actually trying to explain or interpret anything. Instead, I am mostly paraphrasing, if not merely quoting the GDPR directly (and linking to the authoritative source - check for yourself).

The more blatant example is probably the first one, about "data use" v. "data collection".

There's just no way that the statements about GDPR "missing the point of data collection" can be characterized as a misunderstanding of the text itself. The text has explicit references to data collection all over, including in the definition of the most important word, i.e. "processing".

So I think that, as these examples show, it's not really about misunderstanding on the other side of the Atlantic. I think it's more about baseless misconceptions and myths being thrown out here and there. Ask yourself: Why?

Edit: typos
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I'll second the thanks. Thanks!
Although not a fair comparison. I laughed out so loud reading the last sentence.
One of the difficulties we ran into here though was that "lambdify" was built for simplicity and not for speed. You can see this in how it doesn't support things like lamdification on sparse matrix types. A lot of our applications started with SymPy/SymEngine under the hood, but when push came to shove we had to write a pre Julia symbolic engine (ModelingToolkit) so we could more easily generate fast multithreaded sparse non-allocating functions from symbolic equations (https://mtk.sciml.ai/dev/tutorials/symbolic_functions/#Build...). SymPy is great though, it's just if you try using it on a million equations, oof haha.
There is no bad weather, just bad equipment :-)
But that’s not helpful for users of older versions. The page makes it sound like there was an upgrade fee in some cases too. I agree it’s a niche use case, but it also seems there’s no reason it shouldn’t work.
Perhaps, although given the large volume of emails the mods must get perhaps I should explain what I used the 'Web' button for and why I found it useful.

1) When browsing I have 'Show Dead' on and after reading the front page of HN I head over to the 'New' section and take a look at the submissions there. Often there are articles in that section that are just direct copies of the original article from a different site that have been posted just to drive traffic to their (the submitters) own blog. Hitting 'Web' makes it easy to spot those and where appropriate suggest linking to the original source either via an e-mail to HN or more rarely in the comments.

2) Some of the submissions on the 'Newest' section are in a foreign language. Hitting 'Web' allows me to either just skip it or hit the ‘Flag' button.

In these sorts of edge case instances knowing the source origin of the article (if any) allows me to express a more nuanced opinion or to decide when and if to flag a submission. Note - I don't (didn't?) use the Web button for any and all submissions I read or comment on but with the ones that I did use it for it allowed me to decide whether to engage, skip or flag with a single click.

I accept that the way I used the 'web' button seems to be different from the way others used it and few people some to use it at all so I'm not too fussed about it being removed.

I have great admiration and respect for the way the mods run HN so I'm not gonna fire them an e-mail over this but perhaps others DO use the web button and can chip in with their own feelings / use cases in a single place rather than the mods having to deal with several e-mails. Also, leaving it here allows Dan & co to link to this submission if/when it comes up in the future.
Music? Conversation? Toastmasters? Heck, wrestling, handball, pool.
This. Agree with all that you said.

I wonder if this will keep me stagnant in my programming chops. But at the same time I realize that expanding the chops is diminishing returns for my life from all angles, including satisfaction and finance. I have hobbies, families, communities that I serve and are expanding other non programming skills.

That being said, at the same time I also kinda don't know what is fun anymore about programming. I think for me, creating real stuffs that real people can use is always fun, but at the same time I don't have ideas. Many (useless) ideas are already reiterated over and over again by people posted on Github/Reddit.

I tried to go deeper into a specific implementation, like for example database engine or compiler. But I realized that wasn't as fun as I thought it to be.

In terms of programming, I always liked learning programming languages, but it gets old real fast. Once that is over, I don't know what else should I do. I'm thinking of learning OCaml next. Or maybe I should try other field of programming like game development. Or maybe I should just be content not doing any programming related hobbies anymore and just stick with my other hobbies.
> why would you expect Americans to know about it in the first place?

I’d expect anyone making specific public criticisms of the GDPR to have a general understanding of it and the legal context it sits in.
Pre coffee statement; no, I got the same result:
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/bernie-versus-...
https://simplelogin.io/
Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse?
I opened a ~1 hour video and saw notches in the timeline for 10 different ad breaks. This is as bad as live TV now. Ads play at the end of videos. More videos have long, unskippable ads. More ad breaks in the middle of videos.

Multiple people in my circles said they noticed this too when asked, but it could just be a fluke/some kind of group confirmation bias. Has anyone else experienced this? Or even better, collected data on it?
Most “Super Senior Principal” engineers I see at larger companies are ones that have been there for 5+ yrs, so I disagree that the best engineers always run to greener pastures.
> why would you expect Americans to know about it in the first place

These are quotes from influential people directly commenting on the GDPR, criticizing it for things they mistakenly believe it does/doesn't do. This article isn't the first to claim that these specific Americans should know about the GDPR, they themselves are claiming they know about it.
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This is how you end up with a mess.
Absolutely. The capitalist conception of closed competition and profit motive is taken virtually as dogma nowadays. However we see its many disadvantages: there are multiple companies ("teams of people") spending billions of dollars and millions of man-hours in largely duplicated efforts which lead in the end to an inferior product that what could be done with cooperation.

Imagine a combined Intel+AMD+Samsung+Nvidia behemoth pooling together their expertise. Internal competition would still exist, but for actual technical reasons now instead of market ones. One could imagine myriad ways to fund such a cooperative endeavour, which are never even tried because the current model is sacred.
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There's no fundamental difference between DM and YouTube, unless your CEO is going to make a public statement stating that even if they disagree with you, they will fight to defend your right speak. Haven't seen any such announcement.
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I don't really agree with your characterization.

I consider the most reliable evaluation of expertise is working code. Something can be beautiful, but if it doesn't work, or doesn't solve the business problem, it doesn't count. If something objectively scales, I believe that the people responsible for building it are able to build that thing that scales.

If those people learn new things, they might learn how to do the job better. But maybe better isn't what the business needed. Maybe it would be better to invest that extra talent in something else, and hire people with the original skill level (who may be cheaper) to do the original thing.

This all might sound like an apologia for not learning new things, or limited developers who can only build a few things. In some ways, indirectly, I'm arguing against an unfounded arrogance or feeling of superiority which is driven by following the fashions of programming as a pop culture. But more of what I'm trying to get at is that the "best" isn't actually required, a lot of the time. And sometimes the best can be the enemy of the good; doing things the "right" way, according to an orthodoxy, can actually interfere with getting things done. And newcomers to orthodoxies can be - usually are - the most religious.
A comparison of Pandas and SQL when joining two tables or dataframes
Same here, the setup is working great

I use Keepass2Android, which works great with Nextcloud and handles very well offline usage and subsequent merge of the database. On iOS the experience is much worse: I use KeePassium but it does not connect natively to Nextcloud, so I use BoxCryptor for that. The downside is that if Nextcloud is unreachable, I cannot see my saved passwords. Anyone managed to have a good experience on iOS?
Nobody is grading on a curve here. The whole point is that, while it is fair to criticize certain States for their lack of a clear strategy (there are only a few), when it comes to COVID, the US as a whole is not a monolithic entity, it is a collection of States.

Each State has its own government, and each government has its own infectious disease agency (each with billions of dollars in funding), a chief executive, and a legislature. People forget that individual American states have GDPs on par with sovereign countries. California is comparable to the UK, NY to South Korea, Texas to Canada. The US State with the lowest GDP per capita, Mississippi, is comparable to Portugal.

At the outset of the outbreak, the vast majority of US States initiated systematic responses comparable to that of peer nation-states. Most citizens of most states ARE demanding a clear strategy from their State governments, and that's what they're getting.

The CDC provides an advisory role, and has no authority to issue lockdown mandates, close businesses, close schools, or issue testing or mask requirements. The US States may rely on the CDC advice, but it can also choose to ignore it or supplement it with the recommendations of their own State disease control agencies. Keep in mind that the CDC and the FDA both dropped the ball multiple times during this outbreak (dragging their feet on approving new testing, flip flopping on mask policy).

While it would be awesome for the Federal government to coordinate the perfect COVID response, the US is set up in such a way that the States don't need to rely on such an ideal.
When writing unit/integration tests and they fail, consider possibility the test is wrong.

Yesterday I spent two hours researching UUID mappings in H2 and PostgreSQL and trying various combinations of annotations just to find out that I accidentally deleted last character of the hardcoded "expected" result.
Bear cub is part of the progression, about 4th grade if I remember right- that's when I quit.