skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not even talking about democracy and its pros/cons. Just commenting about the situation and projecting the future of Taiwan.

I respectfully decline to respond.

Please don't start a flamewar about democracy vs. authoritarianism. It is a tiring, exhausting process where there would be no new information or insightful discussion that would emerge out of it.
>There was a twitch-like platform for live coding once, but obviously it flopped.

I went searching for that exact site and couldn't find it (or maybe I did but regardless it was dead). I actually used it for about 5 maybe 10 minutes once upon a time because I thought the concept was cool. Watch me create a SaaS service on the fly. 3 minutes into it, I'm realizing I'm about to type in public IP addresses, log into secret management systems, pull data out of a CMDB which gives up a bunch of my internal system data... So I thought to only share a single monitor and use my second monitor for privacy related tasks. But then people can't see what I am doing and for long periods of time while i'm gathering CMDB data, no one sees any coding going on. At the end of the 10 minutes, I had about 12 viewers so I'm sure if I was doing somethign worthwhile it would increase a decent clip..

But live coding without planning is a security nightmare. Someone I knew once live coded their programming "homework" for a position they applied to and then shared their coding session with the interviewers. That takes the cake. He was hired on the spot, probably because he wasn't afraid to show his mistakes.
I smirked reading your linked text. Commonsense required though.
Neuroscience shows that our gut instincts about only children are right (2017)
A reducing labor population really won't help the working class.

First of all, you'll be able to kiss your retirement bye bye.

Second of all, you would likely see decline of the economy in real terms. This will cause huge dysfunctions in capitalism, as there will not be an efficient way to invest.
You can smell rain (2018)
I have to agree. Of course the requests in this sketch were obviously silly and not doable when taken literally. But my experience is, that the requestor of a new feature often has big problems communicating that request. It could be that the requestor describes something, which sounds almost as silly and contradictional as those seven lines, the actual request is something different, which actually makes sense. But just is completely badly communicated.

It is important to rule out miscommunications. Contradictions often are not obvious to the requestor. It also helps to understand, which of the contradicting requirements can be dropped to resolve the problem. Sometimes the problem is just a small feature which made it to the requirements, because no one considered it a problem.

That doesn't mean, I haven't gotten requests which were as silly as in the sketch and had discussions along the lines shown :) And of course, I never hesitate to speak up about actual issues.
To be fair to the other person, China alone (in which neither Netflix nor YouTube are widely available) is almost 1.4 billion people. That could easily be part of their calculus, though I guess you could argue over the meaning of “several” in this context.
Show HN: Chrome DevTools based repl for both Node.js and browser
Likewise, and I'm loving Bitwarden so far!

Although I'm using the dockerized rust API (1) for self-hosting it, and so far it's been working great for months!
I am keeping a close eye on the container, and backing up the data hourly to ensure I don't need to worry about loosing anything.

(1): https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs
„Platforms will have to provide 30 days notice to publishers before removing content from stores“

This happend to me a few times with one particular app on Google Play Store and a company I worked for.

In all cases the app was removed from the store without any prior notice and very limited information on why it was removed in the first place.
To make it worse, it took days to get a reply back which felt to be build out of predefined text blocks and did not address the questions nor solution.

Apple on the other hand always provided great feedback and offered solutions and never simply took an app from the store.

Hence I welcome this change greatly.
Also noteworthy, the apps in question were absolutely clean and were to please the users.
No spam, spy, advertisements boosters.

Lets just hope this 30 day rule does not apply to the numerous bad apps, those should be removed more quickly and in fact not even approved in the first place.
Ah, that's the one. I have misremembered it slightly...
In any case, this can be done now with a helper class used as a decorator.

>>> class At:
__slots__= 'fun',
def __init__(self, fun):
self.fun = fun
def __matmul__(self, arg):
return self.fun(arg)
def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
return self.fun(*args, **kwargs)

>>> @At
def square(x):
return x*x

>>> square(2)
4
>>> square@2
4
Surprised at the push back in here. Telling people they should consider getting a trade skill rather than a 4 year college degree that is semi-useless isn't that controversial on HN typically. Could it be because it's coming from the current administration and everything they do is 'bad' ?
We have a good enough understanding of capitalism to know that the average person will not benefit from a shrinking labour pool. You have no clue just how devastating a shrinking population would be to an economy where the real average wage hasn't increased in 40 year.
Quoting Netlify's community manager's response:

> Unfortunately, we had to restrict access to our service for protonmail (and a few other email providers) some time ago (more than two years - it is not a recent change)

> We found that, when we allow protonmail email addresses on our system, we experience an extreme uptick in accounts with spam, fraudulent activity, phishing, illegal (by US law) pornography, dmca violations, and things of that nature. The extent was so severe that our paying customers, search engine results, and legitimate business side of things were being negatively impacted. We understand that blocking an entire email provider is quite drastic, but it was the only way to mitigate the impact on our service.

> I don’t have information on hand at this second as to which email providers are on our list of frequently abused services, so you might find that one of those providers you listed does work, but unfortunately protonmail does not and likely will not be unbanned as the security risk is simply too great.
Could you explain the snippet in plain English? Thanks!
A simple 20$ Moka machine does brilliantly the job.
At 60:1 contention ratio (which used to be BT’s standard for home ADSL), you’d be able to squeeze 1,200 Gb plans per satellite.
It’s an interesting question why we focus so much on algorithms that are mostly not used on a day to day basis, but the topic of persistence that’s everywhere and which is often only partially understood is far from being this prominent.

I remember a stint in research, about data analytic non the less, where rarely anyone had a good grasp of SQL or any other way to persist data for that matter. It really puzzles me to this day.

Might be me finding most ORMs to be harmful if used without understanding of the underlying technologies.
> It's definitely better than JSON

k8s API supports JSON almost exclusively, basically one could write in Whitespace then convert to it.
All kinds of mobile users are definitely in play too. Trucks, cars, yachts, tankers - all need a connection, and in the middle of the ocean or in the Siberian plains you don't have many options.

My friend is right now swimming under sail somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and she'd definitely benefit greatly from an affordable high speed internet connection.
Yes, this is exactly what this does. "Lane assist" does the steering.

I think the good think that Tesla does though, is having a simpler package for all of that. German makers can't keep but making 5 different systems that you can (or not) combine so they can charge more $$$.
List of wrongs according to author:

* EFF currently takes money from Facebook and Google. Money comes from donations and strange payments resulting from litigation (settlement? judgement? case names?)

* Founders of EFF were rich guys with "bizzjets"

* Early sponsors included large monopolists like IBM, MCI, Bell, AT&T, and Microsoft

* EFF moved HQ from Cambridge to DC instead of investing in regional offices to build a grass-roots movement

* After DC move, EFF hired Jerry Berman who previously helped "turn the ACLU into a big business lobby" and also "helped craft the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act" which is the statutory origin of the pen trap (metadata without warrant).

* EFF and Berman helped design "Communications Law Enforcement Assistance Act" of 1994, which requires companies to build infrastructure for wiretapping (with warrant).

* Non-specific "lobbying for ISPs" after moving to SF

* EFF did not join 2004 letter asking Google to delay gmail launch because of privacy concerns, and deflected criticism for this. EFF staffer $W occasionally parroted Google corporate talking points.

* CA state senator Figueroa proposed legislation that would essentially ban Google from having algorithms read emails. EFF attacked Figueroa, "painting her as ignorant and out of [her] depth". Author of the attack pieces was EFF staffer $W, who left the EFF for Google shortly after this episode.

* EFF collaborated with large companies to oppose SOPA. Their public communications used language similar to corporate communications on the same topic.

* EFF's position is "corporate surveillance neutral, government surveillance bad." Evidence is lack of attention to corporate surveillance, and (ineffective) public condemnation of government surveillance. Also former staff statements confirming this view.
Hacker news section however is not rational nor logical whenever topic of relationships comes out.
US economic policy has an almost null correlation with public demand (and interest, really.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler#Application...

The persian qanat/windcatcher architecture would be easy to spot well after the fact, but although we do know the spaniards in Alta California would hang woven bags in their courtyards to promote evaporative water cooling, because textiles decompose so quickly we wouldn't have known if all we had were their ruins.

https://www.moonrandolphhomestead.org/homestead-journals/201... is an example of something which my great grandmother had told me about, but I've never seen in practice.

(one of these days I hope I may put into practice the knowledge about how to safely crank-start an automobile.)
What's broken are humans. For some psychological reason, a thing that looks unfinished gets much higher quality feedback than something that looks polished. There's no way around that flaw in people, so making prototypes look unfinished is something we have to do anyway!
> contributing nothing locally

Someone earning $10 a day online from overseas sources is contributing far more than a local worker.
The big thing in Aito is still, that it is 'modelless'. You don't need a prepared model to do a prediction, because the model is done ad hoc / lazily for the query. It is a much easier workflow, because you don't need to care about the models and you can have very free format / templated queries like this:

predictCaseFieldForCustomer(customer, department, case, predictedField) {
return aito.query({
from: f'customer-$customer',
where: {
$on : [
{ case : case },
{ department : department }
]
},
predict : predictedField
})
}
Burger King’s new ad is blowing up in the ag community – and not in a good way
Keep in mind that the three best selling cars in America are pickup trucks, and pickup trucks aren't cheap [0].

[0] https://www.edmunds.com/most-popular-cars/
> But you can't curl the state of your infra component without creating a program and downloading the client artifacts. This is a very big step backward from an operability standpoint.

You can still do this because the gRPC API is also exposed via REST.
The example yaml file contains cpu: 1024, but the text says deploy on 1 cpu?
I thought so too, but birth control is so common, day after pill, etc that I don't think it will matter much, unlike the old days. I'd love to be wrong though.
How does this go ? do you explain frontally or do you just quit without explanation ?
SoftBank Exploring Sale of Arm
That statement that you refer to regarding the instructions for transcendental functions in 80 bits doubles is the result of the way the hardware and the microcode for these functions are implemented. Internally, out of 80 bits, 64 bits are available for mantissa and the steps for calculating the result accumulate the error, and then the last two bits in these transcendental functions are "noisy" which was still very good for its time. And it was documented.

But that's still only for the "convenient" input range for the implemented algorithm.

In practice, the programmers sometimes want to pass the values from the less convenient input range, and then it got much worse when the library functions in high level languages have expected too much from the implementation in the processor:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underesti...

The resulting problem in the high level implementation described described was blind belief in the wrong (in not correctly stating the input range) documentation by some that then implemented the C library functions for some environments, only a few years ago:

The Intel's documentation was "buggy. By claiming near-perfect accuracy across a huge domain and then only providing it in a tiny domain Intel has misled developers and caused them to make poor decisions."

And it was fixed in 2014:

https://software.intel.com/blogs/2014/10/09/fsin-documentati...
Good thing that high-speed rail and other land transport infrastructure is being built in order to connect the entirety of Eurasia and eventually Africa, with sufficient throughput to feed multiple US economies.
A benefit I have found since switching to wireless (5G) broadband is that uptime is significantly better than it was with my old cable connection. The fibre/cable internet would randomly go down for an hour or so, probably once a month on average - and that's just the times I was home and noticed.

But the mobile network almost never goes down. If something happens to a given cell tower/base station, the connection will seamlessly switch over to another. Performance might degrade a bit but you probably won't notice. There is built in resiliency/redundancy with less single points of failure. I imagine a network like Starlink will be the same.
It's open source. You can always start your own fork, no?
A lifetime of free food and board.
The Kubernetes podcast explained just last week how moving etcd from HTTP to gRPC allowed a large gain in scalability
> "informing everyone of a truth" that doesn't accurately reflect -- of even contradicts! -- reality?

Isn't Truth == Reality by definition?
Also, adding this log to the commit message itself, to preserve context for future developers reaching that code. Duplication might be necessary for discovery depending on the tools used.

https://dhwthompson.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit
Design System Interview Questions
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23841492 for FAQs. Summary: SpaceX are bringing out broadband for folk in remote areas / some progress has been made.
I despite such level of hyperbole, I would just twist all those sayings if I lived there just to mess with people: "This sushi is so non-life changing! Still worth it tho" "This kebab is not to die for, but definitely at least to suffer for!" "This shoes are the best, not like with capital B but still the best"
> I'm still not certain about anything.

You captured a facet of climate change I feel few can properly articulate. Modeling and digesting complex systems is incredibly difficult and at this point I share the same position.

It seems to be we have no clue how severe the impacts of climate change will be but based on gut feelings we are in for the same problem as technology development.

> We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.[0]

[0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara)
I don't mention water.

edit: poking around, this seems to be some reference to an American college commencement speech. I'm not an American, so I didn't get the cultural allusion, sorry.

Point of fact, I don't swim in your water at all. Any assumptions you may choose to make about the cultural perspective, skin colour, second language, religious tradition(s), countr(ies) of birth/residence/affiliation/upbringing, nationality of parents and/or in-laws, immigration status, education, newspaper subscriptions, food and musical preferences, or political leanings influencing my worldview are likely flat wrong.

Contraception is not dysfunction, and this is neither a parochial, nor (what-americans-call-"liberal") liberal assertion.
https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/the-real-danger-of-chinas-na...
Yes. It's called Chingari. Since the ban, downloads have been shooting up. It's now 2M+ or so downloads while being no where near as polished as TikTok UI
I'm not sure having children so you won't be lonely in old age is a good thing.
Grant Imahara AMA Video (2011)
>>This means there are 100 million girls less today in these countries alone

Actual numbers are way off the real numbers.

In my kids school you can see a very noticeably difference in the count of boys and girls in any standard and section. It's noticeable to a point, if you walk in to a classroom you can see at least visually boys outnumber girls by a good enough difference.

I also refuse to believe this due to infanticide or foeticide. The dirty little secret is at least in most urban centers, even tier 2 cities, these practices are dead today. You can't blame these practices for the difference anymore. How then is the difference arising?

Again on a pure anecdotal evidence basis, I see people who have boys tend to have more boys. That is male kids are born more to families with more male kids. Also having the first kid as a boy couples tend to go in for more kids. On the other hand these days if some one had a daughter as the first child they don't even bother to have another child. This way boys are born way ore than. This is a huge problem. Reason being this is not wrong by any means. This not illegal or unethical. Yet it creates a larger social problem.

These problems will never go away in India as long as there are big fat wedding expenses(Pretty much entirely paid by the girls side) and dowry. And girls not allowed to take care of their parents, both in presence help and financial help.

The other part is of course due to Thyroid illness become prevalent in India. Many couples aren't able to have kids.

I expect the gender ratio imbalance to not only continue but get way worse in India. Like really to a point, where an upper middle class man wouldn't be able to find a bride after decades of searching.
Could you elaborate how that might be the case? Is the argument that the $10 will somehow trickle down into the local economy?
South Korea's leader was following orders from a cult leader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Korean_political_sc...

Germany has a huge self-inflicted migrant crisis. New Zealand seems to be heading down that path.
They "consider" it?
Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states
I really loved watching Grant on Mythbusters, his love of building robots and automated _things_ was truly a joy to behold. Going to miss your contribution to a better world. Thank you.
Curious - why they did not pump out all the fuel from the ship? 3500t of fuel can a lot of ecological damage, be that spilled or burned.
The other question is, what if you do not have the rocks on site?

Transportation of tons of material is not free either. Neither is spreading it on field (labor notwithstanding).

That said, if farmers are already putting tons of imported materials, this could be a matter of switching it up. But if it would be better just to not do this, the whole thing just starts to look silly and worth it only locally at best.
That's possibly the first time I've ever done a bug report :-P
Lets see where it goes #358
A different view from one engaged in parenting 3 boys (11, 9, 6):

Having kids is very little fun. It is work. But helping new people to be the best people they can be is fulfilling, joyful work.

We're having one of our roughly weekly sleepovers tonight where we all spread out cots on the family room floor. (Everyone falls asleep before me, and so sometimes I make my way online). I like this time because we have a long talk about the world as they get sleepy and settled. Now I hear all these people I deeply love breathe and shift and sleep and feel contentment. Tomorrow there will be problems to solve. As they grow older, the problems become less frequent... and more complicated.

I sure hope they continue to be a big part of my life in their adulthood, but that's not exactly why one does it.
That... would be a human rights violation.
Here's another way of thinking about this:

it's not a way of gaming the system, but a way of prompting better feedback. For instance, in a Design Thinking process prototypes are more useful when they look rough/unfinished. A more polished piece of work might result in people being afraid to break things.

I use both approaches in my work:

1) demo small, tested bits during show and tells and any meetings where the point is to demonstrate progress.
2) demo large, unfinished and barely stable pieces of work when ideating, trying to figure out the next steps

2) is hard and works only if:
- we know what the unstable parts are (because we have tests, so we know the gaps)
- we know the audience and how much context they have
From that wiki page:

> After about three to five years, the plot's productivity decreases

> due to depletion of nutrients along with weed and pest invasion,

> causing the farmers to abandon the field and move over to a new area.

It sounds like the Native Americans weren't farming the land to exhaustion then moving on and repeating the process elsewhere. They were just burning an area and letting it return "naturally" (yes I know that sounds weird). I imagine that it was also not performed on quite the same scale as it is in recent times in, say, the Amazon.
It's not actually that unusual for a country to have a shrinking population. Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, and a few other central and Eastern European countries currently have declining populations, as does Japan, some due to ageing and a drop in fertility and some due to that plus emigration. Economically and socially they've not entered into the death spiral some people seem to think will happen and are actually doing alright. Countries with declining populations due to war, economic collapse etc. are a different matter but in those cases the decline in population is a symptom not a cause. The transition to a shrinking world population will happen gradually over a period of decades and at different times in different areas of the works giving us plenty of time to for economic and social structures to adapt to deal with it. If it were to happen over night we would be in trouble but it won't.
A human being can fit into approximately 2x2 feet cylinder. I propose packing the entire accessible Universe with a human being per such cylinder stacked alongside each other with no padding/margin between cylinders.

We will thus avoid shrinking into extinction and maximally populate all available 3-dimensional space.
Volvo ECC from 1992 had 0.23, BMW had a coupe in 1938 with 0.25 and Alfa Romeo achieved 0.26 in 1952.