skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are completely mistaken if you think simply complying with local laws will allow you to succeed in the Chinese market.
This has been standing practice for a while and is not connected to just Twitter. Sometimes you can find public NDR's online via bug reports and such and easily grab a service account.
I have absolutely no clue what I've done to make it work this way (if anything), but in zsh running a command with !$ (last word from the previous command) I get the opportunity to edit the interpolated version first.
They’re for dev purposes only; I think that would be testing for the wrong metric.
These restrictions are gone.
China changed their laws.
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Interesting thought but what are you trying to get across?
What is a CBOR?
supply/demand

you are right, the demand is artificially propped up by the govt. as you stated.

However, it is tied to the job market, which is more realistic, and we are starting to see the fallout where many of the colleges will be going out of business.
My friend, raise it on meta, here we are just yelling into the widn. That's where these discussions belong.

Perhaps these discussions I linked were too long ago. Perhaps after a set amount of time -- certainly measured in years -- people with a silver tag badge could vote to move the accepted checkmark and after say five such votes it would move over automatically and people with gold tag badges just could move them.
I don’t necessarily buy the idea that student loans are driving price increases, but there’s a tangible difference between subsidizing producers versus consumers (corn subsidies are generally the former, student loans are the latter).
Out of everything on the page, this grabbed my attention too. This seems to have immediate implications for how even experienced professionals train.

I'd like to become much better at math than I am now. Should I be putting a lot of effort into working out a one-on-one tutoring partnership?
The reaction should be conducted in an oxygen-free, pure nitrogen atmosphere where those compounds should be safe to handle.
"Why are so many things so much nicer in Switzerland and Japan?"

Figuring out why this is without fully attributing it to culture has been of great fascination to me. It really is mindblowing just how _good_ things are in Japan, perhaps they're just highly optimized for tourism? The cleanliness, the service, the great care people place in doing things and in their work is just amazing. Anyone here have more insights on this question? What are the non-cultural factors which contribute to this phenomenon that seemingly makes Japan an outlier?
>So reducing the commission from 30% to something more reasonable by having competing app stores would harm the consumer?

Wait until Epic gets their app store entrenched and raises their prices for Fortnite content 30% because they know people are willing to pay that already, and no matter how much they raise the price, it's always the cheapest option.
The False Logic Behind Science Denial
So because China doesn't play fair the west doesn't play fair too?
So the west becomes like China?
Guess China wins because the have proven that the west isn't any better than them.
We fell into their trap.
Agree, python import system is annoyingly configurable, and way too much libraries use these features to do magic.

I regularly have to spend some time on pandas source code just to untangle the mess of import aliases magic they do.

But the standard library is no exception, importing os will dynamically import os.path.
> Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?

> * College textbooks

I've always felt that textbook pricing is predatory and should be subject to price gouging laws.
Siri doesn't work locally.
I live in Japan, and have for about a decade.

You're bang-on when it comes to culture, but it has nothing to do with being optimized for tourism.

Japan is a very conservative country. Change happens slowly here, and Japan does a lot to ensure that people raised here share a common culture, with a strong focus on stability and harmony.

To provide some examples:

- NHK, the national broadcaster, has several series of popular programs showing life across all of Japan -- rural, urban, suburban, every prefecture. There are also programs showing Japanese people living overseas, and showing how they have integrated into the local culture. There is no "rural vs urban" divide in Japan.

- Japanese schools focus heavily on structure and responsibility. Students maintain their classrooms, clean their bathrooms, staff the cafeterias, etc. All of this is under adult supervision, but the kids do the actual work. Discipline is strong as well -- there are real consequences for poor behavior.

- Japan follows the Prussian education model. Compulsory schooling ends at 14 (9th grade). From there, you can immediately begin working, go to a trade school, or go to high school. There is also a professional education track separate from university.

- There is a strong culture around keeping families whole and raising kids as a whole family in Japan. Often the wife will move back home and live with her family shortly before and after childbirth, and there's a lot of cultural reinforcement there.

- Parents are very active in the education of their children, and the locus of responsibility is first on the child, second on the parent.

- The Koban system is fantastic. Police live in their communities, and interact with people every day. You never want to end up on the wrong side of the law -- the conviction rate is well north of 90%, and the accused have very few rights here -- but overall, Japanese police are very polite and professional.

There are downsides to this -- everything comes with trade-offs -- but it delivers a very stable and safe society.
I don't have full answers for all of your questions, but my colleagues doing Learning Science often mention this two-sigma improvement, and are working on computer-based cognitive tutors that can adapt and model what a student is learning. I vaguely recall that these cognitive tutors are at the 1-sigma level for certain subjects (primarily STEM subjects), but that was many years ago and I'm not sure of the details.

Here is one example abstract from one of my colleagues (sorry I don't have the full paper):
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-44566-8_14

Cognitive Computer Tutors: Solving the Two-Sigma Problem

Individual human tutoring is the most effective and most expensive form of instruction. Students working with individual human tutors reach achievement levels as much as two standard deviations higher than students in conventional instruction (that is, 50% of tutored students score higher than 98% of the comparison group). Two early 20th-century innovations attempted to offer benefits of individualized instruction on a broader basis: (1) mechanized individualized feedback (via teaching machines and computers) and (2) mastery learning (individualized pacing of instruction). On average each of these innovations yields about a half standard deviation achievement effect. More recently, cognitive computer tutors have implemented these innovations in the context of a cognitive model of problem solving. This paper examines the achievement effect size of these two types of student-adapted instruction in a cognitive programming tutor. Results suggest that cognitive tutors have closed the gap with and arguably surpass human tutors.
At the end of the day the gleaming platitudes of Americanism (the stuff about fairness, equality etc) start to bump up against the reality of geopolitics. It's an unfair game, and pretending that China will eventually embrace what could colloquially be referred to as the Western approach to setting up markets like this is naive at best and dangerous at worst. It's not that your loyalty is misplaced, it's that I think you've misunderstood the game being played here.
...have you considered that things are much nicer there but at great cost to the sections of people they consider "not nice?" Especially in Japan?
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reboot every 15 minutes is better, if your client is set up properly it willtolerate it. I know someone who does that by default for any BT sessions and it isnt very painful also look for a block list and keep up on IP addresses
The native apps you mention have heavy customization because they are meeting advanced professional needs. But these apps still participate in the platform's UI conventions. Menus, windows, etc. work like Mac or Windows users expect.

Electron apps are also heavily customized, but ignore platform UI conventions. The buttons may have lovely drop shadows, but basic interactions (menus, undo, drag and drop...) are routinely broken or work in some discordant, unfamiliar way. This isn't meeting professional needs; it's that web tech sucks for building actual apps.

And even if web tech improved, there's still the cultural bias towards re-invention and churn. Web dev will always cons up a button from a div and an onClick handler, no matter what the framework provides. There's no mechanism to get web apps onto a shared UI platform because the gravity of the web is dispersive.
BTW this is about Facebook.
Zuckerberg is just killing a competitor. This has nothing to do with freedom, it's about money.
Just like Epic vs Apple.
Self is a little beginner-unfriendly if they have exposure to other OO languages. In fact the OO model in Python, aside from inheritance/polymorphism, IMO provides a rather uncompelling story for why you should use it other than just naked data structures, because its implementation is too close to a dict, and it doesn't offer you good compile time/type checks (or if it does, it's not readily apparent how to take advantage of them) which will lead a beginner to lots of AttributeError
I wonder if it's reasonable to talk about some of these things separately from the rest of the economy. San Francisco can't build a bus lane, but it can build the hell out of some software. (You might argue that our productivity has gone down there too, but I'd say the social impact has never been higher.)

Maybe with "hard" infrastructure being a bit old-fashioned, or bogged down in red tape, maybe the entrepreneurial or organising or effective talent moved into other industries?

It sounds a little self-congratulatory, so I don't like the idea, but it's hard (for me) to see something like SpaceX as something other than a competent "can do" entrant into a stale old industry.

I don't know what lessons we might learn from that, though. Room for small upstart players in industries (especially around government spending) might be one.
The source code equivalent of this is a polyglot program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)

Apparently people on Stack Exchange have been working together on a single polyglot program for four years and have gotten a single codebase up to validity in nearly 300 languages.

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/102370/add-a-la...

Edit: also, Yusuke Endoh is a master at this art form

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

and has even written a book about it

http://uguu.org/words/2015_10_01.html

which I would still love to have available in English!
China's Cities Are Not as Big as They Seem
Citation? In all markets, or just in select non-essential ones?
Right before checking HN, I'd spent a few hours thinking about how to approach this very problem!

Where are you fetching or how are you determining the track IDs for each service? Is it a simple metadata search through each API, are you using some of the reference data from Musicbrainz, or is there another good source of these relationships available?

The Echo Nest used to have a great open-access API for cross-referencing track IDs called Rosetta Stone. Unfortunately, Spotify discontinued it a few years after acquiring The Echo Nest.

While I understand why the streaming platforms might think it's in their interests to make cross-service track relationships difficult to determine, I'm disappointed that Spotify shut down a useful service that really helped music lovers. From some brief searching earlier today, it looks like no one has taken up the mantle yet.
There are different questions that we have at each level in Maslow’s pyramid, and HN tends to focus on the last two levels - but that doesn’t mean the questions at the other levels are any less important. There are other site, communities and blogs that cater to people at these levels.

A one size fits all solution wouldn’t be good for any of the levels, and it doesn’t mean people are one level are any better or worse than people at others.
Wireless frequencies are a limited resources and bandwidth will always be metered, more so if lazy devs ignore efficiency.
schoen, thanks for giving it a shot!

You are absolutely right about the declension exercises: they are ambiguous. I'll add more context to the statement when I get back to my workstation.

Gratias tibi!
I visited Japan and was just astounded at how much better the society is run.

As a tourist, my obviously naive impression was of a place that is incredibly well organised, that seems to have no trouble investing in its own infrastructure, that is extremely safe and clean and generally prosperous. Where the people seem to have a sense of joy and fun.

Just. so. well. organised.

I really loved Japan. My favorite country in so many ways. I really wish I'd visited when younger and maybe lived there for a while.

I did feel unsafe and threatened during my trip there at one point when an Australian tourist became belligerent and angry when someone (not Japanese of course) stepped ahead of him in a queue. I felt ashamed at his behavior.
> the sole reason is that everybody who works for the Chinese government owns an iPhone.

Not only that, a large portion of iPhones are manufactured in China, which sustains enormous supply chains and jobs there.
> The primary problem with this is that people don't get to make up their own definitions for words, and force those definitions on the rest of society.

Do you think that certain communities should not have their own dialect? Or do you think that if a member of such a community happens to use said dialect outside of the community and later clarified the specific definitions of the words that they used, they should not be given the benefit of the doubt?

> that it's a BS cop-out. They know what they mean when they use the word. We know what they mean when they use the word. Lying about it when they get called on exposes them as the hateful cowards that they are.

I am not black and I have been called a [censored] in the past, quite a few times in fact. It used to be quite common in multiplayer games and certain online communities around a decade ago, it still is but less so. If you know what they meant when they used that word then please do tell me, because I seriously doubt that they believed that I was an african american.
Do you want to 1) do difficult and frustrating plumbing work to fix what's already here and slightly broken or 2) design and make a new generation of things with your goals and your own tools? Which one sounds more like a career that results in dying young due to extreme boredom and head-desk trauma?
"Where will the money come from to get the car fixed?" is a very personal question; answering it well would require knowing a lot about the person asking, and what their life circumstances, talents, resources, and obstacles were. This makes it harder to discuss on HN (or most other Internet sites), since these are very large groups who are mostly strangers, and don't know that much about each other. Questions about economic equality, the cost of housing, career advice, and so on in general are reasonably well represented here, I think.
Also, Why do economists give government budget deficits as a percent of gdp instead of Government revenue ? unnecessary indirection...
This sounds very exciting! I'm interested in the A/B tests you ran to show revenue lift from your recommendations. What is the baseline model you test against? It seems to me that the most "fair" comparison would be to set up exactly the same vector representations and neural network model for only a single company at a time, and compare the performance to demonstrate that it is really your approach of combining different companies' datasets that provides the extra value here. Is that what you guys did?
Feels like the Khan Academy apps do something like this. You progress through a tree of knowledge and can’t move to any next node until you master the one you’re on, demonstrated by solving problems. It also gives you all the help you need to achieve that mastery.
Oh man, this sucker. I did some filthy stuff in a legacy PHP codebase using this to get some ultra basic acceptance and smoke tests in place. It worked fairly well, but there were a lot of weird edge casees where it didn't _quite_ work like a real webserver. I've got some notes hiding on an old laptop, I should dust those off and post them up sometime.
On the Chinese research question: Just wait a decade.

In all likelihood, I am permanently departing academia in about a month. The underlying reason is structural -- neither our funding agency nor our institution is willing to yield on a fundamental sticking point that is causing all of our young researchers to leave. I am about to join them. There is literally no path forward.

In the decade that I have watched my world-leading research group wither, our Chinese colleagues have expanded their laboratories by 4-5x, appear to be well-resourced, and are poised to lead the world on all fronts within the decade.

An excellent colleague of mine, who had done excellent work for US particle-physics experiments, went to China for a high-energy physics faculty interview. On arrival, he was surprised to find that there appeared to be another candidate competing for the position. He did his best, as did the other candidate. As he prepared to depart, he asked whether or not it had been a competition for the open position. The reply? "We had one position, but we liked both of your talks so much, we are extending offers to both of you." There was no matching US offer of which I am aware: he accepted.

That essentially never happens these days in the United States. It is a story the likes of which one might have heard from 1950-1970.

Chinese physics results are continuing to gain in reliability. Where once we saw quite a bit of copy-catting, Chinese fundamental science research is beginning to transition into regularly breaking new ground.

Wait a decade.

We should welcome this development with open arms. A billion smart people, with equal potential, should be able to turn out roughly three times as much research as the 0.34 billion smart people in the US. We can encourage that research at the same time that we must stand against the regime's attacks on democracy in Hong Kong, the atrocities occurring in Xinjiang, their surveillance state, threatening the independence of Taiwan, enabling North Korea, and more. ( The US has dirty laundry, too: Our President is incompetent. Vote! )
Ethno states with shared culture and little internal division due to racial tensions tend to run quite well.

See: China, Korea, Norway, Denmark, Czech republic
"Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?"

That list is pretty much rank ordered by the amount of non-substitutable human labor involved per unit. Everything in red is a pretty universal need (health, education, child care, housing, food), while the blues are mostly wants. So we want medical care, but that requires a lot of labor, and each of those workers requires housing, but that's supply constrained in much of the country, and they have be educated, but college cost is rising, and their employees need child care, and the child care workers need to go to the doctor ...

If there was a way to reduce the cost of living (my hobby horse is dramatically increasing the amount of by-right housing permitted to be built in an area), then that would ripple through all of these industries. High and increasing costs and wages make labor-intensive industries much more expensive by comparison.
Linux isn't a microkernel; a filesystem accepted into the kernel source tree will run as kernel space code whether or not it's compiled as a loadable module. So all 27k lines need to be audited for security purposes and to ensure they're interfacing with the rest of the kernel only in the approved ways, because there aren't a lot of technological barriers to the filesystem misbehaving.

But more important than that is the maintenance burden. NTFS will be around for a long time, but it's also a moving target because Microsoft hasn't replaced it yet. Kernel developers have to keep in mind how this code will look in a few decades, after all the original developers are retired. If it's written in a very different style from other Linux filesystems, will there be anyone left who both knows enough about the workings of the Linux IO stack 20 years hence, and understands Paragon's code conventions?
I assume the answer is... it depends. I've taken training/workshops that clearly depend on group dynamics. I've also had training presenting, skiing, individual projects in grad school, etc. that pretty much depend on 1:1 time and, to the degree you're in a group, it mostly means you just don't get as much attention (but it's cheaper).
> Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?

Different risk postures. If you're willing to sacrifice a few lives and limbs and not worry about the disposition of toxic waste, you can get things done just as fast today as yesterday.
Yeah, the “certain set of rules” that many western companies have followed are sometimes no different in result than what is being asked of ByteDance.

It is fair to ask whether the US should be engaging in these tactics (I don’t think we should), but the suggestion that the US is doing something on a level that China wouldn’t is just false.
That, and/or mastery learning. I haven’t read the research, but I hypothesize the focus on ‘mastery in each subtopic before moving to the next’ is what drives results, while 1-1 tutoring is what drives the speed of attaining them.
Why do you think that takes a lot of effort? I suspect it would not be hard to find a tutor at readonable rates. (Speaking as a former home-schooling dad. We used math toturs for 1:1 instruction at various times. )
>There's a difference, facebook did not attempt to run its social media business in China, and Google voluntarily quit so it doesn't have to comply to censorship law. Meanwhile Tiktok has a US branch and is complying with laws in the US.

>China has a restrictive internet where if you want to operate, you have to comply with a certain set of rules that are unsavory to say the least. Facebook, Google decided to not bother instead of complying to those rules, but they very well could have, Bing and Amazon is in China.

Is that an accurate portrayal of events? Google did attempt to get into China more than a decade ago, and more recently with Dragonfly[0] which was shut down after word got out.

As for Facebook, one cannot look at all the relationship strengthening between its CEO and Xi Jinping and not think there is nothing behind that.

The point is that to say that Facebook and Google voluntarily quit or didn't even bother because of the reasons cited in the comment surely could be improved for accuracy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
> Ofc, this is China so nobody knows the reason why.

I'd assume facebook know? Also your link does not seem related quote(Facebook opens a subsidiary in China, a breakthrough for the banned social media platform)
education is not a commodity in the same sense as corn

and it’s much more of an inelastic good than corn

the difference between 50k in tuition and expenses and 55k will not change demand a meaningful amount, and universities exploit the fact that education is inelastic and the money is coming from a guaranteed source regardless of the student’s ability to pay upfront.
They have decreased in scope but they are not gone.