skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hmmmm... Chinese racism against pretty much everybody else has been a long standing issue in Singapore. Just go on any Singaporean job listing site and search for “must speak mandarin”.

What are we talking about? Xenophobia or racism?

Xenophobia is very low in SG. People expect to know foreigners and want foreigners to bring business or capital or skills.

And since you are using PAP values to inform yourself, please read their pledge:

"We, the members of the PAP,
Pledge ourselves to build a strong
United Party, to create a vibrant,
just and equal society,
through achieving excellence by all, so that
every citizen, regardless of race,
language or religion, can enjoy a
full and happy life."

This is from wikipedia:
The PAP symbol (which is red and blue on white) stands for action inside interracial unity. PAP members at party rallies have sometimes worn a uniform of white shirts and white trousers which symbolises purity of the party's ideologies of the government. The party also reminded that once the uniform is sullied, it would be difficult to make clean again.

> No one owes us a living. We will avoid creating the dependency syndrome a welfare state generates.

Do you know what this means in the Asian lens?

It means that they will collectively work to build their living because no other country will help them. It doesn't mean that they are going to leave their citizens homeless on the streets. It doesn't mean that they will let insurance companies shark out the lives out of citizens. They want to build a society where the basics are covered.

About 80% of housing in Singapore is mixed socialized (not the same as handouts or welfare) but a collective system that does things with goals in mind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore

Maybe it's really hard for people to even imagine how such a government could possibly work. Rest assured that the heavy hand of government takes care of basics so people can use their creativity to thrive on the free market built atop the safety.
I think at issue is this economic concept of eternal growth. It's rather plainly obvious endless growth isn't sustainable, for myriad reasons. Continuing to believe growth will get us out of our growth-induced nightmare is the equivalent of plugging ones ears and chanting "la la la la la"
"the show can't go on because the site survey was wrong" won't fly. That's when you bust out the wirecutters and electrical tape. Preperation is great, wonderful, etc, etc; and never complete. Shit happens, be prepared to deal with it.

Many disagree with me, but im a happy lunatic.
If you get along (which most people do) it’s great. My mom is retired, and my dad works from home. After my son started getting regular ear infections at daycare, my mom demanded to take him out of daycare. The ear infections stopped, he’s happy, my parents are happy, and we save a bunch of money.
Amazing story. This should be a serial tv show, many shocking twists and turns.
Dropbox tech blog has great content as well!
Hey, whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better. Yet somehow the several generation between you and the boomers managed to make a go of it; how did that happen? I employ a number of these new grads and pay a salary that will more than pay for them to own a home in our market; how is this possible in your alternative universe? Maybe before you throw the word slavery around you should give some thought to what that actually means. HINT: it's a little more harsh than living with your parents.
A recent discussion covering this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20744590

There may well have been developments and chances, too. But, a start.
Yet here you are, on social media.
Google Docs kneels for me once documents get large enough. It works, sort of, but it gets ridiculously sluggish.

I haven't figured out what a reasonable cutoff is, but trying to work with a 60k words manuscript that Libre Office has no problem with was too painful.

Which was annoying, as I do prefer Google Docs for most uses.
I moved out the week after I graduated from college because I had a job in another city. I don’t think I would have moved out if I had stayed at home. I was just coming off foot surgery, could barely walk, didn’t have a girlfriend so no reason for privacy.

But, how do you have a social life - let’s be honest a sex life - if you live with your parents and they do to? For most young men living in the west in normal times don’t women frown on men who still live with their parents?

My wife, son and I moved in with my parents to save money one summer when we were between homes - lease was up and our house was being built. I could work remotely and my wife worked for the school system. It was really awkward in our forties even though we all tried to make the best of it.

We both love our parents but we also like our privacy. When we do have your standard couple disagreements, the last thing we want is our parents being involved.
Does it have a RSS feed?
in a chemistry lab, where people should really know better

Some places are accident factories, where people are encouraged to be team players and not rock the boat even in the face of clear and present danger. Universities can be problematic, when you do your PhD you really need your supervisor to give you a good recommendation.
You hit the nail on the head. While others see their families as a support system, mine has always acted as the opposite. Similar to you, I wish I had gotten out earlier. I feel for all the folks who are forced to stay in abusive "support" systems just to survive.
A real interesting point someone else makes is, it's probably like a code review. You'll find it hard to find your own errors, but it's always fun for someone else to find your mistakes.
I consider myself an anarchist but strongly dislike this version or definition of anarchism. Anarchism is by definition a nonsensical political philosophy. How do you anarchistically implement and maintain anarchy. This obviously doesn't work.

For me anarchism is a personal philosophy. I choose to consider myself the only meaningful sovereign for myself. I acknowledge that states exist and that I might have very real consequences if I piss them off, I just don't believe they have any special moral authority and try to be the one at the end of the day that sets the rules for my life too the extent that I can.
The benefit that the linked article specifically mentions is being able to round-trip documents between OnlyOffice and coworkers who are still using Microsoft Office apps without losing any formatting. If you're not in a position where you have to do this, it probably doesn't sound like a big deal. Most of the time I don't have to do this, and I think most engineers hanging around HN wouldn't need to, either. But if you are in a position where this is a job requirement, it generally makes "hey, it's 95% compatible" into a 100% nonstarter.

I've found this is super hard to explain to people who haven't had to deal with it. I have, in sending fiction stories back and forth to editors. The formatting for those is ridiculously simple... except that you need absolute 100% compatibility with Word's document revision tracking features to see your editor's comments, respond to them, accept or reject their changes, and so on. And while I haven't checked in a couple years, when I did, the only non-Microsoft stuff I found that could do it reliably were two commercial, Mac-only word processors (Apple Pages and Nisus Writer Pro). I hadn't heard of OnlyOffice before this; if I ever switch to Linux, I'll keep it in mind.
https://www.who.int/china/news/detail/22-01-2020-field-visit...

You really should check those talking points before you repeat them.
Well there is a signup wall however it's "Sign in with Google" or "Sign in with Apple". For now it's iPhone only so by default everyone already has an account (after hitting the Apple button). Once on android I think Google is the default for that as well. Also I could use their APIs to send links to people who don't have the app.
Java HashSet: Setting In-House Coding Style with QL
I liked this. I also like how the moral of the story wasn't "You're not an imposter, you had it in you the whole time and just needed confidence", but rather "Yeah, you're an imposter. But you're always going to be an imposter and so is everybody else, so get used to it"
In the same vein, it was popular around Christmas to use male to male power cords (known as a suicide cord) to string lights together, they were even available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Male-12-Gauge-Connection-Extensi...

OSHA, anyone?

I get that it solved a problem for someone, but I feel a little uncomfortable just looking at it...
Indians did not traditionally have to find their own spouse.
Pretty interesting, what made you decide to go with voice and not a GUI?
Ironic user name, BossingAround.
Disagree.

There are many tools which are way older than gpg, but still in the wide use. For example, I have not heard any arguments that people should stop using things like "rsync" or "curl".
Google your full name (and any variations, Edward -> Ed, etc) and remove yourself from these whitepage direcetory type websites that people can look up your past/current residences

do your family a favor and remove them too
1945 RAF Emergency Rations, Tasting Test
I don't think that's true, though I am not a player (only played very casually as a kid w/ my grand parents): https://www.fisf.net/scrabble/decouverte-du-scrabble/r%C3%A8... (French, sorry)

I don't know how usable French conjugates are in scrabble, though. Intuitively, it should help placing high score letters like z, which is otherwise uncommon in French.
USPS mail dumped at two separate locations in Glendale
I work as a software engineer at FAANG, I will retire young. Basically anyone who is young that doesnt work as an engineer or didnt go to a top school is completely shut out of decent housing near decent cities.

"Yet somehow the several generation between you and the boomers managed to make a go of it; how did that happen?"

This argument makes zero sense. Was going to make a reply, but forget it
Thank you for the question! We thought that if we combine a human language interface with a mobile-optimized app builder that works perfectly on desktop and mobile, it could potentially turn a lot of people into software creators, even those who don't have computers.
No article?
You can definitely use conjugated verbs: "All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: words always capitalized, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone, words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe"
https://scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us/rules
Why can't they establish their cooperation rules between them, using existing static material (contract templates...) if they want to, without any third-party (for example a government) being mandatory?
Also there would be infinite worlds in which these all powerful entities wouldn't give a damn about human emotion or morals anyways.
My best friend lived with her parents until she got married. She went to a no-name college and became a teacher. I, along with my parents, spent 5 figures on a prestigious university and PhD, and I now work in Silicon Valley. With the money she saved on room and board she was able to put down a large down payment on a 0.5-acre house with her husband in New England. Meanwhile I am paying 5% interest on a jumbo loan. Who is the dummy here?
Honestly knowing just the spellings and not the meanings / useage contexts behind the words strikes me as an advantage since you’re as likely to weight “obscure” words as common words in your internal search algorithm. Knowing the language I feel must bias you.
I had such great times with mine, aside from the games.

I remember the first game I programmed on it, sort of a cross between Pac-Man and Berzerk, so walls and pits and various things chasing you. Due to the doubly-interpreted BASIC, it was quite slow and I was vexed; checking motion into walls and pits got more and more slow with each obstacle. Eventually I hit on, rather than a series of IF statements defining a wall that one might not move onto, I could simply draw my walls and pits, then check the video array directly! Suddenly, my game was so much faster.

It was the first time I had an optimization that relied on knowing something about the hardware.
What Scrabble degenerates into.
Americans have a fixation on independence and “making it” on your own is a way to demonstrate independence.
—- Random well educated American.
You should be able to refinance that jumbo loan down quite a bit! Rates are real good right now.
You should really check your article date before you post them.

Yours: 1/20

Mine: 8/26

https://www.ft.com/content/f9dea077-66fb-4734-9d1d-076dc9356...
Back when I worked in sales, there was a guy on my sales team that would have the entire Norwegian Top 40 billboard memorized since its inception in the 50's, complete with producers and writers of lyrics. While a bit socially awkward, he still did alright at sales by following the script. So by that token he was regarded by my collegues as a bit of a savant.

"Lest you suspect," also makes for quite unusual language in the article, btw. Haven't seen that in many modern news articles, at least. But strangely this rather archaic phrase seems to be more common in modern American litterature than in British literature. Together with the verbal addition of "I would think" at the end of that quote in the start, the article takes on a rather rustic feel.
Back blaze is good because it’s set and forget and fairly reasonably priced. It’s one anxiety that I have now dropped that I don’t back up enough! It has also given me a reason to just use git and not github for private personal coding projects. As the code is backed up and I can use git locally there is no need to push.
I am not sure it’s right to say that one way or another is dysfunctional. Each family is unique, people have different goals and preferences. There is no approach that would be right for everyone. But if the reasons for staying are mostly economical, it tells us that people are most likely doing this not because they enjoy it.
Please tell me if this is normal, but the one single Indian guy that I was friends with stayed with his parents and grandparents. He was in his 30s, a virgin, never dated because his family didn’t believe in frivolous dating and when he decided to get married, he went back to India, had eligible women submit from what he explained were “applications”, chose a few that he thought were appealing, went on chaperoned dates to get to know them and about six months later got married.

That is not at all how things work in western cultures.

That’s not meant to be a judgement, we all met for dinner a few years later, they have kids - four generations staying together, they seem happy and every time he talks about her, his eyes still light up in a way that you can’t fake.
Ask HN: Any tools to secure the CI/CD pipeline?
I want my devops to be focused elsewhere but on the other hand the CI/CD pipeline has permissions to access and do many things in very sensitive places.
Specifically we use gitlab & jenkins.
I know there are "best practices" documents for how to secure , but are there tools to monitor, offer compliance checks etc?

Thanks!
On the contrary, moving out to establish a nuclear household is the common pattern west of the Hajnal line[0], along with later marriage, and the lower fertility which goes with it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajnal_line

This has been true for at least a thousand years. America was largely settled by people from this folkway.

The influence that this pattern, and the bans on cousin marriage (out to fifth cousins in some cases, but second cousin marriage was commonly forbidden), has had on what we sometimes call WEIRD people, is interesting, if a bit off topic.
Really cool demo.

My questions are:

* Can you not have to press microphone for every command

* Can you type commands

* How strict are the presets. CN you make something more free form
So then it appears it is possible that P = NP and markets are not efficient, so it is not true that "Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP" because P = NP !-> Markets are efficient
What are your main issues with T2?
Many enjoyable games become quite a bit different when they’re played at a high level. Whether or not the game is still enjoyable at that point is not always easy to say. I definitely would not enjoy memorizing lists of words in order to be more competitive.
Literally the first sentence https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376918
for people who work on real production ML. what kind of data pipeline are you using before the MODELING part of it?
Selective enforcement is the big one. Our society simply isn't suited for everyone knowing what everyone else is doing. Even if our laws somehow didn't suffer from selective enforcement, people who find some (legal) things that you do immoral can still use that to justify trying to harm you.
There is zero attempt to be coy here. Scroll down to the bottom section where they explicitly reference the election.
Thank you for the question! Glowbom works perfectly without voice control. However, optimizing the no-code app presets for using a human language interface allows us to make the creation process more understandable and fun.
I’ve always told people if they like their parents enough and the circumstances are positive, living with your parents longer can be a great option.

I moved out of my parents’ home when I was 16 and never looked back. My 16 year old isn’t likely to be leaving anytime soon. He spends his evenings with his family and drives a good bit of the dynamics (game nights, weekend agendas, etc). He simply likes it at home. I’m vigilant about the time at which he’s probably going to need to separate in ways he hasn’t signaled yet, but for now, we’re all happy to be together.

But he’s not 18 and in the job market and making an economic selection. But when the world is as crazy as it is now, maybe those who like their parents enough to return home are harbingers of something could that can come out of this — stronger familial connections. Certainly, my generation doesn’t seem to have it going backwards...
What does her being white have to do with anything and why would you even bring up her race?
Apparently this isn’t a huge recent change —- it was at 47% of young adults at the same time last year (now it’s 52%).

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
Well, Streamlabs has that plus more and a lower price... plus a mobile app.
As someone who depends on voice to interact with computers, I am disappointed that this voice interface requires clicking a button every time I want to talk, and pops up non-voice-controlled UI elements (such as the "name your project" dialog).

I would classify this as an NLP chatbot with a voice keyboard button, rather than a voice interface.
well, I'm 35, do own my own apartment and I'm living with my parents. I don't know if it's a south american thing but we're a very close with our families over here. specially in this pandemic time it felt very natural to me to be here with them. I do have a room seoarated from the main house, so its quite good
Go can be simulated and self-trained. Self driving cars are robots interacting in the real world with multiple, stochastic agents. Real time hardware systems that are reliable and commercially viable will also be extremely difficult.
Eh. I completely disagree.

I don't find all of Nakamura's content equally interesting: I don't care so much about PogChamps (I think it's good for chess, but I don't enjoy watching it much). I have enjoyed watching 4 strong players muddle their way through learning 4 way chess, etc. I've enjoyed watching him play odds games with lots of knights and talk about what he'd discovered about these unusual games.

I'm playing more than I used to, and I know a whole bunch of people are picking up the game or playing more as a result of the attention.

Yes, some of the attention may be episodic. Bobby Fischer permanently boosted chess in the US, but the remnants of the boost felt today was nowhere near what it was at peak. Still, things compound: some fraction of those who get interested by chess streams will become people who consume chess content that you personally approve of.
Yeah, "Gen X wasn't as badly screwed as the Millennials" isn't the slam-dunk argument it must have looked like when GP typed it out...

Zoomers might be ok, though, if they keep their heads down and don't take student debt. The Boomers won't last forever.
Did it make sense next time you got drunk? :P

I had to update some code that a more talented coder than I, wrote while stoned. It was an adventure.
Indeed memory, the point where computers totally outsmart us all. That's why traditional school where you get to the next grade by showing off your memory is totally deprecated.

It might be me, but these kind of contests and our excitement about it only shows our stupidity even more. Our specialty is very fortunately not memory, it should never be. We are incredibly special creatures with much more interesting capabilities.
The combination of world class military apartus/nuclear power, not being able to collectively care for each other plus the feeling that parts of the nation are on the brink of a civil war is really keeping my gears grinding.

Compared to pre-Trump times talking to an US citizen feels either like to talking to someone in a delusional cult or like talking to someone who realized the american dream they told themselves existed is utter nonsense with no bearing in reality whatsoever.
Rates haven’t been that high in over 10 years... You really should look into refinancing.
Not disruptive, and proud of it (2010)
Banks are not offering jumbo refinances. All the houses in my neighborhood are 1m+, and they’re all off the market now because its not possible to secure a jumbo loan at the moment. My be region-dependent, IDK.
What's the issue with these? They look as safe as any other fuse-less extension cable to me. As long as you have a fuse somewhere in the circuit, what's the problem?
Ah, the range that you're seeing on the top right corner of each service is the minimum and maximum response time.

The time on the bottom left is how long ago the oldest status is, while the one on the right is how long ago the latest status is from.
We had a single day of office time a week before covid, and I basically wrote off that day as 'social day' for similar reasons.

I'd get things that involved meetings done, but the density of social stuff that got packed into that day meant it was a struggle to get other things done, so I mostly tried to pack meetings into that day and just accepted I'd do little of anything else.

They I realised there was nothing special about those days - it was how things used to be for me when I spent the whole day in an office.

The thought of going back to an office in any future job file me with dread.
Yes you usually can query the child directly. I did a bunch of left joins with LINQ when I knew SQL, but didn’t understand how EF worked as well as I do now.

I watched videos by Julie Lerman and since then I learned that any time you do an explicit join with EF, you’re probably doing it wrong.

I haven’t used Mongo in years , but I would be surprised if there isn’t some type of annotation that you could do on a class to tell the driver how to map the relationships so it would do it implicitly.

My recent experience with DynamoDB best practices though is that is usually a smell when you try to bring over relational thinking to a NoSQL database and you should carefully think about your design decisions.
I’m ~40 and my wife and three kids are living with my parents. With the pandemic it was very isolated to be by ourselves and we could WFH anywhere so are moving between my parents and my in-laws every few months. Kids are getting lots of grandparent time and lots of unauthorized screen time.