skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a balancing point between under-analysis and over-analysis. It's hard to know the true requirements until the system is actually in production. You can't realistically pre-learn many domain lessons: you just have to dive in and see what floats by setting sail.

Finding the best balancing point is hard to turn into a sure-fire formula. I use experience (age) to make a best guess based on on past successes and failures and project types.

One tip is to collect and keep a list of questions and suggestions, and make sure they are sufficiently explored. You can't answer questions that have not been asked, but AT LEAST answer those that are asked. Make sure staff is not afraid to ask questions or make suggestions.
Do you have API?
Jack Nicholson comes to mind. And Mick Jagger is ugly as sin and that doesn’t hurt his status.
I'll humor and agree with this take given it can take greater than 7 years for macro effects to occur stemming from policies and choices that countries make.

Example is the former One Child policy which took a long time for the effects to be seen. Another example is that pumping money into the economy doesn't have immediate effects.

India had its own policies (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30040790) that would take decades for effects to be seen.
The Silicon Valley's idea of Big Tech didn't include MS a few months ago when they were leading the pack for most valuable company in the world. And somehow they're escaping anti-trust scrutiny right now too, so maybe it's better to have a less sexy profile.
After speaking with artists I think there are several issues with this approach (though also advantages). These groups either have a few tastemakers controlling the opinions of the masses which musicians already consider a major issue. On the other side of the spectrum are groups that operate as a free for all where musicians are posting so many links that each song is not given a real chance or where musicians set up like for like rings to go scale the reddit/group vote ladder.

I also think elo rating is a very transparent system.
The US has a greater inclination and ability to build alliances.

I really hate to bring up the T factor…but I think this is more in doubt than it used to be, given the current administration.

Taiwan will be the key trigger for a possible war.

I cannot imagine the horror that would ensue if China tried to assert power over Taiwan. Just the potential of losing TSMC alone…
>>in order to produce mass casualties in battlefield conditions, a chemical attacker has to deploy tons – and I mean that word literally – of this stuff.

While I do agree with much of what this guy has to say about elephants, he is totally wrong about chemical weapons. We don't use mustard gas because it would indeed require tons of gas and be ineffective, but chemical weapons have evolved in the last 100 years. Modern chemical weapons do not need tons.

Novichok literally translates to "new thing". Such nerve agents were developed in the 60s/70s/80s. Infinitesimal amounts of this stuff will kill. Hazmat suits and gas masks are irrelevant when one gram might contain 5000 lethal doses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent#Effects_and_cou...
We do. For the entire splicing cycle, via cryoEM:

"Molecular Mechanisms of Splicing: Spliceosome Machinery and Pre-Messenger RNA Splicing Cycle"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OuAGeQYjfus
Democracy and human rights - sure.

Prosperity and peace? I think China actually has a good track record there. Actions you might perceive as un-peaceful (building islands, modernizing military) could also be interpreted as defensive.

The world could achieve great peace and prosperity under a “Pax Sinica”, at the cost of individual liberty. That IMHO is the bigger threat: that authoritarianism will sneak in under the cover of prosperity - a Faustian bargain that too many will be willing to accept.
> So is China going to surpass America to become the world's #1 economy?

Well, who can comment on the World's #1 (India, after all, is a country). But exactly what mistakes will China have to make not to be bigger than the US (if they aren't already)?

They have 4 times as many people and all the indications are that they are making bigger real investments in infrastructure and industrial capacity than the US. I would wish for some of the pro-growth policies from China to come to the Western powers.
At my work I have to look at details on images often. Photos have a zoom button that randomly disappears. And together with slowness and other bugs I had to revert to using Paint for viewing images, since I'm blocked from installing other programs.
> Even more precisely the vast majority of Chinese people are unified. They are patriots who think China is the best country ever and all the rest are just jealous of their success.

That’s out group homogeneity (or maybe just propaganda-driven thinking — Western media certainly portrays China that way) and not even remotely true to anyone who can read the Chinese language to some extent. Go to allegedly tightly controlled Weibo and check out comments under most sociopolitical news — I mean actual news, not “happy 71st birthday PRC” kind of stuff, and witness the shouting match between different groups, with an astonishing amount of “unpatriotic” opinions everywhere (astonishing if you think the Chinese should have one voice, that is). There are also a substantial group of people who quite literally worship developed countries — ironically more prevalent among people who have never set foot outside the country, I’d say — and will quickly label any domestic problem as uniquely Chinese, even when they’re not. There’s even a Chinese saying about this, “the moon is rounder in foreign lands” (everything is better in foreign countries). Even different group of patriots can be seen warring against each other sometimes over political issues.

People on the opposite side of the world aren’t nearly as different once you get to know them.
That's another plausible option that I forgot to consider.
There is also this open-source reimplementation [1]

[1] https://github.com/Jakz/openmom
TDD helps keep this "abstraction abstraction" thing in check.
Some employers are adjusting for pay location, not all, and mine didn't because the cost of losing me was more than adjusting the salary for the different location.

I am reaping the $200/month transit pass that I no longer need. As a Canadian I'm able to ask my employer for a T2200 to write some of my expenses off even as an employee.

I'm also saving ~5 hours a week in less commute time.

I'm still socializing with those coworkers in our daily water coolers, weekly syncs, Monday & Friday fireside chat.
It's absolutely useful for drug development and pharma companies appear to be getting heavily invested in the technique. The problem is that they've been trying to use structural biology this way for close to four decades now, and there are still many obstacles to this that have nothing to do with the structural biology methods themselves. Biology is messy, human biology particularly so. There are success stories of course but it's never been a magical solution.
When is XML never not too verbose?

(jk)

Very interesting article and I like the style in which it was written.

Another factor to consider is whether the serialisation code is intrusive or not. Being intrusive can be an issue for legacy codebases, and IMO is not paricularly welcome regardless.
I looked at the polls[1] and specifically at the demographic of small bushiness owners, which I assume are most of Expensify's customers, and it seems he's talking to a 'lean trump' or toss up audience. How would Expensify's board justify the CEO making this kind of political speech using company channels when it's likely a half to a third of their customers are going to respond poorly?

https://www.uschamber.com/press-release/small-business-owner...

https://www.fundera.com/blog/election-2020-survey
GDPR doesn't care about storage. Even if you just acquired personal information without processing it, you still had to be GDPR compliant.

In fact, the solution suggested above (only using a truncated IP address) would still require you to acquire and process the IP address and thus be subject to GDPR.
I wouldn't even say lack of testing is technical debt - it's just another feature that isn't implemented. Once you implement it, problem's solved.

It doesn't make the system worse/more expensive as it grows, and it doesn't become more costly to "fix" the bigger the system gets. IMO those are the operative features of tech debt.
Could it be helpful that it is closer to China?
Everyone loves to hate on XML just because it can be verbose and some of the WS* protocols are complicated. But as a human-readable format it’s no harder to read or parse than JSON and legacy application support is orders of magnitude better than JSON. I’m not saying we should all use it but we shouldn’t be hating it either.
In truth, the Chinese share of manufacturing has recently surged.
Ask HN: Thinking of leaving California. Should I vest my options while here?
I've heard that California taxes capital gains if you had ever been in the state even if you don't live there anymore?

I have some stock options for a non public company (series B), should I vest them while I'm in CA or should I move elsewhere first and then vest to avoid some cryptic CA tax?
Yes, hopelessly extending this analogy, see the change in the way artists represented galloping horses before and after photography.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/06/the-galloping-horse-pr...
It's not impossible that some swing state would get a blue-leaning legislature to pass the NPVIC. That would cost the state some attention for the benefit of a better chance in close elections at the top.

Twice in the past two decades, the Electoral College has gone red when the popular vote would have gone blue, by a nontrivial margin. That leaves an avenue open whereby some state's legislators fall on their swords to fix that problem.

Whether it would stick is an open question -- they'd almost certainly face an angry campaign against them, and the swing back could undo it. So it's unlikely. But there is a route by which it could happen, since the state's benefit from the EC is mitigated by the distortion it causes.
I think it's the other way: the strength of the West is that it's largely leaderless, and its "regional" leaders regularly gets switched out, so even a bad leader cannot leave much long-lasting harm.

China is at the mercy of bad decisions made by its single unopposed leader - in a quest to command fear, it's needlessly antagonizing pretty much all its neighbors, which seems to me like a result of flawed leadership.
> Could you give some counter examples to these non-democracies

Given that outside of Greece, the Roman republic, Italian city-states, and a few other exceptions - every single one of thousands of regimes was non-democratic for thousands of years, it seems like those are anomalous and your comment is shot through with historical survivorship bias.

> Could you give some counter examples to these non-democracies that went from 0 to very powerful

I'm also just pretty unconvinced by these examples. I would have agreed if you had said, dictatorships tend to be much more militarily aggressive and expansionary, but I disagree that that results in quality of life improvement.

I don't think any of those examples lifted anywhere close to the same proportion of their population out of poverty. China lifted 880 million out of poverty.
Emm. As a Chinese, I disagree. Most Chinese don't think China is the best country. Just look at how many people wants to migrate to other countries. It does seem like Western media is trying to depict Chinese as patriots though.
Gimmick or not, wearables (Watch + Airpods) are a massive business for Apple. Large enough that they would be a F500 company if spun out at current revenue numbers.

https://fortune.com/2019/08/06/apple-airpods-business/

I don't think you can characterize that as a business failure.
I don't mind the UI itself, per-se. However demoting bookmarks to such an inconventient level boggles my mind. Instead we have "collections" which are basically... bookmark folders? Except they don't sync to desktop like bookmarks. Just let me load up my bookmarks list on the start page like before and I have very few issues with the new Android FF.

The limited selection of addons is also frustrating.
“I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.”

― Mark Twain
I thought the FTB rule was that you were subject to tax if the options themselves were awarded in CA, regardless of eventual vest location. Unless you were a hired remote employee of a CA company, I think.
Anything that lists BSON should include the fix: JSONB

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457645
Thanks, the comment is on topic and could be useful to some, but please mention affiliation when suggesting a product
Your first and second sentences seem to be in a bit of tension with each other.

Most normal people would not be interested. We're not all normal here, so there's a chance.
The first Web page ever
Organizations and cultures are kind of like living beings in this regard. The relationships and unspoken understandings between those 6000+ people are not things that could be replaced easily.

This is e.g. why the current rocket companies had to do a lot of reinvention and research instead of just switching the Saturn V production line back on.
What an inspiring personal project.
Wish the author would have checked out: https://borsh.io/

I've been using it lately but i'm i'll qualified to review it to any meaningful degree. It's neat, (reportedly) fast, but has seeming zero traction and thus makes me uneasy.

(I'm currently (configurably) using it in place of bincode, for a content addressed store. for some context)
It's on medium for one.
My Landord Is Trying to Intimidate Me into Vacating (Zig Creator)
Seriously. There are so many right wing that think they are a paper tiger, and there's so many left CCP apologists that cloud the discussion in their own way.

The West needs a completely unbiased body to release a report to the world about where stuff stands. Nobody wants a conflict. We realize our systems are like two huge tectonic plates about to grind against each other... but let's fix it
I would say: technical debt is anything that makes the system more expensive to maintain (and grow) over time, and becomes more expensive to fix the longer you leave it. If it's just a bad or incomplete aspect of the system, that's not sufficient. It has to become more expensive over time.

So e.g. lack of functionality isn't tech debt, but a bad abstraction is usually tech debt.
It would be nice to be able to represent 64-bit ints--and have comments.
Rwandan court denies 'Hotel Rwanda' hero Rusesabagina bail, extends detention
This would be more interesting if it told us more about what actually happened with the Tower of Pisa.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

There are plenty of polls.

The 2016 issue was that those polls were __correlated__. They were NOT independent polls, but somehow all the polls made the same mistake across the board.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-why-our...

> Assumption No. 4: State outcomes are highly correlated with one another, so polling errors in one state are likely to be replicated in other, similar states.

> Basically, this means that you shouldn’t count on states to behave independently of one another, especially if they’re demographically similar. If Clinton loses Pennsylvania despite having a big lead in the polls there, for instance, she might also have problems in Michigan, North Carolina and other swing states. What seems like an impregnable firewall in the Electoral College may begin to collapse.

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Note that this post was written well before the results of 2016 were known. This was Nate Silver challenging the poll's assumptions back then. It was clear that "correlation" needs to be accounted for in people's models. That's the #1 issue regards to modern polls.

Lo and behold: Pennsylvania swung right towards Trump, and all the polls that were predicting a Pennsylvania win for Clinton were wrong. But not only that, it proved a bunch of other polls wrong in other states.

Such is the nature of Bayesian statistics: P(A, B) = P(A given B) * P(B).

P(A given B) should equal P(A) in an ideal world. But we live in a messy world with correlations: understanding B will change our understanding of other probabilities.
> Do you feel like they are succeeding at that?

Their record-breaking profits for the last few years in a row tell me 'yes'.
Here is the story behind it and its discovery:
https://sils.unc.edu/news/2013/www-page-found
I've provided historical evidence, but you've just asserted something without evidence. A mercantilist in the 1700s could have made the same argument as you, and they would have been wrong.

This is why political philosophy is important. The United States was largely an experiment in political philosophy and it succeeded... temporarily.

Unfortunately, given that the modern world is largely run by either state-managed socialism or state-managed capitalism (neo-mercantilism), there will be no evidence to evaluate your hypothesis on Earth unless there is a mass depopulation (let's hope not).

In my opinion, we will only have new political experimentation and innovation after we become a multi-planetary species. Political experimentation on Earth is too risky.

Until then, pay your taxes to appease the increasingly dystopian and insatiable "leaders".
If we have its scat and see footprints we can learn a lot: where it lives, what it eats, what's related to. The fluorescence methods+knockout/expression can get you that sort of thing.
Sounds nice. Don't forget about Da Lat if you get sick of the tropical weather.
>I don't see what's wrong with having internet trash bins. At least the trash is in a know location, it doesn't spill everywhere.

The trash congregates and creates an echo chamber that radicalizes the most vulnerable and leads to them killing people.
Most of those countries remember being conquered and looted by the west. They're not going to just ally with the west -- they'll play both sides (as they should) to get the best deal from China and from the West.
Maybe, but that's not been my experience. I've found people tend to value the social standing of that "few thousand" people that make up their immediate society rather than the global collective. If anything, I've noticed a tendency to rail against the massive collective value because of it's juxtaposition to that of the value system closer to home.

As a silly example, a giant pickup is a status symbol in cattle country while a tesla is a status symbol in some parts of CA. Both sometimes look down their nose at the other. I'm not making a case as to which is correct, just that I doubt people make their value judgement in response to some global society.

Since I have little presence on social media, I may just not have a good handle on how that skews the whole dynamic but it certainly feels more locally biased to me.
1. The infrastructure is often not just built, but also operated by chinese companies. So the chinese have direct operational control through their expats.

2. If you as diplomat even think about suggesting that Taiwan is its own nation, China will give an extremely offended reply. Same will probably happen if you try to negotiate. Either their terms, or you are an enemy. No meeting of equal partners.

3. China has large power over these nations by trading with them. This power will likely increase the more of their infrastructure is ran by China.

4. Eventually China will develop better tools to project power. I don't know what the Chinese analog of the CIA is, but likely they are working on it. Furthermore, recently Xi has opened the first military base outside of the Chinese mainland. If a nation's government defaults on its loans, China will just install a new government. This has little precedent because the change is so recent, but it's not unheard of in the general history of mankind.
> Some analysts think China's population is too old and that youth will peter out, whereas others think that all the CCP has to do is ask its millennials to have more babies.

I'm not sure how well "asking" will work. IIRC, they transitioned rapidly from a two-child policy to a "however many you want" policy because not enough Chinese families chose to have another kid.

Anecdotally, it's extremely expensive to have a kid in China because the culture is so cut-throat competitive and rankings-obsessed. If you don't provide your kid with a lot of (expensive) extra educational opportunities, he could fall behind. On the other hand, Chinese culture (compared to Western culture) appears to be much more comfortable with parents playing favorites with their children, but I'm not sure how much that's carried through to the one child generation.
>and we'll do so in a few months.

Ah, famous last words that I myself have also spoken from time to time.
I see, thanks for the correction. I thought the I guess if they wholly owned the company then legally they should be allowed to transfer the cash/profits, generally speaking. But if there was ongoing prosecution and they did it specifically to avoid having to actually pay the 8.3bn bill being stuck with the company then that definitely sounds illegal. If they transferred the profits to personal accounts then they should still be personally liable for all of it.
I'm in a relatively high status career, followed that just right path, and more or less planned it all out since middle school. For what its worth, I don't give a crap about status. I think most of my peers don't either, at least relative to the past. I think materialism and arbitrary status seeking is one the decline for the young professional. High end professional fashion and fancy watches are nowhere to be seen in my office (well, pre-covid at least). Sure, there's social media doing its thing, but in the grand scheme of things it's importance to the average person's self image is small.

I do care about access to high paying wages with work that gradually grows more high level over time. I do think working at a startup could be more fun, but I don't think it'd be a good idea worth doing, ever, given what I've got now.

I am happy with what I've got. I make a chunk less than $200k, which isn't close to the very top tiers, but it's way more than I need. Yeah, probably could have gotten even more going a CS FANG route or a lucrative start up that just works. But personally I think everything more or less went as planned and I think that's great.

I wouldn't go assuming that folks in similar positions aren't aware of the calculus here either. If someone says running a startup sounds really interesting, that's because there's a lot of cool stuff in it. The same could be said of being a commercial fisherman, or being a detective, or running a small restaurant. I mean running a small restaurant sounds awesome. But it also probably sucks. If someone asks me about it, I'm likely to focus on the positives. I'm not exactly being asked to sign my name on a career form here. If you decide to call me out on not actually wanting to drop my lucrative career for that startup/restaurant/fish boat, that's not me being sheepish, that's me trying to downplay an uncomfortable situation coupled with an apparent assumption that I'm unaware of my own vanity for status :/
The uncertainty also comes from averaging many images together. But yes, it's less than 1 Angstrom; the deposited structures (for example https://www.rcsb.org/structure/7A6A) record atomic uncertainties, "B-factors" or "temperature factors" in crystallographer-speak. In the example I pulled out the B-factors are in the low-double digits for the main-chain atoms, and if I'm remembering the math correctly, this will correspond to atomic displacements with a radius around 0.5 Angstrom. (Of course that's just an estimate by the software that performed the model optimization, but my understanding is that this part is relatively straightforward.)