skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hong Kong was coerced and forced into this "nation" (China is not a nation nor a nation-state) using false promises, threats and lies about ethnical and cultural similarity.

This statement is full of factual inaccuracies, and historically incorrect lies. No, HK was not "coerced and forced" to return to China, it returned because of a joint agreement between China and UK. Yes, China is a nation and nation state. No there was no false promises, threats nor lies. Everything was said in advance, in the Joint Declaration before 1997, and further elaborated in the Basic Law. Both of these documents you can read online in Chinese and English and see this is the case. The lack of knowledge about the legal basis of HK is one of the ways people are tricked into believing crazy stuff like in this comment. But it seems nobody is content to argue about the actual factual historical legal documents. They want to make up crazy ideologies and fight as if that's true. No wonder there is so much nonsense about this issue.

The statement also invokes some crazy nonsense about Chinese "ethnic and racial purity". China has quite a bit of diversity of ethnic groups, and southern Chinese from Pearl River Delta region, and HK and Macau look a bit different, and talk differently to peoples from the North, at least "in general". But there are many regional dialects and customs in China, having such does not make HKers or Canton people more unique than, say, Sichuan or Shanghai people. But that has no relevance to the question of national borders. And these statements sounds scarily like they take the idea of racial purity as some sort of geographic organizing principle. Would sort of be like Bostonian Irish wanting to secede to create a racially pure enclave in the Hamptons.

It's odd how backward this comment is...there is racism, and forcing and coercion in HK's past, but from Brits who coerced China into giving up this region, using guns, in (what is literally called) "The Unequal Treaty" (of Nanking), and forced HKers to accept British rule, and often to work and live like slaves. Without any other info, these sorts of nonsense statements sound like guilty Brits trying to whitewash their colonial history with this ridiculous (and basically racist) claptrap, like in this comment. Even after 170+ years, are Westerns are still trying to meddle and tell Chinese people what is what? If that is so...it's path-etic.

Surely the opposing arguments to the case laid out in the article are better than this? If you're reading this please don't embarrass yourself by being duped into supporting ahistorical (and frankly racist) nonsense like this. If you are opposed to HK and China shared trajectory, at least have the respect to think critically and thoughtfully about it, and have the courage to face the facts.
Goodreads has a nice UX, though. The site linked to by the OP is painful to use.
We should just treat cheating as a skill, as those people will get ahead first anyway.
Haven't tried it, but have heard high praises here in HN for Jennifer Widom's SQL course. It's now on edX.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/

https://www.edx.org/bio/jennifer-widom
Furries have lots of bubbles. Some they bring with them, some they make inside the community.
I made this point elsewhere, but honestly I think if a fascist reads Salt Fat Acid Heat (a book made by a woman, btw) they will probably become a little more in touch with reality.
Yeah, 99% Invisible did an episode on this a while back. It really was a wicked thing to do, and in the process also bought out the worst in society as a whole.
Is there any replay value in a "rewatching a movie with a twist at the end and noticing all the signs this time" way?
I find varoufakis to be a very unrrliable source of information. Full of falacies and contradictions.

So let's fix this statement and get on with our lives:

Economics as practiced by most contemporary analysts isn't a science because they don't even try to see it as a science
Can it mean more when someone who knows us intimately gives us a compliment? Absolutely. Can it mean less when it’s coming from a corporation whose primary intention is to receive your money? Yes, I think so too. Is knowledge a requisite for kindness? I don’t know you @nicbou but I know you deserve kindness, because everyone does.

If I’m understanding you correctly, you’re saying false praise is not kind. I see how that can be true. Telling someone they’re the best ice skater in the world when they’re not, for example, could be detrimental to them because of the unrealistic dreams or expectations that might create. I’m being very careful in curating the content of the badges and I don’t believe any of it would fall in the category of false or misleading praise. If you see one though let me know and I’ll consider changing or removing it.
Disclaimer, I work for Twilio. You can use sms, voice, or email to get notifications and you can reply back and have those responses programmatically handled. The APIs are pretty decent in my opinion. I wrote a text adventure game over sms for fun when getting familiar with that part of the API. Oh, we also have IOT stuff, I’m just unfamiliar with it.
I really like sailsjs. It’s based on nodejs and express js . Framework is highly configurable. It does have a small learning curve
"I think the most powerful one I have can do... 100mW?"

Until you add an amp hehe
you're right, I edited my comment to reflect I was being slightly OT.
Motorcyclists tap their helmet or occasionally hold index figure straight up and spin it.

Either works - I've had them do it for me but since I don't speed I just nod and continue my ride.
X is a public AWS service.

> I would interpret an internal deprecation notice as saying that consumers of X should start planning to migrate away.

Yes, everyone (internally but privately) was told to not touch it with a ten-foot and migrate away. Mentioning that it was "deprecated" apparently took it a step too far (even if internally but not privately).
PayPal introduces new fee for dormant accounts
That's a nice and tidy codebase, real pleasure to read.

> I believe many (most?) opencv & numpy operations release the GIL.

Any idea how I can determine this? I am prototyping a real time machine vision application targeting 2x720p@240fps and I want to avoid writing any C++ for as long as possible.
The game is rigged, though. Mainstream is not in a position to say anything against the kind of crap modern technology is full of - and those who speak up anyway get labeled as "whiny".

FWIW, I also share the GP's wishlist 100%. But we're a niche in our own industry these days. I'm not having hopes the market will deliver - on the contrary, all these points are things for unscrupulous vendors to control to extract more profit.
There are a fair few of those average speed camera setups near me and I love them, everyone just sits at the speed limit - far more effective than the trap cameras.

Also my GPS (via bluetooth headphones) tells me when I'm entering and leaving a zone (not that I speed).
We already did that with Fedora before CentOS existed.
I highly doubt that. Cutting away a diode means you have some tools, aren't afraid to 'void the warranty' and likely means that you know what you're doing. Those are likely people who also have a soldering iron sitting around somewhere and know how to use it.

Everybody else would have someone else cut that diode in the first place.
And just like one must scrape bugs off one’s windshield, so people will have to scrape content off Goodreads, or something.
Similar to the law we have in the Netherlands- otherwise everyone would just register their car in Germany.

You can get a two-week exemption for a borrowed/rented car, and there is a somewhat longer grace period if you bring your car with you when you move.
That said, the there is a tilt towards the second idea in some areas where perhaps it would be prudent of us to invest more in the public space model, or in other ways shape things more to our liking.

As the infrastructure changes the dominating idea shapes it.

As an example there used to be (and stills is, but the change is evident) vendors selling music recordings. Vinyl, tape, cd. The market traded in tangible artifact that could change owner, could be copied (legally or not) could be put in a library and lent out.

In Sweden we even pay a special copy compensation tax when buying any device with storage capacity to tunnel some money towards “content creators” in support of this distribution form.

However as the technology has shifted, allowing for direct streaming, the trading of artifacts has disappeared. The laws and economic realities now promote a market with fewer vendors offering only a limited catalogue of recordings, and only in a form that can never leave their control effectively.

This is only an example. And I think this particular one is mostly about reviewing the legal landscape.

Another example might be how protocols like RSS, XMPP, SMTP was used for interoperability and allow different vendors to offer compatible services. As things shift, this time perhaps more due to economic realities, the dominating tendency is still to erode interoperability and dominating players shape the technology towards their more siloed reality. Perhaps we need more tax funded players, (public service?), simply competing and collaborating to tilt things back again.
I feel like WordPress is too much the obvious choice, which can mean security risks, dependency risks, even hurting performance. What do you think about this?
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding, but the outlier problem is simply a case of using an inappropriate type of average. If you take the median, you’ll get a far more reasonable answer
Most people don't really have the data set to exploit larger ML models.

And the mistake people make is that they don't start with a simple model. They move straight into the heavy ones.
You are saying that there exists a segment of the college student population that will spend 100$ on a scientific calculator but does not own a smartphone?
Some of them are even VOX so that it's not continuously transmitting.

I think the concern (fun for the scanner) was that if people leave the monitor on all the time and then have a conversation in that room.
No system call overhead. System calls are function calls in OSv.
Ideally, "book reviews" would be a semantic web category, which a search engine could fetch from personal websites. (Note that this already kind of works with current search engines.) But the incentives were never really aligned for that...
Not if you claim it is essential to "understand what it means in practice"?
Just because you see scammers doesn't mean Facebook doesn't do anything. It's just too easy and too lucrative for many more scammers.

There are reports of legitimate businesses being taken down by Facebook all the time. So which is it?

Are they this monopoly which does too much to cull businesses or is it too liberal to scammers? Well, it is both, as long as they can twist it to mean that "Facebook bad".
I have no idea what you are trying to say, sorry.
Possibly not as sadistic as the judge handling the will:

> But some mothers who had more than nine kids still weren’t allowed a shot at the prize. Pauline Clarke was one of them; she had 10 children within the timeline — the first five with her former husband and the second five with a different man, one she lived with after her separation from her husband. Middleton was not impressed. “‘Children,’ when used in any testamentary document, always means legitimate children,” he wrote in his judgment. Instead of $9 million, Clarke was eventually given a settlement of just over $200,000, and that came only after a lengthy lawsuit.
Facebook is still worth no less than $500B if they were to plateau this coming quarter. At that market cap, their PE would go down to 19 or so. Which is perfectly acceptable because they still have a decent moat, and opportunity to expand with Whatsapp and Messenger. Future possibilities of bigger Oculus growth too.

They are worth a bit under $800B right now. So even if they completely plateau with revenue and profit, the stock only drops 1/3. And this is all without them hypothetically giving a dividend too. So their cash would keep accumulating by tens of billions.
That's a nice sentiment that I understand and I get the argument. Tho I'll need and am hoping for a more reliable legally sound comment from GitHub or someone who's qualified to answer definitively.

I'm also thinking about the case of, like, a typo contribution to a README, and considering if that would give a "contributor" a copyright claim on an owner's repo that the owner would need to get a release / assignment from when that owner wanted to sell their work.

If that did, then it's sort of like a very low-effort "copyright troll" action to go around and make very small typo contributions on projects that don't have copyright assignment agreements, because then that work is forever beholden to that "contributor" in any future sale due diligence, I would imagine. I'm hoping I'm incorrect about this, but I do not have the legal background to know either way, hence the Ask HN.
The amount of people who go out of their way to fit their perspective to a fictional novel is mind-boggling.

We are very much in the anti-1984 of phase. 74 Million people are controlled by Q, antigovernmental conspiracy theories than government controlling them.

The nation is effectively divided (complete opposite of single control). Heck, the government couldn't even get people to follow a simple mask rule let alone complete control.
I think it's mostly change in markets. HP reputation (as IBM Thinkpad) came from serious devices for serious tasks. When you sell to the average consumer, a race to the bottom occurs. Lower prices -> larger potential base -> no reason to make it fancy -> no research -> relying on brand name only .. and then large scale economics make you spend more time and resources on the more milkable segment of your sales so the core company suffers too (but investors don't care).
LibraryThing has a Goodreads importer which I have used in the past with good success (nothing is perfect).

https://www.librarything.com/more/importgoodreads

The general LibraryThing UI is a bit scary at first, don't let that stop you. All "Pro" accounts were made free for everyone some years back.
A good introduction, but I was surprised it doesn't mention fragmentation at all.
> Given that this is one of the primary purposes of governments, what do you suppose has been keeping them from stepping in so far?

Businesses are much faster at inventing ways to abuse people than governments are to regulate them away, even if we ignore lobbying and corruption.

Such a hypothetical organization we seek needs to be both swift and impactful. This automatically suggests some ties to government, as it's the best way to fulfill the criterion of impact. Not sure how to handle the "swift" part, though. Can't do it through regular market mechanisms, because ultimately price trumps all on mass market. The government reacts slowly for (among others) a good reason - while an unscrupulous businessman needs to invent just one weird trick, the government regulates away whole classes of tricks by default, and they need to take care to not outlaw perfectly legit new ideas.
Show HN: HackerWeb v2 – read-only Hacker News iOS client
Let's say you have the whole database of books from Amazon/GoodReads, including title/authors/genres/publishingdate/userrating/sales.

You'd like to make a recommendation engine, the idea is that the user could input 1-3 books they liked and it would suggest more books that are similar.

What sort of algorithms should I look into to do that sort of things?

Note that I don't have user profiles with what book they read, only have the database of books, can't do the recommendation engine based on two users liked the same book so they will also like other books either of them liked.
That's an interesting idea! I could see it being good training for simultaneously holding two opposing thoughts in your head at any given time.

What do you hope to gain out of going to the effort of consuming media like this? Why not just go on an information diet altogether?
I think the following article covers this problem much better: https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
Wonder if it’s to do with corona virus. My sense of smell has changed again and it’s put me off beef, so this Christmas it’s vegetarian chilli and vegetarian tacos.
Wouldn't Wikipedia have a database like that?
Use Polling for Resiliency
Regarding what's in the main table, that's solved in circular tables like this: https://www.webelements.com/_media/periodic_tables/periodic_...
The Outer Wilds isn't linear, I know exactly what I need to know to end the game, the purpose of your journey is to discover that yourself. The game is about exploration and it just isn't the same as the first time.

The only way that I have managed to re-experience the game is by watching others play it, it isn't the same although close enough.
Have these fake experts ever predicted anything but recovery and growth in any of past 12 years?

And yet every year we had nothing even close to recovery. Incredible amounts of money printed and spent just to stay in place and delay the inevitable. What a joke!

Add to that the damage caused not by Covid19 but by lockdowns and Sleepy Joe behind the wheel and think again.

I've no doubt whatsoever that 2021 is going to be awful.
It's not really a ponzi scheme. You're not investing (uploading) your images with an expected return on that investment.
They settled which Geohot (who had nothing to do with the rest of us, but kind of triggered the whole thing by just implementing our exploit and posting the keys on his site), and dropped it against everyone else. I never got served personally, so for me it was mostly a big scare and having the EFF help us with lawyers to be prepared for whatever happens. One of my friends wasn't so lucky, they got ahold of lawyers at his job and caused him a bunch of trouble.
Great to hear that science (neuroscience) here is catching up with Orwell. It is a great book, and Orwell was spot on with so much of what he wrote. How did he do it?

I think I know. I don't think Orwell (Erik Blair) was writing a book about a dystopian future. No. I think he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of, and then projecting that a little into the future. From personal experience with the BBC, he knew what news and history really were. As a connected individual (allowed to finish his work on the private owned island of Jura) he was aware of the plans that were in place.

So, I don't see 1984 as a dystopian vision of the future. I see it as a far more straightforward projection of what was already in place. We may be unaware of our prison, but Orwell was not - and was telegraphing it to us.

And most of us still do not get it, and cannot see it. We are glad big Brother is making us wear masks to help us breath better, that we are keeping away from our families because of love, that we will be 'cured' by a 'vaccine'.

And if you draw attention to this around here, you won't be thanked! We're not coding a harder, more impenetrable prison - we're making a better future, right?
> Assume I know nothing except WordPress.

Really depends on how much Wordpress you know. If you're just using it as a CMS, then you should probably stick with it.

If you're familiar with PHP and JS, there are other CMS you could switch to. Though you'll not find the same ecosystem of plugins and tooling.
Diary of a headteacher’s week dealing with Covid
Famous case in UK where lying about the speeding caused the problems (for a Member of Parliament):

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/29/labour-mp-fi...
Thank you for posting this, I think this expresses the situation perfectly!

Knowledge representation and reasoning languages like RDF, SPARQL etc., as well as querying languages like XQuery, go in this direction in principle. However, at least personally, I find them too inconvenient to use, too limited, and also not coherent enough to use them in actual rule-based automation tasks that involve semantic reasoning.

In my opinion, there is tremendous opportunity in making flexible rule-based reasoning about web content and interfaces more easily available in web applications, especially in heavily regulated areas such as accounting which you mentioned, and in governmental applications and legal use cases. For instance, using open standards, a government could describe for other governments how to automatically derive certain evidences and logical consequences of existing regulations, such as whether a company is eligible for a grant, whether a lawyer has certain qualifications in that country, whether and under what provisions a product can be sold in that country etc. By plugging in the pertaining data, many logical consequences can be automatically derived.

However, this demands more than the proposed semantic web technologies give us currently. As I see it, such use cases would benefit most from programming languages that let us not only express rules, but flexibly and easily reason about the rules themselves too, so that they can be easily interpreted, checked, simplified etc. automatically.

I think RDF missed a huge opportunity: In particular, Datalog syntax could have been used to describe RDF data, and that would have enabled easy reasoning about RDF triples with existing standardized programming languages that are ideal for reasoning about rules that represent knowledge, and are also expressive enough to dynamically compute and fetch more data when necessary. I hope that future work on the semantic web will lead into this direction.
Isn't there meant to be a curve of around 8 inches per mile?
If someone can manage to find a creative way to tap into the Kindle ecosystem and provide a similar service, I'd imagine they could do quite well.
Yes, and these libraries should be hosted on people's own websites.
Ask questions. “What happens in your $solution if $problem arises?” And if they don’t see the problem, you have a teaching moment. Sometimes junior devs don’t think $problem will be a problem and that is when more nuanced handling may be called for. Sometimes the best learning is by getting burned and mistakes need to be let to happen.
Amiga 3000 inspired Mini ITX computer case
The Witness (by the same person who developed Braid) felt very Myst-like to me as well. Highly recommended, the puzzles are incredibly clever and a lot of fun to solve with a partner.
Cyberpunk is also a pretty good representation of anarcho-capitalism. Sure, there are government agents (mostly cops), but they're pretty insignificant. Megacorps run the world, backed by their private security forces. Everything that can be commoditized and sold is. It's really quite disgusting. I don't know why anyone would see it as an aspiration.
and to be clear, that's fine with me.
Storygraph is the new hotness

https://beta.thestorygraph.com/
Ask HN: Is there a browser-based adblock for non-visible elements like JQuery?
The element picker in most browser-based adblocking extensions isn't suitable for disabling annoying JQuery implementations that often destroy a site's usability. Years ago Adblock Plus on Firefox would give you a list of all elements, visible or not, and let you block any of them.

AFAICT the movement towards GUI minimalism has taken this away from all browser adblockers.

Is there some extension for Firefox (or, just for curiosity, Chrome) that lets you intervene and block abstract functionality like mouseover events, dynamic scrolling and other JQuery obstacles?