jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What stops meaningful visits from visitors within China to sites hosted outside of China today is, thanks to the prevalence of CDNs, the CDN.

Need a font? Google fonts? Blocked.

Need a picture? Instagram? Blocked.

Need a video? Youtube? Blocked.

Need a CSS sheet? Use a CDN? Blocked or really slow.

Visiting a text-based website hosted outside of China [from within China] is usually pretty good. No VPN necessary.

CDNs are a Firewall quick-kill, a lazy-kill. If you host a site outside China, that you'd like to be visible within China, self-host anything you'd otherwise think about off-loading to a CDN. That makes the need for a VPN for your audience redundant.
Yes indeed you do have to create the aliases you want to send from.
I think people are using bots to grab the spots as soon as they become available
has the site not been updated at all?
If I can give one advice to dev tool makers, it'll be this: Do not build an IDE.

People are attached to IDEs like no other tool; they won't leave their customizations, key bindings, themes and switch to an unproven alternative. This isn't true all the time, but holds 99.9% of the time.

Also, despite being fairly familiar with the JS ecosystem I am unable to make out what Pika does from the landing page. You probably need to do a better job of explaining the product.
> code here is just executing binary code, it will be faster

No it won't. JIT-ed code can take into account dynamic information, and therefore outperform even the best general static compiler.
Not a precisely fair comparison, but it's worth noting that Nazis are very much a part of the modern American understanding of Important Events. The Japanese did some horrifying things in WW2 too, not just Nazis. I guess the trouble is, Japan has changed a lot (demilitarized, notably), but since they still technically have an emperor, it's hard to have a good name for WW2 Japan that isn't "Japan".
Most terminals also offer searching capability, which do not result in disk seeks on the remote host.
> China and Japan could have stayed with their own encodings.

Absolutely correct. There was a big debate in Japan in the 1990s about character encodings, with some people arguing strongly against the adoption of Unicode. Their main argument, as I remember it, was that Unicode didn’t capture all of the variations in kanji, especially for personal names.

For those of us who were trying to use Japanese online at the time, though, those arguments seemed beside the point. While it would have been nice, in an ideal world, to be able to encode and display all 51 (at least) variations in the second kanji for the surname Watanabe [1], we were faced with the daily frustration of trying to convert between JIS, S-JIS, EUC, and other encodings and often not being able to exchange Japanese text at all with people who hadn’t installed special software on their computers. It was a great relief when UTF-8 became adopted universally.

And now we have emoji, too!

[1] https://www.fujitv-view.jp/gallery/post-149246/?imgid=1
I listened to the audio. He was a bit tactless, with some barely concealed contempt for the entire concept of microaggressions. I consider such contempt justified mind you. The thing to know is that Academics take themselves very seriously, and it is a foolish endeavour to cast doubt on their status.
I'm always surprised there isn't more push for mental health provision in the US. Everyone who loves guns and everyone who is anti mass-shooting should like that, and that's a lot of voters...
>"Of the 223 jurisdictions surveyed, 15 currently do not impose a general corporate income tax.

Except for the United Arab Emirates, all these jurisdictions are small, island nations. A handful, such as the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, are well-known for their lack of corporate taxes.

Countries without General Corporate Income Tax, 2020:

Country (Continent)

o Anguilla North (America)

o Bahamas North (America)

o Bahrain (Asia)

o Bermuda (North America)

o British Virgin Islands (North America)

o Cayman Islands (North America)

o Guernsey (Europe)

o Isle of Man (Europe)

o Jersey (Europe)

o Saint Barthelemy (North America)

o Tokelau (Oceania)

o Turks and Caicos Islands (North America)

o United Arab Emirates (Asia)

o Vanuatu (Oceania)

o Wallis and Futuna Islands (Oceania)"
Thanks, that’s my sense of it too. However the other poster seemed to claim the experience of using Signal and WhatsApp is ”unbearable” compared to Telegram, so I wonder what it has in terms of features or user experience that makes it so much better. My guess, and pardon me if I’m a bit rude, is that the difference is features I probably don’t care about. But I’m open to be evangelized.
I don't use Apple, but I understand "old people" (like I am rapidly becoming) follow the 1) It works!, and 2) If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

You don't specify, but can I assume that he has the same iphone for the last 5-7 years, or he upgrades regularly?
It’s also that we don’t have organism-scale models of how change in one gene will affect other body functions. We don’t know how to build these kind of models and we don’t have even 1% of the data to do that. Organoids are just emerging, but they aren’t 1:1 representation of what happens in real human.
As another Czechoslovak (born 1981 under socialism), I was eagerly awaiting inglor_cz's response the moment I saw this article on HN :-)
If you think it is important to notify the victims, why don’t you do it yourself? You have their contact info!
You can already do a plastic surgery. So how is genetic editing to make yourself hotter different?
35/35/10/20 would be significant. The equity grant is treated as increasing the value of the founder's equity. The option pool is already a sunk cost toward employees.

I would say significant stock is at least an amount that doesn't make someone think twice about the package. If the founders are holding 80%, then everyone else is pretty much an employee not an owner.

There's nothing wrong with being an employee. There's nothing wrong with working below market rate in exchange for some equity. Just be clear that it's a job and the only way you'll achieve market rate compensation or above is with a significant exit, limited dilution, and good-will toward you on behalf of the major shareholders.
If we accept the premise of the article - that the population is sifting itself out by intelligence, then the better a country is at being a meritocracy, the more likely we are to see this stratification of the populace. It's funny then that the article comes right out and says the solution is to improve the prospects of smart disadvantaged kids. This will just accelerate the process, although it will at least slightly enlarge the meritocratic elite.
really? another diatribe about Linus? get over it. Linus is the way he is.

What a sad, accepting attitude. The fact is that people are more aware than ever than his behavior is unacceptable. They talk about it more and more often every year, and that trend will continue. Eventually, he won't be able to make a public appearance (in person or online) without getting called out on his completely unnecessary and hostile behavior. Then he'll either change or be shunted into irrelevance, and it will be a net positive for the Linux community.

Fame and accomplishment are no license to be uncivil.
Please don't do this here. Plenty of new accounts are old users.
The HOPE AMD badge (http://amd.hope.net/) is nice as well. It'll track your position through the conference.
If you have 2-3 provider and strong demand that is enough competition
Conspiracy theory: that incident was on purpose to generate massive PR.

Argument: seriously, how hard would it be to rehearse that thing so that it does not happen live twice?
Who wants Simone's Truckla instead ? https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz
...problem is combining WYSIWIG with Markdown: that can't ever work well, you need a small toggle to let users choose toggle/choose between WYSIWIG (default) and Markdown, and have it remember the last setting the user used.

Best for new users and advanced ones.

If you have BOTH in one editor it's like you've built some kind of Vim-like UI that randomly jumps between modes, it will confuse the shit out of everybody all the time!
What works best for me is using a third-party client like Tweetbot. It has no algorithmic timeline at all. Just follow the McKenzies, Weinersmiths and Carmacks of the world, and that's all you will see.

Edit: The other big thing for me is just unfollowing/blocking people who post garbage, with no remorse. It doesn't matter if your feed is 95% gold, the 5% that isn't makes you not worth it.
Nothing based in reality, I'm positive of that much. I also don't particularly care.
This seems to be spreading the downsides of mutable objects across boundaries. I find a more functional approach which deals primarily with values rather than variables to be the best way to get a grip on the complexity of modern web apps.

See Rich Hickey's "The Value of Values" for better elucidation than I can provide:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values
At the moment only the line number corresponding to the start of the viewable area is cached. Further requests are served based on that. Since the underlying pieces/buffers remain unchanged, one could also maintain a more complex data structure such as a balanced binary search tree.
There was an interview with George RR Martin at least 15 years ago (that I couldn't find in 5 seconds of Googling) where he made a similar point. Some people were complaining that too many books were parts of series, but that's what people wanted: an ongoing connection to a universe.
And cpu, and battery.
HN has recently had multiple extensive threads about PG's immigration essay and the questions raised by it. In such cases, we demote follow-up posts as duplicates unless they contain significant new information.

Please note that this criterion depends neither on what the particular topic is, nor the opinions people express, nor who they agree or disagree with. It has to do with avoiding repetition.

The reason for this practice is that without it, the same vociferous discussions would recur on the front page every day, and that would fail to gratify intellectual curiosity.
What makes you think that a) all of the (e.g.) 131 ethnicities in Kazakhstan will welcome this and b) that the Chinese would build something like this without being prepared to defend it using military force?
This entire fiasco reminds me of 'The Yes Men' and their reality hacks. Claim something loud enough and it becomes the story. The story is then repeated by the media, eventually forcing a change in government policy. The claim is then, for all intents and purposes, a new reality.

An unavoidable downside of democracy is that politicians react to public belief, no matter how easily that belief is manipulated.
$24K saving minus $15K license fee is "only" a $6K savings per year.

OK, I think I see what you are saying: $24K savings sounds good - but not so great if my license fee eats most of the savings on them.

Thanks!
P.S. What does "BoB" stand for? My google fu is weak...
The 'collapsed funnel' direct response ads are a pretty big market even if not the Coke & Pepsi's of the world. To the tune of a good chunk of 10BB..

The article - which I think is on point I agree with almost everything they wrote - mentions online only brands which are a great example.

I don't think a lot of these brands could have been created or grown without effective DR digital ads and FB was the best by far at roas.

I get tons of ads for expensive athletic shorts (which are total gay bait eye candy so that's probably why I get them despite not buying any except patagonia lol).

I see the 'Ten Thousand' brand at the gym all the time so people really do buy from instagram ads and IG shop. I just googled 'athletic short' and they were the top sponsored results there too, goes straight to a purchase page. I have not seen them on youtube doing branding videos though.
> Matrix ... the only "modern" messaging system that wants to allow people to switch providers while still messaging the same people.

But does it really do so in practice? If I'm using Element/Matrix and a colleague is using WhatsApp, or Signal, or Telegram, or Briar. Can they reliably send me messages? Can I reliably send them messages?

I've been told it's possible, but more than one person I know has tried and failed. Is it common? Reliable? Possible?

Or theoretical, and unachievable in practice?

Have you done it?
Sure, only to have each and every company disavow services from said "own website" when _they_ feel like it.

The "build your own x" argument doesn't take into account that as technology evolves not everyone has the means/skills to "build" their digital public town square, hence why the existing once ought to be regulated by governments once they get too big.
Nothing is stopping the Russian government from doing that today, so I don't see why it matters.

I could say the same thing about your ask that YouTube allow a free-for-all on their platform but that's only because I'm witnessing the logical conclusion here in the US. We have to do something different or these events will repeat themselves.
You are absolutely right. My point was that the hyperbole around it all in some cases seems, well, hyperbolic. Other than the mdns issue, both Yosemite an iOS 8 have been fine for me. Obviously others aren't as lucky, which really does suck.
Thanks for your advice. I think I will be giving the pricing page some serious thought in the next few days.
ereaders are a really nice platform but the current problem with ereaders is the lack of tactile feedback, and the difficulty of random seeking.

The first issue is mostly just preference. being able to see how far finished a book you are and the satisfaction of flipping a page is nice, but has little utility.

The second issue is a bigger problem. anything but a linear read from start to finish is difficult on an ereader. the only reasonable use case of ereaders in the current form is reading a novel. anything with a more complicated interaction, such as textbooks where you need to jump back and forth for reference to equations; choose your own adventure books; or books with footnotes or endnotes are severely limited.

I'm not sure if either of these issues can be fully solved, but they will definitely need to be mitigated in the UI for ereaders to have a more sustainable demand.
Mastodon instances randomly disappear forever too which doesn't solve the issue with Twitter deleting inactive accounts, unfortunately.
Women in that age group probably have a higher fraction of “hobby workers” than any other demographic group —- people who don’t really need to work (since they’re already wealthy enough and their husbands earn far more anyway) but choose to work a few hours a week just for something to do.

If times are good and families are wealthy, the number of hobbyist workers in the older female age group increases. If times are bad, these women might be forced to work more hours or even full time in order to make ends meet.

It makes sense that their LIUR is flat compared to other groups.
Water tends to eventually cycle thru rivers and then oceans. Even if it's temporarily stuck in ponds, humans, snow globes and whatnot.
I would think it also needs to differentiate from Louisiana.
> I'm sure that there exists hardware on which Windows is as stable or more stable than Mac OS is on my mac, but I don't know how to reliably find it.

IMO? You already own it. Boot Camp is the best way I know of to run Windows on a portable machine. (I still prefer to do Visual Studio work through Fusion on my 2012 15" rMBP, but I'll reboot to play games when away from home.)

I don't know if I'd call Windows "worse", I think you happen to be a serious edge case, but I like having both at hand for different things. There's no better environment for what I want to do with regards to game development than VS2015 on Windows, there's no better general-purpose dev environment for me than OS X.
> There's also nothing wrong with cars which don't pop the lock back open if the car is off and the key is in the ignition, except that when such a technology exists, is pretty cheap / easy to implement, and can save users potentially a lot of trouble, why would you not implement it?

If you drive an armored car, then you wouldn't want the doors to automatically unlock whenever you put it in park. An ICE agent was killed three years ago in Mexico because of this feature.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/armored-suv...
I've found algorithms.js to be a nice collection: https://github.com/felipernb/algorithms.js
So they are drinking beer and some comments were passed around, and the guy just shoots him? The only people who buy this crap are the pro-North koreans in South Korea. Everybody else who live in a sane reality don't believe this ludicrous story made to make Park Chung Hee seem like a monster.

The rift between Park Jong Chul (President's head of security) and Kim Jae Kyu (KCIA director) well preceded that evening when the president was assassinated. He premeditated the assassination by having the security detail paralyzed by his own loyal followers (who were all executed and jailed). The bullshit about how Kim Jae Kyu, the mastermind behind all the torture and brutal political suppression did it for democracy is laughable at best. The motive was simple, Kim Jae Kyu thought he could usurp power, he falsely mistook the American CIA's approval and repeatedly sought CIA's help after assassination. He was foolish because US fully supported PCH's dictatorship as a strong buffer against North Korea. They continued to support president Chun and Noh, both military generals and it was only until Kim Young Sam finally was elected through a democratic vote.

Was Park Chung Hee a dictator? Was he brutal in some of his methods? Of course. But he is also the reason why South Korea was allowed to thrive economically. Without the political stability brought on by a military rule with the backdrop of a serious security threat like North Korea (they were richer than South in 1960s), you'd have to be a hopeless romantic and naive to think that someone could've done a better job by "democratic" means.

Anyways, I think I'm done being trolled here. I suggest you to not try to twist and distort the post-Korean war history of South Korea with inaccuracies and ignorant statements.
Way to back your claim with reason and evidence, SamReidHughes. You think coldtea is blathering? Prove it.

There's a huge difference between "blathering", i.e. incoherence, and disagreement. If you truly find coldtea's comment incoherent, you may have an issue with reading comprehension.
>If you wanted to try something more exotic, you can do the digital nomad thing and rent somewhere in Thailand for ~$100 a month,

I feel like I should point out that getting something that cheap in Thailand is difficult and certainly will not be pretty. I have previously lived in Thailand for just under a year and then gone on to be a digital nomad for three years and counting, mostly in south east Asia.

Its pretty trivial to live on 800-1200/month in Thailand and I have known people to get it down to $500/month but there is a floor there that, to go under, you would likely need to move somewhere very remote that is likely to have an unreliable electricity supply and probably won't have an existing net connection or a telephone line for you to get access to the net. It would help to speak reasonable Thai too as you will be living somewhere well away from the touristy bits of Thailand where the English speakers tend to congregate.

Now, that isn't to say that its impossible. I know someone who, at one point, was living on the outskirts of Siem Reap (Cambodia) for $200/month total. $80/month of that was rent. Firstly, he is an extremely experienced nomad. Secondly, that involved living in an old wooden house with no airconditioning (Cambodia gets brutally hot) and walking across town to use the wifi at KFC. It worked for him because he was working on a book so he only required sporadic net access. He is also from the Philippines and grew up without air conditioning so apparently the heat and humidity was bearable for him. Personally I find not having aircon in the tropics a really quick way to take your productivity to zero. Thirdly, to keep his costs that low an enormous proportion of his diet was made up of boiled rice with token amounts of vegetables. When he went to KFC he would purchase a single piece of chicken so they wouldn't kick him out and so his diet contained some protein. Handy if you want to lose weight I guess but tightly restricting your vegetable and protein intake is otherwise not particularly healthy.

Anyhow, just wanted to point out that "rent somewhere in Thailand for ~$100 a month" isn't something you are just going to walk off the plane and arrange without making some very serious health and lifestyle sacrifices.
This. I used to do all my programming in clojure. Now I am going back to python -- because I am not able to figure out a month after writing some code, what these deep recursive, reduce, apply things do.. But it is a good exercise writing it.
Except it's not 'The Government' proposing to 'pressure' ISPs, it's one lone back-bench MP.
I agree with this 100% up until the last sentence, where he clearly indicates that he just doesn't get what's actually happening in these cases. Where I see this happening, is when people say "Thank You" over-enthusiastically, or in response to things that were done as a matter of course and deserve no thanks. The person being thanked is taken off-guard and slightly embarrassed to have been thanked for something which he would have done anyway. It feels like saying "You're Welcome," would be to acknowledge the thanks-worthiness of the act in question, which would be a form of dishonesty, so they can't say that. On the other hand, it would be unambiguously rude to say nothing, so they mumble something non-committal in a vague attempt to to say, more or less, "Really, it's nothing." Why don't they just say that? Probably because they are taken off guard and slightly embarrassed

Really? Because I've scored the old "mmm-hmmm" from perfectly normal "thankyous" performed for perfectly normal services.

"I'd like a cup of coffee"
"Here you go"
"Thanks"
"Mmmm-hmmmmmm"

In Australia we'd just go "Sure" or "No problem" or something.

"It is curiously moving to see them sitting looking a little embarrassed as a pilot or flight attendant calls on their fellow passengers to give their service and sacrifice a standing ovation."

I've never seen anything like this, I can only imagine that being embarrassing all round if it ever happened. Though I certainly have seen soldiers looking embarrassed upon being thanked by random strangers in airports.
While I appreciate that Python is easy and flexible enough to write, it bugs me immensely every time I run into situations like this.

We go to all this effort to build and write stuff in this optimising, fancy framework only for the whole process to be bottlenecked by some silly performance limitation in Python.
I use hibernate on my windows desktop every night so that I don’t have to deal with the blinking power light that happens when I just put it to sleep.