skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the user you're responding to has it exactly backwards. Laws are more strictly applied to local Chinese than to tourists and expats. The general idea seems to be "these laowai are full of vices and they will do what they do, but we must instill and uphold a strict moral code for our own people to maintain a healthy society"

(I'm of course speaking of petty law breaking such as smoking weed or jaywalking. If you steal or defraud someone you'll see your visa disappear faster than sin)
It will be as easy as locating an illegal VSAT station, which are countless in big cities there.
Are there any interpreted languages?
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With 30KB in size, this framework might be something I can integrate into my websites to get a nice look-and-feel while preserving usability when script blockers are active.

Personally, when I work on projects I tend to develop a pure HTML+CSS solution first and then bolt on JS if needed, so this kind of stuff might make me more comfortable with writing proper webapps since it's still just basically "bolt JS on HTML".
I'd probably just abolish downvoting entirely: rely entirely on upvoting. There's already a bias towards upvoting in the system due to the min cap but not the max cap.

You make it sound like voting-as-disagreement is rare but in my experience it's by far the most common way downvotes are used. I have showdead switched on and I keep toying with the idea of finding an extension to un-grey comments, because over and over I find comments in grey that are well written, erudite and merely express an opinion that goes against the current startup-culture HN zeitgeist. They aren't actually bad comments though.

So why not just let good comments rise to the top.
Professionally managed properties respond to this by issuing a “pay or quit” notice immediately when you miss a payment, then begin eviction proceedings as soon as they can. Sometimes it can take a few months, but they’ll have the cops come and escort you away if they have to. At my apartment complex, like clockwork, you’ll see folded-over papers taped to doors the first week of every month. Home owners renting a room or two might be more forgiving, but every property management place I’ve heard of doesn’t care about your life situation or whatever. You might get super lucky and get a manager willing to give you a few extra weeks to make rent, but typically they start trying to evict you as soon as they can to cover themselves.
Cool, thanks for that :)
>...a courtly gentleman, he was very respectful.

Actually that's the thing that threw me off. I mean why would a successful, well-adjusted "gentleman" even be in a situation where the best option for him is to live in a shared apartment with a woman considerably younger than him? Sure he gave her a reason, but well, he has to come up with _something_ doesn't he?

To me it seems much more likely that she agreed to him as her new room-mate out of desperate need for another person paying half of the rent.

I find the dismissal of "gut feeling" in these answers a bit ridiculous (when it comes to non-professional arrangements). Sure, you might be biased, but if you're not feeling comfortable living with someone don't move in with them!
Xian's only the 15th largest city in China. No big deal.
Glad to hear that It will help.
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It certainly reads like "it" was to mean "the aptitude package manager" to me.

If you like to use a separate package manager for libraries/etc. that is fine. That is not something I enjoy doing.

Using Debian, I would frequently install a build dependency, and forget I cluttered my install doing so, leaving a package I don't care about or remember to be updated, and possibly break future installs. I read about nix-shell, and have been using NixOS ever since.

NixOS has clear room for improvement, but, unfortunately, some of the devs are adamant that it cannot - worse: should not - be done.
Easy, each library is its own little world of dependencies, with the author favoring a different build tool, so simple npm install or npm serve might require all of them to satisfy all the dependencies build scripts.
I'm not local, but actually, there are many stories published by locals during that time, most of it are written in Chinese of course.

You can still found some of it by googling keyword "新疆断网", and Google Translate them if you interested to read.

In summary: In the first few days, people miss the access; Then, they built their own network, providing news, BBS, downloading and even online gaming services etc.

If they had enough time, I could assume they will build a complete alternative of China's Internet, just like what happened in the China's Internet then the access to the true Internet is limited.

But "enough time" is what they don't have, when the access been restored, most local websites are faded.
Having worked in traditional fintech firms like trading platforms, exchanges, algo traders etc for last 15 years, I feel many of the new gen companies are just trying to be cool by calling them fintech.

I have a friend who started a company which manages travel rewards and was pitching his startup as 'disruptive fintech'.
For "business theatre" they've made an awful lot of money. Now #1 in the world by ppp gdp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Yup - tiny.

Just checked the DD we did on a recent acquisition: 503 rows just in the "checklist", most of which resulted in further documents, statements, references to other systems, explanation, reports, exports from HR systems you name it.

Took a few weeks to compile, even though we had all the information readily accessible. The initial check list was pretty fast to do, but it spawned subsequent requests, discussions, etc which required more documentation to be found and provided etc.
Because hypocrisy, money and self-interest go hand in hand. Why does western society support Israel, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bangladesh, and the list goes on and on. It's all self interest and mutual benefits
If you were in a remote area of Xinjiang, are you sure that the locals were Uighurs and not ethnic Kazakhs? To an outsider the populations are easy to confuse, but the Kazakhs are not under the same restrictions that the Uighurs are.
I don't think IPFS and the like can solve the archival problem. They rely on the willingness of lots of people to donate lots of storage space indefinitely.
I basically want what you mentioned later but also available to other users.

Home folder installation only works when you A) only want to install for a user B) the user you run under exists on disk and has a home folder and C) the user can be setup to perform updates.

A lot of the time I run tools that will run as a service. The user it runs under might not have a home folder, probably not even a login or shell. I still need access to the tool installed as root and as normal user for maintenance.

So ideally, I add the path into /etc/profile and install the stuff into /usr/local/node/bin where it is perfectly isolated from the rest of the system.
it's a bit of a shame they don't clearly define what the Y axis is - how they've reduced over the individuals. presumably they've taken the mean instead of the median values.

comparing the "net worth by age" to the values of "Average Wealth (No House)" from [1] and crudely trying to compensate for the different age buckets gives something like this:

x0 : mediam wealth (no house), dqydj
x1 : average wealth (no house), dqydj
x2 : average(?) net worth (also seems to exclude housing), earnest.com applicant cohort

age x0 x1 x2 x2 / x1
25-29 4.4 16.9 2.4 14%
30-34 16.0 58.7 16.8 29%
35-39 17.2 203.0 28.5 14%

values in 100k USD

[1] https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-age-calculator-united-states

I guess from this one could tentatively claim that being an applicant for student loan refinancing is correlated with low average net wealth relative to the population as a whole. Which intuitively doesn't seem surprising!
I always look for new useful and high quality apps.But to tell the truth, it's important to choose only the best developer to avoid money wasted. I recommend SteelKiwi - https://steelkiwi.com/
Ask HN: Do you feel you are mostly writing glue code?
Lately, we are writing glue code to connect a bunch of services which finance department pays for. Writing any service which can be acquired from the market is forbidden. Anyone else feels like this?
The Bitcoin wiki also has a good article about Agents [1].

I've been thinking about this with regards to my own SaaS startup. The company accepts credit card payments with Stripe, and the money is deposited into a company bank account. Heroku then charges the company's credit card for hosting fees. It's actually a "profitable" company now, so it could keep running forever by itself.

The only thing that requires human intervention is taxes, although Stripe Atlas makes that really easy. It's only a few clicks to pay the Delaware franchise tax. However, I've had to manually export some data and send a few emails to an accountant. (This is something I've been wanting to automate, but I didn't get enough interest [2].)

You don't need AI or cryptocurrencies to have an autonomous company. You just need a SaaS with autoscaling, or a mobile app that makes money from ads and IAPs. Then there's only a few things that need to be automated: Filing taxes, and clicking the button to agree with Apple's new terms and conditions every few months. You can probably hire an accountant or a virtual assistant to deal with these things.

It's a scary topic. Isolation plus too much automation, and no-one will even know that you're gone [4].

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agent

[2] https://nanobooks.co

[3] https://bench.co/

[4] https://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/07/us/michigan-mummified-bod...
Pi Zero W includes wlan and bluetooth, and the kit that includes PSU and SD card cost around ~$35.

Stil I agree, its not really comparable. The Pis is mostly learning/teaching tool. I can see using this in a product directly. Something I would grab when I needed something more than an ESP.
Right. No offense but where do you live in China? Beijing or Shanghai is not exactly the same as Xinjiang. Also foreigners (still) enjoy a de facto “upper class” status in China so it’s likely you may be unaware (or choose to be) to much of what happens (e.g. situation of migrants in big cities).
Worst case scenario the missile blows up on launch leveling the surroundings before the enemy missiles arrive, thus stealing the sense of achievement from them ;)
Unfortunately there is a false equivalence in your post: you implicitly equate "prosperity of a family" with "having a huge all-powerful nation state". There is no such link; if anything, life of Russians improved after the collapse of USSR (undoubtedly in a middle term, arguably even in a short term; source: am Russian).

That equivalency is a linchpin of any aspiring fascist state. Please try and question it, you will notice that ir doesn't make much sense.
> it's gone out of fashion because it's been beaten extremely convincingly by methods that learned everything from scratch, in every single task

Totally false. By every single task you probably mean "every deep learning success story" which would be tautological.

There are tons of tasks where deep learning doesn't quite work yet and you still have to hand-craft your features.

Example from my domain: Try learning a classifier for malware which uses just raw binaries on input.
I had the exact same experience. I was an inch away from not reading the end, then the stabbing happened, then the murder happened... then everyone was dead.. Insane. It escalated quickly.
> you can sign appropriate lease contract

Well, the thing is, by coming to an agreement, you automatically enter a contract. There is not need for a signed piece of paper; a written, explicit contract is just for both parties to be clear on the terms, to deviate from default terms set by law, and to make possible litigation easier. You do not need to sign a contract if you buy a piece of gum from a vending machine, yet, legally, it is the same process as buying a car.

If I agree to let you stay in my apartment as your residence (that is, not simply a visit), we have entered a lease contract. Thus, tenancy laws come into effect. There is no need for a piece of paper to make what we have a lease.
Perhaps if there wasn't such an irrational push for everyone to attend and finish college, it wouldn't be a problem...
Actually, yes. DJI and Yi-Hang. These ones are truly impressive.

But apart from this, KPIs aside, the Chinese landscape is amazingly scarce innovation-wise. If one has to tout bikesharing as innovation, it sounds like there's not much to brag about. I am puzzled at Kai-Fu Lee's claims, he's not just another VC.
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Building cities and state infrastructure costs money. China is in practice following pretty standard Keynesian thought. Educated people can and do disagree about whether it will work, but the shift to stability over GDP is not a sign of weakness... It's exactly what western observers and doomsayers for years have been asking for. China's permabears will keep complaining, of course, as is their right, but that doesn't change facts on the ground.
Convenience is a powerful feature.

I took advantage of holiday sales to replace the girlfriend’s pair of Dots and outfit every room of our homes with better Alexa-enabled speakers. Everyone in our households are listening to music more often and the sound experience is alright as each speaker is covering a smaller space, but more importantly, we’ve got everything Alexa offers, everywhere.

I’m curious to see what Apple’s ultimate strategy is. Will they push into lower-end products to get Siri into more places, open Siri up to 3rd-party devices, or is an expensive music player that happens to also be a voice assistant be as far as they go?

As invested as I now am in Alexa hardware, I’m willing to give Siri a shot. $350 for a HomePod in rooms I consider most important isn’t terrible... but to me it’s a non-starter without less premium options for other rooms. I want one voice assistant to rule my home.
I think it's more that there's one in the standard library, so you don't actually need to write one in Rust, but if you look at how they did it you'll find that it was written in unsafe Rust because that's how you do things that rely on pointers for their semantics.
Plenty of people have hand rolled crypto too. "Lots of people do it" doesn't always point to an actual gap in the available tools.
What do you consider some reasons then?

I really don't recommend running a Windows or Mac VM simply for compatibility, because then you lose out on a bunch of perks, but you can. I mean you can use something that is free and the source code is available for rich and poor people alike, and the web is full of information and communities to help you get started and prosper from your new open source skills and education. Or you can pay for spyware and then pay more to supposedly protect yourself from spyware, while installing more spyware to make you safer, and then you will need adware for that spyware, and then some additional apps to make sure that you only install OS-approved spyware.
We currently host our "monolithic" MySQL database on a fairly large VPS on Linode. At least on Linode, to increase storage space you need to double the capacity of the server, thus doubling the cost for each scale up. The idea of simple scaling horizontally is one I've dreamt of for a long time. However it just seems that the problem is not the monolithicness, it's the cost of storage. If we were to use CockroachDB with redundancy the cost would be equivalent to just using Amazon Aurora, which is fully managed!

That being said I'm very excited about CockroachDB. Cassandra did not live up to the hype for me because of the complexity and now that DataStax has split up with Apache in a weird way, it feels like a less appealing option.
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Is that a real world scenario or something you can imagine but haven't actually done?
I used the phrase bank robber but what I meant was värdedepårån. Semantics, the point is that financial crime is often treated worse than violent crime.

Our whole society is cashless and one of the official reasons are to prevent robberies. But we haven't changed sentences for pedophiles.

Pick a case. I just googled "dömd pedofil" and found several cases of them being convicted to 2-4 years prison for molestation and rape.

And they get psychological care very often.

There's one in Falkenberg that raped 3 girls for several years and he received a sentence of 9 years, which is 1 year longer than a famous unarmed cash robbery performed in Sweden.

Even when they get relatively harsh sentences it doesn't seem enough to me.
> This response annoys me, because it's essentially victim-blaming.

No. The victim is the end-user who suffered from the production outage. jguimont is a professional who has an obligation to his clients.

Adopting a third-party tool or library does not absolve you of the responsibilities that you have to your users. You choose your tools and your libraries.

Both npm and jguimont screwed up here. Mistakes happen, and I certainly wouldn't judge anyone harshly for the occasional learning experience. But, the first step to learning from your mistake is admitting that you made one. jguimont has done that, and I respect him for it.
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What happens if you connect a Mac to a receiver using an HDMI cable? (And then chain your monitor to the receiver.)

HDMI can carry uncompressed 7.1 channel audio - will a Mac send that? If it does, does any playback software support that?
Hence their concerted focus on upgrading and automating their industry. They're aiming for more production for domestic consumption (enticing their middle class buy Chinese rather than foreign brands) and higher value-added exports.
I wonder to what extent you've tried arguing positions that are unpopular with the San Francisco set.

Yes, HN has good comments on average. But my experience of moderation has been that it often seems wildly random and can be very politically biased. There was a story some time ago about the Guardian and when I first looked at the comments section, it was full of comments describing disappointment or mocking what sort of paper the Guardian had become. A few hours later it was a morass of greyed out, flagged and dead comments ... apparently some voters can't take criticism of that paper no matter how civil. One of my own comments on that thread got downvoted to the min and it consisted only of links to stories the Guardian had actually published, so was pure fact!

Perhaps it got a bit better lately, it's hard to tell, but HN's community is not a representative slice of opinion around the world and it's kept that way deliberately. This is especially true of anything that crosses into criticism of modern identity politics or feminism, even if the contents of the comment criticise ideas and not people.

Indeed doing a Damore on HN is a fast way to get lots of min voted or dead comments and a ticking off from the moderators for "engaging in ideological battle", although of course people posting the opposing ideas are never "engaging in ideological battle". The politeness, civility or level of research involved has no impact on this: it's purely about position.
Xinjiang is under surveillance for a reason. They have blown up buses and killed thousands. Crime rate among Uyghurs community is also much higher.
I think a lot of people invested just because FOMO
Is there a notification feature I can enable on HN to tell me when I get a reply?

Anyways, yes I completely agree with you, privacy is not a feature. Decentralization in general suffers from the inability to manage privacy and I think that’s where future applications of the technology are going to struggle to gain traction beyond niche audiences.
I'm waiting for the day we spray our crops withe Mountain Dew and can't figure out why they don't grow...
Great move to make this transparent to founders, even at an early stage. I'd argue it even makes sense for founders to file their entire paperwork in a folder structure that reflects this set up from the get go.

What looks like an unnecessary distraction in the early days will save you time and headache later down the line.

You have to file your documents either way, so why not make sure they are already in a format that's ready for due diligence - once an investor or acquirer comes knocking, you basically have most of your data room ready.
In the nixpkgs repository, sometimes you see certain packages requiring either patches to their source code or sed changes to config files because their build system was hardcoding paths that they shouldn't.
Pinning is the answer to these usability problems.
What's up with Yugoslavia? Last war (genocide really) was stopped and it's now in one of the most peaceful periods of its history. Also, what's wrong with Georgia? The revolution there made lifes of people immeasurably better and gave the country huge push.

It seems that you are arguing in bad faith. The problem with organ harvesting isn't that they harvest them from those sentenced to death; it's the discrepancy between number of operations and organ availability and number of capital punishments.
I was recently reviewing front-end frameworks (i.e., React vs. Angular), and part of the review was looking at Google Trends to get an idea of their relative popularity. I was pretty surprised to see that while React has been gaining on Angular for some time worldwide, it's had remarkable growth in China, where it now surpasses Angular by a wide margin.

Certainly seems that China is faster to adopt this technology than others. Unclear if this is an isolated incidence, but was just surprised to see China pick up a new technology faster than most established tech centers.
Yes they do, with XAML and Qt Quick respectively. On the desktop, I'd rather have the normal menu + toolbars layout though.
> They really thought things through

Thankfully, they thoroughly thought these threatening things through.
The claim in that article--"a lifetime of treatment is preferable to a cure"--is bonkers.

It might be true if there was only one pharma company, but surely most companies would prefer that you buy their one-time cure than become a lifetime customer of their competitors. Diabetes is a particularly bad example because an ungodly amount of time and money has been spent trying to protect, repair, or regrow beta cells. Despite this, we have made very little progress. However, Accu-Chek is not bribing researchers to tank their experiments in the hopes of selling more test strips. The problem is that biology is absurdly complex and messy.

Plus, we have a nice counter-example. Until recently, patients with Hepatitis C were treated with a long course of interferon (6 months to a year), with relatively mixed results and fairly nasty side effects. About 50% of patients did not clear the virus, and needed liver transplants.

In 2013-4, Gilead got approval for sofosbuvir, which needs to be taken for only 12 weeks, has a much higher cure rate, and more mild side effects. To be fair, it is eye-wateringly expensive, especially in the US, but that's one way to make 'cures' work.
> For example, a non-profit corporation has no owners.

What happens if a non-profit dissolves?