skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to say that you are using a very black and white view yourself. E.g. you haven't witnessed even one person actually "hitting WP to find reasons to hate China for", but outright state that goes for everybody criticizing China.

And I can't say much about "hate pieces" or whatnot just yet, I only just started to track the rank, score, and comment count of HN stories. So far it seems to go both ways, both things critical of China and positive articles can get penalized. I started doing it because I was suspicious, but then I continued doing it because it helps me find interesting things I would otherwise not have seen (at least not on HN).

For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18595215 https://i.imgur.com/inbQSJe.png

That was never higher than page 6 (the colored bands are pages). And frankly, that's a more interesting and solid article than anything else I saw on HN about that "CRISPR baby", including comments. Oh by the way, did you know the doctor is now missing? If you do, it's not thanks to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18594814 https://i.imgur.com/0YTEwj4.png

This one had plenty traction, but wasn't allowed to run its course in peace either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18591521 https://i.imgur.com/jHZMjBf.png

(all graphs go from right to left, dots are in 5 minute intervals, rising line is number of comments, and there green dots mean < 10 comments, yellow < 100, orange < 1000 comments)

To be fair, here's one example I spotted where something got flagged that was not critical of China, and while I can't judge the quality of the article compared to others on the subject, I would say it's a perfectly fine and interesting topic for HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18600499 https://i.imgur.com/GiduxhB.png

It's too early to tell, ask me again in 3-6 months. Manipulation of public discourse, even if it's by said public itself, by groups flagging what they don't like, by definition has a public effect that can be measured. Drawing conclusions as to why something is happening is much harder than to find out whether it's happening, but even that will take time. Though the end result will probably be "it's a mess, all sorts of fuckery going on, impossible to tell where one sort of fuckery ends and the next one begins". I do not envy the moderators of this site, that's for sure. But it'll make pretty graphs so there's that.
You’re right—the use of the term “intellectual property” has muddled public discourse on this important issue.

Society as a whole benefits from a robust system of copyright, trademarks and patents to incentivize art and innovation. But just as too weak a system will slow innovation by making it less financially viable, too strong a system will slow innovation by making it harder and more expensive to build new things out of old ones. We need to strike a balance, but the popular notion that ideas and expressions are strongly analogous to real property will likely lead to policies that are, on balance, harmful.

That IP law in the U.S. was conceived of as an economic incentive issue—and not an ethical one—is strongly suggested in the “copyright clause” of the U.S. Constitution, which grants Congress the power “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” [0]

Thomas Jefferson elaborated on his own views on IP in a letter to Isaac McPherson in 1813 [1]:

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody.”

To reiterate a bit of what you said, if “intellectual property” is not property at all, it cannot be stolen—only infringed upon. And the difference is important because whereas theft is a violation of natural law, infringement is a violation of the rules of a specific society.

China is a different society and it has different rules. If we want to make respecting our country’s copyrights, trademarks and patents a precondition of trade, that seems like a good idea—but we should just say that. The drama of calling it “theft” is unnecessary and wrong.

By the way, I recently read and recommend “Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction” [2] by Siva Vaidhyanathan for an all-around introduction to intellectual property.

[0] https://fairuse.stanford.edu/law/us-constitution/

[1] http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12....

[2] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/intellectual-propert...
> And they should.

Until we have UBI, or a functioning safety net that universally guarantees shelter and food, this is false.
Coming from the opposite perspective, some of us grow into nihilism as it offers a retreat from the natural implied significance of every aspect of life, as it is stressed to young people.
Ask HN: How can I convert a series of blog posts into an e-book?
I have some blog(not mine) that I want convert into e-books, but I could not find any tools for this. epub, mobi or pdf format would be great.
> I suppose he associated it only with less educated / developed parts of the world.

Anyone who's been through the one of the US public education systems can presumably concur with that assumption.
I know, but this wasn't a separate aol app, this was part of geoworks ensemble.
When my wife was in the hospital after the birth of both our two kids (premature so they weren't in the room with her to care for, they were in the NICU).... I chose to go home to sleep as the nurses just came and went endlessly. Someone had to get sleep.

Then my oldest son was in the hospital for a while. He was sick so I wasn't too surprised he was napping all the time until spent a few nights sleeping at the hospital with him and realized he was probabbly napping constantly in the day because the nurses would wake him, and me.... constantly all night.

When we went home we both crashed and napped a bit and then slept all night... i swear he recovered faster after catching up on sleep at home.
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> I would be willing to bet my retirement that none of the now-popular presentation technologies will be mainstream 30 years from now

X-Windows? That thing started life more than 30 years ago, and still going strong on Linux.
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>an example of male privilege.

Everyone has privileges in life and everyone has disadvantages. Making this an issue about gender hurts everyone. When you hold the group responsible for the actions of individuals in that group, you risk "tribal" war.

Ask the guy to please make some space for you, and move on with your life.
I wish the downvoters would explain why you're wrong instead. Under what legal theory can Bird file charges against someone who takes what they've left unsecured sitting on a sidewalk?
I am using Lisp more, and big changes to my consulting business
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Because managers generally fear capable employees will take their jobs. And if the ecosystem as a whole is getting upskilled regularly, its very likely you won't a job as a manager anywhere ever.
Get your Clipper chips! Steaming hot Clipper chips! Chocked full of vitamins, backdoors and laughably lazy intelligence agency bungling!
Bubble Trouble: Silicon Valley and San Francisco Housing Markets Head South
Risk of death in the next x years is not, nor is risk of death before age y. That's what the headline is referring to, although I didn't check the paper for the actual time period used.
> These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
> Your search - site:trycosmo.com peer review - did not match any documents

Sounds promising. Untested sleep drugs, sign me up!
To be more clear, I am saying that it may be beneficial for some / more of these p2p open source federated decentralized projects to become added into the auto installers that are already out there and installed on thousands of hosting accounts, and will likely be installed automatically on thousands more.

I'm not sure what is involved in getting softalicious to add your package into the mix, surely (hopefully) it's not too much work.

This way you can point basic web surfers to a list of hosting companies that auto deploy softalicious or whatever other auto installers in the backend automatically.

I'm pretty sure at least a dozen of the last 15 hosting accounts I setup came with at least one auto installer sometimes 2 or three. Almost all of the shared and vps hosting options that come with cpanel or plesk have had softalicious one click away in the main dashboard, with options to install scores of software packages.

I missed this functionality when I tried out DO and vultr. 2 out of 4 of the dedicated servers I paid for had softalicious installed, one offered it as a monthly cost add on, the fourth one said it's up to me to add on packages like that.

So most of the hosting I have done, and the kind of hosting that I recommend for most small clients, already comes with auto-installers setup.

So the tutorial for most poeple would be, if you are hosting with one these 100 web hosts and have a plan that includes softalicious, click the auto-install, scroll down to movim, briar, nextcloud, etc. Click install.

It will run it's magic and give you a web address to login and you are good to go.

This is one of the fastest ways to install a wordpress that auto backs up and updates.

(I know there are many horror stories about issues with wordpress having issues with autoinstallers doing code updates and not doing it the way a manual update may do things, but those are mostly long ago, and if there are a few backups already, then it's better for most people to get updates pushed compared to other alternatives in my experience).

So, most shared hosting setups our there have already installed the 'a main "thing"' - if your federated package is available via that thing, it's a couple clicks away.
It ships from China, so it’s possible it’s from the same manufacturer.
Anecdotally this seems like it's probably a real problem, but doesn't he only have a sample size of one hospital stay?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Also note that Telegram and WhatsApp are insecure and horrible. I would use Signal, OTR and maybe iMessage if you trust the Apple bean-counter-turned-CEO.
I once spent two weeks in hospital with a smashed vertebra waiting for operation. I'm sure many of the individuals involved are trying their best, but it definitely feels more like a place for dying than a place for healing.
South Korea Legislature passes medical cannabis law, first in East Asia
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My wife just finished up a 22 hour labor and is desperately trying to get some sleep but the nurses refuse to stop yelling and laughing directly outside of her door.

It’s not even medical. Just rude.
Note: this was over a week ago but I hadn't heard anything about it until today. It was surprising to me because I heard South Korea has a law that says no citizen may violate its laws while overseas, effectively banning South Koreans from using cannabis quite strictly.
Thanks for the recommendation.

The book I referenced discusses both the early hydrodynamic model maxwell used for electrostatics and a rather bizarre (and intriguing) mechanical model involving flywheels and gears.

Can't comment on whether it linearizes the history though.
[2] was resolved after it landed in stable release branches, which is a bit late for how much impact it had.

[1] was, in fact, root-caused to a blk-mq bug.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10712695/
I felt the question and answer to be a little flippant, which is fine, but hear this: Sometimes there are reasons, very genuine reasons. I've been recovering from a recent stay. I, too, was interrupted frequently - every 45 minutes in fact. After a few nods off and being woken up by a knock at the door repeatedly I asked 'why' and the staff gently explained that me sleeping for too long would be a bad idea for a few reasons:

1. My surgery affected my nervous system and thyroid; maintaining blood flow (especially in my legs) was important.

2. Knowing how I felt at the time kept the nurses informed about the dosage of medicine they should administer. Hormones and their effects can change rapidly.

3. Having a patient awake for blood draws, or an emergency, is useful. I’m not a small person; turning me over for some blood is much easier if I am awake and cooperative.

I can imagine anyone with recent head trauma shouldn’t be allowed to sleep either.

Ask your doctor (and nurses!) to keep you informed and educated about your situation. You're responsible for yourself. Medicine isn’t always intuitive, especially if you’re not yourself yet.
For the birth of my second child, I learned to manage hospital staff so that they would leave my wife and newborn alone unless there was an emergency. I proactively scheduled scans, vital checks for the next morning so that the patients could rest.

The experience was so much better than what my wife and first child had. I do not understand why hospitals cannot do this kind of considerate scheduling by default.
Interesting.. but why is this on HN ?
>If the lifespan of the batteries is 20,000 cycles

It is less than, as I said.

>then they would last 54 years with daily cycling!

Which isn't the case unless they are buying 10 times the batteries and swapping them all day. They can't run all day on a single charge.

>Diesel buses do not usually last much more than 10 years in daily service anyway.

What? There's tons of Diesel buses that are decades old and in use. And what on earth do diesel buses have to do with anything? We're comparing batteries vs wires.

>That is incorrect

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/success-of-montr...

>The range of a battery electric bus is hundreds of miles

Not any of the ones anyone has. And those buses are burning diesel to heat the bus in the winter, which would not be needed using a tram bus.

>I expect that at some point in the next 1-2 years, London will commit to purchasing only zero-emission busses with the goal of an all-electric fleet by 2030 or so.

What does that have to do with anything? Electric buses are "zero emission" (move the emission somewhere else) regardless of batteries vs power lines.
Probably rich people in high end hospitals don't have this problem. I don't know this for a fact, I'm just comparing here the shitty experience that I had with the experience that a friend seemed to be having in a luxury hospital.
Human rights turn out to be very real to people who do not have them.
It's actually just melatonin, L-theanine and magnesium in one pill. So nothing sketchy but also not anything new or interesting. Just a combo pill like most other supplements on the market.
Hospitals are designed to collect money first and foremost.

Anything having to do with your healing is a secondary concern. The only occasional exceptions are in profit centers like OB.

Usually the night nursing staff are better as there are fewer doctors and managers around. When my wife and I were hospitalized for a few days at various points we quickly grew to hate the morning, as that’s when various parties would show up to say hello and log an encounter.
I'd actually argue that var makes it easier to read and understand code. Most of the time, an explicit type on a variable declaration is just noise, because it's a repetition of what we already know from the same line of code. The main place where this doesn't apply is when the variable is initialized from a method call, but even then I tend to find that it's usually quite easy to infer the result type based on context (variable or method name), even without using IDE features. It's definitely different and requires some getting used to, but I personally see a lot more positives than negatives from it.

RE your sibling comment about dynamic: I primarily use it with json. It's useful for things like one-off error responses where you just need to grab a message or code to return/throw and there's really no benefit from introducing a class for that one usage. I did once work on a project where that was attempting to re-use some awful legacy code in a new app, and they leaned on dynamic a lot to make the legacy code work without to re-architect it correctly. It was about as terrible as you're imagining.
Not only are they "designed to allow patients as little sleep as possible", but also doctors too. Residents and doctors frequently have take on 30-36 hour shifts.. How they could effectively treat patients with this level sleep deprivation is beyond me.

Maybe hospitals just have a vendetta on sleep in general?
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Cults and other extreme forms of magical thinking take root whenever survival seems difficult. Chris Hedges' latest book delves into paths to anomie, self-destruction and insanity that are more likely as a civilization crumbles and slowly cannibalizes itself into oblivion.
It's nice that they removed all the hacks: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/pull/144/files#diff-2d4df...

It reminds me of when the Windows 2000 source code was leaked and it showed how vulgar a lot of the comments were.
To whatever degree that's true, I would assume it's to get some momentum of support -- dependency if you will -- generated to peel off some of the people who would just as soon see FB go the way of Friendster. Purely usage juicing.
Can you recommend any other SSDs, or some site that has meaningful tail latency/MTBF data?
I don't like sticking to them for SSDs, but I have yet to hear of one breaking, compared to a bunch of other name brands.
The article quotes a doctor speaking about nursing care. This is as accurate as asking an automotive engineer about automobile repair. Same field, different skill sets.

Nurses are trained to identify trends across many (sometimes too many) patients. Sure its inconvenient if a nurse monitors your blood pressure or oxygen levels every 2 hours after surgery, especially when you are sleeping, and especially if you recover perfectly.

But if you have a post-op internal bleed that occurs during the night, when you are asleep and unable to let someone know you are feeling woozy (because you are asleep), that's when trouble occurs. Frequent observations mean nurses can identify when things are going south before you get to an emergency situation.

Blood pressure drops sharply over 2 hours, monitor every 15 minutes, see if it stabilises. If it doesn't raise the alarm quickly.

Same with audio on machines, that constant beep is annoying to you, but it means the machines are operating and you are getting your prescribed fluids - silence on a night ward is a sign something is wrong, and quickly precedes an emergency alarm.
So the original post[1] commented that there is a combinatorial explosion of possible bras from having, the author says, 10 parameters to work with.

I read that there was a similar scenario in the design of airplane cockpits, such that there were enough different dimensions of human variation that it was hopeless to design for the "average pilot": even assuming that each dimension had 80% of pilots within the acceptable range, it was basically guaranteed to be unacceptable for the vast majority of pilots. I read that the solution was to make all the relevant aspects of the cockpit adjustable; and that this was deemed expensive and dismissed at first, but it became obviously necessary and they sucked it up and did it.

A simple, cheap, and effective process for custom-made bras seems ideal if they have it, but if that is difficult, then I wonder: could it work to make as many dimensions as possible adjustable, and then suffer only mild combinatorial explosion on the remainder?

[1] https://medium.com/@hazelynut/why-i-have-a-problem-with-bras... , linked from the article.
I think most CPython folks are quite annoyed by the lack of concurrent execution! The GIL sucks.

If you ever ask Racket-lang folks about threads they will lecture you about concurrency vs parallelism endlessly, it's like a mantra they repeat to avoid realizing there is a problem.
> I never could quite understand that argument and what is so intuitive and familiar with native UI controls when looking from perspective of a new app to the user

Consider the humble popup button. A user may open the menu via touch, or with a mouse click, or tab to it and open it with spacebar, or via accessibility support, or via scripting support. Once the menu is open, the user may choose to select an item via touch, or trackpad, or key equivalent, or arrow keys and return, or accessibility, or scripting...

When the control is obviously normal, all of these interaction modes are available. If it's something custom, then probably only a few work and I don't want to subject myself to the frustrations of figuring out which one.

Native UI controls allow the user to exercise their built-up vocabulary.

> I'd say that, if someone puts enough attention into it, custom design / controls are probably mostly superior to the native UI, in terms of UX.

Broadly false, but true in highly specialized apps where the investment in custom flows is worth it. (vim, Photoshop, etc). If you're building one of these apps, by all means, think deeply about a specialized interaction vocabulary. But if your app isn't designed to be absolutely central to a specialized workflow, PLEASE leverage the ecosystem and use the native stuff.

> Not to mention how often people want something different and fancy over "boring" bland look of native controls

This doesn't actually happen.
> Hummingbird takes the Dart code that all Flutter applications are written in and then compiles it to JavaScript

Is this going to compete with WebAssembly?
But there is very little left to innovate

Famous last words.
I basically lived in a hospital room for the past week, though I’m not sick. The machine that pumps and monitors your iv fluids constantly emits screaming alarm tones. An alarm can be triggered if you bend your arm the wrong way, obstructing the iv. But most often the alarm is triggered because of air in the line. You can silence the alarm. But if a patient is not accompanied by someone, they will probably have to sit there with the alarm going off for 10 to 20 minutes at a time before the nurse finally arrives and deactivates it. That happened to us once and I never left again after that.

And it’s true — nurses barge into the room quite unceremoniously, wake you up, and perform tests on you in the middle of the night. It’s very annoying and leaves everyone except the nurses very hagard in the morning.