skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article, it touches on some of the more subtle but important issues at play in this case in particular, but the rise of China overall. Due to a historic lack of more balanced articles like this reaching a relatively more mainstream audience, I think a lot of people seriously underestimate how important the opinion of the average man on the ground is (or can be) when it comes to international trade.

I've been very concerned about the rise of China for many years now, the rate at which they're closing the technological capability gap with the Western world coupled with their massive population and cultural propensity to hard work and saving, wielded by an authoritarian pseudo-communist government poses a very large risk to the future well being of the world. This isn't to say it is guaranteed to produce a bad outcome, but it certainly could, and it doesn't seem terribly unlikely to me, at all.

It has been very interesting to observe the shift in public opinion on China in forum discussions over the last several years, but particularly in the last 3 months or so. Here in Canada, 4 or so years ago typically only the most hardcore "racists" would have something negative to say about China, and the typical response would be overwhelming disagreement and downvoting, if not deletion of comments and banning from the forum. Contrast that with today, where I'd say strongly anti-China sentiments are at least 50% of the comments, and heavily upvoted and rarely moderated (suggesting a change in sentiment even among moderators). Another example would be the typical discourse on tariffs when Trump first started discussing them compared to now. At the beginning, the typical comment was a hearty "oh my god, Trump thinks trade is a zero sum game, what an idiot!", but I can't remember the last time I read anyone saying that, suggesting that even the most anti-racist people out there have somehow become more educated on the topic. And you rarely hear it mentioned (it usually requires an access to information request by a journalist), but this change in public sentiment on this and related topics is definitely a serious topic of discussion behind closed political doors in Canada.

Very interesting times, I hope it all works out in the end.
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I agree with everything you just said except for with respect to "UFO". Technically, until an object that is inflight is identified, it remains an unidentified flying object.

Also, it is worth keeping in mind that there are, even now, uncontacted tribes [1] that have yet to enter the modern erra:

[1]:https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/08/brazil-un...
This is inline with climate goals how..?
I'm not sure this is right. One of the very clever things Uber did was take advantage of a loophole in the hackney laws that allowed drivers to operate for hire without taxi medallions as long as they did not perform street hails. From the point of view of taxi operators who had long relied on this system to protect them from meaningful competition, this was a flouting of the intent of the law, if not the actual language of the law itself. They did not however, as far as I know, actually break the law.
The actual legal complaint:

https://myeclerk.myorangeclerk.com/CaseDetails?caseId=108169...
It'll be done when it's done is, unfortunately a common thing said when people are late.

Looking at the original kickstarter page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen there's pledges of a finished product in 2014, so it doesn't feel unreasonable for people to say that it's late.
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Well are you trying to be surprised, or are you trying to defend your natural born rights? It sounds like you're not interested simply because it's redundant.
> That, I think, explains a lot of their behavior.

I honestly think the hardest part of explaining cat behavior is how chaotic they are as a species. You can explain A cat's behavior, but it's harder to explain all of them. My cats, for example, completely understand knocking over (even large) containers to get food, understand that turning door knobs will open doors (thankfully their lack of thumbs means they usually don't have the grip to pull it off), but fail to understand that sitting ON the closed food container means I can't use it to feed them.

Ive read that not only are cats more recently domesticated than dogs (like, by an order of magnitude of years, with dogs domesticated 50k-80k years ago) but that domestication didn't involve OUR deliberate breeding of them outside of recent centuries, so the traits selected for are more about compatibility (for their benefit) than for anything we explicitly want. My personal theory is that housecats are often from such small genepools (that haven't had a lot of recessives weeded out of them yet) that cats tend to be this mix of genius and idiot and weird, so it's very hard to extrapolate generalities from a few specimens. But that theory is likely worthless.
Yup, another good example of this is Hyper vs. Terminus. Both Electron apps, but Terminus is way more performant and less memory hungry. I've taken that (along with Slack vs. pretty much every other Electron app) to mean that yes you're going to get some sort of inherent performance hit going Electron over native, but a huge performance hit can arise from a crappy architecture/implementation. For instance, doesn't Slack use a different webview for each channel?
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I stay away from Electron and JS desktop apps in general because:

- Huge distribution size. Your code is 1% at most. 99% is redundant. I want 10 meg at worst hello world dist size.
- This is more a problem in JS ecosystem in general: No good enough standardized or not way to do the frontend part of the app. Angular is not good enough, neither is React or anything else. Though it is gradually getting better.
The cpu still needs to load code in via instruction cacheline fetches. For every instruction fetch, that core isn't doing much.

The compiler alleviates this somewhat by putting the hot path right under the branch instruction so that the fetch that grabs the branch also grabs the start of the hot path as part of the same cacheline.

It sounds minimal, but if that fetch is swapped out of L2 cache due to long periods of inactivity, it can take upwards of 100ns, which starts to add up in HFT.
The problem with fascism is that its endgame always ends up with its adherents attacking each other. It always fails, it is not sustainable. Too bad its followers never got that memo. I thought the Internet would just make the next attempt that much faster to die out, but apparently I was wrong!

In related news, a relative of mine complained that he was receiving fascist posts on Facebook. Thing is, he didn't follow those groups, but one of his friends did, and Facebook's stupid algorithm thought it would share what his friend liked in his news feed, without asking.
I think the entertainment value of this video for me doesn’t rely on it being genuine. It’s creative, well engineered, and hilariously executed even if the responses are staged. I’m surprised, but it doesn’t ruin it for me.
A better example would be laws that benefit the solar and wind energies, sometimes at the expense of the fossil fuel industry. Good governance to those who think a fossil fuel world is a dead end to nowhere, an example of picking winners and losers to the fossil fuel industry and its ideological allies.
Most assholes aren't sociopaths. The pseudo-anonymity and "exclusivity" of Blind encourages trolls and assholes to congregate. People say things just to piss others off, and they also say "publicly" the douchebag things they'd normally only say to close friends/family (overt racism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc). None of this means they are actually sociopaths, though. Just run of the mill assholes and trolls.
Why so many company of USA are blocked in China?
Facebook, Google, twitter, Reddit ...
But any company of China can make money in USA whenever they want?
USA make CCP rich, but CCP wanna USA to die.
These should not be tolerated anymore.
The quoted number is actually the entire budget, including marketing.

> Media analyst Arvind Bhatia estimated the game's development budget exceeded US$137 million,[7] and The Scotsman reporter Marty McLaughlin estimated that the combined development and marketing efforts exceeded GB£170 million (US$265 million), making it the most expensive video game ever made at its time

And here's wikipedia's source on the $137m

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-02-01-gta-v-dev-...
The idea that showing a warning makes it immediately obvious what is going on is ridiculous.

It would take a large-scale public education campaign to teach people what it means when they see a warning message that reads "Peer key changed. Are you sure you want to proceed?"

If you need to be convinced, go ask your mom or dad whether it's immediately obvious what is going on when they see an insecure connection warning in their web browser. In my experience everyone just clicks through to "proceed anyway" without comprehending it at all.
When I think about a hard software project, this game is the what I think of every time.

It is like it says in the article: you're not just making a movie, you're inventing the camera.

By the sound of it they went right from DirectX to build the engine, a huge task in itself, and then writing the story with the engine. And of course when you try to write the upper layer, you're going to discover you forgot something in the lower layer. Often something bad that makes you have to re-architect.

In my own line of work it there's also layers like exchange integrations and strategies, but you're still reasonably close in terms of domains of thinking. With games you're both performance optimizing c++ code and trying to tell a compelling story at the same time.

And you can't skip the artistic side. You have to have a proper story. The characters have to have correct looking clothes and weapons. NPCs need to have the right speech coded, and they need to drop the right loot for the plot to work. Maps have to seem expansive yet still seem coherent to the atmosphere.
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You learn by doing and putting skin into game not by watching or listening random CEO advice.

The only thing you will learn is that if your friend could create a $25M company you can do this too. This is how we grow--by imitating our closest peers and we start as babies imitating our parents and siblings. Creating a $25m company is btw not that hard, creating a multibillion company is.

Everything else, stuff you will see and his advices won't help you because once you are in the situation yourself you won't be able to use that stuff. Long story, I'll tell why another time.

Found a company yourself now and let him coach you/make intros to investors and let him check your overall pitch. If you don't have any ideas for a business ask him. This will be your first mission.

Shadowing a CEO without having a clear mission is douchy.
I've been following Star Citizen loosely since the first day the original crowdfunding campaign was launched, but I never backed it. The reason is this: at the time, it looked impossibly ambitious. Budget an order of magnitude larger than others, studio without a history, and too many promises of really ambitious game mechanics wrapped into a single package. I think you can't really blame anyone for smelling another Peter Molyneux style story brewing.

Since then, I've spent time watching and the main problem is the same one I had with games like Destiny 2 at launch or Elite: Dangerous (played both, wish I had waited two more years). There's a kernel of fun in there, but that's where it ends, and there are plenty of other games out there that have both the kernel of fun and a fleshed out execution.

Star Citizen doesn't look bad, it just looks incomplete against its ridiculous ambitions, and I'm lumping this in among games that will probably become complete a few iterations after release. I would much rather have the game as promised, but I've seen this pattern too many times before and there are too many other great games in the meantime for me to hold my breath for it.
Because there’s no pressing need for hydrogen and oxygen on the South Pole. On Mars we’d need both. A serious Mars mission would almost certainly include a small nuclear reactor for power.
The first Dragon Age is arguably a spiritual successor.

Dragon Age II was largely panned by Bioware fans as it got a lot more action oriented and less RPG/choice driven.

Dragon Age: Inquisition is basically unrecognizable to Baldur's Gate days, as mechanically it's more similar to Mass Effect 2 than old time RPGs. That game was 90% pulp fantasy open world quest completer with decent combat/skill syngergy. But the last 10% uncovered some story bits that really made me go "wow I want to know more".

Looks like the sequel is in the works.
Edit: title was changed, I am not Tom Scott

I am not too familiar with how Brave and BAT (Brave Attention Token), so please chime in. Here's how Brave describes the BAT YouTube donations system: https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-expands-basic-attentio...

From my understanding, users of the Brave Browser select which YouTubers to donate to, but they don't know whether the channels have opted in to receive donations? What does Brave do with unclaimed donations? Someone pointed out this concern in an earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15730661

Furthermore, OP said that they might not be following GDPR due to collection of YouTuber data (to assign donations). IANAL, anyone know how compliant this is?
That is where serverless is really awesome as it give you scale and flexibility, and the providers behind are using containers
For the same reason it still makes sense to make very expensive movies even though anybody can invest a few grand into good equipment and make their own.
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The documentation for kata seems fairly straightforward for a single host install. Install the kata packages, modify docker daemon to change the run time, then use Docker the usual way.

https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/blob/master...
OpenTTD is amazing. A group of friends of mine often have online games over the Christmas holidays. The only time everyone are able to play at the same time.

I have also been playing a little CorsixTH, the open source reimplementation of Theme Hospital. Theme Hospital came with Swedish translations, which are close enough to Norwegian that I was able to understand it. No dictionary needed!
I wouldn't say that California's legalization of marijuana sales indicates a general disregard for the law in California, considering multiple states across the country have the same laws and California wasn't even the first to do it.
I also wonder, if you got any traction whatsoever building a Facebook competitor, would they sue you for some kind of patent infringement? They'd definitely try to acquire you, and likely make it difficult to be successful if you didn't sell.

I guess Snap is an interesting case study here, but we can all read the writing on the wall.
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Well Nextdoor is a perfect alternative for all your racist relatives who just want to rant about poor people moving into their neighborhood. My whole family has accounts in several different areas of Pittsburgh and most of the posts are people taking pictures of someone walking past their house or parking on their street and asking "Does anyone know this guy? Does he even live here? I think they're planning on breaking into my house!!"
I think it's more in line with foreign policy goals.

I don't love that we're doing this either, but I like Russia and SA not having money to fuel their escapades.
ALL human morality is quasi-religious. Democracy is fundamentally a moral philosophy. The crime of murder is "natural rights".

Our whole society is built on natural rights.
And when those phenomena are fought, it is on the basis of the Constitution.
Almost all farmed salmon is colored by dyes in food, or processing. Skipping that step could be marketed as a somewhat legit health benefit. I have no idea if the dyes are at all harmful, but many people are bound to like their fish unaltered and 'natural'. Either way, brilliant marketing.
The conversation in Blind is not representative of "most people" in big tech companies. Blind is largely a dumpster fire with occasional pockets of unexpected value. Most people don't spend their time there, because it's such low value discourse.
SC is already in playable alpha, and has been for years. It's Squadron 42 (the single player mode) that's planned for 2020.
If the strings are short and everything always lived in the cache I don't think the author would have posted this in the first place. If the strings are always long and never fit in the cache the performance cannot be related to cache or anything related to cache vs memory access. In this case I don't think the author would have posted about variable performance when accessing the strings from memory if it were something they had not observed.

Locality only applies in a third middle state when some strings are short enough to fit in the cache and when others are not. In this case the degrading performance is predictable to the number of memory look ups. If the string is in cache there are no memory look ups. If it is in memory there are two look ups: one of the string and a second for the index upon that string. Finally the article mentions the second look up varies according to the length of the string, which suggests different performances for strings of different length even if both reside in memory.

Its not that I disagree with the article, but rather the finality of assumptions drawn from the article. Logically you cannot access a specified index on a string without first accessing the string and then navigating to the given index. There is instruction time in all of that and it isn't solely confined to locality.
They might be talking about non-monetary resources, like partnerships and experience?
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Coming from a place with proportional distribution, I can see there's value in a winnner-takes-all policy. For example, alternance is more likely (in Andalusia it took 37 years for a non-socialist government to have a chance at power). Also, representatives respond to their district's specific needs, which is good because you have one specific person to go talk to, and to boot off their seats if necessary (unlike a system where the politicians at the top of their parties ranked lists are pretty much guaranteed a position). There's no perfect system, and the grass is always greener, etc.
Sad to see them go.
They were easy to use and cost effective
(for my use cases at least).

They have some really cool underlying tech.

I can't say I'm surprised though - there have been signs that this was coming.
GeckoView is going to be the basis of new products, so I think it will have a more secure future than some past Mozilla efforts: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView

There's more to Electron than that, but this might make it more feasible.
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It's not. (Not that the current administration has any climate goals.) If the rest of the world adopted America's energy policy, and patterns of energy use, we'd be looking at ~4C warming by the end of the century. [0]

We need radical change, and we need it today, if we want our children to avoid an unprecedented catastrophe. There is currently no political will to make such a change.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/climate-...
CIG repeatedly promised, on their sites and promo videos, that SQ42 would be launching in 2016. You can argue that what they’re doing with SC is unprecedented, and SQ42 is dependent on them. But it wasn’t CIG themselves that were adamant on the 2016 release date.
taxis aren't terrible. the distribution of medallions in most cities is the problem.
This is only partially accurate. Elite: Dangerous definitely focused on getting that "release" 1.0 version ASAP. But Star Citizen has been playable for years as well, it just doesn't presume to call itself "done". Star Citizen is currently on version 3.3.7, and a decent amount of playable features have been around a long time.

They're not that dissimilar, just the labels of what they've chosen to state of their status. Elite: Dangerous added planetary landing more or less around the same time Star Citizen did, for instance, but E:D called it an expansion and Star Citizen called it a new version for their alpha.

Also, you are confused Squadron 42, a single-player game, which has an alpha in 2020, and Star Citizen, which is more analogous to Elite: Dangerous, which is ongoingly available.
educated ...reminiscent of contemporary video clip interviews with individuals saying I don't mind if the government reads my correspondence. I have nothing to hide.

But for an historic contrarian view:

Berlin 1931 (Weimar Republic): I don't mind if the government reads my letters. I've got nothing to hide.

Berlin 1936 (national socialism): You writings make you an enemy of the state!
As an early Star Citizen backer, I don't fully get how they pushed the boundaries of gaming. They seem to have to just wasted backer money, wasted hours of developer time that could have been used to make other games, and broke promises.
>“Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all’s the same in death.”

As much as being fans of the Illuminati (and who isn't?) they might also be fans of Diogenes of Sinope.

>"I am searching for the bones of your father, but could not distinguish them from those of a slave."

Diogenes of Sinope trolling Alexander the Great (again) ~300BC

One thing about these secret societies is that they give the political hegemony some resistance to the Rasputin problem. People who are addicted to power have a peculiar weakness to woo merchants promising further power over supernatural realms, which if the power addict even slightly entertains as a possibility of existing, they will feel compelled to follow, even on the off chance of more power. If they already feel they have the inside track on the occult, they are far more likely to rely on the resident court woo merchants, rather than following the latest wild eyed cosmic debris that just wandered in.

As an aside, a friend of mine has the theory that Trump is conclusive proof of the non-existence, or at least lack of real power, of the Illuminati or equivalent. On the basis that there is no sane over-arching conspiracy of total control where you would choose to end up with Donald Trump. He only makes sense from a world of many groups that have varying power and competency, where one of them is currently trying to fuck the other up.
Less then a month migration period.

If you factor in that not much work is getting done in many western countries until early January the actual migration time is more like less than two weeks.

Now I don't know how easy it is to move from hyper.sh to alternatives, but that is unprofessionally short regardless.

I would have expected at least three months. Is it possible that they are that short on money that they need to shut it down immediately?
Seems like it.

Let that be a lesson to not rely on cloud infrastructure too much without designing your architecture to be somewhat cloud agnostic.
I assumed he built the device but it turns out this guy actually engineered the device for Mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMxOmUcfOI