skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> greater share of opportunities than any other group in this nation, which is shown by things like overall increased income, increased job opportunities, increased representation in government, increased representation on corporate boards, increased representation in the media and entertainment, etc.

Money, i.e. resources, is the ultimate score. Ultimately, power (politics, corporate management) is primarily about managing resources (money) within companies, and within society at large. So, given that Asians are doing better as a group than white people, it's really nonsensical to say that they're opressed by them. It looks more like that are actually thriving. You could maybe make a convoluted claim that they are opressed and would be doing even better if they weren't, but that's stretching it.
I‘ll happily let China spy on me if it means I‘m not vulnerable to „five eyes“, the German BND and all the other illegal spying operations with larger impact on my daily life.
I'll take the poison that has freedom of speech/religion/press please.
Given the majority of the voting rights is still with the founders, they may have a bit less shortsighted outlook.
Just discovered that boingboing has one of the only readable, reasonable privacy policies I've ever seen on a news site
https://boingboing.net/privacy

Its not perfect and I wish there was an ad/sponsored post/tracking free paid version, but it was refreshing.

Edit: has anyone ever seen one that just turns tracking off if you sign up? All I've ever seen is the removal of paywalls, sometimes ads, but never tracking
Utter rubbish. You need serious de-programming..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18884720 is about the latest story.
... except in the firmware space, where important C++ mechanisms (especially RTTI and exceptions) tend to be unavailable, giving rise to a (useful, powerful, fun) hybrid of the two.
From memory, most of the time I was double or triple logged. PvP + merchant (+ scout/misc).

I would say I actively engaged in PvP ~10% of my play time. During that time, I would say we got into 1 fight per ~45 minutes. Nullsec gang patrolling with gate bookmarks or gate camping. That's not counting any time spent in larger fleet actions.

And granted, this is ~10 years old vs current features and meta.

So that would add up to... 1:7.5 hours (clock time) or 1:15/22.5 (2x & 3x logged net)?
You can't trust American companies to not spy on you. You can't trust Chinese companies not to spy on you. They are both arms of the government and conduct continuous espionage. Maybe we should get Samsung in this game as a non-superpower third party, though they probably already in the NSA's pocket as you hear no complaints about them from the US.

It's like who would you rather your secrets be stolen by? Americans or the Chinese?
It's not just mobile phones, it's electricity, cars, internet access, logistics, plumbing, and more than I can list in this comment. You seem to be under the impression that housing, healthcare, and education are the only things people need to get by. It's not. Focusing on "relative weights of importance" is an extremely easy way to slip into one's personal biases. Studies that measure the costs of people's necessities in aggregate show that it's still going down relative to incomes, or at least staying the same. Your sources do not refute this claim. They only measures the changes of individual expenditures. They did not attempt to measure aggregate costs of living. Yes, people are spending more on education, but they're spending less on other things and your source do not demonstrate otherwise.
> A counterargument to what!? You're demented.

My arguments against your opinion that Jack Chan paid too high of a cost for his success: "whether I found the cost Jackie paid too high (I do)." I've mentioned it in my last comment as well as previous ones. it also seems that you've mistakenly replied to my earlier comment which breaks the thread

> No, I'm not happy. Since I know you understand the definition of "summary"

The last lines of my previous comment just addressed your fixation that your opinion wasn't shared by the article, so I made a point of focusing on what you admitted was your opinion (even though the article does agree with it) i.e. I'm not talking to the author about his opinions. I'm talking to you about yours.

You accusing me of being a troll is just yet another distraction from the core idea in our debate. The irony with your accusation is that I stay focused in attacking your ideas, while you started attacking me as an individual
So, AG writes a sloppy review to complain about a sloppy mischaracterization of (mostly classic) statisticians.

"About the exposition of causal inference, I have little to say."

That would have been interesting though.
Calling it a front is somewhat uncalled for, given that it's actually one of the largest tech companies on the planet.

Are they connected to the Chinese government and used to exercise geopolitical power? Sure but everyone could have told you that already, because that's how China openly operates. There is basically no distinction between government and multinationals.

As far as the rest of the world cooperates with China's businesses I think everyone sees that facet as a trade-off for access to the largest market in the world.

So I don't agree with the take at the end of the article that finding a Huawei spy in Poland would be surprising or catastrophic for China. Grave cuts to commercial ties to China would probably send the economy spiralling, so nobody's going to do it, it's just going to be a tug-of-war for a long time to come.
I believe you are paraphrasing James Rickards, EG from US News:

> When one inquires of family members and representatives as to what it takes to preserve wealth over centuries and not just cycles, the frequent reply is "a third, a third, and a third." This is shorthand for dividing one's wealth into one-third land, one-third gold, and one-third fine art.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2...

Since I'm fairly familiar with finance and could not find this rule anywhere else I assume he means "a lot of people say" in the Trumpian sense, IE he made it up. There's no data backing the idea that families that have stayed rich invested in those particular assets.

While it's fun to think about escaping from the invading hoards with you sack of gold and a rolled up Old Master in your sack, my guess is that the continued wealth of the Florentine families has more to do with passing on education and cultural advantages, and being lucky enough to live in a relatively stable society.
Missing from your list is arguably the most important difference: programming with mathematical (immutable) values. This allows one to build very high-level abstractions and easily reason about correctness. OOP languages simply were not designed for this style of programming.

There are also many other significant differences. I estimate I am about ten times more productive in Haskell than Java.
Perhaps I'm just naive with regards to tax policy, but the idea of raising or lowering taxes in order to drive growth always seemed strange to me. I've always taxes were a way to fund a functioning government and pay for all the common infrastructure and services that make life pleasant. If you have excellent public schools, and well-maintained roads, and an efficient governing body, wouldn't that be a place ripe for growth, regardless of tax rate?
Risk is fine but there is no added reward for taking on extra risk that can be diversified away. In theory anyway - if you know material things the markets do not, this obviously changes.
> how can you actually verify that your causal model is true?

This is addressed in the introduction. See box 4 in the flow-chart (“testable implications”).

“The listening pattern prescribed by the paths of the causal model usually results in observable patterns or dependencies in the data. [...] If the data contradict this implication, then we need to revise our model.”
But we do have laws and we can improve those laws without adding more bureaucracy to companies which is what GDRP do.
You don't say...
...and every American tech company is a US intelligence front.

Who do you think the bigger spy is though, USA v China? Let's be honest.
> The Task page would be a place where all the work done could be shared in a clean way and even serve as a quasi-wiki.

This is something sorely missing from Jira. There's Confluence, but why should you have to create a wiki page to repeat a modified version of what you already have in a ticket.
Nah, that wasn’t my experience (apple/Facebook). Just look at the levels posted here:

https://www.levels.fyi

Hitting 400k total comp if you have the right experience (5-10 years, good brand university or companies) is totally doable.
I reject the idea that money is sitting around idle. Very little is - most people keep a little idle cash in their wallet and a few coins in a jar: the rest is in banks and other investments were the money is not idle it is working. When you take the money away you don't remove it from changing hands, you just remove me from the changing hand.

It it good or bad to remove someone from their money? That depends a lot and is subject to lots of complex debate.
If you dig software rendering:

https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_vvC2G7vRo&list=PLEETnX-uPt...

https://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Programming-Gurus-Advanced-Gra...
Yes, you are allowed to have an opinion. But how would you feel if you went to a conference and all the products were targeted for women, even if you were a user/consumer too?
Well, firstly, "famine" isn't the same thing as "diet and exercise regime"

Even if famine does work, and does so for everyone, that still plausibly leaves regular diet and exercise not equally effective for everyone.

> Nobody in those situations stays overweight due to 'some sort of fat storage rampage' do they?

I actually have no idea.

Does there exist anyone who died at close to zero fat and muscle in a death camp, or due to famine, who had been confirmed to have been a 450 pounder?

It's imaginable that in such a predicament, such an obese person will die of starvation long before losing the fat; that it simply won't be metabolically available to sustain them.

Without any actual data, "nobody came out fat out of Auschwitz" is just a dumb Internet meme.

There are cases of incredible body transformation from people quite severely obese to basically skin-over-muscle; yet that doesn't prove it's possible for everyone.
technically matatu's are mass transit privately owned minivan buses and not taxis, Nairobi as well as other Kenyan cities are well served by ride sharing services like Uber and Taxify which fill the taxi need. The "tatu" or three came about because they used to charge 3 cents when they started out way back before my time. There have been some changes in the sector to address some issues like safety but it's got a long way to go. Interesting innovations popped up around the space e.g. Google launched NFC transit payments, Bebapay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BebaPay, in Nairobi a couple of years back but killed off the project (I was part of the local team when this took off)
Slight tangent: my perception as a tech person but not a networking professional is that TP-Link became big in consumer network gear very suddenly. It made me wonder at the time if they got a leg up from the Chinese government, and now with these stories about Huawei I wonder if they're similarly entangled.

How much of a white hat effort is there to check what servers these products connect to? Are there (volunteer?/open source?) efforts to watch for suspect behavior or do targeted disassembly of the firmware?
It's a front because it claims that it isn't at the will of the PRC.
> That doesn't mean Mao created a famine, the thing that killed tens of millions of people, to punish those citizens that had the wrong politics and ideas like the claim said

The cited sources literally state that Mao's regime was fully capable of feeding its own people and chose not to because grain exports were deemed a higher priority.

Are you refuting that? If so, then on what grounds? If not, then the claim that "Mao created a famine" and "the famine disproportionately targeted enemies of Mao's regime" are somehow entirely disconnected is an amazing feat of mental gymnastics.

> you're have been amazing deceitful in your intellectual dishonesty

Hello there, Pot. Nice to meet you! I'm Kettle.

> Stop bringing up points that distort the actual points being argued as if I can't tell that's what you're doing.

TIL presenting facts is "distort[ing] the actual points being argued".
How so? emscripten already supports WebGL
Wordless instructions for making charts: Tableau Edition
Interesting. Why do you see European spying operations as more impactful to your daily life than Chinese?
Are those ranked by perceived impact?
Quake 2 is retro? Shit, I'm old.
You would like mine :)

https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/todo.sr.ht

Most pages weigh <10 KiB on a warm cache, <30 KiB cold.
Url changed from https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/healthcare-industry-..., which points to this.
How we developed a CI/CD Strategy for a blockchain startup using CircleCI
You can't link a GPL engine against the Steam library (Steamworks SDK is proprietary) and then distribute binaries without violating the GPL.

It's also not assets that are the problem, it's the game-specific code.
Exactly. Such a policy should work, on paper at least, in places like China or some SE Asian countries. It won't in places like South Korea or other places where consumers are mostly indebted (in which case they repay them instead of consuming more) or buying cheap goods from China or SE Asia (in which case manufacturers from those countries benefit most).
economy is a clusterfuck of causality. trying to find what caused something is super hard
Well, somebody just read my mind! Thanks for the kind words BTW! I aim to make this asset library configurable and easy to contribute. The final goal is to enable designers to contribute their SVG files without any code. Thanks to designers like Pablo Stanley, this kind of templates can be developed. I hope this can become a new way for designers to collaborate with each other. Anyway, I’ll see you in the 2.0 release!
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing - it encourages companies to spend on expansion instead of hoarding, and reduces the value of debt.
"Insane": Thanks for throwing those of us with health issues under the bus.
In the middle east.

They all continued to work in academia as postdocs. I don't want to go in that path. Especially that my most recent work was in a field I don't enjoy, but I had to do it because my previous adviser had to leave university and that was the only option or else I would have wasted the previous years effort in vain.

I have lots of theoritical experience in many areas and I just need to start in a first job. And from there it would be easy. As I will be able to say I have actual industrial experience.

I want a software engineering job.
I even apply for entry level jobs and I get rejected.
I even got rejected several times for internships.
Surprisingly, some men don't want to be a modeling photographer.

Add to that the fact that 99% of these women will never make more than a few dollars a month for all their time and effort.
Emscripten has an SDL implementation so you can just SDL_BlitSurface inside a <canvas>.
It should be as invisible as possible.

I discuss an issue with someone on Slack or over email or whatever. I can invoke some magic command in band to capture the surrounding conversation and create a reference number. I can then cite that reference in code comments or commit messages. When my CI server deploys the fix, it automatically informs the other participants in the same channel the issue was created from.

The last thing I want is yet another browser tab with another separate inbox to maintain. Interact with me entirely over the channels that I already budget attention to.
Serious, non-snarky question: WTF does this even mean? How is "the power to transcend paradigms" the most effective way to intervene in a system? How do you create a policy or a set of actions to actually influence an economy based on "the power to transcend paradigms"?

It seems to me that subsidies and taxes are obvious ways to shift the mindset of the system or "transcend paradigms" since we know taxes actually influence behavior. Look at sin taxes on smoking in the U.S., which not only directly reduced smoking but in turn have helped fund anti-smoking propaganda, which together have helped the rate of smoking in the U.S. plummet. Is this what is meant by "transcending paradigms" or "shifting mindsets"? If so, doesn't that really mean that taxes or subsidies can be one of the most effective ways to influence an economy?
> The power to transcend paradigms.

What is the level of peer-support for this amongst mainstream economists? It sounds like woo.
Put the Ayn Rand down and join the real world please.

Also - case in point - Kansas. Lower taxes, and they now can't fund schools properly - which means no educated workforce 10-20 years down the line.
I'll choose the US, which for all its faults has a much better human rights record than China. Political opponents aren't jailed, there are no reeducation camps for minority groups (like Muslims.) Business isn't done through constant bribing of officials (which is very popular in China.) Etc, etc. Were it not for trade empowering the Chinese political class, China would be a hermit state like North Korea.
Let's also add a link to Loeliger's Threaded Interpretive Languages... https://archive.org/details/R.G.LoeligerThreadedInterpretive...
How about a bridge for a river? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigable_aqueduct
For better or worse, paying for sex is illegal in most places regardless of consent. The law does not have a carve out for consensual slavery either. The state can decide any consent to participate in an illegal arrangement was cohersed.
You raise that in an interesting way. I'm all for national defense. But we aren't using them for national defense. I'm all for having a military strength such that we don't have to have wars with Russia and China, powerful, belligerent countries. Strength is a deterrence.

But the capabilities being built, like drone bombing are primarily used in our endless wars, and used by our 'allies' like Saudi Arabia in places like Yemen.

Have you read the book "Forever Peace" by the author of the more famous "Forever War", Joe Haldeman? F.P. is a world with an endless battle against people that could stand in for the endless wars against Islamic terrorists we fight today. In this world they have robots that can be remotely controlled and you can just walk up to people and kill them. It really reminds me of the way technology could make wars in the future.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624565
What do those bureaucrats do with the money that is paid with taxes? Spend it on economic activity.
It's sad to me that people were so hard on him for his last works. I wish mathematics had a positive space for speculation.
I've read a bit about Solid in the past, but never quite understood how it will handle different data models. Does it force social data to all look the same (as in, have a predefined set of fields)? If not, how do apps built on it interoperate?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for projects like this. I think it's wonderful. I just never really got how the apps will work with the same data without being forced into a particular data model (which seems like it would limit what you could do).
Die shot collection of Pauli Rautakorpi, Wikipedia user
> What if the actual conclusion is that it just doesn't matter.

You're probably right with respect to growth.

Other commenters are going to glibly point out that you need taxes to pay for basic research or whatever. Yeah, I think they miss the point too.

If the country wanted to, it could not raise a single tax dollar and 10x its research spending. A country isn't a household, its balance sheet can have debt permanently, etc. etc.

No, I think taxes matter for justice and equality. And the whole reason cost effectiveness entered our debate is that rich people, like you're correctly pointing out, have opinions, and tax policy is a consequence of that.

But if overall rich people are aligned against higher taxes, which is the case in history most of the time, they're effectively aligned against equality and justice.

And save me the downvotes if you don't understand how property taxes, for example, that differ between neighborhoods, can be about justice as much as they are about funding school districts.

Or that the healthcare mandate was absolutely about justice, and that calling it a tax was a workaround precisely for the reasons I described: that we've become obsessed with positivist or legalistic (instead of normative) dialogue, so it was the only way to get ACA passed.

I love tax policy on HN, because it really brings out of the woodwork people who do care about what's good for the country, and people who don't.
I like this suggestion. Their F3 disco boards are also nice.

For a related twist the OP might check out the Nordic Semi's M4 with radio SoC offering, the nRF52840DK. It has an onboard, breakout-able segger JTAG programmer and is easy to get going with Segger's freebie take on a GCC IDE.
> There is plenty of evidence where raising taxes appears to produce economic growth

Please cite such evidence.

> Raising the minimum wage also redistributes money to low wage earners, who tend to spend their all money, as opposed to richer people who save.

Raising minimum wage increases the cost of labor, which will reduce hiring and trigger layoffs. Minimum-wage earners are the most vulnerable class of employees, the most easily dismissed and replaceable. As such, they will be the first to be laid off as profits decline, especially when these profits are declining as a direct result of the cost of employing them

Rising cost of labor also hurts growth directly, especially when its due to government intervention and not voluntary free-market forces.

> The real world is not Macro 101, and pretending policy questions like these are trivial is very very silly.

Except in this case all these "policy experts" and "professional economists" were apparently wrong, and instead of increasing growth, these changes hurt it substantially, just as Macro 101 would predict.

So score one for basic economic good sense versus the "policy experts".
I hope your organs are suitable for the Chinese elite.
To elaborate, Dilbert's boss has pointy hair so it references "management".
It doesn't support many lifestyles. It's a very, very top heavy model. A few at the top are making tons while the huge majority make essentially nothing. All these people are supporting their Instagram obsession like an actor waiting tables.
It's somehow different when we do it, apparently.
Huh, I wonder what that'll mean for cross-platform compatibility. As they say in the post, Allegro supports a lot of platforms, whereas if they end up just targeting DirectX 11, that pretty much locks out everyone other than Windows and Xbox, doesn't it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18885768
Or, if you have an installation of Julia, just run `julia --lisp` to get the same thing ;-)