skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa, hang on there, let's look at it from the other side.

China chooses band-aid problems over fixing what are extremely complex socio-economic, ethnic dynamics that arose out of a swim-or-drown capitalist system that doesn't offer the usual safety nets found in Western democracies, such as enforcement of regulations and law and more importantly lobbying or "legalized and public bribes".

But the main difference between the West and China is human rights. Note that the West is not exactly innocent here, the concept took a long time to mature. I do have hope for countries like South Korea, which appear to be headed in the right direction.

It's amazing how a simple, fundamental differences about how a human being should be treated between these two cultures can produce such drastically different outcomes.

They can ignore human rights because they can't afford not to.

They can ignore infrastructure problems since they don't care about human rights and no consequences for ignoring legal opposition, because why would you care about the oppositions whining about human rights when there are no consequences?

They can't keep printing money forever because of inflation, no country is immune, this is just the laws of physics. They can do it now because they simply don't care about what happens to the Chinese citizens in the future, and they certainly don't care about their children's children.

China is going backwards, instead of democracy, they chose authoritarianism, well because of Winnie the Pooh decided he would be the new Mao.

Democracy is a long and arduous path, but it is ultimately what a lot of Western countries have gone through, and some new democracies like South Korea are currently going through.

Looking at China today is like looking at America in the 1800s and early to mid 1900s, when the industrial revolution started happening, and they didn't give a shit about letting women and kids work in dangerous factory conditions. They also imported a bunch of humans like commodities....they interned Japanese Americans like Uhigurs...horrible horrible shit

If it were not for the Founding Fathers of the US constitution, and the subsequent descendants iron will to uphold that constitution it wouldn't be where it is today....but I fear that this will not always be the case, and the US can easily snap into authoritarianism....just watch Vice and Unitary executive theory....it's so easy to make up new legal jargon to centralize power to a single individual.
Just use Embedded Common Lisp. Comes with a full Common Lisp incl. CLOS implementation, compiles to C, uses the usual free IDE SLIME/GNU Emacs. https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/main.html
Yeah I've seen this, and had the experience of working for a few. While its fine for them to be the idea guy, they also need to be the execution guy. Having the disciple to actually execute and be decisive is rare. I've seen this happen a few times where the CEO becomes paralyzed with decision because ALL of their ideas are so good!
Increasing minimum wage, and essentially workers across the board need to start demanding higher wages.

Maybe if there was a way to band together and seek a unified compensation policy on a company/industry basis.
> 1. Invite Amazon to NYC for free.

Would that option include canceling the city and state programs Amazon was going to take advantage of?
No it doesn't. Apple Pay can notify you if you've connected the Amex there, but the notification doesn't come from Amex app, at least on iOS.

Edit: It seems the functionality is there, but it doesn't work for Contactless, which is the majority of transactions I've done.
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You can get an 80 TB Snowball to use for 10 days for $250, and pay a minor shipping charge to get it to and from the AWS datacenter. That's not free but its cheap enough that it should be a tiny decimal point percentage of the value of the 80 TB of business data you can fit on the Snowball.

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Fair point, I missed the last bullet. To me, munificent's comment reads like a false dichotomy--you either have the Java's problems or C++'s problems. I was pointing out that there are other systems that largely have neither--namely that you can have template-based generics that perform better than Java and are friendlier than C++. He may well not have meant it that way, but that's the context for understanding my posts.
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While I can agree about the lack of user focus, I disagree with the precise way in which lack of user focus is the failure point for both Linux Desktop and Bitcoin.

See, neither of these things can be presented to a user as a tool that can make their lives better, which is what users actually want. Strip away all the hype and math and crypto jargon and what is Bitcoin to someone? An inconvenient currency they can't pay taxes with and have to jump through hoops to use for nebulous benefit. Where did Bitcoin actually find traction amongst users? As a way of transferring money overseas, because it could do it with a lot less hassle than traditional methods.
Let's not mix up two entirely unrelated things just because they're both done by PayPal.
Safari used to use re2c to identify Unicode Top Level Domains in order to avoid cross-site-scripting attacks. The Unicode support has no parallel that I’m aware of.
The difference can get very thin and yet no law gets passes though.

For instance there is a no-banking list in most countries: you won’t be able to use any banking service in that country if a single bank puts you on it. That’s usually a default of payment of a cheque, but it’s not limited to, and banks can trigger conditions where the customer will hit a provable offense.

In that instance the private entities coordinate to enforce a ban on an individual and no law will pass against that.

I’d assume the same would happen for insurances, where there must be a ban on people commiting insurance fraud, and I’d assume it’s not limited to only provable offenses, or charges can be just provoked.

Passing a law against these practices requires buy-in from the public and people not just assuming “they have done something very wrong on paper, why should we care ?”
I don't think they are all the same. Anyone can live fine without Facebook. Being banned from Google services would be very inconvenient, but being banned from the credit card consortium would be a life-changing blow. Chase Sapphire has stepped into the arena in this regard, canceling credit for users with unsavory political beliefs.
pretty sure Revolut actually uses transferwise for fx transfers

edit: my bad, seems like I'm confused with something else but can't figure out what!
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Or more accurately, they exist to preserve existing monopolies that have lobbied for regulatory barriers to market entry.
You are missing the point:

If we dont trust the OS, why would we trust it to be honest and display what it's actually reporting.
You can't be sure until you wiretapped the communication and looked for yourself.
What about people with flabby hands and irritating laughs?
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> None of the gensym and hygiene problems you have with CL.

Doesn't matter much. Practically Common Lisp's macros are great to use.
i called them "useful idiots" because that's what they are. if that term offends you, i can use a different one, but you'll have to provide it because i don't know of any synonyms.
Initially I took you seriously. Which is why I updated my comment.

But now I see you don’t have good intentions.
Perhaps, but according to CBS, jaywalking is itself on the list of offenses. As is "buying too many video games".

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinas-social-credit-system-kee...
Ok so while we're here:

- preveriable -> proverbial

- rediculuded -> ridiculed

- bares -> bears

- By unleashing a never-ending stream of fiction, masked a truth -> By unleashing a never-ending stream of fiction, masked as truth
Perhaps, but I wouldn't call it...apocalyptic.
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Microsoft wouldn't exist without Bill Gates, but that doesn't mean he's entitled to any and all benefit derived therein to divide up between his employees. It's funny how justifications for the wealth of these people usually fall to unquantifiable metrics like "vision" rather than concrete labour, which is the sole standard ordinary workers are judged by.

To use a metaphor, a slave owner having the "vision" for a palaestra including all its designs does not mean that he does not exploit the slaves (who, remember, wouldn't have a job if it weren't for him, nor would the palaestra exist). In the philosophy of exploitation, exploitation can occur even in mutually beneficial relationships.
Does anyone believe we have gained more with this "democratisation" of publishing than we are losing to conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and populism?

Because until ca. ten to twenty years ago, the "establishment" acted as de facto gatekeepers for the public discourse. And while that does strike me as a bad idea in principle, I really couldn't argue that they didn't do a far better job than today's cacophony.

Sort of like presidential nominees: smoke-filled backrooms certainly are not perfect venues for decision-making. But they nominated Eisenhower and Roosevelt, while we can't find anyone better than you-know-who?
I like how the author used Minimum Viable Words to convey his point.
The page mentions some reasons: "Forking is a longstanding tradition in the Emacs community...By forking, we can explore new development approaches. We can use a pull request workflow with integrated CI. We can drop legacy platforms and compilers."
I don't know how I'm going to assemble commits, and while a computer can often work out what a user can't, this doesn't feel like one of those areas. After each code block that passes CI testing including documentation? The first step would be a language neutral version of Rail's Rspec + Guard.
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I have a new idea for the Chinese government!

"Xinjiang* - Beijing ticket - Price: ¥1200 + 150 Social Credits".

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> See, neither of these things can be presented to a user as a tool that can make their lives better

Did you read the article?

Quoting: "In 2014 a large school of thought suggested that the main breakthrough use case for Bitcoin would be peer to peer transactions. That being customers and businesses paying for goods and services directly between one another without having to rely on payment networks such as Visa."

The use case is certainly for consumers. Direct consumers. Same with Linux Desktop. Just go to Ubuntu.com - what are they pitching?

In my view, there is no question whether there is a lack of user focus. It is one of the major reasons (if not the top reason) for lack of traction.
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> I can transfer large sums of money around Europe and it will arrive in few days at the very latest.

I can do the same in the US, except it’s instantaneous, not sure what you are talking about.
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We should keep posting this excellent rebuttal from Isaac Asimov to stamp out this misunderstanding: https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.ht...
Has anyone reported that they stopped seeing ads because nobody wanted to bid on them? You'll always find a bidder if the CPM is low enough.

I think if anything, you'll see more and more shady ads because you are now remnant inventory. Ads for scams, targeted to super cheap RPM groups.
One stark example is the iPhone. I saw a 1984 Steve Jobs interview about the launch of the Mac where he was asked about the next big thing, and he described mobile computing and the iPhone to a T. 23 years later, the iPhone launched.

In between the two Apple fired Jobs, took a swing and a miss at the mobile market, an entire generation of companies grew up to take a swing and a miss at the mobile market, NeXT reverse acquired Apple, and only then did the vision come to fruition even though it had a guy of the caliber and resources of Steve Jobs pushing the entire time, not to mention a dozen other companies with competing similar visions and all their dependencies.

Execution is hard.
Did you comment to the right article?
It’s not a lot of heat in residential use cases.

Fridges for enclosed spaces should have a fan to push the air around.

The more space you give a radiating fridge, the more efficient it’ll be.

I do wonder if a small fan on a radiating fridge would pay for itself if controlled by temperature probes.
As a person on the list since 2016 with a tentative delivery date of late 2019 I respectfully think you are pulling this statement out of your arse.
It's fine. It's still message passing and it's obvious they refer to Go flavored CSP style message passing whenever they talk about it, not anything else.
I think calling tax incentives subsidies is really confusing and leads to that misunderstanding. Maybe that's the purpose of using that language?
I tried adding better examples for "alert"s for example, but my PR got not approved because it didn't fit the exact structure of how the wiki is structured. So they make it intentionally worse than w3schools :)

https://github.com/mdn/interactive-examples/pull/1266
I had seen this paper before, but I was confused by the "Fingerprint". This kind of makes more sense.
I agree with your view on American Christianity. But do you consider a milder variant of the statement in the article, namely something along the lines of 'Challenges can help me grow (in faith, in character, etc.)' to be heretical as well?

(just curious; no hidden agenda here)
All this means is that your main website, where these files are embedded/served from, also needs to be on Cloudflare (and proxied).
I use this pattern a lot, too. Just make sure not to `SELECT *`, which could be much slower and waste a lot of RAM in some cases (ORMs using e.g. active record pattern are often susceptible to this when used naively).
It wasn't that I had particularly bad time. After attending two consecutive events I simply felt it wasn't a good use of time for me.

On both of those occasions the tone of the evening was pretty much "we have these recruiters over here, and those recruiters over there, go say hi and please give your email address".

The entire London meetup scene (at least the one I try to frequent) feels like it's densely populated by recruitment agency staff, to the point where techies and hackers are driven away ... unless the meetup is consistently exceptionally good.
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Talking about Revolut (and I have the Metal package):

1) good fx rate, I think it's google exchange rate with no fees for converting from/to various currencies

2) really easy transactions between friends (makes it really easy to settle up our holiday bills, could have an integration with Splitwise...)

3) almost instant feedback in the app about purchases

4) really nice analytics

5) virtual (unlimited?) cards, each with their own limit: I have a virtual card for my online purchases and my physical card has online purchases disabled

6) despite what others said, I've found the customer support to be all right

7) traveling insurance

8) (don't remember the exact amount) cheap-ish device insurance (eg for my phone)

9) metal card (as in, not a piece of plastic)

10) accounts in a shitload of currencies (used gbp, euro and usd so far)

11) contactless (but well, all cards seem to be like that)

12) (not using this) one can buy crypto coins via the app
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How did you get it set up with Linux? Last time I tried I found some obscure guide which didn't exactly help me.
Came here for the answer to this question
Great letter. How did that go, did they reply to your satisfaction?
A suitable domain expert with a vested interest or funding from someone with a vested interest.

If there isn't such a person, then the research doesn't get done. I think this is fine, because by definition nobody cares. It's possible that only poor people care and they can't provide the funding, but then their political representatives should be able to find the funding. I accept that's not perfect, but it's generally how things work unfortunately.
Good point. Was it the media who started using the word subsidies for this?