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What you are referring to is your comments on my question about Silicon Valley members working in China: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500740

This thread, which was about tech scenes in China for foreigners, cultural differences, 996, etc., started to breed discussions about organ harvesting accusations. The mods politely, but firmly, steered the conversation back on topic.

I disagree with the premise that HN is afraid to criticize China. This article being on the front page is evidence of that. But there's a way to do so civilly, and that was not it.

Edit: The replies to your top-level also show the difference between constructive discussion of China's authoritarianism and flat out attacks on the country, and the vote count reaffirms that, I think.

Edit 2: I might be confusing you with another user, unless you have an alt. Apologies if so. But the overall comment stands about moderators telling people to behave when discussing China.
Probably not much different in substance from the treatment of musical artists by the big recording companies, or of novelists by publishing houses, or ... insert any comparable paired relationship of creative maker and avaricious exploiter and you'll get the same outcome.
Only so long as humans are required for the machine to do their job. The second it is feasible and cheaper to have a machine do what the human/machine hybrid could do, they would switch.

This is more of a bridge solution to full automation. "We need doctors to control dumb surgical robots until we're advanced enough that surgical robots can operate without a human controlling them" etc

We're doing the "assist" thing already in all the places that we can't quite do the "machine only" thing.

Even self-driving cars mirror this: the goal is a vehicle that doesn't require an operator. The bridged reality, currently, is that the operator must remain alert and able to take over any time.
That is a very good point. Taking this better approach, here is what I get on my (not updated grep) system:

wgl:$ /usr/bin/grep --version
/usr/bin/grep --version
grep (BSD grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD

wgl:$ /usr/local/bin/ggrep --version
/usr/local/bin/ggrep --version
ggrep (GNU grep) 3.3
Packaged by Homebrew
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and others; see
<https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.

wgl:$ /usr/bin/time /usr/local/bin/ggrep LiteonTe really-big.text | wc -l
/usr/bin/time /usr/local/bin/ggrep LiteonTe really-big.text | wc -l
2.30 real 1.04 user 0.67 sys
1228
wgl:$ /usr/bin/time /usr/bin/grep LiteonTe really-big.text | wc -l
/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/grep LiteonTe really-big.text | wc -l
5.65 real 5.30 user 0.33 sys
1228
wgl:$ /usr/bin/time /usr/local/bin/ggrep LiteonTe really-big.text >/dev/null
/usr/bin/time /usr/local/bin/ggrep LiteonTe really-big.text >/dev/null
0.05 real 0.03 user 0.01 sys
wgl:$ /usr/bin/time /usr/bin/grep LiteonTe really-big.text >/dev/null
/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/grep LiteonTe really-big.text >/dev/null
6.50 real 5.71 user 0.58 sys
wgl:$ /usr/bin/time /usr/local/bin/ggrep LiteonTe really-big.text -c
/usr/bin/time /usr/local/bin/ggrep LiteonTe really-big.text -c
1228
2.33 real 1.05 user 0.69 sys
wgl:$ /usr/bin/time /usr/bin/grep LiteonTe really-big.text -c
/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/grep LiteonTe really-big.text -c
1228
5.37 real 5.05 user 0.31 sys

The wc -l is clearly polluting the result. However, I suspect that the >/dev/null is as well. But in the worst case, I see a halving of time over the old grep (edited), which correlates with my most common use of grep in looking through source files.
At a glance, one thing that makes it stand out is that it's minimal like a framework, but allows you to code in something with similarities to python, but with more design towards that task. Most python-esque languages are poorly suited for games in terms of performance/features.

Seems to nail most of the desires of mobile/indie scale development.
True, but an air conditioning system removes multiple kWhrs of heat for each kWhr of electricity.

See for example here: http://www.currentforce.com.au/coefficient-of-performance/
Right, it was a flippant remark meant to express exasperation in one particular thing. Not a well thought out policy proposal.

Although, when you say "a crushing burden on those people who could least withstand it" are you assuming I am suggesting a flat sales tax?

It is possible to have a federal sales tax that has categories, with different percentage scales. So maybe a bag of rice has 0%, pork fried rice from the local Chinese food place has a %5 sales tax, and Lobster risotto from a fancy restaurant has a %50 sales tax.

All I am suggesting is the burden of filing taxes should be pushed to businesses who already have to deal with accountants and lawyers and whatnot.
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>"would you give up your account name"

Sure will you give up all my data, metadata and shadow profile? Oh and don’t forget to forward me all funds you have made selling my data and or serving me Ads to date.

I’d really like ICANN to take away the Instagram domain and reassign it to some royals at their request while we are at it.
I have been thinking about something similar but stuck on a different project. Great work!
You can’t blame that on the Internet. TV and radio have been mostly free and ad-supported, and there are/were many free newspapers also supported by ads. I think it’s more accurate to say that people in general prefer their media consumption to be free.

Yes, there are some exceptions like cinema, HBO, etc.
>An old joke - "Every MBA in America dreams of starting a billion dollar business. Every MBA in Europe dreams of starting a satellite office of the American business."

Sounds more like an American joke rather than European.
Every forum I was a member of in the last 25 years decayed into a deafening echo chamber of like-minded idiots and trolls who couldn't discuss a topic without personal slander and political or religious influences.

Just like social media.
I think there may be a mismatch in terminology here.

Above, "associativity" was used in the sense of "the property that any re-association produces the same answer". It's used that way when talking about properties of an operation, often in an algebraic context.

I think you're using it in the sense of "an understanding of how operands should be associated". It's often used that way when describing a language in practice, like "(+) is right-associative".

If we're going to be working with expressions like (a + b + c), then whenever + is not (sense 1) associative we clearly need some understanding about what that expression means. But we can restrict ourselves to dealing with fully-parenthesized expressions and not need any sort of "this associates to the left", and still properties like associativity and commutativity can be interesting.

In the case of your trees, associativity means any trees with the same ordering in the leaves (with an in-order traversal) must be equivalent. Commutativity means any trees that differ by swapping the left/right children of a parent node must be equivalent. You can have neither property, either property, or both properties.
What exactly is this? We would already be able to use PIA with a Librem 5 anyway, as it uses standard VPN protocols... Is this free access to a PIA VPN for Librem 5 owners, or is it just a UI to funnel us into PIAs commercial offering?
Couldn’t you count any US based company that takes major government contracts, or has board members who were formerly high in government (eg. Dropbox/Condoleezza Rice) as a “government operative”?
Amazon Alexa launches its first HIPAA-compliant medical skills
I agree, but it isn't useful to debate private prisons and the incarceration rate of minorities in relation to Chinese concentration camps, like it isn't useful to draw moral equivalencies between Japanese internment in WWII and Nazi concentration camps.
As a Canadian I would tend to agree. My take on things is that while both countries spy, the reasons they do it are what matters. Broadly speaking the US spies to prevent terrorism and violence, where as China spies to steal IP, control their international diaspora for political purposes at home and abroad, and to destabilize democracies. The CCP worldview is incredibly cynical.
Not really. The IRS really does know your W2 and all your bank and investment income. If you've worked for several different companies, you often have scattered investments that you have to chase down that, in fact, they already know. There's really no reason why they couldn't provide you with pre-filled forms for all that stuff. Sure, there's stuff they don't and can't know, but for most people those are the simple things (how many children, marital status.
The option for a reasonable name still exists (and site owners don't have to arbitrarily confiscate it to give it to more PR-worthy people), it just might be a slightly longer reasonable name with a disambiguator built into it instead of a common first name or cool dictionary word, and you get a reasonable URL as a bonus. I'd probably rather be found at instagram.com/johnsmithspringfield than instagram.com/jh9fjhfgjhg (or 'search for "John Smith" and scroll through 300 entries') anyway.

Of course with unique identifiers you probably don't get to call yourself elonmusk, POTUS or amazon
> I also encourage you to talk to some Chinese around you who are first generation immigrants

Fair enough. May I respectfully ask if you yourself, as a Chinese, have reached out to any Uighur, Tibetan, or other minorities to understand their viewpoint and explore if this is a reality being reported or just propaganda?
It's probably going to turn out that the guys who've been building cars for a century can figure out battery technology faster than the battery guys figuring out how to scale auto manufacturing
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If you have other income you can just go to the HMRC web site and fill in the forms on-line. I've had to do it a few times, and its not a big deal.

If you have a simple one-off event (like a capital gain when selling something) then you can just write a plain ordinary letter telling them about it and they will sort out the tax bill for you.
Andrew Yang, who was the 1st declared Democratic presidential candidate for 2020, has a whole policy around the strange aspects of US taxation, including automatic filing and getting a breakdown of where your money went.

>> Instruct the IRS to implement a system whereby any American can opt into a program to have their taxes filed automatically.

>> Instruct the IRS to coordinate with the Treasury to prepare a report on federal spending, and send each taxpayer a rundown of the actual amount of their taxes that went to each major spending area (e.g., domestic programs, foreign aid, military, etc).

>> Increase the budget of the IRS by 50% to $16.2 billion and modernize it with the latest technology. Money spent on the IRS will almost certainly pay for itself many times over via better tax compliance and less wasted time of citizens. Running the country like a business means both taking care of constituents and collecting revenue as seamlessly and efficiently as possible.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/filing-income-taxes/
Many readers can't (they could learn it though) enough however indeed can.

That's why, from publisher's view, the second point is so important: Remind readers all the time that "it" (without going into details) is illegal so they continue buying.
Because it is told from the perspective of the activity that is allowed. Now they could have technically been stated as the freedom from {Annoying/Harmful thing}* but thats still weak. The only reason to it is to take away power from the original argument by watering down the language it used. I'm sure the op didn't mean anything by it, I just happened to be listening to a conference call with a lot of corporate speak and was particular sensitive to how words are (mis)used

The actual point is that freedoms should be curtailed when they cause harm to others.

In this case unchecked freedom of movement can cause harm to society in different ways, so some forms of movement are restricted. Which is already true, we have signs, lights walls, fences, licenses, etc to restrict our movement. So the argument is really about how much more should they be restricted.

* EDIT, Zarath already called me out on that, but I still think it's a stretch
You'd be surprised to read about bitrot then.

Well, storage is the one that causes maximum damage there, especially really old data.
> This looks like it requires specially crafted code, therefore not a security issue.

I'm not sure how I feel about such a response. Many exploits require odd, but valid code, and more often than not it exists out there.

Also, it feels weird for this to be tagged as a JSON issue?
I don't think people on HN are afraid to criticize the Chinese government. I just don't think they understand how bad the situation is. This is partially because the Chinese government has been extremely successful at censoring both domestic and international press, and partially because most people just don't care. I hate the discussions on Chinese culture on Reddit because the "discussions" are really just westerners regurgitating common myths and stereotypes they read elsewhere on Reddit. I can't count the number of comments I've read on HN in the past few months from white Googlers who have never been to China linking some medium post from a Chinese citizen "Asking for Google to come to China", as if that justifies Dragonfly.

This is just my personal observation and I'm biased in my heritage, but in America I've noticed that the problems afflicting Asians get noticeably less attention and sympathy. In public school, the Japanese detainment camps were almost completely glossed over in history class. Casual racism against Asians is still socially acceptable even at a time when society is more sensitive to prejudice and discrimination. Very people care about the human rights situations in North Korea and China even though, objectively, they're more serious and older than more recent conflicts that get more attention.
"opinion"

Comparative fairness is well documented. This graph is a good appromixation:

https://www.electionscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/c...

https://www.electionscience.org/library/approval-voting-vers...

Simplicity also accounts for election integrity concerns (ease of tabulation and auditing).
My favorite example was the blind rage with which almost everyone I know reacted to airlines starting to charge for bags. Even the most libertarian, "taxes are theft" people I talked to would sputter to come up with some insane rationalization when bagless flyers like myself should be subsidizing their baggage.
Are you sure? Because there’s a bus load of fascinated Chinese tourists clamoring to look at MIT every other hour.
> I think it's more or less generally agreed that Tesla has the best in class battery, charger and perhaps drive train, including motors, technology.

Isn't the battery tech, at least in significant part, licensed, non-exclusively, from Panasonic?

> I wonder, as a thought experiment, if Tesla would be more successful if they become the OEM, providing their technology to the various car manufacturers.

Possibly, on an expected value basis, but Tesla is being run on a swing for the fences basis not a maximizing expected value basis.
Tax prep companies lobby strongly against it. See https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...

The argument they try to make is that the government could take advantage of its citizens. As in, it wouldn't be in their interest to reduce our taxes as much as possible.
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On the other hand, censorship isn't perfect, and giving more access to the internet means more access to west and censored ideas by the masses. I can't predict how it will play out, but I was hoping that Dragonfly, if launched, would result in better access to information for Chinese who currently are already censored AND have worse access to the treasure trove of info on the internet than us in the West.
You like implicit. I don't.

I don't think we can discuss deeper than that.
I still think this is fundamentally Facebook’s problem.
For example, I don’t care if it’s a failure of the payments ecosystem or my bank if using a new payment technonlogy opens me up to fraud that then drains my bank account- I just won’t use that new technology anymore. Similarly I don’t care who’s fault it is if using Facebook leaks information about me I didn’t realize and didn’t want to become used in the ways it has been. I will just not use Facebook anymore.
> On the risk of regressive taxation, I agree. But it's a risk, not a certain outcome. Properly varying the charge throughout the day will incentivize deliveries when the roads are less crowded. Better utilizing our freight rail infrastructure may also dampen the effect.

The congestion already does that. The issue is that it's a hard problem. You can't make deliveries to shops at 3AM because there is no one there to receive them. To the extent you can make deliveries at 6AM, they already do. But a delivery driver loads up the truck and then makes deliveries for eight hours. Telling them to work a de facto 14 hour shift because you're going to put two separate three hour blocks of "don't drive during peak hours" into the middle of their day is going to drive up costs.

And freight rail serves an entirely different market. That's used to transport bulk products in industrial quantities, not to deliver bread to the corner deli. Trucks sometimes are used in contexts where freight rail could be used but those aren't the ones driving through Manhattan during rush hour.

> The congestion charge makes little sense as a way to fund the MTA. It does make sense as a counterbalance to the negative externalities traffic congestion creates.

The problem is that the externalities are really just failures in the markets for alternatives that have dumped their natural demand onto the roads, because all of the externalities come from congestion, which could be absorbed by better alternatives if they existed.

If you make the subways better then fewer people drive. If you make them less expensive then fewer people drive. That means paying for them from taxes rather than fares -- just getting rid of the fares and using taxes instead would get a huge number of cars off the road and eliminate the overhead cost of all the fare collection infrastructure.

When you have things like minimum parking requirements or anti-density zoning rules, that makes it more expensive to build high density housing and subsidizes car ownership for people in urban areas. Then the people who live there drive more, because they have somewhere to park a car and therefore own one, meanwhile there is less housing there which means people need to live further away and then many of them will drive back in to their jobs.

Congestion pricing doesn't actually fix any of that, it just squeezes even harder on the people who the lack of alternatives had already squeezed into congested roads. It makes driving worse when what we need is for alternatives to driving to be better.
What does a false positive look like to a doctor, and how will it not harm the organism? I can't imagine a cancer that can be ignored safely, nor an early stage treatment that is counterproductive.
Planet Money just did a story on this, someone in California tried to get Ready Return passed (which does almost what you're stating). It didn't pass by one vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyReturn
There was definitely an air of superiority of American pilots. The problem is that there is a grain of truth to it.

A big part of this is that the American Airforce train a huge number of pilots to an incredibly high standard who eventually leave the military and become civilian pilots. Any pilot who isn't naturally gifted in the art of flying an aeroplane will be flunked before finishing their training. They are tested in ways that a 200 hour civilian CPL just never will be.

Even the increasing numbers of pilots coming to flying through a civilian tract in the US have a number of benefits. Classically they flew cancelled cheques around the US in beaten up twin engine aircraft in all weathers while building the required number of hours. Even in modern times, due to a culture of GA flying, they've got a lot more opportunities to fly different aircraft types (taildragger, floatplanes, gliders), fly aerobatics etc.
You probably know this, but it is possible to set things up so that zero taxes are taken out of your paycheck. Now, come April 15th, you will owe those taxes, but if you have an idea or know what that amount will be (in theory, you should be able to know it exactly), then...

...you can elect to not take those taxes out, and instead via your bank or employer have that percentage of your check put into a savings account of some sort. Then you can let that money sit and accrue interest (and laugh at the small return), or use it to invest (which has a greater risk, because if you invest wrong, now you've lost that money and you still need to pay it back at the end of the tax year).

If this sounds interesting to you, then (unless you already have the experience) I would look into some form of small time investing, or other financial instruments for wealth accumulation from which you can still withdraw an amount at the time you need to pay your taxes.

Assuming you can find something with a decent return over a year's period. Which is probably the most difficult part of it all.
> and take days off if the signs of overstraining appear

Your training plan should include days off irrespective. And also easy "rest" weeks. When training you essentially do damage (wear and tear in the muscles etc.), and when resting after the body repairs things better than they were before. If you never rest properly, the body is fighting a losing battle and you'll never improve as much as you are trying to, if at all. This is why marathon training plans and similar tend to be in 4-ish week cycles with an easy week every cycle and explicit rest days even in the hardest of weeks. Even ultra-marathon training where you might have back-to-back long runs will have rest days each week and whole rest weeks within the program.

Caveat: I'm not expert so consider my thoughts anecdotal.
Though I'm fairly confident I'm not talking complete rubbish as I've run a few road marathons (best time so far is just shy of 4 hours, I'm not sure I'll try for any faster than that), plenty of road halfs, a number of trail runs of 13 miles or more, one trail "ultra" (30-ana-bit miles so only 4 above base marathon distance, but bugger me there were hills/steps/mud/other!), and a long weekend trail challenge (69 miles over four days), and I'm training for another trail marathon (~28.5 miles this one) next month and another trail challenge weekend (100+ miles over four days this time) later in the year.
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