skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a valid take. But OTOH, broad, principled terms like "free trade" mask some of the nuance and realities of that history.

Free markets have always come thick with caveats to suit whatever goals the authors/negotiators had at the time. The US, for example, generally prioritized investment access and largely got it. They also prioritized economic infrastructure, like the dollar standard and globalising the US patent system.

Meanwhile, agricultural markets were kept outside of the mix, which is a huge deal to many politically/economically weak countries. The line between a bad faith exploitation of the system (as you characterized china) and an acceptable exception was determined by political interests and power dynamics, not by principles.

What I'm saying is not that china "plays fair" or that the US does. What I'm saying is that it's a game where rules get made on the fly and power matters. There's a tendency to see your own priorities (patents stand out to me, in the US-China context) as obvious non-issues and rivals' priorities as huge compromises. I think it's wise to limit the moral reasoning which leads to finger pointing and conflict.

Meanwhile, there's always a lot of dirty dealing on all sides. Putting up trade barriers on national security pretexts or whatnot.

I think the Singaporean minister has the broad point right. The US had an incredibly central role in creating the current global trade setup. This reflected their power (and prestige, especially in Europe) at the time. The system wasn't a bad one and China has been a great beneficiary of it. A lot of the non-economic reasoning did come to fruition too. China is a far more open-to-the-world society today.

But... The size of China's current economy changes the political balance. They will demand a US-like role and unless that's accepted by the US, politically & emotionally, we're headed for a recessive period.
Why is a Rust executable large? (2016)
As with all Android phones (and to a certain extent iOS devices as well), trusting the default operating system is a very bad idea. Unlock the bootloader, flash it with something trustworthy.
Sounds like a personal rating score to me
Why on earth can't people learn to use UTC? (not directing this at you, just general HN bahaviour)
We agree on date standard but time has to be some mystery acronym.

> It's tomorrow at 11:11,5 GLOMQRSFFFFTIP'YËGOH`rockSWAMSWAM time.

Surely you can't expect everyone to learn these, right?
AFAIK (and according to Wikipedia) the manifesto was only posted "minutes before the attacks began".

There wasn't any system for gun tracking that would let any agency detect he was amassing a cache. That is likely to change.
Haruki Murakami Speaks Up on His Family's Involvement in the Sino-Japanese War
"Fortunately" they also dropped support for XFS so I can't even use on my work computer anymore...
I worked for a .com (a German company, so technically a .de) roughly from 1999 to 2003.

The way I got the job was by founding a startup in the same industry that was bought by said company.

We mostly believed the hype. However, for that particular company and industry it wasn’t all hype but founded on reasonable assumptions. The company had its problems and has been transformed several times over the years but it still exists to this day!

Working as a developer back then was different because that role wasn’t the more or less well-defined job it is today (or in larger, established companies for that matter).

As a developer you often were responsible for all things technical, from the office network to installing new servers hardware to actual software development. Basically, it was DevOps before there was DevOps - albeit in a much less well-structured manner.

Interestingly, back in the day designers and developers rarely worked together in the same team. It was more of a “We throw web design artefacts over the wall and see what happens.” set-up.
> where you know you're missing out on 95% of stuff because there's no time to scroll through the whole thing.

Sounds like Facebook.
They took the pins out!

https://youtu.be/cexN2-T6dxY
Exactly. If they're intelligent but have ADHD they could feel insistently valued by the academic system and required additional validation via Mensa. ADHD by itself, as far as I know, isn't positively correlated with IQ.
This paper from 2015: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4472929/
seems to indicate that the US vs Europe story about recidivism rates is more complicated than it first appears.
> To put it bluntly, the increased happiness of millions of children is worth a couple children's health, or even lives.

I don't think that's an accurate reframing. The opportunity cost isn't just happiness (by making playgrounds boring, presumably) but also safety, and therefore lives, in other areas. When you hit diminishing returns trying to make playgrounds 100% safe, spending the same resources on e.g. road design will save more lives.
How well is that working against the flat-earth and anti-vax communities?
It's admittedly how show debates work, taking two extreme viewpoints and pitting them against each other. But in questions like this it's not a good way - clear propaganda does not present facts, it manipulates them. This only confuses and makes it impossible to get the proper arguments. It's better to work with sources that have no inherent motivation to lie.

A tangent, but this mindset of "there are always two valid sides at the extremes and we need to present both" is said to be a huge burden on the reporting about politics in the US, it makes the most extreme viewpoints visible and supported the rise of the fascists in the GOP. I agree.
CEO
CFO
Head of Marketing
Head of Sales
Chief Security Officer
Head of IT
Head of Clinical Services.
Head of HR

.. off the top of my head. Shouldn't be too difficult to add in the remaining posts
Trump declares national emergency to protect US networks from foreign espionage
oh cool ! does that happen for read/write to non-socket fd’s as well ?
This.

It solves nothing, since the crooks will just continue to cook the books. This is already "mandatory" in Czechia and I have yet to hear about anyone being sued for not upholding the Labor Code.

On the other hand, the tech employees will have to take extra care to manage their attendance sheet with arbitrary requirements such as no weekends and/or no late-night work contrary to the actual practice of being on-call as needed with it being already factored into the pay.

Unless there is a significant bounty for employees who report such breaches for their current employer, the only businesses upholding the law are the very same businesses who would have done so nevertheless.
Good point.

Then again, the same way people can become aware of the problems with their political system through the internet. I understand this has happened in Syria within the last generation or so.
We like transparency and we're a CA, hackers hack all night and we log all day
Not the US government, but Twitter, Youtube and Facebook do have programs to block ISIS propaganda for example.
I'm pro-life and wouldn't make any exception in case of rape and incest; there's already been a crime, no need to add another (innocent) victim to the tally. But I think that we would need to also put into place to help women with unwanted pregnancies too.
“Ocean” is a commonly used term for large quantities of liquid. Calling the rock “a frozen magma ocean” is correct and descriptive.
Agreed. BTW, parts of the server are actually written in C.

Best thing about Seafile is its syncing performance. Worlds better than owncloud/pydio, and it doesn't choke on large directories.
I wonder why they call it that. After all you get banned here if you post right-wing opinions. It's practically a safe space for them.
No, it is not artificial life, they synthesized life from that which already gave rise to life. This is an important distinction because what they did involves growing and manipulating existing systems. It's no more artificial than a an animal which has been bred, this is just on the level of molecular genetics. If we ever transcend, creating human/"machine" interfaces will require such technology. No you won't jack in like Neo, no we won't download our souls and thoughts to a computer, synthetics will replace organics slowly. The computers and people will meet in the middle.
You can also use any convenient source of heat - e.g. a nuclear reactor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion
One name for it is "motorjet" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorjet
Fair enough, FWIW I didn't even downvote you, I also prefer discussion.

> It's meant to directly make you question your deep underlying assumptions

"Deep underlying" being code for being made up by you on the spot?

> The government has a lot of power on paper both now and historically. Yet despite this, rebellions have still occurred regularly

The last time 1949? So, not since modern, industrialized totalitarianism took hold. That's like talking about cancer by describing the life of a person before contracting cancer.

> this core central power did not historically cause China to go and colonise other countries committing atrocities there

They already are causing Western media to censor themselves even on sites blocked in China. Mercedes Benz apologized three times for even quoting the Dalai Lama, just an inspirational quote. For me, that's three times too many. And just like I'm not over the Iraq war being a war of aggression, I will not forget or forgive this, either. You do you.

> your own US-centric legalist analysis?

Again you assumptions about my assumptions. If anything, being German, my "analysis" (of which you quote nothing, don't engage with at all) is Nazi-based.
There's no argument for the safety of nuclear to be had. With an unacceptable failure rate for existing plants, very costly new "safe" designs and lower and lower cost for reneweables, nuclear is quickly becoming obsolete.

It shocks me that so many (loud) proponents of nuclear power plants are still around - especially on HN. I wish you all would have lived in Europe at the time of Chernobyl.
HR should be about 5 people in a 500 people company.

There's not much space there for a hierachy with much of a pay gap, unless you're going to pay a direct superior >500% more.

Same with most other roles at such a company.
Why would you believe anything in that manifesto?
So far it seems that only one person of those who tried to rescue the nuclear plant, exposed to high radiations, has contracted cancer and we are not certain it is related.

The disaster caused by the Tsunami killed 15 000 people. Yeah, by all accounts you should be a lot more worried by the sea than nuclear.
If I remember right, reducing child mortality actually decrease the number of children per family, so it's not that strange. Of course it's bluntly said and reductionist, but I think it has a basis in fact.
I wonder if/when a C or C++ bindings to this library will be made. It would be nice to have some alternative to GpgME.
While there may be no explicit limit there are practical limits on what will be done to help a single person. Unlimited is not the same as infinite.
And 9gag. Strong market for short attention spans.
RSS Search Engine v2
Propaganda goes both ways.
> In a clean sheet of paper redesign, I would try to correct more of the discrepencies

Sounds like that is what he did with Quake 3 (don't know about Quake 2). At least in Quake 3, the whole game logic is running in a so-called 'Quake Virtual Machine' file (.qvm) that is exactly the same on server and client (even cross-platform compatible). That way he doesn't just predict the client movements but the whole game world.
The bounds of what consists undefined behavior is, well, defined. The “undefined” bit refers to the behavior in this case, not its ability to be recognized.
> what we now refer to as the "PHP language" was originally intended to be only the templating system, and you were supposed to write your business logic in a "real language" such as C

I did get a little perverse amusement at writing HTML files containing nothing other than single `<?php` element; where that PHP's job was to generate HTML; and it did so via a templating language (e.g. Twig or Smarty)...
> the nuclear element of the "whole disaster" is just a minor component.

If you consider the tsunami "the whole disaster", yes; but if we restrict the issue to the nuclear accident, the Japanese government carries a lot of responsibility. Fukushima, iirc, was an aging and creaking reactor in a somewhat dangerous location, which should have been decommissioned a long time ago. When disaster struck, official reactions were very opaque to begin with - not as bad as the Soviet ones in Chernobyl but definitely not as open as they should have been. Raising radiation thresholds, as mentioned in the article, was particularly egregious; regardless of whether it may or may not be scientifically correct, it's not the right thing to do after something like this, because the optics are (rightly) damning.

So yeah, if the Japanese government had done the right thing by closing down Fukushima 10 years before the tsunami, the city would not have died as it did. That is "the whole disaster" for the area.
Go Performance optimization sins(real-life examples)
Interesting read. Its good to realize that a interview process and the work involved can turn into your own business.

Shows again that good efforts pay off anyhow.
> I am not sure what is the expectation of US in this. China has a completely closed market

That's a big big stretch. It's more open than a big part of Western countries.

1. There is a blanket ban on anything media related
2. Select heavy industries
3. Defence
4. Agriculture *production*

That's not much different from US and other countries around. Most Western countries with socialist streak restrict way more than that.
I'm sure for all the people developing cancer because of this 'minor component' it ain't a 'minor' component.

You can rebuild houses, you can re-grow crop, but you can't clean up nuclear waste effectively. (3 Miles Island took 14 years and $1b, there are radioactive boars roaming the forests of Bavaria, hundreds of miles away from Chernobyl)
There's a reason it sounds crazy. Several 'inherently safe' reactors overheated, cores melted, they exploded and spread 'inherently safe' radiation over large populated areas. That radiation caused the government to forbid people living there, and to spend tens of billions to try to clean up that widespread radiation. The hundred of billions in decommissioning costs of those reactors could have created liberating renewable energy and storage. Instead they're being wasted on fixing 'inherent safety'.

Had the exposed 100s of tons of stored-in-the-air waste fuel rods lost their cooling water, they might have melted into huge blobs of uncontrollable, unquenchable masses, throwing uncountable curies of radiation into the atmosphere. We all were very -lucky- that they didn't. And it was nothing but luck. Luck is not inherent.

The problem is when these dice are rolled, every living organism on the planet has to live with the outcome. Some call that an acceptable risk. Sounds crazy to me.
The US has many problems, but there's a big difference between people being unhappy with you and being send into "reeducation camps" if the government doesn't like what you say.
Yet all data available on long term safety of energy production contradicts vehemently your point of view. Nuclear is by far safer than everything else, even when we include Chernobyl. Look at stats.
I'm happy to see you already got an answer :) Edit: Oh, it's gone now? It was a comment disputing the Colorado reference. There are more comments above.

For what it's worth, I smelled what's up right when he talked about chernobyl right below the The Shocking Truth subheadline. The way the deaths are calculated is highly disputed, and he does not reflect that properly, instead presenting the pro-nuclear viewpoint as truth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19927377 links an article that covers that in a way more balanced way.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/05/15/a-u-s...
Zxcvbn: Password Strength Estimator
Intel Zombieload Patch Slows Data Centre Computer Performance
me thinks the shitty 7.25 an hour is to blame.
Google Photos still seems super geared towards a consumer / pure phone photo backup experience and purpose. I wish they would expand it further to accommodate heavier use / amateur needs, better mass upload and mass management, folder management etc.
It's definitely not a file folder sync design like Drive or Dropbox.

If you just want to upload pure files without all the photo AI etc, then Drive folders should work fine for your needs. It'll largely be a backup / cloud storage destination.
Looks like Arthur C. Clarke guessed correctly in his sci-fi novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fall_of_Moondust, where a moonquake causes problems to a "sand-cruiser" full of tourists.
We're still talking about well over a 120K individuals: https://www.criminaljusticeprograms.com/articles/private-pri...

For reference, I believe Germany has a prison population of about 75K (on a population of 80M).

Those publicly funded prisons provide plenty of cheap labor to corporations and they make use of contractors and suppliers. We're not talking about civil servants here. The bottom line is that there plenty of corporate interests in perpetuating the status quo.

This system indeed sucks up a lot of public funding as well. That's kind of the point: tax payers are funding this and corporations cream off the profits through contracting, prison labor, or indeed privately run prisons. Some of these are multi billion dollar companies even.
As long as the US is able to maintain both fiduciary and military hegemony, it has nothing to worry.

The fact is to aurpass the US, you need to possess better if not technologically superior assets to project.

It boggles my mind why this military factor is often ignores by proponents of china maximalists.

The us can call upon a dozen carrier strike groups on a moments notice, port call literally anywhere that isnt russia or china, bases distributed globally and unknown next gen technology that isnt even being revealed but kept secret, if the us had sr71 in the 60s they have something in the works that guarantee they will be ahead.

Only now china has started producing f16 class jet engines domestically, but still decades behind in many power projection components.until china has projection that aurrounding countries will take seriously, its just another pipe dream, until china can prove itself on a world stage like the US has in its constant state of warring, only then will your financial institutions criticized by Chomsky crowd, be actually legitimized.

Much like your local mob or cartel, those who are perceived to have monopoly on violence, often backed up by real violent acts, have weight behind their words. Those who are in competition, risk elimination through in action, so they must constantly maintain high tension with skirmishes here ans there to remind the other side. If you think this way, it makes sense that the governments purpose is to maintain this monopoly on violence, or otherwise risk being overrun by other competing groups, much like narco economoies where the official government body is increasing being weakened through corruption, and losing the valuable monopoly on violence. The US has monopoly on world violence and china wouldnt be the first to challenge it and lose, much as did USSR. Only rarely in Afghanistan and Vietnam, the US simply could not out terrorize the population as did the taliban and viet cong,and thus lost the war.
It is free to use locally, only the sync feature is a paid upgrade. And the data stays local.
Wasn't this the whole designer ripped jeans of the 90s?
I think it is very polarised topic.

I noticed a pattern few month ago: you have a lot of bashing during East coast morning hours, followed by much more conciliatory toned wave of comments few hours after, when East coast wakes up.
Are the stupid flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers losing? No, they're doing much better than they ever were before, thanks to Internet platforms.
Memo cards: 11 techs and their business relevance
The Truth About “Intent Based Branding”
Now that sums of much of ADHD experience. More seriously, there are indications that aspects of ADHD affect information processing in potentially beneficial ways. I have a hunch that given the overall detriment ADHD has to many life skills that ADHD genes would be selected along with genes for higher IQ as a counterbalance, with both combined together conferring unique advantages.
I was thinking the math didn't work out, but it does. If you ignore taxes and say a raise of +7.50 an hour for a working week comes to around $14500 extra a year, over 500 employees that's about $7.3m. If that were split into 20 executive bonuses, that'd be $365K each.
Yes, it's a bit of a pity that great functional languages like Scheme and even the veteran common LISP are loosing out to modern languages like Kotlin because of lack of support in these critical, functional areas. Especially when REPL based development is so amazingly productive.
Yes, and so what? There's nothing else in the known universe that's capable of caring. The only good outcome seems to be us surviving.
sometimes they’re loosened all the way
to “finger tight,” sometimes a few pins
are removed ahead of time
[...]
“It saves time, which equals money.”

I'd have thought the time it takes the supporting crane to lower the top section to the ground would have been greater than the time it takes to remove eight bolts. After all, presumably the guys doing this for a living have the best tools available.

Does anyone know why removing the bolts is so slow? Or is the supporting crane actually really fast?
I would just like to say that contactless chip cards are ubiquitous, do not require a battery, are more secure (no reliance on QR codes) and have been around for years in the West.
> Consider the possibility that there are a set amount of pedophile's born in every generation

He was not jailed because he was born that way. He molested and raped a child.
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The grandparent isn't claiming there are false statements in the article; they're pointing out how the article's author has a pro-nuclear agenda and may only explain the disasters in a positive light to further a goal.

It's too black and white to see a controversial debate in "true" vs "false" statements. I mean "vaccines may have serious side effects" is not a false statement, however if it's the only statement it omits other also true statements such as "measles may cause serious complications" and the numbers / statistics comparing the two.
Chaos Communication Congress had (has?) a model where regular tickets were priced very reasonably, and there were special "business tickets" that were marked up by a factor of 5 compared to regular ticket prices. The only difference is that you only get an invoice for a business ticket, so attendees who have their costs covered by a company need the business ticket, while individual attendees benefit from lower prices.

I don't know how invoicing works for a web service, but maybe that would be a model to consider? Keep the low price point for individual users, but use a lever like this to add some considerable markup for companies purchasing your services.