skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither am I.

What does surprise me is that nations and industries keep doing it expecting "this time is different". Despite the regularity across history of first supplying the tools and training - whether shipbuilding, looms, steel making or iPhone assembly and chip fab, then claim they'll never be able to design as well, and can only copy. Sometime later another industry sails inevitably off to some far flung region.

Since free trade almost nothing is considered strategic like the Chinese and others once thought tea, rubber, spices or early inventions that were guarded most carefully. Neither seems quite the right balance. :)

> opium wars

Palmerston's opium war, kicked off by an out-of-control East India Company giving themselves an opium monopoly, and the Tory party loosely falling into step. One of the two wars had parliament winning a vote against the government for entering an illegal war. Difficult to understand the thinking of the era yet at the same time feels strangely familiar.

Course the French, US and others joined in, and the US was marketing cheaper Turkish opium. Roosevelt or Hoover had an opium smuggling ancestor, I forget which of the two.
The problem with generic principles like that is that they'll be used against you by anyone who doesn't share your opinions on what "manipulate" or "social harm" mean. You'll be harangued for being an hypocrite and going against your own principles, despite never having intended the principle to be applied that way.
I’ve long thought this about Norse mythology. I don’t think there is much of a difference between being a fan of Thor in the 11th century or the 21st.
The article actually explores this very fact — that small nudge legislation becomes much more popular without proportionally dealing with the problem. This inevitably leads to higher long term costs
Wow - 266 pages in a computer magazine!

I had forgotten what computer magazines used to be like. Thanks for sharing!
My superscore was 2230. 99th percentile or not, it’s irrelevant because it’s not good enough to get into any top schools.
Western capitalism doesn't need such policies. Birth rate in developed countries is below replacement-level fertility.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/total-fertility-r...
Dexcalibur: Dynamic binary instrumentation tool designed for Android application
Principia Politica by Nassim Nicolas Taleb
This is happening in Ontario right now as we speak.

The Ontario government is fighting against the federal revenue-neutral carbon tax and has instituted a small grab-bag of subsidies for businesses doing green refits.

So in essence, they're taking a neutral system that put money to taxpayers and turned it into a subsidy on corporations that pollute, and claiming it as a populist victory. And the public ate it up.

I've heard nonsense like "I recycle and don't litter, why should I have to pay a carbon tax" as if those things are related.
And if gas had its externalities included in the price, how do you feel Tesla would be doing?
Also frequently combined as "Thing X is known to be imperfect, so thing Y which we've never tried before must be better" D:
German Jews warned not to wear kippas after rise in anti-Semitism
The malicious webserver is probably redirecting the Twitter crawler based on its user-agent to CNN, and Twitter's redirect-busting is helpfully pulling in the "final" destination.
The preview card can be exploited by Twitter.

Visit https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator and paste in the spam URL there. You'll see that the validator warns that it is being redirected, but follows it anyway.

CNN is blameless (as far as I can tell).
2000 is 11 years after the Soviet empire began to collapse in 1989. A lot of very dirty state-subsided industries in Eastern Europe went offline in the subsequent decade. Maybe that's what we are seeing?
So how are you supposed to make an informed choice on vaccination? You can't trust the NYT, apparently, and probably not the New England Journal of Medicine, either?

Do you just count the number of sources supporting the different views? That would seem to be some other, equally bad, form of fallacy.

Is there any sort of evidence that is valid in your critical eyes that can be transmitted electronically? Or does anyone faced with the choice to vaccinate their children have to run their own randomised clinical trial? That would seem prohibitively cumbersome, and also logically inconsistent because you would have to find a few thousand people willing to participate in your trial who shouldn't trust you not to poison them, by your logic.
What's implied with a 400 CO2 level is that anything under that is fine, but above that level it triggers a calamitous increase increase methane and a so called runaway greenhouse effect. This is simply not accurate, especially because the clathrates can release methane far below 400ppm.

The CO2 level should be far lower than 400... A level closer to 200ppm should be the target.
Well if you liked that, perhaps you might be interested in the logical next step:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
Is there a generational thing that has passed? has lived experience simply become past history?
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The risk of getting disappeared is low if you limit yourself to social media (as I said, Tandem is one way to find Chinese people willing to speak to you in English) or if you make sure to only talk about politics with people you've become friends with. At least I haven't disappeared so far.
> It's interesting that people who were subject to this sort of treatment created the constitution limiting the US govt.

> It's interesting that people who aren't subject to this sort of treatment are trying to change the constitution and give the govt more power.

You mean like, when the 13th amendment was passed to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude? Pesky "govt" now telling folks they can no longer own human beings as property, that kind of thing?

Not all government power is oppression. A huge ton of it is vital for basic human welfare. Simplistic assertions like "those who seek to change the consitution are trying to give the government more power and therefore obviously have not experienced real oppression" are not furthering the conversation productively.
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Someone has to say it... the vast majority of twitter accounts are broadcasting spam already. No need to highjack them...
I believe it was all clarified long ago in Java (Joda library, that was reimplemented in newer versions in core SDK as java.time).
> Few countries want to take in refugees from Syria, Libya, or Yemen - and there are a lot of such refugees.

And that's about islamophobia? Saudi-Arabia is refusing to help because they hate muslims?
This sounds plausible when thought about in the context of cases that are publicly known: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in...
In BC, it was a somewhat slightly to the right of centre party that introduced North America’s first carbon tax. It was designed to return all tax revenues in the form of income tax reductions. The tax was really popular and has achieved substantially good results.

BC’s tax was gradually introduced, starting at a low rate. Also, the government of the time gave rural and low income people a large credit right away. I was poor at the time on account of being a startup founder (LoL) and I recall getting hundreds of dollars in the mail very soon after the tax launched.
> that personal freedom and human dignity are optional

Political freedom that is. Personal freedom and human dignity are optional in "open societies" too with many countries having it worse than in China.
> Misleading vividness – involves describing an occurrence in vivid detail, even if it is an exceptional occurrence, to convince someone that it is a problem; this also relies on the appeal to emotion fallacy. Some engineers may use such fallacy, exposing all the technicalities of their job to cover incompetence and justify failure in rolling out feature in time.

I think experienced co-workers can tell whether you are exaggerating or telling the truth. I found someone has the tendencies to elaborate on stuffs in an emotional way. This is especially common in junior devs. From my experience, most senior devs tend to be more reserved and careful about their words.

What do you guys think?
This is a classic case of common knowledge in game theory, explained here [1] and here [2].

In short, change does not happen until most people believe that everyone else believes a piece of information (the information becomes common knowledge).

That US-China relations were in such a state was, until very recently, something that everyone knew, but not something that everyone knew that everyone else knew as well. Until something becomes common knowledge, no action occurs. Once it becomes common knowledge, the change in everyone's behavior is incredibly rapid.

We've had similar "watershed" moments in the past, for example the Vietnam war and #metoo, where public opinion changed, seemingly overnight.

So yes, it's absolutely believable and predictable that WSJ et al would be singing the same tune.

[1] http://www.gametheory.net/dictionary/commonknowledge.html

[2] https://www.epsilontheory.com/harvey-weinstein-common-knowle...
How do you do it? Looking at the code, it doesn't seem to be based on the Accept headers or on figure/imageset tricks. UA sniffing?
"Individuals commit the sunk cost fallacy when they continue a behavior or endeavor as a result of previously invested resources (time, money or effort)"

WRT software projects, what's the opposite? When I bring up sunk cost, the assumption is that I'm lobbying for wholesale rewrite. In some (not all) cases I am - take the lessons learned, maybe some algorithms, data, whatever, and rebuild.

The standard rejoinder to that is "what makes you think you're so much smarter/better than the previous team?" Well... sometimes I maybe am. Or... the strength of the current team is just... more demonstrable? Or... there's no one left from the previous team that even understands the previous system, so ever day spent is often wasted in just trying to learn what they did, only to find out... hey - they really just had no clue what they were doing. We've all seen this (and, early on, I likely was in the position of the offending party a few times).

But sunk cost fallacy is a real thing. How do you combat it?
Dividends, in order to provide funding to the school, I imagine.
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We can measure CO2 emissions from space:

https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/99/graphic-measur...

If company X in country Y wants to trade with the US, they could require that country Y provides full transparency in carbon emissions, where the measurements from space could be used as a checksum.
I wish I could vote this one up more than once.
They tried one (2mw project) in Canada’s Bay of Fundy but the turbine got damaged. I think we have a ways to go before seeing tidal power generation being commercialized

https://globalnews.ca/news/4644316/cape-sharp-tidal-turbine-...
A quick guide for neuroglancer:

_spacebar_ on one area: fullscreen the area

L: change colors

X: remove colors

double click one neuron: select the neuron

ctrl-mousewheel: zoom in/out

right-click: center clicked area

A great thing to do is to choose a few neurons (double click on the colored parts in the top-left, top-right, bottom-right windows) and then view the automatic 3d model by using _spacebar_ on the bottom-left window. Press _spacebar_ again to return to the normal view.
Why do you think they were intentionally exploiting it? It's a perfectly reasonable thing for YouTube to do for several of its features.
Nothing moves in Congress right now because Mitch McConnell is only interested in confirming judges as fast as possible. And he has been explicit in being non-cooperative with Democrats.
I own the WH-1000XM2 (same app for both models) and the reason the app requests location is for a singular feature called 'Adaptive Sound Control'. This feature lets the app change sound profiles based on where you are, so yes - location access is required.

Stating that this is "their design philosophy" is a stretch here. I realize Sony doesn't have a stellar track record but in their defense if you don't use 'Adaptive Sound Control' the app does not and will not try to enable Location access unless you turn said feature on and the app doesn't already have access.

So, no - you don't need to pay for the convenience of Sony's app by allowing Location access as it's not required but for a singular feature that is fundamentally based around setting profiles based on your location.
According to that article, browsers already implemented mitigations. It's not clear whether BIOS and OS mitigations are necessary for that.
Because you now need to implement a full text search or even natural language processing to identify personal identities in your comment, and that’s quite challenging. An evil competitor could register several accounts, purposely leave those comments with personal identities of those accounts on the system and then request to remove one of the accounts.

Your algorithm needs to parse those comments, identify which Comments mentioned the to be removed identity, and remove them without breaking the integrity of your database. Failing to do that, you get sued...
Can you be a bit more specific? I took a quick look through all 266 pages, about half of which is advertisements.

Do you mean the ad where:

-p8 a woman sites behind a computer and talks to man/a woman leans on a monitor ?

-p12 a woman reads a print-out next to a man?

-p16 a woman and a man look at a child enthusiastically operating a computer?

-p42 a woman in a gown leans on a computer; text contains the word "beautiful"?

-p62 a woman holds up a piece of hardware?

-p246 a woman sits behind a computer?

Unless I missed quite a few advertisements, or your general meaning, I don't understand the purpose of your comment.
this is very interesting, never thought that black pepper can be mixed in tea! I am very tempted to try that at home. Do you add milk/sugar in masala tea?
I have two ideas on this regard:

The first is that Asian culture (including Japan, Korea) is profoundly dogmatic and hierarchical. They have a completely different moral-alignment with being obedient.

The second is that over time, you can really achive the social transformation spouted by authoritarian governments. Russia was communist for 90 years. North korea approaching 70 years. After several generations what you have is the only thing that people know.

As a westerner, I find it truly amazing that these systems survive at all.
An American native speaker would certainly understand and not raise an eyebrow at using “both” in this context, even though technically it means two not three.

Using “thrice” is sort of archaic and formal (like you mentioned) and people would maybe make a good natured joke about being “fancy” if you used the word “thrice” often in conversation.

Oddly though twice has none of the baggage of thrice, and is used all the time. My four year old knows and uses twice, but doesn’t know what thrice means.
I'm using LiteSpeed Cache Management plugin for WordPress.

It has fiddled my .htaccess to

RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} "image/webp" [or]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Page Speed"
RewriteRule .* - [E=Cache-Control:vary=%{ENV:LSCACHE_VARY_VALUE}+webp]

But... now I think about it, I probably still have CloudFlare cacheing on. Which means that won't get hit some of the time. Hmmmm.... Let's see if my server can survive HN without a CDN.
It's definitely not technically correct. "Both" in English unambiguously refers to two things.
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Call me suspicious, but there's a very common theme and phrasing in a lot of those comments. Manufacturing consent? You may very well think that.

The Indians and others were buying British looms and disassembling them way back. Standard practice seems to be buy a few extra to rip apart and understand.

The cliche has it: We don't learn from history.
Very likely this is the same issue that was recently discussed in the context of Google ads.

Ad campaigns commonly use tracking redirects and it may be an intentional Twitter feature that the preview card hides intermediate domains.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19858552
It seems like you went in with preconceived notions about the subject. Either way you chose maybe the least relevant example of Huawei's activities in your straw man construction of a counter argument to the article. The first two paragraphs alone detail attempts at massive exfiltration of proprietary information that dwarfs issues of a camera-phone patent.

If Huawei's crime is cheaper products, it got there on the back of millions upon millions of dollars worth of R&D costs it was able to circumvent by theft of IP. Even were I to grant your claim that "any big tech company" does this (they don't-- see multi-billion dollar IP licensing agreements as evidence that such theft is less common than you claim) but even if I granted that claim, it wouldn't make this a satisfactory state of affairs. Embezzlement is somewhat common as well, but criminals don't get a pass for that theft when they're caught as a result of ubiquity of the crime. Neither should Huawei.
Propofol is an anesthetic, seroquel is not... it’s an antipsychotic. The thing with antipsychotics is they’re shit or “dirty” drugs... seroquel is not even indicated for insomnia (and depending on who you ask is a terrible choice.. a lot of family med/internists use it, psychiatrists often cringe). It works because it has a strong antihistamine side effect, so it’s basically a very potent Benadryl.

The point being, you’re still arousable. A vigorous rub of the sternum will likely wake you up. Not so much on propofol.
As I understood it, twitter is following redirects to show the user the final destination in the card. The problem is the scammers recognise when twitter is generating the card and redirects twitter to a different domain than the what the actual user will be redirected to.

The problem is that twitter follows the redirects to show the final URL, presumably to support advertising companies that use third-party link tracking software like bit.ly, if they just showed the actual link they wouldn't have this problem.
Somebody please explain to me why ripping out the JS JIT wouldn't work.
Sounds like the reaction to Dropbox again
1) Trade War

2) Real War
I see it much more in the context of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.

Do you want to know how good authentic European bread is made? You ask European bakers to show it to you and then replicate.

Accusing a whole people of a "lack of imagination" is way too reductive a statement.

Case in point: I'm sure Chinese noodle-makers could show European cooks a trick or two, just like Europeans stole a trick or two about porcelain making from the Chinese.
That's actually what was implemented in Canada last month on all provinces that didn't run their own carbon pricing system.

You'd think everybody could get behind it, right? I got $300 on my tax rebate as an advance for this year's carbon pricing.

Of course the conservatives hate it, because their carbon plan is "no."

And they're on track to win in November.
It's so funny to see Americans talk about their fears about the suppression free speech while my long post, packed with citations, gets sunk and deleted from the conversation without response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014965

Any complaints about this censorship? Gets sunk too. The daily two-minute hate against China cannot and will not be interrupted!
"Both" refers to two. If you're referring to the the lack of a serial comma, it isn't "incorrect" in American English but should be, and most style guides recommend using the serial comma.
It's a resource that's hard to ignore. There are good electricity grid connections nearby because of the, now decommissioned, fast-breeder reactor at Dounreay. It's a hellishly difficult place to work but that's kind of the point - if the technology can be made to work here then it will work anywhere.

There's a long history of marine engineering in the country. There's a lot of good expertise here and the Scottish government sees renewables and the associated technology to be a good export opportunity for the country. It would be great if the country to take the experience gained in the oil industry and use it in more environmentally friendly ways (if you ignore all the fish that the tidal turbines will be turning into an all you can eat sushi buffet for the local gulls).
> pytz.timezone('America/New_York').localize(
datetime(2019, 5, 21, 12, 30))

But wait, the datetime argument doesn't specify exact time instance, because it's "zone-less" itself!

So the above code can also be buggy/unclear, if instead of 2019 we'd use a datetime close to the switch time.

We should provide a time zone to the datetime param as well. Better GMT, otherwise we would need to localize that one as well, falling into an infinite loop.
The joke is the app does nothing, other than upgrade the firmware of the headphones. No settings to change or alter the behavior of buttons, initial volume, etc. Nada. Nothing.
Can you have economic prosperity without political liberty?

China has been showing us that it can so far.
Neat tech. (For those curious, it seems like we are capable to measure CO2 increase or decrease to an uncertainty of approximately 0.3% [of CO2, meaning ~1ppm overall]. That's impressive.)

Even if the last "embargo uncooperative countries" strategy were possible, I think you'd find that all of their domestic production would be carbon-intensive and their exports would all be "carbon neutral".
It's also at room pressure, not a very high (huuuge) pressure like many of the recent cases of superconductivity. (If I'd have infinity power to change the title, I'd use "IISc team confirms superconductivity at room temperature and pressure")

It has not been published, and the draft have "polemic" graphs, so don't hold your breath. It's also difficult to storage ...

It's a mix of silver and gold, probably in a nanomaterial, the article is not very clear. I didn't heard something similar before, but superconductive materias are strange.
The UK has not had more restrictive free speech laws than Germany, what are you thinking of exactly?

Certainly for most of the 20th century the UK was a bastion of free speech compared to Germany during WW1, then pre-war Germany in which political censorship was rife, then Germany during WW2 in which it was total, and then post-WW2 in which half of Germany was still controlled by a socialist dictatorship and had very little freedom of speech and the other half did still have restrictions on speech related to Nazi-ism.

What has the UK got compared to that? Yeah, in recent years it's gone down the same road as most of Europe with vaguely defined "hate speech" laws. But there's little or no political censorship in the UK, even bias at the BBC attracts a lot of attention and that's not exactly censorship.
This would be a more compelling rebuttal if it was responsive to the whole of my comment, and didn't just amount to saying "nuh-uh". I provided reasons why the VEP is a joke.
We need that for user-hostile businesses, except run by someone who won't abandon it when it gets boring.

The main obstacle will be the convoluted IP mess user-hostile companies create, through laws preventing you from reversing and replacing the firmware, and through tying the hardware to an Internet service.
Azure VM Metadata (French)
So the exploit is fake site -> user-agent specific redirector -> CNN. That would clear CNN.

I’m thinking through how Twitter would combat something like this. IMO they would flag new domains for manual approval (or hey, require TFA for self-serve ad accounts!) but both of these add to the cost and friction of their adtech.

Always a bummer when good security practice gets overruled by the need to squeeze every cent of revenue they can.