skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most democracies have some process for a state of emergency when under threat, intended for wartime.

Wouldn't surprise me at all to find the climate crisis receiving little substantial action until such a state of emergency has to be triggered to deal with it. It's all very well declaring a state of climate emergency as UK parliament did, and Ireland shortly after, actually treating it as an emergency has yet to happen.

So whether it's a good idea may not matter if it's left so long it's the only idea - I only hope that like in wartime, it's a temporary state of affairs.
A house-sized plot of land is a rare and highly sought after thing in the Bay Area. Poor and even middle class people are never going to afford that, building regulations notwithstanding.

We need to be legalizing apartments.
I also recall 2008 about programs like cash for clunkers, nationalization of fannie mae and freddie mac (and the eventual roll out of their 3% down mortgages with no income restrictions). You know that during the US during the 50s and 60's the labor force primarily benefited one subclass of people where the rest were marginalized?
Consumers, make no mistake, This will drive up costs of using uber just like everything else in CA

And it will reduce the # of uber driver demand / work pool
Funny that before 64, China is moving to opening up economically and politically, and after that only economically. And later a lot of the original leaders revealed they are clueless in how to demand proper political reform at the original movement (partly showing as these people become nobody gradually, and partly as their words and deeds gradually descend to those of celebrity or businessmen).

In the end are 64 leaders and the political powers behind it actually missed the opportunity to creat the New Democratic super power that still would today challenge us, but politically close to us as well?

I think so. china is vastly big and diverse. Things moving fast. Before 1949 China is a mix of capitalism, feudalism, foreign colonist, etc, the economy is agriculture centered.

1949 to 1970s, China did a lot of things to reform the nation to be a unified nation in all aspects. Politically, militarily, culture, education, economically, etc.

On ward Mao died, Deng took a very diplomatic and politically mature move to turn the economy to capitalism heavy. I.e., he claim that the way you do business has nothing to do with your political system. That’s of course a facade, or even a lie.

Then comes 64, they apparently heavily influenced by Ussa, and demanded similar changes. The Chinese people are not ready for that, the incumbent powers (both those just took power and want a more western democratic, and those diehard anti west ) don’t want that. And they promptly and skillfully shut it down.

China’s road to reform suddenly took a nose dive, from politically and economically moving the same direction, to politically heavy guarded towards anti western democracy.

Just like the guy coming to a big Corp and try to instate use strategic shift, by being passionate and fast acting, that person destroys the minimal confidence and trust people had with the new system.

Sure, 64 is well intended, but is it a positive event? No, sorry.
Why are you using vb6?
Honestly, I didn't think much about wear-and-tear and I probably should have. When I calculated it, it was way below a dollar per mile, which makes me curious how you arrived at $4.5 per hour of operation. That sounds like an awful lot.
Are you talking USD? Just curious because you used the dollar sign as a suffix.

It's certainly possible that I'll end up paying down the road for the increase in wear and tear from when I was driving, but at least now I'm in a secure position where I could actually afford the repairs or to get a new car without worrying about paying the bills.
I'm saying that even within neuroscience there is large variation in publication frequency and expectation.

So if person from neuro discipline A and neuro discipline B are applying for the same job in data science, discipline A could get screened out because they spent years training a monkey to do a brain machine interface task while person B published five fMRI papers in three years. Neither candidate is going to use their specific neuro expertise, but rather their general data science skill set. One will be at a huge disadvantage unless she is hired directly by people who know her field.
What does owning all these processors have to do with bytecodes and VM's? What kind of a statement is that?
> That small status change is huge. These workers would suddenly get labor protections and benefits that all employees get, such as unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, paid parental leave, overtime pay, workers’ compensation, and a guaranteed $12 minimum hourly wage.

That’s an pretty optimistic take on the situation. What these new “employees” are going to get, is fired.

I know some people are OK with that, if the task isn’t profitable enough to pay a human full benefits to work on it, then it’s not profitable enough to employ a human to do it at all.

But there’s a lot of space to integrate under the employment curve for these types of super-low-skill jobs that people mostly use to fill in the gaps in their earnings. I think ultimately this does a huge disservice to the people who worked these gigs to earn some extra money, because it will no longer be possible to do that.

What will be left is full-time workers in these roles who have no other choice, who probably have a significantly shittier work experience doing jobs or working hours they previously would have passed on.

Which honestly is sad, because there is little to no advancement opportunity, so this is not supposed to be a career, and you’ve taken away the option for all these low friction ways to make up a financial gap that might come up one month to the next.

If someone finds themselves struggling to pay rent next week and they know they’ll be facing an eviction notice in 10 days, today they can jump on any number of apps and make up that couple hundred dollar shortfall. That’s not going to be possible if they’re classified as an employee.
Uber is in for a surprise. You don't rate and block people who pay you. This idea is some AH PM having a brain fart inside Uber.

If I have the money I can pay anyone I like. Just a city wide car sharing startup with money to burn, I will hop on to it.

One lawsuit away to bare all, the algorithm about ratings.
Some people here can afford paying for quality content and are grateful for pointing them to interesting articles.

Also it is called hacker news for a reason. If you cannot go around simple paywall (at least in theory) then what are you doing here.
It's hard to discuss an abstract idea like that in relation to a specific incident where specific people died.
You obviously spent way more time analysing all this than I did, so pardon my naivety, but it seems to me that shelving this project is an over-reaction. If the site's growth is limited by search engines, well, scale down your involvement (post less, cut costs), but don't give up on it entirely.

If Amazon doesn't fit, try other partners. We have businesses here that will do the shopping for you, and deliver everything to the door; and I'm not even in the USA. Perhaps integrating with those is a better idea than Amazon. Individual transactions will still be small, of course, but hopefully you'll get more of them, increasing profits.

Best of luck with your next idea, and consider not giving up on this one either. It's obviously valuable to people, but it might take a few years to grow to a level where it makes sense to dedicate more effort to it.
> Back when games were bought on a disk or cartridge and didn't feature any sort of micro-transactions there was no point in making a game addictive.

is this really true? when I was a kid (long enough ago that there were no skins or loot boxes), the most effective way to make me want a game was to see my friends playing it and having fun. there were probably tons of short single-player games that I was never aware of because people would just finish them quickly and not play while friends were over. but I still have vivid memories of watching people play smash and desperately wanting my own N64.

maybe the industry wasn't so ruthlessly capitalistic back then, but there had to be some execs that realized how much free marketing you get out of addictive console games.
"So much so that you might as well emit machine code instead."

Exactly, thank you!!! So why the hell would you screw around with bytecode!?!?!

I don't want portability, my source code is portability! I want the fastest possible machine code translation for the smallest possible program!!! That "portability" thing with bytecode makes me absolutely livid!!!
I agree with the rest of the commenters here that the XY problem problem is a way bigger one. Example:

"How do you implement a new system call in the Linux kernel?"

"Ah, well, a system call is overkill and leads to compatibility issues, you should try to see whether you cannot solve your problem some other way..."

"My problem is I want to understand how system calls are implemented thus I want to go through all the steps of making a new one so that I don't miss something"

Or, a more recent one from Reddit:

"When will we have desktop computers capable of replicating the feat of Google with AlphaGo?"

"Ah, well, we already have distributed computing trained NNs, also there is some research that it may not require such power..."

"I'm not interested in Go, I'm interested in the power of future computers!"

Seriously, people second-guessing you are annoying.
Any similar tricks you wanna share for other soft paywall-heavy websites?
Before regulation changed, many being built and many more being planned, after regulation changed, no new reactors built in 30 years. The fastest energy transformation in human history, but I'm sure that just because of a managerial errors.
I don't.

We don't, from what I've seen.

We've (the "community"?) have been trying to build/have built phones without baseband backdoors/hardware killswitches, chips without Intel Management Engine, etc.

Feel free to check out those threads if you've missed them.

This isn't about a specific case, by the way. This is the reality of the state of chip production.
There were no controls, and autistics frequently get better at managing symptoms to point of making the diagnosis harder. Why isn't there a high quality study of this?
It seems like there’s no official pronunciation (yet). There are some options discussed in a GitHub issue that was opened to ask about this. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/rancher/k3s/issues/55
Eastern European nations are 'Western Nations'.

My down-voters are utterly wrong.

'The Western World' is a term derived from antiquity, in which 'the middle east' is at the centre, East would be China etc.

In modern terms, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand would be considered Wester nations.
This presumes that the asker is intentionally concealing information. I think it's better to assume that they just don't know that some details of their problem might be extremely relevant...
Serenity C++ Patterns: The Badge
Depends. This is a matter of prudential judgement. The proper attitude is contextually determined and the linked page lists some qualifications, though still takes too much of a narrow, absolutist attitude.

For example, if someone random poses a problem on IRC, the solution to the "real" problem to be solved is NOT the concern or responsibility of the people in the channel. Unless there's a reason to ask for more context, just answer the damn question. Blindly asking the user what they're REALLY trying to solve is taking an intrusive and patronizing attitude. However, if asking will provide helpful context, then that's a valid reason to ask. If the problem as posed seems onerous or contrived, you COULD courteously ask the other person what they're ultimately trying to solve in the spirit of offering to be helpful if the other person so desires, but no one is hiring you do solve the "real" problem for them, so mind your own business.

If a coworker approaches you with a question, similar principles apply, but if you're working on the same project and in the same context, it may be natural to ask about what the larger problem is in a spirit of collaboration, esp. when the questions posed by your coworker smell funny. After all, you both share concerns about a project, though again, this does not give you license to automatically wrest the problem from your co-worker. His ticket, his problem. Your role is advisory.

So, common sense. Don't be one of those doltish know-it-all jerks who like to run the show. Mind the proper boundaries of concern.
Fair, still doesn't change the rather meaninglessness of the numbers in the first place.
“I will nobly protect you by making sure you can only enter transactions I would agree to. No, I don’t give a shit what happens to you if no transactions that meet my standards are available.”

A frustrating theme with regulation in general.
Why Quality Is Important
Samsung's market share in China is below 1 percent.

Maintaining market share and the brand in massive Chinese markets is important for the long term. Just 5-10 percent can be good enough for a luxury brand like Apple.

Apple might be willing to eat the cost of tariffs if it helps them to avoid political backlash that can shut them out from the markets completely. Keeping China as the part of the value chain may be condition for the market access.
So what do you propose instead of using an IR? No serious compiler for decades has been without an IR, going straight to machine code. Do you have some new idea? Or do you think we should go back to syntax-directed translation? I'm not sure that's tractable - performance would be terrible.
For those who are having difficulty with the concept, have a look at Wikipedia entry [1]

'The West' is referenced from basically central Asia, a term devised before the 'discovery' of the New World. The term generally includes 'new world' countries that are founded by 'old world' Western countries.

This is an old term, but it's used ubiquitously today, this is not a contentious subject.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world
iPhones are made in special export zones, so technically their components or machinery used to make them aren’t even imported into China. Because none of its inputs were tariffed, iPhones face tariffs when they are imported into China even though they were made in China.

If Trump decides to tariff iPhones anyways, well, double hilarity will ensue.
These are mirror-image manifestations of the same underlying problem. In the example given in the article, the person asking mistakenly thinks X and Y are effectively equivalent. In your case, the person replying makes the mistake.

XY problems are just the tip of the iceberg; many problems are the result of mistaken assumptions of equivalence, and they often go unstated.
China Targets FedEx in ‘Warning’ to U.S.
pg's Cities and Ambition talks about the importance of being around smart people. http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html The right type of ambition attracts the right kind of people who do the right kind of work that creates the right kind of success that breeds the right type of ambition... And soon you are surrounded by other people who really like Factor.io and would happily discuss George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral.

Complex thoughts need grit-y minds to unfold in. They need to be attacked from multiple perspectives. They need to be nurtured at the point where we're most likely to let go. They need to be played with. And they need different mind spaces to be understood inside and out. Good cities like Cambridge help these ideas to unfold through Brownian motion. Minds drift towards each other. They meet one another and form conspiracies with one another.

Franklin noticed a conflict in her data. There were two kinds of DNA that she had discovered along with her partners; what they called "A" and "B". One was a strand without water that was crumpled together. The second was with moisture that was long and thin. Franklin chose to study type-A and her work led her to suspect a helix was present but she was reluctant to commit to the idea as she was sceptical of any model. Through sheer happenstance, Crick and Watson knew her colleague and were working on a theoretical model for the same, eventually leading them all to use this data to - in a haphazard, chaotic way - lead to an understanding of DNA.

Someone might have discovered DNA sooner or later but if everyone hadn't been present in Cambridge at that moment in history; it would have definitely been later.

Greatness needs serendipity. And serendipity needs the machinations of probability. And probability needs humans to drive the gears.
As a bit of an aside, it is surprising how concise and to-the-point each of the articles (points) are. Compared to contracts written in modern legalese or your typical website TOS this looks almost "dumbed down" and yet it was one of the most important documents of 20th century. Perhaps we're overcomplicating things a bit today?

(ps: native Russian speaker here, but the German version looks similar.)
> How could you compare someone voluntarily engaging in employment to slave labor?

Is it really voluntary if the alternative is to die of starvation?
ACA, particularly so in Medicaid Expansion states, is perfectly described as a “heavily government-subsidized user-pay system”.
Review: Amazon’s Good Omens is bit as entertaining as original novel
I'm sorry but this is just not true. There is a large amount of difference between navigating regulation a software contract or a road compared to a nuclear plant.

Its quite literally impossible to operate a prototype reactor for example. You literally need to build a production version on your first try to even get fissile materials.

To actually being able to regulate something you need to pay the DoE and they don't even give you a timeline. "Hallo I like to build this new reactor, here are the plans", "Thanks now give us 100M$ and 2-4 years and then we will tell you all the things that we required, then you can submit it again (with more money of course)".
The poster quite possibly was using the cold war definition of "west" (which is likely way more relevant to the comparison they are making), not the antiquity one.
Our first look at Playdate, the world’s cutest game console
If you want to avoid the VM I find minikube with --vm-driver=none works quite well.
Meaning of "64" according to Wikipedia:

> alternative names have sprung up to describe the events on the Internet, such as May 35th, VIIV (Roman numerals for 6 and 4) and Eight Squared (i.e. 8^2=64).
Most comments here are about how annoying people asking about X are.

We get it, sometimes you are asking about X simply because you need to know about X and you know what you are doing.

But often, especially when dealing with more junior engineers, I've found this simple to keep in mind and helpful. It's also a good proof of experience to know when to ask about X and try to make sure you understand the context of the question before answering it.
They consider you read emails after a set period of time, regardless of you (do/did/have) actually read. It works like that in Europe not the least.
Take a look at balenaCloud if you want to deploy containers to IoT devices. (Disclaimer: happy customer). Their free tier is free forever, too.
> doesn't even apply to chips that don't do speculation in hardware

This is an interesting way to put it. I would have said "applies to pretty much every CPU manufactured in the last decades." Your statement would make sense if speculation in hardware was some niche thing, but I think you would be hard-pressed to find an invulnerable CPU that is used in situations where people care about both performance and security.

That's great for the mill, but isn't relevant to the world outside of mill computing.
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try asking "how can I automate ssh authentication by password?" sometime. I've still never found an answer other than "never do that, here's how to use ssh-agent."
That's probably a highly efficient way to get booted of most IRC channels.
> What these new “employees” are going to get, is fired.

If the choice is between raising prices to support higher employee expenditures, and firing all of their drivers and leaving the California market, you think they'll choose the latter?

Or is there a third option I'm not thinking of?
“I want to make more money.”

Yes, but what do you really want?
The connection between Cambridge and the Amiga is somewhat tenuous - unlike many of the Cambridge technologies mentioned in the article, I get the impression that although the Amiga used TRIPOS it didn’t have an ongoing collaboration with the lab
They also literally titled the secret amendment "Geheimes Zusatzprotokoll". And there is a photocopy of it!
Youtuber Incites Homophobic Harassment of Vox Reporter, YouTube Slow to React
Per the Wikipedia page about her [1], the two Nobel prizes that would have made sense for her to be awarded were both granted after her death — one in 1962 and another in 1982. The Nobel isn’t awarded posthumously.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
I just had to left a job after 2 weeks, because as someone new to the clan, everything I said was noise to them. I guess there's a time-to-respect period to go through.
Partly a good comment. 64 was not "heavily influenced" by the USA. It was way more complex with a large set of different reasons. Fang Lizhi and his experience in the US and influence of students was one factor, but it was also the nepotism and corruption, disparity fueled by the reforms, economic difficulties and inflation, devaluation of liberal arts subjects and many (individual) reasons more.

People needed to vent and the party did not handle it well. It was the party's own fault that the situation deescalated and led to the shocking events in June 89.
You'd think they spend more time actually making Edge not shit..
You need to establish that a 'China-like' control would actually prevent these kinds of problems in the first place. China has plenty of their own tragedy of the common problems. Power is less concentrated there with respect to many policies than it seems.

But assuming total concentration of power is possible long term, it only increases the likelihood of a better outcome for the powerful. To the extent that they need the rest of us that may also increase our chances of survival, but what happens if/when they don't?
See USA's FTC etc - we take our fair share of drive by fines, and change nothing afterwards.

Doubt it'll happen in this case...people want blood from Google or FB, and they're going to get it.

Other commenters had it right, though - ISPs, and lobbyists should be hanging next to them.
I kind of disagree.

There are communities in which you should basically not trust anyone by default.

There are communities in which trust is generally a given.

(Obviously, both within reason)

There is also the possibility that people 'have it wrong' (i.e. cynical of a community that is trusting, and overly trusting in a bad neighbourhood)

My grandfather made windows as part of his business in the 1950's, most of his customers were farmers. He would trade his work often for livestock, say 'a pig' or '1/2 cow' or whatever - but he would get paid during slaughter season often many months away. There was no contract, just a handshake, and he never had to worry about the farmer taking the animal straight to the butcher. (This is before super common refrigeration, and everyone it town had a 'locker at the butcher's).

In some ways, there can be fairly deep trust, depending on the context.

I don't disagree with the other respondent's point about chemical changes either, but I suggest that a lot of our behaviour is simply learned.
Yeah, this is completely wrong. I watched Google grow up having worked in the area and they didn’t have any marketing at the beginning. They first became the best search engine many years before they started adding ads and well before their IPO.