skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peaceful reunification with Taiwan under CCP rule is already impossible. Neither side of Taiwanese politics would accept that: the big political divide in Taiwan is between people who consider themselves Taiwanese and support independence (pan-Green), and people who consider themselves Chinese but think the CCP are illegitimate rulers (pan-Blue).

Maybe this analogy is a bit of a stretch, but imagine the pan-Blue as ethnic Cubans in Florida, who despite feeling more Cuban than "Floridian" would never peacefully agree to Miami being reunited with Cuba under Castro regime rule.

The only way China and Taiwan could be reunited peacefully is if the CCP falls, the mainland becomes a capitalist liberal democracy acceptable, the pan-Blue coalition somehow becomes politically dominant in Taiwan despite being in opposition now, and they negotiate an agreement with the new Chinese regime. This is maybe not totally impossible, but still far-fetched.

I expect the CCP understands all of this. Since peaceful reunification with Taiwan is already impossible without the CCP going under anyway, it's not a good reason not to interfere with Hong Kong.
Unfortunately, at least in the US, the societal "cure" for drugs is most often far worse than damage from the actual drug.
The writing is on the wall for Hong Kong even within China, as other cities have caught up economically.
What is feature discovery and how to use it to improve user engagement
The title is very misleading. There is no hard deadline to save ourselves from climate change, or if there is, we already passed it. We're currently at the point were every year we continue doing nothing, means it takes multiple years (decades? centuries?) to recover from the accumulated effects.

Permanent ice is already melting, climate is already changing. Even if we completely stop emitting CO2 right now (which we can't), there would still be too much CO2 in the atmosphere for some time, leading to further heating and longer melting. Even if we were to remove all excess CO2 from the atmosphere right now (which we obviously can't), Earth would still be too warm and icecaps would continue to melt while global temperatures would slowly revert to normal.

We're doing none of those things; we're still arguing over whether we should do anything at all. Our inaction over the past couple of decades on this issue is going to have repercussions for the next centuries.

The issue right now is: how bad do we want things to get? We can't stop it anymore, but we may be able to mitigate it. I really really hope we can prevent the Eastern Antarctic icecap from melting, because that would truly be a disaster. When that melts, most major population centers will have to be evacuated.
maybe that is only the case in chicago.
I would find it immensely irritating if some stranger tried talking to me beyond "hello"
Paper is one of the best writing experiences I've ever had, and the export option is solid, but that's about it. It's trying to operate in the space already taken by OneNote. The web-based tools in Office already output to real files you can get at through OneDrive. Even Google's office suite doesn't do that.

That's probably where Dropbox sees itself headed: the corporate office suite space Microsoft currently dominates. I don't think Dropbox has much of a chance there. There was a time when Microsoft was in a shaky enough position for someone to knock them down, but then they got a new CEO and convinced people to take another look.
It's not beyond belief; it's that it's happening so slowly that it's not perceived by the common person. And the "crying wolf" that people upthread were referring to was the "this will be irreversible in N years" specifically, not the broader threat of climate change generally.
Coming from a similar background I actually think they over-designed their whole blog.

I don't see why they would not put the content to the middle, have a static background so the only thing that changes are the gifs and text as you are scrolling and perhaps pick a more readable, nicer font (though that is probably highly subjective).

Overall, I feel like the Dropbox app UI shown in gifs and the blog are from two very different companies.
I don't agree. Human's use resources and not all humans will make a massive impact directly but what if one of their grandchildren does? People should have as many children as they feel comfortable with, without judgement from others. There's a lot more to life than minimizing carbon footprint in the immediate term. Otherwise we could just wipe out the human race to create a utopia. Malthusianism has been thoroughly debunked at this point.
Probably not. The interviewer didn’t know how to do fizz buzz himself.
Ask HN: How do bank ATM fees work?
So banks charge ATM fees for taking cash out in the U.S. if you aren't using that banks ATM card. Usually $2-5 is what I see anymore.

My bank reverses most of these fees for me every month although I rarely have any.

So a few questions to anyone who knows.

1. What does it cost the bank to do this transaction? I am assuming it is pennies.

2. Is the transaction basically an ACH or some custom method?

3. Is it really two transactions? One for the cash withdrawal and the other the fee? Otherwise how would my bank know how much to reverse?

4. I know there are different ATM networks so I assume some portion of the fee covers access to that network but out of $3 is it $.10 and the bank keeps the rest or ?

Thanks!
I don't know. I could not find a comparison, but I did find this Reddit thread which gives an overview over different programs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9tkpxx/rsyncbased_os...
Indefinitely adding CO2 to the atmosphere at an increasing rate... it seemed like a good idea at the time.
That is secure as long as you have a good master password
Ok, fair points. But then again, by going the steroid route you and your kids would be excluded from participating in any sports matches (except perhaps bodybuilding contests). How would you feel about that, and about how others would view you in this regard?
From the blog post:

> with --strip_sources=False, input cells will be included in the resulting web application (as read-only pygment snippets).

So the sources are presumably not there by default.
I agree about the metadata. I like pass but it's a flaw for sure. At least it's upfront about it.

Most other issues are covered with pass, like a good android app etc etc.
How many years since The Phoenix Project and this conversation has barely moved an inch?

CIO probably wins this battle and gets the VP fired, but will be mystified when they're reporting to the CFO or a Chief Digital Officer when it happens 3 more times by the end of the year.
Now I'm tempted to try this, and write a little daemon that runs every hour or two and kicks it off. I wonder if they would pick up on it.
Is KeePassXC also audited? The main KeePass has had multiple security audits, also thanks to the EU who funded it one time. Seems relevant for a password manager.
>running software by Google

My 1280 surely doesn't.
Fair Use permits the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances and takes into account a number of factors--including the amount of the original work that's used. So quoting a paragraph from a blog post to comment on it is almost certainly OK. An entire website? Probably not under most circumstances.
But you can touch it faster than the sum of the time it takes you to say it and the time it takes the machine to recognize what you said. And the touch will be more accurate.
+2.5C increase over tens of thousands of years, as happened in the past? Extinctions, but the ecosystem adapted.

+2.5C increase over tens of years, as predicted? Very different story.
I often find the "events" link to be helpful, finding files in order of upload date [0].

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/events
Why you shouldn't use Euler's method to solve ODEs
I recommend reading the book "Spam Nation" by Brian Krebs(sp?). He goes into the different motives behind spam, the big actors, and how people get paid for creating spam.
This problem can be so detrimental for teams who want to measure the success of their products it's hard to put into words (ಥ﹏ಥ)

This is exactly the reason why we built Avo (https://www.avo.app). It's designed for everyone on the team: product managers, analysts, data scientists and developers. It works by generating code derived from an analytics spec, which you create and maintain in a user friendly web app.

You can check it out and reach out to me a@avo.sh, I'm happy to help any way I can.
Yup, I've been following the Rust discussion too. I am quite excited to see this happen -- as someone who tried to wrap their head around tokio two years ago I'm glad something more akin to other languages is around the corner.
For two hours, a large chunk of EU mobile traffic was rerouted through China
SlateStarCodex and Caplan on 'Why Are the Prices So D*Mn High?'
> NIH syndrome is strong with both cases.

Seriously. IPFS decided the standard URL format wasn't good enough so invented something worse, which was pretty funny/sad. I never saw reasons for it that made any sense.

See:

https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/issues/227

[EDIT] here's the original, deeply "LOLWUT?" justification for it, quoted in this comment on another issue. Other justifications were given but this was the motivation. Oh man. Wow.

https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/1678#issuecomment-139...

[EDIT] farther down, same author as the quoted text in the above comment: "wish unix:// wasn't taken by unix sockets." Oh FFS, guys. Hahaha.
I'm a transgender woman. Applying your thought process seems to me, inevitably, to mean I can't live in society.

I work downtown cooking for a bar (despite my deep involvement in tech as a child/teen and early work programming and some infrastructure stuff, life's challenges haven't enabled me access to significant wealth or appreciable social status). I've found survival, and I deal with drug addicts, mentally ill, the deeply traumatized and abandoned. The biggest thing anyone needs in these circumstances is love and acceptance.

Coming from a place of privilege, your leaning to exclude the suffering from society is wildly antisocial and a leading cause of the rise in "eat the rich" mentalities.
Those committing violence -- the people in uniforms attacking protestors -- are not going to get criminal convictions or lose their jobs. This is China we're talking about.
I tried from finding it myself, and I've only seen it once. I was logging into Dropbox via Chrome on my Android phone, and I must have done something to trigger captcha spambot hell. I just tried triggering it again and was not able to do so.

The ball had an animal in it and I was asked to bounce the ball, causing it to rotate. I had to bounce the ball with just enough force to get it to land so the animal was positioned upright. After several failed attempts, I gave up.
Whenever I see moves like this, I think to myself how little of a real positive impact SharePoint had in the Enterprise world. And that was linking Office products, in large organizations that already used the products, and already collaborated for their jobs, while including the ability to write code against it all.

Trying to build the same functional goals, for people who not under a single organization's umbrella, to link together products that are not coming from a single vendor, and not designed to work together... feels like a stretch.
The bill forbids data sharing consent as precondition to service
> We know too much and have too much technology.

That's a risk that massively adds to fragility. As seen in every civilisation crash across the entirety of history.

Some small fragments surviving when every village had a blacksmith, everyone farms a little land, keeps a pig and cow, and makes clothing etc means each isolated fragment can rebuild a recognisable world and plenty have the knowledge. Bronze requiring tin and copper that typically came from regions thousands of miles apart added a fragility.

When my medicine, food, clothes etc come over thousands of miles and/or depend on complex multi-stage specialist supply chains and knowledge means that any isolated fragments won't have the first clue how to restart. Educating yourself when wikipedia is down, there's no power, comms or international supply chains and some local plant, machine or process just failed... You get the idea.

Not so very different to the many regions occupied by the Romans that found that for centuries after they had lovely advanced buildings and services they could not recreate. So they could use what was still standing, but watch them deteriorate.

"This time it's different" is an arrogance seen across the ages too. We're not crash or dark age proof. Not at all. Society is now so complex that it might take a relatively small spanner in the works to break it.

You're right about growth. Humanity will recognise it. Eventually.
If Namecoin were to become popular, wouldn't that encourage more mining of Bitcoin even if you were doing merged mining? It seems like if Namecoin took off then people would just say the reverse, "Don't worry about the environmental damage of Bitcoin, people were already mining Namecoin so there's no additional harm."
Post-Financial Crisis Sees Largest Increase in Commercial Indebtedness on Record
> People are constantly arrested at sports events and music festivals for being too drunk. I’m not saying it’s a happy experience like an old TV show or movie.

Context and witnesses matter as well. There's a big difference between the police being called to handle drunks at a sports event and a passer by calling 911 to report someone intoxicated on the street. There's no context for the latter.
They were losing ~$500m a year (and growing) doing one thing and doing it well.
I think permanent ice is essentially permafrost as in "too cold for any seasonal melt/freeze cycle".

Technically net ice mass /could/ increase in that state
depending on precipitation vs melt rate and even an increase may not be a good thing (fresh artic snow could cause ecological issues even).

That tangent aside it opens the door to potential eventual total melt by definition - if the area is still permafrost that means it never melts year round.

Which while a worrying sign doesn't equate to total immediate melt in four years.
> Polar ice caps are already floating in the sea, so they will not effect sea level as much by melting

The Arctic icecap is floating, so its melting (which is happening rapidly) will have no impact on sea level rise. The Antarctic icecap is mostly on land, and if that melts, it will raise the sea level by 60 meters. That will flood most major population centers.

I don't think we can save the Arctic anymore, but I really hope we can still save the Antarctic. (The good news is that it's not melting yet.)
I have a friend who is excellent at this. He starts talking about whatever, someone's clothes, how his day is going, the weather, anything vaguely relevant to the situation.

People often look slightly uncomfortable at first, but they seem to quickly get over it and start to chatter away enthusiastically. I find it fascinating because I'm totally incapable of doing the same thing: usually I'll be standing next to him squirming with embarrassment at the potential for an awkward moment.
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Curious Why SwiftUI Uses the '$' Prefix? Here's What's Going On
It's a real problem, I agree. However, from the point of view of a competent programmer you need to entice them to work for you, not the other way round. The competent one also has to filter out incompetent managers/companies; I'd suggest having FizzBuzz on the interview is one such a nice signal for competent coders to stop bothering and move on.
Simple State Management for Flutter
I love it! Sadly, misses connection between cognitive science and design (and Don Norman).

I'd also really like to see Lillian Gilbreth on here as a forerunner. She had a massive impact, had the first industrial psychology PhD, would be viewed now as cognitive science of human-technical systems. Yes, and also for more female representation.
Tropical countries would love to reduce the heat, it would massively help their economies.
A fun thing to do before your website expires is set up HSTS with "includeSubDomains" and enroll your website in HSTS preload. Many of the bots that backorder domains in order to put ad pages on them don't use SSL at all (not even LetsEncrypt) and the domain ends up becoming useless for them.
I really dislike the quantum color palette, everything looks like a glow-in-the-dark poster.
> Maine’s new law does not allow an ISP to offer a discounted rate to customers who agree to share or sell their data.
IBM in quantum research partnership with top African university
Uber, Volvo Cars launching new self-driving vehicle
I don't think software developers could survive this test...
It seems to me that type inference would be silly in this case. Type suggestion during mypy checks might be useful though.

Function x does not specify a type, but returns SomeHelpfulTypeString. We recommend you use that.

Put it behind a flag and call it a day. Maybe even have a way of requesting type suggestions for functions during development
At least in the US, model releases are strictly for photos used commercially (e.g. in advertising or marketing materials). Editorial use, which includes just putting it up on a blog or whatever, doesn't have restrictions.
Show HN: Experimenting WASM: Flipping Images with Rust and JavaScript
Make something out of plastic?
Turn DNA sequences into interactive 2D visualizations
I can. But I don't think that should be the default state, nor is it healthy.

I'm really trying to do better in this regard, but it's proving difficult to improve at.
Hong Kong still has a huge advantage compared to mainland cities with respect to its liberties and legal framework, making it often the better place to do business than say Shanghai or Shenzhen. However, the CPC is quickly eroding these advantages.
Fair enough, but it would be counter-productive to have too restrictive a filter.

Take the CO criterion, for example. While it is reasonable to point out that CO may be present in high concentrations in many planetary atmospheres, at levels that would be toxic to life evolved on earth, one must consider that life might evolve in a way that tolerates or even exploits it. Oddly, the authors acknowledge this, yet, apparently without any counter-argument, still include CO as a probable show-stopper.

As the way to search for life beyond the solar system is to look at atmospheric composition, an alternative way to look at the 'CO problem' is to say that an abnormally low CO level on these planets might be a hint of life.
You’re right.

In this case, I should have just as easily said “paying customers” because there were a decent amount of people already using Dropbox (and paying for it) that had other than ext4 filesystems. I know many people that got bitten by this also had encrypted home directories (Ubuntu ecryptfs), which was also not supported and fairly common.

I personally use Dropbox heavily because it is an easy way to sync shared folders between all of the people I work with (mix of Mac and Windows). However, it’s really difficult to also use it with the Linux servers I also need to sync data to/from. In the end, I created a developer account and use a script that is linked to that account to copy data to/from Dropbox on demand.

Would it be nice to have a supported solution for this? Yes

Do I expect a supported solution from Dropbox? No. There are too many variables and I don’t expect Dropbox to be able to handle everything. I’m just happy that they make a solution possible for me to manually use.
> 1. Which part of the discussion were not mature?

For my personal taste: the "I don't agree with this opinion so I will downvote this comment instead of replying with an argument" part that many users engage in. I see two explanations: infantile "NO NO NO" and malicious "if I downvote this, it will be buried and fewer others will see it". Given the design of the voting and flagging system and the fact that it's not discouraged, it appears that this is a desired behavior.
Assuming the target segment for this product really is "Instagram users who want a link in their bio" per someone else's comment in this thread, I'd price it

$1.99/mo for limited concurrent users / bandwidth
$9.99/mo for premium with """unlimited""" users / bandwidth
Are you saying that everyone in the UK is an academic?
Entropic – A Federated Package Manager for JavaScript
I'm not sure it would even reproduce in Chicago. Downtown and the North, West, and South sides are pretty culturally distinct; how do the researchers know they're observing some universal human trait and not something that is specific to one culture?
The weather problem has been a surprising one. It seems that most weather websites are really terrible. All I ever want to know is the hourly temperature, and hourly precipitation. Google does this easily with a query against "weather [zipcode]". Other services do technically provide this information, but it always seems to be obfuscated, or otherwise hard to obtain.

[edit]

Here is a very amateurish graphic depicting the difference.

https://imgur.com/SofeKKN
Medical Reversals
At least some portion of HKG’s loss will be the mainland’s gain, so there’s that to factor in
Facebook’s 'Research' App Is Back: This Time It Pays Adults for Sharing Data
I was doing this for a very long time. I had a speedtest run on my NAS, saved the results to a csv, and then tweet them at verizon. a few others have written similar scripts, it’s very interesting having that historical data, and Verizon reps on twitter actually tried talking to the bot.
> people were saying that leave and remain were running equally distasteful and underhanded campaigns

I don't know who was saying it? I think everyone can agree (even the courts) that Leave campaigning was far more underhanded both in terms of veracity and in terms of legality.

> they're saying that Remain was worse

Worse in terms of less effective and less emotionally appealing, yes. Again that is fairly universally acknowledged.
KeePassXC works really well with Yubikey too. I use a Yubikey and a short pin for the password.
Well, if you assume the Earth is unsustainably overpopulated already, surely that should be a fundamentally inevitable development anyway...?
Ironically, their CMS is blocked by my office's firewall and the website isn't, so the website loaded instantly for me.
The only way to build something that lasts 10k years is to build hundreds of things designed to last 10k years, and maybe one or two of them will actually last. That's the only technique that's worked in the past.
We put unwarranted load on computers all the time, and nobody notices. They're good at that. Now, if you think the load we are talking about will actually be so much that humans will be affected by it, then it makes sense to reconsider. But at 1000 DAU, you could probably run the database (analytics logging included) on a Linux server from the 1990s and its CPU and disk would not be the transaction bottleneck. (With proper indexing ofc.)
Music festivals, baseball games and college? Not everyone can afford baseball games and music festivals. That isn't the typical drunk arrest. Those are the polite cops. Back when I did this stuff I dealt with clients attested under bridges, while at work, on their porches, even in their own bedrooms. Permission to 'lock up drunks' is an open door for every police corruption and bias.
Maybe it's because they were expanding too much and hiring too many people
It will be interesting to see how open it is but DJIs first educational offering (Tello) and other products don't go very far in that regard.
Show HN: Lannister – open-source wealth manager app
Unfortunately this is basic business economics. When you want to drive overall revenue, it's often cheaper to boost an existing customer and sell them more stuff rather than go try to find an additional new customer.