skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't really rationalize why China would throw stone on its own feet, but there are two reasons I could think of.

One reason could be president Xi just can't back off because Xi is like Kim Jong-un in China. Xi has killed some of his political enemies and throw many of them to jail. If Xi shows any weakness to his internal enemies, he could not live long because he is playing too tough. It's like how a mafia boss works.

Another reason is taking back some US dollar from HK reserve. China is facing insufficient foreign currency for importing goods for production, or even food in trade war with US. One example is pork production, which China has large export in the world, but it relied on corn imported from US, so facing increased tax harm pork production in China a lot, and added up with African swine fever, the situation is even worse.

So, how would extradition law help? Basically there are some list of merchant in the hand of China who leaves China due to business disputed, bankrupt or any economic related prosecution. In China, they could start the court even with the absence of suspect. So, the court could proceed anytime and enforce any punishment without a lawyer to protect the suspect right. Without extradition law, it doesn't matter if the suspect left China. After the extradition law is passed, China would extradite those wanted list. And those wanted list could pay back some foreign currency in exchange.

Though, it is really just sacrificing long term advantage for short term benefit. Both reasons are really dumb but they can't stop. Chinese using nationalism to justify the party existence, since the party make China a strong country. But if it is not, then the party would start falling apart.
For people who prefer to read, here's a transcript: https://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_populati...
You can certainly have a degree in CS and suck, but the odds of that happening are much lower than with people who don’t have a CS degree. Why should I waste the resources if I have enough decent candidates?

The rockstar developer is kind of a myth. If you compile 100 applicants into the 5-8 best ones, then the truth is that you could probably hire any of them and get good results.

That doesn’t mean self-educated people should give up. Especially because very few countries have as easy access to education as we do.
Every violation of privacy is an additional security risk. Also, there is a partly human-driven surveillance state.
> Turn your link in bio into an Insta website.

What the heck does that even mean?
I wish Dropbox Paper would adopt some of the features for organization that we see in Notion or Slite. Our team has moved to using one of those services because our Dropbox Paper folders became a mess. At some point, you just stop remembering where you put things and finding documents becomes too much of a friction. The simple sidebar that you can see on Notion or Slite makes a huge difference in getting an overview of the organization.
Google Axes Lobbyists Amid Growing Government Scrutiny
That's exactly the case. I am arguing that it is ok to kill innocent people sometimes. To give a ridiculous example...

The human race is going to end on Tuesday unless Bob is killed. Bob has done nothing wrong. However, he has a unique genetic condition that means, on Tuesday, he's going to come down with the plague, and it's going to spread and kill everyone. There is no way to stop it except to end his life before that happens.

I would kill Bob in this situation. I might hate myself for it, I might even take my own life knowing I had killed someone (or maybe not, because of my religion; I wouldn't know until I was in the situation). That being said, I would kill Bob to save the rest of the human population.
But this one is not going to be due to an asteroid or volcano; this one will be on us.

And it's not just about mass extinction; humanity itself is already a mass extinction event. But it will also be harder to feed people if the climate becomes unpredictable. Inhabited places can become less habitable. And the big one: if the eastern Antarctic ice cap starts melting, we're eventually going to have to evacuate most major population centers.

That is indeed not something we'll be able to handle. And we have frankly no idea when the exact deadline is that we may be able to prevent that from happening, or whether we may already have passed it, but we do know that many other ice caps are already melting, which is bad enough in itself, but also a warning for what might still come.
>I saw a BBC doc yesterday about drinking in the UK. They have stores selling 3-liter bottles of 7.5% cider for four dollars. That is ridiculous. 3-liter bottles of dirt-cheap alcohol, cheaper than coke, are not bought by happy social drinkers. Any store selling those knows what it is doing.

Speak for yourself! The Strongbow 2-litre (sadly now £3-00 but was definitely closer to £2-00 back in 2000's) was the staple of many the happy teenager.
The US contributes almost 15% of the global wheat exports and 60% of US soybeans go to China. I'm not saying it will end the world but I can't see how it won't have an impact.
They did a horrible redesign, killing amazing UX and UI in favor of a hypter design fantasy. This one still shows the hangover. I feel really sad and bad for the those amazing guys who made the Dropbox product I've used back then when i valued a good cloud storage, sync and a web screen to manage things when i had any trouble.
Firefox and uMatrix[0], and then never go to those sites again, because you won't be able to use them anyway. Whether or not you want to contact the owner of the site and tell them what's up is up to you.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
Co-routines are very useful and likely underused, but sometimes you are actually better off being able to pass the control to a given thread directly, other than having a scheduler involved.

Anecdote: almost a decade ago, I was responsible for an NVMe-like implementation (hard- and software). The 3rd version of the firmware recognized the various components as threads, but there was no need for preemption (which would require expensive locking). Traditional scheduling would work, but you actually know exactly which thread should execute next (hardware will signal done), so an explicit yield_to() was far cheaper and only slightly more expensive than a function call.
It's tricky, because as soon as you (as a test) start fishing for information they shouldn't provide, you'll come across as having low integrity yourself. Which will scare away the right folks and attract the wrong ones.
React Native team asks for feedback about the project
Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters
Possession and public use/display are two different things. Do not confuse the two.

It's the same with alcohol, I can legally walk or drive around with a sealed container during transport. If I open that container in public and drink from it, I am breaking the law.

I 100% agree that possession of any drug should not lead to automatic arrest. But public consumption should not go unpunished nor should it be encouraged. Though, what is a good compromise for punishing public consumption? I say confiscate the drugs and paraphernalia while offering help as a good start. Arresting them just wastes time and money as once released they will go right back to doing what got them there in the first place. Jail is useless, they need a complete reboot in life which is extraordinarily difficult. I have no solution for that as there is no one size fits all approach.
Hanging can be pretty gruesome. In an "ideal" hanging the condemned is dropped from a height that snaps their neck and kills them fairly quickly. Drop too far and they can be decapitated, drop too short and they strangle to death. It is certainly not a humane way to die.
> Put them in the drunk tank, sober them up, suggest or provide rehab options, and let them out with a small cash fine

Thats sounds great except

1. Accusing the police of questionable arrest tactics, mistreatment, death while in police custody (even from lack of treatment) is already a PR issue that has caused huge public outcry.

2. Overdosing and sobering up isn't strictly safe on alcohol or on opioids. Where drug overdoses are a top killer in society right now.

3. Homeless and drug addled people don't have the cash to pay a small cash fine. They just spent it on their last score, or the only cash they have is stolen or pan handled. And if they don't have the money to pay, you've just criminalized them more or put them further into a debt they will never pay.

4. Denial is the first sign of a problem. Sure, tell a stranger to go to rehab. Thanks to the undoing of forced institutionalizing, that's all you can offer.
Why your developers suck at dev-on-call
I think, with regards to Google, it's all about their business model. Allowing a company to collect data for the sole purpose of personalizing the products you bought from them and recommending content is not an unreasonable choice. Google offers personalized services as a vehicle for data collection to fuel a business model where they sell targeted access to you to their other group of customers.
Scrcpy v1.9 (Android screen-mirroring app) released
the main question is: for what purpose

here it is fighting...
This particular robot though is hard to repurpose (e.g. put additional sensors on top, e.g. to measure things or additional actors to move things or have other meaningful impact)

commercially it makes sense, like a facebook bubble does, educationally it is limited
Are there recognized symbols for vomiting, diarrhea, hair loss, weight loss reaching near skeletal stages and finally death? Along with some kind of indicators for passage of time that seems more useful at least for high exposure areas.
> "I don't agree with this opinion so I will downvote this comment"

If that bothers you, then HN is not the site for you. Downvotes for disagreeing has received the thumb of approval from PG[0]. Upvotes are for agree and downvotes are for disagree. On reddit people like to pretend otherwise (even though it's true in practice there as well), but here on HN there are no bones about it.

[0] one example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683
There’s a common mindset at play when you seek interaction through a site.

On the street, there’s no rule that you can’t speak to anyone. Most people, however, find comfort in black-and-white answers in knowing if is appropriate to engage. It is this uncertainty that drives individuals not to engage.
Show HN: A globally distributed, cross-region/cloud DB in 25 regions in 40s
And the new desktop app is Windows and Mac only. Of course.

My primary reason for using Dropbox initially when it first came out was because it was fully cross platform. The longer they go, the farther we get from that.

The only Linux updates I’ve seen from them have been deprecating support for things.
I worked on a laboratory building in a cold climate recently. Labs typically consume a ton of energy (relative to offices/residences) due to the energy spent on conditioning and forcing air for fumehoods.

We investigated a couple of different ways of reducing energy: PV, wind, efficient HVAC systems, and Ground Source Heat pumps (GSHP). The GSHP reduced the energy consumption of our building by over 50%, where the rest were barely hitting 10%.

I haven't personally seen it installed at a residential level, but if it's affordable (which, given cheapness of natural gas may not be) could be huge in cold climates.
It's not that nothing is knowable, it's that predicting the future is hard and easy to get wrong, particularly with something as complex as civilization, since humans adapt and civilization changes. The same applies to the biosphere as well. Saying for example that polar bears will go extinct or coral will all die off is ignoring the possibility that some bears and coral will adapt to the warmer world. We can't be sure about such predictions. We need to see how life and civilization responds.
I'm the same way, and I do think this personality trait is massively overrepresented (though by no means universal) among people interested in computers.

I have always suspected that Asperger's and autism (full disclosure: neither of which I have) are just extreme versions of the same underlying personality trait, but I have no background in psychology so that could also just be totally wrong pop-science BS :)
The US has double the emissions per capita as China. [1]

China is also steadily moving towards one of the most ambitious carbon tax / cap and trade systems in the world. [2] Don’t have the exact source in front of me but I read in a paper recently that China’s new carbon market will cover a significant percentage of global carbon emissions when it’s in full swing.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...

2: https://www.icf.com/blog/policy-and-regulation/china-carbon-...
"mishandling"
Great start! I hope this is developed further. The issue always remains, what to include and what to leave out.
> Whatever happened to the philosophy of “do one thing and do it well”?

Investor demands for growth. Dropbox already did one thing well. But they took money on the promise that they'd do more things and make more money than they could with that one thing they did well.
I can elaborate. Enforcement of basic car camping and drug possession/use laws has basically gone to zero and as a result there is a sense that Seattle has opened itself up as a "Risk Free Zone" for homelessness. Stories like https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/just-sickeni... have created a sentiment that people are moving to Seattle because of this.

While I can't speak to the truth of the belief that people are actively moving to Seattle, I can say that there's little incentive for someone to follow basic property or drug laws in this city.

EDIT: To your point on how this differs from "Homeless people are lazy" I guess the idea is that we've created a situation where there are even more factors pushing homeless individuals to the streets and suburbs of Seattle, that Seattle has made homelessness more attractive in a sense.
> After reaching a certain critical mass, maintaining additional features and functionality to reach potential customers is counterproductive. It directs resources away from the core product and customers.

This seems like an odd take in the comments section of an announcement of all new features that many people don't seem to care about. My ideal Dropbox would be able to sync with every filesystem under the sun since easy synchronization is their core product. Not integration with Slack or Trello or some weird workplace workflow.
The third option is always "I consider this post's argument so stupid it's not worth my time replying to as it shows the poster is incapable of intelligent discussion on this issue." My response to the poster explains why in my opinion these comments fall into this category.
> Dropping support for file systems outside ext4. One of my machines uses Linux on ZFS

Well if you're using ZFS you can create a zvol for your dropbox folder and format it in ext4 and it'll work: https://pthree.org/2012/12/21/zfs-administration-part-xiv-zv...
What they should be thinking is, O2 is very reactive. There must be some active chemical process, powered by a pervasive energy source going on at massive scale replenishing it constantly. What on Xebron 5 could that be?
Further <https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/the-case-for-prescriptio...

A short read, a couple of pages. Extract:

"
The [heroin] addicts on prescriptions, by contrast, looked like the nurses or receptionists or Dr Marks himself. As a group, you couldn’t tell.

Faced with this evidence, Marks was beginning to believe that many ‘of the harms of drugs are to do with the laws around them, not the drugs themselves’. In the clinic, as Russell Newcombe tells me, they started to call the infections and abscesses and amputations ‘drug war wounds’. So Dr Marks began to wonder: if prescription is so effective, why don’t we do it more? He expanded his heroin prescription programme from a dozen people to more than 400.

The first people to notice an effect were the local police. Inspector Michael Lofts studied 142 heroin and cocaine addicts in the area, and he found there was a 93 per cent drop in theft and burglary. ‘You could see them transform in front of your own eyes,’ Lofts told a newspaper, amazed. ‘They came in in outrageous condition, stealing daily to pay for illegal drugs; and became, most of them, very amiable, reasonable law-abiding people.’ He said elsewhere: ‘Since the clinics opened, the street heroin dealer has slowly but surely abandoned the streets of Warrington and Widnes.’

One day a young mother called Julia Scott came into Dr Marks’s surgery and explained she had been working as a prostitute to support her habit. He wrote her a prescription, and she stopped sex work that day.
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Just a perspective, not saying right or wrong.

Edit: added this:

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And something nobody predicted took place. The number of heroin addicts in the area actually fell. Research published by Dr Marks in the Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh compared Widnes, which had a heroin clinic, to the very similar Liverpool borough of Bootle, which didn’t — and found Widnes had 12 times fewer addicts.
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I believe we should start at the poles, as that would slow feedback loops there and save what little climate system we have. The poles are crucial holders of water in ice form, cooling those should be high priority.
The new Digg redux it seems. They don't seem to have tested the market before launch.
What does the "gun" shoot? It seems laser, but then how does the target in the movie (which seems to be paper) fall over?
The equivalent of FizzBuzz for an AWS Architect is setting up a highly available website with a domain name, load balancer, autoscaling group, and the correct subnets, security groups.

Except for the autoscaling group, all of this is basically networking 101. Their “resume” said they were “certified” and had experience. If you can’t get through the easy questions, no need to waste time on the hard questions.
The lifetime sounds interesting. But I'm not sure if lifetime really means lifetime..
You don't think their funnel is optimized already? The truth is that Google and Microsoft have the mind shares and products that integrate well with their respective eco systems already. Google Drive and OneDrive just work and are highly affordable already.
Well that’s just a false dichotomy. One can provide a coding challenge that isn’t a lame “gotcha” puzzle.
Exactly. Sprint is tanking. Who else should be able to acquire it?
True, in reality, the interpretation of an order to disregard and forget statements or information will vary from juror to juror. Among twelve regular people who aren't necessarily very smart, trained according to good practices, and mostly decidedly unprofessional by way of the selection process, some might fixate and even obsess and perceverate over an order to put a seemingly juicy tidbit out of their mind.

You may be dealing with OCD cases, who just watch the wizard of Oz and are generally paranoid about the machinations of faceless organized institutions of state power.

But the courts also operate with the full understanding that every juror is capable of willfully engaging in nullification of any aspect of the law. As a juror, one can elect to choose either polar outcome, and sociopathically adjucate their decision based on schizophrenic delusions that they've concealed throughout the whole of any given trial they participate in.

It's somewhat understood that a trial by jury is a near total roll of the dice, with multiple layers of decisions interfacing to produce an outcome.

The judge is there to referee the whole ordeal. The example you highlight is something to be used only sparingly.

Judges run the gamut of quality, and may also be corrupt. An entire trial may be a cruel joke.

Even so, like a sport, the court room follows rules and a code of conduct on some level. The judge is there to ensure a level playing field.

A good judge would notice a particularly eggregious statement as being disturbing to jurors beyond repair, by considering what it sounds like while in their shoes. If it seems like a line was crossed by an error of practice, as if a debilitating injury were dealt to an athlete, a judge would disqualify the entire competition and declare a mistrial if they're doing their job.

What does this translate to on the internet? Well, any given server cluster is sort of like a juror. They're sort of blameless for the request logs they capture, and the backups that get retained. It's the admins that have to erase things. Human judgement is required, to ensure that data gets disavowed from technical systems operated by businesses.
I have long thought that one of Steve Jobs' biggest errors was in telling Dropbox "that's a feature, not a company." It sure seemed like he was really wrong, but if Dropbox can't make money, maybe he was right after all.
Who gets to define "out of control behavior"? Mostly people who aren't transgender women. It's not like it's unprecedented for being transgender to be criminalized under the pretense of not "burdening public life of others", or that it's "unwelcome and unsocial behavior". This isn't even your typical "slippery slope" argument, this is a slippery slope that we've already slipped down and that we're still trying to climb back up.
Dumb phone is a valid choice. And it works just fine, there is absolutely nothing that a smart phone offers that I can not do without, and not having a continuous distraction makes me a lot more productive than I would be otherwise. It's bad enough with the web and 'always on' internet, to have that in my pocket would completely kill my productivity.
For many, just being transgendered and not attempting to pass as cisgendered is unwelcomed behavior.

I think the issue is the choice of word 'unwelcomed'. Aggressive may be better in capturing (what I assume is) the author's intent, but I would still find it a bit lacking. Some homeless behavior isn't aggressive but is unpleasant enough to cause people to make changes to avoid it. How do you describe such behavior without also describing behavior that a different group may choose to avoid that they really shouldn't be avoiding?

Maybe we can define it as aggressive or unsanitary. Not perfect, but it is the closest I can get without shooting over the intent.
I'm not sure what the problem is as DDG does that as well.

I just tried searching "weather [zipcode]" on DDG and the first result is a card with current weather info for that zipcode from DarkSky. The feature is very similar to Google's weather card.
These help a lot to be sure, but the city has gone from having an economy that was almost a third of the mainland's in 1993, to a fifth at the handover, to less than 3% today.[0] It is still important but no longer crucial to China. In a generation or so, it will be just another city among dozens.

The idea that rights and liberties are absolutely essential is a nice bedtime story we can tell ourselves, but if there weren't multiple paths towards economic development, then China would never have risen to the current level. Even in the West we probably only got those rights because it made economic sense to have them with the way we developed over time.[1]

[0] http://www.ejinsight.com/20170609-hk-versus-china-gdp-a-sobe...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-39706765
502 gateway :( too much traffic?
Well, the whole point of the article is that most people feel the same way you do, until it actually happens.
> It seems to me that being a one product company runs a risk of another company choking you out in various ways.

One possible solution then is to change your company to be a multi-product company, instead of adding new-product features into your one product.