skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone here read Larry Niven's Gift From Earth?

This is literally the plot (but on another planet).
"...the natural result of increasingly centralized businesses running pseudo-monopolies in key industries."

Preferential attachment begets winner takes all.

Internet begets fewer, larger markets, meaning fewer, larger players.

Engagement driven revenue begets outrageous content.

I don't have a problem with these three natural phenomenon. It's just two maths and one psychology.

The two differences today are a) scale and b) the combination is far more potent. As Stalin praised, quantity has its own quality.

My issue is the willful ignorance (Freedom Markets™ ideology) thwarting any kind of reasonable counterbalance.

I'd like the world of commerce to be more NFL and less MLB.
Gentoo used to have an article on it on the old Wiki

Of course it was riddled with (outdated) lists of packages that either

A: ran worse than with GCC (this was pre-Clang/LLVM days)

B: Didn't build at all
Hi HN! I thought this would be a fun and creative take on a marriage proposal. Would love to hear what you think!
>How did China get away with this for so long?

Because no other nation(s) is willing and able to engage in military conflict with China to stop it.
Usually human rights is used as a tool for prevailing economic and foreign policy goals. The fact that we're now concerned with all these various human rights issues as well as spying, etc, is about the politics of our times than it is about human rights. But hey I will take it whichever way I can get it. So yeah please stop human rights abuses. Thanks.
Other nations could do less drastic things though. Sanctions would be an example.
Truly jarring if this is true. The systematic persecution of and violence against political opposition is one thing, the oppressive surveillance another, but I think forced organ harvest (especially on living people!) crosses a line.

What can we do?
Ask HN: Best Effort-Reward Ratio
I'm a dedicated, passionate hardworking fella with a variety of interests, pursuits and goals and will do anything to achieve them + technically skilled and diligent.

But let's pretend i'm not. How can I achieve success i.e money as quickly as possible with the minimum amount of effort.

Which industry, market, niche should I target?

Basically - who does the least amount of due diligence in this community?
I rather keep using xapian. That's a proper indexing and search-engine (C++), much better than sphinx or Elasticsearch.
Elasticsearch just has better client integration for things like MS Word or PDF, if you want to jump to the highlighted line in the document.
Why would the people you hire care what you think once society has collapsed to the point where money and contracts are worthless?
But they’re not willing to give up access to cheap labor and environmental standards for their manufacturing and waste removal desires.
Dyalog APL in general supports a lot of old and new technology from interacting with R & Python to Jupyter Notebooks, ODBC, .NET, COM, DDE, Parallel multicore functions, graphics, multiplatform IDE, GPU support via Aaron Hsu's compiler, functional programming via DFNS & Tacit Function Trains...etc

If it was free I'd probably be using it.
I have read about the possibility of large-scale harvesting of organs from prisoners for a few months now. First thing to note about this particular article is that "The China Tribunal" has no formal or legal standing, it is basically a volunteer organization trying to collect evidence.

When they say "Worst Fears [...] Were Just confirmed" they are at best misleading.

There has been a notable dearth of reporting by traditional journalistic media about this topic, and so I am still somewhat skeptical. The evidence presented so far is not as conclusive as with the Uyghur suppression.

The practice described in the article would undoubtedly be a crime against Humanity, and among the biggest in history. But I can't tell right now if the process of its discovery is just slow-moving or if there is just nothing that big to discover. I'd appreciate any pointers to more information either way.
A hard line stance on China’s human rights abuses, currency and trade manipulation, and intellectual property theft will be a top requirement for my support of 2020 US presidential candidates.
> While extracting the liver and kidneys from an executed victim who had been shot in the head and dumped by the side of a road, Tohti made a horrifying discovery.

> "I started cutting down the middle and then he started struggling and I knew then that he was still alive, but he was too weak to resist me, " Tohti told The Telegraph.

What the actual fuck.
Should we do an exercise of which US tech was actually researched by immigrants with a proper engineering degree, and how much of that tech is actually built on US?
We agree that currently it happens all the time.

Some number of people (including eg. Roca) say that this is a problem - a "replication crisis" if you will.

Those people say that perhaps papers with null results should be published. Perhaps -they say- publication of null results could be (one possible) (part of) the solution.

Your reply sounded like you don't completely agree? Is that true, or did Roca read you wrong? Could you clarify?
When I want to fully understand others code, I actually comment it, in my own words.

This seems to help me a lot.

Secondly, using an editor with expandos helps. Sometimes it’s better to simply know what a function requires and returns as opposed to reading the inner code of the function when you’re trying to get a full high level view of what the code is doing.
Fast FTS use reverse indices with trigrams, not primitive hash maps.
Copy&paste from current MacOS HIG: "Use an ellipsis whenever choosing a menu item requires additional input from the user. The ellipsis character (…) means a dialog or separate window will open and prompt the user for additional information or to make a choice."

Maybe you looked at other platform HIG? Can you share examples where the guidelines are violated by MacOS built in applications, please? Not saying it's not happening, just curious.
> it. The long waiting lists for organs in the US show that our choice is a tradeoff, not a best practice. Insofar as our system is caused by squeamishness and the desire to feel morally pure, it is harming people unnecessarily too.

Apologies if I am misunderstanding, but are you insinuating that forced harvesting of organs is “best practice”?
This seems like a place where you should apply Hanlon’s Razor: don’t assume malice when incompetence will suffice.

Executives and senior domain experts make a lot of stupid decisions borne out of overconfidence and attempts to do flashy things for bonuses or promotions.

It’s extremely tenuous and would require huge evidence to argue this sort of thing is malicious or criminally negligent, as opposed to just someone sincerely doing their job in a way that leads to a mistake or is punished by market trends or competitor advancements or whatever.
> That’s almost our public key, but not quite. We now encode (x, y) coordinates of our public point in hex ...

Bitcoin supports "compressed" public keys in which only the x-coordinate and the sign of the y- coordinate are present:

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3059/what-is-a-c...
This is a textbook thought experiment in utilitarianism, carried to its logical conclusion. Kill one person, save eight. We might not like it, we might consider it abhorrent, it might contravene international human rights law, but we can't argue that it's senseless.
>How did China get away with this for so long?

In short, money. Voters and corporations tend to get upset when their supply of cheap material goods (and landfills) is cut off.
That seems strange, if I'm reading it correctly.

In the author's packages, integers which label dimensions etc. have gradient `nothing`, but arrays which happen to contain integers do not signal anything:

julia> Zygote.gradient((x,d)->abs(sum(sin,fft(x,d))), [2 2; 0 0], 2)
(Complex{Float64}[-0.346356+0.0im 1.65364+0.0im; -2.0+0.0im 0.0+0.0im], nothing)
A life saved is not sufficient to counter a murder.
This is possibly the most psychopathic thing I've ever read. It belongs on https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/
Doesn't it really hot in the summers in Winnipeg? Is just opening the atrium enough to make it bearable during the summers?
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It may be a macabre way of looking at it, but it is a valid viewpoint. Poster didn't specify whether they actually felt that way. I agree, in the following sense. A different way to put it - if human rights are to be violated, there better be a damn noble reason for it.
Well, there's this option without the blacklist:

jq -r '
tostream
| select(length > 1)
| (.[0] | map("[" + @json + "]") | join(""))
+ " = " + (.[1] | @json)
'

And this other option with the blacklist patterns:

jq -r '
tostream
| select(length > 1)
| (
.[0] | map(
if type == "number" or (tostring | test("[@-]|^[0-9]|^else$"))
then "[" + @json + "]"
else "." + .
end
) | join("")
) + " = " + (.[1] | @json)
'

(The blacklist here is non-exhaustive, but an example.)
Liberally licensed software is also Free Software, just like copyleft licenses. One can argue which type is "more free", and many have, and many more will, but ultimately they're all Free Software licenses.
I didn't get that reading at all. The US medical system shows very well that we don't always have "best practice" in mind when it comes to health care.
Setting aside the persecutions, torture and possible genocide, which are undoubtedly heinous, something perplexes me:

Why do we consider it ethical for a state to execute prisoners, but consider harvesting their (now useless) organs to save more lives is ethically abhorrent?

I am much more outraged by the fact that they're killing people for political reasons, the fact that they're harvesting their organs afterwards seems comparatively tame to me.

I realize that harvesting organs from not-quite-dead prisoners, or killing prisoners just to harvest the organs is extremely unethical, but if someone was executed for a different reason, is it so bad to use their organs? They didn't consent to getting killed either, why are we drawing the line at organ harvesting?
I was on an operation table, as surgeons cut deep and worked fast, and I cannot imagine what it's like to be one one such surgeon's table when they goal isn't wellbeing. Nightmarish
Replacing a live system is hard
Right, but is utilitarianism not senseless? Maximum happiness for majority of population is free heroin distributed and administered by state.
Google (ab)uses the @media print CSS rule to hide the message content and replace it with "Printing is not allowed by the sender of this message."

However, I've found you can print confidential emails if you comment-out/disable all the @media print rules using Firefox developer tools: https://grokprivacy.org/2018/06/24/archiving-self-destructin...
Affinity Photo isn't a match for Photoshop, but it's remarkably close at a fraction of the cost.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/
explicit_bzero or SecureZeroMemory are all insecure against those new sidechannel attacks we are talking about here.
Only memset_s is.

You really need a mfence (full memory barrier), not just a compiler barrier, maybe even a clflush.
This is probably pretty typical. The more you know, the more you read and just shake your head.

I made medical imaging software for treatment and diagnosis for a living. I suspect I have the same reaction to posts on oncology issues, or FDA issues that you are having to posts on this issue.

It's important to realize though, that some of the people commenting with obvious gaps in their knowledge are making a sincere attempt at learning more. Especially if the subject is technical rather than political in nature. Just jump in and correct them. If any of your corrections are received poorly by the user, well, just let them alone. But the curious, 'seeker' types will probably thank you and ask for more information.
What you're leaving out is that the one person being killed is not picked randomly from the citizen pool, they are all persecuted minorities. So, a more accurate statement would be that China is murdering one person from a group the communist party doesn't like to save eight from the ethnic group that constitutes the overwhelming majority of the ruling class.

That is not utilitarianism, it's just tribalism and xenophobia.
I'm from Texas originally and in Texas, well, you just don't go on other peoples land. But I grew up sharing a fence line with national grasslands and I naturally developed an affinity for public land.

A few years ago I learned about Hawaiis public ownership of the beaches when a friend took me to a locals secret spot in Kauai that we had to trespass to get to. The trail to get there represented a battle between landowner (a golf resort) and the trespassers, with big soil dumps to create steep descents and thorny bushes vines planted to make it difficult (or at least painful) to get to the cove. But on the other hand it was clear people had come through there with shovels and machetes to clear the way so people could access that beautiful beach. I imagine that battle is still being waged today.

Recently I moved to a state (Maine) with a more nuanced set of norms about private land use (for recreation and hunting/fishing both), Before I didn't realize there are places in the US where it's normal to access peoples private land without permission. I took a hunters safety course here and one of the things they reinforce over and over again is to get permission to hunt land. They even gave us booklet containing templates for getting signed permission to hunt land. It was unfathomable to me that you would hunt on someones land without permission. They also taught us that times are changing here and in a couple of generations this whole culture of public use of private lands will probably go away, so it’s important to be respectful so as not to hasten its demise.

I’ve come around to believing that nature ought to be seen and land should be used (in a respectful way). Just to be able to go on a hike and be in nature is a special kind of liberty.

Those Wilks brothers in the article represent a culture of fear and paranoia that is born of certain ideologies (religion, neoconservatism, etc). I imagine they can’t see the world in any other way. That Justin Wilks thinks recreating on his 300,000 acres is somehow equivalent to him camping on your front yard shows you how petty and slighted even billionaires can be.
So is the paradoxical idea of a person deciding that free will doesn't exist

There's also this Bertrand Russell quote:

"As against solipsism it is to be said, in the first place, that it is psychologically impossible to believe, and is rejected in fact even by those who mean to accept it. I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician and a solipsist, her surprise surprised me."
A friend who traveled widely in China back in the '80s described a busy cornea transplant trade around the prisons in outlying areas. Wait times were typically one day. One day.
WOW

That was awesome. Thank you for sharing that.
Exactly. It's much easier for people to reason about utilitarian ethics when it involves ridiculously unrealistic scenarios like the trolley problem.
The Chinese government itself has admitted that this was done in the past but they promised to no longer allow it to happen...on multiple occasions. That China did this isn’t really in doubt, the argument is only about whether they still do it.

The central government has a hard time getting rid of this practice because they aren’t as omnipotent as they appear, there is a lot of vested interests that localities continue the practice.

Given the very low percentage of organ donors in Chinese culture, you’ll know they’ve stopped harvesting organs when their turn around time for organ transplants goes up by a lot.
1984 is being played out inside this country if this is true. The horror is beyond imagination since this seems state directed/aided.

My only hope is this news spreads like wildfire within its boundaries and citizens of China wake up.
The Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials They Violated My Rights
https://xkcd.com/1176/
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the language, I'm only saying it's used a lot. Seems that in this case there was not a lot of portable fast alternatives for system / device / high performance programming.
Isn’t the federal government at the very least supposed to embody the will of it’s people?

I’ve no problem with my nation owning a lot of the land within its borders.

You certainly didn’t make any particular point on the subject but I’d rather we own than one person owns.
Autodiff is insane. Kids waste how much time in school doing analytical calculus like troglodytes.
I bet Cliff gets an "HN Bump" in sales !
I am very fond of Firefox and use it on macOS & Android as my daily driver but the one thing where it doesn't hold a candle to Safari and Chrome is its Applescript support which is simply abysmal.

Example: with Safari and Chrome I can use Applescript to query the browser for a list of open tabs, and switch to a particular one. In Firefox there is no way to do that.
The report this is referencing is available here[0]

The tribunal was setup, for what it is worth, by a campaign group called: "International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China"[1]

[0]: https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgement-report/

[1]: https://endtransplantabuse.org/
>How did China get away with this for so long?

You can't touch big countries, US, China, Russia can do whatever they want, who will dare to start something?

You can get away with shit as a small country to as long as a big country has no economic or military interest in your area, we all notice that all recent wars are fought in areas of strategic importance even if genocides happen in other areas too.
The submission title is a heavily edited version of the the article's title only because it wouldn't otherwise fit.
The China Tribunal has been initiated by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), an international not for profit organisation, with headquarters in Australia and National Committees in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. ETAC is a coalition of lawyers, academics, ethicists, medical professionals, researchers and human rights advocates dedicated to ending forced organ harvesting (a form of organ trafficking) in China.

https://chinatribunal.com/about-etac/

Susie Hughes
Executive Director, Co-Founder

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susie-hughes-904288119/?original...
right, it may not happen, but at least some people want to add stuff to scheme that will make it larger, to eventually reach the point where it no longer can be called a small language.

i don't know if/when that point will be reached. my comment was hinting at the potential for scheme to become larger.
Yes, and when the rain comes they burst forth with vibrant life .. hence the specifiers "dry" & "not much".

I guess if they plan to eat agave and saguaro they'll have less humidity issues?
The need for health insurance absolutely deterred me from taking more risks, leading me to take the safer job with benefits.
We have no problem sharing our codebase with customers, especially if there are concerns like this. Shoot me a msg if you are genuinely interested in anything you have read.
> ... nor should it be.

This bit I don't really understand.

If someone is interested in X, why would they be ok with carrying around what turns out to (likely be) incorrect knowledge about it?

That approach is more equated with (say) Wired, who are famously inaccurate in many details "for a good story". eg Wired is entertainment.

That's not what Science (the journal) is supposed to be about though. Or is it?
As I understand it, the scars on sperm whales can be a bit misleading. Sperm whales feed on giant squid, and acquire sucker scars in the process when the squid resist. Very large sucker scars on adult sperm whales are thought to be acquired when the whales are younger and smaller, and to stretch as the whales grow.
There was a lawsuit and a recall program because of the premature failure of Nvidia GPUs in 2008 to 2010 MBPs.

https://www.macworld.com/article/1154456/nvidiagpu-macbookpr...
It's not really utilitarianism at all. There is nothing in utilitarianism that says round up some undesirable group and kill them so a few wealthy people might get organs so they can live. The greatest good for the greatest number of people. What is the consequence of these actions, well first murder. That leads to no happiness for the murdered, their families and loved ones. The people receiving the results of that murder, when aware that they are culpable in murder and should probably be imprisoned for it, would not be very happy with the consequences. So no this is not utilitarianism. It's completely immoral and shows the sort of moral turpitude of that situation.
Can't we restrict the flights to China of people that are on organ transplant waiting lists?
There is something brilliant about using a group of people who intentionally keep their organs in the best possible condition (Falun Gong does exercise, avoids alcohol, smoking, and some foods, etc.) as your oppressed-minority-live-organ-banks.

OTOH, I think the only reason they were hated was due to being popular and somehow offending or scaring someone in power. They were tolerated or even supported for a long time and then suddenly The Enemy.

The Falun Gong repression is probably one of the greatest examples of evil in the world today.
Shamefully, my HN account was shadowbanned for posting ethical objections to chinese nationalism on the basis of these atrocities committed by the government merely several months ago.
> I want to show people a map of "communities that will be uninsurable by 2050"

Relatedly, there was a recent story in CBC [1] pointing out that flood maps are due to get updated next year, and the impact it will have on housing prices.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/flood-plains-1.5135336
As an (old/ex-ish) wikipedian, I often hear people say "Wikipedia is unreliable"; which is indubitably 100% technically correct.

But the statement is highly misleading, because what are you comparing it with?

Put another way: There's no such thing as a 100% reliable source for anything. You need to apply judgment in all things.

'Science' is actually a pretty decent journal. It didn't get its reputation for nothing. This doesn't mean that you can just assume they are a magical source of all truth; just like you can't assume 'Wikipedia' is (_definitely_ not), or 'Nature', or 'Britannica' or etc.

- Should we trust anything published by Science at all? Only to a degree. One must always be skeptical and think for oneself, no matter what the source.

- Why did it take ten years for the study to be replicated? Maybe it didn't. Perhaps these are just the first authors to speak up about it.

- What can we do about it? Continue working to improve the process, as we have done over the past centuries or millennia. The authors of this particular paper spoke up. That's part of the process too.
> The goal is to make the indoor temperature passively independent of the outdoor temperature. Nothing to do with cost optimization.

These sentences contradict with each other. The cost is not only payments for service, it's a sum of resources, time and work needed to make and maintain. You can't make a thermal system cool itself passively due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

The difference between Helsinki and the place I live is that they don't have temperatures above 30°C while here I have those at least 2 weeks straight each year. Passive ventilation stops in those temperatures because there are no wind outdoors besides the hot columns of air from heated surfaces, HVAC costs are the same as winter's heating while it's PITA to clean them from ice each spring, a window ventilation during the night refreshes the air good enough.