skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would China need to annex Taiwan when they can simply follow the HK strategy of supporting leaders who are pro-China? Let's face it, if push comes to shove, the US isn't going to do anything except make symbolic statements about Taiwanese sovereignty.

A far more likely scenario would be where the US undertakes overt military action against Iran, wasting money and resources while China sits back and consolidates power in its own sphere of influence.
I must have some very womanly traits then. When I first joined my engineering school, I felt so bad/inadequate because all the guys were like "yeah this is easy, I totally got this" and I was like "really? it's not that easy imo!" (for me, easy means I understand 100% of the topic)

First few exams and I had WAY better marks than all of them, lol.
This is some good quality civil disobedience.

There's some concern about the charges but "criminal misdemeanor" seems pretty on the ball here. It's not good civil obedience without some risk of a misdemeanor.
Good points, the other issue that I rarely see discussed is the fact that the communist party in china is not some monolithic entity that all try to carry out the orders of Xi.

Xi has tried very hard to stamp out any dissent via his "anti-corruption drive", but it still exists. There are various factions vying for power behind the scenes, some ally themselves with Xi, and some do not and are simply biding their time & waiting for Xi to screw up and "lose face".
For what it's worth, I'm nowhere near as bright as Terence (which puts me in copious company, of course) but notes of my comprehensive exams would have looked kind of similar in tone if not content.

Having given oral exams as well - often you are trying to find the boundary where certainty breaks down to "on the fly" thinking for the candidate. You can get a pretty accurate view of how well someone knows the material quite quickly this way, but you certainly have to account for "nerves" also. I remember being asked a question and just having no idea how to answer it - another examiner jumped in with a `different' question which I answered, then the 1st came back with "can you show how that is equivalent to what I asked" and it took me two seconds to realize they were basically the same question. That stuff can really throw you off.
Well it's not like you can roll your hardware, software, firmware, etc. You implicitly trust Apple or Google or whoever to keep you secure at some level, so yes, responsibility and reputation matter. Apple pushes back against illegal warrants to keep prying officials from getting into your iPhone.

> Privacy from the government is something most people want. If the government wants my data, I'm not going to build a system that makes it easier for them to get it.

You won't have a choice; Apple will build the system and it will be transparent to you and they will only let the government into your phone if they have a warrant.

> And finally, you can't ban math.

No, but you can make it harder for people to use said math.

That's like saying "you can't ban physics! If you try to ban my automatic weapons I'll just 3d print a part that makes my semi-auto gun full auto!" Well, yes. You can do that, physics won't stop you. Your average person, however, won't do that and everyone is better off as a result.

> I don't give a fuck who says what, I won't put backdoors in my code, and if someone else does I'll stop using their code and I'll build my own.

Well you'll spend the rest of your life living like RMS then because you can't control the whole stack of a phone - it takes millions of man hours to develop and maintain.
The fact that they have any way to know about this would be more concerning than their particular moral hangups...
Weather's not climate, I'm told.
Do you have any advice/resources available for getting into or learning more about some of these nonprofit organizations?
> The problem with exception error handling is that it's all too easy to get it wrong (by forgetting to complete the handle code) and when it does go wrong, it goes wrong silently, introducing a risk of leaving you with corrupt data. In production.

It's much more difficult to "forget completing the handling code" than it is to overwrite a golang error value and not handle it (which does happen in code bases). The default behavior of unhandled exceptions is to bubble up, unlike golang errors that can get silently dropped quite easily, and I've seen this is in large code bases. Unless you're writing

try { ... } catch (..) { /* do nothing */ }

in which case you explicitly opt into doing nothing, and for which there are linters that catch this sort of behavior automatically.

On the other hand, even the simple

func main() {
fmt.Println("")
}

doesn't handle errors.
My dad's old tabloid-satire favourite, which does admittedly contain a few non-nouns: MAD GAY PRIEST IN SEX CHANGE MERCY DASH TO PALACE
This does seem to be a big problem. More than just frameworks not being amenable to alternative approaches, people just don't know than non-mainstream approaches exist. But if they find out about something different and try to use it, good luck.

It's not impossible though. For example, I have been thinking about learning OpenCL. And there are other GPGPU approaches like CUDA and a lot of less popular stuff.
Wonderful!
Thank you so much.
I like to casually read articles on that topic. From my perspective and general knowledge, I would say that society shapes people and not just biological differences. Sex-based social structures are very complicated.

This comes to mind:

"Women reported themselves to be higher in Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Warmth, and Openness to Feelings, whereas men were higher in Assertiveness and Openness to Ideas.

Contrary to predictions from evolutionary theory, the magnitude of gender differences varied across cultures.

Contrary to predictions from the social role model, gender differences were most pronounced in European and American cultures in which traditional sex roles are minimized. Possible explanations for this surprising finding are discussed, including the attribution of masculine and feminine behaviors to roles rather than traits in traditional cultures."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11519935
I was going to say "Consummatum est" but your version is far more poetic. Bene!
In the last few months, I've been getting into dry wines (which I've avoided for most of my life but have been making up for list time on), so this really has me wondering what the effect of this on the wine industry is going to be ("this" = not just this specific incident but the whole pattern of climate change).

I've particularly fallen in love with GSM wines from the Rhone, and I understand that these varieties thrive in warm climates, so could one of the silver linings of climate change be a fantastic 2019 vintage for Rhone appellations?
Economically, a good chunk of unequal outcomes are a necessary evil in order to incentivize the behavior necessary for an efficient economy. If being a high-ranking corporate officer didn't pay better than lower-ranking ones, nowhere near as much work would be put into competing to climb the corporate ladder.

You can read more about it by getting into Tournament Theory, but the basic gist is this: "winners" get paid more than their output is worth, "losers" less, but the average participant's compensation tends to be proportional to the average value of work. It's useful when the difficulty of measuring output is so burdensome to make piece-work uneconomical.

There's other categories where the pay incentives are necessary. Taking on physically dangerous, unpleasant, or taxing work (eg, oilfield workers), or doing jobs that require a large investment in skill development (doctors, software developers). If you don't have the pay differential, a lot of important jobs just won't get done.

>Is it really worth chasing when the end goal is trying to label individuals based on a set of predetermined qualities?

It absolutely makes a big difference when it comes to public policy. If the unequal outcomes are because one sub-group is more willing to take the risks we want to avoid or develop the skills we don't have time to learn, it's extremely counterproductive to try to fix those outcomes. The inequality is the price we pay to get people to do things they'd rather not. Backtracking on these incentive gradients is short-sighted at best.
Apple is desperate to keep profits flowing while the iPhone and iPad stagnate in sales performance. Services is on the rise; but not fast enough.

So they are being absolutely militant to squeeze any and all profit out of the supply chain they can regardless of what that means.

We know countless US and EU based suppliers who have been replaced by cheaper equivalents in this pursuit of profit. In some cases Apple has even been complicit by helping lower cost vendors improve to displace higher cost US based ones.

Without government trade restrictions this is a logical thing to do when under profit pressures.

The Mac Pro decision was clearly similar. Save a couple % on a 6K machines production costs is all that matters.
No one becomes a top performer at anything without relentlessly pushing themselves outside their comfort zone and failing frequently.
I don’t know enough about these domains to know whether there is anything intrinsic to the design of OpenBSD that makes it better or worse in this regard, but I suspect that if you are correct, it’s more a function of mindshare and number of people doing the work.

I think some of us feel that portions of the Linux world have made some wrong or at least undesirable turns for some things. It seems the choice is to either go along with those choices or improve other paths.

Also, not sure what issues you see, but there appear to be a bunch of the standard open source games in OpenBSD as you’d see in Linux. Obviously not the commercial games that have Linux ports, but that strikes me more as an issue of popularity than technical limitations.
Doing the fold under the oled screen is.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/5/16/15646918/a...

https://www.cultofmac.com/266383/apples-wrap-around-display-...

Which lets apple create a symmetrical bezel, while I think almost every other manufacturer has some sort of asymmetrical chin in their phones.
This is great news. When Huygens landed on Titan, the images sparked my interest in physics and planetary science, and eventually I went on to do research in solar physics.
I read a study a while ago (didn't pinboard it, sorry) by an engineering professional society on why women who do engineering degrees don't go on to work as engineers. For some, it was obstacles: sexist colleagues, unsuitable workplaces, etc. But for the majority, it was because they didn't want to be an engineer: they used their degree in engineering as a springboard into things like starting their own companies or being investment bankers.

Which rather implies that men who get degrees in engineering tend to carry on into working in engineering because they lack the imagination to do something else.
Interesting that 80% of the American production line workers were paid minimum wage and had no benefits.

Do the workers in China make more and get benefits?

How does this align with the common claim that American manufacturing is a no-go because labor and benefit costs are simply too high.
That is not entirely true, he does commend Apple when appreciate, such as display quality compared to all other Laptop. The thing is, some of the stuff he mentioned has been there since 2016 MacBook Pro, like the Thunderbolt High Voltage pin issues that has been there for 3 years now.
Linux doesn't have a stable driver ABI: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
Was it the firearm that did that, or the propagating information regarding whom was killed that did that?
It seems to be [1].

Perhaps there's a miscalculation for when to use ferries.

If I wanted to get from Canary Wharf to Euston without a car quickly, I would take the metro. If I want to walk, I don't want to use a ferry.

But of course, sometimes it's essential to use a ferry to get somewhere, like an island. Perhaps that's why walking directions include the possibility to use a ferry.

[1] https://www.qwant.com/maps/routes/?origin=street:osm:way:193...
Related finding from interviewing.io:

http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mas...
golang doesn't even have regular C/C++ style enums, quite laughable really.
Even wider price gap when you account for taxes. Crazy.
It's delusional to believe that conservative libertarians on SCOTUS would fight for encryption. Those people voted for Trump, the most protectionist, corrupt president in modern history, they are hypocrites at every level. The conservatives on SCOTUS just refused to address gerrymandering, they have no true concern for keeping democracy intact, their only concern is keeping the people who got them there happy. I have zero faith they would protect encryption.
Plotly's Dash Hits 1.0.0
Also, there is the theory that in some cases the averages are the same but the standard deviations are not. Even if true, this would result in phenomena that is hard to explain to much of the population.
I think terminal usage should be maximized, but certain tasks are done more efficiently with a GUI
At which point you're not looking at IRC as a service anymore. There are different niches served - but the question was about the reasonableness of setting up IRC alone, which is still dead easy.
BytePS: A high performance and general PS framework for distributed training
No, by now we know what they do. Every time classified material is released through outside channels, it looks worse for them. At this time we'd have to be chumps to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Thank you! I hate people on Reddit who advocate for those cheap keys. If you don't follow the license you are pirating it. Simple as that. Now whether or not piracy is okay is a whole different issue.
The heat does wonders if the proper variety of grape is planted in the proper place. If you've got chardonnay grapes in cabernet climate, you're going to have a bad time.
It's called impostor syndrome, and affects both men and women in frequent numbers
Is there a way in Haskell to have Maybe with an optional callback?
Apollo 11 tapes bought for $218 may sell for millions after nearly being lost
> Today I don't fear China. I have a ten-year tourist visa for China and will be heading to Hong Kong next week.

Hong Kong was just the site of a million people protesting because they were afraid of China.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/11/why-are-t...
screen uses ctrl-a, so it was easier for people switching to tmux. Never did figure out why it was chosen for screen back in 1987. Emacs was around for 10 years by then but GNU Readline wouldn't be released for a few years yet.
Any chance Apple will ever consider AMD chips for the MacBook Pro or any of their computers. I have to wonder how much of the $4k+ I just spent on my MacBook Pro went to pay for the Intel 8-core CPU...
I don't understand why this is on the front page. It's a random Github Issues thread. Unless I'm missing someone, the only Go team member participating is the person telling people not to use Github Issues threads to discuss language changes.
Elinks was still quite active[1] until 2 years ago any contributions were stopped.

For spreadsheets there is sc-im. For presentations in terminal there are termimad (in Rust)[3], mdp[4], and patat[5]. For files management vifm[6] is the best one, if you got used to Vim already.

And one more important thing - don't forget to setup true colors[7] in your terminal.

[1] https://repo.or.cz/elinks.git/shortlog

[2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

[3] https://github.com/Canop/termimad

[4] https://github.com/visit1985/mdp

[5] https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat

[6] https://github.com/vifm/vifm

[7] https://github.com/termstandard/colors/
The Go default (if you don't do anything with the error value) is to just keep trucking as if nothing happened.

The community convention seems to be keep rewriting the `if err` dance, but there's nothing encouraging that in the language itself.
I was in Paris until yesterday, and just got back to NYC. Being stuck in the heat wave without AC made me realize one thing: given the choice of no AC, or NYC-style "it's winter all year long" AC, I take no AC any day. I'm probably in the tiny minority though.

That said AC at reasonable levels is wonderful.
A fork of Stewart Butterfield's iconic saddle memo
>because they lack the imagination to do something else

What about the option that they really want to do engineering.
using a mouse involves "aiming" which is both non-deterministic and unhealthy (for those whose work involves mostly typing: movement of mouse-hand back to keyboard, repeat until injuries arise).

keyboard based workflows are deterministic (read: faster and more reliable) and healthier (no weird lateral hand movements).
I cannot imagine a worse insult for 'imagination', than saying that it leads people away from engineering and towards investment banking.
But that doesn't solve the heat problem for everyone who's living in a house that's already been built

I have a serious medical condition. Years ago, while getting divorced and crammed into a single bedroom with my two teenaged sons fir nearly a year in Georgia, we discovered that getting rid of all cardboard boxes from food items stored in our room reliably and consistently dropped the temp 5 degrees Fahrenheit, lowered the humidity and stopped the invasion of roaches. I am routinely told I'm full of shit for telling that story. It's merely an anecdote.

I've lived without upholstered furniture for years. I currently have no carpeting and no mattresses. We remain strict about removing cardboard and papers from our rental.

I'm in a hundred year old building with no AC. When things get hot, other tenants open their window and door trying to get a cross breeze and are clearly miserable. We just open the window. Once in a great while, I will go run errands or spend time at the library to reduce the number of bodies in our cramped room from three to two to bring down the temperature in our room.

I've lived this way more than a decade. I'm an environmental studies major who wanted to be an urban planner as my dream career.

I get ignored, mocked, dismissed, attacked, treated like I'm stupid and crazy and have no idea whatsoever what the hell I'm talking about.

The world treated me with potentially deadly callous disregard while I was deathly ill and homeless. Now its bullshit misogyny and classism is causing it to continue to turn a deaf ear to suggestions that actually work.

While the world burns and wrings its hands I get on with making my life work. It's increasingly hard for me to believe people actually want to solve this. If they wanted to solve this, they would jump on such anecdotal evidence, do some research to confirm it and start spreading the word.

I've been on HN nearly a decade. I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leader board here. Men here routinely get told they must be smart if they have a lot of karma. I routinely get told I'm a fool obsessed with worthless internet points and shut up.

You don't have to rebuild the entire world. Just make some lifestyle tweaks.

But it won't happen because I'm a woman and everyone wants to explain to me why I shouldn't worry my silly little head about such things and I simply don't understand how anything works.
That answer basically came down to "there are few women in competitive programming because there are few women in competitive programming".
The ability to not be forced to participation in one’s own prosecution is one of those rights the Constitution guarantees.

The fact that modern life typically entails recording and documenting almost every single thing you do during the day, and yet law enforcement complains about “going dark”? Utter nonsense.

People have never been more widely tracked, or more widely accountable. The absolute last thing we have is a privacy epidemic.

The government has the right to investigate crimes. They do not have a specific right for defendants to keep records of what they did wrong or to be provided that evidence, outside the context of business regulations which require specific paperwork be maintained.

And by the way, the Constitution specifically enumerates what powers the Federal government has. All Else is reserved to the States, or to the People.

Which is why we weren’t supposed to need a Bill of Rights in the first place. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate Speech or Assembly as something the government can control, therefore it is not. However the Framers didn’t all agree we shouldn’t go and list a bunch of things just in case, except that it might make people think if it’s not listed then maybe it’s not a Right?
Our actions are just going to slightly reduce the rate at which things get worse. No matter how much energy transition we do in the developed world, things will continue to worsen. Even if we outright banned all combustion overnight, things would still get hotter due to feedback loops, especially while the methane still exists for the next century or two.
Dubai (and most of the other Emirates) are different because they're on the coast. If you go inland (e.g. AlAin or something I believe) then humidity should go down.
The Power of One Push-Up
This made me think of an enterprise-software version of Wreck-it Ralph. I'd watch that, but I'd be part of a small audience (though arguably, Tron qualifies).
I wonder why you aren't down voted for crying out loud that the emperor's nude. I try to see the multiple facets of a story rather than trusting medias be it wester or eastern. How many will bother to see what CNN, RT, BBC, AlJazeera and the likes of it are saying about the same story ?

When China invests in Africa, why is it a bad thing when many countries in Africa are suffering from Françafrique ?
Like, fire one of these railguns that are ship-based in rough seas at a hostile target that is shooting at you too. There's smoke, flak, little wires, mist, spray, etc in the air that can gum up the gun and jam. Does firing one of these things in a storm have interactions with lightining effects? How does that big of an EM field affect sailors over time, like the concussive blasts affected sailors previously?

But that's already something that a person can think of. It's the stuff you cannot think of that are the main issues. When the panic sets in and the battlefield is very live, what happens that will affect the armaments that you did not think of?
> On the other hand Antifa, who routinely attack minorities and passerby, is often heralded as the defender of justice.

This is complete garbage and right-wing propaganda.

Tell me the last time anyone associated with that movement was involved in a violent gun massacre involving actual deaths.

There is absolutely no point of comparison. Right-wing extremism fueled by these forums is an actual threat to the lives of many people. There is no equivalent on the "other side".
I really like this as well for most applications. You code the happy path and the errors that are part of the product behavior, error handling code is located where it makes sense, and unhandled exceptions get lumped into a catch-all error, such as 500 for an HTTP request. "finally" blocks take care of resources. It really hits a sweet spot for stability and honesty for applications like web services.

I get that Go is targeting a systems niche where error handling is more sensitive. I think there will be fewer complaints about Go's error handling when people get a better sense for when to use it.
Wow, that's an amazing site that will drain hours of time
> Ive isn't even a company officer.

I can't say it better than Wikipedia:

> On 26 May 2015, the firm announced that Ive was promoted to chief design officer (CDO), at the time one of only three C-level executives at Apple along with CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri (Jeff Williams would be promoted to COO at the end of 2015).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jony_Ive