skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "From what we've seen in the past when we drop strong catalogue content... our members shift over to enjoying our other great content."

Or just give up on you, as they're doing right now. When I see "Netflix Original", my expectations drop in an instant.
Taiwan is controlled by the ROC (Republic of China) which has existed since the end of the Xinhai revolution in 1912. The PRC (People's Republic of China) has no claim on Taiwan, has never controlled it, and has no legitimate casus belli for acquiring it.
Despite being not at all the kind of show I normally watch, I found this to be one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. It's funny, and brilliant in its observations of human nature.

Highly, highly recommended.
I have a nextcloud instance (alongside a few other things).
I run it on a $10 VPS (disk is a RAID1 array between the local VPS disk and a remote disk (ceph?) that the provider gives. That's the 1st level of storage redundancy.

I periodically (every 10 minutes) rsync everything across to another VPS (different provider). (you can use mysql replication, mysqldump, etc)

Every hour I run an rsync with --link-dest to a storage VPS and once a month I tar everything up (I take the midnight backup of each day) and it goes to long term storage. The resulting archive is only marginally (10-20%) more than the real size on disk as it mostly contains diffs on top of the actual data.
I can failover easily between instances if the primary one goes down so it's reasonably highly available.

If you want less complexity you can use the S3 backend (IIRC nextcloud supports encrypted data at rest) and just ensure that's backed up regularily.
Nextcloud itself has versioning for changed data.
It's hilarious that the "neck hammock" product is being advertised as being better than chiropractors. I would avoid gimmicky products like this, especially if it involves your neck. Best to have a daily stretching/yoga routine, or see a physiotherapist if there are more serious issues with neck pain.
https://nextcloud.com/compare/ gives a good answer to that.

nextcloud does not support local sync, and it has a bunch of other features that you may or may not need.

but most importantly, i understand that nextcloud needs to be hosted on a public server, and all your devices use a client to connect to that server, whereas syncthing is peer-to-peer (except for the use of a discovery server, or a relay server when needed)
Cost of goods sold
Let me gently suggest you read up on Hong Kong a little bit more. No need to go back 40 yrs. Just last 5. The Umbrella movement in 2014 had greater participation, attracted much more international media attention, subsequently wreaked much greater havoc in the territory, and lasted much longer than the current protest. Yet, the Chief Executive at the time, Mr. C. Y. Leung, did not resign. Go figure.
What Is Britain’s Responsibility to Hong Kong?
I've only recently started using Syncthing so I might be wrong, but I think you can not use a discovery server at all. The only requirement is that your Syncthing devices must have static IP addresses configured in their respective settings pages on Syncthing. Once that is done, you can disable both local and global discovery servers in the settings panel.
Funny comment I saw on Twitter: you know things are really bad in China when even their own made-up figures aren't great
Let's just skip to the chase and have the IRS automatically for everyone's tax returns.

The problem isn't lack of competition. It's that this industry is entirely propped up by a byzantine and entirely unnecessary process. The only reason these companies are able to reduce friction filing your taxes is that they lobby to create it in the first place.
If you read the reports from the camps you see that there is a very high death rate. For example this woman (https://www.apnews.com/61cdf7f5dfc34575aa643523b3c6b3fe) claims that 9 of the 60 women in her cell died over the course of three months. Extrapolate that over 2000000 people being held and it's clear that this is genocide.
Hmm, not sure if I'm completely following... Yeah you can consider them separate entities if they are truly decoupled.
I agree. I don't know Kotlin and am reasonably well versed in Python, yet I immediately grasp the Kotlin example as more readable, while having to squint at the Python one for a few seconds. (this is anecdotal of course, and does not account for the example possibly being contrived)
I like the idea that making the argument "the major media are corruptly harking back to the Yellow Peril", phrased in those terms, is "highly anti-semitic", while making the argument "the Jews control all the major media" is also "highly anti-semitic".

If the first claim is anti-semitic, on what grounds can you dispute the second?
SpaceX’s ‘Starhopper’ bursts into flames during static fire test
Corporations are owned by regular people, especially the larger they are. Their shares are in retirement accounts and college funds, etc. That must count for something?
With the 2008 crash there is plenty of examples of incompetent/unethical/(possibly)illegal actions taken by government, industry and consumers that helped cause it. Also economists came up with many possible suggestions (often contradictory) to make the system better so it doesn't happen again.

While the causes and recommended solutions to the great recession are still being debated, most people would say the mixed economy we have is capitalist. So I find it odd that someone would claim we didn't have a capitalist system in 2008. Can you give a link to an example?
> the CCP is coldly rational

A cold, rational CCP wouldn't have gotten itself into this mess. Hong Kong was popularly pro-China before the extradition bill. Re-integration in a few decades would have gone smoothly. But someone got impatient and jumped the gun.
Why the Selenium Framework has gained popularity for automation testing
Why the Selenium Framework has gained popularity for automation testing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20426575
Rick Strassman MD, Author of DMT: Spirit Molecule, Interviewed by Graham Hancock
Compared to Mexico and Canada, China's economy has changed dramatically in the past 20 years. A middle class emerged in China. Tons of wealth created. A large number of potential purchasers of foreign real estate. Mexico is today where China was at the turn of the century (when comparing GDP).
Maybe my sample size is too small, but when I was in Shanghai they very clearly felt Taiwan was a (rebellious) part of China. To claim that PRC has no claim on Taiwan ignores the fact that even the US recognizes Taiwan as part of China (though to keep status quo we still sell arms to Taiwan).

Edit: sorry for the country typo; Was thinking about a trip to visit my friend in Shanghai who lived there until moving to Singapore recently.
you're looking for PCI (Payment Card Industry) information? I don't know of any single location that will walk through it. I know people who've worked for a processor and it's a huge, complicated, heavily regulated, expensive to get into, but lucrative industry.

Possibly research through the PCI standards (and wikipedia for PCI and following the references) will get you enough cross-references to put together what you're looking for, or at least tell you if what you're looking for exists out in the normal world. (as opposed to being behind consultant paywalls)
It would be if they bothered to create a single DE and did not have religious issues with driver issues, as proven by ChromeOS and Android.

None of them have anything to do with lack of skill using Swing.
Why is microservices so much more popular right now than, say, distributed processing via the actor model? It feels like splitting things up with HTTP boundaries is a lot of work, less flexible and precludes a lot of re-use. Is it just because of advances in tooling lately like Kubernetes and docker?
There was a bunch of hubbub around a preemptive promotion of the `pipenv` package to be _the_ package for managing dependencies in python.

There was also a period when development and releases was happening in a somewhat frenzied manner and some github issues were being handled / closed in an antagonistic fashion. I don't know how extensive these issues were, but I remember seeing a few examples that seemed to back up the claims.

At risk of potentially stepping into overly personal territory: As I understand it, Kenneth was unfortunately dealing with some mental health stuff during part of that time period. He posted a blog post that mentioned this.

Here's one related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18612590

My bias: During my usage of pipenv, while it seemed very promising, I felt that it wasn't fully production ready and had some problematic warts.
Newer research says it could be half the 6.3%.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/bpea_20...

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2189245/c...
I understand the point you are trying to get at, and it definitely applies to other countries/dictatorships.

Present-day China, however, actually has a very efficient mechanism (relief valve) for dealing with massive public dissent, which is their largely hierarchical governance model (township -> county -> prefecture -> province -> central government).

When citizens have grievances, it's often against policies perceived to be imposed by local government officials. If the unrest becomes serious enough, many times these grievances are actually brought to the attention of the central government who then have an opportunity to step in to save the day and fire/replace all of the local officials involved (to the satisfaction of the mob). A surprising number of mass protests have been quelled peacefully in China in this way, over the years.
You didn't even get the word right. It's "anti-semitic". And also pls explain and elaborate how is a piece of news about Hong Kong related to the Jews?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-Semitic
> And everytime a judge ruled people had to bring the goods back or should pay the full amount.

This is slightly different from what I remember, so can you link me an example?

Last time I checked, the webshop must fulfill the order, unless the price is obviously wrong, and the webshop cannot force a return for something the customer has already recieved and paid for.
I share your feelings. I have the impression their catalogue shrunk so much there's almost no interesting content at all. They shove up their bland "original creations" everywhere, but it's not what I want. I understand they will be more profitable if I watch their creations, but they simply don't appeal to me, not even one of them.
I don't think this is a race. If anything I think they're going to slow down a bit. That will be good for both sides.
The detriments of the one child policy are well documented. Positive growth and negative growth both inform on the overall birth rate.

Also, largest country on Earth? I do believe China is #4 after Russia, Canada, and the US in terms of SquareKM.
It won't last forever...

I'm already hearing the term internally and within job postings -> 'repatriation'... bringing it back from AWS.
SOCKS is very easy to implement. You could probably knock this together in pretty much any language in little more than the time it takes you to read the SOCKS docs and how to set up the server side TLS connection.
I tried to summarise the ideas discussed in the podcast (Full summary at https://medium.com/@rishdotblog/peter-theil-and-eric-weinste...):

1. Innovation has continued and accelerated in the world of bits, but has plateaued in the world of stuff

2. If you go to a room and get rid of all the screens, how do you know you’re not in 1979?

3. Since the Great Depression, we’ve been managing economic metrics. But the technological and economic tailwinds haven’t been there at all.

4. In a healthy system, you can have wild dissent and it’s not threatening. Because everyone knows that the system is heathy. In an unhealthy system, the dissent becomes much more dangerous. There are very few people who openly criticise the unhealthy systems that they are part of

5. In late modernity (which we are living in), there’s simply too much knowledge for an individual to understand all of it. In 1800s, Goethe could understand all of everything. In 1900s, Hilbert could understand all of mathematics. But now, the kind of specialisation we have is much harder to get a handle on.

6. If you believe that productivity and growth is over, and you don’t want to emphasise merit. Instead, you focus on simply making sure that each group has its share of slots on the table. It’s not about wealth creation, it’s about receiving the wealth that’s already there.
> Somehow the entire thing becomes a godzilla like self-sustaining organism that ignores anything we can do or throw at it, and has magical powers. Meanwhile it seems apparently tha major websites can have outages if people go on summer vacation and the interns are on duty.

Sure, the risk is low right now, but the more powerful computers we can build, the larger the potential risk is. Before you manage to press the off button the computer might already have deployed a bioagent or killed countless lives with drones.

> They can do that now. What would an AI do differently that couldn't be accomplished by conventional weapons?

A military made out of humans is subject to human failings. It is generally a big problem that soilders shoot in the general direction of the enemy to not get punishments for not shooting but miss on purpose. As an extreme example, the nazis had to give lots of free alcohol to their soilders so that they'd continue shooting civilians and burying them under new bodies before they have even died. They later invented gas chambers as an easier method to kill masses of people. Compared to humans, an AI is doing what it is being told to. If you tell it "Kill all humans" it will do it.
How to make $1000 per week working at your home
Looking at other replies to the tweet, the Mac version is randomly launching itself and making itself the front-most window with focus.

I stopped using the Dropbox app a while back and switched to interfacing with Dropbox via Mountain Duck instead on Mac & Windows: https://mountainduck.io/
Do NOT compare this to the holocaust. The Jewish are the most persecuted people on earth. Meanwhile Islam is the fastest spreading all while having an ideology that literally tells them to lie/cheat/kill/lie low, as needed, to convert everyone on earth.
Here are a couple western think tanks who evaluated recent Chinese economic stats - CSIS in particular comprehensively reverse engineered Chinese GDP reporting from ground up- and concluded China is (1 trillion USD) larger than official numbers purports to be.

Whole "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak” Sun Tzu thing.

Broken Abacus? A More Accurate Gauge of China's Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOxIJMjZOUo&

Louis-Vincent Gave: China- myths, propaganda and realities | SKAGEN New Year Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9hFAlqKmfM
I did some indexing using elasticsearch and some home grown stuff based on geohashes about seven years ago. At the time Elasticsearch was just adding support for geoshape indexing as well. Initially this was also based on geohashes. Later they added proper quad tree support (instead of indexing the geohash as a term), and recently they revamped the implementation using BKD trees. The current implementation is way faster and scalable than what they had a few years back and allegedly quite nice for handling complex GIS data.

What's the advantage of Uber's approach over any of this. Even my primitive geohash solution worked pretty nicely and you can implement it on just about any type of DB. I had a simple algorithm to cover any shape with geohashes of a certain size as well as a quick way to generate a polygon for a circle. The two combined allowed me to do radius searches for any shape overlapping or contained by the circle with simple terms queries on the geohash prefixes. My main headache was keeping the number of terms in a query (i.e. number of geohashes) to a reasonable size (below 1024, which if I recall was a the default limit).
it syncs directly between devices. a relay server is only used when the devices can't talk to each other (because thy are both behind a different NAT for example).

that's pretty much the definition of P2P, i'd say.
Police need intercept tools as mobile networks develop
In a dual-sided market, price movement negatively impacts one group, and positively impacts the other. The negative headline generates more clicks.
Yes. It's rational to e.g. steal if you know you can get away with it, but it doesn't make it right.
I still do not know what it is :/
Showing search results that are based only on the websites themselves isn't "beating them with a stick to remind them that websites are censored".
The idea of anaphoric macros[1] is first found in Paul Graham's "On Lisp"[2] and is based on the linguistic concept of anaphora, an expression whose meaning depends on the meaning of another expression in its context. An anaphor (like "it") is such a referring term.

I think if you like this idea, you will really like the book. Better still, you can download the pdf for free.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro
[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
>Every now and then?

Yes, every now and then. The example in this post is an edge case. And even if it wasn't, the walrus operator saved a grand total of three (3!) keystrokes/characters per conditional in the example. "saves a lot of lines" is hyperbole. If the goal of this was saving programmer time or reducing the amount of code, the walrus operator should have been one of the absolute last things in Python to change.

Even just within this HN thread, even the staunchest proponents of this change are admitting that it is only going to be used sparingly, and at best saves a handful of lines of code per project.

If you're seriously telling me that saving a measly three keystrokes is more important to you than maintaining the pythonic philosophy that has made Python successful for decades, I can say nothing else other than that I strongly encourage you to reevaluate your priorities.

edit: I actually did the math wrong. It's only two (2!) keystrokes saved per conditional.
Zoning laws have more of an impact than foreign purchases. California has been under-building for decades. It would take a monumental political change to play catch-up.
Yes, for Delphi, C++ Builder, Forms, WPF/UWP, QML, iOS, Android, Symbian.

Parallel to that I have been doing Web projects since 2000 as well.

HTML 5 / CSS 3 has nothing that compares, that is why Flash took off and is coming back in the form of WebAssembly, now with everyone racing to support it with their favourite runtime + WebGL.
Ask HN: What advice would you give to a computer science undergraduate?
I am about to enter into the 2nd year of my CS course in university. The second year is when actual CS courses begin. I've had a basic C course. I have good knowledge of basic computer science, some algorithmic knowledge and a good experience with JavaScript and Node.JS. Yet, it would be great if I could get real advice / insights from professional computers scientists on things to explore ( in the CS field ) in college.
I think they meant emergency plan. The article could be translated from Chinese. "紧急" could be translated as "urgent," but "紧急计划," with plan attached, is better interpreted as emergency plan.

BTW, Google translator gets this right.
> 2. If you go to a room and get rid of all the screens, how do you know you’re not in 1979?

Interesting point.

Perhaps infrastructure has stagnated for 40 years in the U.S.

In many other parts of the world there are quite definite differences comparing with what it used to be in 1979, especially in emerging market.
But NT 4.0 was almost there in features, yay

(though I miss Windows 2000)
It's probably a roundish estimate multiplied by an exact exchange rate to USD.

I wonder if they still teach significant figures in schools.

EDIT: It also seems high unless they're using some sort of purchasing power adjustment.
New patron? They're legally part of China, and honestly have no secession rights, no defensive position, and no allies willing to fight the PRC.

Someone earlier on HN made a comment that the HK-Macau-Zhuhai bridge newly built was expressly designed to put Chinese tanks into HK in under 30m, which would easily stomp any resistance. That projection of power is also likely to deter any possible allies, as it's an indefensible position.

This article has a nice picture:
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/10/22/18010254/chain-bridge-h...
i didn't see anything in the syncthing documentation about that. that's exactly what i mean. if it can use avahi/bonjour that would be awesome.
I'm an American and it's dawned on me recently how absolutely bonkers it is that we see housing--a basic human need--as something to make a profit from. Foreign-owned houses/land left vacant for most of the year is definitely a symptom of this problem.
76B opioid pills in 7 years. How pharma companies drowned US in drugs
Absolutely.

Happiness or any other emotion is just some chemicals in our brain. We can release those anytime we want (certainly it will take some practice)...

But America has built the culture of production and consumption. Most producers know that they're fooling people to buy their products, but anyway they're free to do it.

Certainly it is possible to maximize economic wealth through the production and consumption culture, but happiness will always remain hard to come by.
PSN (to play online on the PS4) does auto-renewal. Can't remember if that is an option though. Not as expensive though, about 60USD/year.
Someone got very lucky. First time hearing this.

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/128671
Even the second most powerful man in China does not trust official GDP figures.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang_index
Discussion from April 2019:

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/ios-iphone-crowdfunding-on-bou...
Multiculturalism doesn’t seemed to have gone well in the Western world, India, or SE Asia.

Have you considered China is responding to facts that are uncomfortable for your ideology?
I like Effective Monitoring and Alerting[1] if you’re looking for operating a distributed system. It provides next level detail for this article.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025986.do
So my question is this: is PGP itself to blame or are people basically saying, "Don't use PGP unless you know what you are doing."

I don't really know what concrete advice the article gives for me personally. (The only thing I take away from this is to learn libsodium as well, rather than not using PGP.)
I didn't use the world slavery once, but I'll bite. They probably weren't entrepreneurs.

None of that looks like a situation I'd want to have imposed on me. No individuals say "you know what I want to do today? Move rocks for zero economic use."

I quote from your page:

"Forms of forced labor and servitude are seen throughout all of ancient Egypt even though it wasn’t specifically declared as the well known term we have today, slavery.

...
Conscripted workers were not owned by individuals, like other slaves, but rather required to perform labor as a duty to the state."

Yeah awesome. Sign me up. The term is irrelevant. The pyramids are undoubtedly both great works and massive causes of suffering.
ADVChina is really entertaining. I'm not sure how reliable they are, but my impression has been pretty favorable so far.