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> Most research in America is funded by U.S. government grants at least partially if not mostly. What's your point?

My point, as I’ve stated earlier, is that there is a conflict of interest here. It's not that much of a stretch to think that the U.S government would like to delegitimize the CCP to further their own geopolitical and strategic interests.

> I don't really know what you expect me or the average layperson to do.

I expect you as a HN reader (but perhaps not the average layperson) to not view news reported in the mass media as infallible, but to scrutinize everything that is said with a high degree of criticality. Whose interests do these stories represent? Who benefits from fomenting mass outrage against an external boogeyman? Who is paying for the experiences and stories which you are consuming and why?

Knowledge of history can be of help here. One example is Rebiya Kadeer’s testimony to the U.S Congress about the Uygher situation [1] which many people accept verbatim. We can see an exact, historical parallel in the form of the Nayirah testimony [2], which was a contributor to the U.S decision to engage in the Gulf War. We all know how that turned out.

> The source of the article I linked to is one of many.

Look at the primary sources. There barely a handful of them which 99% of articles like these trace their journalism back to.

> Also consider that you don't have to be sitting in a detainment camp to be a victim of a cultural genocide.

This is true. I’d like to add that asking Uyghers to speak Mandarin in these “education camps” does not constitute cultural genocide and neither is banning elements of Wahhabi Islam which is not native to their culture in the first place. It’s a simple fact of life that if you want to do business in China or have any kind of economic opportunity, you need to learn Mandarin. This does not preclude the practice of your own native customs or languages. People think China is all Han when in fact there are many, many ethnic groups there [3] practicing their own languages and customs, and getting along just fine.

I'll end by saying that Uyghers are definitely being detained and "re-educated", I've never contested that. I'm merely questioning the scale and characterization of these camps as well as the motivations of some of the mainstream publications.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWBCPuzl5E

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China
I've tried using anki for non-vocabulary stuff.

My impression is that to recall some fact, what I put in the card might not be what I care about recalling.
e.g. for Set, wikipedia has "a set is an abstract data type that can store unique values, without any particular order". Whereas what I might care about is "a Set has items, and it's quick to check if the item is in the set".
-- If I don't know what a Set is and haven't used it, it's a bit tough to come up with a description I'm going to care about.

While vocab flashcards are straightforward, non-vocab flashcards need more maintenance.
Don't forget - in a lot of places, you'll lose your home (to the HOA) if you _don't_ water your lawn.
How did our predecessors drink before pottery was invented? You just cannot stay for all time close to a source of water, right? I suggest a kind of fruits/veggies might be a better source of water especially when you move.
I looked plenty deep enough. That series of events is a very very dishonest and incomplete attempt at re-framing the whole issue and all the people involved.

I have very little to do generally with games, but I've had a similar situation (but at a much smaller scale) where people have claimed bullying (no such thing happened) after basically upsetting a large number of the group.

I am also old enough and seen enough scandals play out similarly in other spheres of the media. I have actually been at an event and the media mis-represented what happened. So I wouldn't trust a journalist as far as I can throw them.
It's part of the reason I think rooftop solar panels are an interesting idea. They generate power at exactly the time when it's needed for cooling.
Well, besides Mandarin there are also articles about Taiwan in Cantonese, Eastern Min, Gan, Hakka, Literary Chinese, Southern Min, and Wu. They all seem to be able to agree that it's an island in the Pacific, but differ in the degree to which they mention that the Republic of China controls it. The Hakka article prominently displays the national flag, while the Southern Min one doesn't mention it in the introductory paragraph.
Odd, I pass through multiple times a year and the changes have been obvious; a good chunk of the businesses highlighted in that shot are actually closed, now.
One of the major design objectives of the Eisenhower freeway system was to eliminate the need for freeway drivers to slow down and stop due to towns - it created freeways as "protected" roads. In cities, this often meant expanding or cutting new rights of way for the freeway, often by demolishing homes, a process that was expensive and politically unpopular (and, as we understand much more now than back then, extremely destructive to those areas). In smaller towns, though, it was often easier to just curve the freeway right around the outside of the town, putting it through undeveloped land.

This had its own consequences, which you can see rather clearly in many smaller Western towns that formerly sat on a US Highway. The road through town which served as the highway spawned a great number of restaurants, gas stations, and especially motels. When a freeway was built along the same route as the US highway, it departed the old highway route before and after the town in a curving 'bypass.'

The result was that the businesses in town lost their large pool of customers passing through, and often relocated or went out of business. This manifests throughout the west as a blight of abandoned and run-down motels doomed by the freeway system. You can often see this pattern in cities as well as smaller towns (e.g. Central Ave/historic US 66 in Albuquerque, Powell Blvd/US 26 in Portland). The bypassed highway sections were often, but not always, later signed a "business loops" of the freeway (fwy number on 'transparent' or green freeway shield), a designation which promised that following the road straight on would put you back onto the freeway reasonably promptly, but this did little to help the problem.

And so, new businesses formed along the immediate exit of the freeway, which was at the outskirts of the town since the freeway was placed far enough out to obtain an unimpeded right of way. This has contributed significantly to the loss of the historic cores of towns and even cities, as well as reduced the economic vitality of many of these "truck stop towns."

To a large extent, the freeway system created the modern American roadside stop. But, at the same time, it destroyed a different version of the roadside stop that had thrived before it. Just like the US highways had before it, and the railroads before that, right back to Puebloan trade routes in these parts.
Even in business context this can be weaponised.

Indeed. Just imagine the fall-out if someone started a movement where everyone who got turned down for a job they applied for then submitted a SAR for all of the internal commentary and communications about them. Suddenly every business that hires staff has an extra overhead, even small businesses need industrial-scale HR/legal mechanics for the application process, and the number of lawsuits for every conceivable type of discrimination skyrockets.
Once an upgrade is certified though, does it need to be recertified on every plane?
the intended audience is inside the company. A US Gov GAO report on (eg) transport spending might be called 'internal' to the govt since its primarily public policy recommendations generated by and for the govt, but the report still has to be publicly accessible
Actual water resources researcher focusing on climate change here. My job is focused on what can we do to continue to deliver water to society under future scenarios (and what steps we can take to get there) from policy to infrastructure investments. The article doesn't present anything new for us but the problem is that the general public isn't informed.

While we're the oldest engineering discipline, remember that even until around the 80s people didn't think or know about groundwater contamination. They've always thought that sticking contaminated water back into the ground would filter it naturally like magic. In the late 80s more and more people started to understand that's not how it works. Even then, these policies and ideas are still in the process of being accepted in developing countries almost 40 years later and even then "what else can we do? My son needs water now and he could get hit by a car tomorrow so this is a problem I'll deal with later."

The problem (as the article states) is that the issue is so distributed. We're talking about traditionally individualized solutions for a problem that needs a more coordinated solution. However, noone is willing to pay for that or considers other investments as "more critical" than major water projects (also many environmental groups aren't as risk averse as water utilities). I mean the biggest cost in water isn't the actual product but the transportation costs. We have water, we just don't have enough funds to deliver them everywhere in a sustainable manner at a price that people are willing to pay.

NAWPA idea was conceived even before we understood our environment. It's the wrong solution. I mean even 10 years ago we had a landmark article that changed the paradigm of how we decide policy and build infrastructure[0]. I'd never take NAWPA for anything now than the "grandiose-ness of the 50s", especially since that was during a "water resources renaissance" in the United States where even crazy ideas were taken seriously.

[0] https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/CLEE/Milly_2008_Science_S...
It would be better to repost the direct link (if not posted yet) and use the Show HN title there.

Look at the "Show" section (linked above) for examples.
For gRPC there is Envoy, but I have not used it so I can’t give you more info on it.

However, I think the point in the article is that you need to have well defined schemas for inter-service messaging. Something like protobuf or thrift or flatbuffers. Whether you layer gRPC on top of that is a separate concern. For example I have used Protobufs extensively at work but never gRPC, since we mostly have point-to-point connections. We checked in the message schemas into their own repo and all users across the company pull from it. We have Python and C++ codebases sharing the same schemas, it’s quite wonderful.
In other words, the solution to someone thinking you’re unlikeable and hard to work with is to become more likeable? Who could have guessed ;)
And if anyone prefers non-fiction, Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner describes the (completely fucked) water supply situation out in California.
Your theory holds true with my wife and I. I love Seinfeld, she hates it :D

I should note that I actually don't find what I do comedic, nor am I doing it for comedic effect - I'm analyzing the scenario in a similar way that I find myself programming. It seems to feel.. similar to me. Eg, if we're discussing superman I might start thinking about all the normal scenarios Superman must find himself in. How he deals with those normal scenarios with abnormal abilities, and such.

Regardless, she still hates obsessing about that in the way I love haha. Similar to your statement, Seinfeld seems to take the same approach to analyzing things but for the target of comedy.

Interesting all around. Well, except to my wife. :)
Congratulations. Two wrongs don't make a right here.
Are they not buying reversible heat pumps? That’s what people buy in Norway, which helps on the much longer heating season
Yes. I had exposure to a lot of the models but not in a formal way which is likely why it is enjoyable.
There's no universal law that declares it has to be reported as such
The problem I have with these sort of lists is that they try to be comprehensive and add a lot of second order biases that tend to drown the basic/ fundamental ones. Take your example for IKEA effect: it is in fact a consequence of loss aversion. Once you invest emotion, time or money into something, you assign more value to it, because you do not want "lose" your initial investment.
>soda, juice, coffee

Don't consume these. They have the opposite effect of dehydrating you.
That's a bit of a different thing. In that case, the problem was not a lack of understanding of how asbestos works (it's not like people got sick from excessive fire resistance). We just didn't consider that particles would be inhaled, and what would happen when they were.

The asbestos sort of danger is much more insidious and omnipresent. You have to not only know that your use is safe, but consider everything that could happen to it on the molecular level and that all the consequences of all those things are safe.
How random tweaks in timing can lead to new game theory strategies
> He genuinely believes many of his own exaggerations.

Either a) he is lying, or b) the CEO of multiple companies worth a combined ~$100b is delusional to the point of being unable to recognize basic facts. Pick your poison.
Also statistical comparisons on open positions for these absent positions. Have there been management consolidation? What impact has there been to the functioning of the company?
In Dallas, there are many, many, many more open positions than there are reasonable candidates for those positions.

In any case, the article is foolish, because really good candidates can always negotiate. This isn't fast food, where it barely matter which body you stick in which role.
I built splearn.io to learn faster myself through spaced repetition learning. Anyone can log in and use it 100% free though. It has offline sync and text to speech for spelling. It only uses active recall (actually tests you) for maximum efficiency.
To a first approximation, "local app ecosystem" = "WeChat".
Gamergate was an INSANELY complex situation, involving thousands of actors with differing and intentionally unclear motivations. It was eventually labeled as a "movement" by the opposition, not by the "members" of the "movement", in order to paint a picture of their persecution, whether valid or invalid. They wanted a platform. They were given one. And they exploited it.

I mean, Jesus, just read the wikipedia article.

> Frank Lantz of NYU's Game Center wrote that he could not find "a single explanation of a coherent Gamergate position". Christopher Grant, editor-in-chief of Polygon, told the Columbia Journalism Review: "The closest thing we've been able to divine is that it's noise. It's chaos [...] all you can do is find patterns. And ultimately Gamergate will be defined—I think has been defined—by some of its basest elements."

That's because there Was No Movement! The pattern recognition centers in human brains go beyond confusion when presented with a situation like this. You know how whenever Anonymous comes up in the news, it's always labeled "the online hacker group Anonymous"? It's utter insanity. It's not a group. It's not a movement. They don't have weekly meetings down at the VFA. It's just an asshole with a computer. And, in the case of Gamergate, there was a cultural zeitgeist involved. A thousand people send disgusting messages on Twitter; our brains have to believe there's a pattern, that there's organization. But what if there isn't? Because, well, there wasn't with Gamergate. It was just mob mentality.

Frankly, we're all better off just putting both sides of that whole shitstorm behind us, like most internet food fights. The assholes who harassed people were, well, assholes. The women they harassed didn't deserve what happened to them, but they also handled it very poorly. Streisand Effect hits. Now Anonymous has a spotlight, and you know they're going to abuse that. It's no longer about what they actually believe. Now, it's about Chaos. Because Chaos is Fun. You call them sexist. You call them bigots. They laugh. They don't care what you call them. But: You care what they're calling you. Now, they're in control. They have the power. You gave it to them.

Afterward, everyone rational is trying to figure out what happened, trying to derive a pattern and point fingers. It has to be someone's fault; we need content for this clickbait we're writing about it. The people involved are still laughing, because they're STILL controlling you. Just stop. Don't engage terrorists.
The author of the article would have to be able to show that the comments caused serious harm, that they were published, and that they were defamatory.

The respondent would then have to prove, on the balance of probabilities, that the comments were either true, or fair comment, or privileged.

Defamation cases are very expensive to bring and a good outcome is not at all certain.
i imagine real estate in Greenland is p. cheap - barley was grown there at one point, so there's that
Huh, I’ve never heard of espresso shacks. They’re only on the West coast? Do you have a photo of one?
that's my point: many news sources are framing it as a good thing by not calling it what it is: a deadly heat wave
Gotcha. Will do that.
Thank you for sending me down this rabbit hole.

Eno's Teropa site is amazing, and I've played with the generative drum machine for hours.

https://teropa.info/loop/#/stochasticdrummachine

I recommend people start at the beginning, you progress with space bar. https://teropa.info/loop/
I just do a pee-drink-work-[repeat] state machine. works out well for weekdays.
Boost.Intrusive is beyond awesome. You can add nodes not only to multiple lists, but also to maps, set, hash_maps to build multi-indexed data structures (and with delete hooks all indices can be kept consistent).
Facebook Cleans Out Fake Accounts from Thailand, Russia, Ukraine, Honduras
Or it could be that the individual is as they described and they saw no benefit but a potential of actual harm in further engagement with them.
It's impossible to actually know whether or not we have anything approaching free will.

We could be a simulation, there could be an omnipotent deity, we could be the product of a bunch of processes unique to ourselves.

None of it matters.

We can only act on the world as we perceive it.

If the world is controlled by some outside force that can manipulate it at will, including our perception and memory of events, there is nothing we can do about that. We are merely constructs under something else's control. If we were ever capable of "piercing the veil" so to speak, the controller could just roll us back to when we didn't know. If gravity was too much, they could change it. Etc.

However, we're going to do our best to understand the world as perceived. And that's the best we can do. We have to operate as if the universe is not being arbitrarily modified according to unknowable rules.

And it's not like any sort of record will prove that it's not. Because the capability of creating this universe also includes the capability of altering the past as well as the present and future.

Similar with free will. Like I explained elsewhere, if free will does not exist, then you can either be persuaded by an argument or not. For any position. Maybe you're predestined to like Joe Dirt. No matter what anyone says about it. You don't get the choice.

Same thing regarding the concept of free will. If it does not exist, you don't actually have a choice in whether you can accept that it doesn't. Either you're predestined to believe in it or not. Because all of your actions are the results of the forces that act upon you, all of which are also the results of actions, etc, etc, all the way to the initial big bang. That one moment essentially wrote it's own epitaph as everything goes back to that moment. Without free will, me writing this and you reading it isn't a chance or coincidence, it's just the result of the forces from the big bang.

So. If free will doesn't exist, it doesn't change anything. Because we cannot change the path we're on. We have no choice. Even if you say, "Yeah, well, I'm going to do X and save the world". Well. You were going to say that in response to this post. I didn't convince you anymore than any other object in motion "convinces" any other object it collides with to change direction. It's what always was going to happen.
yes i amended my claim after reading the article about auto-Linux(i didn't know about it thanks by the way), but i checked out the Bosch oss and its not what i would call useful maybe i need to look into it a bit more, From what i have seen so far the license disclosure is out of date for few vendors ie, not yet updated since jan'18 , package disclosure show there may be some vulnerable outdated packages on the platform today, its almost like a attack vector brochure. So there may still be cars out there which have these software platforms and they wouldnt be able to update them unless bosch updates it and you patch it through copyrighted update tool which bosch owns , in a service center licensed by Bosch, and your telling me bosch doesnt have a strangle hold of the auto software market, if anything this oss disclosure reaffirms it .the fact that some manager thought this oss discloure sure seems like a good idea is exactly the kinda thing a non tech manager guy would do in a car company.
This kind of article is absolutely the thing everyone new to deep learning/neural networks should read. I wish there was one for each type of algorithm.
The proof of which existed only in form of a picture posted by 'someone' who (mildly speaking) was deeply involved in the controversy.
It seems to me this entire piece is solely based around the idea that because something a picture of sold for a lot of money can't be ordinary and mundane. I'm sorry, but it is. It's a cookie cutter of which there are thousands. The whole piece left me with somewhat of a condescending "holier than thou" vibe which simply looks like a lot of demagogy. How dare we, ignorant peons make something into a meme that was supposed to be a deep exploratory art narrative on the subject of contemporary culture? Eh, thanks but no thanks.
Or some poor schmuck whose name was blurted out by some other poor schmuck who thought that reeling off some random names would make the torture stop.
Any nukes proved too dirty to be feasible, which is why we never used them in this manner. There were a lot of good ideas that sounded good in the 60's, but they had no real idea how much of a pain contamination, cleanup and thousands of years of storage of that material would be. Then they finally did and these ideas went away.
I like lawns. So do lots of other people. It's okay to expend resources on things that aren't bare essentials. The price mechanism, not social control, is what allows for efficient allocation of scarce resources. Let people who want to pay for the water water their lawns.
You expect Wolframe to make every article he write about himself, but to do so for a man who's been dead for centuries is impressive.
The growing season is much shorter, maybe a cultivar that will flower early so the fruit have longer to grow and ripen. I've got two olive trees in London that are blooming right now and produce fruit, albeit small compared to southern European olives. They did turn dark last summer. Raw olives are very bitter - brining is key.

Frost might be an issue in Scotland - mine are in large pots
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Why do you say "HN" is falling for it? Hacker News did not write the article. Buzzfeed did. We're simply commenting on it.
"Your private emails" are therefore not covered by the GDPR.

But as soon as a commercial third party mail service is involved, as will very often be the case, the picture is not so clear, particularly if they are also processing the data for any other purpose.