skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much money did private enterprise make from the Arab Spring? Hundred billion or so?

Who and how? Outside of the Iraq/Afghanistan invasions, which were huge excuses to hand over pallets of untraceable bills to US contractors.

Quite a few telecoms etc companies lost money and assets in the strife. Or contracts with the collapsed governments.
What's with the apologists in here saying the US is behind it all and copying other Chinese talking points?
Why does the CIA own all that abstract art again?
Yes, safe space for such people it's what it all about
I generally agree with you but it's a lot easier for the west to turn a blind eye to the middle east or Africa (especially post fracking) than it is to turn a blind eye to the far east. By virtue of their standards of living, deep economic ties and stable governments the more developed parts of the far east are basically honorary Europe in the west's mind and that comes with higher expectations of civility.

It's really hard to predict where the "fuck it, you've gone too far, we can't do nothing this time" line is. Remember, basically everyone else in Asia is rooting for the west to cut china off economically so they can fill China's manufacturing role.

I agree that unless the Chinese really butcher people it will be business as usual but the chance of some viral video lighting a fire under the politician's asses is not to be discounted, especially when the current US administration has taken a policy line that means they will play up these kinds of things for negotiating leverage.

Edit: by "honorary Europe" I mean they have similar standards of living, similar strong and stable government institutions and with that comes the expectation that they won't just drive tanks over people at the drop of a hat. Basically, they're rich enough that we expect them to handle the problem in what we consider the "right way".
Hong Kong. Now Moscow. If you're out there and you feel abandoned by the world remember that we're here with you in spirit; we're not being too aggressive because we know your governments will turn that against you and claim that we are responsible for your protest. In fact you are looking out for yourselves and we commend you for that.
The equivocation I'm making is although it's unusual, it's far from unprecedented for a parent to make career choices that don't maximise time spent raising their children.

If you don't like those examples, consider a family with two busy working parents sending their child to boarding school. If they can afford a boarding school, they've got plenty of income. One or both of them could simply switch to a normal 9-5 job.

toomuchtodo would not be the first person to hand their child off for others to deal with, even if the decision to do so is hard for most people to understand :)
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It's not what you're wearing, but how you're wearing it.

Culture is more than the rack (or tailor) you buy your suit from. If you choose to wear one. Things like personal space and not spitting in public and not having to kowtowing to whomever is the current President, are things some hold dear. Others may not. Other still, may look to the past and ask: what started on
15th April, 1989 and ended on 4th June 1989, in Tiananmen Square, and elsewhere in China?
Every "use of the military in anger" in history involves massing your forces at strategic borders. That is just War 101.
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Occupy Wall Street and the Wisconsin congressional sit-in comes to mind. They both eventually ended without great violence.
Wow, that's not very many.
This whole comment is disturbing on so many levels.
> 4¢/kWh (slated for 5¢ early next year). It's sold at a loss, since consumer prices are about 10¢/kWh by night and 20¢/kWh by day

Isn't this "selling at a loss" just the difference that the 10 / 20 c is after tax and you sell without tax, or do you have to add tax to the 10/20 c?
The progress is useless unless you get a serious tooth infection or a cancer and then you’ll die in vain alone in the forest.
Isn't that a matter of semantics.. if a Polish highway being built has a sign next to it that says it is 20% sponsored by the EU, doesn't that mean 1 out of every 5 Zloty the roadbuilder is earning comes from the EU?
That’s everybody. Every person lives their lives as individuals and “is living the hardest life they’ll ever live” (paraphrased from a forgotten source).

Not to diminish the sentiment, but to hopefully bridge the estrangement to some commonality.
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It totally was, I think. Right now building "your own" wind turbine is still a thing.

I know some villages are trying to found a cooperative, crowdfund some money and build their own wind turbine somewhere outside in the hills near the village, before some big company does it. They are looking to collect and lend 6 million Euro for a 3.5 MW, 130 meter wind turbine [1].

[1] https://www.vestas.com/en/products/4-mw-platform/v136-_3_45_...
If what you say is true, about simmering discontent in HK due to conditions worse than in China. Why don't the HK people just move to China? Are there any rules against that?

If not, why are they staying in HK?
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Without microtransaction and lootbox revenue, developers might have to not build essential features like ensuring horse testicles shrink or enlarge to match the ambient temperature.

How would players cope with this lack of equine testicular realism?
The same thing has been told referring to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace though
Cooler heads will say this is a show and a first warning to HK.
Good ol' capitalism, extracting value from your mental health disorders.
As illustrated by a lot of angry comments by those who feel threatened by perceived criticism of their devotion to societal norms.
> Microsoft failure with Windows Phone was partly because even after incentivizing developers, they still could not get a critical mass of apps on their platform. Plus any new apps were not getting WP versions along with Android/iOS.

My thoughts exactly. For the Chinese market everything might work out just fine, as the article says. But for the west, as soon as one or two killer apps won't get ported, it's game over. I think Google never did for Windows phone, which probably did play an important role (among the many other mistakes made. Microsoft didn't exactly make it easy to jump into app development, probably due to arrogance.)

If harmony doesn't get YouTube, Facebook, Spotify or Snapchat, it doesn't matter how great the OS is under the hood.
That camera is facing the window... the light changes as cars go past, trees move and the algorithm will detect that as movement

that it happens to be vaguely human shaped is more a coincidence of our propensity to pattern match and it based in the wetware.

to my eye i see hotspots on the corners of the gaps in the blinds, right where changes in the light would make the most difference.

The manufacturer is correct in that this camera is installed incorrectly and should be facing the baby, not a lighted window.

but then it could be ghosts too i guess o((⊙﹏⊙))o
Yes, that would be better!

However, they seem to be using `XorShiftRng` in their tests, which is no cryptographically secure, so they can't use `CryptoRng` over `Rng` in their API without resorting to compile-time magic. I think they should just use `StdRng`, which is cryptographically secure and quite fast.
Valuable data about the public and international outcry and response- they already have all the war games simulated out.
There is nothing more cruel than taking away the one resource a person cannot ever recover: time.

Creative, or even corporal (e.g. 20 lashes), punishments are A. more effective, and B. less cruel, than prison time.
Part of me wonders if it's at all possible if the protestors represent only a vocal minority of opinions in Hong Kong. I mean, maybe busy families around HK would prefer to stay as part of china. I'm certainly not informed enough to know if that's the case or not. If a small vocal minority in SF wanted to make the city an independent nation, wouldn't you want the US government to step in to stop anything radical from happening?
I don't really disagree. No one knows how "viral" (to use a loaded term) the AGPL is. But non-commercial is the same problem. I've chosen to be comfortable with using NC CC-licensed media for anything I'm not being directly compensated for. I won't use it if I'm being paid directly to give a talk or produce a marketing document but I will for a conference talk I'm giving for "free" even if it's a conference I'm attending as part of my job.

But I know other people who think that using NC content even on a personal blog that uses Adwords is a strict no-go. Or you try to define NC in terms of US tax code which is fraught for a lot of reasons.

ADDED: Personally I think the latest round of the licensing wars is overblown. If you want to use a more restrictive license, go for it. Just don't expect the development model benefits of open source software. Of course, most open source doesn't reap those benefits either because vibrant communities are relatively rare.
The origin of the rest of the name is lost to time. One of the great mysteries.
> This kind of language is why the NYT is the subject of so many centrism memes. There are no "two sides" that can "recognize each other's concerns" and get along. There are democracy and authoritarianism.

They're a newspaper, not a political blog. This isn't an op-ed. They're not meant to be "taking a side."
Good on you for taking a concept and and making it real. Most projects don't make it to reality, so kudos for making this one happen.

That said, I think the verbiage on the page could use some help. "Unusual" people isn't descriptive enough. If the site is for people with anxiety or some other mental issue, specify that. I also have to wonder what purpose the site will serve that an anxiety or ADHD subreddit doesn't already. I'd also recommend dropping the "doctor communication" part until you've got the site really rolling. There's a whole mess of legal issues that come with sharing medical information online.
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Again, this reactor design is different from an RTG, precisely because it is a reactor. RTGs like those used in the Cassini mission rely on radioactive decay to generate heat. They have a significantly smaller power output, on the scale of watts. In Cassini's case, PuO2 fuel was used, and the primary decay mode was alpha decay. These designs are great for long-term, low power missions.

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

Kilopower will utilize highly-enriched uranium fuel to power a fission reactor. This means that the atoms in the fuel will be sustaining a chain reaction of fissioning, releasing neutrons, causing more atoms to fission, and on and on. This is what generates heat in reactor systems. This design will prove usable for shorter, higher energy demand missions.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/kilopower

An RTG is essentially a lump of fuel which sits and decays, generating heat. Kilopower's reactor would be an actual reactor, needing to manage reactivity, burnup, and maintain criticality. They are vastly different systems. For someone not in the field I can see how there'd be some confusion but please be less speculative on topics of which you're less familiar.
> If a person harassing you inside Holynetr he or she or a group of them will be banned from the system.

How do you judge that? Isn't better an ignore or block feature than banning people get offended?
Or get people to eat local as much as possible. The only people at risk from being more malnourished due to a scarcity of Cavendish bananas are those whose land has been plagued by the monoculture.

And by the way https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/monkeys-bann... [Monkeys banned from eating bananas at Devon zoo]. I assume those were all Cavendish bananas.
when my nephew was born my younger brother told me he was taking "male maternity leave" -- love that kid! ;)
Feature incomplete does describe VSCode well when compared to Visual Studio, but calling it lightweight is facetious. Visual Studio might be an absolute sow when it comes to eating your resources, but VSCode really doesn't improve in that area.
I agree that free, democratic societies are better. I am in fact British, so I should know.

Listen, I'm genuinely interested in how you and others justify the destiny of Hong Kong. So we're in agreement that democracy is better, and for example there's a very tenuous argument that the violence the West used in Iraq was necessitated by an existing autocratic regime. However the violence used by the UK to gain HK was utterly unprompted and motivated purely by economic greed. Democracy may well be the better choice for HK, but in what way does it deserve it? How can any argument in support of HK's democracy not also justify absolute violence against all other currently non-democratic states?

It's unfortunate, but HK didn't come across democracy by its own struggle in the way most countries did. Such foundations are just inherently unstable, how can it possibly be any other way?
What are ladyfinger bananas, if not non-cavendish bananas available in supermarkets (so cultivated) in southeast Australia (so outside of southeast Asia)?

Sure, they're more expensive than cavendish so i only take them when regular bananas are unavailable. But they're functionally non-cavendish bananas available in a place they aren't native.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius_Leaks
As the article says, everyone's experience is different because it isnt diagnosed physiologically. When i was diagnosed i had a reading tutor who focused on building connections between visual symbols and vocalization, which i think was the right approach for me. Personally, i dont have the level of spelling difficulty as the author, but i will sometimes miss-identify and mis-pronounce words in a self consistent way for months or years before noticing some additional characters. When reading prose in my head without sounding out words, i can manage 500 wpm with good comprehension. Reading text aloud at a normal narration speed is extremely taxing and difficult. As a result I never attempt read verbatim from slides when giving talks.
Not any, many were rebuilt after bombings in WW2. Even so, Germany is known for splendid trains, meanwhile Bostons trains are notoriously bad. My old company was off the red line and numerous employees were delayed at least once a week due to the red line sucking.
That's true for the Midwest but not necessarily for Boston. The temperature range is a bit larger in Boston but German cities can also have >100F weeks in summer and several weeks of snow in winter.
AWS doesn’t sell Mongo as a service. They didn’t use any of Mongo’s code. They created a NoSql database with the same API.
History is filled with insane leaders who made terrible choices. Sometimes it seems stranger that leaders make rational decisions.
Indeed. And a warning more to the HK overlords than to the protesters.
I like the idea, but the verbiage that you are using is not great, also there are some grammatical errors that should be corrected (msg me if you want the feedback)
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NYT is a propaganda tool, like most mainstream media outlets. Expecting them to have "courage" is a non-sequitur.
Wait... I thought they were going to later start times? The article indicated that studies showed start time before 8am were not helpful.
And a regular HN poster. Feel free to ask me anything.
Been out of the SDR community a while. What's the best SDR transceiver that can transmit?

I used bladeRF last.
Enter implies attacking force, deployed does not, so deployed is not correct in the context of the article.
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Europe is warmed by certain climate processes in the ocean, its indeed possible that a more northerly latitude like England or Iceland can in fact have less bad winter weather due to ocean currents. The Boston area does have more consistent solar illumination due to its southerly position, FWIW, so USA isn't all bad.
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I don’t think toxic femininity is used by academics:

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Toxic_femininity

(That’s a horrible website but I know a lot of feminists use it as gospel).

I’ve never heard it used with your definition. A quick google search also shows nothing.

“Toxic masculinity” is a divisive term that needs to go away.
Not at all. To be statistically significant, you typically need 1000 or more test cases / individuals.
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Accusing those who accuse people of being brainwashed of not having a strong argument is not a strong argument.
Suggestion: hire a copy-writer and get help with all the copy on the pages.
Conspicuously free updates, too, in this era of DLC.
I had the same experience with chinese characters being easier
Thanks for the info! We are actually approaching it from a more computer vision angle. Think several RGBD sensors (kinect/structure) placed around your home and fusing the data into a real-time 3D model.

Interesting approach using radar for tracking, if you make any progress would be interested to hear about it.
>> As someone with enough to retire on at 40, money feels pretty pointless to me.

Of course it feels pointless to you - you don’t _need_ any more of it.

It feels pointless to me too, but my background wouldn’t allow me to live anywhere but on the street at my current age of 28 (without money, that is).

I hope by 40 I will eventually earn enough to retire and be the same champagne socialist as you currently sound.
I know that bias cannot be eliminated, but it can be minimized. That is the perogative.

Let's say you run a newspaper that has to report on 50 different stories every day. A large fraction of these stories involve the moral plights of two or more aggrieved parties. Any moral stance you take inevitably skews the perception of the story, when the reader has the responsibility for forming an opinion without it being tilted by anything other than the facts. Sticking to the facts of the story is paramount. Taking a moral stance is a shortcut- an easy way to excite your crowd and get them addicted to more high-adrenaline reporting.

>Equating two sides when they are starkly different is not neutral and reporting the facts.

Sticking to the facts is not the same as equating the two sides. Neutrality in reporting is connoted with sticking to the facts.

>If you truly believe this is the case, please get outside of whatever bubble you are living in and see how other people think.

The practices I am recommending are (part of) an antidote to the failure modes of how people think. Yellow journalism is on an uptick because of social media- the most emotional news stories are the most viral ones. There's a reason that they teach best practices for media objectivity in grade school. To hopefully constrain our emotions enough to make good judgements and decisions about the events we read about.

People that make fun of NYTimes's neutrality seem to prefer a world where the Huffington Post, a slew of shared facebook news reports, and the Drudge Report dominate the news outlets. Is this the world you want?

Let's go back into the story to discuss:

>The two sides no longer seem to recognize each other’s concerns.

The GGP highlighted this quote as being ridiculously neutral. I imagine you would call this "equating the two sides". When I read it in the context of violent protest, I took it to mean that they are not communicating through any other means than violence, i.e. there are not currently productive talks between the two sides.
Thanks for your interest in my project. There is a functionality when people are not behave then other users can flag them and if it happens five times they will be banned
The narrow tyres of the i3 sure look funny, but I wouldn't expect it to be an issue on ice. It's pretty common knowledge around here to have narrower winter tyres than summer tyres so you don't just glide over snow, so I guess the i3 has just the right profile... for winter.
Which is now only "cheap" for the tech crowd & well-heeled foreigners.
FYI, I'm not remotely as confident about that claim as I was 25 years ago. (I'm the one quoted.) Specifically, I use Signal today and suspect that it's secure against mass surveillance.

But if I were ever targeted individually by a nation-state actor, I presume it would be game over.
Then maybe china can offer hk folks help in resettling? Ask around and see if any other country would like to take in these people who clearly don't want chinese rule?
AFAIK, Slack will store user data on servers in the US. For most European countries (if not all), Microsoft can guarantee that data won't leave that country. Especially for privacy sensitive sectors (e.g. finance), that can be a hard requirement.
Also biased as heck
Almost every bipolar medication has some very scary side effects (either in the medium or the long term). Sadly receiving treatment for it is a constant balance of "If you do not treat it it might destroy your life" and "if you do treat it it might destroy your life".
Those busses are also used for school activities such as field trips.

An hour window each day would be crazy! Parents plan their work schedule around being able to get kids out the door at the same time each day.
Let’s face it. Hong Kong is effectively a backdoor. It’s a great place for almost anyone rich enough to do money laundering like stuff. For example, when mainland tightened its currency exchange control, people still transfer money via HK in someway. It’s sometimes disgusting
This OS, if it’s anh good, should at least have the Chinese market locked up though. Which is a few hundred million users.

If it’s good, and Huawei follows up on making it truly open source, I suspect every Chinese manufacturer would at least have a line of Harmony OS phones, because they could always be the next trade war target.

And once the Chinese manufacturers are supporting it, you can also add a huge chunk of the South and South East Asian markets as your customer base as well, since a lot of users in those areas basically just buy the latest Xiaomi or Huawei phones.
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I'm not really sensible to pets cruelty, because I differentiate pets, farm animals and wild animals. The latter kind matters the most obviously, and most people are guilty of killing wild life more or less directly, through their super consumerist life-style.

But of course, that doesn't justify pets cruelty at all, as well as wild animals or insects cruelty, at least on the same level

Every Sunday, I see at least one dead animal along the road, it was a fox 2 days ago, and a dozen bees, butterflies (yea I spend time looking at the road, when riding uphill)

It's brutal, but I've spent 2 years on my own without paying for any food in a city, I sort of self-sentenced myself, no regret though, I like a simple life

edit: if you disagree with this, have at least the courage to leave a good reason
Neat use of SwiftUI targeting Apple platforms. If you're interested, I'd be happy to test it out through TestFlight and give feedback.
Did those hippies take advantage of the medical insurance they didn’t have when they got cancer in those 50 years?
No - I meet lots of people who don't struggle with meeting people at all.