skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HK is heavily reliant on trade. All they would have to do is to block the waterways.

It'd be quite easy to starve HK.
it would be very difficult to convince me that maslow's hierarchy is wrong.

I don't mean the specifics of the hierarchy, but the idea behind it. Sure, maybe the specific hierarchy isn't right, but the idea that some needs have to be satisfied before a person can contribute to other needs is absolutely spot on. I know this from life experience. So to convince me that the underlying idea is wrong would take a hell of a lot of evidence.
So a common trope in the startup world is the difference between a feature and a company, the idea being that lots of features are masquerading as companies. This inevitably leads to them being shocked--SHOCKED--when some bigger player adds that feature, eating their lunch.

I feel the same way about a lot of outbound sites on Google. There are a bunch of things I just don't want to go to another site for. Off the top of my head:

- Exchange rates. Although this one I find infuriating because Google doesn't know how to correctly round off exchange rates (as in, there's a standard). This manifests as, say, showing 2 decimal places for AUD/USD when they should be showing 4.

- Calculator

- Mortgage calculator

- Song lyrics

That sort of thing. If you go to any sites that provide these sorts of things they're typically "scummy". Lots of ads, lots of Javascript, lots of dark patterns to make you load more page views (eg a mortgage calculator that'll mysteriously take 3 steps/page loads to calculate).

I'm glad these are in search results, typically in significantly better versions. And I don't think anyone who runs a site built around a basic formula for interest calculations has any right to complain about it.

Of course this will be painted as "where does it end?" but not every surface is a slippery slope.

Just look at the likes of Yelp who complains about Google "stealing" their content. Well, Yelp is about one of the scummiest businesses out there. So I won't feel sorry for them, not now, not ever.

The one weird case here is AMP. Like I get Google's motivations here. Many companies develop terrible mobile sites that run badly or not at all and AMP IS much faster, generally speaking. Yet still it seems so heavyhanded with seemingly no opt out (on the consumer or publisher side). I don't really understand why Google wants to die on this particular hill.
Your identity is on the blockchain and that is decentralized so even in that case you or anyone can run a separate node to handle them.
Also all the auth library is open source so anyone can work on that.
Neat machine, but 96W idle is a lot for a home server, IMO. Maybe you're somewhere where power's super cheap (and hopefully clean), but a lot of folks aren't.

I run my old desktop (a i7-6700K) in a rack in my basement, now, with 64GB of RAM, a Mellanox Connect-X for 10G networking, and half a dozen disks, and it idles under 15W. The entire rack, UniFi stuff/POE wifi APs and all, sits around 50W. 96W just for a single machine is A Lot.
I've also had several fights with google over my refinements.

If I search for 2 words, odds are stupidly high that most of the results will NOT include one of my two words. Thanks Google, for deciding I didn't really mean to type that.

I follow up with added quotes, etc to enforce what I actually typed, so there will be a lot of Google-induced churn.

Google has focused so highly on the peak that more and more searches - certainly the majority of mine - have been relegated to the long tail.
> is a native desktop

What does native mean in this context? Looks like Electron from the screenshots.
They have a cool T-rex skull in their office.

https://twitter.com/phil_torres/status/700115845540765697
This comment is all kinds of irrelevant.
This is just whataboutism. Other companies doing bad things doesn't make Microsoft's bad things any less bad.
I just found I forgot to attach the link for Nine_familial_exterminations[0] in the original reply.

Shared sentencing was common, but I believe there's nuance between European feudal kingdoms and eastern empires.

In Machiavelli's Price, he compared the French kingdom and the Ottoman empire. The former was based on the traditional feudal model - Nobels are powerful. And the latter was based on province model, there are officers but they don't own things, and can be replaced by the Sultan or the Emporer without any problems.

I found for empires like China, Ottoman, people usually respect authoritarian more. My guess people might fear their local lords because they are cruel, but that's not consistent for every place and every decade in Europe because it's too divided. But for China, this continuously goes on for thousands of years.

PS: I believe the shared sentencing is much more important than other cruel sentencings on this topic. Because it's not because it affects the criminal by his sense of responsibility for families. But instead, it's because other family members will first stop him, if they failed to stop him they will report directly.

When I was a kid every time I tried to say something about politics everyone else's response was "stop that, don't ask for trouble".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_familial_exterminations
Because giving something more to the customer would not cost them anything.
There used to be this belief that things are worth as much as the cost to produce them + some margin for the maker. And things were made so they will benefit their consumers.
Unfortunately more and more companies these days look for ways to get not what something is worth but to get from consumers as much as possible, to squeeze them like lemons.
Think of it as $1 for the cable and $19 for the provenance guarantee.
This is entirely the US government showing restraint. You do realize they could have easily killed everyone with 0 losses?
To put this in perspective, The new $500 ryzen 9 3900x matches this $1700 xeon server in multi core geekbench, and kicks it in single core perf with a fraction of the power usage.

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/2587
Could you explain what exactly makes this flamebaiting? I find the lack of modesty in the West at times appalling, so I can empathize with cultures with strict levels of modesty. It is also quite clear that women tend to behave more childlike and are less willing to take on responsibility. So it's not oppression, but cultural adaptations to biological realities. That's all.
Fascinating. Could you describe what some different smells look like to you?
I mean... yea, it's a good strategy for them it isn't a good strategy for everyone else though.
Great insight.

I think you are describing tech debt of the "unavoidable" kind. My efforts tend to be focused on the avoidable kind.

Definitionally, no methodology makes the unavoidable avoidable?

Now, let's say you get to that dreaded point - requirements have changed, dependencies have changed, the industry landscape has changed. Which codebase will be easier to adapt - the debty one or the zero-avoidable-debt one?
Yes, definitely. The man has issues, both major and minor.

That said, I think he comes across as a bit more deserving of some pity because he was not, in fact, going to racist marches in Portland, but off doing his own thing just trying to get by; something he doesn't seem to be particularly successful at.
Yes, I have to practice English more but I'll fix it soon, I'll try my best
I thought I saw everything until I have run into codebase with scala's tagless final as understood band implemented by enterprise java guys
This is a fantastic idea. I imagine similar form to "Some Kind of Monster", the documentary about Metallica. It's mostly the band meeting, discussing ideas, playing some music, struggling with internal tensions and personal issues etc. I'm not even a huge fan of the band, but it was a very entertaining watch and I think it would be almost guaranteed that such a massive project will result in many interesting stories.
I dig the concept and the name. Have you done any testing? (greenhouse or field)

In regards to the "consortia" products, how many different species/genera/etc. are we talking about here? Is it just bacteria or are fungi part of this? What about e.g. nematodes, etc.

Would love to get some more info, but currently website is a little light on the details. Otherwise, kudos and good work. The more development in this space the better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#/media/File:Ene...

Man I wish HN had reply notifications.
>false societal pressure that men cannot show weakness

I believe this is a well-intended-but-misguided idea. Societal pressure for some trait can exist even when the trait is inherent. ie, there is societal pressure for friendship, fairness, and altruism. At least constrained to an in-group, (or previously, a kin-group) these traits are inherent human traits: they're not constructed by society. These inherent traits are enforced by society: we build rules, norms, and expectations around them, and we find ways to punish people who don't don't sufficiently uphold these values. By this definition there are societal constructs around altruism (eg, by what specific mechanisms is it upheld and expressed) which will vary by society, but the trait itself is near universal. I believe the same is true for male vulnerability: it's a universal trait, but because some people have managed to note and describe the local, societal mechanisms for expression of this trait, they have falsely concluded that the trait in its entirety is a social construction.

If you're a 12 year old boy, and you skin your knee and cry like a child, the adults around you (men and women) will look at you with disgust. Society didn't teach them this: it's as automatic as scrunching your face when you see dog feces on the ground. It's inherently disgusting. People are not generally built to respect or like weak men. Teaching young men to be vulnerable and emotional sets them up for failure, and weakens their position.
Exactly. Also the protesters are not doing themselves a favour by blocking the airport; giving up popular support in order to do economic damage.
Indigenous Women Are Publishing the First Maya Works in over 400 Years
Especially now that organic results often don't even show up without scrolling down. I miss the good old days when being the #1 search result meant something!
> China has shown (again) in their treatment of Hong Kong that they don't care about past agreements.

Every nation that feels it is powerful enough reneges on past agreements when it's strategic to do so: Russia[1], Great Britain[2], and even the current US admin which is set on rolling back every agreement that Obama might have been involved with, chief among them the Iran nuclear deal (JCPA).

Realpolitik-wise; any country with a permanent seat on the US security council can do as they please.

1. nuclear agreement with US

2. disavowed multiple agreements with former-colonies, especially under Tony Blair whose government didn't put much weight on being bound by the predecessor conservative government
Thanks! I was thinking the same, but it is reasonable to be defensive to new things. And it helps us to find out how we can provide better info for new users and welcome them more appropriately.
What you are doing is playing a single note but with variations in timbre.

I imagine the best you can get will sound like playing the horn. By that I mean a simple horn, without pistons nor slide. Because horns have a fixed length, they can only play one note, but skilled players can control harmonics to create a melody.
Worth noting:

> By default, this server is turned off. When I want to do some work, I turn the server on using wake-on-lan. I do this with all my equipment except for my router/firewall.

If it is only on when it is doing work, idle power doesn't matter _too_ much.
That $1500 includes the rest of the computer, though. That adds up.
As a Chinese mainlander emmigrated because BOTH of the Chinese gov and the people, I'm fine with an independent Taiwan or Hong Kong or whatever. With that being said, I find the stupidity in those reportings and conversations around Hong Kong's protest astonishing. It is sad to see illogical media-induced anger has taken the better part of many commenters here at HN as well.

There's no incentive for the Chinese gov to use military force, period. What the protestors are doing is actually pretty beneficial to the Chinese gov. The protest is destroying HK's economy, yes. But HK's economy is actually not vital to China's economy anymore[1]. Instead, a less economic significant HK would be much easier to govern in the long run. China would rather further develop its Shanghai or Shenzhen, than investing into HK.

What's more, the recent trade dispute with US, and the Hong Kong protest, have made significant negative impact on mainland Chinese attitude toward the western countries and idealogies. If there's any internal conflicts and fights for certain types of freedom before, they certainly become muted now. The rise of nationalism is surely making the higher-ups happy.

1. https://www.vox.com/2014/9/28/6857567/hong-kong-used-to-be-1...
I think you are underestimating the technological advancements required to make the smartphone you are holding in your hand today. From processors to batteries to screen and radio technology.
Guide to Learning Software Architecture
Is there any websites or books have solved Software Architectures?. This could help me evaluate my architecture against the de facto standard.
I have a Karaoke project that runs in electron on a raspberry pi. Electron is not inherently slow. It runs on the Chrome V8 engine, which is blazingly fast.
And now think whether there'd be a "dilemma" if they had the Second Amendment like we do. I think not.
Well, it isn't okay for NVIDIA to try and charge me tens of thousands for a quadro card instead of just letting me virtualize my Geforce 1080.

In fact, it's so not okay, that I don't play ball and I use hacks to get my 1080 support virtualization and pass-through.

It's also not okay for Apple to restrict what hardware I can run their software with. I have run hackintoshes and OS X VMs.

I voice my support and concern for these vendors' policies appropriately by using my wallet. The policies you listed are not okay.
From a few comments below:

> Exxon internal researchers knew about the incoming crisis since 1982.

> ...they started sponsoring anti climate change material producing organizations and supporting its dissemination. A wildly succesful project that has probably paid itself back with a large factor.

So yeah, find a way for lowering emissions to create money and power and then .aybe there would be the motivation to do so.
If a mosque openly fostered extremism in spite of arrests and multiple massacres, you'd have a problem with their landlord refusing to continue to rent to them?
> I think a fascinating experiment here would be to invest some time in an unencumbered scalable design that could be implemented very inexpensively (say less than 10K gates). Would these manufacturers pick up that design and run with it,

I have done that thought experiment many times. I have a ISA that I sketched out many years ago but never did anything with. Often, I have thought it would be a real hoot to put up a working Verilog model on Github with a public domain license just to see if I could bait somebody in China into manufacturing it for me so that I could buy it off Digi-Key :)

Of course, the CPU isn't really the value any more. One salesman for an ARM licensee said it best: "Look at the die photos from any of the ARM licensee's. We are all just selling value-added flash." And as far as that goes, it isn't the CPU that drives the part design-in decision. It is having good, bug-free, peripherals in the right mix and a reasonable tool chain.

So the "free CPU design as wild oats" idea has appeal, but it would need an LLVM back-end to go with it, at minimum, and then unencumbered Verilog for a collection of basic peripherals.
I would not say that after Kashoggi murder things went back to normal. Maybe I was following it a bit closer as I was interested in NEOM at the time.

Ever heard of it? Probably the craziest project of the decade. MBS had plans to sell a sizable chunk of Saudi Aramco in order to invest 500 billions (yes, billions) in a prototype of a city of the future. Electricity fully renewable (easy, in the middle of the desert), a special legal status to make a non-sharia law enclave in Saudi Arabia, and, the most interesting: a fully automated production.

Softbank was a close partner, this led to the 100 billions Vision Fund that is a huge player right now. At the time, many companies were circling around that, wondering how to get a share, wondering how they could associate with MBS without appearing to be a dictator's ally. At the time he was cultivating a reformist image, the young guy who tries to make the old monarchy evolve.

But after Kashoggi's murder, MBS himself admitted that it killed the project. That it can't really be talked about for at least a decade. No one wants to be associated with him anymore. Think about it: what company could survive the PR catastrophe it would cause?

I am as cynical as the next guy, but I don't think it is fair to say Kashoggi's murder went unnoticed.

And right now, I am delaying a trip to Shenzhen because of these riots, and I had wanted to explore other providers than Chinese ones for a while, this makes this item go a bit higher in my list of things to be done asap. I doubt I am alone in that case.
Maybe they shouldn't have used an on- premise lisence in the cloud in the first place
> The troops in Shenzhen are most likely just a threat - if they do roll into HK it will be the worst miscalculation by Chinese government since 89.

This is CHINA we're talking about... bet on the worst.
Did you do anything particular to get 15W? I have recently measured my AMD AM1 system, which sits at 40W with 8GiB RAM, 2 HDDs and a couple mostly idle VMs on it.
Where do you store this machine?
How is the noise?
also, I wonder about the heat generated. Does it keep a room toastier than the rest of the house?
> HK people are not enjoying enough middle-class comfort and prosperity.

> Precisely, HK's income inequality is even worse than mainland China

I'm not claiming you are wrong but inequality may not be tied to prosperity directly.

For example, I have £10,000,000 and all the people on my street only have £1000,000. That's high inequality.

Someone in rural china has RMB 2,000, the rest of the village has RMB 1,000

Much less inequality but I'd prefer the former to the latter.
Keep in mind the military has a history of claiming they stopped production and then producing them in secret or producing a slightly modified version as a way of making our enemies think we have fewer weapons than we actually have.
For reference:

"Tumblr sold for the cost of 2-bedroom San Francisco home in Noe Valley"

Source:

https://twitter.com/backlon/status/1161069910392393729
Is there a piece of cheap validation hardware where you can plug in both ends of your cable and a little display will tell you what kind of cable it is and if it is legitimate?
I count 11 now.
Nope. The stock market game and investor pressures have forced a lot of less well governed corporations into the trap of only caring about quarterly performance - and a quarterly focus makes it's pretty clear what to do about R&D - that's just a department always deep in the red.
Hey, thanks for the feedback.

Will consider making the Yack profile optional. For the beta version it was necessary because the app has a "Feedback" community, which is built on top of Discourse - This is where users provide feedback and report bugs. Thought about creating a subreddit on Reddit for feedback/bug reports but for users who are on HN or YT, it was necessary to have Yack's own community.

Creating Yack profile automatically creates an account on Yack's Discourse instance but it never associates plugin accounts (hacker news, reddit, etc) with your Yack profile.
The question of ‘patriotism’ in U.S.-China tech collaboration
Remember that the Arab spring was sparked off not by a climate refugee, but rather a street salesman, who publicly committed suicide via self-isolation after being brutalized by Tunisian police. Don't get me wrong, I think you're actually right, but there are many, many other factors involved.
The bank lending the money may we'll care where it's going.

A bank's primary business is managing risk. And borrowing from Peter to pay Paul (having previously borrowed from Paul) is a significantly different risk profile than borrowing for investment or even present consumption.
Launching a new side project and finding out my daughter has Leukemia
correct, but you can get build a full system with the Ryzen 9 plus 128gb of ram etc for definitely less than $1700. Especially given the drop in ram and ssd's these days
As another poster mentioned, it seems logical that some reduction in click-thru-rate happens because of Google's "Featured Snippets"[0]. The Google search results page shows an extract of a web page that likely answers the web surfer's query. We don't know what % of zero clicks was caused by the snippets info box.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=google+search+"featured+snip...
Here's the other end:

https://i.imgur.com/RioQXMn.png
That makes my procrastination so efficient you can't even call it procrastinating
sidebar wikipedia entries and such I suppose, those little collapse thingies that gives you a short answer, AMP cached stuff..
There are a couple pieces here, I think.

1) Environmental regulations and property rights are frequently viewed as in conflict by the rural population, examples of government reach onto the property owner's perceived absolute rights upon their own land.

2) The view that the wilderness exists to be made use of- which, really, is a view that's quite in line with what the rural population is generally living out. Farms can look beautiful and green from the outside, but they're generally intensely managed little plots of nature, where every year is a fight against Nature's encroachment.

3) A feeling that life is hard enough in those areas and those lifestyles without further restrictions on what you can and can't do, or more work that has to happen just to keep doing the same thing that you've been doing for generations. These are generally not the people who feel like they are (or actually are!) really getting ahead in life, and anything that makes it feel like they've got to run faster on that treadmill isn't going to go over well.

I think a lot of city-dwellers idolize the wilderness, it being something that is not at all part of their daily life, to a much greater extent than the rural dwellers who can walk out into acres of forest with no one around practically whenever they feel like it.

I'm city to rural transplant who's very much conservation-minded, but it's important to acknowledge where people are coming from, too. These are certainly not the only reasons, nor are they reasons that every rural citizen is going to agree with, but they're certainly some of the reasons that I've encountered.