skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no other America in the world. China's number one customer is America and China doesn't seem to realize this.

The EU is a larger economy than the US, or at least has the same size.

The US might be the largest export market for China, but they only account for 20% for Chinese total exports.

China knows that while the US do not seem to always realise that China is their largest customer in a number of industries (ask soybean farmers or chipmakers).

As for the currency, well if you work in Forex you know that the yuan is actually over-valued (not under-valued!) so China does not have to devalue, they just need to do what the US ask them to i.e. let the market decide (that's what they've just done to send a message to the US).

> No one wants to deal with a partner who bullies them around.

Isn't that exactly what China should be thinking right now?

This is not as one-sided as you suggest.

A good recent piece on this by Paul Krugman in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/trump-china-trade...
So for example, in Kotlin each piece of synchronous code within an async function is compiled into what is essentially a Java Runnable object, which must be allocated on the heap.
As the wiki mentions, the title of Cory's book is a reference to George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. Not surprising that someone else used the same inspiration.

Btw, this is a pretty good book that shows that even in post-scarcity society of immortal humans, life can still be pretty interesting.
Spriteworld: A Flexible, Configurable Reinforcement Learning Environment
Good question.

I looked it up, and it seems like the operation was way more complex than I thought (and it already sounded quite complex to me!)

1. The skys were overcast, so the bombers were dropping blind through the clouds.

2. The Omaha-beach bombers erred on the side of caution: they didn't want to release the bombs too early, because that would be "Friendly Fire", hitting the Allied Troops instead.

Its quite possible that the bomber squadron simply all missed because the clouds were just over Omaha beach (but not necessarily over the other beaches).

I'm mostly reading this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach#Pre-landing_bombar...

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It sounds like there's widespread agreement that the Naval commanders didn't offer enough battleship bombardment support as well.

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So the full set of events are:

1. Bombers missed (clouds blocked their view + worried about friendly fire)

2. Navy commanders made a strategic error, and failed to deploy enough battleship support.

3. Commando Paratroopers failed to stop reinforcements, because reinforcements were already at the Beach holding a training drill.

4. 27 of the 29 amphibious tanks sank due to heavy waves. The landing infantry had to run up-hill in the beach sand into machine guns without any tank-support.

5. Bad waves meant a lot of infantry landed off-target of their initial plan. The amphibious vessels hit a sandbar, meaning many infantry started their journey not on the sands of the beach, but wading in the water 50-feet into the water still.

Pretty much every bad-luck event possible happened on Omaha beach.
People fondly remember using Encarta as children. It was a child's encyclopedia for children.

> In a world of 4k streaming video, global wireless, and high-speed everything, there's really no analog to the feeling we got watching the Moon Landing as a video in Encarta - short of watching it live on TV in the 1969!

This is just absurd nostalgia. Even back in the author's good old days, kids also watched this stuff on VHS and LaserDisc. These days, kids watch SpaceX landing reusable rockets live on their phones.

What was special was being able to freely browse it. Wikipedia crushes it in every imaginable respect, from being more readable, to having more rich media.

It's fine to cherish your memories of Encarta...but kids have it better now and experience the same things more richly. Sorry, dad!
”we're wondering if cutting the salary in half is actually what we want to do”

Sounds like a good plan IMHO.

By the way, lots of kudos to you for allowing your employees to work part-time! As a dad who stays at home half-time and works half-time, I think it’s great with companies who recognise that this is a very good benefit to offer.
From the article, which doesn't directly address your question but does address it in the meta:

How will we define state-controlled media in this context?
This policy will apply to news media entities that are either financially or editorially controlled by the state. It has been informed by established academic and civil society leaders in this space. Sources include Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, Freedom House, the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index, the European Journalism Centre’s Media Landscapes Report, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and UNESCO's framework to assess media development and independence.
Call of Duty RTX is so subtle it needs green boxes telling you where to look
SS is a problematic extension from historical point of view...
The problem with products like Encarta was bias and the speed of updating the mistakes, misinformation, etc. I had Encarta, and Internet wasn't an option back then, I had it in a CD. But today it would be nice to have some product that competes with the vastness of Wikipedia.
Having ported a full peer-to-peer engine in JavaScript from old-school callbacks to async/await, I strongly disagree with your comment.

Async/await really shines when the complexity arises.
1st time you get a $60k AWS Lambda bill from developers leveraging lambda you end up having a talk with finance and a huge incentive to setup a server(s) for the developers to run jobs on

* edit was working on vault and for some reason typed that word instead of lambda
change requires actions, not words, especially not words as subjective, hypothetical and open ended as these.

These corporations could start doing better, today, without a round of self congratulation about how they are gonna make tomorrow better first.
I've had cards that I could fill with the designated size, but in speed tests would be slower than the manufacturer specification. Does anyone here also have these kind of problems?
It's really not that strange for a chemical to have different effects on girls and boys, anything that affects sex hormones at all or sex-specific development is going to have a different effect.
That's like saying that God existed before creating the universe. Then you have to ask who created God? And if God was created only from data and not any logic, then the config file must have been really huge and unmaintainable.
As a parent these considerations are omnipresent in my household.

My own kids are in the top quintile of "most free range" in our cohort; that feels possible in San Francisco in some ways which do not appear as feasible in many other urban areas. That's one reason we continue to try to raise our kids here.

But they do not get anything like the benevolent neglect of my own latchkey neighborhood-wandering local-kid-pack-factions semi-rural/suburban childhood.
I have the one on musical instruments: https://archive.org/details/microsoft-musical-instruments. Spend hours in it even if I wasn't that interested by music.
Have you looked at Citizendium? It is the closest thing there is to a community curated encyclopedia.
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That's only true if your brain is perfect and consistent at absorbing and verifying information. Even then, it's unnecessarily reductive.

If you have an enormous amount of information, but know that some unknown 10% of that information is inaccurate (at a facts level, not just in a "I don't agree with the presentation or perspectives portrayed" way), that's dramatically worse than having slightly less information that you can be fairly sure has been (at least factually) verified.

Same with writing quality; a huge amount of information written in a way that your brain can't absorb efficiently (whether because it's in a foreign language, written incoherently, or interspersed with profanity and editorializing) is less useful and worse than less information written in a clear and consistent style.
In a different country, some sailor would be tasked with removing him, and would just hose everything away with the firehose (it runs on whatever water the ship sails in, so the only cost is the power to move the water through it).

I am not sure it would be a better solution, but it seems to me that the current status where you can't enforce basic societal rules, like don't roll in shit in public, because the only social sanction, exclusion, can't be applied is simply unsustainable and quite frankly we need to make it possible to arrest people who act this way (and ensure they are arrested).
> this would allow low-bandwidth applications to be prioritized.

That is a completely different kind of "prioritization" than what we are talking about here, though.

In particular, this "prioritization of low-bandwidth applications" does not in any way need to be aware of applications. All you need to do is to do fair link scheduling over all customers on a given link with some sort of token bucket per customer that allows short bursting. That way, if there is a customer that's been idle for a few minutes, say, they'll be able to transfer at, say, ten times the fair average rate for a few seconds, while other customers are slowed down proportionally, thus providing them with low latency. But that does not imply a higher average rate, nor a distinction of video vs. non-video, or anything like that. On average, every customer on a congested link would still be getting the exact same bandwidth, just as a constant low-bandwidth stream for some and as a series of short, fast bursts for others.

What tcxgy is arguing for is that if you are streaming video (or whatever other application that he doesn't like), then you should only be getting 2% of the average bandwidth compared to someone who is using an application he approves of. So, if you are constantly posting high-resolution pictures (something that he seems to approve of) at an average of 50 kB/s, that should get 50 kB/s, but if you are watching a 25 kB/s video stream of some sort, that should be throttled to 1 kB/s, because otherwise it's supposedly violating some laws of physics, and it's abusive to use half the bandwidth for video, and whatever other nonsense arguments he has come up with so far.
Or a signing certificate by a CA?
And a bunch of `if` statements could get hard to maintain once it turns into a bunch of related compound statements, while it doesn't check for missing combinations compile-time.

But I don't think you should call any function outside of constructors with more than three-ish parameters to begin with, so probably you would get a dictionary or list of URL's by the time it grows out of control.
Yup, seeing 500s on some internal products that use Google as an auth wall. Mostly for users that are logged out.
I did, but I feel like this could be solved with machine learning.
I immediately thought to lookup Twitter's company about section. Under Values:

> We believe in free expression and think every voice has the power to impact the world.

Edit: I didn’t realize I appeared to be supporting the trolls. No, I meant it’s good to know Twitter would support the Hong Kong protestors.
Pentagon conducts first test of previously banned missile
I am generally suspicious of claims that policy enforcement is useless because it will just be circumvented. We hear it all the time, e.g. don't tax the rich because the rich will just find ways to avoid paying them. don't enforce fuel efficiency standards, because car companies will just cheat their way out of them. it goes on and on. don't bother with security because they'll find a way to get you if they really want you.

But in the end, the effectiveness of regulation is proportional to the degree of effort avoidance or circumvention requires. I say, "Twitter: good call." Let states speak for themselves.
The Encarta orbits demo was the Kerbal Space Program of my childhood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy9R41Rord0
"Trisomorphic Rendering" - looks like someone at Google is working on their promotion doc.
Most Popular Books for SaaS Leaders
I am curious to know how do companies like Facebook control this kind of activity on WhatsApp where there is end-end encryption. I see a lot of propaganda on Whats App being circulated everyday and people keep forwarding such messages into various groups.
I don't think this prevents state's from buying ads in their own names.
Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/developers-console/...
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I was lucky enough to grow up with a full set of Encyclopedia Britannica in my house, that my Dad purchased in the early eighties. The set was amazing, and an endless help when researching homework.

Then I encountered the BBC's Domesday Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project) and was blown away by the quantity of information that was available on a laser disk in my school library.

Then came Encarta, which similarly impressed, and now Wikipedia.

I can't even contemplate the quantity of information and in what form it will take, when my son reaches my age, but I bet it would blow my contemporary mind.
Seems like flagging the accounts should, in theory, feed back as data points into their machine learning models?
Faithless Electors Are a Ticking Time Bomb Waiting to Explode
I often get surprised how deep we got hooked into the system. We tell ourselves unless we're doing something (no matter how useless that is) we're worthless. Everything becomes a different kind of procrastination.

We feel productive creating yet another CRUD app, idle game or advertisement optimization tool that ultimately does nothing for anyone but the capitalists on the top of the chain. Only to feel bad about doing anything that doesn't generate profit to someone.

It saddens me that I don't see a way out of this hole. The system has won and everyone either follows it willingly or is forced to by society.

If only I could be like the OP who seems to live happily in this productivity cycle without gazing into the abyss that is the meaninglessness of it all.
They now do. Especially under TK I expect this to improve. But the reputation cost Google much in the initial days of the GCP.
It was also bundled with the Microsoft EasyBall, the giant mouse with a yellow ball [1].

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=22...
OK, so you can negotiate your own rates, and get a good deal. That suggests that you're a pretty good negotiator.

But are you really the best (non-managerial) negotiator in the entire company? Statistically speaking, the odds of that are low. And with a union, you could have the very best negotiating on your behalf. Yes, you'd have to give them all the information—but you have to do that now with your managers, in an adversarial setting, and you could instead do it with the negotiator in a friendly meeting where they're actively working to help you get them the information to get you the best deal.

Or, maybe you really are the best negotiator in the area. Wouldn't you like to get some extra pay from the union to be that guy above, and use that negotiating skill on behalf of the rest of the senior workers? (Don't think they'd pay you extra for that? Well, you're the best negotiator around—make it happen!)

Or maybe you not only genuinely believe there's no one who could possibly be better than you at negotiating your compensation, but also genuinely don't care that other people have the opportunity to be paid what they're worth, too. In that case, all I can say is I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People.
When I pay for compute on AWS, I get an SLA with guarantees. Why are citizens afforded any less?
If an effect only occurs in a subgroup which we have no explanation for, it's a smell that different subgroups were tried until a "statistically significant" one was found by chance.
We're Reaching the Physical Limits of Quantitative Easing
HN on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20739907
Finally up on Google Cloud status:

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/developers-console/...
I feel the same about my EKG. What's a quarter second when it comes to measuring a heart? Who cares about precision.
It competed against very expensive and bulky sets of books, so the update speed was more than acceptable.
> vector::operator[] does not check bounds

True, but modern C++ encourages the use of range based for loops and std::algorithm functions which are safer to use.

Also, if you want to check for bounds use std::vector::at which checks for bounds at runtime.
My kids go to a city high school.

They have different kinds of unstructured experiences. After school, they have all kinds of restaurants and coffee shops to choose from. They can hang out at the Jewish Community Center and play FIFA. They sometimes wonder with their friends to a field at a local university to play soccer. They watch movies at the local theatre I only find out about when they mention later what they saw.

Heck, my older son took his girlfriend to a fancy restaurant I haven't even been to yet. :)

Before high school, a big mile stone was when they were old enough to safely cross streets on their own to walk to the local pool and basketball courts in the summer.

So there are still plenty of unstructured, unsupervised experiences to be had, just different than the rural ones.
Sometimes making art has boring parts, too. Writing a book, for example, can be drudgery, even if you're not writing for anyone in particular or aiming to make a profit—just because there's an order-of-magnitude difference between the amount of effort required to exhaust your creative impulse, and the amount of effort required to actually create a whole work from which you can feel satisfied that you have communicated the thing your creative impulse was driving you to communicate.
Can you seriously trust WhatsApp's security now that it belongs to Facebook?
Personally I like the idea of profit-sharing.
Vimagit: Magit for Vim
In their whitepaper they claim "with all model parameters in on-chip memory, all of the time", yet that entire 15 kW monster has only 18 GB of memory.

Given the memory vs compute numbers that you see in Nvidia cards, this seems strangely low.
Jackie Chan has a history of defending the CCP and propagandizing for them.

"Taiwan election biggest joke in the world"
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/29/content_...
https://archive.fo/QYKF

"He was named official Narcotics Control Ambassador by Chinese police in 2009."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-32620313
https://archive.fo/hFrnF

"we Chinese need to be controlled"
https://web.archive.org/web/20090421223810/http://news.yahoo...
https://archive.fo/pigfI

"Anger after movie star tells mainland newspaper his hometown has become ‘like South Korea’ and that it should limit the right to protest"
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1103899/jackie-c...
[Note this is about 2012 protests not 2019]

"Jackie Chan back in action, branding US more corrupt than China"
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1125813/jackie-c...

"Parents disliked the presence of Jackie Chan in the program"
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-netizens-criticize-man...
https://archive.fo/lKp1J

"The 63-year-old Chan has aligned himself closely with the authoritarian views of the Chinese Communist Party in recent decades and is now widely seen across the Chinese-speaking world as a mouthpiece for the Beijing regime."
https://www.theepochtimes.com/jackie-chan-pushes-to-outlaw-s...
https://archive.fo/Ewked

"Jackie Chan’s multilingual film Kung Fu Yoga has courted controversy for having an Indian character allegedly praise Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)."
https://silverscreen.in/news/jackie-chans-kung-fu-yoga-pro-c...
https://archive.fo/tVsQy
Studies have shown that in liberal democracies, state supported* [e: I forget the exact term used] media tends to be the least editorially biased (individual reporters and journalists still have biases) and most educational (e.g. BBC, NPR). I wonder what the word "state-controlled" means in this context.

I also wonder if they consider owned by the head of state to be state-controlled (e.g. RT, Al-Jazeera)
One thing that commercial encyclopedias like Encarta can have that Wikipedia can’t is non-free content. Say you can buy the rights for 1000s of images from some source; you can use them in your private encyclopedia, but Wikipedia’s medias must be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and for this must be under a CC-like license or in the public domain.
Been doing it the same for over 20 as well, only had one bad hire and it had to do with drugs and attitude more than skill set. He was a good developer and was sober when I hired him but fell off the wagon and started missing work, no showing etc. I fully concur that if you can't spot a competent developer from a conversation, you probably should not be in the position of evaluating potential developers.

I don't disagree that there are a lot of fake it till you make it developers who did a vo-tech class and are applying for jobs out of their league, but I just don't know how people don't spot them. It takes me about 5 phone calls to find a competent individual, and then I bring them in for a in person. As a hiring manager, I don't find it cumbersome to weed thru 5-10 people to find a good hire.
> a door to door encyclopedia salesmen came to our house

That's an alien relic of an anecdote as there ever was.

The world has profoundly changed in the last twenty five years. Cheap, ubiquitous, networked computing has almost completely rewired society and changed business, jobs, dating, friendship, travel.

I really wonder what the next big changes will be. Cheap satellites in orbit and dramatically reduced LEO costs? Better battery tech? Advances in materials science? Human cloning and genetic modification? What modern trappings of the present time will feel used and dated in twenty years?
Ultimately I don’t think it matters much. I’ve only very rarely seen promoted news stories in my feed from media companies - I don’t think spending money to promote links to articles is very widely used at all.
Any advice on where to get good cards for Raspberry Pi usage?

I mean it seems like most I have had wear out way in a few months even with next to no use.
I think people worry too much about these "misinformation campaigns". I think the idea behind this worry is "most people would not disagree with me unless they were brainwashed - we can't let people I disagree with do that".

I'm more on the free speech side, of course. I'm definitely not a fan of the Chinese government. I like free speech, after all! But I don't really think these promoted misleading tweets are swaying the opinion of most north-americans or europeans. And I don't like this new world order where your message must align with modern liberal western ideas, in order for you to express it on a popular medium. This trend is honestly a bit scary. We're getting into orthodoxy here.

Don't freak out that some people are broadcasting a message you don't agree with on a popular medium, and maybe some other people out there will be influenced by it. Growing up as a geek/nerd, I got accustomed to nobody I was around really understanding and agreeing with me. It's not the end of the world. But orthodoxy is a bit scary.