skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Financial Times values Greenland at $1.1 trillion. While done in a humorous tone, the mock sellside research report uses an interesting sum-of-parts valuation model:

* $300-400bn for possible oil reserves.

* $500-700bn for rare earth minerals.

* $200-220bn for potentially developable land.

The report points out that the US has a good track record of accretive acquisitions, with the Louisiana Purchase, Manhattan island, and Alaska all producing 7-9% in annual returns. Interest rates are very low, easing borrowing the money. A risk is other bidders, specifically Canada and China, making offers, although the newspaper points out that China is busy with Hong Kong at the moment.
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>>They struggled to pay bills, get along with new neighbors, stay healthy, find work. Their lives, as battered and scarred as they were, suddenly were no different from anyone else’s, and the future was theirs to either win or lose.

This is the part that most people miss when they talk about fixing the homeless problem. Getting people into homes is only part of the problem. Homelessness is the result of a much bigger problem that needs to be addressed too.
For cooling maybe a phase change liquid would work such as Novec, then you would just need each chip to be exposed to the Novec and your packaging could be much smaller without heatsinks.
Is your perspective that as long as you aren’t personally targeted and can make money, it doesn’t really matter what the government does? You talk a lot about how nice/safe it is for you personally as you enjoy the benefits of living in China as an expat, but at the same time, you do have to realize that your current situation is one of extraordinary privilege and not necessarily representative of the reality for vast swathes of people in China today right?

For example, the things being done to Chinese people by the government in places like Xin Jiang right now. You might not personally be seeing it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

I don’t mean to disparage you or the choices that you’ve made as I’m sure there are many complex reasons for why you’ve ended up where you are currently. I would urge you though, to think more deeply and consider your actions with the perspective that as someone with the privilege and ability to be able to freely leave the country and speak out against the government without being silenced/jailed, you are in a unique position to make an impact that a native Chinese citizen might not necessarily have.

Personally, as an American with parents that originally grew up in China, I know that I have a great amount of privilege in being able to freely talk about these issues that many of my international student peers in college are unable to express for fear of the consequences they might incur. That’s why for me, I feel like my privilege comes with a certain amount of responsibility to speak out. Your status as an expat puts you in a similar level/position to be able to provide a voice for those that otherwise might never be able to freely express themselves.
Yes, AFAIK Juul was the first to popularise it. Using salt-nics enables device makers to use lower-wattage devices for the same nicotine 'hit', and also reduces the vapor output. This results in smaller devices due to smaller battery and more convenient to use.
A lot more detail on the platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_hOTO88Sg
One of core things (ideas, requirements) in APL is to make mathematical notation in one line.

Another thing (restriction) was to use available hardware. So some symbols were created in a way which was possible to achieve with teletypes of the days.

It's possible one should start with careful (re-)reading of "A programming language".

And maybe we should think once again about the power of the whiteboard and how we could express that into an executable language.
> Police brutality

Actions taken by individuals who are employed by the government--especially when such actions are explicitly illegal--hardly count as an abusive government.

> racially targeted drug operations by the CIA/FBI

Got a link?

> ignoring of the AIDS crisis

Allocation of scarce resources in a way that you personally disagree with is not the same as an abusive government.
This may be the old money vs new money confrontation.
How do you define abusive?
I think this is partially because the French are certain their police won’t excessively go to town on them even when they are looting/pillaging.

The same thing does not apply in HK I think.
From my experience it's not 'smoother' per se, but you can inhale as you would smoke (MtL or Mouth to Lung), while the standard mod/tanks setups tends to be inhaled as you would 'shisha' (DtL or direct to lung). It's also quicker to get the 'hit' as salt-nicotine is quicker to absorb by the body.
If you're water conscious like me that doesn't want anything "added" to the water, consider buying a home distiller. Just search for distiller in amazon for some ideas of what you get. It takes 3-5 hours for about a gallon. If you just queue them up during your work day. Just store the water in large glass mason jars and throw them in the fridge. Kick the plastic bottled water habits. It's not just BPA but tons of plasticizers that leech into your fav. bottled waters. My wife and I switched to this after we drank some Fiji from a gas station, after it had warmed up - all you can taste is plastic - even with the BPA free stickers. In the end we decided you can't really trust the companies distributing plastic bottled water because you never know which crate is left out in 105 degree summer heat during its various transitions. That's pretty disgusting if you think about it.
Then call your representative and tell them to pass a law that makes e-cigarettes illegal.
Kind of. They're pushing big here in Indonesia by partnering with bars and supermarkets/minimarkets to make it more convenient for users to purchase their cartridges. Other e-liquids are only sold through e-commerce or specific hobby shops.
https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-...
Who is going to maintain that loosely linked spaghetti of html with minimal js? You?

If you're not going to, don't tell me how to work with code I gotta work with.

Can we just agree to let this meme die? React and vue didn't appear because developers wanted bloat.

If you want to reduce bloat, take that to corporate greedy actors stuffing pages with tracking and don't ever touch tools that make my life easier.
this still better that macbook touchbar keyboard
I have my share of grievances against Scala, but the difference in collection libraries only feels painful if your app can't tolerate the performance hit of re-copying a collection (which to be fair does sometimes occur on hot codepaths). Otherwise it's a simple .toScala or .toJava call away.

Also arrays are one place where Scala and Java do happen to share the same collection.
This is somewhat incorrect. There are finite resources in the US justice system. Investigating Google now does hinder investigation of Equifax. Furthermore, momentum for prosecution in a class of business begets greater public support for prosecution of other businesses in that class. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, there is a substantial belief that tech companies deprioritize Conservative opinions and content. We should not ignore the political component to these prosecutions.

Your first point is correct, however. Competition in some fields is declining; Amazon is the dominant internet retailer by a large margin. Google has even larger dominion over the online ad space, save for walled gardens. Investigation of large tech companies is justified on its merits. It is likely that some companies have not broken any laws, but there is value to investigation.
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-ru...

While private government isn't US government, they are very much interlaced, pair-evolving and authoritarian being governments.
I think people's risk tolerances would dramatically change with unbounded lifespans, and we would take any threat to life much more seriously than we do now.
Someone linked the complaint in the comments below.
So kids go back to smoking non-e cigarettes like in the good ole days?
If you don't want to buy products made by employees treated badly don't buy games. Unless they are the few, cool, indie ones like Papers Please and so on.

Employee treatment is a wide spread problem in the games industry. No unionization, and the pool of hires is continuously refreshed by new young naive people who've "always dreamt of working in games".

I'm not saying that this is not an issue, but it's kind of obvious that this is a shit market for employees.
It's way worse than that.

It's served 25.9MB to me.

They are using ginormous background images, and loading multiples.

8000x4000 jpgs. 32 fuckign megapixels. For a background image.
I invest a lot of time with netflix and watch everything possible (tv series wise). I'm down to a handful of series but I'm ignoring certain categories (superheros, kids, teen and period pieces, some cooking/gameshows).

I find the libruary is getting thinner. Quality shows produced outside of netflix are disappearing and no new replacements. Popular netflix shows are cancelled or the next season takes 1.5 years. Seasons are usually the minimum (10 shows or less).

Not sure netflix is going to win in the content war and may lose in the usability arena when other providers start launching have better browsing experiences.

Two under the radar shows: Bruno and Brownsville
The previous thread was very critical of this article's statistics.

Reposting my comment:

When I see a headline like this my instinct is to jump to "overfitting".
In a study like this they use P=0.05 as their cut off for significance. One in 20 such studies would be expected to give meaningless results. But they had the choice of cohort (all kids or boys and girls separately), so 1 in 10. They measured urine concentrations of fluorine at three time points during pregnancy, which makes for 7 different potential combinations of input variables, for a total of 14 different potential analyses, where 1 in 20 is expected to be significant. Of course, they didn't preregister, so who knows whether their analysis changed on the fly..
> The cloud NAT is not for avoiding ip costs.

Well, it wasn't before now, since it's always been more expensive. But they're trying to sell it that way. OP's link doesn't mention it, but the email I got also announced a Cloud NAT price drop.

There's currently a $32.85 flat fee per region to use Cloud NAT (on top of the per-GB fee). They're lowering this to $1.022 per VM per month, capped at $32.12 total. (They're also capping the per-GB fee to 4.5 cents per GB worldwide, it's currently higher in some regions.)

Of course, the flat fee is peanuts for any substantial cloud project, but the fact that they announced them side-by-side means they consider Cloud NAT a way to save on this new IP charge.
I don’t think that, practically, countries have often gone from authoritarian to democratic without violence.
I was a QA Engineer at Transmeta, got an MBA, work in tech recruiting for several years, and now I'm a software engineer.
As I understand it, yes. According to my friends who vape, Juul is still way ahead of everyone in the juice department. So much better they'll spend close to $60 a week on the stuff...

Pretty sure that's more expensive per volume than printer ink!
This is an even more disturbing trend...

https://www.news.com.au/national/chinese-police-cars-parked-...
It's pretty clear that this is just a battle between the big tech and their enemies. However I don't think the government will support this attack: it needs the big tech as much as it needs its aircraft carriers and a petty dispute between two generals isn't a reason to sink half the ships.
That's the one, a great story!
Given that Microsoft now owns GitHub, I would add them into this list too.

Also, perhaps some of the focus should also shift towards preventing such acquisitions (Google + YouTube, Facebook + WhatsApp), which the tech community at large can immediately identify as a potential monopoly threat. A simplistic way to do this would be to look at how much the company pays for the acquisition, but I am sure others here can come up with better metrics.

Also, Facebook should not be clubbed with the other companies in this list. What they are doing isn't some poorly defined "tech monopoly consolidation". They are just a completely fraudulent company headed by someone who should probably not be running any company. Tim Cook's point may have been self-serving, but he was absolutely right when he said that "if I were Facebook, I would not be in this situation".
Scala is great for statically typed functional programming. It can be as pure as Haskell, but with the escape hatch of not requiring that purity at the language level. With Scala 3 coming out next year it will become more approachable to developers that find Haskell and OCaml off putting (and has already solved the "python 3 problem"!).

As for scala-native, it gets past the major draw backs of the JVM: startup speed, memory size, and Oracle. From applets in 2002 to kubernetes sidecars and aws lambda today, the JVM refuses to optimize for these things.
Yes, RMX. Using a 2020 lens (pre-PC 80s were the Wild West, not diminishing any engineering effort there) the systems were straightforward. When PCs came about and everyone else was making mostly desktop software, all the real value (apps & data) remained from the very beginning “in the cloud”. It would be hard to predict that model would be exactly what everyone was clamoring for 30 years later.
None of these domains are premium, and can be registered for under $10 easily without any competition.
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Big tech companies haven’t been “the nascent bad boys” for a while now, at one point there were 4 such tech companies being worth between 800 billion and 1 trillion dollars, the last time when that was the case for oil companies Rockefeller was still the wealthiest man on this planet (and banking groups never got that much of a valuation). That is to say that those tech groups are well established behemoths, when you’re actively influencing elections (to say nothing of regular people’s day-to-day life) you may as well be.
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Interesting comment from the author over on reddit[1] discussing using the research kernel to "find 0-day in software and hardware for about 2 years".

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/csfj53/sushi_r...
> we shouldn’t advocate a worse solution than what we have today, along every axis

Crypto is actually better than cash on every axis

> limited to 7tx/sec (haha, jokes, ish)

Just shows you’re not very informed on the topic

> Bitcoin hash power is 80% in the control of 3 mining pools in the PRC who could with the stroke of a pen censor everything

Miners don’t control the network so they can’t really censor without consequences. Mining pools are composed of many independent miners, you can’t take over them by taking over pool operator - they will just leave and form another pool.

> Now this is a truly novel argument: make the job of the government harder so you get value for your tax dollars.

Job of government becomes harder/easier due to emergence of new tech not because you or I want it.
Well, there you have it. Back to paying $100/month for tv/video
No, that's unfortunate but it is what is.

Downside would be the devs OWING money back to the company.
If you think money is the only way to keep an employee happy, then you must read this.
Just to share some perspective as a native Chinese living in US for anyone interested:

- Most of immigrants from China after 2000 holds pro-China views, and there's strong tendency to become more pro-China after living in US for some time, after having full exposure to US media and getting to know how things really work in US.

- It's probably common to see HN accounts that comment mostly on China related issues. I don't have stats, but this is very likely, because when immigrants like us read HN comments upon these issues, it's usually as irritating as lots of you reading far-right pro Trump comments.

- When people question if an account is genuine just because they have pro-China voice, it's just confirming how hypocritical western "freedom of press" is, and pushing us towards more pro-China.

- HN is still fairly unpopular among Chinese tech immigrants, otherwise you'd be seeing a lot more sincere pro-China comments here.
I will second this wholeheartedly - please proceed Google.
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You do know that Hong Kong was really part of China right? It was taken by the British Empire in 1842 by destroying China in the First Opium War. When the British finally gave it back to China in 1997, a lot of the non-chinese moved out of HK.

What I'm trying to emphasize is that "Hong Kongers" and Jackie Chan are Chinese.
Once I got past a certain point on the learning curve in-game, KSP kind of got boring for me. Docking, landing on the Mun, building space stations, were all very very doable.

But adding kOS and trying to script my way to doing the same things is honestly the coolest thing I've ever seen in a game. It went from "fairly easy" to "excruciatingly difficult in the most fulfilling way imaginable".

11/10, will play again.
Malaria parasite changes shape to foil your immune system
I think schools in general kill curiosity. At some point, we are all pretty much told to stop asking so many questions and to follow the lesson plans. It's not meant to stifle curiosity but is a way for teachers to keep order when they have 30+ students to manage.

Disrupting how schools conduct their business would do wonders for society.

I think Google's 20% time on one's own projects would be a great model for schools to adopt from the preschool level on to graduation. Of course, students would need guidance and it's not for every kid but it would be a great choice for them to have.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/b10c71/google_play...
And apparently the company's developer account if you get associated with that account.
One step ahead of you buddy. :)
If we're comparing jobs to gates, I think it's also fair to say that gates doesn't compare as well on the 'business' aspect since his family connections helped him get that meeting with IBM. Jobs on the other hand was a hippy and hustled all the way
I took Martin’s Scala class years ago and it was awesome. He is a great lecturer.
Thanks for posting this. I was interested to see what was the cause for the tobacco companies being liable under RICO, and this article, https://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/topics/commercial-toba... , had a pretty good overview.

The main point seems to be that the tobacco companies fraudulently covered up what they knew about the dangers of smoking (don't know all the details but assuming this fraudulent activity falls under one of the specific "racketeering activity" crimes).

I'm definitely not a lawyer, but for Juul, would seem to me that it's not enough just to call some of their products "Cool Cucumber" or whatever else can appeal to children, but would need to point to some specific fraudulent activity that Juul engaged in.
Encarta had a really cool intro song and animation that I just loved growing up. Also, I vaguely remember kind of like some sort of maze mini-game, but I can’t remember much about it
> Violent crime as measured in murders per 100K of population in the USA is a magnitude worse than in China, the murder rate is literally 10x worse in the USA.

Assuming you believe the State statistics that could be true. However, their is plenty of evidence many official numbers are manipulated and this is likely to be one of them.

Which is the issue, even people living in China really have no idea what the Chinese populous thinks about most things. When people fear to speak the truth, what you hear has little to do with what they think. Private comments are frequently at odds with public statements.
You might already know this, but Google Earth (desktop not web) actually has a 'space' mode where you can choose planets to fly around as well (Moon, Mars, Earth, and Sky.. sky is just the removal of the earth and highlighting of constellations)
Clearly it is an alternative to democracy. It’s existed more or less successfully for some 80 years now.

The question is if it’s really a place any of us (who grew up in a democracy) would want to live.

The ethos of the CCP is just fundamentally incompatible with my own worldview, even though I can admit to their effectiveness so far.

I’m not really willing to accept the existence of such a country in my world either.
have you ever tried to start a competitor to facebook? plenty of platforms have, and you haven’t ever heard of them because whilst better, facebook has a monopoly by way of critical mass... it’s almost impossible to pull significant populations away from their platform: not even google could, and google plus was an excellent product; far better than facebook in almost every way
excess stiction - so you means the keys requires a lot of strength to be activated.

Could it be the plastic getting older and less soft?
These two are the most recommended where I work:

https://www.manning.com/books/functional-programming-in-scal...

https://leanpub.com/fpmortals/read
Actually Gizmodo and Engadget are reporting this as well. Amazon is the only media device company that Disney+ isn't launching on.
I didn’t know about this.. I’d love to read that book :)
Also make root fs readonly. DietPi distro claims they do it out of box. Same for openwrt, they mount /var dir as tmps and do writes only there. For raspbian http://blog.pi3g.com/2014/04/make-raspbian-system-read-only/.
Like tobacco, it will probably take the US government several decades to react appropriately to the threat after the harm has become clear to the scientific community. Corporate lobbyists will fight it tooth and nail, just like they have in the past, stalling progress by bribing immoral politicians and confusing well meaning but stupid politicians with carefully worded bullshit.
Just a note on the author's comment under Goya's painting. She advances that "unlike painting", in physics beauty can only be appreciated by those who understand their meaning. I disagree there's a difference in these disciplines, case in point, I knew Goya's painting long before becoming interested in grecoroman mythology, and I plainly didn't like it. Today I can appreciate the brutal tone of the painting knowing the story behind, and that has turned my view of the opus.

Another shocking example is El Expolio by El Greco, shocking technique but doubtful setting... until the author's intention is explained (or understood without further word), at that point it just becomes beautiful.

And in the same way that it's not necessary to know the story behind in art (you could like a painting for technique, looks alone), a layperson could like a mathematical formula for purely aesthetic reasons.

So all in all, I don't think mathematics and physics stand out in this regard.
If you use Google Fi’s cellular data in China, you can access sites typically blocked by GFW (source: first hand experience). So I assume the answer is yes. Not sure which entities have such access though.

Edit: IIRC some local friends from Peking University and Tsinghua University once told me that they could use Google and stuff (also typically out of reach) from their college dorms.