skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. And this is getting worse because China is now rich. In old time, only brain-washed patriots believe those propaganda. But now CCP hires well-educated writers, Weibo opinion leaders to write seemingly objective articles that credit CCP exclusively with the economy growth. The middle classes in China has already believed in those propaganda faithfully because the messages match perfectly what they have experienced.

We need to be afraid of them. Because even if the Great Firewall disappears now, they will continue to defend CCP and their authoritarian system.
> International money transfers still take a significant percentage

Some do, but I can get dollars from the US into most European currencies for less than .5%.

We've come a long way from the '90s.
> There’s not going to be such thing’s around

Heretofor uninhabitable places such as ... greenland maybe?
You should be fine with copying the ksp directory out of steams reach and run it from there, since the game doesn't appear to use Steam as copy protection. It certainly didn't when I was into modding years ago (still have quite a few older versions with different mods laying around) and even an up to date install still seems to start fine after exiting steam / doesn't contain any dlls looking like steamworks.
I know a lot of people here have fond memories of Encarta, but I found it to be a disappointment. When my family first got a copy of it with a new computer I was probably about 16 at the time (around 1994 I think) and I was excited to explore it.

I found that it had only very basic information and didn't go into any detail. I was very disappointed because I was expecting so much more information about the topics I looked at and the multimedia elements just seemed to be there to show off the technology rather than actually be useful. I put it away and never looked at Encarta again. I know wonder if there was useful information that I never found because I didn't spend enough time looking at it.

I also found many paper encyclopedias to be disappointing as well, and were only useful for giving me a short summary when I knew absolutely nothing about a topic. I really enjoyed the special Encyclopedia Britannica volumes with more in-depth articles on a smaller number of topics. Those were much better than the regular volumes with minimal information.

I think I wanted to learn so much more about the topics I was interested in, and information was hard for me to find in those days. Only my local public library had books the sufficient depth of knowledge to make me happy.

If I had known about the amazing skills of professional librarians back then, I would have had a librarian help me find information. At the time, I just thought that they were there to shelve books and check them out to people and had little other skills.
For those who want to understand the bigger picture of this propaganda campaign, check out this allegedly leaked instruction for how China controls media (picture in Chinese [1], transcribed in Chinese [2], google translated to English [3]).

[1]: https://pincong.rocks/article/3572

[2]: https://pastebin.com/anMtU0Lz

[3]: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...
I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. Maybe when there's a real game and more details, or some actual meat regarding what they mean when they say "deeper mod support", and an absolute answer on Mac/Linux support.... But even then I'm not sure.

What worries me more is how this announcement seemingly came out of nowhere, all while the actual KSP is still receiving updates. Even little quality of life updates like new textures for most (or all?) of the planets in the next update. Something just seems off.

And let's be honest - half the charm of KSP is its lack of polish, and the janky little things at the corners that just don't quite work right and probably never will.

Maybe this is successful and introduces a new (half)generation of simulation gamers to space/physics sims. Or maybe it blows up and we never hear about it again. Who knows. I'm just not "hyped" at all.
What are your biggest pain points with productivity tools today?
I personally hate the fragmentation of data, notes, tasks, and events across my calendars, to do lists, email, pen/paper, computer, etc. I also believe in the notion that your brain should primarily be used for thinking, and not storage.

What would an ideal productivity or personal management app look like?

Esp features that promote task completion and continuous improvement.
I wish there was a C++ compiler flag which made everything const by default and required the mutable keyword otherwise. This is obviously non-standard and would break included headers, but alternatively a #pragma could scope that option for project code coming after non-project includes.
Divulge this after the interview at the offer stage once they've decided they want you. How much you work is a negotiation concern just like salary.
If these corporations wanted to make things better, they could, today, instead we get a bunch of completely meaningless back patting, and zero action.

Words without action don't mean shit.
does this mean we won't see state sponsored propaganda from Voice of America?
Out of curiosity, how much does the "not using a joystick" piece align with reality? I feel like all of the movies I see have the shuttle pilots using joysticks for everything.
In twain! I was sure this was that artisanal firewood bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI
Genetic Liability to Insomnia and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Though this becomes incredibly annoying using const pointers when you didn't mean to refer to ROM but instead meant a read-only pointer to RAM.
To be fair, if this was the start of the business cycle, it might not be a bad idea. Real estate had some great deals to be found in 2008 if you had the liquidity to purchase.
Just to be clear, China did invade Vietnam in 1979. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/01/402572349/...
Please don’t take this as a personal attack. Your comment and certainty sound like religious fanaticism. The belief that consciousness is merely computation is unproven, and a matter of faith.
It always seems a little short sighted when people claim to know something about consciousness and the mind based on a belief that the brain amounts to a biological computer.
As an example of an alternative possibility to brain as a biological computer: in a holographic universe the brain itself is an emergent system.
Or, Buddhists say that the material world as we perceive it is interdependent with mind, which is more fundamental than form.
Some interesting phenomena that present problems with mind as programming running on a biological computer are the placebo/*cebo effects and Wim Hof :).
Mind over matter, man.
Love KSP and I'll be looking forward to this!

I really don't get cinematic trailers though. If it's not actual gameplay, then what does it tell me about the game? What does it tell me that I don't already know from KSP1?
Similar here.

Shrink the box to zero size (accidentally) and click around a bit more, then the Javascript engine hangs.

Firefox.
Porsche is integrating Apple Music into the all-electric Taycan
When I use google maps or google earth sometimes I still miss the encarta’s globe rule to visually measure distances between two spots.
Is there a space game where there is math required? I'd like to play a game where I'm less of an aerospace engineer, and more of a 1960s astronaut, doing Emergency Slide-Rule Sums™️ during landing.
One of the strangest things I seen so far was not online but on the street in Sydney, Australia. There was an "anti-democracy protest" https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/anti-hong-kong-protest-in-...

It looks people who oppose Hong Kongers really exist and truly hold on to their beliefs.
State is a group of people. How about marketing campaign? Companies are also groups of people too. What I see here is twitter bending its rules to not work with certain groups of people based on their own definition of whether it is state sponsored.

Wonder what they do about republicans or democats launching twitter compaigns. Will they get banned as well?

I smell the inconsistencies in applying the rules to US vs. the rest of the world.
I really don't understand why twitter, facebook, etc don't just state that commercially operated/controlled accounts are a direct violation of T&Cs which is a violation of CFAA, or breach of contract with monetary terms.

E.g. couldn't their t&cs start including "accounts controlled or instruction by a government, political, or commercial entity, or otherwise compensated for posted content, require explicit pre-authorization, and price negotiation. Non-negotiated fees are $ABC per tweet, and $XYZ per account, payable within 30 days". Or some similar terms.

Whether you could make such t&cs work, and whether you can make $GOVERNMENT actually pay is obviously another question: Governments love passing laws that make them immune to law suits domestically, while also providing other countries with immunity.

At least it might be able to resolve those "business intelligence" companies by immediately opening them up to huge costs.
It was in fact exactly that. The WinHelp team got folded into our group, and then WinHelp became something of an orphaned project for a while (or maybe forever?).
Ask HN: What is the wiki software used at golden.com?
I have been searching for a good looking wiki software for some months. It seems like golden.com fits the bill for me. (Eg: https://golden.com/wiki/Dashblock). I like the fonts and buttons etc. I am using mediawiki for my site but I have not seen good skins for it.

Any one here where or which wiki software/UI themes are being used by golden.com?

Thanks!
Wait where are the Kerbals? I didn't see a single one. Looks like it's just space flight simulator now or universe sandbox.
Digital Transformation Boosts Manufacturing Agility, Competitiveness
Anyone remember MindMaze? ...was amazing.
There are pretty fun examples of how people try to dodge censorship.

For example the Hong Kong billionaire Li Kha Shing managed to post a two page newspaper ad which contains a hidden message:

https://i.imgur.com/7IJLn3g.jpg

Translation: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/csg9yz/hong_kong_bill...
I'm not sure I entirely agree - Facebook is mostly login-walled anyway and they developed React to suit the needs of a data intensive SPA. Why not just use a robots.txt to stop crawlers from indexing?
... and some of the new Epyc chips use only two cores per die out of eight. Customers still come out ahead since those chips have far more cache than a chip with 2 fully enabled 8 core dies.
How to Deal with Incompetent People Who Lack Self-Awareness
It's not unheard of for EVs to boost the battery voltage to a higher level before feeding into the inverter that powers the motor (e.g. https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1281167). There are some advantages to running the inverter at higher voltage (cheaper switching devices and smaller wires), although I do find it surprising that this apparently sometimes offsets the cost of the boost converter.

But I believe this is much less common with lithium ion batteries (~3.6 V/cell) than it was with NiMH (~1.2 V/cell).
As far as I know Gates was a very good developer himself.
The Language of Mario Maker
> The function is allowed to cast away const and modify the object.

Correct, but only if the original (referenced) object is not const itself. Casting away constness to modify an object that was declared const is 100% UB.
Now that's how it always should've worked.
> cash fuels orders of magnitude more illegal activities. It’s hypocritical to go after crypto to solve illegal activities problem when you havent solves them for cash or at least brought down to crypto levels.

No, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying we shouldn’t advocate a worse solution than what we have today, along every axis. If crypto replaced cash illegal activities would be easier and limited to 7tx/sec (haha, jokes, ish)

To be clear I’m also not proposing banning bitcoin, I’m just proposing not giving it a platform like I would with offensive speech. You’re free to say anything and use bitcoin all you want but that doesn’t mean you’re entitled to a platform to do so.

> If you’re for government control of every aspect of your life, if you’re for asking permission to transact or communicate - we just have completely different world views.

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. Due to efficiency of scale proof of work always centralizes along the cheapest resources. Going all in on PoW coins is outsourcing control of your sovereign currency to a totalitarian ethnostate but with extra steps. Why not transact in Renminbi and save some electricity? I’ll stick to sovereign management thanks.

> Governments should target bad people not genuinely useful tools used by bad people. I don’t care that it’s hard - that’s what I pay taxes for, not to yield control over my life even further.

Now this is a truly novel argument: make the job of the government harder so you get value for your tax dollars. Even to the detriment of your self and the broader society.
It's multi-purpose: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20742459
While I acept the significance of complementary colors, the significance of triadic, split complementary, analogous and split complementary is open to debate. One issue is that almost all discussion of co called Colour harmony is around hue. Yet no hue exists without a lightness and saturation value, which have their own impact upon the aesthetic design.

More broadly, Colour harmony is something of a bogus science, with its roots in the very beginnings of Colour science. Newton himself added an seventh Colour to his hue wheel just So that Colour would be anagous to musical scale. It didn’t stop there... Goethe, Itten and Kandinsky all followed suite. All claimed that Colour could be subject to high-order ‘good contrast’ known as harmony. As an art student, this bogus thinking was nothing but damaging, and took me years to shake off.
// x is just a read-only pointer to something that may or may not be a constant
void constFunc(const int *x)

Is that correct? I read that as “x is a pointer to a const int”

If you want “x is a read-only pointer to an int”, you would need

void constFunc(int * const x)

The article also doesn’t mention the case “x is a read-only pointer to a constant int”. To state that, you would use

void constFunc(const int * const x)

(https://stackoverflow.com/a/1143272)
What about "pro-democracy" activists using twitter or fb smearing the police with their own version of truth?

It seems like twitter judges which version of truth to allow based on whether twitter censorship team likes the arguments or not.
const should have been renamed to readonly, because that's what it means. It means that a variable only has readonly access to a value, but it is possible that another variable has write permissions, and so a compiler can not assume that just because one variable has readonly permission, that all variables have readonly permission except for in very limited circumstances.
We're screwed.

Or, some people in some socioeconomic classes are screwed because they won't have the money or network to adapt healthily to climate change and will suffer materially.

What should we learn from our mistakes leading up to this crisis, going forward?

What shall we, as technologists, do to reduce the suffering and to simply Make Things Better for all people?
Put it in context. The USSR basically occupied all the countries near it. Every country was effectively ruled by Russia. The US didn't occupy Canada, or France, or the UK, etc.

Yes, the extremely weak countries were pawns but, relatively speaking, the US let France be France and Canada be Canada.
What's wrong with accelerating toward the planet, if 1. your whole ship body is essentially one big jet engine impelling air through and out; 2. for the parts not covered by the impeller, you have a technobabble "deflector dish" bouncing off the dust that'd be ripping you to shreds; and 3. the existence of technobabble "inertial dampeners" implies that you can generate instantaneous gravitational fields† in any orientation you like (presumably both inside and outside the ship), to serve as a very fast drag chute?

† Though, y'know, I've never heard a sci-fi story mention gravitomagnetism. Instantaneous change in gravitational force would imply a large gravitational flux, which would cause similarly improbable and interesting phenomena as the ability to instantaneously teleport magnets further together/apart would. With magnetism the weird things are monopoles; with gravitomagnetism... dipoles?
Never assume things are static. Or will remain static, just because it might seem like that from the outside.
How does that square with something like godel's incompleteness therom?
Feasibility Study Finds Informative Digital Biomarkers of Dementia
I think it's not just about censorship. Many mainland Chinese abroad who have access to unfiltered media still support Beijing.

Chinese people generally value stability and harmony over individual rights. So, why would mainland Chinese people support violent protesters who protest for Hong Kong having more individual rights than the mainland does?
Removing Image Artifacts in C# with OpenCV
Signal and telegram might be multi-platform, but they’re hardly open.
And the rationalization for losing to Hyundai's Kia Niro and Hyundai Kona?

How far can the best Tesla go in 24 hours? The Porsche Taycan can do 3,425 KMs:

https://electrek.co/2019/08/19/porsche-taycan-electric-car-2...
> it's not ok to use HN primarily for political, ideological, or national battle

Funny since your priority on HN is to push your far-left social justice agenda, shadowbanning people who say anything that can be remotely construed as not agreeing with your worldview.
Cloud-Native Automated Hardware Testing?
A measurement can be the interaction between two sufficiently decoupled subsystems.

But I don't really understand why there needs to be some "interpreter." Nature could be some computer/system that is minimizing Action over all possible trajectories. Humans attempt to communicate an approximation to this truth by writing down nonlinear differential equations.
Don't forget to tell us. You've got a player right here.
At the time, people assigned no value to bundled things. Most did not appear to be aware it was even there.

With it being packaged separately, people noticed its existence, and did assign value to it commensurate with its price.

It was attractively priced, and almost everyone buying the compiler also bought the library source.
Oh, that's a good point — also it's a lot easier to convert Italian currency to French, German, or Dutch currency now, since they're all the same currency. I think that may be more a question of what the current political alignment is rather than the internet rewiring world society, though.
You have it backwards. const is your promise to the compiler that the object won't change. It doesn't care whether you const_cast, implement the function in fortran or use raw assembly to mess with that object - it assumes that you don't. If you modify a const object in any way you have violated the C++ standard and get UB in return.

Now, the tricky part is that const objects (i.e. objects declared as const) enjoy these optimization benefits, but the compiler usually cannot prove that a reference or pointer to const actually refers/points to a const object. Taking a const pointer to a non-const object, casting away the constness again and then modifying the object is totally legal.

Since the former case (objects declared const) is much rarer than the latter case (working on const object pointers/references) the compiler cannot often optimize based on const.
It’s simply meant to link discussions.

There’s nothing wrong with a new discussion after a period of time.
That's a very useful information didn't know about it. It's like CAP theorem in distributed systems can't have all 3.
On the street in several cities in Australia so far.
Weird.

Personally, I would choose a female dog and male cat every time. Less dominant and more bidable dog and a less skitish cat who's more likely to not take crap from the dog at meal time.
It is probably the result of some kind of cognitive bias, having heard similar things for a long time, but I have been captivated by crows ever since I moved to the bay from Austin. In Austin, the resident blackbirds (grackles) just seem like mean-looking pigeons. Here, the crows seem to have personalities, moods, just generally complicated internal lives.
Instagram photos not included.
stuck at the airport?
Cwtch Alpha 0.2.0
> Const pointer is a statement about the internal variables of a function definition, usually not of any interest outside the function itself and therefore rarely used.

...and in fact not even part of the name mangling (for the exact reason you mentioned): https://godbolt.org/z/1pjecq
I think the big problem here is that const doesn't really truly say anything about aliasing.

Even excluding casting evils, calling a method with a const pointer only means that the method isn't supposed to change the value. It does not mean that the caller isn't going to change things (particularly from another thread).

The languages are simply too permissible when it comes to what a pointer means and how it can be used.

For const to be optimizable, you'd need to take Rust's approach and make language level guarantees that "You can't do bad things with this". C and C++ missed that boat.
I strongly disagree.

Being physically searched by men with guns is not something innocent people should be subjected to with no, or just the thinnest of illusion of justification.
This effectively provided carriers with aggregated, deidentified information about people's locations. It's easy to see from the problems with things like Strava's heatmaps just how much of a privacy headache this could be and how hard it would be to ensure that nothing sensitive leaked out. Also, even if they did people are sensitive enough about privacy that with the right spin it could be turned into a muck-raking story and readers would believe it.
That's a pretty backwards slippery slope argument. "They wanted all sites in this category removed, cloudflare removed two sites, why aren't they getting any credit?" The answer is obvious and does not require a slope at all, much less a slippery one.

> If you even try, then next thing you know, you’re somehow culpable for everything you didn’t remove, or didn’t remove quickly enough. Then you get accusations of endorsing it, because you removed X but not Y, so you must approve of Y, right?

I've seen a lot of accusations of cloudflare endorsing this kind of content. I haven't seen a single person or place where those accusations got stronger after they went from 0 or 1 sites removed to 2 sites removed.
Thinkspot and the Rise of Long Tail Social Media