skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re a Hong Kong resident, what are your options? Can you flee the country with a visa to a first world country with rights less under pressure from a totalitarian state?

Edit: I genuinely appreciate all of the replies to this comment as this humanitarian crisis unfolds.
or perhaps they'd never heard of the term before (as I hadn't), and didn't know about the distinction, as the previous post didn't make that explicit, and they didn't bother to do the research you did. Not sure why you're jumping to the conclusion that the comment was disingenuous.
There's always minisplits - the noisy part stays outside the window. Though it can get annoying when you're outside and multiple neighbours are blasting their ACs.
As opposed to Trump's or Thiel's assault on Google?
This might sound childish but it is EXTREMLY powerful. Uncertainty will make the collected data worth far far less.

For years people used custom ROMs to block Android gps data collection and Google didn't care. Then someone added the option to send random data instead and Google filed a C&D within days.
No disagreements with your base assessment, but how did the west create this situation?

China has a longer continuous timeline than the western powers by far. Are the current political moires there not another node on that chain?
The united states only has a handful of 'large' cities. Most cities with larve populations are only populated because they encompass large geographies. A large city shouldn't be defined by population but by density and the united states has very few dense cities. Maybe only new York, Philadelphia, washington DC, San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston, and even some of those are a stretch.
History repeats itself.

When Clair PAtterson started researching the environmental persistence of ethyl-lead (leaded gas), Du Pont offered to sponsor any research he wanted to do so long as it wasn't ethyl lead.

Not only can you not trust a company to research possible bad effects of its products, you can expect companies to interfere with research into their products done by outside parties.
The metric you’re talking about is “churn.” It’s distinct from NPS, as NPS predicts growth—the additional value your brand has in people’s minds above the threshold for leaving, where it becomes a virality coefficient—whereas churn is just a self-evident measure of the percentage of people who see your brand as having value below the threshold.

The fact that NPS (and measures like it) are predictors is useful, in that you end up also collecting real growth data, and the difference between NPS-predicted growth and actual growth can tell you how much of your growth was organic vs. marketing-driven, and thus give you a picture of your brand’s “inertia”—how valuable it is just sitting there doing nothing, separate from any marketing projects. Tracking that allows you to judge the brand impact of everything you do. But you can’t do it without some measure that actually gives you brand value, rather than simple growth.
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A lot of developers focus so much on work that it's all they have in life. They define their very identity by it. A lot of them think "If I'm not good at programming, what am I?"

But, what exactly is a good programmer? There are no objective metrics to measure programming aptitude. Interviews would be a hell of a lot simpler if there was. If there is no objective measure, then how do I know I'm a good programmer? The only observable metric available is if other programmers think I'm a good programmer.

The combination of the above facts are a recipe for lifelong insecurity, anxiety and posturing. Personally, I think most developers would benefit from achieving mastery in something unrelated to programming in the physical world. Team sports, weight lifting, Leather working, Woodworking, etc. It boosts confidence.
I did both in one day and it was very tiring (and I'm in my 20s). Herculaneum is small enough that anyone without mobility issues can do it, but Pompeii is quite large.

I also went to the volcano and the hike is about 3/4 of a mile and moderately steep. If your children are active they should be able to handle it, but the key is to wear shoes with good traction. Also they sell wine at the top, which is nice :)
I can't say the ones I like don't glue your mouth shut, but I still love the taste!
Major function of AC is humidity control. If you have humid summers, AC will help your house to stay dryer and prevent mold and other damage. There are climates in which AC is essential and even the most advanced thermal and airflow design can not replace conditioning.
Lesson learnt: don't listen to all users, have confidence in some of your decisions...
I've mentioned imgui too, and posted link to your comment. It needs to be evaluated here too. Coming from the game development world, there is a big appeal to the framework. It's author is responsive, the size is small, and the features are really what a game tool, or in-game debug screen may want. Easy to integrate, with various gfx backends (opengl, direct3d, etc.), and supports things that are not even done well by some of the other frameworks - like docking (which I've mentioned in my post).

It has quirks, biggest one (to me), being how to deal when you have lots of widgets and their state (e.g. the hidden state labeling), then with my personal experiments I've found cases where the UI would lock, when flowing text, but overall seems to work well.

On the other end, I'm really happy (myself) with Flutter, but then it misses the stuff that I just mentioned, though for a mobile app - you may (and most likely not) need these requirements.

So two important, and recently new frameworks not included, I think they should... Flutter is direct competitor to Electron (now available on the desktop), and IMGUI to Qt/GTK.
The largest export of the DRC. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_the_Democra...
> this benefit is only 0.5% of their GDP (10 billion aid / 205 billion GDP)

This is 5%, not 0.5%. On top of that, your numbers aren't correct: they receive around $20bn net, and their GDP is around $250bn, which means that which means that direct net federal spending is about 8% of their GDP (and gross federal spending is a whopping 20%). These are pretty huge numbers, and they affect the entire state economy, directly affecting the profits of the business owners that you claim wouldn't care.
> I imagine something like "applications" folder where every subfolder automatically becomes an isolated "container"

Snap [1] goes pretty far in this direction. Apps are isolated against each other, and with AppArmor isolated from the system (at least on Ubuntu, your distro might vary). Android does much of the same.

A big problem is that most software exists to manipulate data on the user's machine, so isolating the software from the User folder is impractical. At the same time this data is usually the most valuable thing about the entire computer. That makes it fundamentally very hard to design a system where you can trust arbitrary apps. Android tried to solve this with a "file open" dialog that's controlled by the OS so that there's an easy way to give apps temporary access to single files, but that leads to weird UX.

1: https://snapcraft.io/
Ironically, the historically more "Austrian" expression "Konfitüre" hast become so rare and "Marmelade" so Common, that many Austrians think the former might be the German term.
So the insult is out of fashion too. Piefke would be the go-to nowadays :)

And "Marmelade" to means jam in general.
Where they catch them?

https://qz.com/506376/lobsters-2/
The original discoverers [1] - a really smart bunch - used the full term "teleportation of an unknown quantum state", which is correct. Subsequent work has been lazy in their terminology. [1] is also 100% clear about the resources needed in the title.

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70...
China seems to be the biggest Brazil partner. EU and USA do not contribute much.
> However, there are still very real farmers out there who need real solutions to avoid going bankrupt

The financial risk for farmers comes primarily from having to compete with farmers who are resorting to these dangerous products. And there's an easy way to address that.
Well I agreed until this recent situation, where they refused to cancel and refund because the "order was already in shipping" -- which when I looked at the tracking they eventually gave me simply meant they had printed a shipping label for transferring it from the third party to an Amazon warehouse, before they even shipped it to the Canadian Amazon warehouse.

They hid that it was third party supplied and then failed to respond when I asked them to cancel based on that.

The item I ordered was time sensitive. If I'd known it was coming from the US I would have ordered from a domestic supplier that would have shipped faster except the shipping was more.
Or you can target the largest sources of pollution without punishing regular working people via carbon taxation.
I’d asking recommend people try to air seal as well as they possibly can from the attic side too. And install fire proof covers over all recessed cans.
I’m starting to think that maybe we should give robocallers the death penalty. Maybe there’s some sort of humanist counterargument, but I can’t think of any right now. Annoying millions and defrauding hundreds of people daily has got to cause at least as much cumulative social disruption as murder, right?
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I may be just naive, but I trust and regularly use both Cyberchef and NSA’s Ghidra. I think it’s very unlikely that these tools are backdoored (and Cyberchef runs completely in-browser).
I think this is nuts. I lived in san Francisco for many years and the entire city is accessible by public tranit. The city is even building more like the new subway line.

And Chicago takes the cake for crazies on buses. Ive never felt so unsafe on a bus as Chicago.

Id rank san Francisco's situation on par with londons core urban areas. Maybe you're also including the surrounding burbs?
Unless I'm mistaken, the premise these arguments always seem to follow is, just because people in general have a better standard of living now than in the past we should ignore the following questions.

Why the majority of profits from productivity gains over the last 40 years have gone to a select few who are already wealthy?

Why the rate of increase of our standard of living hasn't been on par with the rate of productivity gains?
Thiel is just trying to find out if Alphabet's life sciences division has made any advances in eyebrow regrowth.
To be honest such scenario is not so hard to imagine. When I think of my studies, it was probably some introduction to Java, we learned how to use javac during first lesson, but never used it since, because we just clicked button in IDE. Someone who missed the lesson, might never noticed he misses basics.

With advanced build systems in some companies, someone who arrives from scripting language, is shown build system and told to look up the syntax might not ever realize the gap in his knowledge and at the same time might even be productive part of the team.
How does outline work? how do they get around the login feature
> you get used to [85 degrees inside]

I sincerely hope that my future places of work and residence will not regularly subject me to 85 degree interior temperatures on the assumption that I will "get used to it" -- which I strongly suspect actually means "live with it."
So we're automating repetitive physical work and then shove people into repetitive information work that pays peanuts, has no benefits, forces you to work in isolation and spend tons of time sitting in front of the screen. And a lot of this information work goes towards training more systems that will automate away more jobs.

And this gets semi-positive coverage from the same press who gladly calls for erasure of individuals from the digital society based on the notion that any "incorrect" opinion can potentially constitute grave societal harm. Hah.

Obviously, the solution isn't to delete automation. It is to make AI algorithms into tools directly usable by average individuals. What is happening right now is kind of the other way around.
Valuing trade with China over human rights. Trade that enabled China’s superpower status. Taming the monster will be...tricky.

You either have enough leverage that Beijing backs down (China is in a very precarious economic condition at the moment, don’t let it go to waste; prevent further rise in power long enough for their demographic transition to complete), or you support internal revolutionaries (which the US has done enough previously in its history I don’t need to detail here). Anything else will be outright world war (probably starting near HK, perhaps with the destruction of the bridge connecting it to the mainland to stave off a ground invasion).
Counterpoint: Tokyo.

Also, you're using the word 'forced' too liberally.
Interesting, is this teleportation thing restricted only by space or particles can also be tangled being in different time periods?
It even runs locally from files - doesn’t need network access at all.
> What is alpha, in this context?

Alpha is the degree to which an investment outperforms "the market", where "the market" can be any benchmark you want to use. So yes, by definition, alpha is zero-sum in that not everyone can beat the benchmark, in the same way that not everyone can be above average.

But this tautology isn't particularly meaningful, because most people don't care about beating "the market"; they care about their financial health and solvency, and in many cases, slightly under-performing "the market" can still be perfectly acceptable for a lot of investors if the market is performing well enough and they've met their own expected targets.

(This is, in fact, the principle behind index funds: index funds will never beat the market, and are guaranteed to underperform the market after fees are taken into account, but yet many people still put their money in index funds).
My MO is to schedule the work-from-office days to coincide with the hottest forecasts :) Wouldn't work well if everyone did the same, of course.
I think you mean Matt Levine, not Matt Lewis. Matt Levine has written about how insider trading is really about theft, not fairness: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-10-05/justic...

> If you pickup a dollar bill on the ground, could you be accused of theft? Probably not...

Depends on the country - in some countries, yes, that is actually considered theft.
Did this once, after 40 minutes or so of pretending to run a dozen different diagnostic tests on my computer the guy asked me to read him an error from the log. I told him it said something like "Fatal System Exception 0x0051: Someone is trying to play a scam on you."

He just screamed "fuck you!" and hung up.
Some of the effects are mitigated by taxpayer subsidies, so things are okay in the short term because of that. And apparently much of that money is going to Big Agriculture.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump...
Good, but won't work with the heavy JS pages using Ajax to load any single content.

The firefox extension seems to do that :

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/single-file/
It's as constructive as yours.
Not OP but I have done manual labour jobs (Construction jobs gen labour and mudding, seismic exploration labour, moving) for years hen we first moved to the West.

I absolutely miss being in a good shape by default. I miss the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of your labour like with mudding.

> Namely, to lie down and get sleep at once.

And boy did I use to not have any sleeping issues! Slept like a baby most nights and woke up ready to go only drank coffee for the flavour. But now that I'm an office plankton I can't even think in the morning without a cup of tims.
They should make a backup of the phone and then reset it to factory defaults then restore the backup once out of the country.

Does the chinese gov have backdoor access to gmail/gdrive?
In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs
The problem is that what constitutes politics? Guns shouldn't be political, who you have sex with shouldn't be political...but in our current climate, they are both considered political.

..and no debating? Most people at Google are shades of left. It sounds like they are just trying to drown out dissenting views once again.
Seconded, in fact this is one of my mom's favorite fruit and I ate a lot of it (raw) growing up. We also have a curious way of eating it, using a spoon to tear off bite-sized pieces, since its flesh is quite hard.
A cynic might point out that Bolsonaro was far more palatable to American finance and government than the alternative. He is to some degree America's monster and has caused a thawing of US-Brazil relations which wasn't possible under left wing leaders.

https://www.thedialogue.org/blogs/2019/06/remaking-us-brazil...

The whole situation is terrible but I don't think the establishment powers in the US would have much interest in pressuring his administration.
Can anyone recommend a good book on China, or modern geopolitics?
I won't say "the west" because I think it's really "capitalism", but

Global capitalism created this situation by deepening trade relationships with China to the point that we're all dependent on them to the point that there's very little leverage over their international behaviour.

Look at how the PRC is behaving against Canada right now. Illegal torture-like detention of two of innocent Canadian citizens in China, in retaliation for the very mild house arrest (for extradition) of a Huawei executive, something Canada _had_ to do (treaty) on US request.

How they behave domestically (against Hong Kong citizens for example), yes, that's another question.
I don't think Signal supports very large groups well (hundreds of users or more). Or things like announcement channels where tens of thousands can subscribe, but only a handful of accounts can post. Sounds to me like they have a superior product.
You can till/plough mechanically destroying the weeds but eroding the soil or you can use Weedkiller instead. But it is hard to use neither and maintain yields.
I don't.
In the age old debate between security and convince I sometimes want the latter and willing to ease on the former. To me being prepared for the worst is not fun.
I use reputation of the software creator to manage my risks.
Facebook said it would give detailed data to academics. They’re still waiting
That's not an Electron limitation, it's a design choice they've made knowingly. As a "counterexample", VSCode allows resizing the sidebar just fine.
The only thing ridiculous here is the level of snobbery people will go out of their way to express without any prompting.
Take out the middleman. Go to Africa.
Levenshtein distance is a metric [1] and discrete metrics can be indexed with BK trees, taking advantage of the triangle inequality. For a detailed explanation, see [2].

I know of no real world implementation of this, however.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_(mathematics)
[2] http://blog.notdot.net/2007/4/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Part-1-BK...
You are citing a 3 month old poll.

Actually, 2/3 of Americans support the President's trade war.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/support-free...
Given that the Chinese are big buyers of Soya Beans and the USA are using Soya Beans in their trade war against China, I can't help but think that they've basically been pouring petrol onto the Amazon..
Computer science != software engineering.

> Programming is actually really, really easy.

Perhaps. Software engineering is hard, though, and it is not the same as CS. We turn out these CS degrees, and then we expect that they can do software engineering.

That said, fizz buzz may not be the best way to tell if people can do software engineering, either...
The car is one of the ultimate goals of individualism: constant access to what Mills called "Negative Liberty", essentially the freedom to do whatever physical thing you desire to do at any given time. Unfortunately, that means that the subject must self-coerce themselves into believing it's ok that everyone own a car, and something that we can maintain forever. I wonder how many people in the US refuse to believe climate science simply because the idea of losing their car is physically painful.

When individualism leads us down a path of bad decision making (building electric cars rather than the far superior collective path of building up mass transit), I'm always reminded of a scene from the Cixin Liu "Rememberance of Earth's Past" books, where an individualist decision is made that ultimately dooms the people of the solar system, and the person who would have been the true hero of the story only gets to tell that decision maker that they are a child before he is sent off to prison.

This is essentially our battle against climate change right now: technologists trying to make enough toys to keep the rabble of toddlers happy so that we can actually fix the problem.
I'm in Atlanta. We live in a house built in the 20s just south of I-20. Thick brick walls on all sides, windows laid out so you can create a relatively strong breeze by opening the front and the back windows.

Most days we can leave the AC off. Temps will climb to about 75-76 by mid-afternoon, but rarely get too far above that.

The only part of the house that absolutely needs the AC is the upstairs converted attic. It was renovated in the 80s with no thought to air flow, and no way to get a cross breeze from the windows. So we have a mini-split we can run for that floor.

The house is going to feel warm if you're used to running AC 24/7, but 2 weeks in and 76 with a breeze feels fine.

I understand where you're coming from, the last place we lived was a more modern ranch house near Morningside, with bad layout for airflow and it was MISERABLE in the summer (routinely 90+ by 11am if the AC was off).

I'm just saying design matters a lot here, and makes a big difference. There's nothing special about Atlanta that makes that any less true.
From all the cities that I used, Singapore was the one where I used most often taxis, because they were so cheap. It may have changed since 2004, but I think even for Singapore having electric cars, even for taxis might be better. What am I missing?

Other than this I agree that for cities public transportation, together with good infrastructure for bicycles is very important, because in most cities driving your car yourself is so bad: it is slow, demands a lot of attention, getting a parking place is often very difficult.
Looks like I was spot on with the signalling analysis.
At launch, a high-altitude balloon is just a bubble of helium in a mostly-empty envelope. An airship with that much room for expansion would be enormous, even by the standards of airships.

In WW1, Germany flew some "height climber" zeppelins, which could reach 20,000 feet (still well within the range of stormy weather), but they could carry very little payload. They were also fragile, vulnerable to damage by quite ordinary weather. I think all other airships were limited to a few thousand feet, at least in practice.
This sounds like a great opportunity to buy real estate. These protests won't last forever and it will be business as usual within 6 months.
This type of argument always kind of bothers me as well, be nice to state it as "helped create" or something but then there is a lot to say for the old saying "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem".