skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gates is doing a good job at PR if nothing else. In a cynical view (that is not mine) you could see it as him stealing $100, giving away $50, and being hailed a hero.
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The person you responded to said they think reality isn't harsh, humans are, and you replied with a bunch of harsh things humans do as if that contradicted their comment, which it doesn't. Yet you're contradicting yourself:

> In the moment it sucks, but over time I look back and see a beautiful existence.

vs.

> Imagine looking an abused child in the eyes and saying "is reality that harsh?"
The Math and Strategy Behind Working Only 4 Months a Year
I would love to read everything you would write about this. I'm sure most people here would. I can't believe you've been doing a whole genre of activity for over 25 years that I just learned exists today!
Open letter to the Free Software movement – dyne.org
Dropbox is 8/10 on their BS index. Dropbox may not produce enlightenment, but it sure solves a useful problem of storing and sharing files online. I think they're doing well financially too?

I seem to remember reading a Paul Graham article about the early days of Y Combinator (can't find the article now) where he mentioned that basically 2-3 startups including dropbox make all the money, and the rest is just noise. Seems like it wasn't such a BS bet after all.
Why not have feelings about your feelings?
Five Minutes on Imitation in Design [video]
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> even supporting cryptographic authentication on ILS signals would still leave systems vulnerable to record and replay attacks

Not necessarily? It should be possible to encode at least a timestamp so that a replay wouldn't work; or even implement a challenge-response so that each plane has their own signal? Not trivial of course but possible...?
The Story of Us: Full Series
Lockheed Martin is in a similar situation.
Slightly offtopic, but the windy.com service referenced in the article is really a fantastic resource if you learn to use it properly. I rely on it for paragliding a lot, the animated winds are much easier to understand for the brain than static map. Comparing different weather models helps to assess the accuracy of the prediction.
There are some preliminary findings that specific types of plastics, when ingested, reduce fertility in both humans and dogs:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39913-9
This does not strike me as ethical disclosure. It would, as the author himself describes it, take a redesign of every craft, before making this research public would be safe.

He put a smiley face by the suggestion to use a drone transmitter FFS.
Causes of Laughter
> we oppose prohibition from a principled position

Is that true? There are still many dry counties in the US, and full scale prohibition was an utter and total desaster. Seems more that people learned that alcohol prohibition doesn't work which lead to its abolishment, not a principled position.
The entitlement in this single post is staggering. You are part of the problem.
It is time to get rid of this header. All browsers should stop sending it.

Even more important is to stop leaking your private IPs:
https://browserleaks.com/webrtc

Even more important: Stop using http by default when users enter a hostname into their urlbar. https is a joke at the moment. Because when users go to somecoolsite.com they are at first connecting via http. Now a man in the middle could just proxy their connection. No security at all.
I do not understand why this comment is being downvoted. The OP is absolutely right about this.
> pointing fingers to Brazil for destroying the Amazon forest.

That is rich, considering Brazil is the world’s leading exporter of both beef and poultry, exporting to more than 150 countries. Brazilian beef is the main reason for the massive deforestation in the Amazon.

> A 2004 World Bank paper and a 2009 Greenpeace report found that the cattle sector in the Brazilian Amazon, supported by the international beef and leather trades, was responsible for about 80% of all deforestation in the region,[3][2] or about 14% of the world's total annual deforestation, making it the largest single driver of deforestation in the world.[4] According to a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 70% of formerly forested land in the Amazon, and 91% of land deforested since 1970, is used for livestock pasture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...

People who eat meat imported from Brazil blames Brazil for destroying the Amazon forest? Even if you do not eat meat imported from Brazil, you should "blame" the consumers who do. If there would be no demand for it, there would be no financial incentives for all this destruction.
You are mistaking two effects. Indeed, glass does not "flow" (it's not a "very, very viscous liquid"); but most assuredly it does sag under gravity - just as a heavy steel beam supported at the ends would.

This problem is much simpler to solve for mirrors than lenses, as mirrors can be supported under their entire surface (see [0] for how it's done in larger amateur telescopes), while lenses - only along the edge.

[0] https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/562906-18-point-flotation...
I heard people were moving away from doing stocks in London with Brexit looming. Is this no longer the case?
while the title is a bit more inflammatory than the article, it does say that delisting is being considered amongst other options.
What other country from the West has a beef with China?

This is purely US vs China. Leave the rest of us out of your own mess please.
(I only want to wade in here on one narrow logical point, and avoid discussing the specifics of this case.)

> If Stallman's past behavior was unacceptable, then he should have been fired for that.

Indeed!

The fact that he wasn't fired for his past behaviour doesn't necessarily mean that his past behaviour was acceptable.

Not firing him for his past behaviour may just have been an error of judgement.

If I get away with (say) stealing once, that shouldn't mean I now have carte blanche to steal anything without consequence.
Well, that's not how the IPCC works: politics make WGIII, scientists only make WGI and WGII which nobody cares for. Article 11:

https://archive.ipcc.ch/pdf/ipcc-principles/ipcc-principles....

Also, well it turns out IPCC retracts their own predictions:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/the-great-...

What else ?
I've used host files to reduce my news reading and found various browsers ignore the hosts file at timez... and Chrome is the worst.
Since the US gained global dominance post WW2 with the Marshall plan I don't think the US has ever really been that subtle about maintaining capitalist free market dominance.

As you say, now that China is producing compelling products the US is flexing a bit more because it sees a serious non ally threat to US interests. The biggest shame of it is that it is so unfortunate that China isn't more politically and legally upstanding and morally respectable like Europe is.
Is there talk about changing the legislation? When Sweden flipped the legislation some years back (selling is now decriminalized while buying is illegal) I thought that was part of a global trend? To me it always seemed like a rational change.
From the Bottom of the Sea to the Operating Table
I’d love to read more of your take on Improbable.
What's causing what? I don't see cause and effect here, I see one adjective versus another.
Right: I meant the prison presumably doesn't want prisoners playing games (as is easy to do on these calculators). I'm actually a little confused that was a controversial thought.
Also US started wars , military actions or changed the governments around the world,spied(maybe assassinations - I would apreciate someone if knows of a good example of this) , pushed international law for the interest of the big companies(aka for money) ex the banana wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

Also the government will intervene on the internal market too with money,subsidies, regulations,exceptions to help the big companies,

in t he end the state and big companies are in a long relationship and there is no way you can deny this just ways you can try to find arguments that is fair and honest.
> but I don't think they have the appetite to break the status quo this eagerly.

Mainly they don't have the strength to break the status quo. Plus they don't want to jeopardise access to such a large market. It's a Faustian bargain they're beginning to regret.

China is going to rise, this cannot and should not be prevented. But allowing them to rise at your own country's expense is folly. America gets this.
> vastly larger than the Saudi Arabian one

By one order of magnitude these days, the Norwegian fund's market value was less than $100b in 2004 though.
I use Vue.js old style without any compilation for a reasonably complex app and it’s pleasant enough.

Node.js backend uses Pug for templating, each template includes a script template file. These template files are built with Make and load either a minified bundle (made with terser) or just a bunch of plain JS depending on the value of NODE_ENV.

Works great :)
I have a gifted iPad 2 collecting dust.

IMHO the hardware is quite capable. Meaning that it would be a very convenient headless server with its own UPS.

Similarly to custom ROMs for Android breath new life in non supported devices, I believe running Linux on an old iDevice would be simple way to get perfectly good hardware doing something again.
So what's the message, the EU is only interested in combating oppression when there's no money on the table?
What's a valuation meant to be? If it is to represent the value that the company will create for shareholders over its entire lifetime, all these numbers seem very low for a company that is near lead position in vehicle autonomy.
>The U.S went to wars, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians to force open markets to its products

This is a standard Marxist explanation for U.S. overseas military intervention [0]. It is also largely wrong.

Let’s look at the data. After 16 years of obscenely expensive American intervention in Iraq, that country exports more to China than the U.S., and imports more from China and Turkey together than from all other trade partners combined [1]. Likewise, Afghanistan today imports almost nothing from the U.S., but relies heavily on exports from China and Iran - two major U.S. competitors [2]. This is, of course, geographical common sense. If anything, recent U.S. wars have opened new markets for China, their number one geopolitical competitor.

Looking further back, Germany, Japan, and South Korea have all developed into financially independent trading partners. Far from U.S. capital dominating Japan, Americans were afraid for quite some time that Japanese cars, electronics, and industrial equipment would completely displace their American equivalents.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_explanations_of_warfar...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iraq
[2] http://stat.wto.org/CountryProfile/WSDBCountryPFView.aspx?La...
This is a bad idea, this information may seriously harm your wife's mental health.
But it's not even what the words means.

Merriam-Webster:
> capable of being physically or emotionally wounded

That can certainly be interpreted as a weakness. And it certainly is for things like vehicles, buildings, etc. But in the case of humans, vulnerability only means "weakness" when said human is perceived as an object, a means to an end, perhaps in a business transaction. The fact is that humans are in their most fundamental sense defined by the capacity to be physical and emotionally wounded. Therefore the term, being vulnerable, when used to describe a human attitude rather describes that person's expressed transparency to their innate humanness. As per this thread, more often men deny their vulnerability as if they cannot be emotionally wounded, which leads to a denial of their selves as a whole. Having the capacity to be emotionally wounded says absolutely nothing about somebody's emotional strengths and weaknesses, because we can all be equally wounded. Being vulnerable however potentially indicates a person's willingness to be transparent about their inner experience, namely their emotions, which can be anything from being overwhelmed to rage.
Liability and reversibility have nothing to do with how quickly or slowly the operation happens.
I know blackrock will delist quite a few EUR denominated ETFs[0] from the LSE, but what stocks actually mentioned leaving the LSE?

[0] https://www.etfstream.com/news/8949_blackrock-delists-43-etf...
HSTS somewhat solves the case after the first connection, but I dream of a world we’re HTTP is disabled for public ip access
Yeah a little bit like the US, supporting Saudi Arabia whatever they do.
I think the reasoning is the opposite. Someone is doing a long drive, maybe to get to the mountains in the north to go skiing. They need to stop and charge somewhere on the way. Why not get food too?
Western society is also "indigenous", mainly to Europe and no, if anything the only society blubbering about emotions is the western society because it doesn't have to deal with too much adversity. It will all end when some hardship will come its way and we all give a bit less importance to feminist agendas.
Are we pretending that any of this has to do with combatting oppression?
It should be stressed that doing psi can traumatize you and leave you with mental health issues.
> why are so many people focused on whether or not this actually produces better results for people? Legislation, by and large and particularly in the United States, is driven first and foremost by principle, rather than utilitarian objectives.

Seatbelts, speed limits, health regulations, heck even labour laws are about utilitarian outcomes - generally keeping people from dying prematurely or going to the hospital.

The state generally interferes with transaction that are harmful between the two parties. You can't write whatever you want in a contract, even if it only pertains to first parties.

As for alcohol prohibition: That's not a principle stance regarding the freedom to take harmful substance. It is an exception to the prohibition of access to harmful substances. We still want something that's bad for us, so alcohol is the exception for historical reasons, but for (probably misguided) utilitarian reasons, we don't allow all sorts of drugs.
Counter-question: How exactly is the US combating oppression in China? Apart from ruining your own relationship with your 3rd biggest trade partner, that is.
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I first read about the style of not typedef'ing structs in the Linux Kernel style guidelines. I read some of the justifications and the pointer issue you also bring up is a really convincing one. But I was also convinced by the context argument. I've seen Linus use this one to talk about the downsides of using C++, but it also applies here. Basically, when reviewing a small block of code, it is typically possible to understand what the code does in C (whereas in C++, because of all the language features that kick in automatic implicit behaviors, it is much harder to know if any of that is going on without much more context.) Similarly with the explicitness of struct, you know exactly what is going on and you don't have the ambiguity of whether the type is a struct, pointer, or primitive type (like int) and how they impact the behavior slightly differently in the language.
I can answer the coding question. They have automation that will select the highest level code for a procedure they think they can get away with without being sued. They brag about this. Like using emergency codes for specialty at a satellite facility they claim is physician owned but isn't soley so they can just bill insurance the higher rates.
Good.

The CCP pretty much owns every Chinese big company. And, they don't let people examine their books. Who's to say that all that American investment money isn't going into grossly or even fraudulently overvalued stock?
appears that you need to work more on re-wording it. the current question presumes that FAANG companies already have "great engineering culture," but that probably doesn't help the reader/respondent much.

maybe more anecdotal answers will help? a question along the lines of, "what makes the engineering culture at your workplace great?" may solicit the answers you seek.
Also US can weather itself the best if the status quo is broken, because it is currently on top. Other countries won't be so lucky.

Trump's actions feel dramatic, but mainly on the magnitude and fast aggression. Something is due to happen and the world needs to adapt to that new normal.
With cars on the road, it's not exactly vapor ware though. The main concern seems to be that the testing is taking longer than they initially hoped.

Full level five autonomy without safety drivers is going to require extended R&D investments. However, with Google rolling around in cash the eventual outcome seems to be not that uncertain. Hence the insane valuation.

I'd say the main risk is increasingly other companies getting there first. E.g. Tesla seems to be quite stubbornly moving forward with its approach and unlike Waymo they have many vehicles on many roads. Also, the German car manufacturers are making progress.

Hard problems; but with feasible paths to a solution and a huge potential market once technology gets there. IMHO this won't take more than a decade and possibly a lot shorter. What will take longer is regulation catching up with reality. Safety drivers will likely be mandatory long after they stop adding any value whatsoever.

The reality is that most car accidents are caused by humans and increasingly in vehicles that don't have assisted & autonomous capable technology on board. Human drivers are by far the biggest risk factor on the road and autonomous driving is made harder by their presence. So, ironically, the job gets easier as that becomes rarer.
So you change the rules in the middle of the game so you don't lose, sounds right if you are the arbiter too
Still using thunderbird. And this guy eats lots of memory!!!
> If we are so concerned, why not rebuild those forests.

it's been reported plenty of times that europe keeps getting more forests e.g.[0]

> Between 1990 and 2015, the area covered by forests and woodlands increased by 90,000 square kilometres - an area roughly the size of Portugal.

The problem with european forests is mostly, AFAIU, the fact that the few remaining old growth ones are still being cut, such as in Poland.

[0] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/forest-europe-environ....
What's the big deal about railroad tracks?
Another Level of Indirection
The death of due process (2016)
HSTS has more downsides then upsides.

First of all its additional complexity that has to be implemented by the website. More work, more things that can go wrong.

Second, it needs to store data on users machine. It is basically a cookie. So users would need to kiss goodbye privacy to "benefit" from it.

Third, it only works if the user has connected to the site on the same browser before. And did not delete the cached HSTS data.

So in sum, it kills privacy, works only sometimes and piles up on the stack. It's a typical bandaid solultion. Instead of fixing the root cause, it makes things worse.
Yes, this and its successor "Getting Past No" are good to understand the ways you can bend a negotiation.
The SEC. If your concern is that companies listed on US stock exchanges aren't correctly reporting their financials thats an issue for the SEC. It's not an issue for a blanket ban on Chinese companies being listed. Preventing Americans from being able to trade their investments easily on a reputable exchange isn't going to help them.
What'll really surprise you is when the central banking system is shut down.
The article ends with:

> Are there any easily deployable defences?

> No.

> All of the backup systems, including GPS, fail to provide sufficient security guarantees, and even supporting cryptographic authentication on ILS signals would still leave systems vulnerable to record and replay attacks.

So seems solving with GPS is not enough.
That would also be the opinion of Chief UN Scientist, calling Climate Crisis Narrative “Religious Extremism”:

http://co2coalition.org/2019/09/27/chief-un-climate-scientis...
Stacks and Queues – What, how and where to use
I Became GDPR Compliant
Try explaining that to Rhea from RedHat. She seems to believe the opposite

"A skill perhaps, to which women are born vastly inferior. There are separate categories in physical sports for a reason - men and women are not the same, neither physically, nor mentally. In both ways one could say that women are weaker"

https://www.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/d61qfu/open_letter_...
Bullshit they didn't know. I've sat in the meetings where the hospitals explain this, and instruct how to maximize the revenue.
AO and L Marks Launch Innovation Lab for Online Retail Solutions
People catching a hint of the real power they have is an existential threat to traditional myth structures; not just China's.
Secure a REST API with MicroProfile and JWT Authentication
Clickbait. It's more temporary workers.
A good infographic could be created once HTTP/3 is finalized.
Executives leverage their personal relationships with shareholders and other executives to enrich themselves at the expense of shareholders and taxpayers through lobbying or shady deals. That's what they really do. All the other stuff they do is just a pretext to deflect attention away from what they're really doing.
It's far simpler than that. In order to look good domestically Trump needs a foe, and China conveniently provides that foe. They're a credible threat, they are not his Russian buddies and the US is to a large extent dependent on them.

On top of that I suspect that when the last stone is overturned we will find a bunch of ways in which the US president and his cronies profited from the wild gyrations of the stock market as a result of the trade war.
Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator (2018)
Why do I have to listen to all this women bullshit. I talk about my emotions as much as I want and yes, most of those emotions are being pissed off with something or someone. Why do I suppose to have all those feminine emotions which I don't have? Why do I suppose to help myself in some way that obviously is not going to help me in any way. Men are not women, stop nag us, that will go much further than all those stupid advice by some lesbian feminists.