skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, a good amount of law and politics is knowing what you can or cannot do. It's not that law is complex it's that dealing with people who know law, or people that know that you don't know about law is complex.

You can see it when people with the basic understanding of police interactions can avoid so much illegal stuff happening if they just know when to say no.
Studios will absolutely modify screenplays, or else edit the films specifically for the China market to remove offensive or politically sensitive topics.

It’s worth a lot of money to them to make a product which sells well in the Chinese market.
By the way, it wasn't just Adobe and Microsoft; practically no developers wanted to write all of their UI code twice.
I ask questions there because I get good answers quickly. Sometimes I see questions in my field of expertise and I answer them. Which other site should I go to instead to have that?
While I agree fundamentally, I think the blog post is focusing too narrowly which gives me a bad taste in the mouth, and I read it as an attempt to pass blame to employees.

For example, one suggestion is to point out the problem and discuss it openly.

>schedule a meeting with the project stakeholders and product owners ... talk about the pattern of incomplete requirements and make recommendations ...

This is great, and from my experience happens all the time. People speak up to managers all the time, every day. Rarely have I seen someone with a problem not bring it up to their manager.

It's the lack of action from managers following the feedback that's often the cause for developers adopting the "victim-oriented mindset". The direct result of manager inaction is for the developer to think the issues we have are real and are not being addressed, so my manager is indirectly telling me not to bring issues up next time which causes the "victim-oriented mindset".

Mindsets are situational, a developer's mindset reflects the environment they find themselves in. Poor leadership is the number one cause for burnout (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17849489). Poor leadership causes poor mindsets.
If approached from outside it should be rather straightforward to craft effective law. Unfortunately, laws are approached from inside.
I think SO is poorly designed as a system. It certainly does encourage people to ask not-so-great questions. It doesn't handle them particularly well. And then expects people to clean up the mess for free. Those people of course feel stressed and overwhelmed, so are inclined to be rude, aggressive, and hasty in their decisions.

Like ldigas, I long ago gave up on SO because of bad moderation experiences. I'm grudgingly willing to respect those mods as humans, but I certainly won't as moderators. They do a poor job, needlessly offending and discouraging contributors. They could quit any time. They could go on strike at any time. But no, they just kept on.

I can definitely muster up some sympathy when people trapped in bad jobs are jerks. They are doing it to survive. But people who volunteer to be jerks? That's on them.
> I'm totally out of the loop about what this drama is about, and I'll stay that way.

Yes, you who claims not to want to know, and then spends time and effort writing vitriol about the subject you don't want to know about.
If the NBA were big in Spain, and the guy had said "Fight for Freedom, Stand with Catalonia", I expect he would have had to apologize too. The government is more involved in China, because the government is more involved with everything in China, but there are few countries in the world where people don't get mad at foreigners wading into touchy political issues.
Agreed, its not just crossovers that are difficult to see out of but all new cars - one of the issues is that SUVs have the ground clearance to run someone over much easier.

Also, children are important too and if one gets in front of you pulling up on a driveway using a modern SUV could be a recipe for disaster.

https://www.wardsauto.com/news-analysis/new-pillars-enhance-...
Thank you. There is a tendency in tech people to dismiss politics as less than important ("just politics", "just political"). It's a fundamental part of our social fabric.
Apparently, the issue here is that SE removed a respected moderator but isn't telling the community what happened, why, what the removal process was or will be in the future, etc. Pronouns is what was being discussed at the time, but it doesn't seem to be the high-order bit.
That's assuming that this isn't just security theater.
Do you have a source for your claim that code examples with Alice and Bob with she/he pronouns are not accepted on Stack Exchange? I haven't seen any claim like that before.
This comment is off-topic to the issue at hand, which is about forcing people to use "they" instead of any other singular gender-neutral pronoun or simply avoiding pronouns.
Won't happen (yet), because it goes against everything Musk.

At the risk of downvotes... Here's my work-in-progress theory (v0.1):

Musk isn't a tech genius, (or maybe he is, but irrelevant) he's a regulation genius. (Which allows him to also be an effective fundraiser, but again, irrelevant.)

Musk's MO is to enter a niche, mostly uncontested and unregulated area of an otherwise over-regulated market. Then make a whole lot of noise about why this niche is so different and special and going to be so groundbreaking, which is really just cover for "why existing regulations shouldn't apply to me." Then as regulations (and subsidies) for that niche market are created, make sure that they favor his company (which already has a beachhead), while still being a barrier to market for any new-comers hoping to ride his coat-tails. Continue until level of regulation roughly matches the rest of the (non-niche) industry, ensuring niche status while becoming a competitor in the overall (non-niche) market. This happens as everyone realizes the final product, as finished, probably wasn't special enough to be excluded from the (non-niche) market regulations.

See: (in decreasing rank of success)

PayPal-> Banking

SpaceX-> Rockets/Aerospace

Tesla-> Cars

Giga-factory/ Tesla assembly automation -> manufacturing

Boring Company-> Subsurface Construction

Solar City-> Power Utility

Not-a-flamethrower -> flame thrower market???

Scuba rescue tank-> pedo scuba rescue market???

There are obviously some places this fits and others it doesn't. There's also some level of genius in how batteries/electric cars/solar/power-grid play off of one another, but nothing non-obvious. I suspect he wanted to make an earlier play in ride-sharing, but Uber beat him to it, with a similar strategy. This is now delayed until self-driving (re)allows for the regulatory advantage.

But the intended overall playbook starts to become obvious.

Back to Boring Company: I suspect skirting the existing regulations isn't going quite as well as desired because:

1- people realize his technology isn't all that special, even if it is (self-imposed) niche. (This is a failure in how
hyperloop played out.)

2a- Subsurface engineering regulations aren't all that interesting, at least as far as looking for creative ways around them

2b- the regulations that are there have a pretty good (non-arbitrary and simple) engineering purpose. (Which is another way of saying the existing market is not actually over regulated)

3a- nimby politics plays a major role

3b- local governments (clients) don't have the power and/or money to override regulation politics

To answer: the Boring Company can't go and bid on bigger projects (yet) because then they would completely burn their niche status, which would admit to the world it's just another subsurface drilling company, and should be treated as such. They have to delay until their personalized regulatory system has been built, acknowledged, and subsidized. Then you can go after the regular projects that don't justify a special regulatory framework.
It certainly has happened, but there are many other reasons. An almost modern example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
2 modal opt-in popups. 1 is standard. 2 is really pushing it.
Except when they need to buy anything from China. Or are all those factories an illusion as well?
The problem with Freedom is there network isn't good enough so people try them and go back to one of the others that has coverage where they travel.
I got about halfway through TIS-100, realized that what I actually wanted to do was to finally learn assembly language, and actually went ahead and wrote a working Fizzbuzz program in x86 assembler! Really the best outcome for not finishing a game
This is not the first time nor this is specific to SO. Here[0] is another occurrence of something similar to those interested.

[0]https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538...
That is serialization, which is one purpose for converting to a string. Dynamic languages already tend to be able to print objects in a way that's meaningful -- such as most REPL-based languages that have a reader (or eval) and a printer. As do ML-derived languages the print in constructor format, but they tend not to have readers or eval. Having it called .perl in this case is already a step in the right direction from toString, as you know what its for.
Hong Kong is definitely heading in the direction of complete independence. Thankfully.

I agree completely that the angst in HK is caused by outsiders. It has to feel terrible for HK people having their representation grabbed by agents of Beijing. They should apologize and grant universal suffrage to all people born in HK.

Most important in this is HK establishing its own military service, intel service, constitution (not just the Basic law oath of fealty to PRC), and UN representation. These are the remaining things HK needs to be treated like any other nation.

Since the rule of law is what matters, it will be important that judges and lawyers have adequate time to adapt to the any changes in the legal process after transition is complete.

The thing that has yet to be decided is how the legislature in HK will be structured though. Maybe in /r/hongkong they can bring it up.

But most important will be China staying out of meddling in Hong Kong's internal affairs. This is about Hong Kong people planning new system separate from PRC. After that is complete PRC has the same right to establish treaties the same way as Japan, USA, etc.
This is fake news....

Not hard to see, you can even read the original article in google translate, which seems to be their only source and they still messed it up.

The case was 16 years start to finish, not him studying law.

He used a lawyer..... "Wang Enlin began work to protect his rights in 2006 and received assistance from the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims (CLAPV) in 2007" [1]

Sure you just want a meme to make you happy, but Reddit did this story years ago. And they have new memes that are untrue and fun there now.

The more real story here is still kinda cool [2]. But this isn't close to the truth.

[1] https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/Case%20Study%...
[2] http://www.clapv.org/english_lvshi/ZhiChiAnJian_Content.asp?...
>Yes. Those were not good days. In those days, every tech savvy person somehow automatically got the privilege to be rude to the less knowledgeable people. If a user came for help without doing sufficient homework, a project author or community would rudely ask the user to go RTFM.

Two things.

1) 'RTFM' isn't as rude as expecting to be hand-fed. That's the grace in the statement, it's meant to be used as a retort to the expectation that the person being asked the question even has the time to entertain the notion of training someone, given that the manual is available and ready for consumption.

It's (supposed) to speak to the laziness of the person asking the question.

Personally, I think a lot of 'RTFM's that got thrown around have historically lead to the person asking the original question to become a lot more knowledgable on the subject than had a simple answer. I know that I learned that way.

2) I don't have a lot of faith that the politeness that many CoCs enforce got rid of 'RTFM', it just shifted it to "Hi User! Have you tried scouring our extensive question-base for that frequently asked question?" , and that kind of unnecessary glad-handed wordiness irks me as an individual.
Short of an actual revolution no.
I’m a bit confused. I thought it was pretty common to a generate a random number between 0 and N by getting a random float between 0 and 1 and multiplying it by N.
You are free to do anything you want. You just have be responsible for the result. It is just how everything works.
> And if you build your worth on your gender should I really be interested? It was your choice. You could have chosen otherwise. Any harm you might feel when someone misgenders you is self inflicted.

Would you say the same about a person being called a racial slur for example? “You shouldn’t have built your worth on your race”?

Any harm you might feel when someone [calls you the n-word] is self inflicted, of course.

> Why would using the wrong one be harmful to anybody?

As alexwennerberg said elsewhere in this thread:

> The reason that people are so sensitive and strict about this is because the stakes for trans people are very high -- some people don't believe trans people exist, should exist, or should have the same rights as cis people. Refusing to use the right pronouns reveals either a benign misunderstanding about trans people or a willful hostility towards their existence. The latter is extremely common and can be both hurtful and often scary, as trans people, especially trans people of color, are often subject to violence because of their identities.
In a booming city, developers with the capital and the technology should be allowed to deploy it to accomodate me, just as they have done to accomodate everyone who already lives there.
You might be underestimating how commonly Alice and Bob are used in algorithm explains.
Surely Freedom has a pay as you go / monthly plan that you could try?
>There's no way anybody could build this service without volunteers.

Agree. Maybe it should cease exploiting the good will of its users and either pay them, or wither away.
Their TLS certificate expired over a year ago. This doesn't exactly seem to inspire my confidence in the project's ongoing development.
In many countries, honesty is regulated. Possibly also in the U.S.A., under the guise of employment law.
I love being pedantic, scroll down this list ya dingbat!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Can you explain a little context behind this? I am not Jewish so I am just purely curious as to why it would be anti-Semitic.
Kenyan farmers mix tradition with tech to protect drying Mara River
This post does not represent what HKers involved in the movement want, which is autonomy (as per Basic Law), not independence.
Could be an interesting market niche for a studio that makes movies that unapologetically espouses western values and doesn't take any money from nondemocratic funders. See if it's possible to earn a profit without selling out.
They should, they really should. It's just "spitting into the wind" to live anywhere that is below sea level and near a coastline. Flooding is Nature's way of telling you to move.

Sure we admire their ingenuity and hard-work ethic and how they recovered the land from the sea but that same energy probably could have been applied with more productive results somewhere else. Look what the Mormons have done with Utah. Maybe the Dutch could have done something similar with Montana (or even Minnesota). I'm certain they would have done a better job with San Francisco than we've done.
that to is up to the people of HK, if thats what it takes
It looks cool. The only examples I see though are for drawing maps. Any pointers on how you could draw a x/y chart?
Maybe because there’s no reciprocity?
This is only superficially true.

In China the CPC exercises strict control over what topics are allowed to trend on social media, so what appears to be "mob justice" is actually a carefully curated event. The state media chose to report on this rather than ignore it. The Cyberspace Administration chose to allow this outrage to gain momentum while topics that do not toe the party line are squashed.

You cannot really compare the kind of social media "mob justice" people speak of in the west to how things are managed on the Chinese internet.
If American are offended by the violation of free speech, they should boycott NBA like the Chinese do.
yes you're right, my inherent prejudice for more genetic diversity did the thinking for me.
Have you ever answered a question on stackoverflow? Or upvoted something? That's the same thing, just to a lesser degree.
This site on a 24" 2560x1440 display feels like I'm using binoculars to browse it: https://i.imgur.com/bCDCDah.png
As South Park brilliantly told us: “You’re gonna have to lower your ideals of freedom if you want to suck on the warm teat of China.”
Well…

I do not know details here. But there is, in fact, a separate “proprietary” API for interacting with files on macOS, provided for backwards compatibility. This API exists because the POSIX file functions do not provide similar enough functionality to the earlier API. This API is called the File Manager. Documentation is hard to find on the Apple website, but you can find some fairly extensive documentation for it in the old Inside Macintosh series (and sometimes you can dig HTML or PDF versions of this on the Apple website, but whether this is possible, and the exact location, seems to change every couple years).

The way you would specify a file on old versions of macOS used a length-delimited string for the filename, and referred to directories by 32-bit IDs. This was packed into an FSSpec structure which was passed to most functions which operated on files. Being length-delimited, it is possible to pass a NUL byte.

From what I understand, the macOS kernel exposed some additional entry points for these functions to operate correctly.
Houston Rockets general manager apologises for Hong Kong protest tweet
This is pretty inaccurate and inflammatory.
The self-promotion is the main thing that makes Quora useful though. If you want to know what are all the startups that have attempted solving problem X, it's usually impossible to get a complete answer without using Quora. Just searching Google / Crunchbase / HN / ProductHunt etc. will miss the last third of startups, that you can only find mentioned in the relevant Quora thread.
I was renting a 600 sq.ft apt in SF for $3000 more than half a decade ago. The apartment management company raised rents with no rhyme or reason. I decided to move away from SF in hopes of lower rent and started to search mainly along the 101/280 or BART lines and found a lot of places that were vacant for more than a month but rents were exorbitantly high. It seemed like just one or two real-estate companies owned all those apartment complexes and were increasing the rents artificially each year.

I finally realized moving further away doesn't help from overall costs. In SF I wasn't owning a car. When I moved away from SF, car became a necessity. If you add the cost of car ownership, it made up for the difference in the rent. And of course not to mention the drop in quality of life due to 1h+ drive on busy 101/280 each day.
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> 1.4 billion of those people are Chinese, and they can get outaged over whatever ridiculous shit they want.

Only in your own thoughts and dreams (for now). You're not allowed to outrage on Weibo or WeChat. Is this correct?
Why are you so interested in completely shooting down the idea of building some SROs? Why are you even arguing with me if you generally agree with me?

If you generally agree with me, you can agree with whatever points you want to agree with, thank me for sharing a wealth of knowledge and stop there without going on to insist "Except this one detail, that I imagine is your entire goal, is completely and totally wrong and must be absolutely shot down for some damn reason."

I'm not talking about "SROs for everyone" or some nonsense.

I've studied this problem space for literally decades at this point. I'm writing at length because it interests me and I know a lot about it and I enjoy the somewhat rare opportunity to talk about it in depth.

But you are posting to...pretend to agree with me while insisting I'm wrong?
Idea are worth everything.

The idea is the execution map (the guiding light). I.e. you can have perfect execution, but if the idea is not good, its all waste.
Cook's illustrated/ATK as well, if you have a subscription. The quality is superb.
I had to move from my hometown because it's a pit of economic misery where the primary industry is caring for a shrinking, aging population. You gotta do what you gotta do.
Most of them are brainwashed by one party politics and one party news in their own country so I am not sure their outrage means anything.
> government is more involved with everything in China

There lies in the difference. In Spain, it would be the people demanding it. In China, its the authoritative government that is not only demanding but also threatening.

Its not quite apples to apples.
> See if it's possible to earn a profit without selling out.

Unfortunately it's not possible.

Nearly everyone on HN would rather invest in a total stock market index fund, simply because it gives better returns. How much different? Approximately 1% more.

So there you have it. People will sell out for 1% of their portfolio. Myself included.
That would never happen because HK is already part of China, while it's political system differs than Mainland China - It's still effectively China. It has PLA garrisons all around HK.

Would highly recommended reading about Taiwan. Taiwan is what China should be but with the amount of manipulation and corruption i don't see it ever happening.
Or to the side, but yes. Maximum safety.
The crisis in Hong Kong is not a separatist movement, unlike Catalonia.
Genuine question: had you never seen the "Spanish Inquisition" skits before seeing that movie? If so, why didn't you have a similar reaction to them?
likewise any criticism of Chinese policy that occurs on the internet is no doubt being monitored and influenced by an army of Chinese intelligence operatives
Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank (2010)
Thanks for posting. I figured this issue wasn't just chrome. Been meaning to switch to BW and this might be the kick I needed instead of 'just living with it' anymore.
This was an interesting read! I hope they do a follow up article on how they automatically manage the rest of their recovery process.
We got smacked by that for a securities violation. We were CS undergrads raising money for our startup, no idea that financial regulation even existed.

Once we knew it was wrong, it was too late. Recisions aren't as simple as just returning the money and the legal overhead was greater than the total money raised.

Oh well. We know better today.
Kohl’s Now Accepts Amazon Returns at All Stores
If I understand the grand-parent correctly, his/her point is that the lack of privacy gives more control to the inheritors as they can use that as a way to pass more stringent laws governning communications and enforce blanked surveillance as a way to quash dissent.

There is an assymetry because the procecutions under these laws will not be as effective against of those who have the means to defend themselves against them (basically money and influence).

Also the loss of encryption will probably not affect all means of communication but getting mass-appeal apps like FB and WhatsApp to forego with encryption means most people would then easily become 'surveillable'.
That's not obvious at all in any place in the world.
Thank you, if this is accurate it's perfect.
Yup. This situation is about to get somewhat complicated.

Many American C-level execs at many large tech companies are huge pro basketball fans.