skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all true, but still it's pretty obvious Switzerland is doing extremely well by any metric you can think of.
I know this has been mentioned a million times on here, but for the off chance that someone hasn't heard about it before I'm going to completely disregard that and say that Magit for Emacs is an incredibly helpful tool for interfacing with git repositories that I couldn't imagine working without it. It's by far the best interface to a version control system that I've ever used. It has helped me understand how git works behind the scenes, and allows me to effortlessly work with branching, stashes, merging, rebasing, remotes and much more, without remembering a bunch of arcane git commands.
At least in the 90s, trying to play PC games was a great way to figure out how computers worked and how to troubleshoot them when they went wrong.

Things are so much easier now... You don't have to touch an autoexec.bat, or deal with extended memory. The amount of system tweaking you have to do to get decent performance is minimal. And installing a game almost never borks your computer so badly you have to madly try to do an OS restore, trying to preserve everything and make it look like you hadn't broken the family computer...
How about space stations?
From https://www.pcgamer.com/blitzchung-removed-from-hearthstone-... a description of the incident :

> As Andy reported earlier today, Blitzchung did not back down after the sudden removal of the broadcast, during which he wore a gas mask and goggles before shouting "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!" Following the incident he released a statement elaborating on his stance, writing "I know what my action on stream means. It could cause me lot of trouble, even my personal safety in real life. But I think it's my duty to say something about the issue."
Targeting 13 to 25 year old's seems awfully young. Near all in my media addiction self help group are older, quite a few of them significantly.

Such help only works if the individual actually wants to change itself, and the realization for this to be necessary can require quite a bit of "damage" to occur. Especially if parents (inadvertently) enable the behavior. They themselves got to fight in that dispute as well, just sending your child to therapist tends to be a waste of time. Didn't work on the few anecdotes I've seen/heard. Didn't work on me when my parents tried long ago. Took embarrassingly long for me to finally seek help with the intent to change.

Btw, if anyone near Berlin (Ger) is willing to give a Dev with little professional experience and lots of blank space on the CV a chance, please shoot me a message.
Would much rather have a clinic for Social Media mental diseases.
Index funds invest trillions but rarely challenge management
Mao’s picture has been greatly undermined after 2000s as even the CCP history book said he made terrible mistakes and there were several wide spread videos criticizing Mao. His time has been long gone and only a little respect passed to the next gen mainly from grandparents.

It’ll be interesting if you could talk with him regarding his position for the government, recent issues and long term policy. My bet is he’ll be super supportive and you might be surprised that “greater good” trade off is well accepted
As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests
Is Your Pitch Deck a Book Report or a Treasure Map?
nope, the MAS had MP3 decode fixed in ROM and while you could upload your own algo into the RAM and run it, that meant no MP3 decode at the same time :)
The point is:

Buy at 1K
Hold while value goes up to 10K
Tax on wealth at 10K
(Next year)
Tax on wealth at 20K
...
(N years later)
Sell at 1K

With a liquid asset like stocks, it is at least possible to pay the tax by selling part of the stock, and you could get a credit in future years for capital losses.

But what if the wealth is your elderly mother's home? Or the family farm or small business? It's really hard to sell part of those things to pay a "wealth tax" every year.
Link is fast because of the tunnel (which used to be a bus tunnel), not the train. The train is slow.
On Ubuntu 19.04 I get the error message "wayland: wl_display_connect failed". Can’t run the hello program to see something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_(South_Park)
> we've largely coalesced around the idea that insult should be defined by the insulted.

I know that is not an opinion I share. I suspect it is not one many people share at all. I think it's just the one of a vocal minority on the far left.

Ideas have a place in the open. If they're going to die somewhere, it needs to be in public discourse.
What US actions are equivalent to China? If you were in China could you make the same argument regarding Chinese actions?
Ok I was wrong, you can actually divide the world into evil or not. It's not always as clear to me and others, so can you share if following things are evil or not: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Barack Obama.
It is either a story or a theory. Telling a story without naming the characters ranges from cumbersome to infuriating. Telling a theory, is another story
It is hard to tell, that is true. And that reality is exploited to silence opposition and control others.

That’s why language policing, hate speech laws, Twitter mobs, and bully-the-bully efforts are abominations. So really, the answer is easy: everyone has the right to offend, and has no right not to be offended. Your simple rule doesn’t go far enough.
Debugging Mixed-Mode Android SDK and NDK Apps Using Elements
These incidents remind me of the self-censorship amid threats from militant Muslims back then over depicting Muhammad.
Personally I was thinking of being able to recreate some discrete chips with breadboards.

Then again MOSIS has prices down to a few thousand/square millimeter. Since current gen stuff is so much smaller, that's probably <$100 for the more complex chips from the 70s, & 80s.

The best I think we'll get is some Amiga/Commodore build it yourself kits That weren't possible before because of out-of-production chips.
Prepared statements are per-connection and a lot of time you want to use connections from a single pool that's used for all you different queries, so you can't really use them.
Booting Windows 7 from Btrfs Volume
> the primary issue is the high cost of justice, not that some people are rich and can afford it.

Justice is competitive. The richer you are, the more you can afford to pay to win, and the richer your opponent has to be to even get a chance.
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The idea that the discussion of a supreme court nominee being a rapist is what is dangerous, and not the fact that a supreme court nominee is a rapist, is frankly sickening. So is reducing Kaepernick to a political meme, complete with invocation of Putin as scary mastermind.

Acting like everything is some kind of abstract theater designed to divide people on internet forums shows a disturbing detachment from the real effects that real events have on real people.
Might I propose the following idea:

Suspending a player in order to curtail their speech because of China's politically motivated demands is, itself, a political act.
I'd love to hear how someone would intonate a statement beginning with 'you do understand' if they said it to me in meatspace.
Is this a React Native app?
Why RSpec Test Fail (and How to Fix Them)
You're missing the bigger picture. You're debating on basically becoming a terrorist. Which in small isolated incidents might be shown to work, but then the institutional response happens. For example, look at the middle East, they can do a few attacks but when it gets too big the UN or US or whatever comes in with huge armies and destroys the country the terrorists were trying to fight for. Not good.

In this case if you try to commit domestic terrorism here, it may initially be successful, but then the institutional powers will respond by passing laws and turning the suspicion on their own citizens making life shittier for everyone here.

So for the love of God, please don't try to seat powerful people (or anyone at all).
Yes, if laws were optional then they would cease to be laws. Laws subordinate individual freedom and every state has laws.

Also the state itself determines what the constitution is and even how it's interpreted or overriden. So saying state is accountable to constitution (which is determined by state ) is circular reasoning.
Steve Jobs in 2005 on why Apple wasn't creating a smartphone [video]
You can also wait for three years for Office 2021 ;)
I wonder how this compares to US cities that gets proper winters, like Detroit, Denver or Minneapolis, etc.
> The whole ecosystem needs to be preserved.

I disagree. If humanity collapses, and a new fledgling civilisation grows out of the ashes, then maybe we should let them follow their own path, and make their own discoveries and mistakes.

It's massive hubris to assume that future generations can only survive if they have access to our knowledge.

Many civilisations have fallen only to be replaced by newer betters ones, even when they've had no previous records to refer to.

We're just a stepping stone along the path of human evolution, we are no greater or lesser than the stones before us, or the stones that come after us.
Seems to revive the 'receiving a physical thing' feel like magazines. why not?
F-1 OPT startup founders can claim eligibility for H-1B Cap Exempt Visa
AMD was diagnosed when I was 17. I'm not in my mid-30s and I have a 9/10 vision on the eye with heavier degeneration. Yeah, that sucks
Art and music-playing are strangely fetishized. These activites are placed on a pedestal, I think, largely because they represent a vestige of aristocratic idleness.

I don't find anything intrinsically more valuable or praiseworthy in playing an instrument than in shooting freethrows.
> the NBA ... so publicly siding with Beijing

I must have missed something, because all the coverage I have seen is of Adam Silver publicly supporting Morey and Tsai. Additionally, the Nets cancelled a media event in Shanghai over this.
The reason I got into programming was Runescape leaving stack traces on my Desktop circa 2010
I just explained why the specifics of the story require the scissor statement not be made explicit.
I'm pretty sure that's simplified Chinese, not traditional.
This will make that easier. AND we can do it non-destructively. That means we get more, & rarer chips, instead of only the common stuff.
It is more state capitalism. Socialism implies more democracy.
NYC and Detroit disagree with you. Housing may increase quality of life or income or total wealth, but it doesn't help affordability if it makes the city more attractive to families and immigrants. Cities have nonlinear dynamics.

It's funny how people who believe that more housing causes more affordability also tend to believe that building more roads doesn't clear congestion.
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Electronic-cigarette smoke induces lung and bladder cancer in mice
After 1949, Mao barely did anything right and I’m surprised if any Chinese born after 90s would still defend him. But I doubt India is such a great example, we probably all have seen photos of the Gange
Would be fantastic to see the authority from above try to mix it up with Trey and Matt.
> And because Blizzard is a private company, offering a service they maintain, they have the house right, they have the final say about who can partake and who can't.

Except it's not a matter of some Chinese customers taking their business elsewhere. They don't have "the house right" if they are facing consequences from the Chinese government for exercising their freedom of association.
GitHub: Security
With the risk of being flagged I may say that Blizzard did the right thing BUT ONLY if the interview was a an official post-match interview. Otherwise they did wrong, since they cannot force people into not telling whatever they want by any other mean.

I think it is the right thing to do in order to avoid future sociopolitical references in official post-match interviews: imagine someone saying 'power to the whites' or whatever in an live Blizzard interview. Like it or not, if you urge to call this move "censorship" you (and Blizzard) would have to tolerate slurs like that.
This is not a coincidence, given fascism was a mutant heresy of syndicalism (which itself is one of the many marxist flavors). Look into D'annuzio and the various other ideological influences on Mussolini and it's not hard to figure out why Fascists loved totalitarianism and central planning as much as the mainstream marxists in Russia did.

The story is not much different in Germany. Same fruit of a poisoned tree.
I’ve read that vegetarianism is far less common among people who grew up on/around farms. The claimed reason was that people who grew up away from farms are heavily influenced by movies and television that anthropomorphize animals. People who grew up near farms don’t equate animals with humans so much.
the term "eurocentric" normally isn't about NA vs EU rivalry, but rather about "european identity" in the white supremacist sense. (the caveat is that radical equality is also a distinctly european tradition, but still, this tradition doesn't seem to get included under the "eurocentric" label, for whatever reason)
I’m sorry for your experience, that seems painful.

I’ve has the opposite. I grew up in the south as an underrepresented minority and I found the gas station / food shack food culture to be really inclusive and taking orders from anyone who had money.

Granted, I grew up after the civil rights act, so it was probably different under segregation.

I’ve only ever experienced “we don’t serve your kind around here” on tv and movies.
I've seen plenty of US business types on LinkedIn who are China fans and seem envious of how well China controls it's populace. In general there is a complete ignoring of the human rights issues. They seem to think that's something that irrelevant, idealistic people care about. In their mind the only people who matter are those with power, and China seems to have loads of power.
The top 1% have also dramatically increased their share of income since 1986, while other incomes have stagnated. The increase in tax paid is entirely due to that larger income, as the effective tax rate they pay has gone down, sometimes even lower than what high middle class pays.
I don't think anyone is looking at the Nobel prizes to categorise sciences.

The 'table of hard science' according to Alfred Nobel also includes medicine (not science, but we'll let it pass), literature (really not science), and peace (really really not science).

Anyway, the Nobel Prize for economics is not actually a Nobel prize anyway.
> Some disagreements can't be resolved other than through power struggles

Exactly this.

The "nerd" position that everything is a debate should be contrasted with with the Marxist position that everything is a power struggle. Both can easily become stopped clocks, but both have validity if correctly applied.

Moreover, it looks to me that a large problem with present politics is people who are fed up with rational cost-benefit analysis and want to wreck their perceived enemies, even at a cost to themselves.
Not "in Blizzard’s sole discretion".
The racial covenants (and blockbusting and redlining) need to get mentioned more to refute the bogus pseudo-nativist argument that whoever moved to town first has the right to control housing policy.
Do you use X11? Only Wayland is supported AFAICS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Mode_GUI might help.
The downvotes are telling. Is HN becoming 4chan?
I'm amazed that in what, nearly twenty years (maybe more), people are still learning about the Streisand Effect first-hand.
It should do. The West needs to decide whether it is going to stand for China being able to silence criticism of it in the West, or not.
The scene where Pooh is garrotted?
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Fuck china's government, and fuck Blizzard for bending over for them. fucking pussies.
what happened 8 years ago?
In Russian, use Google translate.
Pre-war London had a population of 8 million and cars were strictly for the wealthy.
That person is paying corporate income tax and taxes on dividends.

If you own an asset that is constantly paying taxes, you have lost that value to taxation. A stock shareholder owns a portion of the company. A stockholder loses value exactly equal to the amount of taxes the corporation paid.

This is why economists have the maxim: "companies don't pay taxes; people pay taxes." This doesn't mean companies don't pay tax; it means every dollar a company pays in tax is a dollar taken from some set of people.

Without corporate taxation, the shareholders would own a company which owns more cash. Academic literature has shown a dollar in cash at a company is worth a dollar in market cap, which is priced into stock values.

Now, depending on how dividends work, the billionaire likely also paid taxes on those, either at cap gains rates (remember, that income was also already taxed at the corporate level) or at personal income levels, depending on whether the dividends are classified as qualified dividends or non-qualified dividends.

Then, when the billionaire dies, the rest gets taxed if he/she passes it own. This rate for a billionaire is currently around 40%, and many states have an inheritance tax on top of that.

So the billionaire does and will pay significant amount of taxes over their lifetime.
Is it better to be poor in a rich city or rich in a poor one?
I'm about to make a life decision on where to spend next chapter in my life. Without going into personal details, what do you think?

Is it better to be poorer in a rich town or rich in a poor one?

Think: Columbus OH/Manchester UK vs NYC/SF/London.

There are obvious concerns: schooling, access to healthcare, air quality; and less obvious: access to quality art, crafts, smaller niche communities.
> just like it was framed when Ubisoft tried to get a lower age-rating for Rainbow Six Siege and claimed that was what China demanded for their market.

Ubisoft straight up said the changes were for compliance for their plans to expand into Asia. With not a single mention of a lower age-rating. [1]

> We are currently working towards preparing Rainbow Six Siege for expansion into Asian territories. As such, there will be some adjustments made to our maps and icons to ensure compliance.

> In addition, we can guarantee that any future changes are aligned with the global regulations we are working towards.

While I don't agree with the gamer rage it caused, the changes were made unambiguously for release in China.

1. https://rainbow6.ubisoft.com/siege/en-us/news/152-337194-16/...
The politician is not some random person removed from reality. He/she represents the people, is accountable to them and campaigned on how they want to represent them.

The majority is not neutral but assumed to be in favor of their representative's (!) proposals.

Of course, politicians can and do deviate from this, in particular where legal bribery (lobbying) is involved, but that is the base assumption of representative democracy.
My problem is that everyone in these threads acts like this all takes zero effort. There's no "turn on a11y" switch, you have to dedicate resources, money and time.

It's a perfectly valid complaint from someone that sells a product which is generally not interesting to blind people (you seem to think this is an impossibility, or that one edge case outlier invalidates this reality), to not want to do this if it will bring no new business and make no-one's life easier.
If only npm's version pinning actually version pinned without idiotic subrules. package-lock.json is just one massive lie.
Is there a master list of companies like this?
Unless they follow up and keep up with the host platform. This is the biggest pain point with Clojure for me, the java interop has some limitations that we could not come by.
If a game publisher can (whether directly or not) nuke the job of a journalist for a review and get away with it, I'm not surprised at all when a government does something along these lines.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/21/gaming-the-...
> Once the pros leave Hearthstone for another game, Hearthstone will die. THAT will get Blizzard's attention.

Why would Blizzard care, if they are still making money on the other games people left Heathstone for?
Exactly right. China is overall far less destructive to the world and to human rights than the US is.

Keep in mind that Trump has started this anti-China drumbeat as a way of asserting the moral superiority of his administration.
It's nowhere near as much as those languages but it's also nowhere near as seamless as it was for prior versions. Non-trivial applications and libraries do break going from 8 to 8+ (usually on the way to 9 but sometimes 11 as well).

This is in contrast to the legendary backwards compatibility of 1.4 to 1.5 to 6 to 7 to 8.
>That it's between GNU project webpages and Sourceforge circa 2002?

Even more rude. This looks nothing like either. GNU Savannah has a garish color scheme and completely unplanned UI. Sourceforge is overplanned and looks like a mid-2000's ad-ridden malware distribution site.

>Well, not that I care whether it would or would not be accepted, but It would still be a valid answer: using common services other's use, make for less friction

Then you'll never get new services. You'll bow to your Microsoft overlords and take what Github gives you, and be thankful for it. Github is proprietary and profit driven. It's going to do what's best for it, not what's best for you. This is a pretty naive and immature line of reasoning.
There’s a category of restaurants, common in the south, where a customer picks a type of meat and three vegetables at a certain price. Commonly served cafeteria style.

It usually means the food is cooked in large portions throughout the day and served in single portions.

Fun side effect, many in my large southern city are now owned and operated by Chinese and Vietnamese families. It’s neat seeing a southern tradition carried on by a new set of people. Reminds me of how many Mexican restaurants in Manhattan in 2000 were run by Chinese families.