skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On what planet is it Apple's responsibility to maintain their operating system in such a way that third-party apps

On planet Earth.

> who don't give a shit about maintaining compatibility

Or the developer does not exist anymore or has "pivoted" to something else entirely or has discontinued the program or they have no funds to do the conversion or they rely on technologies by others that (do not exist anymore, have "pivoted" to something else entirely, have discontinued the technology, have no funds to do the conversion, rely on technologies by others that (do not exits anymore, ...)), or simply the newer version is undesirable for the user (due to worse UI/UX, lower performance, monetization-driven user-hostile changes, etc).

As a user all i care about my programs keep working.

> It's like being angry that Microsoft didn't stick with 8.3 character filenames forever.

When Microsoft introduced long file names it was implemented in a way that was backwards compatible with existing software in a way that would be possible to both use existing volumes with 8.3 format, add/rename files with long filenames and have those be visible in a 8.3 form for compatibility with older software.

And 8.3 character compatibility still exists on Windows 10. For example if you have any GOG games installed you can type DIR C:\GOGGAM~1 on command prompt to see the contents of C:\GOG Games. You can disable this via the registry, but it is enabled for backwards compatibility.
The issue is that the more you import from China, the more USD they accumulate, and the more attractive an export market they become. Trade is a two-way street, you can't keep up a permanent stream of imports forever without giving something in return. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Without a doubt!
I see lots of Anti-China sentiment. I would be very careful here into not falling into the trap of making ourselves China's "Enemy".

China in its current form needs an "Enemy" to survive, without it, it has to deal with difficult questions like "censorship", and in order to survive will need to change - and that's what really scares them.
The article describes what used to be called a 'radio mix' or 'radio edit': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_edit

The only difference is that today it is less common to have several mixes of the same song (which mostly existed to fill singles) and people will often stream the album version, so everything is a radio mix today.
I already spend 7 to 8 hours a day working on software, the odds that I'll spend a single minute working on anything remotely close to that are close to 0: I have significantly more enjoyable stuff to occupy my time with.

Sure, I find my work to be interesting and engaging but there are extremely few activities that I enjoy doing for over 8 hours.
Show HN: LC Design – UI component framework for building LCUI application
It's not strictly the case (`reddit` case).

But the difference is pretty insignificant compared to Node and PyPyFull.
If you’re making decisions that involve multiple variables you may be doing hundreds to thousands of inferences for a single page load. Keeping latency under 50ms becomes a real challenge.
No. It is a joke that most people in China did about its leader from a picture of Obama.

It is the leader, who appointed himself as dictator for life, who can't stand this joke. And has forbidden it.

Chinese people laugh at the joke. It is only that the leader finds it not funny at all.
> I remember once asking my mother, ‘How did you do in your studies?’ She replied, ‘What are you talking about? How could you study under those conditions?’. When she saw the segregation of African-Americans, whether at a lunch counter or in the school system, that was, for her, like the prologue to the Nazi holocaust. Whereas many Jews now say, Never compare (Elie Wiesel’s refrain, ‘It’s bad, but it’s not The Holocaust’), my mother’s credo was, Always compare. She gladly and generously made the imaginative leap to those who were suffering, wrapping and shielding them in the embrace of her own suffering.

-- Norman Finkelstein

> Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn't able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame and that I hadn't known about those things. I wasn't aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out.

-- Traudl Junge

My points being

1.) to not compare, even with mass murder, is not being respectful to the victims of the Nazis, and it doesn't make them alive again. It simply means having a reason to look away, today, from the people who need your attention, now.

2.) If 10 billion people shrugged and said "nothing to see here", even one person seeing what they claim doesn't exist would prove that the others could have seen it, too. If ignorance is the result of not wanting to know, it's not really ignorance that could free one from culpability.
> Modern China proves that authoritarian capitalism works

For some definition of "works". China has recently (2017) became richer than Brazil, what is a feat, but well, Brazil isn't a liberal democratic paradise and whatever democracy we have is very recent.

All the stable democratic countries are much richer than China.
Initiating Investment Discussion with VC
After a meeting with investors and they say "keep us in loop"

How do you actually initiate the investment negotiation?

Is it common that they don't express they want to go ahead and invest or will they do?

If they do, Does that mean they don't want to invest in us?

If so, how would someone handle that and convince them to invest?
I made $250 an hour, I could do a small website in 2 hours. I had more people beating down my door than I could service and I found the work to be mind numbing, because I like to write code and create things so I stopped doing it.
Unsolved Mysteries That Have Been Thoroughly Solved
I felt the same way. They said a lot of plausible things, but their motivation seemed more to be “don’t disrupt my life by pursuing alternatives to concrete” than “here is a reasoned and well-structured argument against CLT”. It read like a series of talking points. Glad it’s not just me.
Interesting how an incidence in gaming garner more eye balls on the topic of Hong Kong politics than whole month combined.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Good for the people of Hong Kong.

The topic of Hong Kong didn't struck me as sensational/desperate as it deserves until a Hong Kong friend send me this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q
Am moved by the clip, especially for the first 50s. It is english sub-ed. Would recommend anyone interested in the topic give it a look
Instead of git checkout I would definitely recommend git switch/restore when using a current git version as they feel much more natural.
JavaScript Illustrated: Promises
By my count, 11 of the 27 songs on the "Beatles 1" album start with the chorus. Granted, in those days a short and sweet single was the goal so you had to cut to the chase. Seems like history is merely repeating itself
Imagine if businesses and sports organizations didn't get into politics, no matter which side.
Trump's Obsession with [the Pseudoscience of] Polygraphs
A remarkable theoretical twist on argumentum ad hominem, I concede - but argumentum ad hominem all the same.
As far as I know, they pulled the cord on that one
TBH, anybody who whinges about "today not matching ancestral conditions" should be held closely to their convictions and have to die by 35.
A new India is emerging, and it is a country ruled by fear
Comparing iOS 10~13 with macOS 10.12~15 release dates, macOS seems to always come out 7 days after iOS.

This year it has been 12 days after iOS 13.0, instead. Wouldn't really call that much of a push back. It's less than one week behind the usual schedule..
Sometimes I think it's "I like regulation, but I hate regulation that puts a burden on me."
50 years ago we could have squashed China like a bug. Instead we singlehandedly turned it into a superpower. We needed Trump’s China stance in a normal person five decades ago.
It's a bit of a ramble, but it's hardly incoherent. What seem to like diverse topics to a physicist are actually not all that diverse when looking from a holistic perspective. It's not that scientists are sitting on huge piles of data and mining them for interesting results without testing hypotheses (though we are doing exactly this in many domains), it's that the fundemental approach to statistical analysis is flawed.

With enough data, good enough filters, and a wide selection of adjustments for background processes, any model can be made to work. Putting the blocks together is fundementally an excercise in bias, and truly limiting this bias requires significant discipline that is highly disincentivized and therefore uncommon.

The way she writes invites dismissal from working scientists due to its imprecise and conversational style, but I think she makes many salient points about the flaws in the modern scientific institution.
What a strange lack of curiosity. Framing the conversation of controversy around an anecdotal one involving someone arguing against someone else's right to exist seems like missing the forest for a very specific tree, and in a way, that's sorta the point of the whole story. Relying on the emotive power of anecdotes to derail individuals and groups in discussions from being skeptical of when they're being goaded into a reaction is a key part of media strategy -- so much that the story uses the operative noun "scissor" to describe it. I read the article (not my first stay in Alexander-land although I'm no frequent guest) and came away with a thoroughly different conclusion.

1) Arguments and debates, far from being the most important thing in the world, are a sadly spectacular (in the Debord sense) form of the social human condition.

2) While it's not the case that both sides have a point, it's almost always exploitable that both sides can be provoked, and the synthesis of provocative headlines and content while remaining just on the side of centrism is the core of the media industry. To your example, it's true that there are certain people that argue against your right to exist, but they are beyond the pale, or dressing their bloodlust in irony. My opinion is that the more dangerous kinds of bigots attempt to shroud or reframe their views into more marketable and respectable packages, and they usually "ride" or incite controversy to get there. Is it the mark of a well-functioning society to tolerate this speech without becoming intolerant, or is it the mark of a naive one which is doomed to an eventually authoritarian and surveillance state? Where ought the lines be drawn?

3) Controversial statements, if generable, imply something fascinating and thought-provoking about what controversy is. Generating controversy gets you one step further towards generating clickbait. Generating clickbait gets you one step further to ... what?

That's the million-dollar question. If anyone can generate clickbait for free, will everyone continue to consume it? Will we begin to look at clickbait the way we look at nicotine and alcohol -- cheap thrills with long term deleterious effects that we need to regulate? What's the trade-off between a minimal oversight and regulatory capture or authoritarianism here; is it inevitable that we must trade things off?
Do you have any tips on how to learn to carefully draft that document like it was written by a professional?
President Richard Nixon also considered forcing White House staff to submit to polygraph "testing" to plug leaks, though it seems he thought better of that idea in the end: https://antipolygraph.org/documents/nixon-polygraph-quotatio...
Show HN: Command line interface for rapid LCUI development
> In the last year or two I have worked on and off on making PyPy's JSON faster, particularly when parsing large JSON files

I think this is the key takeaway. If you are parsing huge JSON documents, this will make a difference.

Otherwise, it's super hard to beat Python3's native implementation. I've tried them all - hyperjson, orjson, ujson... none of them provide any significant gains on parse speed of smallish JSON documents, even if you are parsing thousands of small(ish) JSON documents in a row.
The radio to podcast transition is an S-curve driven by smartphone adoption.

There is a slight offset from the smartphone adoption curve because you need a bigger market to support niche productions long enough to work out enough standard formats that it can be easily replicated in non-niche segments.

Once you have non-niche shows that are nicely formatted, and you’re past the tipping point for smartphones, the curve stands up.
We do have a motorcycle gang: the Hell's Angels. They used to have a city-funded club house until the city got sick of their criminal connections and found weapons in a couple of raids. Not entirely sure what the status is at the moment. (Though it's entirely possible they started out as a moped gang in the early 1970s.)
Lootboxes are one thing. But I doubt an aircraft simulator with a Taiwan Straits scenario would be massively published, or a Wolfenstein set in a Xinjiang reeducation camp.

Would Amazon stop selling 1984 if China asked it to? Hopefully not.
Especially in smaller municipalities there isn't a lot of money slopping around to subsidize just about anything. The vast bulk of the moneys my town brings in are from property taxes and the vast bulk of that goes out to the school systems. So things like town water need to pretty much pay their own way.
I (almost) have a masters degree in Physics, and think Economics absolutely is a hard science.

It's also probably the most important science, since it deals with issues central to human life and prosperity.

I mean, I love exoplanets too, but they'll never affect how we understand society and change the understanding and direction of human civilization.
The US's relationship with Taiwan is much more nuanced than that. Taiwan-US relations are actually at the closest they've ever been. For example:

1. US sells $8B of fighter jets to Taiwan (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/approves-8bn-sale-66-...)

2. US passes the TAIPEI act, which outlines the US's strategy in dissuading Taiwan's few remaining diplomatic allies from switching recognition to China. (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/340...)

3. Visa free travel in the US for Taiwanese citizens (https://www.export.gov/article?id=Taiwan-Visa-Requirements)

The US might officially not recognize Taiwan as a country, but would it sell $8B of military equipment to a country it truly believed to be China?
Wow how do you do this? Can you divulge the specifics?
The same Eric Schmidt once famously stated "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" [0]. Apparently, it depends.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument#In_fa...
Source code is not text, it's all serialized trees and sequences. We don't write code in paragraphs.
I always wonder why some Scandinavian group just didn't start a math or comp sci prize in honour of Alfred Nobel like economics.
Got a donation link? If not, do add it. In the meantime, I will deploy this and test to see how well it works :)
Also, text may skip some things that the visualization will have to show explicitly.

If I'm unsure which screw they really mean here, which orientation I should have that piece in etc., I can just look really closely at the drawing and identify exactly what they mean. See the different layers of depth and how they cover each other to see the exact order of things. See the the exact drill holes or other marks to disambiguate things.

Maybe it's just that some people think more in words others more in images and prefer instructions of the corresponding type.
Peebles has been a giant in cosmology over the past 50 years, when cosmology has gone from really speculation to precision measurements. There's a decent argument that he should have been included in the 1978 prize with Penzias and Wilson. He's getting old and this might be the last time the committee could sweetie him in.
Another fun fact which show the strong relation between Mathematics and France, which is still strong in the XXe century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of... (France is dwarfing other countries in Field Medals per capita).
What? What is happening there?
>some educated Chinese citizens are resisting at great personal cost now, knowing that many share their sentiments

It seems we agree.

>assuming that most people will find a way to look beyond the propaganda seems overly optimistic to me.

Most people? Yes, that would be overly optimistic. But enough people to render "overwhelming support" inaccurate? Not overly optimistic at all.
Not allowing a legal marriage recognized by the state doesn't strictly prevent much of what you wrote. Although it does prevent some privileges (e.g. hospital visitation rights) which was definitely an issue at the time.
We're all programmable, sure. And I think it's important for their to be competing voices such that we don't end up in the Party.

But some level of social cohesion is desirable, and I think starting at the level of 'not allowed to advocate for the rape and murder of peoples' is a reasonable step towards ensuring less people think that is viable.
Open source does not always mean free. No matter the project you still need to adhere to the license terms even if you have access to the source code.
I see that American businesses play double standard here. In the USA, sport teams and entertainment businesses are the loudest when it comes to free speech and civil rights, LGBT rights. But they will bend over for CCP money instead of standing for the same causes. I have yet to see ANY business roll the freedom drum and make a stand about human rights when it comes to the violations in China. It’s sad that a recent South Park episode is exactly the reality here and not a satire.
> We need to be handling this situation with urgency.

We tried to - it was called the Trans Pacific Partnership. It included Vietnam. One of the Trump administration’s first acts was to kill it.
Attack Toxic Comments Kaggle Competition Using Fast.ai
> I'm not really sure what you mean by that but I don't think you're correct.

Can you explain, in context to what I said - what exactly is incorrect? I am very well versed with the theory of Law of Large numbers. The question is - "Why does the Law of Large Numbers tell us that per capita is a the right metric to compare Nobel Prize output of different countries?"
I didn't get the impression that the author is early career. But I would assume that that article's intended audience is people who are earlier in their career.
The USSR was very explicit about spreading communism and destroying the west. China has been vague about what they want, which is why you have the current culture wars over China's influence in the west and what it all means. It's a much harder to get in the mood to fight someone when they're not right up in your face with a gun.
Import LoopBack 3 Models into a LoopBack 4 Project
I am not such a fan of this one, they essentially gave two separate half-prizes this year. James Peebles’ contribution to science was not related to exoplanets, nor was the exoplanet discovery related to cosmology. Instead, they could have waited a year, and given them sequentially. Has this ever happened before in Nobel history? Will this lead to an era where one hundred $10,000 Nobels are handed out each year? ;)
We live in a time where Dennis Rodman is an essential diplomatic asset for dealing with a nuclear nation state. We do indeed live in interesting times.
The article you linked draws more of a link between income levels and police violence than it does race. They explicitly say that the crime rates of low-income neighborhoods, populated by majority minority groups, are higher than that of more affluent neighborhoods. Furthermore most of the injuries happen when the person stopped has a gun, regardless of race.

Not great, and certainly unacceptable, but not equivalent to not being able to "simply leave the house".
Looks neat! FYI you have a typo on https://n8n.io/hosting you probably meant to s/self-hosted/hosted/
I'm personally a huge fan of https://www.gitkraken.com/ (I also used to work there.) Don't have to memorize git cli commands and get beautiful visuals on top of that.
Just few days HN had a thread where samsung moved its last phone factory from China to Vietnam.
You should ask yourself, does side project bring joy? If it does not, must go out.
You seem to be under the impression a side-project means spending every spare time working on it.

> There is a risk though that after ten years you could be a great programmer with a great portfolio, but with a failing body and unhappy social life.

There's no reason this should be the case, and life is full of risks.
love his work but, yeah
NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars
All your companies are belong to us
From the Perl side, there's been an interesting talk by Graham TerMarsch[1] where he tried quite a few of the allegedly fastest JSON parsers and compared them to the standard solution (JSON::XS). Apparently a lot got lost "in translation", when converting the C/C++ data.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BToZ_E3vU0Y
MVP is primarily a development strategy, not a lifecycle strategy. I see no conflict here. Your product owner should include legal requirements in the project scope, it's not something individual developers should have to prioritize themselves.
Whoops, good catch. Also technically I should have said “until Viacom reins them in”, not Paramount.
Soap dispenser cannot detect brown skin [video]
Doing some side projects for a while. Nothing else made me happier and more fulfilling then this. It makes you grow and challenge yourself and opens your eyes to what you can do or be without your employer.
You could never prove evil.
Because it's a matter of values.

You could easily say, that holding negative opinions on something strongly enough that you act upon them, without any proof of that thing being dangerous or bad is a sign you are prejudice about that thing.

Now being prejudice is not evil in my opinion, but if you value being prejudice more than finding out the actual reality of your negative assumptions, makes you pretty much the text book definition of a bigot.
I'm in deep love with magit, but in my case it has done nothing to know more about the git internals but the contrary.

In which cases you found it "opens" git for deeper inspection?

My experience is that it lets me operate at higher levels of abstraction than cli git. (e.g. Instant Fixup)
I used to notice radio songs would be played slightly faster than the CD or an MP3 ripped from the CD I downloaded. Sometimes I woundnt like the slower tempo of certain songs. Now that I steam a lot I don’t notice it. Maybe the streaming services play the radio edits or, as you said, it’s much less common.
It's a streisand effect thing. Pooh was banned for one stupid meme, which made him a symbol of the ludicrousness of Chinese censorship and oppression. So yeah, it's a real thing in China