skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TPP was bad idea, it was so anti-worker I am surprised that a Democrat is supporting it. I do not have to say about the settlement system of TPP. It was stupid, literally having parallel legal system outside of all the current legal system.

TPP died for good reasons because it for technocrats by technocrats.
AND.... If you think these numbers are bad wait until you have a look at the real numbers that china tries to hide and censor from their citizens and the rest of the world. The numbers are really bad
Oh, but there is not no moderation. There is a moderator team, a system for shadowbanning is in place, and posts get downvoted or flagged. We just still seem to disagree whether the comment here was disrespectful or not.

XML-RPC is indeed something used in the wild, and something I have contact with via blog software. In my case for remote editors and pingbacks basically.

For the discussions, I'm gonna send you a mail :)
This quote is from Henry George, who advocated for Georgism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
538, admittedly at the end, gave him a 29% chance of victory.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gav...
Yes because I’m sure you know what's best for billions of Chinese. They must be all dying to overthrow their government.

Your rhetoric is naive at best and racist at worst. It’s racist because you are disenfranchising the potential voice and sovereignty of a whole ethnicity and country because private interests in your own country can’t get their way over there.

The hong kong protestors have started getting their way. They don’t need poorly informed observers to fan the flames (on either side).
Does that mean if the law says the police have arbitrary discretion to decide who to imprison, then the outcomes align with the law as written and you still have rule of law?

How about if the law is written so strictly that everything is an offense, such that it's impossible to enforce on everyone, and you choose to not enforce it against people you like? Any case where it is enforced, you can still point to the law and say the outcome aligned with it.

And what if the law unequivocally says a certain group of people are slaves, is this justified simply because the outcome is not arbitrary and there is a codified rule of law? Whether the law is right or wrong does matter.
Nicely put. I'd add that increasing shareholder value if the shareholder is a not exactly friendly foreign nation state, either directly or via a proxy company, isn't exactly a good long term strategy for any country.
Tuesday: Nehemiah Speaks Out
From what I understand many corporate victims of Chinese industrial espionage since 2008 specifically declined to pursue prosecution for fear of what it would do to their existing or potential for business with Chinese entities and individuals.[0]

And this was despite a Justice Department that was chomping at the bit to prosecute Chinese industrial espionage. I bring this up because I think this shows why leaving weighty matters involving the security and future of your country up to corporations is a poor idea, especially when corporations are motivated solely by profit as corporatists gleefully remind us at all times.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/711779130/as-china-hacked-u-s...
It was stopped by the employees tho.
The front door lock is actually a bad example: in single-family houses, the front door is a social and legal signifier more than it is a security device. Smash a window; go around back; use a crowbar: the lock isn't what's keeping you out, it's designating the social expectation that you don't have a right to be there without an invitation and the legal assertion that crossing the threshold violently is a bigger crime than wandering in absently.

This case is more like a golf cart being sold as a car: it's technically usable for that, but lacking any sort of safety or weather protection.
>This is completely transparent to the Python programmer, the dictionary will look completely normal to the Python program but its internal representation is different.

Shouldn't it be opaque.
Except they didn't. Project Dragonfly was cancelled after Google employees rebelled against it.

A better example would be how Apple quietly shared iCloud user data with the Chinese government.
The book referenced in the review is "After Geoengineering" [1] by Holly Jean Buck

Interesting premise. Full disclosure I just noticed I'm quoted in the book!

Overview:
"Climate engineering is a dystopian project. But as the human species hurtles ever faster towards its own extinction, geoengineering as a temporary fix, to buy time for carbon removal, is a seductive idea. We are right to fear that geoengineering will be used to maintain the status quo, but is there another possible future after geoengineering? Can these technologies and practices be used as technologies of repair, to bring carbon levels back down to pre-industrial levels? Are there possibilities for massive intentional intervention in the climate that are democratic, decentralized, or participatory? Is there a scenario where the people can define and enact geoengineering on our own terms?"

[1] https://www.amazon.com/After-Geoengineering-Climate-Tragedy-...
“Mind your own business” the Chinese say while simultaneously getting upset when an individual in their individual capacity says something on an American website banned in China. Is irony not a thing in China?
That sounds like a recipe for entertaining case law!

"I plead not guilty your honor, for whilst it's true that we wish to overthrow Polish democracy and install a supreme leader for life, we would call him King! Long live the king!"

"Oh, that's alright then. Not guilty!"

:)
Sure they do. They don't do as much to exert international pressure, though.

Perhaps I should have said that, while China and Russia are both very concerned about their image inside the country (showing that they have some fear of their own population, perhaps), China is much touchier about its image outside the country.
Or Utah with its Medicaid expansion/medical marijuana ballot measures. The state government simply ignored the results and did whatever they wanted.
The media has been very critical about U.S. policy regarding Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It's been very critical about both Obama's and Trump's decisions regarding Syria. It's been split, largely along partisan lines, about the Iran nuclear deal.

Yes, in far too many circumstances the media seemingly toes the line. But the U.S. media has manifestly shown significant independence. Independence isn't synonymous with being contrary or critical, and it certainly doesn't mean agreeing with your personal perspective. U.S. foreign policy isn't invented out of thin air; it emerges from the same political and cultural dynamics that shape the news and popular opinion, so it's entirely unsurprising that the popular media would agree more often than not.
Americans on any problem: "You've got to vote with your wallet to change the world! That's the spirit of the free market and liberal democracy!"

China votes with wallet

Americans: "This is 'authoritarianism'"
That's strange.

Another state I was familiar with really just had a list that some agency had... but honestly the list was only populated by in state known felons and IIRC there was no mechanism to check the list unless someone was actually arrested FOR voter fraud or something and that happened all of a handful of times when a bitter family member or spouse turned them in.

Outside that if a felon asked a judge they were almost always taken off the list because just showing the effort to care usually was enough for judges who just sent a letter to the folks with the list.

I remember thinking it was a pretty good system... if you had to have one.

Would rather not have such a system though.
Antikythera mechanism is pretty impressive, possibly the first complex computer. I think the next time we see devices of such complexity around 1,500 years later. Imagine where mankind could be if we did not have this "gap" in progress.

In a similar vein, paintings in Chauvet cave [0] made somewhere 32,000-35,000 years before present far exceed those made much later (such as those found in Lascaux cave, ~17,000 years BP): they used curvature of rock to generate a subtle 3D effect, in addition to being, you know, near perfect capture of the animals at the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux
I recently added dark-mode support to a few sites. It took way more time then I thought it would. At first I thought "oh just add a few lines off CSS" but then ...

* Some diagrams had white backgrounds

Solution: remove the backgrounds so they are transparent

* Most diagrams had black lines/arrows which didn't look good on dark gray backgrounds

Solution: use CSS filter:invert for images

* Some images are photos not diagrams so inverting their colors doesn't work

Solution: Use a selector for svg only img[src$=.svg] and a class when manually needed

* Some svg diagrams have their colors referred to like "see the red object" in that text.

Solution: filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg);

That makes the blacks become white but the colors kind of stay the same hues at least

* The are many interactive digrams on the sites.

Solution: All of those had to be refactored to not use hard coded colors but do something like

const darkMatcher = window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)");
const isDarkMode = darkMatcher.matches;
const colors = isDarkMode ? darkColors : lightColors;

And draw everything with the appropriate colors. Its up to you if you want to trigger re-drawing if the user changes their preference

* Some text was color coded for to match the diagrams as in

<span style="color: red;">x-axis"</span>

But now those colors looked bad on a dark background.

Even 5 months later I still find places I missed.
Startup Resonado Reinvents the Speaker with Its Flat Core Technology
Under Prop 13, property taxes can go up 2%/year. So he's not paying 5x because the 300,000 house's property tax has been increasing every year by 2%.

It's hard to me to imagine why you would be so evil as to want to force a person out of a home because some dot-com-specuvestor bought a 300,000 home next door to some little old lady for 3,000,000 dollars and caused her property tax to go up 10x. Prop 13 is necessary. What we need to do is BUILD MORE HOUSES.
Networking is the only staging step on the list, which supports the titular concern about bias. Every other condensing step requires good judgement and luck, which isn’t helpful as generic advice.
Honestly did not expect that people care THAT much about that. I simply fear that it confuses way more people than it helps. I myself have no idea at all what the term "source-available" really means and I assume that is the case for the most people.

But also think debatting right now further about it would not really help. Will think about it at least a night (maybe more) to make a decision. Advice also the other side to do the same to see and understand my side. If the decision is that I change it. Everything is solved anyway. If my decision is to keep it we can proceed here:

https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
I only use Solarized for code snippets on my website, but the benefit of using it as a color scheme is that switching between the two is a one line addition: only the background needs to respond to prefers-color-scheme.
"Alfred Lansing's Endurance"

Just an incredible book. If you have any interest in survival stories this is an absolute must read.
This is also the key to hunting.
Streisand effect potential for the US?
Maybe, you know, look at the stock market to see if that's true, instead of just believing Trump's tweets about it...
This strikes me as a pretty meaningless statement. The judicial branch is part of the government, if they stop the government from censoring (or doing anything else) then the government doesn't censor (or do anything else).
Thanks for pointing this out.

Their first argument is that because state laws exist, there should not be a federal reform. I thought federal laws were there to set a default law for states. If they don't agree with the abuse they should work and reforming the federal law first.

Their second argument is that it 'let businesses get out of becoming fully compliant'. I don't understand. A 120-day heads-up isn't a way to get away with penalties.

And what is missing (and maybe they did say it but it is not mentioned in the article) is what they suggest as an alternative. Surely if you vow to block a reform but agree on the problem they should come up with solutions. There should be a way to both make more businesses compliant and prevent ADA shakedowns.

I am discovering how hard it is to make our laws evolve :)
> I have a problem with a country that acts holy but was sponsoring oppression of people in my country and continues to sponsor oppression of people of many other countries in this day and age.

The ANC have anything but a clean past. Are the Chinese not sponsoring oppression of any people in your country or are they potentially sponsoring the oppression of a minority that you don't belong to? I would dig deeper before making such blanket statements.
I requested the full text from the authors via ResearchGate.
Me too! CSS variables rock.
Agree - this kind of sounds like the description someone might ascribe to a sometype of mudskipper [1] or perhaps tadpoles [2] emerging from a drying creek bed (Re: "[when the] Nilus overflowing is past, the Sun heating the wet ground, the chaps of the earth send forth great store of Mice").

1.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskipper

2.) https://images.app.goo.gl/NFuudEfvAfUoFRhP7
Mental *super illness ;)
It's pretty clearly the state government attempting to undermine the voter mandate via red tape.
A simple thought experiment that can also help people reevaluate their views on this kind of thing:

Imagine if [thing you like] was illegal, punishable as a minor felony with a year in jail and the subsequent loss of voting rights. You know that 60% of the population supports [thing you like] and would like to have it legalized, but because a substantial chunk of this population has been or will be punished this way over their lifetimes, support of [thing you like] only gets a minority of the vote. The 40% of the population that opposes [thing you like] uses this to claim that most people oppose [thing you like] and want it to remain illegal.
> But they don't have the power to imprison you or silence you by force

The ability to fire you and give scathing negative references to any prospective future employers (thus in turn eradicating one's ability to participate in a market-driven economy/society) is just as severe of a penalty, and imposing that penalty for the purposes of silencing political dissent is just as reprehensible. We're (hopefully) critical of that having happened in retrospect during the era of McCarthyism and Red Scares; why should we be expected to accept that as "okay" now?

And that's all even without the ability to lobby politicians to make laws in their benefit / at your expense.
Link[1] to the order, without a paywall, including the list of entities blacklisted.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g...
> So, patterns I see among high-value consultancies

Curious about what types of consultancies these are? Are they generalist consulting shops that do custom app development or specialist shops similar to your own or patio11's?
Here is another article that goes much deeper into how to actually use CSS to implement the dark mode. While it does not rely on the media query (the article is almost 17 months old after all), it shows many other CSS features you could use.

https://medium.com/@mwichary/dark-theme-in-a-day-3518dde2955...
I went through this transition in college. I was bad at math, historically, and after 2-3 years of obsessing over programming, math finally revealed itself as something mechanical and conquerable.

I'm NOT a math genius (or any kind of genius), but it went from being unapproachable to being totally learnable.
Denver is littered with surface parking lots. This is due to the relatively recent spike in value.

There is no way you could buy the property now and operate a parking lot, but they got in when it was cheap, so it's all profit now.
Restoring the full Voting Rights Act would be a good start.

SCOTUS essentially said "this is out of date, therefore unenforceable." Then challenged congress to pass an updated one, but they have not. Some of the stuff going on was illegal under the VRA for the states it touched. I'd like to see them pass an updated one that impacts all 50 states equally, it would be much harder for SCOTUS to find it outdated then.
>without it being patently clear that this was never about human rights?

Have you been paying attention the last 3 or so years?
Okay, two things:

First, to your question. Ostensibly the executive order is due to an illegitimate leader refusing to cede power and causing a humanitarian crisis. This is not dissimilar to how countries sanction North Korea. I would absolutely have preferred such actions to be passed in a democratic manner, and in fact the whole executive order mechanism needs serious rethinking, but the underlying concept is different.

Second, your B) question is a tu quoque fallacy, as you're appealing to hypocrisy. Just because the U.S. does it doesn't mean we should accept it from China. We also should be (and many are) angry at the US' actions.
I see some integrations related to functions. Could you use this as some sort of a self-hosted alternative for AWS Lambda or CloudFlare Workers?
The Nerves Project is positioning itself to address this well.
"supposed to be" is the key part of the sentence.
Didn't see any mention of any static analysis tools for C++. Any HN recommendations?
Trump himself confirmed this after he blacklisted ZTE right before the talks last year.
Oh good grief, not another we should do this before we do that post. As if the entire human species is incapable of walking and also chewing gum simultaneously.

Let’s stop Nick Bostrom and a load of AI experts from doing their current work, put them all on a plane and send them to China to solve political oppression. I’m sure that will work.
South Park episode and NBA fiasco made it possible for the public to be grateful for the move.

Or maybe it was planned to happen before another round of negotiations and the timing is a... coincidence? Hard to believe in these anymore.
I saw a retrospective on California's death row inmates whose sentences were commuted when the death penalty was overturned. California's maximum penalty was 25 to life. Most of the two dozen death row inmates were eventually paroled.

One of them moved to Montana or some such and refused to be interviewed. But the local Sheriff agreed to say a few things. One of which was the guy owned a deer rifle but agreed with the Sheriff that it was best not to bring it into town.
take a look at this https://www.amazon.com/Multi-armed-Bandit-Allocation-Indices...
I didn't use Blender, but the way I understood it, it is more like modelling. Opposed to that, Inventor is technical drawing.

E.g. I could: Draw 2D plane 10x10 mm; extrude; on one surface, create a diagonal helper line; put three circles on that line; define diameter of one circle to be 2.5mm; constraint diameter of the other circles to be equal to the first; split the helper line at every circle intersection; constrain all line segments to be equally long - now all things are fully constrained. Negative extrude the circles (e.g. make holes into the first volume).

Should produce something like this:

*---*
|o |
| o |
| o|
*---*

You can now change values (e.g. make the base plate 20x50mm and adapt the diameter to 4mm) and the program will keep rearrange everything according to the constraints, if possible.
Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON
pfSense on an old computer and a UniFi AP.

If you want to level that up, use Proxmox with pfSense VM and any other junk you want to throw on it.
Out of curiosity, what sort of topics require months of years of explanation? I find that most complex topics can be broken down to a point where an average adult could digest them if they're interested enough in learning them. I wouldn't necessarily say that a 5-10 min explanation means that they could apply it in the field, but enough to understand a specific scenario.
Business Secrets of the Pharoahs by Mark Corrigan.
> There’s one rather glaring hole in this story of immediate outrage from Chinese fans over Morey’s tweet:

> Twitter is banned in China.

I didn't even realize until now. They are simply censoring (mainly)American social media posts. On the internet.
I live in FL my uncle killed two men for robbing him and sodomizing his wife in front of him, in his house. He later hunted them down and killed them fairly brutally. He was convicted of 2nd degree murder and served 12 years. His gun right where restored two years ago. He has been out for a while now and has proven that he is not a danger to society, just people who rape his wife. They do get restored if you can prove that you represent no increased danger to society by said right being restored.
Also in my opinion TPP critically united other Asian nations. I think Trump admins' abandoning of traditional allies/structures like TPP and ceding soft/hard power across the board for the sake of 'America First' is going to have lasting damage and is thus not putting America First in the long term...
Every state censors things in some way, he difference is what is censored and how much impact it has obviously.

Censorship can also describe private actions such as Twitter/Facebook refusing some ideas, and is that case is vastly vastly present in every country.
I expect them to not sell devices at unmaintainable price-points.

You know, like tons of other safety-relevant products. Anything you plug into the wall, or put gas in, or has enough torque to hurt someone ends up going through safety checks.... except software.
I've used that for a few years no. You don't even need to enable JS for that domain.
Useful guide to securing US visas for engineers
I just sold a video game disc for 3x what I paid for it because the company that made it went under, so it's no longer downloadable on any streaming service (XBL, PSN, Steam, etc)...

Legality-induced Digital Dark Ages. :-)
I understand this is chaos, but it's chaos because it has to be. There's no way to move users from an world of opaque "if it's an application, it can do anything it wants" to a world of "applications should ask me when they want to do something" transparency.

The idea that Apple doesn't care about the Mac because it's trying to explicitly improve our privacy and security is … weird.
The point, though, was that a scissor statement is irrelevant to an individual. To any one person, each statement is either obviously, trivially true, or obviously, trivially false. It only becomes an argument when you start discussing it with somebody who sees it the opposite way as you do.
> Which is to say, what if lots of young Chinese stand up and take notice that they can't watch world class professional basketball anymore ?

It is arguably the Young that start this online campaign to call NBA out. The government/brands follow the suits.

The tension is high. I think watching NBA is soon to be deemed as unpatriotic by social media, and that will be one of the long-lasting legacy of this event.
Uh? This is a correction by someone who publicly reproduced an email accusing Stallman of being a sexual harasser, and generally a smelly and disgusting person, only to realize two weeks later that the accuser had in fact confused him with someone else. The fact of having already published something completely wrong and libelous doesn't prevent him from naming that other person, either. I guess it's normal nowadays.