skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's what'll have to happen now absent a plan like Warren's at the federal level [0] (though even this only deals with federal elections). The issue is the same people you have to convince to stop gerrymandering are the people currently doing it to protect their own electoral prospects!

[0] https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-plan-to-strengthen-our-dem...

edit: It only directly deals with federal elections. She does have plans to get states to follow along but there's not as much power to directly force them.
I just went through the process to delete my account. First attempt to use my Authenticator was “denied - too many attempts. Try another method”. Tried using SMS auth, “denied - too many attempts. Try another method”. Uploaded my driver’s license.
Irrespective of stance on China, for this behaviour alone Blizzard can go and get fucked.

EDITED to correct spelling.
Email the contact link at the bottom of the page. hn@ycombinator.com
Numberphile did a video on a different kind of prime spirals, Ulam Spirals.

https://youtu.be/iFuR97YcSLM
Read up on mean reversion and the fact that he won a 3 million fewer votes.

If he even finishes* his term that is..
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> The mathematical constructions of supersymmetry, string theory, Hawking radiation, anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) and the multiverse are currently considered irrefutable and self-evident by the mainstream of theoretical physics, even without experimental evidence to support them.

What?! No!!

Supersymmetry: It's a nice theory. It's a pity that the experiments to find a low mass supersymmetric particle failed (because the low mass supersymmetric particle doesn't exist). There are some hopes that a heavier particle exist. Still, until the particle is found it is not irrefutable.

String theory: There is a huge chunk op people working in this. They promised to call us when they got an experiment that can be done with the current technology. Most of us are just waiting, and working in other topic meanwhile. For some reason the press love it and it gets an overrepresented coverage. Still, it is not irrefutable or self evident.

Hawking radiation: Yes, it is true. Yes, we don't have experimental support. It has a strong theoretical foundation using common theories with good experimental support. It's self evident. Anyway, some direct experimental support would be nice.

Anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT): It's a model that simplifies a lot of calculations. It enable amazing equivalence of thing that are very difficult to calculate with a related thing that is easy to calculate. Last time I hear it was presented as an approximation, not the real world. Sometimes a good approximation is good enough to get a good approximated result that can't be calculated directly. It's not irrefutable because it is not even true.

The multiverse: There are a few versions. The most popular is the multiverse interpretation that is just another interpretation of quantum mechanic. It is equivalent to the Copenhagen interpretation, and the shut up and calculate interpretation, and other interpretations. Since all have the exact experimental results, it's not posible to refute one but not the others. The opinion is divided. (There are other multiverses theories, but none is so popular to call it irrefutable.)
> California could, as far as I can tell, forbid voting by blondes, or by people who need glasses.

Not unless the Supreme Court decided to throw out, like, the whole of 14th Amendment Due Process and clause jurisprudence, where it comes to standards for impairing or discriminating in fundamental rights and voting’s status as such a right. (I wouldn't put it past this court, but even for them it would be an unusual break with settled Constitutional case law.)

And even then, Constitutionally, only blonde females and males under 21 if it doesn't want to lose seats in the House, since another part of the 14th Amendment (though this has historically not been enforced) makes denying males 21+ the vote for any reason other than conviction of crime mean reduction, in equal proportion, to House representation.
Yeah, I wish we could read the full article. It might just be that brake pad material is a miniscule fraction of PM2.5 compared to tires, so the regen doesn't much matter. Or maybe they're just doing math to write the article, rather than experimenting, and assuming that there's no regen on an EV?
> Git is something that's inherently visual

It absolutely is. The whole "branch" paradigm evokes topology. The visual structure of the thing you're working with ought to be made clear to you, the user.

If a GUI has trouble when the workflow deviates from normalcy, it's just not powerful enough.

That being said, there will always be users who prefer the command line, and that's totally fine.
That does seem to be the most defensible argument.
Yes, exactly, it's a modern day poll tax and many people in power want such a thing.
FYI I've just confirmed that the issue is still present in 7.0.0.386 (I've seen the same error messages in the log and the inherit process has failed silently)
Yes, there's a lot of stuff the GIMP doesn't have, but mostly it's just the annoying UX. I'm sure half of it is just that I'm used to Photoshop, but I'm also pretty sure the other half is GIMP.
> How many Chinese will pay attention to "whatever those people are doing in Hong Kong" for the first time because of this ?

If they've been living under a rock where they didn't notice the defacement of the national emblem at the Liaison Office when it was widely condemned in the state media, they're not going to notice the NBA getting cancelled.

You can't expect them to miraculously find a source that doesn't condemn this as an attack on the national sovereignty of China by American imperialists.
Isn't that what communism/Marxism is supposed to be? "Each according to his ability to each according to his needs?"
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SCOTUS recently said partisan gerrymanders were non-justiciable which as far as I can tell basically shuts the book on it until the balance on the court changes.
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A friend is using my old DIR-655. I would like to warn them, but I need to understand this better first.

Am I correct that this allows administrator access to the router, but requires connecting to the router's network (either via having the WiFi password or having physical access)?

IIRC, the DIR-655 is also stuck on WPA2, which was broken, so the WiFi password doesn't offer any protection either. In which case, anyone within range of the access point could access the admin panel.

On one hand, this sucks because aside from these vulnerabilities, the DIR-655 works fine. On the other hand, I think I bought it over a decade ago.
Due process should be accessible to everyone but until that's actually the case it's still a privilege of the people who have it. The fact that other people should have it doesn't mean it's not a privilege to the people that do.

(It's still a right by the way, as I said it can be both)

Edit: Anyway, I don't feel the need to argue this since it's just a semantic argument but the general thesis is that I found your narrow definition of privilege to be surprising compared to how I've experienced people using it but English differs over geography so idk.
Don't be so sure of that -- you could be incapacitated tomorrow.
I had this exact problem with my own pair of airpods. The battery simply stopped holding a charge long enough to be very inconvenient.

As a side note, I'd also grown to hate the lack of buttons to control next/previous, volume, and the tap to pause/play control. The tap often didn't work for me, requiring 3 or 4 attempts, and sometimes I just had to pull out my phone. I know, a bit of a first-world problem, but it was also a fixable one. I got a paid of LG that wrap around my neck. They have buttons! Heaven.
Same issue here, most of them are hooked to piratebay.
Does not seem to work in Firefox for Android.
This is a sample app for a new type of web framework we are working on: https://github.com/treenotation/jtree/tree/master/treeCompon...

The long term vision is 1 syntax for web components, html, css, javascript, etc. All state should be viewable/dumpable via a simple toString() method.

Feedback on either is welcome!
"One project funded by the U.S. military aims to grow seaweed—to be used as food and livestock feed (seaweed-fed cows belch less methane), or burned as bioenergy—with automated submarine elevators that bring kelp up to the surface during the day for sunlight and then plunge them to the nutrient-rich ocean depths at night.'Drone submarines,' Buck explains, 'would tow these kelp farms to new waters, communicating with harvesters by satellite, which would save labor costs.' If seaweed bioenergy were paired with CCS to become a BECCS project—Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage, the new darling of the IPCC—it could also reduce atmospheric carbon (by trapping it in kelp biomass).
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Every nation is doing the same thing. Remember Cuba?
> What's your responsibility when you hand someone a loaded gun and it goes off?

Zero, as long as the person:

(1) Knew it was loaded

(2) Voluntarily accepted to receive the gun.
Same here, it's happening on an older version of MacOS on my dad's Mac Mini if that's any help.

Weirdest is that updates are normally automatic but now it told my dad to download the new DMG on your website, why?
I actually like this comment and agree with it.
For me, tvOS 13 broke HDMI-CEC and rendered AirPlay audio extremely spotty.
He is not 'exported' from China, that is the point. People in China recognizes him as a foreigner.
As a knowledge structure (axioms and theorems), math is absolutely invented.

The fact that it often corresponds to our experience of reality is a consequence of thousands of years of refinement with the goal of making it describe reality as closely as possible while remaining internally consistent.

But that doesn't make it any less invented... just a very helpful tool for modeling reality.
Maybe we need some class-action lawsuits. This is very bad behavior.
> And even then, Constitutionally, only blonde females and males under 21 if it doesn't want to lose seats in the House, since another part of the 14th Amendment (though this has historically not been enforced) makes denying males 21+ the vote for any reason other than conviction of crime mean reduction, in equal proportion, to House representation.

That just further highlights the bafflingly cobbled-together nature of the whole ruleset.
Yes, and he had a 2% chance of winning his first term. Are you going to trust the polls again? I'm not.
>I think Blizzard wants to make a statement and being strict about politics have no place in their games...

Meanwhile in Overwatch, they've made a point of a diverse cast and canonically made several characters gay/bi, upsetting plenty of far-conservatives. (all of which is excellent, of course) Hell, Starcraft literally features storylines about revolutionaries fighting a dictatorship.

I get that game politics are different than real-world politics, and they have to draw the line somewhere, but it's a little conspicuous where they've chosen to draw the line.
Also - his recent book "Click Here to Kill Everybody" discusses the problem of IoT security in depth (ie. that the lack of it will risk increasingly dire consequences). One of his solutions is regulatory: a new federal agency for consumer cybersecurity. One of the particular things he would want mandated is that IoT devices be patchable, at a minimum.
The Chinese Communist Party places a high priority on social harmony because that’s what benefits them. Having freedom as long as no one notices you isn’t freedom.
I suspect (and I'm talking out of my bum here) that the verbiage is something along the lines of "...and any such sums required to conduct parole or probation...", then the service is outsourced to a private firm, and the private firm simply isn't monitored for due diligence in reporting accurate information to the state.
Literally, hitting (叩/kòu) one's head (头/tóu).
China didn't force you to accept their value. But you often (not always) force all the world to accept your cult (with the name of "value" to make it sounds not so irrational) by destroying many countries in Middle East.

The biggest threat is the cult because the cult will cause conflicts. Keep it for yourself would be good. Spread it all over the world and claim it's universal so you have right to judge others inferior "value" and even try to enforce your "value" when the other countries are weaker , literally is the same pattern as ISIS.
Downvoted for facts. Sorry, man
>I can’t help but think that this is about the ego of Chinese leadership

It is and isn't. I grew up in China and I think the Chinese government is overacting to this NBA statement. If the Chinese fans decide to boycott NBA that's their choice and rights, but the government should not ban NBA in China.

At the same time, I am frustrated to see so much misconception and lack of empathy in the discussions here. The territorial integrity of China has a very important place in the minds of many Chinese citizens if not all given the recent 100 years of Chinese history. HK is globally recognized as part of China but yet we have seen all western media's efforts to spread anti-HK police sentiment and turn a blind eye on the violent activities carried out by so-called protestors.

I've lived in the US for over a decade. Before coming here, I had no idea how sensitive racial comments are. Over time I learned about the history and never made a racial joke in public or private occasions. It's not the best analogy, but I want to point out that Morey's HK tweet is out of line and doesn't deserve NBA's endorsement.
Of course, it's a big stick for both vendors and users. Vendors need to patch the software for N years (or whatever) and, given a competitive market, users have to pay for it.
Russia jails critics and worse on a frequent basis. From the Gulags to Pussy Riot to this:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/russian-parlia...

> The law, which critics say is reminiscent of Soviet-era legislation used to target political dissidents, stipulates fines of up to 100,000 roubles (£1,155) for “indecent” online posts that demonstrate a “blatant disrespect for society, the country, Russia’s official state symbols, the constitution, or the authorities”.
> people who don't care or aren't good with computers get the light version

Or more importantly, people whose browsers/OSes don't set that CSS flag
Hybrids have regenerative braking, too, so it's not uniquely an EV benefit.
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The reality is, our political and corporate elites made a deal with the devil two decades ago, because the $ to be made off-shoring manufacturing and gaining access to Chinese markets was too good to pass up. They lied to the public that China posed no economic or military threat going forward, and that our glorious free markets would inevitably lead to a bottom-up liberalization of China.

Instead, we've played ourselves for absolute suckers, and as China's economy and military muscle continues to rapidly expand and the rest of the world is increasingly dependent on its products and markets, they're beginning to throw their weight around. All the pearl-clutching over Trump's tariffs and attempt at a renewed industrial policy (however poorly executed) elided the question of what exactly anyone else was proposing to do, with the default being the continuation of business-as-usual.

People need to wake up and realize China is a far greater geopolitical threat than the USSR ever was. They have a massive population and they've melded together free-ish market strategic industrial capitalism with a totalitarian panopticon state unlike anything the world has ever seen. Their military is rapidly catching up with if not in some areas surpassing our own, and we're sitting on our asses arguing over idiotic domestic squabbles assuming the unipolar post-cold war world will continue on forever. Because Muricuh!

Frankly, thank god this is finally bleeding out into popular culture, because maybe average citizens will start to realize what a straight-line projection of our current situation is going to look like in a decade or two.
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Thanks for hitting the heart of the matter.

A lot can happen in that time. Given the direction of things, do you think it will be better? I guess I don't.

When HK is supposed to hand itself over to China's rule in 2047, do you think there will be ANY international support for their independence? I don't. That would be directly against the deal that was struck.

Wouldn't it be better to use China's interference as a pretext for independence, claiming it was China who has broken the bargain?

American independence wasn't about a tea tax or a few soldiers defending themselves in Boston. It was about inevitability and using those events to propel it.
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NBA are not legally controlled by Chinese laws. They're censoring speech because they want to (a.k.a. it's profitable), not because they're being forced to.
Given the consent of the governed being a requirement for a govt to be legitimate. At what threshold of congress approval do we say the govt is not being given consent ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed
I see comments newer than 2 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=windexh8er
I strongly doubt the Founding Fathers intended that to mean "we should continue to deprive felons their rights to life, liberty, and property even after they have served their sentence".
I thought that "blacklist" was deprecated and that "denylist" or "blocklist" were appropriate usages?

https://developers.google.com/style/word-list#letter-B
> The US doesn't censor(?)

Any government will try to censor at some point. The difference is that Western countries have independent judicial branches with the power to stop the government from censoring.
Mine too! Finally put up a personal site last month after not touching any web projects for a long while. I've checked out of a lot of social media and wanted my own place to put stuff and to poke around with javascript and web graphics.

One of the upcoming posts is going to cover handling dark mode for <canvas> content. So far I've just used transparent backgrounds with no black or white drawing so that it's visible either way.

https://will.institute/

Not much on it yet, just been slowly working through the setup for doing a canvas with a responsive site.

Neat tidbit - the logo image is a single SVG in shades of dark gray, which doesn't work well on a dark background. You can apply image transformations in CSS under the dark mode media query to adapt things like this:

img#wi-logo {
filter: invert(100%) brightness(110%);
}

This is the same tool that the linked post uses for desaturating images, but adding that invert is a useful tool for dark mode. Personally I wouldn't recommend general image desaturation, photos taking more focus against a dark background is a good look if you ask me. At least consider making it an opt-in setting instead of the default.
They do tend to wear out tires faster, but brakes? If anything they put much less wear on brakes due to regenerative braking.
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> I'm not convinced that the multinationals have nowhere else to go.

Samsung is making most of their phones outside of China. It's clear you can push most multinational manufacturing back out of China. There are several dozen countries to redistribute that manufacturing to. I've probably read 50 or 60 articles in the past year that touch on the varied types of companies moving out of China, from bicycles to bathroom fixtures to clothing to tires.

The far bigger Apple issue, is that they don't want to lose the consumer side of the Chinese market. It's trivial for the Chinese authorities to snap their fingers and make Apple persona non grata in China. It wouldn't even take very long, a short duration of total disruption would be enough to wipe out Apple's market share. They'd never get it back, there are plenty of good domestic alternatives.

For a company the size of Apple, losing half their position in China could mean losing half a trillion dollars in revenue over the next ~20 years. Beyond the hardware, China's extremely large consumer market is no doubt perceived to be very important for Apple's services shift over time.
This is what I use as well, plus repetier printing server on my old raspi B.

I've setup everything once about 2 years ago, and should probably update the toolchain (klipper is awesome).
The need for a revolutionary vanguard makes it clear who is really uniting: the revolutionary vanguard. Whether that unity helps workers is secondary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism
Benefit #1: Make a top list of billionaires and have people gossip about it.

#2 Sell regular folks the idea that they _may_ one day become billionaires too, convince them that they should vote down any tax increase on the 1%; Continue brainwashing them that there's plenty of room at the top, maybe, just maybe room opens up for them as well.

#3 Monetize on the image of billionaires and sell luxury goods and billionaire lifestyle to poor cretins
> parking lots -- even on land worth $10M+ -- often pay property taxes as little as $100-$1000 a year (thanks to Prop 13).

Commercial property is also exempt under Prop 13?! What a screwed up system. I kind of understand if it applies to primary residences. I think it's ridiculous it also applies to commercial property as well.
Obama and Trump administration demands are pretty much similar, but when China said NO, their responses are totally different. Trump is taking China to the mat which Obama did not (what ever the reason may be).
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Democracy was forcibly imposed on Japan by the US when they lost WWII; India had been colonized by the British and its elites exposed to their cultural and political systems for 200 years before independence. In Western Europe, the process took a couple millenia, dating back to the legacy of Greece and Rome. The Magna Carta started to limit monarchial authority in England beginning in 1215; the French had not one but a whole series of revolutions from the late 1700's through the 1800's. And yet, in between, there were decades and centuries of backslides into fiefdoms and dictatorships and absolute monarchies; even when progress was made, it was incremental - giving political say first to landed aristocracy and clergy, then men, then women.

I think it's a little early to definitely say that this hypothesis has been proven false in China. Keep in mind that China's growth has really only taken off since the mid-to-late 90's. That's less than one generation. Look at the path that comparable economies in Asia took who developed much earlier. Korea's economic miracle took off in 1960, but it was basically ruled by military dictatorships in all but name until 1987. Taiwan saw it's main burst of economic growth in the 60's and 70's, but it was also ruled as a dictatorship by the KMT since they lost the Chinese Civil War. In fact, the first opposition party was not formed until 1986, and martial law, which had been in effect since 1949, was not lifted until 1987, a year before Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai Shek's son and successor, passed away. Singapore's government all during its economic miracle was famously authoritarian.
Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html