skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion this fight is important but futile at the level of individual companies. The USA as the only nation in the world with true free speech protections should make free speech a requirement in their trade negotiations. Even with Europe, we should not get certain tariff improvements until free speech goes into law that deserves the name and is equivalent to the US level of free speech.
The only other ecosystem that comes close to R is Julia

What is the Julia equivalent of the tidyverse
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-41
Of course, this 2D map in particular appears to be built from raster images, so things look pixelated when you zoom in by pinching.
Why further strenghten Microsoft's monopoly on developers? With several great alternatives available today, I say steer clear and as far away from Github as possible.
This is China’s soft power, restricting access to its economy to erode away the freedom of speech. How long before the chilling effect of criticising China start to affect those outside because the corporations depend too much on the Chinese economy for their survival?

There needs to be a law to prevent corporations from enforcing political censorship on behalf of another nation.
Saudis barely have any influence, if anything - the opposite is true, any hint of editorial intervention by any middle eastern/african nation and the west is up in arms about journalistic integrity but chinese have been exerting their power for quite sometime.

It's interesting to watch this unfold for someone who isn't entrenched in any of these spheres.
This is what happens when you fund your deficit spending with foreign investors for too long.
Fortnite is Epic Games, not Bluehole.
That'll be fun to get Google results for. I suppose we can be glad they didnt go for Go + UI, you know, GUI.
Personally, I thrive when being a facilitator, and I love being the dumbest guy in the room as I get to learn a bunch from interesting people. Keeping egos out of the room is important.
The Toolbox Fallacy (2017)
I use Solvespace. http://solvespace.com/
Google Analytics and Privacy: Why It Matters
Or, you know, gamers need to grow some moral principles and stop giving companies like this money. I already didn't like where Blizzard was going, this seals it for me. I'm not giving them any more money.
You were just proven to be a liar. Why does this site side with proven liars?
Oh who would have thought it. 2 years after this story was published he comes out this this story. Could it be at all related to the fact he has a book coming out 8th Oct based on the subject. I dont know why we fall for this media stories that just pump out because some guy the world has moved on from 2 years ago is trying to peddle a new book.

The guy works for H&M fashion in their retail division doing pretty much the same work he did for Cambridge Analytica. He was at the bylinefestival recently at which Wylie insisted on a chauffeur back and forth to his flat in London.

Demands no doubt agreed with his hollywood agent William Morris.

If you give people enough money they turn into the people that once hated and called out as a whistleblower.
I probably should’ve done a quick search instead of asking:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-para...
DGSE is not your opponent, they use rubber-hose decryption, works every time.
I went there with Arthur the other week and he thought the baps were a bit stale. Was that odd guy with the dog still there?
Chinese propaganda is well-spread. I had a Chinese roommate, well educated to boot - PhD in Econ from Columbia, and I could feel the reverence he had for Mao even though his ancestors were landlords.
Ugh. A brilliant insight into how people don't actually work. I read the first third hoping for an example, then the rest just hoping that anything would happen. My opinion of slatestarcodex was significantly higher an hour ago than it is now.
This is a great suggestion - many of the big name consulting companies (Accenture, Ernst & Young, McKinsey, CGI, Capco) will happily subcontract out the work that they've sold, or bring on external consultants to fill out a team.
They can launch people into orbit and safely bring them back. Hitting a ground target with an ICBM is about the same difficulty.
All patents are screened by the military. If it has any chance of being real, it's theirs and doesn't go public and author gets shafted.
Here's the correct link without paywall: https://medium.com/@dannymoerkerke/why-coding-your-own-makes...
“ The REST API for wazo-webhookd is available here”

Here is 404.
"The USA as the only nation in the world with true free speech protections"

Is this accurate? Legally, I understand that free speech is protected in the US constitution. I'm sure it's not the only country in the world with free speech laws, but I don't know how the specifics compare.

Culturally, the US seems less tolerant of free speech than plenty of other places in the world. Obviously China is orders of magnitude worse, both culturally and legally speaking.
I can't stand the guy either, but his ability to mobilize his base can't be understated.

If it can someone be framed as a choice between the freedoms that Americans have died for and bending over to a totalitarian state I think it would be possible to sway conservatives into opposing these policies.
Matt Stoller has been doing some coverage on just how much control China has built in Western economies. Quite scary.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-joe-biden-empowered-c...
How to Make Your First React Native App
This is why guest languages tend to fade away, as the platform evolves and the platform system languages adopt the features that made those guest languages appear in first place.
Here's a cool one for the London Underground - https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/
“Band in China” on youtube in case anyone wants to catch up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsAuSBfAfW4
An In-Depth Look at the US Budget and Accounting Tricks Understating the Deficit
Very very cool!

People interested in this should make sure to see the later post too:

https://stuffmatic.com/blog/making-a-pentagonal-tiling-puzzl...

The rest of your site is fascinating too. Can't wait to see what else you come up with!
Are Z80 systems and alike very common? Seems like a niche hobby.

I'm thinking old phones, tablets, and portable computers will be more common. I keep several bootable USB drives which have lots of ebooks, audio books, videos, software, and games along with several old laptops/netbooks which were free. I also keep some of those files on microSD cards to make them accessible with tablets.

IMO collapse will be very boring so lots of books, audio files, video games, and music would be nice to have if it can be run off small off grid solar setups.
Repsol Launches the Most Powerful Charging Station in Europe: 400 KW
I'm not clear what software has to do with this. It's happening across all industries, here's a good roundup of a bunch of other examples:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/07/china-censorship-daryl-mo...

Is software special in this case somehow?
Here's a different take:

https://www.politico.eu/article/to-help-the-homeless-helsink...

> Called Housing First, the Finnish model aggressively closed homeless shelters, calling them traps
People who are serious about reproducible builds host their own repos. Most people probably don’t know the difference between ^1.0.1 and ~1.0.1
Aspirin Might Protect Against Harms Caused by Air Pollution, Says Study
It's all about leads. Gigs sometimes end abruptly and you need a backlog. Find some clients on up work and try to get them off the site (be cool about it, it's a violation of up works tos). Also a lot of companies like local. Reach out to local big companies and send them a one pager on your skills. There is a huge demand for your work, it's just really hard to find.
The process of making clinker uses heat to separate CaCO3 into CaO and CO2 [0]. This release of CO2 is normally about half the CO2 footprint of making concrete (the rest is mostly combustion of coal to generate heat).

CO2 can penetrate into the concrete and bond with CaO, over time reabsorbing all the CO2 released during the calcination process. In practice, CO2 doesn't penetrate deeply into concrete, so depending on the concrete type and environment something like 25% of the potential absorption of concrete is realized (this is based on a conversation I had with a colleague at work, the number is not exact).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbonate
Enron lobbied at both Federal and state levels for their version of partial deregulation which they could (and did) game. That's also covered in my cite.
A year after the first AI painting was sold, the tech is still in its infancy
Quanta has started their coverage.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/nobel-prize-in-physics-to-jam...

Here’s yesterday’s article for the Nobel in Medicine:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/nobel-prize-awarded-for-cells...
Hayao Miyazaki's Airships
pretty unbelievable they don't mention this https://www.foxnews.com/story/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-...
Through the lens of appeasement it makes complete sense
Is Trump evil? It's not clear to me, so maybe you have the answer.

At some point, the line of evilness becomes so thin that you will have to "pick a side" if you have done it before. Easier to just not go down that route.

But still, is Trump evil?
>If someone manages to do it with Nike it will be fun to watch.

It just happened with the NBA:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/asia/nba-china-houston-rocket...

They pulled the 2017 All-Star game from Charlotte over transgender bathroom laws, but bent over for China when a prominent manager spoke out in support of Hong Kong. Utterly spineless.
For those that are looking for an alternative, humble bundle have a bundle right now which includes paintshop pro ultimate among other comparable adobe products.

See: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/painter-create-with-co...
You can set up pi-hole + a VPN on a cloud provider to solve the mobile problem. I did that, and it's great, but I do recognize that it has greater time demands (setting up the server, hardening it, setting up the CA, generating keys, ongoing maintenance, etc) and expense.

Here's a dated but reasonable overview of the process from Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-bloc...
All praise @animats
And yet, so wrong about people.
Not really a different take at all. It also notes that the policy is very effective. Close the homeless shelters and hostels, give them housing.

The rest of the part you quote is revealing:

"Finland’s experiment in ending rough sleeping has caught the attention of policymakers for one reason: It’s working.

Called Housing First, the Finnish model aggressively closed homeless shelters, calling them traps, and did not require participants battling addictions to recover before receiving keys to a home."
Or you know, a laptop. I've got like 6 of them piling up dust and all they need is 19V. The oldest from 2008, the batteries on 3 have sadly failed being unused, everything else still works.

I've also got 2 desktops from 2003ish (Athlon64 and Pentium III), they probably work, too, although they're stored in a garage (along with some other stuff like VCRs and CRT displays).

Not to mention routers old and new, all running Linux.

Yeah, why plan for less? All I need to do is scavenge around my property :D

Though a garden, livestock and a greenhouse will be a much higher priority. No one needs any sort of computing when they can't eat.
Humor can help you remember information better
Options to Kickoff a React Project: CRA, Next.js or Gatsby?
CS6 hasn't worked right in OSX for years anyway. I hung onto it as long as I could but Save for Web stopped working around Yosemite so I could no longer save GIFs, then around El Cap PS started crashing when you did certain drag operations and Illustrator started acting weird.

Think CS6 is still a viable option for Windows 10 users though.
Fortunately the games mentioned don’t require any money other than the initial upfront cost, hence the protest. Protesting could also vastly raise queue times, making the experience i enjoyable for many.

But I agree, I’ll never spend another $ on anything blizzard unless they take a different stand on the issue.
Then we have to boycott Hearthstone.
While the current case is neither surprising nor substantially important, it is important because of principle.

Blizzard is not responsible for what players say in interviews. In our society, it still matters that people can tolerate other opinions.

The Chinese government tries to make it a new normal that entire people can have their "feelings hurt" (what?) by mere non-insulting opinions, and it tries to make it a new normal that all actors should censor any undesirable or potentially undesirable opinion.

If that is indeed the way, then our society and the discourse therein is no longer free, and the CCP has won.

We need to keep these firms in our mind. We need to keep a list of when this happens, and we need to sanction this as best as we can. Similarly, anyone standing up to censorship should have our support.

I can be pro HK, or I can be pro China, and I can voice opinions because doing so either way is an equally valid form of free expression. But it can not be that one side gets pre-emptively censored to appease the CCP, or any actor with the power to DEFINE the bar of what is reasonable expression of opinions.
Why Is the NBA in Xinjiang?
The idea that words have enormous power over human minds is taken to fantasical extremes in a (sf? f?) thriller "Lexicon", by Max Barry[1].

My own view is that "truth" means something different to some people. For example, a charismatic narcissistic leader might mean "confident belief" when he says "truth". This definition define his statements to be truth! I suppose the last backstop for these kinds of structures are nature itself, and it's tendency to allow problematic structures to crumble.

1 https://www.alibris.com/Lexicon-Max-Barry/book/24166116
Gravity is a pretty reliable signal; doesn't decay much on million-years scale, and doesn't get obscure much either.

Not to imply those were from unnatural processes, more to indicate that basic spacefaring technology implies ability to detect such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronomy)
Printing business cards and going on social media are the last activities, not the first. The first should be finding someone who respects your work to hire you. If you can’t do that, all the business cards and social media in the world won’t help. After you have a first client, then build your brand.
https://www.xkcd.com/1172/
The same can be said about Go
20th century Japanese literature is very interesting. Its authors are people who are living through, or have lived through a society growing from a fairly rational and proud Westernized and modernized society into an increasingly desperate, fanatical, and repressive one, before having their entire society and common values do an about turn and figuring out how to live in a new, contradictory world beyond their wildest expectations. Among their most celebrated are authors who think of themselves as very broken people.
> Sometimes I wonder why LaTeX math mode doesn't do some fancy static analysis. Considering how much math is just a language, and we know how to prove (and check) things about languages

It wouldn't be practical beyond some basic checks. Turning a paper proof from even the standard you'd find in a journal publication into a formalised (e.g. Coq) proof is a research grade task. The automation required to justify each step in a typical paper proof back to your axioms isn't close to being practical for casual use.
As a MacOS audio developer who supports legacy machines to this day, there's some truth to what you say but you're glossing over important realities: Apple has a long-standing pattern of revising developer tools to throw away support for working machines, and then requiring you to use their newest developer tools for current development.

It's a technical issue. It's a bear to support older systems from newer machines. (it's a lot easier to support current stuff from dawn-of-time old systems! I keep an antique laptop to code on which allows me to support EVERYTHING all the way back to PPC Macs. Which I do support)

My choices of what I choose to buy (in Apple hardware) or even CAN buy are conditioned very much by this reality. I'll get stuff if there's a fighting chance I can build a working ecosystem on it. I'll be willing to do things like ditch Logic and switch to Reaper, and I'll be well within my rights to tell users 'this is what I can offer, and this is what I cannot'.

Because Apple is not automatically my ally. It can be my adversary, even when I'm doing its bidding (I was fairly early in porting my entire product line to 64-bit when few others bothered. Apple literally called me and offered to help me do this, so I told 'em I'd already done it three months before. I did NOT tell them that I continued to support PPC machines or maintained a time capsule dev machine as the only way to develop for a large range of cheaply, easily available hardware)

Users have every right to side with me against Apple when I'm an open source developer letting them do professional-quality audio work on computers costing only a few hundred dollars, and/or letting them continue to use known-good and predictable equipment, and Apple is locked in to a course of action requiring it to churn its userbase at whatever cost to the userbase.

I totally get Apple's motivation here, but it doesn't serve my customers.
No adobe and office products? That sounds quite bad!

Edit: it seems to be only old versions that won’t be supported (office 2011).
Landlords to WeWork make contingency plans for potential vacancies
especially since it supports WebAssembly as a backend, it would be nice to get a online demo page.
The Guardian haven't been trustworthy for a while now.

It seems as though only recently did they start turning a profit [1] and I suspect some of this is achieved by giving up some of their original journalistic integrity.

[1] https://www.opednews.com/articles/Guardian-turns-a-profit-fo...
I don't know the author, but I had a similar thought, that was about the very immediate emotionality of his characters. It doesn't have to be that way - the "radical compassion" he mentions is only one small step away from nipping that kind of angry/passionate response in the bud.
Opinion of a programmer learning Coq: I think the Coq program is THE proof, everything else is aesthetic. I quite do not like the idea proposed in the paper to comment every Coq line. There is risk to give an illusion of understanding. Whereas true understanding occurs when following side by side the Coq code and the evolution of the goals, and agreeing with the prover.
To me, it is like following a proof on the blackboard. You may think you have understood, and stumble when doing it on paper. Doing the proof in Coq and forcing me to understand each step gives me the impression to do it on paper ... well sometimes I write bits on paper when the prover still goes too fast.
It's not to defend China/Russia but to prove that the accuser is not interested in the problem itself but only in weaponizing the problem against those countries. Defense is not necessary or actually even possible since the claims are always made without any evidence.
>Yes, because beating someone for doing or thinking something is a proven way of making them stop doing or thinking that thing.

It is, coercion works. There are situations where it doesn't, but this certainly isn't one of them.
Technology: The New Battlefront of Freedom
There are not antithetical.
I use git log -S regularly

https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.t...
China is very smart. They saw what was happening in the West - oppression of freedom of speech on account of "hurt feelings" - and applied the same principles for their own nefarious purposes ("hurt Chinese feelings" a.k.a. political censorship).

Literally noone could have seen this coming. /s

edit: XCabbage better explains what I was trying to say. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21191253
Because software has this weird status where you increasingly don't own a perpetual use right to the copy of the code you bought, and can have it revoked for reasons that have nothing to do with the purchase agreement. What if one day in the not too distant the electrical system on your car stopped working because an auto software update from that vendor (not the company that sold you the car perhaps) detected your name was on a DB of no-service-updates, and there was a critical big patched?
> Six Corporations control 90% of the media in America

Totally incomparable.

America has the First Amendment. Its government and corporations can be held accountable in courts. Any rando has the capacity to pine off about anything on Twitter. Meanwhile China boasts a centralised bureaucracy literally censoring Winnie the Pooh images because its dictator doesn’t like his resemblance.

Yes, America has a media ownership concentration problem. No, it’s not remotely comparable to Xi’s Beijing.
True, if you are privileged enough for that to be your immediate reality
Surprised people are still listening to Christopher Wylie, the "whistleblower" who founded a company as shady as Cambridge Analytica and only blew the cover after being sued by them for soliciting their clients and offering the same services.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wylie
That's a too simplistic conclusion based on myth... https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080615/china...

And these are private companies bought by private investors (ok one could argue it's Chinese government money..), what does that have to do with government deficit?
That is true for guest languages designed to overcome specific issues in a given language (think CoffeeScript vs. JavaScript in 2012 and then in 2019). But I don't think it really applies to Java vs. Clojure, which both pretty much force a specific (different) programming paradigms and have completely different design.
Buzzfeed and Reveal are every bit as ideology-laden as Breitbart and InfoWars. I happily disregard most of what they all have to say.
EU today is less “communist” economically than most of the US.
They aren’t saying we should start a war. They are saying we’ve gone to war to defend those principles but now we put up much less resistance, such as denouncements, sanctions, etc., lots of things short of war that we’ve done with the USSR and Russia.
I've read a bunch of comments; surprised not to see mention of DevTools / Lighthouse Audits / Accessibility.
Are you actually trying to claim that China is a free country with freedom of speech?

There is a big difference between saying you are a free country and actually being one. In totalitarian regimes the government is not bound to the constitution, that is why they are called totalitarian.

If you truly believe that China is free, which I doubt, I highly encourage you to educate yourself on the half century of fear and murder that they have systematically used to oppress all dissension.

It is not my responsibility to educate you, but you are arguing against history. History may be malleable in China, but outside of the Great Wall we know what they have done and it is my dream that one day China is held accountable for the atrocities it has committed in the name of "peace and prosperity".
How do you find the first client if it's explicitly something that happens before advertising yourself?