skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NBA is enormously popular in China and an NBA blackout would be catastrophically unpopular. Furthermore, it would be unpopular with precisely the most damaging kind of people, the ones who are largely apolitical but just want politics to not interfere with their daily enjoyments.

There's a common misconception in the West that because China is an authoritarian state, it doesn't need to care about happiness of its citizens which couldn't be further from the truth. The CCP's legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed and the Chinese people know that.
I just found out today about git worktree[1], and I think it's a very powerful feature more people should know about, but it seems used less than it could.

Basically, you can do a working copy of the git environment without pulling the repo again, so you have only one .git folder.

A godsend if you, like me, work on gigantic repos that build unbearably slowly and want to be able to use multiple instances of the same repo at the same time.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
Genghis Khan was neither a totalitarian leader nor did he fail on battlefields.
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Ask college athletes.
You can't just say free speech is a right. Every country including the US has restrictions on speech to varying degrees.

The US draws the line at true threats, and inciting imminent lawless action, among others.

New Zealand now draws the line at simply sharing a manifesto along with anything else decreed by the Chief Censor.

China is much more strict, but who's to say where the line should be drawn? Not even western governments agree.
> hong kong comments > 10

Just as interesting are all the instances where stories gained dozens of upvotes but very few comments, because they disappeared from the front page within a few hours after rising to the first spot. It's very easy to see even from the outside, if you simply filter for stories that are ranked lower than other stories that have a lower score, are older, and have more comments. Try this on for size:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That even gets a few results of you increase the score to 100, e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20304526

I remember seeing that just go poof back then. One moment it's at the top, then it quickly sinks, then it's on page 7824.

Just about any subject is discussed a great deal here, because "a great deal" is no hard qualifier at all. But I know few subjects so consistently suppressed and messed with here as Chinese totalitarianism. You could convince me otherwise with a database dump, by making votes and flags public, but not just with mere claims and saying you didn't notice anything. Maybe you didn't, but that really just proves you didn't notice it.
Also not new at all. Money talks, even if it means only saying the things the highest bidder allows you to say.
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>problem only when the consequence is brought on you by the government

It's not that corporations (or individuals) are seen as being naturally good. But they don't have the power to imprison you or silence you by force and, in fact, would be committing a crime by doing so. They have some civil remedies for stealing trade secrets or breaching NDAs.

Certainly major corporations have a lot of power. But it is still a fundamentally different degree and type of power than the government has.
Every time Reddit bans one of the more cesspool-y subreddits there’s a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth and planned exoduses. The most popular alternative seems to be Voat, 8chan, or similar sites much more welcoming of violently racist (/r/chimpire, /r/coontown), political (/r/the_donald), misogynistic (/r/incel) rhetoric, or legally questionable/nonconsensual sexualization of teens (/r/jailbait, there was also a subreddit dedicated to nonconsensual pictures of women that I forget the name of), or other content that users feel they are being persecuted for sharing. While these sites struggle to find ways to find funding for site largely dedicated to sharing content much of society finds abhorrent, the bans do appear to have their intended effects of removing some of these distasteful people and rhetoric from the Reddit platform[0] with very minimal loss of users - and the users who are leaving were those who were originally propagating aforementioned material, so the loss isn’t very valuable. In the meantime, 8chan has cultivated a reputation for itself as an enclave for individuals looking to commit or celebrate mass murder.

[0](http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf)
you have spammed this a couple times now and been dismissed in each thread.

Do you have any backing for this belief or is it just a talking point you like to throw around?
Can you share some sources on this please?
> D-Link last week told Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, which first discovered the issue in September, that all four of them are end-of-life and no longer sold or supported by the vendor

First released in 2011, EOL in 2018. Can't say I blame 'em, EOL is EOL, but it's also the new planned obsolescence. (Better buy a new router every 7 years or the hackerman'll get ya!)
No I did not. You can read the comment thread and see that. That's your own straw man.
Instead of Pulling Others Down, Let's Recognize Those Who Helped Us Elevate
Funny thing though - I could see that statement being particularly enraging once a large enough and random enough group got behind debating it. These statements don't have to make logical sense, they only have to trigger people into instinctive camps.

"The math doesn't even make sense, and is making my point, that there's no problem here"

"You're saying there's not a problem? Believe me, there's a problem..."

etc.
Thank you for sharing this list.

It’s maybe a dumb question but even after looking in some of them I usually fall back on a classic cron job + some Python scripts for automation for the flexibility. What’s the biggest advantage of these services / solutions when you already have some servers available?
I don’t see why anyone anywhere would risk drinking tap water when filtration systems are relatively cheap.

Get an RO system and a water bottle.
I am so glad you said this. I thought it was just me.
I feel everyone is better than me, I'm just 16 years old. How should I behave?
People in the UK can vote out the government and change the laws that way. People in China can't.
"If you ignore your bully he'll stop bullying you"
What happened to avoid listical titles?

> If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
This all seems like an incompetent manager complaining about their IC working on quality-of-life things instead of 100% focusing on getting tasks done for the manager.

Should be titled "How IC's avoid being commoditized task monkeys."

This isn't to say at all that these points don't have a lot of merit when working within a "task monkey" org structure...
Ever been to a developmental center ? Full of addiction, mental illness and criminal anti-social behavior, at a level completely beyond anything seen in any homeless group, not even close. You know what the answer the local government in the area has done to improve the lives of the people they have had locked away from society since the area has existed? Provided them housing.
> Hiring is scary enough already without bringing the law into the picture.

This is at the root of a lot of social issues lately.

One person, let's say it's a person of colour, is afraid of not being able to get a job at all.

Another person, who is doing the hiring, is afraid of someone holding them accountable for actually hiring qualified applicants.

This is a very asymmetrical pair of concerns. But if you're doing the hiring, it feels like the worst thing in the world to have someone second-guess your decisions.

You are so busy worrying about this that you don't even consider how scary it is to look for a job, and have robots tell you that you aren't getting an offer because your diction and facial expressions don't match those of people who the company has already hired.
China, where are my children?
This is not Chinese tyranny, this is the American tyranny called at-will employment.
> once per year? That is so close to zero maintenance as is possible to get.

Compare that to a static site with Netlify or AWS S3, which never requires an annual package update and rebuild.

You also didn't address how Apple requires you to update the marketing screen captures. You will need to brush off the dust of your faked out app data and spend a few hours tweaking them in an image editor.
I say succinctly "you cannot silence the Americans. They don't know how to shut up".

If the foreigner doesn't feel it, they'll at least find it funny.
It is more about having a divided government. Many democratic societies have a separation between at least two, sometimes three branches of government, allowing for one to check the other. In the USA’s case, the judicial branch interprets law.

China lacks such separation, the judicial branch cannot check the power of the party/official class, they cannot interpret law and they definitely cannot enforce what the official don’t want to enforce (see China’s constitution that with freedom of speech, assembly, and so on...). By definition, this concentration of power is authoritarian, so these things go hand in hand.
> so it will execute on the device's JS runtime

Close. RN uses JavaScriptCore (Safari's JS VM). On iOS it will use the system provided VM. On Android, it's bundled with the app.

Hermes (https://hermesengine.dev/) is the new Android JS VM optimized for boot time and memory usage.
> China in its current totalitarian form needs an "Enemy" to survive, without it,

This isn't historically accurate. China mostly been under a centralized authoritarian government since antiquity. In fact, there is a strong argument that China (literally "Center Kingdom" or "Middle Kingdom" in Chinese) became authoritarian because it had no rivals for thousands of years.

By contrast, European nations always were in a community of relatively equal rivals - a society of nations if you will. This rivalry forced nations to be somewhat competitive in terms of meeting the needs of their population, and adapting to new methods or technologies developed by their neighbors since they were always in danger of being overtaken by a rival.

If anything, the existence of strong rival nations weakens the cultural Chinese claim of being the center of the world.
Mao dealt with most of the large drug distributing organizations pretty effectively. This rehab process played a key role in the future expansion.
The only effective way to change laws is to organize. "you can change laws, but you can't organize to do so" is in effect saying you cannot change the laws. And that's by design -- China is an autocracy.
Poeple who think like NPCs will be out of job.
This would be a nice addition to the website, comparing the solution with each of its competitors.
java had:

* bundled xerces around 1.6, breaking apps that also carried their own xerces

* removed sun.misc.Unsafe from v11, breaking legit apps the apps that use off-heap memory

* sun and later oracle made everything to make applets useless, creating ridiculous security requirements and no clear way for a user to whitelist trusted applets. same for java web start. they had no problem disabling MD5 and RSA in their SSL impl, breaking the old clients.
I think a lot of divides are because people have different assumed axioms, and in many cases cannot even declare what those axioms are.

Example:

I know pro-life people who cannot understand how someone could simultaneously hold the belief that aborting fetuses with congenital defects is okay, but rounding up the severely handicapped and killing them is not; there is nothing magical about birth that changes a life from not being valuable to being valuable.

Simultaneously I know pro-choice people who cannot understand how someone could simultaneously vouch for reducing or eliminating social welfare services to single mothers but also vouch for making abortions illegal; clearly the pro-life people don't care about babies after they are born!

Since the other side holds inconsistent views, they are wrongheaded hypocrites and all of their arguments can be dismissed without further thought. No compromise is possible because to compromise with hypocrites is to enable their hypocrisy.
Scholarships. Potential to go pro....Money.
The NBA is about basketball, not about something that is quickly turning into McCarthyism. Demanding that they should 'stand for something' is behaving exactly how China and Chinese companies are accused of behaving.

The concept of "enticing China towards the US" is also naive at best. China is not a small country that the US can turn into a satellite. It is a superpower with its own views and interests and however its political regime will evolve it will not be either aligned with or under the leadership of the US. The US government knows that and that is the problem they have with China.
The NBA really needs to grow a spine on this one. They have nothing to lose but incremental profits and in the long run China will lose. It will just be one more reminder for the populace that their current government restricts them from luxuries the rest of the world gets to experience. And if that doesn't bother them, good riddance I guess, it's not like China is going to come up with their own basketball league that's going to overtake the NBA, ever.
Ask HN: How much direct client interaction necessary for remote developers?
Recently joined a local team of developers working with a remote client. We are having twice a week remote meetings with the client where each developer updates the client about individual performance and shares next milestone etc.

Is this the right approach? Do each developer in a team (consisting of both senior and junior devs) have to directly interact with the client? Or, it is the job of Project Manager / Team Lead?
> Just saying something is extremely unlikely to happen by itself does not constitute proof

sure it does.

statistics are a measurement of something in the real world. in the poker example you are measuring the possibility of a series of hands succeeding in a given episode of play. In court you are measuring the possibility of a given DNA sequence occurring by chance.

What distinction are you drawing between the statistical certainty in poker vs. the statistical certainty in court (or in medicine)?

There doesn't need to be anything else, if you have a sufficient statistical level of certainty.

In most cases there is corroborative evidence, but nobody thinks it's necessary when the DNA matches.
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> if they value the time of their candidates so little?

Get out of the bubble anonCow. $25/hour is nearly double the USA median wage, for a trial position.

Here's a dirty little secret for you: the only reason software developers are making unnaturally high amounts relative to everyone else is because of unjust intellectual monopoly laws.
That phrase appears to be apocryphal, salt quickly disperses in practice and no land has ever been known to be deliberately contaminated by it.

I feel these vague worries about road salting relate to this article about highly toxic contamination as a kind of "what-about-ery" but are even less connected by having been introduced as "kind-of-reminds-me-about-ery".
Well, you could be living somewhere outside of US for instance?
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This is precisely why I chose to install DD-WRT on all my routers. Not only does it give me more fine grain control over all my admin privileges, I know I don't have to rely on some company making the cost-benefit decision over if it's worth patching security bugs.
Change requires sacrifice.

If people aren't willing to stand behind their beliefs at the risk of temporary financial hardship to support people putting their lives at risk to stand against a lifetime under tyrannical rule then they do not deserve the freedoms their country affords them.
To paraphrase Yakov Smirnoff: "USA and Soviet Union have same freedom. In USA I can I can drive to White House and complain about Reagan; in Soviet Russia I can also drive to Kremlin and complain about Reagan."
Though the parent is accurate that in our western society doing a thing because you enjoy it is punished, both monetarily and socially, because you're not efficiently using your time to make someone else some money.
A lot of good ideas here, but I'd shoot for a slightly larger number here than 100. You get a polynomial effect here, where a word added to list A gets you (the length of list B x the length of list C) more combinations--there's a lot of payoff to even adding just a few more words to each list.

The surface area of the earth is about 200 million sq miles, so 1 million unique points gets you 200 sq miles each, not 20. That's 5,575,680,000,000,000 square feet.

40,000 words per list (the length of the W3W list) gets you down to about a 87 square foot (around 9ft x 9ft) area with three words.

I tend to agree with you that 9ft x 9ft is smaller than necessary for most purposes. If we target a 16ft x 16ft area (5m x 5m for those using metric), we get that with three word lists of 28,000 words. Using six words (three nouns for general area, plus three adjectives for precision), word lists of 168 words are adequate.

I'm not completely convinced that the larger areas are ever useful, however. By going to just 4 words, we can achieve the 16ft x 16ft area with four lists of 2200 words. Those lists are short enough to plausibly check for sound-alikes, enough words exist to have four separate word lists, and have a shorter resulting location phrase.

I'm also not convinced that the set being order-free is really necessary. Transposition errors seem more likely in longer data sets than three words (hence even/odd word lists in the PGP word list).
Magnets were well known the Greeks in antiquity[1], likely because of the Magnesia region in Greece where natural magnets are commonly found[2]. Words like "magnet" and "magnetite" are named after that region.

In 1584, the magnetic compass would have been well known and understood, but the connection between electricity and magnetism was a long way off. Gilbert's De Magnete[4], which explained that compasses worked because the earth itself had a magnetic field, was published in 1600, not long after this book on "Magick."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnes_the_shepherd

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesia_Prefecture

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetite

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Magnete
This sounds interesting. I think trying to do something like cloudinary would be difficult since they are also using multiple replications across regions which won't be possible in your case as you will be storing the images in s3 and buckets will be region-specific what do you think about that?

Also, I would suggest don't keep it platform(Lambda) specific. With the rise of other platforms like Azure and GCP devs would want to deploy this on other platforms as well. Thoughts?
Try火箭队. I got plenty of news results on Baidu.
Reasonable people disagree on what exactly was promised in terms of universal suffrage.

Whichever way you lean, it's absolutely no excuse or justification for the violence and destruction.
Good job, but what about retargeting?
In what world is US better than China? China doesn't travel to other countries and directly kill millions of civilians like the United States. This website is so shitty when coming to defending the United States. I don't know why I continue to waste my time reading shitty pro-US propaganda on this website.
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You can't place prohibitions on selling the software or consulting services related to it. The definition of open source is here:

https://opensource.org/osd
Eich donated to a campaign that wanted to nullify gay marriages. I mean sure, you can make the argument that it came from a dispassionate place, but that applies to Eichman et.al. too. You can create hateful end results without ever investing the energy to hate the people you affect.

That doesn't make you any less hateful.
I agree that there's always going to be bias. I'd go one step further, even, with your comment about most important works being too difficult. Instead, I'd posit that most important works have a bias in and of themselves. An implicit framework of thinking that needs to at least be partially understood before the work can be understood. The original intended audience of the work, separated by however much time and culture and expertise, is at an advantage here, because in theory they already shared some of that framework with the author. But the further separated you are from the culture that created a work, the harder it's going to be to engage with it in any meaningful way; you just don't speak the same language.

So commentary and criticism and analysis and so on can serve as a useful bridge into the way of thinking that you'd need to really grok the primary source. It's probably impossible to get there completely, there will always be a bit of a gap. But the more secondary material you read, from as many perspectives as you can find (I do think this is very important, in addition to the critical thinking mentioned in the parent; even a very critical thinker, in a strange land, can be deceived into believing there is consensus on a matter when presented only with a single side), the better chance you have at being able to focus the center of the thing, with all the various lenses you've been given.

At least, the center of it relative to your own set of biases!
Pot, meet the kettle. You're both niggers :)

An amusing tirade but politics and economy tend to go hand in hand, especially when it comes to superpowers. And there are far more brutal examples of it going on as we speak. Blocking access to essential medicine and food comes to mind. Outside the virtue signaling bubble and PR facades the world is a very Machiavellian place.
Gerstmann's firing was widely reported at the time, he immediately turned around and created an influential gaming website that's still successful today, and Kane and Lynch didn't do well. Not a great example.
> Learn by observing others around you

Or even better, learn by making mistakes and have great coworkers who can catch those in code reviews.
They have everything to lose and it's quite sane for them to back down from this fight. The NBA isn't our government, just because our politicians are spineless and fawning doesn't mean companies need to take up the fight.

That all said it'd be awesome if they chose to push back even though it's entirely destructive to themselves.
Isn't this (or at least the end state) the same as rebasing myFeatureBranch from master before merging it in? I don't use Fork, but I assume it can do those 2 things with clicks.
The NBA boycotted North Carolina over HB2 (the “bathroom bill”), but doesn’t have a problem doing business in China. I hope they go bankrupt.
If this actually happens, it will be great for Tesla and other companies that produce home solar + batteries.
Not really worried about my writing.

My biggest problem is - if I am involved in a project, I want it to be profitable (i know, not very healthy).

But I get your point. The thing also would be figuring out how you want to market yourself? What do you want to be seen as?