skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the tweets and posts to support HK polices on Twitter/Facebook were deleted, how would you explain that?
The problem with your comments is not that there's no evidence to support your viewpoint, but that you're not telling anyone anything new. You're just telling everyone how angry you are. This site is for intellectual curiosity first and foremost, if it turns into an ideological battleground then only because we're not good at strictly following rules.

I'm not perfect either, but my recent comment history may give you an idea of what I mean by "telling others something new."
On the contrary, wow classic was setting twitch records just a month ago. Obviously that spike in popularity will not be sustained, but still worth noting and shows the size of Blizzard as a brand.
I always thought all Pakistani peoples dark.

Then last week I realized two of my "Easter Europen" coworkers were in fact from Pakistan.
China is still a thing? I thought Hong Kong defeated them.
I was at an event today where Al Gore spoke positively about LiON battery as energy storage. I was a bit surprised .. is this sustainable tech?
Thanks, I guess I spend too much time on Windows. :)
Hong Kong's demands really aren't that crazy, what you say China is worried about is somewhat valid but also out of scope of the actual demands they have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_protests#Object...
there was a recent study where striped “jackets” were given to horses, and were found to be very effective.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/zebra-stripes-hor...
It also sterilizes the process. Diversity and complexity and mess are not only beautiful, but robust. Artificial evolution would reduce us to mere mechanisms.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351

They allow a Chinese company to manage iCloud data.
How to Solve Enforcement Challenges
It's important to avoid conflating string theorists with all theoretical physicists. Plenty of people in particle physics either don't believe in string theory or don't think it can make useful predictions any time soon, even if it were assumed true. Furthermore, the vast majority of people called "string theorists" don't even work on traditional string theory day to day, but on more concrete ideas that have been partly inspired by it, such as holography and amplitudes.

This needs to be pointed out because there is a huge narrative bias out there. Science popularizers will endlessly frame things like "this whole field has no idea what they're doing, and only I, the brave contrarian outsider, can see through the fraud", even though they're only pointing out things that are already well known in the field. These narratives are completely wrong, but uncritically eaten up by people who think of themselves as contrarians.

Despite what the current top comment claims, you're not reading this article about Horgan because he was the first to think string theory would have trouble making predictions. Physicists have made this criticism since the beginning. Feynman pointed it out continually, and Glashow, one of the architects of the Standard Model, tried to bar string theorists from Harvard for the same reason.

You're reading Horgan's take, and not Feynman's or Glashow's, because Horgan is popular, and that's because he puts all his energy into expanding his popular reach. Only nonphysicists can do that, because physicists spend the majority of their time doing, well, physics.
Can tmux do focus-follows-mouse for selecting between panes? (Last time I looked into it this wasn't possible)
I was surprised to see one of these challenges pop up for me on LinkedIn this afternoon.

As annoying as these challenges are, I'm glad to see one asking for something other than picking blurry bicycles and invisible crosswalks. (Yes, I'm talking about you, ReCAPTCHA)
I have run into anti-principle based sentiment in the comments sections recently.
> This is a social media app, so I can't charge money for it. My hope would be for funding or a buyout.

If you have no clue how to monetize it, why would anyone fund it or buy it? People fund or buy businesses, but without a plan for monetization, you don't have a business.
This Veritasium video explores the links between genetics and attractiveness to mosquitos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38gVZgE39K8

One of the craziest phenomena it reveals is that once you've had malaria, you become more attractive to mosquitos than you were before!
Microsoft is putting an enormous amount of work in the development of VS Code. More than 70k closed issues and almost 6000 PRs is massive. Good to see it getting better and better without slowing down or getting bloated (so far). My favorite recent addition is the official Remote extension.
The opinions in HK (which is not being censored) is widely divided also. It is not about the WHAT that they're asking, it is about HOW. If they are protesting peacefully, nobody would object - even the police. But then again, youthful protester would then claim that the only way that the government only listens when they use violence. The truth is, their voices were heard, it was just couldn't be agreed upon on. The younger generation's perspective in HK is like this - If I don't get what I ask for, you are not listening. Since you are not listening, I would do whatever it takes to make you listen to me, including breaking the law (destroying properties, set up fire in subway, beat up, lock up, surround or threaten people with different opinions). The enforcement is there to oppress me because they attempt to stop me from letting my voice be heard through breaking the law. Since they oppress me, I need to fight them back by throwing bricks, metals, slingshot, petrol bomb to them. Since they oppress me, their family deserve to die and their children deserved to be bullied at school.

THAT is how they think and what they are doing currently. Certainly not all of the protesters are like that, but none of the protesters are willing to tell them that these radical protesters doing / thinking is wrong.
Since you're struggling, let me point them out.

1. aerial surveillance goes back a lot further than you realised.

Got it?

2. The vietnamese had little of the great advantages you list, yet the US which had them in spades, lost. ISIS is similarly disadvantaged but is also clinging on like the cancer they are.

So your claim there was "overwhelming advantage for the society which possesses [them]" is bunk. Got it?

> demonstrates ably why a jet airplane is an important improvement over, say, a train; something a child would find obvious

which I partly acknowledged, excepting the bits about surveillance. Got it?

The bit about you responding ad hom is dickishly annoying. Got it?
I don't think it ever congealed into a coherent field, say, with an established canon of techniques and a heirarchy of results that built on itself.
> There is an agreement between HK and Mainland China to allow them to function independently for 50 years and that is not being upheld, or at least that is what is perceived by people in HK.

Yeah because if you wait 50 years, HK isn't going to want to be a part of a dictatorship communist regime when they've been democratic for the past hundred years. China needs to ignore the agreement and ratchet down hard now if they hope to keep HK.
I agree that is a logically consistent position and wouldn't be entirely absurd. But I can't extract that position from their ruling.

It's also not one free of unexpected negative consequences in the case where the new system doesn't have a low value. Consider, a number of altcoins with more centralized administration have frequently hardforked and the ticker symbol and most of the value went to the new system while the old system was largely devalued.

So your policy would end up constantly resetting the holding period for these assets and the tax treatment would also be disadvantaged because it would tend to create short term gains and long term losses essentially out of nowhere.

E.g. You own Ethereum for two years. Then Eth hardforks to undo the execution of the DAO smart contract and return the lost funds eth's administrators. The original Ethereum continues, but the value and ticker symbol follow the new blockchain. A month later you sell all your coins. Did you just create a short term gain of the full value of the coins and a long term loss?
Ever notice how all the "Ya just gotta believe, man!" are largely non-technical SF fans whereas the people who say it's impossible are mostly scientists who are intimately familiar with the relevant science and engineering?
A Chinese company controls the icloud data. That's a backdoor if I've ever heard of one.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
The UK wanted to give HK free elections and China threatened to invade if they did.

https://www.scmp.com/article/48108/thatcher-reveals-dengs-th...
Ask HN: International Cookies:)
What is the one cookie (or other dessert) that stands out as the best (in your opinion) from your country/culture (can be country of residence, birth, or national identification).

Name the territory, the dessert and write why you picked it, any interesting things about it's history, preparation, consumption, significance...
Because it pays, and for some reason not many people have the guts to say marketing is rotten to the core, and advertising is cancer on the society. Maybe because the market encourages it structurally. Lying costs little and yields good profits, so acting immorally gives competitive advantage.
There are two issues that come to mind .. do we have enough materials to make more and more LiON batteries (grid level storage) and are these things recyclable/not going to mess up the Earth?
You can't test string theory with a quantum computer.
People do give a shit about Palestine in Muslim countries, to the extent that Israel is not recognised in those countries and/or Israelis are banned from entry. China risks making Hong Kong into what Palestine is to the Muslim world.

China, as the largest exporter of consumer goods, is much more exposed than Israel. If China wants to become an advanced economy such as Japan and South Korea (and this is what China wants most of all) they need to keep consumers in democratic countries on their side.
Now, a protest by "a dozen to 30" employees is unlikely to change Blizzard policy, even with the public backlash. While employees staging walkouts could actually hamper Blizzard's ability to make money, when each employee is individually up to the whims of the larger company, they may face negative repercussions and many, out of fear of reprisals, don't protest in the first place.

That's why we need unions in the software industry. Via collectivized action, the power differential between employer and employees is leveled. This is not only about collective bargaining, being able to enforce adequate labor standards (e.g. no/less/compensated "crunch" time), but also about being able to force company policy. If the majority of employees would strike/walk out and any negative repercussions against individuals would be met with more strikes, Blizzard would very quickly change.
You think the Chinese care about "annnoying" their people.
This is a totalitarian regime, which has ruthlessly run over its own people,there is no concept of individual rights, the populace is brainwashed into "nationalism" and that is all that matters. Country over self!
Western thought with its ideas of human rights and free speech is alien to them.
I don't think they want "something" happen to China, if you take a look at any of these protests and hear what they are saying - they just want basic freedom, democracy and not living in fear. Basically what everyone else wants and fights for.

sorry..
> Is anyone worried about the HKD/USD peg falling?

I just hope it fails before China fully takes over HK's banks
I think most people would prefer to decide for themselves if that's worth the $40,000/yr that they would have had if wages kept up with productivity.
Indeed, actions speak louder than words, but in this specific case, making a public statement is itself a very significant action. After all, it was nothing but public statements that are the center of the controversy.
I've always felt this kind of view seems rather bleak. Humans will only go down one of two paths. Either humans and human history will be entirely wiped out from the universe when Earth inevitably becomes uninhabitable, or human ingenuity will triumph and humans will be spread out all over the universe and not be just a blip in time confined to the lifespan of our solar system.

Why not hope for the latter? The argument being made here, "Earth is good enough and we need to take care of it, it's crazy to think that we'll ever live anywhere outside of this solar system", is essentially, in the long term, "the human species is doomed to die out when our sun dies, and probably much sooner than that". That feels so pessimistic to me.

Of course, protecting Earth is important, and probably a higher priority. But if you don't believe humans will make it off-world, then it's just delaying the inevitable. And if that's what you believe, I guess there's no point trying to convince you otherwise; it's not like any of us will be around to see that happen anyways. But if you do believe humans will survive longer than Earth, why is it "crazy" to start working on ideas to make that a reality? Even if it's not feasible, as Mayor says, "using the means we have available today", surely the path to inventing the means that do make it feasible starts from improving the tech we have today? We can work harder on taking good care of our planet while also starting to think in earnest about the plan for the survival of humankind - there are plenty of people and resources in the world, working on this doesn't necessarily substantially detract from efforts to protect Earth.
How do you square your interpretation with the text at the top of page 5?

It appears to be saying in situation 1 you have no N-coins at all. By exclusion, situation 2 would apply if you have the new coins and it clearly states taxes are owned on the market value in that case.
I don't know whether or not Lean is the "best" (no doubt that depends on what aspects you think are important). But I completely agree with the speaker that there is a need to formalize mathematics with computer verification. The current "counsel of elders" model of verification is simply not able to verify proofs with any serious level of confidence today, given the explosion of complexity in modern math. This will change how math will be done in the future; we will look back on current math "proofs" in the way we look back on medicine based on the humors (woefully inadequate).

There are, of course, people working on fixing this. I just created a Gource visualization of the Metamath set.mm project, which has been working to formalize mathematics with absolute rigor. Over the years there has been increased activity; there have now been 48 contributors to set.mm.

In the end, that is what is necessary to formalize mathematics: efforts by many people working together to do it.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC1g8FmFcUU
It is thinly veiled marketing for a handful of sites they wanted to call out.
I'm sad to see you downvoted. Its frustrating to me too when a company like Apple champions human rights in the USA then hands over the management of iCloud to China.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
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Isn't it too late to build a data center?
>What good are values as a nation if we're willing to trade them for profits and cheap goods from China?

And yet you promote Tesla, cozying up to the CCP and telling us that "China is the future" so that he can build some cheaper cars and get around tariffs? Whatever helps "the mission"?

https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/09/02/teslas-elon-musk-i-r...
Hong Kong's entire value, as far as I can see [and I'm referring to the value of Hong Kong as a community including people and businesses, not just their geographic value], either as a place to live or to do business or to visit, comes from it being a SAR with its own government, culture, historical legacy, and lack of interference from its mother country. If it becomes a homogenized satellite of Shenzhen with sky high real estate, which seems to be what China wants, what's left of Hong Kong?

I thought China was smarter than this. I thought they would realize the value of Hong Kong. Apparently China doesn't want Hong Kong. They want to remove the perennial thorn in their side, that democratic city-state of Chinese heritage right on their border. They want to grind it into dust, slowly if possible, but immediately if Hong Kong makes too much fuss about the pestle. They want to remove the painful reminder of [their losses during] the Opium Wars and British influence in the Sinosphere. They want to do that at any cost, including destroying Hong Kong's culture and attractiveness as a business location.

This is the height of tragedy. There will never be another place like it, and China is destroying it out of spite and ideological inflexibility.
Yeah because we all got usb, wifi, bluetooth and run x86 those times.
Better start worrying why most people still commute single in cars to work they could do while sitting in their homes.
Except that's not true at all unless every single one of these is an old version of the software that hasn't been updated since High Sierra. Any app that was developed using the sandboxing paradigm from High Sierra (and nearly every app in that list has been updated to support this) would not need to ask for all those permissions.

This would not be common for the vast majority of users and it's only caused by someone explicitly ignoring warnings and notices. It may be a little more common for power users but the average user may get 1 or 2 of those prompts and nothing more. The OP is only in the situation they're in because they either upgraded the OS without updating the individual apps or they purposely ignored a prior prompt to give access.
New method visualizes groups of neurons as they compute
> I see people talking like this is keeping them up at night, which I find strange.

I also find that strange. There is more alarm than is warranted by some of the doomsday folks. But I think the time to begin the conversation is now. There's just far more near-term things that might end humanity than machines to be alarmist about it. That said, I think people like Musk for example are well positions to be "kept up at night" about it since their money and influence can go a long way towards putting us on a proper path (or blindly lead us down a dark one).

>Do you really think it will go from "we can (poorly) identify pictures of cats" to "omg here come the machines" as soon as this linchpin discovery is made?

I agree that this is unlikely, but not implausible. We've seen large leaps in capabilities through new algorithms and new scales of compute being thrown at the problem. I think a somewhat likely scenario is that at some point we'll have all the required ingredients and someone will happen to put them together in the right way to create an AGI. If history has shown us anything about ML, it is that theory follows the technology. So we will likely stumble upon the result before we realize what we have. In this scenario it is important that we make that discovery in a safe manner.
Hell no, Google is a data vacuum the likes of which has not been seen since Mega Maid [1].

Yet... I still use Android-based devices. They happen to be Google-free, i.e. no Google Services nor any Google apps, no Chrome or Chromium, no Google search engine. Instead of those Google apps I use things like ~Osmand (maps), Nextcloud (storage and some applications), etc. Firefox/Fennec and Privacy Browser for web-related things. A self-hosted Searx instance for searching. Peertube for video, Airsonic for audio, Libreoffice Online (integrated into Nextcloud) for that type of stuff, eJabberd for chat, now experimenting with Pixelfed for photo sharing, self-hosted mail/web/etc. I've been doing something like this for as long as I've been using Android, i.e. about 9 years.

[1] https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/Mega_Maid
I figured it out!

Why are we so up in arms about this? Why not before this?

Well, because we were insulated from China's behavior. Their heavy handed approach only affected their own citizens. They jailed their own citizens, but not Americans, not other people.

We got our supply chain from them and they gave us what we wanted, so we're good.

However! Now China's tyranny is leaking out of China. It's getting into arenas where we are. You could have been playing that game. You could have said something that offended China -- maybe without even knowing it.

Plus, they are in our IoT devices, our iphones, our cameras. China is watching and controlling us now. They are restricting our access to games -- not just their own people.

The culture and rules of countries don't exist solely within the borders of that country.

This is new for Americans. It's not new for the rest of the world. What USA wanted, USA got.

Now, what China wants, China gets -- even if it's not what we want.
I agree the media has rolled over and completely in bed with the BJP regime.
The economy has been robust until now, wait and watch once it starts going downhill..which is now..
According to [1]: The app, known as HKmap.live, is a mobile version of a website that helps users avoid potentially dangerous areas, according to the developer, who uses the alias Kuma to remain anonymous. It was rejected from Apple’s App Store because it "facilitates, enables, and encourages an activity that is not legal," Apple told the developer, according to a copy of the rejection notice seen by Bloomberg News. "Specifically, the app allowed users to evade law enforcement," Apple wrote.

Bloomberg claims they saw the initial rejection notice, which was later reversed.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/apple-rev...
Would the US be doing what it's doing without Trump? During the 2016 election Trump's tough stance on China was widely seen as ignorant, unrealistic or a joke.
> The post didn't make this very clear. $10 was the starting price - at the time it was for 5 users. Similar to Confluence or Jira with a very cheap (in this case loss-making) starting tier. Once a customer got to ~10 users it became profitable.

Err.. That's not a correct way of looking at a long tail. CGS on a long tail must still be lower than the unit charge, otherwise you are paying $1.00 for $0.90 which gives you an incorrect signal about the demand.

Say you make apple juice. And each juice uses 4 apples and only apples. 4 apples cost you $3. Setting a price of juice to $1.00 does not actually tell you if there's a demand for the juice because it is below the CGS, which you cannot make up in volume.

The long tail test is to set the juice price at (CGS + x) where x is some number and see if you get the demand even if x is less than the other costs attributed to juice ( rent/electric/juicer/salaries). If you do, then you can make up your loses in volume because the higher the volume you are going to have the smaller process cost attributed to every unit will be so there's going to be a number at which CGS + y < CGS + x where y is the process cost attributed to a unit.
And so you have seized the opportunity. Disgusting.
The scary thing is that a large number of people (sometimes in Australia I feel like it’s more than 50%) _would_ give access to their brain, vote for it even. People crave feedback, they can be scared of themselves, so something in their heads monitoring everything could actually be reassuring in an almost religious sense

Australians also don’t think a lot in general (many exist who do but as a general populace we’re culturally weak and short on history), so the long term effects of such reassurance just never really makes it into the discussion

Anecdotally there’s been a slight uptick in my social circles recently about people genuinely caring about privacy, so maybe there’s hope
Trump administration used encrypted private messaging for talks with Ukraine