skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the same Iraqi protesters that are burning Iranian flags. Clearly US has already put pressure on Iran backing current Baghdad government. I wonder if they'll also start pressuring Baghdad itself after this violence. Article says State department is expressing concerns but that's it.
Would self determination not be reflected by approval of one's government? Presumably one is going to have a sense of greater self determination and government satisfaction if they feel that their government is pursuing their interests, and vice versa otherwise.

Harvard carried out a study involving a survey polling people across 30 different nations on a variety of different topics. [1] This includes (among various other more detailed categories) peoples' awareness of various world leaders, their self determined attention rate to news involving various leaders, and their general rating of those leaders. It reveals quite a lot of really interesting and surprising results. For instance about 88% of Americans do not know who Modi is, 85% of Saudis do not know who Putin is, but coming out on top is Israel which sports a less than 5% awareness of Modi. A number of the results really reveal how much of a bubble we all live in.

But the reason it's relevant is because it gives some third party measurement of how people within various countries view their country's leaders. As with all big data like this, people can prove anything they want - so I'm going to avoid giving any more specific numbers other than the neutral ones from above. Okay one more fun one, Tanzania just friggin loves everybody!

[1] - https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/reflections-survey-...
Everybody had equal access to the infrastructure and economic substrate, billionaires just made better use of it to generate more value, so why should they have to pay more?
While it makes no physical sense whatsoever, I like to see climate change as earth trying to raise its body temperature to get rid of an infection.
Also over here, with 534 points and 229 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678

I understand that these stories are probably tripping the HN flamewar & politics filters, but they seem to be disappearing from the frontpage faster than I would expect for a story this big.
Lol pretending like Harper wasn't at the front of the pack right next to Blair hopping on the coalition of the willing
Maybe, but it doesn't look good. It's just an apple with a bite taken out of it. It's whitewashed and bland. No character to it.
No, the 2ndA reads as "DESPITE the existence of a well [gov't] regulated military, the people may nonetheless own military weapons". This written shortly after the author wrote (paraphrased) "despite having strong militaries, European countries are terrified of armed citizens".

Your "with impunity" reference is not couched in reality.

Good luck holding to your narrative. Reality differs.
I think you're getting downvoted because you forgot to label your post as sarcasm with an "/s" at the end.

You might get downvoted anyway, but this seems to be the HN equivalent of clown makeup, and will encourage some of the srs bsns police to overlook your post.
The solution could be for the company to give the VPN password to the employee by phone some time after they arrive at the destination. Then the employee literally has no way to access the VPN when detained.
Paradox or oxymoron?
Micro-engineered liquid flow dissolves solids without dispersing them
I wasn't as aware of what was going on then. It has gotten worse under Trump, but Obama deserves searing criticism. Also, my views have become less partisan over time (in that I think both parties are bad to the bone).
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Tl;Dr;

I find it repugnant to neglect children because they may (or may not) be somewhere else a couple of years down the road.
The article uses RSA 2048 :-(. See https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html for why Ed25519 should be preferred, even over RSA 4096 (assuming it's supported, of course).
So I joined Google in 2010 (and left in 2017). One of the things that I deeply respected at the time was Google's stance on China.

Google pulled out of China in 2010 in response to a hack that is widely believed to be state-sponsored by China and probably aimed at getting to the Gmail accounts of dissidents although I've seen no official confirmation of this internally or externally.

I respect the position that Google didn't want to be enable Chinese censorship and essentially support a totalitarian and repressive regime (and before anyone argues China isn't this, ask the Uighurs in Xianjing what they think).

China has decided for better or for worse that they're not going to let any foreign company control any market in China. This is why you have Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Wechat, Huawei and so on rather than Amazon, Google, Facebook or Apple.

Part of me respects the desire to maintain sovereignty essentially. After all, China has a long history here with the Japanese, the British and countless others and you can't forget that.

But what I don't get is how Western governments and companies simply either don't understand this or don't want to.

No Western company will succeed in China because the Chinese government will ensure that it won't happen. Period.

As soon as you understand this the tantalizing carrot of a market of 1B people is revealed for the lie that it is and your choices actually become a lot easier.

Now obviously for the likes of Apple, this is complicated because we're not just talking about a market to sell goods but their entire supply chain.

I, like others here and elsewhere, have valued Apple's stance on user privacy but make no mistake, it is self-serving and directly entirely at Google's business model. And where you see Apple capitulate to Beijing here (which is exactly what happened) you see why: because Apple's relationship to China is the pillar that their business is built on. I fully expect other tech companies to counter Apple's attack on their business model by attacking Apple on China for exactly the same reasons.

Sometimes the only way to win is not to play and I guarantee you you won't "win in China'.
Again, I was not in the military in the early 90s.

I have no connection to Iraq personally.

I do not collectively harbor guilt and constantly stress about the horrible things that the country I choose to reside in has done in their past.

I have Hong Kong products in my house, and I interact with people who were born in Hong Kong all the time.

The same cannot be said for Iraqi products or people.

That is the point I am trying to make.
Depends on how you view fixing income inequality, I would imagine. For example, I don't think you could simply give the poor loads of money and suddenly their kids do well in school.

Personally, I view it as an education problem first and foremost. I think the incoming inequality is a red herring, and people are focusing on the wrong problem.

Yes, fixing income inequality is required. Yes, fixing income inequality would improve education to a degree - but my contention is that people merely having money won't help the broken education system. Not everyone can go to private schools. Furthermore, "giving people money" in college tuition has been part of the problem in driving prices unrealistically high and reinforcing predatory systems.

In my view, focus on education first. More educated people make smart financial decisions. Educated people make better decisions about their life, risk assessment, and quality of life. Educated people raise better children. Educated people are more difficult to fool in blind party politics and do-nothing politicians/systems.

Luckily we can do both, education and inequality, but I don't think we can or should expect to ever fix income inequality without at least in tandem fixing education. We need capable humans, and education is the only way to do it; I think.
CBP != ICE, but CBP and ICE are components of a single system. An engineer should appreciate that.
It would be super useful to me to see this with a bit more detail, in case you have/know a writeup somewhere!
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Yes but that's quite a truism. An average developer on an $300 720p laptop would outdo someone who can't code, but they still would be more productive with something better.
Protesters are burning Iranian flags.
> i'll add Vega

I don't think you should really add Vega as a comparison. It's more about describing charts than rendering them (Vega-lite comes with a renderer baked in). In fact it would be nice if uPlot could be a renderer for Vega.
You didn't actually tell us why it's irresponsible. Is there a real risk of them hurting anyone but themselves?
It's a mixed bag. My daughter-in-law was doing a rotation in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins, and the commissioner of police(?) that lived on her block was mugged. She definitely didn't feel safe there, and will not likely accept a residency there because of the security situation.

So in Baltimore at least, the local government has fundamentally failed at some of the things mentioned.
I think that more effective than voting with your wallet is voting in your elections and communicating with your politicians. Even voting with your wallet by donating to support political action.

Collective action is more effective when it's done via law because that removes the incentive to defect for personal gain. It means that people not paying attention aren't accidentally contributing to immoral causes.

In a case like this collective action means things like putting tarrifs on goods from China, so that their workforce isn't important, and banning exports to China, so that their market isn't important. More direct laws like "no censoring what China wants you to censor" are problematic because it's hard to detect in most cases, and it often violates freedom of speech.

And yes, I'm suggesting a very painful thing to do economically.
You amass resources by investing
(allocating) them well. If you invest poorly, you lose what you invested. Over time, the person who invested best will have the most resources.
It could also be that America succeeds in providing the kind of freedom Americans insist is important.
They're not paying 25% of their income in taxes - they're paying maybe 1-2% ? https://files.taxfoundation.org/20190719104737/TF_2018TaxDat...
same situation and result with me
23T is a big magnet. Were you at the high field lab in Tallahassee?
Which phone/version are you using? Works on an iPhone if you tap the edges.
Middle school (well, Junior High) was the first time I couldn't understand a concept the first time it was explained. I'd had almost no experience of that K-6 so I had no idea what to do and thought something had gone wrong with my brain. Seriously. It was especially bad in math where "understanding concepts" plus some memorization is basically the whole deal, at least for most of K-12 education. I'd gone from among the best at math (with zero effort, because I probably should have been moving through the curriculum 2-3x as fast as I had been) to barely holding on somewhere in the middle, in a matter of months.
I'm not sure how Apple does this, but they will promote a negative feature as a positive thing.

Then their fan base, or astroturfers will share this idea whenever it comes up.

I wonder how we will look back at Apple as we better understand the human psychology.
zsh has many of these features also.

edit: not sure if it does out of the box actually, i use prezto
In regards to your second paragraph, I feel a certain dissonance. We have a right to purchase the products we desire in a “free market” but at what point do we have the right to dictate how that producer chooses to design their product/platform ie. free installation of all applications. I think technologists have a too idealistic view of software as a basic right/liberating force without accepting companies should have the right make decisions we strongly disagree with.
I wonder if they could use the Waze app for that...
There has to be a couple of orders of magnitude difference between "funders thought it was the best bet for quantum gravity," and "it was all physicists did for thirty years, full stop."
Parental income and education are both heritable for the same reason height and hair colour are heritable. Grandparent is directionally correct although the effect of parental education on child education is almost entirely mediated by IQ and Conscientiousness. So people who were middle and upper class in their home country but come to richer countries have children who achieve similar success in their new country even if they end up owning a dry cleaners because they can’t really speak English.

> The heritability of conscientiousness facets and their relationship to IQ and academic achievement

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/42/15273.long

> Genetic research has shown that intelligence makes a major contribution to the heritability of educational achievement. However, we show that other broad domains of behavior such as personality and psychopathology also account for genetic influence on GCSE scores beyond that predicted by intelligence. Together with intelligence, these domains account for 75% of the heritability of GCSE scores.
> The high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence

https://genepi.qimr.edu.au/contents/p/staff/CV448.pdf

> Our findings confirmed positive associations between IQ and the facets of Competence and Dutifulness (ranging 0.11–0.27), with academic achievement showing correlations of 0.27 and 0.15 with these same facets and 0.15 with Deliberation. All conscientiousness facets were influenced by genes (broad sense heritabilities ranging 0.18–0.49) and unique environment, but common environment was judged unimportant.
Resources don't just appear out of thin air, someone has to invest in producing/creating/mining them. Why should somebody who made no contribution to creating something have any say in how it's used?
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It can simply be that, the middle school aggregates several elementary school populations under one roof.

Wherever you were on the spectrum in your (small) elementary school, put you in a bigger population and you will likely move toward the mean. Which is humbling for many.
But if it was normalized then with an increase of supply there would be downward pressure on prices making it no longer an effective way to make a living.

Although normalizing it is very different from decriminalizing and regulating.
I used it once for counting n-grams while making a markov chain generator
`Accept-Language` seems to be the standardized version of this that nobody uses :(
Personally he’s not. Probably has plenty stashed away.

It may put Epic in a spot, but these CEOs will be fine.
All the DEA vanity patches are pretty good. Their SpecOps unit especially. I believe it has a reaper with a quote "god giveth, we take away"
WTF Backstories to the Food and Drink You Love
Why not both? ;-)
Confessions of a “Stroke Surgeon” [video]
ICE is not exterminating people in death camps. Working for ICE is not even remotely comparable to supporting the Holocaust.
Very good :-)

In US you are free of people drinking a cold beer in sunny days in parks or in the beaches
When something goes against scientific stablished consensus, onus of the proof falls into the party that argues against it, not the one that states what is currently well known and accepted.
Yeah this is part of my workflow too.
The gov't isn't supposed to be some entity on its own but an orchestrator of society, balancing things, running ahead of feedback loop effects etc.

The whole concept of "financially independent govt" sounds like they are spending the tax earnings just on themselves. Of course they have overhead costs, but the main function of the govt is to redistribute.

They are supposed to be like the heart that pumps the blood around, and doesn't just use it up all for itself.
It's because the locked-down nature of the iPhone is always made out to be an all-or-nothing policy. I legitimately don't understand why.

There are real benefits to having a curated, sandboxed, and audited selection of safe, quality software. Most users should never need to leave such an environment

What is necessary is an escape hatch—one that doesn't involve continual software reinstalls, or outright buying new hardware. It's fine to hide the option away in settings, where most users won't find it. But in extraordinary circumstances—like when your city is rioting against your government—people will help each other locate the switch, and download what they need to stay safe.
>his bum's going to be full of splinters...

This particular talking point was kicked off and repeated frequently by the two newspapers who are owned by notorious tax avoiders - mail and telegraph. It then filtered down to the rest of the population.

They're also the two who are most pro brexit.
The market for web developers is heavily distorted by companies that effectively own winner-takes-all markets and by a wide range of investor money bonfires chasing similar dreams (not just the unicorns of Softbank and Vision Fund but also a very long tail of much smaller investors and investments).

This isn't quite as prevalent in hardware applications where even well funded startups have to be concerned about actually achieving positive margins and cannot just hope for growth to eventually outpace whatever cost structure they have burdened themselves with.
I would guess that people would try and replicate their results and end up hurting themselves, for one.
Earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678
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You got me. I just started learning React and your comment freaked me out. Oh, crap, I have to learn Bojombo now!?
There's another obvious way: simply remove the parents from the equation. All children become wards of the state and are fed, schooled, housed, and clothed by the same standard. Shuffle them around the nation frequently to get exposure to the varying cultural differences. May as well provide some military training as part of PE, why not.

No one seriously considers this of course, but it does have obvious advantages, even for parents. No one has to worry about supporting their child or sending it to college, managing care while working two jobs, or any of that. The children are raised by professional child-rearers instead of amateurs. Nepotism would cease to be a serious concern. There'd be a real shot at actual meritocracy.

And obviously there are some disadvantages, but I hardly need to spell those out. Like many things it is not so much a solution as a tradeoff between sets of problems. As a society, we have chosen our current set of problems over the alternative.
Killing yourself harms more people than just yourself, true personal independence is an anarcho-capitalist fantasy. The harms to others include your friends and loved ones being upset that you're dead (obviously), whatever it is you're testing gaining a reputation for killing people, and also it removes your presumably smart brain from the team of people working on the problem. If you merely harm yourself then all of the above apply but to a lesser degree.
>Also, I'd like to highlight that millions of citizens are only healthy/alive because of regulations

Citation needed? There were practically no regulations a century ago compared to now, and while more people died then, it certainly wasn't millions (unless you're counting something like vaccines as "regulation").
I didn't invent it myself, you can see example at [0] or googling 'pg_dump ssh tunnel'.

[0] https://coderwall.com/p/bmv0nw/dump-postgres-databases-throu...
I don't think anything can speak favorably about our impact on endangered species...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recently_extinct_mam...

That first graph sure is dramatic....
None at all. America was not founded with that principle, at least not in paper.
Here we go again...

Let me explain how Chinese people think about HK, since none of them ever seem to explain it on a site like this.

Imagine you are a middle class American. Maybe you are but if not, just imagine, tech city on the east or west coast. You're pretty invested in being an American, skin in the game, manifest destiny etc. Very good. They call this tianxia by the way, basically Chinese manifest destiny.

Let's say one day some stupid little state that you don't care about and vaguely resent decides it wants to secede, wants all these rights others don't have, wants to be able to marry its cousins or make nukes at home or whatever. Alabama, say. Alabama wants to secede and they have some demonstrations. You think: "hahahaha no"

They keep demonstrating. The larger country talks about sending in the national guard or something. "Good, who do they think they are" you say.

Some alabamans post an app on the app store so they can avoid the national guard. It's linked to secessionist alabamans avoiding and even attacking the guard. Apple takes it down, then puts it back up, then takes it back down

"Good" you say.

This is how, conservatively, 90%+ of Chinese think. For them, HK is a tiny little past-glory city who thinks it's better than everyone else and is just causing trouble. They will eventually be brought into line, hopefully without too much bloodshed, just like Alabama. It's not really malicious. It's a province of China - it's misbehaving, and it will be brought into line in due course. Nothing more, nothing less.

I expect someone explained these truths to Apple, they saw the futility of taking some hopeless, simplistic, you-don't-even-live-here side, decided this was not the hill they wanted to die on, and pulled the app. I don't blame them.

I'd like to note that I do not support the Chinese Govt in any way and think the world would be a better place with an independent, democratic HK - a city I genuinely love. The Chinese have about as much chance agreeing with that as Americans would about an independent Alabama. Not going to happen.
>I honestly cannot say that they have better privacy than Google.

Yes you can. One is a data mining company that sells gateway drugs to its services, one is a hardware/os/framework company that transitioned in to an app marketplace company. Google makes money collecting data and targeting advertising. Apple makes a cut, like Visa, on transactions.
It won't bother Apple in the slightest, but I need a new laptop in the New Year, and after seeing this I can say it won't be a Mac.

I'm going to hold out for one of the 7nm AMD laptops when they're released. It will have to run Ubuntu, which is a bit sad, but at least I took a stand with my spending vote.
I was about to ask why Silicon Valley companies act so beholden to China... and then I remembered where their supply chain originates.
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Nuke commands have had some good ones throughout the years. Some funny, but mostly just extremely eerie.

Death wears bunny slippers:

https://media.wired.com/photos/5932c01d95879f6d0c009e10/mast...

Politically incorrect:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bLwAAOSwaEhZHz9u/s-l300.jpg

Satisfaction guaranteed:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiB52Y...

Central heating:

https://www.airforcecollectables.com/images/USAF%20Patch%20S...
Tax avoidance is not the same as tax evasion - moving money into trusts or donor-advised funds, QOZs, etc - isn't evasion.
Why does this have to be an app in the App store? I wonder what APIs they are using that can't be replaced by something that will work in the browser.