skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps Leninist in a historical sense of "thought violence to gain control in a type of region Marx himself thought wouldn't be viable".

Putting aside his philosophy's flaws he expected a feudalism to capitalism to communism progression more or less.

Lenin was not only part of ousting the czar but establishment of the party as a nominally proletariat peasant dictatorship. That attempted teological speedrunning to try to "skip to the end" is classic Lenin.

Even if the system later reforms there is still a legacy in the how. France and England are both parliamentary representative democracies who were once under monarchies but the UK has far more monarchist vestiges than France. While technically accurate to call France as monarchist legacied they would have far more grounds to object to the labeling given the purge of nobility and subsequent traditions - even when they fell into dictatorships again they certainly weren't kings.

To be pedantic we could describe these aspect vestiges as "x legacied". That the West uses latin as it does for mottos and species names is a Roman legacy for instance for it is a trace of their power as lasting influence even though it does not exist today. It does not imply current control any more than Byzantium had control over western Europe.

China may be better described amongst many other attributes as Leninist legacied, oligarchy legacied, Capitalist dictatorship until Xinjiang's inevitable demise.

The fact he consolidated control over Oligarchic and has no clear explicit succession line makes him dictatorial as opposed to mere Oligarchic "the remaining few interests will pick after him". If as the whispered snark of "Emperor Xi" holds and he successfully transmits power to offspring he will have founded an empire (if it dies quickly it wouldn't be the first Chinese dynasty to do so).
It really hard to get an app-like experience in iOS Safari. I don't know if they intentionally cripple it, but they certainly have no incentive to make it good.
Can you cite that that’s what is “currently well known and accepted”. Burden of proof is on whoever is making the statement.
I'm not going to argue whether or not anything you've said is untrue, but you're leaving out some pretty important details which puts the protesters in a worse light.

First of all, one of the initial demands of the protest was to retract the characterization of one of the earlier protests as a riot. So even peaceful demonstrations have been cracked down on by the government. Even well-organized protests such as the one on July 1st (the anniversary of Hong Kong being handed over to China - there's usually protesting on this date) have met with strong resistance - early on the police were ordering people to disperse even though there was no violence at that time.

Secondly, late in July there were increasing attacks on protesters in which police stood by as people were attacked with poles. It seems that in this case, it was the police that were allowing violence and destruction, not the protesters.

Most importantly, the first bullet even fired in this whole situation was a police officer shooting an 18 year old high school student.

And regardless how the protesters are behaving, the argument that the only valid form of protest is peaceful protest is also historically inaccurate. Peaceful protest is definitely better when possible, but in many cases throughout history it simply has not been feasible.
In principle code signing is a good idea, this way Apple can ensure an improved security standard over their competition.

But the downside is of course that Apple is in control, and like any corporation it will do things with that power that are unethical, immoral, anti-competitive, anti-consumer, etc. to the fullest possible imaginable degree.

Its like when you buy a DRM protected piece of content and that company revokes access in the future. Its entirely predictable and preventable.

Customers buy DRM content all the time and they buy Apple products instead of phones that give you freedom. Ignorance is not an excuse, I won't blame Apple, they aren't people, they just do what is natural in all corporations, I blame people/consumers, they deserve every single last bit of totalitarianism that is coming their way.
Valve is so lazy and incompetent they invented a service to enable internet multiplay of local coop only games.

Epic is doing what? Handing out sacks of cash to buy a catalog? Which is going to end the first mover advantage and make your game buried at the bottom of a big App Store list.

After making Fortnite, a clone of different game, popular with LOL’s business model?

How inventive.

30% to a company doing things for you? Or Epic who is charging you less but building a catalog of competitors for you as well, and backtracking constantly on promises.

Oh and Epic is partially owned by a Chinese company. Since everyone is suddenly patriotic about that shit.
My understanding is the existing system didn’t offer them better options than taking to the streets, but the hope is that fair elections would choose representatives that wouldn’t allow something like this to happen again. Otherwise they all go home and a similar law is proposed again in a new form, and they would have to reorganize.
I don't want to post my own raw video because I don't want to get anyone in trouble. Illegal assembly carries a potential 5 year sentence.

I don't speak Chinese or have links handy but it is not hard to find with some help from a native speaker. Dig around LiHKG.
>And in one fell swoop, Apple has made it effectively impossible to install this app on your phone. There's no realistic workaround.

Make the app a Web App and visit it in Safari.

Apple has banned it being notarized and distributed from their App Store but iPhones still have access to the conventional web which Apple has no control over.
That doesn't really account for the difference in like causing more or less happiness.
That is because they didn't try, this screenshot[0] is 1980 bytes which is much smaller than the linked image (and something like OptiPNG might make it even smaller) :-P

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ABFJbYW.png
This assumes that everyone over the age of 30 has children or wishes to have some. Of course if you are really intent on starting a family you're going to have to sacrifice your free time and social life. It's a choice many people make but it's not mandatory.
That's indistinguishable from the number of likes being zero.
Most kids in middle school don't have careers, property, deep responsibilities, or most other things adults focus on. They just have phones, a handful of friends, and some sort of position in an arbitrary social hierarchy, and so they put most of their focus into getting social approval. Grades matter only to the extent that they get social approval from adults.

Telling a middle schooler to just quit social media is like telling an adult in a capitalist society to just not worry about money. It isn't that easy to opt-out of the thing most of your world is based on.
I'm fact driven.

Democracy is, literally, a majority deciding what laws all must adhere to. They don't know/care about a minority's circumstances/needs/choices, yet impose their ill-informed will through the police power of the state (to wit, obey or we'll use force increasing up to and including death).

Show me how that's not true.
Wow nice one. What a logo.

I am stopping by to mention Trevor Paglen's work who helps uncover and popularize some of this junk. You can watch his full presentation "Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes"[0] for background on this unclassified unit patch as well as surprising photos and TLEs and much, much more.

What a time we live in!

0: https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5604_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312282...
IIRC, transitive C++ libraries are coming sometime this year.
Ask HN: Advice for an introverted new team lead?
Hello HN,

It's that old question again, but this time it comes from maybe a slightly different place.

I'm a fairly introverted person. I've been a sysadmin for over 20 years, and always been happy to work from the back office up to my elbows in terminals and code. I've not sought out the spotlight, pushed to lead, nor tried to tell others what to do. I've always thought of that as something I simply couldn't do.

Recently I've been put forward for a team lead role, managing just a handful of devops positions. I've been highly praised for a whole slew of stuff, and now I'm a team lead, and way way way out of my comfort zone. If I am honest with myself, I am terrified of all the things that may go wrong.

HN, I need your advice on how to be an introverted team lead. Those of you with a similar outlook on life, how did you cope? How did you manage all the meetings, 1 to 1s, vendor calls, and more? Were there any books that helped you, and were there any that you would avoid like the plague?

Any advice will be deeply appreciated.
At worst, you can install an application firewall on any Android phone to block all connections to Google.
Most humans get a dopamine boost from eating tasty food.
> Just for account recovery, though, email + SMS 2FA still provides security benefits over email 1FA

Agreed, but I can't think of a single company, anywhere, that offers what you're talking about. Everyone offers SMS and email as separate options, both of which separately unlock your account.

If either Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, or Facebook required both email and SMS access to recover an account, I'd agree that there could be some value there. But (to the best of my knowledge) they don't. So the debate over whether or not SMS verification is better than nothing is hard for me indulge, when (again to the best of my knowledge) virtually no company is using SMS account recovery in a way that provides real value over 1FA email.

Maybe Lyft is an example? But the last time I used Lyft, I'm pretty sure I could get access to my account with only my phone, no password/email required. I'm not 100% sure Lyft even requires an email to sign up.

> That's not an option with a Gmail account.

I've never been in this scenario, so I'll have to take your word for it, but this seems strange to me. Could I really not fax or mail a government ID to Google to get access to my account?

Assuming this is right though, we again run into the same problem.

I lose access to my password and email. Is a company comfortable letting me reauthenticate with only an SMS message?

If yes, then we have 1-factor authentication over pure SMS.

If no, then we have to be comfortable with the idea that losing your email/password might mean losing your account, or going through a complicated recovery process involving government IDs.
By what reasoning does someone deserve a say in the allocation of something they made no contribution to producing? How would you feel if somebody came to your house, ate your food and slept on your bed, because they felt they deserved a say in how those resources were allocated?
I hope that this 1.0 status will prompt the Qt people to take a closer look at Bazel, but that's probably strongly conditioned on the quality of Windows support. Qt Co. have indicated that CMake is the most likely replacement for qmake in Qt 6, which would be a lateral change at best.

Is anyone using Bazel to ship cross-platform GUI applications?
Chinese citizens will be required for face scan for internet/mobile access
Maybe my choice of the word "suffering" was too strong, but an appropriate replacement escapes me right now. So I'll leave it as is.
> I shipped a NES game

One of my favorite games of all time. You signed a copy of it via mail for me around 2006/2007 ;) Cheers.

> We decompressed the current level's tile map into a portion of that.

I reverse engineered it to dump PNG format maps of both it and the leaked prototype. Pretty straightforward RLE but it was fun learning about 6502, NES programming, and bank switching.

Level dumper source: https://gitlab.com/mcmapper/mcmapper/blob/master/main.c

Generated images: https://tcrf.net/Proto:M.C._Kids

Very different from how SMB1's level construction works. Like the OP comment said, it basically has a modal command structure. Something like "start drawing the ground two tiles up from the bottom. At x=18, draw a pipe." etc. This is why the level scrolls infinitely after the flagpole, it's just running the default "draw ground" command forever. M.C. Kids on the other hand actually stored the whole level tile grid, using RLE for compression.
Our groundwater use is destroying freshwater ecosystems
> It's pretty simple, this has a political answer: people believe that life is hard and that "it's tough out there", hence it's important for school to "toughen up" kids.

I wouldn't necessarily put it that way; but there is 1) a sense from adults that kids should learn to "sort out their own problems", 2) a sense from kids that you shouldn't "tell" ("snitches get stitches").

But the question is, how would you "sort out" a similar situation as an adult? Well if you were regularly physically threatened by someone as an adult you would call the police, and or you would stop going there. And if someone was an emotional bully at your workplace, they would be fired or you would find another job.

But most of these options aren't really there for kids. Nobody is kicked out of school or demoted for being jerks, and often they're not kicked out of school even for regular physical intimidation. Kids have very little opportunity to change their environment. And often the authorities who are supposed to be protecting them look the other way.

I don't have kids yet, but if my kid experienced physical intimidation, and the principal / teachers in the school had the "kids need to sort it out" attitude, I would be severely tempted to say in response: "From now on, everything that is done by bullies to my child, I will do to you. If my child finds bullies waiting for him as he leaves the school, you will find me waiting by your car. If my child has their head put in a toilet, I will put your head in the toilet. We'll see how you manage to 'sort it out for yourself'." (Obviously that may not actually turn out to be practical -- the point is to highlight what we expect kids to put up with vs what we expect adults to put up with.)
But alas:

> The reaction of the Java developer community to our report is somewhat disappointing: instead of using our fixed (and verified!) version of mergeCollapse(), they opted to increase the allocated runLen “sufficiently”. As we showed, this is not necessary. In consequence, whoever uses java.utils.Collection.sort() is forced to over allocate space.
apparently that is not true for HK.
Wait, are you trying to say China is more powerful than the US? Why give in to appeasement? I don't really care if their feelings are hurt.
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There's a huge difference. Kings and dictators get power through war and violence. Musk got rich through making and selling things people want. Surely you see the difference between war and commerce.
Boycott Apple for sucking up to China. Google products are at least a year ahead now anyways and Google actually left China altogether at one point.
the main function of the govt is to redistribute.

Absolutely not. That's communism, which never does - and never can - turn out well.

The USA was founded on the main function of gov't is to protect individual rights - that each knows & serves his own interests better than strangers.
I work in an environment that is actively hostile to us. We've got McAfee agents crippling our machines, IBM management software doing periodic forced reboots with no warning, MITM proxies decrypting and capturing all TLS traffic, self signed CAs with a misconfigured keychain on our machines and no access to fix it, random policy changes that screw with our browsers, web filters that prevent us from accessing common websites, netskope agents that crash multiple times a day, etc. I'm sure there are more. If there's a way to spy on us, our machines have it. Obviously, we can't install any unapproved software, so I am grateful for the built in tools MacOS provides. Of course, if you need to reach out to the internet, you've gotta do a dance with certificates and proxies...

I think about quitting a lot, but I am pretty numb to it. I'm sure it could be worse, too.
Although the worst of the doomsday predictions are not scientific, it doesn't exactly mean we can continue to ignore carbon emissions.
That's fine as long as you understand that the alternative is "I don't know if the claim is true", not "the claim is false".
> i dont think i ever said label measuring/collision detection is a performance hog. compared to the work of doing the plot itself, it's insignificant. avoiding that work is more of a code size and complexity reduction for uPlot, rather than a perf opt.

Okay, fair enough

> how else could i possibly present a benchmark of my lib without limiting the alternatives to its own functional scope?

Can't think of a good way to do that. That's why I don't think your benchmark is BS or in bad faith. All I was trying to say (but clearly didn't communicate effectively) is that the value of the benchmark is limited as comparison data for me and I assume others because it's not really comparing the same end-to-end functionality if in the vast majority of cases the implementor would have to manually add some things that it doesn't do out of the box (thereby burning the same CPU cycles you're avoiding).

Anyway, let's close this thread. The above footnote aside it looks like a super clean library. Well done.
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interesting .. didn't know that it was already possible
Well, evolution is slightly slower than that. Try few hundred millenia.
Thanks for the post, I strongly agree with your points and may have stated mine badly. I am purely stating a descriptive view of how the world works. My conclusion is that we cannot just sit back and hope companies will act ethically. We have to actively shape the rules to incentivize or require them to do so.
Boycott Blizzard and tell all your friends to do the same.
I find it sad that the only two perspective seem to be the extreme ones: humans are either destroyers or saviors.

How about the middle ground? We are part of nature and like any other animal we are trying to survive and make our life better. And it's not that other animals are perfectly respectful of nature either. Remove predators and herbivores will graze everything to the point of creating a wasteland and dying of starvation.

Nature, as a whole, is full of equilibrium, but single species try to maximize their survival in any way possible. We are not that different. We are only conscious of what we are doing.

It's not that nature is not tough on us. Everything out there is trying to kill us. Nature provides our sustaining, but it's also harsh, something we don't seem to appreciate from our lives in safer-than-normal cities, with always available food, heating, transportation, medicine.

I think the best perspective is aknowledging that we can have an adverse impact on the environment, and try to address it, istead of hating our own species as if it was a disease.
i miss Andrew... haven't seen him talk lately. but anyways, not sure i understand the mock file system slide -- it's still calling os.Open?
The other respondent summarized me correctly, but I'll also add, why do most aspiring "actors" or "models" have to moonlight as waiters if it's a simple matter of people paying for something pleasurable that people want? Because those jobs carry social prestige, and they're flooded with competition. Disgust, danger, and/or fear among the eligible applicant pool keeps enough competition out of prostitution to make it work.
Corals live underwater...
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I see people knocking it as, "it's too simple" but consider that there are those who are just learning all these things might not know that you can copy a file from one remote host to another remote host. That's a nifty trick.
>You're pretty invested in being an American, skin in the game, manifest destiny etc.

That's probably where you lose most of the US audience. One of the biggest differences between American and Chinese culture is that manifest destiny is mostly dead in America, but it isn't in China. Of course America has multinationals jockeying for global power, but that doesn't reflect how the voters think.
It sets the entire field back by creating a lot of fear and bad press that discourages further research.

This example is from institutional research rather than an indie biohacker, but Jesse Gelsinger's death may have set back the field of gene therapy by many years due to fear (some realistic and some unrealistic). https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-death-of-je...
Out of curiosity, what do you do now? Did you get out of software entirely? (I'd say I'm kind of slow too.)

I get the impression embedded is still a somewhat slow market. Or has that slowness meant it's dried up really badly?
My experience is that I realized the value when I switched to a project that didn’t use it. Especially when I wanted to use other Google technologies like protos, or when I wanted to incrementally rebuild dependencies.

Disclosure: I work at Google, with Blaze, but not on it, or on Bazel. All opinions mine.
You're ascribing motives to the Hong Kong protesters that they don't have. This is not a separatist movement, even though the Chinese government insists on characterizing it as such.

Public opinion surveys in Hong Kong show the overwhelming majority of respondents aren't asking for independence. The five demands that are the crux of the current protests don't involve independence. They center on China holding up its end of the "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement by allowing genuine democratic elections in Hong Kong, as guaranteed to them under the Basic Law.

The fact that Chinese authorities are lying to their own people about the nature of the protests in Hong Kong is significant. They are terrified of 'contagion'. But since we're discussing this on an American site, we can state the plain facts of the matter, too.
>I'm curious as to how China is "Leninist" at all.

China officially describe its ideology as Marxist-Leninism. I mean, depending on how strict your definition of "Leninist" is, even the USSR may not have been "'Leninist' at all".

>The fact of rule by one party that claims to represent the working class does not a Leninist state make.

The notion of the vanguard party is, in fact, a key concept in Leninism.[0] The vanguard party was conceived in opposition to forming trade unions, and was supposed to recruit from the working class. AFAIK trade unions don't exist in China, and the CPC does recruit widely, so it does satisfy the criteria of a vanguard party.

Marxist-Leninism also advocates atheism, another key aspect of Chinese policy.[1]

Also, I found this amusing: did you know Singapore is led by a party that was originally organised as a Leninist party? [2]

>In Singapore, the People's Action Party (PAP) was organised as a Leninist political party featuring internal democracy. The PAP initiated single-party dominance in the government and popular politics of Singapore.[3]

Of course, the PAP later expunged its leftist faction and swung to the right, but it still retains a lot of the Leninist structure.[4] Imagine, a billionaire's playground run by a centre-right party organised like a Leninist vanguard party.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninism#The_vanguard_party

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_athei...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninism#Philosophic_successor...

[3] Peter Wilson, Economic growth and development in Singapore (2002) p. 30.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Action_Party#Organi...
For copying a directory tree from host1 to host2 preserving user / permissions and compressing on the fly to reduce network usage i use:

# from host1:

cd $DIRECTORY && tar -jcf - . | ssh host2 "cd DESTINATION_DIR && tar jxvf - "