skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I read the whole thing. It talks about imports and exports of raw material, but excludes the import of those same materials in the form of goods manufactured elsewhere. For example, raw copper would be included, but copper coils in a refrigerator manufactured in Korea would not. That seems like an extremely arbitrary distinction, and one which would likely change the graphs presented significantly.
If the chinese agents can downvote AppStore apps, they can easily do that here at HN. I've had a lot of negative experiences lately on my antiCCP comments...
> If nobody gave a fuck about Palestine, people wouldn't be so bent out of shape over Representative Omar's comments on the topic.

Nearly nobody (outside of Palestine, and weighted by political power) has a positive concern for the Palestinians, but lots of people (particularly in the US and Israel) have an interest in assuring that anyone who shows any sign of such a positive concern be punished to pressure them to recant and, even if that fails, to discourage others.
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> That's probably why.

Pretty much the entire media participated in the narrative that it was Trump that started the trade war - both in the US, and here in Europe. That's what I was referring to, not Chinese media.

> Mercantilist policies hurt the local economy as much as they hurt foreign economies.

So economists keep repeating. Yet China doesn't seem to have been hurt by their mercantilism. Because yes, in the short term, tariffs hurt, but they let local industry develop without being crushed by foreign competition. In fact, " ... none of the world's most successful trading regions, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and now mainland China, reached their current status by adopting neoliberal trading rules." [1]. But economic consensus remains untainted by contact with reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Criticis...
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Decades of optimization. Fertilizers sold by the pound are purer now than before -- more refined. GMO makes crops immune to many pests and diseases. Cross breeding with drought tolerant crops reduces water requirements.

Technology like Hydroponics also reduces consumption while increasing output.

Computer aided design helps with construction.

It's all there.

This is part of why R. Buckminster Fuller thought there was more than enough to go around.
Yes I agree. In fact I'd argue migration is much less of a concern than colonisation. If colonies are established and work is put in to make it at least a decent liveable environment, people will move. Hands down, people will move.
Capitalism at work, saving the environment.

Increasing profits necessitates reducing one's demand for supply. Using less steel, paper, fertilizer, and energy to achieve same/better results while tautologically using less resources is indeed good all around (mostly).
It could be massively disruptive to Apple, for example, if they chose to block production or sales.

Sure it could hurt China as well but that’s what happens in trade wars.
I would guess two things:

1) The linked article says the fix is available in version 3.3.6. If it had been backported to previous release series, the article would say that.

2) You are running an old version of macOS that no longer gets security updates. It's a bit weird to be worried about an unpatched vulnerability in your terminal emulator when you are running an OS that (presumably) has several unpatched vulnerabilities itself. Your focus should be on figuring out how to safely upgrade to a supported version of macOS; after you do that, you'll be able to run the latest iTerm2 and the point is moot.
China has been violating WTO rules for decades and faces no repercussions within that framework.
FFXIV is a wow alternative that isn't chinese based afaik
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Sounds like I'll have to give unstable a shot soon.
Communists killing and imprisoning other communists has happened since the ideology was first conceived so you will need a better argument than that to say they are not communist.

I really dont understand why so many people feel the need to post comments online distinguishing that China is not communist.

Its a disgusting authoritarian regime just like every other self proclaimed communist country in history.
Yes, you’re right, I did say something like that once but the end result was the same: they asked me to call the number on my card.
Quantum computers might be able to perform simulations which will be indistinguishable from reality. Many theories can be tested that way once we have a sufficiently powerful quantum computer.
> Will it? Because nobody gives a fuck about Palestine, and Israel is not suffering much (or at all) because of what they did and do.

Unfortunately I agree with you. Very few people in the US even care about Israel/Palestine.

I don't know how the sentiment is in Europe, though.
There are still a lot of prominent, respectable theoretical physicists who work on string theory. Leonard Susskind, for example. While no evidence of it has been found so far, is calling it "Noodle Theory" and a bunch of baloney really fair? There are plenty of big theories for which there's no evidence, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're certain yet that they're pseudoscience or unfalsifiable. Supersymmetry, Many Worlds, etc.
Alternatively, this could be a good time to pick up a new hobby.
It's interesting to see people give up Blizzard games, but still continue supporting companies like Apple that do far worse, like effectively giving the keys to iCloud to China. I think the conversation is great, and maybe now we'll actually reconsider what the TPP's goal was. But in the end, the people picked money first, so it shouldn't be a surprise when businesses do this as well.
I'm pretty sure the IRS considers BCH to be the new cryptocurrency in that scenario, and considers BTC holders to have "received new cryptocurrency".

The more I look through this ruling, the more it seems like it is only designed for people who hold their cryptocurrency at an exchange. At an exchange, the exchange officially declares which coin is the "new one" and which coin is the "old one", so that isn't a problem for users. Plus, there's a clear distinction with whether the exchange provided you with a new asset during the fork, or whether the exchange did not provide you with a new asset during the fork.

So if you just use Coinbase, this ruling is perfectly clear. If you control your own wallet, it doesn't make as much sense.
Here are some good COM books.

Essential COM by Don Box

https://www.amazon.com/Essential-COM-Don-Box/dp/0201634465

Inside COM by Dale Rogerson

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Microsoft-Programming-Dale-Rog...

Then if you have access to public libraries, maybe one of them has one of the several Microsoft Systems Journals issues, later MSDN Magazine, with plenty of low level COM articles.

COM is from the days where good documentation was to be found in books, not on the Interwebs.
According to the 76ers, it was a venue decision:

The Wells Fargo Center’s event staff is responsible for the security and comfort of all guests at arena events, including 76ers games. At last evening’s game, following multiple complaints from guests and verbal confrontations with others in attendance, two individuals were warned by Wells Fargo Center staff about their continuing disruption of the fan experience. Ultimately, the decision was made by Wells Fargo Center personnel to remove the guests from the premises, which was accomplished without incident.

Nonetheless, it doesn't look good in the wake of the recent China censorship scandal
No, they said one aspect was true. Not the same thing.
It's a second rate device. handheld devices are things you use when you don't have a computer with you or aren't able to use it. Most things you can do on a mobile device, you can do on a computer much more quickly and with quicker more accurate typing, better UI, more screens, etc.

when you're stuck on a train, standing and not able to use a computer, do mobile devices become useful.
An alternative worth considering to Elm is Bucklescript with the bucklescript-tea library. This project gives you a more powerful, but similar language (Ocaml/Reason) with a more direct interop mechanism than Elm ports.
What is going to be more interesting to me is to see what Riot Games, who is wholly owned by Tencent, does when the inevitable Hong Kong protests come in during this years Worlds. There's even a Hong Kong team in the mix, and there's already reports surfacing that Tencent has directed casters not bring up Hong Kong.
> You easily get to the state in which what you're making is no longer a human being but some sort of 'creation'.

So what? They're still our progeny. Natural evolution will change us just as it always has even if we do nothing. That some future descendant of a human is classed as a different species entirely is inevitable. All the engineering does is accelerate and direct the process.
Uh, do they? How do you know? The opinions of mainland Chinese about their government are completely worthless; they simply aren't allowed to disagree or learn about the world in a neutral manner.

For example, the Chinese government has not "lifted millions out of poverty", that's pure propaganda. Human society lifts itself out of poverty when not prevented from doing so by totalitarian governments. Japan was destroyed by war and became a rich first world nation within decades. South Korea became fully developed in also just a few decades. Plenty of other examples of that.

China is behind the rest of the world because of its government. If it weren't for the Great Leap Forward and then decades of economically devastating communism, China would be as developed as the USA or South Korea is by now. The fact that its people are still so poor can be laid squarely at the feet of its government.

But how many Chinese will think that? Probably not many. They are stuck in a system designed to mould them into loyal subjects from birth.
Hey author, I’m a long time reader and this is my first post on here! That being said, I absolutely LOVE your library! I’ve been working on a project for a client (a react webapp). I initially built out our signup workflow and delayed completion on that feature until the very end of the app simply because custom validation was a pain (and with tight deadlines, I really didn’t want to write one from scratch). I came across your library about two weeks ago and it fit like a GLOVE! Custom validation was easy, adding in regex expressions was straightforward, and your docs are very clear! Kudos for this project, you’ve made my life much easier. My app happened to also be built entirely with react hooks so this really was a great fit. And the dependency size is much smaller than competitors I was looking at. Thanks for your hard work I definitely appreciate it!
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Communists have been arresting each other on ideological grounds for about as long as they've had the power to arrest people.
But despite pretty good domestic production of your own, you guys still use the oil though. That's kind of the point.

Not only do you still use the Kingdom's oil, but even Kazakhstan, and Algeria's as well.
I like Horgan a lot, but it's notable he also made a very wrong prediction that traditional proofs in math would start losing out to less rigorous means of collecting evidence for correctness.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/okay-maybe-...

Although being a string theory skeptic was certainly a minority position in both academia and journalism in 1996, I think it's somewhat of an exaggeration to characterize it as a "super unpopular position" and Horgan and Anderson as the only prominent holders.
Historically communist countries have been pretty fascist, but communism itself (in theory) is about workers' rights and the elevation of the little people. I don't know how genuine Mao was about those ideals, but Xi is dropping all pretense by intentionally targeting labor movements. So he shouldn't even get to hide behind a flawed idealism. He has no idealism except power.
Only if you intend to use pre-Vista Win32 APIs only, afterwards most of the new stuff comes packaged as COM or .NET.
Employees ask GitHub to cancel ICE contract
BTW, the original motivation to write that code was a bug in an early version of the DSP chip, it would produce a loud "click" each time the MP3 data stream stopped or started. so instead of stopping the stream I would either play a file (processed as per above) or if stopped or paused repeately insert a frame of "silence" that I encoded for every possible sampling frequency. luckily total silence is a really short frame to store
Good point, and in fact I haven’t gotten such a call in a long time. All the “did you make transaction X” type calls now go through their app or via sms, so don’t get those calls anymore. I can’t actually remember the last time the bank called me, but maybe 6 or 7 years ago they called me a good few times. Nowadays I actually also block incoming calls unless in my contacts or I’m expecting it. I communicate mostly online and outside family, rarely get phone calls. So I really don’t care to answer a random call.
I had the exact opposite experience. The DAs office eventually called me to tell me that they didn't catch the perps but were able to kill the phone-number blocks which they had been using for years because no one ever reported them.

Sometimes cops are just lazy (or assholes). When thieves tried to steal the rain gutter from the appartment building on the other side of the road, the cops told me "don't expect us to rush in with sirens and screeching tyres", even after I told them the thieves were still there, in broad daylight.

Later my landlords told me they lost 50k Euros in the previous year because of stolen rain gutters.
There seems to be lots of forward progress in physics, e.g. in condensed matter physics, quantum computing, etc. Grand unified theories are sort of irrelevant so long as there are not measurable phenomena that cannot be explained without them.
(replying on behalf of gp)
Of course such clues exist; it's unlikely s/he was personally confused. Which has zero bearing on the quality of the title. The fact that it _requires_ parsing and reliance on clues indicates poor word choice. Synonyms abound, and better ones would have made for a much better title.
The IRS Just Issued Its First Cryptocurrency Tax Guidance in 5 Years
So what? Dollar bills make for pretty good spines. I'll take it over the EU's lack of one.
This describes how one can use individuality and a platform to provide a labor like podcasting, youtubing, online teaching, etc. It describes how it works and the shape of this industry.

It doesn't go into how feasible making a living income is actually, merely highlights the top earners in specific platforms... Rather suspicious to me.
I don't think Susskind works on string theory proper at all anymore. He works on the AdS/CFT stuff, which is compatible with and motivated by stringy approaches, but is logically quite independent. Related: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6252
Dude, you are running a version that came out 6 years ago, while macOS has a yearly release schedule. iTerm would be the least of my concerns. There is just nothing to say here other than go and upgrade it asap.
Kids playground built from discarded wind turbine parts (2017)
I think the most attractive thing would be working with others who are also interested in languages.

I definitely believe that functional code bases rot less/slower than imperative/OO code bases. If it’s because the functional code bases are written by “better developers” that’s an even stronger argument for aiming for taking a job using one.
Just to be clear, Ski Lanka is not Africa. All debts have collateral. Don't sign up to loans you cannot afford. Any don't vote in governments that do.

[And don't stuff up the maintenance of your infrastructure to the point you don't have electricity for 18 hours. It wasn't like that when it was commissioned.]

Then you won't need to take deals on onerous conditions. The Swiss don't.
True, but Execs will gatekeep the final review and approval for larger responses and campaigns.
You haven't rebutted the parent poster.

He said "Some people say growth can't happen forever, and all growth comes at environmental cost". Pointing out that "Every economic output requires material inputs" doesn't mean that there are limits to growth or that you can't have growth without environmental cost.

As an example, if you have a resource that you consistently get more efficient at operating, you can consistently use it to provide more and more value to the world (economic growth).

To use his example: if you take a human who would be using material inputs like food, and instead of them engaging in activity that did not provide value to society, they spent their time giving people massages, you have not increased the amount of physical resources being consumed (since the person was otherwise using the same amount of resources, just not doing anything of value).
> EC2 instance + db instance per customer alone made my jaw drop.

Especially since the DB is SQL Server; the license costs are death for that. An open source DB would save you a lot there if you have a real need for a DB instance per customer architecture.
Agree with all your points except that "never migrate to another planet"

Humor me for a minute:
(from strictly scientific view point)

Universe began with just photons disintegrating to matter and anti-matter.
Starting from that somehow proteins evolved and eventually animated matter (life).
On a very boring planet after 5 complete extinctions of "animated matter", humans show up who have the audacity to attempt to understand beginning of universe and controlling the forces which created them.

And now, you sir, suggest that this rudimentary life form will never be able to travel to an exo-planet and thrive. Well, to put it mildly, you are lacking perspective.
Can ROT-13 really be called a hash though? It's literally an ancient chipher.
Easy, build applications with zero users
Selfhosted Nextcloud with regional redundancy (carbon neutral)
Managers need to understand a.i. logic before using it as a business tool
>The demonstration’s numbers fluctuated throughout the day, the two employees said, ranging from a dozen to 30, and the protesters departed sometime in the late afternoon.

So less than 1% of the company? Not trying to minimize the issue here but let's also not make events sound bigger than they really are.
> You do the math on the energy, resource, and time requirements and it's pretty stark.

The SF author Charles Stross summarized the math on his blog a while ago (and got pilloried for it) and, yes, it's indeed bleak: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
Our current belief is that the speed of light cannot be exceeded. Will we still believe that in a hundred years? A thousand? I have no idea.
one of the reasons Japan/Taiwan/SK's economies are so strong is because - you guessed it - China is a major importer of their produced goods.

without disposable income they have gained from something over the last few decades, they aren't importing massive amounts of goods from their neighbors.
If that's the case, then the flies will evolve to ignore the changes and adapt to the new zebra cows.

This is a short term fix at best.
I'm guilty of that. I tend to mistype my passwords a lot, since I try to keep them pretty complicated, but since I usually realize quickly enough to imperceptibly hit Ctrl-U and retype in a smooth motion, I just let onlookers believe that my password is very, very long.
It's been pretty linear since the 90's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_U...
OS X itself was a problem for music producers who relied on OS 9.

That's why http://macos9lives.com/ exists.

I think the prudent solution for DJs is to keep Mojave up to date and not upgrade to Catalina.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/an-os-9-odyssey-why-...
Physics > Economics

The Do The Math blog by Caltech-trained UCSD astrophysicist Tom Murphy is the best resource in this area.

In particular the posts

- Galactic Scale Energy https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy

- Can Economic Growth Last? https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last

- The dinner conversation with an economist on this topic https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist
Indeed, I was one of those who hated the idea of Steam when it came out. However they won me over by just not being anywhere near the evil I predicted they would be. In the process, they basically saved PC gaming from almost certain doom, helped create the indie explosion, and made buying games so easy and cheap that many people have not even played a third or more of their library. Then they went and made Linux a viable gaming platform for free. Then they helped create a VR system and opened it to everyone unlike their competitor.
With 0.2% of the jobs available in Norway mentioning Elm, and even if some of the companies using Elm might not state it in the job listing, I would say it is a fringe language here.

And I'm not debating what's possible technically, but if it was a wise business decision by the customer to choose Elm. Based on the popularity in Norway in 2017, today and what it likely will be in the future, I think they should have made a different choice.
"Stage a walkout" is really common, and doesn't mean the walkout is fake.
The sad state of Daisy Chaining monitors on OS X
You could argue that ROT13 accidentally has second-preimage resistance because given m, you won't be able to find n≠m where ROT13(n)=ROT13(m). :-)
There certainly may be industries where real dematerialization is taking place, and the author of the article would've been better off sticking with those. Instead the article makes sweeping, unsubstantiated claims across the entire economy that just aren't credible.
Source on Apple giving iCloud keys to China?
> Having to walk them turns every couch potato into someone who is spending, depending on size & agility of the dog, 30min to 2h outdoors , walking. Every single day.

You have a wildly optimistic view of the average dog owner's level of responsibility and proactive care.
The Apple II is one of a few computers that you could build a brand new one from parts if needed, they're not complex machines.
if that was the case, flies would have evolved to adapt to zebras by now.
I hadn't considered the situation where the forked coin is the one that retains most of the value. I think in that situation I would be comfortable arguing to the IRS that the old currency is actually the fork, e.g. ETC vs ETH. The technical and legal definitions of "fork" don't necessarily have to match.

I would also be comfortable using the first trading day's close as the market value rather than the instantaneous value at fork time which as you say doesn't exist in most cases. Of course the "close" time is arbitrary but as long as you have a consistent methodology for choosing it you should probably be OK.

In any case, it's clear the IRS didn't think hard enough about the consequences of their guidance here. I hope they clarify more but we are probably in for another long wait. Ideally, Congress would do something to make the rules more reasonable.
Bed Bath and Beyond hires Target executive as CEO
Driving change through parking reform
I like pbcopy, but it doesn't work when ssh'd somewhere
Seeing how a16z just gave Substack a ton of money, got to do some self promotion.
Well, it is quite clear actually.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/choose...
There was certainly some very creative and fraudulent promotion going on, leading to families emigrating for the fabulous opportunity and finding themselves in indentured servitude or on some marginal land even worse than at home. Or, like early many colonists rapidly succumbing to new and interesting fatal diseases.

Course having got there they were mostly stuck without coin for passage home.

I too suspect the push to space might go similarly.