skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Constitutional_Court_o...

For example the huge Catalan cannabis industry has been stuck in a legal limbo largely thanks to Madrid failing to legislate and Spanish courts blocking Catalans from doing so.
Chernobyl killed less than 100 people. 31 direct deaths, later raised to 54.

There is considerable debate about expected deaths due to increases in cancer rates, but there is no consensus on the numbers (ranging from 4,000 to 60,000 projected deaths), and not even consensus about whether cancer risk due to exposure to radiation is even linear or not (linear no-threshold vs radiation hormesis).

In contrast, there have been more than 500 aircraft accidents with 50 or more deaths.
Aviation accidents have killed 83,000 people since 1970.

Top 3 Nuclear Power accidents: Chernobyl: 54 deaths, SL-1: 3 deaths, Fukushima Daiichi: 1 death

Top 3 Aviation accidents: Tenerife disaster: 583 deaths, JAL Flight 123: 520 deaths, 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision: 349 deaths
Totally agree, a few years ago I had a 2015 27inch iMac with AppleCare which ended up getting a smudge under the display. Apple repaired it no problem.

About a year later, the stand became a little loose so over the course of the day it would end up tilting down.

Apple sympathised this was the 2nd time I had to send it in for a repair, they ended replacing with a similar specced iMac from the current year. They also give me the opportunity to upgrade any components I wanted just like if I was buying new. They also give me another 3 years of Apple Care. Ended up upgrading the CPU and GPU for about £300 and getting a brand new 2018 iMac

Obviously this is anecdotal but its things like this which keep me going back to Apple.
I'm quite sure the phrase or idiom used by Xi is ”粉身碎骨“, which can be interpreted figuratively or literally.

Funny how it reminds me exactly of the protesters crushed by the tanks at the Tiananmian Incident.
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION!
> pro-democracy

Lol, imagine thinking Tienanmen was about democracy (as in: liberal democracy). Westeners really cannot avoid making everything about themselves. Tienanmen was an attempt to revert the capitalistic, pro-market reforms that destroyed chinese society in the previous years and to protest the growing inequalities.
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A large part of the cost of concentrated solar thermal is from mature components like turbines and generators and heat exchangers. These are not going to get much cheaper, at least anytime soon.
"Files are dead" is an oft-quoted meme, but they aren't going away anytime soon.

I wrote a piece offering a counterpoint to this view five years ago (in response to a similar article by Fred Wilson) and I think most of the points still hold true today:

https://blog.zamzar.com/2015/01/02/why-fred-wilson-is-wrong-...
How to Create an Interactive 3D Character with Three.js
The first week of launching Vue.js (2014)
Unfortunately not all of us programmers share the same foundation of moral principles, and not all of us programmers are anti-authoritarian left-wing anarchists. There are a fair number of "patriots" among us and no matter how much I dislike this kind of person they are the talent pool from which police, army and shady companies such as Finfisher draw their staff.

For some, the money is also appealing - the shadier the company the more limited the supply of workers (e.g. many could imagine working for the police, less for the military and only very few for Finfisher etc.), so they put up quite a chunk of money... enough to expand their talent pool, at least.
She also contributed a lot to refining some of the characters. For the prequels, Lucas could really have used someone like that.
His first post in the ALS subreddit is a Morse keypaddle hooked up to a 32 bit microcontroller...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ALS/comments/98zvwm/i_dont_know_if_...
It is how freedom of speech works in Twitter.
With my web browser it is possible to get to the button, quite consistently, but it took me a little while to discover how. Unfortunately nothing exciting happens when you get there. There should have been some kind of reward.

And yes, I have had to use some real web sites that require a similar level of mousey cunning in order to operate them.
On a MacBook with Catalina I can't update XCode at all; it downloads ~4GB then resets the progress and starts re-downloading until it reaches 100% where it resets progress again and repeats.
Backups (both hardware and data) or not, a month turnaround is still awful and unacceptable, and reason enough to switch suppliers. Companies that take business customers seriously offer same-day on-site service.
Couldn’t he just have replaced it with another glass jar?
From the sound of it, such small companies would not even know if the law was being applied or not. If the government needs the information, it will take it. It will not be necessary to ask permission, or even inform the affected company that such access took place.
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So, whether they'd work on making surveillance for totalitarian states was based on whether they'd make $60/k year or $100/k, and afford stuff "nice vacation" for the kids?

Doesn't sound like a principled stance.

Basically it rounds down to: they would consider a more ethical job, but it's their last priority, well behind a good salary and nice benefits...

(It's understandable of course, just not principled)
TLDR: "This means intra-company VPN systems will no longer be authorized in China by anyone, including foreign companies. This in turn means all company email and data transfer will be required to use Chinese operated communication systems that are fully open to the China’s Cybersecurity Bureau. All data servers that make any use of Chinese based communications networks will also be required to be open to the Cybersecurity Bureau’s surveillance and monitoring system."

If VPNs will really be forbidden, I guess that lots of companies will really be forced to pull out of China.
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I am sure citizens of Hong Kong, like citizens of Catalonia, do enjoy all the freedoms they are given.
The freedom of self determination, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination:

"The right of a people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law (commonly regarded as a jus cogens rule), binding, as such, on the United Nations as authoritative interpretation of the Charter's norms.[1][2] It states that people, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no interference."
Wish they’d still stick with the function keys... but axed it off this year. Regardless it’s ridiculous to sell any machine with only two ports.... even the $35 Raspberry pi has ports than this!
Bad ux for mouse. It shouldn't stop accepting input if your mouse goes outside the donut.
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Do you happen to have a source for what Xi said in Chinese?
Would it make sense to use ordinary PV cells and use that energy to heat molten salt to use during the night? Or are there too many efficiency losses there?
Totally get the point about blame free improvement - and pointing fingers makes people hide stuff - but isn't that the problem here - people hid stuff????

So the question is how do you stop people hiding stuff?

What if it's not a process thing, but a behaviour issue?

You can have rules and systems - but if people willfully don't follow them - hard to see how you deal with that without sanctions.

ie what happens if it wasn't an honest mistake, rather a dishonest choice.
There was lots and lots of psychological violence against the rest of Spain, all days in the news for more than five years and without pause. It was totally insufferable.

The rest of Spaniards had been called all kind of nasty things from this people, from fascists to thiefs, pigs, dumbs, violators, abusers and even dirty people that does not wash themselves.

Not to mention the reverse David-Star that where in fact the yellow ribbons. You don't wear it, you're harassed and called traitor and botifler. Friends of my parents, elder people that could suffer an infart, were assaulted with some people entering in their bus, crying slogans, calling them fascists and harassing them pushing banners and yellow ribbons under their nose. All of this just because they were in a holiday in the wrong part of the country and had commit the crime to hire a local bus to make an excursion. The driver didn't even tried to stop they.

Journalists doing their job were trown bottles with piss and water in direct. All in the name of peace.

Entire families are angry and split today because this snakes and child-emperors wanted to suck-suck-suck even more money

See the newspaper archives.
This article reads as alarmism from an actor with interest in projecting FUD. China broadly has the same effective policy as most governments: requiring access to be given when legally demanded. This is already the case and has been the case for a long time. The theoretical legal requirement and the practical reality of enforcement differ, such that everyone is forced to operate in a grey area. Such a situation is normal and expected in China. Should the authorities want something, they come and tell you. Exactly the same as the west.
HN isn't hosted on AWS, and AWS doesn't have any data centers in China.
I’m going to be that guy - why not make a PR or at least an issue? Is he not allowed to put out a good tool that might need improvement in hope of others either using it or improving it?
democracy noun
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
"capitalism and democracy are ascendant in the third world"
Similar:
representative government
elective government
constitutional government
popular government
self-government
government by the people
autonomy
republic
commonwealth
Opposite:
tyranny
dictatorship
a state governed by a democracy.
plural noun: democracies
"a multiparty democracy"
control of an organization or group by the majority of its members.
"the intended extension of industrial democracy"

Not opposed to the ideals expressed at Tiananmen if they were attempting to regain control from a narrowing elite.

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/democracy
Yeah, I don't know. I think the dozen or so other people he recruited from us to follow him might know, however.
Nuke is too dangerous and can't be deployed everywhere. Solar and wind is much lower cost to install and operate. Plus, low risk. The more distributed solutions will win.
I think there are people who argue for that, but regardless, media and supporters of gun confiscation(meaning radical position on that side) certainly portrays everyone who think that current regulation is enough as unrestricted access supporters. Which makes it look like restricted/unrestricted conversation, when in fact it's not or shouldn't be.
It shouldn't happen, but it's software development. You know that it will happen.
>This should be a fairly simple calculation: coal kills a lot more people than nuclear.

That's neither here nor there, if it kills them in more accumulated ways, and with less or no chance of mass killing accidents.

Cars also hit millions, but we are ok with it, because of the cost/benefit, and the mode that it does so (isolated in different car accidents, etc).

If cars were able to kill 20,000 people in a single bad accident, then we'd have found something else instead...
> You can secede in federalist countries

I mean... Not in practice.

Just ask the US or Russian states.
It's suboptimal to continually change your mind so rapidly too, not just 'terrible' mentally, because the real world around you imposes significant penalties for doing so.

Switching flights and hotels on a moment's notice is expensive. Arbitrary days off work are difficult for most. For some travel you're looking at visas, rental cars, etc as stated.

There's a lot of inertia in the boring and stable path.
Exactly, especially regarding multi monitor support.
That's a great excuse for 1830 but today i would expect to see tens of precise , large scale studies from an industry that spends billions every year. The fact that I don't, makes me suspicious
The solution is to stop operating in a culture of secrecy, lying and back-stabbing as so many US companies seem to be obsessed with. Open source your code and designs and start selling services. It's sad that it takes a threat like this to prove that the system we have in place doesn't work and is prone to corruption.
12 accused:

* 4 are sentenced for sedition and embezzlement

* 5 for sedition

* 3 for disobedience

Their actions have been judged under the laws of a democratic state but of course Secessionist propaganda calls it 'Fascism'.
The value that's created by making those jobs "redundant" flows back to investors, and is immediately put into other productive opportunities. Except that the companies are now doing more with less which is typically good for consumers, monopoly concerns aside.
Probably the co-mingled inventory policy.
What is wrong with using a lot of disk? If apps start faster, run faster, then using more disk is a good trade-off.
I find myself very frustrated using newer versions of the Microsoft Office suite. When I want to save a file, I just want the tried-and-true Windows file dialog popped up, but instead I have to click around and avoid going into weird Onedrive dialogs.

I save everything to OneDrive anyway, but I'm a not-so-old fogey that is more comfortable using the filesystem myself, rather than crummy layers stuck on top of it.
I'm also using Jira and see it's problems, but is there a significantly better solution (the answer obviously depends on your context) ?
Mr. Wise is indeed a pilot, but not one for jetliners. Flying a high altitude jetliner is very different from flying a Cessna. Mr. Wise does not have a degree in aeronautical engineering, nor in engineering of any sort.

http://jeffwise.net/about-the-author/
That's just not possible though. Can I just secede all alone by myself?
Cool simulation, I guess it could be extended to generate more than 2 lines per config and aggregate all lines, and then it would likely converge to the respective binomial distribution stats on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution.
It would be pretty ironic if we got to the point of too cheap to meter with renewable based electricity.

I realise that this is unlikely to happen but given the way prices are falling ...
Ah, I didn't consider density, that's a good point!

Taking a look at the study you mention (linked in other comments), it seems like the escalators they studied were well to the "too few people want to walk" side of the curve to be efficient.

I wonder how close the break-even point is to the simple metric, "do you have to wait to enter on the right?"

Or thinking of the queue length for standers, clearly when the length is 0 allowing walking is more efficient (you've taken nothing away from the standers, and the walkers are more efficient). But there is some point where the stand-queue length, let's call it N, is big enough that the corresonding wait-time means overall throughput is lowered by allowing walking.

I think it would be quite reasonable to require standing in those situations.

So the rule could be something like, "stand on the right, walk on the left, unless there is a queue of more than N people waiting to stand on the right, in which case you may stand on the left." Easy right? ;-)

(I wonder if N would vary w/ escalator length? Intuitively, almost certainly. So we'd have to post signs next to each escalator w/ its individual stand-queue limit. :-)
The irony here is that by advertising the fact that they have a massive amount of raw, unencrypted data, they're making themselves the biggest hacker target in the world.

I really hope this backfires on them so the rest of the world will be hesitant to follow their example.
Regarding the first point, I had to give up on using an external monitor because fonts look blurry and give me a headache after a while. The same monitor with Windows and Linux shows perfectly fine fonts. I tried all sort of incantations found on forums, and nothing works.
went right above my head, what this is about?
> In the US, a lack of informed political discussion is one major factor keeping young voters away from the polls.

I agree.

But the purpose of political advertising is to misinform.
True, there are some curious hotspots for software engineers. If you are tied down by family or friends, you might have to accept a significantly lower pay depending on location. Even if larger enterprises are present locally, they mostly pay less if the local market doesn't offer more.

You can do contract work and travel a lot, but that isn't for everyone.

Of course the lower pay is still enough to make a good living, but it certainly isn't anywhere near 6-figure jobs.
Not sure on the C64 version, but you can read about the ZX Spectrum conversion of R-Type here: http://bizzley.com/ which I recommend if you're a fan of the spectrum, R-Type, or curious about ports.
Even in case of Russia, Baltic States and others exist as independent states while they were not during USSR days
America had been taken over by the British. You cannot extrapolate that to every other country. That is certainly not the history of Catalonia.
Brace yourself for an infinite stream of angry 'fanboys' (or girls :p), who will point by point, try to dismantle this 'agrument'

Or in other words... cant take a joke!
Not paying taxes, driving on the wrong side of the road, or selling crack cocaine to children are all peaceful too you know.
> I get that you're trying, but legal is still going to look at the AGPL license and say nope, because that's the license and that what governs what is and isn't allowed.

AGPL is no problem whatsoever server side excepted if you want to embed this software in a proprietary tool.

In all other cases, just change your legal department, they are incompetent and spread FUD.
especially when Franco, unlike Hitler/Mussolini, never lost a war. He died of old age and appointed who was to succeed him, the King of Spain.
It’s not a simple calculation when people in Japan are still debating what the final cost of the Fukushima disaster will eventually add up to.

To do a simple calculation, you need to know the real costs of things, and right now those are unbounded.

“Think tank puts cost to address nuke disaster up to 81 trillion yen”

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903100044.html
Automating builds is fun! On the one hand I'd be worried if I joined a team or contributed to a project which still had manual processes for release more complex than 'run this script' or 'push to the x branch'. On the other hand, that's a fun initial project.

When developers aren't (or are prevented from) improving their own environment, that's a bad sign...
I came up with that idea (windows makes computers behave like organisms and not machines) during an internship where everyone was required to use corporate computers running Windows 10.

I haven’t used it on a personal computer since XP though so I guess you’re not far off.
Just signed up for it. It looks good, but I am seeing a bunch of clickbait. Already had to use the refund feature once.

But the bigger problem is that I generally come to articles through social media or links from friends. Do I have to search for every article to see if they released it on Blendle? Also, a lot of them seem to change titles so that is actually pretty difficult.
Yeah, a lot of people warn about the dangers of AI. And it's real - handing over decision making we don't understand to computers comes with real risks.
Here's a sobering fact: HK's GDP was about 14% of China's GDP in 2000. Now it's about 2.4%. This is mainly due to growth in mainland China.

HK is no longer China's golden goose, which is probably why China started this mess to begin with. From their viewpoint, HK's British hybrid law system is no longer worth putting up with. There's a very realistic possibility that China is going to crush resistance in HK by any means necessary. Keeping HK's economy and productivity intact probably aren't viewed to be important, but avoiding sanctions that would impact the entire country likely is.

This really is a conflict in which the threat of economic sanctions might actually save lives, provided they're believable.
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I already received a counterfeit book. The printing quality and alignment looked like it was copied.

Amazon doesn't even have the option to say it wasn't delivered but instead a fake was delivered.
I had the same problem. I ended up downloading the xip archive from the developers center and installing that, bypassing the app store.
Just nuke the fucking thread.
Add a soda tax that covers the healthcare burden
As a non-American, this helped me finally play that "Oregon Trail" I heard so much about on the Internet, cause apparently every American teenager had to play it at some point.
It ist not only a bit excessive, it is completely wrong. Most software for the Mac comes as disk images from the creator. You just drag the application to your programs folder and thats it. That is the way I installed most programs on my Mac. The App Store is nice to have but a less common way of installing programs. Also, services like the notarisation offered by Apple show clearly, while they love their App Store, they clearly support alternatives.
"Because things are complicated both in China and in the West, ergo they are equivalent."
I don't care what particular business strategy or operational process makes this happens. This is Piracy. This is what Copyright was originally conceived to fight against.

Amazon should be slapped with the same RIAA/MPAA-style grotesquely theatrical / existential threat fines that random individuals were treated with. Otherwise is the same old canis canem non est
Rights are inherently individual. You have rights, I have rights, etc. "People" don't have rights, no "Lebensraum", nothing. You, and only you, are in a relationship with the state, not subsumed in an aggregation of any kind.
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Yes, the article is not very well written, in that it blends factual statements about the new laws together with their own opinions,

e.g. 'For that reason, the Chinese Cybersecurity Bureau does not plan to politely make a formal request for the information. The fundamental premise of the new cybersecurity systems is that the government will use its control of communications to simply take the information without discussing the matter with the user.'

Does the author have some magical view into the Chinese Cybersecurity Bureau? Is he making this broad statement based upon something that the CSB has said? Or is it just his viewpoint?

Much more likely is, as you state, when the government wants something, they are going to come along and demand it. And if you want to keep doing business in China, you will have to provide that data.

This, while still a worrying state of affairs, is a far different scenario from 'all crypto is banned!' espoused by the writer.