skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First they came for the rapists, and I didn't say anything, because I wasn't a rapist.

Then they came for the sexual harassers, and I didn't say anything, because I wasn't a sexual harasser.

Then they came for the...

Wait, what? That's it? They just wanted to root out the rapist and sexual harassers, and that's it? I can still live my life without worry as long as I'm not one of those?

But okay, maybe your concern is being falsely accused of these things. The incidence rate of false accusations is low to the point of not being relevant to any discussion of social or cultural norms or policy.

Sexual assault is death from drunk driving.
False sexual assault accusation is being hit in the head by a milkshake thrown from a moving vehicle.
i figured this was far enough along in the dev cycle now to get some feedback.

most charting libs try hard to do as much as possible; uPlot tries hard to do as little as necessary. if anything, it demonstrates how fast raw Canvas can be in the absence of extra baggage, like mem allocation and inefficient algorithms.

i'm still fleshing out the programmatic API and also considering adding bar chart/category functionality, since it captures the other type of useful chart which cannot be represented as a trendline. eg: https://doc-0c-2g-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/h...
Did you read the article? Some of the resources hit peak use in the 1970s. With respect to crops, we're producing double the tonnage we did in 1980 with the same level of water and fertilizer, and greatly diminished acreage. There are also signs that new construction uses fewer materials to produce similar amounts of building.

There are similar indicators for Germany as well, and their wage picture is pretty different.
It’s surprising to think that in retrospect, relatively speaking, Hu, Jintao, was actually a good guy.

He’s of course one of a string of CCP strongmen, but nowhere near the likes of mr Xi. It’s too bad some within the party saw him as too soft maybe leaning western, so Xi manoeuvered and became the next mr Mao... to the detriment of China _and_ the world.
Not at any particular scale -- just enough to avoid import tariffs and keep the local politicians happy.

My understanding is that the Indian built phones were destined for the EU market which isn't engaged in a trade war with India or China.
>If I were Tim Cook I'd be real worried about being shut out of my own supply chain right about now.

If this extremely unlikely event happened the US government isn't going to ignore it.
>But the idea that this trade war would be over China's treatment of Muslim minorities is 100% bullshit and everyone knows it.

I've never seen it claimed that the trade war is over human rights. It's been attributed to IP theft and uneven access to markets, wrapped in 'trade deficit' language.

This specific action is based on human rights violations, but it's a relatively small action compared to the larger trade war.
From the FAQ:

> A21. A hard fork occurs when a cryptocurrency undergoes a protocol change resulting in a permanent diversion from the legacy distributed ledger. This may result in the creation of a new cryptocurrency on a new distributed ledger in addition to the legacy cryptocurrency on the legacy distributed ledger. If your cryptocurrency went through a hard fork, but you did not receive any new cryptocurrency, whether through an airdrop (a distribution of cryptocurrency to multiple taxpayers’ distributed ledger addresses) or some other kind of transfer, you don’t have taxable income.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/freq...

So with e.g. Bitcoin / Bitcoin Cash fork you would be doing ordinary capital gains, not income. You don’t have “new cryptocurrency”, you have the same cryptocurrency, but on two ledgers because of the fork.
Well, for making HTTP requests then WebMaestro is also free.

WebMaestro is targeted at making it easy to develop and mock Rest/Soap APIs. While Fiddler/Charles are Http proxies targeted at monitoring Http requests.
Good developpers willing to use a tech that might be obscure in a few years?

Considering JS graveyards, I would have sworn that was 100% of frontend devs until now.
It would be helpful if you could mention your employer so I don't accidentally go work in such a place.
>They won't detain you unless they have a reason to go after you.

Anyone can give a reason for anything.
Interesting interpretation of events.

Most accounts of the NBA controversy that I've heard suggest the apology to China made by the Houston Rockets's James Harden[1] in response is what has drawn criticism. And the GM has been pressured into making an apology [2]. That was after the Houston Rockets immediately distanced themselves from the statement [3]. The criticism I've heard has been of the subservient apologies, because freedom. Our National Basketball Association has demonstrated a split loyalty.

Also, Kaepernick was not banned, although perhaps that's an interpretation of his not being rehired after his contract ended. Statistically, he was the worst or second worst QB in the NFL. Add to that the PR risk, and the return on investment is negative.

In China, if I posted that same critical comment to social media, I'd fear for my life and the lives of my family as a direct action from the government. In the USA, Colin Kaepernick has a lucrative Nike endorsement and, while a controversial figure, lives freely and is often celebrated freely.

I'll side with us Americans on this one.

[1] https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27787634/james-harden-ap...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/767805936/houston-rockets-gm-...

[3] https://twitter.com/TilmanJFertitta/status/11803302879574958...

[4] "Kaepernick had a defense-adjusted yards above replacement — Football Outsiders’ ultimate value quotient — of minus-182, 35th in the NFL. By all metrics, he was one of the worst quarterbacks in the league." https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/colin-kaepernick-49ers-s...
When I did customer service at Blizzard Europe back around 2010 one of my immediate colleagues who could speak Chinese and English was involved in the re-launch of WoW in China.

They explained that non-Chinese companies were not allowed to operate in China. What Blizzard had done was essentially a partnership, but legally they gave rights to a Chinese company to operate/use their IP in China.

I suspect this is the same here, this is a Chinese company with a right from Blizzard to use their IP, but isn’t actually Blizzard itself.

Blizzard probably can’t control what this Chinese company does in China except probably for terminating their license to use their Hearthstone IP, and even then I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s legally challenging.
case in point - did I say I am not believing that climate is changing? but no, as soon as one contest the wild exponential predictions, he gets scourged.
You seem to have ignored the points I made so, do you acknowledge that various forms of airborne advantage existed long before you recognised them? Please address the points in my posts.

> Certainly a lot of stones around here

Stop being a dick. Contest other people's viewpoints, don't 'dildo' this and 'stone' that. Deal with facts. Play the ball not the man.

> provide an overwhelming advantage for the society which possesses it in the event of a war. Airplanes. Jets. Spacecraft. Atom Bombs. Antibiotics

ISIS did not have much by way of aircraft, jets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_equipment_of_ISIL#Air...), no spacecraft or thank god, nukes. Neither did one side in the vietnam war. How did those turn out?

> Since 1969, no society on the planet has developed such a technology.

You assert this, whether that is true is questionable. TBH given your current record on this thread your reception of anything that isn't kowtowing acceptance of your goodness, I can't take you seriously.
> Wages have been mostly flat, so consumers have no extra money to engage in additional buying.

Check out [1] and scroll down to Table A-7 (it's an Excel file). It's the real earnings data (in 2018 dollars), by gender, from 1960 to 2018 (though it's kind of spotty before 1967). What sticks out to me:

* For men (looking at Total Workers), real earnings are currently around 10% higher than they were in the 70s (moving from low-$40K's to recently just past mid-$40K's, with some peaks and valleys along the way). Doesn't sound like much, but...

* For women, earnings have roughly doubled in that timespan

* The number of men in the workforce has increased by almost 50%

* The number of women in the workforce has increased by almost 100%

From a certain perspective, it's kind of amazing that real earnings haven't gone down significantly.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-26... (Census report that came out last month)
No, but they should admit that they're still not giving a shit, the right thing (assuming this is it) just happened to coincide with their interests for a chance...
You can "impress" people this way still, just by surreptitiously typing Ctrl-u to clear what you've typed so far.
It remains to be seen how much Blizzard will actually suffer for this. How many people will cancel their WoW subscriptions? How many will boycott their next big game. I have doubts that it will be a larger impact than the profits they've made in their ventures in China.
"light and easily adjusted" is it though. maybe when you use haskell and functional languages which might not have strong dependency . if i am being honest i cant extract the precise requirement on the first iteration it is only as more feature request come as iterations progress with "small additions" only then do i find the real requirement.

from my exp with java/c++ your data model is sacrosanct it cannot be touched especially if you have untraceable down stream dependencies.
Valve advertises games on a platform that sells games and only does it when you start Steam. 30% is standard. They're a de-facto monopoly because they basically invented the market and no one has managed to do better, they have not engaged in anti-competitive practices and in fact allow people to sell Steam keys for their game on other storefronts without paying Valve at all.
Very interested in this, as someone thinking about how to set up an off grid cabin here in Alaska. Last winter we hit a 112°F difference between inside our cabin at 72° and outside at -40°. This seems like a way to harness some of the heat drain while compensating for the accompanying darkness of the winter months that would drive less photovoltaic generation. I don't know much about solar alternatives so would love to know more from anyone who could suggest things...
Yeah, I was trying to figure out a polite way to point out the discrepancy. Notably I don't think the NFL actually banned him over it, I think he just ended up not being rehired by any teams. I think the NFL actually settled a lawsuit with him over conspiring to keep him out of the league but it apparently wasn't an official
policy.

Edit: so I think it wasn't as hypocritical as it could be at face value but America isn't as great about athlete protest as we really want to be. It's much harder to stomach people protesting you
They’ve blacklisted our companies from working with them without a “Chinese partner” — of course, that just ends up being a vessel company for state-sponsored Chinese espionage.

If you want an idea of what China has been up to, check out this recent interview with a former CIA official [1 it’s right-wing OAN, get over it].

They “somehow” managed to learn the identities of every single CIA informant in their country their country. Some of them murdered as they left their homes.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqX_EESAdRY
As Trump Administration Downplays Warming, Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts
To clarify, shareholders don't vote to fire a CEO, so a majority is only tangentially important. The board votes on these sorts of decisions, however shareholders vote on nominations for board members -that are put forward by a seperate committee. So essentially no one on the board sits there without Sweeney's approval right now (because he holds the majority of shares, and presumably would have voted against people he doesn't approve of). Even if Tencent had a majority right now, unless the nomination committee had previously put forward board members that strongly favoured Tencent, and therefore gave them a good portion of board votes, then it would be effectively useless.

There are technically ways you can make certain seats on the board have a larger weight in voting, but I don't know Epic's specifics and am going to assume it's pretty standard.
A company that does a good deed will draw attention and support away from other companies. If the good deed was done for ethical reasons, then that attention and support will feed further good deeds in the future. If it was done for manipulative reasons, then it dilutes the money going to the more ethical companies. The manipulative company is less likely to do good deeds in the future. It's more likely to ignore opportunities, or to do easier and less meaningful good deeds.

In other words, it's not a one-off. There is the same positive effect in the short term, but the long term differs.

All of that logic could easily apply to this scenario.

For a simpler scenario, if a company does a good deed to apologize for a bad deed, and the good deed is smaller but gets them off the hook, then that's a very clear net negative.
Turkey launches attack on Syrian Kurdish forces as US steps aside
The problem is when it stops doing its job.

How much are Apple II parts? How easy is it to find people with the know-how?
How much do they charge? How about 10 years from now?

Long term tech is hard. We haven't had time to figure it out yet.
You'll have to trust someone. Both Google & Apple are in the same boat in that respect. My main reason to switch to Apple is the consistency. I am getting sick and tired of Google killing app after app I rely on only to release a new one with half the features. At this point I'm willing to shell out the extra money even though I agree that Apple hardware is borderline rip off levels of pricing.
That's an interesting thought. I'm working on a desktop IMAP client in my spare time so my burgeoning IMAP knowledge is...getting there.

Would this ID be prominent? Appear on hover?
Gaming companies have messed up and lost gamers' trust in so many different ways: predatory microtransactions, oodles of crappy DLC, half-finished products being shipped with huge Day 1 patches, etc. But all those were directly related to the industry and could at least be bounced back from if the company removed transactions/made meaningful DLC/improved the state of their games in the future.

How the hell do you bounce back from this? "Oh, sorry, player base, we didn't mean to support a totalitarian regime that slaughtered innocents and suppresses free speech. Have a cool skin!"
... That's exactly how they're going to bounce back, isn't it?
> man's inability

yep. the wise mathematician saw that it's impossible

> are not "progress forward"

nuclear warheads gave us nuclear power and brought a long peace in the world. They were very beneficial. Nuclear war and biowarfare are terrible, but the deterrence stalemate it creates is beneficial to the species. It's arguably the most stable recipe for peace so far

> mere technological innovation with societal advancement

"Societal advancement" is a totally relative term. Advancement towards what? Individual Freedom? Collectivism? OOps ... politics

Technology is monotonically advancing towards more advanced (complex) effective tools, always. The two are not related
> No screenshots of code.

Not that I disagree but isn't there a security risk with code that can be cut and pasted?
I'm trying to think of ways to stop this, but I can't think of any good way.

1) I simply don't think it's feasible to expect that companies themselves will band together and say "we won't accede to such demands."

2) Countries like the US that have better free speech protection could pass laws requiring US companies to comply with the freedom granted in the US. So a company could not impose punitive measures on a user, or self censor, for something legal within the US. But then I think of all of the varieties of harassment & hate speech that could get through.
Ironically, this could potentially help Trump due to the fact that some manufacturers might say "Screw this noise", and attempt to use more US based sources in order to avoid more trade uncertainty.
"There are some that call me Tim."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTbrIo1p-So
I meant that if a bunch of individuals saw their own leaked logs and knew they were accurate, they could be led to believe all logs are accurate. But I agree that this kind of chicanery may not even be needed to pull off such a scam.
Because german carmakers that need somewhere to sell their old tech. In politics just like in crime, follow the money.
Considering how much of the economy is derivatives, options, and futures trading, this isn't exactly a surprise.

I'm no economist but the fact that we're using less of the most fundamental resources available despite a growing population doesn't seem like improving efficiency in aggregate, it just seems like decreasing activity masked by the inflated aggregated metrics about the 'economy'. A lot of money moves around nowadays and relatively little of it is actually put toward something "real", instead being diverted to quant firms' operational costs and their employees' bank accounts.
Ok, two slightly different already, in addition to a number of people who have no idea at all.

I think this proved what I said.

(That said there was a thread on the n8n project where a couple of persons had serious problems understanding the basics of open source, its relation to free software, why commons clause isn't open source etc etc so guess we will have to explain what is and isn't "open source" for the foreseeable future :-/
Energy input per unit of GDP is an important metric that economists and environmentalists look at. Same for Co2 output per unit of GDP.
Well, space is still out there though, and current tech is much better suited to dominate it than 60s tech. The first nation to figure out space mining and manufacturing will be light years ahead of any competitor
lol ain't nobody paying tax on crypto
China does not occupy Taiwan, so those points are moot.

What security interest is served by censoring discussion of the existence of Taiwan?

This is a political issue, not a security issue.
Shell urges collaboration with other industries to tackle emissions
This is especially annoying when you realize that ever brand is different. There will be seven different brands of coffee in identically-sized bags, yet one may have 5.7oz of coffee and another will be 12.8oz.
The Consumer Right That Makes NYPA the Toughest Privacy Act Yet
> To understand this correctly; 'we' means the company 'Bekk' and the customer is 'Vy', right?

Right.

Good question! Vy has their own developers for this very reason. The teams here are a mix of Bekk and Vy developers, should Bekk be replaced by another company, someone will still remain to train the new developers.
Off topic, but what's with the spammy links at the bottom of this page? Did the site get hacked?

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Oz4XEhy
Because social quoting is just an ego trip.
> They explained that non-Chinese companies were not allowed to operate in China.

I still find it fascinating how no-one was screaming "trade war!" at such terms. Yet respond to them with a few tariffs..
The league did not ban Kaepernick, he just wasn't signed by anyone (he wasn't a very highly rated quarterback anymore). Some say owners colluded to blacklist him. I find that very hard to believe. Owners don't seem to have a problem signing players with all types of sins in their history if it will help them win. Of course if he's going to bring trouble and he's not that great anymore, then the might pass on him.
Until recently it was common among educated people to use generally understood exaggerations to make a point.

No one around 2000-2010 would read the article as a) diminishing the sufferings in the actual Gulags or b) an insinuation that the U.S. has reached the state of actual Gulags.

How would one read classical European literature if this convention is not understood.
> There is a good chance it was not authorized by HQ and might be some China-specific PR division acting autonomously.

I'm not sure why that should matter.

Either the company immediately disavows the "rogue" statement, or everyone (including employees) will see it as an official statement.
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> Not that I disagree but isn't there a security risk with code that can be cut and pasted?

Yes if the blog author is malicious and the copy-paster inattentive. Don't even need an inattentive user if it's a command pasted in a terminal that will interpret the newline as <enter>.
China has already stopped importing large amounts of US agricultural products, including soybeans. The US gov is now subsidizing farmers to make up for this loss to the tune of $28 bil in direct payments to US farmers so far...

I don't really understand why people think most large nations can't feed their own people. China can easily do so, albeit with some changes to their diet. China is the top producers in the world of many crops: wheat, rice, potatoes, grapes, apples, tomatoes, watermelons, hogs, sheep, etc. and #2 or #3 in many others: corn, bananas, beef, chicken, milk, etc. Sure they import a huge amount of food as well. But so does the USA.
That's not what the eternal return refers to. It refers to physics - that the Universe will expand from and collapse to singularity and then do it again. His argument that if matter is finite, and time is infinite - therefore if we are composed of matter and given an infinite amount of time he thinks it is inevitable that matter/oneself will return to the exact same state over and over again.

It is an interesting thought experiment and I don't believe he's 100% correct with it, although I'll spare my interpretation.

It's not that the things you're saying don't have some relation to Nietzsche, but it has more to do with his thoughts on morality and so you're lumping things together in a categorical error. It's more important to think about it than to think Peter Thiel did all the heavy lifting for you already.
Yes and it should be too. On the other hand if you seek content that you can only see in HN and the small amount of similar sites, and when these also get overrun with news that you can already follow on mainstream, it feels like there are no options left. Well maybe except lobste.rs.
That books wants to build the foundation (dependent types) before making the big claim in chapter 3.

It's a bit weird because has Haskell shows, you don't need dependent types for basic theorem proving. (but dependent types do give a lot of useful power)
Ok. I see what you're saying. Thanks for clarifying.

I mean, sure, feel free to wring your hands about AGI, but why worry about something that's not anywhere close to happening? I see people talking like this is keeping them up at night, which I find strange.

Do you really think it will go from "we can (poorly) identify pictures of cats" to "omg here come the machines" as soon as this linchpin discovery is made? I guess in my mind there will be plenty of gap between the two to figure things out. Sort of like with self-driving cars now.

And thanks for clarifying re: Carmack. He's got a formidable intellect, to say the least, so when he said that I was more inclined to take it seriously than a lot of folks in tech with a pulpit. I'd like to see him "show his work" on how he reached that conclusion, though.
What's with the scroll behavior on the site? makes me not want to even be there.
It's a messy breakup and both sides will be worse off. But these are both huge and advanced economies. Substitutes will be found or built.
The motive wouldn't make any sense. Why would the CCP go out of its way to save face for an American company that offended it?