skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but then we would reasonably have to blacklist the US as well to be consistent (supporting the genocide in Yemen, putting kids in concentration camps, separating families from babies, rampant corruption, no rule of law, etc etc), and I don't think the EU would want to lose both those markets at once.
Seems like an empty threat to me. How much of China's economy depends on the US? The US is China's number 1 trading partner and accounts for about 20% of their exports. It would also be a hit to the US, but finding cheap labor isn't that hard and there's existing momentum of labor markets moving out of China.

As far as I can tell, this hurts China more than it hurts the US (though clearly it hurts the US). It is just a matter of who's going to backdown first. Who calls the bluff? Who is more risk adverse?
in my experience, the best papers are written by people who are not part of the academic incentive system.

We had a problem at UC Berkeley where a very smart CS guy wanted to publish a paper but since he didn't have an official affiliation, major journals wouldn't publish his papers (they literally wouldn't publish a paper by a person whose correspondence address was their home address).

So we gave him a title at Berkeley and the paper was published.

His work is some of the best around, but the academic community wouldn't pay attention until he ran some benchmarks and had them disseminated by prominent academics.
Well.. they lied!
> but legally they gave rights to a Chinese company to operate/use their IP in China

Probably why there's a very blatant Chinese Overwatch ripoff game that Blizzard hasn't gone after.
The Tortoise and the Raven
"Never" is a word used by those with a poverty of the imagination.
The problem is that we don't have the foresight necessary to know this. If we crack FTL or inertial propulsion, a whole ton of options open up.
Sure, but what's the carbon output to recycle the Apple II? What's the carbon output to build new rPIs? What's the carbon output to rebuild whatever software to run on the rPI?

Until we can measure these things with extreme precision, it's kind of a shot in the dark. You might be able to make some estimate of it currently, and then you could graph the cost of making an rpi and recycling the Apple II vs the power usage of the Apple II over time (- the power usage of an rpi).

So I agree with you, but there are externalities to replacing the Apple II with an rpi that need to be accounted for as well.

This would be a cool data experiment.
The article lists several: static typing, guarantee of zero runtime errors, sane error handling using rich enums.

Other advantages: async is baked into the framework and isn't an afterthought like React. Immutability is standard and doesn't require a competing ecosystem of immutable datastructures like React. Also significantly smaller download sizes [1]

I also question that Javascript the language doesn't change: it's gone through several big language changes, and a growing number of devs wanted more changes, so stared writing in Typescript or Flow.

[1] https://elm-lang.org/news/small-assets-without-the-headache
team leads don’t make business decisions
I suspect nobody who has been in academia long enough to get a masters degree at least would be surprised at this statement, no matter what their background. Every field has people like this.

Don't forget how essential story-telling is to the human condition: culture, accumulated knowledge and everything we as a species have achieved is built on top of it. With that in mind, it's much easier to see why people some might want to play the role of storyteller at all costs.
This is in the same vein as some other complaints around China's involvement in the gaming industry. There are calls to separate Chinese players from the rest of a game's population because of rampant cheating and unsportman like conduct. PUBG is the poster child for these calls for separation. The Chinese company TenCent has invested VERY heavily in the games industry (https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...) and continues to bank roll games. Due to the nature of business between Chinese companies and the Chinese government, I don't see this problem going away.
COM is an ABI standard. The structs are defined in terms of C with Winapi (stdcall) calling convention. Very little needs reverse engineering - it's all pIntf->vTable->func(pIntf, ...). You can explain it on a whiteboard in a couple of minutes.

The way MSVC does it may need reverse engineering (it may be patented btw). I could explain how Delphi implements COM interfaces, but any specific implementation is actually more complicated than the ABI, because they're trying to add implementation ergonomics on top of the basic calling convention.
Object Storage's Role in VMware's Kubernetes Centric World
Indeed, or to be a bit cute about it: "Does the 'America' graph include the 'China' part of America?"
Yes and roughly 3MB compressed.
Holocaust level events have already happened in China. For instance, Hitler was responsible for ~11million deaths, Stalin ~6-9million and Mao was estimated at over 40million.[1] Currently China has an entire ethnic group under full lock down where millions of “terrorists” and their families are already interned in large camps where there are reports of forced sterilization.[2] Due to the pervasiveness of technology things will likely get much worse. However I disagree with the assertion that we are not doing anything because we are distracted by civil liberty issues such as trans rights I think there are far more economic factors involved. Furthermore, using the unrelated tragedies of other countries to accentuate polarizing partisan topics diminishes both the severity and legitimacy of an argument.

[1] https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/05/who-killed-more-hit...
[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7546833/amp/Chinese...
It seems sensible if you're wanting to account for air quality on or near roads, which is the primary concern w.r.t. human health and socioeconomic impact.

The top comment in the thread was about Teslas improving human/lung health through air quality in cities which is heavily affecting by the resuspension affect.
The is the Boston (or rather, "everything north of the Charles and west of the Mystic, out to 128") Review.

They have blurbs saying how great they are from Naomi Klein, JK Galbraith, Martha Nussbaum, Henry Gates and John Rawls. Do not expect anything written there to give an evenhanded look at the security and public-safety concerns of post WWII Americans.

It is still upsetting to see the equivocations in the article in question. These, by a faculty club Cambridge trot currently whining in absentia at Hopkins, would rise to the level of Big Lie material if there were not people still alive with firsthand experience of the Soviet system. As it is, it just makes him look silly and any student that buys it look like a rube.
i agree . i might clarify my original post, im half asleep. but i agree with the correction you pointed out in my original post.
The website listed two agency names "Norsk Lokomotivmannsforbund and Norsk Jernbaneforbund" (in the strike notification).

I could imagine acronyms just make more sense if long words like that are common in the country.
Okay imagine living with all the above + war + religious leadership that does not agree with your beliefs. That's a religious and tribal governance in our time.
Decisions like these are usually not the fault of the employees. I sympathize with them. It’s more management and PR.
Ask HN: I have a solution, how to find a problem?
As part of my master's I developed a model that can connect code to business logic and understand the why and what behind the code, and even translate it to simple English.

I want to build a product around it and been trying to find what problem this model can solve. I am aware that this is the opposite of the recommended advice of 1st finding a problem and then build a solution.
- I tried to talk to my fellow programmer friends and ask them about their process of writing and reading code but didn't find any strong problem that can be solved with this model.
- I built a simple MVP that takes a new assigned ticket with a task and predicts what files are needed to be changed to accomplish the task in the ticket, I published it in some forums and put some ads on Google, but didn't get any paying customers.

How can I find a good problem that my solution will solve, and have a good product-market-fit and high value?
Depends on how you define "receive". Also "new".

If currency X is hardforks and there now exist X and X' then in all ordinary cases you have access to both X and X'. But did you receive? Your access is because X' copies/extended X's state when it came into existence. There wasn't any new transfer to you.

One part of the text sounds like it's possible to not "receive": "Situation 1: A holds 50 units of Crypto M, a cryptocurrency. On Date 1, the distributed ledger for Crypto M experiences a hard fork, resulting in the creation of CryptoN. Crypto N is not airdropped or otherwise transferred to an account owned or controlled by A."

Another part of the text describing the same facts, instead makes it sound like reception is determined by resulting control: "Situation 1: A did not receive units of the new cryptocurrency, Crypto N, from the hard fork; therefore, A does not have an accession to wealth and does not have gross income under § 61 as a result of the hard fork."

So, taking both these parts together, it sounds like situation 1 is describing an irrelevant and obvious case. It's technically possible for N to be created and copy currency M but leave out A's coins. Obviously A wouldn't owe any taxes as a result. Duh. This wasn't a case anyone was concerned with.

So what if you instead say okay, the coins you got access to via state copying were "received"-- well okay, but now in that case the many times ethereum or bcash were hardforked and the original systems were largely, but not completely, abandoned you'd then owe income tax on essentially the entirety of your holdings. 0_o
I cannot pretend to truly follow the actual mathematics you linked and summarized (I appreciate the attempt!), but the conclusion in the last sentence answers my intended question. Thank you!
"You look for the person who will benefit, and uh, uh you know, uh you know you’ll uh, uh well...you know what I'm trying to say."

- AI Lenin
FWIIW, Horgan is a well known science writer and author of a 1996 book called "the end of science" which pointed out that science in general and physics in particular has reached a point where there is no appreciable forward progress and is obsessed with non falsifiable woo like string theory. It's a provocative book; and people have raised the issue that Kelvin said something similar 120 years ago, but it's really worth reading.

He was 100% on the money that Noodle Theory was a lot of non-scientific mathematical baloney; a super unpopular position at the time (1996); pretty much the only prominent person in agreement with him was Nobel Prize Winner Phil Warren Anderson, who disagrees with him in many other respects. Ultimately many other writers came out in agreement on this issue at least; Woit and Smolin most notably, though others agreed. At this point I'm pretty sure even the physics establishment is a little nervous about hiring new noodle theorists. He's basically right about stuff like "complexity theory" as well.

I had a couple buddies who were prominent string theorists; some involved in its inception. One in particular retired a very disappointed man.
Let's be fair, Iran, Iraq during Saddam's rule, and North Korea should definitely be members.
They do have elections... you just have to join the communist party. Much like how you would have to join one of two political parties here to have a practical vote, and even then you have to navigate the tricky electoral college that disenfranchises some voters.
It’s to sell their east-Asian inspired loot box games to Chinese users. Blizzard has been learning from Chinese and Korean gaming companies and how they skirt gambling laws and want into that market
This is almost off topic, I dont think Epic CEO has much to do with this
That might be a reasonable position to take: it would nicely avoid the issue that you might not know or be able to know about the fork, that the value at the instant of creation is exceptionally unclear, and it would nicely avoid the issue that you might not meaningfully have access to the coins.

The ruling appears to say nothing like that and nothing that would particularly support that interpretation.
important to recognize that like a country's citizens may not agree with what a country does, a company's employees may not agree with what the company does
And they would almost certainly know the password rules, because anyone making an account would have to be told the rules in order to understand what was happening.
I don't know why "a small group of Activision Blizzard employees" would do anything to change your "faith" in the company as a whole.

Wake me up when their C-suite staff and board of directors "walk out" or make a meaningful public statement.
There are plenty of roles which don't require React. In fact, this is the problem with the web dev industry at the moment. Everyone is looking for React or Vue or whatever developers. Have companies stopped looking for Developers who have solid grip of Javascript who can pick up any framework ? I would hope No. I personally use VueJS and love it but if I am hiring for a front end role, I would like to first understand if you can write Javascript. I don't care which framework or library.
A string of dictionary words and a very common name.
He who controls the spice controls the universe!
I don't think it's Western companies as much as Western society putting pressure on all companies in general - and that'll bump up really hard against neo-liberalism and especially the libretarian segments of society.

Ideally we'll see political support shifting away from neo-liberalism and toward more pro-democracy ideologies.
Thank goodness someone is saying it

"We are talking about hundreds of millions of days using the means we have available today. We must take care of our planet, it is very beautiful and still absolutely liveable."

The 77-year-old said he felt the need to "kill all the statements that say 'OK, we will go to a liveable planet if one day life is not possible on earth'."

"It's completely crazy," he added.

You do the math on the energy, resource, and time requirements and it's pretty stark. Only 12 humans have set foot on a body other than the Earth. We have no permanent human settlements elsewhere in the solar system outside of low Earth orbit. We're more likely to set ourselves back hundreds of years in progress with warm or climate change.
Europeans sailed "off over the horizon" because they could get spices, gold, silk, furs, and slaves. Meanwhile, tech bros want us to collectively invest trillions of dollars to satisfy their infantile power fantasies by bringing back some red rocks.
Oh i wrote last blog post 10 years ago? So sad. Swoosh. Evergreen enabled :)
Ps. Techcically speaking a set of articles without timestamps is not a blog
You can't sort by price in search. I think that needs to be repeated anytime someone talks about airbnb's search, website, etc.
I think they are very, very afraid. I think they feel like one crack in the dam, and they could lose the whole country. Secure people (or nations) don't have to react like this.
I'm a driver for Uber and Lyft – here's exactly how much I make in one week
It's important to convince people that vice is virtue and virtue is vice.

For instance, prisons house people who broke the law and were convicted by their peers...but let's pretend prisoners are all somehow virtuous and blame the prisons. If only good law abiding people weren't so damn bad, they'd realize that prisons aren't a great place to be for prisoners.

Since we are in the process of flipping vice and virtue, let's also make freedom of speech unpopular. Once we do that, let's start by fining people $250K for using legal terms, like illegal immigrant to describe people that have entered the country illegally...because feelings.

https://abc7ny.com/using-term-illegal-alien-in-nyc-could-res...
(OT) I like iTerm for its smart select/copy behavior, mostly, but stopped using it about 3 months ago because I often caught it using immense amounts of RAM, slowing everything down on my 32Gb trashcan pro. I thought it might have something to do with the GPU, but it doesn't happen on Terminal.app, which is otherwise good enough, but I miss iTerm every time I have to cmd-C or adjust the span of a double click. Has anyone else observed the RAM trouble? Maybe I have a bad setting?
> when you're contributing to GPL software, you don't need your employer's permission for it to be upstreamed.

Yes you do. Except the permission in this case is "permission to use the library" in the first place, which is a much higher bar than permission to upstream changes to a permissively-licensed library because using a GPL library has much farther-reaching implications than merely contributing changes back.
Not only this but you must also take into account the source of the money that buys your digital goods.

There is a strong correlation between the environmental cost and economic growth. It might weaken but it will never be decoupled, as long as people do have 'material' needs.
I'm certainly not going to let reality get in the way of a joke about the compact expressiveness of J.
>>>This was so so easy to find, yet you somehow managed to accomplish not finding it.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=San+Francisco+sti+infection+rate

^Two of my 3 links are from the first page of results. The CDC isn't amongst them. Your 15-second Google search must have been conducted with different terms than my 15-second Google search. That happens. So where's this condescension coming from?

>>>You then went through the effort of creating a post on HN pretending that this information didn't exist.

Show me exactly where I pretended any information "didn't exist".

>>>Just to make some point because you got insufferably offended about data.

Projection much?

>>>The level of disingenuous discourse allowed on this forum is silly.

The irony. You come into the thread accusing me of flat-out ignoring information (false), and when you do something constructive by sharing data (sincerely, thanks for the link)......the data you share only serves to reinforce my point in the first place:

https://imgshare.io/image/P18Gq

https://imgshare.io/image/P1Pw7

If you really wanna have some fun, put the tool in "Maps over Time" mode and look at the explosion of syphilis, especially in the South and on the West Coast. Chlamydia and gonorrhea pretty much paint the whole map blue.

The OP implied that the SFBA was somehow a haven away from the drug and disease problems that were afflicting "less populated, non-coastal regions". Not only does that not seem to be the case, the data points to the OPPOSITE conclusion.

Let's do a search using more positive terms:

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=San+Francisco+national+low+STI+rates

And look at the text provided from the very first result:

"San Francisco County ranks 28th in the entire nation for rates of chlamydia by county in 2017". Note: the US has 3,007 counties, so SF is literally in the top 1% of the entire country for chlamydia. That's not "The 1%" you want to be associated with.

At any rate, I'm pretty sure the crux of my original post still stands: To conclude "One should live in SF to escape the STDs and drugs in the non-coastal regions" is way off-base.

Finally...we would all benefit if you took some time for some serious self-reflection.
Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite
I expected that airdrops would be ordinary income based on the market value at airdrop time. I expected that stock split rules would not apply to forks (though this may seem obvious, there were many that were arguing the opposite). I was hoping that tokens you can't access due to exchanges not supporting them or whatever don't count as income. Those are all aligned with my expectations.

I agree that the rules are stupid and have bad outcomes in many cases. But I didn't expect IRS guidance to change that. I also agree that the guidance is ambiguous on hard forks (is it an "airdrop" or not?) and that's a big problem.
Agree, also there is also UI and UX's input on how the form should behave and its looking feel, it's not always just couple inputs and a submit button :)
You're not wrong. Some of Google's products do have UX problems. But that doesn't mean that the author's thoughts on this are wrong.
I tried to find info on this behavior with no luck- does it have a name?
There's certainly an argument to be made that even the absolute worst places on Earth to try to establish a settlement (Sahara desert, Antarctica, Mariana Trench, top of Everest) are all orders of magnitude less challenging than going to Mars, which is in turn orders of magnitude easier than leaving the solar system.

But it still isn't a reason not to try, especially now. Elon isn't wrong about the possibility of the window closing, especially in various future scenarios where climate change and war disrupt global supply chains.
At my middle school the default password for all accounts was "linux". The school was Windows (Win2k) only ;) it was around 2006/2007)
I had access to a dozent Teacher accounts from oder ones who never used a Computer.

Actually that was the first time that i heard the word Linux and learned the meaning just few years later.
It is a false choice that we have to protect this planet OR work on the technology to move elsewhere. It doesn't have to be either or. In fact, right now even it isn't. We're putting effort toward both, but the amount spent on moving to another planet is so little it is practically rounding error, so really we are putting effort toward preserving this planet and not moving when looked at through that lens.

There are, however, problems outside of human-made pollution that threaten the planet. Asteroids aren't fiction. The one that was famously recorded in Russia a few years ago shattered windows, but if, by chance, had impacted at a different angle we would have been looking at a crater in the ground and we'd probably be discussing increases to the asteroid defense budget on Hacker News today still. Historically we can see the effects of the asteroid that caused the K-T mass extinction in a variety of places. Reducing, reusing, and recycling won't help us in the cases of stellar-based threats like large asteroids, a field of millions of smaller asteroids that gets captured by earth, or some, as of yet, barely understood phenomenon like a hypothetical traveling black hole or radiation burst of some kind.
Up to some value of volumeDelta * productCount it actually makes sense to use the same container due to sourcing/manufacturing cost from the variance so I wouldn't say purely disingenuous, there is real reasoning behind some of it... it's just marketing gets in the way of when you should actually add that second container size i.e. it's costing you more to always use the bigger container but the marketing department says the increase in sales due to confusion outweighs it.
It's a bit late for any faith there - the PR calculation has swung and the fiscally responsible thing is to back off this move - but as soon as the spotlight is gone all the math will go back in favor of appeasing China.
Wall Street has nothing to do with it.

https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...
It is “impossible” by your definition everywhere then. There is misinformation and propaganda everywhere. Spin is propaganda, advertising is propaganda, and FOX News is propaganda.

You gauge by whoever takes political action, whether or not you think they are properly informed.
>In the EU, shops are required to display the price per <appropiate round value>, i. e. all coffees have a (usually smaller, but readable) Euro/500g price.

Grocery stores in the US do this, but it's not something you necessarily see in food service shops.