skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both atomic bombings, the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, and the Fukushima disaster come to mind. Perhaps a better question is why wouldn't people with a personal connection to Japan be wary of nuclear contamination? Or 'why don't the rest of us?'

Certainly there are some people in/from Japan who are enthusiastic about the future of nuclear energy. But I think it's fair and reasonable to say that cultural trends exist and a randomly chosen person with a personal connection to Japan is more likely to be critical of nuclear energy than a randomly chosen person from the rest of the general population.
If that's the case, I think it reveals an incredibly myopic understanding of the situation. I and people I know have been watching events unfold in Hong Kong with a feeling of helplessness and distance. But now that Western companies have made themselves targets for trying to censor support for Hong Kong, it has given us a local focus through which we feel we are able to participate. cf. Streisand Effect.
If they're already sharing a repeater site, then they're not overly redundant if that repeater goes down
The problem isn't that China has different values, it's that it's trying to apply those values in the west and to spread it's influence. This crosses a hard line that is unacceptable and if cutting off all relations with China is the only solution then so be it.
Evolution is present in all things, it is inevitable. All things evolve because all things are impermanent. The question is, is evolution of technology now only driven by profit and military defense? Or can evolution be driven by the desire for a better future that is more full of Love and less full of violence and fear.

People are defining evolution too narrowly, look to see it happening all around you, socially, technically, geologically, comologically.

Consciousness itself is evolving and that is why we are seeing the limits of Spiral Dynamics stage orange capitalism.

What will our economic system evolve into when society evolves from orange to green? How will this affect our technological evolution?

(this will be quite painful but necessary for our survival)
We've had a lot of drama with our radio enthusiasts, especially after club schisms when someone starts continuously broadcasting an offensive song on the shared bands.
You would pay tax a second time, but only on the difference between the fork price and the price you sold for. They're not trying to double-tax you on the same money.
It's technically (just) more than 100 years, but the Zimmerman Telegram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram) is not something your (potential) enemy sends to one of your "closest allies".
Americans are currently feeling extremely disrespected and salty af because the Chinese government built from a different culture made a cultural faux pas of demanding organizational accountability for the speech of an employee, something that happens every day in China, both now and before there was ever a Communist party.
I've worked in commercial radio before. This is a bad idea. They're phasing out an old system because it's too slow to be useful. Slow voice coms are alway useful in an emergency. We setup a system to send plain text reports at 300 baud. It was fantastically fault tolerant and worked in terrible conditions, like those in an actual disaster. It had very few parts required and almost any computer that could emulate a serial port over usb could use it.

I don't see how requiring high speed coms in an emergency is practical. Keeping simple analogue links is the best way to make sure you can keep going. It also keeps things simple. In some situations you have 30 year old radios that have only been turned on 3 or 4 times a year in civil defence huts dotted around remote areas.

I'm not into amature radio in any way but I just don't understand that call at all.
Elm could completely disappear from the face of the Earth next year, and I'd still be glad I learned it, and would still recommend it to others. The concepts have made me a better programmer in general, whether in Node, React or vanilla JS. Hard to explain until you've actually used the language.
List three examples of government shows of force that were successfully foiled by armed civilians. Should be trivial if you believe it happens regularly.
There is also https://git.sr.ht/~mcf/cproc inspired by several other small C compilers including 8cc, c, lacc, and scc. I did not take a deep look at it yet, but it looks interesting.
Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
Growing up in Alberta the oil sands were such a big part of everyday life it sounded like half the province was mines. Yet 220km squared is only 20x11km, or 40 average sized farms. Of which there are about 50k farms in Alberta.

Sure its large compared to my house, but my house isn't worth billions nor does my house power a significant portion of the countries energy needs.

Compare that to the metro region of Calgary: 5,110.21 km squared.
Yes, it even created a new type of shadyfork strategy: you can punish any crypto asset holders by creating a hard fork, then booking trades that establish a high market value for the new asset.

In fact, the way this rule is written, it's not even clear that you have to copy the whole block chain. You could issue a new currency to any address and cause them a taxable event.

I suspect this rule wouldn't hold up in court.
This recently introduced legislation proposes to ensure some level of transparency in the specific context of algorithms used to process evidence used in criminal proceedings:

H.R.4368 - Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act of 2019

To prohibit the use of trade secrets privileges to prevent defense access to evidence in criminal proceedings, provide for the establishment of Computational Forensic Algorithm Standards, and for other purposes.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4368...
Harsh...

I have a copy of Kaku's Quantum Field Theory book on my shelf, but no Chopra (thank god)
It's worth noting that if you go this route, they cannot turn you away but they can hold you for quite some time, and they can keep your phone while they investigate further when they release you.
Thai cafes forced to track customers' WiFi use, sparking free speech fears
Even better. The state could easily take the non commercial nature of the operation into consideration compared to the intention of the existing fee system. A whole lot of the internet lives off this idea of commercial users subsidizing, while also getting much in return, from the volunteer subset.

I’m curious though, does the cost also come from internal conflict or just from outsiders like local/state regulators?
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Local CA govt bureaucrats are doing nice job of slowly destroying CA without any help from the feds.
Have you actually read anything about mobile banking in developing countries?

https://hbr.org/2012/04/innovations-in-mobile-banking

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-mobile-banking-is-tra_b_1...
I have a shopping list and a blindfold.
I get your point but I've seen a lot of Americans be outraged at non-native English speakers use words or expressions they deem inappropriate, and show zero tolerance for the fact the people in question aren't necessarily fluent.

It happens a lot here in fact.
Shouldn't they be mad at Steam for cutting access to a game they bought? Why aren't they mad at the company that bait and switched them?
I definitely think there has been some antagonism from the US government towards Mexico a lot more recently than 100 years ago
The best justification I've heard for the success of approaches like Agile is that they slow the software development process down and give stakeholders a chance to adjust to changes.

If you ask a user what they want, their answer depends on how their current system has developed. Maybe there's a good idea that they hate because in the current system it would require too great a compromise. Maybe there's a terrible idea that they love, because they haven't understood the horrible corner-cases.

The real strength of the agile approach is to help the customer figure out their requirements through experimentation, instead of asking them to deduce everything from first principles. Once everybody understands the actual requirements, the actual implementation should be fairly straight-forward, engineers can comfortably make design trade-offs, etc.

Of course, there's a lot of cargo-cult Agile, and buzzword-compliant Agile, and that might be more trouble than it's worth, so it's not a guaranteed cure-all. Even good agile can be ruined if the customer or management doesn't see the value, or doesn't understand the core "refine requirements through iteration" rule. Your mileage may vary, but that core idea is still a good an important one.
Considering the three past superpower: UK, USSR, and USA. I find that the degree of which they antagonize their neighbors depend on their geography.

UK is an island and a seabased power whose primary interest in Europe was to prevent the creation of a dominant European power which could overpower it. Therefore it created a number of alliances and rivalries to serve this purpose. On other continents, however, it were more aggressive to secure trade and colonies.

The USSR as a landbased Empire that had a flat border to the west, was fairly hostile to its western neighbors in Eastern Europe and even to China to the East. Although a Russian would argue that they created buffer states in response to the memory of being invaded twice by Napoleon and Hitler.

The USA is a sea based empire with a continent behind it. Therefore it originally was very hostile against its neighbors, be they Native American or European colonies. After securing the continent by reaching the Pacific, it ensured the dominance of the Caribbean through the Monroe Doctrine (similar to China's position vis-a-vis the South China Sea) today. And then afterwards played Balance of Power against any major power from emerging on Eurasia.

China has a number of formidable foes on its immediate periphery. It is almost impossible to dominate them all militarily, especially with the US against it. Therefore it will attempt to establish economic dominance over Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The Belt and Road initiative alleviates it from a over reliance on Sea based imports of oil (especially through the Strait of Malacca which the US navy could easily blockade).
> It's like 'group' SMS, your phone might provide you with a single chat window with all your friends, but what it really is doing is just sending a separate SMS to every one of the recipients.

Most modern phones use MMS Group messaging for groups larger than two. It's more efficient and flexible than SMS.
Ideology leads to fundamentalism leads to violence, and the violence becomes beautified in the ideological mind.
Yes, of course. But those frequencies are off limits to civilians. The parent didn’t mean to imply that ham is our “only” emergency communication system, it’s just one of them.
By Lenin.
China never tries to spread its influence, China is in a purely defensive position and the West continues to tap into China's business and then leverage whatever reaction received as China's evil deeds.

China doesn't invade the Middle East, China doesn't preach Communism globally. It's a really good question to ask who always really tries to spread their own influence.
The Uighers do not have access to due process and a trial. I find that a glaring, obtuse omission in your argument besides doing whataboutism. It is a terrible situation in the US in regards to incarceration and our politicians (Bernie Sanders for example) openly, freely, fearlessly oppose it. I urge you to take a deeper look into China's state powers and complete lack of liberty, due process or law (yes, there are courts and written law in China but they do not appease the dissidents of the CCP's agenda).

What you're comparing is a regional regression of a particular demographic or culture. Imagine locking down 1.4 million people of Seattle metropolitan region because they worship no god and enjoy particular rituals, sending them all to re-education camps and then building HUGE projects to house them - all sponsored by the Federal government with strict orders from Washington, and the entire operation carried out by military and special police forces, setting up checkpoints in Seattle. Oh and I forgot that the threat is simply to sell your organs if you squeak and then kill you.
What makes you think billionaires aren't trying to use cryptocurrencies to their advantage?
A lot of people think that but a lot of people think that at any given time in human history.

There will - let there be no doubt - be a final theory of physics (Humanity will end at some point), but determining whether that theory is truly "perfect" is probably impossible within the bounds of measurements known to us at the moment.
In my experience, most of these people are over twice my age and slip into condescension the second I stop laying down logical arguments. If I don't argue against them logically, they invariably walk away triumphant, thinking they've just educated some ignorant young man. It makes the problem worse, so I might as well not talk with them at all.

In any case, their stories are all remarkably similar...
Hmm, personal preference but preferred the old NSB site. This takes forever to load.
ctrl-r works great if you have a standard command with a long file path you can't remember.

Just an anecdote though.
Much obliged sir... I appreciate your assistance. I hope to further enlighten myself in the future on computers, and there many intricacies.
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Note that this disables the use of Activation Lock, so in case of theft the bad guy can erase the device and resell it.

Also this won’t actually protect you against bootrom exploits.
There has to be a faction within the Politburo, or at least within the Central Committee, that is becoming increasingly skeptical of Xi’s hardline policies, even if all those with pre-existing loyalties were politically purged before. I suppose the question is whether they all find themselves suddenly facing corruption charges one day before they have a chance to consolidate any power.
Maybe those guys who just made millions selling off part of 44/8 can pitch in a few bucks to help cover the fees.
> What's your threat model?

Government action that I'm left in the dark over.

If the government is interested in something from my mail servers, I'll see the legal request or judges orders and will know what is going on, and will be able to take appropriate action.

If the government makes appropriate legal threats against Google, I won't necessarily know (National Security Letters) until long after the fact.
>The gov't tries shows of force on rare occasion, and is reminded that's a bad idea.

Sorry, when did the US government try a "show of force" on its own soil only to be "reminded" that it was a bad idea?

I don't recall any popular uprisings or coups in the US in recent memory, despite gun owners swearing blood and violence constantly in regards to gun control laws, the IRS, the Supreme Court and any Democrat in office, and the Federal government won the only civil war on record.

As far as I can tell, the only people who have arguably successfully resisted the armed might of the American government have been people who were not Americans, and, ironically, who did so without Second Amendment rights.
You generally don’t get things for free just because you’re volunteering and have perhaps some useful function to society. Ham operators still have to pay for their radio equipment, after all. It’s not crazy that they would have to pay for other things that cost money (like towers).
The line of 100 years just misses the US occupation of Veracruz and the Zimmerman Telegram (or the Mexican Revolution in general), which was one of the lowest points of US-Mexico relations. US-Canada relations were pretty testy in the pre-WWI era as well, and the declassification of War Plan Red [1] did cause a brief stir.

Then again, the US has antagonized many countries simply by electing Donald Trump.

[1] In the inter-war period, the US military used a series of color classification schemes to sketch out what the US response to wars with various countries would look like. Red was Britain. And in event of war with the UK, the US plan was to invade Canada, irrespective of Canada declaring neutrality (which was Canada's plan in such a scenario).
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My history of physics is probably simplified, but I think Einstein got it for (mainly) the photoelectric effect in part because relativity was still (despite having been verified to some extent already) too weird.
This on it's face seems great, but worth extrapolating the unintended consequences of this and how it would end up changing the judicial branch once politicians and 3 letter agencies decide to game it however they can.
You’re probably right. The point I’m making though is there’s going to be some things AI is better at and some things humans are better at and it’s going to be much harder to accept dead people between those points.
assume the US voting populace was two sets of clones, 50% Mitch McConnell Republicans and 50% Nancy Pelosi Democrats - but the distribution always varied within a standard deviation (eg year to year or district to district or state to state). Maybe there's even some generational biases, where one set of clones is more common for a decade.

I think you'd find that pretty often, more than half the country disapproved of congress, even though, in the long run, each clone is equally likely as a voter regardless of geography, economic interest, etc. How could you design a voting system that's responsive to these variations?

This challenge gets more complex the more political alignments you account for.

Few people in an opinion poll of Congress are assessing their love of bicameral legislature. More commonly they're stating that they wish they could just have their way, regardless of opposing voices.
Truth may be stranger than fiction in this regard ...
I'm not sure if numbering is stable (so perhaps this was A24 at one point), but I find this the most relevant portion of the FAQ:

Q27. I received cryptocurrency that does not have a published value in exchange for property or services. How do I determine the cryptocurrency’s fair market value?

A27. When you receive cryptocurrency in exchange for property or services, and that cryptocurrency is not traded on any cryptocurrency exchange and does not have a published value, then the fair market value of the cryptocurrency received is equal to the fair market value of the property or services exchanged for the cryptocurrency when the transaction occurs.

If there is not [yet] a published value at the time of the airdrop, A27 seems to suggest that "the fair market value of the cryptocurrency received is equal to the fair market value of the property or services exchanged for the cryptocurrency when the transaction occurs". If you received the cryptocurrency in exchange for nothing, I'd conclude that the fair market value was $0.

(IANAL, IANYL, YMMV, etc.)
To be fair, with this type of technology you could rack up ten thousand violations in a matter of hours.
As they say, sounds good, doesn't work. You can tell the genuinely curious sort from true cranks at a glance, and this article is about the latter. Every academic has interacted with far too many true cranks.

I always try to give rebuttals that are accessible, explaining in plain English what is going wrong and giving resources for follow-up learning. It doesn't work -- you get "that's cute, you still believe in textbooks, when I've proven them all wrong."
Not really startupy, it's a franchised business [1]. There's not a whole lot to innovate here, unless you're going to match up unsuspecting elders with unlicensed, unscheduled local care givers through an app.

[1] https://www.livingassistance.com/
That's a trope made up on the spot to defend Darwinism from "it's just a theory/teach the controversy".

Whether in science or police work, etc. a theory is a holistic framework, while a hypothesis is truth-valued.

We should also complicate this idea that something can be 100% proven, but baby steps.
Agreed he got the sentence he owed to society, He never complained about it. Vigilantism always turns bad if a blind eye is turned towards it. But the reality is, he is no threat to society beyond the fact that he will protect his family and he displayed rational thought to the judge that if he had been older and wiser he would have defended himself and his wife then and there. Which is not vigilantism it is self defense. Do I think he is still capable of the same act, sure, but I think the event is highly unlikely to happen twice as they are both more mature and take security seriously, and well lets face it she is not in her early 20's anymore.
The faster a CPU finishes, the faster the CPU can sleep, which is how you save battery life. The more cores you use the lower the CPU frequency can be, which saves power, since frequency increases do not use power linearly.

I think it goes without saying that javascript workers have nothing to do with the design and layout of a webpage.
Which looks like more layers of interaction hidden behind icons, and less text, basically the opposite of what the main article is recommending.
Feelings are more important than reality!
Then explain why pro CCP demonstrators are intimidating Honk Kong protesters the world over? Explain why their are so many new accounts astro-turfing for China? Just because they don't have the military might to do it directly doesn't mean they aren't spreading their influence. They're busy buying influence wherever they can and using their citizens and former citizens as soft influence in other places. Of course they aren't preaching communism, they abandoned communism decades ago.
> "If someone tells a lie the connotation is that it's meant to harm others to their own benefit."

Who's connotation? I think that's a very myopic take on lying. Insofar as people care for others, people frequently lie to benefit those they care about. Some people believe the truth is more important than sparing the feelings of somebody you care about, and that's totally fine. But that point of view is not universal to humans and many people believe lying for the benefit of others to be reasonable or even obligatory.

I won't bore you with examples of such lies; I think you can probably imagine a few. Some are trivial, and others far more substantial. Whether or not those lies are justifiable under your personal system of ethics (or my own) is beyond the point; the point is that to some people those lies are justifiable and for those people, lying is motivated by a desire to benefit others.
Xi is inept, but the playing of a poor hand is somewhat forced by the US. Recall there was already a pivot to Asia under Obama to counter China's rise, and before that, if it weren't for 9/11 and the Iraq War boondoggle, Bush Jr. was planning to do the same. Since the end of the Cold War, the US has never given up on destabilizing CCP rule, and with hands free now the heat was turned up to 11 on all fronts. China had been preparing too. The Belt and Road Initiative was a preemptive seeking of alternate routes of trade in preparation for the then-anticipated American sanctions.

Everybody in Asia knows this. Only the American public doesn't and thinks this dynamic is something new.
Even in that case, the city default speed limit (when not posted) is usually something low like 25 (Seattle is 20!). Yes, many human drivers ignore that, but self driving cars don’t have that luxury.

We really should do this like the Dutch: when something problematic is encountered, engineer and regulate the hell out of it. Not just for self driving cars, but it works for humans to some extent that the laws are actually enforced.