skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's complicated enough for people to remember 8 character long passwords, good luck with an additional level of complexity.
If China has decided that its economic relationship with the US is contingent on American citizens (e.g. Morey, the NBA executive) not criticizing Chinese policy, then the economic relationship becomes impossible. Criticism cannot be stopped.
The Saudis are not a minor trading partner or minor player in the global economy though. For decades they've been the cornerstone of the global fossil fuel economy and the controlling member of OPEC.

While the US has been able to heavily shift off of Saudi oil more recently, now the Chinese are picking up that supply and are becoming increasingly dependent on the Saudis. That's a remarkable position of power & influence across multiple decades, to have superpowers vested in your stability and well-being (the well-being of the House of Saud specifically).

Very few countries have ever had the sort of oil-derived slush fund (which enabled the Wahhabism push) that the Saudis have had since the early 1970s. However, for the Saudis those days are ending, as their population has skyrocketed and their oil output has not kept up (and can't), so they're under persistent budget crunch and their domestic population is increasingly growing restless as stagnation (more realistically they're seeing rapidly declining average standards of living) and unemployment become serious problems. Saudi Arabia's population has doubled since 1990, while their private industry has gone nowhere and their oil output has been near the ceiling. All you have to do is run that population growth forward another 20-30 years and it's obvious what's about to happen. The loose funding capabilities of the Saudis will decline markedly in the coming decades.
Their goal is never be become a superpower.This is just western paranoia
Their action is based to protect their interest and to avoid chaos in their society.
China experience with the west is based on their experience in the Opium war.
From the POV of someone hiring, there's a sort of geek-magnet effect that kicks in if you start hiring for something like Elm. You get the kind of people who like learning new things, who would otherwise completely ignore yet another React or Angular dev job listing.
No offense, but this doesn’t read as a situation you should feel vindicated about. Engineering management is a complicated beast that the average junior dev doesn’t see all the dimensions, let alone the nuances of. Town hall meeting or not, the “CEO of a conglomerate” probably doesn’t want an admittedly inarticulate opinion on what project management style not to use, especially without a clear alternative being suggested.
Total control of the lives of your citizens is evil. It’s an evil goal. It’s evil if you’re Chinese. It’s evil if you’re European. It’s a goal for insects. Not humans.

I will morally judge total control of citizens with my voice, my wallet, my vote. all my strength as long as I and my children live.
You bring up s good point. Maybe that was too bourgeois for the party, or at least part of the past that needed extirpation since it was associated with the nationalists.

But in the other hand they have begun to bring their glorious past (myth or otherwise) back into the fold of their national story...
Last good example in China was Mao, who basically had to die to lose power.
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Yeah but superpowers do try to avoid it, not actively foment it.
This is just a specific form of my "Google as an organization is out to get you (and willing to lie in their privacy policy)" threat. It may sound more reasonable to you, but its still the same set of actions.
There's at least another similarity, and that's that neither of us had been accused of misconduct in our workplace. If anything, he was looking sharp relative to my vindictive smear campaign.
Genuinely curious -- do you have a source for this?
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I wish this wasn't downvoted. It's sarcastic, but not inflammatory, and the political/idealogical divide in the US is a real contributor to this problem, I think.
Firstly thanks.
Secondly what would be your community goal regarding the python api?
It should be called a "polar panel", the polar opposite of a solar panel... or a "polar sanel" to go full geek ahead ; )
Someone pursuing Life Purpose with passion is likely not an employee or a typical "citizen" however you might define it.

They may be creating something the world has never seen.

They may be devoted to waking up humanity.

The only person I know to be at this level of passion is Leo Gura.
Don’t let some rando from the internet re-frame your personal experience. You know better than them
Is it even possible to maintain more than 2-3 close friendships as an adult? My strongest social activity with friends lately has sadly been playing video games together and chatting on discord. It’s kinda lame but the only way to do something together when you can only spare an hour or two.
What is it their business to know what people do for a living? Why would CBP risk such PR problems especially talking with a journalist? Why are we harassing our own people?
Human knowledge and intuition. Deductive reasoning.

Knowing there is a location ahead without a crosswalk that kids constantly cross at.

Or knowing that the car in front of you is going too fast, implying that they're unaware of the railroad tracks they're about to jump.

You don't need telepathy to make useful predictions. And humans don't need to be accurate, they just need to be prepared to take a measured response.
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The USA itself has by far the highest incarceration rates of any developed country, over 5x that of China. In certain demographics this rate is as high as 1/3. By the numbers this is more than what the Uighers experience in China, and e.g. Europeans can and do criticize the USA relentlessly for it.

If you're wondering how people in China justify the government's treatment of the Uighers, the answer isn't that they have different moral instincts than you. They justify it to themselves in the exact same way you justify America's incarceration rate to yourself. (If you're thinking that it's different, because what they're doing just feels dystopian and evil, while we're just doing the best we can, obviously realize that this is pure tribal bias. Others might have the reverse associations.)

Of course, what I am doing is textbook whataboutism. But that is the correct response to a claim that some foreign country is uniquely evil.
> So, ham clubs are now being treated like any other commercial user of the mountaintop, and will have to pay leasing fees each year to be there. This whole letter just sounds like "MAN YELLS AT CLOUD"

They’re non-commercial though, and have a proven record of being valuable in emergencies. And I don’t mean “hey there’s a big fire” — I mean something really, really bad happened.
Do you truly feel that the US has antagonized Canada and Mexico within the past 100 years? I'm pretty sure they're our closest allies.
I think her advice is actually good, but here's a cynical take:

Be a parent with multiple higher degrees, a stable income, a house in an extremely expensive place with excellent schools, and strong ties to the community where the CEOs per capita is probably the highest in the world.

Once you accomplish those things, then the rest of her advice is practical to increase career-type success to the next level.
The decentralized emergency backbone argument is the best thing ham radio people have going for them. It’s so much more important than people realize. And it’s entirely volunteer run anyway, it’s not costing them anything.

Radio frequency bands are already publicly regulated and finely controlled for all other important purposes.
> The most noted change was the removal of all Amateur Radio capabilities and interoperability. They have become heavily reliant on high speed data systems and statewide linked repeaters, and simply don't see the value we brought to the table.

Still doesn’t seem that great. It seems very short sighted to charge ham operators commercial hosting fees (which are likely unsustainable for ham clubs). And should they be needed, they’ll still be unavailable.
Doesn't that really depend on what the services are based?

Driving food around in a gig economy is just another logistics jobs, driving refined metals around between different refining processes is also just another logistics job, but one with more "energy-intensive cargo".

All that tech, the cars, the infrastructure, they need those base materials you can't just "service into existence" as you can do with IP and copyrights.

Sure, all that tech needs electricity to run, but the really big emission and energy footprint they create during their creation, not during their use.
Hker here. In 2008, even the most radical forum on HK Internet praise the achievement of China , we celebrated the Chinese Olympic and mourned for the great earthquake in Szechwan.

We all shared the same view with the west that China will eventually transform itself to democracy and we shall have harmony in 2047.....right until China shattered the promised universal suffrage.

Also, China had singlehandedly groom the separatist sentiments HK. Initially in 2014, there were only a handful of activists and they weren’t even treated seriously even within the pro-democracy circle. But lately you see Chinese state media started to put the separatist hat on every pro-democracy movement and figure. You can imagine people are extremely frustrated by this narrative and many young people started to wholeheartedly support independence (no matter how impossible it seems).
and https://bellard.org/tcc
Damn, cannot watch it in Taipei. Copyright issues.
According to this: https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650?hl=en

E&Y does (apparently), and Google is compliant with some ISO standard for software security. See "Does giving Google access to my data create a security risk? How does Google ensure that its employees do not pose a threat?"
This is great. Frankly ctrl-r is almost useless. I've never had it find the command I want, because if I can remember enough of the command to find it, I can just write the whole line myself. And if it was a black magic command I'll wind up digging through log files because I won't be able to remember enough of it to find it.
Uh... the California "hams" moved on... they launched rockets filled with satellites and deployed them in various orbits.
As a US citizen i would only expect someone to force me to unlock my phone at a US port of entry, not when leaving. And yeah i'm willing to waste their time on my way back from the trip if they try to waste mine.
You're more than welcome to stop buying Chinese products anytime you want.

Everyone ignored a superpower's rampant abuses over the last 30 years and still did business with them, what exactly makes you think that same world will stand up for "human rights" this time?

It's funny how certain places care about rights far removed from their own existence while ignoring those right in their face.

The US still has the most people imprisoned per capita. 85% of which are for non-violent crimes, mostly drugs. To ignore that (mostly)black guy who got 5 years federal prison for selling weed who now has to work for $0.70 an hour (sound familiar?) while actively campaigning for the release of violent muslim separatists who want to create their own country in far western China is staggering.

I guess freedom is just a word to some.

That or Americans in general are 10x more evil on the whole than the rest of the developed world due to their prison population? Perhaps the police are 10x more effective than everyone else.

I'd be interested in the number of US citizens that actively campaign about their prison system compared to those who talk about China bad.

Let's face it, unless you are an expert on the subject virtually everyone you meet simply repeats what the news media tell them, that's the extent of their knowledge on basically all topics.

Now, how many people watch, experience or live outside of that nationalistic media-infused bubble? Fraction of a percent?

To talk about another country with no experience of it is farting in the wind. There's really no point discussing China with Americans anymore online because there's far too much emotional baggage, media disinformation and talking points repeated verbatim. The fragile ego's of the biggest, strongest, most militaristic country is on show for all to see while China charges forward towards being the largest economy on Earth.

Undoubtedly when that day comes, "biggest" will mean GDP per capita, not gdp and those fragile sandcastles of the national psyche can rest easy for a decade or two longer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2...

Millions of people in US prisons faced "justice" and lengthy incarceration as far as American society is concerned, why exactly do you consider the imprisonment of Chinese Muslim separatists undeserved? They are bombing civilians and actively trying to create a new nation-state. Who is the bad guy here?

Exercise for the reader: when was the last foreign civilian child killed by both the US and China? How many civilians have been killed by each countries military in the last decade (last two decades)
They want volunteers to pay commercial fees. That’s not really very sustainable for hobbiests.
Apple is sitting on cash reserves big enough that they could change the world right now by pulling production out of China completely.

This would be a wild future.
Here in my country, our emergency services and disaster response teams maintain their own resilient radio communication capacity. This includes HF capacity.

Does America not do that?
Because more than 1 company exists on the planet. If you won’t sell a car for $40,000 because you’re afraid of cannibalizing your taxi business then someone else will.
Well written letter. I hope this gets the attention they deserve.

Any chance of this hitting NYT or one of the big California publications?
This would (maybe) help with a common thing my wife does when taking videos: Start recording in portrait mode, then realize you did that, and rotate the phone 90 degrees to get widescreen video (but without restarting the recording).

When you play it back on a phone (with auto-orientation mode on), starting from holding the phone in portrait mode (as you normally do):

* it starts playing back as portrait, which looks fine

* the video rotates (because the camera was physically rotated), so now you're watching a widescreen video that's 90 degrees off

* Your natural reaction is to flip the phone 90 degrees to make down "down" again, but this changes the phone into widescreen mode, and because it thinks it's playing a portrait-style video, it changes to portrait-in-widescreen mode, and now the video is again tilted 90 degrees but 1/3 the size with huge black bars on either side

If you play it back on a computer/TV, you get the same end result: a widescreen video that's rotated 90 degrees, and 1/3 the size with huge black bars on either side.
Honestly it depends a lot on the club, some hams are great to work with, others are way out there on the whacker scale.

The hobby has a shitton of gatekeeping and people stuck in their ways. My last club was pretty good but it really varies region to region.
I hope the battery was replaced? There's a recall affecting the battery for mid-2015 MBPs. The batteries can explode even when not being charged and the system not in use, it's definitely worth complying with the recall (which they make very easy, I did it with mine right after the recall was announced and got mine back within 4 business days).
Yeah I do find it super weird that people do this.

I think front end rendering is well suited for internal tools or tools that you must login (gmail, google docs, etc..). Anything that is front facing and/or require SEO shouldn't be frontend rendering javascript unless you can afford a fallback with it.
> I think our surroundings, which determine where our actions land and what impact they have, is another thing that gives life meaning. If we were just living in a void our human nature would not mean much.

Sure, but I consider that relationship with our environment to be an aspect of our humanness. Were we perfectly rational systems divorced from nature (and our own natural history), our surroundings would become mere resources.

> And with those two elements: 1) an environment and 2) a conscious being (whether it’s human, dolphin, dog, machine, or otherwise) it would seem that meaningful things can happen. Can’t see why the conscious being needs to be human.

What I meant was that our humanness is what gives our lives meaning, not that humanness is what gives any life meaning.

Given our track record, if we designed our own new form it wouldn't be some higher natural form but a dispassionately "optimal" one. That fact would kill us, in any meaningful sense.
I've noticed sometimes the lock screen won't show the login dialog via the regular "press any keyboard key" action or via mouse dragging it up, I had to press ctrl-alt-delete. Maybe there are some heuristics that decide this that I don't know about.
Australia has one on Nauru despite repeated condemnation from various international bodies.
Really? Stationary objects? I don't have a lot of faith in Tesla, but that's surprising.
Is depending heavily on China for critical business functions such as manufacturing seen as a risk by big companies?
> Hard to become a superpower when you are antagonizing your neighbors.

I think the historical super-powers would disagree. Rome conquered all its neighbours. Britain had mostly terrible relations with France from the 11th to the end of the 19th century (and, at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_great_powers, both can be reasonably viewed as superpowers in the 19th century).

And I'm fairly sure that the USA's relations with Latin America could readily be described as "antagonizing your neighbors" ...
Tangentially related: a neighbouring town has a 100 year flood plain around a river that runs through the town.

A few years back a developer chummy with the planning authority convinced the council that modern water resource management meant the floods were no longer a threat, and that the prime real estate in the middle of town was suitable for residential development.

You know where this is going.

So the developer manages to win the bidding for this land (funny that he managed to guess one dollar over the highest bid in a blind auction) and developed it to medium density housing. They were typical cheap crappy houses: four walls and a roof erected as quickly and cheaply as possible while still complying with building code. Prices were set high because they were riverfront properties, best location ever!

Anyhow at about this time there was some work going on upstream to remove willow trees from the river corridor. Willows are considered an invasive species here, especially since they can sprout from broken off roots that float downstream. The catchment area where these willows were being removed from was rugged country: out of town, in a steep valley, so hauling the logs out on truck was not an option, it all had to be done by helicopter.

The catch with hauling lumber out with helicopters is that helicopters only fly in good weather. So the forestry folks headed in, cutting trees in whatever weather they deemed safe because they were on a fixed price contract. Forests of willow massacred with logs and detritus everywhere, waiting for better weather to allow it all the be lifted out by helicopter.

Only the better weather didn’t come. The rain settled in and stayed. The dam upstream flowed over the top, so the effective size of the catchment for the town’s flood plain was now tripled.

So when the 100 year flood arrived, there were people living in these houses by the river, the developer had long since taken the money and moved on to greener pastures, and the flood was accompanied by hundreds of tons of willow logs, loose branches, leaves and mud.

The 100 year flood level in town was 5 metres. At that level these houses would have had wet floors, and some would have lost doors or windows. With the logjam from the forestry work and the extra water from the flooded dam, the water rose over 8m.

It was not a pretty sight.

So government approves some developer’s crazy idea of building on a flood plain, and years later the government has to cover the cost of emergency services coping with houses being flooded and people displaced from their homes.

Some facts have been enhanced for dramatic effect, but the essentials of the story are true.

TLDR: Queanbeyan River peaked at 8.4m December 2010, partly aided by logjams due to forestry works upstream. 100 homes were evacuated due to flooding.
Morality is a complicated thing.

More people die of murders by gun in the united states then in china.

Is it moral to deprive man of his right to own a gun in order to allow another man to keep his right to life?

There's hatred raging against China due to hong kong, but the truth is far more complex. A hundred times more complex than even the example I gave.

Centralized control has a cost, but it also has a benefit.
Yet most repeaters are run that way. A large majority of my local ones are run off commercial towers and funded by the clubs/individuals that support them.
Administering ham bands does cost, especially when you're dragged into internal ham enthusiast politics - source, worked for our radio spectrum regulator.
Yeah I'm in the market for a new memory foam mattress and being made in China is non starter. I'd also love to see a website like this.
An even better analogy is a spin off, where a new entity is created out of the value previously contained in the original. (In theory, the value of a potential hard fork should be priced in before the fork happens and drop out after - and this happens in practice.)

The funny thing is that these are generally non-taxable if no cash changes hands: https://investinganswers.com/dictionary/t/tax-free-spinoff
They should have seen this coming a long time. It's not like it's without precedent. There have been demos in Hong Kong since around 2001 or 02, just about each and every time Beijing tried fiddling with the Basic Law, or restricting freedoms. Along with the yearly July Marches. The 2014 umbrella protests should have been clear, though other demos were much smaller.

But it long predates Xi, he's just stepped it up, and been particularly clumsy with it. They've been fiddling with HK's agreed status pretty much since the moment of handover.
I would like to know how much of American dematerialization is just exporting materialization to China. They make our stuff, we import it. Does that count as materials consumed by Americans? Note that they mention the great reversal starting in 1970. Nixon went to China in 1972.
Although I have not tried it, there is also an office suite from KDE called Calligra : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligra
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A new create-react-app project currently weighs-in at 294Mb with a 293Mb node_modules folder containing 1017 modules. A new Clojurescript Re-frame project, by contrast, totals 72Mb of which node_modules makes up 12Mb containing 23 modules. A bit of a raw deal with CRA, don't you think, considering Re-frame gives you immutability for free and a full complement of built-in Clojurescript functions?
Why should they have to pay fees? These are entirely volunteer networks with no commercial purpose.

I don’t see how this is clickbait unless the demands were reasonable.

If money is the problem then California can find far saner and better means than this. I’m sure there are tons of analogies from similar situations with a small subsidized subset being excluded from fees, many with far more questionable reasoning.