skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the part where you say that those countries stopped organizing their agricultural activity in a "socialist" way and that's why they no longer had famines?

Yes, this is the part[0] and it's worth reading about it at length (I've added paragraph breaks).

The TL;DR, with a Hacker News spin: a small startup of entrepreneurial Chinese hackers working in stealth mode disrupted the existing socialist system of agriculture and changed everything :-)

In more detail:

In December 1978, eighteen of the local farmers, led by Yen Jingchang, met in the largest house in the village. They agreed to break the law at the time by signing a secret agreement to divide the land, a local People's Commune, into family plots. Each plot was to be worked by an individual family who would turn over some of what they grew to the government and the collective whilst at the same time agreeing that they could keep the surplus for themselves.

The villagers also agreed that should one of them be caught and sentenced to death that the other villagers would raise their children until they were eighteen years old. At the time, the villagers were worried that another famine might strike the village after a particularly bad harvest and more people might die of hunger.

After this secret capitalist reform, Xiaogang village produced a harvest that was larger than the previous five years combined. Per capita income in the village increase from 22 yuan to 400 yuan with grain output increasing to 90,000 kg in 1979.

This attracted significant attention from surrounding villages and before long the government in Beijing had found out. The villagers were fortunate in that at the time China had just changed leadership after Mao Zedong had died. The new leadership under Deng Xiaoping was looking for ways to reform China's economy and the discovery of Xiaogang's innovation was held up as a model to other villages across the country.

This led to the abandonment of collectivised farming across China and a large increase in agricultural production. The secret signing of the contract in Xiaogang is widely regarded as the beginning of the period of rapid economic growth and industrialisation that mainland China has experienced in the thirty years since.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaogang,_Anhui
There are both US-government, and nongoverment private bank, student loans, in the US.
I didn't say it wasn't caused by malevolence. But it wasn't caused by "capitalism" as an organizational structure for the economy. My point is simply that while capitalist countries often kill people through malevolence or negligence, socialist countries do both of those things, and are also uniquely adept at killing their own people by destroying previously functional production systems.
RISC-V _and_ Rust? Straight to #1!
I mean, you're not wrong. I'd say 9/10. Its pretty easy to see the parallels to gov involvement in many other areas, where they create a special type of problem, by only being partially involved. Then everyone can stake out their positions, and just work on fighting over the middle of the issue, never letting gov be involved enough to be effective, nor entirely removed enough to let the market fix it.

Its the worst kind of half assed capitalism, that only benefits the political class. Kinda like our healthcare system, among others.
So I'll take a shot.

Couldn't it be fossil fuel groups who benefit. They know there are groups who fight for green energy who are very strongly against nuclear and that by pushing for nuclear, it creates internal conflict which reduces the pressure being put on existing fossil fuels. It is also an easier target to focus on with propaganda. Nuclear has a certain level of fear in our social psyche that doesn't exist with other green energy which makes for easier propaganda.
> BearSSL has been imported to the base system. [r343281]

Exciting. Is it being used for anything yet?
Sure but just because the US are hypocrites on the issue doesn't mean we should tolerate it.
It didn't work for the advertiser, but it did for me. I learned about options and prices for container accessories, which will help me make future choices. I would not have been better off if those ads had been less interesting to me.
Ugh, I had forgotten about that doc. Now my brain hurts.
It’s a metaphor for a degree that does not generate an income. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_basket_weaving
Trading convenience for environment isn't a good solution for average people? Then we're fucked.
The great thing about older washers and dryers, esp the Whirlpool made models (with many different brand names on them) is that they are simple and easy to work on. They made so many of essentially the same machine that parts are easily available, and there is a YouTube video for fixing anything that can go wrong with them. You should be able to keep them running indefinitely.
That exists to some extent in 26 states, though generally at the community college (associates degree, 2 year) level:

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...
Come on, the difference is less important than when one confuses Frankenstein for his monster, especially in this context.
Your point about entrance exams is, in general, not true. University applications in Europe are very similar to those in the USA.
To me, using the kid in any kind of publicity is basically hanging a banner that says "you too can make money cross-shipping our product!", which is probably not what KK corporate wants. In my view using the big hammer was necessary to stop it before it got out of control.

Sure, it's brand-damaging as well, but we all have short memories these days when it comes to the Global TCP/IP Outrage Generator.

It probably would piss off the franchisees too. They're the ones that paid big money for exclusive sales territories and (contractually) don't want those boundaries crossed by others.
I'm amazed and still can't get my head around how today we can receive images and valuable data from a device which is currently lightdays away from us and was built with 60's technology & know-how and is operating well beyond it's expected lifetime.

I raise my glass to the engineers who worked on this. Makes my daily programming tasks feel stupid in comparison.

Edit: corrected, thanks for the numbers
If the workers were getting educations that were worthwhile, they wouldn't need the state to pay for them. No one cries for a doctor leaving school with $150k in loans, since their starting salary will likely be $150k.

But yeah, the grandparent is right - the US's problem is non-dischargable loans which removed back pressure on schools to control cost.
Sweden bomb attacks reach unprecedented level as gangs feud
Conservatives in America literally liken such proposals to the socialist takeover of America, with the actual belief that authoritarianism and basic social programs are inescapably intertwined.

So half the country is resisting those sorts of programs with all of their might.
My Intel 5500 drives Firefox at 4K just fine (actually, 6.6K because render at a multiple of 96 DPI, then xrandr to scale down, since GDK_SCALE only supports integers). Driving Zoom at that resolution tends to be painful though...
True, but so is the border between Flanders and Wallonia. The Schengen border itself is the relevant one there.
The NHS price cap on drugs here in the UK is somewhere in the low tens of thousands per QALY. This does drive down drug costs, but also means that some treatments just aren't available.
Is $300M worth of land in San Jose a lot? My guess is that would only amount to a few dozen acres. Will they be building actual dense housing on that land? IMHO California would be better of if the entire $2.5B was spent on high density housing and local support (mass transit connections, food, and retail space).
Would your home be worth more if the single family home next to you was demolished and a multi-floor apartment building was built next to you?

The situation you describe is applicable to the apartment complexes and new developments being built along El Camino Real on the peninsula, but you are ignoring the issue of single family home zoning. There is a ton of opposition to upzoning in pretty much all neighborhoods on the peninsula. No body wants a duplex next to their single-family home, so they prevent any zoning changes.
I guess you're being downvoted for your sarcasm but I do think a giant uneven payoff is a bad idea and cheap populism. Part of the reason the price keeps going up is the ready availability of money via student loans.
Please don't put a downer on this as it gives hope to those whose is suffering or have close one who is suffering.
If an overbearing personality was a disqualification for academic positions there would be about three professors in America.
The US has state funded universities that charge an order of magnitude less than 100k. In fact there are 3 of them in Chicago. Generally, anyone with acceptable high school grades can find a spot in a state university if they want. Students attending U of Chicago would have specifically decided not to attend a state university, typically because their local state university is less prestigious.
Rank and file students are there to get a job, and the University marketing is commensurate with that. I don't care what they agree with.
Threatening the families of separatist activists is definitely wrong and despicable, but it's very different from what we're discussing here. I haven't heard of any cases similar to the type of scenario you're suggesting.
i started giving them 303 867-5309. tons of accounts at every store (replace w/ ur area code).
College was also dirt cheap in an entirely different era where people could earn a living even with menial labour and where the average purchasing power was higher.

Trying to correlate the two and say it's because of government loans is just plain ignorant. Or are government loans also to explain why people can't save money, or afford rent, or survive off of a single 40h job etc.
This comment is sadly familiar to me - it sounds exactly how my friends in healthcare describe the state of their industry (more admin, fancy buildings, less focus or spending on patient care).
In the long run, that will be the workers' (and perhaps society's) problem, not the manufacturers'. If manufacturing requires fewer workers, either existing manufacturers will shed staff or new, leaner, upstarts will sell an equivalent product at lower cost.
The difference between Tether and Madoff is that people have been loudly yelling "scam", in public, for years about Tether.

When Madoff collapsed, his investors were shocked. If Tether collapses, precisely zero people will be surprised.

When it's common knowledge that it's a scam, is it still a scam?
Note 3? I'll bet it was a Note 3.
California did this as part of their master plan back in the 60s. Tuition has been around for decades but up until recently tuition was not legally allowed to be named as such. Instead there were "fees".
Ahh yes. Medicine - another area where "the preponderance of evidence" fails to advance the field again and again.
This is not quite incorrect. Some of the NYC taxi re-id demonstrations relied on reversing the hash for medallions, but most have not. In particular, the celebrity tracking did not require the medallion, since each record contains an origin and a destination. The identity of the driver across trips is irrelevant, since it is the passenger who is being tracked. The way this attack worked was to match an origin in the trip dataset to the timestamp on the celebrity photo. This revealed the destination of the trip.

In other cases, no photo is necessary (trips originating or ending at a residential address, linked to another sensitive location such as an abortion clinic).

There is a lot of research available on this topic. "Unique in the Crowd"[1], published in 2013, found that it takes only 4 GPS locations/timestamps to de-anonymize 95% of the population, with no other metadata. With 2 GPS pings, 50% of trips can be de-anonymized.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01376
Cool (re: writing a PHP version)! Generally speaking, hashes from different hash algorithms cannot be used with each other.

By the way, would be glad to connect and chat, especially if you have any thoughts on pain points associated with perceptual hashing (email in profile).
My understanding is that the US system is dual: On the one hand there are private universities that charge freely, but on the other hand there are also public universities that charge reasonable fees (at least for state residents).

It's not unreasonable to charge tuition fees that are significant enough to make sure student will choose seriously and study diligently. I say that because it is certainly not always the case in countries where university is free...

It also makes sense to provide scholarship for deserving student who could not otherwise afford it.
A picture of a driver's license is the property of the photographer. Richard Prince is a millionaire for taking pictures of others' intellectual property and then auctioning it off, for example.
Without reading the link, can this be used to help find child porn? If yes, are there any steps you can or are going to take in order to prevent this?
The boom and bust cycle is a feature not a bug. Here's money, go make stuff. You think it's yours, but we'll eventually take it all back in the bust. The money we lost we created out of thin air.
It's worth remembering that the US does not lack for excellent, public, shockingly expensive universities - California, Illinois, Michigan, Virginia, Minnesota, and North Carolina all readily spring to mind.

We're not accepting uncritically that universities are private endeavors. We're accepting that some are and they should be allowed to continue to exist.
Yes, this is why I wanted to distinguish between a binary score and a continuous one. A continuous one allows for a flag for review at one threshold or an outright refusal at another. It's exactly what credit cards do. A purchase may go through, but it is suspicious so they call you to verify. Or it could be really suspicious so they block it and you have to contact them. It's happened to me both ways.
I wonder if one of the major pharma companies will develop an anti-dementia drug from this finding, and then if she (or her family) will see any of the billions in revenues they'll make.
There are programmers who can easily replace 3-4 and even more average programmers. How they structure their time is not your concern. As an employer you should have reasonable expectations in regards to what you should get from particular employee / contractor and if those expectations are met then the rest is not your business. If they're not met then the employee should be shown virtual door out.

If however the employer can not see whether they get what they pay for without employee sitting in the office then said employer has bigger problems. And these employers will be scammed / fallen victims of their management incompetence anyways disregarding of in office / out of office style.

Myself, I am both Employer and subcontractor since 2000. There was not a single time for me when I was in doubt as an employer whether I am getting my money worth. And as subcontractor I value my reputation and more then happy to present whoever hires me with stellar real references.

As a subcontractor I normally develop rather large pieces upon which we agree upfront and there is rarely need for me to report daily details / progress. 2 weeks to 1 month cycles are more normal.
I can’t imagine paying $100k even for a 4- or 5 year degree. My student loans (zero tuition, only food/rent/books) was $35k for 5 years I think. I have paid over $200/month for 15 years and I’ll be done paying it back this year. I just can’t even imagine my calculation if the loan had been 10x. My US paycheck would certainly be bigger, but I still fail to see how it could be a good investment.
Which is reasonable IMHO as every health system has some form of constraint on what is available. None gets a blank cheque.
I'd like to +1 that "tends to make things tough." Not sure how it is today, I think it was remedied in Swift 4.1 or something... but holy-shit, that "slot" problem gave me endless grief trying to implement functors in swift for composing UI structs (I was ahead of the curve, heh).
This is already happening, and in return is causing a massive drive up of housing costs in the areas where the Californians are relocating to.
If you need public data from multiple cryptocurrency exchanges but don't want to deal with weird differences in exchange APIs, Blocktap[1] is a free GraphQL API (that I assisted in developing). We also open sourced our web socket data collection tool CCXWS[2]. It's a single, consistent Javascript API for most major exchanges.

[1] https://www.blocktap.io/

[2] https://github.com/altangent/ccxws
Teachers generate less value (see:income, GDP) than engineers.

We should abolish teaching degrees and just teach software engineering at college.
None. Do meaningful projects that you can show off instead. They will say a lot more about you than a certificate.
Volvo also seems to be bringing the goods when it comes to EVs now in the form of Polestar 2 [1].

Personally I have been very positively surprised of Tesla after owning one for a few months and I it would take very much to make me give up all it's niceties but I think the Polestar is a sleeping tiger when it comes to sales. It seems to generate a bit of grass root buzz in the EV communities here in Norway.

So some of the incumbents are finally taking the shift to new power trains seriously, but there will be slaughter for those who can't keep up in the long term.

[1] https://www.polestar.com/cars/polestar-2
Look up basically any list of top universities in the world. The United States is wildly over-represented.

Undergraduate degree as a social signal is a different problem to solve.
It's malpractice to use effective things without regard for ethics.
It is so crazy that people continue to blame tech for public policy issues. No one can say what tech did besides make money and spend it that led to the crisis — but successful industries do that everywhere without it leading to a housing crisis.

Apple on Monday announced a $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing crisis in California, becoming the latest tech giant in the state to address a problem that it helped cause.

Apple makes computers! They don’t write tax laws or run housing associations. Policymakers and older Californians have managed to shift blame to a younger generation of working people.
Do what ya need to do on the coasts; Destroy personal liberties and freedoms, regulate and outlaw everything, have fun with your social experiments, but please leave me out of it. People tend to be pretty shitty, when your surrounded by millions all on top of each other I guess I can see how you believe its getting close to the end of the world.

Your utopia is my hell.

I prefer smaller cities, personal vehicles, the outdoors, good schools, the space and freedom where the only thing I really bitch about with the local gov is the road construction and how it takes me a couple more minutes every once in a while to run an errand.
The functor it returns should be the same functor it was called on, i.e. calling map on a Maybe should return a Maybe. The parameterized type can change so map can bring you from a Maybe<Int> to a Maybe<String> which is why in the above description we have Functor<B> instead of A. But what typescript is lacking is a way to describe that the functor returned should be the same.
I did not have explicit mentorship relations, but at some point I learnt to identify at jobs people I wanted to pick wisdom from. Then either watched them closely or talked to them: chief architect with pragmatic engineering reasoning, a CTO who helped me to understand how product and sales people think, their worries, and how to speak their language, etc.

When experienced people see you are eager to learn, open to listening and act on advice, they will share.
If the payments is the issue then MS chose a really terrible solution considering upgrades are free for the life of the device which is usually far greater than the cadence of paid upgrades in the past.

I agree it's solving MS's problem, but the problem it's solving is the need for MS to support 10+ years of OSes at any given time.
I would guess that as of 2019 there is no political party of any size in the western world not using such services. If they have an annual revenue of $1,000,000, they're doing it.

Many of them will be doing it through a PR firm to maintain deniability in the event of disclosure. But each and every party is doing it.
And the best part is - there is no excuse for an AC-powered device with a clock to drift at all, ever.

Who needs radio sync signals, NTP servers, or a freaking GPS module (lol) when we have this great hardwired 60 Hz frequency reference which is measured and adjusted for long-term stability...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Long-term_st...

> Today, AC-power network operators regulate the daily average frequency so that clocks stay within a few seconds of correct time. In practice the nominal frequency is raised or lowered by a specific percentage to maintain synchronization. Over the course of a day, the average frequency is maintained at the nominal value within a few hundred parts per million.[19] In the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, the deviation between network phase time and UTC (based on International Atomic Time) is calculated at 08:00 each day in a control center in Switzerland. The target frequency is then adjusted by up to ±0.01 Hz (±0.02%) from 50 Hz as needed, to ensure a long-term frequency average of exactly 50 Hz × 60 s/min × 60 min/h × 24 h/d = 4320000 cycles per day.[20] In North America, whenever the error exceeds 10 seconds for the east, 3 seconds for Texas, or 2 seconds for the west, a correction of ±0.02 Hz (0.033%) is applied. Time error corrections start and end either on the hour or on the half-hour.[21][22] Efforts to remove the TEC in North America are described at electric clock.
> construction worker, farmer, etc. that actually needs a pickup truck

I take it you don't own a pickup.

Try owning one and it will surprise you how many friends, co-workers, etc. will come out of the woodwork and show you reasons why you/they need one.
High tuition costs and loan burdens were and are an integral part of the de-radicalization of American college students.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/car-releases-its-20...

Home resales forecast for 2020:
393,500

Median forecast price:
$608,000

Total resale market size:
$235,800,000,000

235 billion dollars.

I don't see Apple making much of a difference on their own.
Just FYI nothing man made is even close to light years away from the Earth.

EDIT: I don't understand the downvotes. Isn't this just fact?

EDIT 2: I see the OP changed his original comment, so I can understand the confusion. Thanks all :)