skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to me to summarise the talking points being pushed by this battleangle sock puppet account:

* Issues in HK are internal to HK. Caused by HK population and HK administrators and HK police
* There is no influence by the CCP on HK issues
* The protest in HK is asking for unreasonable things and isn't united.
* There is no evidence of people being deported out of HK or assaulted by government forces from outside HK.

Also, as you would expect, personal attacks are being aimed at witnesses of events that contradict this story. And doubts are cast at video evidence.

It's pretty clear that there is an attempt to paint a disconnect between HK China and Mainland China
I dislike that they (want to) implemented records with classes instead of special casing some kind of struct.
The university of York in the UK supports distance learning Computer Science PhDs. You're required to be onsite a few weeks a year but it's mainly remote.

https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd/
I think this can be said about almost every distribution out of ~600:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...
What about Java applications? If the x86 memory model lets you get away with things that are not guaranteed by the Java memory model (in the Java spec) there could be actual threading bugs that would be exposed by running on ARM.
An interesting thing to me is the unending quest may somewhat end during our lifetimes through us being able to build conscious AI and see how it works.
Thinking about who has the vote back when the USA became independent, I think of those lords as being close in character and power to dark age European kings, and I mentally map their slaves to feudal serfs.[0]

My cynical reading is that describes an attitude of “if you let someone else tell you what to do that makes you a peasant, so when we do it it’s fine because we do it to peasants, but when other people do something much milder to us that’s evil because it means treating us as peasants.”

Aristocrats have often given me that impression, no matter the era or region.

[0] feudalism had actual slaves, in addition to serfs, but I’m not claiming deep wisdom here — only personal impressions and the metaphors I use to make sense of the world.
Depends entirely on the chemistry, but it's mainly Cobalt that is killing the price. Everyone tries to cut it out as much as possible. Tesla is trying to cut costs with less Cobalt but in general it means worse performance and a lot of safety issues with overheating or exploding. Huge amount of savings from the last years comes from cutting Cobalt by making better chemistries, trying to keep the safety record at the same time.
Headphones + calm music

Close mail + slack; open it at lunch break (ymmv depending on what kind of office you work at)

Prepare a list of things you'll do and stick to it - oh, this change could benefit from this change and this one here. NO! Do what is required in the task. If you're going to clean the code up do it afterwards
How do you know that the rock is not aware of stuff? if you say consciousness is just neurons firing in certain patterns you have also given an answer to the traditional "hard" problem of consciousness, with hundreds of pages of philosophical thought that refutes your answer.
Methink her job is secondary, she doesn't seem to be lazy. Systems who doesn't help to avoid people getting under the bus are bad IMO. In another country, she'd have just a bit of support to get it easier healthwise and transportwise too.
I can see how that did not work out well! To be honest me and my SO can diverge like that without invoking another language. Usually it is me expressing bewilderment.
Every single developer I know has some degree of ADHD. I personally don't have it as bad but I know a colleague who literally can't shut up and stop moving and bothering us all the time. Honestly If the person is not aware of their condition I don't think you can do anything about it besides try to isolate and ignore them somehow.
The majority of the are designed for massive amounts of current for short period of time?
I also believe this. She could only have said something somewhat safely from exile.
Yeah, there's probably a good article or two in that.

Cliff notes:

It's basically an extension of the Dual CPU setup mentioned in http://www.gtoal.com/sbt/

In that article, Graham Toal discusses a hack where you can bootstrap a new emulator core from an existing one by making a custom emulator that drives both cores at the same time.

After each clock tick, you check the states of both processors for divergence and halt with the diff if there is one.
About 1kg/kWh?
Rocks also have complex internal structure that responds to external influence, e.g. atoms vibrating in their crystal lattices depending on heat and pressure. Maybe there is a Boltzmann consciousness inside the rock when you're picking it up. What is "information" and what is noise is a matter of interpretation.
For compute intensive applications, doesn't compute time far exceed the network latency?

If compute time is what makes up the bulk of the response time, moving the server to the edge won't really reduce the response time significantly.
What is the "lightweight" part of records? Is it because there is no need for a vtable as there is no inheritance?
I doubt it. We can't prove other humans are conscious, I don't see how AI will help clarify anything there.
Right. And if the rock had some suitably complex structure, its internal state would be changing with awareness of stuff.
Theres always my extension to toggle the darn things which works sometimes https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zapfixed/jgiflpbko...
As a Swede I can concur to this statement.
To all the people using a static site generator. How do collect emails from interested people? Is there a way to easily integrate this into the static site? Ideally it would be a simple form, that collects the data and stores it somewhere? Google Forms comes to mind but it would integrate that nicely into the UI.
I used to write C# professionally for many years. Stopped after moving to a new company right about C# 4. I had to pick it up again earlier this yeah and I gotta say... wow. It has so, so much more. Some I like, some kinda meh and I know for sure my old habits are not always the greatest.

It's been an... interesting ride.
Not the OP, but for what is worth I also get motion sick while riding the bus and sitting at the same time. The solution is to just not sit, I use one hand to grab the bus bar or whatever those things are called and the other hand to hold a magazine or pocket-sized book. The same goes for tramways or trolley-buses. Interestingly enough I can read just fine and sitting at the same time while riding a train.
If people still need the grid but don't oat for anymore, then the prices go up since the powerline companies are usually required to maintain them. It doesn't matter than you need power only 8 days a year few kw.
Same feeling. I've started C# by myself around 2008 first with the command line compiler then VS 2008. My skills matured at the same time the language evolve, and while I always lag a few years behind the new features I still can keep up to date.

Now, for someone new the features set, the various keyword overloads and the magic syntactic sugar can make it hard to tame. Back then, It was mostly a (slightly) better Java. It has evolved into something totally different, that often tries to mimic F# while still keeping the familiar curly-race syntax, which makes things awkward at time. C# is my main language, but sometime I feel like there should be a fork, with a legacy C# that keep being ported to new frameworks and platforms, and a new branch where feature creep can continue go wild.
CYA = Cover Your Arse

(I just found about that one, sharing if it can help others)
I don't know, the propaganda accounts are usually much more blunt. This one has nuanced words. Painting Carrie Lam as relying on the police and force etc.
Even that won’t be enough. At least, that’s what I remember from https://withouthotair.com/c6/page_42.shtml

Don’t get me wrong, I’m optimistic about replacing fossil fuels and think things are already better than McKay dared to hope for, but I think a grid has to be part of the solution.

Grid is also useful for time shifting power demand/production to smooth out the morning/evening dips, for space-shifting production to deal with clouds etc., and (assuming wind is part of the solution) the best wind resources aren’t where you actually want to build houses.
Hyperpersonalisation and the Business of You
Coming from Norway, this article is horrendous. I can never understand the mentality that lies behind all of the arguments most you guys are presenting here - defending the employers shit salary and rights.

You guys know that McDonalds manages to run in countries with decent wages as well, right? And that maybe a company with a yearly global profit of over 10 billion dollars might be able to afford giving their employees a livable wage. Hell, just the fact that it`s possible to have a full time job in the US, and still need food stamps should be a massive, red flag about your situation. But for some reason you prefer to (by extension) defend the extremely rich owners of these companies.
What makes you think you'd be allowed to elect your judges in a country with a monarch with absolute authority or that you would be allowed to elect a gay judge in a ultra-conservative country?

As for politics in justice, I'd like to think serious questions would be asked in my country if it came to light judges let their political believes affect their decisions.
Could be that one process spends much less time sleeping for IO thus still having the same wall clock time.

In this case, there's probably only memory IO which (afaik) cannot put a process to sleep.
> anecdotal example of how this could come to be without some fault in Brown's decision-making process?

You've really never made 1 bad decision, or 10, in your life?

I have plenty of bad decisions, total screwups even, in my history. Some of them were from being petulant, or naive. Some because I was depressed. Yet I'm a white collar educated professional, I'm part because I made some good decisions, and also because that's the environment I was born into, so I was taught how to succeed in that world.

Why do we expect the poor to be paragons of perfect decision making, when the more privileged can make a normal human level of mistakes and still retain their position?
lightweight means they have structural equality and are immutable. this is already a huge bonus.
microsoft thought people will add methods to them, thus used the class type.
Hacktober
I like the analogy. But I guess the "concept" of a pizza is easier to grasp. Usually, you hire a contractor because you want a highly complex solution and most of the times the expectation, especially from a non-tech savvy person, is not in sync of what the developer estimates.
"Unending" is right. We'll not solve this because the problem is beyond reason.
Enforced bus lanes would go a long way in getting people to use the bus, and if more people use it then maybe headways can get to a reasonable number.

I ride the second busiest bus route in LA. Its serviced by a local and a rapid route with less frequent stops, and only the double long accordion style busses are run.

You would think the ridership and equipment would make for frequent and reliable service. But sometimes the headways are 7 minutes, sometimes back to back, sometimes over 25 minutes, sometimes skipping the stop. There is no telling.
Hong Kong isn't a people's revolution. There are contradicting forces operating within the protesters, and if they succeed (which of course I hope they do), the people will soon realize that they've swapped out one master for another.
writing all zero to the drive does the same thing
I'm getting the following error:

Notebook loading error
There was an error loading this notebook. Ensure that the file is accessible and try again.
Could not fetch resource at https://clients6.google.com/drive/v2beta/files/1u7flcl<omitt...: 403 Forbidden

Would really love to try this!
But government-mandated wealth-transfer is not "justice". "Justice" also entails the ability to earn a return if you make an investment rather than having the return taken away by the government.

Scenario A: Your dad is a bricklayer and teaches you how to do bricklaying. You start taking jobs in the black economy, working at construction sites, getting paid in cash and not paying taxes. You start doing that when you're 14 (which is the earliest age you can legally quit school). By the time you're 30 you will have built your own house and paid it off.

Scenario B: You're 28 years old when you graduate from university with a PhD but you still cannot expect a level of income higher than the bricklayer's. In Austria you wouldn't have student debts, as your university education would have been paid for by the government, so that's good. But your daddy would have had to pay for your living expenses until you were 28. So that's a lot of money. Also, you've just spent 14 years not earning anything, so that's opportunity cost. Maybe you worked very hard at university, working late, instead of going out with your friends, doing summer internships instead of going on holiday, etc. All of that is investment not only in financial terms, but also in terms of "life energy" (if that's a word).

In Scenario B, as compared with A, there is no way you will ever be able to earn a return on that investment or recoup it in financial terms. You will never catch up with the level of wealth under Scenario A.

It doesn't work for the individual, and it doesn't work for the country as a whole: This is an advanced economy, and it couldn't work if there weren't doctors, lawyers, bankers, software engineers etc. But people are disincentivized from wanting those jobs, because you can do far easier and less stressful jobs that will get you to the same or even higher levels of wealth.
No, she would not have been disappeared. Hong Kong is not a society where senior public figures and family members are purged for stepping out of line.

But let's say you believe that dark scenario. In that case, even small gestures, like visiting a school or hospital, or not calling protesters "enemies of the people", would have been a sign of sympathy.
Simon Sinek is a charismatic speaker with good points and interesting stories, but I find his books full of fluff: a central thesis padded to the length of a book so it’s publishable.

You get the same information by watching videos of his talks, with the advantage they are free, more direct, and take less of your time. Plus, they’re released sparingly and have quite a bit of repetition with slow changes between them, so the points get to sink in over time.
I think what you are arguing for is we raise minimum wage for adults to a living wage but keep it low for minors claimed as dependents. We should force social policy on private corporations when they are being deliberately exploitative.
As usual, rather than offer actual counterpoints, you resort to ad hominem attacks and complete misrepresentation of what I stated.

- nowhere did I state issues in HK are internal to HK only. There's obvious influence by interested parties outside of HK as well.

- HK is under the CCP. Of course there's influence. I never stated this either. I stated that the influence is much less than what media would like you to belive.

- I specifically stated that 2 of the demands are unreasonable, and a third will never be tolerated by the CCP. The protest movement certainly isn't a united cause for Hong Kong as a whole. That's what I stated. Even in the recent local elections the pro-protest candidates garnered on average less than 60% of the votes despite record turn out on their side.

- There indeed is no hard and credible evidence that people are being deported out of HK into China. That's what I stated. I did not state that none have been assaulted by government forces.

" personal attacks are being aimed at witnesses of events that contradict this story"

umm...what personal attacks? Do you even know that the evidence of an emergency doctor saying the rapes occurred is by a "Dr. Ray" on Facebook? He also wrote in Chinese that his evidence is that "if he is lying, may the people and heavens judge him". Unfortunately most people buying into the claim don't read Chinese.

Now that I've pointed out your completely unbased claims and obvious disingenuity and lack of integrity, perhaps you want to provide evidence of claims to the contrary rather than your illogical rabble.

*yes I'm a brand new account. I usually only read posts here, but I'm from HK and it's an issue close to heart. I'm sick of the misrepresentation of what's actually happening being reinforced by people who have very little knowledge of Hong Kong if they have even ever visited or lived there at all.
The old phrase about consultants is that they borrow your watch to tell you the time.
Americans in cold-weather states could be next to feel the impact of food stamps
That authoritarian regime is also pretty bumbling. There has been a marked decline in the past few years.
Manzotti’s account (as described in the article) ignores dreams, or the fact that directly zapping the brain elicits experience (e.g. magnetic stimulation of the visual cortex triggers colorful flashes known as phosphenes).

Graziani’s approach is more interesting, as a theory of attention, but falls short on qualia, and focuses on peculiarities of the human brain, assuming that a cerebral cortex is necessary for generating a conscious experience.

My pet theory is that consciousness can be modeled as a mathematical dual of the physical world. Think Voronoi diagrams vs. Delaunay triangulation. They are distinct, imbued with their own properties, but inextricably linked in that you can generate one from the other.
My experience is that this is only shared by people on LinkedIn who have no clue what they are talking about.
Is there anything that can be done to help autism?
Julia supports juxtaposition with number literals in front and it's really neat.
(Still) Learning from a Titan of New York, Jay Kriegel (1940–2019)
I'm not from Norway but the Netherlands. If you have a fulltime job at McDonalds, the only way to live on that wage is with heavy subsidies from the government. You will need healthcare subsidy, rent subsidy, social housing, various municipal arrangements and perhaps even go to the "voedselbank" (food bank, free food charity).

So while you can live on a McDonalds income, it's only because your fellow citizens are chipping in. Effectively we are subsidising McDonalds as they can now give you a lower income and get away with it.

I'm not sure if that is the best way to go.
Yeah and there is also the ridiculous cost of living in a lot of the tech areas. A household earning $117k is on the poverty line in SF.
I find it reasonable to assume that for thought processes to occur, there must be some processing, so rocks are out.

A more interesting example would be, say, trees, which do communicate with each other to some degree. Is that accompanied by some form of awareness? What's the lower bound of complexity at which consciousness kicks in? What about supraorganisms such as insect hives? Human cities? An ecosystem as a whole?
There's also microG for some of those proprietary google services.
The site seems to be down?
Intel are behind. They have a pretty big cash buffer and a solid sales channel, as well as being pretty entrenched in OEMs. So they are a very long way from being doomed, even if it takes them a long time to turn the ship around (like 00's Microsoft).
As someone whose mental struggles connect to how I eat. I find this is a terrible idea :(
Anti nutrients seem to lead to deficiency in certain vitamins and minerals which then lead to mental instability.
[Disclaimer: I work at Cliqz]

The name anolysis is not a type, it is derived from "Anonymous Analysis" and which truly means we do all the analysis of the data anonymously.
I understand that these tests require withdrawing amniotic fluid to analise, and / or getting genetic material from the fetus itself. And my understanding is also that to get the amniotic fluid carries fairly moderate risks of infection etc for the fetus so these screenings aren't necessarily done because of the risks not to mention the costs involved.
I have just started dating a woman who is 22, she has advanced ovarian cancer and a life expectancy that is 12 months and is scheduled for surgery and chemo in January (but this may be sooner given the pain).

This is just a fact between us, and it's something we'll have to deal with. I fell for her, she fell for me, we work well on so many levels.

I know she is likely to die (a 12 month life expectancy isn't a foregone conclusion) but we don't discuss this or make it a focus. Our focus is on living life with passion, a clock that counts 70 years or 1 year doesn't change our approach to life.

I don't really know what to say, I just wanted to put an acknowledgement from myself to the universe down somewhere that yes I know what I'm getting myself into, and yet I love her and it's worth it.

Live life qualitatively not quantitatively.
There's also microG that aims to implement google services while being open source.
Very good to know. I've worried about buying replacement laptop batteries off Amazon. Thanks!
This is exactly why I decided to work on building a platform for async video / voice discussions.

You end up getting rid of meetings — people gathering in real-time :)
No, there isn't. Look at https://twitter.com/osinthk, they do a really good job getting to the bottom of this stuff.

Cheng was not abducted to the mainland; he was arrested on the mainland side of the boundary crossing at the high-speed rail station in Kowloon, coming back from Shenzhen. The fact that there's a border crossing in downtown Hong Kong is its own issue, but his case can't be called an abduction (unlike the case of the booksellers a few years ago).

Anyway, please stop spreading falsehoods, there's enough of that going around.
Speaking of "concise", in modern browsers you can replace el.parentNode.removeChild(el) with just el.remove():

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ChildNode/r...
Tuva or Bust
Or alternatively no (static) type system at all.
I can recommend `pipx` (pipx — Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments) https://pipxproject.github.io/pipx/
You don't even know to go that far if apple's aspirations for devices helping you locate your things goes to fruition- "accidentally" slip your airpods into someone else's bag and apple will helpfully locate it for you until your airpod's case goes out of power

There are going to be a lot of issues if apple just lets you track things at range
If you're not a dualist, thoughts necessarily have to be accompanied by some change of state of the material substrate.
You don't have to have a phone on you all the time. But if you do, it should be considered bugged because you have no way to audit it.

Also, bugging my residence isn't going to result in very interesting data by design. I could have plenty to hide, but I'm not reading my evil plans for world domination aloud.

If you do need to talk about something private, nobody is preventing you from disconnecting all the microphones.

Know what you're trying to prevent, then take actionable steps. Privacy is hard, but not dead.
The game froze for me about 30 minutes before your comment at a total cliffhanger.

You sleep for quite some time until you awaken to find
yourself lying next to a beautiful woman. She seems to
be asleep too. You smile at this coincidence
> poke the beautiful woman

You poke the beautiful woman who wakes up and smiles
at you. She pulls you close and kisses you on the lips.
You return the gesture and soon you take turns
caressing each others bodies.

Eagerly waiting for the service to be restored.
Nah, it's China's surveillance state, that's the real made up enemy of the day to scare westerners.