skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I have mainland Chinese friends who generally identify as patriotic, but who also use VPNs etc. to better inform themselves. They went to Hong Kong during the National Day celebrations and shared their observations on Weibo. They took note of the fact that there was lots of graffiti, but the only vaguely patriotic slogan was "love the country, not the party". The post wasn't taken down, as far as I know, so the message spread at least slightly, despite the censorship.
I have had SCT Instant for approximately a year. However, only around half of the target banks I send money to support it currently.
Behind every sign there's a story :)
What about progress overlay icon? It should be animated. Or something like downloading a file. If icon represents a work in progress, it's a good idea to make it animated. Of course animation must not distract too much.
> it should be same whether the delivered news is favorable to you/us or not

The question is usually "is it favorable to the CIA/NSA or not?".

Favorable (Vindman/Cia<mare>lla) -> whistleblower

Unfavorable (Snowden) -> leaker
You don't reach 0%, that's a straw man. The goal is better than human, and the 35,000+ vehicle-related fatalities that happen in the U.S. each year.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22302081)
I think he's trying to say is, "China therefore is not ready to be a global leader on anything".
FWIW, fineco will let you have foreign currency accounts, for free, and with minimal conversion fees, it's pretty convenient.
Yep. You could have a company incorporated and bank account set up all ready to trade by tomorrow lunchtime for about $50.
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So being governed by corporations is superior to a government of the people?
I think my response is plenty fair, considering one of the core aspects of his argument in paragraph 3 is equating people in poverty to those without drive, ambition, people that sink into escapism which is the reason why they're in poverty (hence the rotten culture).

It's the exact same 'those dirty poors are poor because they're lazy' nonsense I've heard over and over again just dressed up slightly. The emotional context is that he's outright calling those people a drain on society.

And when I look back on poverty and escapism, for a lot of people it's the one thing giving them a temporary out from the crushing depression of realizing that you're trapped in a situation that you'll likely never escape. I refuse to accept their commentary as any sort of objective analysis because it reeks of someone passing judgment on something they have never experienced.
I'm of the opinion that such systems are part of the problem. We've generally produced a population that thus far hasn't had to think critically about and question the information they receive. Skepticism towards new information reasoning about the validity of new information from first principles are valuable skills that have either atrophied or never been learned in the first place. The more you put such systems as you suggest in place, the worse the general population gets at figuring out what information should be trusted.
I've tried tiling WMs a few times, maybe 4 years ago last and liked them (inclduing i3) but at least at the time there were too many problems.

If everything works now, Id be willing to try i3 when I install ubuntu 20.04.

Is it now easy to set up a launcher/start bar with a nice battery/volume/wifi etc. indicator? That work both when I click on them and via keys and with the icons visibly changing based on the current state?

Do all Windows open normally? Do they all fullscreen normally? Which don't?

Do you get any crashes?

Are there any WM-specific settings/fixes you have to tweak more often than once every 6 months?
I worked for several years on a team that championed SOLID and DDD, and while it was better than the multi-process, shared-memory, stringly-typed horror that it replaced, efficient is not the word I'd use to describe it. The single responsibility and open-closed principles created a Cambrian explosion of tiny classes and the ratio of boilerplate to interesting code skyrocketed.

Maybe we were just interpreting things wrong, but it was very difficult to agree on what those principles meant in practice.

Liskov's substitution principle is also rather complex. I'm not sure I correctly understand it, but I think it is widely violated even by good code. If I have it right, the principle means the result of your program cannot change, no matter what subtype you substitute.
Presumably the compiler itself was compiled for ARM. The rest doesn’t really have to change as the Swift compile was already designed to compile for ARM for production builds of apps.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.
> Vindman was fired but will surely land on his feet somewhere.

Was he "fired" or just reassigned? As far as I understand he is still an officer in the armed forces.
While I encourage services like these, I'm very nervous about their own security. I'm looking forward for a big player to enter this market. Maybe Twilio?
Is the get button disabled for anyone else in the mac store?
From Wikipedia[0]:

> On 11 February 2020, all videos were removed from Polster's YouTube channel, Mathologer, coinciding with the publishing of an accusatory video, which was probably developed by claimed co-owner of the channel, Giuseppe Geracitano.

Here[1] is the "Video" (really a set of slides) by Guiseppe Geracitano.

Edit: That video is now unavailable, but given the acrimonious nature of the situation this was anticipated and an archive of the content made available elsewhere[2].

It's all very messy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkard_Polster

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suR9W5ov11k

[2] https://imgur.com/a/3yjaCsh
From the model showing in the video, the aircraft has 2 vertical stabilizer mounted engines ala trijets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trijet). Barring some smaller jets, this design has ceased in most large airliners for multiple reasons, one of them being the crash of United Flight 232(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232) where the Vert stabilizer mounted engine suffered an explosive dis-integration which in turn structurally damaged the tail sections as well as its hydraulic control lines, rendering the vert stab uncontrollable.

My guess would be the present design has many more significant iterations left.
> Our current data tools are nowhere near good enough for us to be so confident in most domains of medicine, such as vaccination.

I think you're conflating things like nutrition with the whole of biology. There are lots of things we understand quite well, and have mountains of data on, and vaccines are one of the best examples of those.

Nutrition science is famously unreliable, but there are reasons for that beyond just the intrinsic complexity of the domain itself:

- It grabs headlines because it's something individuals can control themselves, and because it has a direct relationship to mass-market priorities like physical appearance. So the media jumps at every opportunity to sensationalize a study that may not actually be making any bold claims.

- Billions of dollars are funneled by megacorps into sham studies that pollute the discourse, for their own profit-seeking motives.

All three factors can also apply to drugs, especially mental-directed ones (because the human psychology is a whole other layer of complexity). The opioid crisis had nothing to do with the science, but with greed and addiction. The drugs themselves were safe; you can overdose on anything.

But none of these apply to vaccines. Their relationship to the human body is comparatively simple. They aren't a home-remedy. They aren't (relatively speaking) a big business. They also aren't some new, unproven technology. They are one of the most widely-deployed and successful medical inventions ever created by man. There are few things in the world that we have so much conclusive data around.

There's plenty of true information on the internet. The past several years have made it abundantly clear that true information does not win out against false information rooted in fear. Don't be part of the problem.
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This doesn't match my experience but maybe I'm in a bubble: for open source design and fabrication work, svg is basically as standard as pdf, I'll often convert pdfs to svgs to extract vector art and send it to another process, including 3D mesh editors that can extrude from svg files.

The editor I install on every machine and teach other people to use is Inkscape. The learning curve really isn't that bad, I've seen many kids really take off with it.
Model S Performance vs. Taycan Turbo S Comparison Test
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Bonobos have been observed doing both, so before the evolution of mankind most likely.
In fact, the majority of countries worldwide request military assistance from one of only a handful of nations (US, UK, China, Russia, France primarily) for police like protection through Defense Pacts/Treaties.

The UN and NATO specifically, are explicitly chartered to serve as a collective for this function where all have shared interests. In reality most treaties are done outside of the UN.

So I'm unsure on what basis you're suggesting that the political arms of nation states do not regularly seek a globally capable actor to police their neighbors.
Fair enough. At that time, and we are talking going back 10 years now, did the government lack the will or the technical capability to carry out the large scale monitoring?
Here's a godbolt link: https://godbolt.org/z/Z6vYAS

Looking at the disassembly the machine code is ~2x the size for the exception versions, but most of it is on the cold path.

The exception version has a conditional branch to do the "== errorInt" part. The non-exception version manages to avoid the conditional branch by using a conditional move, which would avoid a pipeline stall on a branch mis-prediction.

Edit: I think this disproves desc's point ("If your application is slow <because of execptions> it'll show up on a profiler"). ie there's probably a small cost to exceptions even when they are not taken and it will be spread across your entire program and will not show as a single spike in a profiler.
You mean SpaceX?

I don't think large R&D orgs have a monopoly on innovation. And they aren't guaranteed to produce good results. In context, though, the US put people on the moon 50 years ago at the cost in present dollars of $.5T. Easily that much or more has probably been invested in the defense side of rocket development. I think SpaceX was applying 50 years of incremental improvements to a technology that was relatively stagnant ("it just works" conservative approach/lower government funding/general risk aversion profile). This is not to slight them at all, just putting it in perspective.

But look at the payloads. Right now it's satellites/cargo. They still haven't done a manned mission. Commercial aircraft fly thousands of miles per day and carry hundreds of people. They do this while being repaired by different teams around the world.

It's not as glamorous, but incremental updates in adhesives, radar, rivets, and other safety and repairability are big deals and R&D into safety and reliability shouldn't be discounted. That's on top of the satellite division and Phantom Works (sustained and controlled hypersonic scramjet, wings that change shape). I am not a rocket scientist, so take it all with a grain of salt.
Wow, thanks for sharing that article about Eric Weisstein. Very interesting.

> He is also a prolific communicator of mathematics, having authored most of MathWorld's nearly 13,000 articles.

That's amazing. Reminds me of Salman Khan a full decade before.

> Weisstein is an advocate for author's rights, especially in the area of electronic publication

When I read this I cringed as it sounded like he was in favor of stronger copyrights, instead it seems like the opposite—some slimey Intellectual Monopoly troll once sued him and nearly ended MathWorld (http://www.ericweisstein.com/authors-rights/authors_note.htm...).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22286925

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299901
> This process reminds me of web design in the 2000s when Photoshop was king.

~~Cries in Adobe Fireworks~~

I always wondered why Adobe Fireworks, which was a hundred times better than PS for web design, never got traction. I mean this was the time of web 2.0 gradients and rounded corner gel buttons and people were making this stuff with freaking PS. Why? Adobe Fireworks could do vector graphics wonderfully.
The killer app for animated svgs is not icons. It's graphics that are meant to be given attention to convey something important. We do that with raster graphics and it works okay, but low resolution rasters of yesteryear look bad.
I think what happened was that the initial doctors who identified the coronavirus cases were told to keep silent by the authorities and hospital. Li happened to see some of these reports and he notified other doctors in the WeChat group. So he didn't identify it, he raised the alarm when no one else was.
> An overnight mission at McMurdo

Depending on the time the year, perhaps. What's the longest possible time from sunset to sunrise at those latitudes?
It says he saw a report that 7 people had confirmed SARS infections. He simply sent that to his friends on WeChat, who then sent it to other people on WeChat, who sent it to other people...

He didn't identify it, he just told the public about it.
I don't think small nation is easier to control. For example, in Russia, whoever controls Moscow controls the country (don't want to explain here why exactly, so please just trust me in this). So, theoretically, a moderately big popular uprising against Putin in Moscow could gather 300K-500K protesters, and Moscow police would have just 30K riot troops to deal with it, plus 40K regular policemen. However, in a span of few hour, reinforcements from all over the country can be brought in from all over the country, bringing the number of riot police to 150K, quite comfortably enough to counter 500K protesters. And regional protesters have no real way to join the protests in the epicenter, because Russia is freaking big, travel is controlled by the government and can be ceased in case of emergency.

Side note: 2013-2014 protests in the Ukraine worked for a simple reason - not only protests enjoyed an overwhelming support in the capital, and had a fraction of parliament supporting it, Kiev is relatively close to western Ukraine, so many active protesters from there just got on buses and drove to join the fight and make the balance more even.

This said, I believe that the bigger the country, the easier it is to control, because government forces are way more mobile, which easier brings local numerical superiority. As for imprisonment, in a bigger country you just need more prisons, that can be achieved without much difficulties.
We started a UK shop 16 years ago and still had counterfoil machines (you put a card in, put a paper slip on it, push a roller over the card to ink an impression of the details, ...). You could definitely still swipe your card then.

Also from memory, I'd guess 10-12 years as the point when chip&pin was required for _every_ card transaction. Now of course we have moved on to also have contactless.
According to a quick search - Monzo had 3 million customers as of Sept ‘19 [1] vs Metro Bank’s 1.7 million in May ‘19 [2].

[1] https://monzo.com/blog/2019/09/16/three-million

[2] https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/about-us/press-releases/ne...
https://archive.md/6llX5
I would argue that a phone, tablet, and computer can all have the same OS, just with different UI.

So the "end of macos" is unlikely in my book.
Maybe the international body of politicians will finally realize that while anyone can write a website, not everyone should, and certainly not their nieces and nephews
Information about the private emotional states of my team members is precisely the sort of information I'm supposed to be guarding, and work is not a safe space for opening up. If they wish to share frustrations with process, the state of their morale, etc, in a group setting, there is no problem. But frankly, if they found out I was keeping a log of how they were feeling day to day over the course of working with me, I would hope they would have the self-respect to confront me and then leave.

It's inappropriate to keep emotional dossiers on your co-workers and I can't imagine that "for their benefit" is anywhere near the median use case for a tool like this.

What guarantees would someone have that this information would not be shared, intentionally or not, with interested third parties in the future?
But what's crazy is that once the capsule disconnects from the second stage of Atlas, the only remaining part of the whole system... is the Starliner. So what other clock could they be looking at? The Atlas V blows up in the ocean.
Are you sure they're not a bank yet? They got their banking license a while ago: https://blog.revolut.com/we-got-a-banking-licence/
Given that this is HN, an obvious approach would be to start your own company and make sure its C-suite is exactly the way you like it. I think you'd have all our best wishes.
I'm not sure how much I'd consider myself an insider... luckily I happened to not be in China when all this happened so I'm watching from afar as well (although I would like to go back for a bit when all this blows over).

No real idea sorry. I mean things look more transparent than what happened with SARS (which I can get into detail about if you want) and there's way more discussion in various different online venues this time around (more people also have access to the internet), but I don't really think I have a more trustworthy opinion beyond that weak assertion.

And on the ground, well there's a lot of conflicting reports as happens in any major event.
I don't track things too closely, and I'm thankful I don't have to. I automatically max out my 401k and IRA, and a good portion left after that goes into taxable brokerage accounts. The vast majority of investments are in no-load index funds; I set aside a bit as "play money" that I'm comfortable losing, and which I mostly invest in tech stocks.

My wife and I tend to spend about the same amount each month and there are rarely surprises. I check the statements before paying just to make sure no fraud went unnoticed, but I get emails for any charge over $50 so I usually catch things before that. My wife and I both allocate some of our own earnings for buying whatever we like without having to consult the other--I'm not paying for her clothes shopping, and she's not paying for my Steam library.

I think this works because we're both naturally frugal people. Saving isn't effortful for us, but rather is the default. Just this past weekend, I had to remind my wife that it probably wasn't worth the Herculean effort she was putting into repairing a piece of jewelry she got on AliExpress for $2. I am sure proper budgeting and other tools could help us eke out a bit more net worth, but only a bit. The marginal return of that activity would be low for us compared to those who tend more toward spending than saving.
Show HN: Mount S3, Azure, Wasabi and Backblaze as If It Is a Network Drive
Shameless self-promotion. We have a book on deep reinforcement learning that is completely project based in Python: https://www.manning.com/books/deep-reinforcement-learning-in...
It doesn't happen very often any more, but when people always used to ask why I didn't like GNOME 3 I'd just point them to the devs' own words on the mailing list: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-June/m...
Used MATE a couple of times. I'd say it is the most beautiful and a generally well done lightweight DE.
Takes me back to early Ubuntu days
Maybe it’s just me but I can’t read the article with that justified style. Why not just use left-aligned?
(I’m on a phone too, so that may make it worse.)
> Why isn’t the web filled with these amazing, accessible, performant animations?

I, for one, am exceedingly happy that the web isn't filled with this stuff.
That complaint about books and stealing personally strikes me as deeply silly even by permission culture standards. The whole point of books is to learn from them. Proper summarization already separates plagerism from original content (even if it is preferrable to provide citations). It doesn't matter how it is derived - either the end product is fair use or it is effectively unauthorized publishing from including too much source content.

We should be rejoicing at the ability to have an assistant that digests the world's libraries not worrying that someone might make a profit off of it without permission.
> This will do to non-fiction books what youtube did to music: drive down the price in ways that makes distribution only economical for low-margin platforms. It could give G a monopoly on the market and create a disincentive for production of new knowledge.

This is just tiresome. Wasn't piracy supposed to doom us all?

It's regrettable to see Google gaining more power, but the copyright cartel doesn't have a solid moral standing from which to complain.
I'm waiting for the day we can "dock" a phone to a monitor with a mouse/kb & have a full desktop OS experience.
The implication seems to be that this will have some sort of effect on chinese global leadership. I see zero evidence of those kind of consequences actually existing in the world.

I don't like that situation. But I have a strict policy of seeing the world how it really is instead of how I wish it to be.
Sensory perception is not superficial brain work
"Monkey Selfie" is not a good analogy for algorithmically generated music. A better analogy would be satellite images, which of course are copyrightable.
Well this thread is now the top Google result for 'uk bank "card alias"', so if it wasn't a thing before, it is now!
Keeping track is the initial part of the effort. Getting the information from ‘existing’ to ‘integrated’ requires a system easy enough to use ( add Bare-bones description of issue, add comments or post mortems, format in ways that highlight core problem/solution) and robust enough to have hooks everywhere an engineer might need to see it.

The negative side of integration is the person with knowledge integrates it in their practice and ‘forgets’ it is new knowledge for everyone else, thus not propagating the new lesson learned.
Yes it is. Just confirmed on Windows with a new install.

The very first screen on first open nags you to signup, the top menu item is “Sign in to Firefox”, there’s a notification dot on the user icon with the Sign in nag there, the Pocket button asks you to sign in and after I log into a website I immediately get an animated recommendation nag to also sign in to Firefox.

It’s absolutely 100% plastered around the Firefox UI.
I can get that sentiment, but can anyone point to any "global leader" that hasn't done similar things?

The idea that our global leaders are some how moral paragons is just bullshit.
> It's a lot easier to confirm that a variable is never mutated across 4 lines than it is across 200.

It's even easier when the language you're using doesn't let you mutate or rebind in the first place. You mention Haskell codebases having short functions, but that isn't an automatic given. Haskell and other ML languages are quite friendly to long functions specifically because the language guarantees no mutation, among many other reasons.

In fact, the Elm project explicitly tells Elm developers to not worry about the length of functions because of this property. You can't accidentally mutate or change something and not notice, because you simply aren't allowed to do that.
They don't have to be animating all the time. However, animations can convey events better than alternatives (popups and the like).