skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been suspecting this for a long time but came across few evidence for it. I’ve seen Chinese funding of Hollywood movies, but it’s always through an American fund, etc. What kind of evidence have you found? To me, the fact that Hollywood would never attack communism, is a big one. Thousands of movies about nazism, zero about the Soviet union and their crimes. Even Cuba is very underrepresented in the industry. Yet differently from a regime that lasted two decades, we are talking about one that persists very well until today.
> because the US isn't expansionist

The US has military basis everywhere.

> only applies muscular diplomacy to nations that are small and poor

Is China small and poor?

> China has used military force to expand much more recently than the US.

The US is fighting 2 wars that will last 20 years, and is looking anxious to start a new one...
Taiwan is actually at 26 days of no local cases as of today.

To your quarantine question, we currently only allow citizens to fly into Taiwan and those visitors have a mandated and tracked quarantine for them and anyone in the private home they are staying. If they have symptoms or do not have a private home they can quarantine, there are quarantine hotels they can wait out their 14 days. Anyone in quarantine is given a daily stipend.

Worth noting, while Taiwan is an island, it has a population density as high as 10,000 per square/KM in some areas. Taiwan had no business, school campus or public transportation shut downs. Strictly masks, hand washing, temperature checks, and social distancing.
Standardized pallets and forklifts can make them lift a hell of a lot more weight
Crappy code abounds, and yes, the authors seem to be grinding an axe. That notwithstanding, a reputable scientist, seeing that this code was being used to make decisions that would directly affect millions of people in a life-and-death way, would stand up and proclaim, "This is just a fucking prototype and not to be used for important policy decisions." Not doing so is pretty unethical. (Far more so than breaking quarantine for a little nookie...)
The cryptography in Signal is substantially better than that of GPG. You would have a very hard time finding a cryptography engineer that disagreed with that.
Astronomers have discovered closest black hole yet in trinary star system
No it’s absolutely not ok. It’s abusive and removes power from the people.

They aren’t just a business - those that censor are absolutely the enemy of the people.
> Scrolling without moving the cursor doesn't make sense in a TUI environment

It makes perfect sense as soon as you realize there is no reason the cursor has to be the cursor. In curses: curs_set(0); then draw your own 'cursor' wherever you like.

Anyway, GUI emacs is way better than terminal emacs. Image support (in terminal emulators this is always an awful hack) and support for different font sizes in the same frame at once is something I'd not give up.
The Analemma
Upcounsel v.appearme vs. Atrium – The Best Legal for Startups
Does vmess still work? I haven’t been to China for 2 years but that’s what I relied on then to binge watch youtube
I usually set aggressive dates to keep myself accountable. If it's loose, I'll over-engineer or pick up a side project doing something else.

Management doesn't really set dates for us right now.
I've been back-and-forth with 'Arathorn about this for a long time and I'm pretty comfortable with my diagnosis. For instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315096
That's true, but I'd rather use tramp-mode and keep my setup instead of
sacrificing it for the sake of consistency across servers.
It won't really be consistent anyways, you'll get some plugins here and
there I guess.
Imagine: if half the single family homes were replaced by duplexes half the neighborhood could be green space ("natural settings")!

From an environmental perspective there is no contest between single family suburban development (aka sprawl) and dense urban living with plenty of parks.

Also, you won't find bigger bike/transit activists than the people advocating for the abolishment of single family zoning.
Don’t think of it like traditional old world propaganda that’s obviously promoting China. The propaganda can be anything that divides the country. Both are the same result as far as China’s concerned.
I still buy Eddie Bauer stuff online occasionally because they still have tall sizes. "Medium Tall" T-shirts are great when you're 6'5" and 175lbs.
The problem is it's much harder to moderate power structures, because that requires changing them from the inside, which they themselves are incentivized to prevent.
Nice! I have used UpCounsel before... they did not have enough lawyers.
A lot of evidence shows that the more severe cases are linked to having Vitamin D deficiency. Perhaps increased COVID severity is a unexpected consequence of the the public policy of "stay home indefinitely".
Interesting, does it mean France doesn't have. its own version of HN-type community, or it's just that HN covers the world, which makes it more interesting?
> It has also set a very dangerous precedent in Canada as to how "unpopular" rights, not explicitly in the Charter, can be stripped by the pen stroke of a populist.

To be fair, if it's not in the charter, it's not a right. You are of course correct re the pendulum and unpopular privileges.
pretty expressive code:

> <SET DUMMY? T>>>
<COND (<OR <AND <MEMQ <SET O <FIND-OBJ "CANDL">>
<AOBJS .WIN>>
<1? <OLIGHT? .O>>>
<AND <MEMQ <SET O <FIND-OBJ "TORCH">> <AOBJS .WIN>>
<1? <OLIGHT? .O>>>>
<UNWIND
<PROG ()
<COND (.DUMMY?
<TELL
"I didn't realize that adventurers are stupid enough to light a
" 1 <ODESC2 .O> " in a room which reeks of coal gas.
Fortunately, there is justice in the world.">)
(<TELL
"Oh dear. It appears that the smell coming from this room
was coal gas. I would have thought twice about carrying a
" 1 <ODESC2 .O> "in here.">)>
<FWEEP 7>
<JIGS-UP " BOOOOOOOOOOOM ">>
<JIGS-UP " BOOOOOOOOOOOM ">>)>)>>

So if you come into this room with a candle or a torch, you're a dummy and get told as much. And then the jigs up, BOOOOOOM
ahaha, you fucking loser.
Can you work on a replacement for Xero instead? Please, take my money.
Why would you want to become a maintainer when your suggestions will be blocked by a guy who doesn't even know what org-mode is, hasn't coded in decades, and insists the terminology has to pretend it's 1968?
I support your comment.
Kdb+ FAQ [pdf]
Don't forget Whatsapp desktop
Where did I claim the opposite? What you state is so beyond obvious I'm not sure the point.
>they still have an obligation to do right by the minority shareholders

Fiduciary duty is extremely rare to be the subject of a suit against a, let's say, CEO. It's a complex area of law because it isn't actually a law, nor specified anywhere, and not a requirement for corporate existence. So, it's a set of court decisions that future cases are built upon, but in general a house of cards in that it could be invalidated by a) legislation; and b) adverse rulings at any level of a suit.

It's a myth that the only purpose of executives is to maximize profit for the shareholders. It's a canard. PBCs are a counterfactual here, full stop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-benefit_corporation

[note the significant use of "goal" in describing traditional corporations]
I’m not a programmer, just a tradesman who’s worn a few different hats over the eons, but I’ve noticed something as I’ve gotten older and lazier:

I am equally as unproductive regardless of my setup.

My productivity has way more to do with all the other factors at play than it does the fine-tuning of my setup.
A private company with a massive user base and global presence I should add. Which fights for complete market dominance in every way it can, buying every Platform they can, that has large adoption. It’s not only bound by the American constitution. It’s like saying Windows is not an almost de facto monopoly because “people have choices”.
but how do you test the iOS app on Windows?
"Real artists ship" - Steve Jobs

After about 20 years working in tech, at multiple companies of all sizes, and in dozens of teams, working through all levels of engineering, management, and other jobs, I can say without any hesitation that without due dates (reasonably negotiated of course), engineers will spin indefinitely and nothing will ever ship.
Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
Ask HN: Contrary Opinions
Wow, it seems that people have a political persuasion and if you cross it, you lose points here. So which is more important, points or being honest? Haha I'm going to go with the honesty.
Missing an order of magnitude? Twitter was claiming to be still running Rails in the mid-2010s, when they apparently had 200+ million active users. The service was finally sunsetted during the big Scala rewrite.

They abandoned their message queue (Starling) written in Ruby early on. That abandonment was often misattributed to them abandoning Rails, I guess because of the shared usage of Ruby. The confusion was compounded to back when someone at Twitter (may have been Odeo at time?) posted a message board rant about how Rails does not scale because ActiveRecord did not allow connecting to multiple databases out of the box. That event seems to be the origins of the "Rails does not scale" mantra that swept the internet for a time. But, humorously, someone replied with a solution a few minutes later.
"Wireless chargers transmit electricity by creating a magnetic field that oscillates at a frequency that creates a resonating vibration in magnetic coils on the receiving device. The problem is that the resonant frequency changes if the distance between the source and receiver changes by even a small amount.

In their first breakthrough three years ago, the researchers developed a wireless charger that could transmit electricity even as the distance to the receiver changes. They did this by incorporating an amplifier and feedback resistor that allowed the system to automatically adjusts its operating frequency as the distance between the charger and the moving object changed. But that initial system wasn’t efficient enough to be practical. The amplifier uses so much electricity internally to produce the required amplification effect that the system only transmitted 10% of the power flowing through the system.

In their new paper, the researchers show how to boosts the system’s wireless-transmission efficiency to 92%. The key, Assawaworrarit explained, was to replace the original amplifier with a far more efficient “switch mode” amplifier. Such amplifiers aren’t new but they are finicky and will only produce high-efficiency amplification under very precise conditions. It took years of tinkering, and additional theoretical work, to design a circuit configuration that worked."

A resonant structure (AKA "antenna") can be thought of as Star Trek's Transporter, version 0.0000001...

A resonant coil, 0.0000002...

A resonant coil to transport electricity, 0.0000003...

Then of course there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB_hF_K_7cc

2:28:

Montgomery Scott: "What's that?"

Alternate Universe Mr. Spock: "Your equation for achieving transwarp beaming..."

[He shows Mr. Scott the equation on screen...]

Montgomery Scott: "Imagine that! It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving!"
And perhaps

- that it is possible for humans and/or machines to understand and/or describe said natural laws

- that it is a good idea to attempt to do so

(e.g. scientific progress could lead to technology that eventually makes it impossible for anything to live on the Earth)
I despise services that require to have a real phone number. Being locked out of something when you travel, have no reception, lost your phone or got it stollen is just a pain. Bonus hate points for banks that implement a sms code check for online payments with your visa/mastercard (common in France at least). I changed bank for one that provided me with a device generating one time codes from my CB
People who stay at home are also likely to be some of the last people to get sick.
I built one for development three years ago because I was tired of my slow ass cheap laptop. I had similar requirements like you.

I only needed a machine that was fast and responsive, so I went with the fastest consumer grade cpu at the time, Intel I7-6700k, I opted for 16GB DDR4 RAM. After that it was easy to find a motherboard that supported these with onboard graphics, as I don't do gaming. Ended up costing me around $600, much cheaper than anything I could buy off the shelf.

I run Debian testing on it.

Since then I upgraded it with 1 TB m.2 ssd and 32gb ram. Also a graphics card with four dp ports for high resolution output.
Me too. I rediscovered it a while ago and wanted to do some modding or just plain screwing around with the game files. Then after a search found out that the source code is online and you can learn some really interesting things from going trough it. I never actually beat the game as a kid turns out (didnt even know it had an ending or real goals).
> Beyond economy class

economy+ class

business class

first class

> Ever book 2+ seats at the same time?

Ok, ya got me there. Ever book 2 seats not at the same time?

> often lead to sub-optimal revenue totals

Airlines are not stupid with their operations management, and expend a great deal of effort optimizing revenue.
This might not be the forum for it, but I have a question about this - I thought git was supposed to be pretty smart about detecting renames, but in my experience (on Windows) it never does, and I always have to use `git mv`. What's the deal with this?
Aristotelian physics is an approximation to Newtonian physics for objects immersed in a fluid.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/157866135.pdf
Keras Code Examples
>How much power do the VCs typically have?

I wanna say we don't know. Has there ever been an instance of any company getting their tranche(s) and saying FU to the VC, and there being any repercussions? It's a two- or three-level hypothetical, but I think it's worth exploring to give you a complete answer.
> Most people have a natural desire to dominate and the lower IQ person would always loose which is no fun to them.

IQ won't help you swim faster, so no. Attitudes such as yours are what I'd hope to mitigate by encouraging children to socialize with people outside their intellectual class.
Re 1: If McDonalds were handing out firearms I'd agree with ya ;) The difference is of course that the burger only kills the person ingesting it where a gun kills someone other than the owner. This makes the former a personal responsibility issue and the latter a public safety issue.

And of course, you can eat McDonalds safely in moderation without developing obesity, but you can't really get shot safely or in moderation without developing death.

Re 2: I have not tried to get a PAL, though I do understand it to be quite an arduous process.

Re 3: Indeed more should be done to keep weapons on the US side, however I don't think there's any reason we can't do both things at the same time.
Note that .git-blame-ignore-revs is just a convention, git doesn't automatically use the file like how git treats the .gitignore file. You can add it to the repo configuration though, so you don't need to pass --ignore-revs-file every time, provided that you're running Git 2.3+[0].

$ git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs

This is extremely useful if, for example, your team decided to introduce new automated style changes, and didn't want to completely clobber the history for blame. By specifying the commit that introduced the style change, actual "interesting" changes should be correctly attributed and the style change commit is ignored in the blame output.

[0] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNote...
It's also funny because many working people would say the exact opposite (though I would agree that the Democratic platform, nominally, includes the policies that are in their actual interest).

America's parties have done an astonishingly good job of divvying up the country along lines that really have much more to do with personal identity than with actionable policy, and getting us focused on working against each other instead of together. There are Republican workers and Democrat workers. Both think the other party is where the out-of-touch "elites" lie. Both are mostly right.
Probably a decent security idea to have minimal PIE requirements for a dating site.
On HN the truth must never be used as a weapon to make someone feel bad.
Not all. High level of support. There are those who are against. But overall, support is strong.

> but also because the CCP actively punishes people who speak against it.

See my other thread regarding this topic.
Pen America: Pulling down Moore climate film would be censorship
> Then, immediately after new guidance, they all "get it" and rejection rates drop below 20%?

The "all" after the guidance is not the same set as before. Afterwards, some people could foresee a rejection and so didn't bother applying at all, where before the guidance they would have. Thus, rejection rate falls.
I can confirm that this method worked at least until early March of this year.
A bit of context that's gone missing: In 1977, the Fortran source for Adventure, by Crowther and Woods, leaked from Stanford and starting making the rounds on PDP-10 magtapes. Zork, from MIT, came along shortly thereafter, and was seen as more than bit of MIT taking a slap at Stanford by saying, "Now, here's how to do this right. First, one creates a Dungeon Definition Language. ..."
I am not a passionate Emacs user and I strongly dislike the weird bugs that rear their heads sometimes. I was always a vim user, but switched to Emacs because it has better support for completion, etc. while having nearly perfect vi emulation. I would even go as far as saying that Evil is vi implemented in Emacs Lisp.

I try VS Code every now and then, but I always stop because of two reasons: incomplete vi(m) emulation and the latency feels really bad compared to Emacs/vi.

Would like to switch otherwise, but non-leaky vi support and good latency are essentials.

Edit, forgot to add: something as good and keyboard-driven as magit.
Who is racing? And why?

This just sounds like a lot of waste of money, when they won’t even bother to help people pay their rents.
Inform6 can compile to the Z machine and it's really easy to use.
Developers normally borrow money to finance the development. That means they have major incentives to sell as fast as possible. Savvy buyers know this and can work that to get a better price.
Like classes of people...
That opinion is more mainstream then you give it credit. It is backed up recently by the nba losses (2 billion reported) for letting a player give support to Hong kong.

China has increased their power. Calling that notion racist discounts all of the different people who make up China's population. China is a country with people of many different colors, backgrounds and religions. Thinking of China as a single color is a little racist.
I am not surprised that you think that. A lot of western discourse has gone so far off to the anti China direction that anything neutral people say can come over as pro CCP.

I am not. I have plenty of critique against them. But the sentiment in HN is already so anti China that there is no need for me to voice that critique.

I am not even saying "CCP good". I am saying "CCP not as bad as you think" and "there are alternative perspectives that are just as valid".

As for my hope that they become competent in media: it is to counter all the obvious lies. I mean... Wuhan lab virus? Really? And people willingly believe these stories all over the world?
This is akin to banning any application that calls 'malloc' and 'free'.

To do ban static constructors they'd have to literally ban anything that links the C++ runtime, which is almost literally everything on your system.

Not possible.
I would say, they should test irrespective of whether the traveller had tested negative in their home country.

There can be difference in testing kits quality or perhaps just a false negative.
If you like text adventures with something easier than Zork, try Anchorhead. Then, Curses.
Yes, alike-passages are clunky and old-school cool,
but nowadays since Anchorhead the games are long
and good enough to be both enjoyed and
not get lost by design in several places (if any, just
several ones as a single or two puzzles, not as
a mechanic).

Curses can be unbearabily difficult, but
not on the "unwinnable by design"
as the others, at least not as
the old Infocom games.

Vicious Cycles is cool too albeit short.

And Slouch over Bedlam is damn poetry made
into a text adventure. Pure steampunk.
Truth behind propaganda against maadhaar security and fs0c13ty
Very well put. It's also a matter of use cases. These people seemingly implement servers for big companies. I just make shitty websites. We aren't their target audience yet it comes off as 'this is what everyone should be doing'.
Didn't a bunch of billionaires recently hunker down in their private bunkers in New Zealand? Does this mean they are trapped there now?
I liked the older subject matter standard (I can't remember the case In Re Alappat, maybe?) where the combination of software and hardware is considered the machine under consideration. Thus, novel software running on conventional hardware is viewed in combination as a novel machine.

This makes sense to me for some reason. I wish this remained the 35 USC 101 standard for software patents, I think it cleanly resolves subject matter problems. Then the courts and Congress could focus on developing better law using 35 USC 102, 103, and 112 rather than trying to use subject matter, which is by design the broadest patent law on the books.
For me it is

home-manager switch

and I don't only have my full Emacs configuration, but a full development environment with Rust, Go, etc. Though you could probably also configure VS Code that way.
Except they are not. Ask shareholders and bondholders.
I never got addicted to social media. I have Facebook, twitter, Instagram, reddit, HN, digg etc etc, but I rarely if ever use it. Although I do read reddit and HN regularly, I never felt a desire to delete it in order to curb the usage. Haven't posted anything on Facebook in two years, on Instagram in almost a year, on Twitter in 4 years.
If you’re just handling requests there isn’t much for shared state, so you don’t have to worry about synchronization.
Again, your own cite contradicts your thesis:

"Despite the increases in Detroit, the city's average rent is still among the lowest in the nation at $610. But that's quickly changing in and near downtown and Midtown, where the flow of new residents is creating a greater demand for housing."
One persistent problem I've encountered, is that this kind of nonsense very often translates into the bidding process of large projects.

If you come up with a realistic offer, which should be pretty close to reality in both time and budget, you're out of the race. Other contractors have put in offers with totally unrealistic numbers, making you look both slow AND expensive.

And like clockwork, the undercutting (bid) winners will deliver a 60% finished product come project due date, and then spend years on fixing bugs and "upgrades".

Their in-house devs, and outside consultants for that mater, are worked to the bone. Bugs happen, and the tickets pile up.

And worst of all, these companies get awarded new projects, again and again.
Not really. The most common keybindings of GUI text editing have largely converged, and those that haven't collectively account for similar total complexity to, say, basic file/buffer management and movement in emacs.

Yes, the life of an editor nomad sometimes involves hitting the wrong key to build or occasionally forgetting which modifiers trigger block select, but those adjustment pains are typically overshadowed by the joys of high-priority platform integration that works straight out of the box, and they're downright tiny in comparison to the pain I used to experience getting half-assed platform support up and limping in emacs.