skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, now I'm on a bunch of lists. Thanks for that link.
> Is anyone else annoyed this is being publicized?

I don't know about annoyed, but I wouldn't want to talk about any movies I haven't seen with the author, or involve them in planning a surprise party.
Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased
Is now the time to start learning rust? In your estimation, are there going to be lots of job opportunities for people who have 15 years experience with rust?

I primarily live in the .Net world, but rust seems extremely close to f# in terms of compiler safety, and I'm trying to decide what programming language to learn next.
I'd say you're off. I'd describe the experience of the worm much in the same way you're describing the experience of a rock, just a couple biochemical circuits. And the experience of the rock would be even more atomically null to compensate.
This page may help.

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America's human rights laws don't apply to non-US citizens outside of the US's landmass.

America has been exceptionally clear that US intelligence and immigration agencies consider non-Americans to be fair game for hacking, non-judicial imprisonment, torture et al.

So if I'm not American I might acknowledge that America treats it's own citizens slightly better than China treats theirs from a human rights perspective, but as someone who's British neither nation has a stellar track record of actions that effect me and my country personally or give me any rights protection.
A valid stance. Incidentally, that's why I've never had any interest in working at a certain couple of FAANG companies.
Actually, there have been studies done showing their trades beat the market! It is not possible to know their exact return but the studies I've read suggest they have alpha.
Incompatibility between C enums and Rust enums forces to use integers instead, which leads to errors. (Rust doesn't allow to enum variables to be forward compatible, i.e. it cannot have a value outside of enum).
... and the winner is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzULywAHUM
I would move away from the Yahoo Finance API, there's a few data sources that you can use that have free access to their API, see [1] for an example.

- [1] https://www.alphavantage.co/
What nonsense. Why would a politician have to disclose/not be allowed to keep secret when they masturbate, for example?
No, quite the opposite. In scan the entire HN once a day
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The data are old, but from 1993 to 1998, US senators outperformed the market by up to 12.3% [0]

[0] https://insidertrading.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionI...
Homeschooled for my entire life (I can count the number of times I've been inside a K12 building without taking off my socks) and know 100s of former HS kids. To be honest, I did not love my homeschool experience and would have preferred not to do it, but I got into a decent college and now working my dream job as a software developer so I guess it worked out fine.

A piece of advice: it sounds so obvious, but every child learns differently and has different features that will fit will with some styles and not others. Be nimble and adaptable. Don't immediately invest in an expensive set of math instruction manuals (classic rookie HS parent mistake) or commit to an opinionated learning plan without evaluating it in practice w/ your kids first.

For content, the consistent thing that has set well prepared homeschooled students (or any kind of student in my experience) apart from their less prepared peers is outstanding reading and math skills. There are lots of other things that are really important, but if you have great reading and math skills then you have the fundamental tools to learn and do well in pretty much any career. Don't worry too much about the book you use to teach math. I mostly used Saxon - it was good for some things, not others. The most important thing for a kid is spending time doing math, practicing math, getting math problems wrong and working through why they were wrong.

For reading, read. Encourage and praise any reading. Have lots of books of all kinds available. Most importantly, READ YOURSELF. Your kids need to see you read.
Thanks! Obviously it's still small, but I think it would be cool if it got bigger and people would be able to chat and ask real questions about a site to other real people on it rather than asking the employees through chat who would be biased.
> The historical profits reported for some buildings were listed as much as 30% higher than the profits previously reported for the same buildings and same years when the property was part of an earlier CMBS. As a rough analogy, imagine a homeowner having stated in a mortgage application that his 2017 income was $100,000 only to claim during a later refinancing that his 2017 income was $130,000 — without acknowledging or explaining the change.

TL;DR
China actually ranks high in adherence to contracts. It’s what’s not in the contracts that creates problems. The issues are a bit more nuanced. Harris Bricken is a law firm with a great blog on related legal topics.
So this is how privacy dies
Forked the stackblitz for posterity https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-3nxvlm?file=src/app/app....
One small tip if you receive a CSV with a non-default separator (like ;):

* Open it in a text exitor

* Add "sep=;" on the first line (without the quotes)

* Now at least Excel will open it as intended
HTML was never designed to be "device independent", display pixel-perfect the same everywhere regardless of user-agent.

PDF was, in relationship with printing.

I think this is clearly a quality people want (whether they "should" or not), so it's unlikely they will stop using PDF unless there's another thing that can provide that quality. I don't think HTML is the right avenue for it.

I would say the ePub format comes pretty close to what you are asking for though, a container format for HTML webpage that would pack all assets and run in... well, standards-based software from several different sources. I'm not sure if browsers will actually display ePub or not? They presumably could fairly easily if they had a desire to, since it's all standard html/web technology. ePub is not W3C maintained though, I don't think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

It has moved in on PDF territory in some limited areas -- mainly ebooks of course, the use-case it's focused on. I think this is because it turns out "pixel perfect same everywhere" is a clear DOWNSIDE for ebooks, you want them to be formatted properly for your device's screen size, not have the same page size everywhere. So while PDFs were sometimes used for this, it works poorly enough for the user that another solution was demanded. (and thankfully we got an open standards one). Most uses of PDF still work "good enough" for most users (certainly not all; there can be accessibilty probelms). Even if it's a nightmare under the hood, PDFs generally work "good enough" for most developers too (again not all). It's a lot of investment to reproduce to replace, it would require popular use cases failing hard probably, with money to made from serving them better.
It depends on the motives. E.g. they hire Palentir but don't want to have those bad associations, so NDA the Palentir contractors working on it.
After this move by the US, it wouldn't surprise me if there soon were 7-9 instead of 6 such companies, and the new entries were Chinese/China-friendly.

China has both, money and leverage (not just political, rare earths, etc), to throw at this problem, and from China's perspective it should be a strategic priority to get this done. It would in fact surprise me if there weren't such projects already in full drive since May 2019 when this all started.
> Source on this? I certainly haven't heard the government say anything to this effect.

I'm basing this on the government's paralysis in this case.

> We're a country of laws.

Canada's system of laws is being abused by the Trump administration, which has made no secret of its desire to use Meng Wanzhou as a bargaining chip in the trade war. Allowing the Canadian extradition treaty with the US to be abused for political ends was not wise. There were smarter ways to deal with the request. Hong Kong's reaction to the US extradition request for Snowden (please resubmit the paperwork while we let him fly out of our jurisdiction) would have been a good model to follow.

> We should follow those laws, not just give in to pressure from China because they're big, mean, and scary.

The possible US reaction to not extraditing Meng Wanzhou would be just as - if not more - scary. Canada is extremely dependent on trade with the US. That's why the government arrested Meng Wanzhou, and why it is finding it so difficult to acknowledge the obvious: that this is a politically motivated prosecution that does not fall under the terms of the extradition treaty.
It is very difficult to make a positive difference in anyone’s life with his given skills.

The best he can do is not actively make anyone else’s life worse, so go with finance, and adopt a shelter animal.
It looks like you got that from this PR: https://github.com/christianscott/levenshtein-distance-bench...

That PR does not make the benchmark loads "equivalent." Please look at the diff. That PR adds parallelism to the Rust program. The Go program does not have parallelism.
It is happening, albeit in a bit of a patchy, ad-hoc way. One example is International Design in Government:

https://international.gov-design.com/
You can't compare Stephenson and Banks. Banks is actually a good writer.

I don't really enjoy Stephenson's prose. It's often plodding, rarely beautiful. Thankfuly, apart from its lacklustre ending, Snow Crash largely compensates through sheer entertainability. It's unapologetically fun in a genre which tends to take itself far to seriously.

In good hands, I really think it can make a very good show.
I learned it a few years ago, just for fun. I have it in my back pocket for a personal project. The language has some odd corners to learn (and they are what make it special), but it's not so difficult you can't forget about it for a year and then come back to your project, as I have.

There's some highly specialist aspects you _could_ learn (like anything I suppose), but I've got enough to get by and be as productive as I'd like without needing to get to that level.

So there's no harm in learning enough to get by for fun.

Compare to e.g. Haskell, which I learned at university, I have a memory that you'd have to invest quite heavily to make it do something useful.
But still the diagonalization argument applies. In order for your slightly wrong oracle to work, you still need a 100% correct oracle. Now remove the slightly wrong wrapper, and you are back in square one.
Am I the only one not surprised at all by this report?
I am not claiming race is a developmental or preferential factor but instead was an imposed factor in the consequences of one group achieving dominance comparative to another. National groups were still most strictly ethnically homogenous at that point and frequently used that as a point of identity. I also don’t think comparing European groups to East Asian groups is productive in this context because both were well connected and technologically similar at the point of colonialism. Better comparisons would be European groups to Pacific Islanders of the same colonial period who were often highly isolated aside from immediate neighbors.

A more interesting comparison is European conquerors to civilizations of the Americas during the colonial era. The Aztecs were only conquered as a result of Spanish exploiting social unrest. They didn’t have the numbers themselves for their technological military advantage to matter, though that wasn’t the case with the Incas further south. Had the Incas developed metal working as advanced as their agricultural refinements they probably could have repelled the Spanish invasion. Conversely, the Spanish were never able to conquer or subdue the Maya communities around Mexico’s current southern border due to the environment, geography, and decentralization.
For any Android users that don't already, I highly recommend either Join or Pushbullet even if just simply used for clipboard sync. The ability to send files and mirror your notifications can be handy but once you have clipboard sync it's hard to go back.
So you’ll approach 100% of this program lying to you that the other program halts.

This isn’t any different from running a program for 30 seconds and checking whether it halted or not.

You are simply sampling it differently.
Software customization is hard (2018)
Whatever skills they put on the job description along with no scruples or moral standards whatsoever.
Epic! has read along books for kids https://www.getepic.com/ and is free during Covid19. Tons of content!
I’ve had that happen a couple of times but it’s definitely uncommon (single digit count for hundreds of instances over a decade). I haven’t seen it in a long enough time that I’m assuming they have a bulletproof live migration feature now.
So a company creating a digital profile on you to sell targeted advertising vs a country, which is effectively a dictatorship, who has a history of murdering and imprisoning dissenters without trial, are here lumped into the same evil? Can we please take down the Facebook hate back to earth?
https://mysteryscience.com/ is excellent.
Cool new languages don’t provide any competitive advantage. You will not be doing HFT with Rust or Haskell or whatever.
Sorry but lockdown is about permanent control. Scientists said lockdown does NOT help. This was a global martial law test. Period. Countries with no lockdown did fine. 0.1 deathrate is never enough to justify complete suspension of human rights and police beatings for no masks. We could have fought this while keeping civil liberties. They chose draconian route intentionally.
Plenty of big name companies (discord, amazon) and even universities (georgia tech) are using and teaching rust. That's enough for me to say you should jump on the train.
How is Google meet so fast?
I've been having internet problems the whole day, where loading simple webpages takes a long time occasionally resulting in timouts.

However, I've had a call and it barely mattered. The call was ok, and I could hear everything clearly. I tested my internet speeds during the call and I got 47kbps.

I think this might be due to UDP or TCP but does this only explain this start contrast?
Yeah we have released already, and actually got front page of Hacker News for 2 days, so got a lot of great feedback. You can check it out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21734845
Bean counters prefer to pay others to "make those problems seem to go away".
> The site design is similar to HN on this front. I think that it is culture that separates the two instead.

Agreed. Culture is important.

Regarding my comment on identity: I'm trying to make a more subtle point, which is that it's difficult to build a long-lasting relationship via an online community if every comment is essentially speaking to a broad, new audience. I can't say, "Hey User-X, you mentioned this last week and I was thinking about it yesterday, and wanted to say this...". There is no continuity and no relationship-building.

Another (poor) metaphor would be: imagine your job is a traveling elevator repairman/repairwoman. You go from building to building, working at each for a few days. Sometimes, you go back to the same building. Maybe you strike up a conversation with each building's maintenance staff, but the fact that you have no enduring identity, means that you never quite get to know anyone, even if you recognize some of the same faces.

Forums didn't have this issue, largely because of avatars, signatures, and basically being forced to read every comment.

> This is desirable imo. It should not matter who makes a post but rather the quality of the post itself.

I think this makes sense at first glance, but the downsides (personality cults) are a separate issue that arises from the voting system. If you had comments/posts organized chronologically, 'cult leader' comments wouldn't be at the top. This also only seems to happen when the community is large enough for an individual to be anonymous within it.
On the other hand, it's difficult to be diplomatic when one side is so belligerent, sensitive and petty. China has started imposing trade sanctions on my country (Australia) because our Prime Minister had the audacity to suggest there should be an independent inquiry into the origin of COVID-19. Meanwhile, they see fit to interfere in our domestic and political affairs through various front organisations, bribery and even directly through their embassy and ambassador in Australia.

People are fast growing tired of China's aggressive and abusive approach to 'diplomacy'.
Sends a HEAD request instead of a GET, and the output goes to STDERR, so I prefer the parent's suggestion.
I still believe in the value of individuality. Politiciants should have same expectation of privacy as regular citizens.

Transactions should not.
From a purely pragmatic point of view, in the Web PKI CN is ignored by Chrome for some time now and I think Firefox did that too. There were, and might still be, exceptions for certificates you trust which aren't from the Web PKI. You break it, you bought it.

The Baseline Requirements require that Public CAs ensure CN if present (which for compatibility it usually will be) is set to the same name as one of the SANs. Historically breaches were not uncommon, but as noted above now these certificates won't work as intended in Chrome so that's another practical reason above getting a slap on the wrist from m.d.s.policy.
There are plenty of opportunities for people with their skill set in the realm of biomedical research.
We still have Meng, she's chilling in a million dollar mansion in Vancouver while China keeps a few of our citizens in actual jail for it.
There are no sure things. We don't like the current situation because its risky. But no risk no reward. If we wanted less risk our only option was to have done it way earlier - under Bush 1 or Clinton.
> The end result of this is to ensure that China develops their own semi conductor industry

Seems to me that's happening either way and probably always was. Why wouldn't they?
What’s the best resource to get started with Rust and make a desktop app?
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I most certainly am not.
Certificates list what website they are a certificate for. Wildcards are allowed in some cases.
This certificate claims it certifies every website.

There's a mechanism called certificate chains that allows browsers to validate that the certificte actually has the authority it claims to have - obviously, this certificate would not pass that validation.
Yes, this is correct, it's the sign of the US losing its post WW2 grip on world affairs. But the normally balanced and insightful HN crowd is drowned out on topics like these. Pre-WW1 style national pride and competition for markets and raw materials is back with a vengeance it seems, and it's not only the US who got it; Russia, China, the EU and more got it too. It doesn't bode well.
Americans will disagree and not understand why non Americans have this opinion.
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What is it that is actually preventing this from escalating to a hot war? It feels like we are just waiting for China to manufacture enough warships and nukes or killer drones or AGI with spiking neural networks or whatever can give them an edge so that a real war can start.

It's even a war in the comments section.

I don't think it's safe. How do we really know it can't progress to some kind of overt military activity?

Why are people not more concerned about this?

I get the impression that people think the best way to prevent a war is to keep doing things to hold them down. But that seems to be escalating tensions and not actually limiting them.

What is the plan for getting out of this? I hope that Elon hurries up with his Mars rockets so I can emmigrate before the whole planet turns into a complete bloody (literally) science fiction nightmare.
Hate to say I told you so, but...

https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-coronavirus-week-9-contact...

66% of respondents said they would not use a contact tracing app developed by a tech company. The remaining 33% may give it a go before they find out how worthless it is and then it will likely settle into the same levels of adoption as Singapore.

This is obvious to I guess everyone outside of HN and Silicon Valley.
The TSV (tab-separated values) format is supported by a lot of software (Google Sheets, for instance) and solves the "comma in the field" problem quite nicely. Tabs can easily be typed by a human, but they don't usually occur within a one-line string, so they don't cause the same problems as CSVs do.
You are not :)
Which Dockerfiles do you mean, please? There are only Linux images. Dockerfiles are then prepared by owners of devices.
Your misery doesn't make the whole world miserable, paulcole. I bet you have at least one thing that if you could fix asap, with the solution you want, may it be money, love, health, or anithing else, you would not be permanently miserable as you have been saying you are. So if it can be fixed and improved, even if you lack the willpower to go forward, it is not permanent. You make it permanent, and I definitely don't care or form my world view based on desperate losers.
I regularly run an extension that first edits, then deletes all my comments.
The United States has no obligation whatsoever to enrich China, especially at its own expense.

Your argument is a half step up from "she was dressed like she was asking for it".
I saw that the Piston developers created Dyon which could be seen as a Lua in the Rust spirit. No garbage collection, only lifetimes.

https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon#list-of-features
Because everything other is just plain old neo-colonialism: Western companies with loads of money build the infrastructure and extract all the profits out of the African continent.
Yeah I speculate that tsmc has gotten some sweetheart deals as part of this policy change.
>With the perspective of COVID19, China seems like a threat to the global community

This does not make any sense to me. Though I do not approve of all of the actions China took at the start of the pandemic, I can not understand how you can consider them a threat over it.

Also McDonald's?
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>Unless the market size for a population is not proportional to that population

It's not.
US Population is maybe ~1/4th of India.
Apple has a huge market in the US and is relatively niche in India.
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I agree. That's how I've felt about Python with every release since 3.5
33% of Americans would use Apple/Google contact tracing app
Making contributions doesn’t cancel stealing secrets. We all know most of the chinese technology was IP stolen and improved upon. Lets take for example Solowheel. Do you know the story behind it?
Which is still an improvement over his predecessors who were playing "kick the can".