skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notably, there was a single global hegemon that bombed and invaded countries at-will during that time period.

Now another pole rises in China and so a return to a "cold war" like system is possible. Personally, I hope we can come to an arms control limitation with China. In 20-30 years, even force parity will be charity on their part.
Mostly syntax and semantics. Programming with Rust is unlike anything else, at least unlike anything else I've used. Despite the apparent effort they put into making great error messages, I don't think manual lifetime management is something a typical programmer will pick up very quickly. Most of the other languages on the list, I imagine one could be productive relatively quickly. I have myself proven empirically that for not utterly-trivial programs, Rust isn't something one "picks up," due to layers of novelty. To be repetitive, my take is that benefits aside it's got to be the most hostile language currently achieving popularity.
The entire subject of this thread is about getting accessibility and other benefits for free if you write semantically-correct HTML. You're arguing for the exact opposite: just using whatever element gives you the appearance you want, regardless of whether it's the correct one or not.

Using CSS to change the appearance of a button isn't a hack, that's the explicit purpose of CSS. It's a hack to make a link point to "javascript:void(0)" to prevent it from doing the thing it's supposed to do.
The advantage of Hong Kong is that it gets special status in China's financial restrictions (for example, exemptions from financial export controls), and I believe this is the primary reason Hong Kong has been the major center of the Chinese financial system.
Author here. That's an interesting analogy — especially given that small book stores and libraries (to a lesser extent) still do exist, albeit in much smaller numbers, attracting fewer patrons.

A lot of web traffic today transits through applications and platforms. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; although I'd hate to see even more walled gardens. My hope is only that the small and independent web not go forgotten/ignored.
> You know that porn and beheadings are already explicitly not protected speech in the US and elsewhere?

OK cool, that resolves the parent's objection. I did not know that.

> You know that comment moderation on a privately owned website is both legal and protected by law, and in no way affects your free speech protections?

Read up on the CDA and the special privileges granted by Section 230. I'm not at all suggesting that online moderation should be made illegal.
I think even from a national defense perspective it makes sense to retain a lot of the talent and manufacturing capability in some ways even if it's no longer WW2 and we can just launch a missile now. Maybe call it national strategy to have talent in a broad array of fields.
Not an accountant, but I think if you use a home office for your employer's convenience, and you use it exclusively for business, you can apply a home office deduction to your taxes. Assuming you itemize your deductions rather than take the standard one.

Again, not an accountant, not your accountant, etc.
I made another comment and just updated it, that delves a lot deeper into this topic than it really deserves, but here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326438
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“Metal Storm” is my favourite one. It’s the trademark for a company that produces an electrically controlled machine gun with an extraordinarily high rate of fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm?wprov=sfti1
Social media companies don't necessarily need to take a stand. Label any tweet with the word 'vaccine/vaccination' with a link to the WHO (or insert users country health ministry) info on vaccines. There is obiviously a lot of topics to cover (voting rights, flat earth, conspiracy theories etc) but isn't the thing tech companies can do well is things at scale?
NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts live
What all of them?
> your employer should expense that, ideally it shouldn't impact you financially.

You're really limiting your userbase (customer pool) here by expecting only enterprise users. Many people here are freelance designers, students with part-time jobs, researchers writing for-profit books, or they work for themselves. Most employers don't allow expenses for note-taking apps. I would encourage you to adopt this pricing model: https://simplemind.eu/features-pricing/

It looks cool, but I won't buy it until it's a lifetime license.

Edit: Sorry that this came out overly-negative. It's a beautiful product, congrats on launching it!
Hostile, but not more. C++ isn't completely unlike every other language people have been using for decades.
Deglobalization After Covid-19
I don't think reverting to chrono content makes sense. If popularity doesn't influence what's top-of-feed, then we'll just be flooded with un-interesting content.

Imagine if HN or Reddit didn't sort by popularity? Everyone would need to sort through /new. ...that's not scalable.

What would be better would be to reward controversial content. If lots of people downvote something, and also lots of people upvote, then maybe it needs more attention, not less?

So that rather than creating ever-more-extremist bubbles, people are more likely to see opinions that make them force them to appreciate other points of view.
Uh, please stop downvoting rayiner. He didn't say anything wrong or kooky, on the contrary he provided an interesting, substantiated counter-point not often heard around these parts. Do you people _want_ HN to become an even worse echochamber?

Secondly, it makes it hard for me to read because it's light-colored text on light background. So knock it off.
I mean, social media should be more regulated and laws should definitely be enacted to hold those companies more liable for the content that is published on their platforms. The problem is that I definitely do not want Trump deciding on how to do it.

Right now, social media is a pretty bad cesspool. No one takes the blame for allowing sociopaths to dominate those platforms.
HAH! I took this exit twice last weekend! Really terrifying merge during Saturday afternoon traffic, but it was easy on Sunday morning (as I breathed a sigh of relief that I was leaving Pittsburgh and wouldn't have to do it again). Reminds me of a similar on-ramp onto the BQE in Brooklyn, which is equally if not more congested: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6899298,-73.9989999,3a,75y,1...

The exit off I-376 coming out from the tunnel is also really annoying -- exit, then left turn over a bridge, then you're back on the highway and need to exit, then pick the correct lane to head into Squirrel Hill, but it seems pretty arbitrary, and you may end up making a weird left turn anyway just to get "into" the neighborhood.
Car’s Yearly Tune-Up Costs as Much as a Civic
Same story for me. 15% cut across the board for base salaries, merit increases cancelled, 401k match removed.

Similarly bonuses were paid, but because they were reflective of 2019.
Is this comment a joke? Are you a bot? You haven't heard these issues mentioned before? The proposed conundrum is a major fixture of the mainstream discourse.
Where does the $28M go?
Presumably you know that non-technical users, IME, use Google instead of the URL bar. And, if Bing is the default search engine they search Google first, then enter the website name in Google, then click on the first result (without checking the URL).

This is the primary way I've seen "non tech" users navigate to a website. Some will use the address bar, but they're in the minority.

No matter how much I berate my family they still all do this, so I'm no longer surprised to see it when visiting a client (though I don't do web design/training since last year).
Post-Covid Economic Manifestos
Interesting. Looking at Palmer's claim: "Try saying anything negative about the 五毛, or even mentioning them at all. Your comment will last about 30 seconds and get deleted without warning or notice, CCP-censor style." This seems to be evidence against the broader claim that anything gets deleted, rather than just negative comments.
Disarmament on the global scale, sure. Won't go that far, for practical reasons - we'll still need knives and fusils de chasse.
Very. It has happened to me so many times that now whenever I travel I always take a set of pentalobe screwdrivers with me so I can remove the back plate of my MBP when (not if) this happens to avoid structural damage.
You're thinking of EITC, which would have major employer capture since it distorts labor supply. UBI has much less capture and would likely lead to less people working instead.
> McDonnell Douglas was purchased almost 25 years ago, so perhaps it may be a little unfair to ascribe all of Boeing's current problems to that one event.

Planes have a very long development cycle. If the foundations at Boeing started rotting on the day of the McDonnell-Douglas acquisition, it makes sense that we'd only start seeing it fall apart now.
> "your options were to either deal with the crap performance, or void your warranty by installing a third party battery."

Or pay Apple a not-entirely-unreasonable fee to get them to replace the battery ($49 IIRC?), a bit more than the third party price but perhaps worth it for peace of mind.
A transatlantic flight of 6 hours on a Boeing 737 would emit about 540 kilograms for a single passenger. In the US per capita C02 emissions were 15.8 metric tons in 2017. So the round trip would account for ~1/15th of a person's yearly total.

You could probably make that up by driving less, since a typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. If you look at the UK, it's estimated that 20% of the nation's emissions are directly from heating and hot water, which is analogous to many areas of the US. This is largely due to old and poorly insulated housing stock.

This isn't meant to be CO2 whataboutism, but rather to compare meaningful individual contributions to emissions. IMO aviation for most international travelers may be a large single contribution, but they do it infrequently and other activities could be moderated of modified to make up ground. I mention this to support my parent claim that aviation has numerous benefits, and they may likely outweigh their costs accounting for externalities. That said, I would advocate a carbon tax that prices emissions into things like gas, heating, flying, etc.
Hah maybe I am scared of the wrong thing then.

Unfortunately I'm too short and my ceilings are too tall for a joist mounted deal. (However that does mean I can do more pullups I guess)
StackOverflow stuff, for me. I always have to prepend `g!` to those.

Google must index SO better or something because there's always so many more useful results (particularly in the little "sub-results" below any SO result) than what DDG gives. E.g., compare:

DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=bash+pass+argument+to+anoth...

Google: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bash%20pass%20argument...
The best way to prevent the spread of viruses like Corona is to put everyone in a straightjacket and chain them to the floor in their home. Epidemiologists will keep saying people need to stay inside because that’s safer.

You need the other people to have a voice as well because you can’t live and eliminate all risks at the same time.
By 'behind the scenes' do you mean the physical objects that they're modelling, or how the software works?
Actually it’s my kid that keeps me knowing what day it is since she still has classes and we have scheduled chores.
This study needs more skepticism. Who are the consultant's clients? Who were the population polled?

I don't know many younger folks who don't try to automate every aspect of their lives including grocery.
> Unfortunately they're just chasing marginal efficiency gains with these

Marginal gains is the name of the game for airliners. A 2% increase in fuel efficiency is something airlines drool over.

> It's much more important to make a plane that's safe enough to actually remain in the air.

Which Boeing unequivocally does. Ya, they stumbled with the 737-MAX, but all the other perfectly good 737 variants are still the workhorse of most airlines. There's still more 737's flying around than Airbus A320 variants (including the A321). That doesn't even account for all the 767, 777 and 787's flying around the world every day... nor all the 747's and DC10/MD-11's shuttling freight too.
Not everyone commutes by car. I used to bike to work which was nearly free.
> Avoid the "grumpy old programmer" stereotype at all costs. Instead, you want to be the "bad-ass wizard" that people need to solve hard problems, and people want Gandalf, not Saruman.

Fair enough, but that's kind of hard to show in an interview. My typical experience is that the first couple of months on a job, I'm soaking the whole place up (i.e., figuring out their unique accumulated horrors), and my bosses typically have no idea what I'm doing (and are thinking they made a mistake hiring me).

Then suddenly (to them) I start becoming really productive, and in short order they realize I'm the guy who can solve the problems no one else can. Once had a boss cry when I turned in my notice.

But how do you sell that?
We've been using Instacart more during the pandemic and we've found that it makes shopping for substitutions much harder. Instacart has about as good of a system for replacements as possible IMO but I still prefer to be able to adapt and change what we're planning to eat on the fly, in the store. On the other hand we have started to widen our recipe horizons by being forced to use unexpected replacements.
This is no different in the cryptography community in at least one of the countries in this arrangement. With the broad exception that they usually have to be on the payroll of the company to avoid conflicts of interest (if at a privately held company working for the government in this role). I'm not experienced with the government itself but I suspect no different.
Needing an office.

Lots of people in sfbay and nyc structure their living situations around not spending lots of time at home. That has been upended.

My company is allowing people to become permanently remote, if they want. However, after covid, if you go full or mostly remote, it will be a hard requirement to have a dedicated room for an office. That is probably incompatible with living in most of the bay area.
I don't know, maybe as a journalistic organization they have a special deal with Youtube.

But if I read in between the lines of your comments, you appear to be saying that all of CGTN's videos are propaganda that should be dismissed out of hand. I don't agree with that notion. Whether you agree with their views is another story, but I do think it is valuable for their story to be at least heard.
If you see my other comment, for most travelers in the US at least who make a single large trip every year or so the single trip makes up less than 10% of their emissions for that year.
Aren't the algorithms probably better at curating that bubble than people would be themselves though? If I started using Twitter and I followed Trump, a few people posting weird pro-Trump memes about him at the top of the comments on his tweets, and pro-Trump media, wouldn't the algorithm curate me a pretty nice bubble feed? Twitter always spam my feed with random things people I follow liked/replied to, surely they'd do the same for people with that sort of account too?
Or you know...a desk and monitors. A lot of people don't have their own workstation setup at home and are sitting on the couch using their laptop for 8 hours because they have nothing else.
Combined with that second thing I mentioned (required Google hosted JS), it is total control by Google with no straightforward way for me to detect it, block it or go around it, as I can today.
The truth is out there but you don't know it, I don't know it, Trump doesn't know it and Biden doesn't know it. We will all have strong beliefs and they will be rooted in our different ideologies.
Yep, and keeping the other services running at the same time is just stupid.

Its obvious HBO Now could be merged completely into Max since you get access to both if you have Now but the fact they still keep Go around still is a joke.
So Hong Kong is only filled with CPC supporters, which just further cements China's claim?

At a certain point and time, Hong Kongers should be given political asylum, but the standards should also apply to mainland and Tibetan residents.
I've heard of several automotive related companies cutting salaries by 10% to 20%. These are highly paid engineers, managers, and such.
If the CCP says "if you delete anti-CCP content on Youtube we will act more favorably towards your other enterprises in China" and Google does just that, that's a conspiracy. I'm not so sure if that's what's going on, but it seems probable enough to consider.
If you read Robin Hanson's blog post on the topic[1], he found data on other diseases:

> The most directly relevant data is on SARS[2] and measles[3], where natural differences in doses were associated with factors of 3 and 14 in death rates, and[4] in[5] smallpox, where in the 1700s low “variolation” doses given on purpose cut death rates by a factor of 10 to 30.

It looks like the initial dose size has a huge impact on mortality for a wide range of diseases.

1. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/03/variolation-may-cut-co...

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3367618/

3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3723239/

4. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.h...

5. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/02/01/5823701...
I'm not sure that confusion will really exist, or that it would be warranted if it did. At least for HBO Now, the existing Android app updated and is now named HBO Max. I just logged into Max using my Now credentials, and it seems to have all the content from Now, plus some extra stuff. I think Max is just a renamed superset of Go/Now (which were basically just two names for the same thing anyway). There seems to be no reason to use Now anymore, and Go seems to only exist as a separate site to appease cable companies that HBO isn't offering a competing streaming service vs what they're giving "for free" to HBO cable subscribers.
HBO is betting on their content to be superior right now, but there are some obvious areas where the streaming experience isn't on par with Netflix. No 4K/HDR, one plan costing a premium that limits simultaneous streaming to only 3 screens, etc.

Hope that they catch up eventually else it's gonna be hard to compete solely based on content.
If by US public you mean the common citizenry then no, of course that won't happen. But you can be certain that any public servants helping to grease through the bail out will be given quite cushy positions when they retire. That's the pattern in the US, when something should go to citizens it is instead diverted to politicians while rhetoric about bootstraps[1] is voluminously discussed.

1. Both sides of the aisle have large amounts of corruption and are ineffective to the citizenry - but the GOP really loves driving home the benefits of bootstraps.
Ad 1: You’d have to try it yourself, but to me, Obsidian works flawlessly on Mac. As another commeter said, it has a certain VS Code feel to it. No iOS app yet, but I think it’ll come sooner or later — you should keep an eye out.

2nd: Obsidian can transclude whole files or whole sections (afaik). No block-level transclusion, as there isn’t any concept of blocks in Markdown, but that shouldn’t matter much.
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The obvious answer is criticism of the Chinese government, which is I believe a Chinese constitutional right that is ignored in practice. Although, practically speaking, this has already been lost in Hong Kong ever since the abduction of the bookseller.
Well, Boeing now owns Embraer. So they have that going for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer#Boeing-Embraer_joint_v...
The point of a business is to make money and cut costs.
I just bought a sit/stand desk, and an ergonomic chair. That's $2k+ I've paid directly for equipment that was previously provided.

In addition, our utility bills have risen about 50% as now we're at home for 8 hours more per day. Extra heat (and soon A/C), water, electricity, etc.

Also, my "play" room is now my work room. How much extra should I be paid for my work environment to be permanently visible at all times? It's starting to affect my psyche. Luckily I had a play room to begin with, so my bedroom didn't have to become my work room too. I would have even more trouble sleeping in that case.
So are you claiming if everyone stays at home food will magically keep appearing on their doorsteps?
I should note that this list isn't unusually long for a point release.
Surely the threat of mass destruction had more to do with that so-called peace.

And was it really peaceful? All that espionage essentially led to the proxy wars across the globe that cost countless number of lives.
You were agreeing with the statement "I feel sorry for the people who lose their jobs because of this, but I think less air travel would in many ways be a good thing for the world.
".

That necessarily implies that fewer people should be able to travel.
So we're calling spam filters censorship now?
Also a product long past it’s glory days. Ditched my less than year old X1 Carbon to get a 16” MacBook Pro because it was randomly dying while purporting to have 25% battery left.
Your priors are terrible. Extrapolation from past experience is a perfectly valid form of reasoning: it's called “induction”, and most people consider it a valid form of reasoning.

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

Or, to mirror your tone:

Being paranoid does sound like an issue! However, just because other people's personal incredulity hasn't been a great form of evidence in the past, that doesn't mean it isn't a good form of evidence at the moment. Got any reason to believe it isn't?
Google pixel 3a, reading your comment: "for me it seems like Google voice typing is getting worse and worse. It capitalizes random words in a sentence like this. It's specifically ignores the word o clock."
As always, there's a relevant XKCD https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/
For the benefit of any other perplexed non-Americans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_carrot#%22Baby-cut%22_car...
Does anyone actually think that Netflix solely uses algorithms to suggest and or design content?

It seems like to me that they use analytics to inform what kind of content to make but there are humans making decisions.
I work at a large public University where they're furloughing staff and cutting pay. The ones not furloughed will see a cut in pay between 5-10% depending on salary.
"exclusively for business" is the hard part. Unless you've chosen your home to include that dedicated work room. it's going to be difficult to have a room that you're not using for non-business.
I think it's a much greater stretch to pretend that this person's obvious political bias doesn't leak into the "fact checking" they choose to do - or not to do, which is kind of the bigger issue. They may "correctly", ignoring the philosophically charged issue of "correct", fact check a certain politician but choose to ignore a different politician's statements that would otherwise be noted as incorrect under the same or similar standard.
She's looking... Forward to a couple of months, maybe a year or more of unemployment.

The job market is horrific at the moment, unless you want to be doing gig delivery, or warehouse work. There, only the work conditions are horrific.