skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm inclined to agree with you actually, and in spirit, I definitely do. But what's to stop a European from hosting content on USA servers, posing as USA company, and violating their regulation--even specifically targeting users local to their area from that remote server?

Granted, if significant revenue is generated they'll have to exist officially in one place or another in order to report the income, but not all such sites would need to generate such income, and could forgo it specifically for the purpose of violating local regulations in some cases.
Note that there is no new experimental evidence measure by an independent research group. It is just a new analysis of the data by the same group.
>There is nothing inherently wrong with "processed" food; it is entirely possible to use industrial processes to make a perfectly healthy and wholesome food product.

Given how profit in the food industry and addiction is so closely tied together, I don't see how this is possible.
According to the site (https://blog.conifer.rhizome.org/2020/06/11/webrecorder-coni...), webrecorder is becoming Conifer, so I'm guessing they've renamed the project but not transferred it yet.
Free speech is a concept even the west is struggling with -- Twitter hiding Donald Trump's tweets for example, or New Zealand banning the terrorists manifesto. If even the bastion of free speech is starting to have second doubts about it, how can you claim the moral high ground when a third country wants to restrict free speech?
I've been writing perl in VBA. It seems to me that this, or your example, demonstrate the opposite of language controlling thought. People have thoughts that are very different from the norm in the language they are using, and they find a way to express them. In fact, I've been recently trying to express my usual programming concepts in a language that's far more of a straitjacket than VBA.
I work at a FAANG and we implemented GDPR for everyone because it was 1) cheaper to have only one code path and 2) less liability if we fuck up identifying an EU user
I don't see that recommendation on the page...

The fact that interfaces are limited to typing objects but type aliases can also be used for functions is an easy +1 to type aliases.

My view is that declaration merging is a bit of an anti pattern that could cause trouble if two different people write an interface with the same name but to represent different data... now they get merged incorrectly. A type alias forces more explicit behavior where composition must be done by creating a new type alias as the union of two or more other types

type Foo = Bar & Baz

Edit: found the page, its here https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....

Yeah, not sure I agree yet but I could be persuaded...
I don't think type aliases prevent extension, they just force it to be explicitly declared.
> dictate all choices of every ally of the US, including all NATO members, as well as all of Asia.

Oh, you mean... kinda like the US does? How deep do you think our alliances that haven't even survived a century run?
There are two very important reasons for estimation:

1. Coordination with other teams or real-world events. In most decent-sized companies there are many people involved in a product or feature launch: product marketing, brand marketing, support, not to mention other dev teams. Many times these teams will need to broadcast external, hard dates (e.g. "our PR firmed lined up exclusives with journalists on date X") Being substantially late can affect lots of other people. However, importantly, this is not always the case. If you're estimating for the benefit of coordinating teams, be very explicit about which other teams depend on your estimates, and why.

2. To prioritize and decide which features to build. Prioritization is solely about balancing expected benefit with expected cost, so if you're wildly off about the cost, your time may have been better spent building something else. Again, though, if you underestimate by a bit, but in the end come up and say "I wouldn't have really worked on things in a different order anyway" then nothing was really lost. I can definitely think of cases, though, where if I really knew how long something would take at the start I would have chosen to do something else, or at least do it in a different way.
Games that show violence, guns, monster gore, zombies in a nutshell more games.
Have you tried VoiceCode? https://voicecode.io/

That in combination with switching to a Lisp (Clojure) almost made it feasible for me to code with RSI.

I just became a manager instead because I couldn’t work from home and talking like that in the office was a no-go for me.

If that’s your cup of tea you’d be surprised at how happy upper
management is to have someone who’s actually good at technology be willing to engage with them.
I have something sort of like this and I just have a project folder on my desktop full of markdown. I add a new file, commit, and push. I like it fine when I’m in “work mode” at my laptop, but it’s a hassle when I want to add a note from my phone.
Relationships are two-party affairs. What a man thinks of himself obviously affects how he behaves in a relationship but is not as important as the view that the woman has for him. This is what constitutes the basis of the relationship.

If there are no kids, then for a woman that has spent the best years of her life dating attractive alpha males, an unattractive male is never going to measure up.
Empirical evidence leads me to believe that kids can change that and be a stabilizing influence, bridging the gap between these models since both parties are able to make compromises by coming together and focusing on their kids.
The US seems to have fallen into a game-theoretic local minimum where each party lets their crazy cousin go throw dumb rocks at the opposition because it seems to be the optimal way to drum up fanatic support for their side, all the while whistling as if in ignorance of what's going on. At least that's how it seemed to start, now it's just devolved to outright scat slinging that's co-opted our system of government into a soap opera. It would almost be funny if the poo slingers weren't the very people that make and enforce the laws that we all have to live by.

Our political parties need to clean their damn houses. It's not the right's job to deal with the radical left, and it's not the left's job to deal with the radical right. Both sides need to take out their trash so we can actually get something done.

We need a way to argue against a steelman opposing argument instead of always a strawman. We need to be capable of updating our opinions without risking career suicide. We need something that allows us to deal with the meta problems like fallacies and trolls and half-refutations paraded around as victories. We need to be able to hold arguments with depth and nuance.
> There is no scenario where that outcome happens.

China successfully infiltrates the US military research network and develops/steals enough technology to close the arms tech gap. Then China, aka 'the factory of the world', starts producing military gear and using it to stabilise regimes in Middle East and Africa. The US, worn down under infighting and with very high debts, cannot sustain its involvement on the Asian and African continents and is forced to withdraw. The Europeans, sensing a sea change in the world order, remilitarise and ask the US to leave.

There you go, now you know a scenario that could play out over ~20-30 years. Maintaining a worldwide network of military bases is expensive, China doesn't have to 'enslave' the planet to force the US to mind their own business. It just has to level the playing field a little and the US won't be able to afford the effort.
Can you share a link to one of these filings or notices you are refering to? Or it would be helpful if you share what regulations are typically enforced on ISPs (in your region) and if they publish customer count details to public domain.
I think you are right that fang companies are the place to make money, better than startups. I've spent 2/3 of my career at fang and 1/3 in startups. Startups are fun but I really benefitted by a solid engineering start.
Example: Google famously exited China.
Nobody is arguing that the right wing media is not a giant echo chamber. Of course it is. Watching Sean Hannity speak would be amusing if not for the fact that you know there's a bunch of people in their living rooms taking him seriously.

But we on the left need to recognize how crazy this s* is getting.

If anyone questions the insane dogma that has taken over the newsrooms pushed by the far left, then they are labeled a right-winger or worse. Never mind the fact that it causes the left to lose elections when we let our fringe elements take over.

there are tens of thousands of people at any given moment talking about how crazy the right wing is, especially Fox news and Breitbart. But where are you when the New York times is completely going off the rails? You're just defending them as your tribal instincts take over.

Also let's be honest here:

Kneeling before people you've never met to atone for the sins of of other human beings who happen to share your skin color might be something that's normal to you. It is utterly alien to the vast majority of the American public. Defunding police might have nuance to it but it is lost to the American public. If we want to win this next presidential election and Congress in the Senate, we need to be aware of the fact that these ideas are insane to most of America. I can't think of anything that will push a Midwestern voter to pull the lever for Trump faster than watching Minneapolis disband its police department as a councilwoman interviewed on CNN states that calling the police on an intruder is an act of privilege.

If Trump wins in 2020 this will be why. I don't want him to win in 2020. Do you?
Yep there is a saying in cycling; ounces on the bike, pounds in the kitchen.
It’s a fairly small fraction of people that do. It’s a much larger fraction of people that would benefit from doing so.
See my post below: "Land's post lays out a sociological model (viewing the world as a detached observer) and then, through sleight-of-hand and careful selection of metrics, converts it into a measure of value (how one views one's life as an individual)."

I find this reprehensible.
The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game
(2) According to Mig-15 wp page, UK gave USSR an engine with blueprints. The part in your story about adhesive shoes sounds like an urban legend, unimportant detail at most.
This is a neat theme and site.

I have a a google doc called “unix commands” that I just add stuff onto. It started as a text file in my home directory 30 years ago and has grown to pretty much any snippet of code.

I control+F to find stuff and that works ok. I’m not sure the level of effort to reformat to this theme would pay off in benefits of easier search and reuse.
I'd like to opt out of this plan, thank you.
I don’t think that’s an excuse at all. As an American, it’s fully within my rights to critique the CCP to as many mainlanders I want to, including holding meetings with mainlanders.

They should have been never blocked.
No formal process is described but to be accountable actions taken should be defensible or explainable and generally they were not. There was also usually no evidence that the reviewer had any basis for making the assessment which led to their conclusion.
This is kind of a weird problem though. It seems like the equilibrium effect of not obeying Chinese laws will be that the companies are simply excluded from the Chinese market. I'm not sure how that really helps anyone. It feels like a moral victory, but i'm not sure that it actually helps anyone. It seems like the right approach might be to comply as minimally and poorly as you can get away with, while steadily trying to liberalize China through foreign exposure.

It's a tough call, though. It's not a decision I would want to have to make, that's for sure.
There’s further discussion about the game here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/h7yw17/til_a...
"that the context I was assuming was the belief that controlling language allows one to control thoughts of real people. My reaction isn't that it should or shouldn't, just that it obviously doesn't."

Is the government subjecting people to enhanced interrogation or torture?

Are they placing them in detention or prison?

Are people undocumented immigrants or illegals?

Is someone a <respectful term> or "just a <derrogatory term>"?

Is someone a freedom fighter, a terrorist, or a traitor?

To the Nazis, were Jewish people human or subhuman?

Can a given historical event be called a genocide?

To me it's pretty clear the words used to describe people and their actions influences how these people and actions are viewed and understood.

This is one reason why propaganda is so effective, and why violence often follows the dehumanization of certain groups of people, in which word choice tends to play an important role.
Furthermore you don’t have any more eng compliance efforts if other nations adopt subsets or GDPR wholesale.
It's called "Why China Will Not Become the Dominant Power in Asia" [0]. I saw it recently from a comment on HN.

[0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_AvNT3vyzr0
This section of town is normally the busiest part of the Seattle nightlife. They didn't just turn some random residential block into Coachella.

It's right by where the Capitol Hill block party is run, legally and with the city's blessing, every year. That's a major corporate event with _significantly_ more powerful sound systems.
Structured Logs in Go
The disdain for estimates in some of the comments here indicate that there is an organizational problem in the way those estimates are solicited, rather than a problem with the idea of estimating work itself.

I used to work for an organization where engineers so universally loathed the idea of estimates that I was convinced that it was just a necessary evil. But a few months ago I joined an organization where the relationship between engineering (which I'm in) and business is not very adversarial. Here, estimates are a tool to answer the question "how much work should we take up in the next sprint without burning ourselves out?". The estimation process is not loved, but it's not hated either.
There is no mention of Python Bundlewrap (https://bundlewrap.org/), which I have really liked, though I don't know how speed and scalability compares. I believe Bundlewrap will welcome contributors for these enhancements.
Zoom has many employees in China, don’t they? If they lose their business license, they’ll lose those employees. Imagine losing half your company almost overnight. How well would you do?
Women are having a lot more sexual partners, a lot sooner in their lives, today than at any previous point in history.
This invalidates any historical models of sexual behavior.

You can very well imagine a woman in Victorian times, keeping her virginity until her arranged marriage (in less developed Western countries this was still the case up until the 70s and 80s) to an average, physically unattractive male. The fact that he was the only male she knew sexually could very well provide the basis of a stable and healthy, loving longterm relationship, assuming he wasn't completely incompetent in giving her pleasure. This woman has acquired her model of a sexual relationship from the only man she ever knew. She never has a chance to find better, to compare.

This is definitely no longer the case. Women in developed countries are spending the formative and best years of their lives with multiple sex partners thus developing expectations and also reinforcing their baseline models and sexual norms acquired from said interactions. An average physically unattractive male looking for a stable longterm relationship faces very slim odds with this type of woman -very prevalent in the West- today unless he performs massive compromises and lowers his requirements.

I don't want to sound regressive or socially conservative, but this obviously does not bode well for the future of these societies. A permanent, ever-rising underclass bombarded daily with norms of sexual desire and models that it can never meet. One should expect the incel phenomenon -still at its infancy- to drastically intensify. Life-like sex robots may alleviate part of the problem but are probably at least 50 years away. Let us hope that VR comes together in providing alternate meaning-generating realities, sooner.
Could you elaborate more and provide some examples?
Personally I didn’t find any known streamers approved of cheating, and the mainstream absolute hate cheaters.
Covid theater: the upcoming gauntlet of dubious air travel safety measures
Something that caught my eye was not just the overall layout but the intakes' shape.

When I say it looks like the F-15, I'm saying, as opposed to, say, the F-16 or F-18 or F-14.

And it's just a comment on the superficial appearance, not based on aerospace knowledge or about espionage.

This thread isn't even about espionage, is it?
While emotionally I agree with everything you said. Realistically I wonder what anybody who talks like this would do when somebody with a very official legal document shows up on your doorstep. Its not as simple as it seems and most people want as little to do with problems like this.

Who are we really mad at here? Zoom or the CCP for essentially forcing their will on helpless entities?
Data Localization Laws: https://jsis.washington.edu/news/russian-data-localization-e...
You’re right, and also right that we might be biased. We actually not trying to say that with the modeling layer the CEO can remove her reliance on the DA completely, that would be foolish. We think she can only reduce that reliance down when it only comes to getting access to data. We are not talking about complicated analysis that requires a proper data mindset.
I'm guessing the J-1 application process has very specific questions designed to capture the nuanced differences between gathering info to report back to a foreign govt versus being a more typical visiting researcher.

I would also guess the US government was monitoring all this guy's communications so they are fully aware of when he was up to.
So are you saying that companies operating in New Zealand shouldn't follow New Zealand law to ban the Christchurch shooter's manifesto?
Correctly hashed (with salt and a memory+time hard hash) passwords are taken to be brute-force hard to crack.

In that sense it's as safe to publish such hashed passwords on the internet, in the same way a website's public key is published on the internet. In fact, it's good practice to set hash parameters such that it's slower to brute-force passwords than asymmetric keys (e.g. TLS certs).

However, the big difference is that TLS private keys are randomly generated, and of a fixed length, whereas passwords are user chosen. So an attacker could do a dictionary attack and probably uncover a number of passwords using that (e.g. just try out "password" on all the hashed passwords). Hashed passwords are only as hard to crack as the passwords themselves.
Children pretty much remove control from your life one way or another. However, they do absorb the sum of who you are in many ways, and in that way they are an expression of self-determination as much as its remover. For example, I like to sing quite a bit, I lack talent so that ultimately doesn't impact my professional life in any way, however my kids adore my singing. They validate my self-expression in a way that would be difficult for me to get otherwise.

I do periodically feel a lack of agency from my kids and their needs basically controlling my life, but I also feel an immense sense of accomplishment for satisfying, or at least attempting to satisfy those needs.
Streamlabs OBS – open-source streaming software built on OBS and Electron
Hi everyone, thanks for the interest!

I help steer the roadmap for Crux, which is very openly visible on GitHub, and we have a 1.9 release coming up in the next couple of weeks which will be the most significant milestone since we launched last year.

Shortly after 1.9 we will be adding SQL query support, which uses Apache Calcite to compile SQL into Datalog on-the-fly, and end-to-end JSON APIs. Both of these together should really broaden the appeal of Crux far beyond Clojure and the Java/JVM communities. Stay tuned!

I would be very happy to answer any questions and hear feedback, as ever.
You have some good points on your list, but there are also vast misunderstandings and you clearly have preconceptions of what is 'best' based on your own preferences. To just mention a few

- the RMB is indeed in use in a number of Asian countries as an informal second currency.

- USD as global reserve currency is strong but on a downward trend. In some parts of the world the Euro has become more important and the largest holder of USD is China. If they truly wanted to harm the US they could dump these in big tranches - without this unique advantage a lot of US politics (in particular the eternal debt growth) simply don't work any longer.

- from a European perspective I have to say it does not look like the US is very democratic. A two-party state effectively run by the wealthy for their own profit, with a hundred million in an economically precarious condition with not even real access to healthcare.

I do think the last years have shown that the US too is extremely fragile, just as you diagnose for the PRC.
It could be good for programmers who can't type and have to use voice. I couldn't use my hands much for a couple months, and the state of the art for voice access.. leaves something to be desired. If I lose function for longer in the future I'd need something like that.
We use PI/CI (Ponderal Index AKA Corpulence Index) in my lab and it's a huge improvement over BMI. Especially for modern heights in men and women. Still crude, but easy to apply. Wide margins.
Are you sure you have RSI and not TMS (tension myositis syndrome)? It's a condition that causes real physical symptoms (of which wrist pain is a common one) that are not due to pathological or structural abnormalities. Rather, the symptoms are caused by stress and repressed emotions.

Check out this success forum of people who have healed from all kinds of chronic pain symptoms by dealing with stress and changing their mindset:

https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/forums/success-stories-subforu...
Indeed, suppressing upsets to the status quo was always a major purpose of corporate research labs like IBM Watson Labs, same Xerox, Bell, Kodak.

Corporate would spend any amount patenting things, but shelve every single thing. Innovation upsets the gravy train. So as long as you are on top of the market, change is inherently bad. Even a whole new, unrelated product line competes with existing products if a customer for both might be the same company.

A co-worker once sat listening to execs from EMC chatting about competitive threats: uniquely from other divisions of EMC. With 80% margins on existing product, nothing new looks attractive, nothing outside the company is competition, and it doesn't even matter what outsiders hear.

Such a company also benefits from buying up apparently competing companies and disbanding them or jacking up their prices to match. In the '80s, Mentor Graphics's business model depended on buying and shuttering Cadence-like companies. Cadence was the first one too big to do that to, and MG finally had to figure out another business when the gravy train dried up. They collected lots of rent until then, and the managers left flush and found other crooked opportunities.

It's easy to spot other companies in similar positions, past and present.