skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law tends to disagree: crossword puzzles are copyrightable material just like any other published text is, so their value comes from the material that they help sell, whether that's a newspaper, or a crossword puzzle book, or a website, or any other published, in the legal sense, work.
Take away the historical context of the words and how do you know which list is the denylist and which list is the allowlist?

"blacklist" first started becoming popular during widespread slavery of Africans for European colonies. If you want to dehumanize and enslave an entire continent, it sure does help to have the word "black" mean "evil".

If you are a black American, the word black does mean a lot to you for sure. What's the impact of seeing that word mean "bad" or "evil" or "not allowed" on a regular basis at the workplace? Does that experience have anything to do with race? Whether or not it was about race in the past, it is about race now. "denylist" is both more accurate and fixes a problem that we have right now.
We can write to PCLATH without causing a jump. PCLATH is only read when we goto somewhere, or call a routine, or write to PCL.
What? If most "advanced" users turn off telemetry then they want a terrible product?
Republican worries about repression in China. Perfectly ok with repression in Russia and the ties between this administration and Russian political operative? Wow. Mind blown.
It’s possible you were downvoted without being answered because it’s trivial to Google “Proud Boys”. Here, I’ve just done it for you and here’s the first link: the Wikipedia page on the group —- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys
"Not unusual" and "not cretinous" are not the same thing.
The people who use Safari is exactly the demographic that this change targets. Chrome users includes most developers who are the ones to complain.
As an American that has received his fair share of indoctrination and with no deep love for a lot of China's domestic as well as foreign policy, I am curious about a few things, sincerely:

1. Are these as egregious as we are led to believe?
2. Are these really a sign of deep foreign influence?
3. Can it be that these are actually just minor oversights of a large number of individuals without needing to jump to the worst conclusion of these scientists being spies (as one other comment has already asserted)?

I am not trying to water down what may be a serious case of foreign influence, but if this is something common and/or easy to fall into, it's possible this is an overreaction and may cause harm to the research community. The article is worded in a way that doesn't clarify if the focus was only on Chinese influence or if this was broadly designed to capture any foreign influence.

I ask these questions to broaden the discussion because oftentimes research and academic centers can have overly broad requests on disclosure which can be very invasive and, truth be told, if everyone answered fully and clearly, a lot of people would probably be excluded, and that begs the question if these are essential or not in my humble opinion.

To be clear, I am very much for limiting foreign influence on domestic policy, whether it's via research or otherwise, but I think it bears practicing greater skepticism when something may just be a proxy for "action" rather than sincere positive results.
> We're going to skip the McCarthyism and go straight to racial profiling I guess.

Lauer said the fact that 82% of those being investigated are Asian “is not surprising” because “that’s who the Chinese target” in their foreign talent recruitment programs.
Isn't he doing exactly that with Blue Origin? AFAIK he's selling about $1b of AMZN stock every year to fund it. He's also recently pledged $10b to fight climate change.
I prefer to have my cake and eat it too. Is that too much to ask?
The health issue is complex and as such the right decisions are complex as well. I guess WHO and CDC could have issued guidelines to keep a permanent lock-down until a vaccine is found or at least until the virus is better understood but there are political, social and economic issues and WHO and CDC are in the middle of this big mess.
Not the person you’re replying to, but here’s another way of thinking of it: A $1000 server can sit under my desk, no problem. The TCO comes down to the cost of my productivity with the AWS bill as a second order effect.

If the ops team can’t manage >>10 machines for the price of me managing one, there’s something horribly wrong.

They should just let the developer buy the $1000 machine if it will help productivity.

That doesn’t mean production should run on a pile of machines under someone’s desk. That’s a different scenario.
Please take a look at styled-system and proposed theme specification with variants. This is how you would expose your inner components for custom styling.

https://styled-system.com/variants

you can use it in Chakra or in anything else that supports this spec.
Sorry, should have been more clear. The Dollar Stores are taking over grocery business across America. Its their most popular item (grocery) and many, many people's sole source of groceries. There are many articles about this, and it was even discussed here on HN some months ago.

I think its maybe a 'first world' view, that every body goes to Dollar Stores for the same things the upper class go there for. One source noted there are many times more Dollar Stores in Texas alone, than WalMarts across the entire USA. Gotta be a reason, and it isn't batteries.

The 'unfrozen meat section' is a prestige-item display case with really a trivial amount of product on display compared to the square footage dedicated to it. Vs every other section of the grocery, with racks 5-10 shelves high crowded with products. I honestly buy meat at the butcher counter maybe once a month, for a special occasion. Not a lot to do with 'what I usually eat'. Maybe its different for others.
Not surprised. There's something in the water in the Windows print spooler. I have a Brother HL-L2380DW printer that worked "just fine," but then at some point after a Windows update, everything started printing inverted. Like literally the printer would paint the page black, except for white where the text was. I thought it was a firmware issue on the printer, but it only happened when printing in Windows.

Wasted a ton of toner trying to figure out what was going on. The solution? When adding the printer in Windows, don't add it automatically via network discovery. That will install the bad version of the driver. Manually type in the IP of the printer. That will clue Windows in to using the... correct? version of the driver? The one that doesn't invert all the colors?

Printing is a mess and our industry should be ashamed. How does something like this just break after an update? I can only imagine the absolute spaghetti bowl that is the Windows print subsystem.

Here's an official Brother FAQ outlining the "fix"[0]. I'm pretty sure it's still not fixed in Windows and continues to require this song-and-dance workaround.

[0]: https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/167000/...
If it's organized, now it's archiving.
Supposing they were spying, what’s the edge that China gets since NIH research gets published publicly anyway?
Health data related to Native Americans is already highly undercounted and incomplete as compared to other groups. This continued surpression of their ways of living is sad to watch. When NA’s already have little trust in Western medicine, this action by the CDC will do nothing more than erode that relationship further.
> Often, they actually can't, because their survival depend on more pressing day-to-day matters.

I agree with you entirely except for this. For the poor, yes. But there are plenty of people the more pressing day-to-day matters is not survival but how to hoard even more wealth and advantage than they already have. Like sending their children to private schools despite that only exacerbating the already gross iniquities of life for poor children vs elite children. Or figuring out how to upgrade to an even nicer house or which gentrifying neighborhood will yield them the best returns in 10-20 years once it is fully taken over.
Using a text editor to mess with a SQLite database doesn't make any sense. Do you use text editors to edit, say, MPEG media?

SQLite databases can be edited with with generic GUI and command line tools, both SQL-based and tabular editors, which are safer and more convenient than a text editor could ever be.
If you care about this, my suggestion is to lend a hand to https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium and help them find a way to make the transition between Chrome and Chromium more seamless.
Yeah, as long as you have isolation there's no reason to keep people from being able to see in the house.

That said, that design doesn't seem super practical and the photographs probably wouldn't look nearly as nice once all the electrical cords and general clutter is out. And I imagine it doesn't offer a lot of separation for visiting family, etc.

The Graham House looks like it has lots of glass while still having some separation between parts of the house.
I believe it's less about ethnicity and more about culture. Policies work differently for e.g. the citizens of Tokio and those of New York City. If you have largely homogeneous groups, you're having a much easier time to create policies than if you have very heterogeneous groups. The US is very culturally diverse, so "one size fits all" is likely much more difficult.

> I would have thought that the experience of being mortal would suffice, but evidently not.

If that's so, why do we see different approaches to social policy in different cultures? Surely, they are all mortal?
Then they're valuing other things more than a UX that caters to them.
Perhaps one danger is influence on agenda?
The danger is that people who are secretly funded by the Chinese government, and lie about it to the US government, might be flipped to foreign agents in case of conflict. The funding itself I agree isn't an issue, and the probe doesn't seem to have targeted people who were honest about it.
From the same page you've linked:

The definite article can also be used in English to indicate a specific class among other classes: The cabbage white butterfly lays its eggs on members of the Brassica genus.

And from other sources:

We also use the definite article:

to say something about all the things referred to by a noun:
The wolf is not really a dangerous animal. (= Wolves are not really dangerous animals.)
The kangaroo is found only in Australia. (= Kangaroos are found only in Australia.)
The heart pumps blood around the body. (= Hearts pump blood around bodies.)

We use the definite article in this way to talk about musical instruments:

Joe plays the piano really well.
She is learning the guitar.

to refer to a system or service:
How long does it take on the train?
I heard it on the radio.
You should tell the police.
Agree in part; disagree in part.

Most WP site owners are average Joes and Janes. Probably 95% of them. They get a ‘dev’ (college kid) to help them here and there, but most are being ‘run’ by complete amateurs.

On the other hand, SSGs are a hot mess. You have to know ‘deployments’ and ‘libraries’ and how to break down your site into partials and a ton more.

And that assumes you are familiar with CLI, the O/S, and sometimes various ‘template’ languages.

Go read the “first blog post” tutorials by any SSG. No mere mortal stands a chance.

If I see one more “so easy! First type ‘npm install yummy-blog -ldx’ and then clone my repo theme into your blah blah blah’.... uh, what? Do you think your kid’s fourth grade teacher has a chance?

But they can sign up for a free WP.com account and post something in 10 minutes. Or if they are slightly more techie and know how to buy a domain and setup a hosting account, they will have a “one-click install”.

WP will (eventually) be “performant enough” as PHP advances and they ditch legacy code. Even a lot of more techie websites and companies use it when they have the ability to use SSGs because it’s just rarely worth the hassle for the trade-off in performance. Inevitably, even those companies want Tina in Marketing to write posts and if she saw a code editor or a command line she’d quit. (And not being sexist - could just as well be Dylan in Accounting who needs to post about his company’s ‘transparent’ finances to show how hip the company is with their 27 employees.

SSGs might never take off. Even ‘easy’ ones that can have a web-based login or ones like Publii have a very limited audience.

What amazes me is that... people keep building more! StaticGen must list 100+. And it seems ne’er a month goes by on HN where some lonely dev doesn’t announce they are building yet another one.

I personally don’t get it. The new ones have all the same friction and nothing innovative over the existing market of SSGs. And no, using Rust or Go to speed up build times by 12 seconds doesn’t count.
Further testing by Redditors cements that this is a Verizon issue.

Hopefully the Reddit OP will adjust his headline, because this is potentially useful info.
> I personally believe that intellectual property as a whole doesn't make sense in the 21st century and should be abolished.

Do you believe that models should have no right to be compensated if some corporation takes a picture of them off the internet and uses it in their own ad campaign?

Do you believe that McDonalds should be free to make and sell happy-meal toys of whatever kids’ movie is hot lately, even using the logo of the movie in their advertising, with no obligation to compensate the people who made the movie?

Do you believe that if an inventor comes up with a new system for drug delivery and tries to sell it to some pharma company—but the pharma company turns around and does industrial espionage to get access to the technique themselves—then the pharma company should be able to just walk away with the new technology, with the inventor left with no legal recourse?

Those are all “intellectual property”, too. IP isn’t just software patents and overextended copyright terms. A world truly without any IP law wouldn’t be a utopia for innovation; it’d be a dystopia of every middleman having the legal right to produce and sell their own fakes of everything, to the point that brands cannot exist.

It’d be a world where every store, even the brick-and-mortar ones, even the ones selling things like drugs, work like shopping on Wish/AliExpress.

It’d be a world where e.g. the Coca-Cola company makes fake Pepsi products that looks exactly like the ones PepsiCo makes but which taste much worse, and puts them in stores beside the real PepsiCo products, to get Pepsi drinkers to buy those, taste them, think “Pepsi isn’t the same any more”, and switch.

It’d certainly be a world where every drug is just a generic, because you couldn’t maintain a drug brand in the face of identical dups—but it’d also be a world where even the generic store brands of drugs could be switched out at every step of the supply chain for cheaper/nastier alternatives, with no legal consequence (as long as the resulting drugs still met FDA standards.) Without IP law, there’d be no legal recourse to the suppliers who did that. It’d be, at best, a contractual dispute; and so would effectively always come down to the relative depth-of-pockets of the buyer vs. the elements of their supply chain.

Is that a world you want to live in?

Certainly, we need IP reform. But not even the most hardcore libertarian really wants to live in a world where every kind of IP right is unilaterally abolished. Having global capitalism entirely unfettered by IP rights, is like having a car entirely unfettered by brakes. You don’t get a faster car; you get a car that crashes into trees a lot.
I was wondering about that position. thanks
What Is Juneteenth?
I have a lot of chrome extensions, yes.
I tried to see what would happen when I put in some stock photos of people into the Colab notebook linked from the repo's README. Some worked better than others. Some totally didn't resolve well at all. Overall I think it's interesting, but there are definitely a lot of edge cases.

Some gifs of the test results:
https://github.com/cardboard-q/pifuhd_demo_model_test
Yeah, like their privacy? Since when did getting a good product that respects your privacy become an oxymoron?
git = "a foolish or worthless person"

Wonder if some people want to push for a rename. I won't be surprised
Thanks for the honest comment. I think you're quite right about the "if you build it, they will come" messaging, and the importance of self-promotion.

It's also OK to build projects that don't necessarily go anywhere. I recently had a music app I was developing and I had hopes for turning that into a business, but I quickly realized that in order to make the app really competitive, to have enough value that people would pay for it, it would become a job on top of my job, and that would really kill the fun. At the end of the day, side-projects like this are mostly about having fun and learning a few things.

I am happy with my small userbase. The fact that a few people keep coming back, and the app lives on its own, without me promoting it, means that some people find genuine value/enjoyment out of it. I intend to keep the app running and free for as long as it doesn't become a maintenance burden.
The Moral Character of Scientific Work
Or the people investigating did so with the belief that "the Chinese target Asian men" and ended up rounding up a bunch of Asian men.

If "the Chinese are targeting Asians", why would the most prominent example be a non-Asian? Presumably being a prominent researcher makes one harder to influence, and if they were targeting Asians, it would have to be because being Asian makes them easier to influence. If the goal is to influence the most important research, then you would want to influence the most prominent researchers, of which the lowest cost researchers to influence would be a prominent Asian researcher, not a promiment non-Asian researcher.

In addition, if your goal is finding influence, and you end up finding one non-Asian being prominent lyinfluenced, and a bunch of Asians not being as prominently influenced, it generally either means non-Asians are being more prominently influenced in general, or you've been ignoring non-Asians to the point that you only notice the prominent ones.
Are you gatekeeping a 7 year old? Learning about character encoding from first principles is an awesome accomplishment.
Nothing about his teachings is rudimentary.

The feel like that because they look as simple thoughts.

But those simple thoughts are enough to attain realization of the self, according to hindu philosophy.

However, they are not suited for the normal layman, because realization through Ramana Maharshis teachings involves a certain level of knowledge and thought.

I highly encourage you to read "Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi" by his disciple.

In those talks, maharshi breaks down how the elaborate hindu cultural and vedic literature ultimately boils down to utter simplicity.
Um, would you care to define "Tankies", for those of us not in the know?

And the left, such as we have in the US, may not have been pro-China, but who on the left was against China?
The one thought about C++ Lisp completely ruined for me is giving closing braces their own line. Why do all my functions have to end with six newlines?!!??
I don't see the problem with it. Think of this scenario from the perspective of an employer:

- You hire someone and they create something and use it as part of your software.
- They leave.
- Then they sue you because they say you are using their software that they created in their spare time.

Or any of the other 999 IP disputes that can arise from not being very clear about who owns the IP of things your employees create.
Commence phase 1 of the US political purges.
I wish I could remember the joke, but IIRC it was pretty terrible as I was just desperate to get something back from that engineering team that seemed like ... fun.

Fortunately they either didn't care for, missed or just never acknowledged most of my puns and really vague references.

Outside that one interaction the only thing I knew from them was that despite me being not the best technically compared to my peers, they asked I work specific tickets at times... but I think that was mostly because they knew I didn't make things up and would be honest and say "I don't know". Also I'd give them a heads up when I saw something hitting the fan to give them time to prepare ;)
Slug has DirectX support (it runs on all major APIs). Pathfinder does not yet, but likely will in time. As always, evaluate the offerings and choose what meets your needs best. Performance is probably comparable between the two, but that depends hugely on workloads and how it's integrated into the rest of your system.
Epidemiology 101: Epidemic Modeling for Everyone
Sir. We find your questioning of official policy very concerning.

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
And it's entirely possible that these people were given little option but to cooperate with China if they still had family living there.
You may assume that I read it thoroughly. The first time was in 1984. The more I read it, the more things I find that are already reality.
Yeah you're probably right. It's a bit depressing learning about the way those who actually make a business worth anything get treated, though.
Creator here. I love creating beats, but couldn't find a tool that exports sounds so I can use them in a DAW, so I created my own. Front-end is preact and the bundle size is about 500k, which I'm OK with. Chrome CPU is around 12% on my late 2013 MBpro with all the tracks playing. All samples by me, more on its way. MIDI out is next on the list I think. And maybe some kind of song mode / pattern chaining.
Shrinking the database is the equivalent of saving the file when the application shuts down or saving an extra copy to make a backup.
Facial Recognition Tech Hits the Wall, AI Journalist Misfires, and More
California.

https://www.upcounsel.com/non-compete-california

I remember Apple and Google getting into trouble over non-compete several years back.
It's probably not about what gets punished but what does not get published. China might suppress information that could be important.

There is no reason for the researchers to hide payments from China if they were honest and the NIH obviously agrees.
"Holy grail" not because of how it would work on this particular disease, but because it would allow basically limitless editing of any gene in any living human, allowing us to fix all hereditary genetic diseases, and do a whole lot of other things besides.
Analysis – Why Google is now a better competitor to Slack, WhatsApp and Zoom?
I see what you're saying, and without GP disclosing exactly what kind of systemic racism is not "true", I agree with your objection, but it might have been an unfortunate way of wording.
CoVID-19: Visualizing individual patient data
It actually follow a common pattern in evolution. Doing big changes are hard, difficult and risky. Tinkering and doing small changes over time works for most things and any legacy system, as long they are not directly harmful, can remain as a byproduct. There is even a word for it in biology called spandrel.
Not OP.

First of all I wanna say that Mathematica/Wolfram Language is not just functional and certainly not purely functional.

Thus said, I feel trying to be purely functional has its drawbacks whenever you have to keep track of a lot of stuff that requires state: for example if you have to declare that some of your constants are real you end up having to use Assuming or Assumptions a lot and that can get verbose quickly. Setting the $Assumptions global makes for terser code.

If you wanna dig more into the differences of the two approaches in the same language you can look at the xAct package vs. the built-in symbolic tensors: xAct has many more features but feels less idiomatic, because you have to set they type of your symbols beforehand and expressions are not really self-contained.