skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people here have been to Tibet.
The occupation is a tragedy and a human rights crime. I have seen it.
Go away bots.
I assume the US has always been an oligarchy and never truly a democracy at the federal level. The American people just get to vote from either the two parties that desire whoever to be elected and where hundreds of millions are spent with a lot of nonsense that's off-topic.

Understandably tech is arguably in infancy but nothing like the decades before today. So the tech monopolies of today weren't a thing before but people had so much opportunity in the earliest years; that resulted in money being easy to be made with little concern of whatever outcome. Nowadays platforms control most of the market and people are now starting to notice an oligarchy in tech. Resulting in concern propagating in recent years.

It's well known a lot of people in society don't have a voice and when they're wronged by the system(s) of society; whether it be authoritarian or not. I'm unsure if we can really prove current day is worse or better than previously in history regarding to having a voice/impact when being wronged. My question is how do we justly blame a worse outcome on a tech oligarchy and when we cannot know the foregoing being worse or better than the past?
” The rich and powerful of course treated their good fortune as a reward for -- and tangible evidence of -- virtue in past and present lives. ”

This is very similar to how “the Family” (of the congressional prayer breakfast) reasons. Except in their it’s because they are “the chosen”, not that they had past lives.
I don't think printing is a viable solution for most users. I'm guessing most would want to download the comment threads to their phone so they could read them later in situations where connectivity is patchy (eg train/plane etc).
I have a feeling that their infra is a little more complex than that now.
You forgot to mention a very impotant thing: what size?
I think capping fees would make it even worse, it would entrench the practice as acceptable.

Allow sideloading and the price should move towards the equilibrium price. Which very well might be 30%, since Google manages this despite allowing sideloading.

The tricky question I would say is the accessibility of the alternative stores.
First there is the default/non-default install thing, we've seen how it worked out for Microsoft.
Then there are all the warnings/toggles about unsafe external apps. This is much more difficult, since it's quite useful for security, but at the same time it makes it much harder for alternative stores/apps.
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For a lot or maybe even most people, all of that entails some mix of: possibly having to set up server logs in the first place, redirecting them somewhere for analysis and possibly archival, having access to a server in the first place, hooking up the analytics apparatus to consume the logs yet also be able to serve a dashboard, setup yet another moving part, finally get around to that "TODO: setup real logging instead of println()" issue, etc.

There's lots of take for granted there. It's no wonder copy and pasting a <script> one-liner caught on.
University cheating might be up – but don't just blame students
The only proprietary part in AMD and Intel graphics stack is GPU firmware. Both companies have few closed-source components that might work on top of the same open-source kernel drivers, but they all have open source alternatives.
Isn’t that what C-SPAN is for? A private company isn’t obligated to transmit anyone’s speech. Politicians can use government owned or subsidized media if they want to dictate the terms.
> the mold cape (linked in wikipedia article on Golden Hats)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold_cape
‘Digital Transformation’ won't help you innovate
My dear colleague, the bowl doesn't go on your head. There was a period local rite of keg standing* and the Stanley Cup, judging from the materials (evidence for an expanded elite trade network), is obviously an apparatus for the temple version of this ritual.

* In Great White North, head goes on bowl.

ObCanada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCcWzLAcv4o
Would you care to elaborate?

How am I doing so far?

> According to McKenzie Wark when information becomes a commodity it means we will only be able to see the information produced by the vectoral class. This is because they are the ones whose profits depend on the scarcity of information. So when information becomes intellectual property we are bound to repeat the same commodity form, because this is what the market decrees. She states that the “hack” which monetizes information introduces the “vectoralist” class.

> It is the hacker class that produces new information, free from the restrictions of a property form. This however is then used by the vectoral class, who own and control the means of production of information on an industrial scale and mediates connections and access to information (Paolo Pedercini, the founder of the radical games project Molleindustria cites companies like Google, Uber or Airbnb as typical representatives of the vectoral class). The hacker and the vectoral class aren’t always at odds with each other. They can compromise on the free flow of information and the extraction of wealth from this information to fund its development. Think of the open source movement, Reddit and Wikipedia. McKenzie Wark believes that the hacker class should ally themselves with the other producing classes so that they together don’t have to answer to the vectoral class anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto
I tried but I don’t see that the paper proved anything about the current pandemics?
I'd definitely welcome some thoughtful, unbiased commentary on Tibet. I'd like to be certain that this is it (and not, e.g., the work of a hack for hire). I have to say that googling Michael Parenti does not fill me with encouragement, but I'll be happy to be corrected.

I met some Tibetan exiles working in the market in Dalhousie in India, 20+ years ago. They had fled Tibet to seek freedom and opportunity. If the border guards had seen them, they would have been shot.[1] So, I am not a huge fan of Chinese control of Tibet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangpa_La_shooting_incident
> You don't have a choice to distribute iPhone software.

Just broaden the market to software in general or even just software for mobile phones and tablets. Then you have a choice again. iOS's market share is below 50% even in the US, and much lower globally.

(I have both iOS and Android devices, and I specifically like that Android's Firefox allows add-ons like uBlock Origin. Apples doesn't allow those.)
He's not Techlead but the two are definitely associated.
Yes, the UX on mobile leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion. The two things that are going for HN in its current form is the fact that it's lightweight and fast.

A lot of people think that moving to an SPA would mean killing both those aspects. But the truth is, you CAN have an SPA that is both lightweight and fast - the developer just needs to know what they're doing.
> Better have a compiled language, even if its within a VM, like C# or Java, rather than interpreted ones like JS or python

I'm not sure you understand how these languages work as none of the are truly compiled in the sense I think you mean (natively). Both Java/C# and Javascript work in the same way: they are compiled to bytecode which is then interpreted. The only difference is that Java/C# is compiled AOT whereas V8 (presumably) compiles on first execution and caches the output. Python is a truly interpreted language although PyPy can give a huge perf boost.
For a bit of unconventional (intellectual) fun, you can imagine your post as being about cooking and food instead of programming and programming languages.

Something like:
"I was an intermittent cook, because I need to sell, and manage my (small) business too.

In my case, cooking both soups and main courses, and some deserts occasionally was frustrating. Cooking times are always slightly different...

I increased my productivity and my fun tremendously when I switched to only eating polenta."

I hope this does not come off as offensive, which was not my intention, instead, I hope this serves as food(pun intended) for thought and reflection.
On the other hand, most of that is stuff that human curation can rightfully reject as not worth linking and indexing. We don't need to index the entire web, we need to index the good stuff (that is likely to stay there anyway and be worth archiving).
Maybe I'm wrong, but the Van Allen belts may also be a reason [1]. The ISS and LEO is below the belts, but the geostationary orbit is inside them, which might cause astronauts to be exposed to higher levels of solar radiation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt
In the context of comp-sci, I'd say it applies to requiring a Strict Serializable consistency model merely because it's easier to reason about it, even if some other model would be a better fit to the problem at hand.

Double plus if you use that model because you don't know of the existence of the others.
I like practical examples for learning about math-heavy stuff and I came to greater understanding while looking into imaging, specifically how DCT (discrete cosine transformation) works.

You learn how an image is dissected into two matrices (or one complex matrix) containing amplitudes and phases of respective frequencies. A good start for me was playing around with openCV and reading about JPEG (uses DCT).

Why transform an image in the first place? Because you can just set the highest frequencies to zero without influencing the image in real space too much. This effect is leveraged by classical JPEG compression, you just delete data not that important for the image. Being able to analyze, filter, change frequencies in a signal has a lot of other applications.

There are better links but maybe this is a start:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/discrete-cosine-transf...

There is a ton of literature about DCT because its widespread application. A few google searches lead to good learning material. Fourier and in general LaPlace transformations are a little different, but far easier to understand after seeing an example of their application in my opinion.

This also touches the topic of the article. The problem is that transforming between real space and spectral space results in rounding errors. The article describes a new approach to minimize these.
From the article:

> To support the Chinese overthrow of the Dalai Lama's feudal theocracy is not to applaud everything about Chinese rule in Tibet. This point is seldom understood by today's Shangri-La adherents in the West.

> The converse is also true. To denounce the Chinese occupation does not mean we have to romanticize the former feudal régime. One common complaint among Buddhist proselytes in the West is that Tibet's religious culture is being destroyed by the Chinese authorities. This does seem to be the case. But what I am questioning here is the supposedly admirable and pristinely spiritual nature of that pre-invasion culture. In short, we can advocate religious freedom and independence for Tibet without having to embrace the mythology of a Paradise Lost.

Who's the bot now?
> religious rituals

Far to generous...in this instance it’s a “sun cult”

It’s kind of funny the worship of the sun, which a) actually exists; and b) is responsible for life on earth (not to mention stars generally are responsible for the elements that make up life) is cult status...but if you worship a “God” that is entirely faith based and more akin to a invisible friend, that is a sacred religion.
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Except these apps aren't really using the marketplace. Pretty much the entire service is being delivered outside of the marketplace and they purposefully don't charge for the app download so as to not use the payment processing of Apple.

Apple is trying to force apps to go through the marketplace and their payment processing, however, also forcing them to take the 30% markup. The policy as followed here is "Everything you provide you have to provide via Apple's services so we charge you extra".
I feel like it's difficult to be an infrequent Node user since everytime I come back to a project or I want to re-use something, I need to manage the dependencies. The modules are often updated and there are breaking changes....
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> You likely know as well as I do that the vast majority of sexual assaults go unreported

But this case was reported and talked about around the world, so it's not in the same situation.

> I stand by my position that having sex with someone in a way they explicitly did not give consent to, even if they consented to other terms, is rape.

That's fine, but the alleged victims in this case don't agree.
In Firefox you can force hardware acceleration in about config which resolves tearing for me on scroll, it's off by default for conservative reasons.
It happened 300 years ago, but similar overtaxing policies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungar_conquest_of_Altishahr
Today's Protest Movements Are as Big as Those of the 1960s
Oracle is so supportive, free and open that it is suing Google for copying from a free software.
Does NetBSD support initramfs (the name of the Linux feature)? That would avoid having to create a disk image by running a bare system from a ramfs/tmpfs.

I experimented with something like that with Linux and cloud-hypervisor (a firecracker fork):
https://gist.github.com/gdamjan/1f260b58eb9fb1ba62d223495858...
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> I'm afraid there is - time and space.

Sure, I'm well aware of that. I did say "in principle", after all.

However, we are generating multiple plans already by changing the SQL text (by concatenating-in the table names, SELECT list, ORDER BY and so on).

There is currently no good solution in SQL even for parametrizing different "shapes" of WHERE, so we use dynamic SQL for that, generating even more plans.

There is some low-hanging fruit here.

> Suppose you want to parameterise by fields selected. That's a combination, which involves factorial. tl;dr that grows fast.

You don't have to do it in advance, though.

Today, when you change the text of the SELECT list, you generate a new plan anyway. Parametrized SELECT list would be no different.

> I'd have to see some actual cases before arguing further (edit: though I have come across this, so maybe, but it's not IME common).

Most junction tables have essentially identical structure, but different foreign keys. This is also pretty common when implementing things like "tags" or "attributes" that apply to more than one kind of object...

But it doesn't really matter whether all fields are identical, only those that are actually used by the given SQL statement. In a hypothetical future SQL, you could implement your algorithm generically and then apply it on any table or view that is "compatible enough", even if it has some extra fields that your SQL statement doesn't use.

In today's SQL, unfortunately, you are condemned to repeating the (essentially) same code.
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And yet, Chinese workers earn way less, but they are building like crazy.

No, it's not money, it's something else. "Build Culture" is a good name for it, whatever it is.
Thanks, checkout The Polity series by Neal Asher, he's the only one who had come close to matching Banks but in a slightly darker universe and he world builds like no-one else I've read, the Prador are a brilliant conception.
Are you arguing against the above poster's link? Or against my summary of what it literally says?
Interesting, a commercial BitTorrent client for Linux.
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Sounds like "Just-world" thinking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Because they're not good at it and are guaranteed to screw it up somehow and especially at the margins.

Do these new rules include the Android Play Store? Does it include the Apple TV app store? Does it include the Play Store when purchased on a television running Android? Imagine if Mattel creates a new ultra-low cost video games console; should these rules apply to them? What if their console happens to run Android? What if their games console runs Android and the Play Store? What if apps bought on their game store can also run on a phone?

Ultimately it ends up just warping the market and adding yet more complexity into business—and complexity benefits powerful established players over new entrants.
> A private company isn’t obligated to transmit anyone’s speech.

The phone company was.[1] TV networks were.[2] And while there is still some debate about this, net neutrality would apply that obligation to ISPs. Why not Facebook and Twitter?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
They let other users get away with much worst posts. If you are on the left you can say whatever you want, if you are on the right everything you say is a lie and wrong and against the rules. So do whatever you want but at least don't be an hypocrite, SV is a leftist place, it is classicist and hates Trump supporters and Trump, it hates everybody who are not upper middle class and above white collar workers and doesn't want their voice heard. The terms of service are written to reflect those values to start with.
Javascript itself.

- But you can just use Typescript! Good, I like Typescript but what about some good web framework? You can use NestJS (https://nestjs.com/) which is amazing.

But if you step back, you see that you are basically writing C# that will transpile to JS. So then I just switched to .NET Core.
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Inflation is influenced by minimum wage. If wages rise but people are competing for access to an artificially restricted housing market, all that will happen is house price and rents go up to absorb the increase; the only people better off will be landlords and homeowners with a larger house than they need.
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> "Where it has been implemented, I am concerned that it has often led to voter confusion and that the promise that ranked-choice voting leads to greater democracy is not necessarily fulfilled."

Something is wrong if voters are not informed enough simply to vote...
That’s for common carriers. Twitter isn’t a common carrier.
I’m always baffled by Buddhism getting such a free pass from otherwise perfectly sensible westerners.

Many Buddhist societies are amongst the worst slave states know to history (the Tibet from this article, but also Burma and oh-so-beloved Thailand).

And this is not despite Buddhism but because of it. In all societies where it is dominant misfortunes such as being born poor (or worse) are seen as being justified somehow, leading to astonishingly callous mistreatment of the poor and unlucky - think the wholesale enslavement and transport of complete populations such as in Thailand not too long ago and in present day Burma.

Zen Buddhism, too, is a spectacularly nasty piece of work. It originally existed in two variants: one for the peasants, which taught them to accept their miserable lot, and one for the warrior class which taught it that life is fleeting and death inevitable (it is this variant of Buddhism that was used to indoctrinate Kamikaze pilots in WW2)

So why we in the west should think that this is an especially enlightened religion is beyond me. If you must do religion, why not Christianity or Islam? At least these two make a point of encouraging charity and kindness towards others.
If everyone has only shit sandwiches people won't say they don't like shit sandwiches, but just don't enjoy sandwiches in general. Then when they try a ham sandwich for the first time they will tell that this one is better and they prefer it to others.

Modern web is serving people mostly with nice looking shit sandwiches.
> keeping Congress independent from outside control.

Exactly what's at stake here. Keeping the government independent from outside control by those who happen to control the means of communication.
Maybe. This solution is under the assumption that the user was able to get the decrypted original 'file' that was opened and then 'fingerprinted' to identify them which can determine who did torrent the file, given it wasn't edited or malformed.

Not only this can be bypassed via the classic 'Analogue hole'[0], but even screen-recording tools outside of the browser can bypass this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
We share the same direction of thinking.

I think China's greatest threat comes from within. And the brinkmanship is at supply-side structural reform VS unemployment.

The risk has never been this high, given

1. belt and road initiative is already half-busted

2. drastic drop of foreign demand due to pandemic

3. cry for decoupling from all wealthy nations

And see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8oQGBcFdo

My point is: the Chinese government has been trying to tell people that they don't need to work in the city. They could work in a rural farm and lead a simple life, albeit earning close to nothing.
Writing multithreaded code without a GIL is hard, but there's really good workarounds for a lot of cases. For example, Boost ASIO's "strand" pattern. You can define a set of coroutines that never run concurrently, so synchronization is much easier, while you can have many strands. I use this model in some of my Rust code - I associate clients to a producer, meaning I don't have to work out a suitable contention-free bus.

This is essentially equivalent to running N single-threaded processes, except that when I do have to share data across the system (e.g. a database connection pool), or if the lifecycle of the client crosses multiple strands, I have more tools in my toolkit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Tibet_controversy
and for those who are curious about Jina's ancestor GNES: https://hanxiao.io/2019/07/29/Generic-Neural-Elastic-Search-...