skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I don't understand your definition of the word "unfair" here. China isn't seeking an unfair advantage. They already have it. They've been allowed that advantage.

I don't see how that's unfair when it's been willfully given to them with little to no pushback. We're just finally starting to see it as demonstrated here.

Is it "unfair" for someone to eat the cake that you're not interested in eating?

I think the discussion of India's scam economy is very relevant here. It's something I would say is arguably more unfair in the sense it is literally robbery. China's apps may serve the state but they do also offer value to the users of it, they're an actual product.

But on the flipside of India's scam economy, being a tech support call center employee in many parts of India is a great steady job for many of the people who are employed in that field, especially compared to their other options. It's great for them, it's great for India and India's economy. It's not great for gullible Americans though.

I guess I just don't understand what you think is unfair here, or maybe moreso, what you think is fair. Seems like more a perspective issue. You're viewing it from the perspective of someone who doesn't see the benefit/value to China, or doesn't like what they're doing.

As I said, I don't agree with a lot of what China does, but it serves China.

I guess to be clear, I don't see where there is any fair side to any of this. What makes this more unfair than the wildly varying cost of labor in a global market? We exported all of our low-skill labor and manufacturing to places where labor is cheap. Now those places have thriving and rapidly growing economies and we're seeing the consequences of them. Domestically the labor market is dramatically different and upward mobility is at an all time low. People can't get the same jobs they used to at one company and retire 20 years later and live off their pension. Meanwhile in the places we exported all of our labor too, quality of life is going up across the board and many of the people who used to be paid almost slave wages and worked to the bone are starting to experience what would have been a middle-class life in the US 20-30 years ago.

Where was the fairness in that? I'm not sure the concept of fair can be applied here at all outside of X entity maximizing value for X, and that is what China has done.
> I don’t want “a version compatible with lib 0.1.0” I want lib 0.1.0 ... package-lock is a strange bandaid over this.

Doesn't plain semver in your package.json dependencies already give you this capability?

```
{ "dependencies": { "foo" : "2.0.1" } }
```

Should yield version 2.0.1 _exactly_. It's the use of modifiers like ~ and ^ that yield the fuzzy matching.

https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#dependencies
Sphinx (ReST markup) has a Latex pipeline. Much more ergonomic and doesn't subject you to the problems of debugging a macro expander.
Show HN: Lock as a Service
Tiktok is just a terrible implementation of Vine. It's not unique.
The difference being TikTok is operated by India’s adversary.
Outside of major international hotel chains, or where you can do your purchase online through Paypal, you may as well not bother asking if they accept it.

It's very interesting to hear that.

When I first started traveling to Europe, having an American Express card (or even better, AmEx travelers checks) was the best way for an American to pay for things. It's even written into some classic books and movies.

My how things have changed.
They're still visa or MasterCards though...
It's certainly possible, but remember that with 8 bits you have just 256 different possible representations, and every instruction opcode with its set of all distinct valid parameters will map to a number of those limited 256 states. For example, this makes it a big challenge to encode anything other than very small ranges of immediate values inside an instruction.

Typically whenever there's a reference to an N-bit instruction set, it's referring to the widths of the registers and data paths. Very often this is not the same as the instruction size, and in many cases instructions may even be of variable length.

So while it's much more restricting to commit yourself to only an 8-bit instruction size, it should still be possible to build something with it.
My 2013 MacBook Pro Retina recently died too, but anything worth keeping or working on was stored in free-tier Dropbox, which has multi version history too.

And I'm just a dumb boiler-maker / welder.

It seems absurd to me that anyone with half a technical clue wouldn't use some kind of off-device / off-sit backup.
Covid-19 originated in China and is a global pandemic due to the CCP's negligence.
his wife is the Modern Martha Stewart, maybe he is spending more time supporting her than working on his own thing
Yes, this seemed poorly thought-out:

...a Quibi subscription is $4.99 a month with ads and $7.99 a month without...
>exclusionary

Aren't you arguing for banning them, though?
You can't have it both ways.
Remote Work Digest: June 30, 2020
It's funny that of all the cities I listed you asked about Amherst, because that's the only one that I have lived in.

There are a few [3] tech startups in Amherst. Umass has a US top 10 AI/ML department [1][2], so most of these work with the world class labs there.

The town itself is wonderful, since it is basically 5 schools with a total of about 30k students, under the age of 30. So, it can be pretty happening. There is also the neighboring town on Northampton which brings in a lot of 'culture'.
It isn't city life, but it isn't bad at all. Boston is 2 hrs away, which isn't too bad if you need to do weekly trips to meet investors / important people / others in the startup scene.

You can source talent by giving low-ish paid interns to the really smart CS students, and get amazing consultants by working with the profs there. Ofc, all of this only works if your work and the research/focus of the labs align. For the 'be ambitious' spirit of tech hubs, you can rely on 'overworked grad students' to lend that same kind of energy.

Although honestly, places like Ann Arbor,Champaign and Pittsburg, will probably get you better talent (UMich, UIUC, CMU) at only a marginally higher cost. Amherst is really worth it if the offerings at UMass and Boston align perfectly with your product.

[1] http://csrankings.org/#/index?ai&vision&mlmining&nlp&ir

[2] https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...

[3] https://www.lexalytics.com/
It is worth noting that MLK was not popular in his time:

> Back in the 1960s, when King was actually leading protests, just 36 percent of white Americans thought he was helping “the Negro cause of civil rights,” according to historical polling data compiled by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. In a 1966 Gallup poll, more than 60 percent of the public rated King more negatively than positively.

> After King was assassinated, two-thirds of Americans said their strongest reaction to his death had been sadness, anger, shame or fear, another survey found. Another 31 percent, however, said they “felt he brought it on himself.”

Harvey Milk was also not necessarily popular amongst Americans, and a few years after his death we would have total mainstream paranoia about AIDS. The end of the US's majority disapproval of gay marriage only came about in 2010. [1]

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/in-1968-nearly-a-third-of-ame...

[1] https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-ga...
Maybe they forgot RSs, or maybe not. I used to get Google alerts as feeds, until they stopped capturing most things. RSS alerts like Google alerts, when they used to work would be pretty cool.
We switched to small daily update cycle, and it has paid off
I would rather see Visa, MasterCard, and other big banks regulated and require them to accept all legal businesses. Fraud can still be blocked but on an individualised, reasoned level.

No more denying legal pornography businesses, no more denying legal fireworks stores, etc.
You’re right, though after an initial compilation cargo does a good job caching and subsequent builds will often beat Go’s compile times.
he seems to be held to a higher standard

He's not. Judith Miller was fired from NYT ending her career as a reporter within a couple of years of her original Iraq reporting. Alex Jones continues to make a living being a repugnant human being.
The problem is corona isn't a typical course of cold/flu
Questions:

(a) Does this study sound plausible?

(b) Would staring at the correct red color on a monitor work? Or would that not work since monitor colors are generated by mixing R, G, and B pixels and therefore not a pure wavelength?

(c) Would it be reasonable methodology to test one eye to see if it improves over the other eye?
A $43,859.00 Refurbished Mac Pro
I think it's fair to pay for convenience.
They somehow managed to avoid any screencaps of what sorts of things people got banned over. No doubt it entailed reasonable question asking and familial conversation.
There’s a lot happening at compile time that less safe languages don’t do. Type checking and type erasure, etc
Your argument is one for considering exposing the cost of any payment mechanism to the customers.

(Especially when the cost between different payment mechanisms differ a lot.)
Of course if you stop riding then you become dead inside so that costs quite a few millimorts.

Also if you ride a supersports like the one you linked, you certainly won't be getting that $40k in perpetuity... :P
Greenpeace International is looking for a CTO
Maybe use a lever instead? If you have a decent length of steel pipe or 2x4 and a trolley jack. Lever one end of the trolley jack up on a pivot, you should easily be able to get 20:1, within range of a cheap luggage scale or convenient heavy objects. Have to do front and back of course.
If you drive the tire onto a rail half as wide as the width of the tire (specifically, the width of the area in contact with flat ground), then according to his logic, the length of rail in contact with the tire will be twice the length of flat ground in contact with the tire (assuming the contact area to be roughly rectangular in each case). I have no doubt that the length would be more, but severely doubt it would be anything close to twice as much because I think a large percentage of the "normal force" (the weight of the car) goes into keeping the tire bent out of shape in ways that do not contribute linearly to the area in contact with the rail.

My guess is that the tire's resistance to being bent out of shape is also a significant factor in the usual case of the tire's resting on flat ground and that he got as close as he did through a combination of coincidence and cherry picking (deciding after he knew the right answer how much the added gas weighs, changing his estimate of how much of tire's surface consists of grooves after he knew the right answer).
Depends on how much you can trust your employees.
Like the one involving trump and russia?
You can't say "Get 2% if you use cash instead of VISA". (Notice that nobody ever advertises that?) Because VISA doesn't allow it.

I see this all the time. * At more than one bookstore, the dry cleaner, markets, my current and previous landlord, my accountant, and pretty much every gas station since the 1990's.

* Pre-quarantine. Now I don't see anything.
> Were there riots along with the protests?

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=civil+rights+movement+riots&iie=1
From attention to silence based economy
Or rather, they should have the option to do so.

It's a valid business decision to NOT charge extra for the toilets, too. Just like shops usually don't charge people who are a bit slower in the checkout line more for taking up cashier time.
My experience is that there is phenomenal cheese on both sides of the Atlantic, so much so it's ridiculous in my mind to argue about who has the best cheese, because they both have the best cheese. It's a win-win situation.

The problem in both regions, if you want to call it a problem, is that much of the variety is in local cheeses you'll never or rarely see going outside of a zip code, state, or country (in the case of Europe). So someone will move to, say, Virginia in the US and conclude that they've sampled US cheese, not being aware of all the local cheeses in another state that never travel outside of the area of a few counties. The same thing can happen in the UK and Europe. The cheeses I've loved most have been from these local dairies, cheeses that don't quite fit into traditional categories, and that I can never find unless I'm physically in the area.
Anecdotally I can tell you it does not amount to a loss in productivity. Cargo caches built deps so the cost is really only paid once in a while and the advantages of rusts type system are a boon to productivity.
And even Visa and MasterCard took a while to get hold. I remember Aldi holding out for ages.
It's not about the capability, it's about the switching cost. A business's cash flow is like their blood flow; they do things that bankrupt them, they die. You can't expect businesses to go bankrupt to perform a contrived move. There is an energy cost for every change.
Do you think it’s not fair for credit card issuers to try to attract customers that have a higher value to them by offering rewards? Regardless, approvals are mostly based on credit history and not wealth. I was a low income earner for years but paid my bills and credit cards on time so I could get any card I wanted.
The idea of someone drawing lines is positivist bullshit. The Declaration of Independence was grounded on the bedrock of Natural law, and the bedrock of the Constitution was the common law. The context for both was American but the principles therein are Universal.

Liberty is the natural order, but liberties can be tempered by morals and laws. If they existed not in nature, but as a set of approved rights granted to you by secular authorities, then your liberty is not your liberty, but your license.
Youth killed in another shooting in Seattle’s occupied protest zone
With ideal friction assumptions, the contact area doesn't matter. The friction force is determined by the normal force (weight) and the coefficient of static friction.
All three of those states I believe had their surcharge bans invalidated by federal courts. Texas' law was declared unconstitutional in summer 2018: https://faq.sll.texas.gov/questions/9631
Sorry for the confusion, clearly from the way I express myself, I am a software developer and not an economist, and I use this forum to experiment with how to communicate and think about topics on which I am not expert, but care about.

I was meaning to respond to the idea in the conversation that I read as "the gains in human rights and labor standards, had only been possible because of productivity improvements" I think it's worth considering instead whether investment in 'productivity' has been undermined by poor human rights. Could the roman empire have mechanised, industrialised, but that the cruelty and oppression that was fundamental made it uneconomical, when the capital cost was compared to the cheap labor cost of buying slaves.
I have a friend who debates with me about the problems that flow from the high cost of labor and environmental standards, and I argue back that the greater problem is the low cost of labor, the low enforcement of human rights and environmental standards, because these de-incentivise the upfront 'activation energy
' investment in any efforts that would make our civilisation more sustainable and equitable.
I would make the case that they do receive taxpayer money. They have a legal right and monopoly to show ads in your mailbox. Without that, they would not exist. Imagine if Facebook were legally allowed to drive by your house and play recordings of ads over a loudspeaker every morning. Facebook would pay the government for that privilege. The government is selling your attention daily (worth billions, if anyone company were to have the ability to charge for it the same way), and giving it to the post office for free.
DnDBeyond only has these types of logins and does not allow email+password
I don't know. While I commonly use several of these it feels like this easily bleeds into questions of subjective "taste" and domain-specific libraries.

If you're not changing anything else about the management of these packages, what's the advantage of having request or express as part of the "standard" library?

And if you are changing the management of these packages, then maybe that's the solution with or without expanding the core library?

I think that Java for example has similar defacto-but-not-actual "standard libraries" that correspond to many of these domains.

I'm not convinced that a larger "core" is addressing the root problem.
Debit cards also charge some fees, but typically lower.

The fraud protection of credit cards mostly comes out of the pockets of the merchant, I think? So the merchant could give people a discount for using means of payment without a chargeback, like cash.

You are right about the actual credit. Though eg in Germany people usually use their overdraft in a same way that American seem to be using their credit cards for short term credit.

(For either convenience is the main selling point. The fees and interest rates for overdraft and credit card debt are usually quite high, I think?)
I very much doubt they made that decision based on bandwidth costs though. They've burned a billion dollars already, don't think they are thinking about margins much at the moment.
I would be surprised if nobody within Google and co noticed data being siphoned out to China from its internal networks.
They contribute, but their repos don't take contributions themselves from outsiders, which is not exactly the spirit of Linux. They contribute to Linux because they see it as a threat they can't ignore and so are implementing stage 1 of their EEE strategy
Everything I've ever learned about investing says avoid high-fee investment vehicles.

> PE funds have a monetization model of fees (about 2%) and carried interest (20%).

To the average person who picks the "wrong" PE fund, not only will they get sub-par return, they'll also get high fees. Not how I'd want to set myself up for retirement.
Honestly, you're dignifying this argument. Judith Miller probably believed the story she was selling about Iraqi WMDs, and in the cause itself. She was wrong. Alex Jones deliberately harassed the parents of first graders who had been crowded into a coat closet and shot at close range. This is the moral difference between a negligent doctor and a serial killer.

The distinction is especially material here, because this is the standard-issue message board argument against journalism, or "the mainstream media": that it must be conducted at the highest standards of scrupulous accountability, a standard far higher than any of us hold our own work to (I like to call this "The Djikstra Amnesia Effect"). And if it isn't, its practitioners are no better than Alex Jones.
I've seen dozens of instances of serious racial violence by blm activists recorded in the last few weeks and cheered on by thousands of YouTube videos demanding even more, surely that counts as "enabling terrorists"? Hate crimes units across the country are investigating racially motivated attacks spurring entirely from blm.

You won't see these people happily wanting a race war being banned though.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ksuhDS1SqUI

Some of the leaders are literally calling for whites to wiped out.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/blm-leader-says-whites-sub-hu...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/07/black-lives-matter-hy...
I create dummy logins in my password manager for sites that use external auth. Username of just “LOGIN WITH GOOGLE”. Hacky but it makes me smile every time it gets filled in.
Yeah and Spotify is another one. Electron is clearly at work here, probably in your Jira example too.

These apps are frustrating for someone accustomed to the Mac UI. Basic interactions (like context menus) don't work at all, or work in unexpected ways. I have no idea what these apps can do because they all have a unique UI vocabulary. So I don't try.

I think Apple has really dropped the ball on this. They ought to have spotted and embraced the web's great strengths early. Ephemeral, zero-install apps, using native components - that's the platform I want. Though I understand how others may disagree.
The fees for debit transactions are much lower, though.
A prominent anti-CAA protestor called for cutting off the secluded eastern part of the country. He is still lauded by the fellow protestors. Petrol bombs were used by protestors. This was no ordinary protest.
Excel is likely the most used IDE of all time. We’ve been living in the no code business application future for 40 years.

I can stand up a cluster of web servers that automatically scale to effectively infinite demand with a few clicks on the internet.

I can design a front end without paying attention to code and have been able to for 20 years.

No code is like AI. The goal posts keep moving. So you need to be more specific when you ask if it’s what’s next.
That's not correct. If you read the details carefully, it is about requiring consent to track users beyond the app.

They are also launching an IDFV that can be always accessed and is shared with the same family of apps, e.g. Facebook can track across Instagram without the popup.
I have the same problem with my BBQ. I bought it to keep my food cold, but systematically it heats the food to the point where it becomes burned.

Just in case my attempt at analogy is not clear: on a free speech network you'll get free speech.
That's true, I am not too familiar with the finance system, how come a debit card needs a middle man such as VISA? They help with the transaction between two banks?
> That, and the playerbase being motivated enough to keep developing content for them.

This by far is the most important thing. You could have a beautiful open source game but if no one knows about it or wants to play it, it's less than useful.

Some of the biggest modding communities I am aware of came from closed-source games; the Sims has always had strong, years-long modding lifetimes, and SimCity 4 and Cities Skylines after it had total overhaul mods that changed entire game systems, as well as thriving communities of less ambitious mods.
Wow
No wonder Latin American countries are using cheap Ivermectin which also has been a success to fight covid19.

And no wonder it's not being researched that much in capitalist countries. It will never be as profitable as these other drugs.
> Im thinking as a French I had to fight a lot with free speech absolutists abroad, while at home we're quite okay with selective censorship... it sounds scary to an American sometimes, but hell we dont care :D

I'm not surprised you're being downvoted as I've tried to make this point with American friends before and gotten the same reaction 10/10 times.

To use a very topical example: in other jurisdictions outside of the US, racism is a crime, and speaking out in favor of it or discriminating against someone verbally is not protected by free speech.

In fact, jurisdictions outside of the US often do not even have a definition for the "right to free speech" – it's obvious that you can say whatever you want.

It just so happens that by saying some of those things you may be doing something illegal, not unlike how threatening someone isn't a protected action in the US. So it's not so much a matter of censorship, but one of limits to rights. Every right has certain limitations, and free speech isn't absolute, be it in America or elsewhere.
> No doubt it entailed reasonable question asking and familial conversation.

Ah, yes. The the very limits of free speech.
Fully molly agree! I really love this tool, love it!