skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It'll be very interesting to see if the UK goes through with it's offer to provide a path to citizenship for 3 million HK'ers. Frankly, it's the least they could do.

As far as I can tell, a lot of Brexit was driven by anti-foreigner anti-immigration sentiment due to how easy it was for non-skilled people from other countries to enter into the UK? If so, I think that although Britons might be emotionally fine with that offer in the heat of things, they might not be so OK once they remember the negative emotions that drove Brexit in the first place. Either that, or Britons are extremely selective and discriminatory on who gets to get a pass for immigration (but that wouldn't surprise me).

And then there's the other interesting factor in the wave of anti-Asian racism due to COVID-19-induced negative emotions, which the UK has also been experiencing. https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti...

If they go through with the offer to provide a path for citizenship for 3 million HK'ers, I think that's a decision that will force the general population to realize that they have a ton of cognitive dissonance all over the place. Or they won't, and they'll act like everything's normal and as it should be.
Spotting a distressed swimmer is possibly much harder than most people expect.

There is a great website where you can try your spotting skills yourself [1].

[1] http://spotthedrowningchild.com/
Very much depends on where you work.
You seems to want to set the bar so high that you can claim every country is failing as bad as the US. But it seems fair to say that a very long list of countries did significantly better. https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries
It's not implausible. How many modern "ailments" are simply the result of not doing what our bodies were adapted to.
What are you referring to here? There are plenty of cash only businesses in my city and the owners aren't being thrown in jail for it.
>wouldn't Indian apps from these new found enterpreneurs expect the same response from other countries?

I am from India, and I don't think this would matter a lot if the company doesn't suffer from grand delusions of trying to go global etc. There are a lot of very idiosyncratic things about the culture here (just as in other countries) where it makes a lot of sense to develop India specific apps.

Also, the nature of innovation itself would change if an app is developed to cater primarily to people in India. A perfect example of this is the recently introduced UPI payments scheme, which if I understand correctly is already far ahead in terms of convenience when compared to payments services in developed countries. And I am very thankful neither Facebook nor TikTok controls it in any way, shape or form!

Otherwise, I agree with your sentiment, as it applies generally to trade policies between true allies. The only problem I have is that China is an exception when it comes to these bilateral trade policies, because they have a long history of bullying [1] smaller neighbors, and they can rarely be trusted when it comes to any kind of neighborliness. People who are pro-China should come and live a few years in these regions, and I expect they won't remain pro-China for very long.

And then throw in the rampant IP theft, and it seems to me that pro-China advocates are acting like useful idiots.

I will add a very ironic thing I read recently by one of those useful idiots, who said "Thank God this didn’t start in somewhere like India, because there’s absolutely no way that the quality of Indian governance could move to react in the way that the Chinese have done" [2]. The irony of course is that China is trying to convince the world that the virus didn't even originate in China. In other words, Mr. Jim O'Neill would likely be in Chinese prison if he had made that statement from inside of China. I bet the heavy-handedness wouldn't taste so good if you become one of the victims. Nassim Taleb would have mocked this as the statement of a guy who "has no skin in the game".

[1] https://news.usni.org/2020/01/27/panel-china-now-well-positi...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/thank-god-this-didnt-start-i...
In my view, refocusing the roadmap on only requests from paying customers was possibly the best change I've made for the health and longevity of the project.
I had a quad 2.5GHz water cooled Mac Pro on my desk, and the OG Intel mac pro, as well as Apple's dev system. I can tell you with 100% certainty, that Google Earth ran faster on the Intel Mac Pro under Rosetta than natively on the PPC Mac Pro, as I'm the person who ported it. When I had the native version working on Intel, that was the fastest of all, by far.
In Democracy and Distrust, Ely says rules like the First Amendment are important because they secure the channels of democracy; in his framing, it's important that the government not suppress speech because doing so prevents the people from governing. It's not because speech is an intrinsic or natural right, which is an idea he argues against.

That made sense to me when I read it.

The idea of a universal principle of reverence for speech, regardless of its substance, makes no sense to me. In fact, it doesn't make sense to most people. Even on HN, you can find people arguing for decriminalizing child pornography. You have no trouble with that idea being suppressed. Why is white supremacy less loathsome? That's what we say when we suggest white supremacist speech be tolerated.

(Violent neo-Marxism and Shining Path Maoism is trendy among left-edgelords and is equally intolerable).
Macau is only 670,000 people, and over 40% of them were born on the mainland. I suspect that the 澳門人 ('Macanese') people were just displaced by mainland Han Chinese over time. I believe the current Chief Executive, Ho Iat Seng, ran un-opposed with overwhelming support from Beijing. Hong Kong, being 10,000,000 or so people, was able to retain a much stronger cultural identity. It's like the difference between ceding Buffalo, NY vs New York City to Canada.
I’m excited by these changes. Rust compilation times, although slow, have been improving by 20-40% every year. The changes in the linked post alone improve LTO build times by 4-20%.

I’m also looking forward to other changes that people have been working on.

- A debug backend that uses Cranelift instead of LLVM improves debug compile times by 20-50%.

- Using pre-compiled release binaries for procedural macros. Today this causes a major hit to compile times because the macro needs to be compiled, then do some codegen, and then the compilation of actual code + generated code proceeds.

- In the long term (probably years), the compiler is able to run interactively, recompiling when any changes are made.
So you do agree that they are seeking to maintain unfair trade. Cool.
There are also MySQL operators from Oracle, Presslabs, and Percona. Vitess is much more than just MySQL in k8s, and not everyone will be able to switch to it easily (if at all).
If this is real it's a huge deal.

But unless they did a pre study release this is P hacked to death.

24 people, then narrowed to only over 40, 20% difference in some frequencies.

If science worked we'd immediately re-test this. The cost savings per year could be enormous if it's true.
> I can't help but wonder if things would have been different if the US had different leadership -- actually interested in furthering the cause of freedom and democracy throughout the world.

Even if there was different leadership, I don't see anyone changing this. China wants this more than anybody else is willing to suffer for it. What could you do? Embargo China - The economy of those embargoing china would collapse. Pass a UN Security resolution - China is a permanent member of the security council. Invade Hong Kong - China has nuclear weapons. Send a strongly worded letter? - Xi does not care about strongly worded letters.
They correctly saw that, in the run-up to the election, all the big leftist tech companies would assert themselves and silence conservatives in an effort to "prevent the next Trump situation" as Google's Jen Gennai put it last May when she thought she was talking to a fellow "diversity advocate".
The 'box' is generally considered to be a system that completes a process on input to generate output. White and black are references to the state of illumination of the inner workings of the machine.

White box is not better, it just defeats the mystery/freedom of the abstraction.

That said, given that we describe races as white and black, I'm happy to eventually pick up a new convention if it makes folks uncomfortable. I say eventually because the current trend is to consider most of these shallow accommodations as 'performative', and I have no interest in being involved in any action that could be construed as being done for social credit where there is little or no actual value. If i felt or had evidence that it actually did help it would be a different story.
it had a stack, but that stack was on the heap. In lua 5.4 under normal circumstances, 20 frames of Lua call stack corresponds to 20ish frames of C call stack. In lua 5.3 the number of C stack frames was some smaller number unrelated to the depth of the Lua call stack.
The inability of any one state to marshal those resources as effectively as the central government can, not to mention the supply chain debacle of the central government interfering with the acquisition of those resources.
I get the impression that your comment is trying to paint any retaliation against racism online as itself a racist act. Is this right? It's hard to tell between the meaningless platitudes and strawmen you've set up for yourself.
I'm not sure what you are asking. Governors aren't selected by parliament or something. In every state in the US, Governors are elected by voting in elections, as are senators and representatives at every level. Those independent candidates won a plurality or possibly majority in the state elections. That's how they become governors. If an independent becomes governor, it means a plurality of people voted for them and against the candidates from the major parties.

If you mean the voters joined the new party apart from the election, by registering as a member. Then that happens in some states too. In many states voters don't even register for a party. In many others, the majority or plurality are registered as independent.
A Bugatti is bought as a status symbol. This Mac Pro was bought for high end video editing. They were willing to pay $50k because it's for editing multimillion dollar projects. They'll probably be paying thousands of dollars per day for this editing work. The refurbished one does the job just as well as the new one.
> If i had to put a new label on it, id say we are process automaters.

Ha! My faculty is called 'Authomatics' even though they teach programming and computer science. During my career I have automated things, though. It was a good name.
You seem upset that the_donald and others have been banned.
My limited understanding is that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (which is apparently one of the most important laws for this topic), passed in 1996, provides very broad protections to web platforms:

1) They can't be held liable for user-generated content, e.g. Facebook can't be sued for a defamatory statement that I make in a post on their platform.

A newspaper that authors and publishes an article making a similar defamatory statement could be held liable. I believe that Facebook could be held liable if the company itself authored and published the defamatory statement, instead of merely distributing my defamatory statement.

2) They can moderate user-generated content visible on their platform as they see fit, without trying to be "neutral" and without losing their liability protections (item 1 above).

Apparently, before this law, internet companies were worried about being held liable for what users said if they did any moderation (and some companies were sued for this).

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This article seems to be a decent overview: https://www.minclaw.com/legal-resource-center/what-is-sectio...

This longer video (33 mins) from Legal Eagle is nice as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUWIi-Ppe5k. It's been a few weeks since I watched it so hopefully I didn't miss too many important details.
I believe you are looking in the wrong place for the source of the problem. The true source is the people who established and maintain the norms within this ecosystem. They just don't care that all manner of things are either broken or insecure or both. They have other concerns. I'm not sure what those concerns are, but I'm very sure that we will never ever persuade them that their culture is a bad one and so the problems outlined above will never be fixed in place. Hence some sort of B-Arc or nuke from orbit approach will be necessary.
I always come back to H2 for an embedded db. So user-friendly! SQLite is nice but H2 useability and standard SQL support is awesome.
Here's a classic article from Nick Land as to why racism isn't something worth spending too much time thinking about: http://www.xenosystems.net/hyper-racism/

The article is perhaps extreme and overly performative, but I think the central idea of "races" not surviving the near-future is a good one.
> But a website is easy to change -- there's no sense making it perfect before you know if people will use it.

But this sentiment is exactly this issue! "Before you know if people will use it" -- the point is that when people don't use it, is it because it was a bad idea to compete with Facebook or because the design wasn't right? When to give up and when to iterate?
Well, there is a cost when you use your card.

If there is no price differentiation, this just means everyone has to share the cost, rather than the people who choose to use it
> Whenever I see a person use a fallacy I immediately use that fallacy against them.

You should get checked out for a personality disorder.

The average person does not have training in engineering or law, and hasn't developed logical thought processes.

Arguing with somebody who doesn't use logic must feel pointless. What is the point of winning such an argument?
>The chains’ executives are candid about what is driving their growth: widening income inequality and the decline of many city neighborhoods and entire swaths of the country. Todd Vasos, the C.E.O. of Dollar General, told the Wall Street Journal in 2017, “The economy is continuing to create more of our core customer.”

This is a terrific article, but I hate the framing that the stores are the problem. They are clearly filling a vacuum left by cheap real estate and low wages. There is some evidence that the stores help accelerate the decline - but the exact same business model is present in a Daiso store without it ravaging Japan.

In nice coastal cities, the obvious problem is lack of zoned housing. But it's easy to overlook that for most of America, it's effectively over-zoned. We have huge sprawling cities and towns that have been hollowed out by population flight. In my parent's town, half of the buildings are derelict. Spreading thin what would otherwise be a vibrant business district. The deed holders have long since vanished without paying taxes.
Do you mean this video, "Collateral Murder", which is currently available on Youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

Doesn't look very banned to me.
As far as I can tell, Brexit was largely driven by discontent around Polish migration. There's over a million Polish citizens in the UK. This is a pretty good read [1].

[1] https://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledge_detail/understand...
This is anecdotal but if I could chose not to share my email with things I sign up for, I wouldn’t have a gmail address used solely for signing up to things. I can’t think of a single thing that I’ve ever signed up for that I actually wanted to have my email.

So sure, it’s default, but unless I’m unique some people will see the default and go “why isn’t every 3rd party login like that?”.
Thanks Sitkack, I have four children. So my adventures are on hold for a bit, and while the risk of this journey may be increasing year on year, in 15 years when the youngest is an adult, my willingness to take on risk is going probably go back up quickly. What I'd really love to do is travel east to west and cross into Mongolia. How important is the radioactive contamination from nuclear testing in along the border?
We have a culture in common which encompasses languages, religion, music, architecture, food, etc.

I've only ever heard that question asked about us Europeans, for some reason.
This guy's comment (prosound2000) pretty much tells it like it is:

> The problem here is Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are US based companies that are beholden to the government. While sure you have lobbying going on, they are ultimately separate from the government, and if are found in violation of certain laws will be prosecuted or at least brought in front of congress and can face stiff penalties in the US.
TikTok IS the Chinese government. They are beholden to no one. They can't break the law since they are the law.

Well, he almost has it figured out. We are all actually beholden to our governments. Even Apple allegedly held off on iCloud encryption because of FBI pressure, not to mention constant right-wing efforts to destroy encryption and force companies to insert backdoors. China has a stronger central authority (therefore easier to force companies to do things), but the US is itching to go that route as well. Fighting it means preserving an actual ideological backbone, rather than simply consolidate all power to destroy our enemies.

If we lose our sights on encryption, separation of our corporate entities from our government, then we are just China but in a different location.
Russia put the first artificial satellite into orbit, the first man into space, the first person into orbit, and the first woman into space. Even at the height of the Cold War they partnered openly with the U.S. in space, and continue to do so to this day.

There are a lot of criticisms to level at Russia/USSR over the past century, but IMO their space program has been instrumental in driving the world forward and they should get credit for that forever. I say that as an American who loves the moon landings, the Space Shuttle, Hubble, Mars rovers, SpaceX, etc.

I would also put the end of the Cold War as an amazing accomplishment by the USSR/Russia. I know it's usually framed as a victory for the U.S., but the reality is that, as a society, they spontaneously delivered a peaceful transition from one system of government to another. It was a revolution, and if you compare it to the previous big revolution in Russia, the lack of violence was striking and heartening. It was an incredible moment of hope for the entire world.

Sadly, they have regressed in the area of governance since then. But then again, so has the U.S.
Ah, nostalgia :).

It seems like with the recent wave of news about social media migrations (reddit, facebook, twitter, twitch, tiktok), people are hopefully starting to get more and more warmed up to the idea of protocolization of their social data.

But most of the projects doing it are still just too immature. Solid, Perkeep, Blockstack, etc. just seem like vaporware.

Seems like the only serious projects in use are Matrix, Urbit, and ActivityPub/Mastodon. But I haven't checked in with the decentralization scene in a while.
You can always try an affordable online service like Backblaze B2 as one of your options. I haven't checked lately but I think they cost around $5 per terabyte per month. Plus usage, but that would be minimal for an archive.
I interpreted their comment to be about content created before they became a patron, so there would not be an email.
I was blown away and just shared it with my wife + kids who were equally impressed. How does one learn how to do this? Trial and error I presume?
Indeed. And if stores make their accounting and realize that cash handling costs more than credit card handling, they should be able to add a cash surcharge as well.

It just happens that they dont want to do that, because dealing with cash is cheaper
An Indian Covid-19 vaccine made by Bharat Biotech is set to enter human trials
Tentative evidence indicates that the risk of near-sightedness can be decreased by having young children spend more time outside.[4][7]

So that's a very, very much weaker claim "time outside may affect ..." and acknowledges the role of genetics and other factors. Of those 2 references I looked at
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5599950/

I declare I have no expertise in the field but also didn't find the meta-analysis paper convincing.

This one:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26372583/

Looks the most promising. I couldn't find a replication.

So there could be something in "time outside" as a beneficial preventative measure for some children w.r.t. myopia. There is nothing much like "Myopia is caused by insufficient bright light as a child" as I understand that sentence. But maybe I've misunderstood?
In the Netherlands they use driving axle load systems usually in the right most lanes on the highway that feature trucks. There is also a service that automatically calculates the tire pressure and sends a message to the company if the tires are deflated when driving over these weigh points.
There are domains where floating point problems being ill-conditioned is the norm rather than an exception. Try running `1e100+1e20-1e100` in python, js, etc....
European invaders stole it from Native Americans as a whole. Just because no specific individual owns it doesn't mean it's free real estate.

From a purely anarchistic point of view, European settlers were within their rights to settle upon and use that unowned land. They weren't, however, within their rights to to use that "unowned" land at the expense of other people already using that land, and thus the Native Americans were within their rights to defend against such a deprivation of access. Unfortunately, the Europeans had numbers, guns, and smallpox on their side, and as the Native Americans retreated further West the Europeans continued to spread.

And to be clear: the Native Americans were using that land. A reasonably-healthy wilderness ecosystem is crucial for hunting, as any hunter can attest even in the modern-day; kinda hard to hunt bison if there ain't any bison.
Toyota Suspends Orders for RAV4 Prime Three Weeks After Launch
I think the 'color revolutions' freaked out a lot of authoritarian states - especially russia, since they were in Russia's backyard.
You aren't seeing that content censored, because that content has been censored, and its posters vilified so completely, for so long, that it has disappeared.

There are virtually zero republicans or conservatives on any social media site -- they know they aren't welcome, so they don't engage very much.

You don't see them being censored because, at this point, they self-censor.

Who wants to be doxxed and have their employer harassed into firing them just for trying to have a calm conversation with people who want to murder them anyway
I started reading the article with the same viewpoint you have, but I found the arguments reasonably persuasive. Dollar General and similar are willing to sell goods (apparently profitably) to communities that would otherwise have access to little to nothing locally. This is good. At the same time, they are unwilling or unable to create an environment that is safe for the folks in the communities working or shopping there.

The key question left unaddressed in the rather long article is whether it's economically infeasible to make the stores safe, or whether it's callousness and profit optimization on the parts of the companies. "Shrink" is of course accounted for in the economics, but not worker and customer safety, which is externalized as violence and loss in the communities.
In short I would say, applying ideas from the agile manifesto while providing cadence and some predictability. But that is a personal opinion.