skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that the retaliation is life-destroying levels of severe, and "making waves" is extremely vague. Something nobody knows if they themselves are thought to be doing.

I visited china about 10 years ago, on a working trip. Nothing to do with government, just a very mundane bit of electronics we were collaborating on. While there I asked what I thought were innocent questions about ordinary life and politics, and it became clear that people there did not feel safe answering some of those questions.

To this day I don't know if that counts as "making waves".

These days, I would not feel safe returning to China for work. I recently turned down an excellent job opportunity that would require very occasional trips to China, because it seems just that bit too much of a risk at the moment.
How would people who want to be the next Haidt or Harris build up authority (i.e. a reputation/brand) if identity becomes decentralized and ephemeral?
I think this is mainly a problem of social norms- there are few contexts today where people assume you want to have long-form discussion without you going out on a limb and stating it explicitly. Asking someone to coffee is one that still exists; I do this with friends sometimes. But another alternative is to just take that step and explicitly state what you'd like to do. It might be a little awkward, but I bet many people would be receptive.
I get the same thing, but I've found that I can understand the words if I focus on them and try to understand them, though the problem is that as soon as I do I become more awake and it takes time to get back in to the hypnagogic state again after that, so I usually don't bother.
That’s kind of my point. Everyone who says “tax the rich” always define the rich as people who make more than they do.
No, F-22 is not up for export. Also, F-22 serves a specific role vs F-35 which is geared towards multiple capabilities. There are neither mutually exclusive nor substitute for each other.
Any time you break an API that accepts serialized data it's going to crash if you try to use it with something that is on a different version of the API. How is this any different with enums than it would be with changing a string to a float, or anything else?
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Re: lifetimes question.

You can solve this in rust just like you can in every other language. By allocating memory in the function and returning the allocation. String, not &str, is what represents that behavior.

&str is kind of a rust wart that only exists because it's so damn useful to provide static text strings in a binary. Every other usage is pretty questionable and should basically be ignored/changed imo
How does "blame start with Obama on this"? Donald Trump withdrew the US signature from TPP in January 2017.
Longer term this will also likely accelerate servers running on ARM. Writing software on ARM laptops that are deployed to production servers running on x86 servers will start to cause a host of new challenges. The switch to running ARM in production will have many advantages for developers and will likely be very attractive to cloud providers (AWS, Azure) as the costs of electricity for these servers may be significantly less.
What about them? Tell me about when the virus started spreading and before they started policy to prevent the spread? What has the spread been like since those policies were put in place? How does that compare to the US?

Here are the US and Sweden
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

Here are Belgium, France, Spain, and Italy
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/belgium/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

You can actually look at that within the US, which has NY/New England type curves (including Seattle, Michigan, Chicago, and San Francisco) and the Texas, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, et al. type spread.

All of the examples you noted had large, uncontrolled spread in mid-March that was gradually brought under control in lockdowns, and kept low via social policy (mask wearing, distancing, testing/contact tracing).

To answer your question indirectly: Spain, France, Italy, and Belgium all together are currently having fewer new daily cases than just Arizona on its own. And Arizona has less cases daily than Georgia, California, Texas, and Florida.

The US would be the laughingstock of the world if it weren't so sad. The US response is too tragic to laugh at.
The test running in a transaction would mean my external tools like psql/etc would not be able to see the data b/c it's uncommitted, even if I pause/catch the test before it finishes.
And in fact TechMoan has done a DAT video, too. https://youtu.be/F4K1QKKPX_g
Home remodelling is an indoor activity though.
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Not too long ago some friends of mine asked me to babysit their kids (3 & 5 years old) by playing Candyland for a few minutes. The kids impromptu made up various rules about skipping turns, going in reverse, teleporting, yadda yadda, based on the board artwork around the Candyland track. It was basically playing Calvinball[1] with the Candyland board as a backdrop.

I suspect that most children, after playing it once and realizing it contains 0% game, just go ahead and say to themselves, "no problem here," and fueled by the fabulous aesthetics, fantasize their own personal Candyland game in their own heads.

[1]https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/Calvinball
Ask HN: How will decentralization pave its way into consumer internet?
The only major sector in consumer internet that leverages decentralization is cryptocurriencies. I also think that decentralized Identity and Access Management will eventually make its way into consumer internet. But in what other ways would consumer internet companies leverage decentralization in the future?
I just thought of another one: XScreensaver.
From a revenue producing perspective, if you are working on a product that isn’t producing revenue and won’t ever produce revenue, you are dead weight.
The US has a police brutality problem, not a fair trial issue like China. And yes, long prison terms, a private for profit prison system and the death penalty in some states.
You have to provide a address at which you can be reached by US Postal Service mail over matters related to your license. It doesn't have to be an address you can actually be physically found at.

I used my PO box, for example.
Nice! In the why part you speculatively mention better speed. Do you have any concrete benchmark results?

If fast, the tool would be very useful for my work where I run an anonimization sed script with hundreds of transformations on millions of lines that takes hours to run.

But even if it is not fast, this is a fun project.
Good article.

I used HDBSCAN in my master's thesis. It works well with high dimensional data. If you're using it for high dimensional stuff I would recommend working with Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) to visualise. I think it is made by the same author as HDBSCAN.

I wish they also talked about Density-Based Clustering Validation (DBCV) which can be used to calculate the mathematical stability of the clusters (for hyper parameters), apart from just looking at hierarchies.
I see that they've updated their website since I last looked at it. They still use some abstract art and meaningless pictures of nature to explain their concepts, but at least the description makes sense now.

Sadly the system cannot be used easily for any applications storing personal information since your identity is tied to a blockchain and the GDPR requires companies to make information deletable.

The reliance on abstract art for trying to make their points come across are still to vague for me to give the project a try, but who knows, maybe in another year or two the project and its concepts will actually be understandable enough for me to give it a shot.
Some infinities are larger than others.
Chess is an old game. Starcraft is the updated version of chess, with build orders and hidden information. Starcraft retains the value of doing the right thing even when blind, and building up logical series of actions from past experience.

I don't know if you get to choose between chess and cards. In Starcraft (and chess to a lesser degree) you still have risks in the unknown that can be mapped as a probability function. For a given build order you may know that the best unit is X, but there's still a chance your opponent produces a unit that is counter-valent to the optimal.

In finance or cards you still have information about concrete events like ipo launch dates and cards have chips that are always shown and a number of cards remaining, that do not require probabilities to know or exploit.

Which one takes more prominence depends on the task at hand. And if one is prominent, the other strategy is nestled inside and shrouds from above.
Look at the Baofeng data collected by ARRL:

http://www.nf9k.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ARRL-Lab-HT-T...

And others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjEl6dciLS0
I bought a Sony CDP-101 in 1984 (their first commercial CD player). Unlike hifi components today that are mostly air and a small embedded processor, it was densely packed with circuitry and weighed a surprising amount (10kg? maybe more?). For cost and packaging reasons, Sony only put a single DA converter in it. This meant that they had to alternate converting the left + right channels, which introduced a 11µs delay between them. Not ideal, but it was what was what they were able to do given the technology of the time. Much like Technics was with the SV-P100.

Anyone saying the 44.1 kHz sampling rate was because of DRM [0] and that they should have used a more sensible rate like 48 kHz is just mistaken. DAT was the first commercial product to have 48 kHz sampling, and that wasn't available until 1987.

[0] The Red Book CD Digital Audio specification obviously existed and was available, otherwise other equipment makers couldn't create compatible players.
Most people want to avoid being retaliation.
It’s good for teaching very young kids how games run. Turn-taking, rule-following. Not knowing what the next card will be holds their interest long enough to get them used to those things, at least.
You can, but how has that worked out for Google? They have been redeploying engineers from one failed non ad product to another for over 15 years.
I agree that the probability of CCP choosing you as their hostage is low, it is only low as of now.

Who can guarantee they never choose a mass arrest as the way to exert pressure on the West?
How do you feel about the term, "Blackbody"? E.g. Blackbody radiation.

Master's degree implies a superiority to the lower degrees, clearly establishing a dominance hierarchy. Is that much different from the master/slave terminology? Or is it just the use of the word "Master" combined with the word "Slave" which is the problem?
I was in Albania and Kosovo in '99.
Been back since, can't wait to go again.
Op's observations still hold true.
For info, back then, the 17km (sounds easy) from airport to Tirana was a bunker nightmare.
A real coup would have not let even the SAS pass quite so easily. However, SAS? I bet they had each bunker mapped.
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From the guy who thought the AT&T Hobbit was going to take over the industry.
We know manipulation is occurring, and to me that's an argument for greater transparency and openness so we can tell when it's happening. I don't agree with the "head in the sand" approach where manipulation is glossed over, ignored or rebranded under terms like "online reputation management".

That being said, the "anyone who disagrees with me is a shill" attitude is just as poisonous to online discussions as the shilling itself.
I don't think a routine election counts as a collapse. A govt collapse in the US would mean some combination of elections failing, leaders keeping or gaining control through force, and a breakdown of rule of law with a lot of chaos, violence, and disruption.

I very much do not want to see the US collapse; it would not be a pleasant experience. I don't think it's too likely in the near future, but it's certainly possible and these sorts of developments often only seem obvious in hindsight.
Or to put it differently, "put your own small dent in the universe"

A couple years ago I built a new website for a local shop. It was a straightforward project - a problem I "could really solve easily" - but it had a real and material impact on the lives of some wonderful people who in turn had a material impact on their community. I sometimes look back at that work as being, in certain ways, more fulfilling than any of the more challenging work I've done since.
OP here. This is a really interesting point. My strategy was to keep the highest level functions/words like DrawTile or DrawMenu while writing the underlying Forth and subwords from scratch focusing on performance. Do you have any suggestions that would make "more sense to Forth" as you say?
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My position (Frontend/Full-stack Engineer) became redundant as the company had to change direction. A lot of really great engineers were let go of.

I've been interviewing for full-time positions but the process is slow going and I have not yet received an offer. I don't have much more time before my own savings runs out and I am the sole provider for my family, so I am reaching out to the community for help with any leads.

About me: full-stack/frontend engineer with 5 years of development experience (all remote)

What I'm looking for:
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I was thinking more of the Philippines / Taiwan / Indonesia, but fair point. Vietnam has also received a fair amount of Chinese aggression despite being "socialist brothers".
Most people’s friend groups are extremely homogeneous, rarely exposing them to other points of view.
Well, the people who boycott aren’t silent (see above). Maybe someone younger reading this thread thought “what rootkit?” and looked it up. Maybe now that person won’t buy Sony. I certainly don’t. You know Sony’s marketing research departments are aware that this is a thing. One of the great things about capitalism is consumer choice and the way a negative brand image actually hurts their bottom line and helps their competition. Imagine if Comcast had competitors :)
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In past centuries it was the US stealing the IP but modern China particularly seems to have a cultural knack for it.
You are describing is https://www.wireguard.com/ which is a stable choice for this application.
Not the author, but I see that

> no pattern/hold space overflow checks, currently both limited to 8192 bytes as per the POSIX spec requirement. Going over that limit will most likely cause a segfault.

> The C code is very rough around the edges (by that I mean dirty and unsafe, for instance allocating everything on the stack without checking any overflow), I'm still working on it, but contributions (issues/comments/pull requests) are also welcomed :)

Thus, so far it's just for fun, not suitable for profit yet.
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While Culture A and B are contrived for the sake of discussion in my experience people advocating for Culture B do so out of being on the losing end of Culture A. However, these people don't seem to be interested in maintaining a shift to Culture B but rather in using aspects of B "shame,conformity,arguments from personal inner experiences" to attain a dominant role in an A type Culture. Cancel culture seems to be a mechanism to change the winners in Culture A not to create a Culture B.
We can start talking about "revealed preferences" once it's very cheap to move out of the city and to the country, and when it's equivalently cheap to move into a city. As long as big cities are absurdly expensive to live in and have all the good jobs, I'd say it's mostly path dependence at play.

(Also, as someone who moved to a small town, married and has a kid, I desperately want to get back to a large city - small towns are depressing and soul-suckingly boring.)
Not needed now. My A12 equipped iPad has considerably more grunt than my i7 intel laptop.
Related, capnproto has a corresponding feature (which it calls unions), but being a dsl for defining _protocols_, you obviously have to deal with the possibility of introducing new variants as the protocol evolves.

I wrote the Haskell implementation. It maps unions to variants (what Rust calls enums), BUT it always generates an extra 'unkown' variant, which gets used whenever the variant is one not recognized by the generated code.

In this case the value proposition of variants/enums, including exhaustiveness checking, is still really useful -- it can not only deal with the possibility of more variants added in the future, it forces you to handle that possibility, which imo is the best of both worlds.

But yes, in general, when modeling data that comes from the outside world, you need to about overfitting.

Vaguely related: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/01/19/no-dynamic-typ...
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You could have said all the same things about the Intel transition

Apple obviously wasn't designing Intel chips; they had no choice but to take whatever Intel had. Sure, they were better than the PowerPC processors from Motorola and IBM but it was Intel’s roadmap that sealed the deal.

This time, Apple doesn't have to settle for those trade-offs it had no choice but to swallow from Intel back in the day.

The two year old processor in the Apple Transition Kit already has very impressive performance; the first ARM-based Macs should even be more impressive with the latest and greatest chips: https://gizmodo.com/a-wild-apple-arm-benchmark-appears-18442....
Google "rootkit". This is a great example of theoretical security vs actual security. In theory, people review logs on their personal machines and hunt for bad guys. In practice, virtually nobody has ever done that. The reality is that personal laptop compromises are discovered through side-effects. Heat, sluggishness, webcam turning on, accounts being hijacked.
Compared to just spinning up a DB in a container, I find the amount of setup/scaffolding required to mock the DB to be far greater.

For years I took the mocking route, but it means there is a whole class of bugs that your tests won't catch, and the scaffolding was often fragile. Few years back I switched to just running a real DB in a container - very happy with this way.
No, you're coddling them then - if you reference master-slave to someone outside of technical people then the context of the conversation will be technology, coddling them and treating them as if they're fragile and can't learn of a new context; why would you be talking to them about master-slave anyway if it wasn't relevant to the conversation - it's not even a scenario that would exist?

So should the BDSM community stop using the terms master and slave, or it's okay in that context but not in a technology context? Curious if you have a double standard or if you'll change your mind.

Edit to add: I truly hope you answer the BDSM question instead of the likely avoidance so you can maintain an irrational position.
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&str is hardly a 'wart'. It's basically a safe version of C++ string_view, and it (together with array slices, which &str is essentially a special case of) is a very good example of the sorts of features that are enabled by Rust's focus on memory safety and close-to-the-metal efficiency.
I'm curious what was the motivation for keeping HN going. It doesn't seem like a large capital sink, but apparently has extremely high costs otherwise. Paul is a man who is very smart about allocating resources and effort. Why HN?
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I would argue the jobs for the geek-adjacent people are in the big cities. Likelihood of being into ham radio correlated well with likelihood of being stem-y geek type, anf those jobs are in the cities where the housing situation is dire
>I don't think anyone would disagree that she's a pawn in a geopolitical struggle, but it also sounds like she absolutely and intentionally violated US law

Someone that didn't visit the US was arrested for "breaking US law"...replace "US" with "China" and see how this sentence rings.
Reading the comments, I learned that OpenID is not centralised but rather provides federation support. I wish I'd known about this sooner before it died, because it would've been fun to try and use.

I'm sure decentralized authentication won't come on commercial platforms though. Maybe some developer-centric services will add support once the Next Big Thing in authentication and authorization comes along, but companies want to keep as much of their account system under their control as possible. It might be because of data mining, it might be because of bot prevention, it might be because of fear of trusting external providers, but I just don't see any reason why companies would accept such an authentication system.

The closest thing I can see happening is a federated authentication platform like the EU is implementing with EIDAS. Authentication with your home government for EU-wide services, tied to your ID card. I don't think something like that will be implemented for much more than government institutions and banking, despite the idea having been proven to work.

Simply put, as long as it doesn't make business sense to trust another provider, businesses won't offer any decentralized authentication methods.
Never mind the SAS, who are sauntering around with flak jackets and armed to the teeth, it's Benny the driver, who volunteered to go on patrol with them, who is the coolest character in this story!
I think the major question is not whether they will invent something else. they are reliant on Ads and will remain so as far as I can tell.

the real question is: is the ad model overvalued?

I think so for the following reasons: ad blockers, users getting desensitized to ads, diminishing returns of the amount of data one needs on a user to sell.

I think OP has the right conclusion but the wrong reasons.

what do you think?