skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right now the public opinion in China (not mine) is that India and America are hypocritical bullies and abusing the "national security" excuse, while China "never banned" any foreign web services, those "simply refused to comply with Chinese laws regarding terrorism" and their "inaccessibility" totally justified.

This is definitely not a public opinion.

Public opinion in US is splited like it always is in every single matter.

I agree on the ban... or, at least, they should take a closer look regarding national security.

Sending a lot of citizen personal info to the opposite super power like China and Russia does seem concerning, don't you agree?
Most cli parsers don't fully support the author's suggested model because it means you can't parse argv without knowing the flags in advance.

For example, the author suggests that a cli parser should be able to understand these two as the same thing:

program -abco output.txt
program -abcooutput.txt

That's only doable if by the time you're parsing argv, you already know `-a`, `-b`, and `-c` don't take a value, and `-o` does take a value.

But this is a pain. All it gets you is the ability to save one space character, in exchange for a much complex argv-parsing process. The `-abco output.txt` form can be parsed without such additional context, and is already a pretty nice user interface.

For those of us who aren't working on ls(1), there's no shame in having a less-sexy but easier-to-build-and-debug cli interface.
> Everyone thought Vine was here to stay too.

Vine was loved and was shut down by a part time CEO.

> Snapchat was huge at one point and now I no longer know anybody who still uses it.

People under 25 still love and use snapchat.

Tiktok has 80 million MAUs, and is becoming the tool of cultural influence in the same way the Instagram did. I wouldn't underestimate the staying power of tiktok.
I came here to ask the same, @tkiley. It seems the main benefits of your CRUT are (a) deferring your capital gains taxes until later and (b) allowing you to make deductions for charitable giving. But ofc those come at a cost, namely that you don't get paid until later (5% yearly), and that you have to give to charity.

Can't anyone just give to charity and get a deduction? And doesn't everyone get taxed later when they're paid later?
Yes they would, but the flip side of them not being able to price people based on actual driving behavior is by charging all men higher

This is illegal in the UK and EU, fortunately. A real victory for gender equality, even if it means women paying more.
I would be very interested in how this could be created automatically by `cargo` itself. A cargo semver tool which can bump versions, and create two versions on major/minor breaking changes like this post recommends would be really cool to see.
You've hit my concern. Which was very little about spyware, and more about having a platform installed on devices all over the world that the CCP can just slip content into whenever it wants. Russia signed up for FB/Twitter/Reddit accounts and spread confusion and lies, imagine if they owned the platforms how much more targeted and impactful it could be.

TikTok seems to impress people with its algorithm serving them content they like, many HNers describe it as addicting even, that sounds like a tool for manipulation (which feels like all the internet is these days anyway, but I digress.)

I also don't like the idea of the US banning apps. But I also don't trust people to choose not to invest attention in TikTok. The world's a muddy, messed up, place.
Because they still need ground stations (and users!) in the US?
Can you support this with a counter example? This statement by itself is a bit of a tease!
When my partner was 23 they were diagnosed with a recurrence of lymphoma. We went through almost six months of chemotherapy, radiation, a bone marrow transplant, and months in the hospital. All the while I was constantly fighting our "good" insurance for approvals and paying tens of thousands out of pocket. It was the worst season in both of our lives.

But today we are actually celebrating our anniversary, and my partner has been in remission for nine years. I hope you find some peace today and know that you are not alone.
I have always regretted investing spare cash while feeling a sense of self imposed time pressure. I would sit on it until there is an opportunity you are excited about.
I usually treat them as talking points more than problems to solve perfectly.

Sometimes this is what the interviewer wants and sometimes its not.
I would say low code platforms are great tools for starting up. If you are successful v2 can be done in real programming language because you would get paying customers.

Most of the time I hear about it is companies that have software developers trying to cut costs by incorporating low code. That is really foolish.
A lotto ticket does not have a good return; most times it has negative expectation; after a few weeks with no winner, it is sometimes positive.

Risk adjusted, almost independent of your risk metric, it is always horrible.
Your not over paying or getting front runed regardless, so I guess the answer is yes.
Good point. I found this here:
https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1900
1929 - 1944 seems to be the worst.
I went through the install process on windows.
First it said I need to install gvim first. So I did that. then set the path to gvim.exe

Then I was able to install it, and it said just start gvim and plugins will install automatically.
So I start gvim and nothing happens. Looks like normal gvim.

I feel like these sorts of experiences are always what happen when using kinda linuxy tools. Compare to installing vscode where it just works. But then is an inefficient electron/javascript program that just works. Would be nice to have the best of both worlds!

EDIT: allow me to be the change a little bit, if you install on windows, the fix: https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/issues/3250

EDIT2: after the fix "E121: Undefined variable: g:_spacevim_if_lua" sigh
I don't think that's necessarily a knock against cancer treatments. In the end we all have to die of something and late-life cancer is probably always going to be a leader. I think a better stat would be the average age of those who die of cancer and the survival rates of child cancers.
Are you looking for financial return only? If not https://www.givewell.org/ searches for charities that improve lives most per dollar.
I cannot believe that with over 500 bewildered comments yours is the only one to make this obvious connection. I have a difficult time forming any other conclusion than yours. I agree that an executive order would be a direct response to TikTok users trolling him at Tulsa.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. These TikTok users already won round 1 (Tulsa) and this would mean war.
... which can’t be reached from twilio, since twilio Numbers are not actual mobile numbers.
Just because you don't know anyone that uses Snapchat doesn't make that an authoritative source on popularity of a company. Snap's user base has grown consistently and show's no signs of slowing down, even against increase competition in the space (https://www.statista.com/statistics/545967/snapchat-app-dau/). TikTok is the "Vine replacement" since Vine was bought by Twitter and shutdown. Vine wasn't a "fad" that faded away, it was actively shutdown by its parent company, likely would still exist to this day in a non-insignificant way had that not happen.
Send back the BTC with interest or no?
Africa can take advantage of the innovation economy
> Do I need to be on some secret list or say something specific to get access?

Pretty much. If you're not somewhat of a who's who in the world of AI and machine learning, you'll need to wait, like the rest of us, for access to GPT-3. And it's unlikely OpenAI will give it out to normal people for free.
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A little off-topic. I like Go but haven't used it in a while.

While offline I remember a couple go command operations were surprisingly giving me proxy.golang.org or network unavailable errors. In the sense that it had no reason to touch the network. Can you refresh my memory what they were? Or if they are still present? I can't for the life of me find or remember the answer.

It was what made me discover some of the things the article mentions, like the package index.
last i checked data collection from western-block companies is pretty centralized. Extensive records of your online behavior are being used (hence the money being made in it's collection and sale) by HR dpt, insurance companies, and loan desks to determine whether you qualify for a top tier salary for the same work, affordable coverage, and approval for a loan.
> proper frame independent linear interpolation of objects moving in 3D space

Reminds me of another thing - back when I was trying to write my own 3D engine, I've never heard of the concept that you interpolate physics state between rendering frames. Something that's considered table stakes today.

When and how did that arise?
Thanks for the ideas. I'm well into a physics phd program, specializing in biophysics. I want to work in biotech/pharma afterward, so I want to "prove my skill" with R/Python/C++. Trying to find a doable project that overlaps, that doesn't just seem like one of the genomics/bioinformatics practice problems.
The code for the kernel is signed through git, but you or your distro maintainer need to then compile it. The resulting binary could be signed, but it wouldn't be by Linus/The Linux Foundation. Given that there are a million options specific to your use-case and hardware, you can't really rely on reproducible builds in the general case.

Secureboot is one step in a chain of verification you'd need to do to make sure you're only running the binaries you've approved:

> Secure Boot is a technology where the system firmware checks that the system boot loader is signed with a cryptographic key authorized by a database contained in the firmware. With adequate signature verification in the next-stage boot loader(s), kernel, and, potentially, user space, it is possible to prevent the execution of unsigned code.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/UEFI_Sec...
I've had exactly the opposite experience. What does your comment and mine tell us? Absolutely nothing.
I though this is same as https://js1k.com/ it's not
Pleasure (i.e. self-reported, short-term happiness) and actualisation/flourishing seem to be very different things to me. Or at least that's one of the lessons I learned from the novel Brave New World.
Microsoft to buy? Selling the hen house to the fox?
Plenty of Americans (and Canadians) in Panama that barely speak Spanish and they're doing just fine. I'd get out of Panama City though, there are a lot of nice seaside towns, much nicer than Panama City.
Yes, we should celebrate new India breaking free of the upper castes and democracy coming of age.

What can be a better sign than PM Narendra Modi & President Abdul Kalam - by far the most popular leaders of India.

My dear friend better days are ahead of us.
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Why would someone ever want to use the second syntax? (Genuine question, not rhetorical!)

It seems using = for optional option arguments is only allowed with long form. Why is that? Wouldn't it be nicer to be able to write "program -c=blue" rather than "program -cblue"?
Very interested analysis. Keep up the great work!
The GPT-3 version is only available to "premium" users, so one will need to shell out some cash to use it in this specific environment.
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Why wouldn't an HR person or hiring staffer immediately out the company or even sue them?

Why would they? HR is not your friend.
My allocation

20 % in physical gold
10 % in Bitcoin
10 % in gold mining stock
30 % in cash
30 % reserved for the coming stock market crash (to pick up cheap blue chip stocks)

Source: gut feeling
Every day. Seriously consider using SQL to store your data.

Are you in doubt between a plain file and sqlserver and you think it doesn't worth the hassle of installing a full blown sql server, making backups regularly, etc.? use sqlite.
As a counter-point, I worked at Google for two years and what the author is describing is completely consistent with my experience with the engineering culture and the systems it produces.

Fundamentally there is a hostility towards the philosophical aspect of software engineering which involves a careful consideration of the essential nature of the system as a whole as it relates to some ultimate end and the nature of logical components of the system and how they interact. Note that these considerations can occur prior to any code being written and also as part of an iterative process as the product and understanding of the product develops.

I believe this stems from three sources:

1. The criteria and process for getting promoted is very focused on shipping new and complex things which in practice is at the exclusion of all other considerations. This means that improving or maintaining existing systems or producing systems which are well architected at all is not as clearly valued. The promo committee is comprised of people who don't know the specifics of the systems you're working on so the easiest thing to convey is that feature X or product Y was shipped.

2. There is a hyper-rationalist, hyper-modernist, data-driven, anti-intuitionist view which pervades Google which completely discounts any sort of philosophical/qualitative thinking. People get really uncomfortable when you try to start even the most anodyne discussion about the product or service as it relates to some broader goal since those involve qualitative judgements that can't be reduced down a set of metrics. Some of this may be attributed to the CYA culture among management.

3. The interview process doesn't select for software engineering or software architecture skills (aka people who have developed an intuitive understanding of the art of software engineering) so there are many people within Google who lack the ability to effectively evaluate the architecture choices that are being made around them or that they themselves are making.

With all that said I did meet and work with many brilliant engineers and others who were very talented and did think deeply about things but those were relatively rare. And yes it is a big company with many different teams and subcultures but what the author and I have described are the patterns that one sees broadly across Google.
You could make the same argument for the US's 350M people. Why would we give up sweat shops when there's homeless and unemployed? Because we view their existence in our economy as an overall downward pressure on average standard of living.
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I'm curious to know what you mean by this? It's not like it can't handle more that is just what their peak workload was. With only 18% CPU usage at peak it's clear that it could handle much more.
Having US data in US hands doesn't seem like a terrible development to me.

In China, the relationship between tech companies and the government is very close, and none would question any data requests. Its nothing like Apple which openly fights the US government in the supreme court..
> But there is a God given right for software developers to get more than 70%?

No, but the market clearly values developer time significantly more than artist time.

If you wanna have a debate about the relative worth of people professions to society vs their pay. Then talking about the difference between a sports persons pay and doctors pay tends to make for a better argument.

> How do you propose that Apple becomes more dominant than Spotify worldwide when Apple only has a 15% market share? Are people really signing up for Apple Music on Android or are the few Android users who use Apple Music doing so only as part of a Family Plan where the other member of the household is an iOS user?

Apple own almost 20% of the streaming market to Spotify’s 35% and show no signs of slowing down. Apples hardware market clearly hasn’t been a limitation so far. But again that isn’t a surprise when you consider that core markets for streaming are mostly western. And Apple have very high HW market share there, such as almost 50% of the US mobile market.

> It’s only “working” because Apple, Amazon, and Google don’t need for music streaming to be profitable - unlike Spotify. They can operate at break even. Artists aren’t choosing one over the other.

That just shows that Spotify’s cut isn’t unreasonable, they’re barely making a profit.

Ultimately artists choose to make art, they aren’t forced into. They, like any small business owner, takes a gamble. They trade a stable income for the opportunity to do some they love, and do something that has unbounded upside. If they strike a cord with popular society then they stand to make millions, an opportunity that a software developer earning a salary doesn’t have.

If they don’t like that deal, they get a salaried or wage job like the rest of us.

I started my own business for the reasons above, it didn’t pan out, and now I have a salaried job. But you don’t see me gripping about how someone else should have paid me more to run my business.

Simple fact of the matter is that society just doesn’t value artists that much. Neither Spotify or Apple is gonna change that.
Really unfortunate name.
That's rubbish that you think you can predict a 1% return in the market over the next couple decades. It would be extremely unprecedented, and you'd need a very solid argument to have any confidence at all in that prediction.
As far as I know, Each cancer in a patient is mostly unique. Not all skin cancers or cancer tumor cases are same. they may have same underlying cause of it but not same cancer case.
Mostly what treatment do is remove the affected tumor,tissues, if its related to blood plasma or bone-marrow transplant donor blood and bone marrow. Use chemo to weaken all cells of body regardless of its normal functioning or part of cancer. wait for human body to revive on its own immune system and repeat above task if needed.

so, to fight the cancer first we must find a way to affordably find the type of cancer with cause case-by-case basis and develop a procedure for custom treatment and drug-delivery to affected part without disturbing whole body functions. From my perspective we are still way behind but in better position then yesterday or decade ago.
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It's unbelievable to think that the government couldn't even roll out the free testing. The most basic part of fighting corona and they couldn't even get that right. At least now we can stop pretending we don't live in a third world country. No wonder the pandemic is so bad here. Literally nothing is being done. If it's this costly and hard to get a test, we have no hope whatsoever other than a vaccine that may never come. Barring that, it's herd immunity and all the disability and death that comes along with that. Great job of the government to protect its people. A police state with some of the most far reaching powers this side of traditional authoritarianism, and they can't enforce mask wearing and business closures. But they have no problem arresting people for smoking weed or murdering people by kneeling on their necks. America has finally become great, the number one country it believes in delusion to be. Too bad that number one position is in the number of corona cases and deaths. Then again, what can one expect from a third world country even its own president called a "shithole"?
Could they not pick better names?
Well, inflation is also absurdly low. The direct return on equity, globally, is around 5% for a pure stock portfolio.

What is your basis for believing that the safe withdrawal rate will be less than half this, at less than 1.5%? That sounds excessively pessimistic to me.
Those kids should get a prestigious cybersecurity job instead of going to jail. They didn't harm anybody even though they had the power to do that.
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Bad time to have your cert go bad on you.
Probably you're right!

A webpagetest from Sydney shows pretty dismal performance: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/200801_FJ_dd5f2a76d77bcaa...

~2 seconds for first contentful paint. That's pretty dismal, IMO, and shows the limitation of their current setup.
I’m no expert, but it’s probably not possible to move manufacturing to places where labor is still cheap in China. After all, the country is huge, and concentration/proximity to shipping routes matters.
No, they don't. They practice first-aid. There's a big difference between slapping on a band-aid and a DIY hip replacement, or cancer diagnosis.

Maybe this is a uniquely American thing and with the self-sufficiency narrative being so at the fore. I don't fix my own car because I'm not a mechanic -- I share the symptoms with a professional. I don't tell my doctor what to prescribe or what's wrong with me because I'm not a doctor -- I share my symptoms with a professional.

As a concrete example, advertising prescription drugs direct to individuals in Canada is illegal. It's illegal in most countries. [1] As it should be!

[1] https://www.cmaj.ca/content/169/5/425
Mostly I use two that I build for myself to solve my own problems.

calm closes all inactive tabs:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/calmdown/

notetab opens a tab to take notes:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/notetab/

Maybe someone else will find them useful.
I recommend you try the experimental native elisp compilation. Really improved performance for me.
Will their value plummet if they are banned before an acquisition can take place?
Guy above sounds confused about a lot of stuff.
I'm going to engage in concern trolling about the name to preemptively beat everyone else.

Let's all bike-shed about how bad the name is and how we'll never use it in our giant production data vacuums to mercilessly exploit the commons for money and prestige.

Here's a pointless mention of CockroachDB and an observation that GNU Recutils has a logo of two turtles engaging in sex.

Something something GIMP.

Here's twenty overly emotional pleas for why we should eradicate any memory that the Internet used to be used by and for amateurs, without consideration of what Fortune 500 companies and crisis PR firms might think about it. Really bad look. Period. It's 2020, etc.
What, you don’t want QHandJoob on your desktop?
I would've called it WebWob: Web Without Browsers.
Absolutely true. There are many cancers where the only recourse is disfigurement, dangerous irridation, butchery, poison or death.

No blame on current doctors and nurses, but our current understanding is brutal. Any real advances are crazy welcome.
It's the only reason I clicked.