skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> President Reagan delegated the review process to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Delegating a power doesn’t remove one of that power. And CFIUS pre-dates Exon-Flores, so the Congress giving the President, not CFIUS, these powers is relevant.

We can have a discussion as to whether we like or dislike this action. (I am not a fan.) But suggesting it’s unprecedented or a breakdown of the rule of law is hyperbolic.
I wrote a batch animation exporter shell script that had to restart max in a loop, repeatedly running a maxscript function blowChunks() to export chunks of 50 animations at a time, then restarting max to export the next chunk, because if it tried to export too many animations from the same process, max would eventually go senile and crash.

(Search for "chunks":)

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/maxscript/maxis-maxscrip...

Automating The Sims Character Animation Pipeline with MaxScript:

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/automating-the-sims-character...
It's not that hard for Germany. The problem is more that there are multiple competing schemes, and it's kind of a mess. Make-it-in-germany.com should be a good guide
What Trump is doing is completely within the law otherwise TikTok and its investors would simply file a lawsuit.

And every day governments around the world block mergers and acquisitions on competition grounds and block companies from being involved in sensitive projects e.g. Huawei.
Google works with tons of Chinese phone vendors to get Android on phones worldwide.
From the article: "Isohata’s husband used these photographs as evidence for a divorce. (Such evidence is needed when a Japanese divorce is contested.)"
Or people killing themself, because their economic base is destroyed.
it’s not about physical experience, though. you just described zero, negative numbers, and 10^10^10...

what’s weird is that almost all numbers are inaccessible, even in our imaginations.
More money in the US Tik Tok audience to be perfectly frank. MS has to be reasonably certain they will get their investment out plus some profit. Not only that, but sometimes the MS's of the world won't even buy if the profit they will make is not large enough.

I would think some Indian firm might want Tik Tok? Not really sure why no deal has been made there?
> because nobody really impinges on a billionaire’s rights.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/world/oprah-winfrey-racism-sw...
> Judges in the same party with lifetime appointments?

Gorsuch recently ruled against Trump on gay rights [1]. As have several Bush appointees on other matters.

Party isn’t a perfect prism for predicting court opinions.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/politics/gorsuch-supre...
You fear CCP propaganda. All right. But it seems that in your zeal to deny CCP propaganda, you seem to forget that all media is propaganda. All this western media attention towards how CCP is evil and how Tiktok can be used to spy or influence us, no matter whether they are right, are also designed as distractions from domestic issues.

Let's say we should ban Tiktok. Everybody's data is still being spied on by the CIA, and gathered by PRISM.

Go one step further. Ban Tiktok and Facebook, Twitter, etc.
good to know. But is really a temporary solution until I think in a way to use it.In the end I wanna find a way to adapt and 128gb ssd in it.
Is this built in Flutter?
I use OpenBSD on a G4 iBook and it's not too bad
Saris (now owner of cycle ops) has an approximate graph on their blog. It’s probably not very accurate, but I could probably get close enough by taking some “known” points, some approximations and applying some math to the problem.

The other option is to see if I can dig into the zwift or trainer road code. Both of those applications support “virtual power” for this specific trainer. Which is another way of saying that SOMEONE knows it. I’m sure that Saris actually shared the exact curve with Zwift and Trainer Road, but I’m not sure they’d share it with me.
Correct! And the American founding fathers were terrorists before they won. How difficult is this?
So? Those gap years barely register as far as flights are concerned.
> Marriage counseling is an honest profession.

I'm genuinely curious how many of these relationships could actually be salvaged by good counseling, once they've reached the point where someone is willing to hire a saboteur.
> Cloud Computing (and SASS even more so) is little more than just another attempt to recreate access/info monopolies

Maybe this is true of some commercial cloud companies, but "cloud" computing is much larger in scope than you make it sound. There is a whole shadow PaaS/SaaS world used primarily by various research communities, for instance, often called "grid" instead of cloud, wherein nearly everything is publicly funded and the value proposition is web-based access to data stores, HPC clusters, etc, instead of every individual hacking their own data science environment on their laptop.
Does anyone not see how fucked up this is?
Basic Economics is a very good book. Even if you taken University economics you will learn something and you will definitely learn how to explain things to those who did not.

His debates are also great to watch highly recommended.
Do you know nothing about how China works?
Should you use scoped styling?
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BBC seems to get about as many accusations of left-wing and right-wing bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC

...which in my book means they must be doing something right. Their reporting certainly seems less rabidly partisan than pretty much anything in the US.
I strongly disagree with Sowell on almost every topic one can think of, either in terms of philosophy, society, or economics, but I admire his outspokenness and plain speaking, as the article notes he is known for, and it's a shame to read ad-hominem style attacks have been made against him. From what I can gather, however, the academic literature engages better with his arguments than journalists do.
it will make druaga1 proud.
> I always saw Autodesk as a company where software goes to die a slowly painful death.

There's a really nice lightweight vector design app for Mac and iOS called Graphic [0]. It was one of the first fully-featured design tools for iOS, and still the best to use.

It was bought by Autodesk back in 2015, who promptly did nothing with it at all. Pretty much all development ground to a halt. From being updated every few months, the Mac app has only been updated three times in the last five years.

It's since been spun-out to a different company, but development still isn't really happening – the iOS app hasn't seen an update since 2018.

The lack of attention this app has been shown is sad, as it's a good piece of software and I use it all the time. It had the potential to be the vector equivalent of software like Pixelmator or Acorn – lightweight but powerful alternatives to Adobe products created by independent, highly-passionate developers.

Instead, newer apps like Affinity Designer and Vectornator have taken any traction it might have had - and it's probably going to stop working with an upcoming release of macOS if they don't do anything.

[0] https://www.graphic.com
> Counting a building with active tenants paying rent as being valued at $0 is ridiculous.

Depends on how much rent they are paying, what other large costs repair costs might exist for the building, and whether anyone is buying in that neighbourhood.
> Conscious or not, it was your brain making that decision. Not someone else telling your brain what to think.

If you accept free will, there IS something else telling your brain what to think. Unless you explain what this something else might be, your hypothesis is not scientific.

If you accept your brain, and your brain alone, makes the decision, then you accept that, given the condition of the brain before that decision was made, then the brain MUST make that same decision regardless of anything external to it. Hence, no free will.

Even when you consider quantum physics (which most neuroscientists, from the books i've read on the topic, say have almost certainly very little effect on brain processes outside of normal chemistry), you will still end up with only a probability of possible decisions you could've made.
Microsoft Ready to Buy TikTok, Acquisition Talks in Process
> Musical.ly was sold 2017

CFIUS has a 90-day timeline, but that’s a creature of executive action. Exon-Florio requires no similar timeline.
Public broadcasting in Germany is no better than private media. In fact most topics are reported the same and even the opinion is the same. But even ignoring this, it is a big problem that publicly funded media is in direct economic competition with privately funded media. This is exacerbated by the official entertainment mission (Unterhaltungsauftrag[1]) and the usage of advertisement.

[1]: https://www.die-medienanstalten.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Rec... in §11
TikTok collects a lot of user data:

Geolocation data, including: longitude, latitude, and time zone

Device information, including: Android ID, International
Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI), Address Book Access, Device carrier region, Device region, Device type, Device OS version, Device language, Device connection type, and Mobile network code

App information, including: App name

https://www.proofpoint.com/au/corporate-blog/post/understand...
There are insurance companies that specialize in insuring weird one off things. They can figure out risk even if nothing like it has been done before.
I think the President can ban Tiktok by executive order on the ground of national security, in the same way he acted against Huawei.

Only this time American business interests told him that there was money in Tiktok so that it would be profitable for them to get their hands on it instead of killing it outright.
And so... They have made Bytedance "an offer they cannot refuse". From the Godfather to international geopolitics it's all the same.

Edit: This will bring back very bad historical memories to the Chinese.
Are you saying the facts that it presents aren’t true?
> I’m not doubting the facts you mention

That's because they are facts. I mean, look up Apple reports, they are very readable.

> and the amount of the hypothetical subsidy

There is no such subsidy! Why would you "subsidize" something that makes 3-4 times as much money as you do...? The AppStore didn't even exist and the iPhone was already making money!

> The overall point is however that the App Store restriction was known at the time of purchase

Key point being was. One can just demand that new phones be sold without this restriction, if you really want to stick to the old rules.

> What would you say if your employer or client demands to pay a bit less

The government can mandate that your employer should pay you less from today, or even that it should pay you more for stuff done in the past (although retroactivity in law is pretty bad, it is still occasionally applied). Laws change every day, all over the world. Stuff that was legal yesterday might not be tomorrow, that's just a fact of life. And let's not even get into clients: cutting prices, credit notes, and discounts, are just the price of doing business and happen every minute of every day.
Even though a logistics company uses trucks it does not mean they could build and operate a fleet of trucks.

You presume architecture firms would have any sort of capability to operate in software development. You might as well say they should create their own ink and papers. Software engineering companies are savvy in software.

Other companies aren't, and it is not expected that they would have any competence beyond their core offering.
I also enjoyed Basic Economics. It really encourages thinking in terms of second order effects, unintended consequences or what Bastiat referred to as the unseen.
I lost a discord account by forgetting to change my email address when sunsetting a domain then getting a new phone.
How do top tier tech companies, who are very likely continuous targets for this kind of thing, avoid ransomware attacks? I know there's nothing like that at my employer.
Home record/radio dubbing?

It's right about when the "Home Taping Is Killing Music" campaign came about.
See this is the thing that gets me though.

bg:white is exactly the problem. What if I want to change all my white backgrounds to #FCFCFC? I've got the option of going through and updating all my components individually or updating bg:white to be a non-white value.
Please help clarify “what is the most important SEO factor?”
Please help clarify “what is the most important seo factor?” discussed in Indie Hackers.
Thank you - it's interesting
Oh, look. You got downvoted for stating an opinion. Gee, how could this happen? There definitely is no bias here, no sir.
Too bad you are downvoted. What you are saying seems to be correct

> Green Party supporters 'most likely' to fly long-haul

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/Green-Party-supporte...
That might ironically go better starting from a Lisp-like dynamic language. "Just add types". Because the static typing side is hard, advancing one paper and thesis at a time. The poorly-funded multi-decade creeping installment plan of progress.

Even with category theory, the overwhelming emphasis is on using it for proof rather than for its expressiveness. A fun example... from a very collegial course in pre-Covid January, sniff... Categories work over PreSets - no predicate of member equality required. But say I claim to be handing you a PreSet. You can't verify that claim. Your ability to prove anything is very limited. Sad for mathematicians. But fine as API. But that's not where attention is.
An hour. It's important to test your interview with people whom you know should pass as well though.

If you give it to somebody you know you'd want to hire and they take 4+ hours to do a 1 hour task that's kind of a red flag. I'll bet your company didn't test their test.
It's not racism unless you subscribe to highly inclusive definitions of racism. It's just that government is mostly made up of people who are upper middle class or higher and government reflects their values so development they consider "nice" is facilitated and regulatory roadblocks are added to development they are suspect of.

If you told HN that some random dude buying a bunch of dilapidated buildings and make them into apartments and commercial real estate people would basically assume you're dealing with a slum lord. These are the kinds of assumptions that government codifies. They don't care that you're black or brown or white. You're just a name on a form to them. What they care about is that your proposed development meets X, Y and Z which triggers scrutiny A B and C (which was all originally passed to curtail slum lords back when the municipality got rich on a boom of local industry 0-70yr ago and could afford to drive them out).

And of course the bank knows all this and they figure that into their calculations when they're deciding whether or not to lend to you and what interest rate you'll get.
And three days before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23113430
But it is true. As were his racist views. And many other unsavory facts that are better not explained to an audience looking for demigods. How about you read about those?

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/richard-grenier/...
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"is (s)he actually having fun (when solving challenging problems)"

I don't know about anyone else, but for me personally, it's a bit difficult to have fun when I'm unemployed and need a paycheck.

You might even say that interviews are testing for how financially secure you are. You can only truly relax during a job interview if you don't actually need the job.
In Only the Paranoid Survive, former CEO of Intel Andy Grove talks about companies needing to see “strategic inflection points” and adapt or die. Examples abound in the book: IBM and the personal PC, Charlie Chaplin and Talkie Movies, and craftsmen and the rise of factories. The book is still considered important by those in business leadership some twenty five years later.
Then it would be nice if you could suggest an experiment which would yield useful pricing results for him.

I don't know if this was your intention but it's kind of a pet peeve of mine when someone posts "that's useless" to a content creator without elaborating on how they would've approached the issue.
I gotta ask... are companies you're interviewing with expecting you to have memorized particular algorithms? Or to be perfect with syntax?

In my most recent round of interviews, I found almost no one expecting me to recall a particular algorithm and implement it for a solution to a problem, but I did find plenty of questions that involved dealing with data structures, and writing my own code and algorithms to solve those problems.

Maybe I've been fortunate with not having been asked questions like "implement the quick sort algorithm"?
I can tell you one kind of content that can get someone banned from Facebook: pro-China content. Even if someone genuinely believes that being pro-China is right, and that that person is not a bot.

> The level of association is pretty clear, unless you have no knowledge on how large companies operates in China.

> No, I'm only against the CCP, maybe one day the Chinese people will have the government they deserve.

This looks like a huge contradiction to me. "Private companies in China have to follow Chinese law, so private Chinese companies are associated with CCP, so we should ban private Chinese companies, but I'm only against CCP".

Imagine someone disagreeing with PRISM, and making the same statement as above, but substituting "CCP" with "American government".
> Where exactly did I cast anyone who disagrees with me as unreasonable and/or unwilling to listen to reason?

You didn't, that's not an accusation I'm making against you, it was the point I tried to get across in the first post of mine that you replied to. I was hoping you'd agree that it was unhelpful to cast all disagreement as necessarily unreasonable, something the top poster seemed to be doing.

> Brexit has shown that the disconnection between the political class and the people had nothing to do with the EU

I don't disagree with this either (well, maybe I'd modify it slightly, and say it has more to do with Westminster than the EU, but I don't absolve the EU entirely). In fact I think we need much more devolved and locally empowered democracy within the UK. And this isn't incompatible with EU membership. (I mentioned I voted 'remain', right?)

However, as the EU drives towards closer union I fear that we'll see the problems that are present in other large democracies, and which I think are already present in the EU structures to various extents, exaggerate.

> The EU parliament is elected directly by the voters, and representative are nominated by governments that are also elected.

That second part there is an issue, IMHO, because I vote for a local candidate for the UK parliament, they then (if part of the ruling party) put their mandate behind a prime minister, and (s)he effectively chooses our representative on the Commission, which has a lot of power. This is several steps removed from any vote. Is it the fault of the EU? I'm unsure, perhaps we could have a system of directly electing a commissioner, but perhaps that's a bad idea as a technocrat is what's wanted there. Either way the UK seat on the commission has been held by people like Lord Mandelson - twice disgraced out of cabinet, an electoral liability who got promoted to the lords and then the commission. I'd prefer to see the commission de-emphasised (which I know has been happening to some extent, slowly).

I think the whole edifice needs a rework, local, national and supra-national.
Let's not forget that should you decline an offer, the other party has options like shifting to hypercompetitive approaching anti-competitive tactics: undercutting you to bleed you dry, burying you in frivolous lawsuits, propoganda campaigns against your product, and so forth.

The list goes on and many different tactics are perfectly legal or can be ambiguous requiring proof of motive (nearly impossible). You're engaging in war with someone who has far more resources than you. Sure, you couod win and shift or supplant their market share but more likely you'll be crushed.

Choosing between that option and $50m retiring happily, I'll choose the second option every time. I like the idea of competing but let's be realistic, this is not your restaurant competing with the other guy down the street where it might really come down to your actual competitive advantage in what you're providing a customer. Many times it comes down to business strategy and resources to execute those strategies.
Congress gave that power to the president. Congress can take the power back if it wishes but it won't, not even with their showboating faux hatred for Trump. Congress hates making decisions like this one so they punt to the Executive Branch. This is not a unique situation. Over the years Congress has given away lots of its power to the president, which remains even when there is a change in office.

Congress can change this any time it wants.
Nor were/are Facebook or Google.
I heard (on a podcast with @mntmn ?) that someone already took the keyboard module and modified it to use an ortholinear layout. I'd be super interested in schematics for that, if anyone knows where to find them. Getting a bit into mechanical keyboards these days and it's pretty confusing for my poor little brain to use ortholinear on the workstation but staggered in the laptop. So it would be great to get this done before my unit (hopefully) arrives in december.
A Marketplace for Carbon and Agriculture Subsidies
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Not sure what you mean, it depends on the implementation. The cheapest cop out answer would be: use racket and step through until you reach the point where it fails. The IDE even gives you a nice handy list of the current continuation.

I can trace it well less well in guile which is the usual scheme I use for daily projects but it's not something I've had huge trouble with on medium sized projects >10,000 lines.
Basic Economics is must read book - and he keeps improving on it. He releases new editions every few years with more recent examples of principles at work. He never stops working on it.
The absolute worst posts on HN start with "I just want..." and then selfishly lowball the cost of whatever it is they want.

Anyway, you've described a cable bundle model, not Netflix's model.
Yes, and up to some point it's fine (like, giving an overall description of the algo)

But today it's more of a crutch than anything else, when you can have actual code running.
I’m going to be downvoted to oblivion, but I couldn’t care less.

From my point of view (Western Europe) this whole “cancel culture” thing is demented and stupid, and I’m probably as liberal as they come.

Why? Well, let me provide an illustration: what was Carl Benz’s opinion on, oh I don’t know... homosexuality or transexuality? I’m guessing blindly that it was probably very restrictive and ‘unenlightened’ by our own “modern standards”. He’s the inventor of the internal combustion engine... how many people are willing to give up their cars because their inventor’s views were ideologically impure? Louis Pasteur was probably also a bigot by modern standards too: are we going to wipe the slate of hygiene theory clean because of this?

People are imperfect. In the eyes of those who will come later we too will be imperfect. Let’s be charitable towards those who despite different political views and values nonetheless collaborate in this great technological and cultural enterprise that is the sum total of human knowledge and capabilities.

None of us have are the golden standard. Koan-like, those who might think they are the final word in morality aren’t, because they lack humility and also empathy with the circumstances that inform others’ views.

Alright, fire away.