skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese government didn't allow people in China to use US services (Google, Twitter, FB) and instead invested and marketed Chinese "clones" of these businesses (Tencent, Weibo, Baidu).

Now that the Chinese owned TikTok is such a desirable app to use in the USA, the US government is blocking it in a similar fashion.

To be honest it's all quite petty.
You can't both minimise risk and maximise return. They're polar opposites. ("Risk" is a bad word for the concept. It's more about volatility. The more volatile the asset, the higher the fluctuations, and the less you can expect to still have tomorrow, but the more you'll have in 20 years.)

The expected answer is mainly about what risk you are able to tolerate, i.e. how soon you will need the money back again.
You just made Spock's brain explode.
Ok so I was being a little hyperbolic, but I wouldn’t trust that there is not some loophole of getting to your data - if not now then in the near future. Even very basic data (if you have enough of it) can be used to derive surprisingly complex patterns of behavior.
Elon said that the satellites are now cheaper to build than the cost to get them to orbit, and that they need starship to make it financially viable, iirc.

He says this during a keynote with the US Air Force about 4 months ago. He also says a ton of other interesting things as well.
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Africa's startup ecosystem has transformed over a decade
Interesting idea for a business model. How would you get users on board though?
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We are in unprecedented times (Lowest bond yields, highest debt, Crazy P/Es). Back-testing is only so useful. And only 20 years even less. We just had a GDP drop which is the largest since WW2 for some, or since 1929 for the U.S.
Look at Japan's stock market index e.g. for what the future could look like.

Historically low bond yields: The room for rates to go lower is low. I would suggest to be careful with investing in them. If a rate hike comes eventually, both bonds (depending on maturity) and stocks (see december 2019 S&P 500) will fall. With negative real yields (bond yields - inflation), precious metals and related companies are lot more interesting. Perhaps REITs or some blend of solid dividen-paying companies. Anything that is somewhat inflation resistant.

Did you adjust your calculations for inflation?
For the S&P 500, the absolute worst-case is 58 years of not being up, I believe. 1929 - 1987.
Edit: This ignores dividend reinvestment. It seems to be 1929-1944.
Try Mexico, where our southern border friends keep putting decapitated heads on poles.
Do beginners really need to delve into the finer details of all that?
Concerns about Waning Covid-19 Immunity Are Likely Overblown
The trouble with monolithic crates is that they're monolithic. People complain about the massive amount of code they have to pull in just for a few functions, and the effect this can have on compile times.

The trouble with small crates is they're small. People complain when the number of dependencies grows larger and mockingly reference "leftpad".
Thanks, it is fun, and quite rewarding. There's still a lot to do, wanna join in?
It's always the first US business day of the month, so yes, Monday, but not really delayed.
I don't think this will make China more open, because even banning Huawei did not make China reflect on its open policy. IMO, Huawei is more close to Chinese government compred to Bytedance, and I saw much less comments from top officer or state-owned medias about this acquisition compraed to that about Huawei.
I didn't downvote the earlier comment (and wouldn't as I'm quite clueless about financial matters), but felt the need to downvote another comment in an unrelated article recently. There I noticed, that once I applied the downvote, I couldn't see the comment being downvoted anymore. I meant to reply then to that comment on why I downvoted the comment, but couldn't anymore. I guess, that's the reason why one sees here so many downvotes by anonymous cowards.
The id at the end is a sequential integer id for their presentation materials. I wonder what other joyful findings await someone willing to wade through 3k+ documents
> Jasmine rice for instance requires more like 1,5:1 water, at least (you can go up to 1,75 for extra softness).

ATK mentions various types of rice that they experimented with; there doesn't seem to be anything special about jasmine:

> We gathered 17 different varieties of rice, including white and brown short-grain, medium-grain, long-grain, basmati, and jasmine [!!!!] rice plus two varieties of red and black rice. After rinsing the rice to remove excess surface starch, we placed 1 cup of each type with 1 cup of water in a vacuum bag and sealed them to ensure that no water could evaporate during cooking. […]

> To the surprise of our tasting panel, every variety of rice was properly cooked using the 1:1 ratio of rice to water. All of the rice types were tender throughout with no chalky or mushy grains. In addition, the water had been completely absorbed in each sample.

* https://www.cooksillustrated.com/articles/1692-nailing-the-p...

You can easily re-create their experiment: buy a bunch of rice, put them in sealed bags with water, completely seal the bags, and cook them sous vide. Cook one bag of jasmine at 1:1, one at 1.5:1, 1.75:1, etc.

The statements are falsifiable / confirmable.

Again: long/medium grain rice has 1.5:1 recommended, and brown rice 2:1, because of longer cooking times—which allows for more evaporation to occur. The rice itself only needs 1:1, anything else is about factoring evaporation which is fixed regards of quantity being cooked.

So when measuring out: do 1:1 for the cups of rice, and then add the extra needed for your particular pot-stove combination.
I wouldn't call it petty; these platforms control access to information and there's a huge ideological (figurative) battle between the US and China.
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> The key point here is I don't think Google should block any website without providing some warning an an opportunity to fix the issue before imposing an immediate punishment.

This isn't punishment, it's end-user protection of the same type as other anti-malware tools. And the protection fundamentally cannot work if operated in the way you suggest.

To use your criminal justice analogue you've not only confessed to the crime, but confessed to continuing the crime while seeking pre-trial release, after an evolving series of denials.
I actually really like this look, see https://git.sr.ht or https://100r.co/site/home.html for similar aesthetics.
> Spamming peoples feeds or posts with your rants is hardly activism, it's easily ignored/filtered is and never as impactful as if you actually got active on the ground because you will NEVER get a true grasp of the situation behind a keyboard--these situations are often wrought with confusion.

I'm all for being a cynic.

I can acknowledge it is marvelous how anonymous-to-us Instagram accounts have absolutely steered energy and awareness over the past two months.

People that want to be helpful are being steered into something more helpful than whatever paternal vicariously offended nonsense they would have come up with on their own.

In the past few decades, the majority power or people with the power to change anything felt too marginalized to participate in the civil rights issues. Whether it was Occupy or minority issues awareness groups. Regarding police brutality, in the past the best thing municipalities came up with was independent oversight agencies which were just as useless and the internal ones. Now we have state level changes that create webs of liability, practically overnight, because of how the energy is being steered in a more collaborative and cohesive way.
But 15-30% is huge in the computer market. 10% is normal to consumers and much less to enterprise customers that demand deep discounts.

I doubt they'd keep the same margin if they really offer it at $800. I don't think they'd save that much by cutting intel out, especially if you factor in R&D. Pretty sure they're cutting into their margins at that price, but it would be good for them to get ARM in the hands of consumers so that developers have a reason to work on it.
TikTok is not overhyped, it is here to stay, that's why they want to ban it. It's still growing like crazy and is way way more entertaining than any other social network by a long shot.
This is so wrong.

We are discussing a topic, and people throwed multiple arguments that do not make sense.

You are claiming that I should just shut up and respect their feelings, but that is worthless.

Two examples:

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Somebody's argument was: "Linus doesn't like them, therefore I don't like them".

The reason these are called logical fallacies is because these arguments are illogical. I told them that this was a logical fallacy (argument of authority - just because someone with authority makes an argument does not mean they are right), and ask them _why_, what is it that linus and you do not like.

I am happy I did that, because many of them have raised multiple actually-valuable arguments in response. For example, because nvidia's hardware throttles down if the driver firmware is not signed, and this makes the open source drivers slower for no reason.

That's a valid and valuable argument. Linus doesn't like them is worthless.

The person who raised this argument learned something from somebody else which knew what Linus did not like, and so did I.

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The same happened when I called out the entitled choosing beggars. "Why are you angry at nvidia for not providing an open source driver ? You knew before buying their product that only the binary driver was supported."

Read the responses. The reason they are angry, is because they don't have a choice but to use nvidia, because the competition products (AMD in those cases) are much worse. AMD does have open source drivers, but they are crap, and they don't support many of AMD's products, at least for compute, which is something that many (including myself) use for work.

These people have picked a platform that values open source code, but due to their job requiring them to actually get some work done, they must use nvidia for that, and they don't like having to compromise on a proprietary driver.

Honestly, I think this is still entitlement, but I definitely sympathize with the frustration of having to make compromises one does not like.

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From the point of view of whether nvidia buying ARM is good or bad. I still have no idea. ARM does _a lot_ of open source work, its major market are Android and Linux communities.

I understand that people are afraid that Nvidia will turn ARM into a bad open source player. It can happen. But without Android, iOS, and Linux, ARM is worthless. So a different outcome of this could be that NVIDIA buying ARM ends up making NVIDIA more open source friendly, since at least the Linux market is important for nvidia as well (~50% of their revenue).

It definitely makes sense for regulatory authorities to only allow somebody to buy ARM that will preserve ARM deals with current vendors (apple, google, samsung, etc.), and that also will preserve ARM open platform efforts.

If nvidia does not agree to that, they should not be allowed to buy arm.
The page does nothing on my browser (Android chrome). Blank screen with navigation menu.
for welfare, and other welfare-like government services. Other services, like issuing passports, the DMV/RMV, running busses, would still continue to exist.
There are plenty of places like TheMotte where you can discuss this. We don't need to discuss every topic on every site.
confirmed... I have like 5 of them. easy to open the lid and keeps coffee warm for like 2 days
Much of the problem is that people see things like Perl or Python as holy grails that must not be changed or questioned. This stance mainly comes from these languages having been installed by default on almost all Unix platforms for the past 25 years. That's quite a long time to bludgeon people into thinking that these things are sacred and fixed.

Computerists should not be afraid to try something new at every turn, and then reject that something if it does not measure up. In the short run, change is often scary, but in the long run it is the only way to survive.
Did they just go login only, to see content? No very powerful for me.

Also, maybe someone can explain to me why IG displays so much hate for the user through the UX?

- Fixed res images. If you dive into the JS, the full resolution is actually present, but the UI scales it tiny with no way to see more. It's almost harder to hide this than to just allow it.

- Similarly video. No controls, can't pause or scrub or gosh forbid, closed captions.
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It's pretty good written article, except that I feel a bit disappointed that he had to write in the cover letter
"plase hire me Im black".

It sounds very unprofessional, but I could be wrong and that's a normal thing in the USA.
Daily and multiple flavours of SQL at that. At the moment it's a postgres, snowflake, mysql and n1ql merry go round.
Case in point, I was just recently getting nowhere on an obviously automated decision, so I sent an email quoting GDPR Article 15(1)(h) (instead of Article 14) and got it resolved amicably within an hour. Maybe just coincidence, but their follow-up was a complete 180. I suppose it could be abused to get around certain automatic safeguards, but I made it clear that my intentions where just to ensure that my data is correct and being processed fairly, as I was sure it wasn't the case.

But that requires that the company even cares about following the GDPR correctly, or perhaps even the Data Protection Authority of a given EU country. I know of one small but popular enough data broker that's been operating for years in the EU and flaunting the GDPR without any punishment so far. Not sure if this is the place to advertise it. But I suppose somebody whose GDPR rights were violated has to lodge a complaint first.
That 'Wetlands' demo (winner in shader class) is completely borked in my browser (FF 79, Linux).
how is this in any way in opposition to the free market? The information is freely acceesible, the fact that its hard to understand is the problem of the consumer no? The free market solution would be to have some kind of independent organization summarize this information and attempt to distribute it in the hopes people read.
But isn't it more likely that said Chinese company will have little to none leverage in the talks, because the choice is between getting banned or getting bought at a token (read: undervalued) price?
Re: monotherapies. This hasn't been my experience.

Almost all chemotherapy regimens are combination cocktails (e.g. R-CHOP, CMF, FOLFIRINOX, &c)

And as soon as a drug is shown to be very potent on its own (e.g. aPD1/aPDL1 checkpoint blockade) there's an explosion of trials looking to combine it with every possible other mechanism.

However, there is a strong desire to see drugs do something on their own before combining them with something else.
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ATK recommends settling on one pot, which can perhaps accommodate various needed sizes, that way you have a consistent amount of evaporation.

If you use different pots, with lids of perhaps different levels of sealing, then your results will be all over the place. If you always use the same 2-3 qt/L pot, you'll always get the same evaporation.
Yes, a site that you admit was infested with malware due to extended neglect is a threat to society.

And you recent admission that, contrary to your second description, it still deliberately links to the old site but with a warning page makes your whole claim of improper listing clearly baseless.
Same for me, except with the FX-9860GII and for the 'trails' feature originally being a bug in my ring buffer that triggered when it grew.

It definitely was fun to experiment within such constraints. I can't remember being very concerned with program size, although after a certain size there was a boundary the jump statements weren't able to cross any more. Only having global one-letter variables and no function calls (and a 21*7 character screen) also made the code hard to read/write, but it was a fun puzzle and I ended up writing a ray caster (god it was slow), something akin to the game Concrete Jungle and a complete 2-player implementation of Settlers of Catan, amongst other things. Not sure if my math teacher was a fan of me not paying attention in class though.
On the other hand, there are many wealthy people who are unhappy, with their wealth or otherwise.

I had the honor (but not the pleasure) of working closely with a guy whose personal wealth was estimated at half a billion or so, all self made. There was nothing he wanted he couldn’t afford. And yet he was incredibly unhappy almost all the time - I caught an occasional glimpse of happiness from him after he would come back from a weekend fishing alone, or when some-list-or-other of wealthy people bumped his rank up in their listings.

When someone like like Sivers says “I was happy before the money and money didn’t make me happier”, I believe him.

In fact, I’ve known many people who made fortunes, and quite a few who lost fortunes and some who lost family to terror attacks. Other than a transient effect after specific events (good or bad), everyone reverted to their pre-event happiness levels.

Having money is an incredible daily-stress reliever. But according to my life experience, it has very little effect on happiness.
These are fair criticisms. Still though, there are some pretty sweeping generalizations about Google being made here. The company is as big as a city. Not all of their engineering culture is like this.

Take what I'm saying with a grain of salt; slightly biased since I worked there for a bit in the past.
For all the advice and sheer number of interviews he did in those 30 days, he never mentioned anywhere if he actually landed a job. Were those just for the luls?
My advice: take advice from people who have invested that kind of money before, and no one else.
while I'd be the last to say root approach should be discounted (diet, lack of exercise, smokes, and bad sleep contributing more to bad outcomes that just about anything else), I worry that the thinking in this post can be used to judge people who have cancer for their actions when unfortunately the true root cause for many people is actions taken long before they're born because of environmental exposure. So while yes most everyone could benefit from more self study some cancerous situations require vigorous assault on the symptoms, like death.
Money at the government level is not a zero-sum game, so thinking it's as simple as raising taxes is an oversimplification, and while unchecked printing of money is problematic leading to inflation, how the monetary base grows would need to be part of a well-considered implementation plan.
Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory is wholly owned by Tesla.
"Nah bro, interviewing is easy. Here's a link to a leetcode hard question, you don't think this is actually hard do you? Please answer so I can make you feel dumb."

I'd like to offer to do a phone screen with you. I'll pick a hard problem I've solved on leetcode, codingame, or google foobar and see how you do on it.
I have friends in Netherlands, where "medicare for all" is reality.

What you get for it is doctors prescribing you paracetamol for most ailments, after you waited for a week or two for your turn to visit the doctor. Or with doctors not treating your chronic and deteriorating condition for months and years, because they only have the resources to treat such a condition in those who already have it much worse. I'm talking about real cases my friends faced.

Despite that, Netherlands' health care is considered the best in Europe [1].

Maybe in your book it's strictly better than the current US system, but I suspect there's still room for improvement.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherlands#...
It's only really relevant when a) you release semver-incompatible upgrades (e.g., 1.x to 2.x), b) people use types from your library in their APIs, i.e., their types depend on yours, and c) your library is sufficiently widely used that people are likely to have transitive dependencies on it by multiple routes, such that a couple of their direct dependencies will have upgraded to your new version and a couple wouldn't have gotten around to it.

The 'libc' crate was a perfect storm of all three. It was still at 0.x, and the whole point of the library is to define types/bindings for others to use.

It also requires the FOSS model of independent owners, I guess, since that's why some consumers haven't upgraded. Inside a company and especially in a monorepo, someone - probably the person making the breaking change - would have just upgraded everyone at once. And a redistributor of FOSS like a Linux distro would have probably just patched everyone at once or held back upgrades until they could - in fact, this is the same shape of problem as upgrading from OpenSSL 1.0 to 1.1, or GTK 2 to 3, or libstdc++'s new ABI, or whatever.
Take it for what it's worth, but that's exactly what I think is a bad idea. It violates the principle of primacy in learning[1]. It also erodes trust in the lessons. (Is this the real way to do it?)

There's a similar strategy of building things up and then refactoring when they get bad (this ifelse is getting too big. We could use a dict). But the difference is every step along the way is valid or immediately corrected.

[1] https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Principles_of_learning#Pri...
If this is true, it could be reverse engineered to increase credit worthiness.
If the EU banned American big tech, they'd be set aback 20 years. Of course where would be a populist revolution.

The difference between the EU and US on this matter, is that the EU has almost no substitutes, and they just don't - for whatever reason (there are many) have he will to do them.

And of course there's no point - what FB is doing is no different from what a EU-based FB would do.
I don't think this move has anything to do with forcing China to open the market.
Secure Boot can be disabled on Arm macs...
That's a good summary but it's missing the context that these kinds of "hits" will most likely fail clinical trials. Many drugs look good at this stage in preclinical development and almost none of them show both safety (ph1 trial) and efficacy (ph3 trial).

There aren't actually that many low hanging therapeutic fruit out there, mostly we have to actually do the work to discover new mechanisms and make new compounds to target them.
That's mostly because JS doesn't have a suitable standard library.
I thought about doing rental properties and then came to the conclusion that the amount of work to make that happen, just isn't worth it for the average person. You're either stuck hiring some management firm or doing it yourself. It isn't easy to get the capital back and will take years to see any sort of returns.

Never mind the fact that we're in a pandemic where ~1.4M people a week are losing their job. Who are you going to rent to?
I hear this over and over again. Beating the HFT firms, insiders, big money shops and so forth.

It's not a zero sum game necessarily. A stock picker approach that you have as a retail investor that many trading shops do not have is this: time. You can make your bet, and if it fails in the short term you can hold onto the stock long term, unless the company is going bankrupt (which hasn't been a common occurrence up to now, given the overall number of stock symbols). Traders are individuals and groups with books, quarterly numbers to meet and yearly returns to care about. They'll beat you if you're a day trader, sure, but I think it's a false dichotomy to say, you're either a) a day trader or b) a boglehead.