skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's an intellectually lazy assertion that's never made with any sort of backing evidence and forstalls debate by preemptively painting any opinion you don't agree with as the work of paid shills.

China sending wumao onto Hacker News would go against the vast majority of precedent we've been able to establish about Chinese disinformation campaigns. Overwhelmingly, active Chinese disinformation is produced in Chinese for a ethnic Chinese overseas audience with English only ever being provided as an afterthought.

The Chinese strategy for shaping English debate about China has always involved economic punishment for powerful entities that broadcast "unacceptable" opinions like the NBA with HK or US airlines labelling Taiwan as a country on their websites. However, such pressures scale directly to the amount of financial stakes an entity has in China which means it has effectively no power in anonymous social forums.

This can be evidenced by issues such as Hong Kong where, not only was Western opinion not receptive to the Chinese arguments on the issue, there wasn't even any form of broad awareness of what the Chinese arguments even were. To the extent that the Chinese narrative even made it over to the West (such as claims that the protestors were being paid by the CIA), they were overwhelmingly conveyed via Western media that only described them in order to debunk them.

Like so much other disinformation about China, the whole wumao conspiracy is a bunch of lazy nonsense that is spewed by people with no real knowledge of China nor a desire for accuracy and thus gets reflexively downvoted on HN by people who are sick of lazy, bad arguments made against China when there are so many legitimate, good arguments that fail to be made because they don't fit neatly into a narrative.
Standing or balancing on the sword was certainly amazing. As good as dodging bullets.
This is a pretty good list. I used it is a starting point for my own studies. I just have two comments to make:

1. It's very likely you do not have good enough math skills to start learning physics. I have a math minor and CS major, but after being out of school for a few years I had forgotten a lot of stuff. I needed to spend a week reviewing algebra and trigonometry and then longer reviewing calculus. This is humbling but will make your progress a lot easier. If you don't do this there will be examples you can't follow because you don't know what trick the author is using to go from one step to another in a solution.

2. If your mathematical preparation is good you can skip a lot of the introductory stuff. I.e. just go straight to Taylor's Classical Mechanics, and Griffith's Introduction to Electrodynamics. You can also learn QM from the graduate texts. No need to read Griffith's QM book first. I'm working through Shankar's Principles of Quantum Mechanics and it is definitely doable. He introduces all the math you need for the rest of the book in the first chapter, so if you can make it through that (it is mostly linear algebra) you will be ready for the rest of the book.
pbcopy / pbpaste (command line tool to access the clipboard)

Not builtin on macOS but iTerm2 is a must (together with oh-my-ZSH it's been a game changer)

The "time machine" on apps has been useful as well, rolling back to a previous version of a doc is great.

Some "unexpected feature" I found the other day. I accidentally dropped my MBP (and it seems it is engineered to close itself on drops but I knew that already ahem so it fell shut and upside down) and it started making a siren-like noise, as I began to get worried, I opened the screen and it was showing only glitches and it restarted (well sh1t). But then it restarted just fine and crisis averted.
Very nice. Works as expected.
I stumbled about two things that could be improved:

- Add a search Button for convenient mobile use or if a user copy pasts things into to the search field using the mouse

- Add a comment counter on the result page, Since you index every article a lot of them have none or very few comments.

Oh and just a warning, depending on the jurisdiction providing the cache could be problematic under copyright laws since its basically a copy of the article.
I wonder if veal farmers are using the exact same technology to increase the ratio of male calves
Parasite.

The movie (for me) is such a reflection of globalisation, capitalism and the hard truths of the lives of the people at the bottom as well as the top. I really enjoyed its portrayal of class in our modern society and how we, as humans in this society, can be 'parasitic' towards each other.
The poor want the riches of the top, and the rich use the poor to enable their high living lifestyles. It really changed my perspective.
I developed a VR experience as part of my proposal to my now-wife: https://kevintechnology.com/2018/05/03/vr-proposal.html
You can assign a folder full of images to the background of Terminal.app, and it will choose background images at random, so a folder full of dark solid colors gives you random dark backgrounds, enabling you to tell your terminal windows apart easily.
Have you been China and take a look at how it's like today?

CCP still do horrible thing, like Xinjiang concentration camp.

But it's major part is different than USSR, at least it practices market economy, with private sector as it's main economy driver.

I want people to understand how China works in its reality, not illusion created by media.
Are there any good papers out there for anyone crafting IAM systems?

More on theory and overall goals than "here's how you use SELinux"
A Sound of Thunder was possibly literally life saving for me. I generally like time travel stories anyway as a game of "what if," but this came out shortly after my husband physically moved out and impacted some decisions I made that year.
Windows Defender Is Flagging CCleaner as a Potentially Unwanted Application
Particularly where lack of standing, mooting by the government dropping its case, or most problematical of all, state secrets privilege, born of U.S. v. Reynolds.

See: "State Secrets Privilege"

Essentially, by invoking the state secrets privilege in this way, the government argues that even if all of the allegations of serious law-breaking and Constitutional violations are true, surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans is exempt from judicial review.

In response to the government’s assertion, and as it has since the first wiretapping cases started in 2006, EFF argues that in creating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Congress preempted the state secrets privilege, creating a separate but still very secure way for the case to be decided. The FISA law not only prevents the immediate dismissal of the case, it affirmatively instructs courts to determine whether electronic surveillance is legal....

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/state-secrets-privilege
https://aslmath.cosmo.red/

My ex was a math major before switching gears to become a sign language interpreter. She was disappointed by the quality of math-related ASL resources and had this idea for an ASL math dictionary, so I built it for her. Fun fact, despite the interactivity, it doesn't use any JavaScript!

The source code is hosted over here: https://github.com/cosmojg/aslmath
Nope, its high compression comes at the cost of similarly high CPU and memory usage.
Yep this is what I came to say - OSX's help menu automatically searches all menu commands and if you hover over them it will open up the menu, show you the location, and if you hit enter just use it for you.

This is also something you can generally call from Applescript as well, if you want to automate application behaviors.
Nope! I don't speed through neighborhoods; in fact, I drive more slowly than most people through them. I did, however, have a commute through a neighborhood, for 10 years. (There was a 30mph arterial off of which spur roads went into the neighborhoods; no houses fronted the road, just fences).

A number of 4-way stops existed on the route to the office complex for no valid reason whatsoever. The arterial traffic was the vast majority of traffic. I watched over the course of 10 years as more 4-way stops were installed to calm traffic, which is specifically contra-indicated by proper traffic engineering. In fact, I remember reporting on one community meeting, where the community hired a traffic engineer who specifically told them not to use stop signs for traffic calming; they did anyway.

The stop signs actually took away from the attention folks paid to cross streets. Eyes down, stare at stop line, come to a stop, go.. it was much easier to not notice cross traffic or pedestrians!

They all should have been roundabouts, frankly.

Anyway, my point is, 4 way stops are an environmental nightmare in every possible way, and rarely the correct solution.
To believe otherwise is literal sociopathy.

Edit: LOL. Okay, let's just live in denial of the definition of antisocial behavior.
Another way to watch 'Spirited Away' is from the point of view of child prostitution.

https://jpninfo.com/29501
Found out the other day that you can drag and drop this into a document...
I wonder if there is a list somewhere around Apple of "Annoying Edge Cases We'd Have To Support If Smart Folders Worked At The Filesystem Level", and how long it is.

Like, you're in a smart folder that contains files whose name includes "foo", and you try to create a file whose name does not include "foo", what happens? Do you get an existing filesystem error? Do you get a new "can't create new files in smart folders" error?

Interestingly enough I just discovered that if you drag a file into the Tags section of the Finder window's sidebar, it will remain where it is - but if you create a smart folder whose criteria is "tag:tagname" it won't let you drag anything into it, even though it shows the exact same set of files.
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Withnail and I
First Blood (Rambo)
Going in a slightly different direction, the two saddest films I have ever seen are 火垂るの墓 / Grave of the Fireflies (1988 - Ghibli - Japan) and Hiss Dokhtarha Faryad Nemizanad / Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013 - Iran). In both of them you can feel the exact moment when the protagonist loses hope and it really hits you.

Both of them deserve a pretty strong warning--I guess the second one more of a true "trigger warning" and the first just a warning of how sad it is. You cannot get them out of your head after you have seen them.
You can tell Finder to show actual folder sizes instead of just "--". Right click in a folder -> Show View Options -> Calculate all sizes. I'm not sure why it's not the default, it's not like Finder needs to traverse the folders hierarchy to calculate the size (I hope!).
> Unfortunately, it's only advisory.

True, but in additition to this advice, there is the Department of Foreign Affairs official travel advisory (the kind that every country issues, like "due to a civil war, we advice against all non-essential travel to country X") [1]. That advice is currently to avoid all non-essential travel to all countries, except the whitelist that is updated every two weeks. As of right now, that whitelist consists of the countries or subnational regions labeled as green on this map [2]. This is not just splitting hairs on my part: by violating the latter type of travel advisory, your health insurance is likely void, you are to expect no assistance, and you are subject to a mandatory quarantine on return, for which there is no paid sick leave.

> The government should set up a 5000 NOK (at least) "traveling fine" per person, and obligatory quarantine

For all the non-exempt countries, i.e. for most of the world, there is obligatory quarantine on your own dime. Unless your job allows you to work from home, that's a substantially larger financial penalty than the fine you suggest.

> ("home" confinement in state-provided guarded quarters)

Oh come on, this isn't China.

> The national health institute here opines that closing the borders has questionable or no effect, even though most of the cases in the 1st wave got imported from ski-resorts in Italy.

You seem to be aware of the whitelist of countries (even though you misrepresent the situation at the beginning of your comment). Then you are probably also aware that the idea is that the whitelisted countries have a low enough case rate that the authorities believe that closing the border to those countries has little effect. This may or may not be correct, but you seem to try to view the situation as negatively as you can.

[1] https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/foreign-affairs/reisein...

[2] https://www.fhi.no/nettpub/coronavirus/fakta/reiserad-knytte...
I made a text adventure that you play in your file browser. The lines of dialogue are filenames, and the movement / dialogue options are done by switching folder (using synlinks on unices, and shortcuts on windows).

For each permutation of variables, there is a copy of the whole world. So, for example, you are in the folder x2y3key0, and you select the "pick up key" option, it will be a symlink to the x2y3key1 room, and there will then be a copy of the entire dungeon, but with key set to 1. It's surprising how much you can do, I even managed to have a combat encounter with "HP" for the player and enemy. The limiting factor is the sheer number of folders you have to make, it explodes fast when you add variables. I ended up with somewhere around 40k iirc.
Originally made it as a birthday present for my girlfriend at the time, but I've been working on cleaning it up (and removing personal parts) for a public version. Planned to post it on HN when I'm done.

Edit:
I also made a treasure trail that involved typing encryption keys hidden in the world into a little c program (xor encryption :D). The pièce de résistance was when it eventually spat out an android app that would scan wifi networks for a known ssid, to verify she was in a specific location before revealing the next password. The ssid was "KFC" lol. Because I knew it was guaranteed to be available.
As a non-coffee drinker, I drink my oatly pure, in the same way as I drank my milk growing up. So yeah, 340 ml is apt when I use my big mug.

You make it sound as if no-one drinks pure milk in your environment? I find THAT weird.
Trade secrets and human expertise are incredibly easy to steal, but in the US at least trade secrets are protected by law unless explicitly disclosed to the public and human expertise is constrained by non compete agreements.

On the other hand, for a country, any company operating within its boarders using is ripe for exploitation. Unless a foreign company uses 100% foreign workers, and eschews all government inspections, then the knowledge is already exposed to your citizens.

With the way CCP policy is, if a trade secret is exposed to anyone on China, it’s effectively lost completely since the government can directly disclose it to who ever they wish.
Again, that's not about Sciter but rather discussion of Web Components idea in general.

Essentially WebComponent is the way of associating some JS class with custom DOM elements.

At the nutshell, WebComponents is just this one JS function:

customElements.define('hello-world', HelloWorld);

But it is quite limited as you see - a) only custom elements and b) you need to load some JS file in order to initialize bindings.

That element->JS code binding could be done by CSS with much greater flexibility:

/* custom element */
hello-world { aspect: HelloWorld url(hello-world.js); }

/* existing element */
span.hello-world { aspect: HelloWorld url(hello-world.js); }

/* existing element, conditionally */
a[href^="http"] { aspect: HelloWorld url(hello-world.js); }

Yet note that, in case of CSS bindings, hello-world.js will be loaded only if your document will have matching elements - better componentization I would say.
So much hate for cow milk. I think grain-fed dairy needs to stop, but a quick look at the latest studies shows all cause mortality is lower for people that drink milk.
It'd be interesting to see if reversal of the Flynn effect is correlated with massive unskilled immigration (esp from third world countries), which has accelerated in many European countries.

If we examine countries with extremely strict immigration policies that favor the skilled (e.g. Singapore), will we see IQs going up?

The concept of IQ-shredder is also relevant: http://www.xenosystems.net/iq-shredders/
Yeah, for less than 25% of each four year period, and only in swing states (so I suspect probably Florida and Ohio get most of it).

Seriously, I definitely saw some numbers (maybe from the FT) and it was like less than 1% political advertising revenue. That's maybe 10-15 times smaller than gaming, and maybe 30 times smaller than ecommerce.
Because I like cars.
My favorite anti-feature is copying a screenshot from the desktop with cmd+c, then pasting into gimp gives a high resolution png of the mac mime-type icon for pngs.
Selling My SWE Interview Prep Company to Move on in Life
Hey all, this is my first post here, but I run a small software engineering interview prep company and I'm looking to sell it soon to move on in life.

Listing: https://app.microacquire.com/startup/LGKfRawij1TZMIHbkzFrfO143KA2/n58mFDlcR9MKf76fmhd0

I'm a rising senior in college studying computer science and want to start more companies in other industries as I transition on.

If you know anyone that would be interested would be grateful if you passed on the word.

Thanks!

Side Note: If you know who we are please try to not make this too...bigger than it is. But I can't really stop anyone, love you all.
I recently discovered the Bluetooth device debugging menu.

Hold Shift + Option and click on the Bluetooth icon in the menu bar.
A good read, mdn is far and away the best resource I have found for web technologies. I'm excitedly looking into some p2p tech and the webrtc articles are useful.

From the article:

> "Run to completion"...

> A downside of this model is that if a message takes too long to complete, the web application is unable to process user interactions like click or scroll. The browser mitigates this with the "a script is taking too long to run" dialog. A good practice to follow is to make message processing short and if possible cut down one message into several messages.

Good advice. And this is what happens when you `while(1) {console.log("loop")}`. Though I've never see a "taking too long to run" dialog, I'm just eventually able to kill the process myself and sometimes it takes a few minutes while my fans spin.
Also, note that pages have posts that look incredibly like ads (the Sponsored thing is pretty subtle), so it can be hard to actually measure which (of any) of the posts are ads.
Another reason why microservices are a good thing. They result in micro level permissions for individual resources.

In saying that though, k8s in AWS was really shit at limiting what IAM roles containers could assume without it being the instance role. Crap like kube2iam and kiam came out to butcher the AWS metadata/instance networking. Thankfully AWS solved it with their new OIDC IDP.

True DevOps culture workplaces have Devs writing their IAM roles as they know what services the app might talk to.

Keen to try out some tools mentioned by the twitter person
Capitalist freedom is in tension with democracy
See also:

http://siek.blogspot.com/2012/07/crash-course-on-notation-in...
Afshar Experiment
The picture-in-picture window can be precisely placed by holding down the Cmd key while dragging.

If a web site doesn't have a PiP button, press and hold the speaker icon.
During my junior year of high school, there was a girl in my calculus class that I wanted to ask out to our homecoming. Time was running short and I had no idea how I would ask her.

Then, while sitting in class, inspiration struck.

I started coding frantically on my TI-84. When the school day ended, I spent several hours in my room refining my program.

The next day, at the end of calculus, I asked this girl if I could see her calculator. (I was well known for creating games and other useful programs on TI's, so this wasn't that far out.) She handed me her calculator. I transferred the program I had written, set it up, and handed it to her. "Press ENTER", I said, and then scurried out the door.

The program apologized for the strange manner of my asking her out to a dance, then presented a menu saying "will you come to homecoming with me?" If she pressed "No", it would go to a new menu that begged, "please?" If she pressed "yes," it would confirm one more time with a cheerful "really?" Finally, if all was successful it would thank her for agreeing to come with me.

The next day, at the beginning of class, she walked up to where I was sitting, put her calculator down on my desk, and said "Press ENTER".

She had rewritten the program so that it would a.) tell me that she would come with me, and b.) didn't walk through the same series of menus. She wasn't a programmer by any means, but had managed to figure it out.

Nothing came from that other than just a good friendship. She married one of my friends, and I married a girl I met that summer. The four of us have hung out once or twice to play games, all just as good friends.
Yeah it's impressive and also sad in a way, greatest thing now is later obsolete, that's life I guess.

I remember seeing a video of someone loading Google with an old Macintosh(tan tube type) it took a while, but it eventually loaded, felt like time traveling or something.
It'd make sense if the label were actually "Stationery", which is practically a paper template.
> There's also mustard oil, which is banned for human consumption in the US due to fears about erucic acid.

Fun snippet from the wikipedia page on Mustard Oil: "Rats are unusual in their inability to process erucic acid, and the symptoms in rats caused by a diet with high levels of erucic acid has not been observed in pigs, primates, or any other animals"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_oil
I write three different languages on a daily basis, and I've always had autocorrection switched off because it has never worked for me. Also, how is an autocorrect supposed to know whether you are writing a technical term / acronym / etc and not an actual word?
I was surprised to see no discussion about environmental impacts.

One nasty consequence of non organic canola oil is that the industry largely uses glycophosate for pest control. The organic version of Oatly does not use canola oil, and Califa uses sunflower oil (and has less sugar!).

And yes, industrial cattle practices suck. But the cattle themselves aren't the inherent problem. In 1800 there were approximately 60 million wild Buffalo in North America. Today there are about 90 million cows, of them about 30 million used for milk. The environment has the capacity to support a similar order of magnitude of bovines sustainably. Sustainable cattle farming in some cases is even carbon negative [0]. Bovines historically played a big role in the grassland ecosystem but what industrial scale farms are doing look nothing like nature.

It's easy to vilify industrial scale cattle farming but it's not truthful to say that there are no ways to have environmentally friendly cattle farms.

[0] https://www.whiteoakpastures.com/meet-us/environmental-susta...
A Starbucks Venti is 20oz (hence the name)
Sadly no, I lack that ferocity, no I meant I didn't partake.
You can configure that to whatever you want, by the way. Just check out the System preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts[0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/jCHL2Pb.jpg
This was the first thing that popped into my head. As is, the system sends audio clips for you to verify. One upgrade away from google sending you child porn while you're at work because your kid skipped out on an assembly with their sweetheart.