skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> she wouldn't have bungled her way into letting 160,000+ people die from COVID-19

She might have done somewhat better, sure, but the economy would suffer even more in return (which implies homelessness, debt, etc). It is not an easy choice to make regardless.

> colluded with the Russians

I do not find anything wrong with this.

> Wouldn't have seen the illegal occupancy of government positions by unconfirmed nominees; Wouldn't have the Emoluments Clause in shreds

I do not know anything about these so I will take your word.

> Doesn't have a charity that's been found to be little more than a funnel to their own pockets

This is not relevant to him being a president unless if he has been using public money to funnel money to himself by using it.

> Almost certainly wouldn't have started a catastrophically stupid trade war with China

Said trade war has been going on for a while (and was started by china), most HN commenters seem to take the US side in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24077339 for example. In addition I was under the impression that the Democratic party has anti-china policies too.

> Wouldn't have alienated Europe

That again had happened before Trump came to power, although admittedly Trump worsened it. Still, I think that this is a minor issue.

> Wouldn't have pulled out of WHO

I do not find anything wrong with this either. WHO is quite responsible for the current state regarding covid and I am pretty sure that they continue their anti-mask propaganda.

Honestly, all of these seem like minor things when considering what I mentioned before (which I would rather not keep repeating but here they are: the TPP and the various invasions that Clinton or her Husband started or assisted). At the same time I doubt that she would be able to resolve the NK situation.

> No, not really, if you honestly believe that Clinton is even within orders of magnitude as horrific as Trump.

I do not get it. You do not gain anything by insulting your debate "opponents", so why do this? In addition this is just an opinion, so what if I believe that? Even if I end up being proven wrong is it really that bad?
>You could use "democratic nations" instead of western world.

even that's problematic. "democratic" ranges from truly democratic (eg. Norway or Canada) to despotic (eg. Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
Too soon to say I recommend it, as I started using it last week, but I like it so far. Fast, stable, and bleeding-edge, three words I did not think could be used together.

If you are using Tumbleweed — which I am —, it is like using a more stable, friendly, and tested version of Arch Linux. Leap is similar to an LTS version of Ubuntu, with slightly newer packages sometimes.

I will probably go with Tumbleweed for my servers as well. While that is not recommended by most people, I run so many tests before updating production servers, that this should be okay — plus, I update servers in batches, with my servers coming before customer servers, so I should be able to catch problems there. Still need testing before this becomes reality, though, might stay with Leap for servers in the end.

One thing I liked a lot is openSUSE MicroOS, which is so much easier to install on bare-metal than the Ubuntu equivalent, Ubuntu Core — perfect for bastion servers, VPNs, or LXD host servers, since the root file system is read-only.

I did replace BTFRS with XFS, though, as for my use case, BTFRS provided no benefit, and performance took a big hit. You will need to run your benchmarks to see if it fits your use case, but the options are EXT4, XFS, or BTFRS (the default).

Overall, I am enjoying the experience, and the community is quite nice as well. Heck, I am even giving KDE a try, and giving i3wm a break.
- Does the US prevent European tech companies from doing business in America?

- Does the US prevent European people from finding work, moving to, and purchasing property in America?
The main innovation I see is tokenization into columns instead of character streams. If I want to do that in a traditional shell, I use awk.
Whatever Happened to Ketchapp?
Thanks, I did not know about that last one. I've been instinctively using Cmd-Shift-Tab for that, which is a little awkward to execute.
>It's transparently racist.

Bullshit. China a geopolitical entity (notably, one of the "authoritarian dictatorship" variety) and explicitly don't support democracy.
Stock market correction? Nope, keeps going up. Defies logic.
We spent a lot of time these last 40–50 years chasing performance above all else, prioritising it before safety, expressiveness & development time.

I think that modern computers are so amazingly fast that a little cleverness can go a long way, permitting us to run more safely and write more quickly with more powerful languages. Honestly, I wish we had been doing that for decades at this point — computers were actually plenty fast even in the 90s!
You are confusing equality and equivalence.

It’s easy to do. Einstein did the same thing with E=mc2.

Equality is a matter of identity. Equivalence is a matter of behavior.

The speed of light is not an absolute constant as Einstein believed. C just represented the speed that light can travel as a relationship between energy and mass.

My favorite form of the equation is C equals the square root of energy divided by mass.

Behaviorally all that means is that as the energy to mass ratio goes up, the speed of light goes up. And as the mass to energy ratio goes up, the speed of light goes down. Hence time dilation, black holes, etc.
You know what would've stopped Hitler? If after WWI the winners weren't bent on humiliating and destroying Germany's economy, thus creating a perfect ground for anti democratic nationalistic regime that offered stability as opposed to the chaos democracy supposedly brought.
We reached the big tech version of Orwell's Politics and the English Language... https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Thermodynamics has some laws (First or Second, I can't remember) that point out perpetual energy or motion machines are impossible.
DevOps: a.k.a. Professional Yak Shaver
Daily life in a DevOps role and ways to mitigate yak shaving.
Why losing biodiversity makes pandemics more likely
How the ‘3 Pillars of Observability’ Miss the Big Picture
There is always going to be some gray line that, if crossed, gets you into antitrust territory, and Alphabet is incentivized to get as close to that line as possible without going over it. And it's large enough to invest considerable resources into figuring out just how close to the line it can get.

That's why language like this matters so much to Alphabet. When you're operating close to the line, even if you haven't gone over it, you don't want to give anybody any reason to suggest you're an inch further than you actually are.
Google (okay, Alphabet) is the only big tech company that I can imagine would ultimately _benefit_ from an antitrust breakup.

Google keeps killing low-to-medium profitable smaller product lines and tools because it can't spin them off successfully. Google can't spin off tools successfully because their internal codebases are deeply reliant on assumptions about Google's infrastructure and Google internal libraries, etc. (for example: Google Reader could not be spun off because it assumed things about Google's infrastructure + libraries.) So Google arrives at this strange position where medium-yet-small profitable products can't be spun off or divested because of Google's secret sauce (their internal infrastructure). So Google kills successful products instead, because it isn't interested in scaling up an only _modestly_ successful product.

This is insane and a sign that something is deeply wrong in Google. Splitting Google up, forcing this infrastructure to become open, etc would be much healthier than perpetually killing small products to protect Google's secret sauce.
You mean – with how they want to consume like Americans (where mainly your coastal city populations benefit, not your inner provinces), they get education from Americans when they go abroad for university, they transfer trade secrets from American labs, and the way 海外华人 got recalled after accumulating wealth in other countries, including America?

No dice buddy.
You think having a Facebook makes a country developed?
Are we going to have another thread where the top comment is “this is completely normal and everything is fine”?
I don't see why the executive order can't simply be to compel Apple and Google to display warnings on the download page, or one when the app launches. They already do thisshould you dare to install something that originated outside of their walled garden.

Let the consumer make the choice whether to use it or not.

The case against Huawei at least has merit; protectionist policies against threats to strategically important industries (telecom infrastructure) has numerous precedents.

This just seems like a favour to Zuckerberg after he gave the all-clear to unfettered lying in political ads. Surely that would have no impact on "national security, foreign policy and the economy".
Not exactly. The key idea of the training is that rank-and-file SWEs don't realize that words have legal meanings separate from their colloquial meanings, and they can cause undue trouble for the company and for themselves with poor word-choice. It's more about "Don't say the product is 'dominating the market' when you don't have any idea what your product's percent share is in the market or, for that matter, how 'market' is defined, because if your email comes out in a subpoena it won't come out in the context that makes it clear you're talking out your ass."

Doug Melamed's comments in the article have the right idea:

""" “It’s not just trying to hide the truth, it’s really trying to avoid the use of inflammatory language,” said Melamed, a former acting assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division at the U.S. Department of Justice. “The use of the word ‘market’ could be very innocent, but it could be misleading and provocative to an antitrust enforcer. Antitrust enforcers really get exercised when they think someone dominates a market.” """
Its long overdue, and I hope it happens (even though I am a home owner). It seems to me all the stimulus money ends up in the realty market. It looks great for home owners (but money printing isn't good for anyone). It really hurts the people just getting started in the economy.
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It is not clear what exactly will the included in the app. Do you mean there will be design templates, like Canva, or project management templates, like Trello templates.

In the former case, I'd prefer Canva. The latter is interesting, but templates did not exactly take off with Trello.
Google knows exactly what the problem is even if it fights it.
These awesome lists often seem just a bunch of links that is incomplete yet overwhelming. They are not at all "curated" they are just whatever someone makes a MR for.

Here is an awesome list about awesome lists[0], often popular subjects have ten different lists.

I do enjoy looking over the list and seeing how many names I recognize and reading up on ones I don't. But other than for enjoyment, I cannot see these lists as useful.

For example, if you were going to setup some backups, would you use an awesome list or just search? Effectivly you will end up with the same list of software, with more mature software at the top. Adding keywords to a search refines better than clicking all the different links in an awesome list.

[0]https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness
Since the lockdowns started, I switched from a MacBook as a daily driver to an iMac. I have missed the Touch Bar 0% of the time. I hadn't even thought about it as something that was "missing" until now.
What’s the benefiting of maintaining the ag-zoning?
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Both fission and fusion release net energy by having products with greater binding energy. The greatest binding energy is iron (and some surrounding elements). Once you get there, no more energy can be released by fusion (or fission).

See this graph: https://opentextbc.ca/universityphysicsv3openstax/wp-content...

So it’s not a perpetual motion machine. Iron is the bottom.

(Heavier stuff than iron can be created by fusion, but that absorbs energy instead of releasing it. Supernova create these heavier-than-iron elements like Uranium and gold endothermically... they’re also created by the decaying guts of neutron stars—which are essentially ginormous atomic nuclei held together by gravity instead of nuclear forces—when they collide and some of their guts are released into space.)
Intel and AT&T might not have provided a platform which some people used for political propaganda but they have done other much worse things (ME, proprietary software/firmware/etc, anti-net-neutrality, anti-competition, etc).
I understand the US has it's issues. But the US isn't shoving millions of Uighurs into concentration camps, stealing intellectual property in state sponsored campaigns to prop up their own businesses, and preventing economic competition, etc. Even with the deep issues in the US right now, there's a clear winner in ideological morality that better aligns with the EU. The Chinese are stealing IP from EU companies just the same as American. China though also utilizes economic pressure on private companies to bypass political opposition and force their totalitarian ideologies on the rest of the world. Look at the censoring of the Taiwan flag, or blacklisting of companies endorsing the Hong Kong people's rights of independence, or their hardline stance on anything that even remotely offends their assertions of power. I honestly don't see how it's even a contest to you, even considering the US as it currently exists. (There are notable ideological problems there too, but they pale in comparison to China in their negative effects on the EU.)
UV is the one to worry about, fortunately it's easy to filter, for example most clear safety plastic glasses don't let it through.
Air pollution in general is much better than it used to be. Particulates for example are known to be associated with memory problems: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31746986/
> Classic Sites has been around for a very long time (since 2008)

Anything I can say would only detract from this.

This is modern Google.
A Curated List of Awesomeness
An Architecture for Community Contribution, Speed and Modularity
BLM protestor charged with 4th degree felony for using Twitter to identify cop
Spring cleaning my bedroom and home office.
My whole life feels too cluttered and messy and the moment... Its like I’m in a rut and can’t seem to find the motivation (or passion) to start anything new.

I’m hoping a clean-out might kick-start some change.
Doesn't AWK already do all of this?
No, it breaks down when an actor realizes that they can get all of the benefit and then some if they don't participate in good faith yet everyone else continues to do so.

This then leads to a "tragedy of the commons" situation, which is a fairly well-established idea.
I understand - it seems I was too optimistic to read that the use of yyyy-mm-dd has become "the official standard" in Germany, without considering the popular usage and convention under discussion.
The most viable proposal for an SSTO launcher with significant payload appears to be the Reaction Engines Skylon. It doesn't use an aerospike.

https://www.reactionengines.co.uk/
Catalogue of Prohibited Foreign Investment Industries

X. Art, Sports and Entertainment Industries

1. News agencies
2. Business of publishing, producing, master issuing, and importing of books, newspaper and periodical
3. Business of publishing, producing, master issuing and importing of audio and visual products and electronic publications
4. Radio stations, TV stations, radio and TV transmission networks at various levels (transmission stations, relaying stations, radio and TV satellites, satellite up-linking stations, satellite receiving stations, microwave stations, monitoring stations, cable broadcasting and TV transmission networks)
5. Companies of publishing and playing of broadcast and TV programs
6. Companies of films making, issuing, business
7. News website, network audiovisual service, on line service location, internet art management
8. Construction and management of golf course
9. Gambling industry (including gambling turf)
10. Eroticism

Nice to know the Chinese Communist Golf Course lobby is alive and effective though! :)
I would say that the "this is a tiny problem" is factual, and "it'll be used as a wedge to justify evicting ordinary tenants in arrears" is speculative.
> I guess that Win+Ins is doing something similar on Windows?

By default Win+Ins does nothing on Windows. I had to implemented this feature in DevComrade. I wish it was all part of Windows so I didn't have to maintain it :) Happy if they take the source, it's an Apache 2.0 license.
Let's face it: it has nothing to do with "treat people the way they treat you." It's just Trump trying to win/secure the votes from his loyal supporters.

Does TikTok grab user data and analyze them for ads, recommendations, etc? Sure, so do Instagram. But does TikTok send those data back to Chinese government so that it would potentially threaten U.S. national security? We need proof, but so far none. Here's an article of French hacker Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) analyzing TikTok code: https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e81626...

So IMHO the two real reasons Trumps banned TikTok and WeChat are:
1. His supporters are mad that everything is made in China. It violates some basic economics principles but that's fine.
2. What happened to that Oklahoma rally, Trump really took it personal.

This ban put hundreds of thousands of Chinese people (including those who are already U.S. citizens or green card holders) in the U.S. to a difficult position. They don't have other ways to communicate with there friends/families in China other than WeChat. But I guess, those people (including myself), are the least important factors Trump worries about, if he even cares at all.
Right. People are reading into this way too much, in reality it looks like pretty standard "don't use legalese when you're not a lawyer" type training that I've seen at every BigCo.
It wouldn't work because the mapping isn't one-to-one, it's many-to-one. Google is essentially taking advantage of the fact that it's basically impossible to reliably reverse a many-to-one function.

That is to say, you can never know which "good" instances are actually used in an honest way, and which are used in the "bad" way — and justice systems never go on to assume that all "good" instances of anything must be a substitution for the "bad" term.
> The modifier key symbols are printed on most modern Apple keyboards. See the Magic Keyboard, for example.

Apple has loads of symbols for their keys. There's the modifier keys ⌘(cmd), ⌃(ctrl), ⌥(alt), ⇧(shift) and ⇪(caps-lock), of which shift and caps-lock are missing on the magic keyboard (in addition to ctrl and alt on the macbook in front of me).

Then there's ⇥(tab), ↩(return), ⌫(delete) and ⎋(escape) to name a few. These can and do all show up in menus and documentation. With all the control they have over their hardware and software you'd think they could do better than linux on their own hardware (super and backspace are wrong, but the rest are correct at least on this macbook).
Unfortunately, maximized windows and full screen windows are not equivalent, and there are plenty of contexts in which fullscreen is what is required (virtual desktop, distraction free mode, graphics apps, etc. etc). Maximized windows retain the window bar, and if you don't have auto hide enabled on the dock or menu bar they will remain as well taking up screen real estate unnecessarily.
Well, the Fed is currently propping up the market with trillions of purchases, not just of treasuries but even things like corporate bonds.
The touch bar isn't very useful, and it's bad for things that you want to really be "keys" that you want to be able to touch type. But it's nice for some things. Volume and brightness slider. Emojis sometimes.

Here's one use I found that I like: I sometimes work in the sunlight and want to switch to Light theme. I'm not aware of a nice convenient way to just toggle Light/Dark, so I found someone's instructions on how to bind a script that does that to a slot in the Touch Bar. Could that have been a keyboard shortcut? Sure, but I appreciate this option - kind of cool.
"Hardly anyone knows X. Let's replace it with something nobody knows."

Because there's a value proposition. Just like TCL, Perl, and Lisp had value propositions over other available languages. It's fine if you don't see the value proposition in Crush but progress sometimes forces us to learn new things instead of sticking with what we have.
Open Source Contributions on the Rise in FinTech, Healthcare and Government
Yep. Why should Canada align with the US when the US just imposed a tariff on ~$8 billion of aluminum on National Security grounds:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/06/trump-says-he-signed-order-r...
What's most likely to happen if we try an outright ban is that Vietnam and similar developing countries will start slapping on a "Made in Vietnam" sticker on Chinese goods and exporting them to the US.
Americans are famous for their love of sacrifice and compromise; this should be no problem.
Thanks for this. I’ll check out bracketed pasting mode in terminal next time (not near one right now), though I have to admit that even after reading that post, I didn’t understand what exactly happens when it’s used. I understood that the command does not get executed, but what happens in the shell (I looked this up on Wikipedia too)? Does it just display the line and allow the user to edit it so that the starting and ending escape sequences can be removed along with any other edits and then the command executed?
My mom tells stories about pesticide trucks driving down the street, spraying entire neighborhoods, when she was a kid. Says it happened pretty often. Kids would chase them, playing in the "clouds". Talk about yikes.

I do wonder what we interact with regularly that future people would have to be paid very well to even be in the same room with, and will think we were nuts for ever thinking was OK. I'm guessing "basically anything plastic, especially if contact with food" is a likely candidate. Fire retardant chemicals in construction materials and furniture, probably.
> as that differs completely

There must still be confusion, as when I read the title it means exactly what is said in the GitHub issue.
I think because H2 is so common. Given that and how gravity works, let's look at the possibilities:

small thing (say up to size of smaller planets): only solids can clump together and stay together, gas would just fizz away

medium thing (earthish to gas giantish, say): solids clump together and that provides enough gravity (and sometimes magnetics) to capture/keep some gas too

large thing (star sized): you can just capture everything around. Sure that'll contain some metal, but since most of what's out there is H2 and you're gulping it all up, you end up mostly gas
Interesting project! In a past life I worked on a project that used PyQt; on the one hand, I enjoyed using a very mature toolkit with lots of features, but on the other hand the Qt way of doing things often clashed with the Python way of doing things and I longed for something simpler.

What's the OpenGL situation like? The project I speak of used some hand-written OpenGL shaders. One of the things I appreciated about Qt was that you could ask it for an OpenGL window, and it just worked. (For values of "just works" that include cursing for hours at a black screen but eventually convincing it to draw triangles.)
Or what about just adopting the Chinese playbook? If you want to sell phones in the US, mandate a certain amount of key manufacturing transfer to allow it.