skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one forced American corporations to do business with China. America's current lack of "greatness" is America's own fault. There is a nonzero chance that America is going to face serious economic distress in the coming decade. Those who made poor leadership decisions for America's economy are desperate to find a scapegoat. No one forced American corporations to do business with China.
...Are they not?
Almost every feature of C++ is there to aid making powerful libraries. It has dozens that Rust lacks, more added with each Standard, and they work in synergy.

The primordial enabler in '98 was template partial specialization, that made the STL possible: same name with different types uses a different implementation.
No. Looks like it's only for nearsightedness anyway.

I have practiced looking at a pencil end / hair follicle / other small object as close to my eye as possible and then looking at a distant object for years now. I have also read about the Bates method, palming, etc and have tried them on and off over the years.

The close-far method seems to be the only reasonable "exercise" - though no one can tell me for sure whether there is muscles involved (or relaxing said muscles) in looking far away.

Anyway, nothing has helped. I also don't see strong research on the topic however. As an example, doing a one-arm chinup is possible for most people. It can take up to half a decade of structured, regular training.

Maybe fixing eyes is possible, but it requires 30+ mins a day, every day for years. Who knows.

Edit: Also, the strongest studies are the ones comparing Chinese kids in China and Austarlia, where the latter spend more time outdoors and have reliably better eyesight. Not really relevant to adults, but can help when raising your kids.
You can only downvote in the first 24 hours. You can only downvote if you have over 500 karma. Most users with over 500 karma have better things to do than monitor someone else every 24 hours.

Could it happen? Sure. Should the site disallow it? Probably, though if it doesn't actually happen it seems a waste to write the code to prevent it.
That's why we originally had an IETF and RFC's were publicly commented on and why standards are supposed to be company agnostic.

The whole proprietary-APIs-over-HTTP was a giant step back. Before we did that interop between internet based applications was far more common and supported. Now every company treats 'their users' as their own private little walled garden when before 'your users' were not so much cows to milk as they were users you exposed services to at the protocol level.

We have been able to move very fast and very far because of this shortcut but the price is a very high one and I'm not so sure if in the longer term we will end up with an advantage.
There are some people who don't want to go back to work even when their jobs are returning. There might legit safety concerns in places like meat packing plants, but they can be addresses by those places spending the money on PPE and small modifications the plants. Musk has done it with his own companies.

Politicians like Ocasio-Cortez actively told people they shouldn't go back to work even as places open back up. This is problematic because if enough people believe that, there is a risk of shortages for things like food. We over produce quite a bit in America, farms are heavily subsidized, and it's mostly school/restaurant food chain products that are being dumped right now (and many Americans are realizing for the first time we get totally different qualities of products than restaurants do), so it's not affecting us too badly yet.

Hopefully it won't, but there needs to be a balance between any proposal for UBI or continued unemployment and restarting production systems that produce domestic goods we need to survive.
It’s entirely in keeping with the class character of HN: labour aristocracy (well paid workers) and petty bourgeoisie (small business owners). That is historically the social base of the far right.
What? The Command key is instantly and reliably accessible with your thumb. The Control key is what's super awkward.
But then people would have no incentive to work anymore so people would abuse the system. This is why the government has to give the money to corporations, they will spend that money wisely to keep good jobs around and not abuse this money. There's way too much accountability in corporations for it to ever get abused unlike regular people collecting Ubi forever.
You're painting with a very broad brush there. There are a lot of reasonable, good people that would disagree with your interpretations of those people/podcasts/events. I.e. the debate is far from settled, and it should be open for discussion such as we have here on HN.
I'm not sure what you mean, beside the overall technological progress. If so this is why I'm stumped by the recent international degradation. I'd hoped sanity would be stronger but actually the modern world may not be a lot stabler than previous centuries. Or at least not a lot wiser.
It’s true you can use a mac with a broken (partially functional) trackpad — I did for a couple of years and it wasn’t a noticeable impairment...but I’ve been an Emacs user since the 70s so am keyboard-by-default already.

But I can’t say the Mac is the best: Windows, back in the Gates days, had keyboard commands for almost everything at his insistence (some of the PMs weren’t enthusiastic but couldn’t go against him of course). I’m not a windows fan (prefer the Mac’s direct manipulation approach to the subject-verb-object model at the foundation of Windows) but I really respected and appreciated that commitment by MS.
Buzzfeed (News) has been doing some decent investigate reporting for a while:

https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/the-investigations-and-rep...
This has been considered as a potential factor in explaining the variability in COVID outcomes for a while, both in the sense that prior infection with a cold virus could help protect from COVID through T cell responses and could make COVID worse through antibody responses. Cytotoxic T cell responses are definitely good, and it's also good to know that coronaviruses can induce these sorts of long term immunities (so a low antibody response doesn't automatically mean you're susceptible to reinfection). The COVID vaccines in development are also generally trying to induce T cell responses, and knowing that coronavirus epitopes can do that is a really helpful data point in determining the feasibility of that goal.
Kids are, sadly, not immune.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6931e1.htm
No, it wasn't mostly foreign investments, although that added fuel to the fire.

You can see the Canada housing bubble represented in that Canadian households are among the most indebted on the planet (it's heavy with mortgage debt).

Here's a chart showing the prominent split with the US, where they go different directions after 2007-2008 (Canada's bubble and debt accumulation kept going and the US began deleveraging and improving its household fiscal condition and debt to equity ratio in housing):

https://i.imgur.com/gCAsd5Y.png
Command is much easier to use than Control. It's right there next to your thumb.
Out of the topic, but I was always wondering, where can I follow all new CS papers like this one. Is there any sites I can follow like HN, any suggestions?

Just yesterday I stumbled into `Out of the Tar Pit` which is turns out to be a very life-changing for many people and was thinking, why I haven't seen it before in my career
As a kid I used to play with the mercury in broken thermometers and now I wonder about the health risks, too.
The first two paragraphs seem to summarize the project fairly well. The text itself also appears to be fairly well organized.

I haven't watched the video itself (I'm browsing this between compiles and integration test runs), but I certainly can't find any fault with the textual side of things.
If UBI is the way, do you agree or disagree that there should be no minimum wage?

Decide minimum wage, then give UBI to adults based on that.

If $15 per hr is minimum wage, UBI should be $2600 per month.

Once someone is getting this UBI, it should be legal to have jobs that pay $1 per hr or $0.5 per hr.
>China under Xinpeng finds it hard to do anything but copy, because it's a dictatorship.

WeChat is vastly more innovative than any of the American social media platforms. China makes and buys more electric vehicles than Europe, the US and Japan combined. DJI almost single-handedly created the civilian drone market. Chinese smartphone brands are regularly first-to-market with new features. The "innovative" Just Walk Out retail concept of Amazon Go is commonplace in China.

There's no doubt that China plays fast-and-loose with intellectual property laws, but the idea that they can't innovate is at least a decade out of date.
I think the perverse incentive they are talking about is that all benefits are cut once someone gets a job, even if the job doesn't make as much as the benefits gave.

If the benefits were instead given to everyone, then you wouldn't lose money by getting a job.
>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 am betting on combustion engines. It is ridiculous that we have hundreds of millions of those on our streets, releasing the fumes straight into the air where we live our whole lives.
Quantum Chess is different, it allows players to move a piece twice in the same turn (in sequence) at the cost of a 50% chance of not moving at all. This is different from issuing multiple different moves in one turn.
love your videos
> All animals, plants, and fungi, belong to the latter class. But in fact there are two very distinct sorts of prokaryotes, both single celled, the bacteria and the archaea. The latter were completely unknown until the first ones were found in 1977.

Wait, I can't parse that sentence. Does it mean to say bacteria (`the first ones`) were only found in 1977 ?
Ridiculously high? It's a _bit_ high. 10% is not the end of the world, but it does put the US at european levels.
20% to 30% of an employee's income is straight up income tax paid out of the employee's income. If the employee is under the table, the employee's income is lumped in the employer's for taxable purposes. Social Security and Medicare taxes are maybe 1-2%. Look on any pay stub.
The only "defense" I saw were against people who were grossly misrepresenting what Damore had said. If you contrive a fiction to push your narrative, expect pushback.

As to what shows Damore appeared on, note that this was after he was fired by Google and pilloried by a large portion of the pitchfork "simplify everything to an easy villain" mob. It isn't surprising that he leveraged the small group that didn't ostracize him.

Damore's essay was horrendously poorly considered. People like Molyneux are effectively clowns playing to an audience that they can monetize. This doesn't change the fact that Damore's core argument was actually fairly reasonable.

The simple reality that every fist-pounding critic needs to grossly misrepresent what Damore said, turning it into some grotesque caricature far detached from truth, is revealing.
Is this satire? You can't honestly believe there's meaningful accountability amongst US corporations. And if you do, well why do you think that?
Genuine question: if Europe is so innovative and has so many clusters, why then did Airbus headquarter Airbus Ventures in Silicon Valley?

[Where and how people spend their money is the best way of measuring what people really think].
Personally, I think ethicalads.io and contextcue.com are just fine. Maybe even carbonads.net but good luck getting them to even talk to you without a very large audience already in place.
I highly doubt China has more levers then the US when it comes to a trade war.

China can't feed itself past subsistence level without imports. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-feeding-china/

China runs on oil just like every other modern economy, and they have pitiful amounts locally. They are the largest importer in the world and they absolutely need it to keep flowing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2019/10/17/china-i...

The US can feed itself domestically, and we can supply our own energy domestically. All we have to do is no longer put merchants heading toward China under the US navies protection and the CCP will be in serious trouble very quickly. Note - I'm not even saying we have to attack them, we just stop responding to any requests for help from them and let the world know.

China relies on the US enforced world order to survive in its current form. The US relies on China for convenience, not for survival.

Would it be wise to do what I just said? I don't know, and I'm not advocating for it, I just find it funny when people say China would so obviously win a trade war when they are definitely in the worse position at a fundamental level.
If the basic work of fact-checking itself justifies removing right wing content the problem isn't the fact checkers.
jq makes handling json in existing bash scripts simple. It can even do some simple data wrangling via built-in functions like map. It's not a universally standard command yet, but it's available for most modern systems.

I'm not sure about similar xml cli tools, but they probably exist.

Point is, both of these should be cli tools, not shell built-ins.
This is also how you get snowblindness on cloudy days. The light intensity isn't high enough to cause your pupils to dilate the same way as on a sunny day, and the snow reflects a bunch of UV into your eyes. So you get a sunburn on your retina.
Noted, thanks. I think they look better in code formatting, but forgot about clickability.
"China has initiated Holocaust 2.0"

Come one please, the US are responsible for the death of 400-800k people in Iraq, by that metric no US product should be available anywhere...
Microsoft Fast Design
(This comment is a nearly flawless example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law , well done!)
Yes, I think this calculus changes over time. Back in the day, I think this reason was more important than it is now.
I have found twitter to be incredibly useful and truly amazing for finding immediate first-hand information during sudden events (ie: Protests after George Floyd's death, Beirut, Boston Marathon Bombing, things like that.)

For this case to happen, a few things must align:

1) Important and accessible to enough people on that platform such that effective hashtags "coalesce" and the event becomes searchable

2) Recent (or ongoing/changing) enough that new information available in first-hand accounts has not yet made it to news reports.

3) Not flooded or taken over by bots and malicious accounts.

I wish there was a platform (or ideally an open standard linking multiple platforms effectively) where I could have the interaction I just described but on a much smaller scale. An up-to-the-minute first-hand witness of "whats going on". Essentially, the "raw" news. Technologically, Twitter should work just fine for this. But there are significant problems currently with reliability, trust, and misuse that I believe lead to the general problems people have with twitter which then prevent it's use for the type of "first hand accounting" I've described here.
The USA protects its market by letting monpolies grow and abuse their dominant positions unchecked. And when that is not sufficient we now know what happens; competitors are banned.
Interesting re-framing of this sort of operation as 'Dark Kitchens' which facilitate worker abuse in this discussion on Trashfuture:

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iaxgv-e4084a?utm_camp...
> Why not regulate the amount or at least the velocity of how many homes a person can own?

That is something that could be done, to a degree.

You can increase transfer taxes and offer a partial refund over the course of some number of years, provided that the home has the homeowner exemption in place.

Increase the property tax rate while also increasing the homeowner exemption so that the total tax paid is the same as it was before.

Etc.
Yes, in my experience, macOS scores high on consistency but low on completeness/pervasiveness.

In other words, there are fewer things you can do with the keyboard, but it's easier to figure out which keys do them.
That's how I read it too... equally confused...
Right, and YouTube doesn't need high priority traffic because it has a deep buffer on the receiver, whereas videoconferencing will be disrupted by even a single dropped frame.
Maybe. States and municipalities should figure it out. Diversity is good, and allows us to experiment & learn ethically and inexpensively.
Yes, because changing the words will change the facts - not. You can try to squirm all you want to try to make a monopoly into something that it isn't but that's a lot harder than it may seem and not everybody will be sensitive to such word games. Some might even say that such word games in and of themselves should constitute evidence that a company is a monopoly, it is knowingly misrepresenting the status quo as something that it isn't.
Honestly, as an American, I would be totally fine with EU dominating US marketshare. Americans trust EU far more than any other conglomeration of countries.

I hope that sentiment is the same amongst other Americans. There is far more overlap between US + EU + Switzerland + UK + Australia + NZ than there are differences.

What I find dangerous is EU closing its doors and dismantling NATO, US collaboration and then fragmenting itself into dust. EU is already having a tough time keeping things together.

During a time of extreme nationalism, we need to be more collaborative.
> I'm against this protectionist nationalism, it only leads to future conflict.

And unfortunately this is what the top comment preaches and I am very disappointed to see that the more-educated-than-the-average-person readers of HN fall into the trade war / retaliation fallacy.

Trade always benefits both parties. Otherwise they would not start trading in the first place.
After reading through "A T Cell Army against SARS-CoV-2" and not getting much out of it, I started looking for a primer on how viruses infect cells. But without a strong background in biology, even that was somewhat out of reach for me. This article started to frame the idea of DNA as a DSL for generating molecules, which put me on better footing.
RISC-V has a variable-length instruction encoding. It's just that unlike x86 you can easily tell from parsing a few bits the length of every instruction in the stream, and like MIPS etc most "ordinary" instructions are 32 bit.

BTW if unaligned 32 bit instructions are a concern there is a Compressed NOP (C.NOP == addi x0, x0, 0 but without RAW hazards).
On that note i just did a Google search for "less fireflies this year" and got news articles saying as much from 2018, 2019, and 2020...
CloseR, yes. Close? No. For one, memory init code differs from product gen to product gen and pulls in platform/board specific libraries and inputs to set up some parameters. The bigger problem though is just how big and messy the memory init code is. It would take a substantial number of people a substantial amount of time to unwind and understand what's going on, let alone do a sane and/or clean-room implementation of it all.
Regardless if it’s justified or not I think this is a bad move by the US on the global stage.

The US just banned apps that didn’t break any law, for vague “national security” reasons. And due to the global reach of American tech companies it becomes effectively a global ban.

Now every country that’s not the US will need to 1) think twice about doing business in the US and 2) re-examine American control over the products and services their citizens can and cannot receive. Specifically Apple and google in this case.

Most countries and companies are already cautious when doing business in China because of the unpredictable and arbitrary nature of doing business in China. Now the US is headed towards the same direction.

So congratulations, the US is becoming more and more like China. Doesn’t sound like a win to me.
I had the same initial reaction, but I think it's because the first section of predictions (his cosmology section) only enumerates things that might be wrong, which makes a strong impression.

The predictions that best satisfy my intuition's classifier (not exactly a scientific process) are the ones that suggest an expanding of our current knowledge through the discovery of some new, fundamental thing—like a new piece of quantum mechanics, a new systems-level understanding of neural activity, new life forms that evolve our models of life, etc.
So being a monopolist comes with quite the potential costs.
Employees now have to memorize meaningless, if not just plain wrong, synonyms. Not to talk about the miscommunication this might cause.

Did any of you working for big-corp ever experience problems caused by this language use?
Sadly, this mentality reminds me a lot of the great GeoCities purge of 2009. Have you considered partnering with the Internet Archive to back up any publicly-accessible classic sites which you plan to purge?

Whether or not a site has had visitors recently isn't a fair measure of the importance of those sites -- for instance, there were examples of digital shrines in GeoCities and Yahoo still decided to eradicate them all. It was only thanks to projects like the Internet Archive that we haven't lost that period of internet history just to free up some disk platter space.

EDIT: I also am struggling to understand what this means:

> To me, archiving those sites doesn't feel like destruction, it feels like backing up unused content and protecting it for the user.

What does "archiving" mean here? Will the sites still be accessible or not? Is "archive" here a euphemism for "delete" -- in which case, how is it not like destruction and how is it like a "backup"? I'm not sure most people would consider "rm -rf" to be a backup strategy, but it definitely does have very good storage density.
Have you thought about the psychological impact of what you’re describing? Why would someone work 40 hours a week to earn $2680 a month when they can earn $2600 a month sitting on their couch and playing video games?
This website holds a great deal of power beyond the community itself, so it is appropriate to have some community members represent non-community interests. Many people not in the community believe that Hacker News is no longer salvageable.
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I think protect against it is different than banning it. Think about it like this, a protection would be having a source label that the content comes directly from the Chinese Communist Party. In that case you still have access to the content, but you know who it is coming from.

I think it's also been clearly shown that disinformation campaigns (which can include ideological disinformation - capitalism bad, Chinese communism good) have a real effect.

To your more broad point about China I think the issue that is at the heart of so many complaints is that the Chinese Communist Party doesn't engage in competition with free ideas. In a sense, they are saying, Western ideals can't compete here, but we will export ideas to the West and see how many we can win over.

I'm willing to bet that (and this was the whole point of us opening up to China in the first place) if China didn't censor or block Western companies, then we wouldn't have this same issue. If the Chinese were exposed to "Western propaganda" and Americans were subsequently exposed to "Chinese Communist Party" propaganda due to free-flowing of ideas then what's there really to complain about? Most Americans would surely see this as a fair exchange.

I think it boils down to this:

"They get to do stuff to us, and we can't do stuff to them, so let's make it so they don't get to do stuff to us unless we can do stuff to them".