skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine being the Democratic party and the best candidates you have are:
- a warhawk psycho who has seizures and faints often. "Women were always primary victims of war because their husbands and sons died" my ass.
- a guy whose most remarkable achievement is falling asleep on the TV when reading sentences from paper
- an angry woman with the visage of a school teacher
- a billionaire mogul who tried to pay his way into becoming president
- an ultra-borderline communist leftist

I am sorry, but Trump is gonna win again.
I think this has started happening to me lately! I use pihole with the default block lists as well (in the US), which of course doesn’t get everything, but generally works pretty well.

So today my wife and I were looking at dogs that need forever homes using her laptop

Later I got a dog food ad on my laptop that specifically mentioned shelter rescue pets. I haven’t used any of my devices or accounts for dog-related searches for at least two months.
Also, if your partner or anyone in your house searched for gates from the same IP, you will be getting ads for gates too, even if you never searched for them personally. That's a very common source of the "I never searched for something and now I'm getting ads for it" complaints.
I bought Grave of the Fireflies when it was first released on DVD and expected it be something I'd watch over and over again, why else buy the DVD right?

Nope. Saw it once, cried my eyes out and it sits cherished on my shelf, never watched a second time.
> my point is that the absolute worst-case scenario for the original commenter is still miles better

So we shouldn't worry about something bad because worse has happened before?

> The worst-case scenario in OP's book is that China joins the ranks of first world countries, which then go from being 100% white to 90%.

You're making things up again. OP described living in a China-centric world, not one of equals. (Also your population statistics are _way_ off. 100% to 90%? The population of China is comparable to every other western country combined.)

> Worst case, he might miss out on one business deal because it was struck in Mandarin

Worst case, he might be actively discriminated against and passed over because in spite of investing considerable time in mastering Mandarin he's not Han.
Mate, this is a Show HN post. This comment is pretty mean..
Irony abounds. The OP doesn't even mention a particular race in the comment. Yet the responses assume he is white with all of the trappings of privilege. Not impossible to characterize this assumption as racist on multiple levels.
Not really, more like the pentagon?

This thread though has been really interesting and I definitely feel like I have a more nuanced view than I held before, so thanks.
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Yes, it would be nice for you if I did things for you for free, however it would not be nice for me.

If you're writing a compiler and want specific advice about how to do this, by all means reach out via email and we'll work something out.
Judging by the downvotes, HN'ers seem to really dislike any mention of the Uighurs.
I thought Wikipedia articles are correct enough for most purposes
> In other words, what they actually fear is dropping from 99th percentile to 90th, and they think that possibility is worth starting World War III over.

Classic siege mentality. First assume OP is white and rich, then accuse the West hindering China from getting powerful while OP is focusing on human rights and equity. To be frank your argument is no better than common cliches from Wumao and Xiaofenhong.
I find it slightly amusing that somebody downvoted this, considering I speak from hard-learned experience here.
I cannot sensibly speak to each of your points, and I am not an Apple apologist, but from my basic, and possibly misinformed understanding Apple is starting to move ex-China:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/the-i-in-...

July 2020.
Maybe the brain would be similar to machine learning “learning rate” parameter. If the learning rate was high it might lead to “overfit”? Overfit is not good for learning.
Yes, although part of the fun the demo is that the LLVM tools are themselves running in the browser. Note that the demo is from 2015, so it predates WebAssembly.
> OP described living in a China-centric world, not one of equals.

Yes, but there's no evidence to suggest this will be the case. The average yearly income in China is not even half what a minimum wage worker gets in the US! And yet OP thinks China will promptly take over the world. That's yellow peril at work.
Two years ago Linus took a break and Greg Kroah-Hartman was leading the project during that. Greg normally maintains the LTS branch of the kernel (and possibly many other things also).
No, we need antitrust investigations
The dismantling of pandemic infrastructure is false news being spread. That's not what happened.
It's like pre-loading your refrigerator/freezer with a sack of ice. If your power goes out long enough for your food to spoil, what will you do? Well, maybe you'll go buy some sacks of ice to throw in there until the power turns back on.

Ok, if you have the space to spare, why wait for the failure to go fetch the emergency ice? Just fill the empty space with ballast water and you're ahead of the problem.

Once the thermal mass is at the desired temperature, it will help bring newly introduced items to the desired temperature faster, not slower.

The only time it slows down the cooling is when first introduced @ a warmer temp, or when there's been a failure for long enough to let everything warm up. But note that in the failure scenarios, the thermal mass helps keep the space cool for longer than had it not been there. Just remove the warmed ballast when the failure is over to let the perishables re-cool first, then reintroduce the ballast when appropriate ... perhaps even pre-cooling it elsewhere first.
You're not wrong, but with Java evolving rapidly, we're in a situation where there are dozens of commonly used JVM versions in the wild... being able to ship the most recent JVM (which can be as little as 25MB depending on which JDK modules you depend on) with your application not only allows you to benefit from using modern language features, but it also makes your application safer by using the latest runtime with the most up-to-date security fixes, not to mention performance and testing becomes a lot easier when you only have one JVM version to worry about. Also, you can have both options. I have a somewhat popular Java app that I distribute as a tiny jar (300KB, requires Java 9+) and as a stand-alone app (packaged with jlink, around 35MB including JDK 11) - and users can choose which one they want.
,,We need to keep our risk awareness calibarated to the issue at hand''

I completely agree with you in this, I was writing the same thing. That's why I wrote that the total amount of time taken away from people must be estimated. If it turns out to be less than 100 lives, I agree with you as in that case the cost savings are justifying switching to newer cars, even if they are not hybrids. The problem here is that we're talking about a much higher number of man years taken away.
You do but it requires minimum effort from your side. Have to be friendly and speak Japanese, even if just a bit.
Peat contains large amounts of carbon from dead plants, that isn't directly exposed to the oxygen in the air (due to peat being found in bogs, ie, submerged wetlands).

What people claim is that merely exposing carbon to the air produces carbon dioxide. A lot of people gloss over this, because its the combination of two facts that govern this: first, no, if you just had a pile of pure carbon sitting out, it wouldn't evaporate into thin air without significant energy input; second, peat bogs store 10x (or more) carbon per unit of land than anything else.

The only argument that really should be given, tbf, is that a lot of the peat we harvest is not renewable, and unless you take specific actions, you wipe the moss species out from that location. Companies that harvest peat from renewably grown bogs should be the only peat we're buying.

Also, peat isn't the only source of spongy and fiberous soil amendments: we should also be using coconut coir. This is the outer (and otherwise useless) husks of coconuts, almost a million tons of it is produced every year.

Want a good potting/raised bed mix that actually performs well? 4 parts Sphagnum peat from a renewable source, 2 parts coconut peat, 1 part perlite, 1 part vermiculite. Indoors or in pots or buckets, it can be used straight. In a bed, mix half and half with good manure, not the bagged stuff at the big box store (or, if you have to, Black Kow).

Don't buy bagged potting mix, but if you absolutely must, over pay for Pro-mix, and see if you can find their CC40 blend.
I like the way you challenge the framing, and I agree, the right first question is "should we develop lethal autonomous weapons at all, and if so what kind is ok, what's the limit on that".

The way its asked looks like an attempt to shift the Overton window until autonomous weapons of all kinds are treated as a mundane inevitability not worth worrying about, with just the niggling details subject to ethical questioning.

But big shifts like that are exactly the sort of thing serious ethical codes should be used to watch out for. Not the niggling details afterwards.
GraalVM is just Java :) you don't need a new IDE.
You are right. We'll add Import data and also expose API to automate this task
Ask HN: Send.firefox.com has been down for weeks. What are viable alternatives?
I liked Firefox send to share files with correspondants who aren’t tech savvy and wouldn’t know how to use pgp or who would be confused at a zip file asking for a password. Firefox send was great because it also encrypted the files while on their servers and didn’t need an account to download.

But it’s been down for weeks now.

Any suggestions for a similar tool to replace it?
I find myself having to use the "-" prefix a lot these days.
I haven't looked very closely at the NBER paper's methodology but the conclusion flies in the face of the raw data on total compensation as a share of GDP/GDI from the BEA[1] and other sources[2]. The NBER paper bases its conclusion on a suggestion that GDP figures are not accurately estimated; this seems like somewhat of a strange position but I am not qualified to evaluate it on merits.

The raw data indicate that total compensation as a percentage of GDP/GDI has been falling since at least the early 1970s. These percentages are derived by comparing nominal dollar values within the same year (e.g. 2018 total compensation divided by 2018 GDP, both in 2018 nominal dollars). Unlike estimates of long-term real wages, these percentages are not dependent on inflation assumptions. The long term trend paints a clear picture that people who earn most of their income (including benefits) from wage labor have been losing ground economically for decades.

Even without metrics, this conclusion is supported by living memory history. In 1970, a single middle-class full-time income could support a comfortable lifestyle for a family of four. In 2020, a single middle-class full time income can't support housing costs in most (possibly all?) urban centers.

We're going backwards.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A4002E1A156NBEA

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG
IP address is one of many signals used to build a statistical profile.

It doesn't match you exactly to the other persons behind the same NAT, but it adds some information, raising the likelihood of ad coincidences a little. I have no idea how much. It's likely to depend on which IP address, and other tracking statistics.

If you have diligently blocked lots of tracking state, then IP address will be a relatively stronger signal, and this might (ironically) increase the likelihood of ad coincidences.
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See their reactions to the BLM protests and banning of TikTok in India and the US. Of course they'll tell their citizens that their government is the best and other countries should copy that.
+1 for induction. Gas heats up the handles pretty fast, too.
Intuitively how does any Java program compile into an executable?
Also, out in the countryside, many, many people simply wear workwear most of the day, even after work. It's much higher quality than the cheap garments available in stores like Prisma or Tokmanni.
Building towers is far less costly than going to peoples homes.
I'm sure when someone gives you the choice between continued employment and following the ethical standard you'll choose to follow the ethical standard.

I mean, don't get me wrong, there are clear scenarios where I think many of us would choose to lose the job. For instance, I'll go unemployed vs directly causing someone to die. But those slightly more ambiguous scenarios are where we need to be enforcing it on a legislative level and the onus should be on ALL levels of the company (engineering and management).
>Opens with strong statements about how Apple supports democracy and open culture, how they appreciate people's voices and ability to think with liberty, how they inspire great people when government is of the people, by the people and for the people.

Now imagine five million Chinese hearing they now have lost their job because Apple "appreciates their voice." (first result for "Apple created jobs in China," I did not verify the number) I'm sure their reaction will be to cry out for democracy.

Meanwhile, Apple will undoubtedly move their operations to one of the many democracies that also have a terrible human rights record.
This is also why the Trader Joe’s freezer/refrigerator section is designed the way it is. Turns out that a chest freezer/refrigerator with no top on it at all isn’t that much worse than a standing freezer/refrigerator with a door that gets opened and closed over and over again.
> Yes, but there's no evidence to suggest this will be the case.

Agreed, at least to the extent that I don't see a way to meaningfully predict that sort of outcome one way or the other.

> And yet OP thinks China will promptly take over the world. That's yellow peril at work.

On the contrary, that's just someone whose looked at recent economic trends and population statistics extrapolating from them intuitively.
> this is again something the compiler did that you have control over

I've rarely if ever heard of patching vtables in cases where you have access to the code - it's always been about fixing a binary you cannot recompile with some LD_PRELOAD trick or similar
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That article actually states "Apple manufacturing partners" are opening factories in India. In other words, Apple are continuing to work with Chinese companies, and the Chinese companies are extending their reach outside of China. In no way is that Apple moving away from China.
These boycotts have limited impact, or rather, their impact can be explained away by blaming other factors (see Blizzard, Disney, etc). This makes it a lot easier for companies to engage in this political marketing (lgbtq+/blm/etc). The reason they’re afraid to voice support for democracy in Hong Kong or human rights in a China, is not because they fear the Chinese people will individually boycott them, but rather that the CCP will block their access to the entire market.
> it would destroy basically every corporate performance metric their executive team has for some time and this is ultimately how their bread is buttered.

Interesting how Microsoft's President called for a Hippocratic oath for engineers, while dodging the real problem - decisions which have real impact are made by executives keen on maximizing bonuses.
It's all about internet of shit.
All of these examples are pieces of entertainment being pulled because they offend Chinese sensibilities.

Here's the thing: pieces of entertainment are also pulled if they offend American sensibilities. In fact, American sensibilities have exclusively determined what is acceptable in big-budget entertainment for at least half a century. Crap like the Blitzchung affair just reflects this balance shifting to 99% America, 1% China.

Yes, China has the power to cancel one thing from time to time, but America constantly has the power to cancel everything. If a big-budget production isn't appealing to an American audience, it just doesn't get made, period. For example, when's the last time you saw a Chinese protagonist in a major film? Or even a single Chinese person who wasn't portrayed as a villain, a dope, or a sex toy?

In a world with equitable global development, influence would be proportional to population. America would have a 5% say, China 20%, Africa 20%, India 25%, and so on. So I'm not worried about the balance shifting towards that.
>> In 1956, the CPC "encouraged citizens to express openly their opinions of the communist regime" and then "after this brief period of liberalization, ... those who were critical of the regime and its ideology ... were rounded up in waves by the hundred of thousands, publicly criticized, and condemned to prison camps for re-education through labor, or even execution."

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign

> The fact that a lot of the criticism that was made by the citizens was considerably more fundamental than even Mao had expected eventually eroded Mao's position to the point where he was forced to back down.

IIRC, Mao expected the policy to bolster the regime and show how the people genuinely supported it. That didn't happen. Since the goal wasn't to actually let the people express alternative views, they cracked down hard.

I agree it probably wasn't "comic book evil conspiracy," but it's still a good illustration of how risky CCP offers of freedom of speech are.
Rich elites have a long history of oversized influence on public policy in the US. I'm not sure why exactly this is happening, but I think it's at least partly because of the relatively low involvement of the government in various social topics.

If you think about it, having public policy being at least partially dictated by unelected and unaccountable individuals is not a good place to be.

Hasan Minhaj had an episode on the Patriot Act about this topic and how:

a) the huge sums of money and foundations these billionaires manage have less of an impact than one would think because of the staggered way that the money is handed out, organizational bureaucracy and the fact that most problems that they're trying to tackle don't really lend themselves to being quashed just by throwing money at them. Many pursue such philanthropy also in part to clean up their public image and as a tax reduction strategy.

b) those huge sums distort the domains that they are injected in and could in some cases cause harm. The Gates Foundation is known for favoring high-impact project and sucking the air out of the room for other initiatives for example.
It’s a very sad fact that games are made on the back of exploited workers, developers , and artists.

It doesn’t feel great to buy games for my PS4 because I always have this fact at the back of my mind. At least I buy most of my games used so it feels like I’m not directly contributing and encouraging these practices, but still.
I remember reading that he got a new threadripper-based workstation. It seems like he is putting it to good use.
GPD Pocket et al?
> Also more of closer-range towers pretty much everywhere

Which generally decreases the required RF transmit power, because of 1/r^2 scaling laws.

> Physical protocol

Not really. If you read through the 5G spec, it's mostly about upping everything. If before there were a few packet sizes, now there are more packet sizes for more efficient packing. If some encoding topped out at, say, QAM64, it goes to QAM1024 now, but only at short range.

Most of the above was constrained by client-side silicon protocol processing, not radio technology.

It's vaguely similar to H.265 vs H.264. They're not fundamentally different. The newer encoding just does... more. More block sizes, more transforms, etc...

> I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss any "dangers of the 5G" activists

You really should be that fast, in the same way that you are fast to dismiss Flat-Earthers. The 5G conspiracy nutjobs have zero interest in evidence, or science, or facts, or any of that stuff.

> I seriously don't know if there can be anything to be worried about

If you have no understanding of the technology or the physics, don't comment.

Seriously.

The hard-core conspiracy theorists are kept going by a surprisingly large group of ignorant people who don't know any better.

Telecoms towers have been burnt to the ground. Staff have been physically assaulted.

This is the same idiocy as the people attacking volunteers distributing vaccines.

If you want to reduce your personal health risk from mobile data technology, then simply stop texting while driving.

If you want to reduce your cancer risk from radiation, use sunscreen.

But please, stop supporting the "concerned Facebook mom" group.
I'm very confused, why did this get downvoted ? If anything downvote the entire thread...
Unless one feeds it with PGO data, just like it happens in most AOT workflows for optimizations like devirtualization.
>It didn’t come with a cap on the TrackPoint, so I swiped a proper “classic dome” from the spares that came with my T60p to make everything period correct (aside: why are classic dome caps so expensive these days? The soft domes are cheap and everywhere). I still don’t care for Trackpoints, but it has cachet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438461

>Ted Selker [1] is the amazing guy who invented and refined the Trackpoint [2] or "Joy Button" as he called it (but IBM refused to call it). He put years of research and development into the product, and I'm happy he's finally written up and published the story. [3]

>[...]

>Once I was sitting in a coffee shop in Mountain View hacking on my Thinkpad, and Ted and his wife Ellen rolled in, sat down, and started chatting. Ted noticed that my Thinkpad's Joy Button was all worn down, and he was mortified and quickly excused himself to go out to the car. Ellen rolled her eyes and shrugged, explaining that he was always like that. Then he came back with a big bag of red Joy Buttons, and replaced my worn-out one right there in the coffee shop, and gave me a few extras as spares!

>He's a brilliant inventor, and a really nice guy, who apparently always carries around a big bag of spare Joy Buttons in case anybody needs one.
So too is any success that HK had. China really made the golden goose disappear under mysterious circumstances.
What would I see if I was there?