skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the "One China" policy ensures neither the Republic (in Taiwan) nor the PRC will allow the other to be a UN member at the same time as them.

Actually, 90+% of the population of the ROC, including their leaders, would be ecstatically happy to be an UN member separately from the PRC. The only reason they officially have a "One China policy" is that the PRC has made it clear that while they can tolerate the status quo of a rival government with zero prospects of actually challenging them controlling a small piece of their territory, they will very much not tolerate that piece of territory to become officially independant and provide an example for at least half a dozen others.
Looking forward to hearing more about it.
This is something I was looking forward to! Thanks you so much <3

Do you follow John Carmack's coding standard?
A California wildfire nearly destroyed the historic Lick observatory
Google does offer a feedback button in the knowledge panel. However, I assume they are unlikely to take any actions unless there's at least a certain amount of agreeing feedback.
Oh but there was a metric time! Or at least a decimal one.

After the French revolution, some attempts were made to rationalize existing systems of time, the republican calendar [1] being probably the most famous, but hours and minutes were adjusted too [2]. Usage lasted slightly over a decade at the end of the 18th century.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
US dollar is the national currency of Ecuador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_of_Ecuador

OPEC sells Oil exclusively in US dollars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency
They are also ineffective against more than a handful of threats.

They work okay against mortars and dumb munitions, though.
The cheapest personal plan is 9$/year.

The teams one, we are about to launch, hopefully people won't find it expensive, given that golinks for example, charges $3.99 per user per month.
Perhaps they meant normal relative to themselves (and presumably the reader), not normal relative to the group.

The word "subset" did trip me up for a second though.
The author has written the novel "Permutation City", which I read after seeing it recommended here on HN a lot. It is a great book. I never thought I would be interested in sci-fi, but this book changed my mind. It deals with simulating conciousness and its implications.

If you enjoyed the post, and the author's website, be sure to read some of his books too!
The difference between sound and light is that sound needs a medium. This medium breaks the symmetry: There is a special system, the one in which the bulk of the medium doesn't move.
For light, you don't have that. All reference systems are equal, independent of the speed they move with respect to each other. Light appears at the same speed in all of them. That's not possible with Newtonian velocity addition.

The experimental "proof" of the frame-independence comes from the michelson morley experiment. (Scare-quotes, because you can't prove things in physics, only disprove)
The pattern to discern from articles like this is that they highlight the threat and not the difficulty of actually realizing the threat.

When you put two layers of improvisation into a weapon the odds of it working are very low. Building an effective homemade grenade is difficult. Delivering it with a noisy machine that limits the size of the grenade multiplies the odds of making a spectacular but ineffective attempt that will only get you noticed.

But it does increase the odds that some consultant will get hired by DHS to write an unreadable report about this supposed threat.
Want herd immunity? Pay people to take the vaccine
>They now have higher cost

Well, this chart proves the opposite:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

Remember, when you're talking about how nuclear is cheaper you're talking about the cost of generating power, not what the consumer is paying.
The ability to specify a shell in /etc/passwd is extremely long-standing: it is documented in the passwd(5) manpage of 1st Edition UNIX dated 1971 (https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man5/passw...). My guess is that in 1971 you really didn't want to spawn a shell process unnecessarily on a multi-user pdp-11 (not because you're charged for it but because the machine is small and you don't want to waste ram or cpu). It also means you can say "use my locally compiled bugfixed shell binary that reads the same startup/init files as the standard system one", and you can have 'system' users with non-standard special-purpose shells -- 7th Ed's /etc/passwd (https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/etc/passwd) has a uucp user whose shell is the uucico program, so a remote system can dial in, log in as 'uucp' and trigger file transfer.

These days we'd probably also think about reducing 'attack surface' by not giving that kind of special purpose user a real shell even in passing (if a bug let them write to the shell's init files that turns write-file-as-user into remote-shell), but they wouldn't have been considering that in the early 70s...
Robinhood’s Rise Brings Dark Side of Irate Traders, U.S. Probes
Why studying Chinese is in decline
Second U.S. shale boom's legacy: Overpriced deals, unwanted assets
AT&T reportedly trying to sell DirecTV after customer losses
Hofstadter's argument: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.htm...
The same reason you might use a VPS rather than build your own cloud infrastructure - sure you might save some money, but maintenance is then your problem, scaling down or up is harder and you lose flexibility to move provider.

Also there might be some tax incentive if you can put the building down as an ongoing cost to your company.
According to the article, yes:

> Both configurations of the Manjaro CE PinePhones feature rev. 1.2a PCBA, introduced with postmarketOS CE that is currently shipping.
Have you ever observed an interference pattern for tennis balls? Have you ever been unable to place a stationary object in space because you knew it's velocity?

Furthermore, leaving behind direct observations which could perhaps be waved away with discussions of probabilities, we have one big problem: there is no gravity in QM and we have no idea how to account for it or curved spacetime in QM.

So for now, we have one working model for the macroscopic world (general relativity) and one for the microscopic world (QM), but the two are mathematically incompatible, they can't be simultaneously true, and we have not yet found an experiment which contradicts either of them.
This is absurd bordering on trolling. That isn't the "whole point of rights" (maybe this is what you believe, but that's an opinion, don't present it as a fact). At best, a right is a societal norm. They're almost always conditional and complex - if for no other reason than, without conditions, some rights cannot co-exist.

A strong commitment to human rights doesn't mean rights are non-conditional, so you're moving the goalpost to make a slippery slope argument. Anyways, laws are what can stop these things from happening. Yes, some laws go hand-in-hand with human(e.g. universal suffrage), some don't (e.g, conflicts of interest laws)
Because this dude is like I filled million recaptacha I deserve more free result when AI research is so new and so slow.

This dude thinks just coz human can do it means its easy and forgets the billion years of evolution that went to make our eye or the massive amount of processing our brains does to see an object.
Almost 30.000 comments 14h ago on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ijlj88/whats_an_...
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Well, here's the thing: I heard the same thing from some people I studied with and they were 100% serious.
The narrative about COVID is starting to fall apart and these cynical people want to make as much money as they can before it falls apart completely.

CDC admits only 6% of reported COVID-19 deaths were actually caused by COVID.[0]

[0]: https://t.co/W7Sxq4Pmos?amp=1
I've never heard anyone say that. Who are these people that are reading fuel consumption in their dashboard and doing the mental arithmetic to convert that to km/liter? I've only heard "my car spends about 5-8", meaning 5-8 l/100 km in casual conversation. I.e. the number you'd read directly from the dashboard.
I’ve personally spent hours on end in a VR helmet doing vigorous exercise, and that’s with now-obsolete tech. I wouldn’t want to use that set for many more hours of coding, but maybe a different form factor would work. What about those low-fi AR glasses we’ve all been making fun of? Good enough to inspire that “somebody’s looking over your shoulder” feeling?
You're missing the forest for the trees. What's the tiniest x86-64 code generator that can bootstrap John McCarthy's meta-circular evaluator, as it is written in his original paper. Now that's something I'd love to see. What he accomplished there is so profound and has served as the center of gravity that's attracted folks to LISP ever since. Also if you build it with APE your distributables will run on all platforms https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/ape.html
Have a GDPR complaint? Skip the regulator and take it to court
> some of my friends

I have my doubts about a new user account being specifically created to post an unverifiable anecdote.

And ironically, that link is unreadable when using an ad blocker.
> as I have often applied the same logic to gender, which is arguably even more socially constructed than race, since the appeal to biological characteristics is weaker for defining one's gender than one's race.

Is this a typo? Surely the appeal to biological characteristics is stronger for defining one's gender than one's race...

You can be "mixed" race and pass for multiple races (so the link to biology is less) without doing anything, but you have to do a lot to obscure the biological giveaways of your gender (voice, Adams apple, breasts/hips/shoulders).

And also you need cultural understanding to know the race of someone from a different area than you (are dark skinned Italians black/Latino? No, but if you saw a bunch, and didn't have cultural understanding you might think so). But you can tell the gender of nearly all people without any cultural context.
I've been noticing this in myself, I think it's boils down to conservation of energy.

But boy could I have saved a lot of effort by spending a bit more a bit sooner to hone some beliefs.
You simply can’t be effective in programming without knowing English. Having few words translated in your language wouldn’t help much. Moreover it is much easier to learn English than learning how to code.
^ this is exactly the attitude I'm referring to. Let me give you an anecdote to further illustrate.

Last friday my internet went out (Cox) and I called into support. The first thing the guy told me? My equipment is too old.

This is simply unacceptable as a reason why my internet stopped working at 6 in the morning. I suspect it was an attempt to upsell me a new modem, but I have a docsys 3 that's under 5 years old. It doesn't matter. Any series of events that results in technical support leading with blaming "old equipment" on the outage is wrong, period. Maybe the equipment went bad, it happens, but that's not what you lead with. Certainly not before trouble shooting.

This is what I mean when I say "definitionally". It doesn't matter what their motivation is. It doesn't matter if it's possible that my equipment died. That employee fucked up.

This isn't about technical excellence or software practices. This is about decision making.
> It's not only in the US. It's not just another "Trump thing".

Eh, at least on vaccine approval, it... kind of is? The only cases I'm aware of are this one and the Russian one, and the Russian one was really more of a publicity exercise (they're 'approving' it, but only for very limited distribution, making it rather similar to a normal phase 3 in practice).

I think part of this is how the US govt is structured, rather than politics per se. It's particularly easy in the US for the executive to lean on government agencies; if nothing else it can get rid of heads of agencies without much fuss, whereas this would be anything from a major political scandal to just outright impossible in many developed countries. Also, of course, the executive is one person; in a parliamentary system this sort of leaning would require multiple people to make decisions that were, as Yes Minister put it, 'brave' (ie potentially career-ending).
In other words, a caste system developed from first principles.
Antiracism Is Racist
Excel localization is absolute PITA, mainly because there is no easy way to turn it off.
Very well written piece!

My main quibble would be when the author goes into theological territory. There were attempts to translate the Bible into English and vernacular languages before Wycliffe, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Engl..., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_in_the_Mi....
Economy of scale in property managment probably meant that just having the whole thing as opex made sense. I don't imagine they'd be much better off now if they owned it and had to sell it off, might even have to take a comparable loss in such a case.
It kinda exists now with existing VR tech but the question is, is it work it?

For me when I'm working remote the existing video chat stuff would be great if they could fix the latency.

Anything over a few hundred milliseconds means you end up talking over people accidentally, it's hard to have a naturally flowing conversation.

Honestly a big 4K screen on the wall with a good webcam on both ends and low latency would be great.
> It would be such a relief if they went under, I am so tired of pinterest thumbnails

That's unlikely to happen as Pinterest is currently booming. Their global usage is growing fast for an already large social network. They have $1.7 billion in cash, with little to worry about financially for the next five plus years. Pinterest is likely to get a lot larger yet given their growth rate, they're up to 416 million monthly actives with zero serious threats in terms of competition. Facebook's attempt at building a competitor failed nearly immediately. As with LinkedIn, they occupy a niche in social media that they entirely own.
Exactly. Now build a clock by bouncing the light between two mirrors, and think about how the clock looks like in the bus, and outside of the bus. -> special relativity.
No longer looking for shortcuts
> We should fix our schools,

A large part of the english language problem in the southern Europe (it's not just an italian problem) is cultural.

The english language is considerably more embedded in the culture of the northern European countries; for example, there's considerably less dubbing.

If Italy stopped dubbing (which will never happen, because it's a tradition), italians would speak a considerably better English, just because of familiarity.

I'm not sure if there is a realistic improvement that could be applied. I'm not so critical of the italian schools; without significant immersion, it's hard to improve or retain a language meaningfully.

I suspect that a considerable factor of the problem is that Italy is not a significantly cosmopolitan country (intended as amount of "traffic" of international people), so that there is very little exercise (or "immersion", using my previous term).
With respect to deaths attributable to renewables I believe people have deep psychological reasons for preferring those deaths over nuclear deaths.

Workplace accidents happen on a human scale; that is, they are within the experience of people and in the small seem controllable and within human agency. Furthermore, although this is a somewhat callous perspective, it seems too obvious not to mention that workplace deaths do not impact the energy consumer. Very few people experience ethical qualms around wood use, despite forestry being a dangerous occupation.

Nuclear accidents, while rare, tend to be larger scale and take away people's agency. They are not in fact even fully comprehensible to most people. For better or worse people do not feel on a personal basis that they are able to control for the risk.

Overall people tend to be happier with higher risks where they feel they have agency (e.g. driving) over smaller risks which are completely out of their control (say, flying).
Most likely a prop 13 issue. Property taxes don’t go up in California unless you sell, since 1978, which means a lot of people are still paying what they paid in '78. Goes for commercial too, not just poor grandma eating cat food with all that equity in her Beverly Hills cottage. All the big towers are leased. I heard it’s downright byzantine, with many layers of 99-year subleases. Good deal for the lawyers, and for the landlords! Some professional would lose a license for malpractice if they sold.

By the way, it’s not just SF, it’s also the big chunks of the valley. The Facebook sign still says Sun on the back, and the Googleplex land is on lease from NASA. Question I’d like to know the answer to: who owns the land at Apple Park?

This law is enshrined in that fine document the California constitution, and can only be repealed by a simple majority of voters. Voters who own homes, or live for free in a home someone owns, or pay rent to live in a home someone owns.
Do these support Android apps? How would I develop a native app for one of these?
Don't get it. You're trying to say that pushing to master with no code review is "continuous integration"?
I'm European myself. I don't think we can compare Europe with the US. Due to centuries of slavery and then segregation, black and white communities are still somewhat separate and tend to have different cultures etc. Of course, individually, there are many examples of people who are "in between", but the cultural blocs do exist.

And by the way - in Belgium, parties have to pander to the French or the Dutch voters; in Switzerland, the different language regions have different voting behaviour; in Germany, east Germany votes significantly differently, as does Bavaria; and so on. Voter blocs are not something exclusive to the US, even if the history of the black population doesn't have a direct parallel in Europe.
^ exactly this.
As the article itself points out, Smalltalk may not have succeeded as an active language in the sense of market share, but its influence (and that of the environment from which it came) on later languages and development paradigms seems very significant and it's still regularly fondly referenced in many coding blogs and articles.

In spirit at least, it seems a resounding success.
I'm not trying to be a negative nancy here but from what you write you really don't seem to understand the potential risks of medical trials or how they work. I'm not saying you should not participate but you seem a bit misinformed.

> the researchers involved know what they are doing and would never push something like this if it weren't safe

No, they do all the time. They do not know if it's safe. They don't have enough indication that it's unsafe. There's a huuuge difference. That's what the trials are for: To find out if they're safe and work. Both assertions can only be made after the trials.

> I will be one of the first people in the world with an immunity against SARS-CoV-2

Millions already are.

Just read the papers you'll sign carefully so you don't go into all of this while not being 100% informed.
> Compared to an untested vaccine?

I didn't say anything about comparisons. I was pointing out that you were engaging in hyperbole.
But it doesn't!
Just look him up right now and you will see his bio doesn't include pictures of random people.
There are pictures of his books covers and picture of other people users have been searching for (probably other authors and people loosely connected to him)
Then in the middle part there are indeed fairly random pictures but these have nothing to do with his bio. They are just Google results.
I found that, paradoxically, putting a laptop explicitly to sleep (apple menu/sleep) before leaving the office helps ~80% of the time (i.e. in the morning it will not reset with kernel panic).
Except that culture is escapable, changeable. Race isn’t. So what is your point exactly?
I personally would avoid anything Manjaro related due to recurring controversies around the project leadership:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hxpj87/change_in_man...

I wish PinePhone would partner with Arch or Debian instead.
This is Conway's Game of Life in javascript using the p5js library.
The Insider's Guide to the Java Web Developer Nanodegree – 3
As a German I always feel offended, when American sign-up forms (conferences and such) ask for my 'race'. Are they asking for my migrant background? Asking for race is just so Nazi, what should I put there, "Herrenrasse", "Fremdrasse", ...?

There are no different human races.
If you made all keywords fit one character or so and allow selective installation of dictionaries, that would probably also decrease source code form size significantly! That would be great even if you never were to use any language other than English. I’ve played with APL a bit and found out that one can configure Emacs to replace APL’s cryptic symbols with English words using this: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PrettySymbol

APL is however not a language that one would consider using seriously.
Fedora patches grub to read kernel information from drop-in config files (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefau...). This lets them update the list of kernels without modifying grub.cfg.
We're getting closer to the quantum internet, but what is it?
I'm a Mac user, so I'm used to the OS respecting me, but as I sometimes need to build and debug Windows stuff, I do have a VM with Windows 10. I use it maybe once a month, sometimes rarer. Every time I ran the VM, there inevitably were new updates. These forced updates pissed me off enough to figure out how to turn the update system off altogether.

If anyone's interested, here's how it works. There are several services related to Windows Update. Some of them have their state controls in services.msc greyed out so you presumably can't stop them. But if you leave just one of them on, it'll reactivate the rest of them and guess what, you're getting annoyed again. So you have to look for all services that have the word "update" in their name or description, and set their state to "disabled" directly in the registry, then reboot. I did this more than a year ago, and haven't had a single update prompt ever since.

You should probably also disable everything related to telemetry while you're at it. And uninstall the Windows Store, it's useless anyway.
It might be worth elaborating on your point. I can think of multiple interpretations that differ significantly.
OT, sorry, but related (well, related only in the language):

https://github.com/esseks/monicelli

(humorous PL based on a cult movie)
Please provide data to back this up. I keep hearing this and all the sources I've seen contradict it fairly strongly.