skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NBA players choose BLM for their protests and you choose China, I don’t see the problem. Blaming them for international policy seems a little naive.
That could be true.

But please, do know that there are many individuals outside the USA, who regularly roll their eyes and feel triggered when yet another article accuses China or Russia of yet another "anything".

Don't get me wrong, some of the accusations sure are very valid ones. But the political bias and (more often than not) cultural blindness/hypocrisy is usually rather obvious. At least for many, like me, from outside the USA. Personally, I would say that the most shocking part might be that not more Americans can see that about themselves. I guess that must be the power of systemic propaganda.

As long as Americans (or at least many) keep using exceptionalism (of any kind) as some sort of blanked excuse, to justify a heap of nastiness they pull around the globe, one might wonder what right Americans have to point at anyone but themselves.

This of course does in no way excuse whatever it is that countries like China and Russia do wrong. But finding any US-based non-political and/or otherwise unbiased assessment of anything happening in China, Russia or any other country that isn't "aligned" with the US, has become close to impossible these days.

So, having people push back and posting counter stories might be nothing more than a natural process, by ordinary people who just get irritated by all this. Of course you're free to suspect bias in that, or even a Chinese agent if you'd like. But the real cause for these responses might just be ordinary people who simply get sick of all the biased and politicized "awareness" articles floating around these day .. especially here at HN, which should not be a forum for international politics (outside tech topic) in the first place.

Sincerely, the obvious information warfare might be at least equally as bad as the things these kind of articles are supposed to inform us about. That not a larger part of the HN crowd appears to be aware of this aspect, is pretty darn shameful and awkward in its own right.
> There is no way to say in /etc/resolv.conf that you want to use a DNS-over-HTTPS server.

Sure there is:

nameserver 127.0.0.1

where I choose to run a nameserver which uses DNS-over-HTTPS on 127.0.0.1:53.
You can definitely win money at the thoroughbred or harness racing track, not by picking "the best horse", but by waiting for a bet that is terrifically mispriced. Maybe once a day there is one that is so clear to me that I can do the math in my head, otherwise it's a game of running my model on my calculator, applying Kelly to decide bets, etc.

The "dollars get left on the floor" because the opportunity is limited there. At my local track I'd estimate that a bet more than about $50 would move the odds into a bad place for me. If I have a big bankroll I can't make Kelly bets anymore and my rate of return goes down. People who are good at this and serious about making money start their own sports books, trade derivatives, or something.
Abebooks is my primary source of buying books!
Its especially good for me, since I'm not originally from the US and its the cheapest way to get publications in my native language from "foreign" sellers. I'd like to support booksellers in my country, but I go back only once or twice a year and can't make all purchases then.
On the other hand, I've found sellers that are shipping from within my city or around (happened thrice in 4ish years of buying). In that case, I'll just track them down and try to contact them for a direct purchase cutting out the middleman. Its a lot of work sometimes, but in my mind worth it.
100 years to solve an integral: The history of the Mercator map
Pretty positive is exactly what I was going for :) Thanks!
Buzzfeednews article on hackernews. slowly turning into reddit
Thanks for the link, it does seem interesting.

> What Von Nuemann algorithm can I put on this?

I am very far from asking this question, thinking about the memory architecture is far too detailed here :). If anything it's about P vs BQP. Or probably even more so about heuristics and approximate algorithms, as in practice that's what is used for hard problems.
Interesting - in the UK we have a 'Foundation' license which is effectively just that. Sadly I don't think you could take it and use it abroad (i.e. outside the UK) though.
If the price is identical everywhere, then people will compete on other factors like the percentage of profits the bookseller donates to charity, or the speed and ease of delivery.
This site is blocked on my office proxy under "Adult/Mature Content" category
Then they should create one key per service and only use that one.
It all started with the "July 2009 Ürümqi riots" and then escalated after the "2014 Kunming attack".
A really good "code smell" for political bullshit is when a person or idea is simultaneously an ineffectual loser and a grave, powerful, insidious force. Closely related to the notion that the leader is simultaneously both a powerful winner and a powerless victim.

"cancel culture" here is both powerful and dangerous enough to bring down Western civilization, yet so laughably weak it cannot even pretend to solve real problems.
Let me clarify: I believe it's a waste of time if we're also not complaining to our elected representatives.

If 10,000 people read this article and got annoyed, and then we made 10,000 phone calls, things would happen. If 10 people pick up the phone... not so much.
It depends on a lot of factors such as who and how many see your posts, how much you consume and how much you boycott etc. If you’re alone the impact is small but if others are starting to follow suit the number goes up fast and the voice becomes stronger.

It is easy to think the impact is nill and that’s exactly how the opressor wants you to think, no wonder the divide and conquer is a strategy that works. But every movement starts off with a few who believe they make a difference and eventually it picks up a critical mass
Wow it’s really creepy that there is a subscribe button that is prefilled with my email address. I realize that sub stack has this information, because I’ve subscribed to other newsletters, but I don’t associate myself with having an account with substack or with that any of my personal information or credentials should somehow cross the barrier between newsletters. Also, I’m just super paranoid I might accidentally click subscribe while scrolling.
Often you can buy direct from the author or publisher. If your goal is to avoid Amazon (although I admit I don't know how this will affect revenues to the author/publisher), you can get in touch with your local bookstores or places like https://www.indiebound.org/
I did exactly that, passed my foundation online at the start of this month. I've been on my local 2m net a couple of times, but still setting up my rig.

I think the online side is good (and the free Essex Ham course is brilliant) but once you pass there's nothing pointing you a what to do next. This is more that people studying online aren't part of clubs. I'm still learning etiquette and I think we'll end up with a lot of new passes ignoring it in 6 months time as behaviours become ingrained.
This could be great for emergency and temporary systems, and it seems that their current products cater for that market.

But for actual grid transport I think one important parameter is line loss. I'm not sure how their system compares on this...
There was a thread on twitter recently about how app stores would have rejected the first web browser, asking what future innovations might not happen due to them. Guess federated social media is a part of the answer.
What’s the background here? Why does China need to do this?
Why not buy from bookdepository.com ? They even have free shipping if I remember correctly.

Honest question - I don't buy books often.
Otto Aviation: Introducing the Celera 500L
> That way it's no longer a purchase of digital good buy exchange of currency

Just be really careful, there’s tons of FinCen and KYC/AML laws that might cover what you’re doing if you go this route.
As sibling says, it is a very good way to explore data and also iterate on design for script and document them.

Two examples from a previous work experience (remote sensing) :

(1) A colleague where creating SSH tunnel to create and explore data with the Jupyter process was on the calculation server. He was able to launch heavy calculation, fast-feedback loop for satellite images and shapefiles, manipulate the results and write the explanation next to each cell. As you would use a real notebook in fact. I had the same workflow and when I realized that the script will be used more than once, I moved the code to python script with command-line arguments support (just plug-in `argparse` to the script) and moved the text to comment the script.

(2) Teaching, we held seminar about different API and tools and used jupyter notebooks to teach everyone. The fast feedback loop was essential for anything with figures, plots, images, etc.

Pluto.jl while not yet perfect for me address a lot of broken things that made using Jupyter notebook driving me crazy (I had to broke my cells in a way that I can rerun everything when needed to update the global space, it was aweful).
re your thesis, can't wait for a WASM ISA on a commercial CPU and canvas instructions for its graphics coprocessor
Tacitly approving of them to Xi, according to Bolton.
-march=arch -mtune=arch

has existed for decades, and the performance improvement is measurable. But mainstream distributions often cannot take advantage, since they need to support all CPUs, and optimization for one is often a deoptimization for another. It's also a reason why Gentoo exists.

Interestingly, Intel's Clear Linux - a optimization-oriented distribution - uses

-march=westmere -mtune=haswell

https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/guides/clear/performan...
Talking about data collection is a slippery slope. Surprisingly little of a Tesla ride gets transmitted, so whilst it seems like "A huge fleet of cars out there is collecting driving data", only a tiny amount of it is used to train. And so far, Tesla has a driver assist feature, and a lot of promises that get postponed every time the deadline is up.

Their current set of feature outshines most car manufacturers, yes - but you have to remember: Tesla seems that far ahead because - unlike most other manufacturers - they push their beta-features to the production fleet.

[Edit]: I should note: I don't subscribe to the sentiment that Tesla is "completely faking it" - I think they very much oversell their capabilities, and are nowhere near the point where the driver can stop paying attention (which to me is a core component of autonomy).
> Epoch times
... I'm amazed by how brainwashed one has to be to regard Epoch times as a reliable outlet worthy of attention.
uh..not this tangent again.
You can't. I passed my foundation this month and am moving to the Republic of Ireland later this year, so I won't be able to operate from there. Ireland has a Class A/B licence a bit like the old City & Guilds exam, so there's a massive gulf between foundation and a Class A licence.

There is some degree of sneakiness that may technically allow UK residents to operate their UK rigs remotely via the Internet, but that's not a road I'd go down.

As I'm going to be hopping back and forth a bit over the next couple of years, I'll probably do the UK intermediate in about a year, then either do the Irish class A or a British full licence after that depending on where I settle down for good.
It decreases your privacy. Not using an adblocker is better than using it for privacy.

However, if your wish is to stop seeing ads, but click them, use it.

Don't be surprised when your IP is banned, or the website is banned
What app do you use for Polar? I used Polar for a bit on my Mac but gave up because I do most of my reading on an iPad. Would give it another shot if I could get Polar running on iPad.
And than?
The whole system depends on cheap supply of goods.
Look what happend during the lookdown in China
And it's not people want cheap stuff, most only can afford cheap stuff.
Money is a finite source, the more some people have, the less have others.
Had Biden won the primary he would have run head long into G.H.W. Bush at the top of this game. I don't think he would have done any better than Mike Dukakis in the end.
Similarly, I am a qualified lawyer. I previously worked in a big law firm in London, which describes itself internally as both the “best” and “the most advanced” law firm in the world. I now work full-time as an engineer in software, and increasingly in hardware.

I agree with both comments.

To add, in large-scale corporate/commercial practice (which is the area which I practised), Git would be useful in replacing email-based collaboration, but the switching costs seem too high.

Currently, the corporate law contract negotiation workflow is as follows:

1. a party adds their tracked changes to a Word document based on a template contract;

2. the party emails this document to party B;

3. party B reads the changes, may discuss the changes with their client, adds their tracked changes, and then emails the updated document to party A.

This process repeats for every document, punctuated by occasional conference calls between the parties, until the parties agree.

‘Git for law’ would be useful for lawyers in increasing efficiency - and thus reducing costs for clients.

However, the benefits for law firms of adopting a new Git-based workflow are likely to seem relatively small to lawyers. Their current email-based version control system is messy and time-inefficient, but generally functions with minimal error.

On this basis, I would predict that most corporate law firms would be very slow to adopt a Git-based system - the benefits may not justify the costs.

One should also note that lawyers, particularly contract/commercial lawyers, are conservative by profession. In my experience, most lawyers are very slow to adopt new technologies, highly risk-averse, and skilled at spotting risks. The combination of these traits means that any technology will have to offer a very high benefit to replace an existing legal workflow.
The driver severely limits the amount of work the truck can do. A driverless truck could be working pretty much 24x7, which is 168 hours a week. A human driver can only do a maximum of about 60 hours/wk. Therefore each robot truck can do more than twice as much work, saving significantly on capital costs.
A 100% boycott of China is difficult, especially if you were to try to boycott things that were made elsewhere but have a lot of Chinese stuff in their supply chain. But even just boycotting what you can is a positive step.

You can also support political action that takes concrete steps against China for these atrocities, rather than supporting them. There are real differences in political stances here.

You don't need to feel utterly powerless because you can't solve the problem 100%. That's always true anyhow, but especially true of something of this magnitude. It's OK; literally nobody expects that. You can take what steps you can. You are being joined by many other people.

I often think about it that way; if I'm moved enough to action because of this particular belief, then the odds are pretty good that many other people are as well. It is the actions of that group that will matter. If that group all individually concludes that their individual actions are meaningless, then the whole group will do nothing. So I choose not to act on the belief that my individual actions are meaningless.

(Essentially an argument based on superrationality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality It is obviously false that the rest of the world is entirely superrational... but it is also false that they are 0% superrational. Often too much time is spent on the irrationality of human beings... a lot of people seem to have a model of them in which they are insane crazies who never make a sane decision, but if you take that model seriously everyone covered by it would just die. Humans are often quite rational. They just really, deeply suck at explaining why they are doing what they are doing, but the actual actions are often quite rational when understood in the correct context.)
I'm amazed how this link even made it to the HN front page. What's the relevance does this article have for hacker news?
When I was traveling around Xinjiang about two years back it was obvious something was going on.

In Korla everyone getting off the train had to submit to a retinal scan, presumably so authorities know all the ingress and egress into town, going to a park involved going through a checkpoint. To get into any train station at all involved 3 levels of checkpoints, the first checkpoint started before you got to the plaza before the train station, so checking in took about 3 hours. In Kashgar the old city had checkpoints at every corner. The entire province only had 3G, the moment you cross over from neighboring Gansu your China Telecom signal dropped from 4G, so sending videos or even pictures is very difficult even on weChat, if you try to do it through a VPN the experience is even slower.

Some checkpoints were vigilant, but in my experience most were just bored. One checkpoint basically forgot to check my ID because I was seated all the at the back of a van. Young Uighur men or woman sometimes with a Han standing around or sitting at a chair with a desk in the middle of the street, writing down the names of everyone who crosses his "stand".

What surprised me the most was that most of the guards manning the checkpoints in towns, highways, at gas stations (which involved a full car search in order to pull into) were Uighurs themselves. I get the impression you basically went to jail or joined the security apparatus, a modern variation on a old Chinese strategem of using barbarian to fight barbarian I guess.

The whole experience changed my perspective on human beings in general. At the end of the day, when I got back home the only conclusion I could come to wasn't even about China or Chinese, if we look at the long span of human history the only thing I can arrive at is human beings in aggregate have a high tendency to do shitty things. Goodness exists in individuals but as soon as we have to appeal to the common denominator of a group or groups more often then not being a piece of shit is the easiest and most expedient.
Uh... yes you can:

Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Application> app = Gtk::Application::create("");

Gtk::Window window;
window.set_default_size(1366, 768);

WebKitWebContext* context = webkit_web_context_new_ephemeral();
WebKitCookieManager* cookies = webkit_web_context_get_cookie_manager(context);

WebKitWebView* widget = WEBKIT_WEB_VIEW(webkit_web_view_new_with_context(context));
Gtk::Widget* wrapper = Glib::wrap(GTK_WIDGET(widget));
WebKitSettings* settings = webkit_web_view_get_settings(widget);

Gtk::Box layout(Gtk::ORIENTATION_VERTICAL);
window.add(layout);

webkit_web_view_load_uri(widget, parse_address(argv[1]).c_str());

window.show_all();
app->run(window);
exit(0);

Done.
Internal vs external audiences. People inside the great firewall have limited access to "external satellite data providers."
Bigger (or rather, smaller) than the fab process was the clever use of chiplets to improve yields.
Firefox Send has been temporarily taken offline
Sure, so let them just continue to commit atrocities.
There definitely exist rewriting systems where no size of a matrix works. String rewriting is in general undecidable, so matrices, being enumerable, can't prove every system.
Most of those 'empty' buildings are just ways for people to park money. If you rent it fine. If you dont that is fine too. The rent is not what they are looking for. They are basically looking for something that has maybe a slightly better yield than bonds.

When you look at it as parking of assets as a hedge against inflation it makes more sense what is going on.

But taxes you might say. They charge dumb rents on these places. So if you get a sucker willing to pay a way over priced rent for say 6 months or a year it may cover the taxes for 10-20 years. Meanwhile the cash value has usually at least matched along with inflation. Even if they do not cover with a sucker the rate of inflation may be higher than the taxes. Plus the possibility of buying into a 'hot market' and the value does actually increase (but that is speculation which is some of it).

Why the 'dumb' rent why not have a reasonable one? Because they do not really want to rent. They do not want to deal with 'hey landlord the roof needs to be replaced again'. They want to deal with that when the time comes to liquidate it for whatever reason.

Many people look at like the are running a property business. There are many of those types of companies out there (which is why they can play this game). But there are many people just looking to 'not be poor' and live off daddies money for the rest of their lives from their trust fund.
Better link, IMO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

There is a lot of evidence. In isolation, any one claim might not be very convincing, but taken as a whole, it's pretty damning.
Cross architecture compilation is still not a breeze and not a first class feature (there are toolchains for android and ios, but you still can't build a generic toolchain easily as you could with Rust).

Though we are going this way slowly but steadily. Afaik some people are working on build system, so I hope soon we'll have a GCC/Rust-like experience.
I find that on March 26, I ordered a couple of books from Powell's. Powell's expected the delivery to be April 14, and as I recall it arrived a day or two earlier. And two and a half weeks was fine. I wasn't out of reading matter, and I knew that one of the books would take a couple of weeks to read. What hurry was there?
For anyone using this for actual modular storage, Everblock is also worth considering: https://www.everblocksystems.com/

It's remarkably well constructed. Here's some examples: https://www.everblocksystems.com/modular-furniture
> By making heavy use of binary third party dependencies

I use Rust because I need performance, then I compile my Rust code for the exact CPU instructions available on my target machine and with PGO, binary dependencies can't do that.

Also, binary third party come with a lot of hassle (compiler version & options used can break your build) so I'm really glad Rust took the source-code dependency route instead (at least by default).

You can use binary dependencies though, as long as you compile everything with the same compiler it will works.
Amazon owns bookdepository
Progressive corporate tax would be perfect for this. Lobbyists insist that corporations are people. So we should tax them like people