skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can criticize Abe for a lot of things, but up and leaving is not one of them. He has tirelessly worked year after year, trying to achieve a vision he has for Japan. This is not his first time leaving office—last time was also due to a medical condition, and he returned when treatment became available. Most people would not have returned in the manner he did.

The man is resolute and resilient.
Looking at 2008 as a turning point obscures the fact that interest rates have gone down relentlessly since 1982.

Interest rates got cut in the crisis before the 2008 crisis and they will get cut in the next one, even if the cut is 'crazy QE'. Cutting interest rates in a crisis is normal, what is abnormal is that they can't raise them afterwards.

One aspect of that is the debt ratchet. One reason why house prices went up post 1982 is the falling interest rates. For a given monthly payment you can afford a higher cash price at lower interest. If students loan interest is lower you can afford a higher tuition bill.

If you believe interest rates are wacky, it follows that people paid wacky prices for everything expensive for the last 20 years. If interest rates go up in the slightest, the bankruptcies start.
I was being sarcastic; should not have assumed that would have been understood.

Certainly room for improvement regarding Japan's Covid's management strategy, but I live in the US so shouldn't really throw stones from my glass house.
Renewable energies, energy efficiency and demand response are already cheaper than most new dirty power plant...
IOW they were fine with abusing the power of defaults when it was on their side.
It's not as elegant but kinda exists

https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Compare the 'Active Cases' graph in each of the links below. Does the Chinese graph seem credible to you?

China: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

Japan: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/Japan/

Italy: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/Italy/

Denmark: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/Denmark/

Iran: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/Iran/

Russia: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/Iran/
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> the EU and other governments are busy legislating other problems.

EU made laws to reduce credit card fees to stop American credit card companies from extracting a tax, also GDPR to stop American companies from bullying Europeans. I totally expect they will do something similar for app store taxes if American companies don't stop bullying European companies soon.
> a happy rural resident who was being abused by a local telco monopoly

So you're straight up saying that because the regulation of US telco companies is ineffective and/or corrupt, the entire planet should pay for it? That's your argument? Please tell me that's not your argument.
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There is some evidence for this: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-u...
>The internet supposedly exists because it provided a more reliable way to order nuclear missile launches.

Not sure about that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Debate_on_design_goals
They do use them as slave labor :/
US is awful, China is worse. As long as US ideals had any meaning or actual drive behind them, I could defend it as the lesser evil.

Right now, its ideals have been subverted by a huge concentration of power in the hands of a few. They made the American ideal of freedom and democracy a joke.

Some of the American people still consider human life sacred, but that's eroding.
(btw, I believe this virtue is partisan blind)
Everywhere else communism and Islam are friends so why in China they are enemies?
It can be converted into an ism if somebody wants but any time you have a dominant personality type in an industry I think there is a bias against other personality types.

Personality is the hidden variable behind a lot of the discussions about sexism, racism and classism.

In the ecological model - you want everybody - just not all at the same time.
That literally applies to something like 90% of apps.
They didn't have to, because much of their population already follows "COVID-safe" practices. A large fraction wears facemasks in public and especially on public transport. They bow instead of shaking hands. They don't kiss acquaintances on the face, unlike say the custom in parts of the middle east. They're very hygienic, even taking their shoes off when entering a home. Food workers wear masks and gloves. So do taxi and bus drivers. Etc, etc...

A full lockdown on top of this would have unnecessarily harmed their economy with little medical benefit.
You don't need to trust Safari content blockers because they can't access anything, they can just create static blocker rules. That's one of the key points of the system.
BuzzFeed News identified 268 newly built compounds by cross-referencing blanked-out areas on Baidu Maps with images from external satellite data providers

Pretty cool. Trying to hide the facilities made them easier to find.
I believe that is (was?) required in some parts of NSW. Eg, see "ID scanners in Kings Cross" on https://www.liquorandgaming.nsw.gov.au/operating-a-business/...
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There are various types of nerds, and an "I like paper" nerd seems mostly orthogonal to an "I like hackability" nerd. I mean, _I_ am the right type of nerd to appreciate the hackability, and yet I only use mine to scribble notes and read papers.
Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273851
I doubt China's official figures include the so called "educational schools". If they did they'd easily top the chart. I mean, official USA figures probably don't include Guantanamo and black sites either but that's not the same magnitude.
Zoom seems pretty high-friction vs jit.si . It forces (kinda, tricks I suppose) install of a client exe for example and IIRC requires registration.

Jitsi you just follow the link, webrtc means no download.
It does according to the website: https://remarkable.com/#Reading_on_reMarkable
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"I'm accessing API of RealSweetSolutions GMBH as far as I know. It is impossible for me to know their relationship with Apple".
Open the App, be directed to the website, get scammed, ask Apple for your money back because an App in the Appstore scammed you. That's the problem Apple is solving. Unless transactions go through Apple they can't act as a guarantee on the App - which is what they have defined their role as.
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Accessing and modifying the DOM based on some rules, in a sandbox without leaking data, seems technically feasible.
The entire planet won't pay for it, and observations will move above the Starlink constellation to space telescopes anyway.
I think you got this backward, Abe is his family name. Er, depends on what you call his "first name" lol.
It’s disgusting that nothing will be done because everyone is addicted to cheap goods from China. If we cannot break free from current economic arrangements even after the pandemic, we will never be able to do so.
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I’m sure if we did a study we would find the salaries of developers who use Vim tend to be higher on average.
I have my disagreements with Abe, but it’s hard not to admire someone who walks in with bold ideas and tries for as long as he did to push society in a different direction.

The morass would have done many in much sooner. Wishing Mr. Abe a swift recovery.
LEGO went through a period of financial difficulty around the turn of the century. The pivot to more themed and licensed brand sets is one of the things credited to turning around the company. They still sell the basic stuff but they can’t survive on that alone.
Get banned on all location based AR games, of course.

Is this even still possible on current iOS/Android devices?
Why do you need an email address? Reddit & HN don't.
I know she pointed out some stuff in her article (she's a woman, mixed asian background, lists her pronouns on her page), but, usually, there's some sort of inciting incident that causes people to dogpile.

To ward off any non-constructive replies, I'll point out from the beggining that I'm not blaming her of anything, and the trolls are _obviously_ in the wrong here.

> she's a woman, mixed asian background, lists her pronouns on her page

Not sure if you're familiar with how toxic trolls tend to be, but any one of those things could be reason enough for some (most?) of them.
I had a brief look at the github repositories and don't think that all source code is available. At least I'm missing the source code of the core renderer. Maybe I didn't look close enough yet though.
I do boycott Chinese products. I can't boycott everything because sometimes there are no alternatives but I do what I can.

Lebron can't solve this but what he can do is at least talk about it. One word and millions of people would know about it.

Same thing happens with the NBA. They're very vocal about BLM but when it comes to HK...you can't even buy a t-shirt with "Free Honk Kong" on it.
Stop with this bable.

We have evidence supporting theory of big bang. This theory best conforms with what we can observe.

The moment there is better theory, or new evidence that is contradictory we throw it out of the window.

> "the big bang came out of nothing" makes as much sense as any religious text to be honest.

Statements like this are so improportionally biased, it makes my head hurt.

Religions have solutions/answers so you don't need facts, science is the opposite and never absolute.

That said i don't give a flying f* in what other believe as long as they don't try to push it on me.

What china is doing is beyond despicable. And the comparisons to the holocaust are starting to be more and more apt.

Though it seems that they are more like reeducation (read brainwashing) camps with forced labor.

Correct me if I am wrong please, are there evidence of systematic ethnic cleansing?

I though that the hun chinese are imported from mainland and being used to displace the locals and treating them like 2nd class citizens.
Well, US greed gave China this power. Cancel culture have nothing to do with this.
There were a lot of left leaning voices in the ninetees warning against the trajectory of globalism.

The sell out of US manufacturing was done by people with money, not the people who dislike racism (and show it in a weird and harmful way).
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> The thing you're seeing with covid is that places are empty for the same reason they became empty, and the owners are speculating that demand will rebound in the future (e.g. once there is a vaccine) so they have no reason to sell for less today.

This partly explains why I saw -- with two temporary-by-design blips -- a particular downtown San Jose corner location empty for 10 years. Last I saw, they finally rented it out as an office, but that was just shy of Covid19.

Apparently a decade is the minimum for "wait for better demand" or they had//have pockets deep enough to play a long game.

I just don't understand how some people are happy with empty store-fronts. "I want the blightful eyesore, not the bustling tax money" doesn't make sense to me.
>How did software that is so hard to use become so prolific in the B2B space?

If the software relies on sales people who answer "Yes, absolutely!" to every question from prospects, you end up in a bad place.

Generally speaking, User != Purchaser. You push to include User in the loop and development process. Sometimes, you are not allowed, and sometimes the contract itself is signed contingent on this. It can get carder if you're not allowed to sollicit users' feedback, but are given carte blanche to develop: you're developing based on what you think will be right for the user. You will have hard conversations with the users at the end of the project when they receive the software and you're allowed to interact and "fix a few things here and there", at which point you'll try to cram in as much user feedback as possible to "make it right".

Now, if you're not building for a particular client and you are working on your product that's targeting the enterprise, there are other distribution methods where you design for the user who works for an enterprise so there's a "de facto" adoption, which then can lead to an enterprise software that is good.

A quick litmus test: if you are on a website and want to use the software, and there's a button that reads "Schedule Demo", or "Book Appointment with Sales", or "Contact Sales", chances are the software in question is the kind you don't like.
If you're interested in learning Vim, I wrote up a bunch of practice exercises for every command to build muscle memory. They are intended to only take about 10 minutes a day for a couple weeks to help learn specific commands. Here's a few free sample chapters: https://github.com/steveshogren/10-minute-vim-exercises/blob...
It is a middle ground of sorts for certain types of situations.

It requires your modifications of MPL-licensed code to be released publicly if you distribute your product or service outside your company.

However, if your changes to MPL-licensed code are only distributed inside your company, you do not need to release those changes publicly.

The MPL 2.0 FAQ states:

> "The MPL fills a useful space in the spectrum of free and open source software licenses, sitting between the Apache license, which does not require modifications to be shared, and the GNU family of licenses, which requires modifications to be shared under a much broader set of circumstances than the MPL."

The above taken from: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/

Like other copyleft licenses, the license text isn't particularly easy to read as the lengthy FAQ above attests.
> Epoch times

Friendly reminder that The Epoch Times is not a reliable news source, it promotes far-right politics in Germany, usually publishes conspiracy theories including QAnon, and was deprecated as a source by Wikipedia in 2019 [1], which means all edits containing links to The Epoch Times will be automatically reverted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deprecated_sources#C...
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Do you guys remember when a Chinese soldier beat up someone who was holding the Koran? Well, except, it didn't happen:

https://factcheck.afp.com/no-not-video-chinese-soldier-beati...

Also, when are people going to stop using satellite imaging as a proof of evidence? I mean, let's not forget the whole casus belli for the last Iraq war, where there was clear evidence of WMDs from all those satellite images right? I mean, what's so different from the satellite image there and also a random business park in the UK (besides the labels and tags of course, and I used to be imprisoned in one of those blocks for most of my day that some people would like to call an 'office'):

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6220549,-1.2900712,1099m/dat...

There's quite a few good answers here on Quora which I reckon are worth a read about the situation:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-Uyghurs-doing-to-fight-back-a...
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> Related: I heard someone else say that while Clojure and Erlang embrace immutability for concurrency, Rust shows that you can "just mutate". It's still safe for concurrency (due to its type system).

Yes! I will repeat a sentiment I articulated on Reddit about that. Even after having used Rust on a handful of small-to-medium sized projects since 2016, I never realized that I could loosen/abandon my immutability fetish that I had been trained to love over the years of working with C++ and Java. C++ needs it for concurrency, and Java needs it for concurrency and because every method can mutate its inputs without telling you. Rust doesn't have either of those problems. Having immutable-by-definition objects in Rust isn't really that useful (unless, of course, the thing is naturally, semantically, immutable anyway, like a Date IMO). It was an eye-opening epiphany and I'm excited for my next Rust session to see how my "new worldview" pans out. :)
Systemic racism exists globally
Chinese oppression of the Uighurs is not really a religious issue. Yes, the Chinese authorities would be happy to eradicate Islam because it is part of some Uighurs' identity, but China has cracked down on secular Uighur movements as well. There were even Uighur communists who were anti-religion, but still imprisoned in China or forced into exile in Turkey or Europe because they insisted on using their own language and not assimilating to the Han.
Yeah, it is funny which kinds of anachronisms we accept and which we don't. In movies it is common to have people in authentic-looking historical costumes using modern language and having modern values and thinking. In theater it is often the other way around - historical texts acted in modern or anachronistic costumes.
I haven't experienced such issues and I've had mine for years. On the first remarkable model you either use the physical buttons to turn page or use the somewhat recent swiping feature. Touching the surface while reading doesn't do anything, you have to explicitly swipe left or right to turn a page. Moving your finger or hand doesn't turn a page either, so I'd say you're pretty safe in that regard.

The reading experience on the remarkable is however not as feature rich as eink tablets that label themselves as 'ebook readers' but otherwise I think it's fine. I primarily use mine to draw and write notes, which it does very well but I also read.
pretty neat, i signed up. reminds me of the days hanging out on sdf.lonestar.org.
Who/what would be a "reliable source" for you?

Also, a concentration camp is not defined in terms of families/women/children confined in it, there were many concentration camps in history that captured individual members of families, who were not ideologically aligned with a totalitarian regime of that time and place, the whole soviet Gulag system was built on secrecy and minimal exposure to public, when individual members of your family might not get back home from a grocery store one day and just dissappear into unknown destination.
Don’t forget to measure first. You can metric out the number of connections periodically and see if you are capping out. See https://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/#DBStats
It’s almost like more than one country can do horrible things. Who’d have thought? It doesn’t make the situation in China any better to point out that other countries have also done bad things.
Transaction fees are just 0.3% in Europe since levying a 3% tax on every purchase is insane and hurts progress. You should probably go after those companies in USA as well.

Basically in Europe it is illegal to levy an unreasonable tax for generic services like this. The same applies to Apple.
I am not sure. I probably don't know "vim proper" - only "portable vim" which is the same in all editors.

For the basic editing (probably not that basic, as I use quite advanced editing techniques like macros) I use vim shortcuts and for things like manipulation of windows/buffers/tabs I use editor specific shortcuts. Also for some unique features, like code refactoring in IntelliJ IDEs I use their shortcuts.

But "basic vim" functionality is still enough "to be dangerous" very fast after I start using an editor and I gradually learn the specifics. I never think twice whether I want to try some new editor. I just do it.

Indeed, I don't use vim proper (can't remember if I ever used it), but I heavily use all of the following (for different purposes) at the moment:

1. WebStorm for web stuff
2. CLion for Rust (it's different from WebStorm and has different shortcuts for various things)
3. Spacemacs for OCaml
4. VSCode for various things, mostly for beancount accounting
5. vim on remote machines - but there I don't use buffers and other more advanced things
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I think my argument is that WYSIWYG needs to die. For the vast majority of people they want nothing more than:

> text

> image

> more text

> table

> more text

There are any number of applications that allow you to write markdown and view the generated HTML in whatever formatting you want. Your recipient then gets to choose their own fonts, colours etc, which from an accessibility point of view, is much better.

Unless you're printing a hardcopy or creating a PDF, what is the point of Word?
I genuinely believe this is getting less publicity because it's impossible to cover in the traditional way: there are very few first person sources and it's impossible to go there and film. Whereas unlimited media from the US domestic conflict is available.
I am also wondering about that. I guess it is just one way to prove termination, it might be the case that this approach does not work for the Collatz conjecture.
Here is a nice example with a gameshow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6OBjMWYYI

Basically the director is giving instructions to camera people and then switching feeds on the fly. (though the actual feed switching is done by an assistant). I want to watch my footage in realtime and just hit 1,2,3,4 to switch between the various feeds.
This is something that has totallly escpaed the western world. This appointment was just a pr move, similar to hugo bara and xiaomi and many other ceremonial CEOs at chinese compnaies. it never ends well.
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Thank you! I hadn't seen that.
Japan just passed the peak of the second wave.

It seems like the situation is slowly improving, and is on the good slope, but the epidemic is very much still alive.

I always look at the "要入院" (people needing hospitalization) curve on the graph, rather than the "新規" (new cases) curve, because it cannot be manipulated as easily by changes in testing policies. I use the following site:

https://newsdigest.jp/pages/coronavirus/
Which I also don't understand. Is that a style of overusing classes where functions would suffice (FooHelper)? Or is it something about the language? Because almost all popular languages have classes. Rust and Go call them "struct", but it's the same thing. Swift has "class" and "struct", but they're both the same thing as a C++ class.
Please do not continue to personally attack me. It violates the principals of this community.

I have not acted in bad faith, we simply appear have a disagreement about the English language.
But they were public keys, it's completely fine if the entire world sees them
Anyone cross-compiling OCaml with OpenEmbedded and Yocto? The security properties are attractive for IoT and embedded, but it's an ongoing challenge to build the OCaml toolchain from scratch and build apps without leakage of pre-compiled, native, bootstrap toolchain binaries.

With the rise of Arm and RISC-V, it would be nice to see the OCaml community contributing to an upstream OE/YP layer.
I was just thinking about that, but I could not remember "sdf". Thank you

There's also hashbang.sh, for those curious
It was the case in previous versions of HTML too. Here is my minimal document from 2005: http://rimantas.com/bits/minimal_html.html
I spot this demagogic argument from pro-Chinese position all the time: "they committed some crimes, so we have a right to do the same". Following that logic, they easily can justify their genocide with providing Holocaust as an example: "we just imprison and torture people, we do not burn them".
Just buy less. Western consumerism gave China it's power.
Have a leader who the world believe he acts in good faith regarding ideals, and not busy subverting ideals for game and profit.

But no, you'll choose power and war.
Islam is problem everywhere, even India will have China like situation later. Further muslims prosecute others at society levels so look at any muslim country, there are no non muslims.
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