skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I've not seen a single piece of indisputable evidence - virtually everything has been "take our word for it" or some indistinct satellite photo of a building.

Considering that an anti-China stance is part of Trump's strategy, and intelligence agencies have been caught lying countless times (e.g. Iraq's WMD) to further their agenda, there's no good reason to believe these accusations.

The Chinese are certainly a totalitarian regime, and it is certain that the people of Xinjiang are not in a good state, and there are certainly political prisoners there. But, as you mentioned, the numbers I've heard of 1-2 million prisoners (there are 10 million Uyghurs in total) in concentration camps and slave labor etc seem extremely exaggerated. Pretty much everyone in china has a phone with a camera, including Uyghurs. You'd think at least a few videos of indisputable evidence would be leaked. If you want to accuse a nation of a holocaust, you must have strong evidence.

And on a tangential note, the US has the world's largest prison population, at 22% of the world's prisoners, and a disproportionate number are black. The Chinese could also spin the situation and say that the Americans are running concentration camps for blacks and be on similar footing.

People mistake the frequency and breadth of repetition of a narrative as a measure of truth value, and the three letter agencies take advantage of this human bias, hence the downvotes for your salient comment. It's not easy to take a contrarian stance in these times.
Not to mention the quarter-year parental leave over and over again for serial producers.
Granted it's been about 10 years since I read it...

In addition to what electrondood said. It helped me understand that there are some people who just want their technology to work. Not to understand it's qualities. John Sutherland (the character with the BMW). Many Apple users are like that. They want the defaults to work for them. They want to remain clueless and it "just works" ...
I closed down my meetup group because of the virutal meetups. (No sense in paying meetup.com for anything when the virtual meetups aren't doing well)

What I've been sucessful with is limited gatherings on a weekly basis. (That's to limit who I see, when, and if something does come up you can responsibly disclose all of your ~partners~ contacts for the last week.
The Last of Us Part II
Curiosity Stream
One of my friends was homeless as a child. He is now deaf because of an ear infection that was left untreated. Bringing children into a world when food and safety can't be provided is a violation of human rights as well.

Yes, Child Protective Services should have prevented this from happening to my friend. It didn't.

If parents can't prove they have the means to raise a child, CPS proactively taking custody away from the parent doesn't seem that unreasonable to me.
BTW, just the fact that China is hiding something in Xinjiang and Tibet and we don't know what exactly is enough to impose sanctions.

There's no presumption of innocence here, it is not a criminal court.
there's a large number of other providers listed on the IRS's website (ignore the file for free part if you're above the threshold) https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/

I don't want this to turn into a commercial for any particular provider but let's say I've made 6 figures and paid under $20 to file for multiple years now.

How intuit can get away with charging $200 or whatever on the sly and almost nobody knowing about the multiple competitors who run relatively squeaky clean businesses at way more affordable prices should belong as a test-case in every business and marketing book, it's really something.

They're actually far easier to use as well since they aren't employing dozens of sneaky tactics and evil design patterns to try to slide you into the "deluxe pro extreme package" or whatever.

I would be shocked if intuit didn't constantly a/b test how to trick people - that's kinda their business model in the same way that blockbuster could only stay in business with late fees.
The chart is only regarding RCTs. In the best individual trials that we have, it does not show a benefit for respiratory infections. But we do see some suggestion of benefit in meta-analyses. In general, if the meta-analysis shows something that is not seen in RCTs, then we probably need more evidence. But it does seem to be a real effect.
If the virus was 10x more deadly (if it was 10x more contagious we'd almost all have it by now), I'd probably advocate for even more accelerated testing and deployment (we're close to the edge for full deployment over the next 9 months even in developed countries as it is). It's a trade-off between deaths from the virus and from a vaccine... once the vaccine is 100x lower risk than the virus you start rolling out to high risk profiles (front line medical and essential workers along with 60+ / pre-existing) since they have disproportionate >10x risk of transmission & death... then as production and deployment catch up roll out to medium (30s-50s especially with kids) after another 3-6 months and eventually low risk profiles (those 20s and under without kids or pre-existing conditions). That extra 6 month delay balances some of the risk between virus and vaccine. Since we'll have several different vaccines to choose from we can also pick the most effective ones that have the lowest side effects for later inoculation, while higher risk groups just need some protection today.
> But the rest of your post is correct.

Won't say that, there are quite a bit of unsubstantiated claims in that message supported only by few individuals and organizations paid by the CIA.
The title chosen by the OP is contained in the second half of the article:

> “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today,” Meier says. “I’m not sure even I would play it. It wouldn’t fit in the zeitgeist. It asks a lot of the player, and takes a while to work it out. You have to play it once in order to understand what's going on. You have to be willing to spend time with it, and that’s not where most gamers are these days. Civ came out at the perfect time. The PC had got beefy enough for us to make it, but weren’t inundated with so many possibilities. If it had been created two years earlier we’d only have had four colours and it would have been much shallower.”
I think that people are nervous that legitimate complaints about China may be a subterfuge to start some sort of bizarre conflict so the President can use 'rally-round-the-flag' as a way to boost re-election prospects.
Every time we see or hear an expert on the topic of COVID-19 vaccines, she/he is either circumspect to the point of pessimism (this is rare, but see e.g. Robert Gallo) or obviously trapped in a spiral of wishful thinking (this is common). We've never made anything like this hypothetical drug. Forget about election day. I'll be surprised if we have a commonly-available and effective COVID vaccine in 2021.
If there is no reason for them to do it, no goal, then would they spend money doing it? No? Then the crazy is untrue.
Maybe taking care of aging parents with dementia is a better example, although it's less voluntary than children are.
"FullStory reported mouse movements that were nothing like what an actual human would do."

That web sites can tell where I move my mouse is simply unacceptable. What can we do to block JS from reporting mouse movements? (Yes, I know I can turn JS off altogether, but most sites aren't fully functional without JS.)
The video has some numbers in it about performance. They say dig a shaft of 150-1500m and hang a weight of 500-5000 tonnes. This translates to energy storage of between 204-20400 KWh storage.

Obviously, this seems very technically challenging. 500 tonnes is 64 m^3 of iron. We will see if their engineering is good enough to pull off their claimed 171 US$/MWh.
Ok. Lets say I don't care about your property rights. When you're not home, I can just walk into your home and take whatever I want. Obviously, I can't, because the society we live in values property rights and help people uphold theirs. The fact that there exist selfish individuals that don't care about society as a whole (and it's future) is irrelevant. As a society, we decide what things are important to us and everyone gets to help support those, like it or not.
I assume that at age 66 you still want access to things like medical care, fire departments, etc. What value do you place on that?

Your taxes enable young people to exist/grow-up and extend those services to you. Providing for kids is selfish, not selfless. Until the singularity happens, we need young children to grow into functioning adults that continue and (hopefully) advance society.
Apple files breach-of-contract countersuit agains Epic
They do anyway. One year, I must have screwed up my return, because I got a letter from the IRS saying: We think you screwed up, here's why, send us X amount, and we're good. Or you can file an amended return.

I sent in X amount. We were good.
There are many different concerns. I havent done a rigorous meta-analysis but they also come from very respectable scientists.

> https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-vaccine-may-be-i...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

And notice that there haven't been very exciting news from the vaccine developmnent trials. If anything there were more setbacks than pleasant surprises.
At the companies I mentioned you may perform volunteer work during company time, outside of team events, up to a certain limit.
The company I worked for didn't even need that incentive just the potential to make a sale! We added features just to complete bullet points on a marketing sheet even if we never made a sale of the feature.
> create a giant compressed gas reservoir underground.

The McIntosh CAES plant began in 1991 and from my understanding, has been widely viewed as successful. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/salt-power-plant-m...

That's 110 MWs for 26 hours. Probably not 2.8 GW-hrs of energy storage (they can't sustain 110MWs for all 26 hours), but this plant is probably GW-hr range. I'm pretty sure all of Li-Ion right now is less than 2GW-hrs for the entirety of the USA.

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The 290 MW plant in Huntorf Germany (1978) also is successful.

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There's a 2nd, 300MW+ plant (that's 300MW power for multiple hours. So near GW-hr scale as well). This is the more recent Apex Bethel Energy Center you were badmouthing earlier. Its not fully built yet, but given the history of CAES, I'm optimistic.

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There aren't many CAES plants in the world. But from what I can tell, they are all safe and successful. The one issue is that you need to reheat the air as it leaves the caverns: compressing it underground reduces its temperature. A bit of natural gas is used in this heating process, but not nearly as much as an actual natural-gas plant.

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The "Rail up a hill" project is 50MWs with 12.5 MWhr storage capacity: https://s3.amazonaws.com/siteninja/multitenant/assets/21126/...

50MWs is somewhat small, but there's something to be said about the simplicity and ease-of-deployment of rail energy storage. Those 50MWs were spec'd out with only 7 trains. It isn't too hard to imagine scaling the system up to support more than 7 trains.
I think word has some form of this
https://www.lifewire.com/microsoft-word-and-reveal-codes-354...
Totally bogus, isn’t it? I just did that very thing with CapOne. The only saving grace is that once you create the temp card with their definitely-not-spyware web browser extension, you can uninstall it completely and manage the card through the website. I’ve installed it, visited a single site, and uninstalled it several times so far and it seems to get the job done.
About 10 years ago, one of my jobs in a pharmacology lab involved using a very specialized microscope driven by a PC running windows 95. A new license would cost an obscene sum of money, and it did exactly what it needed to do. The same setup is still in use and will likely continue to be used until it’s impossible to continue.
One way to balance a game like Dota 2 would be a continuous rebalancing. Parametrize each hero's stats by a "power-parameter". This doesn't have to crank all the stats up equally. One hero could benefit in one way by more power, while another hero benefits in a different way. Then automatically adjust the power-parameter based on win-rates in different skill segments and how often a hero is chosen. The targets should not necessarily be equal, you may want say beginner friendly heroes that lose steam at the upper level. In the end, the goal should be a fun meta.

Like if you were to balance rock-paper-scissors, and you want a meta where rock is played the majority of the time, you might want to give rock an adjustable chance of beating paper.
They also knew there would be a global pandemic that would require them to both educate their children full-time and work full-time.
I ran ads with Google again recently after a long hiatus. Literally 0 conversions (free signup) but ads on FB/Reddit/Others performed fine. Just 100% worthless traffic. Google has gone very wrong.
The IRS doesn’t have all the information needed to file our returns (they lack basis information for many securities transactions, they lack basis information for my real estate, they lack all/almost all the information about schedule C small business or schedule E real estate investments, they have no information about my charitable giving, etc.).

Even the information they do have is not all available on your account transcript until mid/late summer.

With some substantial investments they could probably generate pre-filled forms for the simple cases by late March. I’d support that, even though it wouldn’t help me at all.
Thank you! The tools are definitely disjoint, stitching some of them together is a great idea and definitely better usability.
That's a separate argument from claiming that everyone was once a child so they must have benefited from something similar.
While I agree that others should act, let's refrain from whataboutisms here. It is important to remember that, for the public, a lot of this has only come to light within the last year. And the public still believes the west needs China more than China needs the west. Plus there's the old Eddie Izzard joke.
Herd immunity isn't possible when antibodies are as transient as those seen for COVID-19. Only a massive public push with an actually effective vaccine will control this pandemic.
You’re looking for haven[0] but I doubt any cloud provider is going to facilitate you splitting your workload to their competitor.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/shieldi...
Run Dosbox https://www.dosbox.com/
and checkout FreeDos http://www.freedos.org/
Nice, this is exactly the kind of practical guide and reference material I was looking for!
Exactly this, there was absolutely no way to predict Covid or a complete shutdown of child care / schools. I went from happily working from home in an office with no door and my 2 young kids in elementary school while my wife commuted to her work to my kids taking online classes which require massive parent interaction, and my wife working from home at the kitchen table right outside my office with no door. We cant take the kids anywhere due to covid and older parents so they are rightfully bored and frustrated.

Wife had a breakdown today from not being able to get any work done because she is constantly getting up to help the kids with school work or when school is done they automatically call out to her whenever they need anything. We are snapping at the kids for just normal kid things because we both have to work and are getting so little done. She has a massive amount of responsibility where she is the bottle neck for multiple departments as all work has to be legally approved by her.

I am in a new role and essentially on conf. calls all day while still having to get software built.

This sucks for everyone, but I can guarantee that as much as the childless people resent people with kids getting to slack on work time, we are paying for it in spades in other aspects of our lives.

Most of all I feel bad for my kids, this is not a situation they have any control over and all they know is that things are hard for them.
That's the key difference. People will care if it actually impacts the org.

But so many juniors are convinced they need to fight seniors and management based on things they read a medium article about. I try to tell them to stop on the internet all the time. I wonder if they ever actually listen.
'We're not going to make it, are we?'
See if you can spot why this walkthrough is noteworthy: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs...
Yeah. I learnt to use @ts-ignore but there are some religious people who judge quality of code by the coverage of how typed something is even if it is not necessarily benefiting.

Example: one or two requests to an isolated rest API with some data. While I get the point of documenting the properties if you don't use all of them and might need to in future, most of the time - it's not necessary. I have seen some people include a type generator for this.

or including complex generic mess. I myself am guilty of this one. A recent example comes to mind where I wanted to generate a multi dimensional array from an external api. Each entry in it would have specific first items and rest would be some complex typefoo.

I spent half an hour on writing the type. The thing is it's an isolated code and there is no one other than me working on it. Plus, there is visible code doing transformation of the data to turn it into specific entries. It's just kind of not necessary and the type isn't readable either.

[type<[...typeboo[][]]>, type<[...typemoo[][] ]>, ...typefoo[][]]

Something like that with imported types from another file.

I think it's easy to read types for someone coming into the project. I can hover over and see how it would look like if the case is not isolated.

Another thing that makes typescript type system alluring is that it's like an entirely different language due to javascript being so dynamic. It's similar to writing coq or some proof theorem language to verify the code. In this case, it's more data structures or data itself.

Maybe it's more similar to writing your own linter or subset of language by putting constraints through the type system [0]. I am not sure.

0] https://github.com/millsp/ts-toolbelt
It's a very incomplete comparison. What have the Uighurs done to merit their imprisonment?
$23k+ per pupil in NYC is underfunded?
I can't speak to the development side of things, but have you tried https://www.usb-audio.com/download/?
Labor in US prison definitely can be considered as forced / slave. The actual conditions most likely are better than in China (or should I say not fucked up to the same degree) but it is still amounts to slave labor, especially as it relies on private prisons whose owners would do anything to get their money (Kids for cash scandal proves how far they would go)
I have. They still don't make Quantum Theory and Chaos similar. Rather for some systems QM can motivate ergodicity as well as classical chaos can. However that doesn't mean Quantum Probability and Classical Probability are alike simply because they give similar behaviour for certain systems for one specific limit. Their representation theory is completely different.

Chaotic systems don't have a Kochen-Specker or PBR theorem.
Wow that this is still being developed. I used this back in '93 on a sequent Unix box. It's nice but a bit barebones by today's standards. Having to edit config files just to add items to a menu.. cool though!!
Legal and free speech issues aside, on Twitter I’m subscribed to an account that posts the ‘Top 10 most engaged articles/accounts on FB this week’ lists and it’s just damning how dominant hateful far-m right content is.

I get the idea of joining Facebook to do excellent engineering work, but for most at the company the outcome of all that excellent engineering is more people spending more time engaging with ‘Obama is a secret Muslim’ and QAnon type articles.

I hope Ashok finds good work at a quality company soon.
For example, most Schools are in massive violation of OSHA because their air filters aren't up to the job because they can't afford to retrofit buildings to support a clean air system.

The unions are trying to keep their members ALIVE not out of spite, but because some one has to take the hit.
Urban WEIRD[0] weasels trying to understand normal humans really is something to see. It's as if they're studying some bizarre carnivorous plant or cannibalistic space aliens from the Planet Koozebane.

"Such rugged terrain likely favored those who closely guarded their resources and distrusted strangers, as well as those who engaged in risky explorations to secure food and territory."

I'm pretty sure New Yorkers or San Francisco residents are more likely to distrust strangers and not share than mountain people.

"These traits may have distilled over time into an individualism characterized by toughness and self-reliance that lies at the heart of the American frontier ethos"

Yeah, or the fact that the guy who lives in the mountains can't call the building superintendent to change his lightbulb might have something to do with them having slightly more self reliance. I didn't grow up in the mountains, but I did grow up poor: it has much the same effect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias
I've worked for several companies that offered paid time off for volunteering. (With plenty of conditions and limits, of course.)
> I personally decided that I did feel a duty to do my part to continue the human race

I also feel a duty to do my part to continue the human race, but I don't pretend that I didn't make a choice, that somehow there was no other real option for me to choose.
BBEdit might be just right for you.
The thirteenth amendment explicitly permits subjecting prisoners to forced or unpaid labor, and this aspect of it is used extensively in the United States.

Slavery didn't end in 1865. It's still with us - just a bit out of sight, out of mind.
Before online walkthroughs you read official guides from Nintendo Power, or you contacted your local game guru via the guy that knew a guy.
That’s cool. If this were my project, I’d be spending long days seeding comments myself under different usernames with different POVs, and trying to get a handful of legitimate thoughtful users on there. Not an impossible task, good luck!
I've said as much multiple times. If you want write it once and run it on nearly every platform with a screen, write it for DOS (or more specifically, DOSBox).
Because the left-wing is a hodge-podge of views and "principles" inconsistent to each other, the internal cannibalization of the left-wing front is a given. This is just one episode from this never ending saga of the left circular shooting squad. See: #MeToo, Rowlings, Feminists vs. LGBTQ+, etc.

All these happening in what's arguably the most diverse, the most open, the most immigrant-welcoming society on Earth.
Google says 32% of households have stay at home parent and about 50% of moms work full time, so you're not unusual.
Do you have evidence of this? Both of you made bold claims that citations would help with.
This isn’t whataboutism - both are terrible and need to stop - but it’s not like the US government holds the moral high ground here.

Forces labor camps are common in the states (I refer, of course, to the practice of arresting people without evidence, then having a judge get paid by a prison operator to funnel them to a prison where they don’t get fed unless they work).

One million Uighurs incarcerated would put the Chinese prison population per capita at roughly 1/15th that of the USA.
I think the stacked approach has people concerned about the towers falling. This approach might be safer, but I think the other thing is it may aesthetically pleasing since the working bits are hidden below ground. This increases its viability.
The point is that nobody knows the answer to this. Good luck fighting the insurance company in court.