skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with foreign policy.

China doesn’t allow US social apps. For historical reasons to do with attempts to establish trust, the US has allowed Chinese social apps.

That trust is arguably no longer reasonable to hold.

It is entirely reasonable for the US to want to trade with China on an equal footing.

It’s notable that China is the worlds largest economy, and proclaims the superiority of their socialist system over western democracy.

Obviously the US claims to be the worlds largest economy, and proclaims the superiority of western democracy over socialism.

Regardless of who is right, there is no legitimate argument supporting a continued imbalance in the playing field.

Trump may be doing a stupid and clumsy thing here, but the motivations seem reasonable.
> my 20s, where I was driven by what I wanted to do — the end result —

I totally understand what you mean here.

In my early 20s I was into electronic music and I wanted to make music like my idols. I was really more in love with the idea of doing it, or the end result, than the actual act of doing it. Because of that, I didn't really know anything about synths, synthesis, playing an instrument, etc. Which, ironically, are the fundamental skills needed to be able to actually do the damn thing.

Maybe if I had had someone to guide me it would have been different. Most of my friends were in rock bands, and those who were into electronic music production were just as lost as me. These days with Youtube it's a lot easier, everyone sharing their tricks and techniques.
Trust no one, just because you work well with someone doesn’t mean they like you.
> If I recall correctly the US passed Sweden in excess mortality sometime in June/July.

According to ourworldindata, in reported Covid-19 deaths per million, on Sept 12:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

> I don't think comparing the US to most countries in Europe really makes sense

You are missing "per million" which is what I used. Comparing absolute numbers has of course no sense. When comparing relative numbers ("per million"), the big country spread across big area, like U.S. is, would be expected have huge advantages compared to any country in Europe (due to slower spread over the distances, much less dependency on public transportation). Moreover, the countries worst hit in Europe were only those where the spread happened first -- others took note and introduced measures early enough. Not the U.S. which totally botched its response even ignoring the initial hit in NY. Compare the slopes of all other European countries for months, v.s. what's going on in the U.S. The response in the U.S. is criminally bad, and continues to be so -- and not looking at the "cases" but simply and tragically, deaths. Those that are reported.

I admit that comparing some other estimates of "excess deaths" could give some other numbers, but I don't see any way in which U.S. can look good, especially as it was Italy being hit the first and everybody else having the time to react somehow.

Also see daily average of deaths per million, to get the idea how bad it is still:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi...
Most classrooms (at least here) aren't well-ventilated (windows are generally kept closed because of "draft" or alternatively "we aren't heating for the air force!", and buildings generally don't have AC/air exchange), CO2 levels are often far beyond 1000 ppm in classrooms anyway, which is obviously not good (there may be debate if going from 450 ppm to 600 pm leads to worse outcomes, but it's pretty obvious that nausea-inducing levels of CO2 and air so stale it feels like breathing water most definitely lead to worse outcomes).
it's commonly known that the income and wealth distributions are heavily skewed, which is all the extra information you need.
No, most other deviations from normal aren't considered a sin against God and a crime against nature, excepting maybe some forms of mental illness misdiagnosed as "demonic possession" by the ignorant.

No one is setting up "conversion camps" for redheads or lefties or trying to pray away the diabetes, for instance.
Will robots really take our jobs?
That is cool! Seems like it opens up the possibility for easy GUI customization too.
I mean, seems like a weird thing to discuss at work? Also this feels like concern trolling. You can have whatever discussion you want about the potential for there having been multiple waves of human migration out of Africa. Do it respectfully and without weird racist undertones and things will work out fine.
Yes, but it's more novelty stuff. I know the Atlanta Radio Theater Company does it ( https://artc.org/) and of course, The Thrilling Adventure Hour ( http://thrillingadventurehour.com/ )
in america, when the voter turnout is higher, democrats win. it's a subtle way to take a side, but it's taking a side.
Lamplighter Theatre produces many quality classic and Christian-themed dramas, hosted by John Rhys Davies.

https://lamplighter.net/c/lamplighter-theatre/
> You may be compiling with panic=abort because you do not have a useful unwinding implementation, and so a library cannot depend on it existing, even if it's only internal to the library.

panic=abort is also a somewhat commonly suggested way of slimming down binaries.
Modernism was also an art movement rhat favoured idealism over realism and produced a variety of new styles. Pointillism used tiny dots of paint to generate different colours when viewed from a far. Similar to a pixel, and more beautiful. There was a move to abstractions like cubism and modrian went out of his way to show off the most basic components of a cow in the abstract. It spanned from the 1860s to the 1970s.

OP's use of the word postmodernism doesn't really make sense, as a general rule. Many people get to the end of a topic and don't fall into questioning and desconstructing our modern and historical narratives. Many people can see an end to a topic and seek to add onto it or move on without destruction, a natural completion. Being done with the topic for life. Maybe OP is showing an affinity for stepping outside our normal social bounds for a new perspective via pomo and I don't think he meant that.
I've been selling off tech funds partially and investing the proceeds in total market funds (which are still ~20% tech), just as a way to rebalance.

It's hard to predict the next "winner", maybe it remains tech, maybe it becomes something else.
Does anyone know how to learn more about one's DNA for the purpose OP suggested, in a way that respects privacy?
Don’t give too much of your life to trying to control (ie politics, other people...).

How to do this is of course hard. Meditation helps me. Relationships. Balancing my consumption of news. Staying away from histrionic people that drive that anxiety (read Twitter). Taking a break from that which bothers me (developing hobbies and other interests).

Even as I get older I increasingly have a sense that all attempts to control will be resisted by others. Even when you have their best interests at heart. People willfully, sometimes ignorantly make their own big mistakes to resist being controlled. Sometimes though we’re not as smart as we think we are. This applies to so many situations, including work, politics, and parenting!

In work situations I am conscious more and more of wanting to lead by following, stepping back, let other people be in charge and get the glory. It’s really the most sustainable path for a sane life. Instead of doing, teach. Instead of teach, listen to other people’s wisdom. Paradoxically by being silent and non-action can sometimes have the biggest impact.
This is nonsense, the CCP has millions of members in China, the same way that Democrats and Republicans are infiltrated in every company in America. The American national security agencies (NSA, etc.) are infiltrated in every large American corporation, especially in the technology area. You're just creating an excuse (political affiliation) to demonize a country's entire industry.
Okay, so your list, like mine, includes a steady series of new products with huge impacts, and the most recent is just a few years old.

You seem to be making the argument that one of the previous products (iPhone) must somehow deliver the same impact as an entirely new product, because... I guess I'm not getting that part.

I mean, draw the parallel for the other products you mention.

Apple II... was replaced completely by the next generation.

Mac has reinvented itself a few times, but they've been spaced out a bit. They're currently in the process of transitioning to entirely new CPUs for the third time (68000 -> PowerPC -> Intel -> Apple Silicon), and have gone through a couple of complete overhauls on the OS side as well.

Newton was innovative, ahead of its time, and...

iMac is also Mac, but okay, specifically the candy-colored all-in-ones shifted the industry in some interesting ways and the current iteration is very nice, but essentially unchanged in a long time. I mean, using the same lens you seem to be using for iPhone, they haven't really changed the body style since 2004 when they replaced the half-melon with the currently style, or maybe since 2007 when they switched to aluminum. I mean, sure, they updated the screen quality, and there have been some minor tweaks, but put a 13-year-old iMac next to a new one, and they haven't changed that much.

I think that's my point. You've picked iPhone specifically and insist that iPhone alone must somehow bear the fruits of Apple's history of delivering industry-changing products, but since 2007 they've delivered substantial iterations in iMacs, PowerBooks, Apple TVs, and iPhones, while also launching iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, as well as new record-setting CPUs every one of the last ten years.

So I dunno. I think somehow you've convinced yourself that there is some new world-shaking innovation possible in the phone space, that Apple not having delivered it yet is somehow a failure, and yet I suspect you wouldn't recognize it if they launched it tomorrow. I mean, set a 2007 iPhone next to the phone they'll launch this year and aks yourself: is it the problem that they ship something every year? If they skipped a few years, and only delivered every three or four years, would they seem innovative, or just iterative?

iPhone, iPhone 4 (Retina), iPhone 5S (TouchID), iPhone 6 (5.5" screen), iPhone X (FaceID). I think each of those is a substantial bundle of innovations over the previous, and I'm not even considering the CPU inside them, or many, many, many smaller things that we take for granted today.

My iPhone X might as well have been a completely different phone, it was so different from everything that came before. That was announced three years ago.

To recap: I think one can either say that Apple's only real innovations are the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, or that they've released innovations every 2-3 years for the past couple of decades, but saying that iPhones are a single innovative product rather than a series of at least 5 and probably closer to 8 real game-changers is mistaken.
> Needless to say this was an issue for the saudi censors, who at that time would ink over magazine covers by hand.

Even funnier is that the people employed to do the censorship were usually foreign guest workers, often Indians, to ensure that no Saudis themselves were exposed during the process of censorship.
This is your regular reminder that Russian interference in the US election of 2016 took the form of discouraging Democrats to vote by telling them that both parties were just the same. So, when Hacker News is suddenly full of topics like this, with commenters earnestly agreeing with each other that both parties are just the same and nothing will ever change, it’s worth being a little skeptical.
Nothing is bizarre about that question. Something can be illegal in public, but legal in private - meaning that even if evidence of it is discovered or published against any of the parties will it's not punished.

Or it's illegal, and it will be punished if discovered.

If the claim is that sodomy in private is legal, there's a simple test: What happens if (government or private) surveillance catches evidence of it, a third-party steals and publishes private letters discussing it, ...?
They showed quake ray tracing demos with it and other people assumed it was supposed to be sold as a GPU instead of listening to what they were actually saying.

No one thought a collection of atom CPUs with AVX512 SIMD was going to be able to compete head to head on rasterization of games with the best Nvidia cards.
Could be relevant: https://evonomics.com/more-evidence-that-learning-economics-...
Future growth will already be mostly priced in if you buy it at 200 P/E
Yeah, that's kind of weird, really. It basically ignores the existence of the Apple I, and I've never seen anyone talk about Steve Jobs claiming to have designed either the Apple I and II -- that's always been credited, even by Jobs, to Wozniak.

Maybe this is supposed to be a claim about the Apple I and Wozniak, but that still doesn't fully line up.
They've developed a false argument. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a vocal critic of female genital mutilation, but many of her other positions are islamophobic. Positions like "we are at war with Islam and it must be defeated."

In reality, I can both oppose female genital mutilation and consider Ayaan Hirsi Ali racist.
Ok but the claim is from Binney, not jimmy dore.
This is a pretty disgusting thing to advocate.
Definitely useful in my experience. Mental models provide a flexible framework for so many types of thinking that it becomes an extension of your mind that sublimates into the background.
Uber is still on WatchOS and it works independently with LTE: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/uber-request-a-ride/id36867736...
Did he do nothing wrong? If I see a child being beaten in the street, look at it and say "that's horrible" and continue with my day, have I done nothing wrong? I certainly didn't beat the child, but my inaction allowed the abuse to continue.

So question comes down to, did I have the moral obligation to act?

Personally I lean towards yes, but can at least understand where the people who say no might be coming from.

While I agree that silence is violence at its face is literally false, that's the general principal it's meant to invoke, that injustice can only be stopped when bystanders cease to tolerate it. The victim cannot stop it, and the perpetrator won't. Thus those who tut tut and move on with their day become complicit in allowing it to continue.

That is what the commenter is feeling vaguely guilty about, and it's a healthy thing to feel. I know I have guilt in my past where I have failed to help someone when I had the opportunity, and that guilt that comes from recognition of that has driven me to be less of a bystander later in life.
It is, if you like to live dangerously.
The advice here to tell your employer and law enforcement is such an awful idea. They're more likely to target you and suspect you coordinated with them even if you didn't. HR and legal isn't there to help you - they're there to help the company.
Thanks for this, I can't wait to test it out.

Are there other ways to control chromecasts from Linux? I used to be able to cast straight from Chromium, but that hasn't worked for me in at least a couple years.
Loads. If you're a programmer capable of programming well in C and C++, with a good grasp of algorithms, you'll have no trouble finding software jobs. Many of them will use other languages, but that's no great impediment. You'll have a lot of opportunity to learn them.
> Why there are only right footprints and no left footprints?

Pure speculation here (plus some experience/training in tracking), but if somebody is walking along a shore with one foot in mud, and the other foot in dirt, they only leave deep impressions on one side. Similarly, if they're walking with one foot in shallow water, and one foot in mud, then one side will erode much faster than the other.
So full disclosure: I work in claims processing.

First of all, Medicare is only “more efficient” on account of price controls. “Legal inability to negotiate pharmaceutical prices” is just a euphemism for “inability to force pharmaceuticals to charge anything other than a defined amount of money”, or in other words: price controls. If a law was passed today that forced private insurers to use the Medicare fee schedules, they would be just as “efficient”. Whether price controls are an efficient way to run an industry is a separate issue entirely.

Second of all, Medicare is separated into “original Medicare” (which is the government-run insurance program), and “Medicare Advantage aka Medicare Part C” (which is private insurance offered to Medicare beneficiaries). The data we have right now shows that Medicare Advantage is actually the part of Medicare that’s working the best in terms of raw efficiency and outcomes[1]. 34% of Medicare beneficiaries have elected Medicare Advantage instead of “Original Medicare”, and that number has been growing[2].

[1] https://freopp.org/medicare-advantage-a-platform-for-afforda...

[2] https://www.kff.org/medicare/fact-sheet/medicare-advantage/
There's a where the rubber meets the road aspect to each of these artists. What happened to Maurizio Cattelan between being born and duct taping that banana? Who did the man and wife turn their art into? It seems that these things did not just happen one day and then they became famous. Clearly they all knew someone who lit the marketing fuse. Could've been a rich cousin or could have been someone on the street with a social media following.
Why would the onus be on me to confirm that what I received was correct?

If they get my license plate wrong, that's basically a license to litter with impunity.
The nvidia thing is part of why I wrote my comment, too, yeah. Was really eye opening to the requirements that some big players have
Spaghetti code (and I've commented it before) but: https://github.com/devenblake/ytfeed.py. A YouTube-specific RSS feed reader; you give it some channel IDs (usually a string starting with UC at the end of a youtube.com/channel/ link) and it will allow you to view the most recent videos, keep track of watched videos, etc. Built it because I despise the new YouTube interface and they're preparing to remove the ?disable-polymer=1 trick that lets you keep the old interface. I use it as my main YouTube client and really enjoy it but it's also nice as a playground to do weird stuff with Python.
You can deactivate it for sites where it interferes with your workflow. I've become used to switching tabs when it doesn't work, or hitting Cmd+L and searching from the address bar.

To be precise, I use a combination of Ctrl+tab, Cmd+L, T and O, in that order of frequency. I don't mind repeated tabs, so sometimes I'll just do a web search for whatever item I wanted again.
> I'm afraid no amount of appeal to the evils of moral relativism are going to be enough to convince me that homosexuality is legal in most countries where the judgments of sharia courts are routinely enforced by the government.

That doesn't even make any sense. I am not trying to convince you of anything, all I did was educate you on the facts and I pointed out the inconsistencies in your arguments.
IIUC they use chocolate-doom that has approximately 600 .c files, and replace one of them with a .v file. I don't understand what they mean when they say

> DOOM translated from C to V. Builds in 0.7 seconds (x25 speed-up).
> Why there are only right footprints and no left footprints?

Walking around the edge of a lake, with the lake to the walker’s right, and softer/wetter ground under the right feet?
It absolutely was mentioned by many people in 2016 (including McConnell himself, if you read his statements and realize he wasn’t spelling it out word for word because the majority aspect was blindingly obvious, and if I recall he may have even clarified that part too).

I read about it extensively at the time from many on the right, and the left - that was the entire grounds for it happening. That McConnel himself may not have explicitly called out the Senate majority in his prominent press interviews was because it was totally obvious to anyone even remotely familiar with politics why, and therefore why beyond saying “it’s an electron year” would he need to keep clarifying? He just wasn’t assuming the insane amount of bad faith everyone would give him, incl. people like yourself.

So no, you don’t have some subtle understanding that no one else besides you and “your side” is getting at all.

Again, let me reiterate, because it seems you’re really trying to find something here: it was discussed on the right extensively, explicitly mentioning the Senate majority factor at the time, in 2016, and was generally well understood on the right. In fact the rights news writers were sort of flabbergasted and writing about how it’s being propagandized to look super bad when in fact it was not. I can’t even believe you’re trying to argue that wasn’t the case - talk about a straw-man.

Avoiding the vote altogether as opposed to having it and rejecting it was indeed unique, but not hypocritical. Simply put, he had the power to do that as the majority in the Senate. You can be upset about it, but I suspect you’re really just upset because your side lost or you have some gut revulsion towards McConnel, not because it was some grand betrayal - because it didn’t change a single thing in terms of outcomes, not even in terms of slippery slopes. The Democrats are totally free to do the same the next time this situation comes up, and they will and are expected to, and that too wouldn’t change a thing, and I’m sure some idiot Republicans will whine about it as well...that’s politics.
Yep and there are plenty of gamblers on /r/wallstreetbets going broke (and sometimes committing suicide) following strategies like this. It may be working for you and you may have the risk appetite for it, but encouraging other people to pursue ultra-risky investments (really, to gamble with money they don’t have) is incredibly dangerous and has resulted in at least one human death.
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https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com
Click on that Twitter link. Trump said these things yesterday. You are comparing something that happened literally yesterday to things that happened 4 decades or even over a century ago.
Right. What did I say differently?
Yodsanklai, again you assume things.

A Thai person pays entrance fee of 40 THB (1.29 USD). This is regardless if they are poor or rich, if they pay income tax or not.

A foreigner who for example lives in Thailand, and who pays income tax, still has to pay 400 THB (12.9 USD) entrance fee. That’s 10x more. Pure discrimination.

Let’s say an average foreigner family of 4 (2parents, 2children). That’s 2x 400 THB and 2x 200 THB incl vehicle 50 THB. 1250 THB.

A rich Thai family of 4, pays 2x40 THB, 2x 20 THB and 50 for vehicle. Total 170 THB.

You don’t decide what’s affordable for foreigners or not.

Not every foreigner is rich. Lots of expenses are higher for foreigners, many venues and restaurants charge higher prices to foreigners. Rental is often higher for foreigners,...

Not all foreign tourists are rich either. Many save the whole year to afford a two weeks trip to Thailand with their family.

National parks that charge them 10x more, restaurants that charge 2x more etc aren’t helping with welcoming foreigners.

If you do feel that paying 10x more is justified because it’s little money to you, why not sponsor not so well off foreigner families who wish to visit Thai national parks.
VLC has a native client afaik.

Edit: included since v3.0

https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS
Please consider that the OP represents an artist's personal, semi-poetic reflections. Whence the vitriol?