skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The margins are razor thin and cheap is relative. Chinese manufacturers are used to paying close to nothing and now there is wage pressure. https://www.marketplace.org/2018/12/04/what-worries-chinas-m...

Also, in textile manufacturing for example you can see that firms are already moving away from China to places like Bangladesh.. unless they are using Uyghur labor.

Regarding the rural population - Chinese agriculture is extremely inefficient and still needs huge amount of labour - the reason is that the large agricultural enterprises are in effect limited to family businesses by law. If they actually reform agriculture China will have no issues feeding itself cheaply, but it probably will not as it will be a huge social disruption.
Because you were created by your parents?

Not exactly sure what your argument is, but if you want to know what qualifies as a "creative work", the law conveniently defines it in 17 U.S. Code § 102(a).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102
It isn't actually that simple, though. Adding CO2 to the atmosphere in isolation, with no reaction from the environment will indeed cause warming. But we don't live in a static model. The environment reacts to things in complex ways. It's entirely possible that adding CO2 to the environment could have caused cooling, in equilibrium (by, e.g. increasing tree density in response to the increased fuel, leading to an ultimately cooler climate). It doesn't happen to work out that way, unfortunately, but it was a possibility.
The articles talks about editors, but VS Code is mainly an IDE.

Its predecessors were in order Emacs + single-language IDEs + proprietary IDEs, then Eclipse and finally IntelliJ IDEA CE.

Emacs lost because it failed to update to reasonable modern conventions and because it used a niche programming language.

Eclipse lost because they released a bunch of different bundles instead of a single install (apparently because the contributing companies saw Eclipse as a common base for their proprietary IDEs), it was slow for the time, and had a bunch of unnecessary UI complexity (e.g. it had an unnecessary perspective system that would change the IDE layout depending on language, meaning that you couldn't just customize the IDE and have it apply for all languages, but had to customize each perspective).

IntelliJ IDEA lost because only the core was open source and major parts were proprietary, resulting in reduced 3rd party confidence.

VS Code is winning because they have a major company backing it that mostly doesn't seek to make proprietary IDEs with it except for minor proprietary aspects, uses the most popular language for extensions, avoids unnecessary UI complexity and is also fast and technically good.
My only problem with it is performance when you load large repos and occasionally large files because it is an Electron app eventually. I know the extension ecosystem has thrived just because it is Electron but I wish MS worked on a native editor to achieve it.
> breaking the great firewall would do wonders in encouraging Chinese citizens to stand up for themselves.

Not too sure. There are obvious fake negative news about China and racism comments from Fox News/YouTube. For Chinese people, it’ll be quite a mixed feeling to see toxic content on China, e.g. Wuhan virus, China must pay, etc. I’d say those content might come first to hurt their feelings.

As a native Chinese, it’s still emotionally tough for me to browse China related topic even on HN which is a much more principled forum. Let alone other media
Pretty much every service by default discloses version numbers.
There were dozens of arrests on that particular day that the article was written about. There's been several months of such days of fires in the streets and violent protests. I just picked the first 3 articles that came up in a search.
> Microsoft is selling you into the IDE, in small portions

what are they selling me
I think violent revolution/civil war is more likely. Corporations have as strong a death grip on the US government as any dictator.
If your primary evidence is results-based, why do you assume it's genetics instead of situational? My assumption would be that higher caste students have more opportunities for proper nutrition, education, etc.

Looking at babies adopted into another caste, or people marrying across castes, would help shed some light. But it doesn't seem reasonable that 5k years of caste systems would have such an impact on IQ.
only off the top of my head

i read them many years ago on one of my previoys computers

what i remember:

- exchanges about how to quiet skeptics

- the engineer's negative opinion of the codebase he was hired to clean up

maybe sometime this week i can dredge up the files to take another look, if there is interest

the zip archive may still be floating around on the web somewhere

UPDATE: found it

For those interested in the actual email zip, here's one working link I found.

http://assassinationscience.com/climategate/2/FOIA2011.zip

The top level README.md contains what the compilers thought were some of the most damning texts, and give reference so you can see the context for yourself.

Here are some from the README.md:

<1939> Thorne/MetO:

Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical
troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a
wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the
uncertainty and be honest. Phil, hopefully we can find time to discuss these
further if necessary [...]

<3066> Thorne:

I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it
which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run.

<1611> Carter:

It seems that a few people have a very strong say, and no matter how much
talking goes on beforehand, the big decisions are made at the eleventh hour by
a select core group.

<2884> Wigley:

Mike, The Figure you sent is very deceptive [...] there have been a number of
dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC [...]

<4755> Overpeck:

The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid[e] what's
included and what is left out.
Lol. The state of the codebase was the scandal?
Swift on a server is a think: https://vapor.codes
Indeed. As a student (1987) I had an Amiga 500 and after a few months I sold it and bought an Atari Mega ST2 in its place. The Amiga was so unpleasant to use for programming. To be confortably usable it required at least 2 floppy drives (a 3rd one would even been useful) or a hard drive, expanding beyond 1 MB was also not cheap and the display was horrible. TV resolution 576i (PAL) is inadequate for editing text.
On the Atari we had the cheap SM-124 fantastic monochrome 71Hz refresh rate screen which allowed to stay for hours programming. All compilers and editor I needed would fit in one 800K floppy and the 2 mb of RAM would even allow to work from RAM disk. A breeze. Gaming was still possible with the second cable connected to the TV set (later I installed the PC-Speed emulator in my Mega ST which transformed it in a very capable XT PC (8Mhz V30, 704 kB DOS memory, with 640x400 Olivetti graphics).
The Amiga was better for gaming, no contest, for serious stuff like porgramming, word processing (pixel perfect Signum!) and stuff, it was so much better in lower budget.
Please take this question in good faith, as I am not a denier, but how do we rule out unknown earth-scale homeostasis mechanisms without a full understanding of the whole system?

If you have any links or thoughts I'd appreciate it
PDF's ubiquity is 100% that it printed the same (or close to same) on any postscript compatible printer. It's tech so old many in the industry ignore the reason it existed (and still exists). Every solution beyond PDF has also been either closed source (read Microsoft) or ignored. It's useful, that's why it exists. Yes, it's archaic, yes, it's hard to read for tech people, but for non tech people, it solves an issue that plagues the entire software industry: Standardization.
If you talking to me (I posted this): The site is operated by Google and I‘m not in any way related to that project.
You're right that it should be a given, given human beings' innate distrust of authority. But that doesn't mean it's not also stupid and anti-intellectual. We certainly didn't get to the moon without some PhDs and computer models.
It's interesting how vim and emacs both retained their popularity during the last few years. Probably because they cater to one specific audience.
Unpleasant memories, which might be mixed up in the Bloomberg experience.

To ne the overriding criterion for a build system is that it must not demand attention. Waf did. SCons seemed not to.
Even more important in your toolbox would be the ability to steer which projects the team takes on, and the freedom to make "how" decisions.
The absence of human-generated sound is not silence, it just means a baseline level of noise generated by nature, and those natural sounds actually may strike us as more intrusive than the peace and quiet of our own homes.

I always notice this when I go camping in the wilderness and take the headphones along. I listen to classical music and ECM jazz with huge dynamic range, and you need total silence in order to hear the pianissimo passages (it's not unusual for modern repertoire to have dynamic markings down to ppppp). But that total silence is really hard to find in nature where waves lap on rivers, birds chirp, the wind blows, etc. The man described in the linked article appreciates those natural sounds, but when I’m in the tent I would prefer to hear my music instead, and I miss my own home where I installed soundproofing and anti-reverb foam.
Anyone know why I struggle to read the font on this site? It feels super light?
I would agree that the so-called "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)" is really more of a board than a court, but that doesn't mean that US companies are simply providing information upon request. I view the FISC as a symptom of the ever-growing regulatory state, but that is a (somewhat) separate matter.
Why break tasks up into 10 line files when you could break them into 10 line Python/Similar functions?

Same advantages as above, a more powerful cross platform language, cross-task references can be linted

def run(params):
"Run a built binary."
subprocess.run("./" + params.path)
.
.
.
if __name__ == __main__:
"Take CLI options and run selected function."""
# Parse CLI arguments
# Call functions with options
Like coordination to commit that violence and large scale. But the whole point is to use violence to get what you want.
Not to mention that nobody really thought their second attempt at a packet-switched network would be the one every person on earth was going to use.

ARPANET / NCP was only a few years before. If IP wasn't big enough, we'd just make another one in a few years!
Yes but should be base global policy on skepticism? Especially when the stakes are so high?
hum, standard XFCE for me. I tried only F11 (default shortcut to enter/exit fullscreen and did not work) but Alt-F11 did the trick. Nice.
Its okay for web stuff but I use Jetbrains IDEs for C++ and Go. They are way better. C++ crashes and gets into weird states all the time on VSCode for me.
This is why it's worth contributing to your language's LSP server[0] and why I encourage every Kotlin dev I see to contribute to Kotlin's[1].

I personally find IDEs are way too complex and cluttered for my personal tastes. To boot, a code editor allows for unified workflows across a broad swathe of languages in ways that IDEs simply can't replicate. It's a pity Jetbrains has long held a dismissive attitude[2] toward developers that don't want a full blown IDE, but that's what you get when there are financial incentives attached.

[0]: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

[1]: https://github.com/fwcd/kotlin-language-server

[2]: https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/any-plan-for-supporting-lan...
This exactly.

Climate change sits exactly at the intersection of "probabilistic deniability of real-world ramifications" and "science poorly reported" (because the effects are subtle based on our day-to-day experiences, and because people don't understand or trust science) with a hefty dose of "vested interests in the opposition camp".
> And almost all the features you listed are possible in VSCode

As someone who wishes they could drop everything else and just use Kate or VS Code, I disagree. IDEs like those that JetBrains offers have refactoring tools that are unmatched by what VS Code and its plugin ecosystem currently provide.
You are correct but not in the way you think. WMD were found in Iraq and the concentration camps are real.

https://www.wired.com/2010/10/wikileaks-show-wmd-hunt-contin...
I was already bought into their IDE environment. :) VS Code runs much better than their old offerings.
To be honest, when I first heard my colleague say they were using "visual studio code" to develop their Python apps I thought they were repurposing some Microsoft vb.net IDE and hacking it to mesh with Python
> who made us doubt nuclear.

Ask yourself, who stood to lose a lot if nuclear power became successful?, and the question answers itself: coal.

Remember Kahneman and Tversky's research into human reasoning. Loss aversion is a far greater motivating force than hope of gain.
It is extremely far from as certain as science ever is. Randomized, controlled experiments are as certain as science ever is. This is pretty far from that.

The evidence is as good as any non-controlled experiment is going to be, perhaps. But it's pretty important that we not confuse these kinds of descriptive results with the actual certainty that comes from high powered controlled trials.
It's extremely easy to make reasoning errors in descriptive data analysis, that look very convincing.
Looks cool! On a sidenote, I've always been curious with product sites: what's your metric for including other orgs under "Used and Trusted by Top Organizations"? How do you know they use / trust it?
I adore VS Code. But I still find insane it does not have an overwrite mode! [1]

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/86671 & https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1012
Yup, I can recommend these as well, on top of Adam Curtis - The Century of the Self (4 parts) & HyperNormalisation. Freely and legally available on Archive.org [1].

[1] https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Adam%20Cur...
We (2-person team doing embedded QT app on linux) did it the exact way you're arguing for - starting with shell, struggling with it for several months every time something went wrong or we had to change it, and finally giving up and rewriting it in python.

Python wasn't our main language (the app was in C++ and QML which is basically java script). But we both knew Python and it's the easiest language for these sort of things that we both knew and that comes with the system.

My main conclussion is - I'm starting with python the next time.

Life's too short to check for the number of arguments in each function.
Is It Strange to Say I Miss the Bodies of Strangers?
I thought the building was a marketing stunt. Apple has 137k employees and the campus seems to have a 2k employee capacity.

Some funny bits from Wikipedia

> The use of special wood as a construction material was reported to be the subject of a 30-page guideline.

> The design of door handles was reported to be the subject of a one and a half year debate, involving several revisions before the Apple management gave its approval.
It sounds like your doubts come from ignorance alone. There is a difference between ignorance and skepticism. For fifty years climate models have successfully predicted the future which became the now-observed past. Later models are more accurate than previous ones. The IPCC #4 models based on data known in 2000 were right on the money in predicting the subsequent 20 years. It may be true that you don't understand these models, but that does not constitute grounds for doubting them.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-mo...
I reckon most foreigners would already be aware of the existence of India's caste system, but not in the intricacies of how it manifests itself in everyday Indian life.
That would be awesome but would have be a complete rewrite of Monaco, and text editor renderers are near the top of programming dark arts.
Day 1 releases is one of the main draws of Game Pass. The Game Pass marketing site [1] has an entire section labeled "Play Day One" that says

"Be among the first to play the latest titles from Xbox Game Studios and ID@Xbox, available to Xbox Game Pass members the same day as their global release."

[1] https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass
Actually I did backups every few hours, but so far I never encountered savefile corruption in x-com games. Happened to me a few times in ck2/eu4 though.
REST API Using AWS Java SDK
> (1) Make's dependency model has some well known deficiencies. It doesn't play well with tools that produce two files. It doesn't play well with tools that produce a directory tree of "dynamic" filenames (not known when you write the Makefile)

These are covered by pattern matching and prerequisites, which were backported from mk(1) into GNU Make (Albeit they changed the syntax to make it incomprehensible).

> (2) Most makefiles have bugs, especially when you do make -j (parallel builds). It's basically like writing a C program with a bunch of threads racing on global variables -- your Make targets will often be racing on the same file, leading to non-deterministic bugs.

mk(1) makes it easier to avoid bugs and easier to comprehend what the makefile is doing, it also allows you to invoke programming languages for specific targets as a feature of the Makefile, and other goodies :)
Is India really lagging? I don't trust China's numbers, but I also don't know anything about the real situation there. Both countries are developing fast, and that often means that the reality of the situation isn't reflected in the numbers for years.
because it's not the unix way and the unix way has a LOT of value.

because not all the tools you use in your system can import your python/similar file. Your deploy pipeline could involve 10 languages running under multiple os's / versions

or to put it another way... because the whole world doesn't run in your favorite programming language.
I'm glad it worked out for you, but this is one of the main reasons I escaped condo life and will never, ever go back to living in one or in any place with a HOA. The idea that Nosey Karen 5 doors down can actually vote to prevent me from doing something legal in a house I own... well, it's just not for me.
Maybe because they want to stream that data to data mining servers in the US, possibly third-parties too?

I was talking in general anyway. Between GDPR, requirements for safeguarding, and Apple destroying the mobile in-app advertising ID, they probably don't feel so good.

Norwegian dating sites don't have permission to use age/location info, for ads, without explicit consent, and the ToS can't cover it, FYI.
For years I've been using the grc.com port scan, it always served me well :)
You're right, the folks that died from vaping were buying weed cartridges. But I feel like the thrust of the policy discussion was that kids were vaping too much.

In discussions like that, when politicians keep saying "kids are getting addicted; people are dying", it is nearly impossible for a voice of reason to interject and remind everyone that the people dying weren't dying from flavored juul pods.
Their ecosystem.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted - maybe it's the flippant response? The message is correct, though.

The caste system in India sounds exactly like the class system in the US, only more formalized. In my area, there absolutely are surnames that you can associate with 'those' people, and who are, in my experience, passed over for jobs.

Maybe it's my ignorance, but doesn't a caste system whereby you are exposed to more privileges simply due to your birth sound exactly like a class system based on income whereby you are exposed to privilege simply because of your birth (because of your parents' income)?
I'm most excited for records and `with`. This is a feature in C# I've been wanting for years and will really help make the use of immutable data throughout a system easier with a ton, and I mean a ton, less boilerplate.
My family came to this country of our own free will in the early 90s, so we certainly missed a lot of the bullshit.

You're ignoring how social media has decentralized the misinformation. Anyone can start posting and people operate on such a purely emotional level, that facts really don't matter. If I was working foreign intelligence, trying to destroy the United States, I would do exactly what qanon is doing. I've been watching that shitshow spiral out of control in slow motion for the past 4 years and social media was an integral part. The way algorithms funnel people into information bubbles. How they engage by showing people inflammatory things. There are people in your neighborhood right now who literally think democrats worship satan and eat babies for power (which is what nazis said about the jews btw). They didnt catch that virus by watching TV news, or reading the paper; they learned it on social media.
I'm an iOS dev for the past 8 years, so I've been all in on mastering Xcode. I now must use VSCode for certain things at work, and while it's not my favorite, I love the plugin ecosystem. I really wish Apple had improved the ability to write Xcode plugins; instead they kneecapped it. To folks who say that VSCode plugins are a shambles: flagship IDEs have their problems too.

It's been interesting to watch some of the UX patterns popularized by the editors mentioned in the article creep into Xcode, though. Again, I dislike some, but I'm glad to see evolution taking place, and I need to repeat a mantra I've said many times: "always be learning." That's the only way to remain successful.

I don't actually use a ton of VSCode plugins, but I'll give a shout out for GitLens. It is magnificent. Big thank you to the maintainers.
That definitely reads better and is quite factual. The initial reading of the title as a threat gave me a chuckle.
I didn't know you could get degrees through Coursera. That's cool.

Here are a bunch of other online bachelors in CS: https://thebestschools.org/rankings/best-online-bachelors-co...

Is $13,000 unreasonable? It would cost a whole lot more than that if you went for an on-site bachelors at say, UWaterloo.
I'm calling them a liar, because they ARE lying. I have had 7 years of college in India and not even once seen a students caste listed on any notice board. What i HAVE seen is their "quota", and there are many quotas: caste based, sports quota (for athletes), freedom fighter quota etc.
It's an… interesting choice of a machine for hosting,
especially from Mozilla.

Regarding the report itself, I am only occasionally a
frontend developer, but I've never had any issues with
flexbox regarding Chrome vs. Firefox. Although I haven't
tested the usual suspects: Safari, Edge, and IE. Some of
my friends, who are fulltime frontend developers, have
been saying for a while now that Safari is “the new IE 6”
in that it's the one causing the most issues and lagging
behind in standards implementation. IE “proper” is almost
dead, outside of a few specific domains, and non-“legacy”
Edge is pretty close to Chrome.
> Note too that it is highly likely that in the past rape of lower casts was accepted in some form, which would bring any selected IQ genes to the lower casts.

There is preliminary evidence from genetic sequencing that Indian castes have been highly endogamous for at least 3000 years.

India is a vast place with an enormous population, and there's resistance to continuing this research, for fairly obvious reasons. But continue it will, you can't un-sequence a genome after all. So we may yet see a robust answer to this sort of question.