skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're going to have to look at their investors very strongly. Many people are saying they're being funded by China. Maybe they are maybe they aren't, but it could be a national security threat if China is funding them. We have the best porn, that I can tell you. America First!
Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS)
> While a very rich person never bothers to ever consider laws as they can easily buy their way out of nearly all of them thousands of times over.

In reality, rich people have lower actual crime rates than poor people. Compliance with the law is as much a financial rounding error as fines. The police in rich neighborhoods have easier jobs. Your typical rich person isn’t going around making a nuisance of himself. Even John DuPont kept his behavior on his own property.
Oh wow this is great, very smooth on my PC! Lets me look at various colour combos. Is this just meant to be a visualisation tool?

Imports from http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com would be even better. There are so many layout options.
My point is that diversity and inclusion means not supporting such practices, so the VP is either oblivious/ignorant or knows full well of the double standard -- neither reflect well on him.
Wrong. There may be corruption in every country but you can have a just and fair trial in Thailand.

The article is mixing issues unrelated to the case here
I see you're drinking the koolaid...
Pedestrians have right of way at pedestrian crossings. Cars have right of way elsewhere.

https://sso.agc.gov.sg/SL/RTA1961-R24?DocDate=20190131#pr4-

This is pretty standard, and Singapore is way safer for pedestrians than virtually any Asian country outside Japan.
TL;DR, always use GPL-3.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Ulbricht was a bright boy, he graduated Westlake High, a top public high school in Austin, graduated with a Physics degree from UT, the top public university in Texas, did grad school in Penn. for Engineering and Materials Science.

Ulbricht comes from a wealthy Republican family. Should Trump pardon him, especially if Trump is not re-elected ? In the ole days, a pardon could be bought for $60,000.

I'd argue that Ulbricht's knowledge and ability could be put to better use than whiling away his years staring at prison walls . . . . he could payback society in serious, useful ways . . .
My friend is Vietnamese. Even though she's fairly wealthy, owns two houses and has her own business, she's been turned down for a European tourist visa twice, presumably because she applied at a single female and they don't want sex workers. Each application costs her a few hundred dollars. It's not just a matter of applying for a visa.
Meanwhile, I have an EU passport. I've traveled to around 30 countries. The only time I was even briefly questioned by immigration was coming in to Australia. Every other time it was just an immediate stamp and wave through.
>this dude showed he was totally willing to commit murder

That's a gross overstatement. An agent who had infiltrated the site convinced him to agree to allow the agent to hire a hitman to kill another person on the site. This was after agents had already kidnapped and tortured the second person and used his account to threaten dpr. There was no attempt at conviction on that charge.
> "There's another app called Boop that seems similar. How would you compare your app to Boop?"

I certainly agree that "how is this different" is not dismissive by itself. But the whole of the comment came across as very dismissive.

It's possible that I overreacted, but that's how I interpreted it.
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If your machines started exhibiting behavior you didn't expect or intend from a configuration you believe to be proper, then something has gone wrong. It may be the system, it may be the configuration, and it may be your understanding of either. Or any combination.

In this particular case it sounds like your resolver was set up to try an external resolution first and then append an internal domain if the external resolution failed. And as you say, this clearly worked just fine for a long, long time. Then it suddenly started failing one day, for reasons unrelated to anything you changed.

At this point, most people would find it reasonable to blame the external change for breaking their fully functional, correctly working, "properly configured" setup. Some, perhaps contrarian or perhaps more cautious, would note that the "properly configured" approach only worked so long as external systems played ball. I think it might be the case that you were bitten by this assumption that seemed safe at the time, leading to the awkward and uncomfortable conclusion that your systems were indeed misconfigured.
Must be very affordable real estate where you live. There’s also something like this for a backyard office https://www.costco.com/installed-sheds-by-studio-shed---bore...
I can understand this attitude in the general public but it’s completely bizarre from HN engineers. Expect more more optimism for FBI/NSA backdoors in encryption next.
This post is going to be similar to my other two comments in this thread.

First, it being incorporated in the Caymans is a technicality. ByteDance's headquarters are in Beijing[1] and they don't speak of a Cayman Islands office. In addition...

> As with many Chinese companies, the company has an internal Chinese Communist Party committee serving the party members among the employees, with vice president Zhang Fuping serving as its Party Committee Secretary. It also has a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Public Security for the ministry's public relations efforts, and joint ventures with a state-run publisher in Beijing and media firm in Shanghai. ... It has garnered public attention over allegations that it worked with the Chinese Communist Party to censor and surveil content pertaining to Xinjiang re-education camps and other topics the Party deemed controversial. [2]

[1] https://www.inputmag.com/culture/tiktok-weirdly-tries-to-sug...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
Do they have different laws between the islands? If not, then a more apt analogy might be referencing defamation law on Maui for a homicide case on Oahu.
As an American, your process of getting a visa is basically assured. That's not the case for many nationalities where there's a good chance your application will be rejected multiple times before to get a visa.
Reading and writing ideas is community too.
This is super cool!

I hope it more feature added in the future.

edit: coloring periods is definitely needed.
Yep, annotating the examples with stack effects is in my plans :)
Fascinating, thank you for sharing. I'm impressed they were able to find so many ways to essentially confuse the GFW as to the current state of the connection. Looks like any company which wants to do business in China will just avoid implementing ESNI for the foreseeable future.
> a non-exhaustive list of projects that create super-minimal interpreters

One of the items on that page is described as "25k lines of asm". That's the problem with 'tiny'. It means different things to different people. This FORTH thing however appears to be an exception. You know you're playing the game at a different level when your entire app can be statically linked with all its dependencies and still be small enough to fit inside the master boot record of a floppy disk (i.e. less than 512 bytes). I just wish I could figure out how to use the thing.
Yes, it’s frustrating to see the lack of transparency and the sheer futility in some cases to find who issued an order for what purpose in which jurisdiction affecting which ISPs.

DuckDuckGo was blocked a couple of o this ago. The nebulous words “national security”, without any context, are used as the justification for blocking many sites.
Oh, interesting. I feel like I've gotten used to reasoning with rot and -rot. Didn't know there was advice out there not to use it.
These anti-maskers are ruining our livelihood. How many months or years until we take justice into our own hands? I don't want to live like this forever. I'm ready to get some spikey 6 foot poles to start poking people with.
Ergodox EZ will ship anywhere, afaik. They ship from Taiwan, even when you order them from the US.

I don't know if it's what you consider affordable, but given the hours I put in on the thing, it's a worthwhile investment.
Correct. Because, you see, I don't live in the real deal. I don't live in anything approaching an authoritarian state, even if you include class as well as party.
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If you like your job, like your company, and like the products you're building then you'd likely regret quitting for the sake of quitting.

I'd work more on adding fulfilling activities to your life first before you start removing work.
Otherwise +1, but they actually went comparatively easy on him: he could have been sentenced to 3 years in jail plus 8 strokes of the cane, but he got away with 4 months and 6 strokes, and even that was commuted to 4.

That said, caning in Singapore is no joke, even those 4 will scar for life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
A 1.5GW solar plant is going to cover a massive amount of land. For comparison sake, the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Plant had roughly 2.7 GW of generation capacity, and the official website estimates it would take roughly 18 square miles of solar panels to replace that capacity.

https://www.songscommunity.com/about/virtual-tour
That's not quite what happened. Parents were asked to pick between a full year of distance learning or a hybrid option with partial classroom time. However most county education departments are still forcing classrooms to stay closed, so everyone is still on distance learning regardless of how they voted.
Insurance almost surely contributed to increased costs. Hospitals inflate costs because they want to charge more money to the insurance providers, and they get away with it.
What does that mean though? If the government introduces a new tax credit for home renovations that increase the energy efficiency of the home, are you saying no one should take advantage of that?

The problem I have with the word “tax avoidance” is that it carries negative connotations (which of course the media leap on in order to attack their preferred bogeyman). In reality, all that’s happening is that people are following the law and taking advantage of loopholes and tax credits to reduce their tax obligation.

If you think these loopholes and tax credits are unfair, then focus on fixing that. If you think the tax code is so enormous that it’s hopeless to fix it, then say that and offer an alternative. Otherwise you’re not really offering people an objective measure to live by.
It doesn't "beg the question" (that being the name of a logical fallacy), but does invite it.

Sometimes LGPL is chosen out of confusion, sometimes symbolically. Whatever the legal demands it does not impose, it would be rude not to honor its intent.
You don't really need tor or any other VPN for that matter, https://getintra.org/ a DoH client for Android works just fine [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/vinifortuna/status/1304189371688660992
OpenSSH 8.4
So, it's ok for China to ban Google because Google refuses to help with censorship and propaganda, and because Google doesn't want the Chinese govt to be able to spy on its citizens.

But it's not OK for the US to keep out spyware. Heck, retaliation for China's banning of Google etc would be sufficient justification for banning TikTok on its own.
Tax avoidance that allows somebody to pay $750 tax on multimillion dollar income should, without question, trigger the alternative minimum tax ( https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc556 ).

Which is more likely, (a) that Trump’s accountants are creative enough to get his personal tax bill to $750 without triggering the AMT, that the IRS hasn’t been able to successfully challenge the returns, and the tax experts the New York Times spoke with for this story didn’t comment on that fact, or (b) the Times story is missing key details?
I kind of conceptualize Linux as an OS (as compared to say a microprocessor directly executing a single program) like this- in the kernel there is a big infinite loop, just like a videogame loop that "updates" everything. In this loop the OS iterates over a linked list of task structs (AKA processes in userspace) and either gives each process its fair share of CPU time according to some scheduler or skips over it if it is sleeping (which the majority are).
> The critical point is that the US has never cared about any other country in the world. Every foreign policy decision is based on what is advantageous to the US at the time.

s/US/<any-country>/

Acting according to self interest is not unique to the US. And just to be clear that doesn't mean that any country's foreign policy is immune from criticism just that the US isn't unique in this respect.
I'm honestly not sure why that's a gut punch? I grew up with a work from home parent. There was nothing particularly confusing about it and if anything, it taught me to respect the attention-space of others from an early age. Make sure to set up consistent visual signals of what working looks like such as a closed door and be consistent in explaining that you're in your work-zone. When work is done, then be present to your family and leave the laptop in the home office.
Actually not my experience.

My married friends complain more about WFH than otherwise. I think it depends on how many kids you have, and how big your house is.
Biology tends to be structurally sexist as well. The only solution is to essentially force fathers to stop working as well during this time. This is equality of outcome.
Strange, I've used Calibre to convert my amazon.jp purchases and am pretty happy with it. It does convert vertical text into horizontal text by default, but the resulting text is perfectly normal without the problem you described, and you can add CSS to force vertical RTL.

There's some example and the css code they used towards the bottom of this page, if you'd like to take a look: https://webnetforce.net/post-105/
You have to understand that reasons aren’t provided for blocking, because the blocking orders may come from different authorities and may not be disclosed due to “national security” reasons. All that we can glean from a site being blocked is that someone influential (not necessarily from an arm of the government) got offended by the site and used some means to get it blocked.

One can construct a list of hundreds of URLs and get a blocking order, with a few innocent ones slipped in between. Nobody will investigate the claims, and nobody can contest the claims before it’s ordered, but the order for blocking will be issued.
Does this pursuit amount to anything more than mathematical masturbation?
That's crazy. When I was 12 I tried to learn assembler on BBC from a book and just didn't get it at all, even the basics. How did you even grok a printout like that?
That's not true at all. Aside from the obvious possibility of posting a comment that incriminates yourself, there are many situations where people have access to information that would be illegal to share on facebook - here's an example of someone found guilty of contempt of court for doing so https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/mom-jailed-for-facebook-post...
The user is being unnecessarily condescending (and frank;y I’m not sure they have actual knowledge of the domain). But what they’re referring to is the URM boost.

This article has stats. Harvard boosts urm admissions by 10,000%, Yale by 800%. Data from 2017. This means they get in with lower gpa’s and lower LSAT scores. A .10-.11 gpa difference for yale-harvard and a 5-7 point LSAT differential.

https://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/do-underrepresented-minorit...
The optical tables join entanglement until we measure them. Those are quite intelligent?
Only the best will discover it.
What nuclear waste problem?

"Nuclear waste generally is over 90% uranium. Thus, the spent fuel (waste) still contains 90% usable fuel! It can be chemically processed and placed in other reactors to close the fuel cycle. A closed fuel cycle means much less nuclear waste and much more energy extracted from the raw ore. Additionally, this process allows you to convert your waste into chemical forms that are totally immobilized.
France currently recycles their spent fuel. They put the remaining good nuclear fuel back in their reactors in the form of MOX fuel and immobilize the remaining waste in vitrified borosilicate glass.

The US had a recycling program featuring the use of advanced fast reactors (which have not been deployed on any major scale yet) that was shut down because it created Plutonium, which could be used to make a nuclear weapon. Were some plutonium diverted in the recycling process, a non-nuclear entity could be one step close to building a bomb. However, under programs such as the (now stalled) GNEP [wikipedia], where only countries who already have nuclear weapons recycle, proliferation-free waste recycling can exist. Since the many of the largest energy users are already nuclear weapons states, a massive expansion of nuclear could be done there with no additional proliferation concerns whatsoever.

If all the electricity use of the USA was distributed evenly among its population, and all of it came from nuclear power, then the amount of nuclear waste each person would generate per year would be 39.5 grams. That’s the weight of seven U. S. quarters of waste, per year! A detailed description of this result can be found here. If we got all our electricity from coal and natural gas, expect to have over 10,000 kilograms of CO2/yr attributed to each person, not to mention other poisonous emissions directly to the biosphere (based on EIA emissions data).

If you want raw numbers: in 2018, there were just over 80,000 metric tonnes of high-level waste in the USA. Between 1971 and 2018, nuclear reactors in the USA generated 3000 GW-years of electricity to make this waste.

For comparison, in 2007 alone the US burned 948,000,000 metric tonnes of coal. This means that coal plants made 32 times more waste every single day than the US nuclear fleet has made in the past 45 years! Granted, coal made a higher fraction of the country’s electricity, but the numbers are still crazy impressive for nuclear."

Source: https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html

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Interesting: "2018 Nobel Prize for Physics-winner Gérard Mourou has proposed using Chirped pulse amplification to generate high-energy and low-duration laser pulses to transmute highly radioactive material (contained in a target) to significantly reduce its half-life, from thousands of years to only a few minutes."

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Aaaand then I have not yet mentioned fusion reactors... Just check it out here: https://www.iter.org/sci/Fusion
Interesting. Seems we have very opposite experiences.

I definitely agree that one can paint themselves into a static-typing corner where refactoring becomes painful (but as I said, usually because of OOP). Also in big projects care needs to be taken to keep compilation times manageable.

> Languages should facilitate thinking of enforced correctness as a gradual concept, like gradual typing in Python, so the programmer has freedom to make these choices.

Depends on the domain. In web-based non-critical applications, maybe. If there's a bug, users gets and error etc. reports it, you push a fix to prod and things are usually OK. In things I mostly worked with (embedded, automotive, on-premise appliances, systems, p2p, finance), the cost of debugging and fixing small bugs is far too high.

I am supporter of gradual typing though, if someone wants to go with dynamic typing route.
Can PC GPUs solve this kind of problem?
That's a brilliant idea! I was mentally practicing sharing my 32 inch screen with my wife when she complains about screen real estate inequality in the house - hers is surface pro - but never come close to solving keyboard and mouse sharing.
Technically correct, but you're almost as guilty of being dishonest as the comment you're replying to saying it's "not a company".

A lot of companies are incorporated in the Cayman Islands, or in Ireland, or other tax havens, but we don't generally refer to them as Cayman companies or Irish companies.
Rails is also nice since you can write very little code to get the job done.
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As stated in my comment, I am using a DoH provider outside the country, but see similar blocking results as the article. Handling DNS alone isn’t going to work all the time, which is what the article detailed out.
There's an emacs plugin for it[0]. I've used it before, though only at the same network, and not over the internet. The host gives access to specific files, which people connecting to the session can then edit. Host and clients maintain separate buffers, selection, etc, which are then synchronized by rudel.

If you are on a shared account, it is even easier by running `(start-server)` and then connecting to it with emacsclient. The only downside is that marked regions are shared between clients.

[0] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel
Solitary confinement in general is out of proportion, particularly for extended periods. In my opinion it should be a violation of the Eighth amendment and they need to shut down Florence, but few people fight for it because it's full of really wicked humans. Important to remember they are still humans and torturing them is not okay.

That being said I also think that the life sentencing was probably appropriate considering he started the silk road as a fully grown man, so it's a clear reflection of his morals and empathy. It's difficult to think about how many addictions, overdoses, and so forth that he helped to enable, in addition to assaults and murders (silk road sold weapons and services). Not saying that it wouldn't have happened without him, but certainly enabling these things to be trafficked does not provide net positive to the world.
It is dangerous to rely on office relationships for your social needs. When you move on to your next role, those relationships go up in smoke. This should be a signal to cultivate stronger ties to friends and family.
Exactly. There is a lot of post-hoc rationalisation happening, along the lines of:

> I like language/technology X. Why? Well I'm obviously a super smart and rational person, so my preferences could only be based on facts and logic. Therefore everything I like must be objectively correct. QED.

Anecdotally, the more someone prides themselves on being intelligent and logical, the less skeptical they are of their unsubstantiated emotional judgements.

Despite primarily working in dynlangs, I would guess that type systems affect developer productivity somewhere in the range of +-50%. While I have pulled that number directly from my ass, I think that if the effect size was larger then there wouldn't be much of a debate. If a company could swap languages for any given team and get 3x more functionality, or get the same work done for 1/3rd of the cost, we would know about it already. And to be clear, 3x productivity is achievable, but not by simply switching to Haskell.
None of the plants I mentioned were 40+ years ago. They are all contemporary. Vogtle is still under construction, Summer was cancelled a couple of years ago ($9B down the drain), Flamanville 3 is still under construction, and the last is near completion. You may be confused with earlier reactors at some of those sites.
That statement is meaningless. The government provides incentives and deductions for certain reasons (e.g. buying electric cars, home offices, charity contributions, etc.). It's put into law by the lawmakers.