skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "China's economy led its European counterpart by leaps and bounds at the start of the Renaissance. China was so far ahead, in fact, that economic historian Eric L. Jones once argued that the Chinese empire "came within a hair's breadth of industrializing in the fourteenth century.""

China had an iron industry earlier than that - 12th century, IIRC. It was all starting - more iron resulting in iron tools all over the place, process improvements, and so on. But then some bureaucrats (mandarins, which I think is the same thing) noticed that some of the "wrong" people were getting rich in all this, and the government forcibly shut it all down in the name of preserving social order.

That's one of the strengths of America - more than anywhere else in the world, if you have the right idea, it doesn't matter if you're the "wrong" person.
I live in a forested area currently. Talking about single person choices is disingenuous. There is an industry around building houses where they shouldn't be. The entire zoning, tax and development system is broken, cities depend on building permits for income because they can't effectively tax existing lots. And basically, no one pays for the real cost of exurban sprawl till the whole thing burns up in a forest fire.
Alaska’s Abandoned Mining Towns
> I see red and green just fine. Maybe not as fine as you do, but just fine. I get by. I can drive a car and I stop when the light is red and go when the light is green.

Yup. If I had a pound for every time someone would hear I'm R/G colourblind, hold up something red and go "so what colour is this then?".
Someone's assembling furniture, someone's imaging stars, someone's laying bricks, someone's creating crud apps. All good.
Read-only != constant. State management library can provide you with globally readable state represented by stream of immutable values.
FWIW, the study was done in Barcelona, which (along with Montreal) is one of the most fully bilingual cities in the developed Western world.
It's "natural" to feel this way - that the product is "yours" somehow.

But it's smarter to realize you don't own the software; you own your skill at making software.

Viewed this way, every bug report is an opportunity to improve your skill.
> China is five times the US in population. Given enough time, it can just throw people at problems and get there

I feel that for at least the last century, you need to think of the US population for the purposes of talent pool sizing as more or less the entire world because of its focus on liberty and opportunity. Consider how many accomplished scientists and inventors came from other countries (including China) for this reason. The US has enjoyed a very privileged position of being able to skim the cream of the crop in this way.
I tried doing the math a few years ago. I did another search and up popped this.

http://www.brooklynrail.net/science_of_railway_locomotion.ht...

Which has the comment: At the same speed, same load (GCW) and on level ground, any steel wheeled railway vehicle is 24.6 times more energy efficient than any large rubber tire road vehicle, regardless of the type of power source.

My hand wavy argument would be, to go 300 miles a passenger car needs 33% (guess) of it's weight to be batteries. But a truck is probably 2-2.5 times more efficient. So would only need 33% / 2.25 (split the middle between 2 and 2.5) or 15%.

If a 4000 ton train is 25 times more effecient than a truck as started above then. 15%/25 is 0.6%.

So the battery for a 4000 ton train would weigh 4000 * 0.6% -> 24 tons.

Seems to pencil out to me.
Floodgates in Venice Work in First Major Test
Is it but because our jobs are so varied? My team implements what I would call "business logic" for a (relative to Google scale) small number of users. We often frown at algorithmic coding exercises, like what we believe Google would ask in interviews, using the argument: we suppose that makes sense if you have to optimize compression of YouTube's video streams, which we don't have to... (Rather, our small, ambitious team emphasizes optimization for maintainability over performance.)
That was great! A little preachy in places but overall very good. Cheers!
It looks like `.git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD` doesn't exist, which might explain why a fresh clone results in a detached HEAD (i.e. Git should default to being on the branch referenced by this entry).

As for how you can end up in such a state on the remote, I'd actually be interested to know too.
> Performance is not a factor in this.

What a completely ridiculous statement. Why else would anyone choose BGP if not for performance (i.e. download speed)? The choice to use BGP over a plain old JPG would be made specifically by people who do care.
I mostly agree with you. It doesn't help that software development is so archaic right now. I would like to express just what is necessary for a certain problem, and not address the irrelevant aspects. For example, if I want to express an embarrassingly parallel algorithm, which does something embarrassingly simple, why do I have to drop down to C++11 to get it to run fast on iOS / Apple Metal? Something is needed that is a superset of Mathematica and Isabelle to remove clutter. It is that clutter that makes parallel programming a mess.
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The filthy rich often don't care about the social externalities of their corrosive businesses because their wealth insulates them from the harm they cause. Don't waste your empathy on Facebook executives.
Most of the world's population is multilingual [1], hence it doesn't correlate with much anything on a wider scale. The list of multilingual areas is very long and nuanced [2] and the implications and correlations in each location are as widely varied as the list itself.

As other commenters have already pointed out, the study took place in Barcelona, where multilingualism is prominent and doesn't correlate with any specific group or trait.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism#Myths

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multilingual_countries...
It seems like in both of those cases the real problem was the pre-emptive actions taken by the officers. If someone is predicted to commit a crime it makes radically more sense (as far as avoiding acting on false positives) to surveil them in a clandestine fashion and simply allow them to commit the crime while you record the evidence. An arresting officer can be dispatched later to make the arrest without any need to risk escalating an in-progress crime.
I love my pi-4 wireguard server... It beats my asus router openvpn.
In China, this is called the "bad emperor" problem. They've seen it several times.
Technological Slavery
Some random golden oldies (mostly not including anything 1990's or newer).

M

Dersu Uzala

Battle of Algiers

Z

The Third Man

Touch of Evil

Planet of the Apes

In The Mood for Love (OK: It's not that old)

The Killing Fields

The Lives of Others (OK: It's not that old)

The Straight Story (OK: It's not that old)

On The Waterfront

12 Angry Men

Mary and Max (OK: It's not that old)

Marty

Matewan

The Girl With the Red Scarf

City Lights

Umberto D

Fireworks (OK: Not that old)

How Green Was My Valley

Ordinary People
I see. Also known as the "version control is hard, let's go shopping" route.

Better not let it come to that. Especially if the plan is to repeat it when someone mess up next time.
Table 1 shows various demographic factors broken down by disease vs no disease.

But since they're making claims about bilingualism vs no bilingualism, we also need to see a "Table 1" equivalent for those two categories, so we can understand at a glance which confounders are correlated with these values.

Secondarily, it's a bit concerning (for their hypothesis) that bilingualism is associated with less mild cognitive impairment but not with the more severe dementia phenotype.
Regarding 1, I’ve found this Bash script [1] to be helpful in the past. In short, it lists all Git objects sorted by size — a good gut check for whether BFG or git filter-branch worked as you intended.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10622179/how-to-find-ide...
Agree with "herd immunity strategy by default". Absent a vaccine, about the same percentage of people will become sick, while a larger percentage is exposed but does not become sick. At some point, again minus a vaccine, few enough people will be left as potential replicating hosts, that the virus will not be replicating fast enough to maintain the country's epidemic.
Countries will differ by the breadth of the curve, but not the area under it (adjusted per-capita of course).
On the other hand, if you are one of the countries with a long curve, and an effective vaccine arrives before the end of it, you benefit.
Indeed, current C++ is strongly influenced by the MLs.

But after 1985.
Where are you getting these ratings? Twilight Zone is #21 on IMDB. Fawlty Towers is #64.
Lazarus/Free Pascal is another example of a language still very alive, but not growing like crazy.
I have lived in China.
Authoritarian is way worse. Putin is not authoritarian in the degree that China is.

It has lots of disadvantages:

- You can loose everything you have very fast, including your live and the live of your children, and of course your money or your home. There are kidnappings in China.

-Your food is not safe. The air you breath is not safe and if you try to do something, let alone measure it, you will get into problems. They can kill you and make you disappear.

- Nothing is true. Have they beaten COVID? You believe so because they tell you so. But the party controls media so you can believe as well in Santa.

-The State in China is one of the least efficient things you can think of, and extremely corrupt. The only thing they are good at is propaganda.

-Lots of politics in China. Have you seen all the people at the CCP? Lots of factions there fighting for power. Those guys are killing each other or pointing fingers at other factions and sending them to jail with each new scandal.

IMO, "check and balances" is not stupid. It is one of the best inventions the West have created.

Coming back has made me realize how valuable is what we have in the West. And how spoiled people are taking for granted what took thousands of years to develop.
Yarn 2’s Plug and Play has actually been a dream dep size wise. Once you get over the initial hurdles of setup, you can do things like vend your reps for zero installs. core-js alone (two major versions because @rjsf felt compelled to polyfill in a library) is 3K files worth of node_modules.
> Controversial opinion here, but this is part of the reason I like that Apple makes (practically) all purchases run through them. They don’t sell my information, and they have an incentive to not change that.

I'm sympathetic to this, because I do think it's great that Apple values user privacy. But I think it's unfortunate that the perception is that the only way to get that privacy is to use a heavily locked-down device that the user doesn't actually have control over, and that the entity protecting your privacy has to impose strict restrictions on what you can do with that device.

Obviously Google will never be a good example of a company that protects user data and user privacy; their entire business model depends on the opposite. But that doesn't mean that the concept of a company selling a premium product that protects user privacy by default couldn't also allow users to do whatever they want with their device.
I think smoke is trying to be that abstraction layer? I know it makes it easy to swap out the runtime.
Where can I listen to this?
Business and Economic Understanding at Large Scale & Complexity Intro Article
> if the laws were not uniform then astrophysicists would have no basis for assuming that the wavelengths of light emitted by a star is evidence for the composition of that star

Yes, that's true, but that does not mean that uniform laws are an assumption. They are not. They are a conclusion. Uniform laws are the best explanation that anyone has been able to come up with that explains all the observed data. But this was not assumed, and in fact it still isn't. The idea, for example, that physical constants change over time is very much a hypothesis that is given serious consideration. It just turns out that there's no evidence for it.
Years ago on HN I posted a link to an essay by a appellate court chief justice that basically claimed that.

Poor people need the threat of prison to keep them in line.

Middle class people need the threat of loss of money to keep them in line.

The wealthy only need the loss of their good reputation to keep them in line.

That flies in the face of everything I know about poor people. For them their reputation is the only thing of value they have.
No, I don't believe that to be the case. Broadly speaking, prescribed burns are thwarted by a mix of local objections to smoke, noise and traffic ... and environmental objections relating to specific watersheds, protected species and (literally) individual birds that are witnessed in the burn area

And much of the later "environmental objections" are hijacked by the former Nimby forces, while the right wing uses this phony environmentalism to point the rural folks at the left instead of real estate and development interests that drive all this.
I have heard those arguments as well. One wonders what we could go with a "Civilian Conservation Corps" which provided employment for the unemployed and addressed both forestry issues as well as infrastructure issues facing the nation.

Of course that was one of FDR's most successful programs, and one which I feel could be applied here as well. The country needs both tradespeople and infrastructure maintenance in a big way and doing that by funding large engineering firms is extremely inefficient.
> Even if Apple can’t be trusted with my data, I’d rather that it lie with them.

May I ask why? If hypothetically Apple isn't trustworthy with your data, why would you prefer them over any other company with a hypothetically similarly-bad level of trustworthiness?
No, not for every page - it will very much be use case dependent.

However, it does present a viable path to the introduction of new codecs independent of the bogged up process that still has us using GIF and JPEG despite the fact that they've been known for years to be shite.

Also, WASM supports a binary form, so you can skip parsing.
Complete is greatly overstating it. I've personally found stuff from approximately that time period and in general we have a decent idea how people lived and many of their technologies. There are issues pinning down details on specific groups, cultures and political organization, but nothing so unknown as to hide a large industrial society.
Maybe we should separate the evolution of languages from the evolution of package/versioning systems. They do tend to go hand in hand, but that has more to do with logistics and organizational issues than any technical necessity.
Two of my last three jobs did NOT need to compile down to ES5. The current shop is supporting only ES2020 browsers.
I was so happy to see us launch Astronauts from the USA again. Definitely took a little bit of the edge off this year.
not OP but trix.co's Android link goes to Play's "Welcome to the testing program" and that has link "download it on Google Play" which gets "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server."
Depends on what you mean by "low". Many of the Oscar winners don't rank particularly high. Some examples:

The Greatest Show on Earth

Gigi

Tom Jones
Riju: Online playground for every programming language
A while ago I decided to watch all the Oscar Best Movie winners. I think I got to 2005 before I stopped.

While some of them definitely were great, a lot (perhaps half?) really did not impress.

The IMDB 250 list is one I more consistently like. At one point I had seen over 240 of them, and was less frequently disappointed. The list is dynamic, though, so I'm sure there are plenty more now that I've not seen.
You will find an increasing incidence of pipe forms ("X | Y | Z" meaning something akin to "Z(Y(X))", but different) in current languages. C++ and Rust both use it, and Haskell has a variation.
So how does dementia incidence in Montreal compare with mono lingual regions?
Most of Michigan is forested. Less than 1% of Michigan has burned in the last 200 years of settlement: there's a ton more precipitation, plus it's under snow for four months a year, so fallen trees and leaves decompose in a couple years and don't increase the fire risk.

My house in a Michigan forest has a very, very different risk profile from a home in a California forest. And California is a big state, I'm sure there are forests that have similarly low risk profiles.
For some reason, you are trying to make it seem like I'm saying that the author is making a quantum theory (i have no idea why you think im saying this), I'm not.

> He's presenting a purely classical model which displays some features (in particular charge quantization) also seen in quantum mechanical ones.

Compared to other physicists who just outright state that there is no compatibility… You can ignore it, but it is an area for further study in regards to non time orientability for others.
You mention redux in your original comment and I wouldn't call redux store an imperative object. You have pure functions (reducers) updating a state, which is just a simple object without methods. The benefits I see in using this one application state is that I can easily debug the state of the application, I can easily serialize the whole state and include it in a crash report and the devtools for redux are very helpful. Although YMMV
So it contributed one character? The same concept has been in many functional and concatenative languages since even before sh, and those are more likely to have inspired contemporary languages. The influence of absent Simula or Algol is multiple orders of magnitude greater than sh, so the point about the arbitrary standard for inclusion still stands.
Careful, this sounds close to a suggestion to change China's leadership.

Instead, they recently tightened the Party control over businesses, less Deng Xiaoping style, more Soviet style.
> you could argue e.g. New Zealand is setting the standard pretty high nowadays.

Only until you look closely. NZ has very high levels of inequality (children living below the poverty line, and Maori and Polynesian people are incarcerated more, receive less medical care, and have poorer health and shorter lives than the colonisers and recent immigrants.

More qualitatively they are also systematically discriminated against both by government institutions and by employers.

Me, I'm a child of Dutch immigrants in the 1950s, so I just see this among friends, it doesn't affect me personally.

It's sad if NZ is the gold standard.
Very obvious propaganda to promote an agenda, not more, not less.

And don't make me start to talking about how normal is the mental health of the same people that trashed and burned Barcelona last years, because they felt "oppressed" by a man that died 30 years before they born. Or the lobby trying to erase the history claiming than Leonardo Da Vinci, Cervantes and "put your name here" were really from Catalonia. Very sane behavior, for sure.

Trust me (or your gut if you prefer). You can find crazy people equally among bilingual, monolingual, translingual and people with just mischieving tongues. Just take a look at how mental asylums are distributed.

This is just one of thousands of articles that support a patriotic narrative so are published. Is politics disguised as science. The opposite idea would never reach the journals.
I think it's reasonable for Apple to make it difficult for shady third-parties to get you to install their malware-ridden app store, but I don't agree that the only way to keep users safe is to disallow any third-party app installs entirely.

Apple just currently has little incentive to do the former, because a) it's more difficult, b) they have a financial benefit to keeping everyone in their own app store.

Given that, it's naive to think that Apple's main motivation here is to protect users. Sure, that's a part of it (maybe even a big part!), but they could protect their users in other ways, but those other ways would likely hurt their bottom line.

And I think that is why people cry anti-trust all the time when it comes to this: in a perfect world where no one was motivated by profit (and consumer lock-in), we can imagine that Apple would find a way to open up the platform a bit more.
He's an actor and a sociopath, he can fake sincerity and humility. Don't be fooled into thinking he suddenly has them.
In what manner does your tool protect against future improvements to image recognition tools running against images obscured today?
Intuitive, user-friendly, and C++ in one phrase! Amazing how far C++ has gone.
I don't know. It would indeed be interesting to compare Montreal to Toronto or Vancouver.
maybe he actually got some sleep and stopped watching TV.
Not the first time we were lied to as part of this disaster:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/ski-party-pa...

Turns out the "don't close borders" advice was a cached thought related to a plague outbreak in India over 25 years ago, and welded in place by politics.
How do you know you can in the future?

And do you tell your customers that their photos, after you have edited them, might not be safe from future versions of AI?
This has nothing to do with Apple, specifically, though. This is an argument for citizens to get more involved in their government process, and to avoid being suckered by government fear-mongering that results in citizen's accepting ridiculous intrusions into their lives.

Apple deciding to allow or not allow third-party app stores is irrelevant in the face of a government that has decided to pass a law that requires a particular app to be on all phones. If that law is passed, that app will end up on phones, regardless. The only alternative is that Apple would give up a market consisting the second-most populous country in the world, which isn't likely.
> Intel was desparately trying to leverage their monopoly to expand in to new markets.

If your business is in an industry with very rapid innovation, would it be wise to lose focus on your core products and processes?
Maybe I’ll drive yarn v2 migration over the finish line then. Have you run into any hiccups post setup?
> These drugs are not one-size-fits-all.

True but...on a probability basis, the two situations I gave are more than the majority of people's reason.
I am ambivalent on the company (I've recently switched to another), but I have seen nothing else get my friends and family this obsessed with investing and finance.

For some, this accessibility is more of a liability than an asset (i.e. gambling addicts with full options access), but I agree that its generally been for the better.
> Solve this and you'll solve the biggest complaints people have about JS.

Or, perhaps, we can just tell people that their complaints are nonsensical when most of the deps are not actually packaged into the final app or being used at runtime, instead of contorting ourselves to fit their silly worldview.

I'm not losing any money over this. Why should I care?
What are some names that were rejected?
What about N = 266, all from one city?
It's not just the leaders. There's a large body of voters in both the US and Canada who are strongly in favor of coal, oil and gas and vehemently opposed to any limits being placed on those companies

And the shit that goes down in Canada is incredible. Trudeau. Young liberal, right? Ran on an anti-pipeline platform, but when he took office, he bought the pipeline for $7B and fully indents to build it.
Wow that explains a friend’s monster energy intake