skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand what's the point of UN when these things are happening in a permanent UNSC member country.

It’s a venue for political theatre. Otherwise it’s a pretty good system for funnelling money to corrupt regimes and other NGOs.

The argument that it’s an essential tool for diplomatic relations is pretty much bunk. No country relies on the UN to have diplomatic relations with any other country.

It’s predecessor, the League of Nations, had the decency to dissolve itself after realising how useless it was. The only difference between the LON and the UN, is that the UN has never got around to doing that, despite failing to achieve anything.
And which country was the first one to start dropping bombs on other sovereign countries without a UN mandate? If I remember correctly, it was not China. They never dropped a single bomb on any other country.
“Smart Client, next ITERation” it seems
Sciter does not have a capital T. I have no real idea where OP got that capital from, but confusion with SciTE seems possible.
The problem is most Chinese approves Chinese government, and why people from outside keep shouting 'you are not happy' to them.
Stop fearmongering!
Have you ever met a Falun Gong practitioner?
Curl Security Anti-Patterns
I'm wondering if there are ballot boxes like this anywhere in the US?

[1] https://www.wahlurne.de/Wahlurne%20Muelltonne%201.png

[2] https://mobil.express.de/image/31438468/max/600/450/a7c42ec3...

[3] https://scheinwelt.lima-city.de/assets/images/mulltonnen-wah...

The above pictures are from Hamburg and Bavaria.
When I saw them for the first time I thought were kidding me.
What I was thinking as well. "How dare they holiday in their own country where COVID is under control!". We have everything pretty under control in NZ and people are traveling domestically, but I would like to think we are pretty good neighbours...
"Don't create a paper trail" shouldn't be a thing you demand of employees if you have "Don't be evil" as a motto.

They appear to be mutually incompatible.
> resisting the heavy Han Chinese settlement that would lead to the Uighurs becoming a minority in their own province

It surprises me that nativist anti-immigration demands are considered righteous in some regions and evil and backwards in others.

I understand the general history like you do though, I don't disagree. Radical Uighur groups did help China make the case with their knife attacks on civilians to be painted as "just another brand of islamic terrorism".
Maybe “circumvent” isn't adequate here (not a native English speaker), what I meant is that's easy to bypass your countermeasures: post from my computer, and check from my phone if my comment is visible, if not I shadowbanned.

And regarding third world country, your idea doesn't prevent them to access the website, but they will access a site where the shadowbanning feature is pretty much disabled, which could lead to the proliferation of trolls or spam targeted at this specific country.
It is funny, the NHS uses Microsoft Teams. So faxes are more insecure than giving all their data to Microsoft?
Personally I am not a fan of giving everything its own resources in modularized packages. It makes operations difficult as you have multiple pages of resources. Keep if flat and share things like buckets when the security and retention policies are the same. I think this is fine up-to team scale, and I am not sure you want to go bigger? I am not sure module reuse is that useful for Terraform.

I have converged to copy and pasting from some reference examples e.g. https://github.com/futurice/terraform-examples (note I contribute to that)
> It was and is a way to stop (ultimately nuclear) confrontation between members to prevent WWIII.It has been instrumental to this goal, and this is the actual purpose of the UN. The General Assembly is a nicety.

No, it is not. The exact purpose of UN's founding was for it to be an instrument with which the West would smack down the next third reich wannabe country before it gets too powerful.
That’s the key. Western people VALUE this freedom of speech A LOT, but it’s not a prevailing concern for even most Chinese citizens.Years of enlightenment and education are needed to raise that awareness. Sadly CCP knows how to prevent you do it.

Imagine 0.01% of Chinese population have the awareness and willing to fight for it, that’ll be a huge deal already.
UK's Tempest fighter jet project could support 20k jobs, says BAE Systems
I kind of wrote this comment but got afraid to get caught up in the desktop UI circlejerk. Now I wrote it again...

My hope for the "modern desktop" is actually having a hybrid system that offers UX automation for the most used tasks, but allows efficient interaction when users are power users of it.

With things happening lately around purism's phosh shell, and pinephone being on the verge of having a full convergence desktop...I think we are finally getting very close to actually implementing it.

What the ecosystem around phosh now needs is apps, apps that can replace that proprietary shit that is forced upon users. Libhandy was/is a huge step forward to have a responsive AND adaptive layouting in native apps.

I don't know whether we actually can use GTK here, or whether it turns out that HTML/CSS like concepts are the way to go then, because it's a transferable concept across multiple platforms (and data endpoints, like print or braille stylesheets) but I really hope that it gets easier to write offline ready apps in the future for both mobile and desktop without having to go the react native BS route that always turns out to duplicate codebases anyways.
Are you saying that's not allowed now?
How dare you use the word "utilitarian" in such an atrocious context.

I've been a "real" utilitarian for almost a decade (as much as is possible to be), and I consider China the single greatest threat to freedom and peace on the face of the planet.

Can you seriously believe that China would not be far, far better off with a democratic regime?

Yes, China has raised up their economy, but they've only done it for the sake of power, and hundreds of millions of Chinese still live in severe poverty.
Not especially true for all AWS Services, there has been some services that were only available on CF (Workspaces comes to mind).

But in this case it wasn't Hashicorp fault, as what was available in CF wasn't in the AWS official API.

It took something like a year for AWS to release the API
Kuzzle: Open-source Back-end: Real-time, storage, advanced search Web, Apps
'Difficult winter ahead': London goes into stricter lockdown
Of all the times in history that a nuclear war has been narrowly averted, I don’t remember the UN ever having anything to do with it.
It's not a great leap to assume that relaying your equivalent role to an audience by referencing a familiar icon would be effective.

"You know the office? I'm basically Michael Scott." "To these people, I am Steve Jobs."

Christianity has a particular bug about calling oneself "Jesus", as in, "the second coming of Christ" and goes on high alert over it. That's what I got out of it, at least.
Uber spamming users with political push notifications ahead of gig worker vote
A quick search shows lots of people thought of this before
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/12/17563846/a...
https://thegadgetflow.com/portfolio/combination-earbud-earri...
https://teqnizan.com/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scandi/swings-bluetooth...
In agreement with you, SAM's support in CF and CDK is solid. AWS really put all their ducks behind SAM.

The place that suffers is ElasticBeanstalk. I used to be on EB but couldn't take it anymore. I kept having to run mini-templates from inside the beanstalk machines to get access to specific items that weren't exposed to CF directly.

Once I moved to ECS/Fargate, it's worlds better support. ECS still has some parts that are laggy in the CDK (and you can still do it via JSON obj) but not in CF. It's been pretty good here in Fargate land.
Your second link seems largely irrelevant to the topic at hand and segues from discussion of the persecution of Uyghers into a generic anti-China rant, of which there are many on other internet forums nowadays.
The fact that you are able to make this claim online (even anonymously) without any fear for your personal safety instantly proves that your claim is false.
amzing blog
> It surprises me that nativist anti-immigration demands are considered righteous in some regions and evil and backwards in others.

Nativist anti-immigration demands in Europe or North America are generally criticized as hyperbole because immigration will not actually lead to demographic replacement in the near future, in spite of those activists’ claims. Furthermore, in Europe the immigrants invariably assimilate linguistically to their host country – by the second or third generation, the language of the old country is forgotten. Xinjiang is a very different case entirely: China has the numbers to change Xinjiang’s demographics, and virtually none of those Han Chinese immigrants are learning Uighur and using it in public.

> Radical Uighur groups did help China make the case with their knife attacks on civilians to be painted as "just another brand of islamic terrorism".

The major wave of knife attacks (which can be seen as a late sign of desperation) postdate China’s attempt to tie the crackdown on the Uighurs to the West’s War on Terrorism. Again, the chronology here is important.
The party that is "behind" always does well in the mid terms, this is a very well documentes phenomenon. In fact, I think the Dems did much worse in 2018 than expected
Here you go. This guy had some trouble just after posting it btw.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...
There's a lot more involved in my case than that, but suffice to say it worked well in the forum I maintain, so your intuition disagrees with my practical experience. And yes, my trolls/spammers are dumb.
I bought an HP3600N about 15 years ago for something like $700. I’m not 100% sure if it has USB because it hangs off my network (which then Ubiquiti devices provide WiFi). It’s worked reliably and 3rd party toner is readily available and works well. If a major component wore out or failed, it would probably be cheaper to replace the unit than the part, but parts are technically available. I’ve had an excellent networked color laser at home for around $75/yr including toner.
They don't care about China too much nor about the Uygurs. Their jihadic vision is focused on U.S - Israel alliance which are seen as demonic forces that are respoinsible for everything bad in the muslim world. China isn't seen as someone occupying holy muslim lands or as a great Satan so they are exempt. Iran for instance also has very solid relations with China.
You are right, I should have been aware of this and should have phrased it differently, apologies. Thanks for sharing, and keep up the good work!

I am delighted that you liked the list.
> Everything works perfectly.

Well, as long as you don't mind changing your init system:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863974
People are amazingly biased, perhaps dishonest, when it comes to this. Of course the same media that propagated the Russia hoax(among others) would behave totally different if the roles were reversed. The fact that they all have acted in unison, and along with social media's draconian measures, only suggests that there's actual merit to the story.
There is legislation in place in the EU to enable digital signing. I think it is currently only on the level of: 'signatures that meet these standards can be legally binding if the contract allows for digital signatures'. I also do believe there is a system to allow countries to do identity attestation. That is, countries will assert that, indeed, this key belongs to this name.
I couldn’t get what types those would be fit in but in general:

- train/bus stations: the biggest ones are notoriously hard to navigate, even for people going in everyday, if they ever have to choose another path. In the US I expect few of them, in EU/Asia there’s a good number of shopping mall size stations.

- aeroports, as a variation of the above, although I wouldn’t download a plan just for that

- government buildings / hospitals

- underground malls. They are particularly harder to navigate than standard malls.
Somehow, someway people have been so caught up in some media firestorm that they actually think that the United States of America “does the same” as China.

When did China last have a Uighur dictator? (Since it’s a dictatorship I mean I guess they don’t really care about having representation of minority groups in positions of power). Does China have schemes to help minorities in China attend college? Are there advocate groups representing Uighu interests in Beijing? Do they have any history or education in Chinese textbooks about the Uighur or other minorities? In the US we did a lot of bad stuff (we all benefit from it now, so every single American born today is as guilty as any other) but at least we actually acknowledge it!

How many immigrants of any sort does China allow to fully immigrate into China on a yearly basis? Can a Syrian apply for a visa or move to China as a refugee?

Why are some Chinese racist against Africans and why is that overlooked? [1], [2], [3]

Does the US have problems? Yep. Even if the US “was the same”, last I checked we have protests and people campaigning to fix our issues. So even if you wanted to make the outlandish claim that “the U.S. is the same”, you can easily look around and see that at a minimum we highlight problems in our society. Who is running against Xi to stop the genocide of Uighur Muslims?

The only thing that makes sense to me here is social media. You (not you specifically) see that first outrage article and then down the scrolling and clicking hole you go until you’re just addicted to being outraged.

I put what I call America-denialism on a similar level as I do anti-vaxers, flat earth era, 9/11 truthers, or Trump deep-state conspiracy theorists. It’s just another wacky idea that you get from extended periods of time going down social media rabbit holes.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-racism-africans-chi...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/china-fails-to...

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/15/chinas-racism-is-wrecki...
Raph Koster (MMO designer and expert at Massively Multiuser stuff) a rough vision for what this type of tech is probably intended for. He discusses it briefly towards the end of his (VERY strongly recommended!) talk "Still Logged In: What AR and VR Can Learn from MMOs"[1]. His essay "How to build the scary future today"[2] goes into more detail.

The overly simplistic TL;DR is: the people currently trying to track everything you do online would really love a future where all your offline physical stuff had a unique serial number and regularly updated room/gps/etc location data. An indoor map of logical features would be a useful component in that future.

I'm sure there are other, more beneficial uses as well. All technology is dual use. To understand the full impact of a proposed technology, as Raph Koster advised[1], "Every feature must be looked at as a weapon."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgw8RLHv1j4

[2] https://www.raphkoster.com/2014/06/11/how-to-build-the-scary...
Maybe one of the projects listed on the OSM Wiki suit your needs?[1].
I did not look into the Apple IMDF, but it sounds like it does almost the same as the Simple Indoor Tagging in OSM[2].

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor_Mapping
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_Indoor_Tagging
IMO, the case of the Nobel prize and salmon ban showed the opposite - that is inexpensive for China to punish a country, but not the opposite.

A long analysis has actually been written on this topic: https://www.cmi.no/publications/5805-too-big-to-fault

While on one hand, a coordinated punishment may be effective, on the other hand, I think China has the power to buy other countries' consent step by step.

Additionally, I think China would never relent; doing so would be an admission of guilt, which is poisonous for their regime.
I'm so tired of this drivel. I don't understand how anyone can take themselves seriously saying this shit, comparing the two issues. Only thing I can think of is being paid off by the CCP.
Hmm, using sphinx-doc without an attribution (which means they intentionally removed it) isn't very tasteful...
The Catholic church doesn’t globally pool their wealth.

“ In 2010, the Vatican had an income of $326 million and ran a $13 million budget surplus, but in 2011 the Vatican ran a $19 million deficit. And while some of that money obviously went to maintaining church buildings and art, much of it also went to charitable causes.

Recent re-evaluations of Vatican assets show that the Vatican has approximately $1 billion in total assets. For comparison, Harvard University’s endowment is over $30 billion. So, relatively speaking, the Catholic Church is not really wealthy, and no one blames museums for maintaining their art work and structures. “

The calculation above is like adding up all the wealth of people with the last name Smith.
Don't you think it makes sense that as we learned about how the virus spreads, and as the number of people infected exploded, that the mask recommendation might change?

I think you're trying to mock scientific experts, but what kind of expert would NOT be willing to change their recommendation based on new, strong, contrary information?

Of course experts would prefer not to make a recommendation until all the facts are known, to avoid being wrong. But that simply was not (still and is not) possible with the pandemic.

We have to decide how to react with the information we have and it's just rational to be willing to change our decision based on strong new information.
Why you should care about Robot Framework – Part II
Given rapid progress in technology, it is apparent that resume screening should go into dustbin of history, and be replaced by aptitude tests like HackerRank, CoderPad and like.

I have already talked to a few "resume optimization" experts, and their interviention infallibly landed my CV on the desks of organizations that seemed unable to properly appraise developer skills.

Anybody who can second my experience?
If this ever happens I can just change my approach. It helped me a lot so far. I'd rather have an approach that is currently working on >99% of the cases I need than chase some hypothetical 100% solution that is virtually impossible to achieve.
AI-assisted study pins down early human fire control
While the parent is a bit extreme in his views that "everyone should know how to code" (which is rubbish to be honest, everyone should know how to go about general problem-solving, but not how to code), the underlying problem is a different one and has nothing to do with "gate-keeping", instead that "one-size-fits-all" doesn't work.

For some reason, UIs are now designed towards an "average user", but as the airforce has found out long ago: average users don't exist in the real-world [1], it's an entirely made up concept.

The solution to this is customizability. Create an OS that's easy to use in the default configuration but let me tweak it to my own needs just like I can adjust the seat in my car.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
We aren't the same at all. In the last 10'000 years, we developed lactose tolerance, enabling us to herd cows for more than just meat. Only about 200 years ago, the first people with three arteries instead of two in their arms are showing up and recent studies seem to indicate that wisdom teeth are evolving away.

The evolution of a species never stops, even if it gets a bit slow. And our brains may have changed in the last 10'000 years too. Possibly even in the last 200.
Who determines they are not equally severe? How can we reliably estimate and compare the damage done in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan to what's happening in China?
I'm not sure if we would all feel that safe sharing that sentiment in an internet run by China. West might be failing in a lot of things, but it is best we have.
The issue with this is it requires us to look into people's souls and know their motivations. We can't do that. Maybe this is being reported because it serves someone's narrative. Maybe it's honestly because it's bad. Either way it is bad, so who cares why, action should be taken.
There's an obvious observation bias here though.
one person's "seems to work pretty well" is another's "how can you manage to stay sane like that"
Good that you mention Engelbart, because none of the mainstream desktop OSes are close to his ideas, or what the Xerox workstations allowed for, ironically Windows is probably the one most closest to it.

While GNU/Linux have the necessary tooling for making it as well, but thanks to the fragmentation and some communities hatred against GNOME/KDE, it will never happen.

This is what a modern desktop OS should look like,

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

Including the part of being written on a memory safe systems programming language.
Wikipedia disagrees with your definition of Censorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

"Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies."
I've used it in Google Maps and Apple Maps to find a particular shop in a mall, or an airport.
Sure, but money is a very effective motivational power. If something is expensive, there is a higher need to produce an alternative.
It's possible for a simple thing to encode something more complex, deterministically.

The prime example is The Game of Life - simple rules from which complex behaviour emerges.

This idea of information is one we're putting onto the system, not some inherent attribute. Yes, the encoding of a protein needs to have enough information to produce that protein (or a family of proteins), but that says nothing about the process that created the encoding.

For example, a strand of RNA can be spliced in many different ways to create many different proteins [0] and this process can go weird in many ways. New sequences will arise from this process, even though they weren't 'intended' to.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_splicing
Repeal Section 230. Telling people how to treat an emerging medical condition is not moderation it’s publishing.
My, my! Such inconvenience!
Fair suggestion, however in this list - Pakistan is China's client state since decades. China has provided Pakistan everything from missiles to nuclear bomb to military drones. And now China is building its Belt and Road's largest project through Pakistan.
Time to identify which countries are in Chinese camp (North Korea, Pakistan, a few African dictatorships).
Did it led to that? Because the "tyrannical regime" was progressively more open since the 60s, and it fell all by itself actually...
> concentration camps for blacks, native americans and immigrants

Maybe not to the scale of China, but basically. They are prison, reservations, and immigration detention centers.

> Are they tracked through a social credit system where you can't get a train out of your town if it's bad?

Again, not as bad in the US, probably, but we do have a credit system that can make it much more difficult for certain people to have a place to live, buy a car, or get a job. Add on the felony system, and we also take away their right to vote, and again make it harder for them to get good jobs. Finally, we even have a no-fly list.

> Where journalists repeteadly disappear?

Does that happen in China? A quick Google search didn't bring up much. I do agree that the US has more freedom of speech.

> Where a treaty with the UK is ripped up and a city is invaded?

We have and still regularly do this with treaties we made with Native American tribes.
I don't agree. A recommendation engine can (and should) be completely neutral.