skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Left denies basic facts about:

1. Trump's legitimate election in 2016 - see all the hysterical reactions like "Not my president" protests or urging faithless elector to vote for anyone else but trump route or "Russia-gate" (left's Benghazi?) or the impeachment farce. (I don't think I need to provide any citations here).

2. Illegal immigration - left doesn't acknowledge that this is a problem. And then you see left's contradictory messaging ("illegal immigration has slowed down to a trickle") to thousands of children showing up on our borders. Couple that with ridiculous demands like "Abolish the ICE" or calling Obama the "Deporter in Chief". Concrete example of a prominent leftist: https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-abolish-ice-hysterectomy-whistl...

3. Economics: there is a broad agreement among the economists (including someone like Krugman) that rent control doesn't work. Yet you keep seeing repeated attempts from the left. Latest example: CA Prop 21.
Yes, you can. At some point regulation does need to step in and keep corporations in check.

You probably buy food from a restaurant or food ingredients from a grocery store. You don't have to buy food -- you can grow it or hunt it yourself. But there are laws around food labels for a reason.
> “If we are not careful, fear may hamper conservation efforts or fuel hubristic interventions.”
> You don't have to spend hours reading documentation to find the function you want, or googling for stack overflow answers for some build error

...until you start messing with fluid system and oil cracking
https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/gotta-be-a-pony-under-the...
Ghidra 9.2
FWIW I really hope that you are right, a somewhat democratic and more collaborative China would be such a great partner to have, developing advanced tech and stimulating the fight against climate change.

It's only a dream, but it could be so beautiful.
This aligns with what I've heard, and it's not surprising for Chinese govt to let an industry grow by itself then suddenly put a hard brake on it by imposing a set rules with its heavy hands. The difference is this time the victim is much larger and visible than anyone in the past. This mode of operation was not started by Xi, but no doubt Xi's gov't made it less transparent and more brutal to the business and investors.
Yes: 15% is rarely achieved, yet still disappointing.

As I actually came out and said, microarchitectures are now so complicated that we cannot program optimizers to do better. Instead we resign ourselves to (more usually) 10%, and congratulate ourselves on getting that far.
However, the defense establishment has access to classified information and models that we civilians do not have, in addition to all the public material. I’m confident that nuclear war planners have thought deeply about the risks of climate change from nuclear war, even though I don’t know their conclusions or bureaucratic constraints.

This blinkered statement is near the conclusion of the piece.

It would be better placed near the start, so readers have a sense of the author's level of critical thinking.
Ask HN: What should I do after getting my first new MacBook?
Hi HN,
I come from a Linux background and have been using Manjaro with i3.
After all I decided to switch to MacBook what should I do to setup that as my dev machine.

Any suggestions would be appreciated
There were plans for more interesting moon missions under Apollo Applications Program, cancelled because of budget cuts. (and what was left was botched as Skylab)
Not sure 3rd would be able to take the full torque.
Stop spreading misinformation, there is no such thing, we have only anecdotes and we have millions of people infected so we should know by now. HN mods should come down hard to people spreading misinformation and panic, straight from conservative radios playbook. Do better!
If only there was a way to get LTSC as a non-institutional customer and a way to activate it.

(wink wink)
No, I don't think Xi and his friends are scared at all. That's almost like saying the US government is keeping a dozen carriers because it's scared of Russia (or China).

I agree that the US isn't scared of Russia or China, but I think the US is afraid of the idea of not having military dominance.
Not only are the authors of that survey biased, but they are outright admitting to manipulating the data to suit their ends. From the slides:

Key goal: Representative sample of on-demand _work_ being done in
the city, not of all on-demand _workers_. (emphasis not mine)

The team making the study has selected parameters to examine basically exactly to produce a number where the majority of rideshare is full-time. So is it clear that most rideshare workers are full time? Definitely not. And the fact that the team has weighted their sampling in such a way makes me even more skeptical about the veracity of that fact when taken across the whole population of drivers.
It's hard to put the blame solely on Communist China when Christianity's main attempt to take hold led in the Eight-Nation alliance invading China and massacring Christians.
We live in a wonderful world...
I see. So people should not apologize for things they definitely did wrong because of situations where you feel other people have apologized and didn’t need to?
Not listening to this advice is 100% the reason why people don’t trust a lot of public apologies: too many people/companies “apologizing” by saying “I’m sorry you got mad” or “I’m sorry you found out about this”. If you apologize, mean it. If you don’t mean it, don’t apologize.

Every time a person/company apologizes for getting caught, it demeans public trust in everyone’s apologies.
I don't think Trump damaged the office of the president or the institutions. He's actually a quality tester (or a malicious user), the flaws in the institutions were there before, he's the first to abuse them in this way.

Security and anti-terror laws, as well as propaganda for the Iraq war and other militant and jingoistic opinions were the beginning of this.

If the flaws aren't fixed, the US may get a competent dictator within our lifetimes.
Just FYI I assumed you were taking about Visual Studio, not VSCode (a very different product), when you said VS.

Every now and then I see emacs features that I wish existed in VSCode, and often I feel like VSCode extensions are reinventing the wheel but less well and more expensively...and yet, I’ve mostly given up and just use VSCode, because what it does right is make it relatively easy for anybody to write whatever feature they might want to exist, for the most part in whatever language with a small adapter to JavaScript, and package it as an extension.
That's not necessarily what OP's saying. My inference is that OP is suggesting that a constantly prevalent pandemic makes people more likely to think about their own health and mortality in a broader sense than they might if there weren't a pandemic.
Thanks for that link! I've been pondering these things on my own for quite a bit. Seems like there's a quorum of like-minds now, so I guess I should probably join the discussion.
We've never had 'exact same set of rules'. Leave dictatorships aside and just tell me what is 'free market' suppose to do when two legitinate democratic authorities have different rules?

In EU we don't grant software patents, and don't have the patent trols problem, we have different consumer righs, no mandatory arbitration, etc. In germany they have roads without speed limits, etc. A product destines for success in EU might fail in US and vice versa.
Coronavirus Today: This map shows real-time risk
So, it is slightly better than a 1050TI. What does that mean? I do nothing to stress my graphics card at all, so explain it like I am 5, I guess...
> We shouldn’t be making hiring bar so high that it requires a PhD but rather hire on aptitude and hunger for knowledge and feed them.

As a self-taught developer with just a few years of experience, I appreciate seeing this sentiment. I have this burning desire to be a great engineer and to learn as much as I can, but I'm not exactly sure what I should be doing or learning.

Do you have any advice as to activities, books, or other resources that you think would benefit a young engineer who would like to learn how to do things right?
SLS solidly gets you to the moon

Speaking of things that have not been delivered...
a. There are not "massive uprisings" "every year" in China.

b. China has substantially centralized post-2000.

I would go so far as to say it is close-to-useless to cite a 1988 book on modern China unless to reference its history, that's how fast things have changed.
The constitution would be preserved and the press would not be censored. Civil liberties would be protected. The government began by increasing employment and wages as well as implementing agrarian reforms.

and immediately after

Allende’s biggest challenge (and the challenge of all socialist revolutions generally) was to turn private business into public entities.

Difficult to take it seriously after such cognitive dissonance.

In any case, socialism was never a technological problem. I truly doubt the USSR didn't have the technological prowess to make it work. It's a fundamental economic one. You can't remove prices from the loop, as indicators of the human desire. It doesn't matter how many machines you throw at it. You can't replace human preferences.
I'm beginning to think I can replace my Macbook Pro 2015 with the new Macbook Air...the numbers are so tempting.

Let's see how the reviews turn out, where people will use at real-world tasks.
> Trump's election was illegitimate

But she does not deny the fact that he did win. She's just saying that he won because of dirty tricks (voter suppression, intentional promulgation of falsehoods), which is plausible. Certainly within the bounds of an opinion one could legitimately hold.

> 66% of Democrats believe that Russia directly hacked and manipulated vote counts in the 2016 election

Sure. A fair percentage of Democrats would probably say that they think that Trump is Satan incarnate. That doesn't change the fact that Democrats do in fact recognize the fact that Trump won the 2016 election. Republicans by and large are not conceding that Biden has won the 2020 election. (They also deny basic facts about climate change, COVID, etc.)
Being able to finance high interest lending by selling subprime debt securities are principles worth dying for?

Or are these Truth and Duty? I'm very confused. Ma criticised the regulators for 'holding back innovation', innovation we've seen and paid for in 2008.
Read the Ukraine transcript and say it wasn't a flagrant abuse of power with a straight face.
Agree to disagree. Clean energy transmission losses are always preferable to more carbon emissions (as we're already over our carbon budget). Nevada has a lot of clean solar potential, and the PNW is mostly clean hydro.

Enough sunlight hits the Earth in an hour to power all of humanity for a year; electrification of everything is therefore quite reasonable.
This isn't a newspaper article. She chose her title.
Asking: How to mute and unmute audio from a certain place
Adobe acquires marketing workflow startup Workfront for $1.5B
The problem is, you aren't absolutely wrong, so you only made a mistake for a specific group of people.

Look at JK Rowling.

Would many people say that she made many public mistakes? Sure. Does she care? Probably not. Why? Because she thinks she does the right thing and many people think the same.
The vast majority of mental health issues is caused by a lack of virtue?

Sure. General issues, maybe. Actual clinical diagnoses? Absolutely not. Yet you decide to paint both with the same brush. there are 3+ million diagnosed bipolar people in the US. Clinal depression, anxiety, and ADHD rates are higher. This is not a mere “minority”. There are significant numbers of people with chronic mental health problems.

The attitude people have towards mental health is horrible. The first assumption is always that the person with the issue is at fault and it’s up to them to convince any given person they meet that person’s bar for not being at fault for their problems. Even if you meet that bar, they still treat you like shit.
Amazon begins shifting Alexa’s cloud AI to its own silicon
New Release from Docker and Uffizzi: Taking Your App Live
Major police operation underway near Montreal Ubisoft offices
What also happens in healthcare is the manufacturer raises prices to account for margins of/lost to the GPOs. Individual buyers become required to buy through GPO as the price differences are stark. As GPO gains negotiating power, they want to keep more spread for themselves. Manufacturers adjust. The cycle continues, all the while the ecosystem becomes more expensive since you inserted yet another middle man.
They fill-in the ballot in front of them and seal the envelope.

Or worse the voter gives the other person the empty ballot with a signed envelope.
Compared to the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M, the base GPU in the 16" MacBook Pro: https://gfxbench.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&did1=907542...

Compared to the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, the +$700 upgrade in the top of the line MacBook Pro 16": https://gfxbench.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&did1=907542...

Note that the Onscreen numbers are capped at 60fps on OS X, so ignore any Onscreen results at 59-60fps.
I think it's both that the costs are going down, and that the benefits are going up, in the form of useful tooling that couldn't exist without schemas to drive it.

Quantifying these costs and benefits is, of course, notoriously difficult.
In my country we raise our hand to say "thank you", but I also do this to say "I 'm sorry" when there is no other safe way to communicate.
I would say the most remarkable here is him not suffering anything more than that, and this case being handled unusually tactfully, and quietly.

When HNA first took a bit, CCTV was busy blasting them 24*7 for weeks in a row.

People went to jail in today's China for nothing more than mispronouncing Xi's name, let alone sounding any innuendo against him.
Xbox – Smokes and Mirrors
For all non-polish speakers use Subtitles and automatic translate. Its pretty good at least for English
You are, again, simply speaking of your own reality. Simply because you hold an idea to be true does not make that idea true. This is not mathematics. You cannot ‘prove‘ one side to be true. This applies to my side as well as yours.
OpenAPI is just the format for describing APIs for various use cases such as documentation, runtime validation, and yes, even code generation. Depending in the language you use, the support for code generation may vary though.

I’m certainly not against the flow you’re describing. Aside from having to wrangle JSON/YAML instead of a more concise DSL, it’s not too different from what you’d do with OpenAPI.
Maths?
Japan's market are dirt cheap
The narrative that Apple is the bastion of good UX has sailed quite a while ago given their regressions with MacOS 10.14-10.15 bugs, iOS 13 bugs requiring major reOrgs, iPhone Battery-oriented CPU throttling with no user affordance, etc.

Also their web design has been accessibility-hostile often enough with the landing pages of Trashcan Mac Pro, iPhone 12 etc all taking over your scroll…
What you're saying is however not in disagreement with the comment you are replying to!

Living paycheck to paycheck can happen even if you're making 400-500k. I've seen people do it.

You can have no emergency savings (at all) and be making $100k+.

It's pretty easy - spend everything you have (often on "dumb" things like expensive takeout for every meal, a lease on a car you don't need, more house than you can afford, refreshing electronics constantly for no reason, etc.).

The reasons usually boil down to lack of emotional regulation and/or bad spending habits, not lack of income - though it is easier to do with low income, as the margins are smaller.
It's curious you identify protests from those NOT in power, who are ABUSED by those in power, as "abuse of power by those in power."

That's such a big stretch it's not even a stretch, just some blatantly perverted spin attempt to associate a movement you don't like with basically the opposite of it. Consider that we aren't that far from the times of "whites only" establishments here... you posit that somehow we've come full circle when actually the folks in power today have a lot of continuity with the ones in power then.

The shamelessness of the propaganda here to prop up the existing power structures is breathtaking.

(Doesn't it seem like a strong Jewish Lives Matter movement may have helped prevent some of these German government abuses?)
> Just because kids aren't using email or websites as much doesn't mean that they aren't using the internet more.

For sure, everything uses the internet. But not the web.

Point is most of us aren’t hanging out where the kids are hanging out. And we don’t have as much time to just hang out either.
A tweet from ten years ago that was perfectly reasonable at the time?
Pizza costs $1.50 to make and charging $8-20 for it, you can eek out a great margin. It also transports well and can be easily reheated.
Regular restaurants have a lot thinner margins.
I think the difference between the U.S. and China is that in the U.S. corporate power controls the government, whereas in China the state has control over the corporations.

I don't think Xi is scared per se, but he definitely doesn't want China ending up like the U.S.
I think those are the same link
Show HN: Torrent Parts – Inspect and Edit What's in Your Torrent or Magnet URL
Hey guys! This was my quarantine project that I'm excited to call v1.0 today. I found that there weren't many tools our there on the web today to inspect Torrents and Magnets, so I decided to learn how to make my own! It's open-source[1], with feedback and contributions are welcome.

1. https://github.com/leoherzog/TorrentParts
I did not say "Linux" anywhere. I said Ubuntu.

Did it happen? Yes. And that is enough information.
An aside, but the author says: "To me, the MacBook Pro 16" could have been the best programming laptop of all time if only Apple have been willing to provide Linux/Windows drivers. "

Apple does in fact provide Windows drivers for the 16" MBP, as part of Boot Camp.

(Though why you'd choose to run Windows over macOS is impossible for me to comprehend.)
The net effect of covid is going to hard to calculate. We may save a flu season, car crashes are way down, I don’t think crime is down in the US. Given the demographics of covid deaths, it’s not clear that covid deaths will be much of a net positive beyond a year, but vaccination campaigns stalled, cancer screening stopped, no dental care, elective procedures postponed, obesity booming up, mental health issues, and the secondary effect of a serious economic crisis on health too.
> If I have to guess, Xi is convinced that he's leading China into an age of unprecedented glory, and he's surrounded by people who talk the same and mostly think the same.

For what it's worth given the ... disastrous state of the US, the deep rifts in the EU and the total retreat from anyone not China from Africa, that is a very valid, yet frightening, assessment of the future.
Show HN: Torchutils – a PyTorch library for quick and systematic experimentation
Hello HN community - for the past year or so I have been plugging away on a side project called torchutils (https://gitlab.com/avilay/torchutils). It'd be great if you could take it for a spin when training your next ML model and give me some feedback. Here are the detailed docs (https://avilay.gitlab.io/torchutils/)
Turning High Resolution Data into Wall Art
Using the settings used by most people, which do not show pop-ups when parts of Windows use privileges, is exactly as secure as allowing every program to do whatever it wants. It’s not a security boundary and exploits for it are not counted or fixed.
> Places that locked down immediately, like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and New Zealand, have mostly prevented spread within their borders, and are not experiencing the same fallout as other nations.

This isn't fully true. Look at Australia, which all but declared victory against Covid many months ago, but has continued to need rolling lockdowns as the virus spreads as soon as the lockdowns end.

Lock downs just aren't a long-term solution, all they can do is "flatten the curve."
I assumed it was just a tongue-in-cheek joke because of all the pictures with trash in them.
Systems Manager also supports Port Forwarding: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-port-forwarding-using-a...
This has gotten extremely off topic, and in the worst direction: generic, tedious, partisan flamewar. You posted 41 comments moving the thread in this undesirable direction. Could you please refrain from doing that here? The more threads go in this direction, the more off topic for HN they become.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not disagreeing with you, I respect your views and feelings and the importance of the issues. But HN's mandate is curious, thoughtful conversation about topics of intellectual interest. When the thread gets reaches this degree of fiery political minutiae, it has left that far behind. In fact it's at the far end of the solution space from ontopicness.
is this supposed to be facetious? because my point is exactly that there is nothing to do other than that and that to pretend that you can "elbow grease" and "work ethic" your way out of debilitating injury is just asinine.
People fighting for their rights always seems like an attack on the comfortable majority.

At one point in history people were fighting to have two days off per week, or to not have to work 17h a day, or to not have children working on machines or in mines.

These moves we regard as proper and justified today were just as much an affront to the social norms as you feel this may be now.
Is it? Obviously the hard numbers take precedence but I wouldn't necessarily hang up the phone.

There was a talk at [Guess the programming language]-conf last year, where a director at a pretty big investment fund was talking about how their choice to use said language (as opposed to being another C++/Python shop) has very much effected their approach to finding solutions to problems for the better.

It's probably impossible to measure, but the confidence to do things differently company-wide could set you in good stead asymptotically. Even if culture just means not being Uber e.g. no "a very, very strange year at [CompanyName]" blog posts or similar.
When the right goes fascist, they state as much. When the left does it, they claim it's to fight fascism. I know right wing fascists. They know exactly what they are, and will openly defend it as "necessary evil." One need only read comments on censorious sites (like this one) to see that the left wing will silence their enemies and call it freedom, strike their adversaries and call it self defense, convict on hearsay and call it justice.

A man who willingly turns himself into a monster because he believes he must is a scary thing, but will hardly become a full on movement. For that, the monsters must believe they are not such. This is why the left are the real fascist threat, but the feigned pseudo intellectual zeitgeist of this place will never see such a truth.
> Illegal immigration - left doesn't acknowledge that this is a problem

It certainly does. That's why the left supports policies like DACA.

The disagreement is not about whether or not illegal immigration is a problem. The disagreement is very much about what the right way to fix the problem is, which is well within the bounds of legitimate policy disagreement.

> rent control doesn't work

Of course it does. Rent control keeps rents from going up. Whether or not this is desirable, or whether it has undesirable ancillary effects that outweigh the benefits, is again the subject of legitimate disagreement over policy.
Not really a serious gaming option, but OK for lower end (ignoring that Apple doesn't care about gaming in general).