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I think the reason your opinion is different than most people you know is because you really know nothing about china unfortunately.

> They are afraid of Taiwan because Taiwan is the living example that China can prosper without the CCP.

Not really, 20 years ago maybe? but now that the first tier provinces have mostly caught up economically it's really just a matter of time before rest of china catches up.

> They are afraid of Hong Kong because it's an example of resistance to the regime.

again, most chinese think the hongkong riots as a bunch of misguided youth manipulated by western media. you may not agree with it, but that's the view held in china right now.

> They are afraid of religions because no matter how much you punish someone, you won't be able to make them worship you instead.

or maybe the fact religion has been the main drivers for a whole bunch of wars?

> They are afraid of wealthy people because they can taste freedom and they can vision a China without the CCP.

is that why more and more wealthy chinese people are expressing their support for ccp abroad, but are instead labelled as brainwashed?
It would be interesting to see the comparison to a Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U, you can find that in a ThinkPad P14s for $60 less than the cheapest macbook air (same amount of ram and ssd size) so that seems like a fair comparison
> Sorry, don't have a reference handy, but I saw it.

The unfortunate refrain of too many people repeating falsehoods online and in person these days.
To be fair, I've written my math papers in LaTeX, and I agree. Well, perhaps with the modification: "LaTeX errors are complete horseshit". Or perhaps blame the compiler.

Do you remember what gcc errors were like just as clang got popular? They were pretty bad before the c compilers started competing to have nice ones.

Those are wonderful in comparison to the errors in LaTeX.

Fucking extra newline breaking equation* and causing nonsense.
Poor response, as pandemic safety 101 would prevent this:

- wash your hands

- wear a mask

- practice social distancing

- avoid extended periods indoors with non-household members

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
Good thing they added that clause about how it needs a 7/8ths majority to repeal, ensuring this special law will be with us forever
Yeah, this is a hit piece aimed to demoralize the populace into not enjoying the holidays with their families.
I'm not your goto java guy, but the module system of java and how modules can provide implementations for interfaces is really great.
I love that!

I am a "dependency skeptic." A lot of folks think I'm against them, but nothing could be further from the truth. Most of my software is composed of dependent modules.

Mostly written by me.
I was implying that it doesn't really matter what the nature of the impact is if common people aren't the ones controlling the levers of power. I'm not romanticizing anything. I'm simply trying to draw attention to the nature of the power dynamics at play.

And I didn't say the fluidity of labor implied the commodification of labor. It's the complete opposite. The motive force of the capitalist system is the growth of capital. The commodification of labor is absolutely essential to that process.

If you want to talk about oversimplification let's talk about summing up the effects of globalization as "wages increasing 20 fold […] since 1820".
I don't view it as micromanaging. I view it as building foundations in good and scalable ways. At the beginning when the map is empty (analogous to a green field project with no files yet) it may seem like micromanaging. But if you do it right, you quickly grow out of that phase and start operating at a scale the new order of magnitude up. This cycle repeats a few times and before you know it (because you accidentally stayed up all night playing the game) you're copy-pasting massive factories around and having armies of robots build it for you. You no longer care about minor details and micro-optimizations, you care about the next order of magnitude.
I think they meant a hypothetical replacement for LaTeX that would come into existence as a result of that funding and would be ready by 2030, rather than a project that actually exists now.
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> "I regret that my actions had this effect on you,"

That's just a variation of "I'm sorry you're so impatient" or "It's too bad you have no sense of humor.":
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Apology#Acknowledgment_of_th...

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/people-are...
ArgriTech is huge.
Given how capable our editors are today, it seems reasonable to both require semicolons at the end of statements and expect users to configure their editor/formatter to insert these semicolons for them wherever possible. The inability of the editor/formatter to automatically infer the locations of semicolons would be tantamount to a syntax error.
Well the fact that they're killing Muslims is pretty telling about how they feel about other religions.

Stop trying to white wash crimes against humanities
We realised it during the height of the lock down in spring. Our son did not interact with any other child for a few weeks, and only went out occasionally with a mask on. Then he suddenly got chicken pox...
(Not even close to a zig expert, but I've been playing with it a little bit, find it very interesting, and think what I'm about to say is correct:)

The zig equivalent of a module, a struct, is also a first-class object in zig, so should be the same as OCaml there.

However, Zig does not have anything like a signature -- in that sense, it's "dynamically typed" at compile time (i.e., like type args to C++'s templates, however not nearly as bad because the errors you get are immediate and understandable -- think of it as more like "I fucked up the types and got a python-style error" than I "I fucked up the types and got a C++ templates error").
> Given that 99% of animals come from factory farms

In what planet?

You could be surprised to know that the real number is much lower. After FAO for example, percentage of pigs being breed in intensive in 2010 ranged from 6% to 60%. In Europe it was a 30% for example. The current 2020 values can differ a little of course, but definitely would not support such bold claim as "99% of animals come from a factory farm... so we should we all turn crazy, or start eating pills, or whatever". This is a myth.

As the IF(statement) part is False, the THEN{we should...!} part does not apply.
Oh, this one is great! I was previously running hnreplies through kill-the-newsletter.com!
I don't disagree with anything you said, but I don't think this applies to the original comment. The majority of people who demand an apology aren't the victims. They're just random people on Twitter who are just looking for ways to attack people they don't like. It may have been a mistake for someone to wear a mildly racist costume on Halloween a decade ago, but there is no reason they should be expected to apologize.
Please don't editorialize the title (submitted title was "Editing the C standard / “LaTeX is horseshit”"). This breaks the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

I realize there was a subheading saying that, but the article has other subheadings, and cherry-picking is the essence of editorializing. Titles have by far the biggest influence on discussion, so this is a big deal.
racist!!
I guess I'm also a unique snowflake since I actually like 16:9 screens more than 16:10.

For work, more vertical space is nice but so is more horizontal space - it's useful for longer lines and various sidebars and such that all software has lately. I don't really have a preference there.

But for "fun" 16:9 is better since with 16:10 you have black bars in most media, no matter if it's a movie or conference talk or whatever. And fun is important use case for a laptop - I wanna watch movies on a plane or train, and even at home since it's mobile. Having big TV in living room is nice, but being able to watch cooking video right in the kitchen, or tinkering video in garage is great.

I'm actually kinda bummed that Dell went to 16:10 on XPS 13, since I was eyeing that as my next laptop.
Can confirm that they do. At least at the schools I’ve been at, “Paul’s Online Math Notes” is an instantly recognizable name for most STEM students.
NeXT shipped a single binary that supported 68000, Sparc, HP and Intel CPUs. This is nothing new.
What does any of your complaints about Apple hardware have to do with open source?

Are you confused into thinking that intel or amd processors are open source?

Apple supports open source a great deal. opensource.apple.com
They are a private company, so no stock drama only some family drama. They are out of Minnesota and most people ignore that as a corporate center. Most of what they do isn't under the name Cargill. They actually resemble an old conglomerate more than a focused company. Heck, most employees don't know what all they do, and you really don't interact with that many other divisions.

Also, realistically and in comparison to other companies, you really have to stretch to call them public enemy one. There is really no danger of Cargill impacting your life like one of the big tech companies. There are other strong players in everyone of their markets.
And everyone on the planet would know you're doing it via national television or every inter-continental ballistic warning system?
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this is disingenuous, the scale is incomparable. why is india behind china then, if all it took was time?
They actually should but not because of technology. It would just be a subpoena or an order, if it comes from the right group. Government records are retained for a minimum period of time. If records are missing, then investigators need to find out why. It is not clear to me however if this is personal or government systems we are talking about.
> There is also the "creative destruction problem" where an innovative company is beating an incumbent, but the incumbent happens to be partially owned by party cadre and leverages its power to shut down the innovator.

A country doesn't need authoritarianism to accomplish this. Many democratic countries have a long history of very similar behavior.

Even a company with the resources of Google found it difficult to establish their own ISP in the USA. So did local governments within the USA. Famously, Google said it could not have been founded in Britain due to their onerous copyright laws.

The incumbent merely needs enough money to shut down the competition; with money comes influence and capability. Different countries require different strategies, all of which need money. If you're in China, you join the party to crush opposition; if you're in the USA, you bribe Congressman to regulate them out of business (or just sue them); if you're in Mexico, you send your armed thugs to kill the leaders.
Correction: "agribusiness".
> surely there must be already a lot of trade studies on the next steps, and at least some rough plans.

Starship was always designed to refuel in Earth orbit, land on Mars, refuel on Mars and fly back to Earth in a single stage. This kind of architecture has never been attempted before and it has a lot of long-term implications for the design, for example the same reentry maneuver must work on two planets and orbital refueling is mandatory.

All other rocket designs consider "planetary landing" as something for the payload to worry about.
Fine, Compare it against a Asus zephyrus g14.
Believe or not, CCP studied French Revolution and fall of Roma, and the boom and bust cycles in 2000+ Written Chinese history... And many stuff people should be studying... Nothing fancy, just learning from history.

Western people are not misunderstanding China, they just are content with a myopic tiny view, and happy to apply whatever judgement they can at the whim of the moment.

Discussing any China related issues on HN is like arguing with mobs. You either are drowning in downvotes, like saying Mr. Xi is not just a dictator; or arguing with someone who questioned any minor details you raised as a Chinese, often make me questioning did I lose touch with China so much that a random HN visitor actually knows better than myself...
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HTML/MathML/CSS and PrinceXML works very well.
Hi Rob,

Thanks for chiming in. I can keep my dayjob for a while. Which in theory gives me unlimited burn rate. But I'm worried that I should just cashout everything. I won't lose any money. Then move to Saas,where the overhead and unit economics are incredible. Or just do software engineering as an employee with much less stress.

Thank you for mentioning Arvid, I'll keep him in mind!
Makes sense- desktops are stranded at work now generally. I'm one of the few lucky ones at mine to be able to grab mine and take it back home- most everyone else w/a desktop is using VDI or moved to a laptop.
Still don't understand why there is no love for LG:

https://www.lg.com/us/laptops/lg-17u70n-r.aas8u1-ultra-slim-...

- 16gb ram (max 40gb)
- 2 x nvme ssd
- 17" 16:10 2560x1600 display
- nvidia gpu
- aluminium body 4.3 lbs
- sd / usb / usbc / hdmi / ethernet ports
- $1,699.99 (!)

Or you could go for the intel gpu version which weighs 2.9lbs.
$77 didn't actually include a tip. The prices were high because of a large markup on Doordash prices compared to the restaurant's takeout menu, as well as the explicit fees you mentioned.

The $36 was specifically for pickup, the restaurant doesn't offer their own delivery service as far as I know.
wow. it's really disgusting to flip through this. sane advice: don't go into it if you are already in a bad mood.
This paper has been criticized in many places, because the way it's set up of course Word will win. People had to do things like very specific figure placement that is difficult in LaTeX.

But in reality, most people just accept how LaTeX handles the figure placement by default (which is usually quite good), and doesn't waste time fighting it. So it's not really a real-life comparison of the two.

If the challenge had been "Write a document formatted according to the norms of your field", which is what people are actually doing most of the time, LaTeX would win easily. For scientific papers the journal is going to redo all the formatting anyway (using their own custom LaTeX set-ups), so there's no reason to waste time on this.
Car crashes aren't way down. In the first half of the year driving was down 17% but deaths per mile driven went up by 15%, so total deaths per capita was only slightly down. The pandemic has left us with only the more desperate people doing a lot of driving, and those are low-earning, highly stressed, chronically fatigued people in older cars.

ETA: Speaking about the USA specifically.
So do news sites, so do streaming services, so do (in my opinion) charities. The manual overhead of setting up (and then managing) a bunch of micro-subscriptions is a significant source of friction when it comes to adoption. It raises the barrier of "is it worth dealing with?". Payment providers like PayPal and Apple Pay do a little bit to help you centralize things, but I think there's a ton of improvement left to be made in this area.
The "Reply Feeds" in this are super useful. I can get a feed of anyone who has replied to one of my comments by adding:

https://hnrss.org/replies?id=Wowfunhappy

...to my RSS reader!
I'm unsatisfied this article didn't tell the reader the area of each screen. It's easy to imagine one vertical being larger than another, but actually having less area. This is not one of those cases. The 14" Lenovo screen actually has more area.
The part I object to is this idea that the right response is a total lock-down where we stay Wuhan-style in our houses like Li Bai waiting until only the house remains.

If that was not intended by anyone in the comment chain, then consider my comment rescinded.
The 1050 Ti was the premium discrete GPU option in the XPS 15 in 2018. That only got upgraded to the 1650 last year. Maybe that's as much a ding on Dell as anything else, but either way, lots of us are still rocking those laptops and they're hardly "below entry level".
Speaking of the C Standard, if you missed this AMA with standards committee members back in April, I thought it was pretty cool:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865357

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865357&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865357&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865357&p=4
Good idea, tons of people don't have the time to wokr on the graphical aspects of their slides, but what about pricing? There's no mention of pricing on the homepage other than the $1 mention.
Thats a huge stretch.

It is the total opposite. Xi Jinping is keeping all the key holders to the kingdom satisfied impeccably well.

They aren't afraid of Hong Kong, the other perspective is that Hong Kong has much less relevance than it had during the handover, 20% of GDP down to 3% of GDP. Hong Kong is an example and cautionary of tale of "late stage capitalism" that all cities around the world experience, high rents and living costs and no consensus on how to help. Whereas mainland China gets large living spaces and welfare for all while inheriting exposure to high growth market based systems and its working extremely well right now, Beijing's state capital system is working. They can deal with Hong Kong as is for the next 17 years no problem.

Taiwan is just there. They can saber-rattle about that for a long time too.

The status-quo in China is good enough, some people get their money out, others provide services in mainland. That status quo involves the implicit threat of party members doing anything to you if you fall out of favor.

Chinese unity and territorial sovereignty is the primary common denominator of everything Xi does, if you do or say anything that can be seen to harm the state or the idea of China, then you've done it wrong.

I read the transcript of Jack Ma's speech, it wasn't very egregious, but all he had to do was skip the thoughts about the current state of how debt is negotiated in China.
I like that.

In my case, I love designing and writing software. It's my hobby. In particular, architecting software, in a fashion that is "organic." My architectures morph throughout a project.

If you look at my GH repo[0], you'll see that it's solid green. I don't really take weekends off. In fact, I often get more done, over the weekend, than I do during the week.

What I can't stand, is the "baggage" attached by folks that don't love developing software as much as I do. Team dynamics add overhead, but that is not necessarily a problem. Insecure managers or team leaders, on the other hand...

[0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff
The Textile Heritage Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden - http://remfabriken.se/en/ - has a two working Jacquard looms. I've seen one of them in operation.

My favorite obsolete media is edge-notched punched cards. Oddly, not mentioned on the linked-to site, which only discusses interior-notched punched cards. Edge-notched cards could be searched manually. I made a deck a few years ago for fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card

Another missing one is music rolls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_roll .
It's fairly obvious that for the any public facing API, type signatures are going to be a net positive, because you have to write input validation for your API anyway to have any hope of it being secure.

You can either write as a series of buggy, hard to understand if statements or use a well-defined schema tool of some sort. Furthermore, once you have the schema you can generate client APIs in e.g Typescript for your APIs instead of wasting engineering effort on writing them manually.

In terms of static types generally, outside of APIs, the equation can be different. However, if you are creating a library that many developers will use, given the state of IDEs, your just hurting your users (developers) by not providing static types. I use Typescript in every single project not because of supposed benefit of "type grantees", but because I don't need to spend all day flipping between some developers poorly written, incomplete docs to understand how to use an API. My code editor will tell me the whole format and I can explore the APIs with goto definition, demonstrably reducing development time.
Do you have any SMS verification built into the signup?
It’s one of the installer screens you get every time you install or upgrade OSX.

You would’ve seen it at least a dozen times by now.
I posted a (non exhaustive) list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25001953
Sure, sorry for any misattribution.

> The mechanism of the HUP resembles the OE in parts at least.

OE was initially proposed as a mechanism behind the uncertainty principle, but it's actually just an attribute of the wave nature of quantum physics:

> Heisenberg utilized such an observer effect at the quantum level (see below) as a physical "explanation" of quantum uncertainty. It has since become clearer, however, that the uncertainty principle is inherent in the properties of all wave-like systems, and that it arises in quantum mechanics simply due to the matter wave nature of all quantum objects.
The problem is many of the "self-driving cars" are basically automatic braking and lane keeping assists. Add in a bit of marketing, and suddenly it is an AGI that would herald new wave of automation
It's really unfortunate that LaTeX and friends seem to be the only options for document typesetting with anything vaguely complicated. There are just so many quirks and oddities; many times I feel like error messages might as well be written in another language, and the syntax becomes ugly fast. Personally I haven't had much luck getting into LuaLateX or XeLaTeX, but I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has found those to be worthy alternatives. Having looked into LuaLaTeX a bit, it seems there are a lot of odd quirks there as well.
Oh man! Heres a few things you should install first:

- brew

- brew cask

You use brew to install any packages you need and brew cask to easily install applications like slack, zoom, etc...

A couple applications i'd recommend:

- Spectacle (window management)

- iterm2

- caffenie (keeps your mac from falling a sleep)

- Rocket (slack like emoji's everywhere )

- ngrok

- vscode

You should also know that the shortcut for spotlight (cmd+space) is the best way to open applications quickly. If you end up liking the workflow go and pickup Alfred, its that type of functionality on steroids.
That’s Chinese people’s dream in 80s then a lot of things happened...
turn them off
An interesting article. I'll offer my counterpoint is the fungiblity of a LaTeX document. It is at the end of the day an opens source text based standard. That means I can easily put it in git, I can easily modify it in my favorite text editor (doom emacs) that I've already configured for my personal workflow. It means the document is light, and it means that I don't have to worry about everyone I send it to having the right software.
Sorta, but not really https://www.cargill.com/products

It was their main business, but I'm not sure it is anymore.
I wouldn't value this company based on 2020 numbers at all. Almost no chance that pandemic numbers hold post-pandemic
Requests over Tor in Python
Again Nvidia had how many yrs of evolution in GPU before they reached 1050 Ti? Everyone starts at some point.
I've always understood it as 16:9 is for consuming video (consumers), and 16:10 is for editing video (creators), since you can fit a 1080p+ video at full width with an editing toolbar along the bottom.