skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nevermind the genocide, 1984 surveillance, censorship, technology stealing, punishment of the relatives of expatriated citizens, etc. China will leapfrog the West and devour our knowledge industries.

If you like the salary you make today, then think about what happens when China's enormous supply of engineers working "996" gets access to the Western market. When their tech companies supplant our own.

We need to put in place immediate plans to shift manufacturing to Vietnam, India, Mexico, and Africa. We should duplicate the Belt initiative, but make partner nations our allies. Have them buy into our sphere of influence rather than be indebted to China forever.

We need to strengthen our allies and make this move to wean ourselves off of China together.

We have so many levers at our advantage. China has to import food and energy. Trade is still denominated in USD. And they've been horrible to other nations. It won't be hard to stop their rise and replace it with our own growth if we work together with our allies.

Edit: I realize there's a huge international audience here, but imagine saying these things in Shanghai. Or compare saying bad things about Xi and Trump. The West has to win. If China were free and democratic, I'd change my attitude in a second and maybe even consider moving there.

I also realize the West has a whole host of problems of its own: racial inequality, widening economic prosperity gap, etc. But I do believe our democratic model is vastly superior to one that criminalizes thought.

Edit: I'm sitting at -2 now, but upvotes keep pushing me back up. I expect once this falls off the front page that I'll wind up with a positive score. This always happens with my negative comments on China. No detractions or conversation, only downvotes. I think this is due to the diverse international audience. I really wish someone with the opposite perspective would chime in.
Twitter is a poor substitute, but HN is doing a pretty good job!
This idea of actually ‘owning’ hardware is a total red-herring.

If you buy hardware, you own it in the sense that you can do what you want with it assuming you have the technical expertise.

It doesn’t matter what software comes installed or how locked down it is.

Whether it is iOS, or PostmarketOS, we are dependent on thousands of other people making design decisions that support you in meeting our particular needs.

The only question is who serves your needs better.
I'm sorry, are you under the impression we refused to work with or compromise with China throughout the cold war?
It would be interesting to get a percentage that are "happily" married vs. married (or stay married) for the tax benefits.
A laser cutter is not at all the same as a laser transmitter. The beam focus, wavelength, emission pulse, etc. are all different to the point where comparing power outputs is not a good idea.
That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nobody replies after a few days because there is no inbox for replies (and proportionally very few people use hnreplies[1]).

Anyway not having notifications is by design. It gives the opportunity to other commenters to reply, and it reduces heated discussions.

[1] https://hnreplies.com
Any explanation on how you think this data effects divorce rate, or are you just showing us some related data for the sake of it.
And it effectively just sets the FPU flags, runs the instruction, then resets the FPU flags. It just avoids the JS VM from having change FPU flags repeatedly.
Good job! Kinda funny!
I am not saying it won't happen. You are free to argue we should be paying more for energy so its sustainable, but unless you are going to bring some serious evidence you can't just claim the problem is easilly sorted and wind + solar grid would be cheaper than nuclear.

Current and projected cost of storage is relatively high, the most cost efficient storage is hydro and compressed air, they are not showing any kind of fast decrease in cost.

Maybe there is potential in energy grids that span continents and have large over-capacity - then you dont need much storage.

I am assuming we are talking about imminent future, in 50 years maybe math is different, but thats too late for climate change.
Fwiw, I have had seen more mosquitoes in my room but not really gotten bitten. But they are definitely buzzing around my head at times
Willful ignorance as a mask for fraud seems like a week defense when one is targeting regulated industries.
I thought this was going to be an article about whisky.
I wonder if this is because people are dating more before getting married, which probably leads to more mature people who know what they're looking for in a spouse.
Until just a couple years ago, there was a tax penalty for married couples who earned similar amounts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_penalty

> If the incomes of the two persons are similar, then at the lower end of the tax schedule there is no difference between filing as singles and filing as a married couple (ignoring the question of deductions, see below). But at the higher end of the tax schedule, there is a penalty for a married couple whose incomes are similar, compared to what they would pay as singles.
sounds nice but the page has no content to speak of: a bit disappointing.
Overseeing elections is their primary duty. They also serve the courts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_Constables
Should Millennials and Gen Z Get the Vaccine First?
This is an interesting case study, but my research on acquisition channels that consistently work for founders [1] has shown that sponsoring blogs/web-based "real estate" is hit-or-miss (and doesn't work) for most founders. Here are some dev SaaS examples:

1. SnapShooter ($1k+/mo), a tool to create daily backups of DigitalOcean droplets:

" I tried sponsoring blog articles with a little bit of success." [2]

2. BugFender ($35k/mo), a log storage service for app devs:

"Here's what didn't work: sponsoring developer newsletters and podcasts" [3]

The reason for this (IMO) is that most products that advertise themselves (especially on dev blogs) are not unique/compelling enough. Why should you buy a sponsored app logger when you know 10 other look-alikes with 5 other friends using them? The fact that these guys managed to invest $6k and get $200k in return from sponsoring a blog just shows how unique/compelling/valuable their value prop. is. Good luck!

[1] https://firstpayingusers.com

[2] https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-starting-small-he...

[3] https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/turning-an-internal-c...
My impression is that's only true in consumer software and web development.

CAD, rendering/animation, high end photo editing, and a lot of other higher end, professional software are script-able, provide libraries and APIs, and work closely with their end-users to give them what they want.
I've been subjected (in secret) to story point counting. Agile doesn't advocate for this and the company has a policy against it. But what goes on in reality for some teams is that management compares people by the number of points they delivered. Then to make it kosher they make up some other reason for your rating.
IMO this argument blurs the line between two separate concepts.

I think it's fair to say that a company shouldn't be allowed to sue you or have you arrested for doing whatever you want to a device that you have purchased. For example, see the John Deere lawsuits where they are trying to DRM repairs to tractors and make it illegal to work on them.

What I think is less fair is arguing that a company has a requirement to make it easy or possible for you to work on your device. You're entering the world of engineering and end-user trade-offs and starting to talk about forcing companies to add or remove features that might be in the end-user's best interest.

Would a screw with a proprietary screw-head be ok if the company could argue that it made assembly easier? Would you require that they prove there is some tangible engineering benefit to all decisions? What's the line between "general purpose computing device" and "electronic toy"?

You could probably write a law that made it illegal to add restrictions whose sole purpose was to prevent the user from modifying or repairing their device but the only way you'd ever be able to enforce it is if someone was caught writing incriminating emails. Pretty much anything could have some imaginary engineering justification behind it.

If you can crack a proprietary protocol or re-create a proprietary screwdriver then more power to you, you shouldn't be arrested or sued. But telling a company they're not allowed to use a proprietary screw-head is a messy road to start down, and that's what you're saying when you're asking for companies to be forced to allow you to do what you want on your device.

Vote with your wallet and if the choice you vote for doesn't win then you're free to go create your own. But don't outlaw business models or legislate engineering choices. You should have a right to repair, you should have a right to get your data, you shouldn't have a right to tell me what my engineering choices need to be.
> but Singapore employs insecticides in prodigious quantities.

I am intrigued. Do you have a reference for that?
I’m not clear on the (uplink/upstream , ie internet) bandwidth costs.
Who provides/pays for that monthly bill?

Surely if you buy a 20 K pop that doesn’t include upstream bandwidth for life (ie for your pops customers to use).

I spent about 25 minutes reading every page of the website but didn’t see this part mentioned, apologies if I in fact missed it.

Thanks, interesting project!
How do you have a distributed transaction in a monolithic architecture?
Thanks a lot for your support! We are ourselves not yet sure in which direction will Wasp evolve but find it very exciting to work on it, especially when we see other people being excited about it too :)
DNA from a mummified bishop shows tuberculosis infected humans only recently
Interesting. I just realized that I do subscribe to the local independent business news journal (it's about $90/yr). What is interesting is that it contains little in the way of click-bait and "made ya look" content compared to the local newspaper and TV station sites. They do cover "real" non-business news, and when they do cover the same news as the other local news outlets, the quality of coverage is better (and feels less editorialized). Still no cure for reader comments, though.
> It's indeed quite scary how much pesticides are currently used

I am curious. Do you have a reference for that?
If only I could work for a company that sees me like that.
Linear algebra: Everything is happy lad-dee-dah for x and y. The moment we go into matrices I go downhill from there. I saw a very cool youtube on Tesla Dojo and machine learning. I recommend.
There are a few more ('multpile'), see https://app.pagewatch.dev/5bd5f1981870ddba1b713a45b4c6bc5600...

I think the prices are way too low, anything below $10/month feels the same to me as it is mostly about the friction of entering my payment details.
I think this is a transition phase. It is true that increasing restrictions have been making it harder for old school developers.

It’s also true that Apple has had a pattern of first locking things down, and then finding new, more secure and reliable ways of opening them back up again. Extensions are an obvious example of this pattern.

This is just a consequence of moving from a benign network environment to one in which hostile adversaries are trying to both socially engineer as well as exploit any computer or individual that is vulnerable.

We all have to adapt to this reality.
I can relate. I'm 47 and also working on learning/re-learning previous maths, and extending my knowledge as well.

One of my favorite resources: Professor Leonard. He has videos of him teaching everything from pre-algebra through calc III, statistics, and differential equations. He's planning a linear algebra sequence soon'ish as well.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg

Then there is Gilbert Strang:

linear algebra - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL221E2BBF13BECF6C

calculus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE9407EA64E2C318

Others:

ProfRobBob - https://www.youtube.com/user/profrobbob

3blue1brown - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

Organic Chemistry Tutor (not just "organic chemistry"!) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEWpbFLzoYGPfuWUMFPSaoA

(could also be useful if you actually did mean "meths" and not "maths")

And, of course, there is always Khan Academy.
Well, the union leadership depends on the company being nice if they arent willing to fight. If a union wont strike, then yeah you are left begging management for scraps.
I agree that it can be harder in dynamic languages, but it's a continuum and not a dichotomy.

On one end you have completely dynamic languages like Smalltalk where basically everything is late-bound, and it's perhaps hard to imagine that much of anything can be determined statically. On the other end you have completely static languages like ML where the compiler knows all and it's very difficult to escape its all-seeing gaze.

And then there's this huge gulf in the middle where the language leans in one direction or the other, but programmer discipline is perhaps even more important. Python code that's scrupulous about type hinting and doesn't go hog-wild with the metaprogramming, for example, can be easier to refactor safely and with the support of tools than Java code that makes heavy use of reflection might be.

Source: I currently work with, and occasionally have to refactor, examples of both.
What’s worse, all signs point to a continuing downward trend for new marriages.

Is this bad? I understand marriage as a religious rite. I've never understood why the government cares enough to give tax, finance and legal incentives to married couples...
Radium is worth a try: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php
I'm curios whether all the metrics mentioned here are exported by postgres_exporter [1]? Nowadays Prometheus becomes de-facto standard for monitoring, so it would be great if postgres_exporter could provide all these metrics to Prometheus. Moreover, there are other monitoring solutions such as VictoriaMetrics [2] or vmagent [3], which can scrape metrics from Prometheus-compatible exporters.

[1] https://github.com/wrouesnel/postgres_exporter

[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/

[3] https://victoriametrics.github.io/vmagent.html
I'm guessing the parent was referring to America and the USSR during the cold war and saying America needs to take the same stance against China as they did against the USSR.
Counterpoint: since god is omniscient, he knows perfectly what his action or inaction will cause, present and future, from the subatomic level to the edge of the universe. A being like that can't possibly pretend to give humans free will, he knows exactly what they will do, we're like "PRINT HELLO WORLD" programs to him.
I'm not saying I agree or disagree, but I'm almost certain he is saying how it worked with the Soviet Union.
The need to "stick it out" is strongly influenced by parenthood.

Without children, marriage is ephemeral.

The need to formalise a relationship with a marriage ceremony is traditionally linked to religion.

Without religion, children or a stable income, why would a person need or want to get married?
"Security concerns" is an excuse for protectionism. If he does the same it does not necessarily mean that the security concerns are real.
I remember using Ableton Live v3 back in the day. Compared to MOTU Digital Performer (which had plugins which could put windows anywhere) and Reason (which took skeuomorphism about as far as you could possibly go) its minimalism and modality of the UI seemed restrictive. But probably very sensible for live performance. Feels like they prefigured mobile user interfaces by some years.
I love using R for exploratory work. Hadley Wickham's TidyVerse of packages make everything so ergonomic to use.
>It's interesting that left leaning people are worried less about boys in general, but when it comes to their own sons, are more worried about boys.

Apparently, having "skin in the game" changes priorities. Or reveals them.
It can’t be understated how much the traditional family structure led to unwise or straight up unwanted marriages in the American mid-century and prior.

Many of us have had grandparents or parents pressure us, suggesting we hurry up and propose, hurry up and find a significant other, and things like that. Crank that up to 11 and you’ve got what it was like to be young 70 years ago.

People were getting married right out of high school because that’s what they had to do. If you think about how at one time a woman would need to have a husband to do something simple like get a loan from a bank, how could she go through adult life without getting married?

That dynamic is a recipe for bad marriages and divorce.
My biggest concern about Biden is that he will return to the status quo with China. Pushing back on China is literally the only thing I agreed with the Trumpists about, but it's a big thing and I did at times wonder if Trump was worth it to break the Chinese liberalization delusion. Chemotherapy is literal poison and makes you sick, but sometimes it's what is needed.

It is impossible for American companies that must operate under American EPA and OSHA rules to compete with Chinese companies that can completely disregard the environment and employ borderline (or even literal, see Uyghur "work programs") slave labor. This is doubly true when the state is subsidizing these industries to "dump" on the market and drive competitors out of business and is employing its state intelligence agencies to conduct industrial espionage on their behalf. Private companies cannot compete with governments because governments can do things private actors fundamentally cannot.

A similar unfair trade issue exists with other countries, but China is by far the largest.

If we return to treating China like a developing nation (it isn't, it's a superpower) or a liberal democracy (it isn't), we will continue to see a collapse of the working class in the West. If that trend continues we will see a much smarter, slicker, and more ruthless totalitarian come to power in 2024 or 2028. Whether this future dictator of America is hard-left or hard-right mostly depends on which side fields the most compelling demagogue. Ultimately the working class won't care if a Lenin/Stalin or a Hitler is handing out the pitchforks.

A defense of the (minority) rioting wing of BLM and other recent protestors I've heard is "a riot is the voice of the powerless." I sympathize with this view a bit, but people need to understand that Trump was in part a political riot of the working class. An actual quote I heard in 2016: "I can't throw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the White House, but I can throw a Trump." If trends continue another riot is guaranteed and this one may be much more destructive.
Better alternative:
Rust leverages the power of FP in Elixir to Scale 11M Users.
> I think you may have a very incorrect idea about who is being burdened here

Convenient stance, but no. It's possible to have a decent grasp on the proposal (thanks) and to mean what was written in the comment you're responding to above.

Your response belongs to a class of responses that can be called "well, you can just…" responses. The problem with these is that they tend to diminish what the just part is out of some lack of awareness and failure to truly take stock. (HN's infamous Dropbox comment can be considered an instance of a "well, you can just…" response.) And in your case, apparent unawareness that the response can be just as easily applied in the opposite direction—orgs with staff setting up insecure private networks can just do things the right way; device manufacturers who have software engineers but cheap out and take shortcuts can just stop doing that and commence with doing the thing they're getting paid for. And it turns out those justs make a lot more sense than the one that says ordinary people should deal with an even more complicated and hostile landscape that raises the barrier to entry for pulling off small accomplishments _without_ funding—just because some folks wanted to be able to offload their job duties.

And there was no suggestion that implementing this is a "huge burden" for _existing_ browser vendors. The fact that you seque there from a point about how browsers "already implement complex CORS policies" shows your failure to grasp the point that was being made.
Same thought exactly. "We crowdsourced 200k in investment capital with 6k in a blog sponsorship" is the actual sequence here.
Nudging Science in New Directions
It's not ready yet so I can't show you videos yet.
I love the UX of Live, and especially how it seamlessly integrates with Push 2 - really a joy to use. It does offer a great amount of depth in terms of capabilities for power users, but always refers back to basic UI concepts that can be applied to many different contexts.

What truly amazes me though is the stability of the platform. Yes, it's great for home recording and casual use, but the same application is used as a core piece in live performances with huge audiences. There's not a lot of "consumer" software out there that I would trust with that. Ableton Live is certainly one of those.
An interesting aspect of this process is that divorce was just huge with american baby boomers. As they age, they big bubble of high divorce rate has aged with them. For example the divorce rate for ages 50+ doubled in the 25 years to 2015. But as they die off, the overall effect is diminished. Big question remains why boomers are so prone to divorce, considering that they lived in the easiest economic times.
Many of these “working class” folks aren’t voting Trump because they are mesmerized or duped by him, they are voting Trump to stop or “stick it” to the most left wing (and loudest) fringe of the Democrat party.

If the Dem party just flat out denounced Defund Police / Green New Deal / Critical Race Theory etc and consolidated around a moderate platform they would effectively end the Republican Party.
Surprised you can write a Ginsberg article in 2020 without at least discussing his predilection for sex with underage boys.
REST usually has the same content in your request replacing the entire resource on a PUT, or returning an identical thing on a POST. There is no difference in the schema of the JSON (or XML) you send and receive.

As a sibling comment said: if you implement GraphQL with DTOs that look exactly the same for reading and writing, sure, you won't have CQRS, but it seems like the structure encourages you not to do that since you explicitly CANNOT use the output types as your input types in a GraphQL schema. Besides, real world usages seem to mostly treat it in a CQRS-style way instead of just CRUD operations.
It seems like they say nothing whether they optimised their audio engine. There are a couple of low hanging fruits that they avoid to pick for some reason that would vastly improve the performance. For example they could enable wrapping the VST plugins in their own separate processes. That means the operating system scheduler would be able to distribute the load on available cores in a more efficient way than Ableton currently does. Another is that when you have two tracks using the same send, then all paths that lead to the send with the send included work on the same core that means you can easily run into issues if you use more demanding plugins. Here the solution would be processing the tracks in parallel up to the point where it goes to the send - this could actually be solved by running plugins in separate processes.
One more feature related to performance improvements would be ability to freeze tracks just partially and freeze entire groups.
I think other features added are great, but they are kind of useless if you can't play anything because the audio engine can't keep up.