skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Xi acted aggressively against Hong Kong right now because he wasn’t expecting any pushback from the US. The UK tried, but the UK isn’t powerful enough on its own.

Look at how the US responded to Chinas aggressive actions against Hong Kong. They imposed sanctions which basically treated Hong Kong the way the US did the rest of China. The punishment is exactly what Xi wanted!
An initiative doesn't fit the "one thing" criteria of my comment
It’s just a shame that the screens in the Lenovo AMD devices doesn’t hold a candle to the MacBooks.
Partial airway blockage by fat when you are in a prone position. Snoring is just a narrow air passage in sleep that makes sound by the pressure of air forcing its way through.

If you have the situation where your airway can become completely blocked temporarily, you have sleep apnea. If it's partially blocked, you snore, and you can have either one in different positions.
No. The app can be used without signing up at all. After you sign up, you are required to verify your email address (via email, not SMS) to receive a free trial which we offer.
> as result of decreased exposure to diverse antigens:

The link you posted doesn't make that claim. The word antigen doesn't even appear in the article you linked.

Rather, it claims:

"In order to do that, you have to first figure out what's causing the decline: Is it stress? Is it microgravity? Is it radiation? Is it a plethora of things? When we figure that out, we can try to find ways to directly target those factors and mitigate them."

Having said that, we know for a fact humans can't survive long term in a completely sterile environment as babies wouldn't have their integumentary system and digestive systems populated with commensal organisms shortly after birth in a completely sterile environment.

So it's seems at least plausible to me that living in a increasingly sterile environments is likely to be a net negative on overall health etc etc.
Mostly a sweep in Apple's favour, though multicore is only 20-25% better.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=4750U
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...
From what I read, it sounded like Acosta said that "someone identifying themselves as an intelligence agent" told him that Epstein was one of theirs. It did not sound like they used official channels. Which seems to me just as likely that someone was paid to say that or that Acosta made it up to cover his butt for being the softest prosecutor ever.
The thinking before the pandemic was that there was almost no protection in wearing the mask for yourself which has been shown to be incorrect. The best thing to stop infection is still for everyone to wear a mask.
The 1050 is still a desktop class card. The M1 is in tiny notebooks and the Mac Mini, none of which even have the space or thermals to house such a card.
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LaTeX is the work of real people with feelings. You can criticise work without resorting to abuse. Also if you resort to abuse it makes me suspicious that you don’t have a strong enough argument without the theatrics.
> 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.

In my experience, LaTeX's default figure placement is actually quite bad, and you have to spend some time trying to paste it in different places to get it to place the figure in the place you want it.
Everett Shinn: From Street Scenes to Stage and Screen
Apple decided to call it "PRO", so I think its fair to treat is as such.
On the security side, LittleSnitch and ClamXav is what I use and I am pretty happy with it.

For command line package manager I prefer MacPorts to brew.

Make sure you configure backups.
> There is really no danger of Cargill impacting your life like one of the big tech companies.

I think that’s a bit odd to say, given another top-level comment noted that COVID-19 outbreaks have happened to TFWs in various meatpacking plants.

Otherwise, I agree with you. They’re not very “cool” as far as a company goes, so they’re not as easy to pay attention to.
You should try GeForce Now (NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service). It’s $5/month and I’ve got nothing but good things to say about it. It’s perfect for games like Factorio. It used to be perfect for Civ too, but 2K decided that you shouldn’t be able to play their games on unapproved computers, despite buying them on Steam.
My secret wish is that they start working on Factorio 2 with a new item state-memoizing game engine. Let me explain.

Conway's game of life organisms' different states can be memoized. Starting the simulation slowly, an engine can memoize the following computations. This is what Hashlife [1] does. Quoting from Wikipedia: "the rapid increase in speed is often described as "exploding"."

So much so that this kind of thing is possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

Simulating the next ticks just entail looking up the future. Except for things the users touch.

Since Factorio is a game about reaching the next scale of automation, I believe this is a worthy follow-up to Factorio 1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
There was once the "Dead Media Project", with advocacy by Bruce Sterling at http://www.deadmedia.org/modest-proposal.html .

Its extensive list of media is at http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/index-cat.html
Oh I totally agree. I think we should completely abolish tipped wages, require listing and advertising taxes and fees included prices, and use some light regulation to discourage tipping like removing tip lines, prohibiting businesses from asking for them, and requiring a notice that explicitly says not to tip.

But! BUT! This is a top-down change that has to has to come from leadership. Trying to do this by just not tipping or being a bad tipper does nothing except punish the poorest people.
Which is weird because every laptop I've had for 15 years has had a mux on the RAMDAC outputs so you could connect as many external screens as you can have max outputs and just turn off the builtin screen.

Including Macs.
Potential prophylactic and treatment use for serotoninergics in COVID19 disease [pdf]
It’s marketed as a gaming laptop and has half the battery life.

Not sure it’s necessarily the best comparison.
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Note that protocol buffers != gRPC. The reason you can't (directly) consume gRPC from a browser isn't because of protocol buffers, it's because there are no browser APIs to permit client code to work with HTTP2 streaming.

Clients consuming protocol buffers does require some tooling, but it's not that much more complicated than the tooling that is needed to consume JSON, which also requires a separate library for almost any language. Once you get past that, though, protocol buffers are relatively more language-friendly. The designers put a lot of thought into trying to ensure that it's difficult to design a protbuf-based format that can't be mapped onto the semantics of virtually any language. That is not the case with JSON, which, by being schema-on-read, makes it relatively easy to accidentally create an API that is fundamentally difficult to consume from many popular programming languages.

That isn't to say that it's perfect, but one thing I do like about the protobuf approach is that problems have a tendency to stay solved once you solve them. JSON-over-HTTP seems to always lead to this chronic low-grade messiness that seems minor at first, but the cost adds up over time.
You clearly make more than $54,000 to say that.
In fact, by losing enough weight it can go negative, so you'll be curing diabetes in other people by sitting next to them on the bus.
The keyboard/trackpad on the LG is imho better and having pixel less screen @ 17" with the added vertical height is a no contest for productivity.

I took a risk on it as well and it's served really well as a daily worker. The XPS otoh is a (badly executed, no retina) macbook clone.

LG brought out the first light 17" laptop two years ago when everyone was still on 15", but frankly if they don't get support then I'm afraid they'll stop releasing these machines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

> Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

— Melvin E. Conway

I think what we're seeing is a kind of global instance of Conway's Law.
Chinas growth is mostly due to the handiwork and frameworks set out by Deng Xiaoping. It’s easy to look successful coming in when the long-term investments his admin made starts to sprout.
I don't oppose the whole concept of using libraries. I just look closely at each library I'm about to include in my project to understand what exactly it's doing, what it's abstracting away, what are the tradeoffs I'm making, and whether its scope is too broad for whatever I'm trying to achieve. It's sincerely perplexing to me that not everyone does this.
> While I disagree with throwing out any vote, the ballots were thrown out because they didn’t comply with the law, not because a third party interfered or hacked the election system.

I am sorry but I never said or implied anywhere that a secure electoral system means it cannot be interfered/hacked. You don't need to hack if you have insiders do the bidding for you. But let us keep conspiracies aside for a minute. The issue is not even someone attacking the system. The system is weak in and itself. Why? There have been many "software glitches" that switch votes from one candidate to another literally overturning the election result. Be it Antrim County or Oakland County. These "glitches" or in some cases "human errors" show the elections are not secure. How can you call something "secure" when you have 6000 votes switching from one candidate to another? You don't even need a foreign actor to destabilize the elections when the system is so poorly designed that it can screw up on its own!

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2020...

Quoting:

“Apparently, there was a technical glitch in Rochester Hills. And so I actually ended up winning by a little over 1,100 votes,” said a chuckling Kochenderfer.

The margin was 1,127 votes, to be exact. That gave him a 51.67% share of the total (with 48.23% going to his opponent, Hartman).

The fresh result buoyed the incumbent’s spirits but also had him worried about how to prevent future election errors, he said.

“I’m very grateful to the officials who caught the error, but we need to ensure that we catch these issues, or prevent them entirely,” Kochenderfer said.

"People are acting like fixing our elections is a partisan thing when it shouldn't be partisan," he said, adding, "we do have a very, very good clerk in Rochester Hills."

“A computer issue in Rochester Hills caused them to send us results for seven precincts as both precinct votes and absentee votes. They should only have been sent to us as absentee votes,” Rozell said in a text message.
Not a lot of that could be credited to dictator for life Xi though.

In fact, by making himself basically dictator in life he has added the potential for tremendous instability in Chinese politics that did not exist before he took those actions.
> Basically Xi's nightmare is the disintegration of the Soviet Union and he's running the opposite playbook that Gorbachev used.

This is certainly what it looked like from Russia in the 90s, when China was just starting to meaningfully rise. I think Gorbachev's main mistake was that people were given political/personal freedoms before economic ones, and it was done way too quickly. After some 70 years without these freedoms, people did not know what to do with them, so a lot of bad shit happened in late 80s and "wild 90s". Economy was decimated, Soviet Union collapsed, and Russia itself was close to falling apart as well. Just read any US geopolitics text from late 90s or early 00s - they all prognosticate that Russia will be no more, salivating to divvy up the spoils. What got in the way of that was Putin, or, to be exact, Russia's national security establishment which installed Putin, since nobody knew who he was 6 months before he became president.

So the way the Chinese policy was perceived from Russia, it was something more sane. For one thing their stated timeframe for the transformation of the country (50 years IIRC, but I might be wrong), seemed more realistic. For another they started introducing capitalism first, rather than give a bunch of dirt poor people completely unrestricted political freedom a-la early 90's Russia, which could only lead to anarchy and disaster.

And I do believe they will succeed in the long term. The best analogy I have is the current obsession in US corporations with quarterly results, leading to suboptimal long term outcomes. This is what the US itself behaves like, except the "quarter" is 4 years long.

China doesn't have to worry about that, they live on a different time scale and can enact consistent policies spanning many decades. This is both a blessing and a curse. It's easier for the US to course-correct, which can be beneficial because most long term plans do not survive contact with reality. But if China gets the big picture right (which to me it seems like they do), and is able to course correct on the margins, they don't really need the randomness that the US system has.

I just wish they'd knocked it off with the concentration camps and child labor at this point. It undermines their own progress.

As to Ma, oligarchs with political aspirations need to be periodically reminded who runs the country. This is why Khodorkovsky ended up in prison for a decade. He got way too powerful, exerted a lot of ifluence in Duma, and thought taxes were optional. None of those three things were acceptable to the Kremlin.
>> Microsoft is starting to make some really good machines like the Surface Laptop 3 (3:2)...alas with abysmal Linux support.

Well, except for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10.

Also, "starting" to make? Someone's spending too much time on Apple computers to realize what's been happening the past several years.
Would not frame it as “destiny” or “dark”, but using org-mode has been spectacularly transforming and guiding for how I plan/design software today. Definitely worth trying out https://orgmode.org/features.html
I agree there are other 'tinkering' boards with more open hardware, but the Pi has the advantage of a huge community of very nice supporters. Maybe even as nice as the community over on arduino. The biggest problem with Broadcom on the Pi is the videocore block, and if you never run the video (using it for IoT), you avoid the biggest black hole on the device.

As far as the ARM license goes, very few people are ever going to spin their own hardware, and at least the ARM programming API/ISA is very well documented. We'll see if that continues under NVidia.

Certainly MOS, ST, National, Zilog, Motorola, INtel, IBM, Dec, (etc etc) CPU were always closed source. That did not prevent anyone from learning about computer systems and programming then, and it won't stop them now.

That said, I doubt Apple will ever make the M1 available for purchase. Which is where this thread started.
What is this punctuation and capitalization scheme?
I dug for an example on Google Cloud and found this "Zenoss" product [1].

"Managed Services are fully hosted, managed, and supported by the service providers. Although you register with the service provider to use the service, Google handles all billing."

Seems to be exactly what the author describes. No idea what share of the subscription fee Google takes.

[1] https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/zenoss-...
I have to agree here. Though it sucks that it tanked BABA stock it was the right move long term.

Disclaimer: Long BABA
Initially, deaths had a doubling time of 3 days, and the infectious period for covid is weeks. I haven't seen a reasonable calculation of R_0 that was less than 3.5.
The Lord of the Rings Expert Answers Tolkien Questions from Twitter [video]
Will Python, NodeJS, Java support new mbp on Day 1?
For historical interest, I have wondered if this also applies to TCP/IP over X.25, which was used for a while on JANET, the UK academic network, when IP became irresistable. I remember that as working well, but perhaps it didn't really.
I'm not sure apologizing publicly has made anything better for any individual

Sure it has, for example Dan Harmon's public apology to Megan Ganz: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/11/16879702/dan-harmon-ap...

Public apologies, therefore, are the metaphorical equivalent of blood in the water for attracting sharks.

What are some examples of public apologies that met all 5 of these criteria [1], but made things worse rather than better? Would you consider the possibility that maybe the apologies that made things worse were actually done wrong, but they could have helped if they were done right?

More generally, apologies, restorative justice, truth and reconciliation, and related ideas seem to me like the obvious and only way to we can heal from injustice in our society. Refusing to admit fault seems obviously corrosive to society, and to a person's ego.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/5/16710430/sexual-har...

[Edit: man, I feel stupid for complaining about downvotes, but I am really not sure how I could have been more constructive with my disagreement in this comment. I cited examples, suggested an alternative explanation for observations my parent described, and didn't criticize anyone. What did I do wrong? I am ready and willing to apologize if I made any mistakes]
When idiots lose an argument, and they have absolutely no fact to back up what they are spewing, pull the "anti semite" or "racist" card!

Issued at birth.
That was true until Xi Jinping removed term limits and ran his corruption campaign that imprisoned and beheaded his competition.
This is also true of the far left in the US. Their attempts to increasingly censor, deplatform, ban, cancel, and so forth suggests that they are scared that people do not think like they do. And with that comes a bend towards authoritarianism and fascist control, the very things they claim to be against.

But just like with the chicken and the egg, I cannot rightly tell if either the CCP or the American far left are acting out of fear, or if they are just exercising newly-gained power. It may simply be that they're putting new power to work, testing the waters to entrench their positions further.
Loving this work. I know the kernel work is mind numbing some times but it could make an interesting stream with great Q&A opportunities in compile times.
One theory we came up with is that our competition could be trying to get our app marked as spam or malware, and thus booted from the Play Store. If they have some sort of exploit that allows them to install arbitrary .apks on hundreds of thousands of Android devices, which seems probable if this is a malicious attack, it's unclear to me what we could do to prevent them from spamming our .apk to these users.
I'm sure you understand the performance differences between a 10W part with integrated graphics designed for a fanless laptop and a desktop part with active cooling and discrete graphics.

This article from Anandtech on the M1 is helpful in understanding why the M1 is so impressive.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
It's all fun and games until you expose an SQL interface to your mainframe database in Excel so that the guys and gals in accounting, purchase, and marketing finally stop pestering you with change requests to their reports, just to find out that some extra-curious and clever gal in purchase managed to bring down the entire mainframe by constructing a SQL statement using a bunch of nested outer joins...

And while the blinkenlights in the server room start to morse at you through the window in the door in a menacing pattern, the guys and gals in server ops demand answers as they point at the avalanche of warning- and error messages that started lighting up the terminals like a Jedi knight fighting a swarm of mosquitoes in the swamps of Dagobar at midnight with his light sabre.

At this moment you can only begin to fathom what happens in operations at this moment, with orders being delayed, fulfilment rates dropping by the minute, pickers and lorry drivers starting to get pissed off at the nerd in IT who must have screwed up again and they know where your car is parked.

I guess what I really wanted to say is: be careful what you wish for, it might bite you in the end :)
There's quite a lot of evidence that the CCP values social stability (their own definition of it at least) extremely highly, above almost everything else.

I don't agree with you about Westerners not seeing the villainous wood for the evil trees, but I think it's moot when there's an even simpler explanation: they do not want to lose control.
Your argument seems to be entirely ad hominem.

SOAP failed because it was a bad design (overcomplicated, verbose, XML-based), not because it used schemas. I've never heard anyone who uses Protobuf say it reminds them of SOAP.
Follow the money, who's being paid per-install for your app? Are you paying them, or are your in-app ads?
I'll answer my own question (after doing some research).

Besides the other answers, I found Cloudfare Workers[1] seem to nearly fit the bill (the only problem is that workers are written in JS - though you can also write them in Rust, C or C++, with the caveat that they compile to WASM, then are executed via the JS API).

Pricing start free! With $5/month you get access to KV (Key-Value Storage) and a generous amount of requests (10 million/month) which seems appropriate for my needs... and it's still in beta, but they also have consistent storage now with Durable Objects[2].

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-dur...
That's the current and best procedure now.
First you get tested with the cheap (8€) and fast (15min) antigen tests with a very low false negative rate. This also tests if you are infective.
For confirmation if it's actually sars-cov2 and not some other cov, when you are positive you then get an expensive PCR test with an extremely low 0.1% false positive rate. The normal rate is 1%, but every probe is tested twice, ie in parallel.
I wonder how that would compare to other extremely isolated groups, such as Antarctic researchers during the winter months. With the ISS, there is a large confounding factor in the lack of gravity, making it hard to tell which effects are from isolation.
Why is it usable for word processing but unusable for programming?
Music seems underrepresented, in general. Other examples:

- recordings made by Hayden in 1793 (probably not by playing at the playback speed) see https://www.authenticsound.org/a-1793-haydn-recording-what-c....

- mechanical automated carillons (http://www.kenneththeunissen.be/carillon-gent/the-drum.html , https://m.facebook.com/Beiaard-Boy-100932794844933/videos/sp...) these were and are programmed by hand (and may not be considered ‘media’, as they can’t be taken out of the device)
Right? My yellow labrador is pushing 11 and he's all but indistinguishable from his 2-year-old self, aside from a relatively minor decline in energy.

We call him the Eternal Puppy. We expected aging was going to catch up by now. Still very little sign that it's happening.

If I had that dog's energy, I would never be out of shape.
You still haven't given me an idea of what you think is 'lacking' in these 'strategic analyses' that would be appropriate for something like this writing?

As to strategy groups, I've worked with strategy teams from a big chunk of the Fortune 100, did time at a Big 4, and I think your expectations of levels of critical analysis are ....overshooting reality :)

Ben's definitely not some strategy messiah, no question - I doubt he'd even claim to be in the top percentage. But he's consistent, thoughtful, and lets me just not think chase tons of other sources on a regular basis.