skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is perhaps the best written article on the current state and future of US dollar (and thus, America). As an avid follower of geopolitics and with exposure to both east and west, I've often had to work out where the future lies and the thoughts of this article appear to mirror mine.

Especially since Trump's election, I have always wondered about the future of America, not just socially but also economically. Trump's excessive use of sanctions and bullying comes at a major loss for future generations. And this line from the article elucidates it:

"However, when major powers like China, Russia, and India begin pricing things outside of the dollar-based system and using their currencies for trade, including for energy in some cases, the US can’t realistically intervene militarily, and instead can only intervene with sanctions or trade disputes and other forms of geopolitical pressure."

and

"Chinese officials have said on numerous occasions that their reliance on the dollar system is a security risk for them. Having surpassed the United States as the world’s largest trading partner and world’s biggest importer of commodities, China increasingly has an interest in being able to acquire commodities and perform global trade without dollars, which as we see with trading partners like Russia, or with China’s yuan-based oil futures contract, they’re increasingly able to do with small steps at a time."

The bullying is the last straw. A lot of countries are very independent and are only trading in dollars because of oil. Take that away with sanctions and the demand for dollars drops rapidly. Thus, US dollar doesn't need to be a major reserve currency, holding US dollars might even be a risk.

Had bitcoin not been deflationary, bitcoin could have filled this gap. More likely though is that the declining faith in American politics will force other countries to go back to a multicurrency system and thus, US will no longer remain the top dog.

History repeats.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/
The 1/2000 could be valid for your age group (we will need to check the real number of people who caught it be sure of the IFR) but is not necessary accurate for you (could be more or less).

In France, in Marseilles, they studied all people who died from covid in the hopsital during the first episode. They calculated the Charlson score for each patient. What they found is that very large majority of people who died have a low life expectancy and all expect 2 patients have one or more co-morbidities (cancer, diabetes, etc).

So if you are healthy then you real risk is below the average of the same age group.
Cool, that's a really easy and well understood way to get certain extremists feel threatened! Just what we need now.
What about this interesting submission makes it "clear" the account was "sold"?
Everything we produce can be measured in / has energy cost. So maybe some kind of energy units should be the universal currency.
Given this is the top voted comment, any other sentence that people find abrasive?

I reread the article a few times and i dont see that at all. It isn't even ranting. She put out some criticism, with some evidence and possible theory. And "hope", Github could change its mind. I quote

This is still a beta feature so I have hope.

This isn't GitHub! Do Better! with double exclamation market. Simply a call to action for something ( hopefully ) better.
The we deserve part is a figure of speech.
Overlapping doesn't matter - large multinationals' decisions over spending are more likely to look like: "if we receive $X from the government to spend on Y, then we'll have a spare $X to spend on Z"
Sometimes I need to create a small GUI application for my Windows colleagues. Using Qt or .NET I get huge binaries/dependencies. What is the final binary size (all deps included) with your solution for a "hello world" GUI exe?
But if you assume that the attacker knows the generation process then you can make a very strong case that the password is no weaker than the stated entropy[1], since the attacker would have to effectively brute force the password by generating all possible passwords using that generator.

[1] Although I guess there are caveats: what if your password _happened_ to be weak according to another generation method that you didn’t use but the attacker guessed?
Which is a better designed crypto?
It cant be too toxic if its a well performing investment asset right?
You are never gonna compete with chinese manufacturing if you believe their secret to success is slave labour.

There are plenty of countries with worse working conditions yet but people seem to stick with china.
I was reading through the comments and hoping someone would know what keystone actually was and if there was any possibility of the claim in the article :) . I mean there's a lot of stuff in chrome other than this keystone thing, maybe it was one of those other things.
How San Francisco's Wealthiest Families Launched Kamala Harris (2019)
JSX and clean semantic markup are not mutually exclusive.
Or technological improvements
I think in order for the opposite thing to work, you have to approach the material with the understanding that "There are people who believe this stuff as firmly as I believe the complete opposite. If you asked them, they say, with absolute conviction, that I'm nuts. How might that happen? What if they're right? What could I have missed?"

This engages System 2, hard. And it's so easy to slip back into System 1 and continue to reject the evidence in front of you, as System 1 does so well when it doesn't like what it's seeing.

I have to constantly remind myself of the possibility that I could be wrong or have an incomplete view of things, but then that allows me to extract the valuable nuances and hidden assumptions that underlie the belief.

Even more importantly, it tends to cast a light on my unconscious biases and assumptions that underlie my beliefs.
Amazon optimized VMM and Linux kernel both.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20/presentation/agache
I suppose it comes down to a worst-case best-case type of thing. If you're trying to prevent Alan Turing and Bletchley Park (new band name I call it) from guessing your password given spies and psych profiles, you care about the entropy of the generation. In principle the best password actually is whatever the last one your opponent's cracking software tries. In between is the real world, but you can't go wrong with real random generation.
Things are much of the same here in FIN. Prison is generally good quality and you can get a good education while serving time.

I don't have an optimistic long-term look on the system however. The idea of second chances and social equality has been burrowed so deep into most of the people that they've effectively forgotten that in order for a social security system like this to function, you need an input of resources into it. It is also a mixed blessing; a social security system that is too effective can be very passivating (why would you slave away doing cleaning work if you can get the equal resources for nothing?)

It has created a large, growing class of people absolutely dependent and unlikely to ever exit the system; ever increasing taxation is causing big brain drain; national debt has doubled in the last 10 years; purchasing power has shot down a fifth in the last 10 years, and so forth..

It also practically taboo to speak against the system, but personally I think to uphold such a system for the long term it would need constant scrutiny, balancing, and also potentially tearing down some structures every now and then. Now the mentality is just to drive more benefits for people using the system and more costs for people upholding the system.
It's not about slave labor, it's about manufacturing equipment. I suspect it was turned down, because helping the northeast survive a pandemic was not perceived as worth any political risk/capital.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-d...
My father was one of the last tool makers in the US working for Molex. They spent years teaching the Chinese, the Chinese would disassemble all molds sent over to China and often break them, so my fathers team would have to fix / rebuild them.

They spent years training the Chinese side-by-side in the US.

In the end they still haven’t exactly caught up to the quality we had in the US. However, they now have 5x the tool & die makers in China.

To compete, you really do have to cut minimum wage. You have to loosen regulations, and importantly, you have to do massive tariffs / sanctions on China for the next decade.

There are enough people still here to teach and expand the Industry. However, if you don’t start now. Like today. We won’t ever recover. Once enough manufacturing is gone, it’ll be impossible to come back - we are almost there.

You are competing against a foreign power who uses slaves. You either let free people work for what ever wage they can achieve or we risk becoming slaves ourselves.
That's why we have armed police
Time is owned by Mark Benioff lol.
it was in fact created using state-of-the-art windows gui frameworks. in 1995. and then never updated. is it really an improvement to have a win10 settings app that is all unified... except for most of the advanced settings and half of the basic settings which are only available in the control panel?
The first thing that came to mind was Robert Heinlein’s ‘Howard Families’. And his later ‘Methuselah’s children’.

Heinlein was a mixed bag. Mostly nuts. But his meta concepts and storylines were way ahead of his time(50-70s)..and some would say even by today’s standards. Still..one of favourite early sci fi authors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_families

[..] The Howard Families are a fictional group of people created by the author Robert A. Heinlein.

According to Heinlein, the Howard Foundation was started in the 19th century by Ira Howard, a millionaire dying of old age in his forties, for the purpose of extending human lifespan. Howard himself did not live to see the outcome; he simply endowed the experiment with his own fortune, and the trustees of the Howard Foundation used the limited scientific knowledge of the time to create a selective breeding human program to encourage, financially, people of long-lived ancestry to have children together. The Howard Foundation is greatly enriched during the Great Depression by knowledge gained through time travel so that they get out of the stock market before the crash and invest in gold rather than cash and are able to reinvest in stocks that rebound after the crash.[1]

The novel Methuselah's Children is focused on the Howard Families and their quest for acceptance on Earth and other planets. [..]
I don't think any amount of alcohol would help. You need acid. At this point it's almost like scientology. It uses "tech" as a front to attract gullible people to pay up.
I understand that this is a complete digression from the main topic but I would love to know more about whatever you may know about accounts being bought/sold, or be pointed to a link with more.

I'm familiar with it for, say, ebay, and at least indirectly familiar with it over reddit, but hn is a new one to me.
Nice walk through history, interesting to think that at some point if-else was in need of diagrams to describe the concept clearly.

When I ran the "if-else" statement of my programming language* by a user-study with my non-technical brother-in-law he said it reminded him of the binary nature of legalise and inherently limiting the nature of what is possible. I agree.

My sister also formed the study-group and consistently they both prefer "otherwise" to anything else (pardon the pun).

* The language in case anyone wants to take a look:
https://github.com/ducklang-community/ducklang
I agree, mostly plant based here but rarely rely on the "fake meats". The closest is seitan, which I make myself anyway.
Review: Keyboardio Atreus
Testing isn't a delay, unless you think being reckless is a scientific virtue.
I've meant default for org-wide policy. If your org admin is aware of it it can be changed.
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Very sad. Good bye Goodreads.
India's bull semen industry can help store Covid-19 vaccines
Help me find a blog post
I was reading HackerNews sometime between 1 year ago and 2 months ago and clicked a link to someone's blog post. I can't find it now and want to.

It was written in story form with a lot of source code interspersed between dramatic dialogue. This story had an air of intrigue and was extremely technically advanced. A number of commenters mentioned how hard it was to understand just because of how advanced it was. Other people mentioned that this author is known on HN for that style.

Does anyone have anybody idea what I'm talking about?
On the other hand Apple (to name one) piled an enormous amount of money thanks to slave labor in China.

Paying peanuts in taxes

How Apple avoided paying $40 billion in taxes

https://fortune.com/2018/01/18/apple-bonuses-money-us-350-bi...

Maybe the State could tax products manufactured abroad at 50% no matter where they keep the money.

Using the simple formula: units sold * profit margin per unit * 50%
Might you be responding to half of my post?
Per the intro, the author has been writing a whole series of "under the hood of JS tools" posts, and they're excellent! Highly recommended:

https://craigtaub.dev/introducing-my-under-the-hood-of-serie...
Is there actually a disparity in crime? Or just a reported one? If police believe blacks are more likely to commit crimes, they pay more attention to them and the cycle repeats.
As a non-expert, I need a name brand as my gold standard for comparison in normal usage scenario.
The BioNTech team who made the vaccine probably should get a lot of public 'credit'.
HP 12c, Wall Street's Cult Calculator, Turns 30 (2011)
Hi, OP here.

I also wrote a long blog post about my journey building it here: https://timdaub.github.io/2020/02/19/wasm-synth/

Have fun jamming :)
>> Set union: they can read and write’

>> Set intersection: my jeans were creased and dirty

IMHO those are both unions. One describes two capabilities people have while the other describes two conditions some clothing has.

They both become intersection when using the pair of conditions as selection or decision criteria.

It's the difference between an assertion and a question.
Separating the problem definition from the solution could make you realise that you took the wrong branch right from the start.

You might refine the solution you came up with to match the problem, but you might invest a lot of effort building the wrong thing while a simpler, more obvious solution is right under your nose. When you pick a solution branch too early, you might be tempted to stick to that branch, and only notice the parts of the problem that fit your solution.

In your example, you might build the wrong thing based on your assumption of what your users want. You might realise at some point down the road that software wasn't even the right solution in the first place.
It came from an investigation by New York's AG last year:

> In fact, Tether’s reserves of cash and cash equivalents alone
(without the line of credit) would cover approximately 74 percent of the outstanding amount of
tether. This sort of “fractional” reserving arrangement is similar to how commercial banks work.
No bank holds in liquid cash more than a small percentage of depositors’ money. The funds are
invested.

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docInde...
Yeah.

One in-between option I have kicked around w/ people is offering interfaces that allow you to implement operator overloading (e.g. Numeric). Then you wouldn't have one-off or cutesy operator overloading, but would rather need to meet some minimum for the feature. (Or at least feel bad that you have a lot of UnsupportedOperationExceptions)

Java had/has a ton of potential, but they kept/keep adding features that make no sense to me, making the language much more complex without some obvious day-to-day stuff like list literals, map literals, map access syntax, etc.

Oh well.
Many consumer-grade USB hubs ([1] for example) will only deliver their full power (or full cleverness - e.g. negotiating certain protocols like Quick Charge) on a subset of ports, so advertising that these hubs will provide their full power output on every port makes sense.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0797NWDCB/
This was DC yesterday: https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1337939112649748480

Don'tcha know.
Yes, I'm guessing it was this series, with titles like "Hexing the Technical Interview":

https://aphyr.com/tags/Interviews
Debian Popularity Contest Statistics for SBCL
The Covid Vaccines Are a Triumph of Globalization
Build responsive websites without a framework
Open Library has a notion of "Works" which group together editions across languages: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL63073W

(Note the work id is in the url: OL6307W)

If you want to get the work id for a given ISBN: https://openlibrary.org/isbn/2070360075.json will redirect to the edition page, and there you can get "works[0].key".

Or, you can search by the isbn: https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=isbn:2070360075
Here's the same code in pascal.

function getnum(var s : string):integer;
var
c : char;
value : integer;
begin
value := 0;
while (length(s) <> 0) and NOT(s[1] in ['0'..'9']) do
delete(s,1,1);
while (length(s) <> 0) and (s[1] in ['0'..'9']) do
begin
value := value * 10 + (ord(s[1])-ord('0'));
delete(s,1,1);
end;
getnum := value;
end;
They do have an affect though. They vote for the people who make the policies. Sure, they don’t directly vote on them, but they do cause it.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/07/776834206/the-mysterious-affa...
https://hackaday.com/2020/12/12/irc-over-lora-for-when-thing... Now on hackaday.
Yes, that is what a democratic country is supposed to be like. Workers have the right to protest.

China's policies of suppression won't work in any place where people have more freedom. In the end, companies will need to eat the increased costs of working in an environment where people can protest mistreatment and wage slavery. The alternative is bowing to China and letting human rights violations slide for the increase in profits.
Sounds like you two are saying nearly the exact same thing, using different words.
This is his bio, on my site: http://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/MikeMarshall.htm
Rival Oxford, which took funding from the UK [1], produced a vaccine which was first to be published demonstrating successful efficacy results [2].

[1] https://www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/funding-and-manufacturing-boos...

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
No, your argument requires that we ignore the fact that good cases may take time to develop.

Consider the Voter Integrity Fund by Matt Braynard. It's one of the more convincing arguments I've heard to date, and involved making many thousands of phone calls, analyzing the resulting data, generating reports, and collecting sworn testimony. All that didn't happen overnight, and they didn't begin immediately after the election.
? not parent, but I am really surprised by that mindset.

A large part of my career has been telling my boss "we should invest 5h of cleanup time here to make sure that in the future we won't have those 5h worth of obstacles here before building a new feature on top of it".

In industries where requirements change on a weekly or monthly basis, agility is worth a lot.
An even bigger battle for gig worker rights is on the horizon
It is bad with C/C++

Unfortunately, I use Pascal and there it is even worse

GDB tries to parse Pascal syntax in print, but many expressions do not work. It is almost a mix of Pascal and C.

The integration in the Lazarus IDE makes it even worse, when you cannot enter all expressions. And there are so many bugs. You get GDB crashing, Lazarus crashing, or GDB freezing the entire X server if it pauses the program in a bad moment. Then you need to restart the system or kill GDB from outside the X server.
is your argument that he's a genre writer and his genre is his own cult of personality, and that his pieces should not be judged on the coherence of their arguments, because making strong arguments is not the point of his writing?
Shenzhen factory labour is more expensive than America. The labour is higher quality, though.
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People have children for many reasons. Some of them are questionable ..a lot of it is because of religion. I remember reading about one who conceived to bring a bone marrow donor for a health compromised child.

At some point, we have to ask ourselves..why does the human species want to procreate?
What you describe is a lack of a designer/architect in the loop. Devs are supposed to implement what is requested, as requested. Designers and architects are supposed to figure out what to request to the devs, based on the customers' needs. And this indeed entails figuring out the customers' actual problem, rather than parroting their solutions (which they are almost always unqualified to design).
This law is untenable. For one thing outside of companies like Apple or Amazon who -might- be able to negotiate with the Chinese government on audits, middle to small businesses would have no possibility of that because they mean nothing to the CCP. This is a government to government thing, not a company thing and the bill doesn't make sense to make companies culpable for the entire supply chain. It's just punting responsibilities to companies who trade rather the US government whose job it is really to investigate such things. It's just a feel good law to blame corps rather than Congress Critters, which they've been trying to get rid of responsibilities for decades.
Your question is not really one. It's an unfounded rant with a question mark behind it.

So, let me counter with some questions.

What Linuxes did you try, that convinced you all of Linux is buggy and not one (release of) one distro?

What hardware are you running, on which the bugs surface? Is it a cheap, low end laptop with a stressed out motherboard, for example? Did you run other OSes on that same hardware to compare?

Is 'networking' the only bug? Because if so, how does 'one bug' equal to 'full of bugs' or 'buggy'?

Edit: to be clear: I'm not saying your troubles are not troublesome or the bugs you encounter dismissable; on contrary. I am trying to say that there are a lot of reasons for a bug and that debugging or troubleshooting requires elimination. You seem to have concluded that it is "Linux", to have eliminated all other causes (a distro, a faulty setting, broken or buggy hardware, etc) which may be a fair assessment, but if you did, please give the details that made you conclude that.
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I was employing something called sarcasm.
It is a racial stereotype, because it literally invokes race. It's also not positive if it helps reinforce beliefs that Asians are unreflective drones that are good at piano and math but lack personality and originality.