skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’ve sold something, why would you expect to have any right to negotiate what the buyer plans to do with it? The delivery businesses have simply found some value that customers are willing to pay for. If the restaurants want to capture that value for themselves they have every right to attempt to do so.

It’s also silly to say that these delivery apps are trying to make the world a better place. They’re just providing a service to consumers. They’ve certainly changed the takeout food market significantly (and in a way that is very beneficial to consumers). But they’ve also made it harder for takeout food businesses to operate, because they’ve massively increased the competition they face. Takeout restaurants used to only compete with other nearby take out restaurants, for the business of customers within a convenient distance from their location. Now they have to compete with businesses from miles away too.

This is fantastic for consumers, which is generally who should benefit most from these sort of regulations. This law is an absolute affront to consumers, and serves only to protect bad businesses from having to address innovation. It’s understandable that these businesses want a slice of that value, and I’m sure you could tell a very sympathetic story about them. But they did nothing to create this value, and the law shouldn’t exist to shield them from competition.
Trauma is a real thing people experience, and having associated triggers is not particularly rare, believe it or not. I'm sorry if some particular political leaning convinced you that's only a thing on tumblr.

And I don't see how "standing up" in the US would ever do you any good, with the sheer force of militarized police and actual military. I hope this is not leading into a tired "if only Germany would've had guns" point.
And if someone made yet an even more powerful program called cocaine, that would be okay too, because the name fits so well. right?
There do seem to be a lot of CCP apologists when the evident facts that they commonly lie to their people, strictly control emigration, and go as far as killing dissenters, should make it very clear that this is not a regime you want to live under.
Japan has quite a weird judicial system. I think from a western, common law eye, it probably seems worse. In the west a prosecutor will usually bring a case if they think there is a reasonable chance of getting a conviction whereas in Japan, a prosecutor will only bring a case if they are very convinced that there will be a conviction. I think there is also some societal pressure on judges to not find people innocent, which seems pretty bad to me. Also the police basically want to extract signed confessions out of people and may often keep suspects in custody for long periods of time (without access to a lawyer or anyone else) to extract confessions.

Obviously this sounds bad so in the interest of balance, let me point out that there are many problems with the US system but they are out of this comment.
The problem with the line of thinking that China deliberately engineered/created/released sars-cov-2 is that there's zero motivation for it. What could they possibly gain from it? What's the strategic value of it?
If I had 50 years experience as a business leader, 50 more as a software developer, another 50 as a UI/UX designer, and 50 as a digital security consultant, I would be more valuable than 4 people who had 50 years each, because what would be meeting between the four would be instant and complete awareness of all issues and without communication ambiguity for me.

Certainly there would be need of a different economic model in a mortality-optional world so that young people who have yet to celebrate their first centennial can thrive, but that was also true when industry replaced feudalism and people started to stay in school until 21 (YMMV) instead of starting families the moment puberty hit.
They receive social credit points for doing that though.
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Hehe, I usually do the opposite, as the SourceForge project page usually contains very little information about the project in general and is usually harder to navigate than the home page.
Tactile pocket computing - iPhone, etc - was a huge paradigm shift for users. The UX as a whole is completely different to the desktop experience.

In terms of software itself - it's not about typing code or about text UIs vs graphic UIs.

It's about programming being a fiddly and tedious pastime with explicit handling of every possible scenario, because the machine has no contextual background knowledge and isn't intelligent enough to interpolate or intuit the required details for itself.

So you get modern software which is basically just a warehouse full of virtual forms glued together with if/then/else - or simple pattern matching if you're really lucky - managed by relatively simple automation pipelines. Plus a UI/API glued on top.

And underneath that is TinkerLand, full of lovely text-langs which are different-but-increasingly-similar and command line environments which are like little puzzles which are not really hard - in the sense of Physics PhD hard - but are hard enough to give people who enjoy tinkering a sense of satisfaction when they (more or less) solve one.

You can do a lot with this - like ordering goods and services, selling advertising, collecting creepy amounts of data about users, and keeping people entertained.

But it's basically just automated virtual bureaucracy. It has no independent goal seeking skills, it doesn't improvise, invent, or adapt, and it's ridiculously brittle and not particularly secure.

Visual programming won't change this. Nor will ML (although it may contribute.) It needs a complete change of metaphor, and there doesn't seem to be much evidence of the research required to make that happen.
Yeah sure, I mean when people say 'Iran' did X or 'Venezuela' did Y those are fully representative govts that the people can overturn at any point. Oh wait.

Why aren't you saying نظام‎ instead of Iran? Why not 'Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela' instead of Venezuela?

Come on man.
> then those in power are going to start doing this

I don't know where you have been these last 70 years, but western powers have been "doing this" for a long, long, long time

What we really need is to listen to some Angela Davis speeches on what has been going on in the areas that The Media is too cowardly to report
And then try to write a GUI in Rust.
> No one has the right to kill another person unless someone's life is in acute danger.

That's a completely arbitrary right. Depending on wherever you are from it's not some kind of shared obviousness at all. Some countries actually execute people for possessing hard drugs (which I don't agree with, but that's the reality: don't assume 'rights' are universal). Most of these countries are in South East Asia and have suffered in the opium days so there's a history behind that decision too.
I don't like the way the site is trying to force you to use the mobile app.
From my contract, there is no overtime pay. Overtime has to be given as free time within a specific amount of time after the overtime occurred.

But for any rolling period of x timeunits (don't want to be too specific obviously) I have a specific amount of hours of overtime that the company doesn't need to compensate in free time. In my case this is ~20% of my regular time in ever rolling period.

But up to a maximum amount of overtime hours per year. This max amount is short of 10% of my yearly hours.

So in the end I have to accept about 10% overtime just already compensated with my contract.
The images used appears to be from a public execution in 1995, rural China, for a triple murder.
> That broken

The crux of the issue. It’s tragic how the new woke fads exaggerate and even imagine plights for minorities near themselves, while completely ignoring big crises further away.
Flash is not propertiary platform. Flash is a tehnology that allowed you to run apps in your browser. It didn't control what apps you are allowed to run because it is not a platform but a software.

HTML5 is not near to replace Flash, and with main propertiary platform owners controlling browser market, it may never become Flash replacement.
How do I (as a westerner) realistically affect change?

China's been persecuting Mongolian, Moslem, Christian, Buddisht minorities for a while and I recently read about concentration camps for Uighurs minorities on the BBC.

I want change, will my purchase decisions have any affect and are boycotts even effective?
Personally I'm a fan of cxs [0] which is (or purports to be) atomic among other strengths. From the readme:

- 0.7 KB (gzipped)
- Zero dependencies
- High performance ("fast af")
- Deduplicates repeated styles
- Dead-code elimination
- Media queries and pseudoclasses supported

Works with any framework or with none, apparently, although I've only used it with Preact. Supports themes. Everything I need and nothing I don't.

[0] https://github.com/cxs-css/cxs
There's loads of Chinese and Chinese-ancestry developers on here, some non-trivial proportion harbor nationalistic sentiment towards China and auto downvote anything critical of the CCP. I've worked with over 10 mainland Chinese devs who had emigrated out of China, and even though they're wonderful people and very talented (half of them PhDs from places like Tsingua or a college outside of China), they by and large were incredibly nationalistic and won't hear a single bad word about Mao etc.
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>I experienced a toxic situation myself recently, it caused me to do a lot of reading and research.

Any suggested books/readings which helped you gain more knowledge about toxic survival politics ?
I'll ignore the "obviously stupid" comment and let you Google for examples.

I agree that it's not worth the effort for governments to shut down Bitcoin, at the moment. The US just confiscated $1 billion in coin. They're pretty happy with the pseudonyms it seems.
Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail
Honestly it took our 4 year old months to accept that a closed office door meant she wasn't allowed in. What does OP expect parents to do when their kid needs them? Beat them? Lock the door and ignore the crying? Jeez.
Even with nitpicking you still got the point, so I guess it's good enough.
Or you could read the source within the article, as mentioned.

https://qz.com/246696/chinas-criminal-conviction-rate-is-99-...
"More VC like" has been proposed by Mariana Mazzucato. If the state invests in a startup/spinoff, the state should get equity in return rather than just some lofty words about future jobs or such.

Not for the purpose of creating long time state owned companies, but for cashing out when/if the investment is successful, just like VC's. This would both provide the state with money, removing the need to raise that same money via taxes, and hopefully also better align the incentives of the funding organisation by providing measurable goals.
What has it got that makes it better than clang-complete/you complete me?

I switched a few years ago, maybe i wasn't using all of cscope's strengths?
Oh god... I didn't say it was deliberate!!!!

The argument is that they were profoundly negligent.

As for the lab side of things, the argument is that it was an accidental release (as happened multiple times with SARS 1).

My point is whether or not it walked out of the lab (by ACCIDENT) given they knew in 2003 that certain things were major risks, they should have come down on them like a ton of bricks. The fact they re-opened wet markets and took no further steps to tackle that makes them responsible through negligence.
I don't understand how 'being triggered' is a bad thing...

People who 'get triggered' are too sensitive. They have to train themselves. We are on planet earth, we live then we die. This is a fact. Emotions are tools to allow us to navigate our lives as members of society. They are useful, not something we should be shielded from.

We need negative emotions just like we need hunger to know we need to eat, thirst to know we need to drink, pain to know we need to avoid physical harm, etc...

IMO, those who can't face reality shouldn't be involved in shaping it.
As someone living and working in a developed western country, and someone who works in IT, I can't think of a single change or thing Bitcoin or blockchain tech has brought with it. The only difference I see is contained to the headlines of discussion sites like HN and Reddit.

Zero impact.
I just did some research and it appears that amphetamine used to have a coffee cup logo.

Amphetamine rebranded to showcase it as a pill.
The author makes the point that amphetamine is a legal drug used to treat actual disorders, and in no way promotes abuse
Yeah in China the education system is hugely geared up to indoctrinate. I studied at university with many Chinese people, know people who have lived there and of course have read a lot about it. It is no surprise!
It's a great resource. I like such easy list approach, because many times new language just needs a translation from concepts you already know.

I have a problem understanding how temporaries work in Rust. At least from what I see there is a difference between a temporary inside a vec that I bind somewhere to then pass it somewhere and a temporary inside vec constructed inside method invocation. I asked on SO [0], but did not receive satisfactory answer, or I'm too dense to understand it.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64705654/why-i-get-tempo...
This whole article reeks of Western propaganda against China. China is being turned into the new al-Qaeda to justify yet another Western military adventurism.
How about for "crimes" such protesting for democracy?
Vim Youcompleteme plugin with libclang support does this better for me. Have you compared?
Look at economic situation of all big countries and China. Its atleast an important motivation.
> A good currency should be able to support the full range of social policies

This is not true. An infrastructure that does not even support oppressive policies can be (and often is) better. It’s similar to how it’s better that you can’t plug the USB wrongly.
Not really, the CDC tweet said that they are ineffective at preventing covid in the general public but necessary for health workers in literally the same sentence:

"Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"
The quote was "I use methamphetamine (desoxyn) to function!"
Peter was so incredibly supportive. He wasn't my DPhil supervisor (a DPhil is the Oxford equivalent of a PhD) but he urged me to start writing up and spent an hour with me each week during that period encouraging me to get my DPhil finished and submit. He would also listen to me practice my talks for the kinderseminar - all far beyond the call of duty. He was a bit like a kindly grandfather to all us algebraists and had a wonderful way of talking about and explaining group theory.
The figure comes from the source of the photos: https://www.friendsoftibet.org/main/execution.html
Happy to see your peer-reviewed work on this. In the unlikely case you haven't actually done any research, I'll go back to believing the scientific consensus of "retraumatizing does not work beyond phobias".

>IMO, those who can't face reality shouldn't be involved in shaping it.

What is this even advocacy for? Voting rights only after you sit through a slideshow of graphic violence?
My first interpretation of "underlings" tends to have it be a somewhat derogatory term towards someone who is of some sort of lower status, which I took to assume (having much experience with this happening while working corporate and on other online forums) that retail employees were somehow lesser/less worthy of being listened to since they were generally further removed from decisions that the rest of the company made (as in, multiple interactions where I would see a conversation like "When working in Apple retail…"/"Shut up, you don't know anything, you just work retail"). The commenter has clarified their position so in good faith I would be willing to believe them but hopefully that gives you a bit more insight into why the way that was phrased was evocative of this to me.
Because it requires either a team or an experienced multidisciplionary person - you need to do mechanic design and part fabrication and electronics and software.

Focusing on just one of these areas would be suitable for a hobbyist, but that's not really a practical option until/if you get a solid ecosystem of cheap and interchangeable components, which really isn't there; sensors and mechanical parts and tools cost a lot, and complete platforms even more, so if you want to work with anything interesting you generally have to do it as part of a lab or team, not as a lone hobbyist.

Also, there is a very long path to any gratification - it takes a lot of work on all the segments until anything starts working and you get some positive feedback; e.g. on the autonomous snowplow example, it would be a loooong road until the 'hello world' autonomous snowplow that's e.g. able to drive forward while the camera is showing all white, as that requires all your engine work and driving parts and electronic driving controls and camera integration to be in place, and if any of these things fails because you're not skilled enough, it just won't work at all. Contrast that with many hobbies where you can get some visible (even if sloppy) stuff done relatively early when starting out; robotics has a very high barrier of entry compared to other hobbies.
> , I mean when people say 'Iran' did X or 'Venezuela' did Y those are fully representative govts that the people can overturn at any point.

For Venezuela, people did vote for Chavez in the first place right? Which then made the turn to dictatorship. Which is what you should expect when when you elect a Marxist.
I wasn't always first world city folk, I've seen the horror and my family has been touched by it. I'd rather never see it again, though unfortunately news from my former home often makes it unavoidable.

If you need to see brutality to empathize with the brutalized, then go ahead and look at the gore. But I think most people are emotionally capable enough to realize that executions aren't pleasant experiences without photo evidence.
This is great!

You probably want to add feeling_lucky: bool as an argument to fair_dice_roll()
> for some vile cognitive gymnastics where they convinced themselves it was too demoralizing for the goons to have to shoot that many people without being drunk all the time

Sadly mental gymnastics seem to do their work often enough. For example firing squad style executions also tend to use mental gymnastics, by introducing blank rounds the individual members of the squad are no longer certain that they will fire the lethal shot, making them less hesitant to aim and shoot correctly.
We need to prop up India as much as possible ASAP. Once China has a credible competitor in the manufacturing space, peaceful influence can be applied through economic means.
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The silliness of haircut licenses existing seems like a very reasonable thing to have a problem with.
> we haven't come across anything incomprehensible yet

If we had, we wouldn’t necessarily be aware that we had. Our minds are good at making models, and it’s always possible to make an incorrect model.
>lack of incentive/competition

I wouldn't say that. There were many projects with reusable stages, e.g. Space Shuttle boosters were partially reusable and the Energia rocket had a variant in development with first stage boosters landing like airplanes.

And there were number of practical problems at the time as well:

- Computers were relatively big and heavy.

- Rocket development was mostly focused on improving efficiency via higher chamber pressure, meaning that engines worked on the edge of their capabilities, which is not a great fit for reusability. It's one of a good reasons why Falcon 9's Merlin engines have the simplest open-cycle design with a relatively low chamber pressure.

- Number of launches was too small to make reusable designs economically viable (i.e. your production line would be idle for too long). Even today this number is not high enough, this is why Musk focuses on projects like Starlink to create an additional "artificial" demand for launches.
That's a good point to make, however it appears that the conviction rate in Japan comes down more to plea bargaining and only the most blatant cases being allowed to proceed forward [0].

I agree that kind of thing can erode the argument so thank you for pointing it out, I wasn't actually aware of that fact re: Japan and probably I'd put less emphasis on that knowing that there can be other alternative explanations.

I don't agree that it's a struggle to criticise the CCP more generally however as while they lock down as much information as they can, plenty leaks out (as always with totalitarian regimes) and there is overwhelming evidence including video, testimony, etc. as to treatment of Uighurs and Falon Gong. I intentionally added references to my original post as to avoid such criticism... for all the good it did me!

And please feel free to express yourself, I have upvoted you also :)

[0]:https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/468111?jou...
Based on the number of units of those machines running in production, we can pretty safely treat them as exceptions these days. And people running them can afford to deal with changes needed for big endian conversion.
> It says all about HN.

You mean well educated?

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"; Wikipedia and lots of writeups tracing back to the singular source of Adrian Zenz are not it sadly
Okay, yes actually never really considered that as someone who never had a single sick day in my life. It might be....
100% this, we buy crap cheaply and in fact we actively seek it out and it's enabled by China. We are all complicit.
Because it evolved to also be a client-side form fill-in & validation etc. format. It’s quite similar to Javascript use for HTML forms.
Exactly. And even if we want to optimize access for those architectures, there surely must be ways to do that. Maybe compilers already do that if you use alignas(int32_t) on the byte array at the call site and ensure that read_int32() function of mine gets inlined?
Yes, magic is much better than Bitcoin. Unfortunately, magic doesn’t exist, while dysfunctional governments have existed from the dawn of man.
At least Fi is no Navi ;)
Really that's the fundamental misunderstanding here.

The idea is to prevent or recover from age-related disease and degredation.

Certainly most everyone likes the idea of staying healthier as they age. This is just progressing that idea with speculation about potential technologies.
This comment is extremely disingenuous. The annual number of state sponsored executions in the United States can be counted on one hand. Most (all?) of the EU has banned the death penalty altogether.