skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though the article’s claims are not sourced, I don’t see any mention of “protesting for democracy”, or protest of any kind. It’s just talking about executions in general. The first picture features a criminal with a “murderer” sign hanging from her neck. The video doesn’t have much context. The second picture is a stock photo from an article about global executions on the decline. The third group of photos have an outgoing link with invalid cert so I didn’t proceed (who knows if it’s rigged with malware). Did I miss anything?
I think the reason it stayed up is because the wumaos have been sleeping on the job. At least it took them a good hour to flag it off the site.. but yeah, the mods are complicit as well since they allow the wumaos to so easily censor content by abusing the flag system.
Whether it's deliberate is besides the point - they clearly lied about it, misled the WHO, and let their people transmit the disease worldwide for months before starting to share what they knew.
> the syntax of a programming language is entirely arbitrary [..] Programming languages weren't designed

This statement is quite simply wrong. Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you seem to be ignoring decades worth of programming language research and the years of work put into designing individual languages (whether by BDFLs, communities, or ANSI committees).

I agree with you that perhaps jet engines weren't the perfect metaphor. However, I think that that's because jet engines have much more stringent external (physical) constraints than software or programming languages. The latter do allow for a certain amount of "taste-judgment": it doesn't matter too much which way you do it, but some people at some times prefer one way over another.

So a more apt metaphor might be architecture: We've known how to build houses for millenia, but we're still improving our materials and techniques, while tradition and fashion continue to play a big role in what they end up looking like.
> "when the average person thinks of using amphetamines to stay awake, they're thinking primarily of the illegal context, not the prescription one."

Be careful when claiming knowledge of what "everybody" or "the average person" is thinking. You expose your own bias. It can come off as a weird self-own, as if you're saying that you use it that way so you can't conceive of innocent uses
Nearly weekly and sometimes daily outages in Sand City and surrounding areas people actually packing up and leaving and they're still using our tax dollars to tear down infrastructure. My tribe was also in that area still is the fish are fine. Just because this tribe was on the American side of the border when they drew the lines doesn't mean that they are the only tribe that used that area. California has a blanket ban on any nuclear energy projects or research in California it's never going to happen. get ready to buy China coal because that's what you're going to be using in about 6 years.
meanwhile I've heard siberia is also famous for considering just a normal business a 300 km fishing trip in all-terrain vehicles via something barely resembling a road.
I have begun supporting Korean and Japanese products where I can.

Also I have a pretty big influence on procurement where ever I contract. I could bring to discussion the UK gov advisories on using Chinese network and IT equipment.

I just don't know if this is enough or I can do more?
I wonder how much of that design is a conscious decision and how much is "we need to use common endianness, stuff's on the network, let's use network-endian"? If we didn't have the label of network byte order, would people default to little?
The entire Central Europe is becoming supply chain of German automotive industry. Soon there will bo not other professional opportunities. So exciting to create another overengineered premium car for some rich people. Not. I'm ambivalent except the fact that all the money flows towards few German families owning the industry. The new feudal kingdom of automotive.

Tesla's move is confusing. Factory in Branderburg to benefit from German infrastructure, their legal and economical stability. Are they aware there are no workers there? The'll have to commute Poles and Ukrainians from nearby Poland and house them in huts. This is going to be miserable, but I guess that's what working for outsourced American business must feel like. They'll have to hire armed private security and detective company to keep out the German labour unions. This will keep on giving.
It still surprises me how long this has taken -- almost 10 years:

The first Nissan Leaf was model year 2011, iirc, and the Tesla Model S was year 2013. (Roadster in 2008)
it's to separate 'the Chinese people' from 'the CCP'... the Chinese people are the victims, CCP the perpetuators.
A lot of people confuse this distinction, and do racial behaviors thinking they're doing good for the world.

And yes, the same should go for Iran and Venezuela. But it's easy for CCP because they officially made the acronyms by themselves...
> Anyone got a source for that claim?

We will probably never know the real number. Please also remember we have under-estimated for a very long time the victims of the Soviet Union until we found out more about the gulags and all other repressive systems they had in place.
Absolutely. It strikes me that his understanding of (and certainly his appreciation for) the history of technology is quite limited if he expects ad infinitum exponential development.
Your post seems to me that you intensely believe the creed that western-style “liberal democracy” is the most stable political regime. It is true it is very stable though you should try to separate the reality with the propaganda set up by those states, especially the US one. For example:

> Or is it a doomed experiment, just like all other previous authoritarian regimes in history?

The Pharaonic system which was may be the most despotic ever created lasted for nearly three millenia. The current age of all “democracies” (~ representatively guided states with some kinds of power separations) pales in comparison.
And regarding the robustness of those regimes the only continental country to not crumble when confronted to the shock of the blitzkrieg was the USSR (operation barbarossa lead to the death of 5 millions people in 200 days to give an idea).

I am not trying to defend authoritarian regimes but the questions of which political system is the fairest, which one is the most legitimate, which one is the most stable and which one is the most robust are not the same and should not be conflated
> I honestly wonder whether it's ... just standard HNers who are in some sort of woke-led state of denial.

I don't think there's any evidence for that. Every woke tech person I know would rather quit their job than do work that benefits the CCP. I think that's why all the biggest tech companies have tiptoed up to that point (e.g. project dragonfly) but haven't been able to cross it.
Most of the claims have nothing to do with Adrian Zenz, and I’d love to know what you have against him since his reporting seem to be factually accurate.
On the one hand, I can no longer compiler programs that were written ten years ago due to conflicts and library deprecations, but somehow I am supposed to be bothered that we have "30 year old text editors, and 25 year old languages." I don't care, I want things to work and I don't want to have to make a job out of learning flavor of the week things to make things that worked fine 10 years ago work today.

Truly one of the worst attitudes in technology, the desire for novelty is so inline with how unsustainable and ephemeral tech is.
People mist know this. Please share.

China is like a facelifted third reich turned inwards.
> It's baffling. If I'm a company, the idea of having more than one team doing the same thing in order to try to beat the other down strikes me as not just counter-productive, but expensive and evidence of a broken hierarchy and culture.

Depends... If you have the resources, multiple team can achieve the same result in many ways, one possibly being vastly superior than others. If you look at large companies like IBM or Oracle, this internal innovation is often stifled by "we have whale clients X Y and Z, ask them what they want and implement that".

That said though, it can lead to duplication of efforts and pretty much the same result done twice (once for the finished product, and once for the almost finished product by team B). If you're apple with billions of dollars that you don't know what to do with, this is a viable and useful strategy (also employed by Amazon AFAIK).
It's a conspiracy theory that wet markets and traditional Chinese medicine (in which raw animal parts are mixed together etc.) are huge pandemic vectors? And that re-opening the markets and putting absolutely no controls whatsoever on them for 17 years after the SARS 1 outbreak is significantly increasing the chances of a pandemic?

And that it's not impossible that the virus could have escaped from a lab (since the SARS virus did multiple times before [0]) by accident? Though there is some real debate about that so I'm not blindly advocating that theory, only saying it's not entirely implausible.

I mean I'd love to hear your arguments as to the contrary, since you accuse me of 'state level character assassination' by... providing a large number of references to incredibly evil behaviour by the CCP? Please feel free to rebut any 'specific' which you accuse me of refusing to discuss?

I am making specific criticisms none of which I see you have chosen to rebut or discuss rather you are instead trying to smear me. Am happy to hear your actual arguments...

[0]:https://www.the-scientist.com/news-analysis/sars-escaped-bei...
Loosely related: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.72....

Tthat paper talks about bringing ideas from Haskell to C# and Visual Basic (!).
US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies
I’ve found it to be extremely complex and unintuitive, but I haven’t tried the alternatives.
> Oh wait

You do realize that Iran is a republic right?

They hold legislative and executive branch elections every few years with different political parties and all....
Not sure if that also exists in the Netherlands, but maybe a worker cooperative as company form could be a solution for the equity problem?
> I doubt he will care, reflected at how he manages PR when accused of international labor abuses.

Provided the article is now deleted, it seems someone cared, though in a different way :/.
well things go bad when they actually realize and/or admit CCP isn't a beneficial entity for the Chinese...

they have family/relatives in mainland... have to be careful even in abroad
npm always trips me up because "npm install" (not adding a package) can change the lock file.
You edited your post to remove the Japan comparison.

Why would you do that?
Instead of complaining that the churning world of software is "stagnant" he could have just made a blog post talking about his ideas of what that futurist interface would be. That would have garnered a lot more of a positive attitude.
I'm somewhat peeved by his "No technology has ever been permanent" statement. Compared to most human technologies, 25 years is not exactly what you'd call a grandfatherly age...
Luxembourg as Minecraft Blocks
> Maybe, just maybe, your mom and your sister aren't the perfect bellwethers of the needs of skittish would-be-bike-riders in the world

Your claim is that nobody wants them. I know at least two, which is more than 0.

They aren't popular yet, but I'm willing to bet that they will be with further development. Let's not forget that the first automatic gearbox for cars, the 1904 Sturtevant "horseless carriage gearbox", wasn't exactly a market hit - it took until the late 1940's for it to take off as a polished product and longer still to overtake manual transmissions (due to similar cited concerns about maintainability and the level of control).

In fact, I actually drive a manual transmission in my car because of those factors (and manual is still more popular in the UK), but clearly the majority of the market has moved on.
Wasn’t there another one called caffeine?
I should have said :) I am writing backtracking algorithms (think something like a Sudoku solver where we fill in values by guessing), and an 'Error' is when we can deduce the Sudoku cannot be filled in, so we have to backtrack.

I find Rust's ? notation gives a very natural way of writing such algorithms. I don't care "why" filling in the Sudoku failed, particularly because the solver will typically fail millions of times a second, so I definately don't want constructing the error to be expensive in any way.
Sorry... webRTC doesn’t work on ios Webviews and hence non Safari iOS browsers. It should work in Safari. Momentary brain freeze.
Even just basic text is... interesting in PDFs. A few years back, I created a PDF which displayed its own MD5 hash by making every single letter a separate chain of sub-documents and using MD5 collisions to change which sub-document each pointed to without changing the hash. Pretty much every PDF reader managed to interpret this cleanly as ordinary, copy-and-pasteable text because it wasn't any worse than they could expect to encounter in an ordinary PDF, and they all had robust heuristics for dealing with these kinds of shenanigans. (The exception I found was PDF.js, possibly due to the fact it was rendering the whole thing to HTML.) The only real issue was that every PDF reader had a slightly different idea of what characters I could safely use in the names of those nested documents.
This is exactly what I need it <3
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It's a lot of work to design new cars from the ground up (not only body and interior but the whole platform and engine), and moreover this is new, developing technology.

The timescale is not unreasonable especially when you consider that the big German players have a reputation to uphold: they need to polish the product and make it to the level of quality people expect (which is much higher than Tesla cars) before it can hit the market.

I think they also aim at significant numbers of units. So it makes sense to take your time to develop a product and to hit the market when electric cars are on the cusp of becoming mainstream.
Does it actually matter these days? Registers can be wired in any way physically, so there's no "first byte" on that level. It would only matter if there was an instruction pipeline optimising an 8bit bus reading the long value into ALU input and ALU doing the operation... which as far as I understand modern design doesn't actually happen.
http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/

given that you asked particularly as a programmer, why not through programming exercises
I do find the sensitivity on that phrasing hilarious given the absolute hysteria around US/UK politics and some of the phrasing used there. I won't make specific examples to avoid partisanship but it is just mind boggling.

would "gross negligence, face-saving, cover up and delay resulting in over a million more deaths than necessary" work better for you? [0]

[0]:https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/china-coronavirus-coveru...
This person is making the extraordinary claim that all the provided evidence is bullshit, but ironically delivers no substantial evidence themselves, besides asserting "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".

This is what cognitive dissonance looks like.
DPhil = Doctor of Philosophy

PhD = philosophiae doctor = "Doctor of Philosophy" in Latin

it's not an equivalent, it's the exact same title :-)
laugh in Disney copyrigths...
> We will probably never know the real number.

So then why use such numbers, when there's no expectation of accuracy?

My high school teachers would have been rather upset at me had I been so liberal with facts
For me (emacs + clangd), the language server slowly grows in memory usage until it's eaten up 32G and then gets OOM killed :(
Very good points. The problem is that people are normally not using other peoples shitty chairs to try to build a space station.
Few greater atrocities in the world of art than the absence of a movie based on the awesome Fate of Atlantis game.

It would have been more epic than anything. After all Atlantis is more of a “Holy Grail” for archaeology than the Holy Grail itself.
Physics stops advancing.

Powerful people consolidate their power, discouraging subversive ("disruptive") technology.
This is by design and not surprising at all if you read even a tiny bit about PDF. It's in fact the default save method in nearly every PDF capable software. Rewriting the PDF is in fact the less common method. I'm surprised a researcher of PDF would be surprised by that.

However, if you are using a tool like a redaction tool then the software should forbid you from writing in append mode. This was a common error in old PDF apps and perhaps contemporary ones that are new.

Edit for politeness:

My surprise is aimed at the researcher, not you :)
I think the key is whether one accepts that there is no free will.

If you did, then executing someone solely for whatever they did makes no sense, because:

1. If you were in their place, you would've done the same thing (no free will).

2. You can imagine what you'd feel if in their place you'd hear the sentence, (then empathy would kick in).

3. “No man is completely useless; he can always serve as a bad example.”

Then in an ideal world, we would have the knowledge, and resources to figure out what went wrong, and "fix" the abusive behaviour in the subject, making them a happy and productive member of society again.

Of course we are living in an imperfect world, so this is not yet a viable solution..
We're probably at that point again where a developer 'knows' React but will completely flounder when faced with anything outside of that ecosystem. Same with jQuery, same with Rails and Ruby.
> At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD (http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/), where "disposable income" (http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=46) accounts for healthcare and government benefits.

There's a catch, though: You have to live in the borderline failed state that is the USA. That's quite the drawback and just not worth it no matter the salary increase, imo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_wine
A lot of it is simply the prevalence of little-endian systems, initially with x86, but now with the vast majority of other systems too; code is developed on the developer's system, and works there. As big-endian systems have become increasingly rare, an ever larger amount of code has stopped working (or never worked) on big-endian systems, thus it's become harder and harder to ship big-endian systems. If you want desktop-class applications, they've typically either been little-endian only, or have been little-endian only since Apple migrated to Intel.

We've seen POWER largely migrate to little-endian, as IBM was struggling with sales due to the difficulty in porting software to it, partly due to the endianness difference. (Note that POWER and PowerPC were technically always bi-endian architectures, but the majority of historic hardware had its endianness set by the motherboard in use, and almost everything shipped with big-endian. Systems running Windows NT on PowerPC were some of the very few that ran in little-endian mode.)

We've also seen a similar shift in embedded hardware; bi-endian architectures like ARM and MIPS are now more commonly used in little-endian mode, despite historically being used in big-endian mode.
> This is what Microsoft did, and later admitted it was bad for the products and users and teams.

Is there any research on the topic? Or in-depth post on Microsoft's strategy at the time?
Maybe, software solutions can be applied to academia.

In software, we have "source code distributions", such as Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Red Hat, SUSE, etc. They are collections of mostly a same free software, with minor differences, but with different policies and purpose. Some are conservative collections of proven software, others are bleeding edge, etc.

IMHO, someone should start to collect papers, which are worth reading, and keep this collection up to date, with fixes to papers (AKA as patches in software), with one paper per topic, with ready to use math models and simulations, with in software tests for models, etc.
CDK still uses CloudFormation to provision resources, so "usurps" is not quite right.
Literally the most easiest way to understand Rust.

Just want to take a moment a appreciate your efforts for writing this amazing article.
Honestly it made it so easier to understand Rust especially for a beginner like me
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Hey, just wanted to show off my small side project. This came about simply because I wanted to learn UWP/Xaml, since at the time it was what Microsoft touted to be the future of app development. While making it I learned a lot, especially about Azure and C#. Still a work in progress but its functional and stable. Feel free to let me know what you think, positive or negative!
Thanks for giving so much more color. I'm only focusing on one specific argument, though. I am not ignoring what you are presenting but challenging an invalid claim on profit extraction.

A courier service is extracting profits no more than a waiter or waitress is. Whether it's staff (waiter) or contractor (courier), both are providing "delivery" services in exchange for fees. A waiter offers internal delivery within the restaurant. A courier offers external delivery to the home. Counting the courier's myriad cuts and how it monetizes its services isn't revealing profit extraction. You're revealing how couriers are paid for their services (10% of the bill + market premium).
There's a whole paradigm that centers around exactly this. It is called pair programming. It is quite popular.
> may I ask what pays double that of FAANG?

Is Apple known for having high salaries? I was under the impression (possibly wrongly, I've never worked for Apple) that they underpay their engineers, relying on the engineers' desire to work for them because of their brand.
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater body of water in the world. Claiming there isn’t a material difference between that and the Delaware River is weird.

When we are looking at a map of the US, they don’t draw the Delaware River. They do draw the Great Lakes.
If I'm not mistaken, this happens only if you don't specify the exact version number that is required to be installed.
I've used distcc in that way long time ago. I had an powerpc iBook (G4) and a x86 desktop (Pentium4). The desktop helped compile software on the iBook using distcc and a cross-compiler. It did work pretty well. I also used ccache in addition to that to cache build output. That was probably around 2005 when most (all?) cpus were still single-core.