skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And not both?

International trade across border is fundamentally state to state agreement. Chinese citizen #1 does not directly engage with US company #2 when they make a commercial exchange. Geographic border is quite literally a physical barrier where transaction friction is reduced with instruments like trade deals. It's always mediated by laws from both parties (import/export controls) and sometimes a superbody (multilateral organizations). Smuggling wouldn't be a concept if relationship is between people to people.

> ARE western propaganda

Everything is political, but some politics are more acceptable than others. Censorship in media has gotten pretty overwhelming in PRC last few years, but "cutting all the dangerous thoughts" is gross hyperbole. Marvel blockbusters do fine in both China and US with minimal editing. Ditto with NBA before HK drama. Most western brands for that matter. There's overlap of shared taste in commercial goods and popular media, same can't be said on actual political news / propaganda like this instance. Especially this instance, if people knew what Guo is to CCP. Cracking down on speech and foreign influence is matter of priority and perspective.

> different example

Hard to think of one right now. Point is no one attaches values to trade of commodity items. No one insists McDonald's must sell pork/beef burgers in Islamic countries or India because of values, but when it comes to censorship and China/Vietnam, it's unreasonable for US social media platforms to follow local requirements. We're not even touching on a future where foreign companies actively endorse Chinese propaganda to cater to Chinese identity politics, instead of current reluctant endorsement due to legal compliance.

> why does US have to comply

No one has to comply, just don't expect market access, nor whine previous access is lost.

> banned

Dodgy Chinese brands vehicles aren't in US because they're banned but because they don't meet safety requirements. There are entire sectors of economy where foreign companies are actually banned i.e. some financial services. Implying western tech are banned is simply false, see Bing. But it's the basis of lots of grievance politics in tech, i.e. endorsing tiktok ban as reciprocal when tiktok follows all US laws. Same is not true vice versa.

> not realistic

Apple / Bing continues to operate fine in Chinese market. FB / Google were working on Chinese compliant services a few years ago. Maybe I'm misinterpreting. If you mean multinationals being beholden to multiple jurisdictions including home countries which supersedes everyone else, then yeah that's a finicky problem especially in tech when data can be weaponized. But that's a very broad matter of strategic policy decisions.
Mortality is said to reduce because less severe virus keep the hosts more mobile and increase chances of transmission, outnumbering more severe variants.

For the COVID though, IIUC there’s 4-day asymptomatic phase where most of transmission occurs, followed by 2-week symptomatic phase, and it is thought to be unique. So it’s not clear if normal rules of thumbs apply to it.
I would suggest when disagreeing with someone about a topic this inherently devoid of absolute truth you refrain from statements like “you’re wrong”.

You make some excellent points, but by starting out with an absolute assertion like that you undermine the value of the rest of your content.
> Greg Foss of the Texas Advanced Computing Center helped visualize these simulations

Where are those visualizations?
Yeah, the only way we're getting to herd immunity without the current disaster becoming exponentially worse is with the vaccines.
I think I just realized while Apple doesn't allow side loading apps. Because if you could side load apps, then Chinese citizens could side load apps, and Apple would no longer be favored in China.

This complaint makes me feel like it's as simple as that. Apple just fears China.
The cost really depends on the scale. I started out to build and use it as an interview tool and language playground for myself, and I only have a single pretty standard cloud VM.
Hm. I am not satisfied with that explanation.

Why now? And I am seeing this in Germany as well, which of course suffers a social divide, but much less extreme, or existentially threatening, than in the US. I assume the "job exchange" market is a natural monopoly, at least for its respective sections, and now there seems to be a race for it. But weirdly it's for the most part all the same: Listings. There doesn't seem to be a sustainable model, which avoids the problems of the past's iterations. Therefore I assume it's driven by business folks, not people with ideas.
> Philips was still contractually allowed to continue using Nintendo characters.

If Philips was contractually allowed to use Nintendo's characters, that suggests to me that Phillips would have been developing them for the SNES attachment as well.

I can see why Nintendo backed out.
How does it work internally for non-KDE apps? GNOME's equivalent, GVFS, uses real FUSE paths at /run/user/1000/gvfs. Does KIO do the same thing, or copy them to a temporary directory before sending the path to the application?
Pandemics like this last two years. It will be over in 2022. Even without vaccine herd immunity would set in at some point. The vaccine roll out is going to speed this up, although it will take until the summer before it starts having a major impact on the number of cases
> For the love of god, I can never understand why this game became popular.

Imagine it's 2011, you haven't played a video game since Space Invaders, and you trade your carrier-subsidized Cingular-branded RAZR in for a carrier-subsidized iPhone 4. The number 1 app in the store is "Facebook" so you download it, sign up, and are suddenly spending all your time in their garden rekindling connections with everyone you ever knew. Seems like the perfect low-impact game to play with one finger on a smooth piece of glass, flipping back and forth between it and your FB Messages / comment-thread flamewars / etc.
There’s reports of delivery sites trying to hide that they’re delivery sites when they pick up the order. Normally a DoorDasher uses a DoorDash bag (it seems), but supposedly they don’t use it inside, and then put the order in the DoorDash bag in the car. Not sure how true it is though (it could just be people not wanting to hold up the line)
The quality of the food really isn't a binary state, though. I think most people get the idea that delivery food isn't going to be as good as having it at a restaurant, but they're expecting a middle ground if the item is offered for delivery.
I currently have BasicLinux (http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/) running on a 386SX with 8MB RAM. Last remaining thing I’m still puzzling over is getting its 10Mbit Ethernet card working.
For once I find myself in complete agreement with you.

The only reason I have sympathy for Apple in this situation is that at the time they began their investment in China, the US and the West in general believed that China was on a path to liberalization and genuinely wanted to support them as a global ally.

It’s not going to be easy to disentangle from that.
sounds like you want to increase your personality trait conscientiousness.

here's an article on that:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/201...

Used to be a Harvard Health page on it, but it's behind a paywall now.
Yes. I immediately check that after it happened except the plist was empty.

Firefox used to have similar problem with their json so after a few bug report with them they fixed it with another json.bak as redundancy. ( The good days of Firefox )
Taking inspiration isn't plagiarism
I meant the latter but the former is probably true as well. It does seem telling that elite military units don't operate much like the bulk of the military does.
No Change Markets Through Monetary Policy
Had a quick look at the figures for the UK today - it looks really bad, we've just overtaken the US on daily caserate at around 750 new daily cases / million. Germany were previously increasing fairly alarmingly in November, but seem to have been able to slow the increase down, if not get it heading down again. France had a large spike in November, got it under control in December, but are on the rise again (though under a new lockdown/curfew as of today).

The problem now in the UK is the winter pressures are at their worst, we haven't even seen the impact of Christmas relaxation yet, and we've just exceeded the peak number of covid inpatients seen in the first wave. We're going to start seeing hospitals closing to new admissions soon (diverting to other nearby hospitals) as they hit full capacity.
The Oxford vaccine might only be 60% effective preventing COVID infections, howver, it is much more effective in reducing hospitalisation and deaths. Contracting flu is a bummer, but a minor inconvenience when compared to dying.
Legally the only way to acquire restaurant food over here atm is takeout or delivery. They can't just not offer it.
It’s probably because some restaurants have “banned” delivery app people. So, in this instance, the Postmate person can feign ignorance and act like they’re just ordering for a friend (which is a common thing).
It's also undeniably a good thing for customers as well. Using an unexpected intermediary in a transaction is a terrible experience. If I see a restaurant on GrubHub then I want to know that that restaurant wants orders coming through GrubHub. Otherwise, I'll be much better off calling up the restaurant directly. As it stands, I currently have to use Google Maps as my restaurant portal, using the restaurant's website or phone number to figure out how to place orders. Only if their website is or links out to a 3rd party like GrubHub do I then actually use GrubHub.

But if GrubHub only showed restaurants that were actually delegating their delivery to GrubHub, then I could use it as a portal. Right now it's not trustworthy for that purpose.
I still live in a house with an asbestos cement roof. built in the 70s, germany
No, just like the EU search engine, remember that one?
The first part of your answer that sounds intuitively believable, namely that a bunch of chores accumulate by the end of a production cycle and that productivity is not as badly hit, so it might be possible to get more out of people by overworking them (it's not completely obvious though, many of the studies about productivity declines due to overwork I skimmed study tasks that don't seem like they'd obviously suffer more under overwork than art asset creation).

But the other two points are in a way begging the question: I understand that both poor planning and set-in-stone release/marketing windows are endemic in the industry (and that this creates temptation to overwork people to hit a slipped deadline). But if overworking people is generally a net loss in throughput (as a lot of studies seem to suggest), giving in to this temptation ought to be counterproductive and decrease the likelihood of meeting the deadline. Now of course it's not uncommon for people to really persistently, and en-masse do stupid things that turn out to be highly counterproductive -- like seeing a doctor throughout most of human history. On the other hand, given that the practice seems to be both ubiquitous and universally hated you'd think the first major game studio to figure this out would completely crush its competitors in no time. Since this hasn't happened yet, it's tempting to conclude it must provide some advantage.
Is complaining about downvotes the same "snowflake" behavior I've been hearing about for years?

Interesting to have your feelings hurt that easily.
Feels like cheap desalination breakthrough every year. I know some middle east petro-states are building out the infrastructure, but it doesn't seem like there's broad adoption. Is it because cheap is still not cheap enough? Granted I don't follow developments closely. I just want better non flush/composting toilets.
VA-111 Shkval: A torpedo that can go over 200 knots
> Why is everyone into job boards in 2020/2021? Was there some event or article to push this as an untapped market?

There is/was a global pandemic making a lot of people unemployed.

If you're a coder and unemployed, what better way to get a job than make a job board? Potential employers will come to you and tell you about their jobs, and then you have a great leg up by saying, "I built the job board you posted to".

It's a great way to find a new job.
My favourite: http://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/
The Dream of Flight
they still make it, now without asbestos in it, but most of it around you probably does contain asbestos if it's older than ~50 years
Yes, though the Internet Archive has 32.0.0.371 and many other older versions: https://web.archive.org/web/20200701045943/https://helpx.ado...
There's cause for optimism! Basically, it'll take a big chunk of 2021 to vaccinate everyone (at best), immunity may take a while to kick in, and while vaccines may be 90ish% effective, continuing to follow transmission reduction measures will help further mitigate spread while COVID is still prevalent, so keep it up for a couple months after the bulk of people start receiving vaccines. Not amazing, but also not indefinite, and I believe this has been the messaging for quite a while now.
Both parties don’t have politicians who are actively tweeting about their rights being infringed upon because they are being asked to simply wear a mask.
Some delivery platforms masqueraded as restaurants to customers and customers to restaurants. How can they opt out if they don't know it's happening?
The underlying question is how much of the population has to be immune for "herd immunity" to take effect. The pandemic will burn out once enough people (let's say X% of the population) are immune to the virus, and this is called "herd immunity".

Let's take the UK as our population. If a vaccine is 60% effective and we administer it to everyone in the UK, then about 60% of the UK's population will gain immunity to COVID. Another Y% of the population will have immunity to COVID already, even if the vaccine didn't work for them. Then the question is, is Y + 60 > X, thereby achieving herd immunity?

You can see that if a vaccine is 95% effective, it's more likely to be above the herd immunity threshold of X%. Current estimates for X are about 70%.
Does anyone have s link to the study? I'm curious what their test for "leadership skills" looks like.
Would be interesting to know more, but as far as I know Switzerland (or the area) was never especially like this. I mean it was always mountainous, obviously, but the people were not so different from their neighbors. Cheese-makers who worried about having enough hay for the winter, not cattle-rustlers.

The obvious west-european example would be Scotland. And the "solution" was more or less to deport the people to Ireland & replace them with sheep.
They inflate menu prices and add additional service and delivery fees. You end up spending $50 on a meal that should be $30, and if you were shopping by amount of money spent (as many people are) then the net result is $30 going to the restaurant instead of all $50 you were willing to spend.
Hands-On with HashiCorp Vault
You knew this was coming ;-) Back in 1993 I had SLS Linux running on a 386SX with 4MB of RAM. And that included X11 and gcc so I could compile my own kernels!
Funny fact, one of the best deliveries I’ve gotten this year was ice cream. The local creamery[0] has an option to sign up for weekly deliveries. They obviously bring the equipment to keep it properly frozen (easier than a milkshake I know), and check IDs for their alcoholic ice creams. I suspect that if they wanted to, they could have pulled off milkshake deliveries, although the logistics wouldn’t scale.

0 - https://ilovethestil.com/
I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you think vaccines won't work, just because Fauci is advising caution even after you get one? That's good advice until society has widespread immunity, and it has nothing to do with the efficacy of the vaccines.
Though English has two plural forms "media" and "mediums", are they interchangeable? If you say "media" I think of more than one medium of communication, but if you say "mediums" I think of a group of humans who engage in necromancy and talking to spirits and stuff (being a medium as a job)
Companies do plenty of research, just not basic, since they don’t need to: the government funds it instead. With money taxed from said companies, so...
^^^ This is why you need tests of hard skills. This is the narration of a C player hiring D player friends. And it's "risk averse."
(author of parent article here)

This is very interesting! Can you say more about the task you perform when you see these prompts? How do you decide how to "grade" your response? Presumably it's not just whether or not you can remember the deleted word(s)?

Also: are you blanking out individual words? Phrases? Sentences? An example would be interesting if you're willing to share!
I would argue that the average person would not consider ebay an official vendor for a brand like Amazon. Ebay is set up to make the seller prominent. (Moreso than amazon does, I would argue.)

I haven't used StubHub in a while, but if they have move to being a first party distributor in some cases, i could see some confusion arising for a consumer.
Simjacker vulnerability exploited by surveillance companies
Yes, “free speech” includes speech you don’t like. That’s the point.
Because it’s risky? Surely the same applies with respect to investing in a company, no?
How is online retail more "tech" than physical stores?

How does people not driving hurt gasoline car makers but help electric car makers?
Slow Ways Launch Delayed
Funding is extremely local.

The other reason districts are so territorial is that a lot of them were founded specifically for their people and to keep the “others” out.
> But there is no mechanism that guarantees the inverse — that improvements in infectiousness will be accompanied by a decrease in lethality.

I’m not clear; the argument effectively defines infectiousness as how-not-lethal the virus is. Thus, the virus cannot be made more infectious without decreasing lethality.

There is however an interim period, as evolutionary arguments are long-term arguments, where the virus can be both more infectious and more deadly, before settling into its stationary state.

The molecular perspective isn’t too useful against an evolutionary argument as well — evolution is always a sum-of-the-parts system. The question is simply: is the virus ultimately more capable of spreading? And at least in the extreme, an instantly killed host is unlikely to do an real spreading, no matter how trivially the virus could spread (had the host persisted). And in the other extreme, a completely non-lethal virus can survive and spread forever, especially in dense populations, especially if it doesn’t incapacitate the host significantly (acting as a simple parasite), allowing it to continue meeting new hosts.

Of course, a virus that doesn’t need the victim to be the host is a different story; eg malaria persists and spreads through mosquitos, so it could instantly kill humans and yet receive no evolutionary pressure against it.
aerospace, energy, semiconductors,
telecom, drugs/biotech

The EU lost leadership in all of them! (And some others!)
Work for your boss, but follow a true leader.
There was a time where leaders and kings stood right there with their subjects on the battlefields, today the highest executives take all the money and delegate the responsibility.
To see a president or king at the front lines these days is nigh impossible.
If you work in a place with bosses too incompetent to be leaders, get the best monetary value out of the gig and move on to greener (more dollars) pastures as soon as the opportunity arises.
They have a surprising number of humanitarian projects. For example, they're partnering with the World Food Programme to optimize food distribution.
Catala Lang: DSL designed for deriving implementations from legislative texts
Even when you get a government grant for research, sometimes there are open-access requirements for publications, but sometimes not. It varies.

Paper directly written by government employees (like national labs) are usually accessible for free (like on https://www.osti.gov/).
Well, remember the DX7 was 12 bit.
> brain as a predictive processing machine. It asserts that the brain works as a sort of recursive two-sided process, with theory creation on one side and evidence collecting on the other.

SlateStarCodex has a nice article[1] about this.

> The key insight: the brain is a multi-layer prediction machine. All neural processing consists of two streams: a bottom-up stream of sense data, and a top-down stream of predictions. These streams interface at each level of processing, comparing themselves to each other and adjusting themselves as necessary.

> ...

> You’re not seeing the world as it is, exactly. You’re seeing your predictions about the world, cashed out as expected sensations, then shaped/constrained by the actual sense data.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...
Drexlarian nanotechnology?
I think she might be arguing that she is going to do it her way, not Tolkien's way. Also, there's the thrill to onlookers of seeing her thumb her nose at 'authority', rather than expressing some curiosity about the other person's perspective as a human being - the same curiosity we should have about hers. In context, that statement of hers is a bit different:

A “perfect” translation would require the translator to time travel fantastically rather than historically—more Narnia than Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. As if this weren’t enough, the language of the poem is as much a world-building tool as the plot is, engineered with the poet’s own anachronistic filter, an archaic, lyric lexicography.5

“If you wish to translate, not re-write, Beowulf,” J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in 1940, “your language must be literary and traditional: not because it is now a long while since the poem was made, or because it speaks of things that have since become ancient; but because the diction of Beowulf was poetical, archaic, artificial (if you will), in the day the poem was made.”6

Tolkien and I wouldn’t have agreed when it comes to the sort of language required for a translation of Beowulf—perceptions of “literary” and “traditional” language vary widely depending on who’s doing the perceiving, and Tolkien had a liking for the courtly that I do not share—but we agree that the original’s dense wordplay must be reckoned with.

Amid a slew of regressions in the past half decade, I must cite a win—the democratization of information. Access to formerly gate-kept texts has been radically broadened. Until recently, it was a cotton-gloved privilege to view the original manuscript of Beowulf. Now a click, and there you are, looking at handwriting a thousand years old: “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon…” Not only is the original accessible to anyone with an internet connection, so are a huge number of translations and volumes of evolving scholarship, many long out of print. This translation exists because of that access.
Reading through the article again, it is strongly implied that a lot of stores may have a similar arbitrage issue and the DD os getting taken to the cleaners over it. That and I don't think there are any legal issues over this as there were no contracts signed. If anything DD is the one in legal trouble over it.
I had an uncle who worked in the Middle East. One of the major problems with desalination plants is corrosion of all the pipe work, due to the high salt content. Better membranes will make a difference, but will not solve the corrosion issue that reduces the life time of a desalination plant.
The other 18% is things like YouTube Premium/Superchats, Cloud, Android, etc...