skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you’re aware that progressive deterioration is the first thing that the people working on this want to solve.
You can fight disinformation without censorship tho
That's assuming you have a functioning judiciary system.

At 99.9% they do become the same.
McLuhan Doc
Different styled doc on McLuhan
I often use the "owl" <(),()>, usually in Result<(),()>.
PA is similarly disconnected from NJ via the Delaware river, would you also say they don't border each other?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_River#/media/File:Del...
iTerm2 is consuming a lot of power on Apple M1 MBP
I personally prefer the bullet to chemical death sentence, at least I am not coerced to pay for the bullet

The sword as they use in Saudi Arabia also seems rather brutish but certainly less painful
Whate
cl/Nc.
Personally, the images themselves do not particularly upset me. Maybe regretfully, but I have seen enough of the actual results of armed conflicts. Personally, I think the images of mass murders with piles of death (often naked) people from WW2 far more disturbing.

However, you do correctly point out how this article appears to draw people in and then goes for maximum shock effect. I'm sure that whoever created this article did that on purpose. Even if the cited numbers happen to be accurate, this kind of tactic is rather typical for propaganda. The same can be said about producing "facts" that are either hard or impossible to verify.

To be clear: I am not saying that this is propaganda, but it does at least raise a few red flags about potentially being just that. Further research needed.

EDIT: to be even more clear: I have no doubt that the CCP have committed horrible crimes. But that will not make me just believe whatever somebody might write about it.
I really get extremely tired of this kind of thing. Obviously I mean the CCP when I say 'China'. Why does nobody say this when people criticise other countries?

In nearly all parlance talking about countries you reference those countries directly 'the US invaded Iraq' for e.g.

It's a shorthand for 'the govt of xxx'.
but it's really weird to look on those in hexdump
Yes, but why is a document format turning-complete in the first place
The name of a place is commonly used synonymously with its governance (e.g. "EU invests $X bn" is on the frontpage right now). It should be clear that it's not referring to the individuals living there.
> Additionally, from a practical perspective it becomes indefensible to make new people

Birth rates are currently below replacement levels in developed nations. And if you’re immortal, you can wait forever to start your family.
Thanks for the long and thoughtful answer, perhaps my biggest remaining doubt is whay PNs instead of graphs and state machines, but I guess I should start reading some of the links you posted to discover more of its potential as I see there are many uses and properties which are easy to miss out.
In the JetBrains IDEs, you can pop up a little inline interactive regex editor + tester widget, type in some candidate text, and edit your regex until the candidate text goes green.
I think the point of the article is that the choice to involve ordinary police officers in the killings is to give them a stake in the current regime (or at least to make them fear the consequences of any other future regime.) I don’t think more organised death camps fit with that motive, but it could be wrong.
Here in the UK, at least, this also manifests in the manifesto syllogism:

1. People voted for this party

2. This party's manifesto promised X, y, and z

3. Therefore people voted for X, y, and z
Why not just find the best people for the job who can understand the needs of the project they're working on and execute correctly?

Running two teams against each other just screams of waste/bad management in my opinion.
> has CCP become the most efficient and durable totalitarian regime in history?

Not really, here are just forces at play which would benefit if you thought so

We are in due time for the US and Western public to have a new evil boogyman presented to them. People are getting too unruly these days, so this will help keep them in line
Does it matter why you get killed?
No one has the right to kill another person unless someone's life is in acute danger.
I think I got pretty decent numbers - around 30% of post tax income goes directly into savings for future real estate purchase, 15% to emergency fund and 10% into child's savings account. Not sure I can stretch those numbers much further, probably would need to start looking around for better paying job or double down on side gigs. Side gig income stays on business account and I divide it between savings and education every now and then.

I've been questioning myself if that real estate fund is worth investing into something like index funds for short-term (3-5 years) or is it better to be safe than sorry and just leave it in savings account.
Well these people in particular need to toughen up and face reality so that they know what it means if the government executes someone, that it's not just a data point on a chart.
They need to feel it and toughen up. If we become a nation of cowards, then those in power are going to start doing this and nobody will have the courage to stand up to it.
The retrospective pattern of futurists' predictions is pretty clear: almost all optimistic predictions about medicine end up being mostly or entirely incorrect.

The narrative of near-future (10-20 years) medical breakthroughs is continually reiterated by the media, only with the horizon pushed further and further forward, with the effect of distorting the public's perception of the actual pace of medical innovation.

I wonder what kind of changes (regulatory or other) you would see if the general public came to accept that radical progress in medicine - absent radical change - wasn't going to happen in their lifetimes, and that medicine twenty years from now would be little different and only marginally more effective than it is today.
On a meta note, I wanted to respond to your top-level comment to point out (playing devil’s advocate) that there are countries like Japan with conviction rates well exceeding 99% (but for different reasons).

I suspect that minor gotchas like this are capable of having the opposite effect: neutral people who care about nuance will feel like you are slightly adapting facts to suit anti-CCP narrative. Compounded by the fact that there is little verifiable information due to heavy censorship, this makes any argument on the topic quite challenging.

After your top-level comment got downvoted I didn’t feel comfortable expressing my opinion: some might think I downvoted you and/or others will mistake me for an astroturfer. Personally, I’ve upvoted it and I agree on general sentiment.
Arbitrarily assassinating dissidents and politically inconvenient targets goes way beyond a mere issue of capital punishment.
That would explain so many of the comments you read on HN and Reddit!
Regarding Sabine, it seems if one cannot win an argument then discredit those that do not agree, is that it, is that the way?

> Individual ignorance doesn't counter a century of established science.

I bet that in 18th century, physicians were saying beside on a century of established science, we conclude that bloodletting is best cure for all illnesses.
Why is so hard to accept that "we do not know"?

Amazingly, at this point, there will be response, "but that is different", we know much more now? Do, we? Do, we really know? During this Covid-19 pandemic I just witnessed how much we really know, science was was changing opinions by the hour. If I could take a dollar for each of my developer in the team who said, don't worry that will work, I would have been a millionaire. Despite unite tests, test team, there is always something. So, I love when people tell me about physical world, which has few orders of magnitude of things that may go wrong, don't worry according established science... :) Should I just mention uranium glass?

> penetration depth is less than 0.5 mm into the skin[3], which means that at most the new 5G frequency bands could cause skin cancer.

That is not enough? Or risk is acceptable proceed to implement, we will have 7 billion test subjects, cost of progress?
What if interferes vitamin D production, and then impacts all other issues connected with lack of vitamin D, like a depression, osteoporosis, weakened immune system?

I am not saying it does any of those things but I am for asking questions, and I would like if science would address those with data, not dogmatic beliefs.
Adding bodies of water (great lakes, gulf, 2 oceans) may help fix the Rhode island issue and this one. Or perhaps make it worse (my expectation is they'd act as anchors of a sort)
Things like "pandemic-unleashing" devalue your comment.
Apple's developer program is the same for both.
Outside Plato's Cave #10
> With COVID the spectrum of agreement on how dangerous it is, is so much more vague.

Yes, I think this is exactly why we struggle with tamping down on COVID spread. While many commenting in this thread understand how the drunk driving analogy holds (probabilistic, dangerous to others besides yourself) COVID is new enough and communication hasn’t been strong enough for the message to percolate through society.
Yeah, that's a good point. I kind of expect that the ceiling should pop off at some point though. But I can't make a good argument for that.

Like, will it always make sense to add things to YouTube or will a more decentralised approach make more sense? Will single responsibility principle make sense at that scale? Can infrastructure costs be shifted around in flexible ways? Etc.

But yeah it's telling that Facebook was initially looking for a much more decentralised approach but gave up on it when adapting to reality and economics.
Would be interested in links discussing this, if you know good ones (in English!). Who's the anti-Gaidar one should read to see his opponents point of view?
Drug mafia sounds like something that should fall under this category.. but I don't see how Trivia Crack would unless they are showcasing drugs on their logo like Amphetamine.

I also don't remember plague inc showcasing any substance abuse, but I could be wrong.
I never heard of HASEL artificial muscles and just looked them up. Very interesting! But the main downside seems to be the high voltage requirement. Hopefully there are more innovations in the space of robotic actuators. I hate that servos usually are not compliant and rather are controlled by position and not by torque / force. I believe active compliance is not a real replacement for passive compliance in most use cases
T Cells: Warriors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
You're presenting an issue that I agree with you about but unfortunately what you are arguing is a conflation of issues. The comment I am responding to is one that I've seen/heard in the context of courier services in that there is a profit extraction. I ask people to clarify but they never seem to do so. Instead, there's an echo chamber repeating what others have said without taking a moment to think about whether the argument is valid.

What you are referring to isn't about profit extraction. It's about brands, reputation, distribution rights, etc. These are valid, separate concerns not related to the question I'm asking.

The profit extraction argument is invalid until proven otherwise.
Correct. The separation did happen before the former parent was involved in the Enron scandal. Or at least before it became public.

Not that Accenture doesn't have enough scandals on their own. So they are by far not the clean guys in this tale.

I remember the German "Berateraffäre" just to state one example.
In games at least, I feel that more good games are being produced.
> Why does nobody say this when people criticise other countries?

because most other countries we talk about have some kind of representative system where the people actually have a say in who governs them. Of course it's all relative, no representation is ever perfect, but in a dictatorial regime there's no representation at all.
While I don‘t share this train of thought, it‘s certainly easier to argue from several philosophical and religious backgrounds for a death sentence for a murderer than for a protester.
While Japan's legal system is certainly deserving of criticism, who's isn't?, this stat is thrown around without any understanding of what it really means.

What is the conviction rate in your country of residence?

What does conviction rate actually mean in the context of the legal process in your country and Japan?

If you don't know the detailed answers to those questions I suggest not making such grand claims about equivalence.

Here is a short radio episode explaining this topic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz3s5

Edit for clarity:

The parent has for some reason edited their comment and now it looks like I was defending China's rate in my reply. They originally made an equivalence claim between Japan and China and I wanted to add information explaining that this stat doesn't necessarily mean what it's often at first glance interpreted to mean. The parent then replied to my comment with a reply that suggests their edit was in fact malicious. But I can't be sure of that.
There's no need to be confrontational. Apple themselves say that software must be notarized going forward in Catalina, as GateKeeper will check all apps that are quarantined, which is essentially all apps that you download from the internet. Apple would very much like you to notarize your applications and the workaround you provided is not intended to be a general-purpose solution.

GateKeeper will also flag your app as malicious and having the potential to damage your Mac if Apple revokes your certificate, which they have done in the past by mistake.
Don't you only get differences in pressure due to diameter changes proportional to flow rate? If a membrane requires 400psi to get meaningful flow through it, it doesn't seem like you'd be able to sustain flow with much less than 400 psi of static pressure.
> It seems criticising the US, UK etc. for the slightest thing is fine but criticising totalitarian genocidal sabre-rattling pandemic-unleashing states is beyond the pale

Yeah, because you are not calling for "criticism" but state level character assassination which is rather different

Just again the suggestion of conspiracy theories can be a topic of discussion if you want, but I don't believe you are interested on discussing specifics which is rather sad to me
> (e.g. "EU invests $X bn"

Poor example, EU is not a country and represents a political apparatus, nothing else.
Throwaway because I don’t really want to taint my account with no-good discussions like this. (I’m an HN regular with some 8k karma.)

If you know the Chinese language, go to Weibo and find announcements of rulings on high profile murder cases, rape cases, etc. Most likely you’ll see that people overwhelmingly call for tougher punishment; comments expressing dissatisfaction with non-capital punishment are often voted to the top.

It’s a different culture, the majority or at least an extremely vocal minority (I highly doubt it’s a minority, but that’s a possibility) expect an-eye-for-an-eye punishment for murder as well as some other morally outrageous crimes. You may find it barbaric or whatever, but it’s a different culture.

See also (on the largest Chinese language Q/A site, like Quora):

https://www.zhihu.com/question/25084350 Why do you support capital punishment?

https://www.zhihu.com/question/25084336 Why do you oppose capital punishment in China?

You can gauge the relative popularity of opinions from the stats alone. Mind you, the user base of that site is relatively well-educated and progressive.
Shame there's not more pics for the article, especially internals, quite interesting machines.

> The Universal Stock Ticker was developed by Thomas Edison in 1869, when he was just 22 years old and working for Gold & Stock Telegraph Company. This design improved on previous stock tickers, allowing for alphanumeric characters and printing one character per second.

Updating the entire S&P500 at best every hour or so. Thankfully they didn't use xml!
Reminds me of this also: https://cheats.rs/
The Einsatzgruppen were actually like ordinary police. They were never actually told to create death camps initially, it was just more ... efficient, so Nazi sub leadership switched to that somewhat independently.

This book makes an interesting point about the bottom-up theory of what really started the Holocaust (this is an unforgettable read, I feel like author literally accounted for every death batch (and yes ‘batch’ has to be used due to the scale):

https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stal...

Basically, it was simple broad directives that got interpreted by these disparate elements of the Nazis in the Eastern front. What does it mean if someone is not only a Jew, but also a communist Russian? Pretty much an instant threat, and forward deployed units liberally interpreted it into mass-killing vs forced labor camps. Once that genie was out of the bottle, you would look unproductive in the regime if you weren’t upping the ante.

What is the CCP creating here? You want units with blood on their hands ratcheting up new and interesting ways of currying favor with the regime? Hey bosses, I found a great new way to promote CCP Authority, forget Uighur camps, get a load of this. Suddenly you have a macabre competition within a peculiar institution that can only become darker if left to find it’s own logical purpose (be the very best ccp you can be, whatever that means, and oh John the guy you started with recently rose the ranks doing this, not saying you should too, but take some initiative).

No master plan, just a dark organic evolution.
It's your opinion and I'm not arguing: a lot of people love the Rust book, but some (including me) simply can’t read it because of the style of writing and cases when you discover some interesting and deep topic but the author just gives 1 example in 5-10 lines of code and that's all. I think that things like Mutexes or Boxes are deep enough to have 30-50 pages dedicated to them, and I can say this not only about Mutexes and Boxes. When explaining some powerful things, one need not only explain how they work, but also what kinds of real tasks they can solve - ways of usage are obvious for you when you know it and have experience of usage them, but absolutely opaque and not obvious when you reading about them for the first time.
When I switched to a different team a year ago, I talked with my ex-manager and asked what he considers be strengths and weaknesses. I found the answer quite funny because it was a random sample of mostly minor things. It showed my that my manager has actually no clue what I'm doing all day. He is a nice guy and wants to be a good manager but that is harder than it looks.

His biggest criticism was that 20 months earlier, I skipped him and addressed his bosses boss for some bureaucratic thing. I find that argument reasonable but it showed me that he was not aware of the full context. Either I never explained it to him or he forgot. The context is: At that time I was in a special two week task-force team where his bosses boss was officially involved as Scrum Master. As such he was officially responsible for impediments. The impediment was: We either get this bureaucracy thing out of the way today or I'm unable to participate in the task-force anymore. Given the urgency and him being our Scrum Master, I found skipping levels the right thing to do.
For reference, the US DOJ has a 93% conviction rate. Japan has a 99.3% conviction rate. However, apparently in Japan prosecutors drop about half the cases they are given before sentencing, so the real rate would be about 50%. Do we have a similar stat for China?
Why use a Result whose error type is empty?
Glad to see you're still around. Love the idea of your site... still one of my greatest inspirations comes from your platform as a developer myself. Sometimes.. its the simple stuff that matters most and can go a long way. I wish you great success in 2021! :)
It's a thread about people being overweight. We are not talking about other benefits here.
That’s fine, GCC on sparc will generate the sequence to do an unaligned read with the right endianess. If that means reading bytes and shifting them, so be it.
If we can improve lifespan by more than 1 yr/yr, then you may already be immortal...
The photo of the woman whose head was blown in half by the rifle is many years (decades?) old. It’s profoundly disturbing, but it’s been widely available for a long time.

That doesn’t make it any less brutal or disturbing, but it serves as a reminder of how often we are willing to turn a blind eye to atrocities when it’s economically or politically expedient.
Thank you so much for the update and giving it a try!
I don't understand the issue. The old treaty was reused as a base document, word for word, which is standard practice to preserve jurisprudence.

And netscape navigator is only referred as an example of software which supports MIME types.
"MOSTLY RIGHT" seems to mean "a pilot project around silicon valley (or in a big Chinese city) exists".

I've visited a dozen countries and I've never encountered an AI system to prevent interpersonal violence. AI gunfire detection system seem to exist solely in a certain country with a tendency to tack startup solutions onto deep-rooted societal issues.

This is a recurring theme throughout the article. The average hospital runs on Windows XP, not a sci-fi network of smart-watches.

Virtual artists are somewhat respected for sure, but AI-generated art is a niche for nerds. I say "art" you think Picasso, not Google Labs.

No, no one passed the actual Turing test yet. The public discussion was doomed from the start, since Turing himself published several variants. This led to an explosion of (mostly dumb IMO) variations that are much easier to solve - which are getting solved.

Honestly, the original predictions are written badly. They are full of bullshit words (many, some, there is) making them not really quantifiable. Also, they contain an implied focus on US tech centers, which allows the existence of a single PR-stunt pilot project as a reason to answer "Totally Right" to anything proposed. Maybe I just don't the point, but this smells like pseudo-intellectual reasoning for "amortality will definitely be achieved before I die, see?"...
If we allowed this to happen, we'd have major motion picture Star Wars blockbusters that were basically fan fiction levels of quality. Can you imagine?
> Consider turning images off to read the content.

I'm sorry, I can try to understand the well-meant intent behind this, but what, and pretend the world is all roses and rainbows?

No. Leave the images on. You first world city folk need to SEE the horror that goes on beyond your ivory towers, some of it enabled by the very work that you do.