skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China can trivially take Taiwan

I'm not so sure about that.

Yes they have overwhelming assets but assaults via sea are very very complex. No one has done it on a large scale against a powerful adversary on their home turf in 60+ years (I don't include the US into Kuwait or Basra etc).

To do so against an advanced, well trained military (possibly with the US in the background/helping) would result in huge losses for China. The window to cross the straight is probably only three months or so of the year. No doubt they could try smash it from a distance, cut off supplies etc and force concessions but a full on invasion would be dam tricky. Cyber attacks and Spetsnaz style sabotage may also help, especially as Taiwan has had a lot of spy scandals. However the Taiwanese people I've had the pleasure of working with are clever, cunning and courageous - those guys might lose but they are gonna give you a bloody nose trying to get in. Plus then the insurgency that follows would make Iraq look like a school yard bun fight. They have had decades to think purely about how to defend their own soil and a huge amount of people with both military training and advanced technical skills - who knows what tricks they might have up their sleeve or in the basement (Yun Feng missile for example can reach most major Chinese cities and has a fairly small warhead yet they didn't order many of them...Hmmm I wonder why?...Possibly it's older nuke program which was very advanced or the very large "defensive" chemical and biological program etc.)

Ultimately this is about the Communist Party looking for a balance. It doesn't want to lose face by losing Taiwan too much but at the same time but it would get a dam bloody nose trying to cross the straight...and then trying to occupy such a country. The end result likely to be a weakening of the party. Never forget Communists have shown themselves to be more concerned about the survival of the party than the people. Them taking a massive coin-toss strategic risk is unlikely, unless they feel pressured into doing it.

There are lots of people saying China would definitely win, so here is an interesting counter example to that.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...
Yeah dude knows how to party.
Again and again the lawsuits refused to even assert fraud and made procedural quibbles and asked that because of procedural differences the votes of millions of people cast in good faith to be thrown out until they got the right answer.

In the minority of cases that actually spoke to fraud in public filings or public statements they declined to prove it in court when given a venue.

It's not that they didn't get their day in court. They did and they had nothing to show or tell when the show and tell portion of our program came about.
George Floyd being murdered was real, and the overwhelmingly peaceful protests with bipartisan support were wholly justified.

A vast conspiracy at all levels of state, local, and federal government, involving shadowy corporations, Venezuela, George Soros, spanning both political parties and involving thousands of conspirators, and none of whom leaked a single detail, is a right-wing fantasy.
Pretty much the same for me. I'm mid-50s. Never played sports, never exercised. Wasn't terribly overweight but very "soft." Started lifting weights about 18 months ago. Only exercise I've ever been able to stick with longer than a week or two.
I feel like you're being disingenuous. Just because China does something doesn't mean it's a bad idea, it's certainly in line with their economic interests. I think Americans are very aware of what a treacherous situation you put yourself in when you depend on people ideologically opposite to yourself (e.g: oil and manufacturing).

But to be clear I'm not advocating for the Chinese model. I think each country should have their own software platforms to preserve their sovereignty and the interests of their citizens but I think they should be regulated to follow common standards to preserve the openness of the internet.
I would invite you to expand your perspective on the "race-based" manslaughter [1] and "conspiracy theory" [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/1C2HrbQTzwk?t=107

[2] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/matt_braynards_...
> Trivially, it's effectively 0 for LenPEG 3.

I don’t think so? The decompressor needs to have a copy of the image to display if it goes to step 1 of its decompression algorithm.
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This doesn't surprise me coming from Pompeo TBH.. I'm going to offer an alternative perspective than some; this would have happened sooner if Trump hadn't become star-struck by "President for Life" Ping. There were moves to align more closely with Taiwan early on, and Pompeo seems to have been pretty consistent on his position in regards to the CCP and certain matters; like Hong Kong and the Uyghurs..
They talked about reducing funding.
So this is just a rally that got out of hand, harmless.

I wonder - would you stand up for them if the crowd was a BLM crowd, and the outcomes the same? Would you stand up for them if it were a Muslim crowd, and the outcomes the same?

If you would then that's admirable and consistent, so fair enough
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You mean the state crackdown on normal Trump democracy activists at the capital?

See, this as a Trump voter is why I'm so much more supportive of China than Hong Kong or Taiwan.
JPL has been managed by Caltech for NASA since 1958, but JPL actually predates the formation of NASA (and has always been managed by Caltech).
Not a single chart in the entire article.
doesn’t wanna meddle in other countries affairs but he will comment on american companies moderation decisions... ok bubba
The US placates Beijing to try to delay or avoid Beijing just going ahead and invading and taking it by force (if China ultimately believes there is no other path). The US can't stop China from taking Taiwan. 20 or 30 years ago it would have been very difficult to stop that, today it's impossible. The US isn't even ready yet for that confrontation, it needs to deploy a massive number of ballistic missiles along the island chain off the coast to have a chance to at least make it a costly annexation (targeting their navy, as the US navy won't be able to get close enough).

China's Deng Xiaoping strategy of hide your strength and bide your time, that's a stall tactic to buy time (in that case the time between when something is actual and something is publicly known, a knowledge-time gap). The US placating China is also a stall tactic, hoping to buy time for a better scenario favoring the US and Taiwan more than China (for example a liberalized China, which was still a naive hope as recently as 10 years ago; that was always unlikely but it was better than driving China toward forced annexation sooner).
Is it just my impression that pretty much all sites except youtube/fb/twitter have difficulties with video?

A lot of times video struggles to start, buffers for a long time, stutters, .... I'm not talking about small blogs, but about sites like CNN, WaPo, ...
I invested the time to read the link.

To save others the effort, it's a plea for money to support a vague voter data cross referencing effort. Unsurprisingly no evidence is put forward.
As mentioned in earlier comments Chinese system will collapse if people of China do not want it, live there to really understand how it works. Please read the history of China it has more revolutions than USA. CCP cannot function without the support of majority of people like a democratic system. It just works in a different way probably watch the video in the link it’s a good explanation [1].

Chinese system is different politically and it’s hard to say it’s good or bad for its people, given on the ground it has proved good for majority with suppression of minority (see the same happening in any democracy too, tyranny of majority). So unless democratic system can really save its minority they can’t be on higher ground. Also if one needs over a billon dollar to fight election and win top positions there are favours to be done, like what happens in two largest democracies of India and USA. So every system has its positive and negative.

If you want to bring about change in China then may be go there do something great for the people and if they find it better than existing system for their livelihood and better life they will change.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_...
Obama had more drone strikes and killed US citizens without due process.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki#:~:text=Pres....
As did Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny: https://mobile.twitter.com/navalny/status/134796977217726464...
By the way, doesn't Windows still open WebP in a browser rather than in a picture viewer?
He should have written “as opposed to writing object code by hand,” because assembly does save some effort there. Some architectures were even designed around making assembly code more readable, rather than making it the compiler’s problem.
It is very strange to speak of a president being "deplatformed" If somewhere out there is a nation without their own government website for the president to speak on?
Probably not. One of JPEG XL's features is the ability to losslessly transcode existing JPEG images to JPEG XL while also reducing the file size:

https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/

Reducing the size of existing image collections with zero quality loss will make JPEG XL a success no matter what else happens.
This guy is just butthurt that Alibaba is a world leader in the all important KPI of highest volume manager turnover.

No manager ever goes stale at Alibaba, they are always plucked when fresh!
https://testfromthetop.com/
I did a soft launch for my idea Test from the Top last year.

After talking to so many engineers in my industry at conferences etc. I heard over and over their frustration with management; Ignoring or understanding the value of software testing.
That reflected my own experience and so I decided to launch a set of management training videos.

It's half-baked because I'm currently trying to understand what will actually sell, and get some feedback from customers.
Mainly focusing on hiring guides and domain jargon currently.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/test-from-the-top

I want to be the person engineers tell their boss about to learn software testing from a high-level.

I'm about to hire a social media manager to try to drive more traffic via blog posts. I have a ton of content developed already, getting geared up to hit it hard in 2021!
HN would be up in arms and lobbyists would be running to congress and DOJ to get google and others in major trouble - but if google and apple just stopped supporting H.265 it would go away.

Block uploads and streaming on youtube of 265. No support in chrome.

This would never happen, Apple in particular is in premium / everything costs big $ space so often doesn't mind the fees. But a few big players would make a big difference if they took action.
Here's a great article on the topic from one of the JPEG XL creators: https://cloudinary.com/blog/how_jpeg_xl_compares_to_other_im...
Check the references in original paper linked from the article:

http://ras.papercept.net/images/temp/IROS/files/2114.pdf

Yim (senior author) has been doing modular robot work since the 90s.

(I’m not Yim but have followed his work since his PhD project Polypod circa ~2003.)
One problem with the macros approach is that you get really hard to understand error messages. For example, if a user wrote a method where one of the arguments did not implement ToPolarValue, they would get the following error:

fn blah(blah: Blah)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the trait bound Method<_, _> is not satisfied

As opposed to something like this with variadic generics:

fn blah(blah: Blah)
^^^^ the trait bound ToPolarValue is not satisfied
Nearly half of the population on average votes Republican because their views align better with the red team but that doesn't mean every one of them is aligned with the far right that is more like 12% of the population not half.
Similar, OKRs:

https://hbr.org/2018/05/how-vc-john-doerr-sets-and-achieves-...
If his the leader of the opposition, it means he's an anti-communist, a late stage capitalist.

So his opinion doesn't matter.
I thought the quote on teachers are 'those that can't do, teach'. I have definitely had a few teachers that inspired, but a far greater number that were much more appropriately lumped into the "can't do" category.
Blogs and RSS/microformats. Use your own feed reader of choice, send webmentions for notifications or cross-blog comments. See https://indieweb.org

It’s decentralized, and more importantly it’s based on web standards. It works today.
Voxels, as evidenced by the recent release Teardown. NERF is pretty amazing but isn't real-time like SDF raymarching. Tetrahedral meshes are interesting as well.

One of the best Siggraph papers from last year was Monte Carlo Geometry Processing http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/MonteCarloGeometryPr.... It doesn't introduce a new representation, but does introduce a new way to render various representations by sampling them in a unified way
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Honestly, don't sweat the downvotes. Just wait for smarter people to read it ;-)
From Mike Pompeo's statements and interviews he seems to care about Taiwan. Like other conservative Republicans he has deeply-held religious beliefs and holds the view that democratic Taiwan should have relations normalized.

But he isn't above partisanship.

This relatively minor decision is now politically difficult to reverse, and the current administration won't have to deal with any diplomatic fallout. And the next administration doesn't need to burn political capital. All while incrementally pushing forward America's foreign policy objectives of formalizing Taiwan as the independent country its been for decades.
The story of all these unicorns really is you have to be willing to play in the grey.

From move fast and break things, to avoiding regulations without the law coming down on you.
Apologies if I did. There are a large number of people who believe that the reason we don't use HCQ is due to a conspiracy. You may have just wanted to point out that the combination has never been used.
This will get angry response from China, but that's about it. No change in big issues:

1) US does not formally recognize Taiwan (doing so means ending diplomatic relations with China).

2) US is not altering the Taiwan relations act. No alliance, no binding security guarantees, strategic ambiguity continues.

3) Taiwan is not declaring independence.
It's grifters all the way down.
The JPEG XL reference implementation is under the Apache 2 license, which means that it comes with a royalty-free patent grant. So pretty much the same as AVIF (BSD 2 clauses + royalty-free patent grant).
What benefits are you noticing at a few months in?
Although he does seem to be comparing images at incredibly high compression rates, to the point that the full sized versions don't look anywhere near acceptable (which is subjective I suppose).
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His argument is that there are worse people on Twitter, which doesn't necessarily imply they were wrong to ban Trump.
The creators of JPEG XL have all agreed to give royalty free patent licenses to any relevant patents they own, so I think it compares quite well.
Try to make Biden's admin life far more difficult.

Pompeo has 2024 presidential dream.
I guess that depends on whether or not Chinese companies have any exposure or "nexus" within the territorial jurisdiction of the US, if so, CCP can whine all they want but US courts will allow seizure of Chinese assets on American soil promptly.
Also blocking of Chinese apps via blocking responsible servers is probable, but difficult to achieve as per Russia blocking Telegram. They <could> try to hide behind cloudflare but courts will promptly serve cloudflare to cease and desist.
I am in the camp that believes the Chinese are data mining privacy sensitive data from US citizens via their apps.
I absolutely agree.

The political reality of the current US/Taiwan relationship is so absurd. We sell fighter jets to a country we don't even officially recognize. That's not some CIA insurrection level slush fund.

Which always reminds me that no matter what "inviable" international laws or standards the civilized world pretends to adhere to, that it's all a sham, and sovereign nations, especially the US, can find a way to legally justify whatever the hell it is they want to do.
You got caught by the spam filter dude. No conspiracy here.
It's also a wonder that more people haven't been killed in the capitol protests.
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This is beautiful.

I had a similar experience growing up as well. At age 8, I learned QBasic (on an MS-DOS / Win 3.1 system). At age 13, I learned C, and wrote a lot of code in it as well. (I used to write tons of C code up until around the middle of age 17. I had grand plans for all sorts of glorious software projects.)

But then, at the middle of age 17, a certain mild depression ("dysthymia") set in, and I lost a lot of hope, inspiration, and motivation. And now, I'm 31, and I've accomplished very little of my teenage dreams (even though I still hold/aspire towards those software dreams). I might be "successful" in society's eyes, with software engineering jobs paying in the ~200k range (which is not really that impressive, as I have many friends making in the 300k to 400k (USD) range); but in my own eyes, I still feel very much like a failure.

The depression or dysthymia had a crippling effect, that made a lot of dreams hard to accomplish. My 2021 New Year's resolution has been to overcome it my mental issues, and live life to the fullest.
They had 2 months to litigate those claims, why do they need 10 more days? After 10 days are they going to invent more nonsense claims and then insist they need more time? Delay the inauguration indefinitely?

> Take for example, this:

More crank garbage. The voting histories of every voter are public domain, if you think there are more votes than voters why are you trying to scrape some random web portal through questionable methods instead of checking the voting records directly?

If this allegation were really credible can you point me to a lawsuit filed by an by a plaintiff with standing (e.g. Trump or another Michigan candidate who allegedly had the election stolen from them, NOT some 3rd party QAnon crank) that presents this allegation to a court? If no such lawsuit exists why do you think that is the case? Maybe because no competent lawyer wants to destroy their reputation by arguing obviously fake conspiracy theories in front of a judge?
The BLM riots were never terrorism, that's a huge false equivalence so you can give up that attempted re-frame.
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If you're unable to muster excitement for things you love purely because of your age, I'm genuinely sorry for you.
In my case, I care more about being able to use it without depending on my phone, than E2E. The single thing I hate the most on any messenger is my phone having to be on and online, for me to send/receive messages on my computer
That sounds good, but AOM also provides a rather heavy weight protection against patent trolling and similar threats which is a benefit. It's similar to OIN in that sense.
> "No idea why you got downvoted."

Better to just give a compensatory upvote and move on. Commenting on downvotes helps no one and is against the guide lines.
The misspelling of HTTP Referer from 1996
I agree with you, but the other interpretation is that you could measure after it deletes itself.
We had lots of leverage over nature in the middle ages. By that point Britain had little woodland left, and what remained was often managed. People were digging ditches and creating hedgerow as a boundary.

Larger mammals like bear, lynx, and wolf were extinct or on their way out. Large birds of prey were aggressively persecuted. There was even land reclamation as far back as Roman times.

Humans have been dominant over wildlife in Britain for a long time. There are probably American zip codes areas that have more untouched landscape than the whole of britain.
Well neither did the cops, so I don't see your point.
"The Commish".

Think Monopoly for sports nerds, but with a broadcasting angle for the business crowd.

Users start as fans & graduate to being athletes, team owners, coaches, commishes (league owners), referees (owning the rulebook for a sport), landlords (owning venues), etc.

Or, users graduate to being broadcasters, content providers (eg, owning a gamefilm), sponsors/advertisers, and station owners (TV, radio, ...).

Finally, users can become demographers. This means you can predict, for a given audience, their willingness to attend a game, buy merch, or "fan" a team or athlete.

The idea is to offer a rolling, continuous slate of seasons in which users compete for properties.

I've built some simple protos using RubyOnRails. The biggest challenge is settling on a set of rules/interactions between of the personas shown above.
So there are clinics everywhere for "testosterone therapy." Is this safe for an older male? What are the long-term effects? I assume it's expensive, like most cosmetic/vanity medicine. How is it different from "roids" that powerlifters and other pro athletes are known to use? Or is it different?
Not really. The vast majority were thrown out on procedural grounds.

The left completely controls the MSM at this point. It's unsurprising that large swathes of officials, including judges, are unwilling to investigate their narrative for fear of being branded and extremist of one flavor or another. The right knows this, and so doesn't trust outcomes that aren't transparent. The left knows this too, but has no incentive to correct it, in spite of the damage it's going to cause to our democracy.

I have the feeling we're about to find out in the US precisely how the left can go too far, and how Americans respond to it.
> Maybe the point is that armed people in a democracy is not that big of a deal, but armed people in a dictatorship can be a real problem.

You can scroll down a couple posts to see people being outraged that those who stormed the Capitol had weapons and bombs with them. I wonder how cavalier your attitude remains when the guns are pointed at your face. Then again second amendment fanatics like you are already totally fine with school shootings.
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yeah our knee joints have evolved to be pretty fragile compared to other parts of the body... save those knees when your 50 to 90 years old!
Free speech vs Trump Hate

Probably going to be like Liberty vs Security after 9/11
mega acreage farms seem to be an american thing for some reason. read somewhere that the avg. american farm is ~100x larger than the average chinese farm for example
> The executive branch‘s relations with Taiwan are to be handled by the non-profit AIT, as stipulated in the Taiwan Relations Act.

How is this different than the status quo? AIT has always been the de-facto US representation in Taiwan up to now.
My understanding (IANAL) is that although maths are not patentable, the use of maths is – much as science is not patentable, but the use of science (technology) is.
It will take years to fix this. We should educate people about populism.
> This is a direct mimic of the Democrat response to 2016.

I recall some arguments in Congress, but to call it a 'direct mimic' is complete nonsense. The election was conceded immediately by the Clinton campaign as soon as it was called by the networks.