skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it turns out that we were able to test this theory EU supporters have about overwhelming negotiating power much faster than anyone anticipated, in the form of bulk purchasing of vaccines.

This is a perfect example where the EU should have totally crushed the UK by using its supposedly superior size and strength, according to size=power theory. And yet what we see is the opposite.

The EU demanded that individual nations buy collectively through the Commission. The Commission is run by diversity hires: half the commissioners had to be women, by demand of von der Leyen. They then moved way too slowly, didn't approve vaccines quickly (and still haven't), didn't order enough and now EU countries are at the back of the queue as a result. The first German to be vaccinated with German technology received their jab in ... the UK. The collective buying operation has since collapsed, with Germany running to Russia to try and acquire some of the Sputnik vaccine.

The whole pathetic affair is documented here:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-eu-has-botched-its-v...

When it comes to bureaucracies, size does not equal power. Size does not equal benefits. Size equals incompetence, lethargy and internal decay. The EU is run by people who failed upwards their entire careers. They insisted they be given power over vaccines even though the EU has no formal treaty-defined role in healthcare, and then they screwed it up on a massive scale.
China is strong and the UK is weak. The treaty is not valid anymore. Only an idiot would say otherwise.
This appears to be pretty black hat since the website operators did not wish to expose their IP.
https://startupgroundwork.com/

It helps people start a business by helping them find the right software and acts as a starting point for research. It's half-baked because writing content is very difficult and energy consuming. But hiring writers just gets you crap. Its difficulty to make money if words don't flow.
Rather than merely lamenting that no one's mentioned OCaml, how about providing something specific about OCaml you think is relevant to contribute to the discussion?
Frankly, the article doesn’t make that case very well. €65 million on a population of about half a million is about €130 per head. Over a 5 year period, that is €26 per year. I wouldn’t call that massive.

https://fietsberaad.nl/Tour-de-Force-English/Home aims for “an increase of 20 percent in the amount of bicycle kilometres in 2027, compared to 2017”. They don’t mention costs, but I would think that’s quite a bit more expensive.
> This is violation of China's treaty obligations

Maybe it's time to de-colonise Hong Kong and just give it back to the Chinese properly?

It's not our business how they conduct their internal affairs.
https://github.com/jl6/hdrfs

"HDRFS is a lossless filesystem application which stores a complete history of every byte ever written to it. It is backed by a strictly append-only log, but works as a fully read/write POSIX-compatible filesystem. Think of it as a cross between a filesystem and tar, with infinite versioning and tuned to maximise ease of backups.

It is intended to be used by individuals to archive personal files."

Very half-baked. It works, but it turns out there are quite a few applications with highly pessimal write() patterns that bloat the metadata database, making it less general-purpose than I had hoped.
China produces everything. We produce dollars, scrap products, corn, soybeans, timber, plastics and some software [1]. Where would you get all of your things if we did that?

[1] https://www.uschina.org/reports/us-exports/national
A call to any action is propaganda.

OP is calling to resist China’s rise unless they become the world’s leading power while also simultaneously being an opponent of free expression.

Many in the world do not support free expression, they have their propaganda.

Some in the world support free expression, they have their propaganda.

The likely equilibria of human behavior is the former, due to human tendency for wanting to control ones neighbor’s behavior.

Liberal democracy on the 10,000 year arc of history is more than likely a blip that disappears.
These Hong Kong supporters are a true inspiration for Americans. Their occupation of the legislature shows what a free people could do against oppression
An intro to Pen Plotters (2019)
I think the only thing reused is the engines. Granted that is a lot of the engineering.

https://everydayastronaut.com/sls-vs-starship/
Payment processings are monopolies. More precisely, oligopolies. See how easily Mastercard and Visa drop PornHub payments after the news paper article. It's not a court order or even a trial. There is mainly zero way of doing business without fully government controlled banking entry-points.

Yes, there are cryptocurrencies available, so if we can fully legalize it and promise that we don't touch anyone's private transactions (as well as businesses officially accepting crypto) - that would be an argument.

For better understanding how bad it is: it's non trivial to even accept worldwide payments for small business/individual in the internet if you are, say, from Ukraine, Russia, China or lots of other countries not processed by stripe/paypal for some political or legal reasons. Apart from that, there is a "free" market of two payment processors in the internet and two card processors =)
This has some traction (a couple of thousand users per month) but needs a bit more work. A colour search engine and browser for lipsticks https://lipcolourmatch.com
>"Side note, HN comment guidelines state each comment should enrich discussion"

And we all of course have exactly the same idea about what that "enrichment" constitutes.
We have met the enemy and it is us.
Mutiny in Space (2017)
Bingo - you’re right.

Ted Wheeler is a perfect example of spineless politician run out of his own home by a riot throwing burning debris through the window.

Oddly no one thinks this is related at all.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/09/protesters-march...
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Working on Tax/Person ID validation.

First building out this JS library - https://github.com/koblas/stdnum-js

which I plan on embedding in this React static site.

https://tininfo.com/country/AD/individual/NRT/

- Currently mired in building out all of the country validation in JS (the thing I know how to do)
- Should really be working on building out more website templates and proving the functionality.

Why? Because I have to validate VAT numbers CPF or other random ID numbers on a regular basis and right now building unit tests just to test an 8 digit number...
The terms of the treaty state anything about the relative strength of each nation?
They are not the public square they are private property that people gather on at the behest of its owner(s) but I will totally agree with you that to most people they are the defacto public square and that there plenty of monopolies that need to be broken up. Id also agree with you that regulating these companies as public utilities is the solution to your grievances (as well as having net neutrality). The only thing I disagree with you is the collusion aspect, even if they were colluding to "fix" speech, and not just towing the same line, that isn't actually illegal. Price fixing on the other hand is. I feel like there is common ground here that sensible governance, accountability and nonpartisan compromise could absolutely solve.
It may be risky for China, but if you actually read Chinese media (or even the halfway house that is the SCMP), you can see to them it's not a question of IF but WHEN...

https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/a...
RiffPod[1]. Hardware and app to enable wireless recording of guitar. 4 years of iterating through hardware versions to finally converge on a design that works[2].

[1] https://riffpod.io
[2] https://twitter.com/proquokid/status/1347713280953999361?s=1...
Am I the only one thinking we are in this situation because of this approach even in FB and Twitter? What I mean is that FB and Twitter use algorithm that actually fuel this situation by letting me see not all the information but only what an algorithm thinks I would like. This basically means I can only see stuff in my yard instead of allowing for free debate.
Removing Parler from the platforms looks like the same approach to me. Not really useful in the long run.
In re: Haskell's goodness or badness, compare and contrast with, say, PHP (crap language with wild success.) Or Prolog (a stately Elven language with deep but obscure success.) Haskell is what it is.

In re: types and data, FP is good for that. See e.g. "Domain Modeling Made Functional" by Scott Wlaschin ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7LcbGZFuo ) it's about F# but the concepts apply cross-language.

In re: FP PLs "done right" I submit Elm lang. I've been using Elm recently and it gets the job done. It's weird though: on the one hand, as a experienced professional it feels like a toy. The error messages feel almost insulting, like I'm being patronized. On the other hand, once I got over that (silly) reaction, they're awesome. Changing code is a breeze, because Elm leverages the crap out of the type system, and the structure of the code and runtime prevent whole vast categories of errors.

Combine that with the sort of Domain-Driven development that Wlaschin is talking about and "baby, you got a stew going!"
You can't say this law is misunderstood. How many people do you think have ever read the text of this law that are making claims on it?

Even in this thread it's clear that way too many commenters haven't read the article in question.

230 isn't complicated. People's ability/willingness to read and interpret it outside of online rhetoric is a problem.
China invaded and annexed the Scarborough Shoal in 2012 and the Obama Administration did nothing. Despite the defense treaty with the Phillippines.

The Biden Administration will hand Hong Kong (and Taiwan) over to the CCP, just like they did with a part of the Phillippines 8 years ago.
Ask HN: What is your experience with SimpleLogin?
Today, by chance, I found SimpleLogin: https://simplelogin.io/
found.
I wanted to know if you have experience with it and if you can recommend it?
From China. Sanctions don't necessarily mean ceasing all trade.
> The same thing happens in e.g. Mathematica, they just have better warning messages

They "just" produce "better" warning messages? You say that as if scipy is producing any warning messages? There's an absolutely colossal difference between failing with a poor error description and producing a completely wrong answer with 100% confidence.

> but you're demanding a solution that doesn't really exist

Doesn't exist?! Have you even tried the other algorithms on there before writing this? Broyden1, anderson, etc. handle this just fine. Even the default hybrid algorithm itself would handle this just fine if they even cared to run that very algorithm a couple more times to get convergence. Is there an algorithm that solves every equation in the world? No. Does it need to? No. Does it need to be able to handle the most basic cases? Yeah.
Someone will "be at the wheel" in a few days. And you will not see China back down. Why? China will soon overtake the United States - and not just by a little - by a lot.
Of course it's valid. If it can be enforced is another issue.
>Rather than merely lamenting

Why not read for yourself then?

https://ocaml.org/
Notably, SpaceX did not develop the Falcon 9 as part of their human spaceflight program, and it was in fact not rated for carrying humans for many years. They instead developed their launch vehicle as part of a standalone "launch vehicle program" then later committed to building a human spaceflight program on top of their existing rocket.
Starship _is_ being developed as part of a human spaceflight program, and we have yet to see whether this violation of Akins Laws will be justified.
There is zero chance we'll shut down their domestic growth. They're self sufficient. There is no international pressure that can be brought to bear that will be of consequence. The only thing I see being effective is providing technology to their citizens to fight their way out of it. Provide them ways to communicate and disrupt, providing resources and broadcasting their message and documenting their efforts to the world, so they don't die in the dark and their government doesn't respond with impunity. Combined with the private wealth creation already happening, I see that as a feasible way forward. Then they can join us in living in a self directed democracy mediated by the dark money of corporations and uber wealthy individuals lol.
Wow do we know why it affects men disproportionately compared to women?
A century old treaty signed at gunpoint can be dissolved at gunpoint.
I tell you a secret: The CCP doesn't actually care about the rules of international law.

Who is gonna stop them? Nobody.
Yeah. I kind of wish people held your viewpoint more.

I actually see a lot of things happening domestically and globally as a regression to the mean of human civilization.
That’s not true. The liability shield only covers content produced by other entities, e.g. tweets. Twitter is still liable for content it produces itself, such as fact checks and trend summaries.

Likewise, the New York Times is liable for the articles published by its own writers, but it bears no liability for the comments section.
Well, they produce a lot.
"Canadians: they walk among us!"

https://youtu.be/pbfBzWJVbX4
I concur with your complaints about techdirt. Masnick comes across as self-righteous in most of the pieces on the web site that should be called the Daily Outrage. I think your first paragraph really describes techdirt and not HN.
ILC Dover SCape CBRN30 escape respirator
Of course you can't hide it. And of course it's possible they may decide to attack Taiwan if it were attempted. It's also possible that not doing so _guarantees_ an attack by China. It's all a balance of probabilities. One could very well rationally decide the likelihood of China attacking Taiwan decreases by putting a base there. I'm not saying that conclusion is guaranteed correct, or that you should agree with it, but you should have the intellectual honestly to admit it's possible. Pretending such an act is lunacy is ridiculous.
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That Wikipedia article is about the rise of Nazism you idiot.

Are you really that dense?

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"patriots" you stand by aren't some of the lowest pieces of shit fighting for one last gasp of relevance in this brave new world.

I am not defending the thugs or Trump. This came about because of a much deeper problem and what you are doing is a great example of why we are here. This is about the censorship and the arrogance that has lead us to where we are today. I and many others have been censored for having arbitrary opinions that don’t fit the narrative of the majority (mob). Instead of having civil (adult) conversions, it has become more popular to take out the ban hammer or label the speaker when, in reality, the label does not apply.

You can continue to water down important historical labels and assert what others believe without talking to them, but things are going to get much worse when we continue down this path.
Dual-licensing platform for open source software: https://license.land
Hi Jake you probably should have renamed your account as throwawayJake, since you probably not going to use it after the parent post.

Sure the Turks may have done bad things to Greece people and similar can be said to the Roman before them. The same can also be said to the Greeks people when they're expanding their once great empire. I'm pretty sure the Greeks at some times committed some atrocities in large proportion when they were conquering other nations that you are not aware of. The same can be also said to the British and French empires, etc.

Having said that, about century ago there were a huge exchange of residents between the city of Istanbul and Thessaloniki. According to the an architecture history book that I've read some times ago (cannot remember he exact title now), essentially you can find more Greece people is Istanbul city and vice versa i.e. more Turkish people in Thessaloniki city. As you probably know the fact that one third of Greece people is living in the urban area, the number of people moving in these two directions probably quite a lot, albeit a rather smaller scale if compared to the later India and Pakistan residents exchange movement.

This fact is kind of proof of the seamless integration and the tolerance of the Ottoman empire until of course the fanatic of the nationalists from the both sides taking over with their own propaganda. Imagine if at one particular time in European history that you have more Italian people living in Munich and more German people living in Milan during the period Holy Roman Empire period. It's kind of unthinkable now but that's really happened during the time in Europe few centuries back and the melting pots nature of Ottoman empire probably has only been surpassed by the modern USA.

p/s: there is probably no original Turks people in Turkey anymore since they are the mixed descendent of the various people that lived in Turkey namely Turkic and European peoples including Greece.
Observideo [1]. Initially a web app that links to dropbox to facilitate my wife's student's research on behaviour by tagging video segments. Now it's a half baked electron app. Initially made for her research projects, most students either use excel or some expensive software.

[1] https://github.com/mping/observideo
http://rhn.github.io/jazda/

Jazda is a simple hackable bicycle computer. You can build it out of components available in your local electronics store (except the display).

I started it some 10 years ago as an experiment in AVR programming, before Arduino existed, and it keeps a honorable place in the back of my head ever since.
I think what you mean by "gun culture" is more "tacticool culture" which interests a sub set of firearms owners. I agree that this is a problematic culture, but it's not the dominant culture. A large number if not most gun owners including myself own firearms for lawful self defense, hunting, sport, or job related duties (eg ranching, security) and have no interest in running around in plate armor or joining a militia. While I acknowledge that my firearms could help me if a revolution were to break out, that is not why I bought them, it's not what I'm interested in, and I sincerely hope to never have to use them in that context.

It is worth noting that by constantly demonizing all gun owners as bad people and spewing poorly researched nonsense, certain gun control advocates such as some in this very thread do a wonderful job of alienating all firearms owners and generating sympathy among the moderates who would otherwise support thoughtful regulation for members interested in these tacticool endeavors.
https://www.tappydays.com
Keep track of birthdays and anniversaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests
My point is that you seem to not understand how rigorous is the field compared to academia as a whole and especially those fields that shape policy nowadays. In fact, intelligence research was always on the forefront of using cutting edge methodology and some tools that are used in psychology were invented specifically to research intelligence. Spearman invented factor analysis to measure cognitive performance, to this day this test is still used in behavior research.

If you think that IQ studies are inadequate, don’t even look at other fields that study humans (aside maybe from double blind trials in medicine), you are going to have a heart attack.

By your standards we need to ignore 90% of academia and solely rely on physics research to guide our policy.
That’s not how international obligations work. Most borders were defined at gunpoint but we generally don’t allow for arbitrary redefinition when the loser gets uppity, Crimea aside.
Slip – A Lisp System in JavaScript
It's NatGeo - they gotta appeal to their current audience... somehow :-)
"Proportions matter"

Not always. We were taught if someone steal $1 or $10000 they will be called thief.

In Sushi may be proportions mattered. But there are cases it doesn't matter. Like drinking 10ml or 1 litre both can kill you. And you cannot go to doctor and said 10 liter is very small quantity ignore it.

And in this case "Crude Oil Flow from Saudi Arabia to U.S. Falls to Zero " Saying Zero might be misleading to many people. It may not to many people.
The syntax is weird and inconsistent. Built ins are case insensitive, but user defined functions are sensitive. No way to return values from functions, except by jumping to the scope of the caller and changing its variables unexpectedly. (Better hope you know what the caller does)

That isn't a complete list .

Despite the above cmake is your best choice of build system for C. Though some competitors could overtake it.
CMake is by far the worst language I have ever worked in.
The problem with bullshit is that bullshit artists will switch around any arguments against them and use them back. For large segments of the population their inability to think logically hampers them from differentiating bullshit from facts so they just go with whatever their tribe is doing.
https://lofichess.com

I wanted a trimmed down interface for following live chess streams. To keep the website updated I run an AWS Lambda every two minutes that does the following:

1. Pulls active streams from the Twitch API.

2. Uses the Go templates library to repackage the response as static HTML.

3. Uploads the static HTML to S3, where it is served behind CloudFront.
https://mstream.io

A self hosted music streaming server that's simple enough for my mom to use
The situation in HK is depressing, especially when Western corporations and politicians seem to admire the CCP more than democratic activists.

What can an individual do to help Hong Kongers? Any suggestions?
I'm not Armenian or Turkish, but...

Presumably admitting that the relocation was not done for reasonable reasons and that the deaths were intentional would be a start. Also, re-burying the architect of the genocide outside of a place of honor in the national cemetery would be a good gesture toward reconciliation.
China annexed the Scarborough Shoal 8 years ago. And the guy who will "be at the wheel" soon did nothing back then (despite of there being a defense treaty).

These mass arrests are just China getting ready to annex Hong Kong as soon as "the wheel" is in the hand of the guy they already know will no nothing.
Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability to fly
IBM ThinkPad Butterfly Keyboard
My experience in a Covid vaccine trial, and why you should join one
The audience is too small

On Twitter you can easily reach thousands of people, in person you only talk to a handful
Next Gen Static Blogging
https://github.com/veemshq/veems

An open-source platform for online video.

(Looking for ReactJS and/or Python help! https://veems.tv/discord)
Donald Trump, various world powers and the US should be ashamed at their refusal to stand up for Hong Kong. So sad.
I know and it's scary. That doesn't mean an attack will actually happen though. And even if it does happen, that doesn't mean it'll succeed.
This is the problem restated, yes, and that’s what we’re talking about.
You could download and share a part of the archive.

I would gladly do this if a method would be available to load the torrent automatically and set which files are needed to be shared by a specific client.
Moving your blog to medium is bad behavior, and if you do it to follow the herd you should watch where you are going lest you need to explain why you knocked were part of a mob that attacjed the capitol.

Thankfully no need to deplatform since this blogger deplatformed themselves.
The airframe of the fuselage still remains largely the same though right so there's never really the moment where there's no original parts left.