skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>They "adapt" just fine, actually changing regulation to block foreign companies is them adapting.

Can you give an example of "blocking" foreign companies? My understanding is that under recent trade agreement with America, for instance, American import cars are exempt from South Korean's regulation and don't even have to satisfy Korea's local safety standard. There are also similar arrangements with EU and Japan. Also due to the country's lax product liability laws that often favor business than consumers, a lot of domestic, foreign car makers have been getting away with defects that would have certainly raised ire elsewhere. The share of imported cars likewise has been increasing quite a bit: in 2019, there were 1.5M new passenger car registrations in South Korea; 250K were imports -- mostly Germans though -- or about 16% of all registered cars. The share of foreign companies' cars almost tripled in 10 years.

>> It's much easier for kakao to watch how other companies do it and simply copy it. SK is more similar to China in that regard ... Uber isn't in the Chaebol so why should uber operate?...

I don't think I could agree with this either. Both Uber and other domestic ride hailing services, most notably Kakao and Tada, faced significant pushback from taxi drivers. Tada as mentioned by @albertshin was forced to shutdown after the National assembly essentially made it illegal after such pushback from organized labor unions and the taxi industry:

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3076144/sou...

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the militant labor movement in SK, but I don't there is hardly anything equivalent to this elsewhere in China.
Redesigning Coca's Storage Abstraction
If it doesn't, it should.

It makes the life of parsers a lot harder.
Just pulling from your own quote:

> is whether the words are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger

The "clear and present danger" standard is no longer used. It's been overturned in favor of the "imminent lawless action" standard. Falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater does not fall under imminent lawless action.
Isn't it basically building an interpreter in Rust?
I went from pretty much never exercising in my life until I was 37 years old to working out 3 times/week missing only about 10 workouts in 3 years. I was completely sedentary, never played a competitive sport, was last place in my high schools "presidential fitness test".

I still do not actually "enjoy" it, but I made it a habit and kept motivation to go because of two things: progress and goals. As a beginning lifter, you make ridiculous progress that seems absurd (adding weight and becoming stronger every other day) which to me was really an amazing sort of "hack". I plan to write more on how motivating this kind of linear progress is and how to form a habit around it.

Now, even though I do not actually enjoy exercise, it has become a habit similar to brushing/flossing my teeth. Not particularly enjoyable, but something I just know I have to do.
New strategy to fight world’s most potent poison passes first tests in animals
> You have bought into a hysterical narrative, at least as fantastic as whatever insane narrative the QAnon people have bought into.

I'm just stating facts. The claims Trump has made about election fraud, hundreds of times over the course of two months, are lies. He used the people who believed those lies to attack the Capitol as they deliberated on the transfer of power.

Please elaborate on what's hysterical about my assessment of these facts.
> Donations in general are a topic of public debate, in part, because in many countries they are tax-deductible, which means donations reduce tax obligations for individuals, and tax revenue for government.

Really? Let’s say your top marginal tax rate is 40%. That means when you donate a dollar, you get 40 cents back in taxes. When given the choice between 40 cents going to the government or one dollar going to a billionaire-chosen charity, I’d pick the charity every time.

If you agree with that, then it doesn’t make sense to criticize donations on the basis that they reduce tax revenue. (it may still make sense to change the law regarding deductions, however)

If you disagree with that, I would be interested to hear your reasoning. It seems to me that people like Bill Gates have actually donated a pretty large chunk of their wealth to truly good causes. Would you have preferred 40% of this money go to the government instead and Gates to have kept the rest? Or is the average billionaire donation much less effective than Gates’?
It's not hard to find things that virtually everyone agrees are complicating and shouldn't be used in a project unless they have clear benefits. Metaprogramming. Macros. Multiple inheritance. Multiple languages.

The silver pants unicyclists know this too, they just lack impulse control.
I've been working on a super simple Goodreads alternative off and on for the past year or two since I frankly can't stand the Goodreads UI. There's not much to it yet other than personal library management, but it's good enough that I already use it myself to track books I've read or want to read.

https://rooseve.lt
I'm not arguing that private companies can't censor people. An employer can definitely censor an employee. A group of publishers can embargo an author. Twitter and Trump had a consensual relationship and Twitter ended it. That's not censorship.
https://blogline.co

I wrote this during the first lockdown mainly because I wanted to write some fresh code in the evenings, but also because I was dissatisfied with Wordpress, Tumblr, Posthaven and static sites, having tried all of them over the years for my blogs.

A blog app is literally every web framework tutorial so it’s a bit embarrassing to show (“is that the best idea you’ve got?!”) but the funny thing is, I actually really love using it and it makes me want to write more, and I am writing more on my blogs! Which is the point of a writing/blogging app after all. It should encourage you to write, not get in the way with themes, CSS, hosting and all that entails.

You can only sign up with an invite code because I haven’t fully decided whether to subject the world to YABA (yet another blog app). I was going to add billing support first as I don’t want to support free customers, but I might see what the reception is here first ;-)

I have a bunch of ideas that will keep the basic writing/publishing concept but make it more of a hub for reading too.
It just non-stop amazes me. There might be some psychological defensive-bias at work here, but just in these replies to my original comment... it's predominantly pro-btc.
The Phoenix wallet[0] is actually quite a nice LN solution. When I tried it out it gave me similar feelings of excitement as when I first got into Bitcoin.

Reading about the Lightning Network gives me a headache in general, but Phoenix manages to hide all the tech stuff. I think my old parents would be able to use it.

And it solves one LN problem of having to have bitcoin for opening a payment channel, you can simply install the wallet and start receiving bitcoin.

[0] https://phoenix.acinq.co/
I'm saying it should be more obvious to him. I'm not claiming unique insight or authority here. It could be projection, but it seems like parallel phenomena to me.
It's a nice, zero-cost gesture US is unwilling to make.
The proposed mechanism for HCQ (zinc affinity) implies that it would be most effective if taken before the onset of symptoms, perhaps even before viral load is high enough to test positive. Obviously this makes it challenging to do a study. Nearly all studies that I’m aware of are initiated on patients that are already showing symptoms, because the patients are enrolled at the hospital, and few have the necessary zinc supplication. The expectation is that these studies would show little benefit, and indeed that is the case.

There remains no studies with large sample sizes done as far as I know with HCQ+zinc given as a prophylactic measure immediately upon first exposure.

EDIT: It's also worth mentioning that this isn't some crank theory about COVID. It is well known that zinc inhibits replication of RNA virus, giving the immune system more time to respond. I used to get colds 5-6 times a year, and the flu almost every year. When I learned about this effect zinc has, I started taking mega doses of zinc upon exposure, whether I'm close to someone known to be sick, flying through airports, or just caught in cold weather. I have not had cold or flu symptoms since I started this regimen about 2 years ago. Of course that is just an anecdote. There are, IIRC, observational studies showing this effect across larger populations.
It's probably not the US, China, or Russia that we need to be most worried about. I'd be most worried about India and Pakistan.

They both heavily depend on Himalayan glaciers for fresh water, and that supply will be heavily affected by climate change if the world does not act. They could easily end up at war over water rights.

Neither of them has the really big nukes the big players have, but it turns out that you don't need big nukes to cause serious worldwide problems.

This paper [1], summarized in this article [2], looked at a scenario where India and Pakistan have a nuclear war involving 100 nukes of the size as the one used on Hiroshima (15 kiloton blast), directed at the most populated areas. That's about 1/3 of the total number of nukes those two countries have.

They estimated based on the amount of combustible material in the target areas that the resulting firestorms would put about 1.5 Tg of soot aerosol into the upper atmosphere. They then apply climate models to predict the effect of that.

The result is a 1.8 C temperature reduction and 8% precipitation reduction for several years, which would have a serious effect on food crops. They used state of the art crop models to estimate food loss over time. They found the strongest effects would be in temperate regions of the US, Europe, and China for 10 to 15 years.

It's not an end of humanity scenario at that point, but would result in widespread world hunger for a long time, and not just in the poor countries. That could trigger wars involving more of the world's nuclear powers, including ones with much bigger bombs.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/13/7071

[2] https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/03/16/even-limited-india-...
The vast majority of software is successful despite those bugs.
I will add: repeating this lie would now be providing aid or comfort to an armed insurrection, a felony that can get you up to ten years in prison.
Identifying terrorists and violent criminals is always the argument in favor of using facial recognition for law enforcement.
Exploring my writing: The subjects of sentences
Under what definition is leaving off optional closing tags “poor html”? It is perfectly valid, part of the spec, very widely used, and completely unambiguous.
So I assume the "self-imposed" restrictions were related to what China wanted?
Correctness is only an interesting problem when it's not easy to underst example and. Easy bloggable examples aren't complex enough to be correctness challenges
Looks like he had a hell of a good side project during grad school.
Arbitrary yes. Pick another number that is substantially larger than current share.

I am not going to be able to give statistics, but to me it's obvious. After all these decades, what's been holding nuclear down to its present market share is its economics of safety. Cost overruns all but bankrupted Toshiba, just to give one recent example.

If you want an order of magnitude more installations, you will have to relax those constraints.

So we cannot use today's safety record as proof of tomorrow's safety if we also expect massive increase in deployment.
I imagine they were planning to do this before what happened in the US with Twitter banning Trump. Ethiopia shut off telecommunication with the province of Tigray when conflict heated up this year (it still may be cut off). According to the article, Uganda shut off communication (Facebook, Twitter, and Whatsapp) in Feb 2016. I think that because many of us are in the US and just witnessed Twitter banning Trump we are falling prey to recency bias [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_bias
The inventor of Twinkies lived to 88 and attributed his health to eating them regularly (I thought I’d read one every day ever since inventing them, but https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-03-me-10272-... says ≥ 2 packets per week).
Nice. I like GoodReads but it’s slow and unloved.

Have you seen http://www.librarything.com/
On this topic, I recommend reading (or listening to) Mark Rippetoe, a strength and conditioning coach from Wichita Falls, Texas, and author of Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training. He's got quite a few videos on YT where he explains his views on strength training, exercise and its effects on human physiology. While he can be bit controversial sometimes, he's also clearly very knowledgeable about the subject and very well articulated.
The S and X will still be sold because the extra 55k isn't that much for wealthy customers, and it would give the vehicle more range, acceleration, spaciousness, luxury features, access to more software, etc. Consider the S has the acceleration of a multimillion dollar ICE, but it's an upright sedan with 5 seats, which shows the power of BEVs and electric motors.
> the great social media purge towards GOP personals

This seems like a weird way to put it if only Trump and stuff like Parler was removed off the big social media platforms.
>You have the world's largest megaphone. You bring tens of thousands of hardline supporters to the Capitol on the day that officially seals the transfer of power. You and your henchmen spend hours forcefully lying and claiming that the entirety of the national election apparatus is in a conspiracy to steal the election. You tell them to march on the capitol to 'fight.'

Here is where opinion differ. You may consider this inciting riot, but not everyone will agree to it, many other people don't consider this inciting riot.
I mean if you wanted you could ask my question as

"If the mRNA vaccine causes the creation of antibodies which respond to a variety of spike proteins, how can we build confidence around the set of proteins which trigger and don't trigger an immune response, when the set of potential protein configurations is infinite"

I am not trying to mis-represent the problem by using a regex as an example, but trying to describe the "infinite set" aspect of the problem in a way that is understood by 90%+ of the people here.
This is of course a joke, but most compression competitions include the size of the decompressor.
Is that high cost mostly for an inherent reason, or mostly because such concrete isn't in mass production? What sort of cost difference would that be? If I actually wanted that type of concrete, how would I specify it and then ensure that I got it? (not ripped off by seller) Does it violate building codes?
This is precisely the expertly spun narrative I can watch on CNN or MSNBC. It's wonderfully constructed, people get paid a lot to do it. It's also just a lie. To fully half of the American population, and a rapidly growing proportion, this is a bald-faced lie.

So please, hold the speculative narrative. Don't repeat talking heads to me. Show receipts. Demonstrate with evidence that Trump tried to get his rally to invade the freaking capitol building.

In the meantime, respond to the rest of the arguments being represented here. You can't conveniently ignore the much worse riots that took place last summer as you try to spin your crazed narrative, we see through all of this now.
Hmm, how do you differentiate between claims and facts? What are facts other than just things where you can verify? Where you can think "Ok, I agree that this is true". Like 2 + 2 = 4. We probably can both verify this, so that's a fact. How about e = mc2 ? Well, it's stood the test of time and many physics professors saying what it means, so to me this is also a fact. Same with the fact that the earth is spherical; but if you talk to a flat-earther, they'll start saying all sorts of nonsense (at least to me) because they don't believe the hundreds of years of research, and "want to see it for themselves", and what they "see" is that the earth is flat (because they have confirmation bias)

Yesterday MSM reported live as Trump supporters attacked the Capitol. I see that as factual information, there were thousands at a Trump rally nearby, presumably because they wanted to hear their leader talk; and nobody's said these people dispersed and a bunch of others came from the bushes...

The media also said "x thousand more people died due to Covid-19 yesterday", here I do have implicit trust that the reporting is correct, then again they're just reporting numbers from government agencies. TBH I'm not that invested in this that I need to proof whether the number is correct or not, but that's the thing isn't it; a Covid-denier wants to think Covid is a lie, and therefore the number of deaths is a lie, because there's something in it for them, maybe it's because their business is currently shut down and their bank account is being drained and they're going to lose their house and go hungry soon..
I'm curious why Pompeo is choosing to do this now, rather than a year ago. Only 11 days until the next administration, or is he still thinking about transitioning to a second Trump term?
Just trying to be clear, are you saying these events were justified, or that the attack on the US Capitol was justified?
What is stopping companies from
investing in Ag tech now?
Starting Small
> Unfortunately, in social media, everybody gets to be an expert! How can the average person tell?

Good book by Tom Nichols:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise

Not anything recent:

> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

* “A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov, Newsweek, January 21, 1980, p. 19.

* PDF: https://media.aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_...

'Special' thinking has been part of the American DNA since the beginning (Jamestown, Puritans/Pilgrims):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasyland:_How_America_Went_...
I've got several of the Huawei (V|A)DSL modems that BT used to fit when VDSL first rolled out, you're more than welcome to have one of them!
https://getaether.net/docs/tech/
Aether is peer to peer. I don't see it being censored easily.
Dark Side of Posix APIs
I think this gets to the next level of the problem. Some people (usually earlier in their career) really get attracted to weird shiny stuff.

But in reality, discussions I have about arguing for simplicity have two opposing sides both basing on tried and true technologies in their opinion.

I find a good solution is to have reviewers and outsiders who can give feedback, and generally trust them when they recommend avoiding something. (But I have seen the cases where this exact approach would have killed a crazy idea that became a huge success story later on)

Almost everyone wants simple. But simplicity is subjective. My simple can be a touch screen and yours can be buttons and we would both be correct.
Yes, it says so at the end of the first paragraph.
I’ve been on HN for years and still can’t downvote.
I think we're possibly looking at the same analysis with different takeaways.

A) Yes, some big companies (oil and finance) see some oil as risky and potentially a losing investment for them long term. (I disagree, but wrt the industry, not specific listed companies.)

Yes, they're taking a loss (at least on paper) for some of these investments. But I'm saying it's largely by choice, both by voluntary "offset" investments, and operational decisions. That's the (financially) delusional part.

As I said, we're seeing the bigger companies sell off infrastructure it can't market as being green. [1] Here's Shell's refinery sell-off, and attempt to rebrand the remaining refineries as "low-carbon chemical parks."

As travel picks up again, someone is going to pick these smaller refineries up for cheap. At least a couple of them specialize in jet fuel, which, post-covid, will be in sufficient demand for the foreseeable future. The buyers will make money. Shell and Shell's investors will show it as a loss.

Same goes for fracking. If Shell (or whoever) is, for example, voluntarily buying carbon offsets or similar for fracked wells, they may show it as a losing investment. The buyer might pick it up, drop the voluntary offset purchases, and make it financially viable.

B) Another thing done is shifting costs:

A company buys (mandatory) wetland property for mitigation credits for a pipeline project, that's deemed profitable, as-is. They also have a fracking well that's profitable. The division that owns the well will then buy carbon-offset credits from the division that bought the wetlands. Where you once had two profitable projects, you now have one profitable project, one project that shows a loss, and a chunk of revenue written off for capital expenditure, another chunk written off for buying green offset credits, and a huge net savings overall due to carbon credit deductions and reducing taxable revenue on paper.

Now the company might internally think those optional credits are a required cost of doing business, for branding and politics. But that doesn't mean the fracking itself isn't profitable.

Or that a different company wouldn't show it on paper as such.

This is the type of stuff that gets confusing when you start looking at the financial analysis stuff that you refer to.

[1]https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2020/10/29/10569...
Not really half-baked, but not ready for the prime time either:

Mull[0] is a tool for mutation testing of C and C++ projects. The goal of mutation testing is to show the gaps in the semantic coverage

[0] https://github.com/mull-project/mull
Somewhat over-the-top but still cool discussion of this by actual NASA tech folks, made before the landing actually happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU
1. He didn't attend Capitol, but urged his followers to storm it "peacefully" while extorting Congress.

2. He's always lying.

3) He implies nothing, at least nothing predictable.

4) True, he still keeps lying about fraud even though he alleged fraud long before the election process even (before summer). He used anchors and primed his base for months on this. Even got underlings to sabotage effectiveness of the US Postal Service.

What he did agree to was "orderly transition" of power, and he most probably has this in mind (another prime):

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pompeo+%22to+second+Trump+administ...
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Ah the silent majority argument. The thing is people aren't getting censored for being fiscally conservative, being for tax breaks, being against abortion or any number of conservative values.

People are being shut down for being part of an offensive minority that supports extreme behaviors and statements. Lets look at the events at the capital as a proxy. 12% of America support this behavior. This is well within the margin of error for the percentage that tacitly supports the idea that the white "race" is exceptional.
The fact that you once met some idiots who wrote code that wouldn't pass the review of any experienced Unix programmer doesn't really invalidate the fact that faulting in a mapped page is generally faster than getting the same data with a page-sized read. The one thing doesn't have anything to do with the other.
What’s KPI?