skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* no compile time

I've been using vanilla JS when not using Reason and it is pretty nice. I hate that safari does not support arrow function methods though (as they allow you to not have to bind `this` in the constructor).

concerning you post scriptum in brackets, what I like with types is:

1. refactoring becomes simpler
2. understanding APIs becomes simpler
This particular case seems almost like the opposite. Cases where you bring prior knowledge from one place to another are typically nigh unprovable. Most people do bring their priors with them, are rewarded for it, and benefit of the doubt is granted that there wasn't a "theft", simply a person moving jobs.

In the rare case where somebody was actually proven in a criminal court to have stolen trade secrets and taken then directly to a competitor, a pardon is issued by a president who has felt antagonized by the former employer. It seems less like mercy and more like vindictiveness.
> I think these "attacks" of China aren't that unwarranted.

The problem with "attacks" against China is not so much that they are unwarranted, but that, by the time they reach the Western public, they've gone through multiple layers of filtering, stripping them of relevant context. That can cause problems to appear either more widespread or more localized than they actually are.

Case in point:

> invasion of Tibet

Missing context: the invasion of the whole rest of China, partially by means of brutal military campaigns (e.g. Changchun, Taiyuan), partially by local KMT-affiliated warlords realizing that the CCP had the upper hand and switching allegiance. Tibet was an example of the latter, with the lamas remaining in power until the Panchen Lama allied with the central government in a power struggle against the Dalai Lama, causing him to flee into exile.

> Uighur Genocide

Missing context: all non-Uighur people in China who are nonetheless subjected to "reeducation through labor", political indoctrination, birth control (more than 60% (!) of all Chinese women were sterilized to enforce the One Child Policy) and so on.

> organ harvesting of political dissident groups like Falun Gong

Missing context: organ harvesting from non-Falun Gong, non-dissident executed prisoners.

> social-credit system

Missing context: the implementation pretty much failed. The nationwide rollout was originally scheduled for 2020, but the current state is far from the original vision. Both in terms of social scores (only pilot projects in a few cities) and in terms of credit scoring (Private companies like Ant Financial preferring to use their data for their own internal credit scores instead of sharing with the central Baihang Credit). Ironically, Jack Ma claimed in his speech that his company's credit scoring was so good that they shouldn't be required to back their loans with as much capital, but the regulators didn't buy it.

> Great Firewall

Missing context: the large amount of cross-border communication that happens despite of it, both due to not-uncommom use of technical circumvention tools and due to some sites (e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/china ) not being blocked when you'd expect them to be.

> the "Belt and Road" initiative

Missing context: the large amount of "Belt and Road" projects which are not part of any coordinated initiative, but rather an uncoordinated outpouring of Chinese capital in search of higher profits.

Of course the above is not a defense of China, but definitely a criticism of mainstream Western media discourse on China.

And concerning

> the West doesn't have problems like this.

The West did have problems like this, but a) waited them out (territories annexed a hundred years ago, minorities mostly assimilated, natural drop in birth rates) or b) adopted a different solution (organ harvesting from traffic deaths instead of prisoners, established credit scoring agencies, a political system that doesn't totally collapse if information flows freely, impact assessments for infrastructure projects). Most likely, China will solve their problems in a similar way.
>You edited your post after being called out, and that's now your scapegoat.

Again you lie, because HN won't let you edit a post more than 2 hours old. Those words were there when the post you reply to was originally made. Stop lying.
I agree with dang's comment re nationalistic flamewar comments, but then I wonder why is this news article even allowed to appear on HN front page for so long and not being flagged by the admins? There is no substance in this news report which is interesting beyond the usual nationalistic flame wars and conspiracy theories or have I missed something?
Now compare with a list of people with dark skin who were executed by police. Looking at these two numbers it's quite reasonable to conclude white people don't face consequences.
Would you prefer "mass assassination attempt"? That's not much better. There were two goals:

1. Prevent the certification of the election for a few weeks, allowing Trump to be voted into power by the house delegations.

2. Murder a bunch of elected officials.
Isn't that exactly why federal hate-crime legislation exists? To allow a do-over in federal court if juries in some jurisdictions ignore crimes against some victims?
I've been learning how to draw, and one of the unexpected side effects has been a big change how I look at the world.

Before, I think I'd see the world in symbols - that person has brown hair, eyes, a nose, a mouth, etc but not specific shapes. Drawing has taught me to be better at seeing edges, light, texture, shadows and negative space (space between objects). Subjectively, I feel like my visual memory has gotten much better, since moving away from thinking in symbols means things blend together less.
Can confirm on android, Linux and windows
Hello,

I've just released my latest side project - Java5cript

A collection of free JavaScript resources (vanilla, React, Vue) covering:

Books
Courses
Websites
Videos
Interview Questions
Challenge Websites

This is v1 with lots more content to come. Hope it's useful for you all.

Any feedback or missed resources would be a huge help.

Thanks
The latest Apple TV has a fan :(
There also was the Total Information Awareness project that was seemingly shelved in the early aughts.

How they didn’t see parallels to the stasi I don’t know.
CDC scientists were “diminished” and “muzzled” under Trump, new director says
India has proposed a PDPB - Personal Data Protection Bill.

https://iapp.org/news/a/indias-data-privacy-bill-under-commi...

PDPB bill itself: https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/India_Draft_Perso...
> In the 50-second video, Ma, wearing a navy pullover, spoke from a room with grey walls, a large painting and floral arrangements. It was not clear where the room was. [...] Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares jumped to finish 8.5% higher on the news...

I am pretty sure all sane people knowing that this video is going online had hold a huge long position on Alibaba shares.
Is the lower cost of insurance an artifact of the depreciated value of the booster?
I think telegram is not equal to telex. From what I’m reading, telegram messages were initially sent between offices by telegraph. In later years, the word has come to simply mean a message that is delivered by the post quickly, regardless of their internal transfer method between offices (which could be telex or later the internet). The list may not be wrong, but it is not on topic.
That drives me batty, but they get away with it even on my machine because, well, they're Adobe.

But I think even people like me with 15 years of pictures in Lightroom are seriously eyeing the door. I'd LOVE to find something I could use at trust as well, but I also have little time to search, and Adobe isn't annoying me QUITE enough yet.

But they're already on the wrong side of the "delight/annoy" barrier, if you know what I mean.
Wow, I had not thought of that angle. I was really thinking in terms of drawing parallels between humans in general (as a single group) and different species of animal. The idea of pointing at genes to suggest that certain populations are fundamentally different didn't occur to me when I wrote that.

It was really just the basic idea of saying "look at what most mammals do, and why we think they do it - wait, all humans do that also!".
So, most developed democracies are parliamentary democracies, and don't have executive presidents. In that case, it's normally pretty rapid. For instance, Ireland held a general election on the 8th of Feb 2020, the 32nd Dail was dissolved on the 14th of Feb 2020, and the 33rd Dail convened on the 20th. In that particular case, the cabinet (the executive) stayed in power as a caretaker government for months afterwards (and took major decisions over covid) because the new Dail struggled to either appoint a new prime minister or call a new election (covid was unhelpful there), but that's very abnormal.

In presidential and quasi-presidential systems, it typically takes a week or so. The US really is an anomaly here.
They framed a relevant point that furthers the discussion in a way that was less ambiguous and less likely to do harm.

For me personally, it's frustrating to see comments about things like whataboutism when they're obviously just to deflect and distract.

At the very least, with caveats like saying "I don't support this, but..." there's some level of acknowledgement of, "yes, this might be veering into sketchy waters".
Buy the rumor, sell the news. TSM was a great opportunity, is it still?

I don't know the answer, but it is an important warning to keep in mind when making decisions.
This is by design. White collar crime is rarely prosecuted and convicted.

https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime...
It's more like a production methodology than an art style. Art styles don't scale.
That's highly possible actually, we also have some virtual fax stuff in our environment, because "fax" is a legal thing (on the level of a registered letter) in some countries - similar to Telex as mentioned in the article. EDI orders don't qualify for this protection in these countries but "faxes" do.

However IP lines don't officially support fax anymore, and it's hard to get analog lines these days. So virtual fax became a thing.
Society blesses individuals with privilege?
Just start polishing your CV.
This is probably what was being referenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25772462

"macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 is out with full custom kernel support" ... "The OS now finally includes the firmware and bootloaders and tools necessary to replace Big Sur with not-Big-Sur. That was previously not possible."
Doesn't it seem like a waste of time to read about how to read? Don't we learn how to read in school? Maybe people who read about how to read, and those who write about how to read, can think of nothing else interesting to read (or write) about?

Following the author's own advice, I probably should not have read his article. I can think of no less "promiscuoius" reading than an article about how to read!
AI that writes your Cold Emails
What's not serious about stealing and selling trade secrets, jeopardizing life-saving R&D, blatantly disrespecting the law, and walking away with hundreds of millions of dollars expecting not to be caught?
Ask HN: How can I order Starlink beta in North Africa?
Hi,

Does anyone know if/when StarLink beta will be available in North Africa. Specifically in Algiers, Algeria (36°45′14″N 3°3′32″E).

How can I order many of the beta version of the StarLink customer-premises equipment? I can provide an address in Paris, France, if they don't ship
to Algeria, and take if from there.

I signed up on the StarLink website but I have received neither a sign-up confirmation, nor information to indicate whether it will be available soon or not.
It’s not something that would probably get reported widely, but the bputil command (which manages boot policy, as the name suggests) and kmutil now work as of the second beta of 11.2 and allow for you to provide your own code to run.
History has vindicated the sociopaths at least once, early and importantly with the Manhattan Project. A letter from Einstein and others to FDR made the case for developing the weapon ahead of others.

We need more examples of the sociopaths being wrong; of projects that no other nation-state found useful but were pursued anyway. This book is good for that: a project that never rises to nation-state importance, so it’s shopped around the private sector.
For 2021, Apple booked 80% of 5nm, per:

https://digital-overload.com/2020/12/22/apple-buys-80-of-5nm...

TSMC is also continually building new fabs. And this whole TrendForce report is unconfirmed.
> Flashing it surrounded by notorious racists after the 4chan hoax leaves no doubt about the intended meaning.

Trolling is a meaning. I think in that situation it’s even more ambiguous since the “troll power” is so much greater then.

I think it’s unambiguous that the user is a shit-stirrer certainly, probably an asshole. But not necessarily racist. Or no more so than your average run of the mill “everyone is racist subconsciously” racist.

I think what’s hard is that it’s a negative thing to do that brings more chaos and harm into the world. It could be racist/white power that is super bad, let’s say 100 on the bad-o-meter. Or it could be trolling the pearl clutchers that is mildly bad, let’s say 11 on the bad-o-meter. And for scale, punching someone in the face is 200 and murdering someone is 1000.
I police that shit endlessly. I get I have not-normal expectations -- like, I HATE it when ANYTHING takes focus on its own -- but absolutely DO NOT make it hard for me to quit your app.

I don't use WebEx much, but its "Hey, I know you just tried to quit but don't you want me to hang out just in case" attitude makes me CRAZY.

I'm a little confused by your reference to the "tray" on OSX tho. Where's the tray? We have a dock, and we have a menu bar where some things go, but no tray that I'm aware of.
Do we have a list of the “quality” of all presidential pardons?

It may be that proportionally some presidents show certain “favoritism” while others less. But given some pardon in the thousands it’s hard to say without further study that in absolute numbers one self serves more than another except by using biased heuristics.
But why? Vim comes with a tutorial: vimtutor
The harder it is to learn, the more it takes you to change your mind. It's hard to see things without bringing baggage

Also, the irony of complaining about HN holy wars becoming just another trigger to continue!
I'll do my part - whichever side you are on - you are wrong.
If you're looking to practice the h,j,k,l keys in a fun way, simply play Nethack or other roguelikes that support these movement keys. In 2-3 hours you'll be flying around the map and you won't even know how you're doing it.
"Trump running was merely an arrangement with his former pals the Clintons"

You're reaching.
> copyright laws exist for the express purpose of creating an artificial monopoly for your business

> your monopoly over commercial exploitation

Does this article need to offer some account of how these premises are true?

Since it isn't clear either are.

ie., the law is a guarantee of any right. If you produce some physical good your "monopoly" (ie., ownership), without the law, is only so good as your safe.

It is a coincidence not some principle that physical goods require less, in-practice, deployment of the courts to enforce ownership rights. (ie., theft is rarer).

It is unclear why ownership over a non-physical good is an "artificial monopoly" where as ownership over physical goods is a "natural" one which properly implies a "commercial right to profit" etc.

Why in one area does one's efforts to produce imply a right to profit; and in the other, not?
I'm not sure on what principles you'd make a principled justification. My most common use of negative indices is for slicing the end of the list, in which context the interpretation similar to len(list) makes sense. E.g., list[:-2] does what you'd expect (the same as list[2:], except from the other end).

> implicitly taking indices mod len(list)?

Isn't this doing that (plus some bounds checking)? -1 mod 4 evaluates to 3.

> implicitly flooring indices?

Not sure I understand what this means.
> GPU manufacturers are notorious for not publishing documentation out of IP/patent concerns. Worst offender is NVIDIA here.

I think easily Apple takes the cake from nVidia - they don't even provide drivers for anything but their platforms (that is for their proprietary GPU core). The GPU core that's actually in the M1.
In a panel debate of The Next HOPE conference, 2010, Phiber Optik re-iterated that the rumoured "gang war in cyberspace" between LOD and MOD never happened, and that it was "a complete fabrication" by the U.S attorney's office and some sensationalist media.[1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnk5HRIocu8&t=40m5s&ab_chann...

This whole linked collection of Wiki articles is outrageous.
It seems cool, though I agree that not knowing
This was clarified in the conf talk [1] [2]: error returns should be used at API boundaries, and panic-driven handling only "within" a component.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inrqE0Grgk0&t=15126s

[2] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WVu4O-ax7punUC2V_XgT...
As far as I understand it, you couldn't because the following commits would use be under the new license.

And if I remember correctly from some other similar case, picking a commit might create a new version which is then entirely under the new licence.

IANAL either though.
I like how this uses repeated actions to help learn.

A free resource I really like is simply running `vimtutor`. It gives you a text file with exercises and you edit that text file directly.
Yes - the command-line tool will take a SOUL patch and emit a full, ready-to-build JUCE project that will create all the plugin formats (and a standalone app).
Getting Started with Django and It's Anatomy (Part 1)
Propublica has a good behind-the-scenes take on it:

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-trump-and-barrs-la...

In short, there has been a push to resume executions for nearly ten years, and it has accelerated during Trump's presidency (he campaigned on a strong pro-execution platform). In summer 2019 a shortlist was made of prisoners already on Death Row, whose appeals had failed. They then moved as quickly as they could to schedule the executions, quash further appeals and pass litigation to make them happen.
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. Short stories that will help you pick it up easily. They are intrincate and dreamy/legendary, in a sense, and touch themes that some people here like (infinity, time, labirynths, myths, old literature, libraries, misteries...)
Extracting the List of O'Reilly Animals
I did exactly that for a minor app I built for a relative (a vocabulary) - a single html page, loading a remote sqlite file, allowing for indexed user searches with no perceivable network latency. the downside is having to transfer 4mb to the client upfront, of course, but gzip shrinks that on the wire down to 1.5mb, which while heavy is acceptable nowadays.
Note the emphasis when I wrote that mercy isn't just an excuse for corruption, i.e. it is mostly, but not entirely. Recall that at the end of the last administration, Obama pardoned Chelsea Manning. Or that Harding commuted Eugene Deb's conviction for sedition during WW1 in 1921. Neither are, as far as I can see, instances of corruption.
> Can anyone recommend some good, contemporary fiction for people that have forgotten how to read fiction?

[This is not a criticism, rather an exploration...] Why do you include the constraint "contemporary" fiction?

You said you want to stimulate your creative thinking, and "switch off". Might you be open to the possibility that fiction set in another place and time could help with your objectives?

I'm asking because I've felt similar to what you describe, and I know of some good books that did for me what you ask, but they are mostly set in different centuries to this one, and written by people who are dead.

I work in software engineering and marketing, which means most of what I do is conceptual rather than physical. I find that doing physical jobs, like carpentry gives me a satisfaction and a feeling of escape. After I've built something, I can sit back and just look at it... there's no better feeling than making something come into existence.

Well, sometimes a good work of fiction can achieve a similar level of escape or transcendence, yes.
In this case, the problem is that Intel did not use Asian (specifically, Taiwanese) fabs for its most advanced chips.
i would imagine they're very polluted. it's surprising the price isn't negative, in that someone pays you to take ownership because the EPA is forcing a clean up.
This is one of the reasons why I really like monorepos. Tracking down an opaque error from 2 network hops away is a nightmare compared to reading an exception in a call stack
My ex wife and I are in our early sixties. I've gradually watched her slip in this direction.

She recently told me I should stock up on canned food. At the time I thought it was just random her.

Reading this article was a shock of recognition.

Sad, shocked, despair, resignation, ...
It’s amazing to me that The most popular display managers on Linux have this flaw. Perhaps there is a workaround involving switching to another tty?
DevDocs, an API Docs Browser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick#Controversies...
The main argument I have against 1-based indexing is that it makes a lot of indexing calculations, which all programmers will need to learn at some point, even more confusing with all the additional +/-1. In other words, 1-based is easier only for the easy cases, but harder for the hard cases.

In some ways I think it's similar to the endianness debate: big endian looks natural at first glance, but when you see the expression for the total value, having the place value increase with the address just makes far more sense since it eliminates the extra length-dependent term and subtraction.
Hate to be a negative Nancy, but on a bog standard Chrome on a bog standard Windows 10, in the first exercise the HJKL keys do nothing. The arrow keys do work...
Mutations have allowed SARSCoV2 to become resistant to antibody neutralization
It’s outline views, but I’ll see if I can keep an option to scroll through text too. (Personally, a major reason why I made this was I didn’t want to scroll through text like Activity Monitor does…)
Trump was never Assange's friend, and Assange was foolish to assume the enemy of his enemy would be his friend.

Given the way Trump operates in general, there's nothing in the long term that benefits him about having a whistleblower running around free, even if that whistleblower did significant political damage to his opponent one time.
i have two daughters learning python right now and they did not have an issue with 0 based and i only explained it once.. So i don't think know if i'd say your experience is concensus
In fact, this was exceeding common before gamestop even existed! Gamestop did not invent used game sales!!

We didn't have gamespot in the SNES or NES era when I was a kid. My parents didn't have much extra money, nor did any of my friends parents and new games were absurdly expensive. In the life of my SNES my parents only purchase three games new, all JRPGs. Of my friends, most probably purchased less than that new. However, we'd be at one of the local second hand stores, swap meets, or pawn shops all the time to buy or sell games. We'd borrow and trade for each other's games. We played so many games without buying anything new.

If anything I think gamestop actually decreased used game sales because they made used games more expensive, and new games are cheaper today (adjusted for inflation) and games in general are much higher quality and easier to vet if you'd like them before playing.