skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, China punches under its weight in software, and yes, China's services are not particularly visible in the US, but I assure you they're already making a huge impact, particularly in the developing world, and that impact is only going to growing in the next 5-10 years.

Alibaba/Aliexpress are massive for consumer online shopping, particularly in Russia & Eastern Europe. Alipay payments are increasingly accepted across SE Asia. JD.com (which nobody ever hears about, but is considerably larger than Ali) operates directly and indirectly in many SE Asian countries.

Tencent Games owns and operates a huge slew of globally popular games, including Fortnite, League of Legends, the Supercell suite (Brawl Stars, Clash of Clans etc). Yes, most of these games are still produced primarily in the West, but for long?

Trip.com has been run out of China since 2017 since it was acquired by Ctrip. Meituan/Dianping dominate food delivery in China and are started to branch out to other markets like Australia and Singapore.
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Wouldn't it be more useful and take less space to use SignleFile?
Bob knows Carol has a drug addiction. He sells Carol crack cocaine anyway. He has no guilt because the existence of a market for drugs means its ok, after all, Ted isn't harmed until Carol steals his tv to buy more crack.

People are not machines, we are members of a community and just because someone will pay you to do something doesn't mean you should.
Making an Apple EV Is a Poisoned Chalice for Car Companies
Haha totally agree. Much like vaccine nomenclature.
...incorrect, that's the second dip only. The virus wasn't around for the first.
Probably the biggest benefit is seeing how these ideas were introduced when new, the original context, how they were justified, why the researchers were interested in them, etc. Many (not all) of these are really foundational things that you probably already "know" the key points of or could easily look up on wikipedia.
Richard K. Guy also died in 2020. He coauthored Winning Ways on combinatorial game theory and had some notable contributions to number theory.
The amateur bands are not for general use. They're allocated specifically for skill-building and emergency services, and are regulated accordingly. It's no different than how AM/FM bands are licensed and regulated. You can't just get on the air without a license and say whatever.
Well I guess it depends on who is controlling the iframe, it just requires an allow="microphone; camera" attribute.
If Oracle wins against Google, presumably DocumentDB would be infringing in the same manner, as DocumentDB also is a drop-in replacement adhering to the same API.
China's main power is cheap labour. Without it no US company does manufacturing in China. They are hardly obsessed about progress rather than control.
I think you may have misunderstood what you're looking at. Julia is very much a dynamic language. It also has the ability to add type hints, but, unlike for most optionally typed languages, these aren't just type hints for human readers or an external type checker. They're actually one of Julia's more interesting features. Julia's type declarations provide information that the compiler uses to generate faster code, and to support its multiple dispatch functionality.

When the notes say "optional typing - currently not implemented", all they're saying is that this syntax doesn't allow you to tap into that feature, because a syntax for type declarations has not been provided.
Gaussian Processes, not quite for dummies (2019)
Strong lockdown is literally illegal in the US, violating freedoms that have been through the courts many times. It has nothing to do with selfishness. The government could never impose it, and they knew that. In the US many rights are near absolute in almost all circumstances, including the current ones.

You may disagree with those freedoms but they are a matter of law. They cannot be erased when they are inconvenient, it would render the judiciary irrelevant.
I agree. I have been on "self lockdown" since March, in the USA. I've been observing all of the following since then:

> - 8pm-5am curfew (you have to be at home)

Check.

> - no visitors

Other than my girlfriend, who broke up with me 3 months ago, check.

> - 5km radius (this lasted for what felt like 6 months)

Not really all that practical, but I certainly haven't been travelling about to strange places. I'd say my radius has been about 90% within the 5km, except for things I couldn't do within that radius, such as buying things that literally aren't available within 5km. In any case, I take my own car, by myself, and always wear a mask, so it's no more dangerous than going to the grocery store 1 mile away from me.

> - you had to wear your mask as soon as you left your house (this went for months, we still have to wear masks in shops (even though we have zero cases))

Check, mostly. I don't wear it when I take my dog for a walk, but I also never run into anyone else when doing so.

> - you could only go to the super market once per day, and you had to go by yourself

Check.

> - you were only allowed outside for exercise for 1 hour (with 1 person)

Check, mostly. See above dog walks.

> - no gyms, hospo, group events, activities etc

100% been avoiding all of these things since March, except for a trip to Tahoe in June with my then girlfriend, where we met up with her best friend. Other than said best friend, I was never within 6 feet of anyone else, although I was really nervous about how few people were wearing masks. We probably should not have made that trip, even though none of the three of us got sick.

I wish they had just done these things for 2-3 months:

> - lots of shops forced you to give your details over and some demanded that you sanitize your hands (these are two things I didn't want to do for my own reasons)

> - increase of police powers, fines around $1600

The police bit is the part that really pisses me off. Technically, it's a misdemeanor to have a social gathering right now, but local police won't do shit about it. There have been 2 gatherings in my 6 unit apartment building during the time it's been banned. I don't want to get COVID because other people in my building are idiots.

Proper use of lockdowns would have been to reduce cases to the point where contact tracing and testing could take over. Unfortunately, we haven't implemented those measures, either. To quote Death to 2020, "I'd say it was a train wreck and a shit show, but that would be unfair to trains and shit."
Mainland China's growth has been much slower because the madness of Mao's misrule set the country back by several decades. If you compare the country's growth since Deng Xiaoping took over and started reforming in the early 1980s, it compares much more favorably.
True. We tend to use things like inline keystroke loggers on keyboards these days for socials engineering gigs. You can also just convince people to run your stuff by giving it intriguing names (e.g. Q4 layoffs). Excel sheet, exe... etc :)
Nationality actually is important in China as well. African Americans for example are treated much better than Africans (eg Chadians). However, taxi drivers might not be able to tell (though they do discriminate based on skin tone, this can affect south Asians as well).
Your Bitcoin stance doesn’t make much sense. It’s over long periods of time. This GME is over a short period of time.

You appear to be bragging hard. Whether or not you intended that. The other person isn’t.
It is mostly functional but visually a mess. “Better than Linux upgrades” is a pretty low bar.
The fed doesn't gift money to anyone. To decrease money supply, all they have to do is reduce the amounts of reserves available to banks and sell back the bonds they have been buying feverishly and wait for any remaining loans to come due.

Now the government can gift money, but they must either use tax revenues and/or borrow by selling treasury bills - which can be to the public or the fed can buy them - but in either case, they must be paid back.
Rails 6.1 allows per environment configuration support for Active Storage
My classmates who went on to become medical doctors were no smarter and possibly less ethical. What they had was the family circumstances to delay gratification. Sometimes this was family wealth to support them for years, other times it was the family pooling their resources for one chosen member of the family, other times it was the family wealth to support them going to a lower tier medical school, and lastly it was family members who got them positions. I really hated the guy who cheated in honors English and went on to become a doctor.

Turning your descendants into doctors and lawyers is one of the traditional ways families use to preserve their wealth. It isn’t because these people were smarter.
there are definitely some uncanny hills and valleys
I'm not a troll, or a machine, thank you very much.

At this point I can't edit the comment in question, but every assumption in the comment it was a reply to was wrong. Every single one.

Aliases in powershell are not turned off by default. Aliases either exist or they don't. When speaking of aliases alone, bash is no simpler nor more complex than powershell.

By the way, this comment (the one I am writing right now) is ALSO replying to a comment written by someone who appears to be overconfident and under-informed. It's a freaking malady, and people are somehow proud of their incorrect blind guesswork.

Incorrect, blind guesswork gets a pass, because the statements made sound correct to a layman, and sound objections don't get a pass. I understand, now. I wasn't clear on how important facts are in a technical discussion.

I stated no facts in my earlier comment, that's true, but neither did the person I was replying to. I thought my point was clear. It was less clear than the comment based on false assumption, I guess.

I fucking give up. You assholes can have this.
Thank you for posting this! Looked into it, and on my Nissan, holding the unlock and lock buttons together for 3 seconds turned off the beep!

I had assumed that this was a 'feature' that could not be disabled, akin to 80s cars having the requirement to hold the handle up when shutting the door to keep it locked. I have a suspicion that this led to more cars being left unlocked and stolen than it saved people from locking their keys in the car.
While the (original HN) title may have been a bit on the pretentious side, the linked syllabus explains the rationale for the course:

> This course examines papers every computer scientist should have read, from the 1930s to the present. It is meant to be a synthesizing experience for advanced students in computer science: a way for them to see the field as a whole, not through a survey, but by reliving the experience of its creation. The idea is to create a unified view of the field of computer science, for students who already know something about it, by replaying its entire evolution at an accelerated frame rate.

Which is not a bad idea. Many computer scientists, programmers, and software engineers have an ahistorical understanding of CS. See the discussion the other day when someone claimed "software engineering" is only 20-30 years old. They aren't a one-off, though probably not the majority. A significant number of people in this field don't know the history of it: how it was developed, what dead ends were hit, what dead ends turned out not to be dead ends (often once we got fast enough hardware), etc.

Similar to the ethics course in many engineering/science curricula, it's something that seems a bit superfluous but turns out to add a great deal of value if students can be bothered to explore it.
Yeah that’s a great description.

I upgraded my personal laptop and it’s so bad I’m holding off on my work laptop until I am forced to upgrade.
If "telling people that the election was a fraud" is equivalent to encouraging insurrection, you'd need to convict everyone who pushed the Trump/Russia narrative for years. So basically every leftist media entity and person and many of the politicians too.

Hell, we can go back to 2000, butterfly ballots, Diebold voting machines, and so on and so forth.

People are allowed to question election integrity.
Fully agree, seems like a good chunk of developer focused software is cross platform at this point.
At the beginning of this, our day care closed down for a couple of months and it was tough (thankfully grandma got stuck with us at the time). Things got much better when daycare reopened, though we had to switch due to moving and had a misfire with a daycare that was too big and too restrictive for our tastes (we found one that could be less restrictive because they had fewer kids).
The 1950s and 60s were great in America because Europe was decimated in WWII, heavy industry was alive and well, the population was growing, the government was helping GIs with housing loans and college, and imports and global trade had not yet taken hold.

Fast forward and globalization has moved production else where, population growth compared to Nordic countries is massive, there are a multitude of factors at play.
I never understood why we need a fuel pump and a fuel injector .. and a valve that opens to let fuel in the cylinder.
Curious article - I dont think these are necessarily comparable components to claim full on hypocrisy by app level tech companies.

Also it seems odd to promote the bundling of distribution and content as a win for consumers...ATT blocking youtube to promote HBO Max sounds like a loss for me and a loss for the internet. And what happens when every carrier has their own HBO Max?
But the fed is not "giving" money to banks. They are loaning it to them. It has to be paid back with interest, albeit very low interest.
Dread is anticipation. I’m surprised that there would be commingling of sentiment and future-preparation in NLP professionals. The dictionary definition is sort of tautological- a functional model of the cognitive state, for terms that describe cognitive states, is probably a better approach.

If Plutchik categorizes anger and fear as opposites, I have a feeling part of the problem is the choice of guidance on how to categorize. He must have been the bully and not the bullied in childhood.

However, it also points to the difficulty of creating a human-like understanding of anything: for many phenomena, two people will understand it differently.
Would you complain if each user sold directly to the next with near-zero markup?
Ask HN: What Is Terrorism?
After a lot of discussion on whether or not certain things constitute terrorism in the last few weeks - do we know and agree on what terrorism is?

Where does a protest become terrorism?

Looking for a constructive discussion, not bad-faith arguments. This is important because we have a lot of legislation and political action around Terrorism, but nobody seems to be able to agree on exactly what Terrorism is, which makes for very ambiguous legislation.
When someone steals a car battery it's because they want a battery, not money. Often they leave their car's dead battery behind.
Isn't this like arguing libraries are terrible for authors?
Which should be illegal.
Hitting is not the same as targeting, so no.

Also, one needs to indicate the difference between e.g. a hospital building acting as nothing but a hospital, and one that has been evacuated of patients and used as a militant staging post.
Hey, reach out anytime if you just want someone to chat with. Email is in my bio.
I had a VX-7R- it was nice, but I didn't use it enough for the amount of money sunk into it, so I sold. I bought a UV-5x3 when I again wanted an HT. It's pretty good- I like that it now has alphanumeric channel memory and I get to see what's happening on 220 MHz. But this is a $90 radio...
Thanks, blogging will take time. But will do all I can.
I have no idea about the implementation details, but how about the controls to turn on and off camera/mic are not with the browser or app at all but with the OS. Big red button on the taskbar that you can choose to turn on for a given application or url on demand. Would be great if the OS would log access to the devices too.

The browsers are over trusted for things like this and should never have direct access. Google Meet after a crash or the browser was shutdown and restarted with all the old tabs would open up your meeting again hidden behind a bunch of other tabs. No one was ever on them long after the meeting but it was freaky. This isn't the behaviour that I've seen recently thankfully.
thank you for your feedback! I will incorporate all of this into my next draft!
How does capitalism cause environmental damage any more than alternate systems, say communism, anarchism, or feudalism? Neither of those systems have avoided environmental damage where they've been implemented. The common denominator is humans.
I asked my family to not disturb me when working. It did not work great.
3rd Party browsers are not, they have their own sync infrastructure. This is mostly affecting builds of Chromium that are not directly built by Google https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/embedder-dev/c/NX...
Against expectations this is not an Electron app.

It's only ~3MB small! Even with a bloated installer that contains all the dependencies (Python & Qt) it's only 35MB.

It will use only a fraction of the resources of an Electron app. It's also of course snappier that any web-app.

We need more proper desktop apps again. The Electron insanity needs to stop. Nice to see this here!
> Trump's approval is not the lowest it's been during his presidency

In the Gallup poll it is [0], in the particular weighting and aggregation used by 538 it is not.

> it's almost twice that of Congress

Congress isn't a person, it's an aggregate, for which any voter will not have had a voice in selecting 532 of 535 voting members. Comparison of Congress’s approval ratings to the President’s are meaningless, and only ever resorted to by people trying to make horrendously unpopular Presidents look more popular than they are.

> if you give any weight to Rasmussen,

You probably shouldn't; they've always had a pro-Republican house effect as a pollster matching their editorial tilt, which isn't too worrying, but they’ve pretty overtly gone into hyperpartisan mode since the election.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/328637/last-trump-job-approval-...
They're adding a ton of content, though.
>African Americans commit more than 50% of violent crime,

Out of curiosity, I understand that you're simply citing statistics from a source but I'd like to know if you think this reflects reality? If so, what reason would you suggest creates this?
They're zealots, and some of them are very capable and very determined.

Writing them all off as idiots is dangerous
thanks you're right about the year! I'll fix that in the next update
You do understand that the same family that funded Cambridge Analytica like the user above mentioned is the one the funded Parler, the app you are talking about?

Maybe we should hold these people to account instead of trying to compare their projects to entities that are not as nearly as partisan by design as Mercer family projects are. They helped groom and incite so many people to radicalism, and we will be dealing with individuals flaming out for years.
Yeah exactly. I understand what is going on here. I’m just frustrated I have to suffer through it for the vanity of Not-Jony-Ive.
Maybe you could take advantage of that by putting a blue LED on your dashboard or rear-view mirror that blinks every few seconds when the car is off.

Speaking of, I'm surprised that there aren't more prank automotive devices. What if your car's horn went off semi-randomly twice a month, with a different horn sound each time? Or your turn signals made loud clicking noises that everyone could hear? Or your Bluetooth calls also broadcasted through the car alarm speaker on Wednesdays? There's plenty of room for innovation in the car alarm space.
All of the examples you gave are of non-terroristic means of attempting to achieve the goals of a cause, where the groups involved generally lack violent extremists.

GP's point was about how they believe federal law enforcement has reacted to groups that necessarily included violent extremists, as those were the pawns for bargain to offer the opposition while reducing harm to the moderate sympathizers.

Yours appears to be a strawman argument.
I interpret the post as saying "banning people on Twitter won't solve our problem, transparency in advertising and social media algorithms will" because before your quote Mitchell (CEO of Mozilla) in the post says:

> But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality. Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.

And then lists several possible solutions that seem quite reasonable, and we should for sure push for the first two.

PS to anyone reading this exchange, at this point our comments are longer than the original blog post, you might as well just read the original instead of our out-of-order commentary. :)
I read an article describing how some thieves will deliberately set off the alarm and then break the window. The theory is that everybody ignores car alarms and the alarm covers up the sound of breaking glass, a sound that people do not ignore.
I concur 100% about Taiwan.

I am a US-born Taiwanese-American who lives in San Diego most of the time, but we spend most winters here in Taiwan to visit relatives and try and get mandarin language immersion for our kids.

Since we're all WFH and remote school anyway, we decided to spend an extended period of time this winter to ride out the pandemic.

If you're able to do so and are interested, I'd highly recommend it, since like the OP I have enjoyed being able to go out to eat dinner, hang out at coffee shops, etc.

To answer a few questions that have been raised so far:

* Unfortunately, Taiwan is now closed to non-residents. You are not able to come here on a visitor's visa anymore. However, as another poster mentioned -- it's relatively easy to apply to get a Gold Card (https://taiwangoldcard.com/). As long as you can document income above about $67k USD/year (the actual requirement is to be above $160k TWD / month), you should be able to get it. The process is normally supposed to take about 30 days... but since there has been so much interest in the program over the past year, I believe the process is now taking 45 ~ 60 days.

* If you have a spouse / children that you want to bring with you, the process will take even longer -- you can only apply for your spouse/kids resident visas after you get the Gold Card. This process usually takes an additional 2 or so weeks.

* Everyone who comes in is required to undergo a 21-day quarantine restriction. It's a 14-day strict quarantine (where they monitor you and call you at least once a day), and then a 7-day "self" quarantine after that. (Although there are rumors that they may increase the restrictions on the 7-day period)

* For the specific question about race -- if you are African / African-American, IMO you likely wouldn't see much in terms of direct, hostile racism. OTOH, I would imagine that you would likely encounter racialism -- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/racism-and-racialism-are-_b_6... is a good article distinguishing it.

There's a lot more I could post about the experience about coming out here and what life is like once you're here (especially as a software dev / digital nomad) -- but in the interest of brevity, I'll stop for now. But if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me.
Have you done this then or know anyone who has? I'd be interested to hear your experience with the process.
India asks WhatsApp to withdraw changes in privacy policy