skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get a feeling that the fight against Covid will be something akin to War on Drugs:

- Any critical discussion about the need for draconian measures or their efficacy is social suicide. Politicians will compete on who will propose most iron fisted measures while media concentrate on promoting fear. Those trying to push for more nuanced discussion will be ostracised. This can already be seen, at least, in Europe.

- Civil liberties will be ignored. Covid will be used as an excuse to expand surveillance state and other infringements on civil liberties.

- A multinational framework of laws and restrictions will be enabled so it will be almost impossible to find a country where you can escape the draconian measures. Eventually you will be forced to take numerous vaccinations to normally participate to society. You also will be forced to divulge your personal health information to strangers and government officials on regular basis.
ROC took over the assets and liabilities of the qing, just like russia did with the soviet union
While good shielding is important, the important thing is to use twisted/balanced pairs, eliminate longitudinal currents by means of common mode chokes, and to eliminate ground loops via differential transformers.
Inspections are generally standardised over entire industries. This is nice for the companies because it means inspectors can be trained anywhere, and directly hired to perform their industry standard inspection methods.

What I meant was that we had to actually hire or partner with industry inspectors, so we could sell a package deal to the customer, we had to go outside of our comfort zone and sell inspections, when all we really wanted was to sell data.
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> 4K video is 16Mbps, which is less than 2% of a 1Gbps fiber connection capacity.

OK, so you have two of those going and a twitch stream, someone's downloading a new game as well (and wants it now not in two hours), plus a bunch of other things going on... it adds up and it's good to have the burst capacity for large downloads when you want it.

> I never could for the life of me convince steam/epic/whatever to give me more than roughly 50MBps.

Did you mean bits or bytes there? 50 MBps == 400Mbps.

I regularly get several hundred Mbps out of the game services like steam here in the UK... wonder what's different?

FYI Amazon/netflix give a minimum of 25Mbps for a 4K stream and it seems to be recommended that you have at least 25% over that for a "good" experience. The streams are HDR as well as 4K which might explain why that's so high. If 8K gets established, we're likely talking about 100Mbps just for one stream.
I'd like to have 10 Mbps uploads right now
Please don't believe in media sensationalism. Yes, covid brought us an increase in violence, but that was simply relative to numbers that have been declining for decades. I'm not saying that we shouldn't keep improving this in the US, but it's still an extremely safe place.

Also, most of the physical violence in the US is restricted to specific cities or areas within larger cities which you should generally be able to avoid.

Regarding ethnic violence against Asians, it's even more inflated by the media. The statistics don't support the narrative of regular violence against people from Asia:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in...
Nothing to see here. Just Twitter being Twitter.
U.S. Strategic Command response to FOIA request regarding gibberish tweet
Confidence intervals aren't even that informative. Like using boxplots when you could inform the viewer so much more with sina plots [1]. Why not show me the whole posterior probability distribution (perhaps helpfully marking the 95% highest density region [2])? Or if you don't have a distribution, show me the 95%, 97.5% and 99.5% intervals.

[1] https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/boxplots-violins.html

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/highest-den...
I made very similar points 6 days ago. [0] Personally I get almost no benefit from 100mbps over 40Mbps, or perhaps even 25. Huge downloads are rare events, and often aren't time-critical. Backups and automatic updates don't generally need to be fast.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26553690
Thanks! Demo day seems so long ago.....
Yeah. I gave them a throw-away email address for that "Makers" sign up page a few weeks ago when they announced it.

They immediately began spamming it. Ugh.

Lost all interest in it at that point. They really don't seem to understand their audience.

Since we're on the subject of free "Community Edition" CAD software, Siemens Solid Edge seems decent (but no CAM):

https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/soli...

Should be completely fine for 3D printing. :)
Mainly the fact it's extensible. If you have something you do commonly do you can set up a shortcut for it. I use it a lot at work for quickly jumping to specific pages of internal websites, or converting hex codes to decimal. It also replaces spotlight.

Some examples that you can just install without writing your own: https://www.alfredapp.com/workflows/
People get sued for huge sums of money all the time. No one cares, and if they do, it lasts a week at most.
If you like this, you might also like my small debugging utility, a better_exchook replacement: https://github.com/albertz/py_better_exchook

Simple example:

assert x == 4

When this fails, it will print the value of `x`.
For one, people not using emacs, or whatever editor it would be, can use it.
All right, how about this. Instead of parroting a common nationalist talking point (that is common across the globe) that is little more than a knee-jerk reaction to allow for blanket dismissal of criticism, how about you raise the level of the discussion by naming a set of experts on the PRC with a variety of positive/negative perspectives that you do recognise as qualified to speak on this subject?
i was thinking that too, especially when the flesh was described as sweet and grainy
Why should the government insert itself between these patients and their doctors? How are lawyers writing legislation qualified to pre-determine the outcomes of these doctor visits?

Do you have evidence that this safeguards children?

> And of course males should not be on teams for women, what is the point of women's sports then?

There is no "point" to any children's sport. It's a way to get exercise, entertainment, and a better understanding of teamwork.

If a child identifies as a girl, looks like other girls, and has been treated by a doctor to have a body that matches their brain, why should anyone force them to play on a boys' team?
Lead makes for fairly poor EMC shielding. It has relatively high resistance and quickly builds an oxide layer.

Copper tape is better, thick copper even better, and thick copper with welded seams better still.
I had an coworker who lived in Israel. I mentioned that I’d love to visit, but was nervous due to violence/terrorism. She just snorted and said she felt the same way about coming to the US. We both realized that our fears were blown way out of proportion due to media sensationalism.

Anyway, the streets are fine.
in Europe we get Eurovision songs. And the aforementioned Hollywood blockbusters slash Chinese propaganda
I think memorizing any of these two is pretty much totally useless.
People tend to think of genetic code as a sort of assembly language which is very verbose, but I wonder if the correct way to view it is in fact a very terse domain-specific language, because it actually depends on the entire complex machinery of the cell to be present in order to work, which in itself contains a lot of information?
Great say.

Btw that gigantic ... Other than the Netherlands part, japan, South Korea and Taiwan are all keys here and close to a mad man and a sharp power.

Also noteworthy to mention all these are partially due to the failure of intel more than anything else. If intel keep arm and maintain the same level of chip production.

Ultimately we need at least two sources of critical components for any process rely upon them to be safe whatever the process is.
Part of the issue might be that those who choose the more moral course don't get the large government grants and military funding, which means that they don't get well known, not because they aren't just as talented but because of lack of funds. So scientists of standing may self select for the kind of person who will do anything for money and fame. If society had more funding for principled causes, or celebrated those with them, we might see more scientists with standing (i.e. well-known) who also stuck to their principles.
Sure, the treating of Uighur people is very questionable. We don't have a lot of water tight evidence though, so while it doesn't look great it's also not clear cut.

What I find amusing though is how everyone focuses on that one story because that is the best they can find to criticise the CCP for whilst at the same time the US commits 10000x worse crimes as I have listed above.

Honestly, if China was as aggressive as the USA then they could easily pick a million human rights violations to ramp up anti USA propaganga in China and justify an invasion, but guess what, China is not as aggressive and war focused as the USA.

Last time I checked it's the USA which deploys missles, war ships, tanks and troops all over the world in allied countries, not China. China's military is just sitting in China. Not sure who people (who are not American) should be more afraid of... think about...
Ah yes short victorious war. Because taking over an island is so easy.

Chinese economy is also completely dependent on imports. US does not need sail its carriers to Taiwan, it needs to park half a dozen attack subs on Chinese trade routes. Same applies to Taiwanese program to build indigenous electric subs with help of Japan, once even few those are complete the equation changes completely.

PRC has no chance in hell for an amphibious landing operation in Taiwan. So this is going to take quite a while.

Having said that US resolve switches around every 4 years so given a proper timing they might sit it out. However there are some interesting consequences. Japan will test a nuclear weapon and a delivery system and commence crash manufacturing program to assemble an arsenal in matter of weeks. US will get kicked out from Okinawa and mainland Japan and most likely a containment alliance between India, Japan and Australia will become not just paper but more like NATO with Joint command, staff, plans etc. I wonder what Vietnam will do, lets hope for their sake they have a secret nuclear program.
Previously:

(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867460

(2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16377714
> Huge downloads are rare events, and often aren't time-critical.

But if you have access to high speeds, behaviour changes. I can play that game pretty much now, rather than later or tomorrow, so maybe I will, rather than think about whether I want to later, maybe, or if I should just do something else.
The vulgate quote though seems to be very coherent, without the inflexions.
A Spider Found on Mars
I think they’re trying to position themselves for a buyout. The massive effort to push everyone onto unifi.ui.com is the hint. The subscriptions tab in that portal is the second hint. Eventually they’ll try again and again and as soon as they have enough people locked into the cloud version they’ll pull the trigger and force subscriptions.

Even if they burn the brand, they won’t care. It’ll become SonicWall Cloud or some BS sub brand of a bigger vendor.

Look at the UDMP. There’s no reason that thing couldn’t have let’s encrypt integration for people that want external access without the cloud BS. Plus, local access over http is a bad design IMO. So if it’s a worse product and less secure, why do it? Usually when things don’t add up it’s safe to assume something is amiss.
Came up with a list of IDL alternatives for a question recently, perhaps relevant/interesting [1].

1: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/129904/does-there-exi...
JPush Away Your Privacy: A Case Study of Jiguang’s Android SDK
While not completely equal to the naturally occuring bases, the modified bases in the vaccine mRNA need to be able to complement to the non-modified ones present in tRNA anticodons during translation. If they can pair to their corresponding natural bases, then the chemically modified RNA can be also used as a template by the reverse transcriptase to generate the complementary DNA needed for the sequencing reaction.
You could make this same argument to support segregation or Jim Crow laws. And, in fact, many Black people did move north to get away from those laws.

But you know what? That doesn't solve the problem. You can't just ask people to leave their family homes, which also costs a lot of money and requires leaving behind a job. You can't just have "discrimination zones" in the country, where local jurisdictions get to decide that they violate human rights.

Where people choose to live is not an Econ 101 "efficient market".
Another good one is http://calca.io, very like Soulver but also has simple graphing, runs on mac, iOS and Windows
Used to be Google, which I'm sure would seem mundane to a lot of ppl here who work there. I've met some working on big scale things, like the guy who started street view, and it always seemed like a neat enough place where I could just work on tricky things and find my space to do it with whatever tools I'd need. Always seemed out of reach, but I'd still take it I guess, even though I really need the money.

Other than that, maybe Blizzard or some volunteer thing like as a zookeeper or trail maintainer. or just somewhere where I can contribute to something tangible. or a place that's in total chaos.

Edit: The MET centre in England would be cool
Show HN: FunkLang a new open-source visual front-end framework
Do you mean like curl?
Are they? My gut says its very difficult to conclude anything in a vacuum here, or even to make generalizations across the companies. I don't think we can simply conflate success and productivity and call it a day.

As an example, take a look at how many developers are employed at Twitter or Facebook over time; its difficult to look at that geometric growth in developers and exclaim that high productivity is self evident.
Fun with C# Regex based Expression calculator
DARPA Selects Researchers to Accelerate Use of Fully Homomorphic Encryption
What kind of storage was that library on? We have users with 100, 150k files who are largely happy.

If you can replicate this on a new release (4.4.0 was out recently), please file a bug! [1]

[1] https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues
> Please don't believe in media sensationalism.

*) Unless the media sensationalism is from the US media against China. What happens on US streets, regardless how awful it is, is always nothing, but as soon as a single person protests in Hong Kong it's a human tragedy.
> Sounds like a problem you solve once and for all, for any vaccine.

I strongly doubt it. It's more like a problem you solve once for a particular class of payload and particular destination. Biology doesn't do packet switching - everything is just rapidly bumping into everything else at random, so your envelope needs to be designed in a way that's ignored by everything else than molecules at your target site, and it needs to not react with the payload it's carrying.

> And so many people have been killed by this overly conservative testing, phase ~<2.5 was enough

Overly conservative? That's what super-accelerated testing looks like. We're lucky it went well; had they screwed up, it would scare a lot more people away from vaccinating, lengthening the pandemic and increasing death toll.
it's 20b for intel, for everyone else it's 20b+cost of major stake in intel
this kind of buisness is hard and can only be done by a corporation of smart, knowledgeable and experienced individuals, it took a few decades for tsmc to get into a position of advantage in silicon manufacturing
That article proves my point. They are taking about people buying air guns that fire rubber bullets.

In 2019 the rate of gun deaths per 100000 people in Hungary was 0.61 and in the USA it was 3.96

There are things I worry about but mass shootings like those that happen in the US on a regular basis are not one of them. Violent crime in general is very low here.
This here is excellent:

print(f"{d['key'][1]=}")
d['key'][1]='one'

My immediate reaction was: How can I make this `form` easier to type. And that's what `Iceacream` does. Reviewed their code and realized they work with AST and inspection.

I recently started to learn (Common )Lisp. I realize how easy it would be to write a macro in Lisp that would implement the functionality of `Iceacream`, in a few lines of code.
This is a really nice tool. But the fundamental reason most go for print is because its right there and that wins over other UX improvements or machinery. Python is a language where you can get a reasonably good debugger with a single line almost anywhere, still people reach for print()
I like it. I'd love to chat about newsapi.org

Let me know if you have some time
The Pigeonhole Principle
And you only got GCC. There was someone who tried to implement refactoring support for emacs based on gcc, since there already was a llvm based implementation and that obviously wasn't GNU enough. Stallman left him hanging for a year before telling him to stop because it would expose too many gcc internals. He ended up killing the discussion when too many people disagreed with his assertion that text base search and replace was good enough.
I also have written my own tar parser, in https://github.com/bestouff/genext2fs - oh boy it's not easy ! My parser is of course incomplete and won't handle corner cases, which are really plenty. In the end I added libarchive as an alternative to my hand-rolled code because that's how it works best.
Definitely very interesting! But I think I'd often end up stuck in the middle of a file with no context about the time of the current line, and struggling to scroll up to capture the parent without shooting past it.

Maybe that could be resolved if it were combined with some sort of GUI / TUI that collapsed subtrees with default (maybe with child count and total anscentor count) e.g. folding by indentation in Vim / Emacs
Sure, but why would anyone not use Emacs?!
It would most likely not be a very short war if the people of Taiwan are serious about their independence. What's an embargo really going to do? Piss off the whole world and create a shitload of sanctions on China. Taiwan is not a city state. They'd be devastated economically, but they'd survive for a good while.

Taiwan is now building their own long range missiles to enable them to counter-attack strategic locations (marine bases etc) along the China mainland coast. A war would be devastating to China, both economically and to their military. Trying to actually invade Taiwan would incur huge loses considering how defensible Taiwan is. If Taiwan managed to weaken them, it's a real possibility that the US will step in to defend. And most likely China would have to back off if the US made anything resembling a serious threat. The US has stepped into global conflicts for far less. A war or embargo on Taiwan would be the biggest crisis in the international economy since the oil crisis of the 1970s.

I'm split on whether China would actually do this. I'm certain it'd be a huge mistake, but the CCP has no regard for what's reasonable outside of their own self-preservation. They are facing the biggest senior citizen boom in history, and they have really not built up their economy well enough to face it. They're getting stuck in an unfortunate situation where they want to move low-value manufacturing out of China to continue to grow. But they have not built up enough international trust to do high-value design and manufacturing for export. Not at a scale that'd support one billion people. It's possible that the CCP will make moves on Taiwan to drum up support and distract from a growing economic crisis. It might work, but the Chinese people are not stupid. They'd not be happy. I don't think a large peoples uprising is likely, but it could destabilize the party internally, shifting power from one faction to another. It'd be extremely destabilizing, and stability and economic prosperity is really the main thing that has built support for the CCP.

There's a small chance that it'd trigger some uprising in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong too.
I would expect print-debugging to change the behavior in such cases too.
Usually writing to stdout is behind some synchronization so using print debugging will drop performance and make program less parallel.
Then instruct whatever is your favorite editor likewise.
> If your main complaint is that email is horrible to work with, the issue is most likely not email, it's probably your mail client.

This is definitely talking from someone who never had to write software that deal with emails.
The reality with emails ? They are an horrible format. There is several RFC describing the "email" format, the usual reference is rfc2822, but technically, you can find other rfc that relate to it (ex, the MIME rfcs: RFC 20452, RFC 20463, RFC 20474, RFC 20485, RFC 2049, RFC 68388, RFC 4289, ...).
There is a lot that left to be desired in those RFC in term of specifications. They tend to gloss over some part and also allow several format for retro-compatibility.

But then, even the part that are clear and well defined are not respected. I wrote software that dealt with emails for a company that receive several thousands emails on several mailbox everyday. The number of non-complying email that we received that broke our implementation was staggering. Nobody respect the date format, that is standard any more. Then we had some weird stuff, like fields that were mime-encoded even though the spec explicitly say it must not be, attachment metadata that were written completely wrong, headers that made no sense, ...
And this was not from your small email provider, it was emails that were coming from a gmail mailbox, outlook, yahoo, ...

Oh and MIME is the best footgun in existence. It allows you to do anything and so of course, you receive anything, including mail-in-mail-in-attachement-in-mixed-content-in-multipart. And you better hope that the boundary are not bugged.

I wrote HTTP servers, IRC clients, BMP parser, and many more format. Nothing ever came close to the mess that is email. Anything is better than email, that is not the clients fault, it's the format fault. We just keep using it because of network effect. But you can bet that any other communication protocol / format sucks less than email.
That's a good point. If it's really fast, then it becomes a 'non-event'. Clicking 'Install' and 'Run' start to converge.

For me though, installing a game is a rare event, and that's not just due to the inconvenience and delay. If 40Mbps is appreciably cheaper than 100, I'll take 40.
Quite a few of us are aware and are taking a look at it. It’s an interesting parallel, and I haven’t heard it drawn quite the way you did. The situation here is a fascinating study that I’d love to read about and analyze in retrospect. Unfortunately, it’s not as fun to live through in real time.
In Defense of Doing Nothing
That's how I play this too! I've found it's very very bad at dealing with rotations. Carrot right side up? No problem, carrot at a 230° angle? It'll never figure it out.
Into the Blue
Now, think again about what media says about the Chinese government.
I gues lack of program support. But yeas. That would have been great
GraalPython and TruffleRuby are trying this exact idea, but with LLVM bitcode rather than WASM.
As a university researcher who works mostly from home these days, my 3 Mbps upload speed has not been nearly good enough. I am not in the US, so I'm not presuming to say what US users should have, but for anybody anywhere who needs to upload anything of even modest size, even 10 Mbps is terribad. That said, I wish I had 10 Mbps :cryface:
The Floating Furnace