skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of us _don't have any choice_ but to do business with China at one point or another during the day, especially if we're poor. Especially if we want to own a piece of electronics, necessary if you want to (for example) apply for unemployment insurance. (it's all electronic in this state, and they _shut down_ all the local unemployment offices). Or make a phone call. (Maybe I'll get lucky and wind up with the cheap cell phone brand made in Vietnam instead of China. Woo hoo, they haven't ethnically cleansed people in thirty years, and it was a lot less than China did in the same time period. So moral superiority!)

This isn't meant as a response to you, I'm just stating the situation as I see it.
> I've been coding for 40-ish years.

Good for you, I've only been coding for 38 years.

> Simple expressions are (in my experience) more readable.

Simple is not the inverse of concise; there may be times when simpler expressions are more verbose, but that's not even approximately generally the case. “x²+1” and “x*2+1” and “add(pow(2,x),1)” and “x raised to the second power plus one” are equally simple (or, at least, the later ones are not more simple), but they are progressively less concise.

(It's true that expanding the space of concise expressions may require more complex notation, and when the notation is unfamiliar, that creates a learning curve for learning the notation, but there's a reason people familiar with domains develop notations that support more concise expressions.

> I understand it like this: to understand a complex expression you have to unpack it in your head to a simpler version in order to grok it.

That's true of complexity of expressions, but again that's not the issue here. And concise notation expands the kind of expressions that can be grokked by pattern recognition rather than unpacking.
This seems like a snide, evasive response. I prefer honest and direct.
I think you've got something there.

Although I've never owned a Harley, I suspect being able to upgrade and maintain one yourself is part of the equation for their success.

Although the japanese tech tree is pretty amazing it can be a little daunting to deal with a street bike with 4 carbs and 20 valves and whatever else is under the full fairing.

Dirt bikes are fun. t-handle wrench ftw.

But even with full fairings you can usually get to all the parts of a bike with relative ease - it's all there right in front of you, no climbing underneath something. Parts aren't as heavy or hard to get to (as a car). And it (usually) isn't your main transportation, so you can take it apart and drive to work in your car. (uh.. when we used to drive to work)
Cedars-Sinai Hospital is studying a device that shines ultraviolet light inside lungs as a potential COVID-19 treatment.

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/cedars-sinai-statement...
I haven't downvoted you but there are a couple of problems here.

> How can anyone doing business with China look the other way on Xinjiang simply by saying "our factory isn't there".

In many industries not doing business with China is synonymous with not doing business. Many supply chains go through China, this is not something you can easily change.

Additionally capitalism incentives companies to focus on profit over ethics. You can't expect companies to act against that. That's why regulation is important to limit what companies can do to what is acceptable.

Your expectation here is just not realistic.

> Every one of us buying goods made in China is enabling their behaviour by showing that we would rather make more money or would rather have cheaper electronics and plastic crap than standing up for the human rights of the people in Xinjiang who are the focus of the CCPs genocide.

Placing blame on consumers is extremely problematic because it assumes people can make a choice here. That is not a reasonable assumption. Consumers probably don't have the necessary information about the product (and supply chain!), so they can't make an informed decision not to buy a product on this basis. Even if they had this information, they also may not have the financial means to afford making a choice on that basis.

We have effective mechanisms to define and enforce rules, it involves governments taking action through creating and enforcing laws. Putting blame on consumers ultimately shifts responsibility away from people who could do something meaningful about the problem to people who cannot.

> As a Canadian I wish our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would more directly speak out against China's poor behaviour and offer some temporary support for businesses that would be impacted.

Trudeau merely speaking out against China, also wouldn't help. Sanctions might help and Canada is actually one of several countries that has created sanctions over the treatment of Uighurs.

I'm sure this is not your intention but effectively you're arguing for actions that have no chance of actually solving the problem. This is also a common political strategy by neoliberals who are opposed to government intervention on ideological grounds. So one might be inclined, to think that you pretend to be offended because it's unacceptable not to but don't really want it solved either.
Yes I’m just saying that from a realpolitik perspective, nothing really changed for the rest of the world when Russia annexed Crimea. Russia leased the port before, now they own it. Hence the lack of real response other than some sanctions.
$300 a day for a Kia Rio. Why rental cars prices have gone insane
I’ve noticed the downvotes too, it’s happened anytime I’ve said anything critical of China, even if it was constructive.
There are quite a few languages I would like to use before Go. Especially F# seems very interesting for DS.
You asked who in the JVM world would be interested in this kind of performance: that's big data folks. To the extent that improvements accrue to the JVM they accrue to that world without needing to rewrite into C++.
Whats the point of mentioning that Leah Rowe is transgender? Seems pretty irrelevant to everything.
> I don't see the point in a javascript-based compiler

Typescript, sass, jsx... There are a lot of languages running on top of js. Or you might want to do colorizing, autoformating on input in the browser?

Along with all that, there's as mentioned nodejs, deno for running server side.

But at any rate - lots of front-end problems involve various kinds of parsing/validation and transformation (eg: processing.js).
> if you don’t even have a phone

If you don't have a sufficiently expensive phone. In an effort to prevent easily creating cheap fake accounts (presumably -- I don't actually know), phone numbers associated with low-end android devices are routinely banned from social media platforms, online banks, and any number of other organizations.
You might want to look into who Navalny was before he got famous in the West (and what kinds of things he said), and what grounds the various claims surrounding this stand on.
I'd rather actually vote for policy with teeth, and not pretend that my individual purchasing choices are going to change the world.
If it’s any consolation—the situation is not much better in Germany.
You're right, I made a classic mistake in comparing percentages...
Lifespan is correlated with the time it takes to reproduce. If a species needs a lot of time to reproduce, then only the individuals who live longer will procreate, passing down the genes of long life. On the other hand, if it is too quick to reproduce, genes for short lifespan will abound, pressuring the shorter lifespans across the population.
Obviously made up.
It's really depressing to see these people not believe copy left is enough, and think we have to main our programs and make them less composible in addition. Intentional impediments to code interopt are absolute heresy given my own ideology of free software, and I wish rather than being on the defensive someone would argue that more forthrightly.

I hope in the last 5 years the situation has changed.
> What would that look like? Running away? Because that behaviour pops up in news often enough.

Exactly.

As I've said if they can't explain to us what they are doing and why, it is completely useless to try to frame or define it.

it would simply be what we think it is, but not the real thing

> Conversely, there’s learned helplessness — discovered by animal research and yet also demonstrated in humans. Do humans demonstrating this lack free will?

difference being humans can explain why they ran and we can rationalize post facto and learn from each other

children don't run if they see a gun

do they lack free will, chose to not move, or lack the ability (and the knowledge) to process that information?

free will probably does not even exists as consciousness, they are poor terms to describe what we already don't have a solid explanation for

but since we are able to process context, something cows are not capable of, I understood that OP meant the most common meaning of free will: acting in a non predetermined way (however bad or inexact as a definition it is)

cows don't

because we have selected them in centuries and only kept the most docile, so it is expected that they won't run or act in expectedly, we literally engineered them to be what they are, we can rake it for granted, the same way we can be sure that a car with an empty tank won't start

asking for a satisfying definition of free will in this context completely misses the point

yes they could still have free will in the sense that they chose to walk or eat orm ove their tail, of course

but in that sense a plant chose to grow towards the light or not?

I actually believe free will does not exists and everything is pre-determined.

We are born and have to die, don't get to chose our parents, how we look, where we are born, our gender etc. etc.

We can however micromanage the time in between being born and dying, as every other living creature in the World, but we have far more sophisticated micro managing tools

we also have vastly superior tools in general, we are the only animal on the planet that can control fire and have an opposable thumb thus we are the only animal on the planet that could evolve to the level we have reached

which also gave us the ability to entertain ourselves with intellectual riddles such as free will

> I'm not asking if animals understand free will, but if they have it

as I've said I don't believe free will exists, but a cow lack the machinery to process the concept of free will, which also involves guilt, morality, responsibility and deliberation AKA being able to determine the consequences of different courses of actions.

If cows have it, it's not like ours, it must be something far simpler.

the point about aggression is that cows still have their own personalities, but that doesn't qualify as freedom of choice

many people see cows behaving differently and assume they chose to act that way, but it's not like that.

it's simply the result of some random combination of DNA and environment
> How do you propose we do that, [...] ?

Stop lying to them.
Yes, seconding that.

What the point of using OneAPI, a yet another compute API wrapper, to make software just for a single platform?

You can just use regular computing libs, and C, or C++.

Serious HPC will still stay with its own serious HPC stuff, superoptimised C, and fortran code, no matter how labour intensive it is.

So, I see very little point in that.
The solution is simple, give Taiwan nukes.
Retelling helps learning a lot more than copying verbatim.
Considering that the Hindenberg was destroyed by a bomb sneaked on board, the analogy is pretty good. The flames seen in the film were kerosene fuel ignited by the bomb. Humans have a way of causing their own disasters, when technical risks fail to deliver.

And, more than 2/3 aboard at the time survived. Hard to say where this fits into any proposed analogy.
In that figure, if you look at the median (the black line), it's quite small.

There is this one very anti-nuclear Stanford professor, who has managed to publish some estimates where the carbon footprint of nuclear power is way larger than in other estimates. These numbers are probably now forever part of the literature, and they make the range of published numbers quite large in every literature survey.

Sometimes this activist professor also sues people for libel, if they publish results disagreeing with his.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Z._Jacobson
I'm pretty sure people who habitually lie about basically everything (Sayre's law applies, for some weird reason) are simply believing their own lies and cannot consistently tell reality from their made-up world. Any conflict between reality and their world is met with a defensive response (straight up acting like something was not brought up, shallow dismissals, changing topics, aggression).

I didn't know there's a special word for this - mythomaniac - I just figured these guys are somewhere on the psychopath/sociopath scale.

Edit: Trump put a slightly different twist on it, he lied as a show of power/dominance by lying about something which is immediately and obviously false, then observing that no one speaks up (i.e. submitting to his power).
And that 8 bit computer could drive higher refresh rate devices and still be lower latency, or at the least, par.

At this point, there are some really fun options for this kind of thing!

This chip: https://www.parallax.com/propeller-2/

is 32 bit, can run at a few hundred Mhz and has a very simple, retro feel, in that the 8 processors run wither either concurrently and independently, or can be used in parallel.

The fun thing about all that is being able to build up fairly sophisticated applications or perform advanced control tasks without needing the complexity of a RTOS.

In that low latency case, one core would be delivering a character or tile display, maybe with sprites, and once that is done, your programs can be simple, write that byte to screen type. Frame locked, low latency, single or partial buffered display schemes are all possible, even racing the beam style.

Display support exists from old school monochrome 50 / 60hz composite through VGA and HDTV analog at 1080p, to reasonable HDMI.

Racing the beam on an HDMI display is possible much like a CRT, depending on how the display buffers the bitstream.

I like to treat these like new retro devices. Good fun and practical. (Have one device in the field using the simpler, original edition.)
On woke Twitter, a narrative is portrayed where only white men support RMS’ return. This shows it’s not the case.
Pricing Money: The Whole Book
Energy storage based on hydrogen can easily scale up to power homes and industry during the winter: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/06/16/hydrogen-storage-in-s...

We have petawatt-hours worth of storage capacity.
I know some companies won’t tell you the full price until the end, but if I walk into a shop and it costs 9.99 on the shelf, that’s how much it costs at the checkout. Same with prices on the menu at a restaurant or on a day out.

The number of transactions where the full price is shown upfront vastly outweighs the number of hidden extra transactions
Another 'whatabout' to criticism of China. This happens literally every single time there's a thread critical of China here. Every single time.
I just read the twitter post. And from there it sounded like the app is mandatory, because everyone in school had to use them and it was the only solution - and a bad one. So parents made a better on on their own - client - but they still need the sever - so the government contractors change the server-client communication to block the competition.

So it is in effect government mandatory at the moment. And pretty stupid and yes - hopefully illegal.
The anti-RMS open letter called RMS "transphobic." Multiple trans people have signed the pro-RMS open letter. Please consider unflagging.
And yet another of this propaganda pieces. Why so many recently I wonder.
Whataboutism at its finest. Nice try, Winnie.
> The economies are too connected

US export to China represents only 6% of total (100B out of 1.5T) and import is 18% (439B out of 2.38T).
Most of import is likely not critical and can easily be substituted by domestic manufacturers, or manufacturers from other countries.

Source of data: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/usa
Or even if they can't overthrow their government, at least destabilize the province enough to be a thorn in China's side as they try to push their belt and road initiative. It'll be hard for China to require increased security out of their partner countries when they don't have their own house in order, with Xinjiang being the entry point for the road in China.
This is known as having a moral backbone. A condition that is somtimes misidentified due to its rarity.
I feel like these stories of inevitable civilizational conflict have to be weighed against the reality that the US has millions of Chinese-born immigrants who get along just fine. Immigrants are of course not a randomly selected population, but the idea that China is civilizationally incapable of believing in universal ideals or getting along with Americans seems like a CCP self-defense mechanism more than a truly defensible thesis.
I doubt warehouse salaries are a significant percentage of costs for Amazon outside AWS. And the non-AWS part of Amazon is still significantly larger than AWS (revenue ~346 billion dollars vs ~40 billion for AWS) even if it is indeed less profitable. Warehousing is of course not that profitable, but it is a significant enabler for the sales of the rest of the business (perhaps even for AWS infrastructure).
It’s more that no one will go to war over Ukraine but they might go over T(aiwan)SMC.

Also US political ties to Taiwan are far stronger than to Ukraine these date back to WW2 and even earlier technically.
On HN people are commenting good faith and overwhelmingly are not Trump supporters, and definitely not QAnon.

In fact I suggest it's slightly left/anarcho/libertarian for the most part, with some hot-button issues where I feel the discussion gets out of hand. Trump, Bitcoin, Security, Hackers, Whistleblowers, NIMYBISM are all issues in which I feel there's what I would call a 'lack of maturity' or more politely an 'overabundance of idealism' in getting to the nature of especially macro issues, something resulting from 'highly intelligent and academic viewpoints' of those who haven't generally had to contend with the reality and mechanics of power, responsibility and public communications.

Everything is intellectual in rhetoric, but it's 100% 'making sausage' in the real world.

A kind of populist, intellectual idealism here. But it's definitely in 'good faith'.
Yeah it was a cluster fuck
And the specimen they said was older than the oldest known vertibrate was actually about the same age - potentially younger, considering the lack of a notarized birth certificate.
The US doesn't want war with China. Especially not for the human rights of muslims. US and China both reap the majority of the rewards of the current system of trade. Why would either country want hell on earth as opposed to the status quo?
The company that is behind their digitalization is Zetcom. They have thousands of museum around the world and some are accessible online. You can check their web site https://www.zetcom.com.
I use FileZilla on Linux because the file manager integrated ftp clients were not very good, and did not save connections etc. Just less of a PITA. I see I should try gftp or another alternative though.
Yea, that's just giving sysadmins a cooler name.
Why is this flagged? Even if it's controversial, it's a fault line that begs discussion, with direct and indirect implications for the vast majority of HN users.
Related: there’s a new documentary on Netflix called Seaspiracy

It has some staggering numbers regarding the amount of by-catch caught every day
How is being bankrupted by medical bills relevant to unions?
>fucktarded big government clowns make themselves look like a giant toolshed

What else is new?
Code, run and scale your web app – check out Codesphere. Great video
Ever GIVEN – It moved There is hope for a recovery this weekend at the Suez
>>I don't know why you would advocate de-lactosed milk, lactase supplements, or "sneaking a little bit in"

Are you definitely replying to the correct comment? I'm not advocating anything. I'm purely stating a fact that just because 68% of humanity is lactose intolerant doesn't mean 68% of humanity does not consume milk. I just said lactose free milk exists(because it does), lactose-digestion enzyme pills exist(because they do) and people with lactose intolerance can usually eat a little without suffering any bad effects(because most people can). Is stating facts propaganda now?

>> unless you had some agenda of pushing dairy

Yes you're absolutely right, my check from big milk industry will surely arrive any day now. You looked right through me.
But a sad thing overall, imagine he's stuck with this identity now but it no longer bears fruits for him. I assume this person didn't have much of an identity in the first place..
They say in their FAQ that a typical slashdot/reddit surge costs a typical site under $10. If you keep a $20 buffer you're probably fine, and the worst case is you burn through that and the site shuts off until you put more in.
I think all design tools should have a component-first UX (eg Storybook but embedded in the tool). We devs obviously know how to think in components and understand how props work.

Designers who can't/won't learn to code have a tendency to either never implement a design component system, or they never stick to one.
You were talking about windmills a moment ago, now you're talking about turbines? You're very confusing.
There is some limited evidence that excess iron could be a risk factor for heart disease. This may be part of the reason why menopause seems to increase the risk of heart disease in women, even after adjusting for age. So it's possible that blood letting could be beneficial from that standpoint, but it remains unproven. And there don't appear to be any significant risks from occasional blood donation.
A library is not a building. What if it's cheaper to make it so people can call and make an appointment with a librarian, who will come to your house and assist you with your government service needs?
Such boilerplate rhetoric is usually a diversion from other embarrassing issues.

In this case it could be a distraction from the cotton plucking situation in China, which could lead to further scrutiny in other areas and might inconvenience Biden's Silicon Valley pals.

This could be the Democrat's version of Trumps "Little Rocket Man" storm in a teacup.
Using Rust for AWS Lambdas
Exactly, what about unsolicited bugs?
> Ask HN: What is the political bias on Hacker News?

Complicated and shifting; there are a number of sizable factions that you can usually count on showing ip, but the relative prominence and energy shifts rapidly. (People who claim there is a consistent bias pretty consistently claim it's the position diametrically opposed to their own, but this misperception is pretty eqially distributed among the factions, so the current dominant viewpoint can therefore usually be determined by simply inverting whatever is most commonly described as the consistent bias.
The lactose intolerant people I knew all do drink de-lactozed milk or non-cow milk. They also eat it with cereals. Practically, somewhat lactose intolerant people eat food with milk inside (whether in sauce or cheese) and avoid only quantities that cause them troubles.

There is really no reason to get offended over that reality. I don't really know why those people consume milk and I was never rude enough to ask. It is their diet. But, they in fact eat it even in situations where they don't have to and go out of their way to get sorts of milk they can consume.