skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we see Chinese money flowing into western companies, so if you're going to invest like the Chinese do, it's into western countries. See Tencent's western purchases, for example.

I've also heard China's investing in Africa. For manufacturing? I haven't looked into it in any depth.

And there's Chinese interest in western real estate, particularly in the UK since the US started a low-key trade war.

I don't know how this compares to domestic investment at all, but you'll have a much easier time investing in similar fields to Chinese investors in the west than you will in China, I imagine.
Code dictation should be entirely possible with language models. Need to understand how the write the code. But acquiring datasets for many languages and reducing latency may be difficult.
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While this can be painful, my basic suggestion -- clone more. The temptation is to never clone, butin C++ people run copy constructors all the time without thinking about it (as they are called automatically).
Bingo. Rich people deserve the riches of their birth, but poor people be damned.
Poverty is actually a quite weak predictor of crime rates once you condition on demographic factors such as percent single-parent households.
Interestingly, the unemployment rate only began increasing in 2012: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SLUEM1524ZSIRQ Same pattern for total unemployment: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS?location...

In 2012 it was as low as it ever had been in 20 years. So what began in 2012? ISIS? Syrian civil war refugees? Completion of U.S. military withdrawal? (All a consequence of the U.S. intervention, to be sure, but knowing that isn't particularly useful in this case.)
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One pixel being sold for $1M+ (NFT)
It's been a very important myth for a very long time as it helps (to some degree) reduce the impetus to decapitate the aristocracy. Hundreds of years old in the west, thousands in China.
As a European, I've never been so pessimistic about the EU but so optimistic about the USA. I really feel like European leaders need some kind of wake up call.
Would you mind sharing other interesting examples of projects in this vein? Thanks!
Analog Devices and Linear Technology (now owned by Analog Devices) have the cleanest looking datasheets. Texas Instruments is ok but not great. Standard Microcircuit Drawings, the kind of government datasheets used for milspec parts, are absolutely horrendous and should be avoided if the manufacturer has a normal looking datasheet to look at.
It's enough to read the headline though :)
Disagree. The first part, becoming more like china due to censorhip, etc is true.

The 2nd part has no basis in reality. The issue is the concentration of power in the hands of the technocrats who now make decisions for everyone on censorship, currency manipulation, etc.

It isn't inevitable, its the result of the concentration of power and the failure of the US government to regulate massive monopolies especially in the tech space that have crushed or bought out newcomers, concentrating power further and ruining progress via buyouts and copying.
Rust is currently my favorite language for personal projects. It's got a very good value proposition in terms of giving some high level features along with low level control and performance, great compatibility story, and the tooling and community is absolutely great.

However, as the manager of a technical team, I would not choose it for professional projects. The learning curve is very steep, and to reap the benefits you have to pay a high cost in terms of accepting additional complexity. I think Rust is a good choice for some professional use-cases, for instance performance-sensitive applications like embedded, or safety-critical applications. But for many applications, like your average webserver for example, I believe you will lose productivity and have a hard time hiring if you choose Rust.

For my team, we chose Go because it is easy to hire and onboard people, the tooling and compatibility story is plenty good enough, and due to the complexity ceiling, there's only so much damage a developer can do in terms of taking the codebase in a bad direction.

Rust is a capable language for a professional setting, but it is also a language ideally suited for people who enjoy indulging in complexity and tricky problem solving, and this is not the right choice for every project or team.
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Happy to benchmark if the dataset is shared!
But neither have the ability to alter your DNA, so they are unlikely to be able to cause long-term symptoms though a gene-expression mechanism.
> I spent 90% of my time preparing for CS questions,

For me this is the main problem with companies that hire like FANG do. It is fully expected you have to study. Like I have to study to basically do the job I am currently doing but at FANG? Then there are the fact so many people say the hardest thing about Google is the interview. And for me that is kinda pointless then, like if I've just done the most challenging thing, why would I want to hang around?
As someone who has done both, I respectfully disagree.
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I think it is exactly the opposite.

If your speed did not fall it means you did not learn well.

I actually learned to type at school (yeah, funny business school my parents sent me to). We had an actual specialist teacher to teach us to type on electric typewriters using pretty nice methodology.

To learn to type well is to train "muscle memory". This means you think the letter and your body does it for you, automatically, without any part of your conscious brain involved.

I don't know where keys are on my keyboard. It is unmarked, so I can't look it up. If somebody asks me, I need to lay my hands on it and think the letter and see which finger "wants to" press the button. In that regard I am a passenger and once I think a word or sentence I don't have any further control -- it is some uncontrollable part of my brain that takes over and does it for me.

Even when typing at speed I am still free to think about anything else. Just as when you walk you don't need to think about walking itself and can concentrate on whatever else you want.
This is a nice summary of the good features of Rust, but I'm failing to see how any of these points are in any way special for a "professional programmer". Doesn't a hobby programmer care about all of these points as well?

In my experience, whether you're getting paid or not correlates quite poorly with the requirements of the project. I've worked on professional code bases where bugs were totally acceptable ("just push a fix when the error comes in"), and I've done open-source projects where I definitely don't want anything to break ("I'd hate to release a broken version").

> The statement Rust is for Professionals does not imply any logical variant thereof. e.g. I am not implying Rust is not for non-professionals. Rather, the subject/thesis merely defines the audience I want to speak to: people who spend a lot of time authoring, maintaining, and supporting software and are invested in its longer-term outcomes.

Well, it looks like you're implying some logical variants, like "Rust is a better language than language X for professionals" or "Language Y is _not_ a language for professionals". I mean, "Language X is for Professionals" is true (by observation) for every single language out there being used professionally.
> returned to near normal by August 2020

The problem is the virus, not the government reaction to it. Personally, I tend to think governments under-reacted in most Western countries. I'm not sure how things would have returned to "normal" if the virus was raging out of control. A good precentage of people would see the deaths and still avoid going out to shop or whatever. I'm assuming you mean by "normal" that people would return to some normal pattern of economic activity - and even if 10 or 20% of people changed their behavior that would still impact the economy.
I need to learn how to pronounce "baizuo", it's a great word.
The CCP isn’t sending them in hopes they’ll return. A large number are tasked with infiltration and subversion.
I taught myself Colemak last summer, as a pandemic project. If anyone is interested in learning, I recommend the "Tarmak" transitional layouts [1].

It's 5 intermediate layouts to transition from QWERTY to Colemak. Each only changes a few keys. So, rather than 1 big change (where you basically can't touch-type for a month) you have 5 little changes that you can learn over a weekend each.

[1] https://forum.colemak.com/topic/1858-learn-colemak-in-steps-...
It is factually true.
Chinese have access to poisoned shitty water that everyone has to boil first and that's not only because of that chi bullshit.

Meanwhile I have access to delicious spring water from Alps.

China has achieved only superficial changes that will bite them in the ass in the future.
Its also a different kind of problem. Its not really problem solving, though it masquerades as such. Its memorization. Plain and simple, you know the techniques or you don't. Studying at length for those kinds of problems is extremely unfulfilling, especially for curious minds who have long realized there are far more actually interesting and useful problems to solve out there than there is time left to live. And yet, here we all are jumping through hoops because nobody has figured out how to test for real job skills.
A few years before they shut operations here, I'd met a few engineers/journalists at Al Jazeera at a bar. They were gushing about how much the company had embraced tech and how they were having engineers & data scientists work together with journalists on breaking new stories. That included cross-training engineers to do passable journalism.

It seemed like they had a dream job and they were really keen on recruiting every decent engineer they could find.

Sad to see how that all ended up.
I don't know if this helpful, but from your description of your problem, here's how I'd do that in Rust:

- Use a regex to find a string in some text: use regexes, get a &str

- Escape all the regex reserved characters in that string: Okay this requires mutation but we can't mutate a &str, let's loop over the &str's characters (using the Chars iterator) and push them into a new String with the proper escapes

- The new String we own, so we can easily turn it into a regex and use it to search the original string.
I'll be a bit more direct.

Claiming "defund the police" is the obvious cause of an increase in crime while completely ignoring the global pandemic and its economic/employment effects and their resulting impact on crime is confirmation bias.
> putting that time toward actually cleaning up neighborhoods or tutoring underprivileged youth

EDIT: Before you downvote what I say below, read about the Defund the Police movement. Start with the wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police

This is EXACTLY what the Defund Police movement is about. It's recognizing that half of city budgets are used for policing and some of those resources instead could be used to cleanup the neighborhoods and teach children.

If policing takes half the budget and nobody wants to raise taxes, then clearly to get resources to do other things, like teach underprivileged youth and cleanup neighborhoods, you must take away from some group, and since police take up such a HUGE part of the budget and they already do things they shouldn't be doing (like dealing with mental health issues), then it's clear we must reduce police budgets to free up resources.

EDIT: Before you downvote, take a moment to actually research why people are wanting to defund the police. And If I'm wrong, show me.

Here is the wikipedia page to start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police
I encourage anyone to attend a Narcotics Anonymous meeting at least once. They're all online now because of COVID, and you'll find ones specific to each city or state.

You don't have to be an addict to attend one and it'll help you greatly understand what people are going through.
I skimmed it, but I think what the author is getting at is that rust demands rigour. The kind of rigour required when failure is a problem and this tends to be the kind of code people get paid to write.

I guess the reverse is also true, if you’re writing the kind of code where failure doesn’t matter (e.g. spikes, experimentation, just messing about) perhaps rust isn’t the best choice.
Careful, you may end up on those same rotas all the more when the union rep takes himself off and let's Frank off because they're drinking buddies...
> You can go fund another movement

We do. Plenty of developers fund FSFE, Conservancy, EFF and so on.

That does not take away the validity of the complains about RMS as a spokeperson.

He admits it himself: https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-com...

> if you are so sensitive.

No need for snark. It's not a matter of my personal taste.

Being a public speaker requires understanding how to fit the expectation of the majority of the audience, including politicians, companies (managers and businessman), IP lawyers, journalists, and all sort of non-technical people.

It is difficult to support FLOSS in the workplace and in society when people associate it with RMS: "that's the stuff that weird guy talks about".
I wonder if hawkish foreign policy along with an Imperialist mindset, is a crutch leading to the degeneration of domestic society.

Logic being: having & maintaining the dollar as a reserve currency created a context where it becomes more economically efficient to offshore labor & production, causing broken domestic feedback loops.

History demonstrates that Empires do not last forever. The contexts that lead to the rise of the host nation/entity taking on the mantle of Empire and the host nation/entity of the Empire change.
I hope the world can exist with a strong China and a strong US. Why are they mutual exclusive? We both have our strengths and weaknesses.
> You'd have to embed the whole file in the blockchain for that

No, you don't. The eth contact can control ownership of and permissions to the Filecoin files.

> Eth network can be banned too

Banning the entire network is different than granular censorship of individual files

> And LE or govs see who to target too.

Anonymity is also different from censorship.

You are talking about a lot of adjacencies and "what-abouts"... There are at least half a dozen projects in this vein at the moment, so I'll kindly leave the rest as an exercise to the reader
Cloning means runtime inefficiency, but the cost is so pathetically small compared to the amount of code we run in Python and Java with their larger footprints. Yes. Clone more.
Interesting cos I been looking at manjaro, kde flavour. Bit tired of all the little bugs in ubuntu. Wanted to try arch.
Ok it's like a verbal code where the guard won't let you in if you don't do it from memory. It's an analogy damnit! :)
i think you are referring to the american government.

now, we are suckers for people giving us promises that they cant seem to keep. That's a different story.
So knowing a professionally comprehensive set of tricks and approaches for commonly used algorithms has just straight up made me a better coder.I know when its wise to wield bfs, dfs, sliding window, et al, and have the capability to knock out and efficient function, when needed. Its rare, but its helpful to master some of these tools. There is a certain power in being able to reason a correct algorithmic approach, modularize it in your head, and then use it to tackle a real life problem, without having to resort to hashing it out in an ide.

The hard part is distilling the most commonly used and most helpful of these tools. But after doing so, I can now approach side projects where I got stuck on not having an efficient way to store and access data.

Knowing the start and limits of those algorithms gives me that confidence that what I build is close to as efficient as possible, and allows me then focus on pulling those efficient modules together.

As a self taught dev, its given me confidence in my expertise, and that pays off in job opportunity, self respect, confidence to mentor others, and actually completing hard projects that I could not complete before.
Progressives and 'woke politics' are the reason the US let its infrastructure crumble? I don't follow your logic. You are saying progressive weakness is the reason America has let its infrastructure crumble, and why America doesn't have universal healthcare, why its education system isn't as good as it should be? That sounds wrong.

I see a lot of claims lately that 'woke politics' are the reason the US has let itself crumble and underperform for decades (relative to its potential), but 'woke politics' is a fairly new thing, and progressives generally aren't against infrastructure spending or universal healthcare or investing in education/science/tech, so I don't see the connection. The 'woke'/progressive politicians actually tend to favor this type of major investment/public spending more than the right does.
You mean that you aren't provided the positive benefit of credit until you prove your "credit worthiness"?

I don't know you. Why would I lend you money.
We have been told we have to wear masks and socially distance with or without vaccine, so you can ABSOLUTELY still spread it even if fully vaccinated. Please follow the health guidelines and do not spread disinformation.
Agreed that a rising-but-unequal quality of life is better than a falling-but-level, and also re: the global perspective on wealth distribution.

But that doesn't account for the decline of opportunity in the USA. As the article points out at the end, just because the rich aren't directly inheriting their wealth doesn't mean that they aren't inheriting opportunities that are restricted to a narrow class, and there's a lot of data showing that to be the case [1].

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
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Yes, lots of up front things that pay off after your code base gets larger and/or you ship.
I just had to refresh and it showed for me.
Do you have any evidence that using law enforcement is reducing drug use? I sure don't!

As for actively discouraging people, we are actively discouraging people from using tobacco. And it seems to be working pretty well.

I recommend watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8yYJ_oV6xk to challenge your assumptions on this. (Retired police captain arguing against the drug war.)
Do you seriously believe China is worse now then it was 50 years ago?
Sorry for late reply. You'll find very low cancer rates in cultures that eat predominately meat -- of course they also tend to hunt and are therefore more active, get more sun, live less stressful lives, etc. Combining a high animal diet with processed food seems to be much worse than just a high animal diet. My vegetarian diet was mostly vegetables and minimal processed food, besides faux meat when trying to socialize. I tried going vegan for a year and had so much brain fog that I can barely remember anything that happened. I was eating a lot of home-made cheese, salads, raw foods, and supplementing with B-12 and lots of pea protein. Now I eat high protein, mostly animal, work out, and intermittently fast. I find it works for me. I will keep an eye out on cancer but my vitals are very good and I don't yet see much research on my particular niche diet.
Show HN: JavaSnipt, a NoScript Equivalent for iOS and macOS Safari
Tell HN: Spectrum iOS app using info on MacBook's clipboard
I was chatting to a Spectrum representative today through the MySpectrum iOS app due to low upload speeds. The representative asked where I was running the speed tests of the link they provided, and after I typed MacBook on the chat app, hundreds of warning messages started showing up due to the app copying information from my MacBook's clipboard.

I was aware of this issue with certain apps in iOS (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-ios-apps-still-snoop-your-sensitive-clipboard-data/), but I hadn't read about this happening between devices.
If somebody told me to complete five pages of trivial arithmetic problems, I'd probably regard it as a waste of time. If they said I'd get a million dollars for doing it (and I believed them) then it would cease to be a waste of time and become, in fact, an extraordinarily efficient use of my time.

The FAANMG+ life probably isn't for everyone, but it has definite upsides, and I imagine that's why most people jump through the interview hoops. It's not because they generally value toy programs over real projects.
At this point Rust is not the prmary ecosystem for anything.

The important and exciting new things are written in C++, not Rust. Rust has no advantages over C++ once you know C++.
Thanks but I’d rather decide what’s misinformation for myself.
Fair enough, but I think it is good ROI even risk adjusted.
> Ukraine threatens to invade DPR and LPR

That's what Russian propaganda says, but it has no basis in reality.
In the last thirty years:

+ The US has decriminalized homosexuality and was one of the first countries to have same sex marriage

+ Has had robust hate crime laws and strong equal rights protections

+ Is slowly but consistently rolling back low level drug offenses

We always have to compare to our peers, not some unicorn standard. The US had continually been an extremely liberal and accepting society even with it's faults and missteps.
Your examples says nothing about the rise (or decline) of the west. Only about how it is right now. That is missing the point. Those stats you mention seen over time show that the west is at best at a standstill while PRC have risen meteoric. The middle-class in PRC were pretty much nonexistent some decades ago in PRC. They did get the better standard of living and it is still becoming better. It doesn't go as fast as it once did but far better than the west.
Who will guard the guards?
If you're bullish on eastern communism, then your ambition should probably not be to become a wealthy capital holder.
Unfortunately I just can't get empathize much with this viewpoint. I mean it's fine if you want to own a car, but to the extent it means that we have to suck the planet dry of resources and live increasingly isolated lives to support car infrastructure - I just can't get on board with that. My tax dollars are being wasted over it.
Western intelligence agencies must have really upped their HUMINT game if they can park some 100,000 Russian regulars and heavy armor on the border.
Canadian here on the ground in Ukraine, on the Eastern side (Kharkiv). The situation is pretty serious as everyone’s talking about war, and I personally am stocking up on non-perishable food items. The prevailing opinion seems to be that Russia is just flexing muscles, but I personally believe a full scale invasion is in the works. The idea that Putin is trying to extract concessions doesn’t make sense to me, because there aren’t many concessions to extract, especially from that young idealistic Zelensky.

But what do I know, read Henry Kissinger: https://www.henryakissinger.com/articles/how-the-ukraine-cri...
You are saying you would like people to actually improve the country, but are saying defunding the police counters that.

When people say they'll want to defund the police, they are not saying there should be no police. People want a different police. There are structural problems that are not easily fixed, as we have seen. Making a new police-like organisation from the ground up is a way to fix those structural problems.
I'm not sure if I agree that is the best solution, but people that do are trying to improve the country that way.

In fact, all people that are protesting do want to improve the world. But they realise that they are held back. See climate change and inequality. Those problems cannot be fixed without getting the people in power to help.