skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stating examples where China did not previously oppress and now do oppress demonstrate China's continued streak of repressive dystopia. You seem pretty aware on the facts of China's oppression but willfully deny their depiction of a repressive dystopia.

Apparently you know that oppression of Uighurs is ongoing and horrific but somehow the possibility that they're not the first group they've oppressed could be...promising? I don't know what to make of this logic. China hasn't stopped oppressing Tibetans, so this (relatively) new repression of Uighurs is literally more oppression than they've done before.

And you're well aware of the benighted takeover of Hong Kong, but once again willing to overlook it as an example of repressive dystopia because it's now the same as the rest of China...which is also currently oppressed and lacks basic freedom. I don't even know what "a net lessening of repression in China" is supposed to mean; Hong Kong used to have plenty of freedom that it now lacks, while the rest of China hasn't gained freedom from entrance of Hong Kong. The most charitable interpretation of this logic is that you meant to say an "average lessening of repression", except that doesn't mean there's less repression at all, the borders of China have just been redefined to change the average.

Then you ask "So is the Great Firewall an example of increasing repression, or slowly opening up to outside information and influences, but just not all at once?", a twisted question that pretends as if "slowly opening up to outside information and influences" is somehow not a repressive dystopia, as if it's not a horrifically totalitarian action that assumes the state can justify controlling what outside information & influence is allowed to be seen by citizens, the very foundation and core of a repressive dystopia. If the US did the same thing, would you not say that it's a repressive dystopia? Without government intervention, the public would have widespread access to independent information. And then of course China has only tightened its grip on media & press in the last 3 years [1].

I'll grant that "military expansion" is not repressive in itself but simply denotes the fact that China's repressive dystopia is becoming more powerful.

I'm at least relieved that you know the horrific facts of what's going on, but it seems to me that you're just turning a blind eye to the depiction of repression that they represent.

I am curious though what you're referring to when you say "other things I hear which I didn't use to which are promising".

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-parliament-media/ch...
He's morally responsible, but is he criminally responsible? Not according to the law. Plus, the direct analogy is that he would be responsible at the time of releasing the prisoner, before someone gets killed. That's why to me this verdict is ridiculous.
Would love to see something like this implemented a keyboard replacement. Would be a neat way to passively learn ASL while doing other tasks.
Both situations can be seen as preserving the rights of the current generation. In one case the right is deciding to not have a child, in the other case the right is deciding to have a child (and the required environment for them). Not protecting the environment is taking away from the rights of those who wish to create future generations.
I always wonder how typos make it to production on the front page, in bold. "Big Mail is packed with advance features to make your inbox smarter"... (for those missing the typo, it should be _advanced features_)

It is nitpicking, but it suggests there could be other QC issues that are more significant elsewhere in the business.
> Once you're seen as hostile, you'll see countermeasures applied that target you. You don't get to act with impunity

This is already the case for uBlock Origin and filtering extensions in general. Sites deploy blocker blockers. Users deploy blocker blocker blockers. It's a never-ending arms race at this point.

> and since Firefox is not coming from a place of power (their market share isn't enough to force the issue), Firefox will take a lot of damage. Possibly enough to kill it as a choice for most people.

It doesn't have to force anything. It just has to keep working despite any interference. If uBlock Origin can get away with it, surely Firefox can too.

> Think about it, even if the actual API space is identical in usage and result, there will still be differences in how the underlying code run, with differing performance and timing characteristics.

Surely there are ways to mitigate these side channel attacks. If it can be done in other systems, it can be done in the browser as well.

> Without throwing away all performance criteria for everything and relying on other browsers to as well

It doesn't mean throwing away performance, it means matching the performance and output of the more popular browsers.

> But they do care about Firefox affecting ~7% of people visiting, and if Facebook and a few other high profile sites both ban Firefox and start up with their own rhetoric and narrative about Firefox, Firefox is dead.

Probably not. We already have at least one browser with ad blocker included and enabled by default even on mobile: Brave browser. It doesn't just block ads, it replaces them with its own advertising system in order to steal their market share. Not sure if it's possible to be more hostile than this and yet Brave browser is growing.
What about people who live in freezing climates, like Sweden or Alaska? Aren't we reducing harm to those people?
This isn't a pet peeve, this is a frequent issue with FOSS software. Free in theory, useless in practice, because they focus too much on technology and not enough on the user of the system.
we're not at war tho, so you don't have economy of scale in place, those will benefit especially low tech ammunition - i.e. solid bullets as opposed to guided munition/drones - I expect the former to came down in price a fair bit once the big order gets put in, while drones chip production will always be tied to silicon yields economies and will benefit a little from scaling, but not as much.
Biden Unveils $6T Spending Plan
Sorry, mis-typed: https://wiby.me
Many family members have been pressuring me to steer my IT/InfoSec career towards obtaining a security clearance because it is a big salary and job security booster. While I know many US Gov employees have these and do not have to work day-to-day in/on controlled security stuff, they must have had to do it for one point during their career, and I fear that I could not last through such an ordeal. The concept of not being able to collaborate with coworkers due to arbitrary security rules sounds like a disaster.
ugh, would you please explain why you think that isn't possible instead of throwing around your credentials and calling gp delusional.
Not only that but people kept saying they delayed lockdown 'for the economy' - but as it says (and as is OBVIOUS) the later you lock down, the more cases there are (exponentially so), so the longer you have to stay locked down, and destroy the economy way more, and have loads of people die.
mRNA gave us a vaccine - very good but not a revolution by any means. We would've gotten effective vaccines from other sources. Nothing else has done anything. CRISPR hasn't done anything in humans. Protein folding prediction hasn't done anything. Lab grown tissue hasn't done anything in humans. It is not happening in any way.
I live in a culture where being nice and smiling to people is the norm. It's really nice interacting with strangers because they'll always nice and smiles at you (even road rage is particularly rare), but this also makes backstabbing office politics particularly painful, especially when you're still expected to display nice and smiling behaviour even after such backstabbing.

I guess you can't have the best of both world for this stuff.
> Whining about how your "flow state" can't be interrupted because of how extraordinarily creative and artistic you are is just pretentious.

Either I am doing something wrong/I'm stupid or not all coding jobs need the same kind if deep work.

Because more than 90% of my individual technical work requires me to be in a flow state. It takes a good 30 minutes to hold a really large thought in mhead, and I can't start coding until I feel like I'm mentally present.

Now I have actually done different jobs too. I have presided over clubs in school, I worked as a mechanical engineer for a while and I used to write comedy scripts for dramas. None of them required flow state to the same degree.

Math derivations required an even higher flow state, and that's the only exception. I mentioned writing scripts. It actually requires a flow state, but it is more like pair programming and a group activity, so if you lose context someone will quickly bring you back to where you were.

Maybe other roles are more easily chunkable or people just don't care about making sure that their work doesn't have side effects or how it fits into the whole. But, I've found this one complaint by developers to be quite genuine.

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One thing that has worked is to write down entire interfaces, contracts and explicit steps before I even start. This step absolutely needs deep work and usually take 7-8 hours at a time.

However, once it is done, you can address each step or class as if it is somewhat side effect free. As a tangent, this is also why I hate using classes when state doesn't exist. A function allows for so much better side-effect free mental compartmentalization than instance methods.
I was thinking of Twitter as a social/comment/news webapp company using the word "plus" to market a new product in a space where a cash-rich competitor with a decade-old product with broadly similar functionality already uses the word "plus" as the entire name of their own entry in the category.

An analog might be game publisher King (maker of Candy Crush Saga) initiating legal proceedings against makers of other games that used the word "Saga" or "Candy", e.g. "Banner Saga"[1], even though those are obviously not reasonable claims -- and I think they lost? Regardless, they're still able to try, and it exerted pressure.

So, imagine you're sitting in a board room at Twitter, naming your new social web app product, and someone says, "How about 'Twitter+'?", and you know there's Disney+, and Apple TV+, and Google+ all already out there, and you say, "nah... that sounds like a headache we can do without." But maybe not, hence why I noted I was merely wondering.

1 - https://metro.co.uk/2014/01/22/candy-crush-makers-sue-the-ba...
I don't think that's the case on HN, which is what is being discussed on this comment chain. If you're indeed referring to HN, I'd be glad to read an expanded argument.

I agree that on Twitter this is a much more complicated matter.
I also don’t know anything about Australian law, but what you describe doesn’t sound crazy to me. We do have reliable methods of predicting the future in certain cases, and many basic features of legal systems rely on those methods (two very obvious example: any regulations about food and drug safety or occupational safety). There’s nothing mystical or strange about this, provided there are reasonable legal standards for culpability.
Yeah my ears hurt. This should go in that thread of "injuries due to code."
That's not quite the data point you think it is. Their valuation stayed roughly constant from 2001-2016, and the huge spike since then corresponds to a huge shift away from offices with doors - all new buildings after 2010 or so were that way, and most of main campus has been torn down to be rebuilt as open office floorplans.
As long as I a can keep my fingers on the keyboard, and never touch the mouse, I may give it a try.

BTW: unlearning and editor is almost harder than learning a new one. I started with 'ed' in 1984, then 'vi' and plain text terminals (HP-2621) until the mid 1990s, when I get my first actual XTerminal. Then VIM from the mid 1990s until now.

The command aspect is highly underrated by people that don't know the commands. The ability to :>% a full block. Things like that.

I think that is why most long term Vim users sound like they are insane to other people. Note: In the early 2000s, I worked with a guy that only ever programmed on Windows with Visual Studio. We were coediting (side by side) a large file during some architectural changes, discussing it as we went, and I did one of those :g/this_old_thing/s//new_thing/gp changes on the file and he just yelled "stop". I though I had broken something. He just said what did you just do and how did you do that? So I undid, and slowly retyped the line explaining what each step did, and hit enter. He went out and got a vim book that night. I have to apologize for the mental damage that might have caused him (lol). He picked it up quickly, I showed him a couple plugin I use. (I don't use many, mostly plain stock Vim).

I have messed with VSCode a little. I may take a look at Neovim. I looked at it about four years ago, and I guess it just wasn't really ready yet.
> You can see how poor the vision of these systems is by just watching a few Tesla autopilot videos and seeing cars flash into/out of recognition on the screen.

Autopilot is not FSD. Autopilot is using the old system, FSD is using an architectural rewrite.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/28/anthropic-is-the-new-ai-re...
> I'm not sure about your point with respiratory infections but covid goes on the death certificate with a recent positive test even if you died in a car accident.

> No, I've never suggested "coincidence" with case counts and hospitalizations. It seems quite intuitive to me that false positives are happening at a similar rate as usual and more hospitalizations just means more false positives in the hospital. You get false positives with high CT - there have been multiple studies confirming this fact at this point, it's not a controversial statement as far as I'm aware.

But these positives come BEFORE the hospitalizations and deaths. I don't feel like you're understanding the order of events - high cases AND then hospitalizations after weeks. You keep describing events where people are retroactively proven to have COVID - this isn't the case. These are people who test positive and then later enter hospital.
Eh referer made it into an RFC.
Yes.

Intel is an industry leader. EFI, Thunderbolt, and the "ultrabook" product category are all their ideas. By adding a feature to their CPU products, they induce demand for anything that complements it.

By putting ECC support into their highest-end mobile CPUs only, they made them into high-end luxuries instead of industry standard. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/search/featurefi...
Big Mail already looks pretty dumb to me, but I must be missing something: what do you get for $10 a month with Superhuman?
Turning the permafrost to mud is definitely not helpful.
You are losing out on free energy from the sun. You'll have to generate it yourself.
I do have a board game hobby, and keep meaning to print out some card and token holder inserts for several of my games, but just haven't been motivated enough to do that. Good thought, though.
Meteor has a lot of users, and is still around. The problem with Meteor is that it uses JS, and that language has a lot of problems. Typescript has clobbered meteor, as people have realized that JS makes it far too easy to make a typographical error that crashes at runtime.
Very intersting year for climate court cases. The German constitutional court recently issued a similar ruling, which caused quite the stir:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/29/historic-germa...

And of course there's the Shell case in the Netherlads that was recently discussed here as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290508

Personally I think it's a good thing that the courts realize that countries and companies shouldn't be allowed externalize the costs their pollution onto future generations.
Search is essential, no question.

But I need sort even more. And it's frustrating the inability for "modern" email clients to do away with it. Gmail is the culprit.

Does Spark allow you to sort your folders?
Hello! I work on Plasmic. Thanks for the feedback (and thanks mosr for the shout-out!). Webflow is a great platform, glad you're on it - we're fighting the same fight.

Just wanted to share that our main use case actually has been for marketing sites (apps are a minority) and giving content editors autonomy. We do spend a lot of time on page performance, SEO concerns, etc.

Publishing new pages and other site structure changes (and even publishing new sites) does not actually require bugging engineers. Letting marketers/designers own the site and freeing up developers is our entire focus.

We are also working on a simplified content editing mode that restricts design changes.

Appreciate your following along with our progress, and hope we can continue hearing your feedback - that's how we make the product better for you.
Life begins at conception.
>Why do other countries feel entitled to drain all the manufacturing jobs and mid wage work from the United States'

Blame U.S corporations and U.S policy for that. The other countries that provide such labor aren't the ones forcing the U.S to do that.
What’s odd about that? Isn’t it illegal to sell a car without seat belts, and wouldn’t you run into legal trouble before anyone bought the car and was injured in an accident?
In a fantasy world where the virus communicates over 5G, anything is possible...
Sometimes the toxicity seems like a feature of twitter. Everything is built in order to facilitate those mobs supported by Twitter.
Yes, it's two different angles.

Users generally don't like clicking on HN /item links that go to threads with no comments, so I tend to avoid those.
I don't care whether the comment/insult was directed at me. My tip still applies, my man.
It wasn’t known that beets could be exploited for sugar until the 16th century. Sugar cane was not known in Europe (outside Muslim-ruled areas of Spain) until post-Colombian times. In antiquity, the sole common means of sweetening food in Europe was honey, and later dulce de leche.
Yeah I mean, we're (presumably) both doing some armchair virology, but I buy that if you're immunocompromised that you can't fight off the virus, and thus the virus succeeds in turning you into a virus factory until you die.

That said, I don't think that's an argument against non-immunocompromised people getting vaccinated. It's like me saying "don't touch the toaster if it were just on, you'll get burned" and you responding "yeah but ovens really burn you." OK well, be careful around both I guess.
Late comment but I don't understand why all of MDN, and this, can't be fully funded through corporate sponsors via Open Web Docs. There's already about ~750k in annual budget and there is nearly(I say nearly because I'm not sure but couldn't find it) zero reference to it from MDN; you know, the site people actually visit and know about.

I would imagine if sponsorships were more visible, and given the importance of MDN to the industry, there would be plenty of money available to operate the project both technically(servers etc) and managerially(staff writers/developers providing the framework for browser vendor and other contributions).

It's really baffling to try to pull these funds from individual developers' bottom line instead of companies; the entry point of the revenue stream generated with the benefit of these docs. It just doesn't quite feel right but I can't fully explain why. The move just feels off.

EDIT: Okay I think this might come close to conveying my sentiment. We are being asked to pay to support Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla's browser documentation.. Huh?
I don't understand the connection to abortion at all - just because they somehow both concern 'future humans' doesn't mean there is a logical connection here, in the sense that A leads to B or B leads to A. Could you explain?
It's sad, but while this is far from the first article on the damage that comes from overwork, the people who have the power to stop it don't seem to care enough to do so.
The difference is mostly plausible deniability. If I'm speaking at an event or meeting with local customers, it's hard to deny that I'm doing business in the country. If I'm just working remotely from my laptop, who knows that I'm not just being a tourist?
Leaving aside cultural differences, isn't it a fact that smiles (genuine smiles) have health benefits?
It can still be useful even if it doesn't cover every single corner case.
Aged accounts won't stop anything, and Karma probably won't stop anything (afterall a person can buy karma-farmed reddit accounts), and I'm not going to give a phone number to try the service out. I hope you figure it out, and I wish you success.
Why doesn't anyone add an option to categorize e-mails by the sender and receiver like a messenger?

It would make it much easier/logical to handle conversations.. and make it easier to identify fishing and to delete/prune messages.
Sounds off topic, but there is something that always bugs me about the data market:

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What about the idea of billing ANY company that is selling my data.

And control over my data.

For example, FB should pay every single user it makes ad money from, some % of the revenue their data brings them.

Apple automatically charges 30% of any app on their platform as a service fee to the app developers to access the audience - so the audience should also be able to say "if you are selling my information into a set of demographics, I should be entitled to a fraction of what that ad demographic produces in ad revenue for FB"

--

You may opt in for providing more information in exchange for a larger little slice of what your data is worth - or you may opt out to receive nothing based on the data you already provide in exchange for using whatever the platform is.

An example would be "I opt into providing access to my demographics (the data graph on who you are)and choose to be compensated in some manner by the use of the information."

-=--

To me, the idea that we are automatically "products" without compensation is pretty lame.

Now, I would NEVER use facebook - but lets assume one is using such an exploitative thing: there should be classes of how one may want to use it... FREE (meaning they get profile data), enhanced (meaning I opt to a more extensive profile, to allow them to use - but am compensated for it)

etc...

FB disgusts me. I would never use it - and there needs to be an act similar to "the right to be forgotten act" which says "the right to be compensated act"
I know the basics of Blender, which I use for pretty simple models for video game development also, but still pretty basic skills so far. I don't know how well Blender models translate into printable models.
Windows NT/9x/2000 represented the high point for aesthetics.

Light grey, rectilinear, clear delineation, all contributed to being easy on the eye and functional.

Glad to see it make a comeback.
>I wish more people understood that the goal of Stack Overflow is not "answer my question" but "let's collaboratively build an artifact that will benefit future coders". Perhaps SO could be doing more to educate people about this. -Jeff Atwood

But the way to built that knowledge base is by answering peoples questions because the questions people ask indicate what is relevant to answer.
C and D. I applied on the job portail and sent an email. Ten minutes later, I got a call from the CTO. He sent me a test. I saw the file was a .tar.gz file, and I liked that.

Other employers replied, asked how much I was getting paid (which I declined to answer), proposed they pay more than whatever I'm paid at my crurrent job, which I replied to that it was generous, but that I liked where I worked. I had given up an offer in the energy sector that paid soooooooooo much more, as in ridiculously not even funny more, to get that job. I'm still there.