skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your willingness to not accept a single fault, to see this as perfectly reasonable acceptable ok way for democracy to go is staggeringly terrifying.

people did show up with guns. those people fired them. after being told for months by their leader that a fair & democratic election was stolen from them.

the gop & trump are still making absolutely batshit claims. they still haven't allowed a peaceful transition of power. they have the stupidest most insulting long list of insane horseshit, in place after place, and it would have taken way too much of it happening in way too many places for there to have been a difference. hecs not delusional, he's continuing the role of demagogue, brining pain & division & suffering & insanity & lies to this country.

you talk about the conversation breaking down & that leading to violence & discord. one party has been driving the politics america over the cliff fory entire life. they survive only because they willfully break from reality. that is their politic. what the fuck do we do about that?
"I don't know why full stack webdevs are paid so poorly."

- The barrier to entry into webdev is low. You just need a laptop.

- An awful lot of websites seem to have been thrown together by morons; shipped; and never improved.

- For most sites, performance isn't an issue - strong tuning skills for PHP, SQL and Javascript are not an issue.

- A "full-stack webdev" generally doesn't do the full stack - few of my webdev colleagues have been interested in networks, for example.

TBH I don't know. In my last position I was paid £45K; I was the most versatile and experienced developer in the company (12 people). The bosses constantly complained that there was a dire shortage of talent to recruit. They recruited quite a few overseas visitors.
F7 to save.

Seriously, if I could still use WordPerfect 4.2 today, I would. I would put up with 5.1 if necessary.
Hey Jeremy, I just started reading it and it looks very promising (in fact, I'm trying hard to resist the temptation to read one page more instead of working). Thanks for writing it!
The CCP (and often communist revolutions in general) underestimate the massive intergenerational effects of societal rehaul that can only be restored with policies more draconian than the ones that destroyed those norms in the first place.

China now has 2 generations that've never known uncles, aunts, siblings or the conception of family beyond the nuclear unit. New norms have developed around the amount of investment that parents are expected to put in a child, with work being the only other thing that is supposed to matter.

The soft incentives have realigned to strongly discourage children. Multiple children makes it difficult for parents to be invested in a single child or work in a way that society expects them to. The thousand year long values of sibling relationships have to be built back up from zero, and is not trivial in the least.

For a country where maternity leave is punishing to a woman's career, a career that women are also taught to care deeply for, convincing women to have multiple children will be a tall ask. We are already seeing a plummeting marriage rate and an average marriage age that's steadily rising.

With all of these things in mind, the only way CCP reverses the current trend, is if they pull a Mao and practically force people to marry more and earlier/have multiple children by introducing incentives as draconian as Mao's China.
Did it not? Everyone I know uses wireless Qi charging already. It’s been a default feature in phones since ~2018.
Nothing. Therefore I'll go skydiving without a parachute; hopefully that water I can see down there is deep enough.

After all, not skydiving is also dangerous.
> A woman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, watched State Police place a tracking device on her vehicle last weekend and contacted her local NAACP president

Why would you contact the NAACP over the ACLU?
I don’t think this is science fiction doing this to connote the future in many of these cases.

The cars in the “fast” franchise also survive ludicrous damage. The bodies of action heroes survive falls from ridiculous heights and blows and stab wounds that would kill somebody with ease.

This is more a property of action movies (and adventure movies, to a lesser degree).
You can also do the loop on the server side using PL/pgSQL:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-control-stru...
The point of guids/uuids is no collision... Ever... Including for large datasets. Even when you merge multiple together in 10 years.

For your use-case you could use incremental IDs.
A smartphone doesn't have super-low latency audio only because its makers have not set out to have it.

The only strength of analog processors is that they're dedicated. That an iPhone SoC and run dedicated audio-only OS on it, and there we go.
Demographic and location segmentation is just a shitty way to target and is a prime example of looking for your keys under the lamppost because that's where the light is. That said, your point is unfortunately very relevant because many advertisers still do this.
So, Google can make sure they are the only one's tracking you? I see. No conflict of interest there!
I was so glad the Paddlefish had gone extinct after reading the title as "yangtze dam separates" and spent a few seconds fearing another fukushima...
I remember first discovering the game of Go, after watching the AlphaGo Documentary [1]. I highly recommend it, will definitely be signing up for this, I usually play on mobile :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y
Microwave oven. 30 seconds. Full power.
There's a balance in there that needs to be struck on practical grounds. You don't get groups without in-group bias. You don't get in-group bias without prejudice. Getting rid of groups/tribes/whatever is obviously impossible, but the more you temper how much human identity is derived from them, the more you reduce the downstream negative (and positive) effects.

They aren't all good, and they aren't all bad, like everything else. You can't have all the good without the bad unfortunately.
Indeed, this seems to have touched a nerve. Interesting that no one has tried to refute my point directly.

There are others in the thread who seem to be suggesting that because Han Chinese have also been subject to population control measures, that my point is somehow invalid.

No one has yet explained why we see such steep birth rate declines, specifically in Uyghur regions, relative to the rest of China, only in the last half decade or so.

You know, right around the time they started rounding up millions of people in that same ethnic group and putting them in camps. The Chinese government has many euphemisms and rationalizations for these camps, but they don't dispute their existence. In any case we have satellite imagery.

What can one conclude about these coinciding actions by the Chinese state if not genocide? If it's not that, what is it?
> EDIT: What's usually limiting in elevators (and that's why they say "max 4 people") are the breaks.

Even here there's a safety factor (self-limiting packing density of people in Western countries... "Uh... I'm gonna take the next one").
Again, OP claimed that top US schools directly ask your income in applications, implying this information was used directly in admissions decisions. It is not, and any admissions tests Oxbridge uses certainly have similar issues of correlation with wealth.
This is one of the best things I’ve ever read on Hacker News. Thank you.
> The Dragon Go Server (DGS) is a place where you can play turn-based Go with other players from around the world. It functions more or less the same way as playing Go via email would, but the Dragon Go Server provides a graphical representation of the board and handles things such as time limits, scoring and ratings.

https://www.dragongoserver.net/faq.php?read=t&cat=48#Entry49
What do you mean by “if you’re sitting on the fence?” — really thinking they were actual witches?
There's several issues with GCM; the most obvious is the susceptibility to repeated nonces (notice that I compared GCM to CBC+HMAC, the most common generic composition) but there's also GCM's weakness with shortened tags, the fact that GCM relies on a multiplication operation that wants tables for efficient software implementations, and the short nonce, which makes it dicey to use random nonces and also limits how much you can encrypt.

The original chapoly constructions aren't as brittle, but share the biggest problem (the nonce uniqueness requirement). But later chapoly constructions allow for wide nonces, which makes it reasonable to use fully random nonces.

I don't care if people use GCM or not; I'd comfortably use it if it was the only AEAD available in my standard library. But I agree with the root comment on this thread that suggests it's a weird thing to brag about.
Printed template, multiple exposures. There are images of the template around middle of TFA.
Upvoting for hilarious and honest title
On the contrary: Facebook is a garden full of people. If all the app stores banned Facebook, many people would work to get Facebook back – even those who don't like Facebook.
Not everyone, but on aggregate due to the network effect, specialization, and the odd statistics of the small % of humans able to grok mathematics.
Welcome to Milton Friedman's capitalism. Beat earnings expectations every quarter into perpetuity or watch your share price drop.
> Login with Google to start chatting

No thanks
Perhaps I’m naive but my view is that online advertising should have targeting no better than bus stop ads (coarse geographic) and conversion should ideally not even be measurable. When I buy shoes I prefer to not even say which campaign made me do it (just like the bus stop ad).

I find the whole jargon of this post dystopian.
Calvin's dad is my role model as a father. My 7-year-old children believe that in the past the world used to be black and white.
Thanks for the recommendation! I've read enough of your comments to instantly pattern-match your username with "this person really knows about Commodore" ;)
you say "evangelists" I say "shills"
About UUID as Primary Key and performance, the following article has some insights and benchmarks as well: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/sequential-uuid-generato...

Essentially, they observed sizeable performance improvements by using UUID generators that are tweaked to get more sequentia resultsl. It results in better indexes. The articles compares sequences, random UUIDs and 2 kinds of sequentialish UUID generators.
Scarlet is DARPA grade technology for gaming
is this also usable for change data capture (CDC) perchance? reporting what data is changing, in a consume able fasion, to make these systems reactive? alike Debezium? that'd be a fantastic extra trick.
About the Abrams movie: Too bad the same factor of safety wasn't applied to the buildings, where that should have been even cheaper.

Your point is good though. Just like we're now starting to put wi-fi chips into absolutely anything just in case, why wouldn't an advanced civilization simply use their super strength nanoparticles for everything? Why go out of your way to use worse materials?
Another alternative is ULID, which can be stored as UUID on a Postgres side, but is more b-tree friendly.
Or perhaps people just roll their eyes at yet another Silicon Valley quasi-scam, and move on.

I mean, what's there to say about this? Giving time away for free to funded for-profit companies can make sense in some contexts, and I suppose for people in that situation, Plato might be helpful. But most of the time, it's going to be a questionable move at best, in which case you just shouldn't use a service like this.
I know nothing about how apples advertising works so sorry if this is a silly question:

The screenshot in the link posted explicitly states apple does not track (maybe how they justify not using the word) you for their advertising network, so what are they doing instead?
Russian wages are MUCH lower than they are in Canada or South Korea. Average salary is something like ~500 USD per month, while in Canada it is closer to 5000 USD, so it is a way cheaper to operate nukes and send troops everywhere for Russia.

And if you think that nuclear engineers are making significantly more than an average Ivan, then I have a bad news for you, that's unlikely. For example, a friend of mine works for a subcontractor of Roscosmos (Russian space activities corporation, basically russian "NASA") as an electronic measurements instrumentation engineer and makes 60000 rubles per month before taxes (roughly 850$ per month). That's a joke of a salary and he is only able to work there because he is owning a property in Moscow.
Food giant JBS Foods shuts down production after cyberattack
Nazis are brought up daily in political discussions in the US. I wonder if it’s true in the EU.
>They've also taken a hardline stance against right to repair

By which you mean Google, Microsoft and Apple?

>Apple, Google & Microsoft Have Teamed up to Block the Right-to-Repair Law

https://wccftech.com/apple-google-microsoft-team-up-to-stop-...
Public security test for the Swiss Covid-19 certificate system
unfortunately with so many temporal optimizations even anti aliasing is no longer "instant" I think that specifically things like large bounce light changes will have to have some sort of hacky "pre-accumulation" step that is done case by case at least for the forseeable future... ray tracing tech is still gorgeous stuff but again there are trailing edges on so many moving objects because information has to be collected over multiple frames.
Barbaric
Thank you so much. The full report is much more genuine than the abstract from the press. For example, it writes 'in Kashgar prefecture in 2014, the
birth-rate soared to nearly 68 children per thousand people' at the same time the national average was around 12, perhaps because people in those regions are allowed more kids and the policy are rarely enforced compare to other region.

so if the birth rate in that region simply fall to national average, it will went down 80%. I think it's an perfect example of how numbers lie, but most people don't have any vested interest to find out.
I agree with you - Firefox does not help you keep cookies out without private mode or addons afaik
Correct [1].

In addition, ASPI is notorious for being sponsored by the US, UK and Australian weapons industry who have a vested interest in drumming up this kind of thing. I would take anything they have to say with a massive grain of salt [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/drStuartGilmour/status/13938342716939632...

[2] https://www.aspi.org.au/sponsors
“My Best Friend's Birthday” – Quentin Tarantino's 1987 Debut Film
That’s the UUID approach, but worse. According to the birthday problem[1], you’re 50% likely to get a collision in 65 bit numbers after about 5 billion insertions. That’s not an awful lot. Replace that with a 128-bit UUID and you’d have to insert 22,000,000,000,000,000,000 rows to get a 50% chance. That’s probably less likely than a cosmic ray flipping a random bit in RAM and corrupting the index that way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem#Probability_t...
I have a web service where I need to generate access tokens of five characters. I just generate a random one and check to see if it’s already in use. Been working fine for years.
The Future of Ads and Privacy
PostgreSQL can decode WAL to cahnged data stream on its own. Technically WAL-G can parse WAL to changes stream, but this functionality has no surface API anyhow.
Lightning talk make sense either as:

- This Thing You Didn't Know of Exists. (Teaser)

- This Thing You Did Know of Has Changed in This Way. (Status report.)

- This Thing You Did Know of Can Do Soemthing. (Very quick demo.)

The venue --- a meeting or conference, in which an audience has been assembled, but in which time/space are also limited, operates on audience inertia. Similar in ways to lead-in / follow-on audiences for broadcast programming, opening / warm-up acts in live performance, or pre-feature advertisements at cinemas (remember cinemas?). It takes time for an audience gathered to dissipate, or for an anticipated audience to appear.

(Not really anything to do with the original topic, just me noodling on elements / attributes of various media forms and their characteristics.)

But if you do happen to know that there's a lighting session and that the talks obviously do or don't fall into these categories, you might calibrate your own level of interest in the session.

And again, largely in agreement.
Both Chrome and Safari have the "add to home screen", but Safari doesn't have push notifications, not even for "installed" webapp.
the demo project is 100GB, I dont think I have the hard drive space for more variety at this quality level!
The salary aspect is not the worst of it, but the majority of cash that goes to non-Wikipedia funding. For some reason justifying the fairness of a $400k salary gets people more excited than discussing where the other $97 million are going.
Imagine being the government official who proposed a policy to make sure the country eventually disappeared if carried out indefinitely.
Mobile vaccination units hit tiny U.S. towns to boost immunity
Yea this Plato thing seems pretty bizarre and I completely agree that it's silly for the mentors to use it. Maybe there's a small value of just meeting people through it, but I think existing meetup groups can solve that problem pretty well.

The quibble I have with the author: if this was a for-profit company that _hadn't_ taken VC funding, would he be more OK with donating his time to them? I think his objection makes sense regardless of company taking funding and I don't think he needs to keep emphasizing them taking funding to get his point across.
> "hey I'm here, I have this to offer, if you want it"

As always there is a loud but tiny minority that thinks all ads are bad. Most of us (I assume) think ads are mostly fine but tracking is bad.
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I bet this is a result of customer self-selection. This is all a hunch, but I bet a shit-ton that the advertisers who actually care about good targeting only buy from a small number of leading providers (Facebook, Google, etc.) whose stats are not going to show up on HN.
I wonder how long of a lasting impression this creates? I've seen videos from Japanology on Youtube about rural communities trying to come up with incentives and revitalization measures to varying success. From an outside perspective, it's commendable to see small communities care and try to be creative and "startup-y".

At the same time, this also is like the analogy "a solution looking for a problem". Supply exists, but demand does not.

For example, across the Rust Belt in the US, probably someone could buy a house for $10k or an entire block of homes for dirt cheap, but it would be rundown and not very much fun to live in a town with more inconveniences than amenities.

Unless someone is trying to do the homesteading(?) thing, having a free/cheap house somewhere is only a small part of the equation. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would bet even if someone from a city like San Fran, LA, or NY took a deal to live in (e.g.) rural Missouri in a $500 house, they wouldn't be able to last 2-3 years before going stir-crazy.
To hurt you. The reason is to hurt you and it's unfortunate that we're in denial about it.
Yes, it’s a war where inane questions lead to inane answers which the reporters know are boring so there is a reward for creating drama and controversy as the athletes try to keep things boring
What is there to be afraid of? I really don't know what you mean.
This was really interesting, it's tragic that so many people died because of the ignorance.
Everyone is focusing on salaries (my mistake to list it first), but really that’s a minor expense and I have no qualms with people being paid market rates in a non-profit.

90%+ of the cash goes to fund the other foundations’ programmes, that’s the core of the issue.
How Steve Wozniak’s operating system works? Free webinar (demo in Python)
The "Famous Amiga Uses" page lists quite a few TV programmes where the machine was in use: https://wigilius.se/amiga/fau/programtv.html

I was looking for (and happy to find in the list) Superball, a small game played on Sat1 in their morning programme (Frühstückfernsehen). People dialed in to "remote control" one of the hosts by shouting "left" and "right" at appropriate times.
I’m glad you had time to digest that report thoroughly in the 11 minutes between my comment and yours. Of course, everyone here should be aware that you are cherry picking. The conclusion of the report is that on average, there was a steep drop in birth rate in minority counties.

The report is named: "Family De-planning: The Coercive Campaign to Drive Down Indigenous Birth-rates in Xinjiang". This is not a case of media misrepresentation no matter how badly you want it to be.

The conclusion is typically found at the end of a report. Why don’t you go back and try again.
I’ll be quite curious to hear whether this has any impact on the animals. If so, I’ll be curious to see whether hacktivism for animal rights increases in the future.
I'd strongly recommend OGS if you would like to play Go online (no affiliation,just a happy user).
https://online-go.com/

r/baduk also has some good resource for learning more about Go :)
> China’s one child policy was mainly about population control but also had a eugenics component to it as well.

IMO, traditional societies have had a fascination with eugenics for practically centuries. 19th and early 20th century thinkers were deeply fascinated by it, and the idea didn't really get tabooed until Nazi Germany adopted as part of its agenda and that horrified the whole world for centuries to come.

For that reason, many posters with western values might find the accusation of eugenics to be quite harsh. But IMO, the social stigma against eugenics isn't nearly as prominent in non-European societies and it's even softly encouraged and openly talked about in some cases.(Singapore's SDU est.1984 being a good example)

To be clear, I do not endorse eugenics in any way. Also, I mean eugenics in purely: "Adding incentives for reproduction among certain people in society to promote what are perceived to be desirable traits within said society" and not "Genocide everyone who isn't of high blood".
Hi @yosito. I am Piyush, developer of the site & completely understand your hesitation.

The login is gated with Google to keep the trolls out. I don't want this to become another Omegle where every 2nd person you meet is masturbating on camera.

If it helps, no data is shared from your Google login other than your email address which becomes your user-id. We also never email or sell emails EVER.
Yeah four things going on.

Design errors
Probabilistic nature of the loads applied.
Material defects
Fatigue
Deterioration

All structures have a service life and it's the service lifetime an experienced engineer is trying to hit.

For the impeller in a rocket turbo pump the service life is like 5 minutes. For the impeller in a hydro electric dam it's 50 years.

The other thing that one of my professors pointed out was that 80% of engineers end up designing once off designs. Where the NRE cost is a lot more than the material costs. Shaving the safety factor is false economy.
20 especially shitty transistors to be fair.
Yeah especially considering their attitude toward civilians in Nanking/Nanjing, Manchuria and The Philippines.
Is this the lichess of the Go world?
Free speech doesn't protect conspiracy to commit murder, inciting a riot, fraud, nor libel/slander.