skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not sure how you arrived at this conclusion. My take away was the Chinese government fears tech companies that might take power away from the Chinese government. This is more about the Chinese government maintaining its own power and full control, and less about the value add or anti trust stance for keeping a competitive market.

I keep the claim that the explanation is even more simpler: whomever becomes a big man in a country like China eventually goes down, and that's the whole story.

There can only be one "big man" in such system, and he tolerates no competition.

This consistently held true through the whole 40 years of modern China: whomever attains too much of the social, political, economical, cultural, moral, or even genealogical prominence consistently gets taken down. This is why most mainland Chinese have that fear of publicity, and standing out almost bordering on panic disorder. And this is why people attaining any level of prominence there keep leaving the country for the West.
"In highly competitive physical sports there would be no person below median height at all in the olympics for example."

That's not true for all sports. Gymnastics is highly physical and favors short people. Likewise, wrestling and Judo favor people who are short for their weight.

I do think height classes would make sense in basketball though, just as we have weight classes in combat sports.
I guess additionally “gun ownership” is a crude metric. Is it fair to assume that more firearms in Canada are hunting weapons? These are less suited to violence than hand guns, SMGs etc.

UKs gun ownership per capita is something like 30% of US’, but these are predominantly shotguns, and a few single-shot rifles. Legal ownership of pistols of any kind is essentially impossible (yes even sport 0.22 ones).
The most powerful thing about jq, IMO is that is can alter some of the json without having to parse and convert to an object all of the json. It is like using data transformation lasers.
It's darwinian, founders are selected over product success. New CEOs are selected for their finance skills.

The first tend to be creative and empathetic, while the latter prefer cost cutting and lack of empathy.
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> Part of me thinks the worst thing I ever learned about was market efficiency. Once you've heard that argument from a professor, you can apply it to just about anything.

This is a really astute observation.

Both my parents were economics professors and I have a degree in economics. I feel like this concept was instilled in my core, and poisoned my thinking, but it’s fundamentally not true.

I’ve come to finally learn in old age that the market is full of inefficiencies that can be exploited, they are everywhere.

If you’re reasonably smart, or even just well-informed on a specific subject, things that seem obvious and trivial to you will in fact be observations you can profit from.

The world is full of $20 bills lying on the ground to reference a popular punch line.
The point of DRM isn't to prevent piracy, but to control manufacturers, who cannot legally break DRM, so they have to comply with whatever the DRM licensing cartel demands.

Prevent screenshots, prevent skipping ads, prevent recording (remember VHS recorders?), enforce region locking.. so many legal activities can be effectively made illegal, since manufacturers cannot both support DRM, and offer these options.
I think one of the underreported dynamics of this push to return to the office is that the biggest companies in Silicon Valley just BILLIONS on buildings. Buildings that are now empty, and soon to be filled by people that don’t want to be there.

Apple Park $5 billion[0]

Google over $7 billion nationwide ($1 billion in Mountain View alone)[1][2]

Facebook $300 million on MPK 21, a billion on real estate in general.[3]

And these are just some of the marquee players. If workers don’t return to the office, these executives just wasted $13 billion collectively. Well, we can’t have that! Force the plebes back into their boxes.

we’re living Cook’s, Pichai’s and Zuck’s a sunk cost fallacy.

[0] https://manofmany.com/living/architecture/inside-apples-insa...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/26/google-spends-1-billion-on-p...

[2] https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/03/18/google-launches-bill...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/facebook-new-campus-has-redw...
After a bit more thought and reading, I think that my previous comment here was a bit misleading.

It turns out that only some CRDTs guarantee eventual consistency - I didn't realize that previously.

This description of state-based CRDTs on Wikipedia might be helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
Then let's solve that problem, rather than abandoning meat, dairy, and, for reasons that no one I've encountered has ever been able to explain rationally, honey.

I totally agree that we have an awful problem with inhumane treatment of animals at factory farms in our society, but the logical answer to that is absolutely not veganism.
Every time emacs comes up there's the obligatory hate rant about how they moved on to better more modern tools with vscode being praised but everytime I've tried it, its slower than emacs and crashes more often or just flat out does not work. It seems its only useful for js.

I'm always on the lookout for better tools but I honestly feel there is nothing out there. My requirements are of course an emacs but better, why would anyone switch to worse tools?. It has to be faster, more stable but be customizable, its fine if it lacks features just as long as I'm allowed to add them myself. So far I haven't found anything.
This should have a date in the title.
It's from February 11th.
My point is absolutely not that India was more bureaucratic. The decisive difference is that China was reestablished as a people’s republic led by a communist party which organizes the whole sphere of the economy to improve the overall standard of living. So now China has eliminated absolute poverty whereas India is still struggling to provide basic food security.
Why it’s okay for web components to use frameworks
“Tractable” is quite common in computer science, often to refer to problems which can be solved in polynomial time, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobham%27s_thesis
Oh, boy, do you really want to say that? I have some questions about numerical algorithms that you probably rely on every day for you.
Aren't both MAK and KMS keys for volume licenses, ie not relevant to consumers? Any end user trying to use a KMS or MAK key got scammed by whoever sold that key to them...
Dangote Cement post 50% net income growth to N191 bln in six months
Thanks for pointing this out. As mentioned I am not an accountant, but the specific stock method did come up also. I decided to skip it in the interest of brevity (article was already getting way too big). However this is an interesting insight, thank you.
Client side document rendering has a lot of potential. There is currently no open source library that can render docx file as nice as mammoth. There are some commercial libraries that rely on WASM, but they are generally bloated and you can’t read their source.
posted some references in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028126

also, start with this and do a bit of research:

https://michaelkummer.com/health/plants-vs-meat/
Funny enough, one argument against cli git was 'vim' as commit text editor ;) Maybe emacs would convince them!
Yes. But it also affects all pigs at 96% of pig farms.

Humans' rights to luxury meats should not exceed animals' rights to a humane existence.
> Brute-forcing the SSH password for root?

Not in this context. Cloudflare-protected pages don't need to worry that.

> I'm guessing credential stuffing of admin pages?

More complex than that, but you've got the point.

Funnily, there is silence on Fastly's filter - sure, it's not active until you toggle it, but even without explicit Tor block you get the same result.
Nobody has come up with a SaaS for renting your dignity
The corporation isn’t mandating what happens to your body any more than the government is (as long as there isn’t forced injections). They’re simply choosing not to associate with un vaccinated people. This is first amendment from both sides all the way.

It’s literally no different from not wanting to employ people that don’t have a driver’s license, or some credential, or are convicted of crimes.
hello boy I do not have that type of alerts on the page where I invest and earn money which is https://www.fxgiants.com/fxg/ but I want to know if when I spend my earnings, I can put an alert on any of the Banks that do not lose money would like to know that, or in your case what bank, application or insurance they recommend.
Actually yes.

There is an historical body of literature on various kinds of summoning magic, starting with the Picatrix.

Those particular sigils are from the Lemegeton, also known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. Which verifiably predates the neopagans. The general idea of constraining the demon by writing its sigil and summoning it has existed for a long time, although in the Lesser Key (and most sources afaik) the demon is summoned into a triangle, with the sigil drawn within, and it is the triangle which constrains it.

I can't recommend doing any of these things, but if someone wants to, I highly suggest not naively following the directions of a satirical blogpost.
But I don't sit all week; I work, I work out, I read, I'm with my family, sometimes we go to the park. Going to an office destroys times like these.
If these elements can be considered proxies for race and therefore racist, why can't test scores? The prior system was constructed too, it wasn't handed to us by the universe. It is also worth knowing that activists didn't want the holistic system, but instead wanted a merit lottery - which leaves no room for this correlation. The merit lottery was also called racist.

Regardless, TFA isn't just arguing about the details but about the very concept itself.
In March 2020 I cut out a bunch of corporate oligarchs from my life not quite cold turkey but in fairly quick succession including windows/ms, google (android included), amazon(yes), Netflix/Hulu(also yes), and chain restaurants. It seemed like it was going to be much harder than it really was.

It was as you described, an inconvenience, during the teething period. The only part I couldn't keep up was using the pinephone as my only phone. If it could reliably receive calls and sms I would have. I've since switched to degoogled Android.

It took a while before everyone was on matrix, but we're there now. Fluffychat is great for normies. I really like searx a lot, but it requires some tuning to not be horribly slow with dead engines.
Yes. But then you have to hire a lawyer after just losing your job, survive during the time the lawsuit will take, win the lawsuit ("plaintiff was let go because position was redundant"), collect, resume your job or job hunt with a "trouble maker" label.

I really wish HN contributors would not suggest the legal system as a solution for these types of problems, it's totally unrealistic.
If I had the choice just mercurial or yes, Subversion does just fine, it is anyway how 99% of people actually use git.
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Can it not be defined beyond "it's complicated"?
This gap year has been pretty common in Europe/Aus/NZ for a while. Lots of young people do it. We even have visas for it called "working holidays" so they can work a part-time bar job etc, so you dont need to save up much to do it.
Seems crazy because when I watch those athletes mixing those little jerky interludes into their tumbling routine, elegance is the last thing that comes to mind. World-class gymnasts must be the worst dancers around.
Reselling parts of a volume license to consumers is entirely legal in the EU, first sale doctrine applies. This has been exhaustively litigated to the highest courts.
The result is uglier and less maintainable than a pair of macros. Or just stop trying to hide syntax. This is ultimately on the same level as typedefing pointers.
This is just not true.

Not only is the premise that 'DiDi' etc. do not create 'real value' simply false, the notion this is Xi's primary concern is isn't true either.

Xi's #1 concern is power and control. It's ridiculous that they're talking about 'protecting people's rights and warding off monopoly' when they're literally doing the opposite in Orwellian terms.

There's no 'hollowing' of the economy due to any of giant's usage of data. While competition is a concern, it would be really bad industrial policy to consider 'chips' somehow more important than the things you can do with them.

Ant is consumer credit where there was none before, and that's a huge, huge pillar of economic growth especially on the domestic consumption side where Xi wants to push the economy.

The notion that Google et. al. are 'middlemen' is beyond wrong.

Xi has also stopped these companies from listing in the US, which isn't good for anyone but the CCP.

This is mostly a game of power, not industrial policy.
>It's weird how we don't want to admit we are overworked.

Or that evolution works to make big changes in cycles of 1000s of years, and that 6 million years of hominin evolution out in nature in accordance with pre-electricity natural day cycles (and more malleable schedules), are not compatible with the mandatory:

(1) ass in the chair,

(2) looking at a screen,

(3) working with abstract information,

(4) 9 to 5, 5 days a week,

(5) inside an interior environment

(6) with technical lighting"

that's been "the norm" for a large part of the population since the 60s...

(or with factory-style work, that's been imposed on populations since the 18th century).
Been back full time for 3 weeks by choice instead of being remote as people trickle in.

I think when people start going back we will quickly see that most aspects of the office are actually worse.

I am a hard worker but I am also social and with just a few people back I end up wasting at least 1 hour talking about non-work related things. This isn't even an open floor plan.

If you are going back to an open floor plan, forget about it. Things will be so obviously less productive.

I am enjoying going into the office but I also know this time is limited. At some point in the future going into the office is going to be a perk with remote standard. Bet your ass on that.

You don't even have to bring in the cost savings but the cost savings will be the knockout punch.
TikTok has quite a bit of influence outside China. So it seems that Chinese big tech can compete quite effectively in a global market.
> Although each of the 714 posts clearly violated the platforms’ policies, fewer than one in six were removed or had the associated accounts deleted after being pointed out to moderators.

It's that exact kind of persecution that is 'radicalising' people.

Joe average sees a 'funny' meme and shares it for his friends, next thing he knows he's in 'Facebook jail'. He is being punished for something he doesn't understand.

So instead of the platform taking the time to say 'what you shared was (factually) wrong and here's why', they just say "you're anti-semitic and a bigot, die!".

Disclaimer, I run a social site and our biggest growth comes from people who Facebook have literally radicalised, we're not the only platform either. There's hundreds in this space now, combined there's millions of members.
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Yeah, I think we got here by evolution not revolution.It's a local minimum until the next upheaval. Lots of people are comfortable. As can be seen by comments on HN of "how can anyone possibly live on $100k?" . I think we may be at a local max of change as a certain level of comfortableness has allowed a false sense of revolution/being deprived as well as POC taking on more political power in the country. This has reached a critical mass in the form of the current republican party headed by Trump, I think unfortunately the violence from them will get much worse before it gets better.
Thanks. I'm afraid that won't work with EasyLang. The language is kept very simple to make it easier for beginners and so that it loads quickly and so that the code can be parsed quickly in the IDE. And unfortunately it is not possible to include other libraries.
> My job isn’t to use git, it’s to write specialist software.

This is true on so many other levels too. My job isn't to be an AWS expert, VIM master, Visual Studio ninja, Unix professor, et. al.

My job is to make the customer happy. That is it. If the customer is happy, my project managers are happy, the executives are happy, the investors are happy. When all of your bosses are happy, you can get away with absolute murder. No one gives you shit about anything. Production went down because you fucked up? No big deal - that was like the first time in 18 months we had any problems, and the customer can't even see these things through all the magical features get to play with day-to-day. Need to take the entire afternoon to play overwatch because [arbitrary fuck you reason abc]? No one cares as long as you didn't have a scheduled meeting. In this realm, your mind is free to explore side projects without fear of reproach or guilt-trip. Tasks are executed with confidence and calm. Innovations are more frequent and valuable. People are actually relaxing in their time off and enjoy working for their employer.

When the customer is pissed off, it is like entering into Doom Eternal as a non-player character. At every turn you begin to anticipate a heated conversation about missed target XYZ and incident ABC. Each ding of your outlook bumps your blood pressure by 20-30% before you even see the subject line. Your executives start taking damage from your customer's executives. Investors begin executing difficult queries regarding long-term viability. NO one is sleeping anymore. Side projects? Are you fucking kidding me? Not in this hell.

So, when someone in my organization starts giving me the run-around about [pedantic greybeard doctrine which adds 10x overhead to a process], and also has no business value to show for said run-around, I begin to shut things down pretty quickly. If you want to play nuclear release authorization simulator every time you need to check in source code, please do this on your own time. Even the most elite hacker rockstars like to use GUI tools so they can see what the fuck is going on without making their eyes bleed every 10-15 minutes due to terminal character display restrictions.
OK, now you're talking about inventing a new altcoin that introduces censorship, governance, and control. This has already been done a number of times, and they all failed.

Bitcoin is the ultimate fiat in that it's not backed by anything tangible. The bitcoiners will say that the intrinsic value of bitcoin lies in the value the network provides, eg. facilitating uncensorable, permissionless transfers across borders. It is definitely not a given that a new coin without this utility will be a success. I'd bet against it given the history of altcoins that have attempted to do it.
For people with a predisposition to kidney stone this is already recommended (along with an increase in calcium intake).

https://kidneystones.uchicago.edu/how-to-eat-a-low-oxalate-d...
How do folks like this for reviews? I’m switching to git for a new job and the process is a bit overwhelming compared to mercurial
I wish these lawsuits affected the agency’s pensions and benefits rather than hitting the tax payers.

You did something wrong? Your pension and everyone else’s in the FBI and co. just got cut for good, in payment.
For most people, using these brokers will be something that they will be quite familiar with, even though the actual trading of their shares will happen somewhere in the background. Brokers in fact do not always have to go to an exchange directly, and many will route (send) client orders to various third parties such as market makers or other brokers. This was made quite apparent in 2020 when it was noticed that the broker RobinHood was selling client order flow (client orders) to the hedge fund Citadel.

Online brokers have been doing this forever. TD Ameritrade is by far the worst offender in this regard, way worse than Robinhood.
There's the list of targets we know about:
https://cdn.occrp.org/projects/project-p/#/

And the Guardian has some in-depth reporting going on.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project

None of this really answer how prevalent the spyware is, though.
Do you mean predators in general or just humans? Because humans can definitely make a choice right now.
Anecdotally, even with websites like Twitter that obfuscate their CSS class names to prevent the use of selective adblock, they still leave the readable ARIA strings in predictable places, allowing uBlock Origin users to create blacklist rules matching them. I'm wondering if those two features are at odds.
He is citing Bellingcat - an outfit that has been thoroughly discredited and who's only use is as a cutout for spy agencies to spread their lies. Not ad hominem. Just facts. Here is the definition in case you were wondering:

ad hominem:
adj. Attacking a person's character or motivations rather than a position or argument.
adj. Appealing to the emotions rather than to logic or reason.
n. To the man; to the interests or passions of the person.
Niko Matsakis, of Rust's lang and compiler teams, has a talk[1] on how the machinery behind borrow checker is being rethought. The idea is that in the future, the compiler won't really "check borrows" but will instead "track origins."

Reframing the system in this way will (hopefully) make things be flexible enough to Just Work™ without surprises, while providing the same guarantees as the current borrow checker. The video itself has a motivating example or two that shows where this stuff would be helpful.

[1]: https://youtu.be/_agDeiWek8w
I understand and can relate to the feeling that nobody gives a shit. And it may be true that the leadership of all of these companies only care about the bottom line. But let's not make things look worse than they are. Whatever the motive, some SV companies are doing good work in accessibility. The most obvious example is Apple; the introduction of VoiceOver on the iPhone in 2009 was groundbreaking and has been tremendously useful to blind people all over the world. Microsoft (disclosure: my former employer) is also doing good work on accessibility, e.g. its Seeing AI app. Of course, we have constructive criticism for these companies as well, but the state of accessibility in mainstream tech is not all bad.
There was a language website that connected old people with youngsters who want to learn languages. They practice their language skills and help the old people with loneliness. This is a very good idea.
Drivers still exist but you can and should avoid them: https://openprinting.github.io/driverless/
I'm not sure it is becoming of any of us on HN to be critical of the athleticism of Olympic athletes.
Follow up survey with the people buying guns? Whatever survey determined people buy guns because crime is increasing, call them back in a year and ask how often they used their gun.
I think a lot of that is because English borrowed (stole) lots of single words from other languages, but almost never the entire system of prefixes and suffixes that the word was part of. Languages that were more closed to foreign vocabulary, like French and German, are a lot more regular in this regard.
That’s cool! What’s the use of FZF? Isn’t it a fuzzy finder, what are you searching for in a jq REPL?
>The reality is, the clothing industry decides what to produce at least 6-12 months in advance.

That's fast fashion. It's neither elegant not particularly valued by people who are into fashion.
I'm kind of in the same boat. I never cared about fashion much. It always seemed hollow and vapid to me. Even as a kid/teen-ager/20s when it's supposed to matter the most.