skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did they bother analyzing the rest of the Shakespeare canon to see how often "the" appeared? The article doesn't say.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

This isn't our fight. Never mind we gave China our word we wouldn't interfere. Does our word mean nothing anymore?
I’ve seen someone take a shit on the sidewalk in the Marina (chestnut street). And I’ve seen similar stuff in the sunset. And to the OP I see this stuff fairly often in the financial district.
And about 3.7MB is JavaScript (mostly reCaptcha—eww! why load it when I’m just browsing the site?—being loaded multiple times—quintuple eww!; the forum’s own JS is only about a megabyte). Just parsing and compiling that code (not even executing it!) will take over a second on many common low-end mobile devices still in use (even some new), several seconds on slower devices.
Similar to the second quote, English speakers nowadays (at least where I live) say things like "I have the flu." In this phrase, I believe "the flu" refers to the ailment in general as opposed to what affects the speaker in particular. Maybe this is also the case with your second quote?
The British ARM company got sold to the Japanese Softbank investment company which then did a bad deal in China but somehow Americans think it is all about them.
Highlights the irony of the fact that in the US, your reward for getting vaccinated is...2 free Krispy Kreme donuts.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/25/business/krispy-kreme-fre...
Fair point. Nothing prevents mit from getting robbed tomorrow. Nothing prevents Vanguard from facing the same zero day. My claim only was that mit would take it seriously and that’s personally don’t hear about a lot of university data breaches.
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> Democracy is when the competing groups are "the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites"

Americanist ideology is really something else.
China will most likely do what the US and Japan did: copy freely while they are behind and start enforcing IP rights after they have caught up.
> The best option is to just take the lane and follow the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles. You get noticed and you don't have conflicts at intersections. You don't need to be physically fit to do it (other than be physically capable of riding a bike).

Most people won't be comfortable doing this for the simple reason that they'll be going slower than surrounding traffic and it will piss of drivers, which is scary when you're on a bike and they have two tons of metal right beside you. If the safest way to do something is mildly terrifying and generally viewed as antagonistic, we can't be surprised that most people will avoid doing that thing.

I've really been inspired lately by watching the videos on this channel about urban design in the Netherlands: https://youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes

I didn't realize how much urban cycling raises my blood pressure until I watched this video that compares a journey in Canada to a journey in the Netherlands, it's hard to imagine cycling being so safe and easy outside a college campus: https://youtu.be/M8F5hXqS-Ac
Unfortunately that viewpoint is fairly common among contemporary West Coast liberals. A shocking amount of anti-social behavior is tolerated for this reason.
> Remember that nobody was threatened or, as a result, morally offended by China until the last few years when we figured out we couldn't keep them at the bottom of the value chain forever.

I was helping companies figure out how to isolate IP from their Chinese branches 10+ years ago. This is not new, and definitely not “the last few years”.
If I found your wallet on the street with $1k in it I could just keep it, but that would be wrong, so I return it to you. Maybe you give me $50 for my trouble.
How is that any different than the US???
You reminded me of an old trick (now expired) that my grandma taught me: take the magnet out of used Sonicare toothbrush heads, wrap the magnet in electrical tape creating a pull-tab, and you have a rather powerful refrigerator magnet! Sonicare removed the original magnet vibrating mechanism quite a while ago so this no longer works, but I love creative reuses like this for items.
My feeling is that exercising to lose weight,if you're over weight, is mostly false unless you combine it with a reduction in food intake.

I've known plenty of people, including myself, that have gone on an exercise plan and have lost very little weight. One of the reasons, in addition to what this article points out, is that exercise increases your appetite, something that few people point out when they talk about using exercise for weight loss.

But yet I've seen plenty of people lose weight once they have had surgery to reduce the amount of food they eat even with no exercise.

We need to point out that exercise is important but it's not the magic that will cure obesity. It all comes down to the number of calories you eat each day.
In fact, the US is doing all of those things.
I know that businesses in China are tied to the CCP in inextricable ways, but this take on the story doesn't make sense to me. This article was about a private takeover of a semiconductor business, what does it have to do with free speech, surveillance, or the government taking over anything?
Totally a fair point but Citadel does not need Andrew Lo’s (an author on this paper) help to do that. Nor is that what he gets out of it. Citadel can do it (and may try to do it?) itself without his input. The research angle is orthogonal to your concern.
Wax helps you systematically find and implement strategies that grow your company. The system is based on the book Traction[0] by Gabriel Weinberg (founder & CEO of DuckDuckGo) and Justin Mares (founder of Kettle & Fire and Perfect Keto). Wax guides you thru process of testing growth channels to find what works for your company. We also offer a "done for you service" where a contractor will execute the the strategies for you.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28326275
Im thinking about making the same switch. What app are you using on the ipad that makes your notes searchable?
> There are homeless in several parts of the city, yes, but those parts are easy to avoid if that's your inclination.

You’re joking right? If by easy to avoid you mean do not go outside. A friend lives in a very nice neighborhood in a beautiful home in SF. A block away while walking to my car there was a half naked man rambling to himself in the bushes. It is ubiquitous unless you mentally block it out.
Also, their induction hob appears to be on fire.
Anywhere near Market is mid to high levels of gross for sure. I think in FiDi and the East Cut companies pay for private cleaning services (and perhaps some private pseudo-policing as well) but these areas are directly adjacent to highly distressed parts of the city.
Australia has a massive hydro system - the Snowy.

But it's over 50 years old at least and wouldn't have the control systems. Hornsdale has some pretty impressive software allowing it to go from charging to jumping in so fast.
> C++ had no choice about increment operators

I don't buy this at all. Stroustrup was keen on this particular bad idea, it is even provisioned with operator overloading that has a special optional syntax so that early weak C++ compilers can overload it despite lacking a good way to distinguish the two cases. He spends two pages of the Second Edition defending this construction which, we may note, is wholly a C feature not something novel in C++:

while (*p++ = *q++) ;

Stroustrup apparently admires this for being terse, admitting that this chosen example is neither commonly faster nor easier to understand than alternatives.

> cryptanalysis only ever gets better; it never gets worse

And it did. Eventually Linear cryptanalysis breaks DES, and it is theorised (but not demonstrated) that a refined multiple linear cryptanalysis breaks DES in just 2^41 known plaintexts less than fifty years after it was standardized... Completely useless of course, but that's the state of the art after fifty years of only getting better.

Work on AES has also proceeded as Bruce would suggest, and after twenty years, with just 2^254.3 operations you can do key recovery on AES-256.

AES-256 doesn't actually need to be stronger than AES-128 in the sense you're talking about, 128-bits is plenty, the trick is that the larger keys defeat Grover's algorithm and thus defang hypothetical inexpensive yet powerful quantum computers. With Grover's algorithm you get to do 2^128 quantum operations instead of 2^256 conventional operations to perform a brute force attack, but you can't do 2^128 operations either because that's far too many, so you lose.

> Jason chose ChaCha20

WireGuard practices zero-agility, it picks exactly one of each component and if there's a problem the entire protocol has to be refreshed. So, choosing ChaCha20 rather than AES means it's penalized slightly on fast modern general purpose hardware (e.g. your laptop) but much faster than it might be otherwise on cheap micro controllers and archaic gear, a very reasonable trade. [Modern TLS just can choose whichever both parties agree on].

> It is many years too early to determine which parts of Rust are "done".

I mostly agree with this. However, there's a spectrum. I'm pretty confident that in 2050 programmers will still find core::cmp::Ordering useful, I don't think a fundamental revolution in mathematics will have rendered the idea that 5 is Less than 10 useless. In contrast core::sync::atomic::Ordering might well have fallen entirely out of use in 2050 with a very different model of concurrent programming for very different hardware where Acquire-Release semantics seem silly. Or for example I'd be astonished if "constant by default" turned out to be a bad idea but not at all surprised if "narrowing as" goes away because it turns out that's a bad idea.
Maya crashes all the time. Go on any social media and search 'maya crash' and you'll find plenty of art students and hobbyists complaining about how often it crashes, some losing their work. I even read from one artist I follow that at their university a lecturer told his students to expect Maya to crash, and prepare for it.

I just wanted to point out that your lockups and crashes in Blender have nothing to do with it being open source and probably more to do with its complexity. Not saying you were trying to make out that because it's foss that's why it crashes, but seeing as this comment thread branched from that argument I just wanted to point this out.
A/B tests can tell you causation. If they are correctly randomized and the tested change doesn't induce any other unintended changes, then they can tell you that the change causes whatever are the observed changes in your target metric. The challenge is controlling all other factors.

You're correct that they can't tell you the the root cause of why your change causes a particular difference, but that's a separate issue from correlation and causation.
Ten federal agencies are expanding their use of facial recognition
I don't think people buy goods made in China because they like seeing the rich get richer.
This isn't the case.

I recently changed phones from Android to iOS and the export/import from Google Authenticator was fine for non-Google services.

Edit: I think there was a bug where it seemed to only export the tokens visible on the page, so I had to scroll and do it again for additional tokens. Maybe you are hitting that.
WSU engineer’s tiny robot earns world record
You could certainly describe excess consumption of food, drugs, and/or sexual novelty as degenerate behavior. But GP appears to simply be referring to either consumption of or payment for pornography as a degenerate activity.
Denmark to lift all remaining Covid restrictions on 10 September
I had quite long talks with a doctor. For me (34), it was that we don't know the long term effects of covid either (10+ years).

These side effects can happen with covid too. Without vaccine you may have them for many years instead of a few days to weeks.

Then there's the vaccine itself, I'd rather have part of the virus than the entire thing.

Regarding emotional arguments: You can't convince an atheist to be a christian (or vice versa) in one hour. This would only destroy your relationship.
Breakthrough: Quantum computers will soon fit in your phone
I disable JS by default and had enabled JS for a couple of Discourse sites I read, but once it started working without JS I gladly disabled JS again because I find the consumption experience quite a bit better sans-JS: faster and more consistent with how the rest of the web works.
maybe both, but i was just reading the other day about the CCP setting up offices/groups/whatever basically everywhere. even around american colleges though its more low key. many chinese (ethnically, many are not even citizens) overseas join the party because they either worry about problems with relatives in mainland china, or some think itll help their careers, or they may think itll help grease the wheels if and when they return. a lot of them just spend hours studying speeches by xi for their club, apparently.

i think whats more worrying is that ive recently become concious of what i say about china online, and i have no connection at all to china. would it be a problem for me tomorrow? probably not, but 20 years from now? maybe.
Caldera you say?

Some cheeky person has put Penn and Teller's recipe up on epicurious ...

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/swedish-lemo...
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FWIW, iOS 15 lets you put a TOTP secret right into the saved password entry on your phone, and it will autofill the code just like it autofills your password.
> How is implementing dark mode even remotely comparable to launching a new general purpose CPU and transitioning an entire product line from one CPU to another?? Is changing the color on a web site that hard?

They're definitely not comparable, but having been involved in implementing dark mode for an iOS app (the quote you're reffing is talking about the mobile app, not website): Yes, implementing dark mode for at least an iOS app can be surprisingly challenging (or at least, a lot of work). It's probably much easier to write a brand new dark-mode supporting app, but retro-fitting it onto an existing app is a whole other thing.

Your designers need to re-colour the entire UI (and this turns out not to mean just "Map colour X to colour Y" btw), you need to cope with on-the-fly switching (iOS devices can be configured to switch dark mode setting automatically at sunrise/sunset), anywhere you're doing custom drawing needs to have dark mode retrofitted into it, and if you're getting imagery from a backend anywhere you'll probably need to add support for getting both light/dark mode images at once (which of course also means you need to re-draw all that imagery for dark mode as well). There's bound to be more stuff I'm forgetting.

So yeah, dark mode for an app can be a bit of work, it's not just swapping colours.
> This means that living and acting in a country where your very _thoughts_ are monitored is practically an alien concept for me. How do you live and decide with a government over you that can grab control at any time they wish?

SOOOOO NO. In this case, ARM China has one oddball dude who is playing Robinhood to the World Order Intellectual Property Policing Regime that has been absolute & tyrannical. No country in the world DARES tries to do a single thing on their own.

We're just getting wind that 10 years ago, Microsoft and IBM showed up and told New Zealand, who was dangerously considering thinking for themselves, that they had to fall in line, and sure enough, they bought the influence they needed[1].

Your wind up is 100% about fear, about a country where liberties are constrained, data monitored & controlled. And yet this story is something utterly different. This occurrence is different. It's not about your personal liberties being stepped on. This is where a person within a nation finds a way to use that nation to seize control of that arm of the business. But what's wild here to me is: that person is going to act like Robinhood. They've stolen intellectual property, freed it from the shackles & chains the rest of the world says it has on it. The rest of the world restricted the liberty of this information, the rest of the world prevented discussion of this information, the rest of the world monitored how it was used. The rest of the world backed ARM Holding LTD's exclusive right to determine the fate of the chips used almost everywhere on the planet, at all manners of scale, and no one absolutely no one had a single say about that. That's what Intellectual Property meant to the world.

This sounds like a total nutjob episode, aboslutely wacked out single-actor hijinks. But holy shit, this is about freeing something that has been locked up for a long time, and it's fucking epic.

[1] https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/IBM_and_MS_deciding...
> It used to be that IRBs required AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT

This is (and has always been) waivable in cases (like this one) where either obtaining consent is impractical (which maybe applies here) OR you are making use of de-identified data (more likely to apply in this case). Affirmative consent still is required in many cases.

With health data (the case I know personally), it would not be feasible for me to find five million patients and ask them to participate in my boring study answering a question which wouldn’t interest them. Just mailing each of them a letter to ask would be cost prohibitive!

The value of research is frequently non-zero, whereas the risk to the participants is generally zero or extremely low. This is the balance the IRB is trying to strike.

And believe me, as someone who has gone through it, I think they err way way WAY too far on the side of being overly cautious!
Whats the adage? You can't out train a bad diet...
American foreign policy was wrong-headed because it envisioned China happily assimilating into a world order which recognized US as rightful hegemon of all oceans and most land. This was more of an unspoken assumption, the spoken version had all the stuff you said.

Why would they accept that? There's a billion and a half of them and they work harder. They're going to have regional hegemony over their area as a matter of arithmetic.
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Let this be a cautionary tale for anyone wanting to set up shop in China, go in with your eyes wide open. As far as I know only Tesla has been able to retain 100% ownership while operating in China.
Did you know curiosity comes in different forms?
Could you please follow the site guidelines, regardless of how nutty another commenter is or you feel they are?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm a huge fan of lighter than air craft and have been for many years, decades now. So saying that, I don't see this system ever actually working in the real world.

* If the departure and arrival points currently exist, they likely have roads available. Even the best case autonomous airship isn't going to be cheaper than a truck.

* With a maximum cargo capacity of 650lbs whatever cargo loaded onto an airship will likely have to be broken down. A standard 48"x48" pallet can easily be loaded with two to three times that weight.

* FAA regulations for helicopter landing pads [0] want a final approach, take off (FATO) area to be 1.5x the overall length of a helicopter. For an airship with partially aerodynamic lift I don't see why this wouldn't be larger but if it was the same you'd need a FATO area 90' on a side for a 60' long airship.

* The airship terminals would need their infrastructure and operations to include these huge cleared areas for the airships. A lot of consideration would need to go into vertical clearance for things like fork lifts because of the overhang dimensions of the airship.

* Urban heat islands and microclimates will severely hamper airships in ways that heavier than air craft don't worry about.

While I'm not in love with trucks, they make far more sense than airships for cargo in 99% of all cases. For one trailers and tractors don't need to be handled at the same time. A container(s) can be broken down and pallets moved to trailers and then a tractor called in once that's complete to move it out.

They also don't require some huge land area for loading and unloading. Middle mile terminals will have loading docks and/or forklifts. A mechanical problem with a tractor or trailer can be handled relatively easily on-site. If an autonomous airship has an issue at the terminal it can't be towed away easily unless even more space is dedicated to storage. If it breaks down during transport it can land on all sorts of stuff that doesn't want a half ton of airship landing on it.

[0] https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...
I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem
The no notch option on my Galaxy A40 got unshipped. Not happy.
People voting for issues that are irrelevant and don't work, but sound nice
Except if the weather conditions force you to delay the shipment.
Where? Can you cite any source for this?
If you look at the property crime rates, it’s certainly not because people behave.
> So, if your argument for not studying string theory is that it doesn't make testable predictions, you are actually saying that you should not study quantum gravity at all.

A different version of the argument: After X amount of work and effort, string theory has not managed to make falsifiable predictions. Here X is much larger (by a factor of 100 maybe?) than the work and effort spend so far to study quantum gravity. Who knows, if quantum gravity might proceed to give falsifiable predictions after some more work.
With active participation of competitors, it would be easy. They won't like it and that's why it's hard.

> That's essentially what this is.

No.
If they told you, it wouldn't be a secret.
It's worth noting that this - and other non-crypto remittance schemes - rely on the end exchange agent having access to large amounts of physical US cash.

This article doesn't go into where that comes from, but it's not unusual for criminal gangs to launder money this way. The agent themselves might not be a criminal, but they take often use the cash supplies from one and transfer back the value somewhere else (via a legitimate business) less a commission.
The author suggests Apple will continue to pay less tax (than I would like it to pay, since taxes are for government infrastructure, in part, which any company here benefits from directly and indirectly) and shift more into subscription-based income for those who like the idea of a walled, manicured garden.
Looking at what Peter thiel and Weinstein presented, my impression has been that they are seeing the threat as a general trend as an influence on the US way of society. Or to be precise, the type of society that enjoyed by the rich. The powerful in US are not as better off as their counterparts in China.

As a Chinese American myself, any derivation from Peter and Weinstein's argument as the basis for special treatment to Chinese immigrants, or default being suspicious stereotype, is plain racism (looking at how Chinese Americans are treated, racism seem not applicable to our group).
You completely ignored everything that I was talking about, and misdirected to some other thing, about "promises", lol.

My initial post was about how Taiwan is already a country, no matter what words are on a piece of paper.

What makes something a country, is the fact that it has its own laws, borders, taxes, and army, and it has been that way for decades. That was my point.

And no words on a piece of paper change those facts on the ground.
I believe Californians equating America's homeless with garbage is the problem, snowflake.