skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've visited the war graves there on multiple occasions helping people to locate graves of family members. The numbers are astounding, and the battles went on for far longer than just that first day. But on that first day alone the casualties are well into the thousands.

So on D-day it was less than predicted, but once the beachhead was established it was far from over. The total number of dead is in excess of 200,000 on the allied side alone in the battle of Normandy.

I highly doubt that retaking Taiwan after a successful invasion would be something that the general public would have the stomach for, I also highly doubt that putting the required number of troops to defend Taiwan in harms way if it came to that would be an option.

On the Chinese side there would not be any question about whether or not public opinion would be behind such a move.
Why wouldn't someone think of democracy as a target?
Depends on what you mean by "existing technology". Do electronic devices using quantum effects in solid state materials count? There you have the whole semiconductor industry. What about exploiting the behavior of charge carriers in vacuum? There you have the whole vacuum tube industry. Etc. etc. Before these things existed, nothing even remotely similar was being utilized by human civilization in our technological ventures at the very least in these two cases (or at least nothing did that readily comes to my mind, but considering the physics involved, it seems unlikely).
I had no idea to be honest. Unrelatedly that's kinda sad really that there's all this art just sitting in someone's art vault
Engineering a second genetic code in parallel with the normal one
Oh wow that is helpful for me. My grandfather had Alzheimers, and my mother (his daughter) had frontotemperal dementia. So I know I'm at risk. This was a good article towards maybe helping out some research even if it doesn't help me specifically.
Toyota suspends all self-driving vehicles at PG after collision with athlete
China could certainly wreck Taiwan with air and missile strikes, however an invasion is far more difficult. China has limited amphibious lift capacity and those ships would be very vulnerable while crossing the strait. Due to geography there are only a few beaches and ports where an invasion force could put ashore, and those all have extensive defenses. So it doesn't matter how large China's population is if they can't get them to Taiwan, and then maintain the necessary logistic train.
Luckily large refactors are relatively painless in Rust.
So your justification is that so we can continue to dominate and bottle-up China, because we are good and they are bad? Do you really think they have plans to attack the west?

Remember that they were colonized/humiliated by the west, then occupied by Japan, up until Mao secured their independence. The foreign supported force fled to Taiwan. Do you think they might look at their situation differently than we do?

EDIT: changed 'foreigner force' to 'foreign supported force'
Israel gets 80% of it's water from desalination, it works out about $0.65 per cubic meter (tonne) so it's more expensive then literally falling out the sky but certainly affordable for a first world country...maybe even the US.
Will they got rid of a lot of people who thought differently.
TBF, I've heard opinions all over the spectrum for OF. Many supportive, many not so much. Sex work is pretty much as controversial as usual.

Also, the idea of OF isn't that one dude spends thouands to a million dollar coporation, it's that thousands, maybe millions, spend like $10 to see curated boobs, which mostly goes to a single creator (at most. a dozen people managing their social media).

I'm not a vehemently against mobile games as many parts of the internet, but it is a different dynamic altogether.
> You're talking about median income but not expenses. Have you considered rent/housing costs? Health care? Car repair? Basic utility costs? Saving for retirement?

You think the people living on the median household income in the US don't have to worry about these things for some reason?
Ask HN: What are the most underrated GitHub projects?
Today I came across an amazingly useful github project which had 0 stars, forks or wathchers even though it has been around for a few months.

For a long time I had assumed that great projects would have quite a few stars. Obviously I'm wrong.

Curious to know of any great projects on github which you think are underrated in terms of the number of stars they have.
That represents an interesting twist in the story, but I don't seeing it affecting the conclusion - ARM has lost all control over their subsidiary (at least until the China judicial powers intervene). This couldn't have happened in a western country.
There exist books about raising a read-aloud family; promoting a culture of randomly reading aloud. To whoever, for example.

Writing letters, too.
DNA viruses include chickenpox, whose massively successful vaccine is an attenuated virus which of course delivers “double strand helix right to your nucleus.”

(And of course smallpox was a DNA virus as well.)

Your appeal to nature fallacy is not worthy of a response.
If political convictions require false beliefs about startups, you will fail
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What is the problem with UEFI? I have only installed Linux on a few computers with UEFI so far, so I don't have a great sample, but I haven't seen any problems. (I have heard about secure boot that cannot be turned off - how often is this the case?)
Async Overloading
Most (US) cities already have regulations against gambling and I don’t see people having underground casinos where they are losing their life savings. AFAIK there is even regulation against e-gambling like online poker.

Microtransactions give the brain the same chemicals but without the possibility of a cash payout and are engineered to take as much money from the user using techniques casinos don’t have access to because they exist in a physical space and not digitally inside a mobile phone without having to offer cash payouts for winners.
Don't all hashes start out as numbers anyway, before they get encoded as alphanumeric strings?
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I tried MDMA many years ago. It gave me a different perspective of the world: one of wonder and extreme beauty. I don't carry it with me in daily life, but it's very easy for me to turn that perspective on at will, and at times when I come across extreme ugliness or extreme beauty, I do turn on that perspective. It's almost a spiritual thing, where you see with amazement that this world even exists as organized chaos despite all the random collisions of atoms in the universe.

Like most things with the mind, it's what you put into it. I wouldn't expect a magic pill to take that just fixes everything. I found this part of the article quite shocking:

> "I walked out of that office feeling hopelessly depressed," he said. "That was a real turning point. I realized for the first time that, if I was going to overcome my depression, it would have to be self-driven."

Uhh, ya it's going to have to be self-driven. If you're expecting to just take a pill and do no actual work yourself, then you're totally unrealistic about taking control of your own mind and life. This goes for any area of life, weight, depression, happiness, etc. That culture/pharma/whomever sells this idea of an easy out to Americans is quite sad.
Louisiana is just going to lose so much territory between now and the end of the century to the ocean. Their shorelines are just too shallow to deal with the hurricanes and rising sea levels that are coming.
They're pretty good for solar and wind farms.
> Even after features or products are deemed to have little to no value, teams keep them around for ages instead of responsibly removing them. The most common argument we hear is, “This [small subset] customer [sic] regularly uses the feature and we’ll lose out, if we remove it.” Instead of associating unshipping with the traditional ‘What do we lose?‘ perspective, let’s reframe to a ‘What do we gain?‘ perspective. After all, unshipping can actually improve product metrics.

Conversely Google does this all the time and has enough of a brand reputation problem around it that they struggle to launch new lines of business that rely on trust that you’re not going to take away the product shortly after launch. Case in point for one of the large reasons I think Stadia failed in addition to the absurd pricing model. There were other headwinds but I think Microsoft proved with Xbox that you can stick around long enough to be successful. I think Apple’s ecosystem is more forgiving here, but that’s because they’re generally more careful about bringing out products in the first place and then taking a very long time to sunset them (eg iTunes). User trust is real and you can sacrifice it if you must, but that isn’t reflected by usage numbers today.
This is such an obvious bait and switch. If we had a functioning FTC WD would be forced to refund all purchasers 2x.
When you pump water over a hill you need energy to pump it up and can retrieve some of that energy when it flows down hill. That's why CA uses some of its reservoirs as hydroelectric storage batteries, pumping water up when electricity is cheap and letting it flow down when electricity is expensive.

https://www.sdcwa.org/projects/san-vicente-pumping-facilitie...
the rogue ceo allen wu is american.
Ask HN: What are some job sectors which are crying out for tech talent in 2021?
For someone with programming/maths/statistics skills.

Is ML/data science still hot? Cyber-security?
Or something really obscure?
To me, asking the operating system's video abstraction layer seems cleaner than asking the device's binary blob.
We have an example most readers here are familiar with: the US ignored European (mostly British) intellectual property when they were developing and now they produce more innovation than any European country. Germany, Switzerland, and Italy also ignored patents for a while and now they are power houses when it comes to pharmaceuticals and chemicals.
Bitcoin is not worst then the government or companies in general when it comes to the environment... maybe we need a bigger target. One example: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14427364 (and you know that Japan has a LOT of contaminated water stored).
3MB of the 4MB data appears to be JS, and a lot of that repeated calls to recaptcha_en.js, which would be cached after the first call. Though I don't know if all those repeated calls are really needed.
ARM did this to themselves. When you create a new entity in China, you agree that you don't control it. It is free to go off and do it's own thing. So when you create a nee entity in China, and give it a ETERNAL LICENSE to your CPU CORES you can't take that back if it "goes rogue". ARM created a monster and now they have to compete with it.
I had. For example, HP EliteBook 8470p claims the drive is not bootable if there is a DOS partition table where no partition is marked bootable (I think it shouldn't parse the partition table at all, just check the magic and execute the first sector).

What glitches have you seen (so I'm prepared when I meet them)?
Alternate title: When one arm doesn't know what the other arm is doing.
It's crazy to me that in Norway they treat the oil reserves they found in the 60s as a good that is owned by the nation collectively, but we can't even treat water that way. Something that, if mismanaged badly enough, could kill us all in a week.
Does it matter for this purpose? I have a hard time imagining that your business raises capital and has an exit, where QSBS will come into play.
Pumping seems like something that could run intermittently with renewable energy. Have to overbuild capacity I suppose.
I had a specific class on relational algebra in uni and it is up there with algorithm design and analysis in the realm of classes that actually provided me the most long term value.

Relational algebra is a lot easier once you start viewing it as relational algebra - a declarative expression of intent that can be manipulated and re-expressed similar to other purely mathematical statements. Then, when performance tuning becomes the watchword, you take that flexible expression and slice and dice it according to how the DBMS you're working with requires to align it with performance. You always want to think of your queries as complex summoning spells that draw in different necessary resources in some particular patterns and then impose an expression form on that blob of data - then you'll skate through all things SQL.
Online orders save staff time, and are much less error-prone.
This doesn't have anything to do with the shortages. SSD OEM's have been doing it for years. The real reason is the NAND manufactures add more layers or change nodes.
I'm replying to the grandparent comment. I said "Also" meaning I was adding onto your comment.
Another way where AI can be used to slowly dominate human activities.
Almost the same experience with most psychedelic drugs here except I wouldn’t say I had any profound realizations, more so that things I knew and understood in my subconscious I was more more open to myself about.

Ofc a few days later and I’m back on my bullshit.
1) Sendwave only provides remittance into Africa (among other continents), but you can't bring funds out of Africa via Sendwave. 2) That's all Sendwave does, just that one service. 3) We offer user's accounts in their country of origin (KES for a Kenyan), plus an account in their country of residence (USD if now residing in the US). Then we allow for instant interaction between the two (so users can send money out of Africa), as well as other services, plus other services to come.
Thank you so much for the thoughtful explanation. Honestly from what I can tell, Laravel is the most popular with remote devs and dev shops. So I think I will end up going with that for now.
Maybe I'm missing something particular about Rust? When the archive is loaded at runtime, we don't need explicit IDs: we have a normal object graph, with references between things. The instantiated widgets have identity as objects in memory. The string `id="ykl-6F-b5r"` isn't relevant -- or used at all.

You can create as many instances of `Button` as you want, and they are different, and their targets (the other widgets they message when tapped) are different because they were either created alongside or, if they were live before the archive was deserialized, a reference was made to them as part of the deserialization process.
> What's changed?

Colonialism ended.

The west was not light years ahead of, say, India, when it was first colonized.

In the process of colonizing it, India's industrialization was stopped.

Countries didn't somehow fall into 'developed' and 'undeveloped' buckets by divine fiat. The latter tended to be invaded by the former, with the occupiers focusing more on wealth extraction, than development.

Once that parasitic relationship has been broken, a large number of developing countries have started moving towards prosperity. Some slower than others, to be sure.
> You might think it’s obvious that you need to rename both A.f and B.f, but that’s just because this snippet is trivial.

In the general case, yes – but that's like saying “no termination analysis is possible because of the halting problem”. The IDE can safely refactor, unsafely attempt a refactor, and warn when it does the latter rather than the former.

Though I didn't know PyCharm didn't do that! That's dangerous; thanks for the warning.
The energy required to pump water UP to the elevations of much of the southwest is astronomical. Huge parts of it are at 5000-7000', so even if you manage to avoid actual mountains, you still have a huge lift from either the coast or the Missouri/Missippii rivers. I have no doubt that there would be ways to move some water in such a manner, but not much.
It is exceedingly difficult to spread the QSBS love like that. Not worth considering. You are venturing into theoretical territory.
It is not. If you're using some service as a business, you may be out of luck.

If however your customers are natural persons, you can migrate their data from a competitor (with their help and/or agreement).

Helping with the latter appears to be the point of Hotswap.
>The United States has officially recognized Taiwan as part of China since 1972.

Its a bit more subtle than this.

Something along the lines of the US recognizes the One-China policy but doesn't accept it leaving the whole situation in a limbo status.

I think this video tries to explain it:
https://youtu.be/cA8VoY3dUFU
I wonder how many of these people also understand, and are willing to accept the fact, that defending Taiwan against an invasion will almost certainly involve successful attacks on USA soil.

China is in a whole other league from the adversaries that the country has faced in generations. The have a world class air force, navy, and ground force complete with advanced aircraft, tanks, aircraft carriers, submarines, missiles, satellites, etc.

Given how poorly the country fared in the pandemic, I'm not so sure the country could hold together in the event of an attack. There's a reasonable chance that Americans will use the opportunity to destroy the government from within.

I support Taiwanese independence, but I'm not sure I support it with my life.
> Though I'm really at a loss as far as network security and firewalls go. I've been setting up firewalls with NAT for 20 years, but I'm still not sure how its all going to work with IPv6. In the mean time, I just disable all IPv6 stuff on the firewall machines, and try not to worry about it.

Hopefully you've heard this before, and I'm sorry if I'm beating a dead horse, but NAT is not a firewall. It does render hosts behind the NAT not connectable from the Internet by default, but that's because they're unroutable not a security feature.

I.e. there was a bug a while ago that let people send UPnP requests over WAN to your router, which makes your hosts suddenly routable. NAT won't stop that from happening and your hosts are basically internet-accessible. A firewall configured to only allow outbound connections would have stopped that.

So if you consider NAT a routing feature, it works the same it always did. You configure the firewall to only allow outbound connections, unless you have a specific reason to allow inbound connections. I don't actually know if it's less secure. NAT required kind-of targeted attacks to exploit, but the IP space for v6 is large enough I would expect a dramatic drop in probe traffic. There are 3.4 * 10^38 addresses. It's just too large of a space to casually scan.
Historically speaking that is exactly what happens.

https://www.popsci.com/how-la-gets-its-water/

I tried to figure out where the water goes, but a complete answer eludes me. If it does indeed go to crops, maybe we need to rethink where we grow crops, much less how.
yeah, the great lakes have enough problems.
As well it should. It's rare for me to defend Microsoft anything, but in this case I will. MS authenticator happily backs itself up to the cloud if you let it. Whether you consider that good or just another attack vector is up to you, but keep in mind if you switch phones, you'll be setting up TOTP again for every service in Google authenticator.
If you've been bailed out and you worry about how the word "Delta" will affect your company that has also got Delta in it, then you're not using that money wisely.
Why are people in the Great Lakes region so paranoid about their water? There are many sources of freshwater in North America. Would you have a problem with reclaiming some of the St Lawrence outflow before it reaches the sea?

By establishing a national water grid, you reduce the likelihood that the Great Lakes will be damaged by water use. You allow the Great Lakes to be replenished if there is ever a climate driven drought. You allow water to be taken from the mouths of all of the great rivers in North America, reducing the burden on any single one of them.
you say that like area 51 is not a thing. it very much is a thing. however, the things people say about those things are not necessarily accurate.
Define "white"
> China has no interest in destroying Taiwan

China doesn't. But Xi might.

I agree that the U.S. has no way of defending Taiwan against Beijing deciding to obliterate it. But short of Xi needing to pull a Falklands, that is unlikely. If China moves on Taiwan, it would be to control the territory and--most likely--its people.
Users will also eventually have the freedom to hold the currencies they want rather than just two as described above.
Cities themselves seem in reasonably good shape. Commercial agriculture in deserts, created in the wake of the fever dreams of the Bureau of Reclamation after two of the wettest decades ever (1900-1920) ... much less so.
Hashing Techniques: A Survey and Taxonomy (2017) [pdf]
A lot of human history was influenced by drugs, tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, even wheat fungus (ergot)... the list is very long.

I'm almost willing to bet that that evolutionary crucial awakening of the "human" consciousness, that pivotal moment when our ancestors split from their apelike predecessors, was likely from the clash of normal consciousness and some drug or hallucinogen.

I am not a drug enthusiast or user outside of caffeine really, but I can empathize with people that want to do more, to go farther, to make the next evolutionary step in their own lifetimes, you know?

Why not let them see where they can reach?
I find myself thinking about this novel more and more.
Well you said people are "lonely guys, social weirdos" for engaging in this activity, and then there are studies saying society as a whole has less physical intimacy this generation than any other.

It may not be intentional, but it is indirectly saying that these activities are major contributors
Can a physicist help me understand something here? Assuming each of these can carry ~650lbs at 30mph. They're 60feet long and have a VERY lightweight airframe. How would these craft deal with wind? do they just get blown away every time there is a gust?
Sir Roger Penrose was investigating non-computability versus computability in brain behavior. I am not sure he even mentions free will.

This highlights some of the unfortunate tensions in this debate, where people may feel obliged to hold to a literal materialism along with a computational theory of mind, and vigorously shoot down anything that threatens to unsettle that somewhat dogmatic position, for fear of strengthening the position of fundamentalist religious believers. In short, it is primarily a political sentiment, not a scientific one.

We should be able to follow where evidence and rational argument leads without being held hostage to such concerns which are strictly irrelevant to the debate.
"We are living in an era of the most sophisticated technological advances possible, and yet the treatment of cancer is paleolithic." — Azra Raza
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Sure, but people can live underneath those solar and wind farms. OP seems to want to move everyone out of the desert for some reason.