skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this were to be proposed in America I would view it as extreme government over-reach.

It is an extreme government overreach, whether in the US or China. It's an abuse of human rights. China is about one step away from treading into classic Mao Communist cultural attack mode.

The interesting thing about pursuing so much control, is that more control requires ever more control, it's a negative spiral. More oppression requires ever greater oppression to keep the system from rupturing.

Anyone championing this as borderline acceptable, those people have little terrifying monsters inside, little psycho dictators, yearning to violently oppress and control people. Societies are always filled with these little monsters running around trying to violently control people, they always have to be pushed back against.

In China's case, Xi is pursuing a new cultural revolution, as he sees fit to implement. One thing after another is being taken out, targeted.

They took out all traces of freedom of speech, years ago. They isolated the people with the great firewall, to restrict foreign influence, control domestic influences, and keep the people contained. They installed aggressive censors at all tech and media companies. They eliminated all independent news and media. They've further cracked down on all religion, religious expression, religious worship. They banished nearly all foreign reporting from the country. They banished all joke apps. They banished all gay culture. They're culturally cleansing the Muslim Uyghur regions. They implemented the social credit scoring system. They've entirely taken over Hong Kong and are proceding with wiping out its formerly independent culture. They've installed direct party control over all major private corporations, tech or otherwise. They've neutered all of their most prominent business persons, one after another. They've purged, vanished numerous prominent celebrities. They're in the process of banning all negative discussions of anything economic/financial. They're initiating an effort to prevent any consequential companies from publicly listing stock overseas, looking to increase economic control and reduce foreign influence. They're wiping out private education (classic cultural revolution move on education). They're about to flip to a digital currency, to further increase the ease and application of economic controls over individuals. This is the short list of what they've done since Xi took power, and they're only just getting warmed up.

It's a science fiction nightmare, set to become real. This gaming restriction is just one little drop in the ocean of what they're doing broadly, it's all moving in concert.
>Like how evil-overlord can this be if they can't even get this basic stuff right?

I'd recommend a read of some Kafka to get a picture of how it could turn out...
I don't think you'd need to change much of the law.

A heck of a lot of stop signs would become yields. A heck of a lot red arrows would become blinking yellow arrows.

We could probably do automatic speed limits on limited access highways by measuring the current traffic speed, hitting it with some sort of weighted algorithm to prevent swings in speed or comically high/low speeds.

Frankly I'm surprised there's no such thing as a "yield, unless you're turning left or going straight" type stop sign since there are a lot of intersections where that's what the prevailing traffic flow is in practice.

A ton of intersections could be redesigned to facilitate easier and safer jaywalking with carefully placed islands.

If I had to change the law I'd have stiff fines for stopping at a cloverleaf and I'd make failing to go the minimum speed (which is usually the speed limit minus some constant) subject to the same fine schedule as speeding.
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Could mRNA vaccines be designed to provoke the body into generating antibodies like this on its own?

With the existing mRNA vaccines, they took mRNA that corresponded to a stabilized form of the spike protein. Could you work backwards instead, where you know the kind of antibody you want to generate, so you design an antigen that only that antibody would bind to?
As a current subscriber, I look forward to transitioning to competitor Idagio. Good luck, Apple!
Why there isn't technology that allows us to see who is calling? Like email. I don't answer calls any more because of the amount of spam calls I get. Seeing who is calling would solve this problem.
Just to clarify even further, it's not only AGPL instead of the GPL (some times it's also GPL instead of MIT), but the cloud providers would be perfectly conformant with the AGPL too.

Usually the HN people that are complaining are talking about market concentration.
I tried switching to Capture One as well, and enjoyed using it for the most part, but I couldn't fully switch for one primary reason.

I'm still fairly new to photography and use a few preset packs that I've paid for as a base before making modifications to them to my liking. I downloaded a program that converts Lightroom presets to LUTs, and those worked decently, but they were visibly inferior due to the fact that the converter cannot handle camera/lens profiles.

I ended up just going back to Lightroom Classic for now, but hopefully once I progress enough to make my own edits from scratch I'll be able to switch back to Capture One.
While I agree that much of targeted advertising is very intrusive and not accurate, it's still very much cost efficient compared to anything.
Initially, acquisition cost are there, either by generating SEO content or marketing or lead generation.
Retargeting is one step beyond that, off course if you get ads for a car you've just bought, it's pretty bad. The ads should display aftermarket parts for that car or insurance offers, but these wouldn't come from the same vendor.
At least it leaves some branding impact.
Or if it's food items, it had led me to buy the same things a few times again.
Source, very good friend is head of online advertising in a company.

He swears up and down, it can be a very good product if you have a large online audience.
Quite a bit more as contractor. Yes.
Mercury Is No Longer the Closest Astronomical Body to the Sun
Author here. Thank you for the link to Midori's error model. It's on my reading list for this week.

> So we should keep the door open, and not pretend we have already solved errors.

Very much this. Even with errors as values, the approach languages like Go take makes composition difficult. I presented the Kleisli approach instead. That recovers compositionality.
OCaml does something I find interesting. It makes exceptions performant by not capturing stack traces by default. But it's still too easy to forget handling the exception.

> btw, the article uses Rust, not Go, but anyway...

I actually used TypeScript. The Rust bit was meant to introduce the idea from Rust to TypeScript. It's not new in TypeScript, but it's not popular either. I have updated the article to clarify that.
> Modern games dont have that text, and even when they do they have voice acting to get around it. Games like Chrono Trigger and old school Final Fantasy are rare and dont get made as much anymore unfortunately. Its all gambling boxes.

What sort of games have you been playing?

Modern games come in every possible variety, and as soon as you look outside the likes of Fortnite you're swamped in story-heavy games, if that is what you want. The Atelier games, for example. Certainly those have voice acting, but not everywhere—and if that's a problem, pick the Japanese VAs.
It's active. Seems to have been moved to https://github.com/v1cont/yad
I’d be very tempted to end things right there… or use the most obnoxious font I could find.
+1 on this. I thought the UX was fresh. But there tends to be lots of such nitpicks... I wonder if that has anything to do with the cultural stuff behind it.
Great comment. Thank you
Soooorta?

Stationeers does much better.
> That's borrowing money.

I get that's it's a bit different that what GP said, but isn't that also a viable solution for the problem of "not enough money right now to pay wages but in a few months there will be so wait for then." ? Borrow money, pay wages on time, when that lump of money comes in that would allow the paying of back pay, use it to pay off loan (or set it aside to pay off portions as they come due).
If they were applying in the tech industry you would. Might as well lump in metallurgist, chemist, materials scientist, and sheet metal workers because we do this in the tech industry. Everyones a generalized set of specialists rolled into one.
Gatekeeping on the knowledge. Not gatekeeping the knowledge.
Statistically, those who become wealthy quickly are far more likely to end up in bankruptcy than people who never get wealthy. This is because they tend to start living the way they fantasized they'd live if they were rich -- but seriously underestimate how expensive that is.

I know a very wealthy man. I once asked him what the secret to becoming wealthy is. He responded "You're not going to believe me, but this is the truth. It's very simple. Spend less money than you make, and keep doing that."
To me it's funny because managers and executives want employees to work the same hours as them, but sure don't want to share the compensation side of the equation with employees. To me free time becomes exponentially more valuable after 30-40 hours. And alot of companies are surprised when employees fall behind on technology because it's on the employee to put the extra time and money in.
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Even on vibrate it's too much for me. I have had my phone on "do not disturb" for 2 years now. Every time I see someone calling me I have an anxiety attack.

Careful with burn out kids, it can fuck you up in such a bad way it feels irreparable and hopeless.
More recently, the New Yorker published "The Plague Year" [1] in Jan 2021. IIRC, this was the first time since the Hiroshima issue that they dedicated almost the entire magazine to a single article. I quite liked it, and it was even on the HN front page [2].

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-yea...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25616014
If other countries had not developed vaccines and eventually shared them with New Zealand what would they have done? Just sat with closed borders for the rest of time?

You can apply that bit of logic to every bit of tech that exists. New Zealand is a tiny place, with a population less than that of a medium to large city. Why not buy something proven?

> Just sat with closed borders for the rest of time?

I’m quite happy with the closed borders and wish they were more tightly closed. Others can have different views - the results speak for themselves. Once things are are more settled and treatments are better managed, we can open up.

> slowest vaccination rate in the developed world.

Our vaccine roll out has been slow, though the current rate of administration would be one of the highest in the world so that failing is hopefully temporary.

> Very strange.

What do you believe New Zealand should do? I’d say that we are in a very good position relative to most.
I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but calling antivaxers murderers by proxy is illogical and inconsistent. We know that obesity is a preventable and treatable condition, and that it greatly increases the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization. So should we also label obese people as murderers by proxy? Obviously not.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm

Instead of insulting them to make yourself feel morally superior it's more productive to focus on education and persuasion.
My favorite interview surprise was when I was asked to craft a presentation on an interesting project and be prepared to discuss it. When I got on site, it turns out they wanted me to present it cold to the entire dev team of 50+ people.
Maybe, but it’s way more likely that they mean “I took a picture of something with myself in the frame.”

A selfie can really be any picture where you’re holding the camera and in the frame. The subject of the photo can be something other than you.

“I took a selfie with…” means that I and the other thing are the subjects.

“I took a selfie of…” means that the other thing is the subject I’m just in the picture.
"Contract" in this use does not mean the same thing as contract work in the US.

It is a full-time position with all the benefits therein, except at the end of a year the employer can choose not to renew it. It is not equivalent to US 1099/freelance work.
"crumbles" works well, and seems a lot closer to what we're feeling. Personally, I prefer the phrase "collapse is a process, not an event".
I should have been more explicit. Legally, “assault” does not have to involve contact, hence “assault and battery”.

Assault sans battery is still a crime. Repeatedly threatening to punch someone, e.g., or throwing punches without landing them.
Anecdotally,

> I rarely see vegans driving adoption for Indian/Haitian/west-african food.

As a vegan-ish non-indian american person, i am a huge advocate for more indian food. I LOVE indian food.

But not everyone is onboard. I see the issue more to do with culture and flavor than anything. Americans want american food not indian food (at least in part). Thats why impossible burgers are more popular than Aloo burgers.

On the flip side, i see tofu appearing in all sorts of dishes, even Tofu tacos and the like. This is because tofu is less imposing. You can make tofu whatever you want (like meat), which is not as true of more flavorful alternatives from eg. india. This makes it a better "gateway" alternative". Thats why alt-milk is getting popular now - its just milk, but made differently and now better. Everyone already knows and likes Almonds and Oats, so why be nervous about the change?
Pricing tweaks that make more money
Yes well. On one hand people are angry when big tech roll out closed protocols. And on the other hand open standards get criticized for being messy…
I'm inclined to agree with you, but I'm curious how serious these plans were. Did anyone really try hiding in bunkers and organizing an independent community, or was that just armchair Redditing?
Agree it's what UBI sets to solve and the reason UBI is appealing but neither of those were in question.

You're referring to 2 different "labor shortages" at once there. The proposed labor shortage in the question "what if UBI were available at a life sustaining level" and the labor shortage caused by the current wealthy being able to opt out of labor. That the latter hasn't caused societal labor shortage issues is true but as you say it has been capturing a portion of the profit in a negatively impacting way and it's also on the order of 100x fewer participants than UBI would have. With that in mind it doesn't seem to be unreasonable to ponder what negative impact expanding such a concept 100 fold may have.
> The decision...comes after weeks of EU officials criticizing the Biden administration for not lifting U.S. restrictions on travel from Europe.

So it's strictly retaliatory.
Yet i can't count how often i've seen business owners giving juniors large codebases without mentorship because they don't want to pay a senior.
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It seems surprising that so many collapse ideologies are focused on local production and self reliance. I would naively read environmental trends as tending to require more interdependence: we’re going to have significant population centers with no arable land and no fresh water. Maybe they’ll find ways to cooperate and trade for what they need. Maybe they’ll migrate en masse to better resourced areas. Maybe they’ll resort to war and plunder. But at any rate there is going to be an interaction.
I think the difference is that in the Windows case the "person in question never had a license" (or well enough valid licenses).

On the other hand in this case there was a license given out (to every one) but it's terms where breached. Licenses are contracts so breaches ending up on contract curt isn't absurd. The only reason it doesn't happen in the US is the automatic Termination of the license/contract if it's breached. But I guess this is where the court decided that a automatic full termination in the specific way combined with a lawsuit based on the after effects of the termination isn't valid/doable/...
Struggling to learn a new language? Blame it on your stable brain
This link - http://neilsloane.com/packings/index.html#I - has dead URLs. Like this - http://www.teleport.com/~tpgettys/dodeca.gif . I specifically wanted to check where the dodecahedron comes short.

Good article, but it'll take some time to understand it. %1 is interesting, I used to use {..} for taking fractional part, %1 is intuitively easy, though not looking particularly good...
To clarify: The linked oat milk has 10% oats, oats have 4% sugar [0]. So if the oat milk only had sugar from oats, it would have 0.8g of sugar (0.1*0.04*200g). So how does it have 5.84g of sugar if they advertise "There is no added sugar whatsoever."? [1] The trick is that some of the oats are chemically converted to sugar.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=oats+100g

https://www.oatly.com/uk/products/oat-drink
Not vegan/vegetarian, but I never really understood this either. I absolutely love Indian food, vegan or not. Whereas most “western” vegan foods I see don’t look overly appealing or seem to just want to emulate meat .
It's fine, actually. I've been working many teams over the last eight years using Scala. The important thing is to know where you _don't_ want to go and you'll be fine. Clean code is a developer's agreement.

> My experience has been that you end up with more complex implementations than you wish you had to maintain.

Don't you get that with any language? I for one always find myself in a battle against complexity, no matter the language.
I kind of disagree with this. For the post-Beethoven era, sure, but the standard way of playing Beethoven and before tends to be heavily biased towards an uninformed modern idea of what classical music "should" be, which is stodgy, slow, smooth, heavily refined, overcooked with crescendoes and decrescendos, and quite inauthentic. Almost as though it's shameful for music to be immediate and exciting at the risk of being unrefined. If you compare Furtwängler's[1] Beethoven symphonies to Christopher Hogwood's... one sounds like music for wealthy old people at a concert hall. The other sounds like music. (Don't get me started on the routine butchering of Bach...)

But that's just my opinion. The point is it really pays to try different conductors, performers and performances before the 1830s or so. I'm not sure why that time changes things, but I'd guess the romantic style that came after more closely aligns with artsy-fartsy performance practices, and that composers also became more careful about marking how their works should be performed. Anyway, trying different things is also a good exercise in developing personal taste, which is a key ingredient of music appreciation.

[1] I originally had von Karajan here, but I went back to have a listen and it wasn't as bad as I remembered. Substituted Furtwängler's inexplicably famous recordings, which sound like the entire orchestra took Valium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bOxcryX1VE . Compare to Beethoven's recommended tempo and historical style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y07M8e5g-Y
And literally the very next sentence:

> The decision...comes after weeks of EU officials criticizing the Biden administration for not lifting U.S. restrictions on travel from Europe.
modern leadership: working long hours "making decision and directing" for astronomical pay whiling convincing the plebs to work overtime at lower than market pay executing the brilliant plans. All in the name of making wealthy investors spreadsheet numbers go up that have no way of actually spending all of that wealth.
It's horrifying, but then, the more time goes on the more IPCC forecasts trend towards what was previously labeled as histrionics and doomerism. Anyway, action is the antidote to despair and it's what has worked for me. We're far past the point where losing a few coastal cities is our biggest worry.
What are some products and services in the US that are not in Nigeria?
Recently, I have been trying to build something of value, maybe offer a service or a product and it seems am out of ideas.

So, what are some products and services used in every day living in the US/developed countries that are not yet available in other countries(Nigeria)?
Agile requires just in time requirements and priority setting, coupled with the ability to make small changes and iterate.

If you have a "this feature needs to be delivered by X date" type of corporate culture, then you have to make a commitment, and because dates are almost always tight, you need to be as efficient as possible to achieve that goal.

So basically you have the software teams wanting to work in two week sprints, and you have execs needing new thing for contract launch in X weeks, and guess who wins? It's not the software developer, so the agile becomes toothless, because you're not learning, or iterating. You're just pushing against a gantt chart the whole way a sprint at a time, and might not even be able to release beta versions and get feedback, because that takes up valuable time.

I'm not as cynical as OP, but there is a really big push/pull that happens, and it can turn into a toxic environment if forces too far outside the product/development cycle dictate priorities (like sales, or execs).
Having seen 100s of high def birds, mountains, weddings, even pro photos are pretty repetitive.

These say interpretive art to me more than every pixel of yet another nature shot, or airbrushed person. They make my imagination curious about the world within.

When all the details are there just as they would be outside, why not just go outside?
Wireguard is so useful, and intuitive, and straightforward, and easy to use, that I suspect it'll be as ubiquitous as TCP someday. Not before a billion look-alike VPN apps or services pop up, of course.
Space SPACs: How Sustainable Are Public Space Companies?
Sibling is a throwaway I tell you! Bake em away ~dang~ toys.
eBPF: A curated list of projects related to eBPF
I'm not implying that growth is impossible; on the contrary, investing your money in stocks/real estate/crypto can generate consistent returns over a long time period. I just interpreted OP's words as meaning more of a "get rich quick" type thing.
Has ε = 0.36 been named as constant or relations with other optimal packing algorithms? It's approximately 1/4 Phi?
Having spend 1/2 lifetime doing this: yes++

Add to all that : the calendaring hosting providers will block your API access to their customers so unless you have a business relationship with them, or the technical solution means that they can't block you, it's a crappy business proposition.
In many cases, it is not possible for you to know what value they will get out of the project, especially at the very beginning when you need to say what your rate is.
Governments have responsibility for the wellbeing of the citizen, but they also have responsibility to stay out of the way of the citizen's personal behaviors unless it is really needed. These two interests are always conflicting so the government shouldn't just limit things in the name of citizens' wellbeing without careful consideration.

Also, not all potentially addiction forming behaviors should be regulated. By this standard, masturbation could be addicting and destructive too, should the government regulate the number of times it can be done a week? In china, it's legal to have sex at 14, does that mean sex is not addicting?

Personal anecdotal story is close to useless. Freedom regulation policy needs to be backed with strong data.
What do you think about the government banning alcohol?
Exactly. Thats when you create a massive beast of code which dynamically generates SQL from fragments with string interpolation... In SQL.