skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India, North Korea, Pakistan and Russia are all bordering nations to China with nuclear weapons. During the cold war and to this day, there are no bordering states or any one close to 3000 miles of US borders with nuclear weapons. So, your comparison to US/USSR cold war to China/Taiwan scenario is slightly misplaced I think.
Most people don’t as doing so requires a level of talent, intelligence, and work ethic/determination that’s in the upper tail of human distribution.

Paradoxically, many people who could probably do underestimate their talents while others who can’t/should t overestimate theirs. The universe is funny in that way.
Securing GCC and Glibc [video]
Plus MotionApps Classic is technically also HLE. Plus Garnet VM for ARM, which may be the same anyway. Apparently HLE of PalmOS is reasonably easy for the initial 99% of apps at least, since we do have a number of "successful" implementations already.

Not sure if anyone really cares about the 1% of appls which wouldn't work on OS5 anyway.
Except, it seems, USPS 600k+ employees

https://nypost.com/2021/09/09/usps-exempt-from-biden-vax-man...

thus proving this is not about science, but political, e.g. to stop talking about the Afghan fiasco.
At least they're earning their salaries :]

"NSA spying row: Denmark accused of helping US spy on European officials"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57302806
Fair enough, but 'I want children to treat as pets' is not something the majority of parents are willing to admit, even though in practice it is the number one reason people have children.
I mean, they’re playing a wargame against themselves, so technically they won too.
Crypto 101 is an introductory course on cryptography
> Seems like you'd have better luck trying to capture the GOP than start another party.

Or if someone like Yang but more socially conservative tried to capture the GOP.

Then in 2024 when neither of them win their ticket, but both do fairly well, getting lots of publicity, they join forces to run as a 3rd party. Obviously the establishment would try hard to squash them -- but tens of millions hate the establishment!

> There is a large population of Republican voters that is not really "conservative", but just anti-Democrat.

And a lot of Democrat voters who don't like the Dems, just dislike the Reps more.
Canadian here.

I understand the appeal of ranked choice voting for citizens, but I don't see either the Liberals or Conservatives supporting it.

On the Liberal side, they will always have the idea of strategic voting, where they tell progressive voters "A vote for the NDP/Greens is a wasted vote that will get the Conservatives elected."

On the Conservative side, the next closest party is the Liberals. So their voter base will choose Liberals as their second option (Assuming the PPC is irrelevant).
Joe Biden’s Covid vaccine speech
OECD - https://www.oecd.org/social/expenditure.htm
Explain this: https://nypost.com/2021/09/09/usps-exempt-from-biden-vax-man...
The real ultimate question is whether post-Trumpism will unite the Republican Party or result in a schism among Conservatives by 2024.
This. Frankly, I'm surprised with the restraint China is showing. They can more or less do whatever they want to Taiwan with no real repercussions.
You know, I just quickly zoom with a double tap and nail the UX element.

We have better elements to use, but I must also say those tend to come with costs.

Right now, HN is so lean, fast and clean, I will gladly work a little to vote or do some action in return for what is otherwise one of the best "just read the discussion" presentations on mobile. It's a pleasure.
The Democrats completely screwed him in 2020. Karma.
I really dislike Yang's signature UBI push for a number of reasons, but it's hard to deny that he's a good reasonably smart guy who just wants go do good things.
One might ask, setting aside the task of getting accurate and representative numbers, because that's too much work, what do Indians believe is plausible?

Some people are surely trying to set expectations low, while others may be exaggerating what you can make with a few years of experience.

However, I've seen quite a few different sources claim an entry level developer makes around 4-10 lakh rupees a year. This makes me think they think their audience considers that good but not unbelievable.

And then when somebody claims you can make 60 lakh or more with 5 years experience, it makes me think that their audience knows roughly what US salaries are, whether or not the figure is realistic.
The Kabul Airlift in 5 Charts
raises the question*

Begs the question has a specific meaning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
I came up with a different idea last weekend while walking by a prolifically marked parking garage.

How about the negative? Just label everything that doesn’t cause cancer.

It would drive most signage services out of business.
Really? I must be misunderstanding something then.

The Earth-Moon L1 point is ~63 km from the Moon. Let's say me and my gear weigh 200 lbs, and the Moon's gravity acceleration is 1.62 m/s^2. 63 km * 200 lbs * 1.62 m/s^2 gives a potential energy of only 2,213 kcal. The human body is only 18-26% efficient [0] at converting food into energy, so we're probably looking at around 10-13,000 calories. Depending on what you're eating, that's 4-10 lbs of food.

Obviously, I'm ignoring the time it would take to climb that far, but in terms of energy, it seems reasonable that a human could carry enough good with them, unless I'm gravely misunderstanding something.

I'm guess that assuming "potential energy" means "the energy needed to move X pounds to Y height at Z gravity" is incorrect.

[0] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/46788/how-effici...
On my android device, it flashes a larger graphic briefly. I look for that to know my vote was the right direction.
> I'm no fan of the Chinese government, but trying to claim it is illegitimate seems a pretty big stretch.

That’s exactly what the Chinese government is doing though. Isn’t that a bit of a stretch too?

China claims Taiwan just as Taiwan (more or less seriously, but I doubt with any will to ever try and recover it) claims China.

Or more like they both claim to be the legitimate government of greater China.
I'm guessing he was talking about the Libertarian Party.
Dynamic tables like you're describing are covered in the Metadata Tribbles chapter of the book SQL Antipatterns.

https://pragprog.com/titles/bksqla/sql-antipatterns/
A fluff piece with very little of substance. If you're a techie, don't bother.
Seems like the only fair way to handle Capitol Gains would be to tax the after-inflation gains as ordinary income.
It's ironic to be mocking this Hacker News, where people every day are launching upstart ideas to take on massive incumbents.

Launching your own basketball league isn't even that ridiculous! I could see a basketball league with influencers that's more about the entertainment and characters versus skill level having a chance.
I’m desperately interested but highly skeptical. A genuine center party would help, but there are many structural reasons why it’s not likely, and those would have to be addressed. There’s a great book about this titled “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop.” I highly recommend it.
I recall a single incident from Roman history where Crassus crucified 6,000 slaves on the Appian Way. Things like this make me think you can't easily quantify which slavery was the worst. Perhaps it was easier, in some contexts in Rome, to earn freedom, but perhaps you were more likely to be crucified too.
> I ended up liking this approach because having a zillion open tabs introduces a subtle stress and anxiety that's sort of like when I visit a hoarder.

Sort of like when I'm being a hoarder, for me... :-( Gotta try and learn something like your approach. (I'll do that as soon as I can get around to it, i.e. when I'm done with all the procrastinating that's piling up on my to-do lists.)
Functional programming is subject to an enormous amount of gatekeeping. Kudos to the author for pushing that gate wide open.
Music Copyright in the Age of Forgetting
> What exactly does one do with a billion dollars?

For the most part, people who have that much wealth own a large share of major companies. Many founded and/or control those companies. Their "billion dollars" is often mostly stock in those companies.

So one answer to your question is: operate a company that provides something that millions of people want.
Caught by "slave catchers"/kidnappers and sold at slave auctions.
Is UBI a household idea? I’m trying to think of a time I’ve heard somebody bring it up outside of message boards or Twitter threads, and at least in my experience I’m coming up blank.
Regardless of whether he lost or not, RCV allows you to vote for who you really want to support without being concerned you may be wasting your vote.
Yes that's exactly the point I am making.
I mean, it's not the Morning Star, but it's definitely left-leaning.
That's a pretty strange take of the political consequences of Big Tech power, especially the US 2016 election. Polling for that election put Trump at a low chance of winning (FiveThirtyEight had it at ~30% IIRC), not practically impossible odds. I don't understand how bucking the statistical favorite is some kind of disastrous or unhealthy outcome.

I also don't have any idea what that has to do with Big Tech. Big Tech did and continues to discriminate against right-wing/alt-right views* which you say leads to self-censorship, and that somehow led to an electoral outcome where the right-wing/alt-right candidate won; So Big Tech's corporate power is so immense & influential that it led to...the opposite outcome?

I'm sure there's an argument there somewhere about the dangers of excessive corporate power but I can't make sense of your connection between Big Tech corporate power and your example of the 2016 election of the most anti-Big-Tech US president ever.

* I'm assuming you're referring to right-wing/alt-right discrimination because I don't recall many significant examples in which Big Tech excluded people/partners from "entire swathes of tech, media or the economy" for left-wing views, but feel free to correct me!
As soon as this becomes serious, "someone" is going to hire a botnet to spam Andrew Yang's 3rd party's hashtag on twitter and then his 3rd party will get banned. A similar thing will happen on facebook and Youtube. Without social media, there's no way for a 3rd party get truly get off the ground and influence an election. Even if you create new accounts, why should the average person trust a political party that has to constantly create new social media accounts.

None of the left leaning media will cover this and yang will be forced to air his concerns on Fox news which will immediately discredit him in the eyes of everyone who only trusts the left-leaning media.

And that's the end of Andrew Yang's 3rd party.

Whether you agree with Unity2020 or the people behind it (especially now with all the vaccine chaos) the way it got shut down was stunning to me. Even if they were actually behind some of the suspicious traffic, it just seems like such a game-able system if you have the money to spend to disrupt it.
Fifth force? So … water, fire, earth, air and what else??? :)
I agree, they should be treated like the rest of us.
> The web’s Anglocentric-bias exists largely because of where it was originally created

At CERN, in Switzerland?
> What on earth is this supposed to mean?

The Republic of China was the government of China from 1912 until 1949 when it was overthrown by the CCP and retreated to Taiwan. Until at least 1971 the UN recognized it as the legitimate government of all of China.

The poster's comment is outdated, but that's the historical background -- and why it's less crazy than you might have assumed without knowing the history.
Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette?
That does not seem to be true. https://twitter.com/Cirque
Why would you assume the hospitalization rate is the same among the two populations?
I'm not sure if it would be cheaper, but the potential could be there if there's enough innovation in the space. At least in happy we're exploring all paths and not betting the farm on just one.
Compose is still data-oriented! It's not only possible to pass a Button around, it's encouraged. The representation you should pass is a higher-order function, or lambda:

val button: @Composable () -> Unit = { Button(...) }
List(button) // definitely possible

The advantage is encapsulation: Button as a lambda exposes no external state, so you don't create tangled graphs of data dependencies in your UI.

You should definitely take another look at Compose, because this concept maps extremely well onto Lisps in general (code is data) and Clojure in particular (tight composition of immutable state).
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Commandeer – remap command to escape when pressed alone
If you take more money off the top of the economy and destroy it then you can inject more in the bottom via creation methods like UBI, without causing inflation.

You could also just start injecting more money at the bottom via a UBI designed to constantly grow to chase inflation, and watch the real purchasing value of the 1%’s piles of dollars start to decline precipitously as the dollar entered a hyperinflation spiral, but that would mean international trade would drop dollars for another currency that was more stable.
This isn't really understood by many of the people that push "leadership". At a certain point you also have the problem where the type of people that want management jobs, are the kind of people that want power.

Leadership can really suck. It often means more work, stress, and people disliking you. I was talking to a college friend that's a CTO and was taking calls as his baby was being delivered. He could probably have most of the same stuff as a standard developer and live very comfortably. There's something up with someone that really wants to take that tradeoff.

I'm not judging or manager bashing either. I'm sure if any of you read this you're one of the ones in it for the great things you can accomplish, and to build an excellent team that's totally safe and healthy!
I mean, it did take off, it just petered out after Jobs returned to Apple.

"HyperCard was created by Bill Atkinson following an LSD trip."

"HyperCard had a significant impact on the web as it inspired the creation of both HTTP (through its influence on Tim Berners-Lee's colleague Robert Cailliau), and JavaScript (whose creator, Brendan Eich, was inspired by HyperTalk)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
Agree. Too often descriptions of monads assume that the reader has no formal math training whatsoever and do a lot of handwaving, diagrams, examples, etc. without actually providing a useful definition. This post is the exact opposite.
Here's a paper pointing out the major differences between Rovelli's relational quantum mechanics (RQM) and QBism:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13977
...and love.
Would probably suffer hypothermia in that case.
> “Only 1 out of every 160,000 fully vaccinated Americans was hospitalized for COVID per day.”

I do not understand why they are playing games with these numbers. According to the CDC[1], 4.66/100,000 people fully vaccinated against Covid19 have been hospitalized due to Covid19. That number is 7.5 times as high as the president cited. I am sure the combination of "over the summer" and "per day" can be used to justify that lower number, but when you have to go through these contortions, it undermines trust.

See table "Hospitalized or fatal COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC as of August 30, 2021" in [1]. Calculation is (10,471 - 2,2409)/1,730 = 4.66 / 100,000.

(4.66/100,000)/(1/160,000) = 7.5.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...
> On the contrary, it was a beyond stupid to launch only on iPhone.

No, like any startup they needed to launch an MVP and iterate. Waiting until everything is available on every platform only makes sense if you have the time and resources, which they didn't. They were a small team with limited resources.

Clubhouse wasn’t explosively popular when it launched. The success came a few months later, at which point they had more people seeking invites than they wanted to allow on to the platform. Focusing on getting something minimal out the door and scaling it up is the right choice.

If you’re going to pick one platform to launch an MVP, iOS is almost always the right choice. Tech enthusiasts and early adopters skew toward iOS by a small margin and iOS is a more predictable platform to develop for because you can count on most of your user base being on the current iOS version. Android is a development minefield by comparison, especially when it comes to audio and video.
I think UBI and healthcare would be the least of his issues. Trump showed that social conservatism/fiscal liberalism could be a winning formula for GOP voters. I wouldn’t be surprised if some young, socially conservative candidate in 2024/2028 who is willing to cancel debt/fund stimulus/healthcare wins by a landslide.
He should recruit Tulsi Gabbard and Bill Weld, and start something magnificent.
Happened well before my edit. People associate narratives with tribal politics and vote accordingly. For those like me who think and speak independently, it is a massive disappointment to get caught in the crossfire.
> Archie and Veronica

What I've always found hilarious is how stone-age the comic these were obviously named for was already then, thirty years ago.
Emm.. you don't actually have 10 billions in your bank account.. or a 100... you own eg. Amazon (or a lot of stocks from it), and you sell cheap crap to random people, and other random people value your company at many billions, and are willing to pay whatever the price is for the stocks of the company.
Yang is not dumb so I have to think there is something more to this than some sort of quixotic attempt at an actual 3rd party. Much better and richer politicians than him have tried that and failed badly.
Federal Judge Acquits Professor Accused of Hiding China Ties
> Next will be modified Plaid with added aero surfaces, carbon brakes & track tires (all things that can be done without Tesla being in the loop)

Gee, thanks for letting owners change their brakes and tires without DRM (for now)
>One thing that frustrates me most is that even if people do reach the point of understanding the power these people have, it still won't matter much. We still trust online media such as Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and even this website, as being the fountain of the mythical phenomenon known as "public opinion".

I'm much more interested in who the moderators of social media are and who pays them. Going after 'trolls' is to think we still live in 2011 when this was the way to astroturf.

Reddit for example, on average has none of the content users post on their site reach and stay on the front page: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods/

HN is fairly straightforward in moderation: what dang doesn't like gets deleted, but the user flags have also been weaponised recently.

Twitter and FB I have no idea about. But I can't imagine it's hard to find out who the paid moderators are and pay them some more to delete content you disagree with and not delete content you agree with. The majority of them are paid peanuts to begin with.
Slightly different take on this - there is a dude[0] who attempts to cross countries (Wales, Norway) on foot in a straight line. His videos are highly entertaining

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoWizard
Of course, but the context was 100 million people (or however many) are "immune".

He's referring to people who've had the virus.
I think we'd see a more left-leaning government overall though. But it would essentially be a permanent minority in parliament, which is not appealing to some people who want a more active government.

> PPC is irrelevant

Let's just hope they stay that way, the guy in my (very liberal) riding is completely off the handle with antivax stuff on twitter.
You can do all those things without apps, if you want.
I am disappointed by the naivete displayed by Hong Kong and their Western supporters (plus some mainlanders who privately admitted so). They are just replaying the tiananmen square riot, and had been setup from the beginning to be walking into the trap that happened before, and many times over the course of human history...

They had a very good chance of inducing meaningful change into Chinese people's mindset, and plant the seed for much bigger scale of change in China. Imagine a free and solidified China, with Taiwan finally joining the whole under a free nation. That would be the real junvanation of the nation.

They squandered, they lack the discipline, showing stutling naive approach to serious politics, they are put down like weak fire in the winter days...

What a pity...
I think that almost everything you said is wrong.

The US government cannot (legally) print whatever they need. The Federal Reserve can, but the government cannot. And the government legally has limits on how much it can borrow, too, though the limit gets extended every time they bump into it (sometimes after some political drama).

Now, you could argue that we should change the rules so that the government can print. But, historically, that has worked out really badly. To see why, don't think in terms of money. Think in terms of stuff. Who gets the stuff? Well, the government prints money so that it gets more stuff than it can pay for just by taxes (without causing a political revolt.) That means that there's less stuff for the people. (Printing money doesn't cause more stuff to appear.) So there's more money circulating, and less stuff for the people to buy with it, so there's inflation. But that means the government's printed money is able to buy less than they planned, so they print some more. So they get more inflation, and still can't buy as much as they wanted, so they print some more. This gets you to runaway inflation.

Now, you might be able to get out of this by taxes. But the reason you got into this was that the people weren't willing for you to charge them the needed taxes...
Didn’t you know? Capitalists are not welcome in HN comment threads.
There is also the US National Missile Defense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_national_missile...
It has very little to do with incidentals like benefits, vacation time, etc, and is mostly a question of the huge difference in the productivity of labor of software engineers employed by companies that pay well and companies that don't. FAANG (and similar companies) derive a huge amount of value from each software engineer, which puts a much higher ceiling on how much they can afford to pay them before it stops making sense to hire them at all. And the reason they _do_ end up at a much higher number is because they're competing for a limited # of engineers that pass their bar.

Companies which don't get massive scale on the software they write (and therefore derive much less value from "write once, sell many times") pay correspondingly less.
I'm not sure if it's just a vocal minority, but it sure seems to be the Party of Trump, no longer the Republican Party.
Heartbreaking. I can't even talk about Tiananmen with Chinese -born friends under 40 in the US or Europe. TikTok and WeChat has achieved their goals of driving historical memory from their brains. And if I even mention Taiwan within seconds I am hearing the term "renegade province." It seems for now possible to create a true virtual totalitarian state in the 21st century. It's chains are forged out of "Xi thought" apps and distracting two minute videos.
I inherited a React Native initiative at a previous job. It was fine for simple things like login screens and settings pages, but as soon as we had to do anything complex (like audio/video) we ended up writing native platform code anyway. Now instead of benefiting from React Native we were writing platform code anyway and paying the React Native tax to integrate it back into the app.