skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The future is bleak for Taiwan.

I keep seeing this argument. Let me explain why Taiwan will be free from China's attack for the next 30-50 years (long enough for Xi JinPing to expire)

- US protection. If there's one thing both parties in US agrees on, it's against China. Biden just emphatically committed protection for Taiwan and peace in the south east Asia. There are many US warships sailing up and down Taiwan straits. There are many military deals and cooperations with Taiwan. TSMC is a critical part of the world's electronic supply chain. Taiwan is a critical part of the island chain strategy to contain China, since it acts as an unsinkable carrier against China.

- United democracies. US and its many allies are now coordinating naval exercises in the Region. Japan. Australia. India. UK, France, and Germany now have warships in the region as well. South Korea and Taiwan are now increasing its military defenses. These firepowers are 90% of the world's military right now.

- China's military is only starting up. It doesn't even have capability to produce its own jet engines or carriers. Its strength lies in the large # of soldiers, which have to be transported. And its large # of ships, which are mostly coast guard/civilian level, and can be sank relatively easily. China's military is about 3-4 generations behind US, and currently is no match for the 10X power from US and its allies

- Taiwan as a fortified island. Fortified islands are hard to take, as evident in the modern war histories. There are only a few times in the year that China can safely cross the straits without fearing typhoons or rough sea. And landing only on a few spots. Especially if the island is armed with the latest war technologies from US, and has the missile capability to strike Beijing, or the three gorges dam which will then wipe out millions of Chinese. Taiwan is now producing domestic submarines, long range missiles, and ship missiles. You'll want to remember that Taiwan has very sophisticated electronic capabilities, so the arms it is starting to produce will be very good.

- China only gets one shot at attacking. After which, it will get economically sanctioned into oblivion by the world economies. Because otherwise Japan, South Korea, and other island nations near China can be attacked with similar attempts as well. Since China mainly imports most of its resources, and is export focused, it will sank into a deep economic depression filled with local riots.
How are you going to get frustrated and then make wild claims with 0 evidence?
Er, so can you show any numbers to the effect that Covid is deadlier than the flu among some Covid-vaccinated subpopulation? Even if it's true that Covid "scales" (becomes deadlier) as a function of age more steeply than influenza does, it's not clear to me that Covid is deadlier in any single age group.
> McDonald's understands that not everyone will like McDonald's but that almost nobody finds it outright objectionable and many people love it. As long as they keep doing the same thing in every single store or franchise across the country, McDonald's is always a safe choice for stopping into the drive-thru due to that consistency.

This is the same approach taken by mass-market U.S. beers. The WSJ had an article about this in 2006:

Sitting in the wood-paneled "corporate tasting room" of Anheuser-Busch Cos.' headquarters here, August Busch III surveyed five recently thawed cans of Budweiser beer, representing a quarter of a century of beer history. In the early 1980s, the Anheuser chairman ordered that freshly brewed cans of Budweiser and Bud Light be cryogenically frozen, using technology typically employed in preserving human tissue.

"We wanted to make damn sure we would have the same beer 20 years down the road," said Mr. Busch, 68 years old ... For decades, Anheuser's aim was to develop a beer that would sell across America, one inoffensive enough to appeal to the nation's varied palate.

The article also noted that the references copies showed a gradual decline in hoppiness over the years to make the flavor more middle of the road and inoffensive ... but niche brewers were rising up and about to eat AB's lunch.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114601602889736048
You seem to be aware that you are just navel gazing here.

You've based your analysis on a comedy you saw in the 2000s that in turn based itself on the experiences of white affluent American teenagers.

The second leg of your analysis is not grounded in an understanding of actual female biology.

The one 'fact' you cite is wrong, 'young girls' are not the most fertile, the range for peak fertility for women is from their very late teens (18-19) to late 20s.
The majority peaks in their early to mid 20s (~24 years old).

If you want to comment about how women and men function 'evolutionarily', please at least understand a bit about how human biology works right now.
So, the professor investigates this group that is asking him to be an advisor. He finds,

"Among current and former leaders of YAF chapters across the country, he learned, were declared white supremacists, believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, and supporters of the Ku Klux Klan and the Proud Boys. Some were involved with neo-Nazi activist Richard Spencer. And at least one had participated in the assault on the U.S. Capitol"

This seems to be more of a caricature than an honest summary of a group's mission. The KKK and the Proud Boys are nowhere in the same category. It's like the term Neo-Nazi was just thrown in for effect. It seems this journalist is just furthering his agenda than revealing any truth. He obfuscates more than reveals.
Simple mathematical law predicts movement in cities around the world
3 Years – Piccalilli
Honestly - I don't think it's just the big manufacturers.

If HTML was invented in the current climate, I'm damn well convinced a simple <a href={external domain}> would be shot down for "security" reasons.

We're seeing a real breakdown into walled ecosystems. My opinion is that most of the steps that direction are well-intentioned (Safety, Security, Consistency, etc). The end result is fucking hell, though, where the ecosystem owner profits massively and unfairly compared to all other entities.
Fix the last Mile problem by providing micro busses or similar between hub and final destination
I always thought "quarter" referred to the monetary unit, not a modifier to "pound", implying "cheap for the amount of meat you get".
People who spend money on a useless products are also victims. Of fraud. Yes, even particularly clueless people should be held blameless of the crimes of fraudsters.
My impression is that if you are an open source project (especially one with a few already existing designs), you can actually get some design support from large companies. This is especially true if you either meet the right person in marketing at those companies or know someone on the inside. The Raspberry Pi uses chips from a very user-hostile company (Broadcom) because they started as a side project by a few engineers at Broadcom.
Powerful for developers. Fast for everyone. What a crock!
I don't know if I'm old and bitter, or that software becomes harder to use, but so many software seems to degrade in user experience.

HTTP is a relatively easy thing, let's replace it by an overengineered clusterfuck called HTTPS. Good luck implementing THAT on your homebrew OS. (don't get me wrong, it's good thing that it exists, I just don't see why all the sites have to use it)

Well, git+github seems to work nicely, lets disable logins using your password! Took me about an hour to take care of this (there is a nice guide for it, but that doesn't mention what your 'github email' is -- there is no such thing, and it doesn't mention that you have to change your remote to an ssh connection, and it also teaches you to copy-paste commands from the browser to your terminal).
I actually heard of a person who did something along these lines to the competition and Stripe shut the competitor down.
There are quotes from internal research in the article that Instagram is worse than the alternatives like tiktok. And internal researchers are quoted as saying that this research gets internal pushback because it’s standing between people and their bonuses. Those bonuses aren’t for letting culture play out; they’re for things that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. It seems super clear that it’s an Instagram problem.

A great example is the girl who searched for exercise tips once and then her feed was algorithmically focused on weight loss tips and the like afterwards, which is not a cultural issue.
D is garbage-collected, right? How does the game plus the whole runtime fit into 14kb?
> when I was young people around me smoked

> But I was taught not to do it and never did it.

So not all young people in your time were taught similarly. Or if they were, those teachings didn't stick.

Ideally the number of minors smoking would be zero. I don't think that's a radical idea, and I hope it's something that everyone can agree on. "Teachings from parents" obviously didn't achieve that goal, from your own experience.
Infections in a world where asymptotic spread is possible seems tough to measure. Are infections measured by symptoms such as cough, fever, etc, or by enough virus replication to shed or expel viral enough material to infect others?
Most High Schools are just daycare centers that keep kids out of trouble. Teachers honestly try their hardest, but they have an entire system stacked against them. Compulsory attendance, kids packed in like sardines, poor mental health, child abuse, poor nutrition, crime, drugs, fights, endless bullying.

A while ago I saw a quote that if you cut social services it will end up in the emergency room. The same goes for the High Schools. They HAVE to run them like prisons in order to even hope to deal with the number of issues they see.

If you have any alternative, avoid sending your kid to a High School unless you can vet that it's not a hellhole. I haven't had to fight a person, say no to hard drugs, avoid pickpockets, or withstand constant verbal and physical assault since leaving High School.

To all those who had a wonderful High School experience I am truly happy for you. However, I think for many kids, they could get more beneficial social experiences literally anywhere else. Ones that don't scar or taint you.
I think it's worth highlighting that while Lombok is a dependency it is only a compile time dependency (it's not part of the output JAR).
right, the first link was talking about t-cell immunity, I was wrong to say 'antibodies'.
The closest we have to that would probably be solar sails. Considering that cleanup usually isn't time sensitive it could be a very cheap and effective solution.
The United States was founded on identity politics. Should we roll it all back? Are we "all" better off if women, non-white, Italian, Irish, Polish, non-land-owners, etc. aren't allowed equal rights and a vote?
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This looks really nice in the backend side, it's clear that you put a lot of care in the hole security and permissions configuration.

But even as the backend is nice i think there is a big room for improvement in the front-end, i don't have android so i've checked the your website and the screenshots of your app.

Your icons are too big, the interface looks something like from middle 90's with lot's of tables and rectangular shapes. Your "call" button is a lot different fom the rest of the UI.
It's clear for me that it is not your area of expertise so it's really fine actually. The main problem for this is for your users, the first thing they will see is the UI and not much the backend and the features you built, so for a product it's nice to have a nice UI for it to become successful.

If you have money you can try to hire some designers to help you (at least freelancers) Ben awad is a youtuber/developer who is also creating an app and one things you can see from his journey is that he hired designers with his co-founder to help make the app beautiful (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViYUp7jsJNM)

If you still need some inspiration and tools:
- You can try Figma for designing and prototyping, it's free.
- Dribbble for inspiration
- Freecodecamp for courses and tutorial on UI/UX design.

I think this is what you will probably need. Besides that, it looks nice and really promising, just need some polishing.
Yes, and this is a massive security vulnerability
You're so, so close to getting it. And then you decide to just hop over the point :(
Partly already true. You can’t pay criminals in OFAC listed countries (https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/) Now, the issue becomes how do you know? And what happens when it’s your businesses existence vs breaking the law?
I guess I'm not most people. But if I grill a burger, it's thicker and juicier, is on a better bun of some sort, and I actually like it. Not that I've eaten one in years but fast food burgers are pretty awful in my opinion generally. (The higher end fast casual places, on the other hand, I quite like now and then--usually when traveling.)
Yeah here the temperature is from -30 to about +38 . Most years probably -20 to +30. Survivable if you have the right equipment, depends on how long you have to spend outside though. I don't know what those are in other units. I bet one could find round numbers that are pretty close to some actual exact climatic values that are some decimals anyway, whatever scale one used.

Around 20 is most comfortable. I've heard the theory that happiness peaks at 15 but it's a bit cold to my taste.

I know there's ice on the roads so cyclists should beware if the temperature drops below 0 C. Or sometimes it happens if it's +2 in the morning but it was freezing in the night. Same for winter tires in cars. Or if one starts nitpicking, maybe there's some undercooled water that's raining so things freeze even in positive temperatures. But that's rare. Whatever, there's a tolerance for reasonable people.
I've been trying to replay Ghost Recon Future Soldier recently and strongly agree. The hoops you have to jump through to get co-op to work are ridiculous, including removing all but one network interface (virtual or physical).
This graphic novel could be fun, it is based on the writings of Julius Caesar who was said to write in a fairly simple style.

Caesaris Bellum Helveticum: Scriptores Antiqui Romani Imaginibus Ornati by Karl Heinz Graf Von Rothenburg

https://www.amazon.com/Caesaris-Bellum-Helveticum-Scriptores...
From what I understand, the definition of a social construct is a bit nuanced, and it's possible to both believe race is a social construct and that it correlates with things.

As a metaphor, let's say we create two categories in the world for all people - tallers (people above six feet in height) and shorters (people below six feet in height). Human height objectively exists, but these categories are social constructs. Likewise, human variations in genes based on ancestry clearly exists, but the discrete racial categories we define (black, white, asian, etc.) are social constructs since we could create other discrete categories (Irish, Slavic, etc.).

So saying race is a social construct does not mean your genetic make up does not matter or correlate with anything, but that grouping people into the set of commonly agreed upon races is not the inherent way it has to be. At the same time, these groupings do represent distinct genetic make up and so correlate with physical attributes. It's just that different groupings with different correlations are also possible.

This video explains it pretty well IMO: https://youtu.be/koud7hgGyQ8
I'm not sure “software” is useful as a category in this context.

If you're trying to make a useful tool these principles apply, but if you're trying to farm users for ad money they don't.

People will say they want the former, but in practice they often choose the latter (and then grumble about it not being more like the former).
Good news: it may actually last several years not months: "A series of new studies, including two led by Ellebedy, suggests that mRNA vaccines like those from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna trigger the immune system to establish long-term protection against severe COVID-19 — protection that likely will last several years or even longer, Ellebedy says." https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/30/1032520...
I was pro bitcoin when it first started. It seemed exciting and I was just getting my feet wet in programming as a hobbyist. When I started my CS degree I sold all my bitcoin(funded a lot of my education). My current sentiment is that bitcoin is an awful way to store money. It is too volatile. Contrary to the popular belief that it is completely untraceable, it is actually more traceable than using cash. It is too easy to get scammed or lose all your bitcoin. There is 0 oversight and regulation. Mt.Gox is a perfect example.

My bank account is FDIC insured up to $250k. My investments are in stable index funds. I feel much better now, I woke up several times to watch my money lose half of its value overnight with bitcoin.
Do they have the wherewithal to pull off a deliverable Teller-Ulam thermonuclear warhead, without doing any atmospheric testing? Does Japan even have SLBMs or bombers?

It takes a lot more to be a credible nuclear threat than just having some U235 sitting around...
Outside of social media, iirc, there was footage of certain political figures such as then Gov. Cuomo publicly rejecting the vaccine deployment in his state, during Trump's administration. Since people relied on social media more often than cable TV, I suppose there were lots of amplified "lost in translation" moments.

A simple keyword search of "Trump vaccine" on reddit yields massive cognitive dissonance and a sociopath would conflate their bias from all the subreddits the keywords are found.
Which software? Drone target acquisition or TikTok?
>I will say emphatically that parents of teens are the most influential people in their lives

I don't work in behavioral science, but this isn't my understanding. I was under the impression that research indicates peers are the larger influence, which can be tempered somewhat by parents. For an easy example, whether or not peers smoke is a better predictor than whether parents smoke.
Microsoft Says No to WOA Support on M1 Macs
Wanting the AI to have the same racial bias as Americans, that is that Barrack Obama who is half white half east African should be categorised the same as someone with west African heritage is just dumb. Barrack Obama has a white mother and a father from Kenya, so has little resemblance to African Americans who have mostly west African heritage, only reason people don't see a difference is because they are so used to categorise people by skin color. Of course getting data from all areas of Africa and all mixes of people would be great, but there are limits and adding in more west Africans wouldn't have helped accurately depixel Obamas face.
Overwhelmingly people did not have to test for COVID, and never did. They had a few "symptoms" and claimed they got COVID and it "was no big deal". When in reality they have no proof of it. Humans overwhelmingly make up stories so reinforce their opinions. And no, most work did not require testing, even government work. Even federal government work.
I am by no means a rocket scientist, but wouldn't a de-orbiting requirement be as simple as including a few small chemical thrusters with a dedicated fuel source reserved for de-orbiting?

I have no idea how much force it takes to actually move a given amount of mass out of orbit, and I assume it is different depending on the height of that orbit. So maybe doing this would simply add too much weight in the form of fuel storage to be feasible. In my head though, orbits are fragile and it shouldn't take a lot to nudge something into a death spiral towards the atmosphere.
More diverse, there is more genetic diversity within Africa than outside of it.
Vaccine efficacy against infection wanes, but not severe disease and death. This is likely due to the difference in speed in which the B cells (faster) and T cells (slower) wane from the vaccine.

Your claim is frustrating because it is inaccurate and misleading.
It isn't about protection. It is about values and moral principles. Parents can teach children tools about self control and mindfulness about evaluating if things are good for them or not. Teens and young adults have to explore and figure out their place in the world apart from their parents, but the skills and values taught are often transcendent of the shifting values in culture.
The web browser is almost certainly security critical -- although maybe it is treated as a special exception because of user expectations.
Depends on the study design. Infections are detected by doing a PCR covid test. However, different studies might have different criteria for exactly who gets tested.
Epic Citadel was a lot bigger than 14 KBytes ;)
Don't feel sad. If you look at a set of all ever existing humans, the number that ever interact is incredibly small.

Even if in the same vicinity, and time, eg same apartment building, subway, street, driving down the road, there is often zero interaction.

Really, humans interact very rarely too. Yet, humans do interact, in meaningful ways. Thus, it is likely the same for photons.

This theory also explains why, with the rarity of human interaction, I am unmarried. In fact, it probably explains it on multiple levels.
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
No place on Earth is remotely close to being "full", and the economy isn't a zero sum game. Migrants aren't different from newborns (and simply people in general) in the way they don't "take away" some fixed pie of jobs and homes, they're how new jobs become needed and new homes get built (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy).
I hope they'll push out a paper as well
The problem is not with the Wes' original decision but with the fact that it was never revisited even when pandas took off at much larger scope. Should had been fixed before 1.0 release.
It was. I was so disgusted with how this way of saying “technically true” things is used and accepted. As the other comment stated.
Obese people take up health care resources that could go to keeping kids healthier at lower cost or making those resources more available to kids in an emergency.
Or you can pay to license the JRE and include it.
When replicator will be ready to use, you will be able to replicate iphone XXX freely, because copyright for iphone XXX will expire at that time.
> Video games are a great example of simplified, intuitive interfaces which are often the polar opposite of calm.

Video games are interesting in terms of usability. I thought a lot about this the past couple years after a UX course. A lot of UX principles are about making things easier, like large clickable areas, not moving clickable areas, contrasting colors, proving plenty of time to react or undo, and making things obvious and as easy as possible. But in a game, many of those principles are flipped. In a shooter, the enemies are smaller and move. They may be difficult to see. Solutions are not always obvious, especially if they are extras or hidden power ups.

But at the same time, a lot of the UX principles are very important. An enemy about to attack should telegraph that attack so you have time to react. Menus should be very clear and obvious. Inventory management should not be a chore, the map and HUD should be easy to use.
No, I'm saying that griping about how things in social land are polarized isn't going to get us off this planet. If you have the brains to write these things, you have the brains to work on a solution that doesn't give a fuck about what some douchebag poser thinks about how reality works.
It is using the BetterC mode which disables all runtimes including gc. Spasm framework used by this demo is designed for such use case.