skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not China who wants a war at present. A war would only slow their gradual but inexorable rise to become the world's 'top dog'.

On the other hand, the US can not stop China's rise to the top position, except by a war. It's just a matter of arithmetic: China's growth is bigger than the US's growth so there is no way to stop China becoming number one 'top dog' sooner or later.

That crossover-point is generally seen as occurring around 2025. That only leaves the US a mere four years or so to prevent that. Why 'prevent' that? It's because of two reinforcing Doctrines - first, the 'Wolfowitz Doctrine' which tries to prevent ANY other nation (or group of nations) from being stronger than the US and that includes not only adversaries like Russia and China but also allies like the EU and the UK. And the second reinforcing Doctrine is the 'Thucydides Trap'

It's too late to start a war when the sides are evenly matched if you insist on winning. The war must start at least 5 years before that, when the US is still pretty much invincible.

Unfortunately, 5 years before 2025 is 2020. To be certain of winning, the US should have begun hostilities in the 2020 Spring-Summer Campaign season. Oops. That was already 18 months ago. The US has missed its opportunity. By the next Spring-Summer Campaign season, the start will be two whole years behind schedule. I doubt greatly that the US can make up that delay.

I see a repeat of Operation Barbarossa, where a projected quick campaign turned out to become a long-term slogging match with the 'underdog' coming out on top at the finish, due to having more military-age population and more manufacturing capacity.
FAANG wants people who can 'get things done' in the byzantine code bases that they maintain. That is why they pay so much and why turnover is so high.

Fundamentally fixing the problem is not necessarily possible. At FAANG basic things like maybe upgrading from Java 8 to Java 11 are three year 50 person projects.
Disclaimer: I am involved with the eclipse foundation (not as part of the core staff)

Hi, I just want to expand on this a bit...

The "eclipse foundation" is actually not just sponsored by IBM. Nor is the IDE. As for what support it provides, that's actually spot on and is under a similar idea to what apache and linux provide. There are of course differences: but for most people the vague idea that open source foundations exist and provide some similar functions as a way to host projects is enough for this discussion

A lot of eclipse's revenue actually comes from working groups with Jakarta EE being the biggest one. There are also IOT, Automotive and many other working groups + projects under the eclipse umbrella.
A key tenet of progressive belief is that one can manipulate the thoughts of a populace by:

1) banning or altering the words they are allowed to use
2) introducing new words to soften concepts which were previously seen as weird, unusual, or deviant.

For example, the replacement of "prostitute" with "sex worker", or "undocumented immigrant" with "illegal aliens". The new terms obfuscate the plain meaning of the prior terms, thereby softening the subject in the minds of the populace one is trying to manipulate.
The language is rough but the performance, tools, and deployment is top notch. That dichotomy was quite surprising to me.

If someone could write a "coffeescript" for it, perhaps a python+pascal love-child, while keeping the fantastic lower-level parts of go, I'd be all over it.
What if it’s a public good that we generally believe everyone benefits from, like mathematics research?

No individual would pay for it, but it’s still more valuable than random noise.
You're wasting your experts' time if they cannot write (or reread) clearer, more concise code than your beginners.
There is a lot of focus on the Twitter aspect, but from the article that outrage comes from an article he published in a magazine explaining his views on affirmative action.

It’s not some random comment that got blown out of proportion, nor some accidental miscommunication, and the subject is also not unrelated to universities.

Why is it out of proportion to have a mob wanting this guy out of the university system for controversial views on students hiring he himself widely published ?
Most of the places I have been at least separated out the hardware for different use cases.
There are a few classes that are posted on Youtube or other sites (not via the official OCW channel) by instructors or students, like 6.004 and the Underactuated Robotics course.

I would argue 6.046 doesn't necessarily represent the bleeding edge of algorithms. For the most advanced/modern, there's the graduate-level course, 6.854: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.854/21/course_materials.html

(The 2021 videos are on Youtube, unlisted.)
0 logic in mandating vaccines as vaccinated still spread the virus.
So no benefit for anyone else than the wearer( if you will ) and mandating injections serves no purpose of protecting others.
The seatbelt actually does protect others. An unbuckled backseat passangers will smash a frontseat one in a collision.
The covid-19 shots do not protect other though.
Comparing seatbelts wearing to covid-19 vaccine is incredibly innacurate.

Vaccine mandates are now down the path of forbidding us to choose what we do with our own bodies.

This is a very, very dangerous path.

Punishing nurses that have aquired immunity via natural infection will hopefully be considered criminal in a not too far away future.
Fortunately there are very few places in the world that thinks that doing so is a good idea.
Wow, what a ridiculously misleading headline. Caltech should be ashamed.

Thanks for clarifying things. I wonder if I could have a drone drag a string on a slackline and talk about my balancing robot.
I use lineage os for microG [0] myself, but can't find a good foss android keyboard. Is there such a thing?

[0] - https://lineage.microg.org/
The binary GCD has inferior performance to other approaches for big numbers because those min() comparisons require that you had to update the entire numbers at each step.

I submitted a writeup on the safegcd algorithm used by libsecp256k1 a while back, but it got the HN zomg-bitcoin-related quick flagging: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/blob/master/doc/sa...

Safegcd-like functions requires somewhat more iterations but most of the iterations need to only operate on the least significant bits of the numbers, which makes them faster in practice.

For safegcd-ish functions proving a hard upper bound on the number of require iterations is non-trivial. But it's useful to prove the bound in order to make constant time versions. Here is a writeup on our techniques for proving the upper bounds: https://github.com/sipa/safegcd-bounds#bounds-on-divsteps-it...
I've pretty much only ever seen TikToks on YouTube!

Meme compilations, best TikToks and so on...

The kids watch them, but dont use TikTok!
uhm, the USSR's invasion of Manchuria was arguably the biggest reason Japan surrendered when they did.
It's 1 billion years more recent than any other lunar sample ever measured.
Officially at least it seems that there are no post Java 8 JREs (or maybe Java 11 - I don't remember exactly) which is a shame. I know I can do it myself but having a small off the shelf runtime sure was convenient.
Your welcome. I read it back when, and it's been helpful to me over the years.
any guesses who COUNTRY1 is?
Both of those are things that are not revolutionary, but rather logical extensions of what the established models already predict. The Higgs boson was a direct confirmation of what is literally called the "standard model" of particle physics, and gravitational waves follow fairly directly from orbital decay + conservation of energy. Actually detecting them is a fairly impressive feat of engineering, but scientifically it's "yep, the thing we figured was probably true turned out to be true".
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One of the authors here.

Hi. We are participating in an accelerator and as part of a hackathon, we just release Rate My Meeting and we are quite excited.

After playing looking for ideas we saw that we all share experiences related to inefficiencies in meetings. We asked ourselves if we want to improve meetings, how could look like the fastest user experience to collect feedback?

Basically, you invite to rate@mymeeting.app and we will ask the attendees for feedback once the meeting is over. One hour after, we will send you the results by email. We also send you a QR code in case you want to display it in one slide.

Check your spam, play with private events, and expect some bugs. After all, it was one weekend.

We don't know if we pursue the idea, but... what do you think?

Thanks :)
Exactly, there is a reason birds don't have 20 lb legs!
There were many cases during the cold war of Russia turning in Americans who approached them with secrets, and probably vice versa.

There is too much of a risk that it is a counterintelligence operation to pass false information or uncover how they run their assets. A good source of intelligence is someone who is compromised (sex, debt, relatives overseas who can be threatened, etc) and can be blackmailed but smart and competent otherwise. Some idiot who walks into a foreign embassy saying they want to sell secrets will last about a week.
This is correct IIRC.

I got in early when it was 1GB!

As you say, at the time over free email was only in the single or 10s of MBs.

Or you had your work email!

OMG to think I used to use Work email for personal emailing!

GMAIL also came out with a different and fresh approach to sorting and filing! No more folders, it was tagging and filtering! Which felt very cool and modern at the time!
Even with pure MDMA a lot of the time 100mg - while an amazing time - isn’t really the “fun dose”. Ideal for me is 250 across a night (maybe 125 then 75 then 50) if it’s like a full on music festival. In a mellower context (camping or a house roll or something) I’d recommend one 100mg dose and no more though
The idea that this is a bipedal robot is a joke. Makes you realize how ungrounded some of these research labs are - all hype, no substance.

This is a drone with a huge amount of weight for these "bipedal legs".
What's a "supergun"? Basic googling didn't help.
They will spend far more prosecuting him than 100K.
And remove the word "that".
He asked for $5,000,000 in total. You're focused on the initial amounts when he was like "give me a little cash and I'll give you a few pages from my 10,000 pages of stuff".
This is considered doxxing.
Source on the intelligence agency thing? Sounds really interesting
It wouldn't make for a very exciting or visually impressive game. Much of modern naval warfare is conducted at long range, sometimes even beyond the horizon.

You don't see many submarine warfare simulators either, for essentially the same reason.
lol looking at a multi-decade sentence for $70k. They should have done the YouTube giveaway thing instead. way more $ and no risk https://scaminvestigations.substack.com/p/better-than-ransom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGun
Lol nope not touching this with a 10 ft pole.
D.C. has a larger population than Wyoming. I agree with you on Puerto Rico though.
Something like 10% of MDMA is converted to MDA on average (this varies heavily based on genetics) so it’s not super surprising. I totally agree it’s not talked about nearly enough though. I haven’t had visual hallucinations (assuming we’re talking actual hallucinations not “visuals” like tracers) but have definitely had auditory hallucinations where it sounded like people were talking just outside the car my friend and I were cuddling in.
Free Software Foundation claims Windows 11 will reduce user freedom
Why include a keyboard and gpu only to use -nographic later?
The other angle: University changed plan for a PR event when they were confronted to the fact that the speaker’s public views on diversity were wildly against the people the Uni was trying to reach in the first place.
Why? The DOJ names him in the complaint and press release.
$100k is what they gave him in total, $5MM is what they promised him. The delta is because he was selling the papers bit by bit in return for partial payment.
It would only be doxxing if he posted the address of the federal prison he is in.
> You are completely lying

About what?

> The vaccines weren't approved yet, end of story.

They weren't fully approved until about 6 weeks ago. They had gone through several massive trials and government approvals when she implied the vaccines were unsafe a year ago on national television.
I think there will be a plea deal
Newtonia Is Being Created
It is in process
And yet, these movies continue to get made.
Maybe at least a partial explanation is in the article posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28821498
My experience has been that Maps works fine without Google Play services, the only issue being a popup/notification that says you "need" services to use the app.
Large scale and efficient carbon capture already exists, they are called trees. The possibility of finding something significantly more efficient than trees is like the possibility of finding cold fusion or super battery tech, it would be exciting if it actually worked but all the claims made in those articles never seem to materialize so it quickly becomes completely unexciting.
It is a gray area. Could be but maybe not depending on the rules.
If you use htmx you have to implement something server-side to return HTML, where most frameworks return JSON. Also, idk how you would handle form validation or authentication. And what if you have to transmit something that needs to be in JSON? Then you need another client-side api.

In general the issue with small frameworks is that you need 5 of them then still implement a lot yourself. Vs a big bulky framework which takes time to really learn, but has integrated support for all the features you need.

It’s why many people use big game engines instead of making games from scratch. If you make a game from scratch you need to implement asset management, rendering, animation, collision detection, AI, and export to multiple platforms. Game engines have built-in support for all of these things.

And i do know that many people use static sites or simple blogging platforms. Most sites i visit are actually pretty simple and look like they were built on older technology. On the other hand, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. kind of need to use complex frameworks because they’re complicated apps.
Surely the more nuanced take would be hunting for modal and being told "but.. you're asking this in a modeless-edit default tool" (omnibar editing is modeless, unless you work hard to change it. Much of the world is now editing in modeless, much of the time)

(SOS -> NED -> ed -> vi, used teco a bit, do orgmode in emacs all the time)
FWIW, I 100% agree with you for the same reasons you outline.

I was simply stating that the Discord channel exists and that the answer to the question can be found there. Sorry someone took personal offensive to that.
Ah, I’m sorry if I came across in that way, that these days where gone. I believe that all things go in cycles. And I believe opportunities exist all around to find what we want. I myself experienced a beautiful opening in my own life that required bravery, which has nothing to do with tech.

The freshness of a thing cannot stay that way - it must go stale and be renewed. It is this cycle that gives us contrast. When a thing goes stale, you can choose to either stay in that energy, wait until the freshness returns, or forge a new path.
I remember a post awhile ago that showed the political donations some senators, who voted on some controversial issues, recently received. I was surprised some of them were bought off in the low ten-thousands.
> Puerto Rico should be an independent country!

They keep voting for statehood, and the opposition boycotting those votes to delegitimize them favors the present status quo. Why should it be independent?
I think everything is very intertwined when it comes to China.

It's true that on some level blocking Wikimedia from a global organization isn't directly about genocide - it's about Wikimedia not being a centralized entity kissing the ring the way the China wants it to. But on another level that is really about the fact that articles like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide exist, and that they're guided by an aspiration to encyclopedic documentation and not Xi Jinping Thought (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Thought). Because China would like Xi Jinping Thought exported globally.
What if you take the money and don't give them any data? What is the crime?

Great lifehack
‘Exhausted and underpaid’: teachers across the US are leaving their jobs
Probably the best way to simulate block scopes in Python
Should've added at least another 0 to make it worthwhile...
His newer piece on this/related topic:

>Twitter and Interoperability: Some Thoughts From the Peanut Gallery

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/twitter-and-interopera...
So, which country is "COUNTRY1"? It seems like it would almost have to be Russia (or another potential adversary), but why would they then turn over his letter to the FBI?
Huntsmen are harmless and 'cute'. And they keep down insect pests.

Mind you, most women don't find them 'cute'. Many times, I've protected a poor little Huntsman from a brutish female by picking the Huntsman up with a cloth and putting him/her outside.
Global minimum tax on corporations likely to be included in reconciliation bill
Even if it was something you read somewhere else, I often find that if you’re deep into something you’re pulling ideas together that a beginner would not think of at first or simply be unable to google the right words.

So thanks for a well put together article. Please do a more SFW version. How am I even going to explain where I learned this? Hahaha.
Sub secrets.

He (and his wife) will be old and grey, before they’ll be able to walk more than 100 yards, in a straight line.

Sub secrets are the most sensitive secrets we have (probably on par with the names of highly-placed assets). There will be no leniency.

The foreign country probably knew they’d be up shit’s creek, if they got caught.
The money is peanuts. You think the govt cares about $100k in crypto? The salaries of the FBI agents on this and the legal machine that's about to come down hard on these guys costs millions to maintain.
White House Suggests We Need a Bill of Rights for an AI-Powered World
I found an iPhone and a cheaper Android tablet is a cost effective way of experiencing both. I don't get the benefits of the tablet being connected to my phone number, but it lets me play with both OSes at a nominal upcharge to just an iPhone (You can get a good android tablet for <$100)
I've never used any of his educational content but some of his open source libraries are top notch. Some of his blog posts have been influential and very pragmatic/sane.

You may be right about the selling tactics but the ad hominems are in comically poor taste.
It’s definitely theoretically possible but having been pretty involved in the scene I’ve only ever seen LSD, shrooms, and other classic psychs bring out psychosis/schizophrenia in people who were probably going to develop it anyway (or at least were pre disposed). This was around college age when schizophrenia usually emerges. In general they don’t seem to cause mental illness in people who weren’t already pre disposed. (Obviously this does not mean psychs should not be treated with enormous respect)

I’ve seen a lot of people get low-grade cognitive dysfunction from mdma abuse (neurotoxicity due to “doing it wrong” ie overheating/overdosing), and while not in the class of drugs we’ve been discussing I’ve seen xanax ruin more lives than any other drug by far
Don't know why this isn't treason. Feels like it should be...
"Secret desire to leave" - I've interviewed at a company where the founder-CEO told me that he wanted to leave his company. Needless to say, I was relieved when I didn't get the job.
The majority of this one is going to miss us to the north, there will be some cool auroras but M1.6 is not enough to really cause any tangible effects.
Building Companies in Times of Change – Greylock
Reid Hoffman - ex-CEO and co-founder of LinkedIn and now an investor at Greylock - shares his insights on how COVID-19 will impact our industry. I wonder how much of our behaviors will return to previous habits once the pandemic will over: How much will it affect the way we live and where we choose to work? How much will it affect employee retention (becoming less personal)? Which software (and hardware!) we'll need to invest in to get a x10 better experience (e.g. AR for Zoom)?
it is more than the $. the plea deal avoids the potentially lengthy and expensive trial.
I keep wondering how Codemasters, and Sony/Psygnosis before them, obtained any kind of accurate info about F1 cars. Well, sure they have the license, but do the teams share numbers? Codemasters have mentioned on the forums that they have some real-life measurements that serve as basis for the game physics, so at least it's not pure fantasy (iirc the discussion was about the speed of gear shifting—players complained they can't click through five gears as fast as they want).

Could the rivals conceivably peek in the game at some behavior they can't really discern through binoculars at testing and races? The sport had its moments of hide-and-seek in the past, with both FIA and competitors—e.g. the chassis that changed its height after driving out of the pits.

Granted, the F1 series isn't spectacularly realistic, and Codies admitted some of the cars' behavior is softened relative to the reality, to not be too hard on the players (again, the gears).
Maybe this is the reason that cancer hasn't been cured...
It's people like you, and the predictable but classless act of keeping Wikimedia off WIPO (and similar ones) that gives CCP (and "China") bad rep all over world.

Many would have liked a/one more counterbalance to US hegemony. From the latest polls though, it seems people would rather the US hegemony continues/strengthens rather than seeing CCP/"China" rises further.

Such intangible acts will, sooner or later, have tangible consequences.
It doesn't matter who COUNTRY1 is. Once they have the information they can sell it for more money to any country/group which are adversaries (who might want to replicate or seek vulnerabilities in the systems) or friendly to the USA and just want to understand the naval capabilities more.

There are lots of interested parties in acquiring sensitive data like this and a 'country' or 'nation' might not even be involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria
> I don’t think a smart phone in your pocket all day with a GPS and microphone that you use as a central hub for all your communications, notes, research and appointments and so forth, can really be considered for its privacy

On the contrary. I don't have to consider the privacy implications of different paper notebooks - they all share a similar security profile being things that physical access is both required and sufficient for. For something like a smartphone, considering privacy implications of choices is vital.
Rise in single people, who earn less, worries researchers
How many people who didn’t invest directly in CDOs or subprime mortgages were affected by the Great Recession in 2008?

Tether (or a substitute stablecoin) is currently a requirement for lots of the Wall Street investment in cryptocurrencies. If it turns to poo, lots of that Wall Street investment does too and it creates huge liquidity/ volume issues.
So does Wren!