skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing that Hong Kong was literally an NED-sponsored [1] color revolution, and that every country in the world had a national security law except for Hong Kong until last year, I'd say that the Hong Kong situation is not at all a case study for whether China would invade Taiwan. Since 2019 I've watched for a year how the western public and the protesters yelled that "it's going to be a Tiananmen 2.0" and "the tanks will soon roll in", only for the tanks to never have rolled in. In the mean time, the protesters who were called "pro-democracy" by western mainstream media were doing some very undemocratic things, such as assaulting fellow Hong Kongers for merely disagreeing with them[2].

Two Hong Kong youths have a Youtube channel on which they present views that don't align with mainstream western media. This interview is very telling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYK-cC9mw6c
The guest on the show interviewed 100 protesters. What's interesting is that none of the protesters were able to explain what concrete change they want. The protesters merely blindly reigurated media talking points without being able to explain what's behind those talking points. None of them have actually read the NSL text.

Sound familiar? Yes: the "anti-voting fraud" Capitol rioters, who were hiding unnoble intentions behind a noble label. Many Hong Kong "protesters" were merely anti-China, not pro-democratic. They literally attacked people merely for speaking Mandarin. Ironically, one guy that was attacked was Taiwanese, not mainland Chinese.

Seeing how they literally burned innocent people[3], vandalized public infrastructure, vandalized mainland Chinese busineses merely for being mainland Chinese, made petrol bombs[4], etc. is it really reasonable to expect China to do absolutely nothing? Bringing back safety to the streets is what any government would do. After it was clear that they'd never send in tanks, people moved the goalpost and started demonizing the NSL but few people know what's actually in the NSL.

Demise of Hong Kong's rule of law are exaggerated. Even after the NSL, Hong Kong's judiciary remains fiercely independent — with evidence.[5]

[1] The NED is the regime change arm of the CIA. Despite the name, they are anti-democratic, having overthrown democratic regimes that refuse to align with the US. They publicly admit having sponsored the Hong Kong protests: https://www.ned.org/region/asia/hong-kong-china-2020/

[2] Videos: https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/116629626167206297...

[3] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...

[4] https://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1195968903748317184

[5] https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/hong-kong/article/31480...
Thankfully, the x86 version runs just fine due to the compatibility layer, so it's not a big deal, anytime soon.
I shop more than once a week (it's part of my morning walk/routine), and I concur that it's perfectly doable without a car, so I agree with you on the general point.

But: why would a loaf of bread take up much space? The "packaging" there is just a bit of paper, and it has much higher density than most vegetables, I think?

I.e. a loaf is enough bread for 4 people for a couple days, the equivalent amount of "non-compressed" vegetables like fennel/lettuce/zucchini would be much larger. Only some crucifers or large pumpkins would be comparable, and potatoes/yams.

Maybe it's a US thing about packaged bread? I live in the EU, so I might be thinkinf of something else.
interesting. So its an American Settler Christian event thats been, as usual typically watered down for the mass marketability.

We dont have it here in Australia (except apparently on a small island off to the side of the mainland). We don't really have any sort of festival or celebration that is comparable.
Wait a second, how does go allocate memory? Is there no nursery?
> overengineering has killed more products than the absence of good development practices

But as the author defines overengineering, it is clearly not a good development practice.

Further, there is no evidence provided to support the claim.

Maybe a truer lesson is that the authors work suffers under too much scrutiny. We're all better off imagining a similar thesis and then imagining it is actually true.
I added PiHole on a RBP and it turns out up to half the rejected requests come from my various Samsung TVs. It's staggering how much traffic comes out of them. And that's in a home with two work from home adults in laptops all day.

What are other people's experiences with other brands of TV?
My belief is that after Germany push for legalisation we will probably see France, the Netherlands, Belgium and maybe Spain and Portugal following on the next 5 years.

For the rest of the block I believe it will be a very slow push, probably only after seeing the benefits for the budgets of countries legalising through new taxes that will push politicians to chase the money.

I don't think Sweden will see any kind of reform or push for legalisation on the next 10 years, the anti-drugs policies and general environment is pretty strong since the 70s (or way before if you consider the failed prohibition movement from the early 20th century).
The community already done that: https://github.com/dennisameling/signal-desktop (working on Windows & Apple ARM). Still, I think it's a shame that all the work was done, ready to be merged (needed PRs were open) and Signal devs just shut the door on it.
For a long time I thought Grammarly was rubbish due to how hard they try to sell it everywhere online, until a co-worker started using it to help with professional writing, and I have to admit it's pretty good at fixing bad or poor English.

The downside is after a while you start to sound just like every other writer on the internet.
If you have children get a dishwasher.
Are these supposed to climb steep hills? I feel like, in my city/neighborhood, a regular motorcycle or scooter would serve me better.

But if I lived in Paris or Amsterdam...
I guess this really only affects those wanting to get new certificates for new (sub)domains.

For renewals, this is not a problem unless it's down for an extended period of time - and even then there would be time to switch providers. Should be using scheduled updates, and even if not, the email notifications come in on 20 and 10 days, so plenty of time to go and get it renewed.
The implicit point was that the current increases are insufficient to catch up to the value lost due to inflation over the past decade due to compounding effects.

More details:

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/wage-stagna...
This is a symptom of the "gradual disappearance of a rate of return on accumulated wealth" that Keynes daydreamed about in 1936, and we're going to witness more and more of the social changes that result from it.

> “Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become “profiteers,” who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.”

> “Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”

J. M. Keynes - "The Economic Consequences of the Peace"

Further analysis: https://monetary-metals.com/keynes-was-a-vicious-bastard-rep...
It became slow and unresponsive over the months, eating more and more memory. I'm currently trying the community supported ARM version and it's a relief.
It's funny that none of the preservation measures suggested involves reintroducing wolves to keep the number of deer and elk in check.

I guess we are not really willing to let go of the touristy prospect of Pando :)
The fact that there is VanMoof in the list at the second place makes me think for sure that this must be a paid for/sponsored article, I live in Amsterdam, it's all plain, no bumps, but still, I have to go every month to the customer care in order to bring in my VanMoof, it has continuously battery issues, and every now and then it is accompanied by additional issues, like right now for me it's the bell. So I am not sure if the author has ever driven a VanMoof or if he likes going to a place without knowing

And I am not an isolated case, there are facebook groups filled by unhappy vanmoof customers, so maybe for bloggers it's the time to grow a conscience and stop advertising shitty products
I just searched, there's no result on the word fuck, someone got butthurt because their free work for apple didn't pay off.

The signal guy responds with a perfectly reasonable explaination, including explaining what a bug is, and why support of a new platform is indeed a feature.
853 + 960Hz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbegB49B1TY

(If you do check, maybe turn it down to be nice to your nerves :D)
I am very thankful for being alive and for getting to experience this world, no matter how cruel it may be at times. I survived 4 years of war that begun when I was 9 years old in the 90s. There is plenty to be thankful for.

Happy thanksgiving!
> So which cloud provider offers a HARD spend limit?

It still baffles me that this isn't the default. Then again, egress/ingress costs also baffle me, why not just offer capped speed and unlimited bandwidth?

I doubt that i'll ever willingly use a platform that i pay for myself, which can just decide to charge me bunches of money because of my site/app getting DDoS'ed (assuming not all components are fully protected at the edge or something) or suddenly gaining popularity.

In my eyes, such scalability should be opt in (or at least opt out) and by default my apps should just break under the load, much like any self-hosted software would, which may be preferable in some circumstances (e.g. API manages backpressure as best as it can, once request queues fill up, it just gives "503 Service Unavailable" with something like "Retry-After" and any clients/front ends are supposed to show messages to try again later, or automatically retry after a while).

To that end, here's a list of providers that give you such fixed resources (in this case VPSes) and that i personally have used in the past:

• Time4VPS: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 (currently hosts most of my sites, hence affiliate link)

• Contabo: https://contabo.com/en/

• Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

• Scaleway: https://www.scaleway.com/en/elements/

• Vultr: https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/

• DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/

Of course, some of those also offer managed services, but in my eyes it's far safer to just run MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis and any other piece of software in Docker (or OCI compatible) containers, as opposed to using something proprietary, even with protocol compatibility. That way, it's also possible to migrate between providers easily, should the need arise.
Myanmar families fearing arrest cut ties with activist children
I don't think Go has ever specified that a specific calling convention must be used, and it doesn't expose it very easily to the end user. I would argue that if you are writing code that depends on assuming the calling convention when it is explicitly not specified, that is a faulty assumption on you.

https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/refs/heads/dev.regabi/src/c...

This ABI is unstable and will change between Go versions.
Was there an agreement beforewise with them that they would integrate it?
Well tax cuts were implemented so lower income people would not lose jobs. For example private jets were made tax deductible so the industry would not burn to dust when thanks to tax increase people stopped buying them.
Agreed. The Agile movement/manifesto/alliance is a product of history and should be situated in its historical context when taught.
Only the kind of person to use HackerNews would be interested in a museum of plugs and sockets... hahahaha
You should be getting some of them back soon then right?
> investing in public companies and tech is very risky, as valuations are at record highs

> To real estate where valuations are also insanity and at record highs doesn't make any sense.

The difference for me is that I saw what was happening in public markets and I bought real estate in a country where this wasn't yet the case. It is now though, so your point is valid.
Hm. Apologies for this. I figured I'd go the minimalist route due to the name of the website being so self-explanatory.
The UI is horribel .. they don't have one single ux person who have 2 hour to spare that could help out at nvidia ...
See, in my country there was a sad announcement that there are now more than 100,000 people dead by Covid.

Less than 4000 are people under 60 and still my government tries to vaccinate kids. Why? It is entirely possible that it can have a negative effect on building real immunity against Covid. The very low death count in lower age brackets would very well warrant to build a control group here.
Why would you try to limit capability?
Is there any similar project covering Panasonic smart TV's?
“Not currently available”: Turks can't buy iPhones after lira plunge
When I researched them a while back I came away with LG OLEDs being the best, particularly if you paired them with an Apple TV.

There are no good high-end “dumb” tv options.
From the numbers in the article it seems like the main issue isn’t the cut that the traditional salesmen get, but rather the price that their distributors get compared to Reliance. Seems like there needs to be antitrust action to make sure Reliance isn’t able to negotiate lower prices than other distributers, and to make sure they aren’t killing off the competition by operating at a loss.
I put ethernet everywhere to use PoE, 48V DC is much better suited for most things in your house these days
Here it is: http://viznut.fi/ibniz/
No it isn't primarily due to India and China. The greening of the earth is a universal phenomenon caused by the global increase in carbon dioxide. Carbon for plant growth has to come from somewhere and in general there are very limited carbon sources within the soil.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer....

https://www.noaa.gov/news/study-global-plant-growth-surging-...

https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004

The massive increase in agricultural productivity due to this greening has not been a widely advertised observation. NASA has pointed out the pros and cons of this (i.e., the greening).
that logo creator is terrible quality
They are legally binding if the parties agree, but there's a catch: a checkbox is repudiable. You can reject EULA, then you will be judged for unlicensed usage of the service.
I do wonder though about vaccines lowering symptoms and ‘disguising’ infection, thus potentially promoting spread

NZ Herald: a disgrace to the nation.
You mean, a standard like Bluetooth Mesh? https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/recent-enhan...

There are many factors when choosing your communications layer. Bluetooth Mesh was designed specifically with lighting in mind, so that you can for example ensure that dimming multiple lights simultaneously happens in sync.
>>Reliance will hold down prices only till they receive a huge consolidation of sales and then you can expect the prices to jump.

Luddites have been pushing this narrative for anti-modernism for ages now, but it just doesn't come to pass. It's for a simple reason, capitalism wants you to buy more and therefore has it in its interests to sell you things for cheap.

Its just that the middle men have it easy, there is very little productive effort involved in buying things from X and selling to Y on K% profit, when compared to working in a factory.

This is the real issue. People want it easy.
It is a mixed back. Crooks and angels are both in big and small business. Some examples

1) During Covid Amazon seller doubled the price of oximeter and artificially created shortages. Besides classifying non delivery as customer return. Complained in writing but AMZN took no action. Amazon is just learning the patterns and using proxies to kill mom and pop shops as recent Reuters revelations have shown.

2) Ambani is no different using subsidized Jio phone, forcibly turning on location tracking and breaching SSL connection to locate/learn consumer activity pattern.

3) Some local businesses are stellar and consumer oriented. But others sell faulty Chinese oximeters for nearly 100 dollars and charge double price for a local wine bottle.
The bit rate of all the current streaming providers and Bluray players fits well within 100Mbps, so I'm not sure that's really a limitation?
I’ve found the android based TVs to be awful. Their boot up time is slow and they often seem to have trouble starting via the Apple TV remote.
Well then they know you're using Excel and probably want to be sold pension plans...
> So you have no evidence or sources to your previous claims? As expected.

If someone comes around and claims to have invented a perpetuum mobile, it is not my duty to disproof them.

> Projects such as what?

Such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.

> First of all evidence that it isn't a 'blockchain'?

It's in their whitepapers, read it up. With all due respect, I don't get the feeling you know what these words mean. Hint: the G in DAG stands for "graph", so it can't be a blockchain.

Take a step back for the moment and think about it: The inherent problem cryptocurrencies have to solve, when you take away central coordination, is the trust issue with the data. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies tried to replace the trust in the central institution with trust in the implemented market incentives. That's why there is mining. They didn't put mining into the equation because they liked putting out CO2. There has to be something expensive to compensate for the lack of central coordination. That is why crypto is so horribly slow and expensive. The inventors didn't sit around and thought of creating the slowest possible implementation, it simply has to be expensive so that forging the ledger is expensive - because that price is the only thing preventing the rewriting of history.

With a central institution you don't have this problem: If say Paypal is the only institution allowed to write onto the ledger, you can easily have 100k ops per second or more - because these literally are simple writes to a conventional database.

You simply can't have both. In cryptocurrencies, by definition, everyone connected to the net has write access to the ledger. So you have to have a method to make writing to it expensive. If some project comes around and claims to have invented something that can only be described as an economic perpetuum mobile, i.e. having neither central coordination nor expensive writes, it is their burden of proof. Just like bitcoin did.

Edit: I looked into Nanos whitepaper and apparently Nano is trivially DDOSable for very small amounts of money. Have a look yourself:

Page 7: 4.2million transactions = 1.7G ledger size. So a transaction is 405 bytes.

Page 8: A GTX 1060 can calculate 1.25tx/seconds.

Pre Covid a GTX was 200€ and could spam the ledger with 43.74MB/day. So one only needs to invest 100k€ to flood the ledger with 22G/day / 660G/month.

So either a) the whitepaper lies, or b) Nano is completely broken, or c) There is centralization somewhere to ward off that spam.
This is too cynical. I don’t doubt the GPS comment and am interested in where they worked after Cisco. But, every larger vendor has some sort of automation these days. Certainly all of Cisco’s products. Whether it’s hot I don’t know but the effort is there.

Things were likely different in the past.

https://developer.cisco.com/network-automation/detail/682181...
(A British person ponders …) “Why do Americans have two Christmas-type celebrations (travel, food, family drama) a month apart? It seems … odd.”
If you have 0.01% failure rate and sell a million devices, that’s a hundred expected failures. Some of these buyers will want to blame someone, so they’ll go on Amazon telling everyone that their study with a sample size of one shows how incompetent YourDriveBrand has become, and that they should never buy from them again.

The average rating is probable a better indicator here.
Panasonic got out of the NA TV market a few years ago, and no warranty+exorbitant shipping costs means it isn't worth buying one in Europe and having it shipped.

They're also ending their inhouse TV production and outsourcing it for 2022, which probably means they're going to get worse.
Ah, based on my experiences with assistants, that is exactly the problem. You either get someone who is under-qualified and does not fulfill expectations, or someone who is great, but wants to pursue a career.

It is extremely difficult to find a "stable" assistant.
Wow what a document. Commerical products are always nicely so much less bullshit. Funny to read the manufacturer say so!
Are there any open-source models that can do similar type of landscape generation? I would really like to look at the code and try to understand how these things are built...
The melancholy decline of the semicolon
You do know that police officer evidence is typically treated as unquestionable by courts? So if the officer says you were not pedalling, then you have an uphill battle to prove you were.
Someone tell Elon...
I am slightly confused, why is saving time for both parties considered insulting?
I would be more interested what the west would do when China goes to Taiwan.
That is awesome that they did, but as I said they would want to review these changes which can bindsa significant amount of developer time. There is probably nothing at all wrong with their pull requests, but given the nature of the app a review is important. And when support is made available by the community, I don't see the immediate issue as users have a solution to run Signal in these configurations.
Many Indian billionaires are into rent seeking [0]. Reliance is definitely one of those.

I don't think this will augur well for Indian economy even if the customer can make some savings in short run. After the market consolidation, Reliance can easily raise the rates. The margins that would have gone to N middlemen would now go to a few with Reliance taking the larger share. The Indian economy is not known for creating jobs lately.

[0] https://www.epw.in/journal/2012/40/commentary/where-do-india...
For the one who crashed 3x, what were the causes?
A British home often has a mix of different lamp sockets which include B22. But this is something a homeowner can replace, unlike wall socket where you bound by devices sold in the country.
They were in a high crime area pointing a video camera (which I'm assuming was larger than your typical camera) at some people sitting on their porch. That's completely different from typical street photography
They're not even standardised within the UK, as a lot of newer installations seem to use Edison screws (both B27 and E14). I've encountered many houses that use a mix of ES and bayonet fittings (and GU10s) or exclusively use ES.