skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mostly strategic: China is effectively hemmed in by Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and a bunch of SE Asian countries. They simply don't have easy access to the ocean from a military point of view (they are easily cut off during a war). They are trying to claim the whole of the SCS to fortify it and ensure open routes in case of a war.

It does seem awfully unfair looking at a map though, basically China's claim comes without 10 miles of other country land borders. Nobody but the Chinese would think these claims are fair.
There isn't a need to vaccinate. But there are many, many leftover doses to sell. Scare the people, and sell them the "solution". Rinse and repeat every 6 months.
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i suspect the tech for AR (as opposed to VR) was just not there yet.

and prob is still not.

looks cool? check.

works well/reliably? uhhhhhh.

some of the problems that Tesla is having with self-driving seem reminiscent of what the AR tech needs to deal with -- just in terms of, the problem space is stubborn -- how to get much more compute power into a much smaller footprint? maybe you can piggyback on a nearby computer/phone, but then you're strapped in -- you need near-real-time communication, so no networking tech except a cable is going to work, so now you're physically bound to a workstation as you try to move around your lab, the worksite, etc.

and Apple/Cook came out and said, basically, VR is nothing, AR is everything. that was good for AR. but did it cause any movement? Snap seemed to get maybe a small lift.

but is anyone actually using AR for anything in production? Maybe the 'advanced forward-looking tech division' of comglomerate 'x' gets a $100M slush fund to go out and buy and play with cool tech each year -- but it never has to use the tech in any meaningful way -- it's already an R&D write-off. prob some medical training folks are using it a bit -- train your biochem/vaccine lab workers -- that's not nothing, but...

the VR space just seems much more mature, and maybe that's because it's just a much easier problem to solve. not sure - not my tech area of expertise.
Why does the theorem need to be precise, whereas the program doesn't?
Wow. That's a real bummer -- an end of an era. I've been relying on Alexa (as part of various browser extensions over the years) to get a sense of a popularity of a given website for years. Not sure what's the good alternative. If you're aware of some in form of a Chrome extension, let me know.
A way to exclude seeing the exact same line of code in each of the 400 forks of some project on the next 40 pages would be just great.

The results are just so full of repetition
I laughed out loud reading at his devicetree frustration, because while it's pretty gross to work with at times, at least it's not ACPI!
All that money goes into the private sector. Government deficits are an investment. Recent investment is huge and helped millions of people. Without the investment we would be in a depression (not just a recession). Elon Musk is not happy about this kind of investment for some reason. He doesn't want the government to invest so much in it's own people, which is so strange to me.

There are of course criticism in the details. For example, a majority of the funds went to the top 10% which isn't great. How the funds were deployed was far, far from ideal. It lead to asset price inflation because of this. So there are problems with it, but the alternative, not investing, would have been much worse.
> Uyghur birthrates dropped by a 60% between 2015 to 2018 according to Chinese government statistics.

First thing first. Dropped birth rate itself is from from genocide. China does not have genocide on Han people, even if the birth rate dropped significantly https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44133954.pdf

Then, where is the source data?

The birthrate of all ethnic groups are listed in https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%90%84%...

Note Uyghur (维吾尔族) birth rate is 1.991 in 2000 and 1.842 in 2010. The same time the other groups vary a lot, but mostly the difference lies in the area economy development degrees. Ie, more advanced areas have lower birth rate.

Planned birth can cause drop in birth rate. As in the case of the one child policy.

Planned birth is violating human rights. But it's not genocide.

All in all, check the facts and see who are producing them. I am not a professional reporter, and I only believe extraordinary claim require extraordinary proof.

All evidence so far can only lead to the speculation that Uyghur population might be growing much slower (for that I still not see evidence that it's outlier compared to the whole population trends in China as a whole, I.e., Chiese population is undergoing huge aging and low birth rate across the nation).

If you want to link one data points to genocide, then I assue you I can come up with genocide claims in any nations on earth.
Why does Samsung likely have fewer suppliers? Samsung makes more varieties of phones, and their phones are technically similar to Apple phones.
> Without coming off as too obtuse, is your argument that the best return we can expect is from investing in basic needs?

If the ROI is not letting mentally ill people die in the street is that enough?

>Or that for any investment to be moral we must have satisfied more primal basic needs?

Yes. Why not? Why not make this a metric?

>What if it were the case that investment in basic research today alleviates a greater amount of suffering over a longer time horizon? What would the moral investment be?

We can fix these issues now by redirecting this $11B to the $2.5B HUD budget for homeless grants. What research is needed to end homelessness and hunger? It is not a hard problem, only hard because of the greed endemic in the culture. All these people who think this is a good idea to spend money on are only interested in themselves and they use these grand notion of it somehow helping people in the future to make themselves feel better.
More recent, larger-scale studies with modern hardware showed about a 3% chance of a DIMM having an error in a given year: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf

But these weren't just cosmic-ray-induced errors. The DIMMs with errors were far more likely to have more errors in the future, pointing to faulty memory cells.
Here is an introductory paper on that exact topic:

"If light waves are stretched by gravitational waves, how can we use light as a ruler to
detect gravitational waves?"
https://universe.sonoma.edu/moodle/pluginfile.php/89/mod_res...

The way I explain it: The light already inside the arm cavity is stretched. But newly entering light is not. We are basically using the light as clock to measure the length of the arm. When the arm is in the "stretched" state, light will take longer to make a roundtrip in the arm. It will accumulate slightly more phase, which is measured interferometrically.

It is important that the storage time of the light in the arm is short compared to the period of the gravitational wave.
> I think the essay is strongly written — never is a strong word — but it resonated with me because of a personal experience.

I struggle to hear someone use "never" and other absolutist language—as the author does—and imagine they are likely to admit a mistake as well. I think it can depend on how certain a group is, or as you mention, how the certain ones drive the less certain ones out of the group. I can imagine if there are people in a group who say "always" "never" "the best" "the worst" a lot, then yes, the more doubtful ones may leave and the group may become even more convicted in their rightness.

However, I don't think every group follows that path, possibly not having such people clinging to certainty or even if they do, the ones with more humility working together to downgrade the hubris.

Secondly, if you can't tell, I can feel quite frustrated when people speak with such certainty, and I'm grateful and impressed that you seemed able to look past that in the author's writing.
USSR/Russia also had a very long history of restrictions on accurate maps (of just about anything!), on the basis that it is a national security threat if the country ever gets invaded. Street-level maps were broadly available but deliberately falsified:

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/03/world/soviet-aide-admits-...

Detailed (<1:2500000) topographic maps were automatically classified as a state secret, and restricted on a "need to know" basis outside of the military until 1989.

A detailed article on this explaining how and why they went about it: http://www.hundzor.org/lj/10postnikov.pdf
> Due to hash calculations, you can’t add single-character tokens, tokens that are of the same length but differ after 3rd characters onwards

People to this day laugh at Rasmus choosing the length of function names in PHP decades ago and go does, well, not the same, but let's just say a variant of it. Oh the irony.
Just as with health care, when everybody is accusing someone else of gouging us, chances are, everybody is gouging us. I'm curious, do other countries handle as much of public construction with as many layers of private contractors as we do?
Allocating executable pages and running a compiler is orders of magnitude slower than just precomputing the multiplication factor.
The Origins and Evolution of the Modern Monetary System
The Haunted PS1 Demo Disks are a great place to start: https://hauntedps1.itch.io/
You make a good point. In my defense, I was thinking of McCarthyism and the feature that it conducted mock trials, committed character assassinations, and accused people of being guilty by association. A lot of that has been quite roundly condemned by “us”, by which I mean the courts (including the Supreme Court), governments, historians, and the public. Even if some of the politics live on, and even if there are splinter groups who would do it again, I feel like it’s fair to say a solid majority of our group does admit the tactics of McCarthyism were an error, no?
An interesting example: CBS pulled Star Trek from Netflix in Germany, but because they licensed Paramount+ to Sky, which launches next year, now some of the show's aren't available at all.
Yes, JWST will send back pictures. But since JWST operates in infrared as compared to Hubble (mostly optical and ultraviolet wavelengths), the pictures would look different.

Here is a comparison of what pics look like in visible vs infrared (both taken by Hubble, since it has some infrared capability):

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/comparisonWebbVsHubb...

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/james-webb-space-telesc...
Uh oh things are not looking good for our fair nation.

Fortunately it seems like China isnt doing the best either, but in other ways. Hopefully we fall together.
Would Lockheed Martin also be negociating tax breaks with Ireland and forefront line development costs of factories in Taiwan ? Or provide separated enclaves for EU countries ?

Right now Apple is an international consumer company at its core, which makes its positioning a lot different than defense contractors or power producers for instance.
> Is it possible to compress space?

The geodesic distance between inertial test masses increases and decreases.

Colloquially we say that space has stretched and compressed.

Geodesic distance can be measured by the time it takes light to travel between the points.

Inertial test masses can be simulated by hanging them from fine wires (LIGO) or by setting them up in an orbital constellation (LISA).
OK so you're now clarifying:

>The vaccine does reduce spread of the virus(es) it is made for. That statement had little to do with omicron.

I appreciate you backtracking and admitting it would be hypocritical for you to state the vaccine reduces the spread of Omicron in significant enough amount to make a difference, since you admitted yourself it would be a lie to say it with certainty or a presumption made on limited data.

I stand by the flagging, wherever it came from was cowardly, especially since as a green account I can't flag back. I did not name you out for it specifically, so you can drop the victim act. The world doesn't revolve around you bro, if I call the act of flagging my comment cowardly you don't have to presume it was directed at you unless you did it yourself. Calling an act cowardly isn't name calling, because it describes an act not a person, but I understand you're fired up to play yourself the victim. But it's really suspicious you make such a big deal of the cowardly description I called out for the flagger, when you claim you didn't flag at all.

Being obtuse is talking about omicron, then saying "yes it does" stop the spread, and then confronted with your own statements you go "but nuh uh, I wasn't talking about omicron." Come to think of it, calling someone obtuse when you think name calling is inappropriate might make you a hypocrite again, not that it means anything to you.
The client was using an image host which supported image transforms. They uploaded all their images there and were using a lot of image transforms from that host on their website. So, HOST/img/123?scale=1.3&color=greyscale type business. They were paying per image loaded from the site.

We tucked cloudflare in front of the image host using a URL rewrite rule. Cloudflare's cache reduced the number of requests made to the image host by 99% or something.
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Thanks for this! I'm currently designing a language for complex board games like Battlestar Galactica: http://www.adama-lang.org/

Something that I found amazing was inverting the flow control such that the server asks players questions with a list of possible choices simplifies the agent design tremendously. As I'm looking to retire to work on this project, I can generate the agent code and then hand-craft an AI. However, some AIs are soooo hard to even conceptualize.
I assume they're copying the EU's energy performance rankings, which were recently amended such that the IKEA LED spotlights that I have in my kitchen, which were A+ when I bought them, are now F. Very confusing.
I believe this answer is nonsense.
> Every company is motivated by profits, and yet I have vastly different opinions on the behaviours of different companies.

Wrong, it is survival bias. Not every company is motivated by profits, but the ones that survive long enough for you to notice are. If the company isn't motivated by profits, is simply doesn't last long enough to be a major player.
Companies that large have too much power and need to be heavily regulated.
You sound like a great person to work with and for. And I applaud your healthy look on the situation. Which can’t always have been / be, easy. But you’re wearing that scapegoat mantle with pride, and a touch of compassion. Some people just never learn. Best to stay clear of them and accept the way they think of you. You know better. You did the right thing.
Just curious, since gravity works over infinite distances (as I understand things):

When do two masses stop being gravitationally bound? Is that when each mass's relative speed exceeds the escape velocity of the other mass?

No, that can't be right: they could still end up in orbit - obviously gravitationally bound.
That ability is for groups and channels.

Not personal conversations! That's odd. You wrote the comment even without understanding what it could be used for
> it appears to only be happening in China - which I guess is fair game.

I'd say that depends on whether the subsidiary in China is financially independent from the mothership. If Apple in US profits from censorship in China or subsidizes it, it's not unreasonable for US to interfere with that.
> Are you suggesting Chinese people are practicing racial segregation?

Lol. Are concentration camps segregation? Because if so, then yeah that is what most people (outside of china) suggest is happening.
I'd appreciate you checking out my language and providing feedback. An element that helps is building a stateful server and using streams where the people behave like servers:

http://www.adama-lang.org/
It is a joke throwing back to BASIC syntax. Jokes don't have to be precise.
> You didn't say you were giving away a lottery ticket for open source

You call this a lottery ticket? My open-source work is the reason they were considering me in the first place!

Instead of getting opportunities, let them establish a monopoly over my time? No, thanks

> after taxes it's nowhere near retirement after 4 years

Correct, if you take the taxes into account there's more grind for what's worth

Those stock options are effectively $0, but based on the company's crazy valuation, sure they might be calculated as that much
According to my former manager who worked on the Alexa team at one point, it was a name with a high true-positive rate for their voice recognition system.
> if we are talking about education. both country offer free education to its people. College education are not compulsory and free in both countries

Education in China is also only compulsory through the 8th grade. Only 60% go on to high school.
Gravitational waves do not behave in the way you have described.

> I understand that to mean that on Earth we've managed to detect that increase from 2e20N to 3e20N.

This not what how gravitational waves behave. This assumption is not correct and will confuse you.
And the level of abstraction that is "good" changes over time and by use case. At my day job, I write both high-performance bioinformatics software and good-enough-performance web software. I do need to look at the assembly & think about the internals of the CPU when I'm trying to push through billions of reads in a timely manner. But I don't need to count cycles when I'm rendering a CRUD detail page in Django - I just need to make sure my database queries are reasonable.

Also, the idea that you can say some abstractions (presumably in wide use) are "objectively" bad only makes sense if you've already applied your subjective criteria.
Sounds like your gut is in the right place. I keep my fingers crossed that our governor doesn't issue mandates for boosters for us folks in the public sector. I did my part with shots 1 and 2, but I am _not_ doing this again, for a variant which hasn't even killed anyone.
Because you can't enforce every rule in practice. There's a chance it will creep up on up on a long drive and you don't notice. There's a chance you pass out suddenly or something else happens that prevents you from steering - same system should kick in. And finally, even if you behave perfectly, it's in your interest that the person coming from the other side does have such system.
Why prescribe it if we know it is viral? First, the doctor should determine whether or not it is viral or bacterial. If it turns out that it is viral, then DO NOT PRESCRIBE ANTIBIOTICS. Is it because of placebo? Because if so, the costs are too high. Tell them to take zinc or whatever for a week.
Plus Bash is one basic scripting language that every sysadmin worth their salt knows, even more than sh.

There will be religious wars until the end of time about Python vs Go vs Ruby vs Rust vs "The New Hotness". Popular languages change; bash, as a shell language, outlives them.

In 1995 Perl was the hot language. Bash was there too. Now people can't maintain Perl code, but Bash still runs.
Bash doesn't require add-on libraries or modules, it uses system built-ins. It's the lowest common denominator for system scripting.

Also, while Mac tries to force people to switch to zsh, and most lemmings just obey, you can still make Macs obey you, and use bash as your login shell.
Send the KeePassXC .kdbx password database to your cell phone, download it to your phone, then upload it to Strongbox (or other). I find the easiest way to send it to my cell phone is by using Signal's "Notes to Self." All my devices that have Signal and have KeePassXC then have access to the updated database.
Lol. Car horns and engines add a fair bit, but from my experience, sanitation trucks, delivery trucks, light Rail and busses make the most nuisance noise, followed closely by morons blaring bass as they drive.

It'll be pretty hard to have a city without most of that, and anyone who likes blaring bass from their car will just go old school and carry it with them.

Oh, and neighbors throwing their monthly party, complete with bouncy castle and loud music, loud arguments, and dogs barking, and construction crews, and all sorts.

Sharing walls is torture if you are sensitive to noise pollution.

IME traffic was pretty far down the list of city noise pollution that actually bothered me.
NASA did add docking capability to JWST for future servicing:

https://www.space.com/3833-nasa-adds-docking-capability-spac...

That article is from 2007 but it still had the docking ring as of 2013. Can't find any recent ones that confirm if it will still have the docking ring at launch.

But I don't think we have the capability as of now to actually service it in case something goes wrong. But given how technology is advancing, maybe we can when JWST reaches EOL in 10 years.
As a hypothetical for someone who isn't knowledgeable about the stock market, how would one make a killing if they knew this information? Invest in Russian weapons companies?
Maybe I've been using that terminology wrong; I'd meant something along the lines of "primarily residential annex of a city". I didn't mean to imply that it's a long distance or low density (in fact, I specifically emphasized Somerville's relatively high density), or that it doesn't have its own identity -- it definitely does. Somerville (and to a lesser extent Medford/Charlestown/Watertown/Quincy) is just where you go if you want to live in that area but can't or won't pay Boston/Cambridge/Brookline rent.
No effect, I believe, since Alexa haven't been providing crawl data to the Internet Archive since January 2021.

You can see this by looking at the "Items" graph on the Alexa Crawls collection [0]

(I am not associated with the Internet Archive - just a very happy user!)

[0] https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?tab=about
this has always been my top complaint about Julia -- programming without type stability is madness!
What would you have them do? Have everyone move out of the PNW?
100% my thoughts as well. I want to help, but how do I get in touch?

Shoot me an email, mine's on my HN profile.
Was Jeffrey Epstein a monster? What about the people who joined him on his island?
Clearly it isn't Peter Thiel's justification. So kelnos is wrong in calling this hypocrisy.
The same as any other project that decides it may drop support: either stick on an old version, or work to add support for the platforms you care about. Rust's lack of platform support isn't because it is impossible for Rust to gain support for those platforms, but because users of those platforms haven't added support yet. Obviously that is easier said than done, and I doubt that Linux would make a decision like this, but the options are pretty straightforward if they did.
For Adama ( http://www.adama-lang.org/ ), I am using a mutable tree with two copies and then built transactions such that I can emit deltas on the parts that change. I have all the benefits of immutability without the cost PLUS I have a cheap undo/redo log.
I use to use a boot CD called "plop boot manager" for this purpose:

https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html
If US (Soviet/postSoviet Russia should get some stability credit here too) hegemony started in, say, 1950, then the number of global per-capita deaths from conflict have declined by about a factor of 10^2 (a hundred) during this period, if I’m reading this graph correctly

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea...

If two orders of magnitude reduction in deaths due to war over almost three generation lengths is how you define “more dangerous”, then danger starts to sound like a good thing.
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