skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinas pandemic outcome remains to be seen. Their zero Covid approach may prove increasingly challenging as new variants become more contagious and the rest of the world takes a maintenance approach.

I think a centrally controlled society’s IQ is the sum if it’s leaders. A free society’s IQ is the sum of its people. That makes me optimistic about the prospects for the US.
96% of sentences in the US are handed out without a trial.
I assume university leaders’ pay is correlated to a university’s budget, which is correlated to international students paying full price, which is correlated to students from China due to their large numbers.

https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china...

> At Brandeis University near Boston, Chinese students mobilized last year to sabotage an online panel about atrocities against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. Viewers interrupted a Harvard-educated lawyer as she tried to describe her brother’s plight in a concentration camp, scrawling “bullshit” and “fake news” over his face on the screen and blaring China’s national anthem. To the dismay of participants, the university’s leaders failed to condemn the incident.

> U.S. universities have received more than $1 billion in donations from mainland China — from individuals, companies, government organizations — since 2013, according to the Department of Education. That doesn’t include tuition paid by Chinese students, whose numbers in the U.S. reached 370,000 in 2019.
Maybe alcohol is not the best metric, but Assange is, or endless wars.
I like it when the maintainers are up front about it, like we're open sourcing this but not looking for contributions.
I'd like to see HN shy away from posting twitter threads as news. There's almost always a hard link to the source material, and twitter threads are filled with emotional, truncated, nuance-lacking, trite clips that more often than not do little to promote healthy discussion of a topic. The goal of quality here really is noble.
Americans obviously don't love freedom above all, at least not uniformly across the country. Many seem to be surprisingly willing to give it up in return for a sense of safety.
Thank you for this detailed response. Over the holiday I'll give it a go :)
I'm having trouble parsing your last sentence, 'an opportunity to argue for'? I suspect the rich often got that way by being able to capitalise on crises, but I'm not sure how that relates to arguing for such opportunity. It might be relevant that Picketty also points out how severe crises are about the only times in recent history that wealth inequality decreased.

I generally like Picketty's analysis, but I wonder whether it might be worthwhile to do a similar analysis and include the portion that goes to co-ordination costs. It might be irrelevant in france for cultural reasons but I suspect it's an important piece of the puzzle in the Americas.
not comparable. I know of it (and have for 20 years; hey, I went to a public school run by hippies so we talked about this kind of stuff) AND ALSO I can post about it right here, right now, without worrying about the state coming after me (as, obviously I have, just now, and has everyone else in this thread) AND ALSO I can go to a FOREIGN COUNTRY and post about it without worrying that the us will go after my mom living in the US.
Whenever you think that you’re on the outside looking in, seeing the world for what it is while others seem blind, you should reconsider your perspective.

My wife's an immigrant, having grown up in Shanghai during the cultural revolution. She's got countless stories of how she was systematically lied to the entire time. For example, when she was little she was taught that children in America were largely starving too death, which the children of China were lucky that the leadership of Chairman Mao had brought them such bounty.

My wife's family was systematically persecuted, in part because of their cosmopolitan exposure (her uncle was already in America, and her father was a sea captain traveling the world). Every member of her extended family, other than her grandmother, spent time in prison or work camps. I've read the forced "confession" documents from some of her family.

All through this time, we know that China has been consistently suppressing information about the Tienanmen Square massacre, for example.

While under Deng's regime the pendulum started to swing back toward freedom a bit, it's completely reversed again over the past several years under Xi. On a number of occasions my wife's own communications to her family in China have been filtered (e.g., postings on WeChat being removed after the fact, or email attachments being stripped out of messages).

Your point that we need to be cautious about assuming that others are blinded while we have a unique ability to see the truth is well taken. But I think in this case it's really warranted.
Can biometric auth be required on iOS? I had thought iOS treated these as convenience alternatives to device pin.
oh shit

I've spend probably 20-40 hours with those and I must say that I like "normal" programming more
In 2019, Frances Hui, a student at Emerson College in Boston, wrote an opinion piece for the student newspaper titled "I am from Hong Kong, not China” (1) and she was subjected to doxxing and death threats:

The most jarring comment came from a Chinese student at Emerson, who made Hui’s personal Facebook posts public. In one post, he wrote a comment that translates to: “Whomever opposes my greatest China, no matter how far they are, must be executed.”(2)

The student should have been expelled and Emerson should have an unequivocal statement condemning this sort of harassment over any topic.

Emerson did nothing.

1) https://berkeleybeacon.com/person-of-color-column-i-am-from-...

2) https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/05/28/frances-hu...
Its going to affect how people view entering into the medical workforce when they effectively sign up for whatever the fuck medical experiments the government is pissing themselves about at the time.
https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/oklahoma-lawmaker-propo...
So, in the end, you're accepting that regulation is not the determining factor then.

Not even sure what exactly you think the proportion of foreign-born medical staff is in Europe. As far as I can find, the maximum is ~30% in the UK, while in Germany is 7%. But either way, to think that this is somehow the reason why Americans pay way more than anyone else for basic stuff like insulin and medical bills is ridiculous in my eyes.

Even if what you say is true for Western Europe, there are other countries (pretty much all) with highly-regulated healthcare and they all pay less than the US. But I'm sure there's some niche reason for why that would never work in the US.
I think you have the same problem with a system where votes are counted by hand.
To be fair, troff was designed when typewriters were ubiquitous and is basically a direct analogue. It's not going to be hard for a professional typist (ie. secretary) to learn troff. It's like teaching R to a statistician.
That's not really true. Regardless how many setters you have or invoke, state only changes between renders. Of course state is mutable, that's the whole point. It's not mutable during the render function though. It's also easier to accidentally mutate an object assigned to a const than a string or number.

Also, the setters are usually passed around all over the place, so no, I don't think the point is centralizing component state at all.
Either it is abondoned in the middle, or it would become something like it were developed by a programmer.

People thought writing code is the hard part. It is not. It is the underlying problem that is hard. And no language can really help you about that
I'm not even sure it doesn't try. Didn't some politicians made actions in the recent past regarding the so called critical race theory?
Nearly as clever as the McDonald's hot coffee blackmail.
I miss the days when I traveled cross country with nothing but a Rand McNally atlas. To be free of the fear and anxiety of not knowing "where I am" (I am right here!) again is my current goal.

However, now that traffic can be a mess in most cities (which I feel is new), I favor using my smartphone to avoid those situations when I can, but mostly I favor avoiding cities and taking the "long way" to preserve my sanity.

I live in a van so this is more of a challenge for me than the average commuter.
On a higher level the issue is not one sided and focusing solely on one side is what the CRT brouhaha is all about. It’s an ideology not an attempt at portraying reality.

There is no human group in history that holds the moral high ground. Trying to convey anything else is tribalism.
University students are emphatically not kids. The students who are US citizens are legal adults expected to vote an participate in democracy. At what age do you expect them to suddenly "grow up" and be responsible for their actions?
In absolute number of dead, it's certainly worse, if only because of the scale of China. According to Henry Louis Gates 12.7 million Africans were abducted by the slave trade. Estimates for the Great Leap Forward are 15 to 55M dead from famine and several million more from violence.

https://www.abhmuseum.org/how-many-africans-were-really-take...
I like your terminology: pseudo freedom. You brought walking around with a beer being illegal in almost every location in the U.S. That’s a good example but here is an even more fundamental example of pseudo freedom in the U.S. The following is about the criminalization of walking. The link is to a small sized PDF written by a law professor.

https://www.illinoislawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05...
Nah. Speaking as an American ex-pat, it's about Americans being offended that foreign laws have heft and import. It pierces the sovereignty bubble. The Internet is home-grown. How dare other nations dictate to us Americans how we run our sites, amirite? We're gonna take our toys and home.
Very simple sites can violate it. For one example: if you, or anything in your stack, logs IP addresses you need a legitimate business interest to do so. It is needed for security and usage statistics and stuff but you will need a lawyer to explain that when you get hit with some fines.
What I am saying is, there is already an interface, which os.File should be implementing.
https://itsdangerous.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/index.html...
Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
France has bolstered ICU beds, with a lot ( there are no concrete numbers, and everything is measured in pre-Covid capacity, but we've had ICUs at 180% during one of the later waves).

But they can't scale to infinity, there's always a limit on the number of medical personnel you can actually train. At some point you will hit that limit with unchecked exponential growth.
I don't even know how this is up for debate!

It is universally known people are biased to hire people they'd like to spend time with: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121129093008.h...

> > I am not from California and not even the US

Oh so you're not from the country in question with these policies?

The whole "tech bro" persona did not come into existence for no reason.
I'm not personally a fan of protecting against accidental misuse. No other law offers significant leniency for ignorance that I am aware of.
Thank you so much for all of this info! I will give this a whirl over the holidays.
I predict IPv4 will be widely considered legacy before decimal floating point numbers are common place, let alone binary floats being considered legacy.

From what I've seen, there's just simply no demand for decimal floating point; there's basically one or two people who ask for it, and this carries up all the way through to C committee standardization. Far more people care about things like non-default rounding mode or exception support than care about decimal floating point, and that's an area of floating point that itself is pretty damn low on people's priority lists.

The advantage of decimal floating points is that it fixes the rounding error when converting to/from decimal strings... and that's it. It doesn't fix non-associativity, it doesn't fix gradual precision loss, it doesn't fix portability issues because different libraries have different precision targets. And you get this for the slight cost of making every single floating point operation slower.

And here's the other truism about floating-point: most people who care about it value speed over correctness. There's strong demand for operations like approximate division that don't do the refinement steps, and consequently throw away half the bits. Fast-math flags are similarly pretty common, because users already aren't expecting bit-precise results, so the resulting changes in precision are quite often acceptable for them.
CRT has nothing to do with teaching history.
> What does the language selection have to do with a feature request of

Only functions with certain type signatures can do IO in Haskell. This could be broken down to be more granular such that the type system makes it clear (and even somewhat of a burden) to the caller whether writing to disk happens, or network access, or both.

Imagine the entry point to your program is given all "Effects", and then must pass them down the call stack as needed to other functions. Without the appropriate Effect, a function cannot perform the Effect. People might wonder why they were required to pass the NetworkAccess Effect into their logging calls.
> regardless of how much merit those norms actually have

Isn't that the whole point? Persecuting a neighbour as a witch has no merit. Limiting contact with your neighbour as a pandemic restriction does.

> One social impact of the pandemic is that nobody can mind their own damn business any more

If "mind their own damn business" means "go about daily life as if there weren't a global pandemic" then yes, this is indeed an expected impact of public health crises.
> Then why else did the committee drop that evidence

On what basis do you claim they did?

I mean, sure, it might look like they had if they didn't question Meadows about it when he showed up to testify after they got it...but he didn't, which is why he’s facing a contempt referral. Short of that, other than it's absence from any final report, I’m not sure what concrete sign would exist that they had “dropped” it at all.

> We're not seeing their corporate media buddies belabor trivial information or twisting it to manipulate people into thinking it serves as evidence against Trump.

While I agree with the exact wording here, as what is being belabored is not trivial and the analysis of how it is evidence against Trump and his inner circle is not twisted, the media that's not full-time right-wing propaganda is indeed pointing to them as a “smoking gun”, so, if “major media pundits aren't claiming that they are evidence against Trump” is the basis of your claim that the committee is dropping the texts, the premise is as faulty as the logic (a few examples of thousands):

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/mark-meadows-text-me...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/politics/january-6-committee-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/mark-mead...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38514277/mar...

About the best you can say for the texts is that they are sometimes being treated as less of a smoking gun than the PowerPoint presentation on the strategy for the coup turned over by Meadows.
“Agree with me or its an apology for totalitarian oppression“

Alternatively its just not an apt comparison.
Prime whataboutism. But anyways, just as one example, the Tulsa race massacre was the subject of a major recent TV series (The Watchmen). Mere mentions of Tiananmen square massacre, observing quiet vigils, etc. could get you jailed in China. On freedom of speech, there is no possible comparison. Even the existence of this very conversation would be immediately censored on the Chinese domestic internet.
Sony Unveils Groundbreaking CMOS Sensor That Gathers Twice the Light
Sure. So I would like to know: What is a use case where strong static typing is a major advantage, and where Haskell is clearly better than Rust from a language design/feature perspective?

edit: Another question. Is there a language that has stronger static typing than Rust without the weird performance pitfalls and subpar tooling that Haskell has? I can imagine a project for which such features would be useful, but getting over those two issues is difficult.
The answer is in the second major heading of the linked page. Where's the dishonesty?
The point is that with a powerful Effects system, devs calling the logger would have to account for the network call in their own code. Someone might have wondered why that was needed and gotten this addressed before it was ever widespread.
There's only one - Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - it basically explains the whole world we live in, I've become like 10x human after reading it.
> OK, well, I've skimmed it and I can't see anything that suggests they are going to spy on our employees and sell the data to advertisers

"We, our service providers and our third-party advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes:
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Interest-based advertising.
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We may also share information about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising
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We may create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect
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and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes"

Such "de-identified data" is often trivial to re-identify. There are research papers about that. It's well known in the security and privacy community.

Also, they use dark anti-patterns for opting out from them even using your personal data for their own advertising. "You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us at ..."

If Drata intended to be a nice, trustworthy security partner, use of any personal data for targeted marketing, or sale of any personal information would be opt in, not "out out if you can figure out how ...".

I have not read their terms of conditions or even their glossy information about the agent. I never got that far, as I declined to accept the terms and conditions for using their website. Already at that point, I saw red flags the size of Australia.

I don't believe for one second that Drata has any intention of showing any decency or that they act in good faith towards their customers or anyone else. If they did, they would have developed reasonable terms and conditions. What they have don't even distinguish clearly between the roles of a customer and an employee or contractor for their customers. Hell, they don't even define the term "Customer".
Look at you, getting all fancy with your "deontological" and "consequentialist." Does it feel erudite to use 5 dollar words when a 10 cent word like "freedom" would do?

No, actually we cannot see that "having consequentialist ethics that don't care about your freedom do a lot better at fighting pandemics." But then, we don't have police welding people's doors shut, either.
I've heard it from another Chinese student that a lot of Chinese students come from families that are blessed by CCP. So naturally they are very loyal to CCP. Very few students/people in general can make it outside of China without being blessed by CCP. Hence very high loyalty to CCP among international Chinese students.
Yeah, I'd push back a bit on the "red blooded American" = "rural truck driver/gun owner" idea, at least if "red blooded American" is supposed to mean "typical American" or "indisputably American" or "American who wishes their country to flourish".
You definitely don't know how progressive tax brackets work.
Opinion: Although you can test hooks in isolation, I find they tend to be fairly primitive and testing them in combination with components can be more useful.

In isolation, unless you have very complex hooks, it’s a bit like you’re testing react or JavaScript themselves. When testing a component which uses the hook, I find you get to test the behaviour and expectations a little better - it’s close to a real use case.
> Is it somehow better that the government of the United States doesn’t even need to try to suppress the information?

Is the claim the United States is not having a discussion, in public and politics, reckoning with its racial past?
Segmenting your broadcast domains doesn't help much if traffic is routed freely between them.
> Public space alcohol consumption is one of the weirdest metrics I’ve seen to gauge freedom.

I would say it's a much more relevant metric than the ability to own a shitload of guns, or to drive a black smoke diesel truck, the latter of which is honestly bafflingly antisocial behavior. The definition of "freedom" should begin with the freedom from others pushing their negative externalities onto you.
Doesn't matter. Every developer will still be at the mercy of the whims of the majority unless you find your own niche.
Ahh, so in other words complete bulkshit,

That bill has nothing to do with preventing teaching about Tulsa.
Historically categorizing America like this might have made sense but ever since 9/11 it’s been less and less true. How else do you explain the economic response around the 2008 recession, the patriot act and everything in the Snowden leaks, our insane wars that are ostensibly not about oil futures, or the insane amount of money printing and spending in the wake of covid? I’m not even sure I’d be willing to buy the argument that China is more consequentialist than we are.

I don’t think that Tiananmen Square is their slavery. When I was in high school we had a guy visit from China and I dragged him to the school library and showed him the Wikipedia page for Tiananmen Square. He’d never heard of it. Same experience when I discussed it with Chinese friends in college. It’s not because Chinese society wants to get over it — China does not have such a thing as public opinion. Don’t look at China with rose colored glasses in the context of their 2021 economy, you have to remember how backwards and broke they were just 20 years ago. It was a totalitarian regime and it’s still a totalitarian regime, just a more wealthy one.

In summary, I agree that it seems like “consequentialism” has won, but it’s not the case that the two are battling it out to see which is better. Both countries independently chose consequentialism, and maybe it didn’t have to be that way.
> This is primarily because those companies haven't updated their payments systems to be compliant.

For big companies with decades or more of legacy cruft, it's a hell of a lift to make their universe compliant. Especially if your large company tends to fall onto the "decentralized org structure" part of the spectrum where a billion teams run around doing their own thing with very little top-down oversight.

It's the same kind of story as it was for GDPR (and CCPA to some extent). Some companies can pull it off easy because their org structure is way more top down. Others that are bottoms up have a much harder time because you have to heard a million different teams towards something new that doesn't really deliver much immediate business value.

I assure you though, these companies are all no doubt hard at work making life better for their india customers... it is just a much harder lift for their organizations to handle. Which is not to say their org structure is a bad one. It just isn't optimized for top-down mandates like these.
Consider donating to the EFF as a Christmas present to yourself
Coming from a C++ background I am totally confused by the constant flaming of python's package management.
I‘m not so sure about it being laughed out of court unfortunately.
I'm fine with any browser, as long as it's modern and up to the current standards (i.e not Safari)