skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit of a shallow understanding of things. They were a lot closer 6 years ago to annexing Taiwan than they are now.

Diplomatic: Official allies matter less and less. The deepening unofficial ties with the US and Japan (I can cite examples here if you like) are much, much more important. If the current trend continues, ties between Taiwan and the US will be unofficial by name only. Dual recognition by stealth.

Militarily: Taiwans problems here are well known. But Taiwan has a free and very critical press, and will gladly tear into their military for clicks. This is not the case for China, god knows what problems it has (though the skirmish with India probably gives you some clues). You call the US military war weary, I call it highly experienced at waging war.

Economic: China is completely dependent on global trade. To act otherwise is laughable.
Stop the policy of drone strike kill lists every Tuesday. Explain why it's a bad idea to make it harder for the next guy. Declassify all the cases where we killed civilians because of bad intel. (probably 90% of all strikes?)

Pardon all the whistleblowers, and make a concerted PR push as to the good they do for the country.

That's about all I could actually do, everything else would be stopped by the RepubliCratic donor class who actually control things in Washington, DC.
Not a car thief but it's an interesting question. Maybe given the VIN and a few hours/days you can lookup and make a correct key for that type of car. So the tag is placed when the VIN is collected and the theft is smooth with a valid key.
I'm not sure you'd get quite the same from the things you listed, perhaps a little...?

The note from your daughter, while sweet, can also come from those you help. For example, sponsoring a childrens school in India, or mentoring an orphan through a Big Brother program.

I think the main point here is you are in service by helping others, instead of focusing on yourself.
Interesting. There is a chip that was once one of my friend's favorites for his consulting work... it was essentially a 6502 with huge mask-programmable ROM and a tiny (like 128 byte) RAM -- it was designed for greeting cards, where if you bought 100K+ quantities of passivated, unencapsulated die, they cost between 1 and 2 cents.
Please don't post like this to HN, regardless of how provocative or wrong another comment is, or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn't get the vibe that this particular article was rejecting OoA, but simply pointing out that the modern approach is OoA + "it's complicated".

The HBD stuff is troublesome and it's certainly worth regarding the author more critically, but I found the bones of what was linked fairly pedestrian and uncontroversial. I suspect that will not be true of the follow-up article about origin models within Africa though.
Not a book but I highly recommend Construct3 for kids wanting to do games programming. Also CodeCombat as mentioned elsewhere in this thread,
OIC. Well, I destroyed the laptop, not the microphone, because that's what OP said to do. I guess I didn't read the directions carefully enough. /s
Think C!

I had a computer programming class in high school, we got to pick our compiler out of a box of old software. For some reason it's what I chose, and spent the first day installing it from floppy disks.

I am pretty sure the machine I used was a Macintosh LC III, already obsolete by the time I got my hands on it. But the other computers were Pentium 100's running Windows and I had a PC at home, so that wouldn't have been any fun.

I later found out it became Symantec C, but I really only used Codewarrior for the rest of my Mac classic endeavors.
This opens up a new "evil maid" attack: secretly tracking anyone whose phone you have access to.
Ask HN: How to negotiate salary with a remote distributed company?
I'm a staff engineer with almost 10 years of experience working on projects that successfully saved 500k+ dollars annually. Last week I finished interviews with a well-known tech company that I would love to work for. The problem is that they made me a really low offer (45k annually) because I live in a "low-cost country". I am currently making double than that and I even have another offer for 10% more than my current salary.

The position is for senior IC and I would love to work there because the work is super interesting and would look very well in my resume. However, the company says they can't pay more in my country even though there's no single employee here and they pay higher salaries in other places. What is the best strategy to convince them to pay what I think I'm worth?
Because we need some Windows-only software and some Linux-only software. And the occasional Mac-only (or whatever else) software too. Life is less difficult when it all works in the same window manager and accesses the same filesystem, if that is possible.
Mimic latest iPhone. They are very hard to fingerprint.
I see. I don't live in a remote place at all (central USA), but Starlink is far better internet than anything else we can get. Currently our connection speed is 0.6 Mbps. It's supposed to be 10, but they have problems pretty often...
> I would rather have ads than paywalls.

No offense but I've heard people who work at ad companies repeat this like a mantra, and it's a false dichotomy, akin to a coal company who dumps slag in rivers saying, "Well we think it's better than letting everyone freeze to death." We're not asking Google to stop advertising altogether and close up shop, just to make the internet ad ecosystem a little less awful and Orwellian.
She faked it, in her twitter photo of the tag the plastic activation plastic is still in the device. She lied and posted a photo of an unactivated AirTag.
We all came from Adam and Eve, Allah(God) created everything. some people are believing theories made by a handful of "scientists" and became facts all of a sudden.
This work is interesting in that it may decentralize nitrogen fixation. Traditional Haber-Bosch plants can also decarbonize ammonia production if they use electrolytic hydrogen produced with clean electricity. Some 20th century Haber-Bosch plants operated that way with electrolytic hydrogen made via hydroelectric power.
Every response like this praising Liberal Arts seems to ignore two things:

1. Leaders (executives and management) at top companies almost always come from these top universities you rave about, and many with degrees in Liberal Arts. Yet they still always put profit > the ideals you just spent three paragraphs praising.

2. ALL students in the US receive a Liberal Arts education via general education requirements. On the contrary, only a select few take anything over remedial math/science.

This also puts “leading experts” on a far higher pedestal than deserved. Take Robert Reich, a famous History professor at Berkeley. Despite raving about affordable housing and equality in courses, on Twitter, etc., he actively votes against such legislation [0]. Did his liberal arts education at Dartmouth, Oxford, and Yale fail him?

0: https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/robert-reich-tries-to-st...
no-one here said the olden days were better. it is possible for something to be generally in the right direction, but still in great need of improvements. dismissing anything not as positive as you'd like as unconstructive is itself unconstructive.
i did a quick test

exa -l vs ls -l

./exa -l /home/_/Downloads 0.00s user 0.01s system 131% cpu 0.010 total

ls --color=tty -l /home/_/Downloads 0.00s user 0.00s system 93% cpu 0.003

exa uses +40% cpu usage and is slower.... not good
Upvoting this as I’ve always been this way and I’m noticing many friends hit their mid thirties saying “oh I don’t want kids and it feels so good, like a weight has been lifted”
I'm referring to

>The only difference is that you're now responsible for maintaining your own streaming equipment.

Losing those box fees, HD fee, regulatory recovery fee, etc. nets one a savings even if the advertised monthly price is the same. Being able to self-install is also worth a day of PTO.
The legal work I did was for an expert witness case as a subject matter expert (not a lawyer). There is no way we could have/would have agreed to a fixed fee up front unless it was for a really outrageous amount. (Well, it ended up being a pretty outrageous amount anyway but there's no way we could have reasonably scoped the work.)

Most of the work we did in general was for specifically scoped deliverables and we actually tried very hard not to do day rates, much less hourly rates, but this was one case it really wasn't avoidable--and, of course, was the way the white shoe law firm operated.
In no way is manually writing a patch and then live patching the common situation.

The vast majority of cases, and this has been the case for decades, will be that you take responsibility for your own dependencies, and you let your vendors take responsibility for theirs.
> Taiwan is de facto independent in their governance. Catalonia is not even close

If only Catalonia was interesting enough for the US to send their army on the borders...

That's one big difference.

Anyway, de facto doesn't mean anything here.

Taiwan is officially not a country.

If you don't like the comparison to Catalonia, lookup Cyprus.
I guess it depends on the audience. As a kid who grew up watching Star Trek, I already knew that humans are illogical. And having been around through the Trump presidency among other things, I know they go berserk over some seemingly innocuous topics, and that you have to be careful to not trigger people. So I didn't need to read 20 pages to absorb those lessons.

An analogy: we're mostly experienced programmers here, so we can usually understand a quick description of a programming concept even if it's new to us. A programming book for beginners might have to spend much longer getting the same idea across. Perhaps "Scott's way of doing things from scratch" is like that. But once you've read a few of those essays, you're no longer a beginner, so you'd rather have the quick version.
If tracking the vehicle to the destination is the goal it's fairly likely someone with an iPhone will pass by the vehicle at some point. Especially in an apartment complex or public shared parking.
Product market fit, then hustle and then free press = profitable business everywhere in the world.
The punishment is obvious: the opportunity cost you incur by paying student loans is too high. Those who paid their loans have lost money they could have used for other investments to build wealth. Now if you were to forgive current outstanding debts, it would be a punch in the gut to those who did pay off their loans. They had to work and go through much more pains, and missed several wealth-building opportunities they could have had if they were allowed to keep their money. It is an unfair disparity against those who were unfortunate enough to go to college a bit earlier and thus, a punishment.
I know I don't have the time but I'd love to chip away at a VGA game project on a fast 486 or low end Pentium, using Turbo C or maybe djgpp
Just like epidemiology, right?
I guess no. I've trying to jump through a linked list of job positions to reach the ultimate objective but so far I'm pretty far. I agree with a fellow commenter that a job is just a job but I recommend you seek what you really love and turn it into a career.
Good compression is always helpful, another working algorithm to fill out the available spectrum of choices is a plus.

Why tie it to HTTP? Most transfers are https, which this wouldn't help.
> For those following - these treatments are 40 pill treatments.

> These pills work in interesting ways, ie, generating MORE mutations.

> β-d-N4-hydroxycytidine Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Through Lethal Mutagenesis But Is Also Mutagenic To Mammalian Cells https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33961695/

You're way off-base. You're talking about Merck's Molnupiravir (Lagevrio), which is both less effective (~30% vs ~88%) and already approved.

Pfizer's Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir) is not mutagenic.

It is a 15 pill course (5 days x 3 per day), not 40.

Also, Pfizer thinks as of Nov 29 that they can make 80M courses by EOY. The US has purchased at least 10M of them.
super interesting -- are you exploring paid option + custom domain to make public?
They seem to have disabled the option to make that the default view. Or rather, the option is still there but it doesn't do anything, always opening the bloated interface.
When I came across that video last year I sent an email to the creator, but never got a reply.

I made some of my own edge-notched cards using a computer-controlled stencil cutter. Here are some pictures - https://twitter.com/nathanbroon/status/750465911241502721 .

I had the idea to present it at a Chaos Communication Congress. Then life (a.k.a having kids) intervened.
You're giving a visceral reaction right now. Being able to flex by buying a jpg for hundreds of thousands and having people on boards like this lose their minds over it is part of the appeal, you're feeding the beast without even realizing it.
Would you please stop feeding flamewars on HN? You did a ton of it in this thread. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I had to ask you about this just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29501704, and before that too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28213714. I realize you're not doing it intentionally but we need you to fix this.
Security by obscurity is not security at all. Thinking you were safe because “people didn’t know about it” is not safety at all! Bad people are going to be bad. They don’t need AirTags for that. Knowing it can happen is far better for everyone to know about than living in a false sense of security.
Elon (and other shareholder) didn't do shit, he just owns the facilities and the rights to reap the profits.
At least where I have worked, UX people are evaluated by whether the PM is happy when approving it. Even for myself as a dev, the part of my job people care about is the rate tickets move from "Selected for development" to "Done" while still passing tests.

You will need to change the minds of PMs.
We migrated from Vimeo to Cloudflare Stream (https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/) a while back. Mostly due to our architecture of user-uploaded videos. Also because it's more white-label able. Partially because we just already used Cloudflare for lots of things and like the company. YMMV.
Isn't this just traditional ugly mono-culture forestry?
Nicotine is addictive. Patches and gum contain extended release nicotine which might be why you think it isn’t addictive. Zyn pouches are a freebase nicotine product that the user puts in their gum like tobacco chew and is an addictive product.
How is this is any way an anonymous tracker?

The police could get a subpoena for Apple to divulge the iCloud account, credit card, and phone number of the owner of this AirTag. Using air tags to conduct illegal activity is stupid.
It's a growth/marketing tool for new games to leech specific types of people from other games. You can target a very specific demographic of people (say whales, or hardcore grinders) and reward only those people.
often I need to match permissions on something already there, so I'm trying to go "uhhh, its, rwxr-xr-x what does that translate to again?"
Title doesn’t match content.
Does epidemiology have a well-publicized replication crisis with numerous examples of outright fraud from high-profile researchers? If so then yes. If not then why don’t you just say what you’re trying to say rather than imply it obliquely in the form of a question?
This is useful information, and I think it explains exactly how we wound up with pseudo relocs instead of thunks, but honestly, the thing that makes this so bothersome is that there's really no documentation that explains this, there's seemingly no warning when it occurs, and there's no error when it fails.

From my perspective, I saw WINE crashing with a CALL into seemingly nowhere. Then I realized the CALL on disk pointed directly to the IAT (which obviously makes no sense.) Finally I realized that the library probably shouldn't be linking to VirtualProtect, traced it to the entrypoint, and found an error message that made me aware of the existence of pseudo relocs.

There was a 0% chance the person who created this bug was ever going to figure it out, and I'm not even sure I could've figured out the build issue if I had access to the project files. There's plenty of minutiae when it comes to MinGW and MSys and a lot of people are not adequately prepared for what they are getting themselves into. I think (hope) the mess with exception handling is cleared up and everyone just uses SEH on Windows, but I bet there's still issues with licensing and winpthreads, and MSys and PTYs.

I'd be more than happy to try to submit PRs to help with this particular problem, though I'm not going to lie, I find the pseudo-reloc thing horrifying and would be afraid of somehow breaking some ridiculous edge case.
The study in this post finds that to be not true (emphasis mine):

> Overall, we find that measured verbal, non-verbal, and overall cognitive scores are significantly lower since the beginning of the pandemic. Looking further, we find that children born before the pandemic and followed through the initial stages do not show a reduction in skills or performance, but rather that young infants born since the beginning of the pandemic show significantly lower performance than in- fants born before January 2019. Thus, our results seem to suggest that early development is impaired by the environmental conditions brought on by the pandemic.
I have a feeling the interaction with the police in a lot of jurisdictions would go something like:

“This person at this address tried to track me without my consent! Here’s the documentation from Apple!”

“Ma’am, has the person at this address murdered you?”

“No.”

“I’m afraid there’s nothing we can do right now. If this person does murder you, please call 911 immediately.”
I guess you are joking.

There is an electric train for duplo lego, maybe that is a little bit like programming when you plan the tracks.
Because the evolutionarily programmed rewards from parenting will typically outweigh the rewards from general altruism. Your child becomes the most important thing in the world by default, which can flip all sorts of joy and fulfillment triggers in your brain that are difficult to flip in that way via other means. Having children is your genetic purpose, so much of our biology is driven to that end, thus it would figure to provide uniquely strong rewards.

I say this as someone who does not have kids and has no plan to have kids as I don't care to pay the immense costs required, so maybe I shouldn't even be replying to this, but I tend to see the same sorts of replies to these sorts of questions which I think put a bit of extra gloss that obfuscates the true motivators a bit.
The most far fetched part of this story is a “Govt representing the people” that would tax the robot.
One reason might be that this only existed in Paper, which is a downstream fork of Spigot, which is (sort of) a downstream fork of CraftBukkit, which is a set of patches to the official minecraft server.

Another reason might be that this only does anything if there are many players on the server, and you hit a region loaded by someone else. Might be difficult to think of that. You'd never come across it if testing in singleplayer.

But in essence I agree, it's surprising that no one else found and reported this years ago!
Has the government armed the citizens?
>Unfortunately, as your comment shows, they have been succesful in maligning him as a racist for speaking the truth.

Could also be your typical sour grapes over a dissenting view on the science. Academia is full of childishness like this (especially but not exclusively as you go further away from stuff that can be unambiguously measured and into the realm of the squishy soft sciences).
DDC (dollar-denominated currency). That’s why. No such thing as a Zimbabwean denominated currency. That the rest of the world uses USD is the reason.
> The science is constantly evolving to this very day on the supposedly 'trace levels' of Neanderthal DNA in Africans (especially as we gather a more diverse range of cohorts) so I'll leave it at that.

No, the trace levels of Neanderthal DNA in Africans is very unlikely to change by gathering more diverse range of cohorts. It is a matter of identifying major strands of ancestry within Africans (by admixture over thousands of years to now be in various African populations) which all are distinguished by a lack of Neanderthal DNA outside of West Eurasian admixture.

And for the last point, I did not condone scientific racism. To repeat, interest in human populations and such phenotypic differences does not imply scientific racism once you realize the basic scientific principle that humans are animals and consider how animals exist in populations with phenotypic differences.
I do recongnize that. Does only the first person selling a dangerous product deserve scorn? "X did it first!" is the excuse of a toddler.

They've also made it easier than gps trackers (no sim card needed), probably safer for stalkers (does Apple have a way to report AirTags used for crime and/or find out who owns it?) and it's more effective than Tile.

It also favors their own ecosystem, because only iphone owners get warned. (no I don't consider beeping enough, finding something that beeps intermittently is notoriously difficult).
As of Nov 29,

> Pfizer now expects to make 80 million courses of COVID drug Paxlovid by the end of 2022

That's a ton of supply!
From the paper:

"In this work, therefore, we specifically sought to explore individual and population-level trends in infant
and early child neurodevelopment. Analyses of cognitive development, assessed using Mullen Scales
of Early Learning [40], a population normed and clinically administered tool that assesses function
across the five primary domains of fine and gross motor control, visual reception, and expressive and
respective language via direct observation and performance, provides some of the first direct evidence
of the developmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic."

From https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/mullen-scale...

"The Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) is a standardized assessment that is commonly used in clinical psychology as a developmental measure of cognitive development (Mullen, 1989, 1995). The MSEL is organized into 5 subscales: (a) gross motor, (b) fine motor, (c) visual reception (or non-verbal problem solving), (d) receptive language, and (e) expressive language. An early learning composite score can be derived from fine motor, visual reception, receptive language, and expressive language scales. For young children this early learning composite score is considered equivalent to a more traditional “IQ” score or a developmental standard score."

See Figure 2 of the paper, on page 31.

Apparently, "[t]he outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and
the associated economic shut-down, school disruptions, and social distancing, stay-at-home, and
mask policies" has reduced the intelligence of newborns and young children by ~1.5 standard deviations.
YouTube TV and Disney Programming Update
> There were statistically insignificant increases

“Statistically insignificant” means that you have data from a sample from which, at the desired level of confidence, you cannot be sure of any effect, or that there was not the reverse effect, in the universe from which the sample is drawn.