skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is he blaming the slowdown of scientific advancement in the past 40-50 years on "femininity", or straight up just woman?

I may have missed it, but I'm not seeing that blame assignment. It does seem a bit ironic that your response feeds into exactly what they're pointing out though. Rather than logically address the data, you seem to have responded emotionally to it.

The correlation is interesting, it might be worth postulating some other explanations for it here, on the discussion board.
Read some good classics regarding Buddhist perspective of happiness. For instance, https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Living-Unlocking-Science-Happines...
So much condescension in a single line, quite a performance. Also a good demonstration of how representative democracy does its job in protecting those people from those who consider themselves morally superior over them.
There is no US Air Force base in Taiwan. There are 3 in South Korea (Kunsan, Osan, Sasebo) and 3 in Japan (Kadena, Yokota, Misawa). That’s it.

No country would lock China out of their economies. It would be the most painful suicide imaginable. China is already the source of most components in most industries. A China that annexed Taiwan would also be the main source of the world’s semiconductors.

And that’s even before getting into how companies cut off from the second largest market in the world would struggle to survive against competitors that weren’t.
I'm French, I hope we (France, EU) follow your lead.
FWIW in re: the US and Hawaii, a more appropriate metaphor would be China and Tibet.
My point is that whether the west thinks the Chinese ought to think that way, is not very important. People can debate that all day long, but at the end of the day the Chinese do think that way, and they are willing to fight for it.

This has strategical implications. Do we want to grandstand or do we want to actually solve a problem? If we want to grandstand at all cost, then we have to wage war with China and force them into submission. If we want an actual peaceful resolution then something has to give.
Why do we still permit tobacco use? (2015)
You should also destroy any speakers.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1611/1611.07350.pdf
Having been to both Taiwan and China several times - this is a bit inaccurate.

Yes, there is a certain believe among Chinese that Taiwan is an inalienable part of their territory, but most don't believe that reunification should be achieved by force. There is also the idea that Taiwanese people are indeed different from mainland Chinese, but at the same time, any strong Taiwanese identity is the result of propaganda and indoctrination by the Taiwanese authorities.

In other words, it seems that Chinese citizens believe that Taiwanese are "misguided children", thus there is no reason to punish them militarily, and the Taiwan question should be treated as an internal conflict, like any other separatist movement.
>> The rest of the world is scared of even offending China by calling Taiwan a country. You really think they’re going to go to war over Taiwan?

Yes.
Indeed, Im under the impression WV is one of the most heavily subsidized by the fed.
I don't think you'd waste an exploit like that to server a lawnmower ad.
Well, it's HN. HN has become a FUD machine.
By that standard it means there are no ugly buildings. There obviously are.
i did it for years. You don’t pay employment taxes on dividends/distributions, just income taxes. so you’re still paying taxes on those but you’re saving 7.5% on the employment taxes side. maybe “ass-tons” is over selling it but coupled with business deductions you can take you can save quite a bit.

the IRS may take a closer look at you if you’re taking less than half your revenue in W2 income but otherwise it’s perfectly legitimate.

[edit: the S-corp election is key. look into that.]
> And counting them all as crazy or paranoid

Nobody is saying that. It's simply a quirk of human psychology. We are pattern matching machines with a poor intuitive grasp of probability.
Here is a perspective on China's current aggressiveness: those in power are from the culture-revolution age(1966-1976), which means they did not get good education(if anything at all). Most of them are not even middle-school graduates. Their youth time are filled with beating those well educated ones based on ideologies accusations.

Xi himself did not even finish middle school, his professional skill is the worst comparing to his past peers, he could not even read correctly many times in public since he came in power.
Speed Hack
That's fantastic! I've been trying to package as many apps as I can as flatpak (because flatpak rocks, fight me), I will definitely look into winepak to package Windows-only software. The fact that it uses a standard and common-place technology, it just needs more exposure IMO. This is the first time I have heard of it.

EDIT: nevermind...

$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists winepak https://dl.winepak.org/repo/winepak.flatpakrepo
error: Signature made Fri 20 Jul 2018 03:30:34 BST using RSA key ID A959831C080B608F
BAD signature from " <julian@richen.io>"
Key expired Tue 09 Jun 2020 19:16:34 BST
Note that any constant factor of "less cases requiring hospitalization" is very quickly compensated by exponential spread. London for example has just locked down because the speed of Omicron spread threatens to overwhelm its hospitals.
Mark Zuckerberg Sells Stock Every Day as Billionaires Cash Out
The context of my post is that I replied to another post that talked about the west fighting China.

Hence, I did not say people believe reunification needs to be achieved by force. What I did say is that if foreign forces pressure China into letting Taiwan go, then China will fight back.
You wrote:

> To say this was bad and blame it on women is an echo of conservative criticism from those days.

My point is that the author isn't saying it's bad. He's saying "culture has become more feminized, there are more women writers than ever before, that's why there's more emotion in writing". That does not imply that this so-called feminization is bad. It does imply that women are, on average, more emotional than men which is controversial but seems obviously true to me.

> To say that there is a feminization of culture is an error in Jungian psychology because within each of us is an anima and animus (masculine/feminine) aspect. The masculine was dominant from WW2 through the 1950's (at least). Returning to a more balanced masculine/feminine culture shouldn't really be called "the feminization of culture" in my opinion.

If culture was masculine through the 1950s then "returning to a more balanced masculine/feminine culture" could reasonably be called "feminization of culture," right?

Again, you're assuming that the term "feminization of culture" is negative. I'm saying it isn't, at least not in the context of MR blog posts. In the most literal sense, it's just referring to more women in positions of power and influence, particularly as writers (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/16/how-women-conq...).
"There is real value to having a student body that reflects the broader population--good for the school, the students, and the broader society"

Harvard is currently 39% white, 8% black, and 20% Asian.

This seems to indicate that Harvard should focus on bringing up the number of white students admitted and reducing the number of asian students. Whites are underrepresented by half.
Fed-Up Gig Workers Emerge as Fledgling Political Force in India
The US is a democratic republic. Canada, the UK and a number of others are parliamentary democracy.

They are ALL democracies, and I'm unaware of a single country on the planet that is a pure democracy. All are representative in some way.

This bizarre "not a democracy" (for the oldest ongoing democracy) is not based in reality at all, but someone read it somewhere and just mindlessly repeats it.

> It's easy to win elections when you promise free healthcare, free education, free childcare,... The average person will vote in their immediate interest and not worry about the big picture

In reality the "average person" votes against their own interest -- both short and long term -- at virtually every turn.

I feel like I've been trolled.
This is naive. The government simply doesn't have that power. If they tried to downplay Taiwan people would be absolutely furious.

The extent of "mind control" is really not that great. The internet exists, and despite imperfect controls people have access to information. It would probably take Xi down to try to abandon Taiwan.
That doesn't protect your microphone from being exposed though.

And ripping out your microphone doesn't stop evildoers from viewing the camera. What's your point?
Then you gain approximately nothing over the DMV maintaining a database of licenses, like they do now.
Oof, that's unfortunate. Thanks for the tip.
Well, they may very well be both wrong -- and perhaps that's the likely answer. What is the intersection may be an interesting question. I can't prove it but it seems to me that finding the smallest intersection should exclude the subjective variations.
Not if you use TAILS or Qubes-Whonix. I use the latter.
not web 3 exclusive

- - -

> Guaranteed 256bit Operability

> This one isn’t exclusive to Web3 in the sense that it’s not possible on Web2, but rather, it’s not feasible on Web2.

> You can design, on web3, with the assurance that every user is guaranteed able to participate in 256bit-key features.

what does this even mean, is it just to say everyone has a privkey?
Two Kinds of Software Engineering
I feel like many parts of CT are already like this, random trees all over the place.
I did exactly that in my open reply to the same letter! https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/ccpa-scam-2021-12/
Boris Johnson’s zeal to return Parthenon marbles revealed in 1986 article
this, and old mobile phones/tables
Does accessing them give you extra fingerprinting data though? I would imagine that you can then enumerate at least the resolution of the camera.
When preparing to present to a remote audience, check how the slides will look for people connecting with a phone.

When recording a demo video, try to record at a lower resolution like 720p to save bandwidth and make it easier for people with small screens to watch.
If Google can't guarantee no malicious javascript then they should strip all javascript.

If I serve any content to my users, then I'm responsible for any malware it contains.
Yes, Gitanjali can be appreciated better by theists. Although the art is of high class, and can be appreciated by athiests, too.

As I said, Tagore wrote a lot of novels, plays, songs, and essays. Tagore's body of creation is formidably vast. I would put the number of people awarded PhD each year for their work on Tagore and/or his work at 10-20.

> Which I suspect Tagore himself would consider his greatest work?

Haha, not really. We have an inside joke that more or less says that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for one of his weaker works.

And I concur. There are much better works by Tagore than Gitanjali. I have one bilingual Gitanjali sitting right on my shelf across the room where I am.

I grew up reciting poems of Tagore since I was literally 3 and a half. I still do it, but I'm special occasions.

As a literature lover, I also appreciate other forms of religious art.

I like reading poems called Vaishnava Padavalis. They are divine songs dedicated to Krishna or Chaitanya [0] with 2-3 meaning per each poem. These are among the best works of art I have ever seen.

Same goes for Charyas, poems written to propagate a special form of Buddhism, written in proto-Bengali, about 1000 years ago.

I also enjoy kirtanas.

These are all religious, and they don't stop me from enjoying them.

Many athiests enjoy religious art. But they have to be art. When it stops being art, and becomes too much about faith or devotion, I stop enjoying it.

> friend of Gandhi

They also disagreed a lot. If you read Gandhi's works, you would see that he is the king of luddites. Rabindranath was more forward-thinking.

Tagore wanted industry, education, uplifting of the masses, and admired science. He opposed Gandhi on the issue of boycotting British industries among others.

I have never really read Tagore in translation. I would not know what to suggest you. But I strongly suggest that you read other works of him.

> Hindu Tagore

Not really. He was a Brahmo [1]. They were the Protestants to Hinduism (this is oversimplified, ofc). They did not believe in statue-worshipping, caste, superstitions, etc. Brahmos were monotheistic and puritan among other things.

My study of Tagore is limited. But it is still non-trivial. I have visited his house (very well-preserved university and museum) multiple times and also Visva Bharati.

I am happy to answer if you have any other questions.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitanya_Mahaprabhu

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmo_Samaj
Great lists. We'll need a benevolent Monarchy though.
For black walnut - there's a spot that I've seen that does this. Not too large, but its been there for about 30 years. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1517879,-89.6032561,3a,75y,3...

That plot is (measuring, mathing)... about 3 acres. https://www.profitableplantsdigest.com/growing-walnut-trees-... puts it at $100k/acre.

> For those with time and patience, a living legacy of walnut trees can be a priceless gift for children and grandchildren. According to professional timberland investors, the average return from a stand of walnut trees is 14 percent a year, with no taxes due until harvest. That beats returns on bonds, stocks and most other investments handily, and with intercropping, growers can even produce an income while the walnut trees continue to grow.
High Performance Computing
Does Java still fit the bill for data intensive high performance computing ? I am seeing platforms like https://quarkus.io/ seems interesting . Wondering if the alternative is to look for other languages like kotlin
Oh no, how will the poor advertisers survive if someone tries to stop them from shipping malware?
The author is concerned that an ad might be able to surreptitiously turn on the camera or microphone

You are correct, that is the author's concern.

The reason the rest of us are concerned is because the general public has been conditioned by Google and others to just press "Accept" any prompt that pops up, no matter how dangerous.
Happiness depends on a lot on what you truly want, as opposed to what you want to want, so I'd encourage you to get familiar with where those diverge. E.g., a lot of people want to want to get rich, but as you've discovered, more money doesn't actually leave them more fulfilled. If you're finding that hard to discover, a good therapist can help a lot, as talking with a lot of people lets them see patterns an individual can't.

Personally, I am also not great at telling when I'm stressed. So I've learned to look for obvious correlates. As an example, I am normally the sort of person who spends change. That is, I generally don't have more than $1 of coins, as I use them to make purchases. But when I'm stressed or depressed, I'm less likely to take the time to count out change, so I end up with an increasing number of coins on my dresser. That's a sign to me to ask what's wrong.

Also useful to me has been tracking the number of steps per week. I have a Garmin running watch I never take off. If I'm stressed, I'll become more sedentary. That's not just bad for my long-term health; it also decreases my resilience in the face of stress.

These things sound small, but they're useful to me as clues to the bigger things in life. If these indicators tell me I'm not doing well, I'll go down a mental checklist of things that could contribute. Am I sleeping enough? Eating well? How much alcohol am I drinking? How much sunlight am I getting? How do I feel before starting work? After the first couple of hours of work? At the end of the day? How are the important relationships in my life?

With that mindset, you can turn it into a debugging problem. E.g., if being too sedentary is one hypothesis as to why you're not happy, there's lots to experiment with there.
> Unify China and importantly, face down America and show the world who’s #1.

I think this is why the war weariness would matter little.

Americans may be many things, but liberal or conservative, they’re all proud as fuck.

They won’t initiate a war, but barring a complete takeover of Taiwan in the course of a day (e.g. Crimea), they’ll fight.

The same is more or less true for Japan, which really just needs an excuse.
Can you identify some of them?
There is a strong Taiwanese identity among younger people, and that's one of the reasons why the DPP is so popular right now. Older generations and KMT supporters may favor reunification, but that's a sentiment fading away.

So, no, I don't think Taiwanese would agree to become Chinese.
Look I’m saying I don’t have to care and its easy to conform without actually considering it bending the knee, because its hilarious.

I get that the current head of state and majority party in the ROC doesnt extend its territorial claims beyond the island they are on. There are some people that hold on to the prior claims.

The rest of us really need to just build additional pylons so we don't have any manufacturing consequences when that matter is resolved. Because thats the only reason we care right now (aside from how brutal the reintegration will be).
This is a common reaction, looks like I have to make this web page :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29293539

FAQ about the name: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-the-proj...
I wonder if Neovim wouldn't be an even better option for this. Isn't slimv written in that dreadful extension language for Vim? I may have seen it years ago and don't remember anymore.
I don’t think it’s accurate to say that any experiment where a human is simply involved qualifies as a human subject experiment. The IRB guidelines are pretty clear about the distinction between simply gathering data from a human and gathering data about a human.
UK troops will not be deployed to Ukraine to defend against Russia
The psychological differences in the sexes are not about rationality but rather salience. In general, male brains give greater weight to material security concerns, and female brains do the same for social cohesion. Emphasis on in general; obviously there is tremendous variation among individuals.
Maturity and interoperability of tools isn't a valid excuse. New tools will be written and they will mature.
The top two majors at NYU, by percentage, probably don't end in a high average salary after graduation.

Visual and Performing Arts 17%
Social Sciences 14%

Then, $77k/year cost before aid, plus the high cost of living for the area.

No surprise then.
Waterfalls from the December 2021 eclipse frequency measurement
Here in the UK, I'm protected by the GDPR and by the Consumer Contracts Act.

I was coerced into choosing "Agree" (or whatever the button said) without any other practical option (I accidentally touched it when it appeared for the umpteenth time). I haven't given my consent and so they don't have permission to process my personal data except as strictly necessary to provide me with their messaging service. Whether I dismiss the nag prompt every time or just touch "Agree", the legal effect is exactly the same.
It's marginal revolution. This is kinda their thing. Lots of short posts and interesting but not explored in depth ideas.

Some people like it, others prefer Steve Yegge.
The problem isn't that advertisers should be allowed to ship malware, it's that it's hard to distinguish malware from non-malware. Also the adjacent problem of "not quite malware, but shitty code that spams error logs and runs way slower than it should".
They’re not really scared of offending China, they’re scared of triggering that war. If China triggers that war all the hesitancy will be gone.

That said, I’d expected more of a reaction to the annexation of Hong Kong too.
Same here… Macron you reading this?
China could accuse Taiwan of developing nuclear weapons today, saying their spies uncovered the plot. Would you, I or anybody else be able to refute it? Would our doubt matter? And if Taiwan really did start manufacturing nuclear bombs and China was telling the truth about it, would you, I or others in the West believe them? The 'actual validity' of a casus belli has never really counted for much.
You appear to be describing antisocial personal disorder and/or a lack of emotional self regulation, not necessarily psychopathy. The fundamental difference between sociopathy and psychopathy is conscious vs. unconscious behavioral patterns to deceive, manipulate, gain power, and control others. The psychopath doesn't know why they do it, the sociopath intends antisocial behaviors to achieve goals.
Ad blockers already block all ad networks. And the status quo is that all ad networks have ads with shitty JS, and public shaming doesn't seem to have done much about it.
Somewhat of a tangent, does anyone know how to convert a US-working condition total comp of 250k$ to, say, Swedish-working condition total comp?

The highest Swedish total comp for Software engineer I ever heard is (75kSEK / month). This is 2.5 times lower than the above figure. However, to be fair, total "Swedish" comp should also include public benefits, like pension, parental leave, free "stay at home with sick child", free university, free healthcare, etc.

How can one determine if Swedes are underpaid or just pushed into mandatory savings?
We bought an elliptical. Nothing went as planned. Then a hero emerged
Banning malware won't make things significantly less profitable. Quite the opposite: it will save their business, because if they allow these practices to persist, or even get worse, everyone will be forced to block ads to protect themselves.
China has a military strong enough to credibly take on the US, the UK, Australia and Japan in their backyard. That is because, as you'll note, these powers are all thousands and thousands of kilometers away from the theater, which gives China a massive advantage.

The best they could realistically do if the invasion does succeed is try to force an embargo. This will be massively unpopular, kill tens of thousands in third countries that will be sanctioned as collateral damage, and crash the world economy, and still might not work.
Exactly, Whatever factions there maybe in the CCP, externally they project a coherent policy, which is not possible in democratic countries.

>>> So, they've really effectively backdoored our politicians.
Not just politicians, they have backdoored hollywood, wallstreet everyone of em.
They will suck up to the CCP and pander to any of their demands
Speed hack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29613632
Hsi Chinping only spent 2 weeks in US on a work trip.

There are no complex reasons at play.
> They’re closer than ever to annexing Taiwan in 2021

> 2020 and 2021 has made the world realise exactly how important Taiwan is to the world economy.

These two statements are exclusive.

If China would invade Taiwan, the economic downfall and the reactions from most western countries, which, on the other hand, are essential partners for China to continue its manufacturing dominance, would be catastrophic.
Related: why modern movies suck. https://youtu.be/CQ92cggLMx8
> if the president lets go of Taiwan, the CCP would be overthrown tomorrow

Haha, no. CCP will just present it as a victory for some weird reason, and everyone will just keep applauding. There might be some resentment, but not open one.
Rave (real-time audio visualizer experience)
Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar
Curiously no explanation why this sort of malicious behavior is accepted by "Google Ad Manager" in the first place.

If you haven't already installed:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...