skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7 M€ is great but at 2% a year, it is 140k€ of income. This more or less would mean a 200k€ job.

This is great, but not "I am insanely rich" great.

If I were you I would either try to find something to do that would drive me to that level (you can take risks now), or (most probably, but it's because it's me) take a job that does not pay much but they will make you happy (interaction with people, low stress, ...)
Yes. In case it wasn't clear: after not being able to find the option to not accept the terms (no "X", "skip", "later", or similar), I consciously clicked to accept the terms.
Why? Money doesn't give you time back. I guess I understand if someone is banking money to retire early but personally I've always taken every day off I could.
1. Beijing rejects being merely the "workshop" of the unipolar world, embraces sovereignty (GFW), high quality development (HSR), technological innovation (4IR), including in the military space (space, cyber, hypersonics). Oh and BRI.

2. Washington doesn't like that because it will displace the unipolar moment. USA has been in economic decline for half a century while PRC has been on a dramatic rise. Washington tries to break up PRC like it's a too-big company, via hybrid warfare. It tries everything possible to politically destabilize Beijing, with propaganda being a cornerstone.

3. Washington enlists anyone available to achieve this goal, including washed-up NBA benchwarmers and irrelevant Eastern European countries. They are encouraged to adopt a foreign policy that is in line with Washington's desire to preserve unipolarity and therefore hostile to Beijing. Who knows what they get in return, because it certainly doesn't make any economic sense in the long-term.

4. When Beijing responds tit-for-tat, answering sanctions with sanctions, harassment with harassment, downgrade in relations with downgrade in relations, it's a simple matter of spinning PRC as the aggressor who acted first.

Alternatively, "See See Pee Bad". Propaganda works and no one is immune.
But do they repel llamas and killer rabbits? If not, I'll wait for v2.
The SafeFrame stuff is an attempt to move in that direction, but it is far from perfect. Hopefully that will continue to improve.
They signed an agreement in the early 70ies ("Grundlagenvertrag") outlining their relationships and had mutual defacto-embassies ("Ständige Vertretung") and called the heads of those ambassadors (at least the GDR did, I believe the FRG did not, but they were ambassadors for all intents and purposes).
China has already started pressuring companies with manufacturing in China such as Continental, that they should get out of Lithuania or risk losing access to the Chinese market.

This just goes to show one thing: western companies have to leave the Chinese market and all its money on the table. Unless you are ready to live under constant threat of political pressure/blackmail, risk being spied on, forced to censorship or forced to corruption, you can’t operate there (and obviously several other countries).

The correct move for both companies and corporations is to be open from the beginning. Open about what you think about Taiwan, about Chinese politics and so on. If that leaves you in the cold - at least you aren’t already neck deep in investment in China.

I don’t pity corporations that invest in China only to find themselves blackmailed into (say) having their maps app show Taiwan as a part of China. I wish more companies had the moral backbone to say “we’re going to annoy China by showing the correct world map starting in may, and if you don’t agree you should sell your stock now”.
Little-known and experimental/research compilers and interpreters
I think you're misunderstanding the point. He claimed to not know he was even in Dallas that day. The only reason it came out is because the records of him checking out of the Dallas Sheraton were later tracked down. So the hotel he was at isn't the important part. The claiming to not know what city he was in at all is the issue.

The example you gave of only remembering you were at work on 9/11 or in front of the TV when Challenger blew up proves the point. You remember exactly where you were. What you were doing isn't relevant. You knew where you were. And so did he, so why clam otherwise?

If he had been in Detroit or Philly or something and made the same claim, it's less suspicious, but still a real hard story to swallow. The fact he was blocks away and then received the same message wired to him that J Edgar Hoover received declaring the President had died, well, there is no explaining that away.
Application Monitoring with Traefik, Prometheus, Grafana, and Docker Compose
My laptop is mostly closed and plugged in to an external monitor. The mic is so muffled by then, it would take expert audio recovery to understand what was being said. (In other words, it would be hard to scale it for ad purposes, but obviously a targeted attack could still be devastating).
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Often these are software, though. Yes there's a switch, but it just tells the audio subsystem to automatically select the plugged-in mic. You can still tell it to select the screen-frame mic instead.
It is very to similar Short Science [0].
Since both didn't take off, maybe they should merge.

[0] http://www.shortscience.org
The whole west depends on cheap labor and cheap resources that doesn't fit with human rights and economic interdependence prevents wars.
Lithuania is small so the impact of a chinese boycott could be compensated by other countries, a full trade war has lot more impact, short term and long term.

You understimate the chaos that then comes into being.
Don't be down just because you met one guy - who knows, maybe he cant work a week without insulting a client.

Dont forget that when colleges didnt exist for everyone, say 200 years ago, most people were farmers.

People are selective when it comes to timeframe, but it's just a mean regression - some periods reach peak, some get back lower, but all in all, we're trending up.
> You sound like Germany 1938.

The author was just pointing out China's incentives. Any negotiator, a person analyzing international relation theory, or any policy maker must do this.

He doesn't sound like Germany 1938. He sounds like a person trying to analyze a power dynamic.

The Congressional Research Service tries to boil down complicated issues for Congressional members in public, short reports. Here is the one on Taiwan that discusses Taiwan and China in two pages (and has Lithuania).

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10275

They do talk about China's perspective on the second page. They do not ignore it. They do not sound like Germany 1938.
> some feminists believe that women should dress, act, look, talk, and be and do exactly everything like a man does and it will solve all the world problems, and the other feminists believe turning men into women will solve all their problems.

Your feminists are made of straw
any tips on how to find part time work?
Only a power lusting authoritarian can write something like this. Leave people to live their own lives and make their own choices.
If it requires fighting a war that has been "hidden" it's pretty jingoistic. Especially given the hand-waving everyone does here to call China a despotic autocratic regime despite the US having more prisoners overall and per-capita, and let's not even begin to compare foreign policies. Which country has overthrown more democratically elected governments? I've lived in several impacted by the US.
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... Because parents already suffering with anxiety from living through these years, need additional anxiety about the 'performance' of their children in the years coming.

Enjoy life and be gentle with each other, that's the performance that matters.
These already exist. They're called declarative languages.
Who is China bullying except it’s own people?
Russia and China are examples of that (republics that are also dictatorships).
I couldn't imagine country run by a middle school bully.

Now I can.
This is a catch-22 though.

If something dangerous to privacy is being widely used in the world, then putting it behind a prompt creates an avalanche of prompts, and results in user apathy.

But not prompting requires you to choose a default, which either default to block and breaks things (if it was actually required) or defaults to allow.
Smoking is bad but prohibition is worse. Being subjected to the carcercal system is worse for your health than smoking.
I remember the first attic of a house of a certain age to learn that it used to be a thing to not have insulated wiring. Instead, the wiring used a series of insulators as standoffs/guides, but bare exposed copper carrying live current. I was flabbergasted that more homes didn't burn to the ground.
The amount of communist bullshit on this site has gotten way out of control.

What the fuck does tobacco use or not have anything to do with tech or startups?

OFF TOPIC.

GET THE FUCK OUT.
How the toddlers of today growing up with fully masked teachers during their institutionalized education will manage to develop normal social skills without being able to see people’s faces is beyond me.
Malware is already banned. The problem is detecting it with 100% accuracy, or sandboxing it with no ability to break out. A lot of people are working on it, both at Google and other companies.
I don't think that Java can handle UNIX signals, at least without some internal API.
I love China
Tax and Law and Republic are the three to hold the society in order with enough individual rights for the long run.

The only way I can agree on pure majority vote is that you need to qualify for it, e.g. only those who contributed to the society(taxpayers,social works, housewives raising kids,etc) can vote(disabled can vote no matter what). Voting right should be earned.
Italian here. The separatists you’re talking about are absolutely a thing of the past and they were never serious to start with. There is no actual separatist movement, and the one still in it usually didn’t even finish middle school. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t even make the connection.
> The story that hit me the hardest was when I was chatting with an Uber driver

This sentence implies that he didn’t meet “one guy”
Why do we still permit ethanol use?
My comment started a thread where people felt comfortable to explain why they accepted the terms, so I think I did contribute something.
you can get a masters in public health at a school that doesn't cost 80k a year in one of the most expensive cities in the world you know

I'm getting real tired of hearing these sob stories about not being able to pay for rent and food and being saddled with a lifetime of debt because you make very poor decisions
In my experience, with tools like Cover Your Tracks (apparently this is the new name for Panopticlick), the more you try and thwart fingerprinting, the more unique you appear. Although I still do everything I can to block and filter everything conceivable, I've given up on trying to figure out how identifiable I am on the web because it seems useless. If you don't try then you're identifiable, and if you do then you are probably more identifiable. Whatever.
At my current employer, everything starts as an MVP. Everything. They even call it that.

We build an MVP and go from there. New project? MVP. New massive feature? That's an MVP, too. And we iterate on that. I guess it's just different terminology, or maybe I am way stupider than them
Because some people enjoy it, and it's a free country. Why is this even a question?
How does the "no vacation policy" work?

You sign the contract and then never show up anymore?
Because Dr. Falsie hasn't banned it yet.
He was a hero on AIDS and now COVID (I mean the common cold) virus.
It's pretty silly to believe the label on the tin to match the contents. Democratic People's Republic of Korea isn't democratic, of the people, nor a republic. Same with German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

Sure China claims to be a communist country, but over there money still talks and ultimately rules.

Edit: I actually read the article after writing this comment, and from the first few paragraphs (even just subtitle alone) the author is just talking about America, not the world.
We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

--David Hume

The longer I live the more I find interrogating any so-called rational position always leads down (ultimately) to some underlying feeling, that fundamentality rationality serves (at best) as an evolved means by which to better obtain the objects of those impulses and (at worst perhaps, though no less out of evolutionary necessity -- and perhaps expressly because of the possibility of self-examination opened up by the technical ability of the metacognition of the latter) alternatively act as an aesthetic veneer over those impulses.
Bullshit this was the reason.

25 days off (not including bank holidays) is basically a standard minimum (maybe +/- a day or two) in all European countries, not only in France.
Because we need oxygen to live. A less absurd question might be "why do we still permit gambling and alcohol", which the article addresses:

> One of the main arguments for the continuance of tobacco sales is that the government should not dictate what vices the public engages in. This is a valid point. Alcohol and gambling are restricted but not prohibited; fast food is unrestricted (although New York City [USA] attempted the restriction of soft drink sizes but failed miserably); and, although government intervention is on the rise, few are protesting access to these products. These other ‘sins’, however, have at least some benefit. We need gasoline, we need to eat even if we occasionally do so at fast food restaurants, alcohol in moderation has benefits and gambling in moderation is entertaining for some. However, there is no moderation in tobacco. There is no level at which tobacco smoke is safe for the consumer or the people around them or, as we are seeing, even those who are exposed in a tertiary environment

(I'm not expressing agreement or disagreement with the article, but I'm not sure how parent comment contributes anything to this post.)
Why in God’s name would you list them both? It’s a resume not a deposition. Your resume should make it easier for you to get your next job not harder.

Be accurate when it comes to the truth but not necessarily the facts.
COMMIES!

I bet you all want to implant microchips in my arm to track my un-vaxxed status too don't you little fucks?
That’s a bit too simplistic tbh.

Let me try

“China is evil and so is a large number of other countries including Russia, a lot of the Middle East and Central Asia. The others aren’t necessarily heroes but at least have free press…”
> This just goes to show one thing: western companies have to leave the Chinese market and all its money on the table.

Part of the problem is that executive compensation is more short-term results focused.
(author here) Thanks for nicely summarizing the project!

I didn't know about fftw, but another nice analogy is TeX by Donald Knuth! TeX is actually written in WEB / a subset of Pascal (H-Pascal I think), and then translated to C. That is, it's NOT typically compiled with a Pascal compiler (I wonder if anyone even maintains those?). This came up a few times on Hacker News and I got some interesting details.

I wrote yesterday that I want to hire a Compiler Engineer to help with the C++ translation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29605304

It's already half done, passing ~1100 of 1950 spec tests, so I believe it's very feasible. But it needs someone who can concentrate on it full time.

I might as well post the draft of the "job listing" to get people thinking about this. I think the challenge is finding the right person rather than funding it (I'm applying for funding now)

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Compiler-Engineer-Job (rough draft, you may see polished versions of this later)

One sentence description: write an ~10K line translator for statically typed Python, and a ~5K line C++ runtime, and get a free shell out of it! (over 5 years of painstaking work on the semantics!)

The input is ~36K lines of Python the output is ~100K lines of C++. This is a very doable project for an experienced compiler engineer. :) So if anyone knows a good candidate, send them my way at andy@oilshell.org.

----

Also, I (virtually) attended the panel where this paper originated:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/06/hotos-shell-panel.html

It was basically a call for researchers, hence lesser focus on existing and new implementations.

I think it's good to publish future-facing ideas (almost all of which I've read), whereas Oil is a lot of engineering work!
This is totally separate from the point you were making. You can say you're from Hong Kong, but it's part of China. That you shouldn't get death threats should go without saying.
Does this apply to other drugs as well?
> Why is this even a question?

Again, the article explains:

"I can vividly recall in the first couple of weeks into my first clinical rotation watching an elderly man with end-stage emphysema literally suffocate and die on my shift wearing just a venti mask. It was a clarion moment for me as a young health care professional even though I never smoked."
2021 will be MiamiTech’s breakout year (2020)
I wonder why stoves / ovens even have a “stay on forever” mode, let alone have it as the only mode. The microwave model of “be on this power for this duration and then beep and turn off” seems much nicer...
I don't think so. Disabling ads on youtube requires injecting JavaScript. It's not forbidden in manifest v3 (and it would be absurd to forbid it, as 99% extensions exist because of this).

For reference: I don't see ads on youtube using hand-crafted JS which was inspired by uBlock origin, so I think that uBlock origin should work as well.
and hierarchies are partial irrationality filter trees
A Lithuanian here

Moral questions aside (as everyone here seems to focus on it), the people are split into roughly three camps:
- Anti-vaxers: hate anything government because Vax-Pass, including the China oriented diplomacy
- Libtards: love anything government and worship the leader of the main party. They celebrate this and openly bash China because their Leader said that it is good
- Non-involved people - worry about the economic consequences to businesses and people's lives. Most of them would have a hard time finding Taiwan (probably even China) on a blank map.

In my opinion:

Our Minister of Foreign Affairs went into this without really understanding what it would mean to the CCP and what possible counter-actions they can take. Lithuania was hit more than the politicians expected and we are, essentially, alone in this fight (save for endorsements and pats on the back). I guess that we will be in a pretty rough spot in short-term, while mid/long term can go either way depending on how the western powers and Taiwan will act.
None of us know exactly what different leaders are planning so you may well be right.

I do wonder though: if that is the USs plan, why not say so? The US has formal alliances with NATO, Japan etc. They're public, because making them public dissuades the chance of an attack. If you're going to risk getting into a war, why not minimise the risk at no cost by being upfront about it? Instead the US maintains a position of "strategic ambiguity".

It would also be hard because China isn't Iraq. It's a nuclear nation with a bigger stronger army and much better morale. And Taiwan is an Island. You can't mass your troops 100m from the border and then march over when ready. The allies would need to do an amphibious landing less than 200 miles from the Chinese coast (aka air force), under fire from subs and against a fortified target.
So if we haven't found a rational moral system, who's to say it exists at all?

Also, to say that the axioms being irrational means the system is irrational is incorrect. Logical systems can only be internally consistent within the bounds of their parameters, not universally consistent with regard to base reality. What matters is what emerges from the axioms and how useful it is.
Low latency trading is so crucial to the economy that the market mostly shuts down at 4pm every day and takes weekends and holidays, adding 2^47 nanosecond delays every week without much outcry.

And whoever wins by 20ns gets rewarded the same as the previous guy who was winning by 21ns. The magnitude of latency isn't rewarded, just coming in first, so more and is spent on less an less absolute improvements, none of which have been relevant to human reaction times for decades.
Hey I notice you're getting downvoted a lot. Wanna get in touch? Find my contact details in my profile. Twitter preferred
Modern vim also has python, perl, ruby, and lua support in addition to vimscript (taking a quick look at the features in my local vim).

Though the neovim community does go pretty heavy towards lua compared to the traditional vim community.
It's strange to see you suggesting this can't work for a "real" company. That's demeaning to the OPs company, which seems quite real. It's also odd that you're proposing replacing this with a distributed system and citing the Jepsen articles as support for it, when they prove the opposite. Distributed systems are hard. If you can avoid them and stay in the happy ACID town with Postrgres, indeed why not?
hahahahhahhaa!!!

GET FUCKED LIBTARDS!

Death to Commies!

Kill All Commies!
I got one of these letters, and the website in question has $0.00 revenue, and an order of magnitude fewer total users than would invoke the users. The linked story here is about someone who got a letter to their personal blog.

The researchers did no (or very poor) screening.
I have worked in IT for a long time, but have taken night and weekend college classes over the years. I took a CS 3xx class with mostly college seniors a few years ago. Most were CS majors. Once a bunch of us were outside talking, and I said something about software version control. The person I was talking to said "what's that?" I asked the others if they knew what software version control was. None knew. I said, "you know, like git". None of them knew what git was. Some of them were months from graduating and looking for a job as a programmer.
"somewhat uncertain" is the actual quote.

And further "Using this as the probability of randomly drawing a star in the clump area, the bionomial distribution yields a probability of randomly drawing at least 12 stars in the clump out of 15 in the Paper I field of 0.07."

That I believe is approx 1 in 20 of seeing the observed distribution. Suggestive.
> Tobacco smoking has no health benefits. None. It can be argued that nicotine, one of the thousands of compounds in tobacco smoke, can have positive effects on some cognitive functions and may even confer some neuroprotection (1), but getting nicotine from tobacco products may be likened to sucking on a tail pipe to get oxygen – it’s there but it’s not going to do you any good.

I'm sorry for their personal experience but leading with "there are zero health benefits", immediately following up with "there might be benefits" and then continuing completely disregarding that point is irresponsible.

Without interjecting my own opinion, two points I feel are underdiscussed regarding this issue:

- as the author mentions there are studies on the cognitive benefits, many mental health patients self-medicate with tobacco including 80% of those diagnosed with schizophrenia

- overshadowed cultural aspects. Millennia of pre-20th
century tobacco use, its role and impact (positive and negative) in societies, religion, and spirituality is much different than we've experienced over the last hundred years
>economy in 2014 would prevent such events

So they would not have to lose?
That's a guaranteed way to war.
Mutual dependence prevents wars.

>You just need to hit hard.

And then? We are talking about nuclear powers here?
What will happen when their backs are against the wall and they don't have much to lose?