skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We discuss that. That was viewed as a western media propaganda. I.e., no hard proof from any reputable organizations (UN for example).

United Nations statement titled "China: UN experts deeply concerned by alleged detention, forced labour of Uyghurs" https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

Statement from 43 countries presented at UN "Joint statement on human rights situation in Xinjiang at 47th Session of UN Human Rights Council" https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_re...

Amnesty International says "China: Draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/china-draconi...

Human Rights Watch article "China’s Weak Excuse to Block Investigations in Xinjiang" https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/25/chinas-weak-excuse-block...

Another report titled "First independent report into Xinjiang genocide allegations claims evidence of Beijing's 'intent to destroy' Uyghur people" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/asia/china-uyghurs-xinjiang-g...

>The lies can go on for a while, but they cannot last forever...

Indeed.
Ack, pretty all of those points are true, which is partially due to python.
I'm currently in a relationship so It doesn't affect me anynore. as far as hitting the gym, I agree. its one of our favorite activities together.
> my understanding is that if you're single you can't really opt out of these apps

I understand why so many people believe this. But pro tip: if you want to opt out of dating apps, the key is to learn the skill of asking for what you want.

Ask the cute person at the coffee shop if you can have their number. Ask the person who's number you got out for a date. Ask the person you're on a date with if they want to kiss, etc. There is an art to successfully asking for things, and you have to get comfortable with people sometimes saying no, but the key really is that simple: just ask!

It's actually easier in real life to get a date with someone you find interesting, because you're not limited by who the algorithm decides to show your profile to, you're only limited by your willingness to ask.
It sounds like you are saying that education should be funded by the state. Which is a fine idea, much better than playing crazy financing games that turn education into (US) healthcare /insurance.

But also, the ambitious and valuable people are the ones who can pay back their loans.
A bowl of twenty oranges. I made the child say the number out loud as they moved oranges from one bowl to another one at a time.
It's unlikely any call for a removal of anonymity will be well supported by the digital cognoscenti. There's too much strong reinforcing belief it's bad.

It's definitional for a specific subset of users that to use their true names exposes them to abuse. LGBTQI experience this as do a significant number of women. Not that women and the six letter community don't troll, they do. Just, there's an inevitability of receiving completely unrelated, misogynistic and sexualising violent responses to posts, if you are visible enough and in these communities.

What I think fails to be appreciated is that getting rid of anonymity is not in itself sufficient: it also demands higher penalty for breach of posting rules.

Personally I support ends to anonymity on most public channels and highly constrained pseudonymity in most channels. And I say this as one who has been shadowbanned for breach of regs.

A very fine blogger journalist called George Megalogenis says this on his blog comment pages: "my blog my rules" and he removes what he considers taint, with ascerbic comments. I see this as an exemplar of good editorial practice.

A comment I've seen made is that non anonymous bullies continue to plague women: for some reason a significant minority of identifyable trolls will actually say outrageously nasty things to a women with the nerve to speak out in public. I know that this comment too will attract a "not all men" or "sticks and stones" response, but I still believe this is true: ending anonymity may help but won't actually bury the patriarchy.

(Examples in Australian politics esp. Twitter abound)

A lot of stuff on HN goes dark quickly. Brigading, pile ons. Outside in the semi public sphere it's worse, and happens faster.
Some examples here show the difference:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4685563/how-to-pass-a-fu...

addCallback(new Callable<Integer>() {
public Integer call() {
return callback();
}
});

vs

addCallback(this::callback);

At least anonymous types meant you didn't have to manually name all your listener boilerplate.
When should you use Web Sockets? I've been interested in the tech but haven't found a use case that needs it. I can see a scenario of live, server pushed updates being a use case but am completely ignorant of the issues the article speaks to.
I’ve most definitely been in numerous places where arrogant 25 year olds with CS degrees but not smart enough to make it to FAAnG think they know what they are talking about when they don’t. Not every 25yo is an idiot, but many especially in tech think they are smarter than they are because they’re paid these obscene amounts of money.
Amazon’s Alexa Stalled with Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show
I work in the bankruptcy niche, and I wanted to tweak your statements...

Chapter 13 bankruptcy is deleted from your credit report seven years from the discharge date, which comes 3 to 5 years after you file (because there's a 3 to 5 year payment plan). So if you measure from the filing date, Chapter 13 takes 7 + 3-to-5 years to come off your credit report, which is 10 to 12 years from the filing date.

Similarly, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is deleted 10 years from the discharge date. In a typical Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the debtor receives a discharge 4 months after filing. So your statement is actually quite close, but to be pedantic, it's 10.33 years from the filing date.

In my experience, most Chapter 7 filers can fully recover after about 2 years, provided they are able to make their payments on-time after the bankruptcy.
You seem to like Helium, and I see that their gateways cost ~$1000, where as The Things Network seems to point you to RPi hats at ~$200. If the crypto innovation is effectively making the network more expensive to use and increasing the cost to build it, all so the operators/miners can earn a little on the side, this doesn't seem like innovation at all. Seems like you could do this with some sort of micro payment scheme (where the initial cost can be paid off), especially since LoRa seems to cater to industrial IoT mostly.

If you had a solar powered Things Network, it would be effectively free to use, and you could add more nodes as required at a cheaper cost.
Alibaba punished by CN authority for not reporting the Log4j 0-day within 2 days
No, you actually did not. You went back -- in a reply to my comment -- to the topic of individual testing when I was speaking of a specific test, the Ontario EQAO which is about testing schools and rating schools and the grades for the children are often not even given out -- just the average for the school. And in this case, it is a blatant mis-use of averages and "standardized testing" for ideological reasons, brought in by a gov't that had a vendetta against the teachers union.

These tests are not meant to provide guidance or assistance or measurement for the student to aid in education, but as a misguided "performance metric" for the school itself. And it's an unacceptable metric for the reasons I gave and which you did not address. The important information is lost in the process of taking an average.

But, honestly, what has happened here is a trend I see on many of your comments, as I peruse your profile. You have a hammer, and every topic is your nail.

But please, do go on, and bang away. You're clearly smarter than us all, and the downvotes you complain about only prove that.
You are correct.

When I got married, I brought in a lot of personal credit card debt, and we ended up using our wedding gift money to pay it off. It was extremely humiliating.

Since then, I have lived quite frugally, and avoided all personal debt; paying off credit cards in total, each month. By the time we were ready to purchase a house, our credit was sky-high, and getting a decent mortgage rate wasn’t difficult. Our house is tiny. We live in a middle-class neighborhood. No Teslas on our block.

I also saved between 25-40% of my income in as many ways as possible, including some fairly decent funds.

I have habitually avoided debt, and lived quite humbly, my entire adult life. I have never wanted for anything, and have always been able to afford top-shelf equipment for my software development work, but I suspect that a lot of folks here, would sneer at my life.

Good thing, too. When I left my job of almost 27 years, and started looking for work, I learned that no one wants to work with “olds.” That too, was humiliating, and infuriating. In fairly short order, I just threw in the towel. I won’t go where I’m not wanted.

My savings allowed me to set up a small corporation to buy equipment and software, while I pursued my “dream job,” of working for free. I am working with a 501(c)(3), giving them software that would make a lot of “big league” corporations green with envy. I have the skills and experience to make others a lot of money, but my grey hair is so terrifying, that no one pays attention to my qualifications. I quickly learned to just avoid the agita. NPOs are grateful for whatever they can get, and I am appreciated.

I couldn’t be happier.
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind - A garbage book about universe's energy

Never Split the Difference - too long never finished completely, didn't feel practical or anything beyond common sense

The Obstacle Is the Way - trash, not worth time, if you watch motivation videos then go ahead buy it.

Exactly What to Say - read the the table of contents and you get 90% of the value the book has to give

Indistractable - did you know if you could focus and work without motivation you could do great things..oh wow news of the century. Book has flawed premise and flawed solution. Saying control your internal triggers is a very round about way to say control your motivation. This book more of an academic book, on topic, that is under research.

How to Make Sh*t Happen: Make more money... - honestly liked the book, resonated with author's struggle .. but I don't recall getting much value. It was like watching a show that starts really strong and you have high hopes but just never delivers. I'd read the summary of it and not waste time reading the entire thing. i was kinda putt off by cringe over the top cursing to look unorthodox.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - omg the self patting.. unless you're a ceo, of series A startup then maybe this book will have some value. HARD PASS.

Grit - here I'll save you time: people who keep at it on average win against talented people. There I saved you from 30 life stories of author and her daddy issues.

The case studies and even better textbooks that have case studies compiled into lessons are much better.
This may not mean Omicron is less severe itself. It may just be indicative of 70-80% of populations being prior infected or vaccinated like South Africa was. Unvaccinated individuals still have a tough time clearing this.
Competitors Slam Space Force's Hack-a-Sat CTF as Arbitrary, Unfair
Right. I'm thinking specifically of cases in which, say, a water-control system might utilise such elements, and just how complex they might get. This isn't my area, so I'm being conservative in statements.

An electronic switch translates to a hydraulic valve.

And a hydraulic valve is a direct analogue of a vacuum tube or transistor: an applied input delivers a controlled input. Often but not necessarily amplified --- there are cases where the input effort might be much larger than the output, in control or precision implementations.

Mind: a valve itself might be water activated, in the sense of a small flow through one channel translating to a large flow in a controlled channel. One obvious example of this is the fantail of a post windmill, where any orientation of the mill's main sails outside the primary wind flow starts spinning the fantail which reorients the mill into the wind. See:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Beebe_Wi...

There are numerous cases of interlocks, many of which are mechanical. Some of these are through inherently fail-safe designs. A canal's locks, aeroplane doors, and airlocks all open such that they require pressure equalisation, preventing opening whilst the lock and channel are at different levels, or pressurised and depressurised regions are not at equilibrium. Shift-lever and starter interlocks require that brakes be engaged and vehicles in neutral to start, or shift from reverse.

https://realpars.com/interlock/

And I'm finding a few references specifically to mechanical control logic:

"Mechanical Logic Devices and Circuits"
http://www.nacomm09.ammindia.org/NaCoMM-2009/nacomm09_final_... (PDF)

"PDF Pneumatic Logic & Controls - Parker Hannifin"
https://www.parker.com/literature/Literature%20Files/pneumat... (PDF)

The second is a catalogue of available products based on pneumatic logic.

One specific domain in which analogue / mechanical controls have been specifically discussed is for future Venus lander missions. Temperature and pressure profiles are too high for virtually all electronic systems (circuit boards, solder, and componentry would thermally degrade or melt).

JPL have specifically explored the concept of a "clockwork rover", AREE (advanced rover for extreme environments) for a Venus or similar mission:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/a-clockwork-rover-for-venus
If you look at the ramp in college costs, prices started climbing immediately after Clinton signed this into law. It was a gift to the bankers who get to make loans on a higher priced product and the loans are difficult to not repay because they typically get parents to co-sign.
Current Ethereum is a non-scaling proof of concept. They kicked that can down the road, but the blueprint solution is now in and many of the components are built.

The short of it is that with the modular approach to Blockchain scaling, more nodes will mean more scale. Separating out execution, settlement, and data availability, the blockchain "trillema" is inverted.

The writing is a bit technical but I recommend that of @polynya to understand more.

https://twitter.com/Swagtimus/status/1445905613486231555

https://polynya.medium.com/
You still got to figure that part out.

There are many people that do decently with attraction in person who wouldn't do as well in a visual app. Attraction in person is weighed by energy, actions, social validation and also looks. This method is more useful for people that can do that, but don't match preconceived visual ideals that the potential mates have, but passable.

So replicating that in an app trying to emulate that with match scores means you have to at least reduce the chance of getting matched by others with a low match score. Leave your pending matches pending forever, dont get desparate to match arbitrarily. If attractive people still don't match (give it a month, per area), nuke the profile and try again with different pictures and content.

If you dont have any of that then you need a different strategy.
1. That is a spurious quotation[1]

2. Your interpretation of its meaning is, frankly, bizarre

[1] https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/ete...
Hey mastax, thanks for the notes. I'm no expert but want to respond to the following:

1. AFAIK none of these parts of the stack (postgres, ZFS) are using asynchronous IO or Direct IO -- postgres doesn't support either, and ZFS supports async writes (that concept means something very specific in ZFS land), and ZFS doesn't support direct IO (though it comes up a lot).

2. See my response to 1

3. All my testing is actually on NVMe, and comparing the performance to mdraid/ext4 (I also tried LVM) it's actually pretty decent. People have been running databases on ZFS with great success for years and I'm quite possibly the least knowledgeable person who's written about it! You can be productive without O_DIRECT support (again Postgres doesn't use direct IO so). Absolutely worth the benefits that ZFS provides, in my mind.
Let’s not get into hypotheticals. You know as well as I do that a large bit of Facebook’s early growth story was their brand and their reputation. That name may have been dragged through the mud in the past few years, but it still means something, and its not without value despite the recent rebranding on the parent company front.

Meta retains the exclusive right to do business using the Facebook mark and they’ll continue to enforce it. It’s the same story for any other company, and it’s a form of monopoly that the government grants, not something that would be enforceable otherwise.
I'm not fond of that if not just to prevent people from robbing me.
This is really annoying, every time i code in go i miss python's list.append method
How it would be better than existing sysctl(3)-based one?
Depends how big you are. Apple has been known to give special privileges to big players like Hulu[0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/6/22423410/apple-hulu-subscr...
It's not that, though. This is about showing that something that's being painted as a terrible abomination is, in fact, perfectly normal behaviour, and the whole story is essentially an exercise in double standards.
I'm an immigrant from France in Hong Kong, another predatory capitalist jurisdiction, and even here it's still bounded by some logic. Payday loans are really frowned upon, I think there's something in Chinese societies, just like the French one I come from, that prevent people to fully enslave themselves in silly debt on the same massive scale as the US. And kids can trade somewhat here, at least every child has a stock account managed by his parents, the national sport being speculative trading here, so we ARE the jungle too. We're discussing a bankrupcy low, which I think would put the final nail in the predatory coffin - in the last few years I've seen the bank evolve from full-on anti-client predators to finally proposing Debit cards !!!

But nobody in France, or in Hong Kong, would take a 30-year student loan. It seems nearly possible in the U.S., at the start of your life. How can they do that to each other, ofc kids are stupid and think college is about "the college experience" that the loan makers pushed via financing movies about it and won't choose the local one with good enough teachers that cost nothing and move on.

I think they should really close the ivy league schools, opt out of Shanghai ranking, forbid foreigners - just like France does involuntarily (no top school, Shanghai snubs us, foreigners don't care about education in the French language) which ends up with cheap colleges for local kids with good enough teachers. But admittedly poorer research funding, but I never understood why we need to learn corporate finance or java enterprise deployment or heart surgery from researchers writing theoretical papers ONLY.
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“Wanna go to jail forever, or just a few years? Your choice.”

Tends to be effective. The entire US justice system relies on this dynamic. It cannot handle even a couple of percent of cases making it to trial.
You’ve just described the daily status of crypto.

However, it is apparently much more robust than traditional finance. Rapid drops of 50%+, that would be devastating if it were to happen in sp500 or bond markets, did not destroy crypto markets despite huge amounts of high leverage.

Maybe it is too small to matter still, but either way I would much rather worry about traditional finance.
That’s what I do too. Then I make the graph output into a test.
Student loans are a gold mine for banks. There is no other kind of loan that cannot be discharged on bankruptcy. Think about business loans: every business loan can be discharged on bankruptcy by definition.
In real world I got critized badly even for pointing out media only showing "numbers of infected" and walk into any hospitals now one will see significant less patients than during the peak.

We all will get sick from flu. Do we keep harping the potential of Spanish flu return? If we treat everything with utmost cdc-lab4 kind of safety, a lot of things we can't do and even earn a living. Up to a point, people need to realize we have to live with Covid just like everyone living with the virus descendent of Spanish flu.

And Omicron should be viewed as blessing to some extend as it is less severe and is one way nature provide immunity to us. A lot of people would want natural immunity than constantly getting jab every couple of months (Israel going for 4th right now).
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So is "adversarial" the A in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)? Are they just tiptoeing around the term deep fake?
You sounds like a paid endorsement sponsored by CIA. You were born and lived there for 30 years? I was born and lived there 30 years then live in Western democracy with freedom along with human rights. I clearly know where the CPP hater's delusion come from
>If that is the case China’s successful control of previous strains will become a devastating liability with this strain.

I've been wondering about this as well, the extreme example of this would have been the European invasion of the Americas, and the thousands of years of disease evolution of common viruses around the world that the natives missed out on, which killed most without weapons.

There's a certain value in letting your population's immune systems adapt as the viruses come, instead of letting it be overwhelmed after long isolation.

We're in a constant natural arms race with viruses, isolation isn't sustainable.
So obviously bad advice, but the reason is that to declare bankruptcy you have to convince a judge to do it. You might have trouble with that using this terrible plan.
I rather thought mostly people looked how China achieved whatever success it achieved and said, "Yeah, we don't do that. Don't care how effective it is at one thing the price is too high."

Also can their stats be trusted? How would you know? Yes the west is following some very repressive and revolting media policies "Hi Julian!" But still a long way behind the PRC so stuff tends to come out eventually. Hunter Biden's laptop emails were real, not "russian disinformation" and we are now aware of that censorship which troubles us regardless of who we voted for. Most chinese in China have never heard of or seen this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
Still some 3 decades later. These things are related, similar but their magnitude is (at least at this stage) not remotely comparable.
The average person probably thinks C++ programming is programming. I tried to buy a laptop once for development and the salesman kept insisting that I don't need a fast one for programming because C++ is just plaintext.
You are hearing something that isn't present. There's no "w" sound in that video for the number 5. This is a really common misconception/mispronunciation caused by pinyin as it needs the "w" for disambiguation purposes (see also the use of apostrophes, xian vs. xi'an).

Edit: another poster has some more examples of there not being a "w" sound at all in "wu": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29657822
You havent had a conversation with someone sleep walking then or just dreaming out loud then? Thats a little different to just recording yourself snoring. Well my proof keeps being nicked or destroyed so the state could make anything up and it does make stuff up.
Also Kaitai Struct:

https://kaitai.io/

And the other things mentioned in the fq README:

https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend https://github.com/binspector/binspector
Why should we be any more concerned about magnesium than we were about, say, rare earths, where China's ill-conceived embargo demonstrated how little things like '85% market share' were worth?