skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody wants China in their backyard. The US is mostly there as protection.

Where China is claiming territory it doesn't have any claims to and is using severe military pressure for it.

Other than that, the ports that China does have is mostly because of loans that countries can't repay. Where they then claim infrastructure for their own.

You don't seem to be informed on the topic?
Awful homophobic comment.
Fully controllable pocket computers.

Surprisingly, the tech has been there since the '90s, but never really caught up. Then it went into a weird walled garden direction with mobile phones that often work against you.

Pocket computers are still sometimes janky, like Linux phones are, but having access to all the software and permissions is an unparalleled power.
> it's the place people go to to get to other destinations

Not on mobile.
Thank you for this post, I spent the majority of Christmas '19 and '20 alone and it was in the middle of a very challenging time of my life. I'm very young and grateful for the friends and others that included me in their holiday celebrations, and having time alone to reflect and come to the realization that Christmas doesn't come from having family to share it with.

While most traditional Christmas stories and many people focus on celebrating children, love and family, material goods, etc it's also about looking on the bright side of life, counting your blessings, and carrying on traditions. A happy Christmas is a choice, and my advice to all who are alone today is this: Build your own traditions, buy yourself something and wrap it up nice, decorate a tree, make gingerbread houses, or cook a meal you really like, whatever appeals to you.

I'll leave you with the last line from How the Grinch Stole Christmas and a link to an In Our Time episode about (A Christmas Carol)[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012fl5]:

"Welcome Christmas, bring your cheer. Cheer to all Who's far and near Christmas day is in our grasp, so long as we have hands to clasp. Christmas day will always be, just as long as we have we. Welcome Christmas while we stand, heart to heart and hand in hand."
Weird Studies
Not OP but similarly offended.

To me it’s that I assume these items went to a next of kin possibly multiple times to get to a person who cared so little of them that they are cashing in.

It’s not just the letters either. His prestigious awards and other things are for sale on that site.
Depends on where she lived. Beijing, Shanghai and other first tier cities are ok for foreigners. The further away you get, the more blurry situation gets.
Say your mom clicks on one of those ads and looses a lot of money. Would Google be liable for it?

“YouTube recommended this to me, I never imagine YouTube / Google would be trying to scam me”.
The is also "A tour of C++" from the same author, which might be a good start. Take care.
That's kinda getting into sequencer territory, but also sounds fun.
Nedit is still my go to text editor for programming
TSMC, the Drug Dealer, Is Trying to Make a Junkie Out of Intel
And cooling stuff.
Also seems quite nationalistic after what was broadcast before that. As a European quite unappealing.
> It's just a day like many others. There is really nothing to it.

For most of the western world and all the countries where Christmas is a big holiday season, it’s just not a day like any other. It’s one of those few times in a year when families get together, and in the case of the above mentioned countries, people travel far to meet and be with others. The people who do this may not be Christian or believe in Christmas either, but it’s traditionally become a time to meet and spend time with others. Since a lot of the world population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, where it’s usually winter (like) time around Christmas and kinda cold and/or gloomy, it makes a lot of sense for a species like homo sapiens to spend time indoors with others and find some comfort that they cannot readily find stepping outside.

I’m not saying that all this is universally true, but at this time, wherever you find people either trying to be with family and extended family or are unhappy that they aren’t able to, this is the culture. Anyone who doesn’t feel this way could potentially be made to feel as the odd one out or feel excluded from communities.

Considering how the nearly two-year-long pandemic has turned social lives and traditions into non-events, I think we need to comfort people virtually. It costs almost nothing.
Now imagine if you would never watch the news again. You would feel amazing all the time instead of worried and fearful.
Not being OK with the myriad of human rights abuses the Chinese government commits - sometimes "silently" and sometimes very opening and outright proudly - is just because I struggle with my own regions history? What the actual fuck... I have to call your "theory" what it is: stupid and dangerous - and whataboutism on top.
I think we are more alone than ever, as a virtual hug is not an actual hug.
Better would be for us to stop being delusional and try harder to find a way to live in a real community where we can feel each other's warmth again.

Thanks for the good intention, and a Merry Christmas to all.
Taiwan operates an effective home quarantine system (and 850 deaths for a 23m population). Why couldn’t NZ? There would be a lot more capacity that way.
Radical? Not really, though it is definitely more sensational, and I would stay as far away as I could from their opinion pieces.
> We love China too, just not the communist party.

I lived in singapore for 10 years until recently moving to Taiwan, this is basically the view of everyone from China I met. “I love China but I hate the government, that’s why I left”

It’s a shame because the actions of the CCP are making people blame Chinese people. But the majority of people from China that I’ve met are awesome.
Have you seen this film? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Look_Away

It is an interesting film in general, and in context of your comment from the politics of art perspective -- it starts with a Nazi lecture on the "degenerate art" of 20s-30s, to art class lectures in Communist times, and ends with the equally ideological forces dictating "what's art" in West Germany (where are hero finally achieves fame and fortune.) It's East German variety of old regime/new regime but likely will resonate at some level.
Because we have a representative government and most of our population still thinks this is a reasonable way to view the universe
> a community only too willing to tell you how your question is wrong

Been there, experienced that. Like this one poor guy who dared to ask at the TeX.StackOverflow help desk—"what can I do to get this and that vertical line in my table", only to get lectured by one acolyte, "Oh noes, don't, vertical lines bad, only horizontal lines in tables, proven to be the only way to go". Which totally throws centuries of finely typeset mathematical, astronomical and nautical tables out of the window while not answering the question.

To be fair, there are quite a few people on the TeXSO that go to incredible lengths to give extensive answers—expositions really—to hairy questions ('hairy' being a technical term here which translates to 'daily' in the context of TeX).
Merry Christmas OP. I'm not a christian and I wasn't feeling particularly odd about being alone today as compared to any other day. I had delicious Foul, Zaatar Manakish and Falafel in the breakfast today. The rest of the day couldn't be any better either

Sending you a virtual hug nonetheless :)
Good one, he said wistfully, realizing exactly how old he was.
Advent of Code: Behind the Scenes
Risk to who? Covid is already in NZ. Pretty much everyone is already vaccinated. If there’s a risk it is now insignificant.
Perhaps try this:

1) stop watching the news

2) get off social media
These might help:

* https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/ruby/

* https://github.com/ThibaultJanBeyer/cheatsheets/blob/master/...

* https://github.com/lifeparticle/Ruby-Cheatsheet
Wouldn't be surprised if tencent and others are going to launch their own app store. Tencent already partially did with the epic game store. Pull some string in China to block steams global edition to even out the fight for epic game store. Tencent owns like 40~48% of epic.
At least Berlin is chock-full with US peeps.
I vividly remember coding, moderating IRC channels and playing StarCraft while being alone on a Christmas night, lobbies were full of joy and wishes, games were fun, and I felt way less lonely than while spending time with people I didn’t really connect with.

Christmas is seen as a moment to be spent with people, but IMO this day is only what you make of it. It is not bad to want to be totally alone, or connected with online randoms!

There are many people in these virtual worlds that you probably share something with if you spend Christmas alone or are reading this message on Dec 25th. I’m glad HN exists.

And if you really want another experice, go east if you can afford it, and enjoy in places where Dec 24/25th are just regular days.
How did you manage to acquire subscribers for this niche topic? Which measures had the greatest impact?
Hang in there!

I also had a dark period some years back. Such things can sure mess with your ego and make you feel like a loser.

On the other hand, when you hit rock bottom, there is not much left to lose. You can start building up your life again the way you want.
I guess you mean my credit score/background check. We don't have a social score in the UK. Though I wouldn't be surprised it if something akin was secretly compiled by GCHQ et al.
There’s no contradiction if you understand that all those bans are on companies, not users. People just use VPN, like they did anyway, but for companies it means they have to comply with Chinese law to make money there.
Interesting. That is a fair point. What if your employer provided you a laptop with two user accounts - one for work and one for personal business?
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/javascript/ might help (there's further reading links at the end as well)
That broadcast seems to even have it's own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading

> On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 read from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the Moon

Seems no one was happy with what they came up with, so they ended up going with Genesis part from the bible instead. Not everyone was happy with that though:

> Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder of American Atheists, responded by suing the United States government, alleging violations of the First Amendment

Ended up being dismissed by all the courts though.

But still, I cannot believe that people who are supposedly scientists start quoting the bible when they are themselves involved in maybe one of the greatest scientific achievements of our time. How does that resolve?
Switching a git branch is also a great way to kick off reindexing.

When working with typescript, it’ll still index your packages even if you’ve excluded it because it needs it for autocompletion (I assume).
If it’s worth anything I am American and also find it unappealing.
If it's fake, what's the value?
I have a simple rule for shared libraries: only write them for things that are hard.

Specialized algorithms; time/date calculations; complex custom business logic shared across the company; code generation libraries that generate code following best practices. These aren't always easy to get right.

But left padding strings or creating directories? These are less than 20 lines of code. The cost of using a library does not outweigh the risks when the benefit is that low.
The average Joe in the West doesn't get absolutely any news directly from China, so I'm not sure of what you mean.
Neville Chamberlain had similar thoughts about Germany.

Perhaps when dictators start doing things like rounding up undesirables into camps and pushing ideological uniformity at the point of a gun the reasonable response is to condemn the behavior? It doesn't matter who's wearing the jackboots, it's despicable to appease, condone, or enable the ones stepping on the throats of human beings.
what was the rationale?
Most people criticizing China and the CCP in those forums haven't spent time in China either. I suspect many wouldn't even be able to place China on a map.
I ve lost my love and my mental health is deteriorating

I really hope things get better
Foreign SIM cards on globs roaming are not passed through the GFW as traffic is carried back to the ‘origin country’ before being sent to the internet writ large. So IP lookups still think you’re in your original country. I used global roaming when working in China to circumvent the GFW (albeit at high expense for data).
Tout est nominal ! See you at Lagrange point L2 !
It's interesting that looking at all these, the HP calculator apps, mimicking the look of physical HP calculators, don't seem to have aged as much as the others (I mean: the calculators themselves certainly do look oldschool, but the app doesn't).

The one X11 app I still use to troubleshoot issues or when I set up a new Debian system is "xeyes" (just two eyes which look/track the direction of the mouse pointer). As long as it's shipped with Debian, I'll be making sure xeyes is installed.
The USA especially has roughly the same proportion of its people imprisoned as totalitarian regimes, but those people are so dehumanized socially that they are impossible to imagine as even a part of this discussion.

I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a woman in NYC who migrated from some former USSR country and worked as a domestic servant -- she called working for such low wage in such conditions "communism."
> believe in themselves instead of higher dimensional beings

Note:

It's not about not believing in yourself.

It's about acquiring the certainty that you are actually linked to the benevolent beings in the higher dimensions. Once you realize this, you can get immense help/guidance/information/capabilities. In short: It's about _empowering_ yourself, not _limiting_ yourself.
I am 100% British. You misunderstand me. I am saying that if we truly have China's, or namely humanity's best interests at heart when we criticise China, then we could profoundly increase our effectiveness if we demonstrated even just a basic understanding of context. Namely that the West is defined by its colonialism, its power and influence comes from exploitation of more than half the world.

To give an example, if a government truly wants people to wear masks and socially isolate, then the prime minister (Boris Johnson of the UK in this case), should not throw private parties.

We can argue about whether what the West did was net good or bad, but I don't think we can argue about whether the effectiveness of one's words are diminished by acts that are contrary to those words.
I used Google Fi in early 2020 in China.

iirc it really just depended on where you were... Sometimes Fi let me break through the GFW, but it definitely did not in Beijing.
It's not about an amount of caring like liters of water. Even then the things you mention are effects and not causes.
This year, after a tumultuous breakup (that quite literally plunged me into my deepest crisis to day), I’m practicing being alone. Mostly because what lead to said breakup in the first place, was me being a relationship-addict, which at this point in my self-awareness journey I understand to be a transgenerational issue. Thus being with family does not help at all (even though I did my fair share of being with them yesterday). As opposed to OP, I’m less than happy about the whole thing understandably.

What helps is hiking, I guess, trying to get a grip on whether doing it alone or with others helps more.

I guess this is close to being rock bottom for me at this point, hope you guys feel at least a tiny bit ok.
Why do governments feel compelled to constantly intervene in businesses?

What market failure (apparently unique to Germany) are they fixing?

Edit:

I have like 4 different responses. 1) Open source is a human right, 2) security is a mess, 3) China has proven an invasive industrial policy can be successful, and 4) Government intervention is important to prevent wealth imbalances

So my conclusion given the lack of consensus is that this fund is totally pointless.
He ended his speech with "God bless Planet Earth".

I view this as quite progressive for a bureaucratic representative of the fed and an encouraging sign of the times.
Lenin wasn't a communist. China doesn't even practice real communism.
Another aspect of TLS I'm personally worried about is the ability of regulators to influence CAs.

It gets increasingly more difficult to use websites that don't implement HTTPS. Some browsers will warn you if you try to enter a password on such websites, for example. Most users will not know what to do with such warnings, and will probably close the website upon seeing one. It's not impossible to imagine that, in ten or so years, some browsers might disallow plain HTTP entirely.

It's trivial for major governments (the US and the EU in particular) to impose know-your-customer requirements on CAs, or to force them to revoke the certificates of some unsavory websites.

Replacing your default browser with one that doesn't care about TLS support might not be trivial at that point, see Apple's restrictions on third-party browsers and Microsoft's recent tricks.
Not sure that I understand your take.

How does having "a communist" party imply that there would be no inequalities? Especially given that merely a few decades ago China was poor like hell and everyone outsourced all the cheap labor there?

> it’s clear that the system is designed so poor or uneducated people

Isn't education in China largely sponsored by government?
HN doesn't care about engagement. It cares about raising the social status of YCombinator.
The english learnt/spoken by most non-native speakers is also often referred to as "globish" for this very reason: get rid of any local or cultural idioms so that it is globally understandable.
As always, you have to balance the risk of a crazy trap-setting knifeman attack with the (opportunity) cost of building additional escape routes.
Because most programming languages make it very hard to correctly model data, for example, they lack sum types/discriminated unions.
Kind of, but the big difference is getting rich (enough to afford a luxury lifestyle) in the West is more accessible. In the other system, you were either connected or not. If not, you were likely SOL.

Look at Musk. You think a communist country would tolerate a foreigner who became a billionaire and calls out politicians in a public forum? Maybe ask Jack Ma how his moderate comments were received.

I had an acquaintance from a communist country who was allowed to study in the US. One of the first ever. How did he get that privilege? His father was a high ranking party member who had a serious disagreement and was going to be expelled. The deal was “you quietly retire and we’ll let you son go to college in the US”. So he kept his mouth shut. They had total control, so using your family against you was fair game. I have no doubt Musk’s kid won’t face that same challenge.

Sure, both systems cater to the powerful, but one is a relatively open system and the other closed only to the “permanently privileged”.
The GFW is not a monolith, it seems to differ depending on where you are. I think ISPs implement it differently.

The Beijing ones were the most sophisticated
While I agree with you in principle, it sure sould be nice if Jetbrains IDE’s didn’t become nearly unuseable while indexing.
Only if the GFW identifies you as likely VPN traffic do they throttle. I used Googles VPN service thingy and kept switching hosts everytime it slowed.
Using built-in libraries or using the array form of exec to call mkdir or writing your own directory creator feels like it's missing the nub of the problem.

You are accepting unsafe input, and trying to work around that without making the input safe.

What you should be doing: taking the raw path string and parsing it. Defining via the parser what the form of a permitted path is. Either the input data matches this pattern, in which case it almost doesn't matter how you turn it into directories, or it does not, in which case you can reject it as garbage.
It's difficult to compare regimes based on individual narratives - in the USSR example, we have The Gulag Archipelago that is extremely rigorous, popular, and compelling (I read it in both the original and translated versions), but historically questionable, and the author's wife called it "folklore". For North Korea, the Wikipedia page for Ms. Park says this: "Many North Korean defectors accounts of North Korea, both good and bad, contradict claims Park has made. She has been accused of exaggeration and tall tales by some."
Sounds like quite the treat! All the best for 2022 to you as well!
IIRC also at one point the project was in a big trouble due to cost overruns. Europe joining the effort by providing the launcher, one of the instruments and part of the project team saved the whole project from cancelation.
It's always inspiring to see what can be accomplished by large groups of people working for years and years to create things that have never been made before. And then the elation of success, after years and years of work, delays, and more work.

Watching the launch made me feel the wonder of spaceflight I felt as a child- and the holiday timing felt even more perfect.
In theory there should be no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there often is. TeX's syntax itself being Turing-complete means you can barely start to do static analysis on the code before hitting a wall you can only get over by installing a huge fraction of the ~1GB download that is TeXLive. "Being theoretically possible" is in no way orthogonal to "impractical in many or most circumstances".
The moral of the story is that dealing with the filesystem is like dealing with the reactor room at Chernobyl. Stay away from it unless there is no other option. Instead use a decent database with simple transactional and addressing semantics.
Same here. In bashrc:

alias clip='xclip -selection clipboard'

Then you can do things like:

cat foo.txt | clip

To copy the file into your clipboard.
Can you provide some examples of this alleged "flood of pro CCP activists" in this comments section?

I'm reading some minor disagreements. Is this activism in your worldview?
Toilets are provided as a convenience by employers to perform entirely personal/non-business functions.

A better an analogy would be a desk phone. Does the employer have the right to record phone calls if an announcement is made to all parties?
The answer appears to be pretty plain in the original post: the letters are deeply personal.