skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some elements that come to mind:

- Traditional Chinese characters used more often in Taiwan than Mainland China.
- Yayue (3,000 years old Chinese court music).
- Taiwanese recreation of Tang Dynasty dances.
- In Taiwan poems are composed/written/recited in Hokkien, on the mainland it is done in Mandarin.
- The preservation of uninterrupted institutional religion (eg Daoist priests) that was largely shutdown in China.
- Taiwan's leader attending ceremonies at temples to mark the birthday of Confucius, something you wouldn't see Xi Jinping do.
- Taiwan's ROC governmental organization was based on the Qing dynasty, so it has the traditional Inspection Ministry that accords with the old censorate.

Edit: These are not hard and fast. One will always find examples on both sides of the ditch. They do though play into the narrative of Taiwan being a capsule for culture modified post cultural revolution. Let’s also remember that Taiwan is also heavily influenced from outside via democracy, Japan, and its own aboriginal culture.
I think it was.
Yes, it's an awful and unacceptable situation. Different people have different ways of responding to harassment based on their risk acceptance and resilience: some people respond and fight back, some people hide, and some people seek help from others around them (the latter is, it seems to me, probably generally the healthiest approach, although I'm no expert).

What the parent post seems to be advocating for is that tech companies should automatically attempt to hide people from harm, and that they're best-placed to do that. I think it's doubtable whether they'll be able and willing to implement that in an effective or accurate manner (partly because it requires putting significant time, money and staffing into it, it can never be completely automated, and attackers -- especially in individual or small cases -- evolve as the representative mentions in the quote), and I don't think it respects or empowers victims, long-term.

It's also key to focus on the perpetrators - hold them accountable and figure out the reasons why this happened in the first place.
> The power of distributed consensus and immutable blockchains is not that they are a better technology than, you know, some large trusted website keeping a list, which is kind of how Web3 works anyway. The power of distributed consensus and immutable blockchains is that they attract money, which is really how Web3 works.

Quote of the century if there ever was one. It's a gold rush.
How did that takeover happen?
This link always gets posted but if there's anything it proves is that the GDPR has a major enforcement problem. Your link shows that to date, ~1.4B euro worth of fines has been dished out - this is across all companies and countries in a span of 4 years.

How much do Google and Facebook individually earn from illicit data collection & processing in just a single year? Significantly more than that. So far the only fine for Facebook is 51k (for a technicality, not actually related to their continuous GDPR breaches) and Google 50.6M which is more sizeable but still a drop in the bucket compared to their revenue.
Studies show unvaxxed people:
* are five times more likely to catch covid
* significantly more likely to underestimate the risks of Covid
* are less likely to wear masks and follow other non-vaccine related best practices

You’ve basically chained a series of specious conclusions together and it definitely seems like those conclusions serve to support a particular political narrative.
> Nobody has held back functional instant messaging more effectively that them.

This is more to do with Google being really, very bad at not canceling projects only to later reinvent them, only to later cancel them again.

Your point is cogent and stands, just pointing out how Google has a penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

RCS is DOA if you actually care about the security it claims to support. End-to-end encryption can be turned off by anyone who knows your phone number and is in a position to sim swap you. There’s a public Google site for this, and it uses, you guessed it, SMS. You can’t make this stuff up.

RCS group texts are not e2e. iMessage group texts, just like all iMessages, are e2e.
> he probably turned in his grave when the bailouts happened.

Maybe, but that is actually kind of the point. The bailouts were inevitable. It is simply not possible to structure an economy in such a way that the consequences of bad decisions fall solely on those who made the bad decisions. There are always externalities, moral hazards, and politics. If Friedman was intellectually honest then he was also hopelessly naive.
I'm just trying to get an honest overview of the history. Fascist is not necessarily a dirty word, just a style of government.
It's also pretty hard to claim there is one Chinese culture.
I write C++ (for better or worse), and I know Boost is an algamation of libraries and many hard working maintainers. I didn't mean to imply anything bad about boost. I think you misunderstood me because I gave a poor example.

I'm talking about the general/average mindset of the C++ community when it comes to updating dependencies. Also the way dependencies are "managed" (or lack of it) in virtually every project.

The HN crowd isn't considered "average" in that dimension, probably. So even if you yourself have a culture of keeping things updated with Conan or whatever, it's definitely not the status quo.
Even if you are a staunch traditionalist, "almost everything" is a massive exaggeration. The entire country still effectively shuts down for two weeks during the lunar new year. Sure this would be among the first things to go in an authoritarian state hell-bent on industrialization and yet it has persisted.
King Oliver Ⅰ of the House of Cromwell?
[1] is a video from a couple decades later (1914) that shows more of the urban middle or lower class folks of Kristiania (it wouldn't be called Oslo until 1925).

[1] https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/5d19ec53f24eb5909b9316a833b90c38....
> YC does that because it's in its business interests to do it and because it's good for the world.

See, this is where I disagree. This is all well and good, but only if you accept the fundamental premise that taking VC investment is the best way to become an entrepreneur and to do good for the world.

I would strongly challenge this premise. I think for the vast majority of tech entrepreneurs, aiming to build a slowly growing business that doesn't have the aspiration to become a unicorn and 1000x everything is much, much better. I think that many great businesses failed because they were convinced by the VC-marketing-hype-machine to take on venture capital.

If YC's goal truly is to do good for the world, they would think about ways to help entrepreneurs make that happen, not force them into the VC world. I know that there are cases where VC-type capital is extremely valuable, and I'm glad that it exists, but for the vast majority, it's the wrong tool for the job.
I believe that would have been during the time that google broke the ability to + words (without initially providing another verbatim alternative) in order to use + for google plus somehow.

I can't square that change with the claimed commitment to search engine quality.
And those amazing PPP loans they got that they never need to return. Great value!
The extremely budget modern version is the "Public Reacts" article that's a few paragraphs of bare editorial followed by 6-12 tweets with about 6-12 likes each.
>> Google can't search inside Discord.

Can anyone, even in theory? Are there open APIs to all systems of discord? Does Discord have one? Wouldn't that open up all of these systems to systematic classification of all users? Also, is there a web link you can construct that will open up e.g. Discord's desktop app when you click it?
Gopass and Git Password Management
I was at an election briefing at a large media organisation a few years ago, one of the chief editors told the journalists "We can't stop you using vox pops, but please don't use them much" and that (paraphrasing) "they are usually awful, we know they add color but they detract from the story and become the story"

Of course "Person confirming stereotype" attracts clicks and shares, is easy to do, and that's good for career progression. Actually finding out what's happening, explaining what it means, the who, what, where, when, why of the story, that's hard.

Much easier to say

"Mr X thinks this is terrible"

Than say

"This is terrible because...., but it's good because...."
> Not really a popular revolution, more of an intra-elite conflict;

that's almost always the case, at least at the beginning

> Cromwell is regarded, not unreasonably, as a mass murderer in Ireland.

most revolutionists are mass murderers
Signal is the purely the best messenger we have so far, I remember OpenWhisper Systems RedPhone and TextSecure and how much it evolved since then. It pushed and helped other messengers to roll e2ee too.

PS. On Twitter Moxie mentioned that Usernames and e2ee Statuses are coming soon -- last missing pieces IMO, what a legend, huge respect and thanks for changing the industry Moxie!
This is interesting. It's a shame the grandparent is so binary, as if Chinese culture is a bacteria that can be purged and survive in pockets instead of something that ebbs and flows, as all cultures do.
Funny that they mention this game in the appendix of the paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Cube
Not sure if the article misses the point then. If Google satisfies your "digital morons" by making it slightly harder for the more advanced users to get the results they want, couldn't that be the right thing to do? For example, over time, Google has been using synonyms more so that often the word you searched for doesn't appear in the page. This works for most people very well, but makes the self proclaimed experts complain
> I looked at the linked page and it had a big list of masks

All test results disappear when the browser window isn't wide enough (eg. on mobile, or narrow PC windows).
Why is one pass one fail here?

https://www.armbrustusa.com/blogs/mask-review/kn95-powecom-f...

https://www.armbrustusa.com/blogs/mask-review/kn95-allmed-fl...

isn't the passing one worse actually?
One thing I find annoying is that they still return results that are those sites that seem to register a load of terms that all point to the same page. You see this with telephone numbers, song lyrics etc. where the result looks like "Lyrics for Stairway to Heaven" but you click through and there is no content, just a page that says "Upload some lyrics to this song".. etc.

These sites should be heavily penalised for click-baiting and they have been doing it for years.
This is an instance of something true-by-default about media, journalism & such. What you see, read or hear is a story. A story told by a journalist or producer.

It might be plants. It might be selective editing, with certain interviews making the cut... possibly a minority from a wide selection. The choice of question. The choice of location. Etc. It's just generally true that these are stories contrived by someone.

We know this intellectually, but seeing and hearing still tends to beat our skepticism. Reality TV is, to me, the perfect example of this. Even though everyone knows reality TV is fake, we usually "forget" that a conversation between 2 people is taking place in front of a cameraman. That is, we don't really forget, but we also don't interpret the conversation as we would if we actually saw the cameraman.
Erlang/OTP Profiling: Fprof
Not to take sides here, but China is big and saying "Chinese culture" is a bit like "European culture". Didn't the ROC displace the native culture and languages of Tawian when they fled?

Also I would think the abolisment of imperal rule and a lot of imperial culture is one of the very few things KMT and CCP can agree on.
VSCode is clearly a threat as any large firm market dumping is to any company. But JetBrains have seen off free competitors many times before. They matured in an environment where the go-to IDE was Eclipse, also free, also funded by a behemoth.

The thing is that without profits to justify continued investment, executives at firms like Microsoft or IBM eventually get bored of old projects and quietly defund them. JetBrains seems to try to limit the number of free-for-browny-points projects it runs. There are some, most notably Kotlin, but by and large cool but expensive-to-develop new features are things you pay for, e.g. Code With Me.

That gives JB sticking power. Also, Java/JVM has been a good platform for them over the years. The tools they're using are fundamentally well designed and it shows. Classical Visual Studio got knocked out of the race a long time ago, partly because it was written in C++ and failed to make the jump beyond 32 bit Windows. It took forever to go to 64 bit and never made it to non-Windows platforms. The JVM largely abstracted JetBrains from both transitions (albeit in recent times they've had to become co-maintainers of Swing), allowing them to focus on just adding features. And Java's general features and robustness compared to HTML5/JS mean they can ship features and improvements at an incredible pace.

They have historically also dogfooded their own philosophy. IDEA was never rewritten from scratch. It's been continuously upgraded and refactored for 20 years now. I actually worry a bit that they're losing this and becoming more "California" with efforts like Fleet and Space because those look suspiciously like large rewrites rather than incremental refactorings. Space might take off but I have grave doubts about Fleet. The way they developed Kotlin with great Java interop and even an auto-converter tool, and then started using it in IntelliJ development, is a much more JetBrainsy thing to do.
Yeah right, let's not hold our breaths thinking Europol will actually delete that data.Especially during covid [Pun not intended on a first thought, but at a second one: covid is the main scapegoat and excuse for extending the surveillance state through legal entities[i.e national ones], "semi-legal" ones like Europol, and legal(because we haven't fixed this yet) but indirect through governments buying data from companies.Much like 9/11 or even cracking down on terrorism in Europe post ~2015].

Also 4 petabytes is kind of nothing,granted you can do a lot with little to nothing when it comes to intelligence, we don't need corporation-sized exabyte oceans.
And what are these?
In the USA Deep Blue is a one nation Tory like that Nice Mr Obama :-)
When I sort by breathability (Firefox desktop) it goes 9 up to 572 for most of the list then '79.46%' then 80.2-183. The other way it goes 162 down to 9 then '79.46%' then 572 down to 80.2.
Then you are you redefining "revolution" to mean only the "socialist-marx-like" kind of revolution.
Can you just reject the call? Are you still working with your current company before the start date?
it's more of a state ideology than a style of government - I don't think fascism has any defining economic positions, for instance, except opposition to socialism.
I think you're using "fascist" when you mean "authoritarian". I.e. Communists can be "authoritarian", but absolutely cannot be "fascist".
Dutch athletes warned not to take phones, laptops to Beijing Winter Olympics
In anglosaxon world for sure.

Meanwhile in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe several countries had elective monarchies and self-government at local level :)

I highly recommend this article to people who only ever read about history of political systems through anglosaxon POV:
http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/poland-was-shockingly...
This is my take. And when thinking about it, it's rather brilliant if so. It's still painful to watch, and a bad film in every sense, but the way this was financed and got greenlit seems somehow to be a masterful rug pull. It has metal robot pokemons, freeing Neo is completely unnecessary, the new human settlement doesn't need a thing and won't fight, the soap opera low-fi slow mo fight scenes, everything seems to point to a sort of purposeful sabotage.
Very true. North and South have different food cultures, and dialects between different regions can be borderline incomprehensible to each other, just off the top of my head.
> so long as the officers can have a quantum mixture of ranks and regiments.

With that relaxation, it’s trivial, isn’t it? Just put identical officers on each square that are a mix of 1/36th of each of the 36 (rank, regiment) combinations.

They must be restricting the amount of entanglement somehow to make this an interesting result. From glancing the paper, I didn’t see what they did. Can anybody explain?

For example, is it already hard to find a solution if you disallow only that one trivial solution?
You are not supposed to keep the same mask for weeks... They are meant to be replaced after hours.
RCS seems like a downgrade for me. It's impossible for me to go back to chatting without custom emoji.

"Oh I know the perfect emoji for how I feel. Oh yeah this app only supports the cringe default emoji."
Impact value is an attempt to measure the title’s contribution to streaming revenue through signups and retention.
I was once interviewed for a national TV channel about the security of open and proprietary systems. Since I wanted to present a balanced view, I started with a disclaimer, saying that open source can not be equated with a higher level of security by itself, but then I proceeded to present a couple of arguments about the advantages of open systems, and I specifically stressed the need for crucial communications components (like SSH) to be open.

Guess what, it turned out they made a program on "how Linux is less secure than Windows" and cut out my whole interview leaving just the initial disclaimer that, taken out of context, seemed to justify their agenda. From that time on, I refused any kinds of interviews for TV.
A comprehensive guide to determining dates and times in (online) media
Man-on-the-street interviews should record the entire footage for transparency, without any cuts, for transparency, so that the audience can know which opinions were kept and which were removed.
Fairly widespread is undercutting it. It's universal practice.

People hold journalists to crazy high standards of integrity and soothsaying, and the older I get the more it boggles the mind that grown adults still cling on to this.

Journalists work for private corporations who write things for a target audience to make money. That's all there is to it.
> At what point do you consider a frontend framework essential and not just a feature?

Browser computer games come to mind, it's really difficult to do them without writing tons of JS. and when you are forced to write tons of JS it's better to use a framework.
However, a mostly content based website (which is most of the web) doesn't really need a lot of JS so doesn't need a framework.
Bitcoin does this with the Lightning Network.
Cool! I made a solver myself, yesterday. For every move, it ranks each legal word based on how much information that word will gain. It figures this out by trying all possible solutions that are still compatible with the information acquired so far. The word that gives the biggest reduction (worst case) in size of candidate solution pool, is the chosen word.

For yesterday's word, it yielded the following sequence of guesses: AESIR, DROPT, ABCEE, QUERY!

Most useful for us humans is that AESIR seems to be the best starting word.

Here is my java source code for this solver: https://pastebin.com/k1tTCyUR
A bit obfuscated by some necessary optimziations.
RX 6500 XT is bad all around, from 64-bit memory interface to PCIE x4
Yeah when I read the title of this article my first thought was 'isnt that a thing, why is it news'. Then I realised that its not very common and I was just thinking of the book/TV show!
You can do some really cool cryptography if you assume your adversary has limited space. Examples include non-transferable signatures and streaming programs that stop functioning when the stream stops (repugnant as a DRM but neat as a concept)

https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/406
Up to a handful of years ago police data was still mostly stored in CD's in a first world country like Italy (it was a fun lecture during a Computer Security in class where we had a few sessions with court experts about procedure).

It wouldn't surprise me that there are archive rooms lost to memory somewhere in Europol/Interpol full of CD's of data.
Rider hardly matters to Windows development as it can only do a subset of Windows development is all about.

As for Java, Red-Hat and Microsoft are the ones integrating Eclipse into VSCode.

In what concerns Kotlin, the child's future is pretty much dependent on JetBrains/Google marriage happiness.
I agree with your experience - to me it also seems I used to enter a search phrase and get back a page of results that exactly match it, these days, I often get things that only vaguely thematically relate to my search phrase instead. Sometimes I would change a word in my search phrase or add an extra word to make the intent much more specific and still get essentially the same search results!!! Terrible, just terrible.
> The aftermath of the French Revolution was botched so badly that France got Napoleon.

That is fascinating choice of "worst thing to happen after French Revolution" thing. The regime after it was serious literal dictatorships, afaik there was no serious attempt for democracy.
> That's the entire claim Twitter is making! Nothing about speech!

Two of the three paragraphs are about speech. Including the first one.

First, while the burden of establishing fair use is “always” on the putative infringer in a copyright action, this is not a copyright action. It is pre-suit discovery being sought from Twitter about one of its users. A platform’s ability to assert the First Amendment’s protections on behalf of its anonymous users is well-established and is not diminished upon mention of copyright. And as a matter of policy, a platform must be permitted to raise fair use on behalf of its users to protect continued creative fair use on that platform and to prevent copyright law from being weaponized to suppress and censor speech critical of a public figure.

Sounds like speech to me. (And of course, it is, because the virtual nature of Twitter allows them to make arguments that presence and interactions is speech, whereas if there was a store selling this content and they knew who he was because he came into the store to sell it to them, they wouldn't be able to).
And how woefully undereducated and uninformed - or willfully ignorant (maybe even dumb) - a large percentage of the population is.
That's deplorable and disgusting. Join up for a myriad of reasons and brace yourself to maybe die in a war but to also have to worry about being raped... just terrible.
That's a preimage attack. For example, the entire bitcoin network today needs something on the order of a trillion years for a preimage attack on MD5, multiply by another trillion for a SHA1 preimage attack.
This is the single best comment I have ever read on HN.

Of course you won't see it glorified by HN folk, cause they're entirely elsewhere vibrationally. Too busy complaining. "Well, someone has to complain! Someone has to keep others accountable!" they cry. May be true, maybe not, but when all we do is complain, nothing gets done. Not for lack of effort and busyness, but for lack of faith and goodwill.
"All in the name of business"? You mean "all in the name of government". It's the EU government forcing companies to waste money and harm the environment.