skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is that what you consider "slavery"?

Yes, because a citizen is forcible removed from his native country. And because he can get much more severe punishment that we would get in his own country.

Let's say someone from country A uses a stoled credit card which is punished with 1 year of prison in A and 5 years of prison in B. Also (what a careless mistake), he speaks ill of the Queen and the Party which is not a crime in A, but is punished with 5 years of prison in B.

If he is prosecuted in A, he gets 1 year of prison. If he gets extradited he gets 10 years of prison and gets a punishment for a deed that is not a crime in his own country. How can this be fair? The laws of his country guaranteed that he would be free one year later and that he could speak ill of Queen.

Let's say country A has treaties with 50 other countries. This means that now citizens of A must learn laws of all those countries in order not to break them.

if you think that extradition is fair, would you agree to extradite people to countries like China, Russia or North Korea?
This.

I found old save games still shared via Dropbox or Google docs that work 7-8 years later.

The combinations I see in other comments are not going to survive that long.
I'm just posting this here because this is a live stream which the YouTube algorithm recommended me on their landing page.

It is not the first time this has happened.
Helps me understand why the FAA was so against 5g.
Since covid is a highly transmissible disease, if you pursue a zero covid policy while not being an island, you're in for never ending pain.
Teacher assistants or graduate assistants have been unionized at UIC [1]. I have noticed that they have gone on strike a few times. Unfortunately anything you are hopeful of achieving doesn't seem to have changed at all.

The best choice of my life was not going back to school. I think I might do it through my employer but at this point I just do machine learning as a hobby.

The problem with grad school in general is the fact that other than being a
gerontocracy is that the optimal strategy for scientific research requires more failures than successes and getting tenure becomes more and more difficult because other than people living longer you don't need more professors instead you just need more TAs / GAs to teach people and educate people to get the people to keep the system working.

Right now Mathematics (specifically Calculus) makes money for a college and or university in contrast to psychology, philosophy and other humanities don't. If this was automated then Mathematics will have less and less professors and or grad students so if the current trends continue then we will probably only see computer science professors dominating universities.

[1] https://uic-geo.net/mainsite/
What nonsense. Have you actually been a PhD student recently? The peers you’re “competing” with usually aren’t even at the same institution; and even then there’s a lot more cross-institution collaboration than there is competition.

Also this view of doing research as competition is absolute garbage. Yes, competing to produce good research is good. No, advisors exploiting cheap PhD labour to do that is not good. The latter is what unions are meant to prevent.
I saw something similar on a pretty obscure spanish forum. They added a sub called /anarchy/, where everyone could edit the CSS and some parts of the page.

It was pretty cool but then someone started to spam anime or music.
>cottagecore

Nah it got this almost exactly wrong. Cottage core is a warm welcoming aesthetic that usually involves spring or fall motifs. Those pictures have a courage the cowardly dog spookiness. I think they're really cool illustrations. But as an illustrator, if that's what I delivered for that prompt I wouldn't expect to be paid well.

That said, cottagecore is more of a fashion thing than an illustration thing, so my guess is the issue here is just the training data.
As someone who just finished their PhD, I fear these unionization efforts will have the exact opposite effect that the students are aiming for. In particular, many universities provide subsidized housing in some of the most expensive places in the US. Housing is not a bargainable. The direct consequence is that universities will kick graduate students out of the housing, replace them with undergrad students to pay for the 10% wage increase. So the grad students get the 10% raise with a 50% housing increase. Grad students really are not in a position to bargain for much as they work 20 hours to earn their salaries which is most often teaching. They can easily be replaced with a lecturer whose full time equivalent already matches PhD stipends at this tier of universities. At least the last time I saw the numbers. Furthermore, who wants to lose a year of PhD when they already take so long to complete? Striking would really lower your lifetime earnings by delaying your real earnings another year. Furthermore, many other union benefits are moot in the PhD setting. Grievances with your supervisor are irrelevant because you're supervisor cannot be replaced. Or, again, the pain of replacement is burdened by the student.

The democratic process is the democratic process and so I respect their decision but grad students unionizing is really more complex than the workforce. In particular, the union is turning over every 5-8 years. It is quite possible no one wants the union after those who voted it in and don't have a choice not to join. Your PhD is defined by your advisor and my #1 advice to future PhD students is to pick your school based on advisor before location and other things. What this means is that your choice to "join" the union is incredibly overshadowed by external forces.

Again, as someone who went through this very recently, the problem is the power imbalance between the institution and the students. They have complete control over your supply of labor. That is, many (all?) US universities usually have the policy "any outside job is considered incompatible with full time PhD work and grounds for removal from the program". To me, forcing universities to pay students their prevailing market rate would solve all these issues. The first step towards this would be a cultural shift that allows part time PhD and moving towards PhD students being employees and not students. This would require a massive change to the F1 visas to allow international students to work which really pinpoints the root cause of all of this. PhD students are really in this strange limbo of being neither a student nor an employee. This limbo allows the university to use whichever definition fits their prerogative just like the NCAA. For instance, PhD students want more pay but the university decreases tuition assistance, nothing has changed.
They learned, and now there's the "back button breaker", it shows another spam page when clicking the back button.
Could be - and that may be a better outcome than the waves of infections that the rest of us will suffer for the next decades.
This is probably one of the silliest/pretentious comments I've read on HN in a while.

> But the point remains that art cannot be judged out of context.

What?? Of course it can.

> When you go into a museum you trust the curator that what you are seeing has a meaning that goes beyond that

My partner a curator for a medium sized exhibit. Not everything is some pretentious, contextful piece of art. Some are just chosen because they'll look nice and attract the general public.

> it is almost as much about the person who arranged the event as it is about the artists themselves.

My wife rolled her eyes at this point when I read it out. Does the layout and collection matter? Sure. Does anyone care about who was the curator? Not 99 percent of people. Please stop pretending art museums are something mystical and let people here pretend about judging AI art in a fictional museum.

Thanks for the laughs, though
> It's gonna simultaneously trigger and require the economic destruction of a huge amount of office real estate investments to enable the change to remote work to become the majority.

Baring in mind this could be worse than 2008. It's not going to be pretty and workers will ultimately feel the brunt.
Well, that was a lovely read, I’m off to the soda fountain for a salad then, I guess.
A similar type of information is already recorded by the compiler for async functions to figure out how large their frames must be. So the proposed change would change the size of some frames but otherwise do nothing to most code.
As a Chinese, I can say that the situation is worse than it in the article. My brother is a student who lives in a flat and has not eaten for two days and no one has brought basic substances. He can't leave the flat, he turns to his tutor but his tutor is also forced to stay at home (eating instant noodles every day). We are worried about him but there is nothing we can do, if we criticise the government on chinese Twitter we will be arrested by the police. ಥ_ಥ
I agree. Just be careful not to call it "trickle down" because it's a trigger word for people. For example, who cares if a billionaire buys a yacht--the building of said yacht employed dozens of craftsmen, caused thousands of supply chain orders, and will support hundreds more in maintenance over time. Also, for luxury goods you can be sure that the margins at each step are quite healthy.

The real problem would be if the people making all this money just hoard it which often happens. The only way that gives back is by providing bigger balance sheets for banks to lend out more money which has a miniscule effect.
> Parenting is not the kind of thing where you exchange your labor for money.

Historically, that really is a big component of parenting. More children meant more money through additional hands being available to work the farm, etc.
Have you seen the new variation of this abomination? Now it shows another spam page after the user clicks the back button. There's no "intent" anymore, just a user trying to leave and getting a new spam.
The merits of putting 16 million people under indefinite house arrest in tiny apartments, depriving them of fresh air, exercise, real social interaction, medical care, access to food, etc?

I'm not sure if you understand just how deeply sociopathic and disturbed you come across.
> I'd really change country if my country had a Chinese approach to virus containment

No you wouldn't. You'd be locked down in your apartment. Also, your social rating would not permit you to use means of transportation.
This has nothing to do with sex or being born, it is the normal age where children learn they aren’t the center of the universe. That is what is stressful for them… the idea of independence is scary.

There are other childhood development phases such as edge detection physics that make parents bonkers. How many times do we have to pick up spoons from the floor before they just understand that stuff always crashes to the floor when knocked off a high chair?
I read “there are a lot of tractors that go into milk”
No, extradition is unfair. Let's say someone did X, Y and Z where X is punishable in both countries, and Y and Z is only punishable in USA. If he stays in his country, he gets a punishment only for X, but if extradited to USA, he gets a punishment for Y and Z also. Although his country's laws allowed him to do Y and Z.
> 2x memory looks like a naive implementation of just allocating an std::string from heap for each line. Due to heap fragmentation and various overhead it would quickly blow up.

Looks more line Qt's internal UTF-16 encoding in this case.
Some people are troubled for it because they hone in on sense of guilt, including for being unhappy. Or they think their unhappiness reflects a moral failure of some kind. Religion at the very least incentivizes reporting happiness. It can offer a sense of community as well which can otherwise be lacking.

For my part, none of the dogma did anything for me, but I felt as though it provides an imperative to be content with one's lot, i.e. if you know what's good for you, accept what may come, because x or y is in accordance with God's will etc. In contrast to eastern (or pseudo-eastern) thought which would short-hand to "accept what may come because that is the path to happiness".

I think some people need more comfort, and need to be told what to do and what will be in absolute terms, so religion can tickle the wires just right. Among the paths to peace of mind however, I also think it comes with the most potential consequences.
I've got my own blog in my .com homepage I do it for myself, writing stuff that I dont want to forget, or things that I do which I find amusing (like an arduino door controller for my cat).

I would never think about sharing it proactively, specifically here on HN , as I'm very shy and HN crowd would destroy it with criticism . But I found it liberating to write that sort of stuff, as small as it is, somewhere.
Assuming no hospitalization and no long covid this is the desired endpoint of the epidemic. Ya get it, not much changes, and you get over it. Just like colds and flu. It disappears when the naive population is too small and reappears when mutation occurs or resistance wears out.
Funnily enough I don’t recall mass suicide videos from any other city on earth?
Hong Kong have 1.1 million reported cases while the whole China have only 160K. Yes it is totally believable
My point is that the only way for China to contain Omicron is to increase lockdown measures to the point that many people are dying due to lack of food and healthcare. The alternative is to abandon CovidZero policies completely and go the path of heard immunity. And in China you are not allowed to express those facts, because it means the leaders were wrong to promote CovidZero.
The author writes well in English but it is clear English isn't their first language, it's entirely likely they were just using a term they've heard a few times and thought was right and weren't trying to dogwhistle (not sure what they would be dogwhistling even if they were)
Strange then that the states with laxer gun laws have more homicides.
Gotta protect the public from this sort of dangerous activity:

https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/xi-winnie-rainbow-fart
2020: missing / human trafficking in China is ~1million per year
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/human-trafficking-0209202...

2000: ~ 40million unregistered woman in china
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830941/
When I was implementing rclone which implements a lot of rsync's functionality but for cloud storage, I deliberately didn't copy the trailing slash feature.

This annoys people who know rsync well, but newbies are very happy with it!

Even though I know rsync extremely well I am super careful with this. Test first with `--dry-run`!
I forgot which numbers I saw, but yeah their overall rate is high. The problem is that so many of the remaining unvaccinated are elderly, so if they start getting sick they’ll get it bad and overload the system.
Video game companies are now hiring economists:

"Game maker Valve appoints in-house video games economist"
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18456171
It doesn't work that way. Covid will always find its way in China since it's not a locked down island, so the pain from a zero covid policy won't be short lived at all. And that's not considering hard to track pockets of the virus within the country.
Sometimes blog articles are simply a good way to document things you don’t want to forget, with hope also that you might save other people a little bit of their time getting over some technical hurdle.

For almost 20 years I combined blogging with writing the occasional book for conventional publishers (McGraw-Hill, J.Riley, Soringer-Verlag, etc.). This worked out well for me.

I then switched to a different model, using leanpub.com to write shorter books that could be easily updated with new material, dumping stale material. This makes the whole process of documenting my thought and coding experiments and sharing them to be much simpler. I am transitioning from using a restrictive Creative Commons license to an unrestrictive CC license (so my material can be reused for other purposes). My projects: https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson

All that said, I still think that blogging is a great idea. Own your own web presence and just use social media to point to your own web properties. Advantages: potential for meeting interesting people and getting interesting work.
On a cursory look at the problematic examples, this seems to be an issue with Zig’s type system. There are async functions and non-async functions, and they have the same syntax, but they have what should be different inferred types. But Zig allows pointers to both to be stored in the same array without an obviously unsafe cast, and the result doesn’t work.

ISTM this could be fixed in the type system, possibly at the cost of breaking some existing working code.
They may just be trying really hard to avoid saying "I don't know", or perhaps "It never occurred to me to try".

Emacs users aren't accustomed to getting questions they don't know the answer to, IMHO.
I’ll propose that we modify to term to be “bicycle lifecycle management “ which could probably even be turned into a cool new term like. “Bi/life-cycle Mangement”

Then such a new conception would lead to an inevitable finality that just simply dampens any latent bikeshredding tendencies
Even better was the government statement “TraceTogether is used for infection control and isolation only”.

Then a year later they used it to solve a crime. When called out on the prior statement said “oh, well, we’d only use it for serious crimes”. They then pass a bill legalizing using it for criminal investigations.
Those compilation options did not make the program abort for me nor am I getting any warnings (at least not with -Wall -Wextra), even when changing all longs to ints in the above code, in order to investigate the case when sizeof (int) == sizeof (long) == 4. Setting *seed = 4294967295 has also no effect. What am I missing?
I think this word, "magical", is more a projection than anything. I remember Xmas well, and while there was a bit of wonder surrounding Santa, it was mostly excitement at seeing extended family and, of course, presents. Xmas is just as exciting without Santa.

Having said that I'm not going to be the parent who gets in shit bc his kid tells all the other kids he isn't real.
Indeed, and success/failure may give us an indication of how much more inherently contagious Omicron actually is, versus how much of our spread has been due to vaccine evasion and restriction relaxation.
To understand that terms like mankind already refer to all humanity is a small part of it. Another part is that communication serves us in finding suitable mates and manipulation of language towards social goals is likely to have outcomes that are eventually counter to what is meaningful to us as individuals.

I'd also disagree that expanding a language carefully is what is being done here. It is unlikely towards the goal of expressing ourselves more clearly.
Since 1981, there's been an elite team of pilots training for exactly this mission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caverns_of_Mars
Exactly - quite impressive.

Our modern society has vastly better data, unimaginable completeness in scale, scope, detail, and accuracy.

Yet we are consistently making insanely worse decisions than the ones that returned 2000 years after the disaster.

That hundred-generation perspective makes the Native American's 'Consider the Seventh Generation' ethos seem myopic.

Worse yet is our society's obsession on quarterly profits and this month's competitive positioning — makes the attention span of a cloud of coked-up gnats seem positively sagacious

>>And of course, people returned to the shoreline eventually, as people in tsunami zones around the world inevitably do and apparently always have done. "Knowledge of these giant events and their consequences seems to wane over the passage of time, a common occurrence throughout the Pacific region . . . Most of the hazard assessments for coastal northern Chile are based on historical data that goes back just a few centuries, but the fault system in the region runs on a much larger temporal scale. Data about ancient quakes and tsunamis like the one that reshaped society here 3,800 years ago could offer a longer-term perspective to hazard planners."
Based in Shanghai since 2014, I can share some details on why it feels so unbearable to be here right now.

Firstly, the totalitarian government have never been good at communicating anything except propaganda. So on one hand we're inundated with "Go Shanghai!" and how brave volunteers distribute food, on the other hand, we're completely in the dark about what's going on. Goalposts are being moved daily, rumors proliferate, and things change every day, adding a lot of stress to an already suboptimal situation.

Second, I can confirm that the food situation is extremely bad. We are a family of two, and always been kind of preppers, so we had many bags of rice, pasta, dehydrated veg, frozen meats in our large fridge. Chinese society, en masse, is much more used to just ordering food daily. Many people never cook. It's cheaper this way (though of course the quality varies). Bigger families with aunties who can cook just used to pop by the local wet market daily and get a bag of fresh produce. Many households might not even have a fridge at all, or have a small one.

The government was saying that "there will be no lockdown", and when the lockdown became imminent, people barely had two days to stock up. Queues, fights, empty shelves everywhere. More stress.

A lot of people in our community do not have any food left, and we've received two government issued "rations" so far (in 12 days of lockdown): one with 5 tomatoes, and one with 3 pounds of chicken drumsticks, 3 potatoes, 1 head of cauliflower, and a bunch of rotten lettuce. If we did not stock up, we would be starving right now. We donated quite a bit of food to our neighbors already, and many people are actually very close to having no food at all. Getting a delivery is almost impossible, group orders organized by compounds are often ridiculously overpriced, and not always work out. Scams are emerging.

Thirdly, I understand the author's frustration with the guards ("baoan"). Those people never had any formal power, but now they "run things" and, for many, the newly obtained power went to their heads. Violence and abuse is abound. We have PCR tests every 1-2 days, sometimes at 6am, some compounds at 3am. People dragged from their beds and forced to stand in queues.

How would you respond to all that?

Yes, it has some potential to save lives, but if it was communicated better, if we had more time to prepare, and they could still run food deliveries, nobody would complain that much. It's terribly mismanaged, and even after we "open up", I will strongly reconsider staying here. Omicron will return, and I do not want to be here for the next (and next, and next) lockdown.
Could radar instruments like SHARAD or MARSIS be used to detect and map potential caves?
Personal Blogging is one of the few remaining bastions of the old 90s web. When people put stuff in the web for fun, to share and without any ulterior motive.

My blog doesn't have ads /monetization and never will. I also dont care if anyone reads it or not .

We should bring back a web-ring of non-monetized personal sites haha.
A goal to get people into government service? Yes. A goal to enable regulatory capture? Definitely not.