skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * ... GDP shrinks to 0.4% in Q2 2022 ...

GDP growth

> Massive mortgage boycott.

Probably won't be as bad as 2008.

> The 1 billion people data leak has some experts analyzing the data ...

Link please?

> Chinese firms are still selling Russia good its military needs

What do you expect? China does not sanction Russia. And USA is hard pushing China in all China's surrounding areas: Taiwan, South China Sea, Xinjiang, South East Asian... Punching a cow and you'll be paled.

> incurring the wraiths of normal folks in Europe and other allied countries.

"Wraiths"? Can we first see the wraith be unleashed onto the Russian troops in Ukraine, which supposes to incur even more "wraiths"...

> Zero covid practice still going on, with tons of public discontent. There are videos of the people waiting in line to test in the pouring rain and huge wind!

You can measure how anger the US public is towards their covid policy, vs Chinese public's reaction. ANY public policy is going to err some people, especially in a country with close to 5 times the population of USA.

> * Zeihan gaining more popularity, which implies that people do believe that China is crashing. Foreign investors and companies are pulling out in record numbers

Who/what is Zeihan?

> * public sector employees taking 30% salary cuts

Err... Link please...
In the olden DOS days, we used stuff like Allegro to make games that used the framebuffer.
I use Tiny Core Linux in framebuffer mode every day. Ali G. Rudi's framebuffer tools were a huge inspiration: https://litcave.rudi.ir/

I've also been curious about fbui (in-kernel windowing system). Not sure how well it works with current kernels, though: https://github.com/8l/fbui

Having really modest needs, I even made an effort to use FreeDOS for essential tasks (writing, PDFs, some scripting), but gave up quickly as I cannot live without a good PDF pager or (for some tasks) soundcard support. I also had trouble with constant fan noise on DOS (you'll need some hacks to maybe get around this). It is still mind blowing how fast FreeDOS (or e.g. the even more barebones SvarDOS) boots. It took literally about 2 seconds to greet myself with the good old "C:\>".

Also, it is a system that fits inside the head of even an ordinary person. This is really refreshing these days.
Passing through Montreal and Quebec City at 27' of depth in the dead of night (challenging for a Yasen at 32' draft but possibly some freak condition might make it possible) a few drunks watching in awe as it slides silently under bridges. River patrol craft carefully edging out of the way (a tearful salute offered to brave comrades, perhaps a lifted glass of Vodka or a gentle pat on the wallet to acknowledge regular payment). Other patrol craft can be seen lying idle by the side of the water due to their crew celebrating "arranged" events, or being "taken out" by the KGB (or whatever they've taken to calling themselves now).

Now it runs through Lake Ontario and spends a day lolling in the deep cold waters there before night falls once more and enters the Nigara river (oh shit, you see where this is going) and starts the run through Nigara City.

At full speed the most daring Naval maneuver of all time is about to be attempted. Now, finally, the true value of the Yansen class will be revealed as two vast titanium wings snap out from under the hull and the super-cavitating bubble generator is deployed. The hidden rocket engines on the rear of the boat ignite. The submarine fills with the stench of human excrement as the whole crew void their bowels in unison and the Russian sub leaps from the water in front of Nigara falls and..

oh I give up.

Just when HN seemed to have settled into semi-intelligent tech talk we get this.

Sheeech
Tried everything. Zooming in, out, tap, swipe, just at the right spot, everywhere around etc.

Doesn't seem to work in iOS 15.5 Safari .
Rings true. They wrap their ideas into "joke-y" memes to test the waters.
Like free speech, people abused communication channels, personal gain is OK but people quickly learned that this is done on their expense, be it their work's credit being stolen (or not fairly shared) or un-proportional recognition is being given for something.

As an example, I used to take part of many Hackathons, as a coder-hacker I loved the social aspect, the inventive work, the crunch mode, the competitiveness..
But some years ago, these events became a competition for some "big heads" judges wanting a "startup worthy business idea" which turned these hackathons into a competition of "PowerPoint engineers".. People would not write a single line of code (best case use some one-pager SaaS generator) and win events..

Anyway, this is part of a bigger culture issue, as a developer I came to look down on non-coder "suites" and their credit taking, "center stage" egos..
It's even more absurd than the idea that nations would curb their CO2 emissions (beyond token gestures) to stave off climate change.
When I saw Roboshark I had to check that this wasn't posted on April 1.
You should read about the political history of South Korea before making the claim that Korea was democractic (yes you hedged with "on paper" but that is meaningless).
> because community vaccine uptake wasn't as high as it needed to be to really stamp out the disease...

No, that's never going to happen, and never was going to happen. Even the FDA presenters to VRBPAC (Peter Marks? Can't remember exactly) admit it. That's even without spillover and spillback between humans, deer, cats, etc. This type of virus is absolutely not a candidate for eradication, even the most optimistic predictions from before the pandemic would have required the periodic stamping out of spillover related outbreaks across the world for the foreseeable future.
Why not copy the design of Flutter?

Why reinvent the wheel?
Looks interesting. Does it have to be an open source project? I have written a Hacker News reader macOS app. So I am wondering if my app is eligible.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/hackit/id1549557075?mt=12
> follows a three-year joint effort by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to put crisis care more in reach for people in need. This initiative is part of President Biden’s comprehensive strategy to address our nation’s mental health crisis

Three years ago Trump was in office. Why does everything in U.S. politics has to be so stupid?
> Yes, of course, but not by 1744.

There are more forests now in France and some other places in western Europe than there were in the 13th century.
"selling out" seems to be cheap criticism done for the sake of it (similar to what we today call "cancel culture")

Yes, I'd like to get paid for my work, thanks very much.
If you have to compromise your values to allow such things, an example might be TikTok with Play Services on Graphene is possible, but you will be permanently banned shortly for not being spyable enough and failing modified ROM detection, would you want to compromise by re-adding what's basically a vulnerability if it increases userbase?
But at least you’re not selling out to big brother, only to big corp!
Maoism is for rebellion.

Mao is an icon of mass initiated political movement.
You thus saw Mao and Maoism get badmouthed universally nowadays. And you wonder why that's the case...
I'm not a fan of gatekeeping either, but on HN the proper etiquette is to give the poster the best possible reading of their post.

I just interpreted their post as talking about bigger, organized projects, instead of small scripts.

I personally draw a distinction between "codebases" and most everything else. One of the key differences is "would I start a new git repo?"

"Real projects" get a repo for sure.

It's not too diminish smaller projects. Almost all of the most useful things I've ever built were very small. But when you can grok the whole script, and you're likely to be the only user..."codebase" isn't the word I'd bust out.

I'm sure you can think of many exceptions to this. Thinking of exceptions is a good quality for programmers.

I don't think the word "real" (codebase) was a very important modifier.
Yep, IIRC the only nuclear disasters with deaths in Russia were Kyshtym and during the construction of K-320 submarine.
Data was released while Boris was resigning

> This is because another UK Government agency, known as the Office for National Statistics (ONS), has just published data on deaths by vaccination status.

> The latest dataset from the ONS is titled ‘Deaths by Vaccination Status, England, 1 January 2021 to 31 May 2022‘, and it can be accessed on the ONS site here, and downloaded here.

> In all, according to the ONS, there were 4,935 Covid-19 deaths over these two months, and the vaccinated population accounted for a shocking 4,647 of those deaths. But what’s even more shocking is that the triple vaccinated accounted for 4,216 of those deaths, with just 288 deaths recorded among the unvaccinated population.

> So there you have it, whilst you’ve been distracted by Boris Johnson’s resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the UK Government quietly published a report just hours before his announcement containing data they previously claimed they didn’t have, which confirmed the vaccinated now account for 94% of Covid-19 deaths in England, and 90% of those deaths are among the triple vaccinated.
> It's not what anyone using modern software development approaches means by a changelog.

Well, it's a good job then that this forum is cool with blurring the subtle distinctions between technical terms that have been in use for decades, and is happy to just go with whatever mainstream definition of a word has the most traction...

...on this site for news about breaking into computer systems.

/s
Pain and suffering will be part of anybodies life. Often suffering can even have a positive effect longterm. But people who want to kill themselves often see pain/suffering to an amount so great that it only makes them more miserable over time. We as a society can try to help these people, but all in all we really don't (at least where I've been).

I am convinced that a society which doesn't want to commit the resources to help the people who need help must not forbid these people to choose to kill themselves if that is the only solution they can find by themselves.
Administering death is not a treatment option society should choose, but the people themselves should be allowed to do so.

If people get good help a lot of them will choose to keep living.
Here is what the UTC-UT1 offset would have been if we'd stopped leapseconds back in 2000: https://nt4tn.net/random/UT1UTC2000.png

and here is the above with the sloped removed, e.g. if the second had been defined to match the mean solar day in those 22 years: https://nt4tn.net/random/UT1UTC2000secondfixed.png -- this cheating a bit since obviously using the slope generated from the same data is going to fit pretty well.
... who died in 1986
The problem is that in a lot of cases all they need is your agreement for your privacy to be violated - they don't need your data because it's already out there, they just need your permission to misuse it.

Not installing the apps doesn't prevent them from buying your data from various data brokers and feeding back to them.
Apparently nobody knows the difference between NEWS and CHANGELOG anymore. Maybe re-read the GNU coding Standards. https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#NEWS-File
Why do we need SSL for static blogs. Is it just that Google is pushing for everything to be HTTPS or is there a good reason that static public content needs encryption?
> With Javascript (a weakly typed language):

I'm always wary of these, because you can define that as strongly typed if it's the operation which is defined to perform the conversion internally, which IIRC is how it works in javascript.

For instance the first example will do the exact same thing in Java, because addition between a string and a non-string is defined as converting the non-string to a string then concatenating.

The second operation is not defined such in Java, but in theory you could have a universal toNumber protocol and define the addition of a non-integer and an integer as converting the non-number to a number then adding.
> How are over-leveraged developers that different from what caused the 2008 global financial crisis? The cause of the GFC was that assets were labeled as safe but were in fact unsafe.

US (and Western Europe) loans backed by residential real estate were considered "safe" by the world. Loans in China that outside parties need to work backchannels to be allowed to get into will never be considered that safe.
> Obsessed with inflatable, bursting, popping, and bouncing objects.

I wonder how long it took to figure this out.
"Really brilliant people, the kind of people that can take different ideas from different sources and synthesize them into new things, they don’t read books in this way. They just read them. If they do take notes, it’s to check something with some other source or if it’s something they want to remember."

Ah yes, let me take a note of that and remember to mimic these "really brilliant people" who all operate in one way.

I think my own view is not too far off yours, oops, but the way you wrote it as a statement of fact (which is really like 4 propositions in one) made me chuckle.
Surely the two are related?
Not sure if English is your native language, but in the US at least, a mountain lion (a.k.a puma and cougar) is never referred to as just a “lion”. A “lion” is the thing in the zoo with a big mane that sprays pee on people and appears in broadway plays and documentaries narrated by David Attenborough
Kudos for working so hard on this and keeping Wikipedia great!
It's a bit fiddly, don't just click-drag the end of the rope, hold the mouse pointer over the end until it changes.
Fair enough, though detractors would probably quibble about the “direct” part.
Didn’t mean Trump. I meant he was talking about Xi using Trump. Xi is China’s Trump afterall
They basically needed a reincarnation of Bruce Lee to play Spike.

They didn't find that person in casting.

Series failure inevitable.
I am betting $100 that the repo will stay on.
>> The 1 billion people data leak has some experts analyzing the data ...

> Link please?

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/hacker-claims-have-stole...
Some people think that early applications of quantum computing will be in the analog style, e.g., Quantum Analogue Computing <https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.2215>.
I am asking the "analyzing data" part, and the conclusion of 1.2B population.
You can recycle the glass, aluminium, lead free solder and even resurface the wafers in solar panels. They are basically 99% recyclable.
Mountain lions are not mountains either.
Which medics is that? I served in the US Army and while not a 68W I did run the 10 day medic course the Army offered and at least to the US branch, I can assure you no one is being told to try to envision surgical, prosthetic, and rehabilitation success rate ratio. Medics are masters of two things.....they can stop bleeding and keep air flowing while maintaining suppressive fire with their other hand and plan out what they want for dinner later and not miss a beat. But they don't have the same level of education as a Licensed Practical Nurse and are the last people anyone should want making that kind of call.
If you like The Arts, and remarkable results, the website of Pablo ( https://pablo.rauzy.name/ ) is a thing to behold.
> and it’s the responsibility of society to fix the failures that led to that loss of motivation.

I kind of agree with this statement, but there is not a lot of places where there is significant effort spend to help people who have big problems (especially in the US).
I think you meant WAS more innovative because it was opening up AND was becoming less dependent on central planning. Then Xi came along and single-handedly ruined nearly everything including the One China Two Systems policy that was carefully laid out by Deng Xiaoping.

Imo as you've mentioned if a leader like Xi, a Mao regressionist, didn’t take power and instead someone like Jiang Zemin took it, China would have likely passed the US in innovation by now.
That's different. You were learning from first principles, using the lowest level primitives, and how putting them together made it possible to do an almost infinite number of things. That is powerful and intoxicating.

With Scratch you are given a limited set of blocks that are designed for a limited set of solutions. It is at the same time not particularly powerful nor does it feel like you can grow your solutions to anything you have in mind.

I have three kids and have taught (or attempted to teach) each of them programming. I started with Scratch every time, but it never piqued their interest, although they understood it. I have since started them on Javascript from the very basics (Khan academy) and they are very curious about each new lesson and the weird powers it brings. YMMV but people should not assume Scratch or Mindstorms and so on are necessarily better learning environments, just because they are 'friendly' - it can be quite the contrary.
> I am specifically using a throwaway account because this guy is relentless. He seeks to destroy lives of those who are seen to have crossed him.

Isn’t your opening paragraph enough to trace to you? Might want to remove the reference to you talking with the author on that article.
This feels to me a bit like laundered eugenics.
While the parent post here is (I hope) a joke, the reply here is beautifully written and now I want a full length story of how this could happen.
I think the combination, especially in AI systems where accuracy doesn't need to be perfect and can be modeled in analog, can perfectly comeback.

i.e. If some circuitry is interfacing with an analog counterpart where 16-bit precision is enough at the digital side and the analog circuit can produce outputs matching that accuracy much more efficiently than digital while still being able to be adjusted externally by the digital, why not?

I think it can open up some new doors in AI, though what excites me is that what else other than AI could it be applied to? Circuit simulations? Signal generation? Perhaps some analog "programming languages"?
> CCP can't really do that for houses that are not built.

Assuming there was political will, there's no reason the CCP couldn't do that for houses not yet built. By definition toxic debt is larger than whatever the collateral is.
"need to be placed somewhere free from being trolled or fished"

I think that's meant to be trawled not trolled
https://superuser.com/questions/1013630/why-does-qatar-use-a...
Or even better, it should be the latter during development and the former in the released version.

You don't want your released game to crash in level 11 if the player happens to look behind the wrong lightpole because a texture is missing, but you do want to notice that in development.
More and more very advanced projects by these celeb leaders emerge and suddenly beginners feel they are noobs after a year of scratching.
> Weird logic. I don't follow.

There's no indication that the manufacturing capacity could be taken over by a south-eastern asian country. If they could do so, why is it not done today, rather than in the future (when china loses their manufacturing capacity)?
> ... and its maintenance cost is huge ...

Would you mind expanding on this a little?
BI is affordable. Top economists have done the numbers. The people telling you we can't afford it are millionaires hired by billionaires to keep the status quo going. The top tax bracket is currently 35% - and very few actually pay anything like that. Tax the rich.

The argument that people would stop working and being productive if not under the threat of starvation has been debunked over and over and over again. The people telling you the threat of death is necessary for the economy are millionaires hired by billionaires to keep the status quo going.

Most of the "free money" America gives out is to the extraordinarily wealthy. Billionaires getting tax breaks, paying virtually nothing or even getting their money back. This is while children are going hungry, and millions are suffering from simple and treatable conditions. You speak candidly of people being forced to join the military for a chance at a better life, but it doesn't seem to all quite connect and join up in your worldview.

There are very few countries where is it seen as normal to have to join the military for "food, clothing, shelter, income, insurance, etc". And no other country's military is nearly so "active" and well funded. It cannot be overstated just how stunning the difference is between how the US perceives our military's actions, and how the rest of the world sees them. The reason for that - once again - is that millionaires are hired by billionaires to create that false narrative.

> ...we live in the age of the autodidact thanks to the internet. Anyone that can't be bothered to take half an hour a day to educate themselves doesn't want or need help. I left my job in automation right after the recession and since all that had happened I decided to learn how the economy works, how the dollar works, what the Fed is and how it works, how it applies geo-politically, ect. It's why nowadays I sit at home in my boxers and trade the markets while also having a second portfolio that is more passive and functions best if left alone.

Is this a blunt parody of privilege? Am I getting Poe's Law-ed? I'm glad you're alright, Jack, but telling society to just join the Army and use the internet to beat the market in their boxers strikes me as staggeringly callous and disconnected. Please, please tell me that was humor.
Missing these abstract features mean lower barrier to entry, so good for kids
The serial interval of the virus is so fast that there's no way the T-cells and B-cells can keep up. Some sort of nasal vaccine could reduce infection for a few months but as far as I can tell it's impossible to make a long lasting (years) coronavirus vaccine that can prevent infection. Serial interval is too fast, antibodies wane too fast, your immune system is too slow. I could see a gene therapy/retrovirus thing that hijacks some cells permanently to produce antigens (or make it smarter and somewhat regulating like an HIV infection, if HIV is forever this could be too) so it's like getting vaccinated every minute of every hour of every day, forever. Alternatively, you could produce genetically engineered B-cells in the lab and inject them into people ('s bone marrow?) to constantly produce a very high dose cocktail of broadly neutralizing antibodies. Completely infeasible, too expensive, won't scale. Might work. None of these ideas would be approved for the general public in at least 25 years.
nm analog devices, onboard optics, AI

Let’s start with something easier e.g. brightness/contrast knobs.
Shame on everyone down-voting this.

These are real grievances that real people have about nuclear, and silencing those people and the questions they raise does great harm to a potentially nuclear-powered future.
Same here.. esp. in server based code it makes no sense to not fail early, even on the slightest issues. If you have proper logging / notifications, you'll code be more robust.

Had to deal with the same issue as you.. other devs and managers don't like those errors.. but it makes things fragile and more difficult to troubleshoot.
> Russian generals were greeted with precision strikes upon arrival in Ukraine. If they can't keep their sh*t secret from Ukraine, how could they hope to keep a nuclear launch order secret from the US?

It's worth noting that the targeting information for these strikes came from the US.[0]

Officials in the Biden administration first boasted about the role of US intelligence in these strikes, but the administration then decided that acknowledging US involvement in strikes on Russian generals is unwise.[1]

0. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/politics/russia-genera...

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/us/politics/biden-lend-le...