skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is about prospects of war between the US and China. According to official US policy, which is the One China policy, Taiwan and mainland China are the same country, and any disputes between the mainland and Taiwan is an intra-chinese dispute, not a dispute between two separate countries, and not anything that involves the U.S. at all.

Now if, for some reason, Taiwan declares independence, then it will be up to other nations to recognize that declaration of independence or not. But that has not happened.

Let me ask you, did you recognize the independence of Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, South Ossetia, Kurdish Republic in Iraq, or The Republic of Tigray? Each of these had de facto control -- they have their own police, flag, they control their territory, etc. Some even have oil. These actually declared independence whereas Taiwan never did.

But you will respond, other nations didn't recognize their independence, to which I will ask, who recognizes Taiwanese independence? Not even Taiwan. So what we have here is the phenomenon of a "breakaway region". That is, territory in one nation that is not under the control of the central government, but under local control in that territory, but which no one recognizes as an independent nation. There are many such breakaway regions in the world. Usually the central government tries to conquer the breakaway region, and sometimes it fails. This is generally not considered an "invasion".

Do you think it was an invasion when Georgia tried to reconquer South Ossetia, or when Ukraine attacked the DNR and LPR or when Ethiopia attacked Tigray? Or did you view that as an internal matter, of putting down a rebellious breakaway region? Think carefully before you answer, as we are looking for consistency. What about Serbia and the province of Kosovo? Moldova and Transnistria?

It does seem like there is a whole lot of cherry picking going on here, where if there is an enemy of the U.S. fighting a breakaway region, then we have to honor the bold independence movement, but when there is a friend of the US fighting a breakaway republic, then we condemn the evil separatists. In both cases, the US ends up fighting on one side of what is really a civil war we have no business involving ourselves in, and because we choose sides purely based on friend/enemy distinctions and not according to any consistent principles, it sure looks a lot like more international meddling.

Therefore I reject any moral impetus that forces the US to get itself involved in trying to support or oppose separatist movements half way around the world, or to pick sides in civil wars. We lack the military capability, we lack popular support, and we need to stop adopting these self-destructive and globally destructive policies.
Exactly. In one of the parenting books I read it stated that we are inviting our child into our life, not the other way around.

We already know what happens when parents make their children a priority over everything else. I still plan to love my wife in 50 years and make friends I can invest in along the way, because one day my kid will be grown up and out on their own adventures.
> Huh

Before you let that cynicism build up too much, for the record, not all of us Elon+Twitter skeptics have a problem with the $8 thing. You're just not going to hear from any one who didn't have an issue with it.

Related: Is there a quippy term or a fallacy for the (very natural!) habit of treating a random sample of a million voices and expecting a coherent message from them? I feel like it's related but distinct from a strawman.
“If you're explaining, you're losing.”

I'm a big fan of federated/decentralized protocols, but these kinds of posts show Mastodon isn't quite there yet.
> Ethernet has no flow control

Isn't this what pause frames and Pfc are for? (Honest question)
Only in the tech world will this be popular. The system is not friendly for people want a simple experience.
This is a company that takes pride in the fact that during their early days, they had to use shoddy desks made out of doors[1], so this comes as no surprise to me.

[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/how-a-door-became...
What's most exciting and optimistic to me about all this hullabaloo is that people are organically starting to make a move back to a more-decentralized web (decentralized in the original, 90s internet sense). What's cool is it's happening 100% organically and independent of technology. I love the idea of different "corners" of the internet becoming more of a thing again. We need more diversity of thought, not less, and this move (however small) makes it more likely, not less.
I use jj and jk to escape insert mode just fine...
Yeah, yet another reason for me to switch from ElasticSearch—I need a stemmer that understands symbols (and also can distinguish English from function names and not try to inflect the latter).
I remember my first "real" science experiment in school. We determined the saturation point of salt in water depending on temperature. Our teacher somehow managed to get us into a spirit where it was as if we were the first people to attempt to measure this. Nature would reveal its secrets to us!

It was just about the perfect experiment for 11 year olds, probably. We could understand what we were trying to find out and it seemed something that might actually be worth knowing! At the end of the class, would our measurements correspond with the figures in the book? If not, why might they not? And the Bunsen burner gets to come out, too! Very exciting. I think it might have been the first time I realized, oh, I could actually determine this myself, if I had to, using a scientific approach.
And in fact finding the midpoint is not possible half the time in the space we're interested in (https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=33497270). So what is the algebraic structure that underlies the binary-search algorithm, since evidently it isn't really the torsor of a group?
Curious what anyone thinks of this tactical assessment:

> tlear 19 days ago | parent | context | un‑favorite | on: Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown

> [China can't retake Taiwan], not even remotely close any time in the next 20 years at least. Can you imagine what a landing beach would look like being pounded by drone spotted artillery? See war in Ukraine. Forget the approach, anti ship missiles, mines, sheer volume of logistics needed. Stepping on the landing beach is a suicide without absolutely astronomical advantage in air power and ability to suffer huge attrition, even then.. 155mm hidden under camo/thermal nets, DJI drone rigged with magazines of small bombs.. Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson Childs play, this would make Diep and Galipoli look like walk in the park.

> I would go as far as to say that US Army + Marines + Navy could not land on Taiwan without suffering multiple brigades of attrition AFTER at least a year long blockade and air campaign. It is that hard.

> PRC has to surpass US in GDP, then spend 10-20 years of US level military spending, then maybe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248946
So maybe 36 out of 3700?
Man, if this is the end of social media, then it can’t come too soon.
> it's a disagreement about the focus

So what would you like to focus on instead?
Uh... Why?
Before it was about freedom of speech for private corporations to control their platforms however they wanted.

Now it’s all about rules and regulations.

Huh
To me he sounds like a pedophile who can't dive but to each their own I guess.
If you're considering Mastodon, you might want to instead use Pleroma (https://pleroma.social/) which provides access to Mastodon instances but is less demanding of computing resources, and easier to create your own instance (if you choose to go that route) as it has fewer dependencies.
I hear you.

It would be cool if someone rewrote it with a Crystal framework. Although there are limitations to this because it's faster than Ruby and similar to Ruby but not completely like Ruby.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33398253
> based on a metric of the number of lines of code they wrote

You complain about comment quality and then fall for that level of fake news? Congratulations, you found the problem.
Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place but whenever this is posted I’m always surprised there’s no deb package.
The "issue" of ballot exhaustion is super overblown and preys on people's misunderstandings of instant runoff voting. If you vote for, say, the green party candidate in major American election, your vote is effectively immediately "exhausted" since they will not have even a tenth of the votes of a major party candidate.

FPTP encourages people to metagame who they think is "viable" which is really difficult in unpolled local elections and contrary to people voting who they would actually like to win.
These things tend to correlate. If A is laying off, I can do so as well without taking a too much PR flack and/or singling our firm out as one navigating firm-specific uncertain market conditions.
I have it from a good friend that this is bullshit
The article described it very poorly, but the actual study at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481923/ explains it well:

> Nine mice were randomly assigned to one of three groups: negative control (testosterone), experimental (testosterone + MnMNP), and positive control (testosterone + minoxidil).
Why should those two things have any relationship?
We paid of course (would be a bad look if we didn't being an open source company). Worth the small cost for an opinionated look.
People can read into it whatever they want. I was just stating a fact.

Personally I’m perturbed that so many people expect society to work out of goodwill and not through enforced regulations decided by the voters.

Certainly that world would be nice, but it’s naive and ineffective
The obvious counter to the notion that the issues with Mastodon can't be fixed is that nothing would prevent a carbon-copy of Twitter (or Twitter itself, for that matter) to federate. It's not about Mastodon, but about ActivityPub.

And sure, most users will end up centralised on a handful of servers, and that is not a problem as long as they can move when a specific server does not meet their needs. The biggest importance is a safety valve.

I don't know which parts of the UI you think can't be fixed, but I don't agree. Better search is needed, but can be externalised (nothing stops someone from federating with the main instances and signing up to a few relays and offering more comprehensive search). A better experience when looking up external users timelines is largely down to Mastodon's developers having very specific ideas about how to do things. The logic for following or boosting/liking toots when you're on a different instance's timeline is awkward but can be improved with an optional intermediary (falling back to the awkward request for your address for those who insist on opting out of an intermediary providing a mapping).

The upside with Mastodon is that it's not a single thing. It's the server, and the web UI, and you can replace either or both. E.g. you can run Pleroma with the Mastodon web UI, or it's own, and there are additional web UI's. Or you can (and people do, and I'm doing so to) build your own, so we'll see a number of choices of platforms that will look very differently.

Personally I hope Elon fails, because it will make things easier, but I think the long term belongs to ActivityPub over Twitter in any case for the simple reason that the presence of ActivityPub means that the threshold to stand up a viable social network has dropped massively. On one hand you have the software you can set up in less than a day (been there, done that), but far more importantly, sign up to a relay and within hours you have an instance that looks lively, even though most toots are via federation. Where there before was a massive chicken and egg scenario, there's now an increasingly vibrant starting point for people to experiment with their own visions for what social media should be, and each one of them will add to the network effects of ActivityPub.

Mastodon may well fail, but social networks has a history of reaching tipping points that very abruptly changes things dramatically. In both directions. But the federated networks are far less vulnerable to people moving elsewhere.

As for the failures of federation, e-mail and mailing lists is the obvious counter. As is the web. Social media is a newfangled baby in comparison to the successful federated services.
That won’t happen unless Mastodon becomes a hub for socialists and communists. The average Twitter user switching to Mastodon isn’t radical enough for that. Western governments won’t censor ideas within their overton windows, so they won’t censor anything from centre left to centre right.

You won’t see censorship of Mastodon until anarchists and communists use it to coordinate protests at scale.
GitHub is considered unblockable in China by some*, so this seems like a natural progression. The only question I ask is if sharing this news here is likely to negatively impact the ability of ApacheCN to continue providing this service.

*https://restofworld.org/2021/github-microsoft-in-china-how-l...
classic "they disagree with me so the commentary is biased" take
Plus, there is no real reason to.

All this hysteria is based on lies that have been spread over the past days.
In Helix you'd have to x downward or use v to enter visual mode. But you initially said that you "found kakoune bindings limiting". In kakoune you can 8Kxd, or 8K<a-x>d on less recent versions. The vim approach is usually superior for simple commands like "delete N lines", the kakoune approach is superior when you want to compose commands, e.g. `%sif<ret>f(<a-i>(sand<ret>cor` is "select all `if`, find `(`, select inside `(`, select all `and`, change to `or`"
I believe that the point of the suggestion of replacing a console or programming font with Arial or Helvetica, in order to become aware of their unsuitability for such a task, was not that they are variable-width typefaces, but that they belong to the group of sans-serif fonts that have exaggerated with the simplification of the characters, so that they have many different characters that cannot be distinguished, creating ambiguities that are intolerable in programming or in console windows.
The current architecture is not designed to be horizontally scalable. You need one big primary database node. That works well if you are willing to optimise a lot, see the one example: stackoverflow. But it requires a lot of efforts and cannot scale that much.

One could probably create a new implementation that scale though.
That is one of my trusted sources. I love their in-depth reporting. I've supported PBS for decades. They have a lot of great content.

Thanks for reading.
I tried that for a while, but having ESC on release instead of on press just didn't feel right for me
The American Disabilities Act would like a word with you.
Weapons procurement is a very difficult problem for the world's dominant power. If it does the job right (and so far the US has done it), then it prevents wars (Iraq and Afghanistan notwithstanding). And if it does not fight wars, the weapons don't get used, and the population gets the impression the spending was for nothing. In a democracy you get a lot of pressure to reduce this spending.

So the US has to procure just few enough Tomahawks to make sure the factories that can make them retain some semblance of manufacturing ability just in case. If you check the DoD budget, you'll see that every year we procure fewer Tomahawks for about the same money (which is a lot). That's because we don't pay for the missiles themselves, but for the ability to ramp up their production if the time comes to do that.

But then, how do you get healthy competition to drive down prices? Let's say you want to found a startup to make cruise missiles? Who are you going to sell to? The US is only buying about 100 per year, and thinking hard each year how to cut that number down. You can offer to sell the same 100 for 10 times less money, but they don't care about the missiles themselves. If they switch from their current supplier (Raytheon) to you, then Raytheon will shut down the plant (maybe plants?) that makes them. Can the US trust you that you can ramp up the production when the time comes? Maybe you can prove you can, but that does not happen that often. So we are stuck with whatever manufacturers we have, it's difficult to get new entrants.

What can be done? I don't know. What is China doing better? I don't know that either.

All I can see is the problem is not that easy.
All 3 of these are on my list (plus understanding page sections, which would improve the results for things like the Python docs where there’s a bunch of topics on a single page); I just haven’t gotten round to writing the code yet.
Let me explain my point: power is not energy and energy is not power.

Renewable power is cheap in the same way someone whose head is dipped in liquid nitrogen and whose feet are in molten lead in over all pretty comfortable.
> That the copyright and license information are maybe available there is not something Google search actually knows to be the case.

Google sends you to where it found the code, on a best-effort basis. Google can't actually, in the general case, do any better than this. Google is a search engine; it's widely understood that, as a search engine, it looks for things and then tells you where it found them (not where they originated from; that's not what the verb "search" normally means, in English).

> Is copilot under an obligation to point out that that might not be the case?

GitHub Copilot is not branded as a search engine. It doesn't give people the option to identify, or verify, the terms under which the output it produces may be used. It doesn't provide any way of discovering the attribution, even in principle.

Normally, when something is given to you without any copyright markings, without any attribution of any kind, or licensing information, or a source:

• the computer probably came up with it on its own, just from the input you gave it; and

• you're free to use it.

This is not the case. GitHub Copilot goes against the expectations of the user; its UX design is actively misleading. This misconception only exists because Microsoft created it.
What's the "faulty reasoning?"

OP's reference said that many states don't provide estimates. You said

> There’s a difference between knowing the status of every pipe and knowing what the system is generally made up of.

So the states don't bother asking the cities, or refuse to aggregate and estimate it, or what?

Your last paragraph also doesn't jibe with the second. If it's the homeowners' responsibility, then where does the "criminally negligent political leadership" come in?
I have no horse in this race — I'm not on Twitter — but does anyone know if the blue checkmark boosts your posts in the feed/recommendation engine?

I'd expect it does implicitly at least because people must interact with those users differently.
The literature I read was about comparable defect rates between different programming languages producing comparable functionality.

I hadn't read anything about productivity of different languages and team sizes--if you have any references I'd be interested in reading them.

One story I did read was about how Twitter switched to Scala (and later Java IIRC) mainly for the static typing and not for performance or other reasons.

I don't understand the not seeing it in a large codebase point. I work on a large Ruby code base that started without type annotations. Since I joined, we're now all adding type annotations for everyone's benefit, so they definitely exist. The reason for not wholly rewriting such a large codebase in a static typed language should generally be considered a no go. Many devs complained at the time and now most (if not all, I don't know of exceptions) now appreciate having the type checking and visible annotations for reading. I don't work on front-end but I expect that there was a some of that too in the React TypeScript codebases.
> >>> is bitwise right shift

Well, they're both bitwise right shifts, the ">>>" is specifically a logical or unsigned right shift.
This is a good thing, overall, in the same way that the dotcom crash was a good thing to clear the field of all the frauds.

I have the feeling that a few of those large companies are in need of a wake-up call.
To add to this, Pew has an article that talks about a variety of topics including funding of higher education:

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...

If you look at Figure 4, within the last 10 years, and for the first time ever, the amount of federal money flowing into state universities exceeded state money. There are all sorts of consequences for this. Mostly, I mention this to echo that state contributions to higher education have gone down consistently and the editorial's assertion that the high cost of a university education can be reduced to a bloated administration is a simplified argument of a complex issue that is likely made in bad faith.
It's a sign of where it's going though. Will the accessibility info be kept up to date? Will the other teams pay attention to it as much if there's not an internal "force" keeping it on people's mind? Will it be considered at a similar level again in the future? The answer to all of these might be "yes," but getting rid of the employees who are most responsible for this doesn't exactly strike me as an act that views a11y favourably.
I would assume this might have to die with WARN acts?
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my concerns. Your transparency is very reassuring, and I appreciate your contributions to this important area of technology.

I think I am still uneasy, though, about the idea of hoping for a global governance structure (with unknown accountability and financial controls) to come along and start granting (and revoking) people their online identities.

I just feel like the professor in the Far Side cartoon pointing to the blackboard and saying "I think you should be more explicit here in step two"[0], but miracles happen every day, and important breakthroughs can take years of hard work before the answer is clear. Let's hope that you don't get stuck with a system that you're not happy with.

[0] https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a3b19e99fad0ee2c1d663...
Given this is just a series of positive testimonials of the skills of a manager's direct reports, all recently fired and looking for new work, your take comes off as extremely uncharitable.
The Boring Company hasn't succeeded yet, but that's quite different from failure.
Do we really need to spam Mastodon links now?
There's Lemmy[0] which is a reddit clone though it's multiple "subreddits" per server is how it's implemented. It's rather small currently and the existing crowd's mainly software developers and hardcore leftists.

[0]: https://join-lemmy.org/
> Before it was that private companies could do whatever they wanted,

No, it was that “free speech” means private actors are free to make decisions about what content to relay.

Not that everything they choose on that (or any other) is equally good, nor that they shouldn’t be punished in the marketplace (not by the state) for their bad choices.
I really don't think companies care what their ads appear alongside. They care about a Twitter user posting an outrage tweet with a screenshot of an ad for a Burger appearing next to the N word. As if we aren't mature enough yet to separate ad space and user generated content.
Yes! Plus it's great to have those recordings available for sick days and other times when I want to entertain the kids without having to resort to TV or other forms of screen time that I prefer to avoid :)