skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the Taiwan Relations Act specifically does NOT recognize that.

It recognizes the CCP's claim to Taiwan as part of China.

Recognizing that Taiwan is part of China is not part of the act, and was deliberately written as such.

There's a vast difference between diplomatically saying "this land is yours" versus "we understand that you claim that this land is yours".

Night and day. The deliberate vagueness was the whole point of the language used in the act.
Naval invasions are inherently far more difficult than land invasions.
This is the future, like it or not. There’s a lot of energy tied up in batteries, or at least their can be. And until we solve the problem of harnessing intermittent energy sources for when they aren’t generating energy, we aren’t going zero emissions.
As an alternative to this, you can grab a thunderbolt dock. You can input 2/3 monitors into this, and all your other peripherals - then one cable into your macbook.

My Caldigit TS4 charges my macbook at 90W, has 2 x 27" monitors running at 120hz (i could go higher but i can't perceive the difference so i'll save the bandwidth), has 2 external drives and can read my SD card to import photos. The thing has so many ports and if you have lots of peripherals it doesn't matter how many ports your laptop has as you'll not want to bother plugging them in and out if you move around a lot (I do). I can't rate the TS4 highly enough.
I’m not aware of anyone using it, we evaluated it at work and decided it wasn’t worth using despite us making heavy use of TypeScript and Rust.
> at the end of the day sorry to say devs tend to go where the pay is highest irrespective of PR.

I have to assume that, in the same way that glass palace FANG offices and around the clock full-service employee pampering are doing something for (potential) employees, the idea of large scale firings will move the needle in the opposite direction. Clearly, it's not only about who pays most.
ROC and PRC economies are so strictly intertwined that I won't ever be able to take seriously these analysis focused only on geographical maps and military budgets.

PRC needs this strategic economic partner, they won't bring the devastating effects of war on the same industries that they work with.
> So there's infinite mass?

Sure, why not?

> I thought the Big Bang implied a finite mass.

What makes you say that? How so?
"The Democrats were pro slavery,"

Who exactly do you think is fooled by that kind of toddler logic?
This is "obviously" based on... no communication whatsoever from the company yet.

Another comment of yours says "quite obvious" about advertising, which doesn't seem to be an industry segment in which you work.

It seems your observations are right in line with Twitter's new owner, to whom everything that's happened over the last few months has also been "obvious," and mostly wrong.
The charitable interpretation is "The person in the driver's seat is not interacting with the car in any way in this video".
China was fully committed to zero Covid until protests started happening, then it was scrapped in no time flat. And 2050 is just conveniently far enough away for it sound politically serious and yet have basically no need for actual immediate action.
Nothing bad, it's the way double pane windows were done here for about 60 years. My current windows right in front of me are just like that. It's impractical for triple pane, then you combine multiple panes to one frame.
Generative Question-Answering with Long-Term Memory
On the contrary, I would expect to be paid higher rates for the energy I'm supplying to the grid than those I paid to charge it in the first place. Otherwise, what's the point? I'm not going to buy a kilowatt-hour high, then sell it low.

Only way these grid balancing schemes work is if the pricing is real-time, and I have an opportunity to supply marginal peak demand at rates that are higher than what I paid to charge (while still being lower than what peaker plants would cost)
This comment is painfully obtuse
I’d suggest two:

Woodworking Basics by Peter Korn and The Anarchists Tool Chest by Chris Schwarz
Status quo is being able to run their own country and free-and-fair elections. And besides, the question was asked under the threat of China's automatic invasion if it ever formally declared independence - I suppose people don't want to die.
But why the rest of society has to pay because some parents couldn't do what should be their responsibilites?
I've seen more than one ruby dev proclaim they specifically don't want types; if you want a language that has it, there are plenty to choose from.

My take here is that typed-ruby is something SOME people want (I'm one), but a lot don't.

I'm not sure what level of force that provides to anyone who has either tried or is considering adding it to the language.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your first sentence. You researched dumbphones and discovered they're not smartphones? I'm struggling to understand what you thought you were going to find.
There's very little incentive for managers to cut bad hires. It is a tedious process (involving HR, PIPs, lots of paperwork), and firing people always looks bad. Most will just choose to let them hang around and give them unimportant tasks.

Plus, when upper management mandates that you have to fire 10% of your org, well now you have all these people you can put on the list with zero impact to the product.
> “Probably some advertiser tools were broken and the people who’d been talking to those advertisers had been fired, but those are all temporary.”

How is that temporary if — as it appears — the new management has fired the engineering teams which developed the ad tools, and also has no intentions of hiring more people to replace those ad sales teams?
You know, this seems like the sort of thing that each agency should decide on their own after taking into consideration the actual workflows and requirements of what they do to determine which style of work benefits them the most.

But a bizarre coterie of hyper-nostalgic boomers ramming legislation through is fine too I guess.
The "legitimate reason" is that knowing information about their users is TikTok's business model.
Microsoft could lay off as many as 11,000 employees this week
The linked article references "surgically curable primary aldosteronism".

You are probably referencing "radioiodine therapy" which is highly specific to thyroid issues.
There's also the reverse. Cuba is a strange place to see.. with shops selling 10 items total (spread on a wall), when they can afford to open. The pace of economy dictates life, it's so weird when it's so slow.
Anyone else read "dickless" first?
When you blow up a balloon, the center of expansion of its surface is not on its surface. Every point on the balloon sees things become farther.

As to teleporting to the edge, there is as much an edge to the Universe as to the Earth, so the answer is: you can't teleport there.
Nobody can "beat Afghanistan" because forcing people who have no interest in running a country the way the rest of the world runs a country to do so a black hole for money and lives.

There's a lesson about wars of occupation with ill-defined objectives in there.
https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/90...

This World Bank list classifies China as "Upper Middle-Income" which they define as $4,256 to $13,205.

On the other hand they classify Taiwan as "China" which is just pure CCP shilling lol.

Fun fact: the Communist Chinese are the poorest Chinese in the world. The Chinese are a brilliant and industrious people, and they succeed everywhere - but especially in America, Taiwan, Singapore, and formerly Hong Kong. Only the CCP is holding them back lol.
Used Hey for Domains for a year and change. Ended up switching to Fastmail fairly recently and creating flows similar to Hey using filters and labels.

Fastmail has been absolutely great so far, no complaints. Powerful filter/rule engine, the ability to choose folder or label systems for your mail, a great app but also IMAP/DAV access for inter-compatibility, and tons more. I haven't played around too much with a bunch of the other things it offers (calendar, files, notes, etc) but for mail and contacts, at least, it's been solid.

I have a wildcard setup for vlad.gg so all emails go to my inbox, with specific aliases set up that get auto-labeled using filters. I also have wildcards set up for various other domains and then on a family domain, I have aliases that redirect emails to their own personal inboxes (on Outlook/Hotmail FWIW). All super easy to set up.
The republicans do support measures to help workers if it helps the employer find more workers.

It's a capitalist/socialist mantra to get everyone working and punish those who don't work.
They lost it going forward, and also lost any kind of arbitrage when paired with salary increases. Eg my accrued vacation is “worth” 10% more after a 10% salary bump than before it.
Why? Many hospitals utilize flywheel storage. Probably safer than having a giant pile of extremely reactive lithium sitting on every street corner.
This is fixed now, by choosing better constraints.
Hey, I'm compiling! I guess we need a new 2023 joke/true statement. How about "I am taking a break because chatGPT seems to be down". I can't translate that code from Java to Rust by myself.
> But also in this analogy if the bug travels long enough in what to it seems a straight line, it will wind up back where it started. Does this hold true for the universe as well?

It's possible, but the experimental evidence have indicated that it does not - the 2D analogy that more closely matches the measurements is "infinite flat sheet", not "curved surface of a sphere."
To add on, there are a good amount of effort put in to defending against side channel attacks, including hardware IP like [1]. However, it's not a winnable game when your adversary has access to your hardware. If they're determined enough, they can use SEM microscopes and expensive equipment to physically rewire your chip, bypassing circuitry arbitrarily.

[1] https://www.agileanalog.com/ip-by-product-type/agilevglitch-...
I know :/ If I had more free time and energy, I'd spend a bit of it on trying to promote the entire site. It's a really cool little operation that'd benefit hugely from more exposure.
It is a self-governing, "free" "country" whose founding political party supports the policy of "one China, two systems," and where recent elections saw China-hostile politicians decimated.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/26/1139270577/taiwan-election-pr...

edit: What the US is doing with Taiwan is not being done based on consultation with the Taiwanese people. It is not for the Taiwanese.
The GOP is pandering to their increasingly working-class base that generally has limited options to work from home and view it as an urban elitist phenomenon.
It wasn’t the size of a potato. It was everywhere all at once. There is no three dimensional shape of the universe, no boundary, and edge. Still, between galaxies space is expanding. That means everything below a certain amount of mass density is getting further from every other mass density. Within the mass density space does not expand. We are not getting further away from other stars. But saying the universe was the size of the potato dramatically misses what we believed the universe is today and what the article says. It abstracts the nature of things to what is familiar to you, but misses the actual nature of things.

Note the Big Bang is a point in time where all paths started, as stated in the article. It’s a mathematical singularity. It’s not an explosion as you think of it. It was a sudden expansion of all points in space creating vastly more space between the points. But since space has no boundary it didn’t get bigger, and it wasn’t smaller.
You're just invoking the intolerance paradox. Also, you're logic is not sound. There is no evidence that the second claim came from blindly following beliefs.
> Elon's new "extreme right wing beyond conspiracy theories" stance

wow that sounds insane? I wish you would have had a source attached to this (an actual source btw, not some online journalist writing an opinion piece)
You can use Steam with Geforce Now?
Doubtful. Especially when large clients of twitter have publicly stated the reason for their reduced ad budget is lack of support and bad, for brand, content next to their ads.
Why? It was still usable by just using USB before this update.
Talos Linux is a Linux designed for Kubernetes which runs from memory. I'm not sure if it could run diskless, because I expect kubernetes workloads to require some local disk.
TIL today: countries can't be friendly with each other
If you have 10k in your checking account and are saving an extra 10k per year, would you not cancel a $200/mo gym membership you don’t need?
Look into men’s work / men’s groups. I’ve just started exploring this space and it isn’t perfect but I’ve found it quite helpful. There is something special going on in this space.

Some groups:

* Mankind project

* Sacred Sons
Where is the science to support the idea that any male who says he's a woman actually is a woman? As that is the ideology of gender identity that is being so heavily contested today.
Frustrated Tweetbot and Twitterrific users say they're prepared to quit Twitter
It's possible for market forces to drive batteries out of consumer reach, and then you'll own the car and rent the battery. Is that better?
A lot of people thought Xi would not crack down on tech companies either, because it would hurt the economy, but he did anyway.

The Chinese government's top priority is the supremacy of the party. They will invade Taiwan no matter what kind of economic damage it would do, if they believe it will strengthen Xi and the party in the long run.
It's certainly an uphill battle to convince players.

I blame their feeble marketing. For example I remain flabbergasted that the landing page for Stadia always redirected to a "Need Chrome" page if you weren't already on it, with zero enticement for why you should.
> Auto setting strictness for every file in your project and checking for it in CI clears the issue, but that becomes another boilerplate you’re adding to your system

There was this RFC[0] but it seems to have fizzled.

> And it still doesn’t work for native functions.

The page states: 'Function calls from within internal functions will not be affected by the strict_types declaration' (emphasis mine). Outside of array_map I don't think this happens all that much.

> So in the end, the best option is to _not_ type scalar parameters, and do the strict check manually and throw your own TypeError, inside your function instead.

That sounds awful. Why not install a nice static analyzer like phpstan or psalm and never think about it again?

[0]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespace_scoped_declares
Because we have 11 more carrier groups than everyone else combined.
It is really hard to believe that a malicious actor is throwing expensive tor 0-days at random onions.. or your website to "discuss geopolitics with friends" was a bit greater.

In both cases you could run a honeypot to catch 0-days.
Yeah this is what I don't understand. In order for this not to be true, space would have to be curved back in on itself like the surface of a balloon. Meaning you could eventually wind up back where you started. But do we know for sure this is how the 3D space in our universe works?
When a bill passes, its opponents should get to choose the name.
This survey shows that slightly over 50% of ruby users dread using it.
>> it does help the ego of managers.

Fix:: ... the ego of BAD managers

I read some studies from a decade before COVID about remote work, and the upshot was that teams under previously under-performing managers indeed performed worse, but the previously higher-performing teams performed better.

Makes sense because bad managers manage to the signs of work, not work itself - it the but in the chair, not talking to someone else, etc., whereas the good managers manage to their targets and DGAF about the signs.

Send the poor manager's teams remote, and now they not only lack direction on real goals, but now they're also free of being hounded. Send the top managers' teams remote, and they have the same guidance, but less time and effort squandered commuting, less office interruptions, etc, and they improve.

Considering the studies and recent experience, I'd almost consider it a test of a manager's skill - if they cannot manage a remote team productively, they cannot manage a local one.

(Of course meanwhile, the right wing has gone fully into abusive leader attitude over any facts, and so squanders Congress' time with nonsense like this. Ugh)

(Edit: typo)
The AI superpersuaders are coming. There will be a market for AI depersuaders that will argue against the superpersuaders.
There is no freedom of international trade enshrined anywhere in the U.S. governmental system.
In the current climate, layoffs are good for the share price and therefore the shareholders.

Sure leadership and deviation from the norm would be refreshing (and smart), but that's that the era we're in.
Everyone has a price, and I assume Bytedance knows how valuable having a former DoD spokesman as their PR guy is - especially in this new environment of geopolitical realism. Whatever that price was, I think it's safe to assume it was met.
Anecdotally, over the past few weeks the quality of ads I see on Twitter has deteriorated sharply. I used to primarily get ads from well known brands, but now I'm seeing ads for random products like rat traps.
But we're beating Russia atm :D
Wow, we actually have very similar trajectories. Except I'm still at the point of doing part-time work + coding side-projects/startups on the side.

I agree that the too much freedom can be disorienting. If you don't mind me asking, how did you end up deciding that getting a job again was the right move? How did that compare to keeping doing 20hr/wk contract work and then spending the rest of your time doing non-coding/non-startup stuff if that's what was burning you out?
Of course they should be. I also believe that democracy is a human right.
Disclaimer: I’m not a cosmologist or astronomer just a fan.

As as I know, we don’t know. As I understand it we can see ~13.9 billion light years away but not further, and so we don’t know what’s past it.

I’d love if an expert chimed in.
Paste a block of code here and we will generate a series of unit tests
The 'big bang' is both a point in time, and in space. The boundaries of the universe are the light cone of the big bang.

It is conceivable that our 'universe' is just one regional phenomena within a much larger universe. Multiple such 'universes' in the same physical space could seem to be isolated until they expand to the point of overlap and begin to collide.

This image from Max Tegmark illustrates this idea well:
https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/multiverse.jpg

As shown in that figure, a level 1 multiverse is simply whatever other areas exist beyond our universes light cone. There could very well be 'stuff' out there that we are expanding into!
I find it weird that I had to use Chrome to update the firmware of my device. And it was even weirder that the process went through smoothly.

Maybe this is better than downloading a one-off utility from a manufacturer's slow FTP and selecting a firmware file in its file picker and hoping that the combination of flashing utility version + firmware image + my hardware + my OS + the current stellar constellation aligns, and I will still have a working device after this ceremony.
I think the balloon analogy is used because people have an easier time imagining that rather than an infinite surface.

That, and stretching a surface intuitively imparts momentum on things on top, whereas it's not the case here.
I worked at ANL, which didn't do any weapons research, and loved it. Definitely had a lot of bureaucracy so if you haven't worked enterprise be prepared. Things can move slow. I knew some people at several other national labs and a few in DOD. I got the sense that it was the same over there as well.

That said, it was hands down the most interesting place I've ever worked. I don't think it would have been nearly as interesting if I were a remote worker though. Half the fun was taking to the "lifers" there. Learning the lore of old experiments and asking them to show you around on lunch breaks.
The payout will be in the April paycheck, but hopefully the layoffs will get it at layoff time.
> [Edit: According to @rlpb's comment, git 2.39.1 is already available on Ubuntu]

Note that I said Ubuntu's git package was updated, but didn't say to what version. Ubuntu like most stable distributions cherry-pick security fixes rather than bump major versions, so Ubuntu users will get a version with these vulnerabilities patched but not necessarily a bump up to 2.39.1. See https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5810-1 for details.
Or we could just let Asian relational politics run it’s course.
Good question! And something I should explain better. This iteration of it uses the HQ location to generate the sending number. So if you're admin sets up within England, we grab a +44 number to send from. Irelands +353 code should be able to receive a message with some limits on Meteor Ireland network.

If you wanted to test it from Ireland, let me know and we will add support for it.

On the roadmap, we have a task to base the number on the end-user location (based on the dialling code of their phone number), which will also allow us to vary the sending times based on their location. Currently, the survey will deliver based on the HQ location time.
sounds legit!
Do you use a similar solution for a more structured data that you want to track overtime (and potentially analyze later)?
Thanks for the follow up! I understand completely. Somehow my wife stuck with me after more than a few significant home projects with misaligned expectations around completion. Re: wall mounting vs pad. Do you find noise transmission to be a nuisance?
Copy-pasting my last comment on this:

> I'm pretty sure breaking 3rd party clients was intentional.

> Twitter had tightened the reigns on them years ago because it just cost them money to keep them alive. It makes sense that would be first on the chopping block when they're looking for cost-saving measures, and I figured it was inevitable regardless of the Elon takeover.

I don't think that was technical ineptitude, but rather a cost-saving decision from the business.
They do also give, further down the page, some comparison with the M1 MAX, saying 20% faster (except for memory bandwidth which is twice as fast at 200GB/sec).
A thing I do not get:

Netflix has no interest in paying for bad shows. Its not like networks, where they have to fill N hours a week whether anybody has a good idea or not. Their incentive is different from the networks, in that they can target the tiniest niches while the networks have limited airtime and must have big draws.

Is Netflix actually producing "garbage"? Or is it just appealing to vast numbers of niche audiences? Just because I think it's badly written and badly acted and utterly dumb doesn't mean it's not the favorite thing ever of some 12 year old girl in South Korea. Or a middle-aged computer programmer like me, who happens to (unlike me) enjoy noise in the background while they work.

I'd be really curious to know the distribution of Netflix show downloads -- what never gets downloaded, and what gets downloaded but shut off halfway through. Too bad they'll never tell us.
In aggregate, employees make a company money. That much is trivially true. At the individual level, one can be a net gain, net loss, or breakeven. I often wonder how skewed this distribution is at some companies. Ideally you trim the ones that are a net loss and thus on average aren't making the company money. Whether or not it's obvious who those people are isn't known to me. Anyway, I don't think it's a good assumption that the people being laid off are making the company money on average.
Sizing bets on FTX claims and a Monte Carlo simulation