skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hong Kong was involved in ongoing riots

Because Xi ham-fistedly forced through a badly-written security law [1] and intervened in its politics [2]. It’s like stupid Tiannamen Square.

> long-term thinking and patience was essentially the reason China was able to gain back control Hong Kong from the Brits

China was rational under the CCP. It’s myopic under Xi.

> don't know how you'd come to the conclusion that they would forego long term potential for short term gains

They already did.

Hong Kong’s mess was avoidable. Most Taiwanese identifying as Taiwanese and not Chinese was avoidable [3]. The trade wars, and China being reëclipsed in manufacturing by U.S. + Japan + Deutschland, were avoidable [4]. The bank losses on overseas loans were avoidable [5]. The corruption in the rocket forces, which guarantees no Taiwan action until China’s military strength is past its relative nadir, was avoidable [6].

All of these missteps would not have happened under proper CCP leadership. They are expressions of Xi’s personal hubris. China sacrificed the immortality of its state for the favour of its mortal dictator; it’s possibly the luckiest geopolitical stroke for America after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

> during the 1970s, China also threatened to invade Hong Kong if the Brits didn't hand it back to them. They want you to think the leadership is irrational

But they didn’t. That’s rational.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_extradition_b...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56264117

[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/01/16/most-peop...

[4] https://www.safeguardglobal.com/resources/top-10-manufacturi...

[5] https://www.ft.com/content/da01c562-ad29-4c34-ae5e-a0aafddd3...

[6] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-military-rocket-f...
Can the mold linker be /usr/bin/ld? [video]
tl;dr: its Nisin
Actually not only cancer. That's also required for adaptive immunity. A human immune system needs roughly 100 million different antibodies to potentially bind every pathogen. And there are only ~30K genes.

What happens is that in B cells the DNA that encodes antibodies' binding regions actually mutate upon B cell maturation. Similar for T cells.

The term is "V(D)J recombination".
Looks OK for me. Its loading the font from https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/themes/citizenlab-wp-theme/...

Can you access that URL or is it being blocked for you?
talk about fun technical challenges and "things you wish you had known". endless appetite for that stuff
The key points here are that there should be a trial, that it’s up to the government to prove that the stuff is not yours, and that the taking happens after the trial.

CAF inverts all of these. They take your stuff, sometimes they allow you an administrative hearing, and the burden of proof is on you to prove that the stuff is actually yours.
> And this is on top of normal performance degradation from using a dynamically typed language

You already counted that, that's the Python interpreter (in this case RustPython) overhead.

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The steps are (1) RustPython interpreter (2) Rust compiled to WASM (3) WASM runtime.

"Normally" you'd have (1) CPython interpreter (2) C compiled to machine code.

I'm not sure how much overhead WASM runtime really is...I'm curious, but I doubt this is awful compared to CPython.

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FYI, for CPython as WASM, https://pyodide.org/.
> I don’t think there’s such a thing as any truly clean energy.

Your use of "clean" here seems like a strawman.

Some forms of energy exploited by humans (i.e. fossil fuels) impose far greater environmental costs than others (i.e. wind/solar). Lumping them all together because nothing manufactured at scale is "clean" is ignoring the vast differences between them.

That's why anymore, the terms "renewable" and "zero-carbon" are used to describe future energy sources, not "clean".

> And for what in the end? To support a fringe economic system of monetary transfer and speculation?

Those are the ones said out loud.

The unspoken end is to weaken and destroy the liberal institutions that are currently backed by the power of fiat currency, to then replace them with illiberal ones.

Climate change and the environment are not typically concerns for people who want that.
Diffusion World Model
Do you also oppose lending limits at libraries? Fees for public transport?

Just because something is a public utility, that doesn't mean it can or should be free, limitless and unlimited.
Yeah and also how 'crypto folk' call crypto useless. or wait... maybe I'm not a crypto person?
here are some more

companies have announced over $166 billion in manufacturing in semiconductors and electronics, and at least 50 community colleges in 19 states have announced new or expanded programming to help American workers access good-paying jobs in the semiconductor industry. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

Apple commits $430 billion in US investments over five years
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-commits-430-bil...

Microsoft will buy enough U.S.-made solar panels to power 1.8 million homes
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/microsoft-will-buy-enough-u...

Tesla plans to spend $3.6 billion more on battery and truck manufacturing in Nevada https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/tesla-plans-to-spend-3point6...
The window snapping/tiling feature is nice, but not nearly good enough to replace i3wm.
Turbo 8 has been released
Adam Neumann seeks to buy back WeWork after declaring bankruptcy in 2021
> The next morning, I called PayPal and asked them how the seller could’ve opened a case on my behalf against themselves. They weren’t sure.

That's scary :/
That's pretty stupid, no? Why doesn't it alert the poster of the clickbaity word prompting him to remove it before being allowed to post it, instead of silently removing it without the poster's knowledge ending up with janky titles?
When I do FB marketplace I go cash and in-person. It lets you assess the quality of whatever you're buying.
This is Canada - it gets colder than -20F most winters. Sure you should have a heat pump if you live there, but there will be days when you cannot use them.

If you live right on the ocean shore you might get a mild enough climate to not need backup, but most of Canada is not that. (though the population may tend that way)
TMMK (Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky) has an $8B plant in Kentucky, the largest Toyota manufacturing facility in the world. This plant is where all Camry models are manufactured, which is the best-selling car in the United States. Additionally, all Rav4 Hybrid models are manufactured there, including all the motors (not just assembly).

Seems like a smart place to build your own batteries to me.
> would have consumed 2.5 million megawatt-hours of electricity each year.

Just to give some level of scale to this request, this is half the annual generation of the new $16 billion Site C dam. They are demanding the use of $8 billion in public infrastructure.
If you prefer, you can read that sentence as stop using cryptocurrency based money and use USD, gold, or whatever instead.

Or if you really want electric money, use Chaum style digicash instead. It long predates bitcoin, but basically has all the benefits except technically having a central authority except you dont even have to trust the central authority.
Are markup/styling issues why people are reaching for react components? I would think of state and logic management being the main point of difference. Most markup and style classing I see from react projects/packs is not great, but they tend to “just work”, at least for specific use cases
Into knowing how to do things
> "Wow, that is still upsetting you?"

If not a jerk, then grossly lacking in sensitivity, empathy and tact.
That's correct. The cyclist may have just passed behind the truck right into the path of the AV, neither having seen the other.
Because Hacker News is going the way of Reddit and Digg: the more users, the less quality content and discussion
Microsoft's next big AI push is here after a year of Bing
Ollama is incredible for me! The setup was super easy. I have been playing around with llama2-uncensored.
In some sense a potato is a machine gun.
"worse is better", the fact that a great ecosystem has grown does not necessarily mean the language and its tools are great.

Personally, I find the lack of static types makes maintenance a nightmare, and think the build and deployment situation is miserable.
You are focusing too much on the content related part.

If you want to display gravestone advertisements during saturday morning cartoons, you are free to do so. I'm just referring to the concept of trying to do well in your advertising efforts on that part, as LONG as it is done so without knowing who is witnessing this ad.

Yes re-reading my post doesn't state this, I just thought that would be obvious given the story we're discussing.
I’m not sure they’d be doing this if Ford EVs were flying off the lot (they’re not).
That is an extraordinary rate of progression!
I also found that an odd statement. If you need a “why” analysts may not feel confident about Apple’s ability to deliver when it comes to AI, look no further than Siri and Apple Maps.
I listened to the catalog of ONE (very good) parody band and Spotify spent the next four months presenting me only meme songs so yeah, those recommendation algorithms aren't very helpful IMO
I’m curious how his prediction about generative AI in Fall will play out. Mild spoilers ahead (not really plot relevant):

He basically predicts that any form of leak intended to harm the subject depicted will become ineffective, since nobody will accept text, voice and video recordings as authentic anymore and people will actually perform “preemptive strikes” on the search space themselves, which will in turn be plausibly deniable for the same reason.
Variable pricing doesn't necessarily do the trick. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/17/puc-appeals-court-ur...
Creating a brand new Vue app using Vite as your build system (official) takes less than 2 minutes and you can immediately start using Vue by following its documentation and creating a well-organized web application with its friendly patterns and solutions to the most common pro-UX problems you could encounter in a web app.

Give it a shot, it's stupid-easy, and that's not downplaying anything either.
It's a progression. Story, style, characterization, and science in equal measure at first. Then more and more of the latter and less of the first three. Perhaps he did peak in Diamond Age, then it's basically Asimov after - pretty hard sci-fi with no story / characters (or at least no characters / story anyone cares about).

Snow Crash - most story / style / MEMORABLE characters

Diamond Age - same but with a very dramatic evolution from traditional Cyberpunk

Anathem / Seven Eves - virtually no memorable characters, interesting concepts and science though

Cryptonomicon - I couldn't.
I find "Stephenson predicted ChatGPT!!" to be an incredibly stupid hot take, and I'm a fan of Stephenson.
Oh no there goes all the windows 8 lenovos.
- "tell me about your childhood"
- "I'm under NDA"

thank you for a great laugh
Any company that goes out of its way to try to marry you is immediately suspect.
So like, if you're going to present contrary evidence, quoting an article by a party with a vested interest that claims they "analyzed multiple surveys" and then fails to link to them or even name them is not exactly helpful.

I'm not arguing the point, mostly because I still don't have reliable evidence to argue about.
A Bitcoin ETF Will Never Be Your Bitcoin
We need to start heavily regulating unchecked industrial resource usage of public utilities like power and water. There needs to be a penalty/incentive for conservation.
I wonder would the effect would be of extending HIPAA protections to information that you have inferred. If you have inferred something about a person that is protected by privacy laws, should that inference itself also be protected? How much of a shield should "we're not 100% sure, so it's just a very well-informed guess" be?

I have my own story about advertisers inferring personal. Relationship status isn't protected, but the last time I went through a breakup, I was suddenly inundated with dating site ads. I don't feel like my shopping or web browsing habits changed, but they must have to figure it out.
Nice! Watching this. I started something myself but don't move quite as fast.
Even when they didn’t have that garden. Look at the iPod.

Other MP3 players existed, but flash media was too small. Other hard drive players existed, they were too big. And both had bad interfaces (by Apple standards).

Apple didn’t show up until they could meet all their goals.

They could have made a phone sooner, it wouldn’t have been the iPhone. They could have made a headset sooner, it wouldn’t be the Vision Pro.

They set their standards for what’s necessary and wait to be able to deliver that.

The first mover rarely wins in the long run.
I use https://podcastaddict.com/

But thanks for posting this! Occasionally, I can't find a particular podcast on my preferred site.
>We don't need more people in the world, there's enough.

True.

But beyond that, this has always been true at any point in the history and prehistory of mankind.

>The West relies on debt-fueled economies that require ever-increasing GDP.

Also equally true, but that only goes back as far as the history of the "West" alone.

Unless you also want to include all the other intervals and regions where debt-fueled economies have come & gone since before prehistory, but that still doesn't quite make it true at any point in history.

No big deal. Equally true.

But two true things do not have to make equal sense, or even make sense at all sometimes.
Interesting story - I wonder how they managed to manipulate the Paypal account of the victim. Clearly Paypal has a problem there.

But the other issue is that of general lawlessness and the fact that this scammer will get away with the attempted scamming, and probably do it to other people, too. For every person like the OP who manage, somehow, to protect themselves, there are 1000 others who don't. And there is the issue that the scammer broke the law, in their state and in the victims state, and probably federally, and yet there will be no action from law-enforcement. In such an environment, why not go into this kind of business? What's the downside? It seems to me that there isn't any downside. Sort of like committing perjury.

In general, how bad does it have to get before the law gets enforced?
A thought experiment. What about a new kind of browser for a new kind of web? Much of CSS is obsolete. So doing a "modern" version (I'm thinking css grid and flex in particular) would provide the same functionality without the cruft. All that old stuff about the holy grail three columns layout.

And for me there is the question of canvas, threejs, react-three-fiber and react-drei. Is it possible that - especially with mobile - that canvas could be used to provide a better user experience? Who writes games for mobile with a HTML and CSS? Not saying it can't be done, but I wonder how many web sites require HTML & CSS instead of canvas?

A big barrier to browser competition is needing to implement obsolete and outdated technology. Why not just a minimum set of html and canvas.

Just thinking. Your thoughts?
Ask HN: What software do you wish someone would build for you?
There's a lovely line in the original BitCoin paper which says:

> Transactions that are computationally impractical to reverse would protect sellers from fraud, and routine escrow mechanisms could easily be implemented to protect buyers.

The word "easily" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there! Escrow is a difficult problem to solve. There is no infallible smart-contract which can protect both buyers and sellers. There's just a lot of messy human interaction which - if the stakes are high enough - can only be resolved in court.

Are PayPal's protections sloppy? Probably. Is Facebook Marketplace a cess-pit? Mostly. Can technology solve a cultural problem? I think we all know the answer to that!
Important clarification from reading tfa for a second: image _editing_. I can't believe Apple would sully their image with actual generation.
Good answers here, but look at the book "Chip Wars" if you want to learn a lot more.
Is quantitative knowledge "knowing stats"?
Granted a "normal" web site has more like 30 or 40 trackers these days.
This is the way.

Does FB Marketplace even have any sort of reputation system? Or are you banking entirely on the age of the account?

I'm a heavy Facebook user, but I avoid FB Marketplace like the plague. Just seems like a great place to get scammed.
[dupe]

More discussion here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39269695
There’s also usually “protagonist or major character has a weird method of travel”, “protagonist or major character goes through a period of loneliness as part of their heroes journey”, and a few other bits that are common across most of his fiction work.

He’s also largely absolutely shit at writing female characters.

Still enjoy his work, but it’s fun to find the common threads.
> Not all API's will understand this

Who’s talking about APIs? Most jQuery users I know just use jQuery to submit forms and load some JSON, both of which are covered by fetch without altering the headers manually.

What I’m saying is that it’s not fair to judge a tool for something you don’t have to do with it, namely sending JSON for everything. Fetch also supports native binary uploads, whereas most people base64 data when using $.ajax

> makes writing for the web so much more enjoyable

Writing? I agree. Actually making it work? No way. $('forn').hide() doesn’t work, but the browser will never tell you why (hint: wrong selector).

jQuery errors are often silent, and that’s good enough reason to abandon it.
What do you mean testing with processes?

I won't suggest these are the best written tests, but I test various processes, supervisors, etc like this:

- https://github.com/cpursley/walex/blob/master/test/walex/sup...

- https://github.com/cpursley/walex/blob/e13a9cbf9aca1a2a2d4ed...
Except with gen AI the interface is text and there are multiple companies that have equally acceptable products. Either apple solves hallucination or makes some other AI breakthrough (i doubt it since the best researchers are probably at the hottest AI companies), or else it's just losing out as other companies capture a new market.

I think the second mover will have a huge disadvantage here as companies integrate the first mover into their products.

Apple will be able to do on-device AI, but I can't see that being a game changer unless paired with AR or some other new tech.
Thank you for the reference (not finished it yet).

Worth mentioning functions that can error, should follow the {:ok, response} | {:error, reason} pattern. Because if such a function returns response | {:error, reason}, then if we are inside a with clause and we want to capture the response and use it in the next with clause, such capture value can be either response or {:error, reason} - which goes around the pattern matching.

with response_f1 <- f1(),
{:ok, response_f2} <- f2(response_f1) do
# do something
else
{:error, reason_f1} ->
# we will never come here
# because the returned value from f1
# is already matched to the variable response_f1
end
If you can't take down crypto, plant your agent (Binance in this case) and destroy it from within.
Related:

RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056586 - March 2023 (136 comments)

A full Python interpreter written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31086317 - April 2022 (7 comments)

Python interpreter written in rust reaches 10000 commits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29094323 - Nov 2021 (93 comments)

RustPython: A Python interpreter written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28280790 - Aug 2021 (49 comments)

RustPython – Python Written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27060802 - May 2021 (2 comments)

A Python interpreter rewritten in Rust, that can run pip - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26030269 - Feb 2021 (48 comments)

A Python Interpreter Written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19064069 - Feb 2019 (194 comments)
I did this with free ChatGPT does not handle it gracefully. This was a really interesting test case, I've always thought the free version was good at doing stuff like that. I guess I was blind and not inspecting it with enough objectivity. The results does not represent reality at all. When asked to create fake lists they are too homogenic, it gets stuck in a loop of sameness and has a hard time understanding that there is a female and a male team.

I used; "There are two soccer teams competing in the Olympics for Sweden, could you generate the starting eleven for each of them. You are free to make up names" The real answer for women should be: Hedvig Lindahl, Hanna Glas, Amanda Ilestedt, Nathalie Björn, Magdalena Eriksson, Filippa Angeldahl, Kosovare Asllani, Caroline Seger, Sofia Jakobsson, Stina Blackstenius, Fridolina Rolfö. The results from ChatGPT was a list of basically "Anderson"s.
This person came out of the Thiel Fellowship, the rules are different.
How to Tell If You're Living in a Binary Crisis (Paywall)
"Unison Cloud is now generally available"

https://twitter.com/unisonweb/status/1755266140924784738
Against the UBI: My Reply to Zwolinski
The EU sets the limit for bank transfer time to 10 seconds
Those are definitely interview questions "sold" to companies as being able to weed out undesirables (read: find the answers to questions they cannot ask because of anti-discrimination laws).
I think it's important to point out that the "freeloader" comment was not something that Red Hat or IBM said. It's something that one or two people said internally or on mailing, as part of a larger conversation where the context isn't that clean. Muy memory is hazy but I dont' think they actually used the word "freeloader" specifically, I think that was a paraphrase in a news article or something. I'll see if I can find a link.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481006
I think the insinuation is that such information has no right to be private. Or such individuals have no right to privacy. The obvious issue being that to enforce this, no one gets a right to privacy. But all in the same of "peace and safety", so don't worry.
Ha ha.

For those interested, Iron* is .NET.

IronPython

IronRuby

IronJS
Maybe it should be more recognized that what the quote "a language is a dialect with an army" means is that borders of nations don't coincide with borders for languages, or put more simply, it has such two meanings that, there are languages that are realistically just weird accents on one another, and one "language" that are realistically two or more.

I have some confidence with dialects of my primary language(not Chinese) within ~150mi of where I am; beyond that, mutual intelligibility with local dialects isn't guaranteed. Yet, those dialects are rarely considered(including by speakers) to be separate from the standard. They're just local accents. That aren't even intelligible to city dwellers.
Ask HN: Did you leave software to become a traditional business owner?
Traditional/Conventional meaning one that doesn't rely on creating software or technology as it's source of revenue (think retail, manufacturing, food service, trades, construction, etc.)

What were the circumstances around your career change? Passion project opening a bakery? Family business? Acquired a local business?

Did you find that your background in technology helped running a business?
In addition to that, I wouldn't be surprised if they got 100 percent of that amount from the government in one way or another
Actually a few years ago schools started lending laptops (which you have to return at the end of the school year), but as far as I remember we never used them in class.

I can't quite recall if this was before the covid outbreak, but I think we still had in person classes that year.