skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is https://github.com/gruns/furl
There are many more ethnicities in Xinjiang than just Han and Uyghur you know. Chinese typically don't focus on people's ethnicities and prefer to refer to people by their place of origin (e.g., "Xinjiang people", "Shandong people", etc), the Chinese way of being inclusive. The man appeared racially ambiguous, could just as well be mixed.

I have a Uyghur acquaintance in Germany who's pretty mad at the media's depiction of stuff. He views it as slander of his home region. At the same time he resents that most westerners don't actually care about the truth, they just want their viewpoints confirmed and get mad at him for presenting a different narrative.

He even gets death threats from other Uyghur diaspora for holding this view.
On an SSD I'd drop random to 1-1.2.
In a zero regulation world, you consider either that there's no copyrights, or that copyrights have infinite length
I think the fundamental and radical idea of cryptocurrency is that this is not true. Currency can have value even if it isn't derived from the point of a sword.

I know crypto has a lot of scam baggage and that is unavoidable for a permissionless system, I think. Regardless, the idea that you can wrest away the levers and dials of monetary policy away from world powers and put it in the hands of a permissionless system is a powerful and potentially system-altering one. I have been a fan of cryptocurrency for this reason since well before people were writing news articles about them.

I think the phenomenal success of crypto to this point is a strong indicator that you might be wrong, or at least not totally right
Another post in this thread was downvoted and flagged (really?) for claiming that URL parsing isn't difficult. The linked article claims that "Parsing URLs correctly is surprisingly hard." As a software tester, I'm very willing to believe that, but I don't know that the article really made the case.

I did find a paper describing some vulnerabilities in popular URL parsing libraries, including urllib and urllib3. Blog post here:

https://claroty.com/team82/research/exploiting-url-parsing-c...

Paper here:

https://web-assets.claroty.com/exploiting-url-parsing-confus...

If you remember the Log4j vulnerability from a couple of years ago, that was an URL parsing bug.
Is this something that you are willing to help me with?

I want to right a letter to the appropriate ministry and political parties to raise awareness about the issue and see what their positions are.

However, while my Swedish is decent, I can't express complex issues like this well, and my grammar is clearly that of an immigrant. I would like to work with someone like you, who understands the technology and has an interest in the technology, to help me write these letters.
From 2023:

"China has spearheaded record levels of central bank purchases of gold globally in the first nine months of the year, as countries seek to hedge against inflation and reduce their reliance on the dollar.

Central banks have bought 800 tonnes in the first nine months of the year, up 14 per cent year-on-year, according to a report by the World Gold Council, an industry group."

https://www.ft.com/content/abc39431-1755-4906-b11e-ee9e53baa...
It's because of last year tensions around Taiwan and TSMC. Reliance on this company hit an all time high and tensions showed that it was strategically risky. So both side have been pushing local foundries projects via grants and other incentives.
This is a must read article for HNers about the value about localization and points out that "Africa" is not a unitary market but in reality an extremely diverse market with multiple different markets.

The kind of GTM needed to go big in Kenya is entirely different from Nigeria which is different from South Africa.

The scene in Nigeria and East Africa reminds me of India and ASEAN in the 1990s-2000s, and ime chatting with some African founders (a couple of whom ended up in YC) the strategies are similar. (I can't speak about Françafrique so if anyone can give me insight into that I'd love it!)

There are some legal and historical intricacies that cause this difference that I can elaborate on if there is interest (I don't want to write a massive essay no one will read)

Edit: finished it below. Sorry it it's incoherent. I realized this could be a book unto itself and editing in the gym is a PITA
There's certainly precendent! See Francesca Gino.
I think the prop includes the gear box needed to making it contra rotating. I also think the lifetime warranty being a pretty decent reason to not try to rig your own.

I imagine it's the gearbox that they're sinking engineering and testing time into. They don't have any other contra-rotating products on market, so the gearbox will be new to them.
How did they try to get $300 from you after your phone was stolen? You probably don't carry that much cash on you, they can't text you, and they have your phone/digital wallet if they wanted to try cracking it.
Very exotic. Does it support multi threading? What kind of things can be done with it?
It's the opposite of "embrace, extend, extinguish".
Move to a higher level of abstraction and architecture. We’re leaving the era of hand wiring data structures and program logic the same way we left behind the era of hand wiring ICs and discrete components. Different skills will be needed.
I'm driving through Eugene in a few months. Guess I'll be bringing my HDHomeRun and an obnoxiously huge VHF antenna!
ah. We're in agreement. nm, I misunderstood what you said.
I’ve got a machine pretty similar to what you’re describing in my closet (6700k, mobo reasonably well known in the community, 5700XT GPU) which used to be a hackintosh. Might be worth reviving and trying to find a use for.
But you need a modern enterprise-quality framework. Can it run Cobol on Cogs?

http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
Yes! and even if you search for foo.txt, it will also display foo_something.txt even though you didn't search for a wildcard (foo*.txt).

And then you have that "fantastic" UI that helpfully tells you that the file is in "C:\Users\something\Documents\..." regardless how large you make the window. Who's brilliant decision was it to truncate the locating folder without any way to resize the column and actually see the full path?

Anyway, just giving a shoutout to grepWin again, it's one of the first thing I install on any Windows box while hoping that everyone involved in the Windows Search "experience" steps on a lego brick every day of their lives.
Check whether a remote server port is open on Linux
Uh… if anybody has a legitimate .tk domain, how does one keep it alive?
Not trying to throw a straw man argument, but from what I understand in that space is that there is no free market there.

If you want to publish so it is read by anyone you can only go to big ones - if you are not publishing with big ones, good luck no one will read it.
> Clearly illegal but not yet handled in the court of law

Isn't that somewhat of an oxymoron? What are some examples of something that is against the law but not handled by the courts of law?
The article doesnt say anything about the JVM accessing other processes memory though.
"Are China's demographics appreciatively different from other industrialised countries?"

Yes. Also, it is very likely that China has been covering up the true extent of the demographic problems. And not necessarily to hide it from its geopolitical rivals, but to hide it from its own leadership fearing purges and punishment. Like ... there's a 100 million people "missing".

"it's also easy, at least for a dictatorship, to increase the birth rate"

No it's not, because those changes take a while to implement, and even if the birth rate skyrockets, you don't get usable workers for 20 years.

Plus, China's economy is urbanized, and its economy is built around cheap labor that is worked to the bone (996). To make urban areas viable for raising kids, you need to decrease hours worked and increase wages.

And, people need to feel optimistic about the world and the future.

So lets say a massive sweeping change was implemented to make having children quite a bit more appealing. It would probably take about 5-10 years for the policy changes to trickle through the various layers of state control (China is kind of feudal in nature), monetary incentives will likely be greatly reduced by corruption.

Then 20 years later, you start to get a blip upward. Because the issue is, the people that will have the kids are ALREADY THE SMALLEST GENERATION EVER from one child policy. So to move the needle, they need to have ... like ... 8 kids each.

One child policy forced families to pick a gender as well. You won't believe this, but culturally people preferred boys. So the smallest generation ever, which would be 50-50ish, is more like 40-60 or 45-55 (maybe not that stark, but ... kinda is) then ... well, your expansion is limited by the wombs.

https://zeihan.com/new-chinese-demographic-data-population-c...

So, keep in mind Zeihan is a bit of a clickbait artist. He sells himself and makes bold claims. But if he is right about those new vs old/fake numbers, that is some bad stuff.

The solution to falling birth rates is immigration. And while China does see a lot of immigration, it does have a large rural/urban divide, so it might be able to "immigrate" people from the rural classes (who as I understand it are currently treated as a lower class of people).
The whole purpose of an interview is to talk to the actual person? If the person being interviewed uses an AI teleprompter, then the value of the interview drops to nearly nothing. They may as well craft a press release.
I don't know which "architectural peculiarities" you have in mind, but the issues we have are largely independent of the architecture. So I'm not sure what exactly you think we should be fixing architecture-wise ...

The way I see it the issues we have in query planning/optimization are largely independent of the overall architecture. It's simply a consequence of relying on statistics too much. But there's always going to be inaccuracies, because the whole point of stats is that it's a compact/lossy approximation of the data. No matter how much more statistics we might collect there will always be some details missing, until the statistics are way too large to be practical.

There are discussions about considering how "risky" a given plan is - some plan shapes may be more problematic, but I don't think anyone submitted any patch so far. But even with that would not be a perfect solution - no approach relying solely on a priori information can be.

IMHO the only way forward is to work on making the plans more robust to this kind of mistakes. But that's very hard too.
> Before cloudflare, it was difficult to run a DDoS-for-hire service because competing services would all DDoS each others' websites.

I mean, you don't need websites to advertise. Most DDoS-for-hire services back before 2009 advertised on IRC, NNTP, via ads in .NFO files found in warez releases found on Kazaa and BitTorrent, and so forth. (Some of the very tech-headed ones ones had Freenet sites.)
In that case, I highly recommend watching the movie Synecdoche New York (2008).

PS Can I be your hairdresser?
The funny thing about growing older is that we change, and the things that were once "I'd rather be dead than not do this" just naturally fade away, and other new exciting things take their place.

I say thus not to dampen your enthusiasm, but rather to encourage you to enjoy it to the maximum while it lasts.

Everything has a season and in that season it can seem terribly important. Perhaps an activity, or a favorite sports team, or a group of friends.

Some of that remains forever, some of it gets deferred as other things happen. It's part of life, we grow, we change, the world around us changes.

It's not that the drive is lost, it's just that it manifests in different ways, different activities, different challenges.

When you see a post like yours in 30 years time, remember this moment, and raise a glass :)
It is said that post WW2, one big stabilizing factor of the world is that we globalized and created interdependence on the 6 continent supply chain. It was in part due to technology gains, cheap energy and resources to power that tech and the fear of creating enemies that could now potentially fight back with nukes. A truly existential threat. If we all lean on each other to some degree, it works out better for most folks.

And now we see that this is rapidly degrading over the last decade.

I think the belief was that if the west cutoff China, they would be left in the dark. Instead they have more than enough knowledge on how to make these things that it became a driving force to active decouple from the west.

Provided the other economic/demographic/political issues don't become a major problem to China, this will definitely be a large blunder.
By default there is a path character limit of 260 characters, although there is a method to increase it. So if you try to copy something with a long filename that is many nested folders deep, it will fail. In one office, I had a coworker who used very descriptive folder/subfolder names for everything, and he constantly had this issue.
SpaceX is reportedly building a network of spy satellites for US intelligence
If it's clearly illegal, what prevents it from being handled in any court of law? If it's not actually as clear, preemptive/overzealous compliance can lead to all kinds of undesirable (in a liberal democracy) effects.

I also doubt that Cloudflare lets every single analogous issue bubble up to a full court case every single time, but for new/unclear/borderline scenarios, I'm glad that courts don't get to outsource their duty, i.e. determining the legality of actions, to a for-profit organization without public oversight.
No idea if the source code is available.
> Came with a news blackout, and as it turns out you can stay more or less exactly the same amount of informed because people will happily burst that bubble every time the rage machine hits critical mass. Not mad about it, any more.

So, you're essentially relying on other people taking the toll on being on social media to keep yourself informed. No offence intended, but isn't this similarly selfish with being an antivaxxer? I.e. believing you have some sort of personal epiphany, while in reality you are just enjoying the benefit of everyone else being involved in a moderately risky activity?

Again, I do not wish to be judgemental, everyone have their own tolerances that they are entitled to manage and keep personal. Just saying that if everyone gets off social media tomorrow, I don't think it will be for the best of humanity, even though social media do have the potential to be individually harmful.

> I do sometimes wish there were things to talk about that didn't come from the internet.

Before the internet discussion topics would just come from the news (TV or printed). However, TV and printed press have degraded so much in the past decades, that relying solely on them to set our discussion agenda would be a catastrophe. Social media, as tolling as they may be, seem to be the only thing that makes us aware of a global descent to a dystopic future.
How to Win Friends and Hustle People
If you're asking me to personally identify someone, no I'm not going to do that. However if you want to see some hilarious hypocrisy, go ahead and see who said what when Cloudflare banned 8chan.
Haha that is a very similar mindset I had when I bought my first house. I was excited about all of the nice improvements I could make and wondered why so many people I knew who were well off never really put much work into their home.

Then I quickly realized that its such a big hassle and also you almost instantly get used to things how they are.
I was taught that multiple times under sections on political cartoons/propaganda, at least when I went to school.

The issue is not that people are not well educated, its that there is not enough reason for individuals at a large scale to invest time deep-diving into a topic when they can use other things like social cues and popularity to more or less decide where they fit on the spectrum.

The issue is not that manipulation is invisible to the untrained eye, on the contrary I'd argue a lot more people are aware of political manipulation than you realize. It doesn't take much logic to see politicians only start caring about you once elections come around, regardless of where you fall on the political slider.

People are optimizing for social harmony and the security of their livelihood. This means that more or less whatever the opinions of those in my community / work / place of worship are, I will reciprocate those signals to some degree or another unless there is an issue that resonates strongly enough. Insert mass-scale reach with social media and the law of large numbers in human population and I hope you can see why there is no non-technological solution to this problem.

We have created a dopamine machine in our pocket capable of satisfying the natural urges of every permutation of the mind. Your bigger picture and moral appeal is given a moment of consideration by an ever-shrinking percentage.
I remember 20m in the UK, which did basic hosting.

Good times.
Toe weakness and deformity increase the risk of falls in older people (2009)
Shrug. Have a nice day.
> You can’t win with these people

People who want to live in a just world often get in the way of things. I'm just not sure why you're mad at those who want justice and not those who put profits above all else?

> that Cloudflare hosts these criminals

Oh.. it's not that they host them, it's that they go out of their way to protect them, and the profit streams associated with them.
You guys buy too much into the marketable fuzz. In the last 15 years we've had multiple other technologies that were supposed to change the way we live (3D printing, Crypto, VR, EV, self-driving, now AI).

It's just the VC scheme: Over-promise/under-deliver = Profit

AI is and will continue to be a search on steroids.
To me it was having just one powerful upgradable desktop computer with Windows and MacOS. So I don't have to have devices on my desk.

Now I have solved with PC desktop, MacBook Air, and Apple Display. PC also has usb-c display output so I can just switch which cable connects to the display.

Downside is still that M1 is not as fast, especially something that is GPU intensive as the PC I have.
> I usually have to spend an hour just removing stuff, disabling things and multiple reboots just to trim things down.

All of that is automated now. https://atlasos.net
Yes but this is why it's so important to push back against that with Apple. To show the market doesn't shrug and accept it.

Microsoft has been trying to push their attestation crap for years. But we wouldn't have any of this so they toned it down.
Jobs aren’t distributed out of some cookie jar. They are needs and wants and obligations that other people will pay to have fulfilled or taken off their hands. Figure out how to solve those problems and you’ll have all the work you could ever ask for.
Entry-level price for a new Mac, right now, is $700 (M1 Macbook Air at Walmart). It doesn't get you the best or the fastest, but it's a perfectly usable laptop. Or, if you're okay with something lightly used, a refurbished M1 Mac Mini is ~$500.
IBM 360’s are searching for a new home
I wonder what would happen if the fuselage was located via sonar today, and what kind of recovery/salvage efforts would be made. I assume for certain some deep robotic discovery, but I'm sure any results would have to be inferred from the size, shape, and distribution of the wreckage and not from the black box.
Wow nice! I love the idea of clickable math. As an author, I'm never sure when explaining every concept in an equation is useful, or if it gets repetitive after seeing the definitions multiple times, but a click-for-details affordance on all math symbols, the author wouldn't have to make this choice, and instead let readers opt-in for the extra details.

Here is another site (unrelated) with info about Maxwell's equations:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/maxwcon....
Visual and vestibular cues in 6DOF flight simulator design [video]
1. Just ban it. Kick it off the app stores, prevent financial services companies from dealing with it, and maybe make an example of a renegade bitcoin ATM company to stop nerds like us from getting ideas.

2. Attack the blockchain itself. It can stand bozo-scale hacks, but NSA scale? They control the internet backbone. They can just drop the packets. They have hardware backdoors all over the place and have been known to successfully hack completely airgapped setups. Maybe they even bring clever math/chips to the fight. That's more speculative than necessary, but again, not actually very speculative next to their historical accomplishments.

3. Deploy police to server room. Or special ops, if they played the non-extradition-country game correctly.

We aren't talking about Goldfinger levels of infrastructure. No secret island nuclear program is necessary... but even if it were, remember that superpowers are absolutely capable of that sort of thing.
Is this like EBS?

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
I think part of it is that BS is commonly quite effective. Good BSers are commonly good at getting information out of people and feeding it back to them as a kind of echo chamber. Most people will not pose adversarial information (that is say something purposefully wrong) to see if the BSer agrees with it and parrots it back. The BSer confirms the other persons worldviews at the same time spouting whatever crap it is they are selling. Very common tactic in grifters.
Can people simply have priorities?
What could wrong? Specially in America where people do not even understand roundabouts.
Don't forget the $700 Walmart special: https://www.walmart.com/ip/609040889
CloudFlare has equipment in 120+ countries, including China: https://www.cloudflare.com/network/

I again ask: is it desirable for any of those countries to be able to unilaterally force a company to enforce its laws regardless of where the individual in question is?
People make CNN’s in both. There’s classes for them, too. It’s reasonable to ask how a readable implementation compares to an optimized one.

You shouldn’t be so quick to accuse people of wrongdoing. It helps to try to understand where they’re coming from. In this case, evaluating multiple styles of implementation.
Good sales people are genuine. Its easier to genuinely believe in the product you're selling if you're gullible.
_Many_ moons ago, before I had a job, I remember that Hackintosh seemed like the only way I could enjoy a Mac OS.

These days I have literally piles of old Macs that I have fun trying different Linux distros on.
Well, that’s why Apple forbids use of private APIs in the App Store apps. If you built all your tech stack on the foundation of some peculiar nondocumented platform’s behavior, don’t be surprised when this stack breaks.
It would be an awesome sci-fi plot: voyager 1 is captured by an alien race. Goes silent for a while they figure out how to boot it up. Then it starts transmitting the instructions to build a wormhole . Lone engineer who held out hope discovers the signal after the project was mothballed. (sorry this bit stolen from Contact). Or instructions for a hyperdrive.
The idea that ARM solves power issues seems a bit overblown and driven by Apple purchasing the most advanced nodes sooner than competitors, causing people to associate the efficiency gain with the architecture even though a lot of it is the silicon process.

Edit: Also Apple can and does do away with legacy support which is less about the architecture and more about expectations of what is included vs. deprecated. The push to ARM seems like it will result in a loss of support and control in the users' hands (converting expectations of PCs into those of smartphones) but now I'm really into speculative territory...