skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If it's a Chinese run spider that flags websites that contain banned terms, does this mean that we can effectively block certain websites from China as a form of denial attack?

Yes? That's basically why a bunch of western social media sites are banned in china, because people post subversive content there and the site's administration refuses the government's request to take it down. If you tried it on booking.com or whatever, it won't work, both because your comments will be taken down by site administration for being off topic, but also because the site is big enough that they won't take automated actions (hopefully). At best you can take down small to medium sites that don't have active moderation teams. Moreover, this isn't an attack that's limited to china, it can be used against any sort of content blocking system. Sites have been blocked from google browsers (via google safe browsing) due to malicious UGC, and you can even take down the whole site if you email the abuse department of their hosting provider.
Or maybe it's just an selectively enforced ban using on software that doesn't accept their root certificates.
I’m adopting an Example Driven Development approach in my latest project. The project is a library/framework with a public interface. EDD is great in this case. To explore and experiment new features, I turn the use cases into runnable examples and use those to drive the internal implementation. This combines feature implementation, documentation, examples, and testing in one shot.
No need to bypass HTTPS. Just crawl any server that shows up in the logs and block the domain if it has any blacklisted keywords.
Could you throw that in a page to block Chinese bots/crawlers?
> But this was also murder. If your sense of empathy is so fucked that you’re pro murder, you need to speak to a professional.

A quote comes to mind - “I do not wish death upon another human, but I have read some obituaries with great delight”. This is one of those instances.

I have more sympathy for his family than him - he did not have to choose this line of work. Do people have sympathy for Bin Laden or other terrorists? If they don’t, do they need to see a therapist?

Anecdotally, the only people that I’ve spoken to who has sympathy are other extremely well off individuals who have questionable ethics. I also think it’s interesting that because the victim is an elite, there’s a sense of justice from other elites that is not there when a common man is shot and killed.

The whole thing is a double standard on multiple levels.
In the Python ecosystem there has been quite a bit of debate around workflow tools (Hatch, PDM, flit, Poetry etc.) I tried out Poetry starting in probably 2018 or so and eventually realized how much I hated it: it was lagging behind on standards and the install/uninstall process was a moving target. But more than that, it... was an all-in-one tool, with its own definition of "all", almost all of which was irrelevant to me and which I was simply ignoring. I never ended up trying other options because I realized I would still have that same experience - although their various definitions of "all" are not identical.

I very much see the need in the Python ecosystem for a fully integrated user-level tool - something that sets up environments and allows people to use dependencies in their own one-off scripts. Pipx is almost there, if you build some wrappers around it to deal with the fact that it artificially refuses to "install" what it considers "libraries" (i.e. packages that don't define any explicit entry points). But it still is a bit rough around the edges, and more importantly is still based on Pip which has many faults. (I don't blame the design of `venv` for very much if anything, even if it's not quite how I would do things if we could start completely fresh; but it could use some nicer wrappers.)

But for development I've always thought it makes more sense to take a "Unix way" approach. Developers need the user tool for the basic mechanics of setting up packages, and then an actual toolchain built around that, with the chance to select individual tools according to their needs and preferences.
Some stories I heard while living in China. A couple of decades ago farmers in china’s arid regions used to be tasked with planting trees, they would plant them upside down because they knew they didn’t have enough water to feed the trees and their crops. The Gobi was planted with trees a few times to reduce dust storms, but it takes a lot more than just planting trees, so the dust storms would always invariably return as the trees died out. There also used to be a graduation requirement that all students plant trees to graduate, they had farms dedicated to this, and they would dig out the trees planted by the last class so the next class could re-plant them.

I have no idea how effective today’s efforts are compared to efforts of the past. They could have solved the water problem with irrigation or are using more drought resistant trees. It could be that the green belt is going to stick around this time, if the experience is different from the Gobi experience somehow.
> ...does this mean that we can effectively block certain websites from China as a form of denial attack?

I believe this is known. I have a file saved somewhere with a list of terms that allegedly trigger Chinese blocking.

I won't post it here :) It's pretty useless, in a practical sense. If I say anything the Chinese government wants to block, I'd rather their citizens see it.
> neither side gives a shit about the historical reasons

this goes directly against my understanding and also against all of my anecdotal experiences

for example, people I know who lived in China described to me that bad guys in TV shows are often Japanese war criminals
I get that the most likely is that Tom Evans didn't like it, but could the copyright claim not be for the khruangbin^ track that he plays at the end to test the repaired channel?

I remember when I had a few friends who were making/mixing music they had to be very careful when uploading to YouTube due to automatic shazam style fingerprinting

^ I think. Didn't get to read the label

Edit: mentioned by someone upthread too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42358894
Msm won't say the quiet part out loud if it involves corporate power, because msm is a corporate power themselves.

Everyone who has stepped in a hospital as provider or patient knows an insurance executives job is to quietly kill hundreds to thousands of people a year and profit from it.

Of course there's oil companies, cigarettes, alcohol, guns, weapons, and a lot of other industries that do this.

Because the real quiet part of capitalism is that its valuation of human life is very very very small unless they have money. Have many criticisms of economics, but this is the biggest one. Capital owned/controlled by a human is all that is valued, otherwise you are zero or negative.
I don’t think we should anthropomorphize plants to the point where we feel guilty about eating them, but I do think society as a whole is missing a kind of fundamental respect for nature and discounts the complexity and interestingness of plant life.

In a world where conserving nature is simultaneously increasingly difficult and increasingly important, I don’t mind a bit of artistic license when it comes to descriptions of plant life if it leads to more awareness and more people thinking twice about plants and how we treat natural ecosystems.

Obviously there’s a balance to be struck though.
Responsibility of software devs must begin somewhere, no?
Yeah, this is bad. I tried to deploy a new update to my website, and it didn't work. I thought my computer was broken when it said `tailwindcss` wasn't in the registry.
Interesting I Google'd this and it costs NHS in UK £1,350 GBP aka $1,719.22 USD for same 20 pills at same dosage (document dated 2019)

https://gmmmg.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Fidaxomicin-...
Experiencing same issue, though npm status still shows all green.
> This accusation is only a bombshell if you lived under a rock for the past decades

This logic seems slightly strange to me. If it turned out that, for example, Harvard University was pulling some sort of html trick to attempt to block black students from applying, would that not be a bombshell because racism against black people is already known to exist in the United states?
They didn't block anyone. They're making a mockery of Chinese censors. It's a political and satirical act.
>why would the Tokyo University be guilty of discrimination just by adding that string to their website?

because we all can put 1 + 1 together and aren't stupid and understand that the intent here is to discriminate against Chinese applicants, secretly at that? The university of Tokyo is a public university, I'm pretty certain like most other universities in the world they have obligated themselves to not discriminate foreign students outside of what the law stipulates.
Have you seen a lot that's been clear cut right after and then after 5/10/20 years? They've got some near me where they cut adjacent lots every so often and they're on a cycle to do it again after whatever the interval is.

If you cut the whole thing down at once, yeah, maybe it won't come back. But if you do a reasonable section, it comes back alright.

So, current management practices are only cut down what you need to produce lumber and other wood products and wood adjacent stuff; plus the extras that get cut and don't make it to the mill whatever.

I think the proposal is to cut more, and drop them off into deep ocean where they won't decompose much. As trees grow, they turn environmental carbon dioxide (and other inputs) into wood, but an established forest is mostly steady state in carbon dioxide... cutting it down and depositing it into the ocean is a way to keep the existing carbon dioxide as wood and turn more carbon dioxide into new wood.
I can't believe the question was even asked.
This is the equivelant of the POTUS saying "Hey guys, we realized that there was a plastic water bottle in the water supplies, so we are turning off water supplies."
Contemporary phones are powerful enough for all your needs so long as they don't run on web UIs and are written in compiled languages.
downdetector
What does this mean? With a personal computer I can do anything I want, for my own benefit. With an iPhone I can do what Apple gives me permission to do, subject to what benefits them.
What really makes me feel old is calling systems from 2005 retro :)
I have installed a package, it works
How Atari 8-Bit Computers Work [video]
A science mega-program is taking shape in the EU: what it means for researchers
Harvard is ostensibly anti-racist, and I think the implication is that japan/chinese is actively racist against each other, so it's not surprising.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/bitcoin-min...
The reason for throttling after battery health dips below a certain point is to prevent the SoC from creating spikes in power demand that the battery is unable to service (which becomes progressively more likely as the battery degrades) so the phone doesn’t crash at inopportune times.

Back in the mid-2010s when I was broke and getting by on a worn out hand-me-down iPhone I would’ve loved to have that feature. It really sucks when your phone dies in the middle of a business call at 40% battery thanks to one of those aforementioned spikes.
I've had conversations with real people in real life who also overwhelmingly share the sentiment. It's not an internet bubble.
> Still, both countries do trade a lot which I don’t understand.

What’s there not to understand? It makes money.
Another post is reporting 404s on another package. It looks like an outage.
Meanwhile, deployments keep getting rolled back?

Sounds like this mistake:

> > avoiding hard conversations with your reports.

And hoping that things will get better soon. But:

> > Sadly it is the single biggest cause for dissatisfaction

that can also be among others in the team, who have to deal with the rollbacks.
Okay so months can pick up ultrasonic sounds, plants emit such sounds when stressed, and the moths prefer plants that aren't emitting stress signals to increase likelihood of offspring survival. Every part of that seems pretty amazing.
Oh, scheduled maintenance? https://status.npmjs.org/
Don't worry, the world has moved on to overly angular "low poly art". The horror game Mouthwashing being an example.
> If a clear majority of voters support a project or policy

thing is, projects run into reality. if a majority voted to build the starship enterprise today would it make sense to do it just because a majority wanted it
Insurance companies are hardly the only ones at fault here. Hospitals and Pharma companies are guilty of price gouging [1]. When insurance pays hospitals hike up the prices. When the patient pays (such as for cosmetic or plastic surgery) the prices charged by hospitals and doctors are more reasonable.

[1] https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-05-31-hospital-price-gougi...
The citizens mostly don’t gaf, they love Japan as a tourist destination. All is forgotten once they get the first sip of ramen soup when they arrive
This is already a solved problem with Nix shell (except the task runner part). I don't understand why there are any other alternatives still being developed. Nix supports more packages than any other solution, it's battle tested and cross platform (didn't try on Windows but on Mac OS it works fine). And it's more reproducible than any other package manager.
I'm sure you know but for others reading, 12v ws2811 are grouped in threes, so not individually addressable. 5v is, and when you're working at scale power injection isn't a huge deal as you'll be doing it anyway.

Always standardise your connectors. I'm a fan of the Ray Wu ones.

ESP/WLED driven is my preference, but the Falcon controllers are popular amongst people who are more DIY/woodworking oriented as they're much simpler to set up and not _heaps_ more expensive. Falcon Player/xlights is the standard software for designing/playback of your show regardless of hardware.

Coro props (corrugated plastic, corflute) are a cheap and effective way to stand out from the crowd. Animatronics, smoke etc are also an option when going more advanced.

It's a lot of work. You rarely want to start after October or order your goods after July. You are running a live production and things will go wrong. Good luck to anyone entering the space, it's very fun and expensive!
Very funny to me.
And the Ubuntu touch https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/
That's how it was described to me by several R&D staff at JnJ two decades ago.
There's also lots of modern budget phones that are using 5 year old processors, shitty cameras but modern OS support.
I'm having the same issue, although it seems to be intermittent/recovering. Some packages I saw 404s on seem to be coming back.
Not the parent, but I use it for projects (including Python projects) to run tests, code generation etc. when I can’t use mise.
With respect to hardware only, perhaps. But the OS is still locked down compared to a real desktop OS and the apps are simplified for touch interfaces, and designed for content consumption first and production second.
Tell me you have never lived in or near the southern border of USA without telling me directly ;)
NPM packages are down world-wide
Maybe they want the Chinese students who are smart enough to open their eyes to the world.
Or you can use the phone in your pocket to call your dad and anyone who might know about his status.
Configuring the qutebrowser UI is a major reason I used qutebrowser for some years. I love ricing my system and saving screen real estate with a minimal UI bloat is nice.
I don't think this true. Microsoft really, really tried to make UWP a real thing so you could buy a Windows Phone and turn it into a PC by adding it to a docking station, and consumers were totally uninterested. I've never seen or heard of anybody using Samsung Dex in any real capacity apart from a party trick either. I think lack of phone-PC convergence is a bottom-up phenomenon, not a top-down one.
After digging into it more, it seems `just` requires `sh` to function, adding friction for Windows developers. I don't develop on Windows but that friction does reduce portability.

There's ambiguity in which package to use on Node. Both `just-install` and `rust-just` are recommended in the docs, with no disambiguation. `just-install` is maintained by another party and adds an attack surface I'm not sure I'm comfortable with given my current needs. The other recommended package, `rust-just` is also maintained by another party, has bad SEO and recommends being installed as a global dependency.

All of this just adds too much friction if one is already using a package.json. My monorepos frequently contain codebases in multiple languages and so far a package.json and workspaces workflow has met my needs.

I appreciate everyone for answering my questions and giving advice.
Shut the fuck up. We'll stop cheating when these corps stop making us solve binary search algorithms to interview for front end React roles. Probably 80% of all technical interviews I've had were completely irrelevant to the actual daily work. They engineered this shitty game, we're just playing the game. No one's making you play this game.
Israel and Ukraine are rather different in that it is hard to have much sympathy for Russia as they are the ones who chose to invade and they could go home any time they get fed up. The palestinians don't have that option.

Personally I think the west should have been firmer early on that the Russian invasion was unacceptable and they should go or be forced out. Instead they were kind of wishy washy.
What if it was a Chinese dissident who is opposed to the censorship and authoritarian behavior of the CCP?
If you're viewing "Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, news articles, et al", that's usually not so. Each of these platforms optimize their default views to show you the content they expect will be most engaging, although the first three apply some algorithmic filtering to try and make the content engaging to you in particular rather than the average viewer.

Equally importantly, the content that gets produced is subject to this same filter. If you think the killer was justified, or you think the impulse to justify the killer shows everything that's wrong with America, you'll be excited to go write out a banger Tweet on the topic. If you have the boring, conventional view that all murders are tragic and you hope killers are brought to justice for the sake of the victim's friends and family, it's not going to occur to you to comment on this particular one.
As a task runner. What do you use?
You don't think a conspiracy to keep Chinese students from applying to a university while on the surface saying you are open to such applications would cause any backlash? Regardless of your geopolitics, it's weird to claim one thing and secretly do another, especially regarding college admissions
Reinforcement learning and Kullback–Leibler divergence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback–Leibler_divergence
I don't see who is refusing to sell you a phone with various attachments that make a workable computer (especially given 3rd party providers). I just bought such with an iPad. You could do something along the same lines with an iPhone I suppose but I'd probably find it unsatisfactory. Still on the fence whether the iPad is still a fully satisfactory companion device for traveling in general.
Apologies to all but acdha: just realized that, in this thread, I was speaking to the wrong end of the horse!8-((
If he is found and sent to jail it would be fascinating to see how he is viewed on the inside.

If there's one thing that crosses almost all class and racial divides, it is our shitty medical care system.

My (now passed) uncle was in jail to challenge drug incarceration laws back in the 60s, since the opposition needed a case that wouldnt settle to reach the supreme court.

No one would touch him in jail.
This is why CEO pay transparency is so important!
Makes me feel worse

People will glorify retro stuff but if you say you're using OpenGL 2 to support cheap hardware they ask why you don't use 4 and some new high-end feature

There's a valley where something is old enough to be uncool but not old enough to be cool again
I’m not going to shame you for your parental experience, but it does not mirror mine as a father.

When my daughter was born I was crying with joy. And while her infancy was enormously challenging, especially as she was born right when COVID lockdowns began (which prevented ANY assistance), I was immediately and profoundly in love with her.

It was very important to me to be extremely engaged when she was an infant. I wanted to - and did - earn her trust as a caretaker and source of comfort. And now, as a 4 year old, the relationship I have with her is utterly priceless.
> If the government seeks to filter any and all websites containing a given string, why would the Tokyo University be guilty of discrimination just by adding that string to their website?

They are building on it, and continue the discrimination. And the reason for this is also discrimination in itself. Or is there any other legit reason for adding this specific keyword in an unrelated site?
Because some people may not want nix. Mise is, in my experience, much easier to get into and start using.
"Seemed"? It has been for a long time, audio enthusiasts that aren't suckers just keep on buying from Genelec/Neumann and other proven manufacturers publishing relevant measurement data.
They took an action with the intent of making the website inaccessible in China.

It is political, and it is satirical, and it is discrimination. Better to argue that it is righteous discrimination than that there was no discriminatory intent.
>Syria has been an ally of the Soviet Union and Russia for decades through the Assad family

I realize that and I realize that this outcome is bad for Moscow, but the Nazis (and others, e.g., the Turks) went through Ukraine to invade Russia whereas no one has ever gone through Syria to get at Russia, so I would expect Moscow to care less about whether the government of Syria is aligned with Moscow than whether the government of Ukraine is aligned with Moscow.
Rule of 3s. Even more basic than this, never create an abstraction for a routine only used once.
Yup.

This sort of fallacious thinking happens a lot on the Internet. "X can't be the bad guy because look at what Y did".

One group doing something bad doesn't automatically make the other group innocent.

It's also true that terrible acts by members of a group does not (nesissarely) justify harsh punishment to all members.
I suspect it might be more useful tying this to accelerometer data form my phone etc. I will get the code into some decent shape over next few lunchtimes and see how to get historic accelerometer data / location data - it must be feasible somehow.

However I suspect that Apple already has 50 people working on it
Racism is perhaps not the right term. Xenophobia is a better term. A lot of Japanese people and Chinese people who have never left their respective countries have a dim view of all foreigners. Both countries are also well known for being extremely difficult to immigrate to.
It seems to be back up for me.
You mean a Chinese student who bypasses government restrictions? Yes, surely such a student will be great at your university and follow all your rules...
You've literally been able to do this for nearly a decade with most Android phones.
This post caught my attention because I do the same thing! Yes, it absolutely works.
My old Samsung S20FE can plug into my office-issue Dell monitor and give me full Dex desktop (also using the second screen) and connect to the keyboard and mouse that stay wirelessly connected to the USB ports on the screens. IIRC it also made use of the headset plugged in via USB.

If I was a student with Chromebook-style needs (browser-based tools) it would be worth considering instead of a laptop.