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>or on punishing foreigners who say inconvenient things

I wonder how many people are/will be affected by current DHS policy…[0].

Also like another comment here said, with the passage of the CLOUD act (which mostly legalizes behavior that of which was already being engaged in), the US can get foreign powers to act on their behalf if they so choose.

As an US citizen who has been living abroad for almost two years now, I'm not here to point out equivalencies, but state that technology will be leveraged by those who see fit regardless of the country or if one believes in their "foremost defender of the modern rules-based order".

>This difference is essential.

Only if one believes it to be so (and I suspect many people do), though the ones who seem to suffer most will be the poor and the marginalized, and will continue to be so long after when the war drums eventually stop and the battles breakout…

[0] https://papersplease.org/wp/2018/01/05/new-dhs-policy-on-dem...
I remember a few weeks ago a when some Microsoft software engineers came to the career fair at Univ. of Maryland. One of them was working on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, so I ended up bugging him for about an hour on when they'd support GPU passthrough for Ubuntu on Windows.

He said it was on their list of most requested features, but refused give me a data on when it would be ready :/
You might want to also talk to small businesses in France that deal with with unexpected setbacks -- from what I have observed, this usually ends up with a dead startup.
It works better though, if you start from zero and hire people that drank the Koolaid.

It's hard to shoehorn it into an existing team where some portion of the team doesn't believe the premise. For example, some people (introverts, Asperger's spectrum, etc) will just never be comfortable with pairing.

Pivotal doesn't have this problem because developers that don't believe wouldn't ever apply for a job there.

But, that doesn't help Pivotal in their consulting practice. Very few of their clients would have the same advantage.
It is not that hard to imagine being fired by "clicking" likes, let's not oversimplify like this. Official tweeter accounts carry weights. Plus this is not about China at all, what if this is a Nazi tweet? An ISIS tweet? An anti-LGBT tweet? It's either the company's way of dealing with PR problems, or the employee's misconduct, but not about China.
In no country is it ok to deliberately drive into a human.
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Seems like they could have saved themselves a good deal of money and headache by offering this guy a severance package ahead of his firing being made public.
>But, why should the US government be any better?

Its foundational principles are superior.
> how do you stop task submitters from rooting your box and recruiting it into an AI botnet (for free)?

Only real way to do this is run the job in a VM with a GPU and CPU+motherboard that support passthrough (read: not consumer NVidia GPU's, your CPU+board must support an IOMMU and your card cannot freak out when being reset after initialization).
Keybase is how I found this site. Was looking through the list of accounts I could prove, and figured this was worth checking out.
> The tweet exhibits a positive sentiment

Not if you are the Chinese government... not at all.

> This is another example of China exerting influse on the open web

This has nothing to do with the open web, there is not censorship involved. This was Marriott's business relationship with China.
Instead of having the party ssh into a VM installed on the user's machine, potentially exposing a high majority of the user's codebase, have you considered spinning up temporary containers on your back-end and having contributors install something like remote CUDA or remote OpenCL so that only the GPU kernels are transferred to the contributor, who's client software polls a network queue checking to see what kernel should be run and where the results should be sent?
we want MSN! (bat_emoji)
The way I see it, Rust exposes more of the underlying complexity of things which makes Rust itself appear more complex than its peers.
I suspect this is simply asking too much of human driver. The human brain is not wired to be constantly alert without any ongoing stimulus. If someone else is doing the cognitive load, it is extremely difficult not too get bored and 'drift off'.
This may be the most civil discussion I've ever seen on the web. Spread out over 11 years! Amazing. I love HN.
Oh goodie, I wonder if Netflix is going to disable 4K support on PC as a result of this (the requirement for Skylake was due to SGX).
Forced labor? Forced speech? Demanding others time without compensation? What is Europe becoming?
Denmark is famous for having a social safety net that makes sure laid-off employees have the skills to get a new job. It's a happy medium between excessive employee protections and lack of employee protections.
I agree. My attitude is such because there are no apparent 'legitimate' services - IMHO the few people who really do need such anonymity, is far overshadowed by allowing pedophiles a free arena to exploit kids, or cartels to commercialize drugs and murder.

Since inherently there is no way to restrict the type of services available, its unlikely that any 'legitimate' would change my attitude; there are other ways to share private, or anonymous information.
Unleashing a just trained AI trader into EOSUSD (who knows what can happen)
When a parent lose a child. (The death of a child)
Idris?

It can compile small enough to run on an Arduino: https://github.com/stepcut/idris-blink
Yeah, Americans seem pretty indifferent on such issues, probably because they oppress others too well and don't get to hear such things themselves.

What if a major French company lists the Falklands under Argentina? What if open street map deletes Israel? What if Airbus "likes" a tweet from a middle eastern man that calls for the complete removal of US forces from Iraq? Things like that matter, and really piss off the involved parties, especially when they're at least technically correct (as in the case of Tibet being autonomous, but de-facto part of China).
Charles Mudede is the Stranger's equivalent of an internet troll. As soon as I saw the title I knew he wrote this. No one in the region takes him seriously as a journalistic force.

Sweeping generalizations? Check

One sided / shallow presentation of complex societal issues? Check

Half baked rant out the changing nature of the city? Check

Here's another one of his gems: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/10/17/25475173/big-umb...

The middle class in Seattle doesn't live in an RV in Seattle. They live in Auburn, Burien, Renton, Lynnwood, and Everett. Same is true for any other large city, no? How many middle class people live in downtown Boston, or San Jose?
This "fatal flaw" works strongly in their favor.

Good luck building a version of Facebook that billions of people would pay for.
> What about criminals who have their friend video their crimes to put on Youtube? Do you want the friend to be let off too? Isis did this a lot. In both cases, the journalist is helping the criminals whose aim is to be publicly seen.

"Embedded" "journalists" also come to mind.
Ask HN: Which back end framework would you choose for a startup in 2018?
I have never built a web application besides ultra-simple RoR apps. Preferably, I would like a framework that makes refactoring easy, quick development possible and has great maintainability.

Java-Play,
Ruby-Rails,
Python-Django,
C#-ASP.NetCore2,
Go-?

I am tempted to go for C#-ASP.NetCore2 given that I prefer statically-typed languages. However, I am not sure why it isn't popular amongst the HN crowd. Java-Play seem like a similar alternative, but I hate Java's verbosity.

RoR and Django seem to be in the same category.

Go seems to be made for experienced developers that know what they are doing.
In my opinion, there is a bigger problem with at will employment than being able to be fired at any time. If your employer wants to change your contract in almost any fashion, their continued employment of you is considered to be sufficient “consideration” for the change.

They want to put you on call? No extra pay required. Change you to the night shift? You still have a job, that’s sufficient.

It’s an employee rights disaster.
This is incorrect. The French like to complain about their taxes, but it's not that different from California.

Employee protection regulation absolutely is problematic in France, because it over-protect relatively small groups at the expense of everyone else.

Small and medium-sized businesses are most affected by this. The transition from 40-ish people to 200-ish people is where the system really breaks down for French startups, because you are too big to benefit from the early-stage incentives, and not large enough to have political clout and bend the rules.
when i started using twitter back in 2008, that's how it felt to me -- that # tags were basically irc rooms and twitter itself was just a big async irc
And further back, if you consider Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) to be SF. There is a flying island, after all.

SF and fantasy give authors much greater leeway to challenge cherished beliefs. Because it's all so preposterous.
> You could farm it out to two people and if the results disagree, then payment is decided by a third. But then you've just doubled the (paid) workload, and you've not really solved collusion by a significant portion of the workers.

That would be the naive/bruteforce way to verify trust.

Just like you can find a substring faster via Boyer–Moore than a char-by-char match, there are more efficient ways to verify trust in a distributed environment like this. There's a few white papers on the topic.
It’s a psychological thing, like hiding the number of upvotes a comment has received on HN. Everyone knows they’re being hidden, but it helps prevent bandwagoning anyway.
The numbers I can find on Google are the classic Motorola 8000X "Brick phone" (AMPS technology) transmitted at up to 1.5W when handheld, and a modern LTE phone transmits at up to 0.2W.
A dictatorship like China raising the issue over Tibet is the equivalent of (an alternative universe) powerful Nazi Germany getting someone fired in the U.S. over liking a tweet about Jewish rights issue.
I think more generally, and particularly on social media, we need to cease to take people "being offended" seriously. The world is full of professional offendees, taking offense at any small pretext and storming social medias in revenge. The idea that anyone can set an arbitrary line anywhere he wants (and often after the fact), pretending to be offended and demanding apologies or reparation is dangerous and unhealthy. Anyone who entertains these professional offendees is locking himself into a position of perpetual apologies and self-censorship.

The article does mention that twitter is blocked in China, and therefore that the social media storm is most likely not genuine.
This sounds pretty awesome. I wish I had perminent internet to the house so I could offer my rigs. I hope this service takes off, it should be a much better use of electricity and gpus than mining. Please do keep developing this, with the down turn in mining there should be a large pool of potential gpus. If this service can connect those gpus to researchers then that should be a lucrative business Ling term.
I would expect that much of your data would remain, though specific portions would be anonymized. I would guess that photos, the contents of posts, etc. would vanish (eventually), but the account id and metadata, connections to other accounts, events, and the like, would remain in perpetuity.
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Not sure what your point is, if you have no money, you are screwed whatever the country.
I don't see gender, i see business tactics in practice.

Gender politic us good pr, and a brilliant response to their received attacks.

Hope they kick ass, but this isn't about gender, that's consequential.

At least thats like my opinion man
It would be morally bankrupt to rely entirely on a quantitative test for something that is qualitative, I don't know how much clearer with the previous comment I can get?
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Savor every stroke? Timeless? See that's what I'm talking about. Fountain pens and gel pens are both tools but somehow people associate fountain pens with class. It's great that you like fountain pens but you must admit, you like the image more than the actual pen.

I think gel pens are more practical tools, but I like the image better as well. To me, fountain pens are like fedoras... people think wearing a fedora makes you classy like some noir detective. Except to everyone else, it makes you look sily.
I'd be lest worried about the GPU itself dying and more the fans running 24/7 at higher speeds. Still, a decent fan should last for years even running at 100% PWM - and most GPU's come with fairly length (often lifetime) warranties.

I would love to let my 1080 Ti be put to use when I'm not playing games on it, cryptocurrenty mining was fairly profitable until a month or so ago and now the power usage (even at $0.10/KWh) isn't covered by the returns after paying the tax bill (I could always file the revenue under my LLC and deduct the electricity expenses and even deprecate the hardware cost, but without a dedicated rig and power monitoring it's a tax audit nightmare waiting to happen).
It turns out that I actually disabled pretty much everything years ago. So my activity is empty!
WOW that escalates quickly. I thought the Americans liked capitalism.
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and yet those companies dont dominate the rental car market.. and plenty of other manufacturers sell cars to other rental companies.

Proves my point. Having expertise in building cars, doesn't translate over into running a transportation company. They're two separate enterprises.

Uber isn't going to go out of business just because someone else produces the cars.
Your "small_increment" needs to be at least large enough to turn the smallest negative int into a non-negative number, and that makes it unrepresentable as a signed int itself.

There are cases where the compiler removes misguided overflow checks, since "perform UB, then check whether it happened" doesn't actually work, but your example is not such a case.
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Zasssssssssssss! In his mouth. You Win.

And your opinion is my opinion. It's not a good idea because it is not free.

You could create anything worthless that would mean "the token", and that would be enough.

You could use PGP keys if you want it to be private and to run.
knew about this over 10 years ago playing halo with plasma weapons.
there is no such thing as journalistic immunity. They are private citizens same as you or me. Laws protecting the press apply to us too.
> Whoever is first to market will compete directly against Uber.

That's true, but then Uber can just run at a loss until someone else develops self-driving tech and sells it to Uber.
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Trump on the President of China taking power for life:

"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great. I think it’s great."

Doesn't sound like standing up to China to me.
Dude was poor with poor parents who worked his ass off to become a multimillionaire.

And a lot of people do care about fairness. He wouldn't have delved in this troll personality if the witch hunt hadn't happened.

Don't put everyone in the same bag.
Not sure exactly when the modern age began, but pretty sure it wasn't ancient Greece.
This is an absolute joke. Take a look at the data. https://sci-hub.hk/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

The sample size is far too low to draw any conclusions. Only a small handful of rats in each group got tumors. The authors must know this! They got a p-value <0.05 for just one of the numbers, the male rats at 50 V/m, 1.4% incidence of Schwannomas. The entire group (both female and male) was only at 1.2% and this was not considered statistically significant. By the way, the one-tenth-dose group (5 V/m) had fully 1.5% incidence of Schwannomas.

And yet the conclusion claims "These experimental studies provide sufficient evidence to call for the re-evaluation of IARC conclusions regarding the carcinogenic potential of RFR in humans." I have no words.
I'm a millenial and even I think dating apps are for pussies.
Startups are a form of volatile research projects that could be done better in a corporate environment. Startups provide precarious and unstable employment, and on average they fail and lead to unemployment.

I personally love working on new, potent ideas, but this is not a viable model of development for society. "Gig economy" is getting out of control, and it's better to kill the startups than to let people abuse the legal loopholes they require.

If you cannot provide a certain minimum of employment time, you shouldn't hire people. As for short-term contracts, they were misused a lot post-2008, but the situation is much better now and most people won't work under such contracts.
Thanks for saving me a click. I can't wait until the gender war dies.
Yes, that example is well-known but different; here, the compiler is assuming that x + 1 will always be greater than x, which is entirely something else than the parent's assertion of assuming that x + small_increment will always be positive.
In a similar situation, many US startups survive, after laying off of their half their at-will employees. That's my point.
Surely they are using some overlay tool (tweetdeck, etc) instead of direct Twitter access. The tool should have limited or used some approval process for "likes" if that was viewed as risky.
> A lot of young people in France are on short-term contracts, precisely because long-term employees are hard to fire.

Having a long-term contract where you can be fired at-will any day is effectively the same as cumulating short-term contracts, so instead of a lot of people on short-term contracts, you just have everybody (100%) on short term contracts.
There are almost always loopholes and gray areas. I'm pretty sure its illegal, but here is one example: I hire you to rebuild my kitchen; I eventually 'run out of money' and lay you off. 3 months later I rehire you to finish the kitchen. Are you really a full-time employee? Am I responsible for your healthcare? Or are you still just a contractor? In this example, i'll bet most would say no, you're just a contractor. But that is also just at your house, not some mega-corporation...gray area, right?

I believe its the use of layoff and such terminology, that gets them around laws
Yeah that is the sole reason neither me and mine do not have a Dropbox account to this day, and why I would not consider applying there
Israel isn't "at will"...
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I was referring more to the “many in the West who supported the Soviets as the future of humanity”, which was very much an ideological question.

Detente was a short-lived policy of the Nixon years. By the early 1980’s, US foreign policy pivoted more strongly to a consistent anti-Soviet stance, consistent with the neoliberal revolution in economics that predicted the failure of central economic planning and invalidated countless Nixon-era policies both on the domestic and foreign levels. It may have been a surprise to the West just how much of a house of cards the Soviet bloc was, but it was probably also a surprise to Gorbechev that the Soviet system couldn’t survive his attempts at reform.

The far more optimistic notions about the USSR had their heyday during WWII, when their rapid industrialization and valiant defense against Hitler won them considerable respect, and the “enemy of my enemy” situation shielded them from the now-obvious criticisms of Stalinism.
"I think the Hawaii example was rhetorical"

And my point was that it was a very poor analogy.

"we even have laws against doing business with BDS supporters in some states"

Link? I see some laws against state governments doing business with those companies, but nothing that says that a private business (like Marriott) has to fire supporters of that movement, nor do we have laws that prohibit those companies from doing business at all.
It’s Uber for AWS.
> Why should you have a right to work at a particular place?

Well, that's not what I said though. I said a right to pursue employment. That is, to be free to negotiate for an agreement with no forcible terms, to exchange something you have for something you want more than what you're exchanging.
It's amusing how much dread is inspired inside when I try to make a comment here. Can't say anything without marking myself against one of the many parties here. What a drama!
Paid additional functionality and paid community support.

We think with a quality product there should be enough users willing to pay to support ongoing updates & development.

General adblocking functionality should be kept free.
He said "modern beneficiaries", not that the conquest itself was modern.

Maybe he was talking about Spain, Portugal, or the Netherlands.
Haha, I will admit to using the 'Airbnb for GPUs' to explain this.
We're currently having a nationalist/populist period.
Remote CUDA seems incredibly useful - this is an excellent idea - I'll look more into it tonite.
GDC's 'realistic' talk about game sales on Steam paints a grim picture
Right. It's a good thing that the US has two drastically different major political parties and not just one like China.
You’re being obtuse. It’s morally bankrupt to experiment on humans without their informed consent. At least, I hope you’re being obtuse, and not just utterly broken.
> A lot of young people in France are on short-term contracts, precisely because long-term employees are hard to fire.

A lot of American workers are on short-term contracts, too, for nearly the same reasons.

> Imagine that you are a startup in France, with long-term employees, and suddenly you realize you screwed up, and you have to cut your expenses in half. Today, that means your startup is dead and all employees are screwed, but in the US, your startup continues with a much lower valuation. Which is better for the worker? There is no right answer, but in France, there's a startup-killing answer.

The risk that it will go out of business is part of working for a startup. It doesn't make sense to punish the rest of us to save a handful of startup employees.
I suppose ^^ might work, although a little odd because by consistency it would otherwise be the "logical XOR", a mythical operator that doesn't actually make much sense.
This seems to imply that had Roy not lived at-will state he would have kept his job and completely misses the real bully in the article.

Read the section on the threats Marriott got. China barred Marriot from making online bookings for a week. China would have done everything in their power to make sure someone was going to suffer for Roy’s mishap.

At-will employment would have changed little about Roy’s situation vs a huge international political bully.