skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beijing would make sense for political reasons, and it also has a strong software culture. Shenzhen for hardware, and maybe Tencent. Shanghai...would be the dark horse in that race, but it is the NYC of China.

I wish they would pick a western city, like Chengdu or Kunming...to become the "san francisco" of China. But there is really not much in those places to work with.
Has anyone proposed a set of "marking" standards for surveillance cameras? For example, presenting a law that government cameras be marked as such, that there is an indication of the audience type (eg some kind of "public audience symbol" for a zoo cam), and maybe some kind of RF broadcast URL, or a URL to be posted within 100 feet for more information?

If just a few localities had regulations like this covering government and private cameras, and if they were reasonably well designed regulations, I'll bet it would be a huge privacy benefit that would give people more peace of mind and improve communities.

There will always be some exceptions for whatever Black Ops are going down in the desert, or whatever, but a lot of these needlessly anxiety-making camera-human-sensor-loop systems could probably be brought to an end quickly.
I agree in principle. But imo in reality, what actually happens is:

1. Most data sets are roughly similar (or at least fall into one of a few cases).

2. Most algorithms are designed beforehand, on ideas of what data could be, not necessarily for actual data.

Take for example sort algs. Sure, you could look at your data and devise a sort that exactly matches it most effectively. But in reality, in most cases, people just use quick sort, which is proven to be efficient on most data sets.
> Part of it is living standards; even the poorest of the poor in New York generally don't live in the cramped, slumlike conditions of the 1900s.

Living standards affect density, but they're not the reason we can't fit 190 people per acre.

Let's say you're in 1900 making 6 story apartment blocks. You could set up a residential district that's 30% road, 20% open space, and 50% building.

Make your average apartment be 600 square feet with a 20x12 living room, two 10x12 bedrooms, a 10x6 kitchenette, a 10x6 bathroom, and an occupancy of 3. Probably slightly reshaped for the sake of windows.

With some extra space for hallways and stairs, you can reach an average ground impact of 75 square feet per person.

That means it only takes a third of an acre to house 190 people, leaving the other 2/3 for businesses. For comparison NYC is currently 75% residential.

Such an apartment isn't huge but it's still twice the size of college dorm.

These days you could build 3x as high and give each person over twice that much space and have lots of elevators and still fit 200 people into a third of an acre. Rent out the bottom floor to shops too.
Yes. With the astronomical level of clout that Elon Musk has, I'm willing to call him immoral, unethical, and a bad person for doing business with KSA. A vanishingly small number of people are as influential as Musk, and his actions inspire and are emulated worldwide. Saudi Arabia is currently trying to rehabilitate its image (while maintaining its vicious corporal punishments, extremist views, support of terrorism, and legalized misogyny) and shouldn't have help from anyone who claims to care about anything other than profit.
> They wouldn't because most of the western democratic countries are now actively preventing China from stealing their technologies.

Thats all kind of small considering the kind of information that has already been dropshiped out with no real punishments to the chinese government itself.

All these efforts are is trying to plug the holes, not realizing the holes aren't just company buyouts but mostly espionage via chinese citizens. Even if you lock them up, they still sent the data, nothing was really prevented.

> And yet Sam Altman is just going to give China free knowhow/technologies.

Yea? Because that's all government and politics. This is markets and profits.

> Are you not aware of the sesame credit enacted by the Chinese government? Facial recognition in cameras installed everywhere?

Yea alot of people actually like it, being able to get benefits for being an upstanding system. I've heard it described as a system of karma.

Besides, we have the same things anyway, credit scores and CCTV, we just have a different cultural view of it.

> Millions of muslims in reeducation camps in Xinjiang?

And we don't put muslims in jail at higher rates than the native populations? See this just all seems like reflecting the fact that all countries have these issues.

> If anything, the Chinese government can take over a private startup quickly, and use the tech against Silicon Valley companies.

Maybe, but that's the business risk you take. If they think that's the best way to run their country, what right do we have to tell them they are wrong? Especially when we aren't exactly innocent.
This piece did feel a little PR/recruit-y, and a bit name drop-y (though obviously the author is a bit of a startup celebrity himself), but even still, it really resonated with me. All the pros and cons have been dead on with my experience. Especially “do work you’re unqualified for”, and that being a great way to learn super quickly.
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> I'm pretty sure Marriott and Benz stand up firsthand to their owners and in their list of priorities access to chinese markets is more important than human rights.

That is indeed the problem.
Not sure what your sources are. It would help to cite sources, or at least come out of anonymity before blasting someone like this. That way we can at least evaluate your opinion based on your relevant background.
Nope. There’re tons of Chinese startups already with or without YC. Would US startups be required to register as Chinese companies if they receive Chinese VC money?
For sure, although I think it isn't as well suited to being a remote daemon. With SimpleSSHD, all concerns are compartmentalized into an app, you get rsync out of the box plus a nice minimalist UI for monitoring. Then adb can be left disabled, and its configuration untouched.
That's just your opinion. Other companies can have other opinions too, as long as the law doesn't force us either way.
We kind of have the opposite problem on my team... all the devs tend to work mostly alone (98+% of the time). Most of the dev communication is with the product owner and the product engineers (non-devs).

We talk about doing pair programming or something in the next release, then we all go back to our respective stacks of work and don’t feel like we have the time to collaborate on anything, unless it’s a question for someone who knows a part of the codebase better.
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It does seem to fail quite a lot - so much that I bookmarked the wayback machine which has a good deal of it archived.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180128095717/http://community....
The Chinese government is not the Chinese people

I don't think the Chinese people approve of many of the things their government does. Though censorship makes dissent harder to "prove"
This sort of whataboutism isn't helpful. We have the right to call out human rights abuses; further, I think we have an obligation to use that right lest we lose it. Are you aware that the average citizen in China simply cannot tell their government that it's wrong? It doesn't matter what abuses the US or other Western nations have or haven't done - the PRC is still in the wrong.
Every one wants to be part of the next Chinese startups, an incubator has less risk than other big corporations. Qi Lu knows technology and knows how to navigate his way with the Chinese government. Hopefully they can be part of the startup ecosystem in China.
The number of seats in Indian medical colleges is 91040. Why not increase these seats by 10 fold. In a couple of decades, that can help.
My employer pays up to $50k for fertility services like this and IVF.

You need pre-approval and many costs are waived if you use a designated center of excellence.
"Remember that completely wonkadiddle Google Manifesto scribbled up by butthurt ex-Googler James Damore? Yeah, his understanding of Evolutionary Science, Biology, History, and well — life — is super suspect."

The author's understanding of reading comprehension must be suspect. The author obviously didn't read the manifesto and is presenting a straw man argument. The manifesto never said women are worse programmers. Only that in aggregate a randomly selected woman from the population has a lower probability of being interested in being a programmer than a randomly selected male.
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You can get boards with a zynq 7020 on them for less than $200.
That's why we speak out (like this!) and force them to do the right thing. As I've said elsewhere, there are things more important than profit. Companies that disagree ought to be boycotted.

Maybe that's naive. It's still the right thing to do. No amount of money can shift what's right and wrong.
Thanks for that, A lot to read there...

Anyway, it seems they've set a Header on all their pages which makes iframes "refuse to load"...

Devtools error:

"Refused to display 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211514' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'deny'."
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Please don't do this. It was obviously a figure of speech.
This is a great idea. It could really turn into a study group for new papers.

You might want to edit your post / title. I don't think I would have known that it was for academic papers if I hadn't have opened the link.
This brings back memories. In high school I helped out with the launch of this wiki.
Nobel what ?
The very idea of a right is that it is universal.
Yes, I will put it out there that Uber/Lyft/fasten/local Uber clone all provided an actual benefit since you knew up front what the cost is.

That, however, does not mean that their network affects are worth their externalities as any individual company could provide services in a city where you knew the price up front, but did not rely on their global network effects
> In my opinion, unit tests should only cover code that doesn't have any side-effects or interact with external dependencies.

Almost sounds like functional code is the easiest to test code...
That was not the issue. Samsung could not both ship Google certified phones and Android phones based on non Google certified forks.

This is what Google got fined for.

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/18/google-face...

The second anti-competitive behaviour was preventing smartphone manufacturers from running competing systems that had not been approved by Google.

For instance, Amazon wouldn’t have been allowed to manufacture both Fire phones and phone that were certified by Google as an Android phone.
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Quite a lot of people who support unbridled refugees come from the same end of the political spectrum where could be found most of the apologists for the regime your grandfather fled.
The US is open to arbitrary FDI so it doesn't matter. China's laws are more...complicated. For example, you can't give stock options to non-Chinese employees if your company is Chinese and not already listed, see https://www.chinalawblog.com/2018/03/china-scam-week-part-4-....

I'm not aware of any foreign funded startups in China currently. I mean, there must be some small players with private foreign funding, but it is so easy to get Chinese funding I'm not sure why anyone would even bother.
(I worked at Bing when this all went down.)

It was a strange departure. He apparently got in some kind of cycling accident and took medical leave from Microsoft for recovery, but then just a few months later he was a senior executive at Baidu. Not sure what was up with that.

But contra the GP, the general opinion both during and after Lu's tenure was that he did a good job. It took a while, but Bing is profitable now, and he did a lot to get that in motion. I imagine it can't be psychologically easy to run an unprofitable department for years with the eye on long-term strategy, especially in the Ballmer era, but he pulled it off. Bing is not the disaster money pit that a lot of HN assumes it to be.
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Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong but vue.js seems to have less than 2% market share among reactive frameworks?
The HackerNews crowd isn't even allowed to make comments on YC seeded company job postings, I wouldn't hold your breath on being able to craft a sister company's code of ethics.
With all due respect, the premise of this comment--that consumers reduce costs by "shopping around" and being cost conscious--is being misrepresented. The plan type I believe you are referring to is a high-deductible health plan. HDHPs have a little success at reducing costs, but mostly at the expense of compromising quality of care. They can be a part of the solution, but they are not "the" solution as you put it.

“Most Americans in HDHPs are not doing things that can help them get the care they need at the lowest possible cost, and even those who are doing so could realize more benefits,” says lead author Jeffrey Kullgren, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., an assistant professor of general medicine at U-M. (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...)

"Research published last year in the American Journal of Managed Care showed that switching to a consumer-directed health plan—an HDHP paired with a health savings account—did, in fact, result in lower outpatient spending. But the researchers, led by Neeraj Sood, vice dean and professor at USC’s Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, found no change in spending on 26 commonly used, low-value services." (https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2018/6/hdhps-cost-sh...)

"Current evidence suggests that HDHPs are associated with lower health care costs as a result of a reduction in the use of health services, including appropriate services" (https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0...)
That's not even something I would argue. I guess my real question would be "what is the difference between a car that passes emissions tests and a car that is modified about 30 minutes after an emissions test"

There are a fair amount of people who will actively pollute because you asked/told them not to, and I wonder if they have a significant effect on the environment
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> the PRC is still in the wrong

Ill just leave it here by saying that to even label something in another culture as "wrong" you first have to understand that the word "wrong" is deeply entrenched in western culture and can't simply just be thrown around at other cultures who have constructed entirely different systems of morality and language to express them.
There is even a sport for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_speedway

(The civilian winter tires have smaller studs of course)
For the community as a whole.
I don't buy "enum is a relation" any more than "VARCHAR is a relation" or "REAL is a relation". These just data types that represent the domain or range of possible values that may participate in a relation.
You're conflating support for communist economic systems with humanitarian leanings. There's certainly overlap between diehard communists and strong humanitarians, but especially with an anti-human rights state like Cuba, anyone holding both ideas simultaneously is undergoing some serious cognitive dissonance. The point you're trying to make is very shoddily constructed.
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What documentaries would you recommend watching and why?
I always thought documentaries to be boring and that changed after watching - Icarus (Netflix): about state-sponsored doping scandal in Russian Olympics teams - Amazing!
Now I want to explore the world of documentaries, on any topic; I just want to expand my worldview.
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Yet Canadians are supplying billions worth of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, and Trudeau has said that he won't be canceling the deal.
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The explanation for call/cc has always been extremely roundabout and confusing to me, especially since setjmp/longjmp aren't themselves typically used in C code.

Here's a hopefully simple explanation: (call/cc f) means "call f and pass it a customized 'return' procedure, which, when invoked with your desired return value, would make this call/cc invocation return that value right here and continue executing the program".
No flamebait or flamewars, please. Least of all nationalistic ones.
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A lot of americans don't approve of many things the government does but we don't call them a dictatorship oppressing the people.

Plenty of western countries are involved in censorship on a smaller scale but that's not considered evil and suppressing the true views of the public.

One easy example being mega projects, here in the west we seem to wax poetic constantly about returning to the good old days where a nation could undertake mega-projects and yet china just keeps doing them faster than we can keep track.

I'm sure many westerners and chinese both want to see these things happen and yet they are doing it and we aren't? Is that some proof that we are suppressed citizens? Or maybe its a bit more nuanced.
Simple, but missing many parts. For example, what happens to variables on the stack? The heap? What does it mean to continue execution from “here” — from this point in time? Does that mean file handles will be closed or re-opened to match the current state of the program?

These questions usually have straightforward answers, but some are counterintuitive.
Not to mention their policies of stealing intellectual property and dumping steel and aluminum. Thankfully and as I expected the US tariffs have really hurt their stock market, meanwhile the US stock market is at near all time highs.
It has nothing to do with nationalism. The PRC is a dictatorship that currently has millions of people in concentration camps undergoing reeducation, suppresses freedom of expression for its citizens, and crushes minority cultures.
Aren't people better off in Cuba than say Haiti? Perhaps,for some quality of life matters more than lack of democracy.
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What do you mean what happens to them? Wouldn't they just be kept alive with the same semantics as how a variable used in a nested function is kept alive? Or is there more that I'm not aware of? If that's all there is to it, the semantics should be second nature if you've done Java, Python, or any other GC'd language, right?
I suspect Altman is a staunch supporter of globalization (his twitter is pretty lefty). Meanwhile there is a large cross section of Americans who aren't as positive and some downright against globalization (myself one of them).
Because scaling this IS hard.
> Thats all kind of small considering the kind of information that has already been dropshiped out with no real punishments to the chinese government itself.

The western world IS punishing the Chinese government right now. $50B in tariffs and investment restrictions. And it is having an effect on China. Chinese leadership is panicking. Its stock market keeps dropping, its currency weakening, its factories leaving. Wait until the tariffs go up higher and higher.

And you make it sound like China has already got all the techs - no it doesn't. Its military at least 2-3 generations behind. It is still far behind in semiconductor technologies, aircraft, engine, hardware, software, operating system, AI, robotics, etc.

> we have the same things anyway, credit scores and CCTV

The world isn't black and white; it's shades of grey. credit score is not as sesame credit. One can travel/leave the country and one cannot. CCTV is not the same as surveilance/arrest without court of law.

> See this just all seems like reflecting the fact that all countries have these issues.

Do you seriously not understand the difference between concentration camps for people that have not violated laws, vs prisons?

> Especially when we aren't exactly innocent.

You don't need to be angelic to stop evil.
Why should I not ask an honest question?

vue.js obviously got more popular with Github taking it up, but I wasn't aware of another surge of popularity.

It's not an obvious figure of speech and I was curious to know if there's a sphere where vue.js is obviously dominant.
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Will this be located in the independent sovereign nation of Taiwan so as to have the benefit of freedom of thought, religion, the rule of law, and private property?
Absolutely, I mean I'm pretty sure Linus isn't using TDD to develop the linux kernel, or git.

My problem is that Uncle Bob's dogmatism, is then cargo culted by mostly 'weak' developers as a shield behind which to create an illusion of competence.

Just repeat outrageous things like everything must be TDD, we must have 100% code coverage, and avoid those tricky decisions called software engineering.
Did you just say that the law shouldn't force us to honor human rights? Are you serious?
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Hahaha, we wish.

Poor people will be kept in different wards, or some understanding will be reached to ensure that the status quo is maintained.

Nothing in India is done just based on the rules, everything is done with the meta rules firmly in mind.

As for your other ideas- these are things you do when you have the ability and personnel to do it. Huge audits and legal systems capable of prosecuting the vast back log of cases.

Edit; That said, I do hope this takes off, healthcare investment in India needs to expand significantly and affordable healthcare is needed. We will definitely need state healthcare to help a lot of people.
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>and certain things behind closed doors.

Such as?
Hey can you tell me what that documentary service you used was? Sounds like exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Dismissing or condemning an entire country like you did, besides being unsubstantive, certainly qualifies as nationalistic flamebait in the sense that we use the term here. Please don't post like this to HN.
It seems like your product is quite disconnected from the clients you can reach.

You need a small scale, low entrance barrier version or even a free baby version.

Enterprise clients require months to convince or even years. Small companies are less invested and quick to try new tools.

You need multipliers and a 2nd source of income to make yourself stable and known in whatever scene your product is targeting.

Use Twitter to talk and connect with relevant people. It helps. FB and others or even SEO? Not worth it.

Was at the same spot last year, Noe sitting at six figures yearly instead of 50 bucks a year.