skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't need a smear campaign to dislike a guy who got so rich selling my personal data to advertising scum that he can afford to buy all the mansions around his, in order to protect his own privacy[0], all the while spending billions on advertising campaigns to tell us poor people that "privacy is dead"[1] while calling his users "dumb fucks".[2]

Zuck's just generally a first-rate piece of shit. If he weren't filthy rich, HN would have no reason to hero-worship him.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-buys-4-homes...

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwri...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zu...
You’ve been reading Rene Girard it would seem. And he’s a good guide to what’s going on: they were all at it, but Zuck is soaking up the blame not just for the ills of the social media biz model but the ills of late capitalism.
These requirements for faxing are becoming almost silly. Not only is the PSTN infrastructure in some areas so bad (40 year old corroded copper lines and such) that there are potential problems every time it rains, but incumbent carriers are trying to do everything they can to rip down what is left of the copper infrastructure. I don’t blame them as this makes practical and financial sense (remove copper phone lines, replace with fiber, offer data and voice through the fiber).

The dream is that the PSTN will be done away with entirely, with all traffic going through the internet.

A big problem is with fax machine manufacturers simply claiming that their machines “are not voip compatible” which is ridiculous, but the extra effort involved with getting faxes to work smoothly over voip can be a nightmare, and not something any vendor wants to be involved in supporting.

The result of this is clients with $15k fax machines reporting a myriad of problems, which the fax machine vendor claims that the only solution is a PSTN phone line for the machine, which in many areas is no longer possible due to the incumbent carrier phasing out the infrastructure or making it incredibly difficult to obtain.

There are a lot of “Efax” services whose purpose is to get around this problem by making the “fax” step just a transparent formality to appease regulatory constraints. Users can send an email with a specially formatted subject, then the “efax” company will actually “fax” the document specified in the email to a phone number owned by the efax company, which is then emailed to the intended receiver.
You are conflating two things in this reply:

There’s the official transfer of technology that happens in some circumstances when a western company wishes to do business in China, that is known and each company makes its own decisions on if this short term trade off is worthwhile.

Americans should be angered that the Chinese, years after joining the WTO, still restrict their markets in this way while enjoying open access to other markets.

This article does not touch the above. It’s about illegal, state sponsored theft of intellectual property. Are you asking why people should be upset another country is attacking companies based in the US and stealing their technology?
Plenty of blame to spare, but "the media" is a vast and wide net without any specific claims. Regardless, it's whataboutism here.

And let's face an uncomfortable fact: the "media" once meant the gatekeepers for information. Facebook is absolutely fulfilling that role in 2018. You cannot separate the two.
But AFAIK, if I have 128 logical cores, I can't say "schedule this thread on any of the 128 cores because you as the scheduler should know better than me". You have to manually manage the two thread groups each of 64 cores because new threads are round robin assigned to the two groups on thread creation and aren't migrated as circumstances change.
Would be nicer if those could be tried without signing up. A misdemeanor.
You did what? Can you show an example? Webpage perhaps?
Capital is not required for innovation. See Open Source, Cuba's CimaVax, the Soviet space program.
The fact that so many jobs require a college degree is a travesty. We should get teenagers into the workforce sooner and provide more relevant and on-the-job training.
> You're not going to stop a pro.

The only thing stopping a pro is to have an uninteresting car. My idea is to have a car good enough not to be easily stolen for a joyride but uninteresting enough for a pro.
It’s not as simple and clear cut as you make it out to be. The IP theft actually destroys many small businesses and companies that were trying to disrupt an industry by coming up with something original. There are many cases like this one:
https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/23/technology/business/america...
You are right, thank you for the pointer.

I guess that the spectacular 28-0 was somehow confusing my ELO opinion engine by concealing the fact that 72 draws are a lot more difficult to achieve than 12 draws (28-12-0 would have been a 300 ELO difference).
in my university, we were allowed to pick any minor with a computer science major because they believed that computer science can be applied to everywhere.

this was in the 90s when many universities required.that compter science be paired with math or a few other selected fields.

turning that into a CS minor with the same sentiment would be an evolution of that approach.

greetings, eMBee.
But bringing it back to the parent comment thread it's easier to manage affinity of your processes than it is to synchronize them across multiple OS instances.
They require use of real names and are popular. That means that there is a decent chance people who encounter me offline might try to look me up there, because all they need is my name.

If my name was something like Lorenzo Von Matterhorn, then I could go without having an account on such sites and people looking for me would find nothing.

But my name is not Lorenzo Von Matterhorn. I have a very common last name, and a reasonably common first name. Such sites have many people with my name. People looking for me will find people with my name.

By having an account at such sites, I can make sure I show up when people look for me, reducing the chance that they will mistake someone else for me which could lead to misunderstandings.
The A0 vs Stockfish 8 match also didn't use endgame tablebases.
> The progress in computing is not "underwhelming"

Again, that's not the claim.
As I was thinking about an improved user interface for the shell, it seemed like at some point you'd hit the limit of what is reasonable given the current split implementation between terminal emulator and shell. Do you think you'll get to a point where you'll need to build an all-in-one solution?
Except the trade war is clearly being lost by Mr. Trump. The article itself indicates that China has only increased this type of activity.

Rough times for the U.S. with such an inexperienced individual and administration in charge. And most indicators point to things only getting worse.
This is a great point and too seldom raised when comparisons like this are made. I only have so much capacity for highly focused engagement in a given day, and even within those periods there is variability to my focus. That Facebook, or any other activity, occupies time that I am less engaged is not an indictment of those activities or the choice to spend that time in a less deliberate way; its just how most people work.

A better criticism in my mind would be to weigh Facebook and its value against actual competitors for people’s attention in those time periods.
He may be soaking up undeserved blame but a lot of it is deserved. He has demonstrated time and again that he has little care for user privacy when that got in the way of selling an ad. People are (hopefully) starting to wake up to how dangerous that is.
Climbing is a lot of fun. It is talked about on HN occasionally but IMO not often enough. Hope to see more submissions about climbing on HN!

Oh and if anyone ITT is in the proximity of Gjøvik, Norway (slim chance) and would like to climb, message me on Mastodon. @codetrotter@vis.social

I am a bit out of shape but I belay safely and communicate well and that’s what matters the most when we climb single pitch, isn’t it ;)

Though of course it is preferable to climb with someone on about the same level to minimize the amount of switching back and forth between routes.
>What real negative effect does the OP article have on society?

All capital intensive innovation (i.e. anything hardware related) effectively comes to a full stop. The potential returns on capital are the only reason people invest in these companies in the first place.

It takes a shocking amount of mental gymnastics to think billions are going to be spent trying new technologies if second comers can just steal the working result for free.
Why does HN encourage this type of copyright infringement?
Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz
There is no webpage, but the client and protocol documentation is included in the ZIP file at: http://zzo38computer.org/sql/sqlext.zip (sqlext_remote.c is the client implementation, and sqlext_remote.doc is client documentation and protocol documentation (it is a plain text file))

Currently there is no server (other than an internal testing program), although you are free to make some if you want to do so.
1.8B is not that much, really. at 50k tuition, that's only 36k people.
More than formatting, I am thinking about defining things like function and classes in a formatting-independent way, and dismissing the order of definitions totally.

You should have a list of classes and namespaces and not have to worry about how they are actually stored in flat files.
The US appears to be shockingly unprepared for social cyberwar.

If you're an aggressor, you don't need to break infrastructure or blow things up. For the cost of a few troll farms, a few training classes in infowar, and maybe a mainstream news outlet or two, you can split any country along its political fault lines and encourage division, sectarianism, social unrest, "spontaneous" terrorism, and perhaps eventually civil war.

A country like the US, which has extremely deep social fault lines, is almost ridiculously vulnerable to this kind of attack.

And with the right financial and/or political incentives, there will always be potential fifth column interests who would support such an effort, as long as they gain personally.

The US has sponsored efforts like these in other countries in the past. There doesn't seem to be much understanding that it's also vulnerable to them - far more than it used to be, thanks to the amplifying effects of social media.
Same here. Plus, when I was more in to that scene, it seemed like a disproportionate number of folks got injuries from bouldering vs free climbing.
There are some obvious measures that the US industry and government can take: improved cyber security, limited access to information, sophisticated employee surveillance, stiff jail term for offenders, background checks on employees with privileged access, etc. However, those measures are already in place in every company that has valuable IP to steal (and in many more companies that do not have anything of value, but like to pretend that they do).

Of course, the US government can go all in, and require something similar to the "Top Secret" classification for all employees working in sensitive high-tech fields. This will certainly reduce trade theft, but that benefit is likely to be dwarved by the damage to the economy from the loss in efficiency, loss of access to foreign labor, and the change in culture: the smartest, most creative and most energetic people often shy away from working in organizations with military-grade security.

Foreign labor is often mentioned as the root cause. Removing all foreign workers from sensitive areas will certainly make state-sponsored industrial espionage more difficult. However, history and common sense suggests there are plenty of US citizens perfectly willing to sell their corporate data to outsiders. So the benefits are unlikely to be dramatic. On the other hand, the economic cost to the US economy would be very high. Moreover, there's a chance this will backfire really badly. Today, it's hard for many countries to keep their best students from leaving for the US. If we solve that problem for them, it may be the very thing they need to close the technological gap with the US.

In general, it seems that state-sponsored espionage can only be controlled with an agreement between states, which ultimately comes down to skillfully negotiating the terms.
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."

Wot? Surely a reasonably decent bunch of journos should have got to grips with GDPR by now.
If the CIA can trace a journalists killing to a crown prince I think the three letter agencies can paint a decently decisive target.
Actual Reason: Bloomberg is planning to announce his presidential candidacy soon.
I’m 35 years old and haven’t immersed myself in something meaningful and of value so far. I know who I am and I’m not capable of much. Not everyone can do something great, meaningful, or valuable.

What’s wrong with just scrolling mindlessly through facebook to help pass the time?
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Good for Bloomberg; I'm sure it will also play nicely for his presidential campaign ;)

But it would be interesting if Bloomberg were to win in 2020 - we would have back-to-back businessman turned chief in command. So far, Trump has been pretty good for US economy. Bloomberg might be even better.
Large companies often get stuck in analysis paralysis, so a decisive leader can be a good thing. I think the more important question is whether the decisiveness originates from core values the company projects our, or if it’s just about defending turf. If it’s the latter, Facebook is in its long slow decline phase as a company
Americans are ok with companies outsourcing their labor to other countries... as long as those countries play fair. The assumption is that in a fair game, American's will find a way to win. But China doesn't play fair.

This is like you and me playing a game, and I find out you're a cheater.. and you say, 'what are you upset about? You invited me here'
My copy of Barendregt is well thumbed.

But that Zuse and Annotated Turing sounds interesting. Thanks
And the C64 price quickly sunk like a rock once the VIC-20 left the market. The T/S 1000 (the US ZX-81), its contemporary, was seen as cheap junk. I remember my parents being critical of the keyboard and the construction, and I don't think they were atypical. The T/S 2068 was better than the 1000 in every respect, but had compatibility issues with the Spectrum, and Timex's computer division had already suffered from the poor perception of their earlier home computers.
I would rather kick those irresponsible suits who kept offshoring every damn piece of industry since the past century for immediate profit disregarding entirely the long term results. This is an effect, not a cause.
The only "encouragement" on HN's part is allowing anyone to create an account and comment. You have at least two options at your disposal: flag the comment, and email the mods using the Contact link in the footer. Complaining about it in a comment just adds to the noise.
> You can't get a PDF-borne virus from an old-school fax reception.

How about a JPEG-borne virus instead? https://research.checkpoint.com/sending-fax-back-to-the-dark...
Yeah, that's my issue. I rely on multiple WinAmp-specific plugins for which no replacements (that I'm aware of) exist.
The Robinson R44 has a long history of deadly crashes
I don't think the point made was that he is unpopular. I think the point is he is incapable of making good decisions.

With some things like the failed alternate vote referendum I have read people blame Labour more than the Lib Dems. However, he clearly lacks charisma and skills in hindsight.

I don't think anyone at Facebook will force Nick Clegg to do or say anything but I'll be shocked if he has any serious decision-making power within Facebook. I'm trying to avoid saying he is a rubber stamp but it is difficult to say he is much more when even ex CSO Alex Stamos clearly had restrictions (if you read between the lines).
It is not a pros and cons style of argument that is call for. It is about dynamics.

China has learnt from japan and india that just open up and even prosper is not a oath to independence. It cunning do what it does, so when the population age and the money war started it still goes a substantiable “empire”. After all it is a Hans empire of the Middle Kingdom.

Now, the partnership and getting ip is not new. Look at the airplane espeically military one you sense they have a long plan. Just America does not. And it is just awaking.

To be honest if china is a democracy and basic human rights (which may destroy the communist but may be a even greater power), it is another japan and Eu raise up vs American scenario. And china learn those two lessons. And hence it may win. It Open to get and close up key part so that yours are mine and
Mine mine. Some part like e-wall, e-market etc. are closed. They have certain market segment (antibiotics, rare metal) and some weakness like argiculture (too many mouth - 1/4 population ; not sure how this play out) and oil (but shift to electricity like car and if wind/solar/nuclear/... work it can be mediated)

But it does not have democracy and human rights. Cannot be on its side. But what if it has.

We are all Hans or we can have a Tripolar world - right wing America, middle Eu and left wing china for anyone to choose. But we are not. And the Hans may want a empire of the world. We live in a sphere and middle meant nothing and a Middle Kingdom means conquering the world.
So, 70 million nps or about ~3x 2950x threadrippers [2] is relatively weak cpu compared to 80 thousand nps or approximately 2x 2080tis [3] for Alphazero?

> AlphaZero compensates for the lower number of evaluations by using its deep neural network to focus much more selectively on the most promising variation [1]

Even if you compare CPU to GPU by price, and not speed, it seems pretty even. It clearly has to sacrifice speed by making more intelligent pruning decisions than stockfish.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero#AlphaZero_vs._Stockf...

2: https://sites.google.com/site/computerschess/stockfish9-benc...

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/9jyts8/rtx_2080_t...
> Is there a Facebook smear campaign going on or people just love to pile on Zuckerberg?

How about "neither"? Facebook has been abysmally led on the subject of misuse, in fact going so far as to tell themselves explicitly it was OK if they got people killed[1] as long as they grew the user base and its monetization.

They are just now coming out from under the default presumption that tech == good, and a fairly prodigious PR campaign aimed at suppressing criticism, indeed even smearing critics and misleading the US Congress.

There is very good evidence that FB employees knew, and that executives either should have known, or were grossly negligent in not knowing, the extent of the various types of abuses, up to and including genocide, that were being conducted using FB as a primary platform for the campaign.

No matter how you try to frame this as the tech biz equivalent "just boys being boys" and "business like everyone else" there is a lot, a whole lot, about FB and Zuckerberg's leadership that deserves exposure, criticism, and ultimately a change of leadership.

[1] https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/this-facebook-executives-s...

Edited to add: Take note that Zuckerberg's response to these events is to concentrate power, use a "war" metaphor for his approach, and generally follow the authoritarian play book. Anyone thinking that FB is any kind of "western liberal values" kind of actor is fooling themselves. It will always be more in line with the kinds of things conservatives find attractive, especially today.
Why wasn’t it until 2016 until we actually started hearing tough trade rhetoric against China? It seems like they know the game is up and are doubling down on the theft.
It's not that they're not qualified. They're just not college material __and__ there's not enough mid / highend jobs for them. At the same time, the trades are hurting for good people. But the entitled are too good to be fully employed. They'd rather taken on debt.

Given where AI is headed the higher edu route is not going to improve. Yet BHO, who knows better, kept beating the "higher edu for all" drum.
Our moral axioms are totally arbitrary and subjective. We do not chose moral axioms that are correct, we chose those that we like. Science car merely explore the consequences of those choices and point possible contradictions but not make that choice for you.

In the same way that science can tell you how to create chocolate or vanilla aromas but can't tell you which one tastes better.

> "deduce" suggests a sort of logical proof, one that we'd probably accept a priori

Indeed, there is a lot of work to do to translate the tools of logic into the domain of morality, define the conditions and limitations of the methodology, and possibly at some point do experiments or observation to check if the model matches reality.

Thing is, we can totally approach these questions scientifically and the fact that philosophers do not focus on making the tools to unleash the full power of science over these questions is hard to justify.
A blurry camera app
Show HN: Write Qt for WebAssembly Applications Entirely in Go And/or JavaScript
Conversion to Christianity, or any other religion, is an assured way to get scorned in the [mostly Hindu] Indian social and political classes. Despite having enormous majority, the country has been scarred by centuries of Muslim invasions and then a British (Christian) colonial power, so its easy to see where this anxiety against conversion comes from. IMO it doesn't make sense, but it is a very emotional topic for many Indians.
The article is paywalled. They either need to allow this or ban paywalled links.
If you are on mobile, here is the direct link to the repo: https://github.com/therecipe/widgets_playground
Sorry, the widgets playground isn't really meant to be used on mobile devices.
The next playground will be made with QML instead and should be better suited for mobile usage.
Disincentives to inventing stuff for entrepreneurs and workers because there is no reward for doing so.

Also enabling totalitarian regimes who invest all their resources into staying in power, abusing human rights and destroying opposition and free thought.
Thos jobs will be replaced by AI. But let me see a Roomba fix your broken toilet.
How does this compare to just using Postgres?

Is this a networked version of sqlite?
Cream of mushroom soup and Cheese Whiz!
"not fax" doesn't have to mean "use one of the least secure digital formats in existence". If you're goal is to replicate a fax you should probably limit yourself to a basic bitmap encoding similar to group 3/4 encoded faxes and create a validated decoder (something many fax machines lack).
Huh, I don't really know much about this to be honest, but are you sure that's not a consequence of prefering not to migrate threads across NUMA nodes rather than across thread groups? Are you aware if there's any documentation on the behavior you're mentioning?
Clegg's resume makes it clear he's on the influencer inside team.

FB is a natural home for him. (Not a compliment, by the way.)
What sort of useful information would that even provide?

If it's a widespread attack, then the traffic analysis would still be useful. A hex dump of the offending data could be sent.
I thought it was great. Very food-porny, but in a well done way. Only 4 episodes, so a very small investment if you get hooked.