skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is not a Western country so the concept of individual liberties and having the individual as the most important unit in society, as a concept, is pretty much foreign (literally!) to them. You will find very similar trends across Asia. Japan is an interesting case where the current constitution was written by Americans after WWII superimposed on a culture that's quite different in the first place.

This is for similar reason that you can't remove a dictator and install a democracy from scratch in its place. If the culture/mindset to support a democracy is not there, in the hearts of individuals, it won't work. Proven numerous times already in recent history.
I don't understand your point. It's possible to not want your nude photos public while also being comfortable submitting your DNA to a government database.

I personally probably wouldn't submit my DNA without a particular reason, but I don't see what's the contradiction here?
That is not established. I have never seen a study that says that obese people are hungrier than non-obese people. There isn't even a way to establish a baseline.
> why weren't the Germans resisting Hitler's government?

Hitler was hugely popular within Germany, he took poor exploiting this popularity democratically (later which he removed) but it isn't really comparable to China's situation.

I'm confused about why you feel worried? I don't think I've ever heard of China monitoring English websites nor building profiles of people with critical views (outside of China). They definitely do this to people who interact within China, but really you are worried OUTSIDE of China?

I find that the lack of public outcry is essentially political apathy mixed with a healthy amount of fear. China (and Chinese) are generating a huge amount of wealth, why would they fight that? If they can build their family and their wealth, I think beyond those two things, culturally they are apathetic to the rest of things.
While I wouldn't be as blunt as the OP, I wouldn't describe it as toxic. Ultimately if you are obese, it's because you've eaten too much and that needs to be accepted before you can do anything about it.
And more importantly, strong entrepreneurship so you have many companies offering similar products, so that you can decide to "punish" with your wallet the companies that deceive you. It goes hand in hand.
“normal” might be a strong word when the society in question is the largest single one on the planet.

That’s not to say I agree with, or want to normalize, the Chinese government’s actions, though.
Auto-Increment URIs Considered Harmful
If the case is likely to win, then a lawyer or investor will pony up his own cash for a cut of the outcome. This means that only cases that people feel are overwhelming will be litigated. Marginal cases to bleed your enemy dry do not work, because they work against you.
There are good independent journalists out there [1]. While they are naturally biased individuals, you quickly learn their biases and apply correction. If you subscribe to a few of them, their coverage averages out to about neutral.

IMO a hallmark of honest journalist is ability to openly discuss the journalistic process & toolkit. Call it journalism's equivalent of Kerckhoff's principle.

Another good check mark is ability to criticize errors in the media and issue correction and retractions.

[1] for example Tim Pool, https://twitter.com/Timcast
The poster was walking widely about the industry as a whole not just college. And there are lots of scholarship students who had to work to help put food on the table, who couldn't afford a chromebook and the time to go tinker.
Maybe he would have.

If you visualize technology progressing through time, there is an obvious merging of human and machine. Computers were large, now they are so small, you leave your Air Pods in your ears for hours because you forget they are still in.

Imagine another 50 years. Computers will most certainly be seamlessly connected to us in some way.

Imagine a device that can read your mind and give you what you want before asking? What if you're more intelligent just because you buy a specific product? What about a device that is proven to lengthen your life just by using it?

Biological research and health are what's necessary to get there.

The interesting things happen at the intersections. Who could compete?

Steve seemed like a smart guy. Maybe if he saw things this way he would bet the company as you say.
Be careful of the JWT hype train
First, this is a sweeping, borderline racist, statement to state that "Chinese cheat". China is no more into IP theft or cheating than others. I think people should really be careful and refrain from "drinking the kool-aid" handed to them by some media.

Now, Taiwan and Hongkong are China. But China that continued on more traditional values. The communist regime has worked hard to change the fabric of society (like it did in e.g. Russia) and that has had negative consequences on culture and manners, and brought distrust in most institutions.

It is also down to the legal and regulatory environment. Just look for stories from Europe and the Us in the 19th century and you'll find many, many stories like you could hear from China today. And those stories from China today are what happens in many countries around the world outside of the Western 'bubble'.
They deserve stability sure, but not the right to have that stability while insisting on working in an industry they're unproductive in.
I recently read Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules for Life" and one of the things he mentioned that really struck me, was that people who suffer from agoraphobia (fear of public places) eventually end up with the same fear (that they have when outside) inside their own homes; but since they're already home there's nowhere for them to go so they're stuck in perpetual fear.

It's also known by psychologists that a fear gets strengthened whenever an individual purposefully avoids the fear-generating situation (e.g. a public place), and it progressively gets weakened when you routinely expose yourself to the fearful situation.

So, regarding mistrust between individuals and using credit scores to try and "solve" this...

I expect that dystopic technological surveillance "solutions" such as Chinese social credit scores will actually over time weaken trust between individuals in the same way that purposefully avoiding public places increases someone's agoraphobia.

If you are a generally mistrustful person, then you're not going to start trusting people more due to social credit scores.

Trust is an act of faith, and faith is necessary when you don't actually know.

Imagine someone who is not registered for most social credit systems (perhaps because they're privacy conscious) comes to ask you for help or wants to do business with you. Is a social credit system going to make other people more trusting of that person? Of course not, it's going to make them more distrustful of that person.

Also, as someone has already mentioned, by letting people snitch on one another, credit score systems will foster even more distrust between people.

It reminds me of the Stasi in Eastern Germany, where neighbors and even spouses would report one another's activities to the secret police.

These systems foster further distrust, instead of trust.

As humans we need to overcome negative, fearful emotions like distrust by learning to judge character and to have courage and compassion, not by trying to outsource all our emotional and cognitive responsibilities to "apps".

The 20th century was full of social horrors, including China (e.g. Mao's famine in which 10s of millions of people starved to death due to forced collectivisation of farms). I get the feeling that the 21st century will have its fair share, and schemes such social credit scores will play their part in bringing them about.
Electronegativity – Electron security tool released
I would say, IP theft and cheating is a communist thing. I was born in Soviet Union. Since the ruling class were the simple workers and not engineers there is no motivation for these to do world class things. The don’t get fame, credits and wealth. So the government must get all advanced technology by stealing. I case of Eastern Germany everything was copied from the West: stolen,reverse engineered and released as domestic product couple years later. Whole industry was 1-2 generations behind free world.
Uh, no, he's assuming that the (+) operator concatenates arrays by allocating a new one. Which is correct. "Read in good faith" indeed.
Promotional voting and commenting is really not allowed here and will get your accounts and sites banned on HN. Please stop.
> People respond well to things that make them feel safer, regardless of whether they're actually safer

So as privacy advocates, what do we say if we see a highly intrusive surveillance system that does make people actually safer?

It's entirely possible that a highly intrusive surveillance system could well be extremely effective in combatting crime - and I mean the "universally-agreed" crimes, not political crimes - as well as providing spying capabilities to keep the population in check. Now I don't know what impact Social Credit has on crime rates, but it's not self-evidently a stupid idea in that regard.
Silly. Take it in to repair, then buy a new one. Return that when you get yours back. You don’t even need to give them a reason.
As someone who lived under a dictatorship I would argue that China and UK aren't the same thing. It sounds the same but it isn't. Smart dictators never break any laws. A clamp down on protestors is always described as protecting law abiding citizens from rowdy protestors. I bet if someone did text analysis of report written by police from democratic country Vs dictatorship who both had to break up a riot the language would be the same. The only difference would be the number of dead people. It's common for dictators to "remind" people of their power by killing a few.
A file format is just an api that gets saved to the drive. Many file formats are just json/XML files in a renamed zip
State of C++ on Windows
I'm curious: What's your opinion on smoking?

Genetics are also likely to be involved in the likelihood of someone (not) being able to stop smoking (perhaps also starting to smoke), right?

However, I haven't heard anyone blaming their smoking habit on genetics.
This is more about historical AI challenges. When Chess was beat people realized painfully and happily that they can't beat Go with the same approach. Therefore it was the new Mount Everest.

And Starcraft is a competition because SC1 was a game that was easily adaptable for AI hobby coders and competitions. A little like they have this Robo Soccer world championship for Robo builders. It's part of the domain culture I guess.
Nice article. I highly recommend watching Martin Jacques' TED talk [0] on this subject. It's interesting how people in China view the State as an intimate part of their family instead of something of an invasion, in contrast to societies in the West; which, I suspect, may be because of their collectivist roots.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhUmLtlZpw
Weird, because this genuinely wouldn't bother me, while being on a DNA database would.
Have you checked out Fastmail? Whilst I use and pay for Office 365 for business, my personal email is on Fastmail (migrated from Gmail after a decade with them) and very happy with it.
What’s interesting is that Taiwan derives some of its routes from the same Chinese culture, yet independently came up with support for human rights and democracy. So did South Korea.
Isnt there a similar level of competition in all of those places?

Also I've met a lot of mainland Chinese people who recently immigrated to the us and can say that they don't seem like unscrupulous people at a significantly greater rate than the general population.
Basically nuclear war and global warming will kill us all.

Because governments do too little to reduce carbon emissions to 0.

Well, That’s nice.
> Confirmation bias is fake news. Because you only pick up the details that fit your narrative, shutting down everything else.

That's a pretty weak strawman.

As a non-US citizen who never set foot near the US, I found the MAGA story to be a pretty blatant example of fake news that was clearly pushed in spite of any fact check or impartiality.

When I first saw the video pushed by US's media corporations my first reaction was to have a very negative opinion about the kid in particular and the whole political movement in general.

But afterwards I had the opportunity to see the whole video, without being subjected to the blatant manipulation, and the real story is radically different than the narrative that was pushed by the media.

Any journalist and specially editors who had access to the video clearly knew they were blatantly lying to the public and were intentionally misrepresenting the events, but they did so to push their agenda. This has nothing to do with confirmation bias.
I'm still trying to gather what the Cirklon is by the sounds of it but you can pick up hardware sequencers for under a grand (eg BeatStep Pro - if performance is more your angle. Or Maschine Studio if you want something a little more complete). For 1.5k you could probably get sequencers with in-built voices too (albeit this isn't something that's interested me much) which I don't think the Cirklon offers?

You could also go down the software route - which i know is a dirty word to hardware enthusiasts but you would pick up your choice of sequencer for £200 or less. Obviously you do then need to buy computer (if you don't have one already), a "proper" sound card / USB interface etc (these don't need to be expensive either, but you do want to avoid Creative and other mass consumer gear. Software wise, maybe even go with Propellerheads Reason if you wanted that hardware feel?

What I've recently started getting into is using my ST (which is why I've mentioned it a few times). It isn't without it's issues and I certainly wouldn't recommend it to other people but I'm a nerd and it's fun. Plus it's gotten me back into producing music again.

However I will openly admit that not having used the Cirklon, I might have missed some killer feature. And this is what I'm asking. Aside build quality, which is it that sets Cirklon apart?
A fat guy once told me that he is addicted to food like an alcoholic or smoker, the problem is it's easy to relapse.
I was really hoping for a GraphQL API standard for mail before reading this. But this sounds good too.
>We hear a lot about Chinese cheating, from sat scores to ip theft. I've long wondered - why is cheating endemic in China whereas you don't hear the same complaints about people in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore; places with large ethnic Chinese populations which should be very similar culturally to mainland China

You use to hear it all the time about people in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and Singapore too. Back in the day (for Singapore that's as close as the 70s), they were seedy ports, with anything goes rules, prostitution, gambling, counterfeiting, drugs, and so on. Look for old books on those places.

Those things gradually changed as those 3 places became richer and more important for trade (and Taiwan was an early "China", getting outsourced industrial production from the West).

Note that all three places are much smaller than China, don't have 600+ strong rural population still struggling to get by/to middle class by any means, and some of them had a "Delaware/Switzerland" role in the region, with multiple interests vested in that working well (which is how the law sausage gets made to benefit corporations, the rule of law is held, and the countries get "high marks" for "economic freedom": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_economic_... ).
Exactly, that's why Chinese culture in places like US, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan,HK, etc etc is generally associated with upper middle class professionalism and honorable success. It was decades communism and the associated violence and very intentional destruction of interpersonal trust that breeds a lot of what we see in mainland China today.
I think the bigger point in the future will be not AI beating known gambling activities (gambling in the sense that you put in money and have a random outcome about whether you get money back, let's not have a discussion about poker being gambling or competitive sport). The bigger point will be AI creating gambling activities that are even less resistable than our existing options. There might be digital drugs.
The fact is; your distro is likely doing this already.

There is a script which reads elf binaries and outputs security info: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/89214
Thanks for sharing this. You learn something new every day
The genes affect their 'cant stop after eating that first peanut' syndrome.

Just like the will to live affects your 'cant hold breath forever' incapability.

I mean sure it's technically possible to hold your breath until you pass out, but it would take a crazy amount of will power.
Firstly, Office 365 is not just offline apps. It’s software as a service; it’s a suite of high-quality online tools that rapidly approach parity with their product to flint counterparts,
it’s being able to install multiple copies of Office in multiple devices without needing to purchase more product keys; it’s about being able to use the mobile apps without paying for those separately (which people just won’t); it’s about reducing piracy for MS by allowing organisations and educational instituons to provide Office 365 to employees and students; there are so many advantages to Microsoft and consumers.

I am not “rushing” to defend anything, merely pointing out the benefits. What you call a step back, others call a blessing. I genuinely prefer to pay a relatively low fee for access to essential data in the cloud and the high-quality tools that I can access anywhere to work with my documents, collaborate, and even automate with online add-ons. All without worrying about what platform I’m using (desktop, mobile, web, Windows, macOS, Linux), licence keys (which demonstrably don’t work; Genuine Office got cracked every five minutes, and piracy was rampant).

I find your apparent incredulity at other people’s potential desire for certain aspects of a product(S) or service(s) is symptomatic of a refusal to even attempt to understand other people’s priorities when it comes to technology, something I’ve written about at length on HN before. Don’t write off my input just because your priorities don’t match mine or others, dismissively calling my five cents but a “rush”.
Where are these "normal" countries? The kind of scams GP mentions are rife here in the UK and from what I hear the story is the same pretty much everywhere.
You don't seem to understand, social credit is the direct outcome of "legal and regulatory environment".
This, so much this. Homework is an insane waste of time. Some people might need that level of tedious repetition to learn a concept, but generally it just detracts from actual learning.
Feynman is one of the few dead people I wish I could have had many conversations with while on a long hike.

His talk describing computers to a lay audience at the Esalen Institute [1] is my goto resource whenever someone asks me how computers work. It's from the same era as the referenced article, he's even wearing the same Thinking Machines shirt.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA
Why the pursuit of money isn’t bringing you joy – and what will
I am as SC1 only player,hope someday there will be a SC1 AI player.
i also heartily recommend Crenshaw's "let's build a compiler" if you want some guidance and motivation to help you just roll up your sleeves and start building a bare-bones but functional compiler.

> Maths, then Automata, maybe OS,

i don't think any of these are a requirement for building a simple compiler.

after reading Crenshaw some years ago, i was motivated to just knuckle down and start building a compiler for brainfuck (yes, a toy compiler, entirely pointless). this was probably one of the most enjoyable periods of programming i can remember.

i think my descent into fun with compilers went something like:

* "let's implement a compiler for a simple language (brainfuck) to something low level (assembler) in a high-level language i am familiar with (python)"

* ok, that was easy, now what?

* "self-hosting compilers are cool. can i write a brainfuck compiler in brainfuck?"

* "this is horrifying"

* "OK, what if i defined a simple language that is much easier to do useful work, but could be readily compiled to brainfuck? i could build a compiler from that new language to brainfuck"

If you have a bit of spare time i heartily recommend (i) learning to implement a basic compiler, and (ii) building the compiler in or for a language that has a radically different concept to languages you are more familiar with.

https://github.com/fcostin/abfc
I wonder when people see that the system itself is being cheated, ie children of important officials getting free bonus points or not losing their points due to 'that little crime' ... if people will lose faith in it?

Why do people think a system that is corrupt can just maintain this pristine system within one that is not?

In a regime wherein such tools are used to control and oppressed, this will clearly be another one of those tools.
I really want to see some innovation in the email space. The landscape is like a sea of false promises and dashed dreams. SMTP is one of the bread-and-butters of the internet, yet it just doesn't seem to be moving forward (maybe that's for the best), and no one's building extensions on top of it.

Maybe I'm naive in thinking it was possible but we could have avoided this whole "make an account on X messenger so we can talk", if someone had just jammed XMPP and SMTP together.

Every few years I'm tempted to try and write a SMTP server (MX) myself but then realize that postfix has been around so long and is the go to choice for a reason. I don't have 20 years of figuring out how X mail server interprets SMTP to be as reliable as postfix. I settled for trying to wrap it[0].

[0]: https://gitlab.com/postmgr/postmgr
The article touches on that:

> Sub-lethal exposure to lead in humans has been linked to increased aggression, with people who grow up in high-lead neighborhoods having a higher probability to be incarcerated for violent crime. They also tend to score lower in standardized tests.
Could additional honey pot on 22 help? Run sshd on non-standard port and honey pot on 22. Then automatically ban all the hosts that would connect to it. There could be a concern for a mistake, so then ban for limited time at first or something.
Not really. The version which learned from scratch was scrapped as it didn’t work at all. This version learned by observing pros. So it didn’t learn by itself, it imitated and perfected pro players.
Chinese [ethno]nationalism is a sick disease reminiscent of german or Japanese nationalism pre WWII. That Chinese people, of all groups, don't recognize the similarities constantly shocks me, along the same lines about how Chinese are in general very sensitive about losing face (American translation - ego trip), and that causes them to do things that gives them a bad reputation in the eyes of others - a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy.
You can drink your milk in relative safety.
I agree. Most RTS games feel constrained because of the limited viewport. Supreme Commander has a nice feature where you can zoom all the way out at any time.
> Actually the person who makes more efficient use of calories is more likely to become fat because they don't need as much.

Only if they eat as much as someone who uses calories less efficiently. Which is not a given.
Impressive results. I don't have much to contribute to the article itself (I mostly shoot film) but I've always been fascinated by the Hasselblad XPAN: https://www.35mmc.com/25/06/2017/hasselblad-xpan-ii-review/

Some people are insanely creative with it, healthy reminder that photography isn't all about pixel peeping : https://i.redd.it/m7z6wm2idiw01.jpg