skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article provides plenty of affirmations but no evidence of malware inside Huawei's products. Considering states have more resources than anyone to audit these components, why haven't they found something? Have they, and they're mum because exposing it would expose their own practices?
Waymo and Magna partner in building new factory for self-driving mass production
I'm doubtful that there aren't backdoors in Huawei equipment just as I'm doubtful that there aren't backdoors in the equipment of western manufacturers. That said, it comes down to selecting the lesser of two evils.
I worked on ERP software in a past life and this was the main challenge. The software had to deal with "normal" cases well enough to improve efficiency, but had to be flexible enough to allow employees to handle unavoidable exceptions, without becoming a giant kludge. There was nothing worse for a user than having to deal with a special case and finding that they can't because they are blocked by the software.
They shot him from across the street, with poor visibility, from a semi concealed position for pulling up his pants. There are no non-lethal tools that would have worked at the distance they were at and the man would have had to have been a fantastic shot to pose a risk to the officers based on the distance.

In the video the officer who fires is to the left of the speaker. Caution you will see someone getting shot to death.

https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192111974.htm...
In practice, I found charge time to be irrelevant as long as I can get it fully charged overnight. I didn't even bother installing a fast charger in my garage since the trickle charge was good enough for my needs.

A longer range means you can forget to plug it in one evening and be fine. Or you can go on a longer day trip.

For some reason many of us think we absolutely need to handle driving across the country; I'm sure some do but most of us don't. As a suburbanite who only occasionally travels long distance, this has not been an issue.
Define "We".
Looks like this is using Fluid rather than Revery. Not sure about memory usage in Revery but I think it should be lower than that. Definitely something I'll look into
Exactly. This is also what makes SPF and friends a bit of a pointless exercise. Even if they had global unanimous support end users don't really care about the envelope from anyway.

Stopping phishing is hard. End users mostly are fooled by a little padlock in their web browser, and that's a much simpler trust model. Eliminating email dressed up as web pages would probably do more to combat that than authenticated sender models ever will, but nobody really wants that.
What is required for AGI:

1. Natural Language Understanding

2. Knowledge Representation (NOT in the form of a NN)

3. Reasoning algorithm(s)

As to "Deep learning": The system should be able to learn unsupervised (autonomously) and the more high-quality data it sees, the better.
Denver's Urban Neighborhoods Subsidize Its Suburban Ones
Yes, the real problem with this implementation is the data structure they use. But is `next == null` a special case? ogod what do we do?!
s/SNP/STR/, and you're right. They're easy to manufacture.
> I would presume electric drive trains are quite complex.

They're significantly less complicated than an ICE power-train and drive-train.

The Nissan Leaf has a single electric motor and a fixed reduction gear box. The only fluids to maintain are the wiper fluid and reduction gear box fluid, which is similar to automatic transmission fluid but requires less maintenance. The battery pack is air cooled and the only servicing is an annual inspection to maintain warranty.

The Tesla vehicles are all direct drive with no gearbox. They come in single or dual motor options. The batteries are cooled and the fluid is changed at 4 year intervals.

The maintenance schedule for an EV is annually changing the cabin filter, wiper blades, and doing a multi-point inspection.
Toyota has squandered its huge lead in hybrids and is now quite late to EVs. I'm glad to see them make these moves, but this should've happened over 10 years ago. These things take time.
Long overdue. Maybe in a few months I can watch a Joe Rogan podcast video without tainting my YouTube recommendations for the next year with Ben Shapiro-style clickbait.
>maybe the default choice should be a platform with a better track record.

Although I agree it should be, how does one engineer things such that an ethical but less profitable software provider has the leverage to beat less ethical but more profitable providers at selling their products/services?
Someone could even implement the feature in a dynamic language like Python or Lisp for a particular application. Does that mean the application is infringing the patent because they didn't use Swift?
If you don't put any limits on the AI, it's not Starcraft any more.

You could make an AI which tries to hack the human computer to force a leave. That would also constitute a "win". Or one which hacks its own computer and displays "You win" immediately. Or one which tries to kill the human player, if we want to be really dramatic about it.
Break the law? They aren’t slaves. Fuck the law.

Nobody is going to jail for quitting their job.
Reminds me of Mitt Romney's comments in 2012 about borrowing money from your parents:

> “We’ve always encouraged young people, take — take a shot, go for it. Take a risk. Get the education. Borrow money, if you have to, from your parents. Start a business.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/romn...
With all the layoffs across the telecom equipment industry, Huawei should be able to get a ton of highly qualified/knowledgeable engineers in Europe, Japan and the US full of trade secrets.
Not trying to be, but their pattern of behavior suggests otherwise. More often than not, the approach they take is, 'Can we do this? Great! Worry about ethics/legality later - if at all. For whatever reason, culturally they see no problem with this.

(See also the recent uproar over gene editing embryos)

Beyond that, I also question (again) if the Chinese are smart and/or evil enough to do this on their own, knowing they will likely eventually get caught if something does come out.
If it's short term, you end up paying less than 10% on it. If!
A many-to-many variant of the Dijkstra's shortest distance algorithm
> The modern welfare state, where millions of people are immediately hurt by the federal system grinding to a halt and stopping, would have been anathema to the framers.

So too would have been the dominance of corporate interests in the political system. But here we are.
> I've seen too many people say, "Oh, government workers should all know this stuff happens all the time

The thing is: it doesn't happen all the time. In the last 20 years there were 3 government shutdowns. Before Trump took office we were down to one shutdown in 20 years.
As I recall, not even the military, at least not in any way like we're doing it now.
Well on the WSJ side there was that whole Pewdiepie makes some Nazi jokes therefore is secretly whistle blowing to recruit 9-17 year olds into white supremacy/anti-antisemitism narrative they were running with. Ignoring the context of the jokes and doing nothing that shock comics haven't been doing for years. But the character assassination probably has more to do with the fact that person has a bigger audience than the WSJ, and more influence and that's where advertisers (their source of money) were going, so they started doing hit pieces on YT's biggest personas to scare advertisers out of spending their money there.
Yeah, my ICE wagon has 450-550 miles rated range depending on city/highway rated mileage. Even if you assume that's somewhat optimistic (and it isn't that optimistic — my 15 year older, same model wagon got nearly the same mileage), it's still a lot more than 150. And it cost a lot less than $30k.
OK, that's fair. Didn't consider Alaska which is known for these requirements.
As far as I understand the current state of EVs, EVs have eliminated the engine and it's ancillaries.

However, EVs still have CV joints, differentials (dependent on the car, Tesla runs an open differential), independent suspension - all of which must be much stronger since electric motors produce far more torque than ICEs and also have the added weight penalty.
It's only that if you are not allowed to quit. And while this is somewhat pedantic, they are being "paid", but the release of that pay hasn't been authorized. Their situation is total shit to be certain, but comparisons to bona fide slavery are dramatic.
There was a Freakonomics episode about just that. Studies show that most companies show of altruism is just social signaling and that people are willing to work for less if they think their company is doing good.

It’s also cheap marketing.
American Dream Still Exists…if you can inherit it
I follow what's happening in the craft beer world, and some brewers are up in arms due to the fact that the government has to approve labels for all beers that are sold across state lines, or else they could potentially face career ending fines. How on earth did we get from a limited federal government to one that acts as a morality police for beer labels?
California will sue Huntington Beach over blocked homebuilding
> range isn't even a concern, make them charge in 10 mins please!

Range absolutely is a concern. I've pretty much no use for a car which only goes 100mi but don't mind overnight charging in the slightest. I'm waiting for EVs to do 600 miles on a charge at highway speed, with heating and/or AC.
> I think the problem is with the debt ceiling.

While the debt ceiling issue is also frequently in the news, that is not what's going on here. In this case, the government has the money, they're just not allowed to spend anything.

In the US, unlike many other democracies, budgets expire. So in order for the government to continue functioning normally, the legislative branch has to pass a new budget bill before the previous one expires, which did not happen in this case.
It’s actually legislative checks and balances that keep the powerful in check.
You're right, of course.

DEC, however, was in some respects really above the pack. Documentation being one of them.

I'd throw in DECnet and VAX Clustering as other examples.
No, it really is the finance department. Boards vote on the CEO and serve as his advisors and that is certainly not the correct metaphor.

More importantly, Congress sets the budget through the House and Senate budget committees, which then draft and pass appropriations bills. This is the point in the process where we are stuck.

The President is saying "bring me budget bills that have the things I want and I won't veto them" and Congress is saying no. It's nothing new really, barely anyone knows basic civics and so people are letting their emotions drive their opinions.

Both parties here are playing games that affect peoples' lives and are both worthy of blame.
How can I find freelance/remote job in one day?
So tomorrow it is Saturday and I want to get a gig or something. What website would you recommend for me to use?

Or, in a case, you have some work for iOS dev - let me know directly.

Thanks!
Conserve the sound – an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds
Hello, I’m the individual submitting the PR. It is a hard nut to crack for sure and took over a solid month of work.

If you are using React, Slate is IMO an excellent choice and the code quality/extensibility/community are great. I really appreciate DraftJS for coming out first and I contributed there as well, but Slate’s goals are overall better aligned to the needs of the community.
I visit Hacker News to avoid dross comments such as these.
Where are the complex EV drivetrains? It isn't remotely the same thing as ICE. Even the most reliable ICE drivetrains are extremely complex. Toyota just uses conservative and overbuilt ICE technology to achieve remarkable reliability. That's fine, but still has tons of moving parts compared to electric drivetrains.
A bland attempt at humor. They've had more name changes than the artist formerly known as Prince (AS/400, eServer iSeries, System i).
This is pretty silly. Congress thinks they can't continue to fund government activities, but they certainly don't suspend tax collection. It would be easy to solve the "shutdown" and "debt ceiling" fictions, except they are too useful as a political weapon.
Anyone know of a viable whatsapp alternative that lots of people could use? The problem with all these systems is you have to go where people are, rather than where you'd like to be. whatsapp is ubiquitous but this is looking even worse for snooping now and I'd like to have a credible alternative to suggest. I thought signal was it but most people aren't using it
It’s sad seeing people actually disagreeing with you.

The US government is $21tn in debt. 21 trillion. With a constant budget deficit.

No private entity would be ever allowed to go that far.

If the Government is still taking money out of my paycheck, it simply isn’t shut down enough.
Even ignoring compassion, you should at least be worried that events like these will make people more reluctant to work for the federal government, meaning the government will have to offer more payment to cover the risk, and thus taxpayers will have to pay more for the same services.

Edit: Or maybe not -- if the result of the 80s ATC strike is any indicator, the result will be more like "do nothing about pay, kvetch about the shortage of people willing to work for the federal government".
What many people here don't remember is that China is only a fairly recent first-class member of the international trading community and that was hugely controversial at the time.

Up until the Clinton administration there was a status of Most Favored Nation that countries had to get. There was a lot of pressure from companies eager to sell to China's 1B+ people and there was a lot of politicking about this. I believe it was a big reason why "most favored nation" was renamed to "permanent normal trade relations" in 1998.

Tiananmen Square was still fresh in peoples minds having only happened less than a decade earlier. China at the time also sold military technology to countries the US wasn't on good terms with.

So China obtained MFN/PNTR in 2000 and joined the WTO the year after. One argument used for this was that the only way to make China play by the rules is to be a member.

What's become increasingly clear however is that China did not, does not and probably will not play by the rules. The examples that spring to mind are:

- Wholesale intellectual property theft from Western companies. To be fair, many Western companies are complicit in this. Eager to open up new markets they agree to "partnerships" with Chinese companies that are thinly veiled IP heists.

- Theft of military secrets and technology.

- Sale of products to sanctioned nations (eg ZTE).

- A concerted effort to ensure that no foreign company ends up owning a market in China. Take all the tech companies in the rest of the world and there's a Chinese equivalent (Google -> Baidu, Amazon -> Alibaba, Apple -> Huawei/ZTE/etc). This isn't an accident and it's not because foreign companies don't "get" the Chinese market.

- The Chinese government and military have a large-scale and active electronic warfare program designed to steal IP, threaten companies and control discourse (eg anyone critical of the Chinese government).

The big concern about this is that isn't rogue actors. This is state sanctioned to the highest levels. The rest of the world seems completely disinclined to tackle this.

But at some point in the future you'll expect to see things like:

- Companies won't do business in China

- Companies won't do business with Chinese companies

- Companies won't employ Chinese citizens (for fear of IP theft).

On the last point, I'm honestly surprised the US government hasn't restricted Chinese-born people from working with any classified tech given the history of theft here.

As to Huawei, this is a real propaganda piece by Bloomberg as anyone who is concerned about the security of their IP and their infrastructure should as part of their due diligence be assessing the risk of using networking gear from a company where there is a serious concern that the Chinese government or military may have compromised the code that hardware runs.
AFAIK, the first Leaf with >200 mile range is the Leaf Plus. It isn't shipping yet, at least in the US. I suspect this is what he meant, rather than pointing to Nissan as being not reputable.

Although, the early Leaf vehicles had issues with battery degradation that could have been a factor as well.
Description from the project page:

»Conserve the sound« is an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds. The sound of a dial telephone, a walkman, a analog typewriter, a pay phone, a 56k modem, a nuclear power plant or even a cell phone keypad are partially already gone or are about to disappear from our daily life.

Accompanying the archive people are interviewed and give an insight in to the world of disappearing sounds.

»Conserve the sound« is a project from CHUNDERKSEN and is funded by the Film & Medienstiftung NRW, Germany.

https://www.conservethesound.de/projekt-2
All the years it takes to get through lower courts and appeals. And then probably six months after it is accepted.
It does seem to be getting better, for a long while I had to make sure to clear my history of any conservative leaning videos or I'd end up down a rabbit hole. Too many and all of a sudden its bloody flat earth videos and other insane conspiracies. Made it very difficult to try and watch a balanced set of videos.
> EVERYONE should have min 3 months of income in savings.

It surprises me how few do though. I do. Six months or more in fact. I'm in a relatively well-paid job (senior-developer-come-local-database-export) as of course are many of the people around me, in fact some should be much better off, but there are those among them who get edgy if a mistake makes our pay late by a day because they have bills payments going out soon - they have little or no cushion or emergency fund.

The grads I can understand: they are young, they have debts from student lives that they are paying off, and even if those factors are not true/significant they aren't paid as well (they will be, we promote them fairly quickly if they show the relevant aptitude & attitude, but not yet) and they've not been working as long so haven't had the same chance to build up an emergency fund.

But people who have been working for years and have partners who have decently paid jobs too? I doubt they are paying much into a pension either. In a couple of decades they are going to have a nasty "surprise"...

Of course non of this would make a monthly paycheck or two being completely delayed a worrying experience. Even people successfully following the standard 3-month+ advice would be feeling insecure at that point.
I have some experience with Huawei "enterprise" products and they're awfully cheesy - the hardware is very low rent and the software both limited and very specific to a few common use cases. The configuration experience often needs to be seen to be believed, with support beyond the trivial requiring Huawei engineers flown out. Their products can be crazy cheap, though, and in Asia, easy financing via China state banks is usually enough to close a deal.
Its not nearly an equal cudgel. Generally the democrats want federal institutions to be in operation while Republicans want to disrupt and defund them. This correlates to 9 of 10 shutdowns (one in Bill Clintons term I'd consider him causing it) being propagated by Republicans on either side of negotiations, often with intent to defund some part of the government with the appropriations bills.

Of course, I wouldn't hesitate to blame Democrats - they had the house and senate in 2008-2010 and chose not to go about abolishing the electoral college, ending the possibility of shutdowns, or insuring the loophole that let a Republican congress delay voting on a supreme court nominee for a year was closed. They didn't bring any such bills or amendments to the floor in either house and never voted on any of it, so they can't even blame filibusters.
> What I'm saying is, all of "this" must have come from something

Fair enough

> And that "something" is what people refer to as God

Expects it's not, is it? If people stopped at "the thing that kicked off the universe", we'd be laughing. But they don't.

You wouldn't need prayer, or moral guidance, or Pope's or whatever. Utterly pointless, the launch was eons ago.

You cannot reasonably get from "the universe was created" to anything close to most monotheistic deities. There have been dualist religions that had a stab but they were generally slaughtered if they got too popular.
You don't trust Zuckerberg to keep your private messages private? Even if that somehow happens, he'll be selling your
messaging network info to everyone with two nickels to rub together.

No thanks. Delete Messenger/WhatsApp and move everything onto other services.
> It seems arbitrary to require the presence of an electronic-to-physical bridge in the form of a robot only to then operate physical-to-electronic bridges in the form of a keyboard and mouse.

It's not at all arbitrary. SC2 match is won by a combination of reflexes and physical quickness with which the actions are executed, and strategy.

The whole point is to even the playing field in the area of the physical limitations so that only the strategy part is the difference. You know, the "Artificial INTELLIGENCE" part?
So long instagram, nice knowing you.
That is how the entire system use to operate:

> Prior to September 11, 2001, airport screening was provided in the U.S. by private companies contracted by the airline or airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_security_repercussions...

Leaving our airport infrastructure dependent on the dysfunctional federal government was another downside to the nationalization of most of airport security.
Not out of the box, no. The FreeNAS implementation (and I assume many others) depends on rclone [1], which describes it as rsync for cloud providers.

For protection against that you would have to implement periodic snapshots (which many NAS products also support) and sync the snapshots. Or you could probably use B2's built in snapshot feature. Both require additional manual work, though.

[1]: https://rclone.org/
IP lawyer here.
You should ignore everything but the claims, and see what the claims say.

So stare at https://patents.google.com/patent/US9952841B2/en

and look only at the claims.

To me, that set of claims is ... worrying
It's on Hulu.
Status and race in the Stanford rape case: Why Brock Turner's mug shot matters
Microsoft Reply All Email Apocalypse
The problem may be deficit spending. Part of the budget is paid for with debt. I don't think you can auto-approve a raise in the debt ceiling.
Oh ok, I understood your link to mean payment was allowed where essential.

Aren't some people getting paid? aren't they deemed essential?!?

Am I looking for sense where there isn't any?!
It would be extreme enough that the earth would be sterilized of life due to radiation from the solar event, so your electronics won't be a big deal in comparison. The good news is that this won't ever happen.

Induction is going to be more or less proportional to the area enclosed by a conductor, which essentially means long transmission lines are the things to worry about. And this is length scales on the order of 10^5 or 10^6 meters, versus 10^-1 meters for your devices.
Indeed, that could do it I think.