skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What evidence is required to support the statement “a Chinese company will do whatever it’s told to do by the communist party irrespective of the law”

The people that keep trying to defend that, have special
Place with the people defending tobacco companies.
>but the situation now is far more fuzz

It's basically: "text/social comment/chat apps are big, let's add more BS icons for our Facebook/Apple/Google/MS/etc chat apps"
If you want to try kdb, there is are two free noncommercial versions:

- 64 bit/16 core, sends "I'm alive" packets back to Kdb: https://ondemand.kx.com/

- older 32-bit, standalone, very small executable: https://kx.com/download/

Wkimpedia page has history and links to various docs:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
I wonder if those PhDs are ready to suffer so much, why don't they work at SV companies where they can get free sushi + 6 figure salary and lots of interesting problems to solve.

Why these people are so hung up on getting PhD title.

Or any not become a YouTuber?

We can easily see that ElectroBoom on YouTube is more respected in the world than any other person holding PhD in Electrical Engineering.
You can't extol the virtues without considering the social cost in the US: "How can we make sure labor laws and social welfare systems don't become as tragic as those in the US?"
Generally 200-300 miles would be more fair but your point stands.
As I was given to understand it, the first line should be CBT or something similar (ie a therapy that doesn't involve drugs that will help you live your life). On top of this, unless you get referred directly to a psychiatrist (for example because you have made a suicide attempt) you get referred to a psychologist that will try a bunch of different "soft" approaches that will help you deal with your problems. The medication comes during this process, if it is indicated.

Even if you do get medication first, the path that I expect is that you get "soft" treatment as well. The medication is supposed to get you through the really rough seas that you might succumb to otherwise, with other therapy helping you in the long term. If you go to a doctor and they just give you medication and send you on your way, you need to get a second opinion.
Apollo program, Kalman Filter and go-filter
With the conclusion, the author seems to present a good argument for the new platforms being more of an effect than a cause, but not see it. If "The inequalities of capitalist economies are not exactly news." and it was only in "...the short-lived narrowing of economic fortunes wrapped around the Second World War..." that we saw a different structure, maybe these platforms are merely the outcome of the social forces they could never be expected to control.

The inequalities of capitalist economies are not exactly news. As my colleague Esther Bloom pointed out, “For centuries, a woman’s social status was clear-cut: either she had a maid or she was one.” Domestic servants—to walk the dog, do the laundry, clean the house, get groceries—were a fixture of life in America well into the 20th century. In the short-lived narrowing of economic fortunes wrapped around the Second World War that created what Americans think of as “the middle class,” servants became far less common, even as dual-income families became more the norm and the hours Americans worked lengthened.

What the combined efforts of the Uber-for-X companies created is a new form of servant, one distributed through complex markets to thousands of different people. It was Uber, after all, that launched with the idea of becoming “everyone’s private driver,” a chauffeur for all.

An unkind summary, then, of the past half decade of the consumer internet: Venture capitalists have subsidized the creation of platforms for low-paying work that deliver on-demand servant services to rich people, while subjecting all parties to increased surveillance.

These platforms may unlock new potentials within our cities and lives. They’ve definitely generated huge fortunes for a very small number of people. But mostly, they’ve served to make our lives marginally more convenient than they were before. Like so many other parts of the world tech has built, the societal trade-off, when fully calculated, seems as likely to fall in the red as in the black.
> ne major "side effect": your reCAPTCHA score will drop to 0.1 making many websites really tedious to use.

I instantly leave a website that has this aggressive reCaptcha that uses free labour to train algorithms.
SCP Twist: the orphanage itself was the mastermind; it manifests when a blockchain fintech startup launches and exists solely to de-materialise the founders and redistribute crypto funds. The children of the orphanage are yet to be identified, though it is speculated that they are the disappeared fintech founders.
It has a niche (time series analysis of equity data) where its performance is valued. Kdb developers are rare and expensive so it gets used for specific tasks rather than as a general purpose db.
GMail (or any other email offering) is "an app" from many perspectives.
I started like you, last year... then a couple days ago realized I hadn't checked it since mid January. And we're on March, that's a new record.

I'm not in the "I'm leaving Facebook once and for all", actually I don't have that intention whatsoever, I am (was) a normal, active user. But it stopped being interesting. The kind of interaction Fb promotes is similar to twitter; in the first years I could see my friends showing off their breakfast or sharing their thoughts about something, now everything is 3rd-party articles, photos, videos, and complaining... LOTS of complaining (via sharing a relevant article they just read).

Ironically I still write to share my thoughts on something, without photos or shocking videos, and it catcyes my friend's attention because of the "novelty" of writing something of my own instead of just sharing some link.

Btw I've NEVER wanted to install Fb apps, especially since they forced everyone to have the Messenger app if you want to chat. Always used m.facebook.com for checking out, and mbasic. for chat (with the added benefit of the crappy UI pushing me out from using it...). Similarly, Twitter is another service I use, and never wanted their app installed, instead I use their website. The same reason frequent use of Reddit is out of the question for me.
To compile: gcc -o zolW zolW.c -lncurses
Those who have experience with array languages, is it fair to say that something like numpy captures most of the benefits of APL/K?

If Python allowed a reduce operator “/“, numpy will be able to get even closer to APL, correct?
For those interested, some technical details have been posted in this reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/awzcir/first_p...

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/axy7d2/superch...
However they did include ‘cat’ and only mentioned it’s most basic common use rather than its primary reason for being.

Ultimately guides like the one submitted are just one persons braindump of stuff they think might be helpful for others. It’s probably best not to over think why something was added or omitted.
What would you expect to be discussed?

Why limit to new mothers? What about new fathers? (I recently became a father - hence the question)
That's too bad, on desktop it's pretty good. Though not really necessary, I mean as far as I can tell it doesn't add anything functional.
How to Make Electric Guitar from Scratch
Good points on the why is relevant for Architecture, configuration, and environments.

I love ruby and rails; but I still have fear of plugins that do the work for me... until I upgrade something and suddenly all falls down.

Not a problem specific to Rails; but to everything in software, really.
>why is this special? every time to eat out I'm paying someone to make a meal for me instead of making it myself.

You don't just order a person waiting for orders to cook you a meal special for you, though, and have their daily income depend on whether you ordered or not. That was a problem restaurant owners had -- which was part of the "risk" in being an entrepreneur.

Cooks weren't paid per meal (door-to-door salesmen were paid in commission, musicians might been paid for gigs, etc, but that was the exception not the rule -- working gig per gig was a thing for hobos during the Great Depression). Now this model is getting more widespread ("gig economy").
> You are confusing Chinese companies with Chinese government.

Is there any difference, really, specially if said company is a corporate arm of China's military?
For a quick understanding of the power of awk :

https://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little...
The Porsche Taycan already exists and goes on sale at the end of the year. It's designed around an 800 volt architecture that can make use of 350 kW chargers. Porsche is also testing 450 kW chargers for the future:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/porsche-bmw-dc-fast-charg...

Volkswagen has already announced three cars based on their 800 volt platform to be released across the next three years:

1. Porsche Taycan in sedan and wagon variants at the end of this year: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a21239...

2. Audi e-tron GT at the end of 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvNw15W_EK8

3. Porsche Macan probably at the end of 2021: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/porsche-macan-electric-on...

And I'm sure there'll be other 800 volt cars from Volkswagen and other manufacturers in the future.
Servants used to be common for the middle class too.

Didn't Agatha Christie say something like: "I never thought I would be so poor as to not have staff, or so rich as to have an automobile."
There are decent ways for exchanges to prove they are solvent without revealing details [1]. It's just that very few of them take the effort to set up the system.
If you want decent privacy, it also depends on creditors checking their credit was properly committed.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1008.pdf
Synthetic Vision, terrain avoidance.. also flight logs (including automatically determining currency.)

ForeFlight is amazingly good and fully leveraged the power of the new iPad pros as well. Literally the best app. They also didn’t compromise by trying to do some kind of cross-platform attempt. It’s supremely optimized for iOS hardware. An electronic flight bag app that can perform just as well as the G1000 glass cockpit. Combined with the Stratus receiver, it’s even better because it gives you traffic and weather data in flight.

If there was ever a use case for not using some kind of pseudo-native framework in favor of real-native, this is it. Glass cockpit applications are the last place you want lowest common denominator code. It works great on even the iPad mini, but it really flies on the new iPad Pro.

Another cool feature is that you can use it with the X-Plane simulator. Amazing app and so inexpensive for what it does. The most expensive plan is $300 per year and the cheap plan is $99/year. I never fly without it.
wait, what? Isn't Huawei a private company?
Unless you're already wealthy, it's difficult if not impossible to have access to a large investment that provides 5x (or more!) leverage. A home is a leveraged investment and security rolled into one.

Even if your mortgage interest is greater than property value appreciation you could conditionally still come out ahead as compared to the available alternatives.

Diversity, leverage, better appreciation: if you're not already wealthy you can really only pick 1 (maybe 2) out of the 3.

And this ignores the value of having stable monthly living expenses, something not otherwise possible without rent control. You can of course buy cheap land, but such places are typically remote from employment opportunities and, while possible, that approach is just another form of speculation--people will readily share stories about living in the country and telecommuting to a high paying job (successful speculation), but few would ever discuss how they ended up stuck in a cycle of minimum wage employment (unsuccessful speculation).
The thing is, if you enable hard drive encryption (BitLocker in Windows?), resetting the password means that you lose access to the encrypted bits.
Yes, it is an app. Not a 'microservice'. That's the point.
VW emissions scandal comes to mind. Not even one of the largest and most influential companies in all of Europe can get away with such illegalities.
Great as it is, Les Miserables is a telenovela compared to War and Peace.
The Myth of Osiris
I just released the second edition of my book about web typography
> What does Boeing hope to get from this that they couldn't get from them as a partner or supplier?

Boeing gets a guarantee that no other company will acquire this app.
Probably an order of magnitude more than whole crypto-sphere combined. People just think if they didn't lose anything it wasn't that bad.
1) These days, there's only quilt.

2) There isn't really difference between locally built packages and ones from the distro, but one way to distinguish yours is to append a suffix to your versions, e.g. andrewshX in my case, where X is an incrementing number.
I've seen this tendency on HN - if this person/entity does something, I suspect it must be bad or selfish.

On the subject of HTTPS - do you think the interests of ordinary consumers are in any way served by continuing on HTTP? Countless websites, even those accepting login credentials used to think that it was acceptable to not take the trouble to set up HTTPS. The only thing the operators of these websites cared about was being marked "insecure" by the most popular browser. The shift to HTTPS was a definite win for privacy for every person who uses the web.

But no. Apparently, the "biggest reason" for the people working at Google pushing this because it was good for Google. They didn't care about all the benefits for end users, they only cared about themselves.

It's sad that slander like this can become mainstream view in a forum like HN.

Disclaimer - no connection to Google in any way. Don't even own Google stock.
I have a seperate facebook@ mail address and I simply never check it. Did so before switching hosters last year and saw that about 8k mails had piled up since 2011. Crazy folks.
So it's possible that t1 < t0? Because something might had been exploited before whatever time is taken as the official "discovery date".
That quote does apply to the US as well. As a reminder, the NSA was revealed to have an established practice of backdooring export Cisco routers.
Totally agree. The three things which have driven me away are:

1) the proliferation of notifications

2) filling my feed with auto-play videos

3) the fact that fewer and fewer of my friends actively use it

Just as rising membership creates a positive feedback loop through network effects, so declining membership does the opposite.

The other main reason is that since buying a smart phone, I can access the one feature of FB that I use - messenger - while avoiding the rest. I now only log into my account to check my notifications every week or two, to see if I've been invited to anything.
Boeing is a lot more high tech than people give them credit for. In my opinion, Boeing could only serve to benefit ForeFlight as now the company has significant backing as well as deeper access into cutting edge flight systems tech.
Australia was firm ban before US push due to past strains with China. US is obviously going to ban.

UK (Along with Germany and Italy) said Huawei concerns could be managed a couple weeks ago within 24 hours of each other. Shortly after that NZ, previously seemed firm ban, had their PM publicly clarify on radio that Huawei was not ruled out. A bunch of Canadian articles released about how UK waffling allowed fellow allies room to breath and "make independent" decision soon followed. China hit Australia with some coal ban, Canada with canola oil (over Meng extradition). I think everyone's just trying to manage the situation until after US-China trade deal settles. UK needs Chinese money because of Brexit. NZ also needs Chinese money and has... nothing much to steal. Canada... well I don't think we can hand Meng over to US and ban Huawei without being in the penalty box forever.

Unrelated Poland wants to US base to buffer against Russia, they came down hard on Huawei because US won't base with Huawei infrastructure. Hence Germany considering Huawei is causing a lot of tension with all the US bases. Shouldn't have spied on Merkel I guess. It's all a mess.
Did Audi Just Disrupt Tesla's Model Y?
He might differ:

Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet if it has been long stationary, we must not expect to find the wages of labour very high in it. The funds destined for the payment of wages, the revenue and stock of its inhabitants, may be of the greatest extent; but if they have continued for several centuries of the same, or very nearly of the same extent, the number of labourers employed every year could easily supply, and even more than supply, the number wanted the following year. There could seldom be any scarcity of hands, nor could the masters be obliged to bid against one another in order to get them. The hands, on the contrary, would, in this case, naturally multiply beyond their employment. There would be a constant scarcity of employment, and the labourers would be obliged to bid against one another in order to get it. If in such a country the wages of labour had ever been more than sufficient to maintain the labourer, and to enable him to bring up a family, the competition of the labourers and the interest of the masters would soon reduce them to this lowest rate which is consistent with common humanity....

But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying. Every year the demand for servants and labourers would, in all the different classes of employments, be less than it had been the year before. Many who had been bred in the superior classes, not being able to find employment in their own business, would be glad to seek it in the lowest. The lowest class being not only overstocked with its own workmen, but with the overflowings of all the other classes, the competition for employment would be so great in it, as to reduce the wages of labour to the most miserable and scanty subsistence of the labourer. Many would not be able to find employment even upon these hard terms, but would either starve, or be driven to seek a subsistence either by begging, or by the perpetration perhaps of the greatest enormities. Want, famine, and mortality would immediately prevail in that class, and from thence extend themselves to all the superior classes....

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/...
But someone else has already tested that code.
I'm so excited, the book is finally all I wanted it to be from the start. I also launched an updated website with it, so I'd love to hear your thoughts about it and about the book if you decide to buy it. Cheers!
My take is that it already solves it.

I do no less than eight one-way 1500km trips annually(so that amounts to 12k km during such a period).

I used to do it in one take, but that was over 20h behind the wheel - very dangerous - so now I split them into two legs: one of them 1140km long.

Assuming I started with enough charge for 300km, I would only need to get enough juice for 840km or so - less than 40min overall at this rate which is roughly the amount I spend during my trips on going to the bathroom, eating and leaving the highway for fueling as to not pay the ridiculous on-highway prices.
Only what was then "the affairs and nervous conditions" of rich people --and the rest were working wretches--, nowadays (and for the better part of last century) has been extended to the middle class, that is, to everybody.
“Diaspora” comes from Greek “Diaspora”. Dispersion.

It so happens that some Indians were brought over as indentured laborers by the British to various parts of their empire which resulted in the development of a large Indian diaspora: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude#Indian_...

But that’s old news!
leaving facebook? does it even get affected? I think that non-tech guys doesn't give a damn about it.
And teens today (or soon) would not visually know what "television tuned to a dead channel" meant...
It's not particularly hard to understand. Some people love to work on deep, challenging problems that can take years to solve. This kind of problem solving doesn't really exist in the tech industry. The vast majority of industry work is grunt work - the cutting edge would be implementing papers that poor graduate students publish. The rare places it does exist (e.g. Google/Microsoft research) generally require a PhD in the first place, and are very competitive roles.
> Apparently, the "biggest reason" for the people working at Google pushing this because it was good for Google.

I mean, when I do stuff at my job, I also do things that are good for the company that pays me. That's the job, right?

The problem is that Google has positioned itself in a way where things that are good for Google might be bad for humanity as a whole.
There's no way you're only getting 20 amps to your house.

A microwave will consume 8-12 amps. A desktop computer is around 3-5 amps. I don't know what my electric stove used when I still had one, but it needed a 40 amp breaker on its own.
> Why is US pretending to be friend with an enemy that is out to steal anything in US that isn’t locked down?

In the same reasoning, you could argue that EU should consider US as an enemy, since there is plenty of evidence on US spying on EU.

So please explain why it's not OK for China to spy on US, but it's ok for US to spy on EU.
Aye, in my day we had to smelt the ore first, but before we could do that we had to ... (drifts off)
> OO and FP are just different flavors.

Yes, current incarnations are really just variations of the call/return architectural style. Quite limited, actually.

> Pure FP takes you places like this essay.

Bold statement. OO has taken us to...let's see...all of personal computing. And somewhat smaller, but related, to Multi Version Concurrency Control: http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-20...

> code at scale

"Of the candidates enumerated in 'NSB', object-oriented programming has made the biggest change, and it is a real attack on the inherent complexity itself." - Fred Brooks, No Silver Bullet Reloaded
I use FastMail for email, contacts and calendar with DavDroid

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.bitfire.dav...
Actual evidence of backdoors would be a start.

There is a long list of state security enforced backdoors in american products. The list for Huawei is short. The US typically assumes the tactics itself uses must be used by anybody else.

If you want us to choose between the Chinese and the Five Eyes spying on us, providing actual evidence for Chinese spying would be worth a lot for the side that has at least traces of “democratic oversight” left as a figleaf.

I can certainly imagine incentives for the Chinese why they wouldn’t risk their long term gain for a short term spying information. To spy on everybody might be totally without alternative from the perspective of a struggling empire that crumbles on all corners, but not for a newcomer who might win more by not killing its tech industries by showing they can’t be trusted.

Still, if there is compelling evidence I might change my mind on the matter.
Uk is a user thou
Nortel once had a CEO that was a former US Navy Admiral.

Was Nortel a corporate arm of the US military?

Edit: I flagged your comment because it's fake news and because you downvote anyone who do not agree.
To be honest most people are confused about "private mode", I agree there should be privacy options enabled by default with it, but the reality is pretty much "no browser history will be stored (locally) and your session / cookies will be isolated between private mode and "normal mode"