skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed it is utterly broken as up until March 2013 it was first to invent allowing the little guys/girls to get their fair share. Upload a demo video of their creation on YouTube and boom you were protected if there was no prior art.

Now it's first to file so if your an inventor inventing you better have the thousands of dollars to run to the patent office before some rich lazy tool steals your blood, sweat and tears.

Overall the tech companies helped/lobbied to get this terrible law passed!
I find it hard to believe anyone thinks it's reasonable "anywhere in the world" can keep prosecuting the guy until he dies.

Taken to the extreme with this logic he should be extradited across the globe for decades for any public prosecutor to go to town on, though I guess that type of fear is exactly the intended effect of witch trial justice.

The situation in reverse with a US citizen charged in a foreign country despite causing no harm to them is unlikely to garner the same response. American exceptionalism at it's finest.
> The West (USA + Canada, EU + UK, Australia) could circle the wagons, form a trading bloc, essentially negotiate with China as a single entity and start a trade war if China did not bend. But even if they wanted to do so, the cost would be high in the short term and voters would punish them.

China depends a lot less on trade than NATO countries, something like 3% of their GDP is making stuff for Western consumers. If there is a serious Trade War their main concern would be their own real estate market instead of selling plastic toys to US consumers.

China's secondary trading block are near Asian countries.

The "west" collectively have a population LESS than China, and they cannot even hold the "EU" together.

China also has major cards, in a situation that you describe above does happen.

- The first thing China will do is sell their treasury holdings,
creating enough shockwaves in the bond market to wipe of the retirement saving of most boomers, (remember that the median US national has no saving).

- They will unilaterally stop following any sanction / not officially , but unofficially they will sell whatever Iran / NK / Russia want to buy from them.
Iran alone has enough oil reserves to meet their energy needs, not to bring up the cozy relationship between Putin and Xi.

- 1970 style inflation in western countries that have outsourced all their electrial engineering work to China, the west doesn't have a collection of mega city that is the Pearl River Delta - China's greatest asset.

There is no way greater New York will be able compete directly with PRD.

It will require infrastracture spending at a level that would be unprecedented in US history comparable to WW2 - putting inflation pressure on resources. Not to mention major displacement of workers - who might not want to go back to working in a factory floor.

All this will be painful to both the "West" and China.

> What might stop China is if another large country such as India, Indonesia or Nigeria decided to position themselves as the ethical alternative: cheap labor and manufacturing without the rampant state sponsored IP theft.

Try starting a tea shop in India and then come back to me - I know I tried.

You will have to pay bribe to 3 government bureaucrats, 5 state bureaucrats, 2 local mafias leader, leaving aside politians who will come at our door if your business gets big enough.

India / Indonesia are democracies with all the mess that democracy involves. Most MNCs rather put their money in Saudi Arabia then invest in unstable democracies.

India / Indonesia will industrialize on their own terms and will mostly stay neutral since they dislike being pawns between great powers.
That was a short wait.
Remarkable that this is being downvoted. It's a great illustration of the strong vs weak government debates.

What did jogjayr say that people find not contribute to the discussion? I believe they are right on point - why not make our government better? You can say it is inefficient and still want to make it better. Other governments somehow do a good job, as we can see with public infrastructure in Germany et al. Is it really a reasonable perspective to say "the US government has failed in the past, therefore it will always fail?" I don't think it is reasonable to make a claim like that in a country where "government" is a word that refers to a federal executive branch that refreshes every 4-8 years, two houses of federal legislative branches that cycle every 2 years, a federal judicial branch, a state level executive, legislative, and judicial branch, a county level judicial branch, a city level executive and legislative branch, and then elected bureaucratic offices at an even more granular local level.

To me, it seems obvious that these positions could be filled with competent people, they certainly have been in the past and they can be in the future. There is no "government" homogeneous entity in America and thus there's no way to unequivocally say "the guvmint of the USA is bad at infrastructure."
Happy customer here :)

I recently visited my grandma and found a drawer full of envelopes with every photo we've ever texted.
That really doesn't sound so bad if the applications are small and everyone can see the sourcecode.

That's not the way amiga software was though heh.
If he said otherwise, would the Chinese government sanction him?
It helps that he had a tumblr exit, then founded and exit Instapaper and was a popular well known podcaster/blogger before he launched Overcast.
The RTOS stuff happens in the handset’s baseband processor. The user-facing GUI environment has no hard real-time constraints.
>If you hash passwords once on the client and twice on the server, your site itself is no more secure than if you only hashed passwords once on the server (and not on the client). If you hash passwords once on the client and once on the server, your site itself is drastically less secure.

What do you mean by "once" and "twice"? Are you comparing splitting the hashing cost across client and server vs. adding extra hashing cost on client?
HIPAA would prevent a doctor from telling a drug company which patients might want its products, but not from recommending drugs to patients according to their symptoms. Facebook's ad-targeting business model is entirely consistent with a HIPAA-style regulation. The data are not for sale; the eyeballs are.
Marcus Hutchins, slayer of WannaCry worm, pleads guilty to malware charges
You have to put the number in context. Maryland’s GDP per capita is 60% higher than France’s. Labor costs make up lion’s share of broadband deployment and maintenance, and those costs are very high here.

Gigabit fiber (1000/1000) from Verizon is about $80-90 per month (not a promo rate). With basic TV maybe $110. According to the Internet, the non-promo rate for 1000/300+TV from Orange in France is 48 euros per month, or $54. Equivalent to $90 here in MD.

In the UK, Hyperoptic is well regarded. It’s 60 pounds per month after the promo period for gigabit, or $80. That is about the same nominal cost, but in reality less affordable for your average UK person, given that Maryland’s per capita GDP is 50% higher than the UK’s.
On Windows graphics drivers are now userland because historically they were the top cause of BSODs.
I think it's fair to ask whether the file's _contents_ need to be ACID transactional or could you just mark the row as deleted and schedule a job/Cron to clean them up? In light of that, and the fact that a binary blob isn't really a relational piece of data and I can see the logic behind not storing it in a relational DB.
I could implement it in firefox just as fast... they are obviously stalling.
> and the occasional mortal duel.

Duels under Tokugawa were forbidden and punishable by death of both opponents. The only fighting that samurai could see was terrorizing of unarmed peasants.

Samurai were not warriors in European sense but more of a mob enforcers. Good for terrorizing peasants not really fit for fighting in any military sense.

During Meiji when peasants got professional military training and leadership samurai became toothless.

[BUSHIDO: WAY OF TOTAL BULLSHIT] https://www.tofugu.com/japan/bushido/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kumamoto_Castle

[2] https://www.historynet.com/satsuma-rebellion-satsuma-clan-sa...
The ping attribute replaces redirects and JavaScript that already allow (and are very widely used for) less performant ways of doing exactly the same tracking.

An explicit ping attribute makes it easier for content blockers; with a redirect there's nothing you can do but with a declarative attribute it's clear what to block.

This seems very clearly better to me.
The CEO of ASML commented on this story in Nieuwsuur last Tuesday [1] (the interview starts at 22m35s). Caption file can be found here [2], which is not entirely correct in every sentence uttered, but translates pretty well.

Main points raised there:

1) This story is about four employees, who were not closely familiar to the core technology of ASML.

2) Looking at the circumstances, it seems far more likely that this was an action by ex-exployees with commercial motives, rather than government-sponsored spying.

3) ASMLs core technology simply remains in The Netherlands. An anecdote: 15 years ago ASML came with the most advanced lithography scanner of that time. It was copied in China to the last screw, but the device simply didn't work, because they lacked intricate knowledge on its actual operation.

[1] https://www.npostart.nl/nieuwsuur/16-04-2019/VPWON_1297076

[2] https://pastebin.com/Zg55qtYK
Not a troll, I am a Black man. Like BLACK BLACK, like dark skin. The original color BLACK, Like not even brown. Born in AFRICA. Providing me links to Amazon and Google diversity page doesn't make the company less discriminatory when it comes to there hiring practices. Quite frankly it's kinda F#k up that the company has to have a webpage to show their diversity to the public. A company having a diversity page is like saying I quote "I am not racist I have a BLACK friend. look at my cool BLACK friend. " In most cases, these companies are doing this to steer clear of the NAACP In case you don't what that stands for NAACP* stands for (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). That's right America has to have an NAACP because a lot of corporations discriminate against colored People and this has been going on for a very long time. And that's discrimination from the hiring process all the way up to career advancement opportunities say the company decides to hire that one BLACK PERSON. I've been in the Tech Field for 8+ years and let's just say a lot of F#@K sh!t happens to you when you're a BLACK MAN. The fact of the matter is when it comes to hiring and or interviewing. The person that's always making the decision say Hiring Manager is always white. It's never been a BLACK person interviewing me. like NEVER. Being a Black Male, I have to make sure I'm very careful and come off Nonthreatening. I have to be super nice! and for a lack of a better term (white-like) refer to link: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=White-like if you would like to know what that means. If police officers get super uncomfortable when they pull me over for whatever reason (hint: a Black man driving a white Toyota Prius) Think about what goes through an interviewers mind when it's a Black person they're interviewing. My talents and what's on my resume is overlooked once they see the color BLACK. The only thing the interviewer sees when I am at this stage is my BLACKNESS. It's plain an simple I am simply asking for an opportunity to work for company X. My skin color or making the interviewer feel comfortable should have absolutely nothing to do with my ability to do the FU#King job. When it comes to TECH ish I have the ability to embarrass people that have been in the field for 20-30+ years. ;) no joke.
Yes and no.

White collar crimes are very expensive to investigate, prosecute, and keep the attention of the jury. High-profile clients and attorneys invite a lot of red tape, expensive to cut through, so they don't bother unless conviction is certain. Failure is embarrassing and makes the State look weak.

But Ken White is living in a bubble if he thinks the State won't spend the money to go after any low-hanging fruit it can reach.
A large portion of the components needed to boot (not to mention use) android have always been closed. This is absolutely not the case for Linux. You can boot a totally free kernel on most PCs and don't really even need much userspace (busybox and whatever app you want to run (provided it doesn't need X11) is usually enough)

Furthermore, android really wasn't built to be easy for individuals to work on. Compare compiling and modifying Linux to compiling and modifying android. I've done the first but I don't think I've ever even finished downloading the source (tens to hundreds of gigabytes) to even start with the second.
Casper+vs+Purple+Which+Is+Better?
This isn't a new feature; it was added in Chrome 15 and Safari 6. https://caniuse.com/#feat=ping
Brutalist architecture has a charm all of its own :-)
Again, I'm not talking about what the publisher said or didn't say to Scribd. I'm talking about what appears on the title page of the book.
Yeah, but the problem was poor security of Matrix.org 's own homeserver which is the default on Riot, not with Matrix itself. Tchap should be secure enough considering the French government is hosting it on their servers.
I would argue that developing countries have a moral obligation to obtain whatever intellectual property is necessary to develop their economies.
Actually not. I check Chinese news sites twice a month. Most of the international news is about the success of OBOR and multilateralism blah blah. News about trade war is relatively rare.
War metaphors are often used for domestic issues though, such as poverty and corruption.
S3 is the complexity. anything added to a system doubles the complexity of said system...
That’s a bit of a tricky question, because it’s math-heavy. The best way to describe it is to think of the event horizon as the black hole, and forget that there is even an interior. The black hole can be fully described by the conditions at the event horizon after all, and everything else is cut off from the surrounding universe completely. In that sense there is no propagation from the interior at all, which is good because if information could escape then theories describing black holes would be broken.

Instead the black hole has mass, charge, and momentum (three kinds of momentum actually, but that’s not important). Whatever is going on beyond the event horizon, whatever that might be, has no effect that anyone can detect. Matter is accreted “onto” the event horizon which then expands in proportion to the mass of the volume of the hole. Maybe it’s destroyed beyond that point, or maybe it goes to another universe, but we can never know. The event horizon can also shrink if the surroundings are sufficiently cold (really really really cold) and the horizon is sufficiently hot.

Still, all of this is surface phenomena, like dropping a bowling ball into a tub of water. The water only “knows” about the surface of the ball, which which gets properties from the whole ball without exposing the center. A bowling ball in water creates waves, but the interior isn’t interacting with the water anymore than the black hole interior interacts with space (assuming an idealized perfectly rigid bowling ball). In the same way gravity waves or fractions would be a function of how the space just beyond the event horizon is warped.

Does that help?
I think these states should turn their municipal water and sewer over to private companies and then in a few years of having their toilet back up into their living room while costing them thousands of dollars maybe they will think broadband in the 21st century is a important utility that should be available to all at an affordable price.
There are patriarchal hierarchies among crustaceans, it seems less like a 'choice' and more like the result of a random, survivorship-biased process.
No to either question yet.
This is the very reason why I had loaded up on significant amounts of Qualcomm stock earlier this year. Apple pretty much had no choice but to settle a deal with them or get screwed on 5G.

I have no doubt that Apple will likely attempt to sever their dependency on Qualcomm when they make eventually make their own modems (they've made incredible strides with their SoC's under Johny Srouji), but it will still be at least a few years before that will even be a reasonable option.

The complexity of engineering that goes into a high-performance modem is nothing to sneeze at, especially when Qualcomm owns a significant portion of 5G-related patents. Even Intel threw in the towel upon the realization that the capital expenditure wouldn't be worth it, and it would be impossible to compete with Qualcomm profitably (Intel stock actually jumped up accordingly). Qualcomm will continue to collect licensing/royalties from other manufacturers like Huawei as well, and is in an excellent position frankly.
This isn't logic design. ASML makes photolithography equipment used in semiconductor manufacture.

The head line is confusing, but it reads "Dutch chip machine maker"
If someone wants that document taken down another time, then they should send take down requests each and every time.

As someone who has actually spent several days sleeping in shifts with a co-founder so we could keep sending takedown notices when the same group of people repeatedly uploaded our material to YouTube and Google apparently didn't care, I think we can safely assume that your proposal is not a viable general solution to this sort of problem.
I don’t think you can lay claim what OP is intending to say unless you’re OP. The best either of us can do is share our interpretation, and others can feel free to pile on.

I’m happy to discuss how to maintain tech superiority in America as long as it doesn’t turn into a witch-hunt against immigrants. It’s far easier to fan fears than to calm them, this should be reflected in how we communicate.
Why would you want to beat him anyway?
More like fear of reprisal than honor. Chemical and nuclear weapons are very hard to defend your civilian population from. Mutual Assured Destruction has worked so far but I wouldn’t call it an honor code.
it is a weird problem.

on one hand we want more diversity.

on the other i saw companies offer ludicrous offers to people heavily underqualified for the offers because they are a woman. Like a 2 year of experience lady with bad instincts (just lack of experience) but tons of potential. And offering her a senior engineer, same as we'd offer a 10 year veteran.

Point is, from the white male side, it seems insulting. I am not suggesting women are less capable, but they are having money thrown at them in ways males can't even approach.

But I suppose the price we pay for having so few women engineers.
> This likely means that a robot following the Asimov's three laws would never pass a direct Turing test.

Not necessarily true. An AI could pretend that it doesn't follow Asimov's laws while in fact following them. For example, the AI could pretend that, to execute the given order (second law), it first needs to understand the author psychology. At that point the AI can change the author's mind by using persuasive tactics. If the AI successfully changed author's mind, it successfully didn't follow the initial order by simply cancelling it with consent of the author

The first and third laws are also applicable to humans, and cannot be used to detect the AI
Wasn't Foxconn's suicide rate in line with the nation's averages?
Being Glue (promotable vs. non-promotable engineering work)
I work on full-3D simulations (using a game engine) for an autonomous car company. I can't speak for every AV company, but in my experience, simulators are used far more for testing than 'training'. The appeal of using a 3D game engine for simulation is that you can create inputs to the car's perception system. Without this ability, you're stuck either replaying recorded data, or spoofing out perception and only testing planning/controls and down. These two approaches are actually extremely powerful, so the vast majority of AV simulation testing is not done in full 3D.

There are some situations where 3D simulation is useful, though. First, it allows you to run your AV software in its entirety (i.e., not spoofing perception), making for a very complete integration test. A 3D sim can capture complex, interesting occlusions that other sims cannot. Another fairly common use case is experimenting with new sensor setups before they're added to the car.

As for training, it's mostly research at this point. I think there's promise in using synthetic data to supplement real-world data training data for perception systems.

There are a number of companies trying to market simulation 'platforms' to AV makers. I think there's the potential for one of these products to gain traction -- but it's a difficult sell. AVs are enormously complicated, a 3rd party product would need to both beat in-house sims and support a lot of very specific (and likely propriety) AV features.
One is the main website, and the other is the main search.
How is it dangerous? How are you able to equate "I was unfairly harsh in my judgement of X" with "X wasn't bad"? That doesn't follow, it's simply a comparison.

Gates and MS anti-trust violations are now standard operating procedure for today's tech giants, the behavior of MS in the 90s looks incredibly harmless when compared to the wildly irresponsible socially dangerous behavior of tech giants today. We seemed to have just collectively forgotten about anti-trust and decided that the natural monopoly of tech services will be the new status quo. But anti-trust is nothing compared to the perils and social consequences of the 'move fast and break things' approach of technology and software today. The Boeing 737max is one recent example, but we're just starting to unravel the social and cultural costs of allowing companies with unprecedented power to shape human behavior and public opinions, dictate what is and is acceptable speech for their platform in the name of quarterly growth. Seems like a reasonable comment and insight to me.
> What did jogjayr say that people find not contribute to the discussion? I believe they are right on point - why not make our government better?

It’s not a helpful point. The government (at least in a democracy) is a reflection of the people and their culture. Even to put it charitably, we’re a culture that puts many other things ahead of infrastructure. In France to build a train line, the government does a study, passes a law that preempts all other laws, and then the thing gets built. Here, any project is tied up in years of litigation before it can move forward.

Why is our metro service so bad? The WMATA union is completely broken. They had track inspectors falsify reports. Management fired them, the union sued, and they were hired back. But you can’t take on the WMATA union because then you’re a capitalist pig and now you’re mired in a larger national debate about unions versus right-to-work.

Or compare how Stockholm did fiber deployment. The municipal entity built out over more than a decade, wiring up profitable neighborhoods first in a demand driven way. Here, if you tried that it would explode in a shit show about “digital redlining.” (Which is not to minimize that problem—just pointing out that the legacy of actual redlining in America makes it politically impossible for us to adopt a policy that worked very well in Sweden.)

You can’t fix all that. And if you can’t fix it, there is a good reason to keep the government away from markets that are at least kinda working.
Latency I can see. I find it hard to believe S3 has a lower availability than a sata drive. Given that S3 is replicated.
Hearing aids now have an OTC (over the counter) bill passed in the FDA. Senator Warren lobbied for the bill for Bose. I think Bose is going to attempt to break into the D2C space with hearing aids.