skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cixin book covers those aspect pretty well. One of the main element behind his version of the Dark Forest theory is something he calls the "Chain of suspicion". He argues that in a world were communication is limited by the speed of light, there's no way to establish a coherent dialog during first contact between two civilizations that would allow you to completely trust the other party. If you cannot trust that the other party will not destroy you given the chance, then the only way for you to be guaranteed not to be destroyed is to destroy them first. Even if both parties want peace, there's no way for you to convince the other party that you want peace without also giving them the time to destroy you. It's basically a game theory situation where trying to go for peaceful communication is way too risky, and the stake in play are the survival of your civilization. It's also implied that civilization that played the "peace" card will simply get eliminated the moment they encounter someone playing the "destroy" card, making you much less likely to actually encounter a peaceful civilization.
With very few exceptions code that is "easy to maintain and refresh" over any appreciable time horizon (say,longer than 2-3 years) requires the kind of engineering effort that the modern world of "CS trivia is good interview material" generally derides. I'm not even talking about "real" engineering processes as might be used for space systems or whatever; I mean just basic requirements analysis and technical documentation.
Ha! I am less involved, but I’m still around :)
https://devtomanager.com/ is a good one, especially for those just making (or about to make) the transition.
Wish Python would get 'study' from Perl.
If the cause of the loneliness is they they aren't socially adept, then how would they find someone to have kids with in the first place?!

And if they do find someone, won't the loneliness be cured already without having kids?
"Humans should only die on their own terms... except for the most influential people, who shouldn't live longer than I say they should." Hmm.
Hopefully the manager has enough sense to help a new person see the priorities. As a manager I've definitely 'called time' on weeding. Good analogy.
This is an ideal reality. If the PO is at your desk every day to ask why the thing isn’t done, most developers are eventually going to drop everything non-essential to the functioning just to get them out of their hair.
Huawei doesn't share its IP with others, and is a very different beast to the gongkai entrepreneurs profiled by Andrew Huang.
There are lots of places where we have trained ourselves to think that timeliness is the most important quality when it absolutely isn't. If I drive into a tunnel and my family has to wait an hour before they see the new photo of my son, that is not an epic tragedy.
There are also maturing p2p ways to help solve this problem. If my sister gets my update with the new photo before I hit the tunnel, she can share it with my mom whenever they manage to connect.
I stay away from fish oil due to concerns about pollutant bio-accumulation in fatty flesh. My research leads me to believe algae-based EPA/DHA supplements are much safer, as they're created in a clean, hermetically sealed environment. However, our bodies are perfectly capable of creating the long-chain variants from polyunsaturated fats, provided we avoid the standard Western diet of processed products, which unbalances the omega3-6 ratios and impedes their desaturation and elongation.
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> At this point a lot of them would look at me like I was insane, and reply with some variant of "I can't do it" or "we were never taught how to do that" and want to reach for the computer, whereupon I would stop them and show how.

I wish I would have had such a TA in my university. Instead, I got compressed deadlines and a "you figure it out or you fail" mentality in the majority of my classes. There were lectures and a textbook - if you couldn't sort it out and make it click on your own, alongside all of your other courses, you were SOL.
Yeltsin by that time hadn't bought any groceries for close to 30 years as was (and still is) common for the ruling elite in Russia. He probably didn't even fully understand the extent of the scarcity his people were experiencing while he was letting his oligarch friends pillage and burn the remains of the USSR. This is kind of like when Ellen DeGeneres asked Bill Gates how much a banana costs, and his guess was $10.

So the extent of Yeltsin being "amazed" is likely vastly exaggerated here. He was a charismatic hick from the boonies, and being treated as a semi-equal by his peers in the US went to his head quite quickly and hard. He was eager to please. But no one in the West was ever confused about what he was.
>What programming language stack do you (and a lot of other developers) use that’s closed source with no realistic open source alternative?

Matlab?
Cross-post from Indie Hackers:

No, not like that! I'm talking about that visceral feeling of getting yourself out there, of being vulnerable and outside of your comfort zone, in person or in front of a camera. Just you, the real you, and the tides of the Internet; dropping Internet cliches of pseudonyms, handles, cat GIFs and avatars. You do this to promote yourself, your product or some part of the ecosystem that you dedicate your life to.

For this I recently took part in a live stream (as in, a real-time broadcast, gulp) chat/interview with Darko Fabijan, co-founder of Semaphore CI (https://semaphoreci.com), as part of their Semaphore Uncut series where they discuss IndieHackers favourite topic(s): the problems that we face as software industry professionals, how we're solving them, and what we're working on that excites.

For our session, we chatted about our experiences and passions as founders, about building Enterprise-class SaaS products, about how package management (the domain of Cloudsmith, https://cloudsmith.io) integrates with CI/CD, and what's coming up next for both of us - You can watch it the full thing here (with a podcast to follow):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLy0IV4Yq8

It was a pleasure chatting with Darko, although it was my first experience doing a live stream. Darko was obviously a lot more practiced, calm and measured than I was; he was fantastic and I can only thank him for directing the conversation smoothly. Having watched it back I think I managed to just about get away with it externally, but internally I'm a maelstrom of nerves. Certainly my domain is at a keyboard and not as a natural orator, but we all know here that practice makes perfect.

Apart from one or two brain blips, it went well; I didn't articulate about package management patterns and advice in the way that I would have liked. We had a followup conversation that was much smoother, as is typical, and I'm hoping to add some of that to the podcast. As is typical for anything that's live, we also had a bit of meltdown pre-stream with the streaming software and Skype, which both decided to crash just as we started to broadcast. Maybe they'll release an "off-cuts" series of bloopers in the future.

Overall though, great fun and extremely worthwhile; I would definitely recommend it as a soapbox. If not for your product, then for you personally. Do it to better yourself. Do it to grow. Do it because you can do it. Although I'm well-versed with talking to customers and doing demos, these are targetted/pointed "scenarios" that play out similarly each time. This though, this pushed me to the edge of my abilities. Would I do it again? Absolutely, and I will. Watch this space.

So Hacker News, my actual question is:

What have you done recently where you exposed the real you?

Did it work? Tell us more, and give us a link (if you can). Be polite. :-)
> The article is a smidge ironic, though

It is reporting an intention from a minister. When and if the minister actually acts on it, by extending an official request from the Japanese Government, I guess they will respond officially in some way. There is no need to drop one's pants just because a minister opened his mouth.
I was not asking for free hardware, I was asking if they have any pricing for academic researchers since it was not mentioned on the website.
Test my website

https://gfw.netlify.com/
> People drive through tunnels or into mountains without cell signal.

Isn't this an argument for more locally hosted services?
> Without the code the company is nothing, so it's definitely not 'debt'.

I reconcile the concept that code is a debt with your statement in the following way:

The feature produced by a piece of code can be an asset, but the code itself is a debt.

Thus, for a new feature to be valuable, you want the value added of the feature (or asset) to out-weight the cost of the code (or debt).

As a general rule, the complexity that comes along with a piece of code grows as the code-base and feature set grows, thus, for a young codebase, the value of a feature more easily out-weights the cost of the code.
"female" and "male" are very clinical, scientific terms. They also lack humanity - there are male and female dogs, cats and birds, but that's not the case for "men" or "women".

No, none of this is backed up by a dispassionate reading of a dictionary but that's language for you. It's emotive, for better or worse.
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There was no doubt. Even 20 years ago when I worked for France Telecom it was clear Huawei was going to eat Western telecom equipment manufacturers' lunch. They were outspending them 2:1.
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Plato claimed all objects aspire to be good, but what's good for one isn't go
Right. If anything, it's the minorities and the common people who are the long suffering heroes in the story. It's the party insiders who are portrayed as the anti-semitic and comically dim villains.
The employees do own permanent 'shares' and enjoy proportional dividends but they cannot liquidate the shares at market price when they quit the company. This is socialist collective ownership for you. Like I said, the employees paradoxically do not own the company in the private property sense but in the collective sense. You can say the same thing for any socialist countries. It would be naive to judge it as simple kleptocracy.
Porting out GVoice numbers is harder, but it can absolutely be done, I've moved a purely Google Voice number to T-Mobile before.
Sure, but I really must emphasize that I am not advocating this setup for your mom or anyone’s mom necessarily. I’m saying that if you’re a developer you may like this setup. The fact that Linux is not always a great choice for non technical people isn’t really relevant to the value some of the people from Hacker News may get out of it.
I can’t think of any good hip hop that came out before 2001 that wouldn’t have been too controversial for the sensibilities of corporate America.
Huawei is not known as an open company, if anything they're the very opposite. They stopped providing unlock ability for their mobile devices some time back, and even before that they were known for having by far the hardest system to work with for phone "modders" - bricked hardware was exceedingly common, and zero outside support was provided. That's incredibly harsh even by CN standards.
Internally there is nothing rigid to crack, they should bend with enough force. Catching fire is a real concern, but if you can get the battery voltage down real low they should be inert enough to pry out if you can manage it without puncturing the pack. (you'd have to bypass whatever internal low voltage protections they have)
What significant benefit
Let’s not encourage an internet mob.
> Cixin Liu, like most other hard sci-fi authors, and everybody else who thinks about those things, seems to assume that lightspeed is just as problematic for everyone else as it is for us humans.

... the primary weapon of the Trisolans in the first book are subatomic ansible faeries.

I thought it was kind of funny, because the whole point behind the Dark Forest theory is that it emerges because aliens are so unknowable, there can never be proper trust between them. Yet a relatively young and slowly-developing race is literally more sure of what humanity is doing than we are of our neighbouring countries.

"Hard sci-fi", pfft :P
What I found crazy about this is that the leader of such a large country had no clue how western countries operate.

All large organizations are subject to the "Thermocline of Truth."

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-t...
The type of screen and subpixel count is very important to perceived image quality. Quest is pentile OLED and Rift S is full-stripe LCD.
Can't you also just rent a Alibaba cloud instance which is in mainland China and fire up a browser?
Cuba isn't flourishing, they're entering the first stages of food deprivation right now. They've required large state sponsorship, previously by the USSR, and more recently by Venezuela, to keep from system collapse. The average income in Cuba is still close to $20 per month.

May 2019 "Cuba launches widespread rationing in face of crisis"

https://www.apnews.com/42b62f24be9b4e0d9f764f1a3fa9647a

This near starvation problem isn't anything new. The same thing happened when Cuba's last sponsor, the USSR, went under.

1994 "Millions of Cubans facing starvation: Hunger is fuelling an exodus of desperate refugees, writes Phil Davison from Havana"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/millions-of-cubans-...
> Or lost their job because of a tweet about men being sexisg.

a direct quote from your comment. you describe tweets.

how do you not remember what you just wrote?
Sorry. My apologies. I think I see the misunderstanding.

Under the radar is an idiom. It is used to describe things that occur in areas not typically subject to observation, or widespread acknowledgement/general awareness. In this case by regulators, or the public in general.

I think you might have misunderstood the poster above you when they suggested trying to fully automate airplanes; maintaining the analog of every sensor required to fully enable totally automated operation would require the installation of full suites of broadband sensors on the plane, allowing it to collect all information with regards to the environment it is working in, and sending it "back home". Admittedly, this is less problematic, because planes don't operate within the confines of everyday life, and thus are not omnipresent, capable of acting as a ubiquitous surveillance platform.

When I say this has been going on "Under the radar", I'm referring to the slow adoption of increasingly more varied and densely packed sensor packages in vehicles offered to provide some token discount, but with very little oversight into what type of data is generated, communicated, stored, or otherwise.

Planes being tracked by radar is fine. That comes with the mode of transport. It's an air transport's version of a Stop light or signage.

Long term persisted data collected by cars, however, is not, and should not be.
That's a good point, but according to my knowledge this was a matter of degree rather than quality - almost all countries have or have had such production in whole or in part, implemented through subsidies and especially during wartime or other hardships. It's also to be expected when production is at least nominally democratic and central, it's not all about simple appearances. But what distinguishes a socialist society from any other is that goods would no longer be produced as commodities - i.e they are not imbued with the form of labour which tailors for exchange over use. Capital tends to totalize all labour into that which works for exchange over use, e.g. it has subsumed artwork and non-tangible goods from things of use into things with exchange value and a use-value. But exchange value tends to prevail and even changes the concrete form of labour, e.g. advertising as you suggested, and also, for instance, music sold on platforms like Spotify to maximize revenue, such as shorter, highly-replayable and segmented songs. Capital exists no less for the state, which will tend to share the same motivations as other capitalists, especially since it must buy and sell to other states or private individuals abroad.
And is the Huawei ban also about giving the competition a chance to catch up?
There are open source alternatives to Matlab like gnu octave
Without Android, Huawei is as good as dead in terms of being a competitive handset manufacturer. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to purchase a phone with “HongMeng OS” given the technical/security concerns, lack of apps, and general unfamiliarity of the OS to most folks.

At one point a phone was a phone was a phone, but today the app and messaging ecosystems are everything.
While recounting anecdotes and making witty observations, let's not forget that this man was responsible for bringing incredible misery upon the people of Russia. Not he alone, but he was the main one.

Also a drunkard, a dictator and a darling of the West.
I'm curious to hear about your experience with the X1 Extreme. My current employer has an equipment stipend that's the exact cost of a maxed out 15" macbook, I'd rather get the Thinkpad, a nice monitor and go to a conference.
That doesn't really seem like a solution to the problem. The problem is that they aren't getting access to the Google play store, and lose access to a large supply of android apps.

If they just used the open source version of android, and added their own store (which they've been working on [0])... then android developers could just submit their app in both places.

But changing the OS, would likely mean developers would need to develop a new version of their app just for HongMeng... making the problem an even larger obstacle.

0. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/21/18633772/huawei-app-galle...
Is there a bidding mechanism?
Link, along with much of his other work: https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
So why does the US government accuse Huawei of being a risk for being at the beck and call of the Chinese government?
Doing exactly that, and hiring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797601
We ensure this won't be a problem again by educating all modern autocrats in the US or Britain. Or sometimes France. That way they all know.
Well, as I’ve said in a different comment, there is a very clear reason why the computer does not come configured properly for Linux sleep modes. Windows is using a new sleep system that seems to involve disabling a sleep mode in the BIOS, and the laptop arrives installed with Windows. Once you install Linux, you just need to go in to the BIOS and change the setting from windows specific sleep modes to traditional sleep modes, and then after you reboot you need to tell Linux that sleep mode is now available.

It’s not a problem with Linux, it’s just due to the fact that Linux and windows are different and the laptop is configured for windows. Once you make the change the sleep behavior is wonderful and I keep the laptop in my bag for days at a time on sleep.
I actually like the new keyboard quite well. It helps with RSI issues for me.
The punch-line of the joke is "the jews have it better, once again"
As far as geopolitical cybersecurity plays go, making a lot of Chinese phones run an OS written by Huawei is insidiously brilliant for a potential attacker.

Assuming the Huawei UK reports about internal code practices are to be believed...
Fidelity also only uses SMS-based 2FA :-/
English is not the obstacle; the Latin alphabet is.

There is a much higher chance that Western countries could move from English to another Latin-alphabet language (e.g. Spanish) than to any language rooted in ideograms. Which is why, for example, Japanese has made no real inroads despite 40 years of massive economic influence.
Competition should be a good thing. The real issue is that colleges and employers are looking at the wrong signals. This leads the existing competition.

GPA for example is arbitrary yet colleges and employers are basically asking schools to 'optimize' / maximize it. Standardized testing (ACT/SAT) is much better, but still misses important aspects like leadership ability. Even the prestige of the school is a poor signal.

Give employers / colleges a better objective measure and they will gladly use it. Perhaps we should have a post-college standardized test.
Ask HN: Comprehensive guides for what to do in a post-climate-change world?
Most of the coverage I see on climate change is saying that it's already too late and we are going to feel some of the worst effects of climate change, regardless of what we do now.

Assuming they are correct, what should we be doing now to protect against the worst effects of climate change?

Are there "safe" places we should move to (more specific than "away from coast lines"), should we ensure food security by stockpiling long-life foods and water sanitisation methods, how do we ensure energy security, how many years of self-sufficiency should we prepare for etc. ?

I guess this boils down to being a doomsday prepper, but I'm looking for guidance specific to climate change that is practical and based in reality.
I’ve also had long waits in the Bay Area, but haven’t elsewhere in the US (NC, IL, TX).
I’ll sacrifice myself at the alter of Steve Jobs. I have a 2018 MacBook Pro with a 6-core CPU and 32GB of RAM and I absolutely love it (with exception to the Touch Bar which sucks if you’re a VIM user). Once you get used to the butterfly keyboard you can fly. The light weight makes traveling with a 15 inch laptop a pleasant experience. The screen, speakers, and touch pad are fantastic. I haven’t had a single issue with the keyboard, and I am constant munching on food, getting crumbs in between the keyboard, etc. Dongle life isn’t as bad as it sounds. Put one in your backpack and use it when needed. I also bought the LG 5K monitor and that has been the perfect compliment to this laptop. OK back to drinking more kool aid.
That vision is definitely being explored, not necessarily built into the router but usually as network attached appliances for some kind of “local cloud” (idk marketing). Syncloud & antsle are some Ive seen on the device side, and usually they run owncloud or nextcloud plus other “apps”

The problem is from a reliability standpoint running stuff at home can be not great. Home network quality / reliability is not going to be datacenter quality, you’re going to have to deal with this thing running all the time & power costs, and you’re probably going to have to be tech-inclined enough to admin these apps at some point. These things have real costs, I think there’s a place for an honest discussion about what things cost for sure, but I don’t think people are getting fleeced on apps in the cloud by and large
I’ve felt a general decrease in retail experience in the past year or so. Maybe Amazon is eating everybody's lunch. But labor is tight, and employee quality is down.

NYT reported yesterday that we are well past full employment -- because employers are willing to hire anyone, including felons, and will overlook things that used to be firing offenses.
Any idea what tool he's using for the "slides"?
>A professor led the Huawei operating system team to develop a proprietary operating system – Hongmeng. The operating system has been optimized for Linux (open source), and has been used in Huawei mobile phones (safety part). In addition, the project also won the first prize of the Ministry of Education Technology Invention (2018), the second prize of the National Technology Progress (2012), and strive for csranking as soon as possible before entering V. Prepare to declare the 2020 National Technology Progress Award.”

Not much data there.

An Android fork seems to be the assumption of the masses as far as anything going in another direction....but a possibility whole new OS would be a big undertaking I would think.

This just sounds like a research project, possibility one of many.
Direct link to the documentation one-pager:
https://github.com/google/zetasql/blob/master/docs/one-pager...