skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pia has anonymous payment methods, you can even use retail gift cards.
> From a technical perspective, XMPP never really appealed to me --- the biggest turn-off being its reliance on XML

I'm not making a case it was the best, or only protocol, but it existed and was popular, and importantly, was the protocol that Apple, Google and Facebook all used in their initial forays into the space.

That is, not only were they originally using open standards, they they were originally all using the same standard and could interoperate with each other easily if desired. That's important because it shows just how far we went. Literally from one end of the spectrum (fully open and interoperable on a client level) to the other (closed proprietary standards and enforced incompatibility).

> Also, don't forget that the original chat protocol, IRC, is still in (limited) use today.

Sure, I wasn't making a case that they died, just that we were sold an implied bill of goods that was bogus. There was no reason at the time to not use gtalk more than AIM as many people that had AIM eventually got a google/Gmail account (or Apple ichat one, or Facebook one), and to focus on those more. And new people didn't see the need to get an AIM/ICQ account because everyone they talked to had a way to reach them on those major platforms with those accounts they also got.

If we were back at the time people were signing up for accounts, and people were presented with the choice of getting a dedicated IM account in addition to their gchat or ichat or facebook one knowing that their bigcorp one would be closed to outside networks soon, I think a lot more would have done so.
I cannot wait for Entropic[1] to take off so I can just use that (and also replace my self-hosted Verdaccio with it).

[1] https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic
GPS Is Out Nationwide
> actually getting something physically superior

Sometimes, sometimes not. What you are getting is a chip that passed more rigorous tests. That the lower end products have (or would have) failed those tests is not guaranteed. Companies can and do sell identical silicon as less capable products.
Please don't post political or ideological flamebait here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As long as you know you're stalling. Air France 447 stalled all the way from cruising to crashing into the Atlantic without anyone onboard realizing it.
The US didn't chose Canada as an ally in this fight arbitrarily. One of the top other comments on this thread will tell you all you need to know about why Canadians are 100% down with going after Huawei: they killed off Nortel via IP theft.

I watched as friends' parents lost their jobs, as one of the leading telecom companies in the world was undercut by a competitor who has stolen their source code, IP, products, everything.

Trump doesn't like Huawei? Well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
But Huawei is not different from other vendors here. For example: Windows has telemetry that cannot be disabled and sends data into American data centers, Apple has control over its phones around the world, can remotely block them and know their location, and who knows what else, Google tries to convince users from around the world to store all their data in an American cloud (not their own cloud, or a cloud in their country they can trust, but the cloud in US), and almost every Intel CPU has an additional CPU (ME engine) that has full control over the system, with encrypted firmware, and is not documented.

Yet I don't see any accusations against Microsoft, Apple, Android or Intel.
I'm not a native English speaker, but isn't there a huge difference between "race realists" and "white supremacists"? Isn't a "race realist" someone who argues that there are significant genetic differences between races while a "white supremacist" is someone who argues that whites should rule over the other races?
Great work -- something you should be very proud of. I was last there in 2006. I remember the tour guide telling me the building would be completed within 10 years. It is such a massive collection of both art and science I can see why it is taking many years to complete. My wife and I plan to visit it again once it is finished -- it was one of the first places we vacationed together.
I agree with you to some degree. I am against the whole notion of non-compete agreement for this reason.

But in this particular case with Samsung's OLED, Chinese companies are not only accused of poaching their former/retired employees or stealing (or learning) know-how's or IP, but also smuggling their high-tech manufacturing machinaries out of Samsung suppliers' plants in South Korea to China outright.
The title is wrong about it being an integrated design. Here's an excerpt from the paper abstract:

"This paper presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is scalable to large (N≳106) networks and can be operated at high (gigahertz) speeds and very low (subattojoule) energies per multiply and accumulate (MAC), using the massive spatial multiplexing enabled by standard free-space optical components"
That the hardware was rented makes the practice feel less egregious to me. You are after all essentially paying for a service when renting.

But paying someone to unlock physical functionality of a device which you own… that feels like crossing the line toed by IBM's practice (and that of others mentioned in comments such as Intel).
No, that would be stealing. But if you opened a TV and photographed it then it's not stealing.
Without knowing the details and assuming it's not smoke and mirrors, 'extended range' implies that something extra is happening to get the car further.

Otherwise it would just be the vehicle's normal driving range.
Ethics and One Tweet’s Impact on Digital Ocean
What a bunch of pure bullshit.

1. None of those links provide anything like evidence or support of your accusations.

2. It's absolutely remarkable that Huawei had somehow committed all these crimes and yet nobody has ever managed to prove anything significant in a court of law.

All we get are wild accusations and law suits that get thrown out.

Here's the really remarkable aspect here: the US government doesn't need to actually force propaganda on its citizens. If there's one thing we can learn very clearly from this entire ridiculous episode it is that American citizens and the American media will happily propagandize themselves. They will eagerly believe the most far fetched claims without a shred of proof, despite all actual evidence to the contrary, and they will spread those claims to each other in a kind of extremely intense decentralized disinformation machine. There's nothing else like this in the planet. You would think after Iraq Americans would learn even the tiniest bit of skepticism... But no.

I won't even bother pointing out any more how HN has devolved into a 24/7 racist anti-China Two Minute Hate system. At this point it's beyond clear that the community has abandoned any kind integrity. I don't think there's anything to be done which is why I'I've left and had to go through the embarrassing exercise if unrecommending the site to people I've previously recommended it to. People will say this is just a phase but I doubt it. When a community abandons any kind of Truth standard and just embraces bullshit I don't think it recovers.
Stuff that doesn't work, leading to days of problem solving.
I find the “it’s their culture” thing inappropriate too. (Especially because it seems to be more a deliberate economic/political strategy.) But you’ve mentioned one of my pet peeves so I am going to weigh in. You can’t judge a country by its expats. The expats are, after all, the ones who left (or were driven out). They’re not representative. Really, there is something a little odd with them—what kind of person abandons their country and all their family ties and moves across the world? Typical people don’t do that. My dad is one of those people. He’s a by the book rule follower, and Bangladeshis typically are ... more flexible. It drove him crazy. Then when he got the chance, he packed up his family and pretty much never looked back.
what industrial/scientific equipment do you think has regulated ownership?
Oh, yesss. Also, bird poop. Seriously - it is already a problem for solar cells on unmanned offshore oil and gas platforms.
Pass – the standard Unix password manager
Isn't your DNA largely insufficient for determining phenotype, particularly locally as in the case of cancerous cells? It takes a tremendous amount of chemical and software processing to capture a snapshot of quantitative protein expression, and even more to measure, say, phospho-regulated protein expression, but that is what is really needed for diagnosis and tailored treatment. You may be right about the "precipice", but I feel like you are over-selling pharmacogenomics.
I looked at the prices and man, even Cho Oyu seems expensive to climb. With permits and everything it looks like $30-40k.
He said BART so he is in SF bay area.

If he is only paying 2300 rent he is living in a small apt even 60 minutes out. The cost of everything in the bay makes you wonder where money goes.

Lunch is a minimum of 25 bucks, bottle of cheap beer 10.
I think the “miserable” here is in the Buddhist sense of a bottomless pit of desire that leaves your life feeling perpetually unfulfilled. Ads are like a backhoe for making that pit deeper.
Yes, on top of this, applications don’t have access to a devices MAC address through CoreBluetooth, so they can’t fingerprint a device.
HN has gone completely off the rails. See my comment above. It's been like this for more than a year now. This sort of outright racist hate speech is now completely normal on HN and is eagerly embraced.
You can say if it's acceptable ... but not necessarily good

The problem is that you don't know the cost of the false negatives; you don't know whether the people you didn't hire would have greatly improved your processes / code / business
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Taiwan in Time: The Airwaves of ‘Freedom’
All major indications are that he was prepared to lose and concede the 2016 election. He didn't appear to have written an acceptance speech. He didn't have a cabinet picked out. He is rumored to have had a deal in the works to start his own cable channel, Trump TV. You don't do that stuff if you're planning on committing a coup to overthrow the country after losing an election. I remember the first six months. He was not behaving like a person who seriously thought he'd be running the country, legitimately or otherwise. There is no reasonable concern here. He's a reality TV personality and says a lot of stupid shit. I don't like him a president, but these hair on fire fears and conspiracy theories are baseless.
>It's just a matter of time for algorithm written text to actually be similar to some human written text.

https://xkcd.com/810/
Great story, but I don't think it qualifies as a nightmare. It's just a really interesting and challenging puzzle. The fact that the author elected to work on it for free ("This is nerd war") clearly places it in that category. If you can exit a nightmare, you exit the nightmare. Speaking for myself the only coder's nightmare I have is the one I think every coder has. It's the universal programmer nightmare: you don't really _know_ your stuff works, the way you can know that turning a key in a lock will open a door. Maybe you missed something. Maybe you didn't test something. Maybe it's going to break over the coming holiday weekend.
I wasn't a software dev at the time, I was a college student making $11/hour part time.
If 10 files change by n bytes each, none of which reach your threshold for updating the parent individually, where are you storing the amount each file was changed since the last parent folder update until you deign it appropriate to update the parent? Your design makes no sense.
Mullvad is a VPN, but it has good performance, takes crypto for payment, and hasn't shown themselves to be untrustworthy yet.
I used to be angry at these posts, but now I'm just sad. Despite the GP then saying it's 'PRC Chinese' vs 'Singaporean Chinese,' it's still unclear if this is a broad swipe at an ethnic group, a nation's people, or their culture at large. It's just easy to vent unsubstantiated anger when it's the popular thing to do.
Russia's Best Defense Against America's Pressure Strategy May Be China
If I read correctly, the agent only controls one player at a time. On offense it controls the player with the ball, and on defense it controls probably the player closest to the ball. The other players are controlled by the built-in AI. Controlling a single agent kind of takes away from the appeal of deep-RL: that entire teams can learn to coordinate in novel and optimal ways.
If you live anywhere besides the west coast in a major city and have 7-10 years of experience you can easily make $130K as a senior developer. That puts you right at the 5th quintile of household income.

If your spouse is making even $50K that puts you in the top decile.

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/

You don’t need to move into middle management to comfortable support a family.
Now that you mention it, "military grade x" sounds like something solid and unobtainable by civilians.

But looking deeper, "military grade x" where x is not a weapon prohibited to civilians usually isn't that interesting.

At a nearby surplus store you can buy MRE's and military clothing side by side with normal work clothes and camping gear. After a short time you realize civilians can get tastier MREs, boots and clothing that fit and work better... and they are lower priced.
The customer got exactly what he paid for.

In your hypothetical, you had a choice between buying a printer with unlimited concurrent printing and a cheaper printer that only prints 5 pages at a time.

You did your homework and decided to buy the cheaper one.

Where's the un-ethical part?
Why would I care about someone in China knowing about my doctor's appointment or recent sports browsing? Why would anyone in China care to know about it?
...gentle reminder that environment variables belong in .bash_profile or perhaps event a shell-independent sourced at login-shell execution time (which might be on opening every terminal, depending on your setup)
> refutation of the single source's work

Janssens seems less skeptical of 23andMe's paper on polygenic score for type 2 diabetes [1][2], which -- interestingly -- positively cites the Khera 2018 paper on polygenic score for heart disease that she critiqued. Some researchers are skeptical, but the medical community generally seems to consider polygenic scores promising for tests [3][4].

> you haven't posited how Bob's mapped genome sitting in 23andme will be used for medical treatment.

Early intervention. Polygenic scores could be used for medical treatment by motivating earlier intervention. That could include stronger recommendations for better diet and exercise, closer monitoring programs, or more precise prescriptions. That, in turn, could reduce disease burden.

[1] https://twitter.com/cecilejanssens/status/113707970323438797...

[2] https://permalinks.23andme.com/pdf/23_19-Type2Diabetes_March...

[3] https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1129780543434964993

[4] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
If you don't have negative ACL entries then ordering is not important.
Well that was terrifying.
I wonder how much the transition to management helps nowadays. I have a few friends who did that, lost a lot of technical relevance and have had a terrible time finding new jobs as many places promote from within.
Edit: shut
Is it really limited to chinese culture? US had Echelon to spy on other countries' communications, Israel had destroyed Iranian program to have atomic energy. Europeans have stolen the secret of manufacturing a porcelain. West and Russia have stolen German secrets of making rockets after the war. Nobody wants to play fair.

And if you look at mobile game market, there everyone is stealing ideas from each other.
It truly is incredible! The cost of sequencing one's genome is only getting lower (like this company that sequences it for $999 >> https://www.veritasgenetics.com/myGenome) and the possibilities that this brings to designing custom tailored interventions is something we have never seen before.

I'm currently involved in some synthetic biology research and I still can't believe that we are getting to the point where hijacking the very machinery of cells and other living organisms to do things we want them to do like say act as biological sensors for a disease or have them synthesize and deliver compounds on their own could become as commonplace as taking a pill.

We are still a ways off, but we are getting there fast and like you say, it seems that outside of academia/the medical field not many see the impact this sort of tech is going to have.
Just for more negative karma: A mobile phone that can pote tially be turned on remotely against the owner's consent needa to either have a removable battery or a hardware killswitch. And this needa to be legally mandated.
> In the early 1990s Black served as the editor-in-chief for OS/2 Professional magazine and OS/2 Week and reported on OS/2 users and technology.

He's a journalist, not a techie. Just because he did some tech reporting and such back in the day doesn't necessarily mean that he has a clue, especially given the vintage of the tech that we're discussing here.

> Ah yes, the old "fake news" defence.

Yeah, you should maybe get a clue about that yourself! :)

And you should know that if and when various "smoking gun" documents turn up in court, as has been happening quite a bit lately, judges tend to react rather harshly if they don't actually say what they're claimed to say. This has also been happening quite a bit lately.
That's been going for some time. This case was unique in that the Korean authority caught some rogue Samsung suppliers smuggling Samsung's high-tech OLED manufacturing machinaries their factories in South Korea to China.
And x0x0 is right: it sounds like a major reason is that then we'd have to pay them.

I did work in my field(s) of study as an undergraduate, and I was paid for it. That's how jobs go. You produce something of real value, outside the classroom, and the university pays you money for it.

Presumably, if football players were doing professional-level work in their official field of study, they would be able to insist on earning a paycheck from it, too. And there's a lot of money in football.

(Well, not at my university -- the team was not especially good, and the tickets were all free -- but at many others.)
How does elections hold leaders accountable?
OK, game over then. Bye now!
DeepMind and Google Brain Open Source HLE Framework for ‘Hanabi’
Neither.

Tesla sold those cars before they finished the software that enforces the limits.

From now on this will be in the car from the beginning.
> I’m blanking on the term d’art, but I see this similar to the common practice of blocking out features in an MVP where you let users click on things that aren’t implemented yet in order to measure which features you should actually go and build next.

I've seen that called "fake door" or "painted door" tests.
It’s at the very least unethical in the environmental sense of wasting natural resources on physical objects that can’t be used and are wasted because of contractual terms. It’s also unethical if you believe in a “right to repair” because it creates financial incentives for the enforcement of laws and contracts that make “right to repair” impossible.
Apple devices are repairable. They just don't make it easy for you to do it.

But in every city there will be hundreds of shops which will repair it for you.
What is the basis for the belief that there was a single person, who wrote the program for the psychologist, and perpetrated the compiler hack?

This could be a case that person B was innocently working on the curses-based questionnaire program for the psychologist. Person A was aware of this work and hacked the compiler to recognize and doctor that program (including squashing it down to one line), in addition to /sbin/login and possibly others.

I'm curious how the program managed to include various headers, like <curses.h>. That requires multiple lines. I'm thinking that the hacked compiler took the preprocessed original innocent program and then output it as one line not requiring any preprocessing directives. Not even necessarily to obfuscate it, but because the division into lines was gone at the point in the compiler where this was done; i.e. this was a manipulation of the token stream of the program, and the tokens were just converted back to text and output as one line.

Could even be that this was all done in the C preprocessor rather than the compiler proper, by recognition and replacement of token sequences. Though modern compilers integrate the preprocessing phases of the language, this sounds like it was in a classic Unix environment, in which cpp was still a separate program.
Sweden which is the largest Scandinavian country allows it up to 18 weeks with no questions asked, after that you need to apply.
Different tech. Huawei's folding displays were made by BOE.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12462/matebook-x-pro-2018-hua...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12848/honors-thinandlight-mag...
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/31/17803516/h...
https://consumer.huawei.com/cn/support/accessories/ai-speake...

The company just can't quit copying.

You can get a whiff of the company culture from this guy.
https://m.weibo.cn/u/3626485974?uid=3626485974&luicode=10000...
Im sure that people made the exact same arguments that you are making, regarding race and gender.

And it is just as bad.
You will need to provide evidence of an iPhone being remotely turned on.

Because that seems pretty far fetched.
As a gen-xer, I fucking love where I'm at. I have the perfect combination of knowing how to to fix my toilet and my wifi (was third engineer at Aruba - suck it).
>So what happened? Were listening devices found at the Nortel Campus or not?

The Department of National Defence keeps changing its story on that issue.

>But after the Citizen article was published, Julie Di Mambro, spokeswoman for then Conservative Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, noted in a statement that, “security officials have assured us that they have not discovered any bugs or listening devices.”

The first article seems to heavily imply that there is no definite conclusion to this matter.
What should happen if the car owner modifies their firmware to enable heated seats and a longer vehicle range? After all, it’s their property to do with as they like - otherwise they’re just renting. Then what should happen if they tell others how to perform the same modification? What then, if everyone starts buying the cheaper SKU because they knew they can do a soft-unlock soon after they accept delivery?

It just seems scummy to sell the same hardware to people at different price-points and enable/disable functionality purely in software - because the hardware is yours - you paid for it - the only reason you can’t use it to it’s fullest extent is a bunch of bits in a flash chip inside your car. The fact it was willingly sold to you at a lower means it’s very likely anything else paid on-top is just pure-profit. It’s difficult to morally justify withholding heated seats to a buyer (esp. one in a cold climate) simply because they didn’t give you more profit even though you willingly sold them the hardware capable of doing that.

It’s just about disrespecting the customer, plain and simple.
I remember reading this post. What has changed since then is the on-track-ness of everyone =)