skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, obviously you wouldn't be complaining if your pet projects were the ones that society allocated all labour to.

If the value added is negligible people won't pay for it. The beauty of the market is that you have the freedom to reward your value producers.
I only flew American once in my adult life. Just rude/grumpy people at the gate. I fly almost on a weekly basis and they made me check the carry-on that always fits fine on United/Alaska/Southwest claiming it was too big. And they were not polite about it.

Out of the Bay Area it seems like Alaska is the best domestic option, then United. AA is probably the last airline I'd fly after that experience.
Glue traps (and similar) are a safe, effective, and pesticide-free way of taking care of various bug problems, so there's that. If you want to educate folks on more humane ways of taking care of mice and rats and such that's fine, but outright banning these traps is probably taking things a bit too far.
Until everyday does it. And then what?
This strikes me as destructive apathy.

Child pornography is information that spreads. I believe society is still healthier if that kind of information is never produced or spread in any form.
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As I mentioned in another comment I'd be surprised if Tesla didn't tell people when they were handed the keys that they were getting extras to "try out".

That said you do have a good point on their return policy.

Test drives are a different beast altogether though. At least when I got my Tesla 4 years ago it wasn't common to test drive the same exact configuration you were ordering anyway since everything is custom built.

I guess for both of these items if they were to come up I'd hope Tesla would be generous, but I still see nothing wrong with them removing features people didn't pay for.
> you can tell after a paragraph or two that things don't quite make sense, ideas aren't really carried through, but on a handful-of-sentences level I have trouble distinguishing it from a real author. Not to mention it creates content much more quickly.

So it could wreak havoc on Twitter?
Does it show Apple itself? Unlike every other phone platform, iOS does not allow a user to get their GPS location without telling Apple what it was.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056

"By enabling Location Services for your devices, you agree and consent to the transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of your location data and location search queries by Apple and its partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based and road traffic-based products and services."
FWIW the Obama administration issued the original warning of distrust for Huawei, so none of this should really come as a surprise.
oh so the current presidents of Brazil is not democratically elected you mean[1]?

And how would you assure a democratic China will not have a corrupted election scheme that resemble Russia's?

Without you stating any evidence, I dare to say your sense is wrong. Chinese are more than ready for capitalism if the current system is not already it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Brazilian_general_electio...
I also feel there is something suspicious here. This thread is bombarded with one group people asking for citations of claims and another group of people refusing to provide anything but hearsay in response. Can we just see some facts in here?
Well, your ISP is probably selling your browser history, so there is that.
They're not actually limiting the software (except maybe the music I guess? but that's no different then just shutting off your siriusxm trial). They're just limiting the hardware that wasn't paid for via software.
I also don't know, man, but that sounds so un-Russian to me, I, as a Russian myself, am having trouble believing it. It wasn't like that 25-30 years ago. Nobody would call people out in general, because in Russian culture being a snitch is one of the worst thing you can be, but nobody would go as far as to rummage through teacher's papers. Cheating was pretty rampant in other ways: people would bring cheatsheets to exams (there's no such thing as "cheatsheets allowed" exams there, and exams are often stupid hard because people keep "passing" them somehow), rip off essays, etc, but teacher's stuff was out of reach at least.
Odd. Zanzibar is off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa. The Spice Islands (the Moluccas) are in Eastern Indonesia.
I understand that. I understand that they now get what they actually paid for but that's not the point I made. I tried to explain to op where the negativity comes from and it comes form the feeling you have if someone takes something away from you. Something you had before.

Can't do anything about it now I guess but it still will and does look bad for those who are affected and those who will read the articles about it in the next days. It may even become a meme.
You can selectively deny permissible requests after the app is installed, but what irritates me is that granting access to my location allows the app to continually track me while it's running in the background (even if you never open the app). I've heard this will change in a future version of Android.

I discovered this when I was scrolling through the DTEK app on my BlackBerry, which shows every time an app requests sensitive data access, and saw that a bunch of apps that I hadn't opened in a while (like GasBuddy) were accessing my location every 5 minutes.
All those people who worry about plastic straws while wearing cotton t-shirts.

https://organiccotton.org/oc/Cotton-general/Impact-of-cotton...

https://www.theworldcounts.com/counters/cotton_environmental...
The assumption there that the capacity for creativity in China comparable to that in the west.

I wonder firstly about the extent to which creativity can exist to a societally significant extent under an increasingly authoritarian government.

I also wonder about the extent to which the Chinese creative class was purged in the cultural revolution, and what impact that may have had on the societal capacity for creativity.

Without deeper investigation, I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that modern China has (or does not have) a capacity for creativity that will allow them to outpace a genuinely liberal and freely educated society.
> What does this game have that SC2/Dota doesn't?

That's not the point. Yes it superficially appears to be a simpler and less polished game than SC2/Dota, but the point is that it's a different kind of learning environment. It has different actions (things the AI can do, how it controls player movements), different observations (what the AI perceives/sees is structured differently), different rules/physics (this has a ball you can run to and kick).

In other words, you can perform different kinds of experiments and learn different things by studying this environment. The kind of AI that would excel at this game could have a different architecture and be trained differently than what you need to be effective at SC2/Dota. Just as you would learn different things designing a Quake bot using deep learning (your Quake bot would need to learn to navigate and map out 3D space, for one).
As far as I know, modifying Tesla's firmware is not illegal.

If you have technical chops to do it, are irresponsible enough to patch complex software that controls a death machine and willing to accept that you're voiding your warranty, then go for it.

But don't call hacking software a "repair" or a free speech issue.

You want stuff but don't want to pay for it. Greed is all there is to it.
It says in the article that it would be built in areas of the ocean where break wave heights don’t exceed 7 feet.
Why the hate. It is just a chatting tool, nothing more. Most of the functionality is useless in US.
A worker intentionally delaying something vs a worker stopping being a "hero" can be hard for an outsider to discern and they should withhold judgement unless they know the full story.

Here is a software analogy. Suppose you have a team of developers with crappy management. They are constantly changing requirements, not giving enough resources etc. Yet your team has made this work by working extra, maybe coming in on weekends when you don't have to, being available to work on vacation even though you don't have to, etc.

Eventually, you get tired of being treated like crap, and you decide that you are going to work according to what your company states is your contract. Instead of working on nights and weekends, you put in a normal days work through the week. Your team stops working on vacations and takes true vacations. While working, you work hard and smart, but you do not bring your work home.

Now the company can accuse you of deliberately slowing down the pace of software development. However, what you are doing is entirely reasonable.

In the same way, maybe the mechanics were resorting to heroics beyond what their contract actually required so that the flights were not delayed. Maybe after being crapped on by management, they decided that they would stop doing heroics and just do what was required by their contracts. If that was the case, I personally can find no fault in their behavior. It is stupid and wrong to expect employees to go above and beyond for a company when that level of dedication is not reciprocated by the company.

I am not saying that the above is the case, but due to my knowledge of how corporate management works, I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the workers.
Not OP, but I use Cash instead of Bitcoin because transactions are cheaper and faster.
The EU came fairly close to forcing Microsoft to open up the Office document formats as part of their string of antitrust actions against Microsoft.

In the end they did force Microsoft to open up the protocols used by Windows clients to communicate with Microsoft's own servers (to allow third party interoperability with server products like Samba), but did not do the same thing with the various Office document formats.

After an additional $1.3 billion fine, Microsoft stopped dragging it's feet and complied with the ruling.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2537525/eu-fines-micro...
This is curious to me, and it's not just in your comment that I've seen this.

But why is there this assumption that if someone studies Leetcode and algorithms then it means that they can't do anything else? Why is there this all or nothing mentality?

If someone studies Leetcode and algorithms, wouldn't one assume they know other things as well in the software engineering realm? I have plenty of friends in the Bay Area who are thriving at FAANG who studied algorithms and Leetcode intensely.
100% correct.

I just happen to be on both FB and WeChat, because I have friends on both sides of the picture (English-/Chinese-speaking). I tend to have more social interaction with contacts on WeChat but many of them are conversely oblivious to the Facebook world. While they don't know about all your awesome house parties whose invitations appear only on Facebook, there are a whole slew of other awesome house parties happening on WeChat in the Chinese-speaking world of the Bay Area. Yesterday was the Duanwu festival, and my WeChat was flooded with people asking for who/where to buy dumplings from, others organizing parties to make them, yet others organizing camping trips, and you get the idea.
We're always finding something tainted about memories taken for granted. A fine story.
I really hate stuff like this. Bad things happen some percentage of the time when you're doing any thing complicated. And the sort of paradox is that in a large enough sample, rare events happen all the time.

Air travel is pretty close to commodotized now. Yes, Spirit is "worse" than the rest (although I admire their fee structure and their transparency around it, honestly) and Southwest is probably the best (information that does me no good on most of the routes I fly, unfortunately). But past that, differences between airlines are incredibly marginal. And yet, people find patterns in the noise, and if they've had a bad experience with an airline, they tend to dislike them, no matter that most airlines have roughly the same level of delays and cancellations, and all of them have the same awful customer service.

Plus, if you're not flying between two hub cities, you're likely flying on a regional carrier that has American Airline livery on the planes but is a separate company:

https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/about-us/american-a...
"Someone else does it too" isn't a very strong argument.

We may be approaching a world where all critical infrastructure must be open hardware and software, or face a Balkenizd patchwork of suppliers local to each market.

(Not a Cisco or Huawei fan myself.)
Wait, an antenna connected to the GPIO pin on a RaspberryPi for transmissions? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Pi output square waves, that would cause harmonics if transmitted?
> The beauty of the market is that you have the freedom to reward your value producers.

Sure, you could do that, or you could go the easier route and just spam people with advertisements that trick them into buying your non-valuable product.
> So users want to install software that can intercept all of their communications? I’ve never heard someone say, “I would give up all of my privacy and install a network sniffer/key logger on my device of someone paid me*

I just told you that I did exactly that. If you read the reviews of the app on the Google Play Store, you will find many other users confirming that they knowingly and happily made the same deal. The Nielsen box itself contains a microphone that can hear everything in the room, and people happily sign up for the payment.

> That’s also not how email works. [Blah blah blah.]

You missed the point. The point was that Apple has the exact same access as Google from the operating system. There is a difference between what the operating system allows an app to do and what it actually does, which you have repeatedly conflated.

> That’s not how public/private key encryption works.

Now you've confused end to end encryption with public key encryption. It's a bit ridiculous that I have to explain the difference to you, but here it goes. iMessages is end to end encrypted. ICloud services like mail, drive, and docs are not. By handing over the iCloud keys to China, Apple has given the Chinese government unfettered access to this information and, by extension, all services which can be accessed using those credentials.

Now that you understand the problem, do you understand how that is evil?
Ok then let the accurate retelling be defined as the view from all angles. One need not interpret events that transpired before to interpret the action because thats where bias in news comes from. It comes from trying to infer meaning and deduce reasoning with no factual proof. Actions speak louder than words so its more important to describe the action than the intent
To my knowledge, this hasn't happened with Tesla cars and therefore Tesla didn't complain and therefore you can't claim that Tesla "wants it both ways".
Agree. Democracy isn't the end of governance. A dysfunctional democracy is no better than an effective authoritarian government.
This video explains the use of chains to determine arch shape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlL6ZHChhQE
Software that limits hardware that is included in the car means to not use the best possible software.
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It's really not - compared to the wire cost/static type checks and loads of other stuff you give up.
This could just mean they want to reinforce their brand by being next to the big guys. Doesn't mean they are spying even if that is a possibility.
Oh, you’re right of course, I was misremembering that they won’t be able to get the ssids of nearby wifi networks. However, a vpn is a solution to the ip address problem.
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Without even getting into the "is personal piracy wrong" issue, it's pretty easy to draw a line between an individual downloading songs from pirate bay and a major corporation pirating IP wholesale and then making a business out of reselling the derivative products.
This is a great read. I especially appreciated “Most times are ordinary. Make an ordinary effort.“
How much time have they spent using the standard frameworks that most companies use everyday? Could they even model a standard relational schema? Do they know anything about automated testing?

If they were told a web page was slow would they know enough architecturally to know how to find the bottleneck and no the solution for solving it? No the answer is not based on finding the o(n) complexity of reversing a binary tree.
Well, according to the US Department of Justice, China is behind 90% of espionage and industrial theft cases that it has handled over the past 7 years [1]

To use a less biased source [2], SCMP (which is a HK newspaper now owned by Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba) mentioned:

John Demers, assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s national security division, said that by stealing trade secrets through computer intrusions and the co-opting of company insiders, China had “turned the tradecraft of its intelligence services against American companies”.

Between 2011 and 2018, Demers said, more than 90 per cent of his department’s cases alleging “economic espionage on behalf of a state” involved China. Among such cases are the recent prosecutions of Chinese national Xu Yanjun, suspected of trying to steal trade secrets from US and European aerospace companies, and 10 other Chinese intelligence agents suspected of similar offences.

“The playbook is simple,” Demers said. “Rob, replicate and replace.”

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/china-involved-90-percent-economic-...

[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2177727/fb...
You can already do this with a Tile. Leave a Tile in your wife's car and every phone with the Tile app in her vicinity will report her location to you.
People are actually working on something very similar to this in research [1]. By applying random noise to location data the user's individual privacy can be protected while still allowing for collection of usage (or in this case location) statistics etc. This is the key idea behind local differential privacy (which Apple also uses to collect anonymous statistics on usage data [2]).

[1] http://www.shivakasiviswanathan.com/ICDE16b.pdf

[2] https://machinelearning.apple.com/docs/learning-with-privacy...
I could only see this working in a safe harbor or a port. The ocean is not a serene place for a floating platform unless the platform is elevated above potential water lines such as a wind turbine or offshore oil rig.
With the demise of Moore's Law and physics education improving I imagine efficiency of the machines will eventually overtake developer time concerns.
What good is an iPhone without access to the App Store?
To be honest, it's getting to the point where even if most of the accusations are true (and I'm quite willing to believe they are), they don't _feel_ true. When (seemingly) everytime you open Hacker News there is a new accusation against Huawei, it starts to not feel plausible.
Mine is being drugged and hit with a $5 wrench in order to get me to give up my password

https://xkcd.com/538/
Wow, this is a new angle I never thought about on the company's culture. It could also explain Microsoft's more aggressive approach against Linux/Open Source in the early 00s. Also agree about developer tools, currently they are on point.
I just wanted to note that it is not limited to Chinese culture as the comment above states. And I have remembered another example: Apple has copied Xerox's Alto GUI for its own computer. Here is a quote from Jobs from the article [1]:

> I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I’d ever seen in my life.

So Jobs just copied the idea of GUI just because he "liked" it instead of developing his own computer-human interface. Is not it similar to what Huawei does: taking the ideas they "like" and innovating on top of that.

[1] https://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2012-03-22/appl...
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Definitely a good read, reminds on when I was in Hong Kong and my guide would always say June 4 Incident around tourists from the PRC. The mainlanders would always immediately start defending the government.
Probably will be chalked up to combating “black money”.

Strange and regressive, much like demonetization was.
Asian ==> Chinese
MSFT was a giant but was not able to hide the Halloween documents, I don't see why Huawei would succeed in that.
Apps can only show one request for location, once you approve or deny its final.
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Of course it is ageism. The CTO confused finding an employee with finding a fk buddy. The company is toxic, and is certainly discriminating unlawfully in multiple axis.

Also, none of the things you mentioned contribute to team cohesion, they are all detrimental to it.

Basically you are describing a CTO that has no idea how to CTO. We can take solace in the fact that his startup will fail hard.
> Today, he's working on formal reasoning and dreams of creating an automated software engineer.

How does that work and should we be worried? The article doesn’t touch on this topic beyond the introduction.

(Note: I am aware of using genetic algorithms to evolve code to produce a solution to some specific problem. "Automated software engineer" seems to contemplate something more sophisticated than that.)
I'm not 48, I'm younger, but in my 30's. I only started the LeetCode study grind about a year or so go, but not consistently. I just got back from my onsite at a Big-N and pretty much bombed it. I gut nervous and forgot the easiest of questions. I lost my confidence. My mind went blank, my hands, nerves shaking. Couldn't write complete code or even sentences I think at times. It was bad. I was intimidated for no reason.

I am having very difficult time getting the offers (duh, when performing like this). Did you always get to receiving offers? I seem to always get the, we decided to go with another candidate... line after my onsite.

I've only had 2 company's fly me out so far and the only companies that I have gotten offers at don't do LeetCode. It's extremely frustrating or maybe I'm just not prepared well enough yet and need to be more consistent with my study and practice (and don't pay as much either) or maybe I'm just not smart enough. I feel stuck.

Will it ever end or am I stuck grinding for the rest of my career (life)? Will I ever be able just breathe and relax again? I'm not on the West coast, but interviewing on the West Coast. I'll rent out my condo or keep it around as a home away from home if I ever get an opportunity.
Why is this downvoted? Industrial spying is punished in the west.
If you brick a car and you can't convince Tesla that you were doing legitimate security research, they will refuse to reflash it. That's if they don't effectively brick it for you by blocking your VIN from getting parts and firmware updates when a future update detects unexpected features being used. Hacking these cars is an expensive and risky endeavor compared to just coughing up the money for the extra features.
I don't understand much about questions of why in nature. It sounds like you're arguing that it must be as such, but given your explanation is true (and it seems a reasonable proposal), I don't know if it tells me why.
Anyone know why they care so much?

I do see https://www.coindesk.com/reserve-bank-of-india-denies-involv...

But nothing about why shows up in English. Tax evasion? Capital flight?
That looks like them, yes. When they show up they take over. They’re attracted to the buzzing sound of a weedeater, I learned. They come and hang on to your shirt and arms and land on your head. You can’t stop every 30 seconds to swat them off, so you just learn to be friends and coexist.

It’s a biblical experience.
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