skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a poor analogy; when you pay more for a processor that's more highly binned, you are actually getting something physically superior. Tesla bins their motors (or did at one point).

If you're going to do the sarcastic reply thing, at least make it insightful. Or funny.
This is a very reasonable point of view to me.
> Like, what did you expect, that they wouldn't run third shifts or sell the stuff to whoever paid them for it?

Yes. Because of those pesky things called "laws" and "trade agreements". It's still theft even if it wasn't always difficult to do.
Maybe not in the Bay Area. But certainly could save for something elsewhere.
I definitely agree that that's unlikely to be true. However a guaranteed failing business model is a "no one pays" model.

No ads. No membership. Content for free. Doesn't work.
With trust, trade is unlimited.

That said, we should be able to say NO - and this includes apple. For instance, why should we have to identify ourselves to apple?
Best quote:

> When you consider that the same IPCC report outlined that the vast majority of global greenhouse gas emissions come from just a handful of corporations — aided and abetted by the world’s most powerful governments, including the US — it’s victim blaming, plain and simple.
From what I can tell from the article, these are allegations. I don't see any mention of emails or text messages (I skimmed a bit, but not enough to miss something like that). Maybe records exist and can be used to prove harassment, but what's the point of publicizing this until the case has been decided?

The media loves to publish this stuff because it gets everyone riled up. But until anything is proven in court, it doesn't mean anything. What if nothing actually happened? Reputations can be ruined.

I'd love to have feedback from divergent perspectives or opinions. My current feeling is that we should keep these cases sealed until there is a verdict, but perhaps that's oppressive?

I wish we were all above this kind of behavior.
Yes, cash can be stolen, but cards are much more dangerous to your privacy: bank knows where you go and what you buy, it can sell this information to anyone (of course, with hashing your phone number with military-grade algorithm to protect your personal data), shops know who you are and can exchange information about your purchases along with model of your face taken by the camera at the register, MAC address of your phone's WiFi module and car plate number (of course hashed with military-grade algorithm to protect your privacy).

Also, in some countries it is very easy to lock person's bank account even without a trial, for example if person is suspected in financing terrorist or extremist organisation.

Also new cards have RFID chip in it and it can be used for example to get information about people going through the doors.
You would have to be familiar with the technical details of DWDM platform system architecture, photonics, etc in order to grok a full explanation. The Huawei product released was identical. It was identical down to the ASICs on the individual linecards and other things that would have been impossible to reverse engineer in a "Clean room" environment. I know I'm not providing a citation here, but among the community of ISPs and backbone carriers that actually have a need for this sort of equipment, it's a known fact as solidly as "water is wet".

https://www.afr.com/technology/web/security/how-chinese-hack...

https://business.financialpost.com/technology/nortel-hacked-...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-nortel-exec-warns-ag...
It was the foldable display OLED, not the folding mechanism that was stolen IIRC. Also note it was widely speculated that Huawei's display supplier, BOE, was behind the theft.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I unfortunately didn't manage to formulate my point of view clearly. I am not talking about the pain of losing someone you love, or chronic pain not allowing you to live. (In both of cases here someone loses their life).

I am also not talking about the ability to consciously keep choosing to go through pain for a bigger idea.

I am talking about the comparison between physical pain and death. Almost all cases when people experience pain in the real world are linked to death or permanent injury. This in conjugation with the knowledge of inevitability of death makes most people think that pain is worse or as bad as death.

But think of it this way: you have a choice to either be subjected to a month of most horrible suffering and then live completely healthy for a year or live your remaining month and then die without any pain. Would you choose the second? Why would anyone choose the second?

> Have you ever had, e.g., an infected tooth

yes, and i have tooth canals cleared without anesthetic several times, knowledge that after the half hour you'll be back to normal helps a lot.

> Acute sleep deprivation causes no permanent damage

Are you sure? I think people can die from it. The longest i've stayed awake was ~30 hours, i do not want to repeat it but even a longer version of it, or any from of torture are simply not comparable with dying. And saying "i killed it painlessly" is simply a way to comfort oneself, and doesn't help the one who is killed at all.
How do so many meal delivery/prep/kit companies co-exist/survive?
Every month I get fliers for new/upcoming meal delivery/prep/kit company with discounts. How do they secure funding/customers or continue operation since they are all competing for the same niche market?
I mean, you have a point, but it's inevitable. If a person pays you to do something, then you find out they are selling your work for an order of magnitude more than you're making, it's human nature to at least question this, at best mimic it, laws be damned.
How Venture Capitalists Make Money
Google Analytics bounce rate isn't useful for single-page applications unless you monitor user activity with JavaScript and GA event tracking. Not everyone is aware of this and/or can do this. We should update the docs with regards to events.

GA can do retention reports or "cohort analysis" and show how visitors return in a monthly basis, but there are two critical limitations on it:

1) It doesn't show you which landing pages, target markets, or their combinations are retaining the most.

2) You can only study one metric by the time and not the total retention + conversions each segment generate, which should be the deciding factor

There is no initial interest, nor predictions either. So when doing a new campaign you cannot take any insights from cohort analysis until you wait for enough return visitor data.

We certainly agree that Google Analytics is an awesome tool and it has served our sites really well in the past. It gives tons of general insights for a free service, but isn't designed specifically for conversion optimization. Hence Volument.
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I know private internet access has proven in court that they don't keep logs, but still, trust.
You'll only feel the consequences of printing money if productivity and population stop rising, and seeing as how the earth in infinitely large, I don't see that happening!
The problem is there are so many over-demand jobs and under-demand jobs because schools stole so many billions from students learning information that could not be put to fruitful use. And those jobs are so unequal in how much work they take. So you have many jobs or situations where people are paid to sit and many like in medicine where more people might die if you want to sleep a healthy amount. The time should fit the job. But the pay should fit the time, and then that's the next problem to sove, and on.
Two words: Bay Area. There really is no possibility for me to afford a ~$1M house anytime soon, and renting significantly closer to work (as in a 30 minute public transportation commute) would cost me at least double what I pay now.
I dont see what’s special about npm compared to pip, gem, nuget, maven as tools
I'm interested in hearing what is proprietary about wasm? It's a standard[1] implemented in most browsers.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-1/
I can't talk percentages. But it's pretty common for most of the parts needed for an optional feature to be included. Things like wiring harneses for optional subwoofers, foglights, etc.

Heating pads start around $15.00 on amazon, seems easy to believe it's cheaper to make only seats with heating integrated instead of making two part numbers, doubling the overhead for seat inventory, make the assembly line more complex, making the order system more complex, documentation, testing, doubling the overhead for car inventory, handling additional order complexity etc.
Exactly. I have a hard time feeling sympathy for any company that outsourced everything to a foreign nation, then get ripped off by said nation. Were the few points in stock price worth it?
The shambling corpse of the Nortel DWDM/optical transport/carrier transport product line was acquired by Ciena.
You seem to be justifying crime because it was so easy to commit that you might as well.

Yard ornaments might be easy to steal, I mean, heck, people just leave them in their front yard over night. But it's still theft, it's still illegal, and even though the people made it easy there should still be a penalty for the theft.
> But until anything is proven in court, it doesn't mean anything.

I don't know that court is the bar for 'meaning something'. For example, if a victim has evidence but for various reasons cannot succeed in a court case (statute of limitations, for example) are you really saying their allegations don't mean anything?
I mean you can, off course, write accessible HTML without semantic HTML. Just remember to:

* Set the correct aria attributes and roles for assistive technologies.

* Make the correct elements focusable, and order the focus correctly between elements, and add a specific style when then element is in focus.

* Capture the focus when appropriate but still allow focus to the URL bar.

* Set the correct key event handlers for keyboard navigation, submit events and triggers, validation events, etc. for assistive technologies, etc.

* Be prepared to warn users that your site will not work without javascript or in reader modes or in text based browsers, as well as make your site somewhat inaccessible for bots and crawlers.

And I’m sure I’m forgetting something. Point is, it is possible, but really hard.
The credit card companies make the merchant pay a fee for using credit cards - so it's not the shop's fault. That's another reason why cash is alive in America.
> But I choose to believe in it as slack (i.e. spare capacity) in a system.

This is essentially how Tom DeMarco defines it in his book Slack.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123715.Slack
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Someone who is over 40 today would have gotten their start in the late 90's around the time of the first Internet boom. The number of software engineering positions since then has exploded. Based on numbers on the Bureau of Labor and Statistics website it seems like they are roughly doubling each decade. The main source of new engineers is new graduates. That, coupled with the fact that people move into management, and leave the field, retire early is going to skew the workforce to the younger side regardless of any age discrimination.
I have a friend who worked in Orlando. I got a chance to see what life was like in Orlando as a non tourist. It’s a nice place.
These are not the earliest customers of the model 3. These are the ones that waited an extra year or so for the cheapest model. They were informed about the features they would get, but ended up with free, but temporary upgrades.
In that case OP should definitely contest the ticket (assuming OP didn't stop too far back as to not be able to clearly see the intersection). They'll have video that can be reviewed.
Cryptostorm seems pretty good. Just found about it yesterday so haven't used it yet.

https://cryptostorm.is/
Just because someone is a better salesman than you doesn't give you the right to break the law what kind of insane rational is that
If I were the CTO in that situation, I would seriously have considered firing the engineering manager on the spot. Blatant discrimination is a serious fuck up. Period.
Even so, he’s making $200K and his rent was $2300. But he says he is scraping by.
> most personal finance wisdom advises keeping no more than 6 months - 1 year of expenses in liquid savings

I was unclear: by "liquid" I didn't mean in cash equivalents like an emergency fund. I just meant "not locked away until retirement, under threat of penalty" the way tax-advantaged retirement accts are.

At the very least, I'd expect that most people with a 401k have a ton of assets tied up in houses that are often to big for them after eg their children move out: downsizing and unlocking those assets is a pretty common sense move in the context of "not having enough saved for retirement".

I think the high level point I'm going for here is that I'm not sure that 401k balance is a good proxy for overall retirement savings, as implied by the comment I originally replied to. I don't have the data on this though
I'm not stealing your TV, I'm just borrowing and keeping it!
No need to repeat what others said, but I'll also note that create-react-app is a website boilerplate generator and includes preconfiguration for tons of stuff including test frameworks etc.

So yes, before you even open a text editor, you have eslint, jest, typescript etc all set up. Duh-doy, that's a lot of lines of code.

Sigh…
i think what happened in samsung's case was an employee stole the blueprints and sold them to china.
there’s quite a bit of proper criticism also. parts and schematics should be available for DIY or 3rd party repair. it’s not all “apple is misunderstood “ as you are framing it.
But you never know when you’re going to have downdrafts or have a tire blow out. It’s not always pleasant breezes on approach.
Hum, the history of the Catholic Church and democracy is a bit special in Spain, in particular in Catalonia.
So the CEO was in a relationship with the head of HR, while the alleged victim herself had a brief relationship with (by all appearances) a subordinate in her own reporting chain. So many "not good ideas" happening in this company.
Which is exactly my point: no one cares about the absolute number each cloud has. They care about the capacities.
Volument shows the size of each segment and doesn't generate any report unless the size is "sufficient". However, it doesn't reward bigger segments when calculating the score for traction.

Thank you for the solid feedback!
Yes, in most cases, foreign companies are REQUIRED to either transfer their tech or have a domestic partnership as a pre-condition to do business in China (ie, access to domestic market in China). There are a few notable exception to this rule -- Tesla is one recent exception. Samsung also has been able to set up multi-billion USD DRAM factories in China without any tech transfer in spite of the Chinese gov't ambitious plan to develop their own domestic high-tech manufacturing sector.

Samsung doesn't have any OLED manufacturing in China and never agreed to such terms before. In this particular case, we aren't just talking about Chinese companies poaching Samsung's former/retired engineers or shamelessly copying their IP. The Korean authorities in a sting operation stopped a bunch of Samsung suppliers from smuggling Samsung's advanced OLED manufacturing machineries to some unnamed Chinese company (wink wink you know who) in China at the port of departure in South Korea.
India’s draft bill proposes a 10-year jail sentence for using cryptocurrencies
Can confirm this from another source. Old guy I met waiting for a flight in Vegas; he was on his way back from CES. Had run his own ISP a while back for a special purpose. Talked about this, Huawei's refusal to remove a back-door ("remote assistance and diagnosis feature" or some such malarkey), etc. They're not nice guys.
I think clearly author was using "like it's 1999" as a metaphor, not literally.

It's a fairly common phrase (originating from a Prince song I think) that you can take to mean "like a throwback to a more authentic and possibly prior era." In this case the era is prior the explosion of frameworks and div soup.

Which strangely in this case is not necessarily prior but in parallel, as you said. This is English, it doesn't have to be precise like programming. You can use it for effect.
Shocking this kind of stereotyping is not only allowed but upvoted to first place on HN.
This was to be expected, given that apple has been slowly taking away the ability to physically turn off your device. Isn't anyone else concerned about the fact that a shutdown laptop will continue to broadcast defying convention and expectations?
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tor doesn’t depend on it. although it’s quite difficult to safely use tor. anonymity is easy (enough) to expose. some of the same flaws apply to vpn as well.
Part of it might be the reason I've never particularly gotten into Maker culture. It's very easy to make a little beginner project which is fun but doesn't do anything particularly useful. However, more advanced projects either require a) an unfilled need, or b) an artistic imagination. And even if you have a or b, you may still be looking at more money than you're willing to spend.

I much prefer the repair-and-reuse end of maker culture.
I'm curious of the political implications of this situation. You have one side (the anti Huawei side) that is aided by a very unpopular US president and US government institutions that are highly mistrusted. You also have the narrative that companies like Google and nations like Canada have been coerced into supporting this "assault" on Chinese interests.

It also doesn't help that there is a "trade war" in effect where many people believe collateral damage is going to happen, just or not... that it's simply a reality of a (proxy) war. Finally, you have the Huawei customers/supporters (from all over the world) that feel strongly these accusations are fabricated and entirely self serving to the US.

How do we navigate this mess and get to the core facts in an age where expert opinions and fact checking is undervalued? And, as it relates to China, where is the line between xenophobia and justified concern?
I wrote a small tool to test for this https://github.com/prettydiff/semanticText
You can run your own VPN with a little know how and determination. I have two servers which cost $20 / month ($10 each). Each running openVPN, then I share the keys to my laptop and desktop. Haven’t done mobile, but I could probably figure that out.

The real trick, is VPNs need a lot of bandwidth and compute. Get a bare metal server with unlimited bandwidth.

I switch between the servers to limit how much data each provider can collect. Not perfect, but I also have ProtonVPN and use Tor periodically. This means I have at least 4 ways my traffic goes out. It’s just about the best I can do
Will China’s Tech Titans Be Heavyweights or Overweights?
He is me and I said no such thing. I said “barely getting ahead.”
Does the paper propose building these devices in free space? I got the sense this was all intended to be produced lithographically with waveguides, so alignment wouldn't be a problem.
> Do these companies ever actually innovate and build social/intellectual capital beyond reverse engineering skills

Yes. See the industrial history of the US, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and everywhere else that ignored patents and trade secrets for more details. Cisco would be highly profitable if it could only sell to the US market and if you’re the market leader your stuff is just better for years to minimum, a year. People want the best, they want quality, so they pay a premium for it. That’s why brands exist, otherwise people would have to do their own quality control for each individual thing they bought.
I think most people would agree that idealogical theft is far different than physical theft.

Not saying I agree with said theft, but when making deals with known questionable actors, it's a bit of a given.
> What's not to like?

Salt. Salt makes operating things in the seas an absolute maintenance nightmare.
Adafruit has a cheap capacitive sensor (using a micro controller with built in touch sensor circuitry) — but not that cheap. The polarity flip is a clever idea. Well, part of the fun is wildly over-engineering the thing, right?
I’m with you. My Mini with 10 speaker Harmon Kardon audio and a free three month Siruis sub has made me realize Sirius audio quality is horrible. Mostly still listen to HQ Spotify with my premium sub. It might be better using SiriusXM’s app and doing data but I like being my own DJ.

Plus I get dropouts in south metro Denver area on Sirius and never on Spotify using Verizon.
Reminds me exactly of the sugar taxes going on (except it you're Starbucks in Seattle, that sugar is exempt from law)
This reminds me of a friend of mine whose dad was a state senator.

I asked how his dad dealt with all the craziness of lobbyists?

Turns out he used them a lot. If he had trouble with a school textbook issue he would call up an unrelated lobbyist (such as oil) and ask him about it. Very quickly, he would have a thick report from leading exports on his desk outlining and analyzing in detail the school textbook issue.

Pit em against each other.

Steve Jobs was a master of things like this. He made the phone companies compromise and got smartphones to market. He made the music industry compromise and got online music jumpstarted.
I know a guy who used to work for TI who talked about the Chinese knocking off chips, right down to purposely-introduced defects added specifically to detect such counterfeiting. Problem was, knowing that it happened didn't do much good. Ended up moving production of some stuff to the Philippines because there was literally no recourse.
It's a war-- the VPN companies against the tyrannical evil do'ers. Be thankful folks are trying to keep free speech, democracy, a spotlight on heinous, corrupt, morally absent regimes, and the truth alive.
You can easily get the good parts of OSGi, without its cruft and complexity: https://github.com/7mind/slides/raw/master/02-roles/target/r... (by advanced DI with garbage collection)
It’s more a matter of how far behind I am. I spent a lot of years being underpaid and my net worth is about $-100k due to student debt. I am also not in my 20s anymore. I have also only been a software engineer for about 5 or 6 years.
One reason that springs to mind is the shortage of large lakes near the equator. Solar "lily pads" would be much less efficient on the Great Lakes or Lake Baikal, and have seasonal swings of output.
I should clarify, I was referring to iPhones. Edited.
Forget the U.S.-China Trade War: Is a Conflict over Taiwan the Real Threat?
Here's Bunnie Huang's explanation of cavalier disregard for copyright/trademark and IP law:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284

I'm sure he's biased, right?
Why are upside down strings an accurate model for compressed stone?
Well, in the USA, American industry got its start by stealing British technology.

At this point, China copying foreign technology is just the path of least resistance.

Eventually, China will be doing the innovating.
Unrelated but in their Bangalore office, they had sleeping bunks and showers in office premises and managers were routinely setting impossible deadlines and employees encouraged to work all day and night and sleep/shower in office if needed.
Or maybe they just hash the time and a pre-shared key to generate ECC keypairs, since communication is one-way.
Good point. Changed "most depressing" to "saddest" on the article ingress. Thanks.
You could have written this same article 80 years ago.
I can guarantee you that someone knowing leetCode and algorithms would be absolutely useless where I work.

Most developers are doing CRUD apps or at most apps where the complexity is in the business rules and process.
But nobody writes "he dropped he's ball" or "this is she's purse".