skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps if manufacturers will move out of PRC into nearby countries it won't have a large effect on prices for consumers and businesses in the US, but at the same time will force China to make structural changes in adherence with the rules of global trade and human rights. Too bad Trump has alienated traditional US allies - if major economies teamed up in this effort it would have been a much easier goal.
We've been lured into being overly cautious about the science, in order not to feed any snippet of false information to the idiot hordes that would seize on it and use it to discredit/distort what's actually happening.

Net result - the hordes are still being idiots, and the rest of the world is blundering on thinking things ain't that bad/action isn't that urgent.
Materials sure, but what do you mean labor? He is the labor, he gets the money.
Source?

Landfills take up a lot of space.
I saw a documentary about it (forgot the name of it). Humans waste so much and the trash keeps piling up. You can only dig so much.
Agreed, this is actually a fun exercise to think about
This could just be a neat spin on a move towards automation :)
The title clearly says 'World's top bicycle maker says'. It's an opinion.
Honestly, I think the answer to "Pointers, WTF?" is simply describing how data is stored in memory. This concept is important not only for how pointers work but even how data is stored on a hard drive. You don't have to go into great detail. All you need to do is say this is a number, it takes n number of bytes to store (Most people who haven't been living under a rock have a knowledge of bytes, just explain it to them using their phone data plan). Draw a picture showing one set of bytes next to another. Write 0x100 at the first set, 0x100 + number of bytes you put in at the second.

Then, it is simply "0x100 is what's in a pointer".

I don't think that is complex (it shouldn't be). It is intuitive to most. Seeing a picture should solidify things. And finally, it is semi-accurate to how a pointer actually works. Getting into the mud of "A pointer is like a reference in a scholarly paper" or "A pointer is like a link on a webpage" simply confuses what a pointer actually is.

And, if that isn't enough, simply write a program using pointers and print out pointer values. It really is a crazy simple concept that doesn't need a whole lot of metaphors.

What's worse is when the authors of "what's a pointer" don't know what a pointer is themselves. I've seen that far too often.
I don't think allies are going to be permanently "alienated" by one president's remarks.
Not to be conspiratorial but I find all of this to be pretty intentional. It's currently very hard for me to stay on T-Mobile's legacy (i.e. true) PAYG plan which only supports regular texts. I often have to ask people I'm doing business with to send things as a regular text because emojis and pics don't download.

Looking at the overview on wikipedia and gsma, this thing is feature creeped to the absolute rim before overflowing. Including parts of the specification for APIs and app integration if I'm reading it correctly.

Frankly, if a corporation wanted to lay the groundwork for itself to be the private contractor for when the government wants to make use of the data that can be hoovered from these open channels. It would look a hell of a lot like Google. All this feature creep in abundance is a great way to lock people into centralized monolithic apps or force them into new revenue streams (again, they're already trying it with my PAYG plan for MMS).

I could take it to its greatest logical conclusion especially considering the API, app integration & visible protocol fingerprint and just say this is a great way to introduce WeChat by Google.

I hope this doesn't sound irrational. But I for one find it irrational that I'm even in this position with regular texting versus MMS. It's like phone carriers are the only ones allowed to have shitty interoperability of this kind. Getting really tired of it. Also I hope you're right that their fuckups are resulting in lower adoption, because 68 (including T-Mobile) carriers have already signed onto the Universal Profile part of the spec:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services#St...
Google doesn't generally care about near-IPO companies unless they're decacorns (and still apply a discount to the competing offer's equity). Google comp only lags behind Netflix for:
a) Non-staff levels
b) Candidates that don't have competing offers.

It's not unusual to see a huge pay discrepancy based on your ability to negotiate. It also depends on what ladder you're applying to (i.e. you can't compare a Solutions engineer comp at Google to a SWE at some other company).
> yet people do buy and use them.

I mean some people do, but they're a very small niche.

> communities from these tokens might flock en masse to Facebook coin

Yes, I agree, that's what I said in my OP, but this is a relatively small group of people, and they will likely only use it as an onramp into spendable money and continue to favor their preferred token.
I'm not that familiar with IOS, but 'Do Not Disturb' mode has been standard on Android for a while and includes a mode where there is only an audio notification if the number calling is one that is in my contact list. I'm surprised if IOS does not have something similar.
It doesn't matter if you're right or not, if such a company believes (or even just says) it, it's newsworthy.
Well, it also affects things like packaging and swapping out alternative implementations of different components.
Messages is preinstalled. Regardless of strong competition in the messaging market, the EU would accuse Google of leveraging their dominance in another market (Google Apps on Android and Android itself) to assist Messages.
We just need to reduce or eliminate government backed student loans and the problem will take care of itself. This "crisis" is almost a replay of the housing crisis we just had, government backed loans encourage lenders to lend out money to people who are not qualified for the loan. It doesn't make sense to keep loaning out tens of thousands of dollars to 18 year old kids that have no income [yet] and no real plan to make any money for the next 4 years.

Can you imagine if someone submitted a business proposal asking for a $100,000 investment or loan and the proposal was "think I'll take some classes and then figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life"? We need to end the insanity and turn the spigot off. Then the institutions will be forced to lower their prices and manage their budgets again. Maybe one day we'll get back to the point where a young person can pay for in-state tuition with a part-time job, like it was about 25 years ago.
First, an important distinction: this decision did not actually find culpability or liability, it merely affirmed a right to sue.

That aside, this seems a reasonable decision. A nurse practitioner advocated for hospital admission. They were overruled in the basis of medical analysis performed by an admiting doctor. The tenuous grounds for this denial are almost irrelevant in this decision (but certainly won't be in the lawsuit to come) because, even if it wasn't a formal doctor-patient relationship, the doctor rendered a medical judgement that had a direct impact of the care the patient received.
I don't immediately discard an item because it's made in China, as I know of some high quality items made there. Most Apple products, some Xiaomi products or Meermin/Feit shoes.

However, I tend to be very skeptical about its quality. Moving manufacturing to China is most often done to reduce cost. The only industry where it's not done due to cost, but supply chain issues, is electronics.

And with cost reduction comes lower quality. Higher tolerances, zero pollution standards, etc. In particular, most items I got from China have this terrible new plastic smell that is almost intoxicating. Same for some clothing dyes. Studies show formaldehyde concentrations are really high in Chinese homes, and I'm not surprised.

Hence, a few years ago I made a resolution to raise my standards and avoid those things. But it's a lot of trouble to find high quality items these days. I want to own few things and keep most for the rest of my life. I have slowly curated such a list, but it's as I said you need to go out of your way and often get custom things from niche brands.

Once a big company in a particular industry moves to China, most will follow shortly. It's game theory. The average customer couldn't care less about things I mentioned above. Sadly, it's all about price.

tl;dr As a consumer I miss much better reviews and reports on product quality, safety and repairability. I feel that'd improve the situation where most industries localize to China to cut costs at the expense of everything else due to information asymmetry.
No I'm asking how do you put attribution to the physical flipping of a breaker especially against someone just cutting the whole electrical system out at the same time with a master breaker.

Satellite coverage isn't really an issue there's already stuff like Inmarsat's network that covers all but basically the poles. [0] Has SpaceX advertised or said anything about covering the poles? I doubt they will just because there are so few customers.

[0] https://www.inmarsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Inmarsat...
"Like it or not, we need the continued existence of others, who may be seen as revolting, barbaric or just alien, to know who we are."

What a crock. People become barbaric when their own personal situation and environment has become barbaric. Drought and poverty are the leading causes for people to become barbaric--not the lack of anything to compare oneself to. And if it's not as extreme as that--that he's implying we need people to compare ourselves to to maintain self worth, there are levels. You can't just say shit like that. It's one thing to watch failed America Idol auditions to makes oneself feel better about oneself, it's another to regard said people as alien or disgusting barbarians. Irony is, the people who judge cultures or personalities in such an extreme way are the worst of us themselves (and if all xenophobes were all to change their ways tomorrow, I wouldn't suddenly lose my ability to identify anti-social behavior, just as other people wouldn't lose the ability to re-embrace it).
> Tab gets you there. maybe not fast, but it does.

People choose keyboard-centric workflows:

a) For efficiency (if it takes a few milliseconds to press a key, why would you even reach for the mouse?)

b) For accessibility

Your point is not helpful for any of these cases. Asking to try to use Slack App with a blindfold might be a bit extreme, what if I suggest you to try to use it for a few hours without touching the mouse? How's that for a challenge? Try that and maybe then you'd feel how it supposed "to get you there" for people with disabilities.
While there's no doubt many find FM synthesis hard, I disagree that the interface didn't make it way harder than it needs to be.

I am absolutely in love with the Yamaha Reface DX that I have, and greatly enjoy editing and the real-time controls over the parameters that it offers with its mere 4 touch sliders.

I think the direct control boxes didn't sell well because not enough keyboardists grokked FM well enough to mess with the sound live (and didn't expect to learn) -- and also because nobody loves add-on boxes. A better UI, I think would change things. Again, that's a lot of what makes the Reface DX fun.

In any case, perhaps the DX is not the best example here. A better example would be the many 90-s and early 2000-s synths, which were all about menus and you couldn't do anything immediately.

(Microkorg would also fall into that category, its knobs are deceptive: what each knob does depends on the value of two or so others knobs. It's menus but without screens. And it's a VA synth - no reason it couldn't be more like Roland Gaia which is one-knob-per-parameter).
Consider any scenario in which you don't control all of the source code that gets run. For example, software which supports 3rd party plugins, Apple releasing a new version of iOS, etc.
Are there any robots yet that can weld bicycle frames? I thought that was still a job for humans...
Google in particular often starts will lower compensation but will match other offers (from Big-N companies) quickly. I'd recommend getting another Big-N offer and using that to negotiate. Some great resources for negotiation:
- https://teamcandor.com/salary/guide/
- https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation
Do you know what an array is?

If so, then you can think of memory like as a giant array of bytes and a pointer as the index in that array.

Hurray, you now understand pointers :)

Don't muddy it up beyond that.
The one idiot that the rest of the world ignored was Georg W. Bush. By electing a second, worse idiot the US has demonstrated to the world that they are no longer a viable long term partner.
I'm going to be really interested in seeing how this rolls out (that's assuming it ever does) in the United States. All four major carriers have RCS implementations, but as far as I can tell, none of them are interoperable or universal across devices. Would Google step in and offer a solution for all Android devices on a carrier? If so, would that interoperate with other carriers' RCS implementations?

Thinking about that makes me think rolling out to other countries prior to the US was a good idea.
It is easy to "isolate" wifi module in most smart tv with a screwdriver and about 30 minutes. They use commodity parts so it is normally removable (like in laptops). If it isn't just screw up the antennae so the soc still sees its wifi device pop up but it sucks (ymmv). Not for your grandma but HN can handle it.
I feel the same. However, as an avid Signal user, I feel I must warn you of a huge issue in the Signal iOS client that has been open for years -- it doesn't support backup or transferring your messages to a new phone.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/ios-backup-keeping-messa...
> you 'll notice in that article that it wasn't facebook's servers that were breached

A distinction without a difference. If Facebook's security policy permits PII to be moved into insecure systems then Facebook itself is insecure.

Here's another:

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-millio...

Yeah. 1.5 million, who cares right? No big deal. This is clearly a pattern, not an isolated incident.
Not yet - in the works! :)
I think we've known for a long time there is nobody in charge of strategy at Google. Look at what they did to Android Wear, Hangouts, Duo, Allo...
Seems relevant:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64430.Bill_the_Galactic_...
One of the leading investigators of online disinformation behaviours, Kate Starbird of UW, started looking at ad hoc informational networks (largely though not wholly ham radio) springing up around natural disasters, while at the University of Colorado. Disinformation was a concern but not nearly so much as it's been in the online world, for interesting (and not fully understood) reasons.

Licensing, volunteer organisations, training, and extant community among hams likely plays a strong role.
Shutting down most/all of the electrical systems on the plane suggests depressurization. Also it just makes sense to do so; a plane full of dead people can't engage in heroics to save the day. And he might have seen it as the humane thing to do, rather than leave people in fear for hours up to the actual crash.

But agreed that there's no hard evidence for this, or even for much of the entire story. Just a bunch of circumstantial evidence that suggests a lot.
Aluminum bottles/cans are lined with plastic, to prevent the liquids acquiring a metallic taste. Beer cans are usually lined with BPA - which is bad news for your endocrine system. Sigg bottles have recently moved to a BPA-free lining, but it's still plastic.
Could be a point defect: maybe the person who did the Takata airbag recall on that car was not a good crafsperson?
>I hated synths in the 90s. All interaction was funneled through a tiny screen. I called it "building a ship in a bottle."

I fully agree with your comment, and just wanted to say thanks for the metaphor :) I'm absolutely stealing it.
I thought it was valuable. I'd on-and-off casually followed news of the disappearance for months afterward, but I don't think I'd read anything before that ties everything known together. The writing was also excellent and gripping.
i actually prefer a wide escalator so i can walk up/down (and around the standers) and get both speed and a workout. =)
Too bad Google bought the government. Can’t really punish them.
Anybody know what these calls are even about? I'm curious.
Stainless steel is usually a good option - it weighs less than glass and is more robust.
I'm super glad to hear that, its crazy to have a deadmall like that in LA.
Implementing RCS 5.1 (while at Amdocs, a telecoms vendor) was one of the main things which drove the creation of Matrix.org, fwiw. We had never seen such a sprawling and incoherent standard, and so did the thought experiment of what the opposite non-telcoy approach might look like.
It's $230k after tax.

> Anyone can live even in the bay area on half of that, extremely comfortably.

You really might want to expand on "extremely comfortably". We all have very different definitions. I'd like a home with AC, good transportation, close enough to SF to actually make it up on weeknights (30-40 min drive), a retirement plan that works with the assumption I live in this area indefinitely, and a <=20 minute commute. I will not have that for $115-130k/yr net income. Just isn't available in the rental market we have. I'm not even getting into the part where I'd like to live in a nice neighborhood with good schools.
This anti-escalator movement sounds like complete nonsense to me. First of all, office buildings almost never have escalators. They never did, and they never will. When a company buys an old mall or movie theatre or something else that had an escalator, it doesn't surprise me that they might gut them and not replace them, but it's not because this generation doesn't want escalators. They didn't build escalators in offices in the 50s and 60s either. This is just retail space undergoing renovation.
If this ever happens please try to capture / send us any relevant details. We know there's some issues with Internet Explorer but not aware of any other issues.

Thanks for the kind words! Surfacing work / life balance and general workplace concerns is in our roadmap (3-6 months out). Look out for updates soon!
Note that your model is also an abstraction. Modern architectures move data around between a variety of memory locations (and store it in multiple locations) which are all addressed via the pointer ‘transparently’. It’s not really a memory address anymore and hasn’t been for some time.

That’s not to say your model is bad, it’s the same one I have in my head. But it’s no more ‘real’ than coordinates or library cards or P.O. Box number.
Cogmind is the most thoughtful and elegant roguelike ever created. The dev is also prolific in the community and happily shares his RL dev experience to anyone that will listen. I recommend anyone who is even remotely interested in RL design and development to browse through his blog, which has literal years of high quality content.
The ability to vote your way out of this mess is pretty much the exact opposite of losing democracy.
Back when this happened, me and a friend spent some time coming up with the most ridiculous conspiracy theories about how the plane disappeared , just for fun. The best one that I could invent with was that MH370 flew right next to another plane in order to appear as a single, really big plane on the radar.

A few weeks later my stupid conspiracy theory was all over the media thanks to a blogger who proposed the same thing (but not as a joke, apparently) [1][2][3]

[1] https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-19/reality-check-could-m...

[2] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/03/5-not-so-crazy-malays...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26609687
See Holonomic brain theory (the brain as an antenna)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory
Right. The only thing I've ever done using my Sony smart TV's native interface is to go into settings and turn off WiFi. It isn't a dumb TV, but might as well be.
If you know the bicycle industry, what's interesting is that Giant started out as a Taiwanese based manufacturer, and is probably going to go back there for some things. And to other places like Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia.

They are actually not very much different from the top ten largest Taiwanese motherboard makers. All the motherboards used to be made in Taiwan (Hsin-Chu City, etc). For lower labor costs and other things they moved a lot of production to mainland China and kept the design/R&D/HQ in Taiwan. Now some things are going to go back the other way.
Landfills are three dimensional and the Earth is astonishingly large. On millennia timescales, we will never run out of places to put them.

At a depth of 400 feet, the entire US annual trash output is approximately 1,000 acre [1].

There are 37 billion acres on earth. And indeed, much of that is not very habitable land.

And importantly, landfill space is not permanently lost. There are many beautiful parks around the world built atop landfills.

[1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc...
The feeling is mutual, why do you think we elected Trump?

Americans are sick and tired of America paying for the rest of the world. Enjoy investing in your own military, if you get invaded I hope the U.S doesn't lift a finger.
It's an interesting question. Personally I feel it depends if there's a trial period and easy separation. If your sales pitch is "Try it and it's so awesome you'll want to keep doing it" that's a lot more compelling (assuming non-addictive) than "resistance is futile".
I always wonder if he ever says "My name is Inigo Quilez. Prepare to learn!".

My favorite post by him is where he explains that you never need to have trigonometry calls in your 3D engine. Because everyone now and then you still see "educational" article in the spirit of "learn trig to spin a cube in 3D!" :/
In scripted languages you might do an rsync, which only transfers modified data. Or your program could be split into several libraries.

But it seems to be a rather weak point, yes.
The "traditional US allies" have been the least help in this. The U.S. government hasn't done enough to support Taiwan in my opinion, but U.S. relations with India, Viet nam, Korea, etc. are exceptionally good. Among them surely is a replacement for some of the scale and industrial power the PRC is unwilling to provide on reasonable terms.
It was a mix of both - the Ubuntu 6.04 was in fact one of the freely distributed pressed ones, but many were home burned CD-Rs - photos, software, data backups, etc.
Honestly, I think the answer to "Pointers, WTF?" is simply describing how data is stored in memory.

So is this not how it's explained nowadays? No wonder there's people that doesn't get it. So many concepts, not only about programming, I have learnt in my life first with "this is what happens", then with the precise definition...
I'm semi-convinced the reason many people have a problem understanding pointers is because C makes them needlessly confusing. Or at least in my experience people struggle more with C pointers than they do with learning assembly.
> Sadly, it's all about price.

It’s about price because consumers can’t measure by anything else.

Eg. I can’t tell which of two products is manufactured to higher standards, nor which one isn’t infested with formaldehyde.

Until consumers are able to determine those other factors then yes sadly it is all about price (and marketing).