skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you want to pay billions for a note-taking app when you can have a programmer, a PM and a UX guy make one for less than a rounding error in your budget?
This isn't about politics, it is about how the world economy is going to work and to what degree countries specialize versus protect certain industries IMO :)

Post WW2 there was a big movement to integrate world economies under the belief that countries don't go to war against their economic partners. I must admit I am a huge believer in this.

Now, under the leadership of the 80s and 90s, on both sides of the aisle this went too far and the USA probably needed to add some protection to its domestic labor market. IMO the EU navigated that better, but culturally they have always been less merc.

Anyway, this is where we are at, we now have people in power questioning that....

My worry is that that we will untangle this fantastic system, rather than tangle but in a smarter way and provide better domestic protections.
Fundamentally, I believe, the main issue is that we have a tendency to believe or think that "reality" (the world/universe), is separate from us. But we cannot separate our perception or experience of reality from it. If I don't exist, then _my_ reality doesn't exist. And there's no way for anyone to experience anyone else's reality. So all individual realities are that, individual, and maybe a lot of us can agree on some stuff, but that doesn't necessarily mean that stuff is objectively real for everyone/the universe. We each individually assign meaning to our own experiences and then need to deal with the (maybe apparent) difference in meaning or interpretation among ourselves.

I believe the next big revolution in physics is going to come from incorporating perception and "the observer" as a fundamental part of the models. Consciousness, from my perspective, is the only way we have to "know" the world, which to me means that consciousness is even more basic/fundamental than matter, time or space. And so far, the whole field of physics has been pretty much ignoring it ️
That's a much more customer-friendly version of a common late stage strategy in enterprise software: shut down feature additions, keep the price high, milk support contracts and if all that's not enough, sue your customers!

I like your sunset strategy better as a customer, but it sounds like something you could only really do if you don't have investors.
> i guess you could force companies in the US to not ship phones encrypted by default, but they could just sneak a menu asking if you want it encrypted before the first power on.

Free software can violate the law because it can be anonymous. Corporations have addresses, and employees, and owners. They're legal entities and can only break the law when the government allows it.

Our phones are built and solve by corporations, running software installed by corporations, and we download apps from corporate-controlled app stores. Do you think Google or Apple can just say "no, we're going to violate this law" and keep operating that way freely?

You can't stop a hacker from encrypting, because we can root our devices and install our own software, but encryption is only used by more than a couple percent of the population because it's easy. If you can't encrypt your communications without rooting your device, 99% of the population won't encrypt.

> How do you crack down on math?

Funny story: back in the 90s, whenever you downloaded a web browser, you had to promise that you lived in the US if you wanted it to support the state-of-the-art encryption, because encryption--math--was legally considered a weapon so you couldn't "export" it.

You crack down on math by arresting people using the math. It's pretty straightforward. Remember the illegal prime number that was DeCSS?
Depends how much data users use. I have a feeling you could store and transfer a lot of data for a £40 fee.

A couple of alternatives:

1. Decouple the cloud syncing component and sell that as subscription, with a sync-less version for a fee. PWAs mean you don't even need to give up the web platform to do this nowadays.

2. (My personal favourite) is sell a perpetual license but charge for feature upgrades. Retro, I know.

3. Sell a subscription licence which includes a perpetual license for the latest copy of the software. If you stop paying, you stop getting updates. JetBeains works like this with their products.
If I recall correctly, global "warming" is an average and changes in temperature will increase both ways so might end up having to heat more for short period of times.
The strange thing is that if there is such positive externalities for climate policies why don't rich countries that can afford to pay more for energy be more aggresive in reducing emissions? Even Germany, for instance, isn't spending as much as it could to reduce emissions. If reducing emissions are so important why aren't German business forced to purchase electricity at the market rate(with renewable subsidies builtin) the same way consumers are?

Complaining about growth in rich countries basically misses the mark. It isn't rich countries that are driving greenhouse emissions but developing countries that can't afford renewable energy wihtout cutting investment and thus growth. Less growth means that people in the present will be worse off as well and they have less resources to ameliorate the social consequences of a stagnant economy.

Of course, rich countries that cut growth will be less rich. That means all else being equal workers will be paid less(because they live in a less wealthy economy) and the lack of growth will cause similar (if more manageable) social impacts as in developing economies. Saying that you could still be 'happy' living in such a country misses the point entirely. You would never rationally believe such an outcome of being economically poorer shouldn't be avoided if at all possible.
The article has an excellent main point -- that repairability and modularity are valuable.

You complain "we live in a free market". Of course we do.

One of the key features of a free market is that it rewards not only better products, but it also very handsomely rewards people/companies who can externalize costs -- optimize one thing that makes profits for them, while leaving the society or the planet to pay the costs.

You apparently advocate a commercial ethos where it is good to trash the commons, as long as you can make a profit.

Just because trashing the commons can result in a company becoming one of the largest in the world, does not mean that any criticism of it is trash.
Incidentally, the Windows Subsystem for Linux was reportedly the result of an effort to run Android userspace on top of the Windows Kernel that was at least somewhat successful, so your assertion is completely true.

(https://venturebeat.com/2016/02/25/microsoft-kills-project-a...)
Not related to OP, but I think every country has the right to stop illegal immigration into their country - the US has been warning everyone numerous times and have said illegal migrants will be put into these places while they get processed and/or deported. These people made a choice to try and take the easy path for a better life, through methods that are less-than-ideal for the host country. Just because someone wants to do something doesn't mean they're going to get it.

Also, your definition is quite different from the original definition of concentration camps, where people were forced against their will to be put on trains like cattle and hauled to camps to be systematically worked to death and slaughtered en masse. China is quite literally doing what happened less than a century ago during WW2 and the rest of the world is doing nothing about it because China has an absolutely massive stranglehold on the worlds economy.
Not parent, but I always assumed it was a synonym of "enlightened". It turns out that's because its intended meaning has been diluted by now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
Build fast, sell out faster.
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> Not only is China ripping off IP but companies like Apple who try to be "woke" have no buisness advocating for equality at home while doing buisness with a nation that has imprisoned thousands of religious minorities in re-education camps.

First of all: You are not wrong.

But similar things can be said about USA. USA steals a lot of stuff too. But of course the American press won't tell you about that. Or if they mention it, they will put phrase it like "America liberated the population of Irak (insert any country here) from the dictarship".

But the press on other countries could say different things about the USA:

"Not only is USA has a long history of creating coup-d'etat in foreign countries (e.g: South America), and installing governments that favor their policy and killing thousands of innocent people to achieve that. But also is known to create false evidence to invade countries to steal their oil and killing thousands of innocent people, again. And recently it has been proved that the USA spied on their allies to..."

I don't want to put in a way that the USA is "bad" or China "good", or vice-versa.

But the important thing here is: critical thinking. Don't buy what the press tells you.

Is China "bad" ? Who is telling you that China is "bad" ? Does the person that is telling you that China is "bad" gain something from it? Is that person any better than China?

Companies are driven to make money. Otherwise they would be an NGO, and not a company.
I think there should be privacy by default, but that the government should be able to access our personal lives with a warrant.
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That doesn't really make sense. The code you implement in Swift when in Jupyter needs to also be available at runtime to execute. Meaning you can do the exact same thing in Python, because your model architecture is going to be embedded in the exported model.

For custom kernel code, what you really want to use is a custom TF op. But I doubt that's what you're getting at anyway, because that's for more advanced use cases.
Seems like it's not available in the US: https://netflixable.com/uk/en-US/movie/the-china-hustle-2017
Mmm. Seems this leads to a level of encryption where we decrypt with one algorithm to a clear text that can be seen by the government and another algorithm that becomes a hidden text different from the other one.
I do think usb-c and thunderbolt over usb-c are the future. However, what is problematic is they've put the design of super thin over practical. What once were internal components are now external dongles. The price of the laptops didn't go down because of less hardware, it actually went up and increased/grew a market of dongle-land. Now to get an equivalent laptop from a few years before we have to spend hundreds of dollars to be able to connect that external monitor, use ethernet, or usb-a.
If we're talking about consistency, how about the headphone port on the Macbook? You need a dongle to listen to music on your phone, if you want to use the same headphones for your computer.
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What I worry is that this problem is overhyped from new go coders (or people who took a look at go and that's it). The explicit error handling blends into the background so fast. It's never been an issue for me while developing in the past 4 years on go based systems.
The error/maybe/whatever monad with pattern matching is not only the most elegant solution, it is the most robust solution.

No other solution allows the compiler to catch a runtime error at compile time.
Results in spanish are not bad. For the time I used it it was useful. But there's the problem I mentioned. I use operators a lot and I can't live without them. I don't want to use alt+numbers just for the basic one, and also, everything seems or not translated to spanish, or only half-translated. I don't really get it, since you have Spain + most latin america as a market.
Pipefile – Streamlined collection of personal or otherwise sensitive documents
Why would you enter a market where one company publicly has 1B+ valuation? It's Goliath crushing David based on reputation alone.
The use of concentration camps as part of a planned ethnic cleansing campaign originated with the American governments efforts to relocate and exterminate the indigenous populations of the Southeastern United States see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act if you want to pick up the trail.
I feel way agitated by false homonyms, say "very" rendered "way". I don't really mind, but thinking about it is irritating ...
I'm currently in my company office located in the Sentier district – famous for being a startups hub. No AC, just a fan and open windows (the biggest issue is the car noise, even though traffic has been restricted for days).

Lots of neighbors have AC running but all the windows and doors wide open.

Edit: I live in an pre-Haussmann flat (5th floor, right under the roof). Crazy hot but no AC and no fan, all the windows open since Monday, days and night, even when I'm not at home. Crossing fingers re possible theft, but at least no one can steal my non-existent AC).
This is partly why being on iOS betas might be good personal mitigation. They may not have immediate capability on any particular iOS beta. The exploit may or may not exist, or their code would need to be updated to properly handle it. So, to me, it makes sense to stay ahead of their development cycle and avoid a threat if you have a reason to think law enforcement might want your phone contents.
Spain and the south of France will be bad. And, Spain is already desertifying like crazy and climate models show it's screwed long-term. I would expect climate refugees leaving the Iberian peninsula in greater numbers soon, farmers in Spain are already leaving (I saw a docu by Journeyman Pictures on Spanish olive orchards dying and being abandoned).
Woke is shorthand for awoken, or awakening. It's generally used to signify an agreement (or at least understanding) of left leaning perspectives on civil rights.

Personally, despite my beliefs, I am not comfortable with corporations co-opting movements like LGBTQ pride on one hand (how many rainbow branded beer bottles have you seen this month?) and advocating policies that are diametrically opposed with the other.
That´s why: F*uck AI (halisback.com) ;)
Just to be totally clear, you mean that so long as the government has a warrant, they should be allowed access into our innermost thoughts and feelings?
I understood this to be the main concern with regards to harmful radiation. The article states that when HTO is consumed and comes in contact with biological molecules it binds to them and can stay in the body for years. It goes on to state the the negative effects of this may be underestimated.
That isn't the failure of warrants, our rights, or any other aspect of the legal process. That's a failure of law enforcement. They can't break encryption, sure, but they also can't read the private thoughts of individuals - yet somehow they've figured out ways to get the information they need most of the time.

A great solution in many of these cases would be to work alongside companies like Apple to implement more products like Face ID. With Face ID, they can take a few pictures of a person, 3D model their face, open the phone. It's an easy thing with the right resources. It's a technological equivalent of interrogation. The same can be done in other contexts, they just need better hackers, better investigators, and more resources on their side.
Unable to tell, because my presence in Italy, though frequent, is typically short, and I usually stay in Bologna and venture no further than 150km from it - that visit to Trento was an exception.
> restricting E2E at a vendor level probably wouldn't be seen as infringing at the individual level

Would the Citizens United case apply hear? I'm thinking about corporate personhood arguments.
It's just off-putting.
The authors of the paper discuss how Julia fares with capsule networks in section 4.1:[a]

> There are frameworks, such as Julia, which nominally use the same language to represent both the graph of operators and their implementations, but back-end designs can diminish the effectiveness of such a front end. In Julia, while 2D convolution is provided as a native Julia library, there is an overloaded conv2d function for GPU inputs which calls NVidia’s cuDNN kernel. Bypassing this custom implementation in favor of the generic code essentially hits a “not implemented” case and falls back to a path that is many orders of magnitude slower.

[a] The paper uses capsule networks as its main example. See my earlier comment for context and a link to the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20304576
If USA is having a good relationship with Saudi Arabia which is not even really giving women rights and only recently allowed women to drive then you know USA don't care.
Isn't it routing you via a Ferry?
These NPCs have been in the game forever and there are sections of space specifically to PvE farm/engage them.

Some of the articles point out this added to the initial confusion in the early waves of the attack because it was already an existing strategy for a player to get a (small) fleet of these NPCs following them to a station (either for the station to help pick the fleet apart for easier farming, or to annoy the station of a neighbor). There was an early question apparently if some players had found a way to get larger than usual fleets of the NPCs to follow them in that previous manner.
Can you compare this approach to the origami and spinning projects for malaria detection? Are they complementary?
The weapons we have today are very well engineered (cheap, reliable, understood tolerances/ranges, etc). As such, where railgun tech will be used is in limited cases as compared to the well developed cheamically launched projectiles. That means that there are less cases where the railgun can be used and then learned from. Especially with weapons, you need real life testing in order to understand the engineering issues, as lab testing is generally forbidden due to loss of human life. Hunting deer and boars will only give you so much. Fortunately, we humans don't go to War too often these days (though this is very debatable to a lot of real people). Unfortunately for railgun engineers, that means there is not a lot of real world testing in the panic that is a battle.
Do those same farmers still vote highly in favor of the one (american, I've made an assumption here) political party that denies global warming is real?

I come from a agricultural small town in the north, and up there you'd think Trump was a god. This despite every single farm up there depending on illegal migrant workers to basically survive.
You are confusing concentration camps and extermination camps. In Nazi Germany many but not all concentration camps were also extermination camps. Historians generally agree that US has now concentration camps in their original meaning.

Separating children from their parents into inhuman concentration camp is a crime against humanity.
I work for one of the large companies whose product or services you probably use every day, maybe even multiple times a day.

One of the top people in my company has stated concretely to his leadership team that he doesn’t “give a fuck” about existing employees’ mental health or burning out. As long as we keep recruiting and maintain butts in seats, it doesn’t matter.

This person is responsible for a massive chunk of this company. He’s not some isolated irrelevant person.

For someone who doesn’t care about his own employees, I seriously doubt they care about China’s human rights record. It’s not that they think China is a bad spouse who will change their ways - IMO at least given my company, that analogy is wrong. They just don’t care.
Of course it should be the case. There are plenty of ways to make information hard to recover, and if we're going to ban encryption I think we should take a hard look at fire as well.
During the time I had the X I was using it several times a minute.

I'm a small guy though with small/medium hands (7.2" wrist to tip of middle finger).
The thing is everyone who thinks AI will be AI in our times are people that don´t understand what really AI is.
> There is no country on the planet that stands for individual freedom more than the US; we were founded on the idea

There's a lot packed into that statement. Without switching into an off-topic discussion, I'd suggest that it's a lot like GPL vs BSD licenses - there's more than one way to define "freedom", and one can focus on results vs options, on groups vs individuals, etc.
Ha ha. Seriously, though, the BSDs will either adopt Wayland (work is already in progress) or die out entirely for desktop use.
Encrypted speech isn't another mode, in my opinion. You can send encrypted messages in letters, spoken word, or spray paint; that is, encrypted speech is communicated through the same modes as any other speech. The content is what's different.
A little bit later. It was a demand of various labor movements starting in about the mid-1800s (essentially in response to the industrial revolution) and started to be broadly implemented around the turn of the century.
> D's contract mechanism [...] can provide very strong guarantees to the compiler... which the LLVM D compiler definitely uses.

That's awesome. I didn't know LDC uses contracts like that. It'd be nice to have similar functionality across all D compilers.
I get what you're saying, but I also can't help but chuckle at the fact that you're practically quoting the old "We'll just tow it until it's beyond the environment" skit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Glad to see the title was edited to be more correct and less sensationalized.
Anyone remember that "Man Show" episode where they had women signing up to end women's sufferage?This headline reminded me of that.
The goal is to allow Swift to be used for writing MLIR and XLA kernels. The new LazyTensor under development already allows for fused XLA operations to be created in Swift. There's an awful lot you can do in Swift which is very very hard to do properly in Python. I've got a bit more background on this here: https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/

Edit: HN isn't letting me reply deeper, so I'll reply to "what are the benefits over C++?" here. The first is that MLIR has dialects that support stuff like polyhedral compilation, which result in much more concise and understandable code, which is often faster too. The second is that using the same language from top to bottom means you can profile/debug/etc your code in one place, which is much more efficient. And you don't have to learn two languages. And you don't have to use C++, which (for me at least) is a big win! ;)
My girlfriend's family are visiting relatives in France at the moment. They've been going for the best part of 20 years and they cannot believe the temperature.

It's quite scary. Even in the UK, it's been unnaturally warm for most of this year and there were times in February and March where it was unseasonably temperate.
Unless you are trying to run software that explicitly depends on some of the brokenness from upstream (Gnome3) you can just setup a classic system that will behave the same way you're used to and honestly, I didn't encounter problems with software in that configuration
This is the first 'bubble' where I've felt it really may be different. Along the lines of this stuff https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1130133801403858954
Didn't the "ripping off" gave us the value brands such as OnePlus, Xiaomi, and even Huawei at the beginning of their phone business? So I'd say it's a good thing.