skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a fair amount of evidence that APT10 is sponsored by China here[1]. It's not 100% proof, but what are the alternatives, and what chances do they have? The alternative possibilities seem slim to me.

The US government accused them of working for China[2]. Of course not everything the US government says is true, but it seems likely to me this is true and they have some non-public evidence to back it up.

[1] https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/two-birds-one-stone-panda/

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1121706/downl...
Correct, China may regress further backwards under the new system that Xi has installed (and with the continued tightening down on everything across the board that he is pursuing in the name of absolute control).

Most likely the US will increase its advantage overall during this time, as China's Government puts itself into a straight-jacket along with its most talented people. As opposed to unleashing them in Deng-style with further liberalization.

China can never have a full answer in terms of exports vs the US software juggernaut. That's inherent to their system of extreme government controls and limitations. Why would anybody in the West ever use Baidu, Ctrip, or Chinese equivalents of Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, Slack, DocuSign, Fortinet, Github, GitLab, Splunk, Twilio, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, et al? There are dozens of booming enterprise companies in the US in that mold, China inherently can't compete with most of them globally. That also goes for the burgeoning software companies in the 'West' outside of the US, such as Atlassian and Shopify (both with $30b market caps). There is a reason why AWS is globally dominant, while China's cloud providers are lagging by five years or more (both in service offerings and sales size) - businesses in the West mostly won't go anywhere near China's cloud services and never will. It's another case of their companies being firewalled inside of China.

To the parent's point re allies, Trump is a mess, however he is gone after one or two terms. US allies generally understand this is a speed bump in a very long-term relationship. Xi's authoritarianism is practically guaranteed to increase by the year for a long time to come. It's going to get worse. Dictatorships become more aggressive and paranoid with time, rather than less.
Unfortunately not unique. I've seen plenty of morons doing that here in Australia as well.
So it is actually two computers inside one box. The first is a normal computer that I presume has no access to the Internet, which would mean it has no network access at all. The other is a computer that can access the Internet that gets reset every time it is started. So if the Internet connected computer gets hacked, just restart and your good!

The only issue, and a fairly large one, is that it is stupid and pointless!
Nothing bad with SSH per se, but building your infrastructure in a way that makes ad-hoc remote changes unnecessary is something to strive for. For anything but small deployments, automation, immutability and reproducibility will keep you sane. Less moving parts, things don’t suddenly change, easy to audit, easy to rollback, etc.
https://wasabi.com/pricing/
Interesting. Almost all leading-edge US chip designs have a piece of their pedigree I can trace from the engineers that worked on the Alpha in that Littleton, MA facility. Did Sunway hire their people or just copy their designs?
> But Google should be allowed to unilaterally copy snippets of data from all the websites on the internet into their search results?

No, and they don't. See meta nosnippet and robots.txt.

If the big boys did what Brave did, they would be sued to oblivion.
> it confuses me why people keep using the inferior external keyboards.

Because many people actually like the keyboards, and they don't stink at being a keyboard.
I'm not sure if it's prioritization so much as just Reader mode being easier because it doesn't need that much from the extension API. Adblockers need to do more browser-level things like intercept HTTP requests, while Reader mode can be done with just DOM/CSS manipulation.
Just because it's good for some people or used to be worthwhile doesn't mean it's good overall that it exists. If you could buy a cheap license for time limited access to DRMd copy of any book, to me, that would be better than a library because it would be cheaper in principle, as long as copyright owners cooperated and it didn't suffer from monopolies and things, and far more books would be available to far more people without the physical constraints.

My library does that but the range is quite small and I guess they're paid for by the local government instead of the readers, which doesn't seem right. Shouldn't private goods be paid for by the users and public goods paid for by government? It's good that information is freely available to the public, but we now have the internet for most of that, and physical books would always be more expensive than ebooks so the financial burden on individuals would have been higher long ago when public libraries started before even paperbacks existed.
I often wear headphones when I walk, I just look where I'm going.

Do you also contend that people with hearing impairment should not be walking?
Yeah, the assist app and default browser aren't really related settings.

"Assist app" settings determines which app can respond to assistant invocations (ok google, long press home, squeezing the phone...) and grants special assistant privileges to app.

Default browser is another setting :)
> However, because the .app inside the disk images is dynamically linked, it could change on the server side at any time—without the disk image needing to be modified at all.

Wait, what? This makes no sense: dynamic linking means that it would pull in different libraries on the user’s machine…
Or, perhaps, Gruber was just adding in some humor.
The reports were published. My email is in my profile if you'd like a link.
The LDS Church doesn’t teach to retreat from the world but rather teaches that some of the natural tendencies of people are self destructive and should not to be indulged in.

Now to correct some of your bright side points:
- The church never held as a belief that black people were cursed. There were some leaders that did not have the authority to speak authoritatively about doctrine that expressed that belief. [1]
- Drinking soda has never been forbidden. You may be thinking of caffeine, though that was never explicitly forbidden but BYU did act like it was.
- Tea and coffee. Yes, we avoid drinking these and also alcohol.

[1] https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topi...
Sure but using that to optimize for yield (ie. scariness) peaked in the 70s too. Like anything past and including tsar bomba ceases to make sense.
Whet people talk about Apple's keyboards being bad, they're almost always referring to the internal ones not external ones.
The tegra products are all integrated.
The SM-6 is effective against both air and surface targets.
The idea is very similar, but I can't agree with a few implementation details:
- The extension shouldn't need to have access to the page. Inserting an iframe into the page seems wrong.
- The extension shouldn't own the comments. It should be a window to the comments, not a gatekeeper. It should be possible to implement alternative UIs and alternative extensions and connect them to the same comments.
- The extension should allow to switch the UI and the data server.

I like the inline annotations, but likely it'll need full access to DOM.
Your idea is also a good one ... funding local NGOs is also an essential initiative ... Yes i agree ... local business needs a boost !

Well a PWA can be built for Nearby-Shops also ... it might be good to have !
I think it's disingenuous of Uber and Lyft to tie working hour flexibility to employee status. Yes many full-time employees don't have that level of flexibility, but being a full-time employee does not de-facto prevent you from having that flexibility. They tie the two issues together in order to get their "contractors" on their side.

Also, you mention twice "these aren't the people they will hire", in the context of Uber/Lyft drivers and teachers, but labour isn't infinite. There aren't millions of highly qualified people sitting around unemployed waiting for these jobs to pay better – those people are employed in other jobs that do pay better. If teachers were paid more it may incentivise many to get better qualifications and training (that they can't currently justify). If the US pays terrible salaries for teachers, no one is going to want to go to an expensive university and rack up large student debt in order to get a teaching job.

The causality may be the other way around from what you're suggesting.
This seems to assume you press short- and long-travel keys with the same force.
> After around 5th grade, almost none of the facts you teach a kid stay with them into adulthood.

Uh, I think you’re going to have to cite that.
Thanks. For the old Firefox for Android that's not the case, but for the new one that's an improvement (I actually didn't notice in my quick stint with it). However, they can further improve it by having the focus on the address/search bar by default. It's currently still two taps before I can start typing. Having to tap two times is my major annoyance with almost all the mobile browsers.
Every now and then I consider using GCP for a new project, because their tech is obviously better. I never do though, because every time, I stumble across somebody with a horror story.

You know how it goes. They built their business on Google's platform, and it was a dream until some AI detected a pattern of activity it didn't like and they were excommunicated. The app was shut down, the website stopped getting traffic, and all they money they had charged customers via Google Pay was frozen. No appeals, emails go to /dev/null and after a month of campaigning on social media they finally get an email from an intern saying that after review, they won't be changing the automated decision.

No thanks.
https://github.com/microsoft/ms-dos may also be interesting
I know at least a couple of people working for companies that will likely fold but are staying because they’re being paid quite well.
Safe Browsing in Firefox is nothing more than a flat list of malware-laden sites your browser downloads. It compares your current site against the list to warn you if a match occurs. It does nothing else whatsoever. Even the most basic search of technical details would show that. Firefox code is also open to be read.
It's surely competitive with physical books, including the cost of storing and handling them, otherwise libraries wouldn't buy them. A random on the internet says about library books: "Very popular hardcover books have a lifespan of around 20 circulations, which is around a year or less, depending on how well bound they are and how well the patrons treat them." Other books are regularly thrown away because they're not popular enough. So I presume publishers account for the short life of a library book in their pricing, and if they actually lasted forever, they'd cost more.
IntelliJ shows hints for inferred types.
A differently/less gifted replacement is better than no replacement. My understanding is that now, the software and hardware design teams both report to the COO. Gruber rightly points out that this structure is not like Apple under Jobs, who famously bashed companies led by salespeople as opposed to designers.
>People buy large vehicles more than they otherwise would because these are the least regulated

In what way are large vehicles less regulated? Legitimate question.
They also outsource some of their artwork as well.

https://www.frogdesign.com/portfolio/microsoft-office
Jony Ive “Promoted”, the Implications of Not Managing, What About Apple? (2015)
yes ... i checked out ... i wonder why it took me so much time to find that out ! ...

It would be great if you could keep in touch and post some issues on the Project Repository where you can Guide upon how can we improve the Code ! And what is the best tech-stack we should be using on the Backend side !
I mean, you're right. But I'm inclined to believe this because most people cannot in fact articulate the difference between metals and nonmetals, complete the square, name the three branches of government, etc.
Somewhere between binary (base 2) and infinity the world we see exists.

Computational equivalence is a real bitch.
My experience with HR is that there are:

(1) Companies where HR is mostly administrative stuff plus risk management.

(2) Companies that claim their HR is more than that and for the employees, but when the situation seems to actually come close to resembling a dilemma, they're mostly administrative stuff plus risk management.

I have yet to hear of or experience a company that claims the latter and actually is the latter.
Then it needs to fly, which means it cannot be spinning. And it probably needs some internal mechanisms to control that flying. Now it is more a hypervelocity drone than a inert kinetic impactor.
They already have low yield nukes but to develop high yield, compact warheads without much nuclear testing (which can be easily detected and would undoubtedly draw critics from other countries) precise simulation on super computer is necessary. Also to solve fluid dynamics problems (for example to develop advanced jet engines or silent submarine propeller, which the Chinese desperately need), detailed simulation on super computer is absolutely a must. Now running LinPack to show off some nice PR numbers is one thing but actually writing an own efficient (and correct) simulation) on massive parallel systems is a thing of another level. It surely helps if one can draw on the massive highly optimized numerical libraries built for the x86/64 instruction set. It certainly will not hinder either in case one has stolen properties software and code from western companies!
Yeah. Here's a GCC developer experimenting with a 31-year old GCC version on a modern system (the first one with x86 support):

>It is amazing how well things work – the modern assembler, linker, and debugger handles the code generated by GCC 1.27 without any problems.

https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2019/01/building-gcc-127.html

And the write-up he based his experiments upon:

https://miyuki.github.io/2017/10/04/gcc-archaeology-1.html

I'd say this kind of source-based backwards compatibility is superior to what's happening in Windows world -- not only it encourages you to keep the source code open, but you also don't have to keep as many hacks in the kernel/system libraries.
It makes perfect sense! That's why Transformers is a better movie than the Godfather...
To be fair, given their history of shutting things down, it’s easy to see anything that isn’t selling ads as a hobby for google. Even if that’s not the case, it can be hard to shake that gut-level feeling. I suspect that’ll be the hardest thing for most people to get over when considering a google stack.
Is it just me or is the site broken? I see it for a quarter second, then the page turns blank.
Why is this a problem? I even considered MD5, to be honest. Afaik, the only reason MD5 or SHA1 are considered "insecure" now is that it's possible to use sophisticated techniques called differential analysis to carefully craft two binary files that would have the same hash. But if the space of possible inputs is limited (we can't put arbitrary stuff in the URLs), then good luck finding a collision. Discovering a collision with an existing input is a much harder problem (is it even solved for arbitrary data?). In any case, SHA1 here isn't a security mechanism, but is just a way to hide URLs from the data server and organize comments as a nice hashmap. If someone wants to put anything sensitive in the comments, they shouldn't and I've clearly warned about this with a big yellow banner. If someone ever needs security, the only way to go is to use your own data server, or encrypt comments themselves with ed25519+aes256.
This very much depends on the culture of the company. I've experienced toxic HR, indifferent HR, incompetent HR and awesomely helpful HR. It depends on the people in the HR team and the people on the exec team.

HR is a really hard job too, very hard to do well and very stressful. Most people never get to see this as it's part of their job that they can't talk about most things they are having to deal with.

Bad HR is a nightmare, good HR can make a massive difference to a company.
I'm commenting on HN. I've been developing for the web for 24 years. I don't know how and when my data is collected or shared most of the time.

The idea that FB and Google are openly making a trade with users is ludicrous. I'm horrified that you either sincerely believe that there's a fair negotiation happening or that you don't care (given your employment history).
Doctor.
There is one in the extension page, but sure, I can add one to github.
A thin laptop is much easier to lug around, it has changed my wardrobe from a huge backpack to increasingly compact folios.
The Supra would like to disagree with you.
They even hid the camera bump in promotional depictions.
AMD was about to go bankcrupt in 2012-13. CEO Rory Read laid off a large number of non-engineering staff and sold off real estate to stabilize the financial situation and managed to stave off imminent bankruptcy. When Dr Lisa Su took over in 2014, AMD was desperate for a cash infusion to plow into R&D for the Zen architecture.

There was no U.S. investor willing to make a $300 million investment in a company that held key CPU and GPU technology and world-class engineering expertise. Apple, Google, Microsoft could have benefited from AMD's CPU/GPU tech but they would rather make multi-billion dollar offers for companies like Groupon and Snapchat or Dr Dre's Beats.

An American company was saved by this joint venture with China while Wall Street was gleefully shorting AMD.
Yes they all want to be the platform ... this is a kind of issue that is common with proprietary commercial projects ...

And may be an area where Open-Source could be of any help !
So can I reverse any contract at anytime or is this something only large companies are allowed to do and only to consumers?
The extension does two things:
- It sends sha1 of the url to the data server to check the numebr of comments, but doesn't pull the comments.
- It renders an <iframe src="comntr.github.io#foobar.com"> to show the comments.
Thus the extension has very little code and doesn't need much updates.
I ended up torrenting a movie the other day because I couldn’t find it on any major streaming service. Cost wasn’t an issue, I literally paid for a month’s worth of both Netflix and Now TV just to log in and search for the movie there, without success. Ended up torrenting it - the whole process was a lot faster than even trying to get it legally.

The industry is broken. Even when you want to pay money they can’t be bothered to match the user experience of piracy.
They already have the Air to be lightweight and thin. Makes sense. But there are plenty of people who need a portable high power laptop so it would make sense to have a Pro that has plenty of connectors, is powerful and doesn't need to be as lightweight.
I guess my extension doesn't none of these. Will be fixed in v2.
Ben Thompson wrote an article[1] about this problem in 2015 after Ive just got "promoted".

From the article:

In my estimation, whether Ive intends it or not — and I think he likely does, for what it’s worth — this is the beginning of the end of his time at Apple. To give up “management” in exchange for “thinking freely” is, when it comes to business, akin to shifting from product-focused R&D to exploratory R&D. Steve Jobs was very clear on the consequences of that approach:

"One of the things I’ve always found is that you’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it. And I’ve made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room. And I got the scar tissue to prove it."

I found this quote/clip in this excellent Gruber piece, Working Backwards to the Technology; the analogy I’m trying to draw is that just as the best way to ensure that great technologies make it to market is to start with the product and work backwards, inventing along the way, the best way to lead an organization’s design direction is to lead the organization, and that means managing. And that is what Ive is giving up.

[1]: "Jony Ive “Promoted”, The Implications of Not Managing, What About Apple?"

https://stratechery.com/2015/jony-ive-promoted-the-implicati...
I've been expecting this. Google's attempts to get me to turn off "less secure app access" have grown increasingly obnoxious over the last couple of years. A few months ago they went so far as to send me a "prevented login from suspicious device" alert after a getmail run. Time to leave. If I can't download it with POP or IMAP, then it's not email.
As others have mentioned, this isn't great for accessibility. And most password managers would be smart to ignore hidden password fields, since that's a decent attack vector for skimming.
At least if it's wrong you can change it!
More generally, it is shockingly easy to frame an issue with disinformation to misguide the general public.

The only solution to this is better education that teaches critical thinking rather than mechanical parroting-exams based system that is widespread today in majority of the world.
I think experience plays a role. From my own experience; what I considered high demand 10 years ago is now low demand. Such as resolving a production incident at 10am.

In my past I would switch jobs every couple years. Not due to the stress, but because I was alarmed at how the intensity of work was decreasing at a company. I equated that with slow professional growth.

Now I'm finding several opportunities for growth, but doing so with a calm mindset. Several of my colleagues don't seem calm at all. Yet the majority of us have more control over burnout and "work chaos" than we are lead to believe.
What's the formula to calculate the volume of a conical pyramid, off the top of your head? I learned that in grade 5, was drilled on it, haven't had to know since and no longer remember. A small example but one I think is fairly representative of at least 50% of what I learned in school. We waste a tonne of time teaching very specific things of limited use, formulas, dates of historic events and busy work like plotting exponentials on graph paper and long division, there's a lot of room to be teaching higher level concepts instead.
This was a great read and got me interested in learning more about the Sikh religion. Does anyone have some advice for a westerner interested in starting to learn about the religion?
There is a great example in the thread below that might as well be surfaced here. When blue-checks on twitter post 'kill white people' it is magically not bullying, not inciting violence and not hate speech.

https://www.label56.com/wp-content/uploads/verified-hate-1.j...

What is worse is the secondary effects when people point to twitter not taking action as a justification that posting 'kill <skin colour>' is somehow acceptable if <skin colour> == white. After all, twitter allows it so it must be OK.
Take this with a grain of salt, but Steam support says there are "measures in place" to ensure users have access to DRM'd games when steam dies [0]. (Not to mention that it's trivially easy to remove Steam DRM with existing tools)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/18mzcn/i_asked_steam...
See: Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time.
I'm calling it - USB-A will still be around going strong 10 years from now. Take a stroll through a BIC Camera in Tokyo. How many USB-A accessories are still for sale? It's about 99% of the stock. I'm sure it's the same at a Best Buy in the US.

Apple and the fanboys calling it a "Legacy" port are completely out of touch with reality.