skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those are not hard facts.

What isn't a fact? Everything I wrote about the development of Chinese IP enforcement is detailed in the sources I listed at the end.

> It's a known fact even by the EU that china is not giving us access to their markets

That's not a known fact. American and European businesses not only have access to the Chinese market, but also have very significant presence there. China is the biggest market for Boeing and Airbus. It's the biggest market for General Motors and Volkswagen (and VW is the largest car brand in China), and the second largest market for Ford. I could go on and on like this. China is obviously still strongly export-dependent, but its consumer economy is growing quickly and foreign companies have a huge presence in that sector.

> and har not actually securing IP and are in fact forcing it onto chinese hands.

In my last comment, I cited to you the figures on the rapid growth in the number of IP disputes heard by Chinese courts. I told you about how specialized IP courts have been set up in major Chinese cities over the past five years, about how penalties for IP violations have been significantly increased, about how evidence discovery has been made easier, and about how effective foreign companies are in winning patent disputes in China (a 70% win rate). Those are facts.

I find that people outside China often have an image of the country that lags 10-20 years behind reality. The image you're painting would have been more accurate in 2009. In 2019, it's woefully out of date.
sizeof doesn't actually evaluate the expression, so in this case ptr++ won't get evaluated at all (nevermind twice). Good thing to be aware of in general though.
You're assuming RPT would write the firmware. There's no reason that has to be the case.
People seem to hate this comment.

Here's what I mean by plausible: "If we filled it entirely with resin and glue it is less likely to break and hence less likely to need repair, but doing that makes repair impossible"

I do not mean good reasons, I am specifically saying that there are "reasons" that are more plausible than "security"
No you didn’t.

You just used a paywalled site, which I can’t be bothered to work around.
That was extremely toxic. You don't know anything about my scientific prowess but you are revealing yourself to be quite the Negative Nancy. At no point was I blabbering about anything; I was musing from the start.
Reminds me of my office (in the US) where they heat the place to 26C in winter and cool it to 16C in summer.
When I wrote the post, I was thinking more functional MVP or better. But, I'll look at whatever you got. I'm happy to provide feedback, even if it's not video material.

I'll follow-up via email.
Exactly, the comfort of temperatures is highly dependent on the ambient humidity. The normal human body temperature is a lot higher than a comfortable room temperature, so to be comfortable requires constantly dissipating a significant amount of heat. When the ambient humdidity is low, sweating works efficiently and you don't notice a moderately high temperature, but high temperature and humidity means sweating is inefficient and you end up overheating.
There's reason to think it doesn't.

"The true raw material footprint of nations" (2013)

...The study, involving researchers from UNSW, CSIRO, the University of Sydney, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, was published today in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It reveals that the decoupling of natural resources from economic growth has been exaggerated.

The results confirm that pressures on raw materials do not necessarily decline as affluence grows and demonstrates the need for policy-makers to consider new accounting methods that more accurately track resource consumption....

https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063246/https://newsroom....

The material footprint of nations

Thomas O. Wiedmann, Heinz Schandl, Manfred Lenzen, Daniel Moran, Sangwon Suh, James West, and Keiichiro Kanemoto

PNAS first published September 3, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220362110
I have opened an issue on GitHub.

https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages/issues/9
I'm very thankful that you're not the one running the country. "Pretty please" gets you jack shit when you're dealing with hardcore gangsters like Xi Jinping, Shinzo Abe, Angela Merkel, or Vladimir Putin.
Apple music is streaming service. But the downloaded files are DRM protected. I know this tool (https://www.audfree.com/drm-audio-converter-win/) can bypass drm easily.
Hi,

So — why not Wordgrinder?
If you wanna go down that rabbit hole... one must be as precise as possible when estimating.
Yesterday's NeWS (Network extensible Window System)
Launch of 'Osaka Track' framework for free cross-border data flow at G20
If it weren't for those meddling kids, I would've got away with it!
For people who might be interested in the modern Cherokee (including lessons on the language, food and culture) might enjoy a Cherokee produced show called Osiyo http://osiyo.tv/
Perhaps the author was quoting a statistic that includes electricity requirements of the datacenters and infrastructure to power the phone. Perhaps not, but that would be an interesting statistic.
Whatever happened to that project? They were one of the early guys trying to do full blown "modern" JS apps on the web around the time when backbone.js came out, but with a more desktopy approach.

Edit: I forgot, they were one of the first YC companies. Looks like the parent company got acquired by Motorola and somewhat shutdown their 280slides/Atlas projects. One founder also later started RunKit which was bought by Stripe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/280_North,_Inc.
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Paywalled. Anyone have an alternate link?
The average iPhone, according to Mills’ calculations, uses about 361 kW-h a year once the wireless connections, data usage and battery charging are tallied up.

http://science.time.com/2013/08/14/power-drain-the-digital-c...
Strangely this is a very a cultural thing.

I'm from Australia and in summer the cooling can't cope and does indeed result in indoor temperatures exceeding 28°C. However, I'm drenched in sweat and certainly can't focus at that point. I will happily head outside and enjoy the crazy heat, but be productive? Nope!

I think heating and A/C target around 21°C in Melbourne.

However, I traveled to Vienna for a week long contract some years back. Sure it was cold outside (snowing), but I found all the offices and buildings excruciatingly hot and couldn't focus one bit. Made for a very miserable working week.

Of course, the locals all managed fine, so despite it seeming like a personal preference thing, I can only assume it's something you can adapt to.
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Put up things you are learning this week and help the community grow.
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I also agree that this estimate is way off, but I think the idea is to think of the total energy use of the phone when you include the energy used by the servers that provide the services you use in apps. That is much harder to measure. Luckily Google, Facebook and Twitter invest a lot in energy saving at their data centers so it's one of the leanest ways of using compute power. I think that even when you put that energy into the equation, it's still nowhere near a refrigerator.
A very "me" reason and certainky not very common: launching a simple HTTP server and mounting a folder on my fs to be served by it. Easiest way to transfer files sans email. Great when at a random friend's house and I need to send them something larger than 25mb
Vast, persistent differences in competence across programmers are definitely real. Working in a homogeneous team for a long time can obscure it, sure. But if you can't think of any colleagues drastically better than you are, then either your work is on par with the giants of our field, or it's time to find some different colleagues who can challenge you and help you to continue growing. (Or you're making a conscious decision to rest, which is fine, but not while denying the possibility of alternatives).

I don't think absence of mistakes is what makes these people great, though, more like the difficulty of the problems they're able to solve, the effectiveness with which they can manipulate and discuss ideas, and the fitness-for-purpose of their solutions.
-Werror-sizeof-pointer-div

Or in C++:

#include <type_traits>

template < typename T, std::size_t N >
constexpr std::size_t count_of(const T (&)[N]) { return N; }

#define COUNTOF(a) std::integral_constant<std::size_t, count_of(a)>::value

(C++03 friendly versions are entirely possible, but left as an exercise to the reader)
The pizza delivery app Slice does something similar... they buy domains that look like they could be legitimate and then outrank the actual website of the small local pizza shops with SEO. Then they tack on additional Slice fees and send the order through to the pizza place. Here’s an example:

Actual site: http://www.mariostogo.com/

Slice scam site: https://www.mariospizzaphiladelphia.com/

Most of these small pizza shops have no idea this is happening and Slice is just ripping off customers. They even claim listings or suggest edits on yelp, foursquare, google, etc. with their Slice domain so customers assume it’s the shop’s actual site. I wish someone from Yelp, Google, etc. would blacklist Slice sites and kill the company and their scammy business practices.

Edit: I forgot to mention they created fake phone numbers for the shops too which is what alerted me to this scam in the first place. I googled the number for Mario’s and called it but a young female answered the phone and I heard call center chatter in the background... normally when calling Mario’s one of the guys with a thick accent answers and speaks in broken English. I’ve never seen a single female employee work there in the 15 years I’ve been ordering from them. On top of it all, the delivery address got screwed up between my call in order that Slice intercepted and Slice then calling the actual Mario’s number to relay my order. Come to think of it, I payed with a credit card over the phone so Slice took my CC info and then relayed that as well... that doesn’t seem kosher.

(I now have the real Mario’s number stored as a contact in my phone.)
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Sharing is better now that there’s an actual Files app to manage documents. Sharing links and web stuff works fine across basically every app using that universal share button. Sharing to different people works great with airdrop (but do keep that limited while in public lest you get run over with incoming requests to send memes).

The default app thing could be improved for sure.
Ask HN: If you were starting another business, what would be in your todo-list?
I've been trying to get a business of my own started since I was around 16 years old. Life didn't really go how I expected it to go (I've heard this is normal). I've tried a few different times to start a variety of businesses and all of them have failed. I learn something every time but I'd really like a shortcut. So then it hit me, "I should ask people who've been there before!".

My business-attempts have involved SaaS, Gutter Cleaning, Car Detailing, contract Web Development, and so on... Usually, I'd have some sort of plan laid out, but most of that plan involved building a really nice website. That isn't all it takes to succeed, though, as I've learned.

If you were starting a new business with low funds (assume less than ~$1k), involving any effort you'd pursue, what would your Todo-List look like?

How would you prioritize your list? How much time would you put into each item?

I know this is a vague question, which is okay because I'm looking for vague answers. Even vague answers to this question would lead me to a more accurate understanding of this sort of process.

Thanks in advance!
This is great, IMO. The sooner MS abandons Windows on Azure the better for everybody. You could argue that "monoculture" is not good, but, TBH, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, I struggle to name a single use case where I'd _not_ choose Linux over anything else when the use case is not desktop-oriented (cloud, edge, embedded).
What does it mean to "feel" gravity? I assure you the ant's biological systems would undergo many changes over generations in the absence of gravity in order to reach homeostasis. A bacterium can't feel anything but did I mention single-celled organisms? No, I mentioned organelles. You are arguing against a straw-man.

Furthermore you are completely ignoring the effect of gravitational perturbations on emergent structures. These things don't necessarily "iron out", and if they do, we have not yet ascertained at what level and via what mechanism.

You are confusing an object's ability to produce gravity with its propensity for interacting with gravity.
How does "use Elm" fixes the problems mentioned in the article? Elm is compiled to JS after all and has to be downloaded/parsed, which is what the article is talking about regarding cost.
These two links still have no bearing on the topic.

You wrote "Gravity is important for heavy elements to cluster in one place in sufficient concentrations to form organelles."

Your link #1 concerns blood flow, which is much larger than organelles and has nothing to do with heavy elements. (In any relevant sense - while red blood cells have iron, they don't affect the fluid dynamics.)

Your link #2 barely touches on gravity, and doesn't mention organelles or heavy elements.

I agree with krastanov - the statement of yours, which I quoted, is preposterous according to a widely held understanding of how things work. As such, it would require strong evidence to overturn those views.

What is the basis by which you decided it was correct and important enough to bring up?
So, any time someone comes up with a new program in an established space, I wonder why?

Personally, if you’re going to choose to do that anyway, one of the first things I would like to see you explain is what your reasoning is for doing so. Is the current leader too hard to use? Too expensive? Is this just an exercise to see if you can do it?

Start with these questions relative to nmap versus your program. Doing a programming exercise just to see if you can do it is a totally valid reason to do something. But I think you want to be clear and explicit about this from the start.
I absolutely love Sam Harris’ “waking up” app.

I haven’t been perfect with it, but I have stuck with it more than anything else I’ve tried to date.
About MySQL and Indexes
Don't think this will be the last amateur band to be privatized either.

Commercial entities and the politicians they have in their pockets will keep asking and getting more and more.
> I wouldn't hire a JS programmer who was afraid or unwilling or unable to learn Elm.

Would you hire an Elm programmer who was afraid or unwilling to learn proper JS?
This will sound cynical, but at this point, it's no longer news unless it's a binary neutron star merger. If there's an electromagnetic counterpart, then it's big news.

If you have a gravitational wave detection with an EM counterpart, you can get a redshift and luminosity distance, which means that you can measure the Hubble constant (in a way that is completely independent from Type Ia Supernovae). Binary black hole mergers are not expected to give off any EM radiation.

There should be a few binary neutron star mergers this run, and with some luck, there may be one with an EM counterpart.
Most investors are surprisingly low detail. They are looking for indications of confidence in comparison to competitors, as opposed to knowing a lot about the specific companies business. If company A in sector Z pays out a load of executive bonuses, or headhunts a new CEO at a higher rate than companies B, C & D, then the stock will usually rise at such news, unless there is some other very public news to cancel that out.
The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) is leading the charge to stop this in Europe. Here's where you can help or contribute:

https://www.change.org/p/rsgb-stop-the-2-meter-band-144-146m...

Side note: Actually visited the RSGB offices when I got a British reciprocal call sign prior to operating over there. Absolutely great bunch of people. Amateur radio is a true bridge between nations, races and sexes.
Keybase might integrate well here, for signatures at least.
It’s a fantastic Unix-like general purpose operating system. It is (and has been for ~17 years) my default OS (primarily on thinkpads and VMs). Personally I find the development and priorities on-point, and the fit and finish excellent. On it I do “day to day” computer use, development, audio work, graphics work, and video/multimedia work, as well as my own other random play. It’s a complete, robust, fully integrated operating system with fine hardware and software support, in my experience. The community is savvy and mature; in a way I think this project (incl. the community) is flying under the radar.
> And obviously, caveat lector: there are huge assumptions going on here, because the "real" cost of stuff like food and batteries aren't trivial to calculate at all. It's not like you can feed em both the same resources anyhow, so at best this is an analysis that the efficiency is sort of comparable. In 2004.

This is what I was thinking as well. My naive guess is that the extra energy expended to build an electric bike blows the efficiency improvement completely out of the water. It would take a truly enormous amount of usage to make up the difference in the expected lifetime of the battery (which then has to be efficiently recycled, else it's yet another environmental hazard).

Of course the real issue is the fact that I can't travel even 1km toward my workplace on a bike without seriously fearing for my life. Cities in the United States are extremely unfriendly to bikes.
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I am pretty sure when Blythe Masters and her team came up with CDS and CDOs they thought they have come up with an innovative technique to transfer risk and a sophisticated financial instrument. I am sure they also felt there was no need for rules, regulations etc. And I am talking people who were working in finance putting their faith in math. They missed the fact that money isn't a math problem rather a people problem. Risk couldn't be written away because of a derivative. It ultimately led to the biggest recession since 1930s.

And with blockchain/crypto we have people who have lesser grounding/experience with finance putting even larger faith in math. They obviously haven't learned the lesson and trying to recreate history.
> String.substring in Java does exactly that.

It used to - it doesn’t these days, where it now copies.
I wish MS would just create a Linux or BSD distro like Amazon Linux, ClearLinux, Darwin etc. to replace Windows Server outright...
chrome://flags/, as of Chrome 74, has a setting "Filesystem API in Incognito". Enable that and this way of detecting incognito stops working.
I haven’t seen a better checklist than this: https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-not-to-fail/

The two things I would note is that 1) it’s really hard to make something people want—-you need to be good at your craft and have a team that complements each other 2) NPS score is a great way to measure whether you have done that.
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I don't want a manager who is micromanaging to the extent that they know more about my work than my peers do. To each their own I guess.
Some more technical information:
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/06/google-earth-web-assembly...
"By one (completely delusional) estimate".

Reminds me of how every year when a new and incrementally improved phone is released, the phone company shills and morons claim that the camera is so revolutionary, it's almost as good as an SLR.

Yeah, pros and enthusiasts are so ill-informed that they continue to lug around their bulky 5kgs and $5k worth of camera/lens, when it could all be replaced by the latest plastic iCrap and its revolutionary 5mm lens.

Critical thinking seems to be in short supply.
Do I have any evidence towards my intentionally vague and open-ended assertation? Yes, for the individual systems which are dependent on gravity in some way which we have studied. There are already examples in this thread.

I don't understand how the equivalence principle matters here. If you placed a system within another system which perfectly mimicked the gravity created from mass via just acceleration, then the system never knows the difference. That is the equivalence principle, and it doesn't have much to do with what I'm discussing here. What I'm discussing is the yet unstudied emergent effects of massive, far-reaching gravitational perturbations in... stirring the pot, so to speak.
Yes the new kernel is open source; it's the play store and perhaps other bits of the full OS they'll hang on to.
Their demo and look were mind blowing
Could you perhaps elaborate on what Broadcom wants hidden, and precisely why? I have always wondered about the specifics of those things.
Presumably if the location could be determined accurately enough and it was close to a galaxy, we could conclude that it was most likely in that galaxy, and thereby get a useful measurement though?
That is utterly diabolical.
People may find it hard to believe but Detroit is the leader in mesh networks. They've assisted other cities all over the world in setting them up. I've met these folks and the amount of good they do for the money spent is unbelievable.

https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp
Possibly not. I was reading somewhere that I should actually get an older stock rom image and flash that first, but no I just flashed the rom zip and that was it.
My favorite part about Azure is that Microsoft shops are totally fine with spinning up a Debian install simply because the image is available.
You show it to someone in Hollywood and they then go and make the film 'Sneakers', probably. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
While OP's words are his own and I'm not necessarily in agreement with them, it's worth pointing out that the circulatory system and organs and organelles which comprise them all have circular dependencies; it's not simply hierarchical based on relative size. A change in any part of the system can propagate both upward and downward.
Does https://docs.nycmesh.net/organization/outreach/ have what you’re looking for?
Remember that these signals are most likely events that occurred a very long time ago - - could have been billions of years ago even.
I’m a dad of a 10 month little dude and sacrificed a high paying Senior job so I can focus on him growing up and help with my wife with all the baby and house chores.

Sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice because finding part time or freelance gigs are kinda hard right now. But at the end of the day I know I made the right decision because my little boy is just gonna be young once and I don’t want to miss out on his milestones and growth.
Surprisingly enough. I use a lot of things in the App Store (which I assume you meant) without paying a dime to Apple - including Amazon digital purchases and prime video, Hulu, Netflix, Office 365, Udemy and DirecTVNow.

Most of the money Apple makes from the App Store are for in app consumables from games. Admittedly there are still a lot of legacy subscriptions from both Netflix and Spotify before they pulled out of going through Apple for subscriptions.