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1. Almost every tech company has been acutely aware of China stealing IP for decades now. It's not a new point.

2. Where did Thiel make this point? Thiel does not make the point that the Chinese are stealing US IP. He makes the charged point that Google executives (and somehow not Facebook executives) are Chinese agents. To that claim, I don't think he "has a point".

It's in very bad taste to me that Thiel would point this out, and claim the Valley "is getting a little bit of a bad conscience" when he sits on the board of the biggest troublemaker.

When Google leaks the personal data of millions of Americans, then maybe should Thiel start throwing stones.
It’s rather nonstandard, since it has to follow Python closely.

Has no cons or let. OTOH: has defmacro.
Isn't that a problem that Google should be themselves be seeking to solve? Is it typical for the government to help protect companies' IP by investigating them for treason?
Nice! The list of six items is a more concise read than https://blog.fosketts.net/2016/10/29/total-nightmare-usb-c-t... , which also raised some concerns about the profound differentness of many identical looking cables.
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He’s speaking from experience
>Arbitrary compile time computation should be separated from the body of the program. If you need to download files or read the file tree at compile time, that should happen in a build script. Rust provides build.rs for that.

This is an area we'll have to agree to strongly disagree. For me having support directly in the language is a huge improvement in ergonomics, compared to having to run a separate script. Compare e.g. generics in Go1 (which can only be done with separate build scripts at compile time) vs in any other language that has built-in generics. Also consider F# type providers, which guarantee at compile time the correctness of code querying a database (generate the schema/structs by querying the database at compile time). Certainly the same thing could be achieved by running a separate script as part of the build process, but I've never seen a language actually implement that, probably because it'd be much more painful.

>The fast compile times are a double edged sword, since those binaries are noticeably slower than Rust binaries, from what I’ve seen.

Note that D also has an LLVM-based compiler backend that is slower to compile but produces much faster code, which can be used for release builds.
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Well, that's a thinly veiled advertisement, but hey, at least it's tangentially related to the topic.
I saw a drama based on Steven King's 11/22/63. A guy goes back in time to save JFK from assassination. Spoiler: he saves JFK in the past and when he finds his way to the future the world is destroyed. Oops.
There's been a single recent study that came out with the claim that any drink with high sugar can increase your overall cancer risk and sugar may impact tumor growth. Unlike the study is repeated though it's just a single study that could be an aberration.

Rebranding like hamburger and pork but only not chicken and water creature like fish, clams, etc. It's weird, but it would probably work.
The Moonie Times?
Nah. For better or for worse(I think better, but I can understand thinking otherwise) he's a true believer.
Math is not required to learn web dev.
The article says "He then suggested Google’s actions were “seemingly treasonous,” asking whether DeepMind or Google senior management had been “infiltrated” by foreign intelligence agencies."

To clarify, by stealing I also mean infiltrated by spies that are hired as employees who in turn provide information to foreign governments...

And yes, of course this could happen to Facebook as well, but as of today Google/MSFT/Amazon/Autonomous vehicle companies/chip manufacturers are in a different league than Facebook as far as IP that is interesting from a military perspective goes.
The trashcan wasn't oriented towards developers of any kind. In 2013, developers had no need for the dual AMD GPUs that you were forced to buy. It was oriented to people using Final Cut Pro (a pretty small market)
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If you watched Wimbledon then you would see that ever scoreboard has Rolex advertising on them.
Interesting that this might officially come out - it’s been an open secret for years

https://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Labora...
UX. I just gave up trying to convert my architect wife to Blender after nearly a month of effort.. "its just too hard!"
How does that make H264 preferable?
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I bike everyday in a large city in south east Asia and I would be dead a long time ago if I had been riding a recumbent bicycle.
Negligence can be a crime under the right conditions.
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Probably worth noting that deliberately aiding the Chinese military is not treason in America right now because America and China aren't at war. It might be other things: unpatriotic, espionage, etc. But not treason itself. Even the Rosenbergs didn't get convicted of treason (America and the Soviet Union were not actually at war. It was illegal to give nuclear secrets to the Soviets, but it wasn't treason.)

So generally whenever somebody in America mentions treason, they're being hyperbolic or misleading, or have themselves been mislead. Generally.
I would assume because the Bloomberg article and Gizmodo article have rather different levels of bias, and that Bloomberg and Gizmodo have significantly different levels of credibility.
A sizeable amt of Mac users who use VSCode are also not like what you’re talking about. An easy way to see this is by going through GitHub repos relating to Mac geekiness and seeing VSCode represented quite a bit. How many general code editors are alive today that are truly “Mac” apps? Sublime sure isn’t to me. Coda is pretty specific to web dev. BBEdit and Textmate 2. The latter of which is sometimes mocked and barely used.
>To clarify, by stealing I also mean infiltrated by spies that are hired as employees who in turn provide information to foreign governments...

Again, this isn't new. This has been happening for decades - just ask Cisco. Wether is treason is one thing, but I'm not arguing it doesn't happen.

The radical statement Theil is making here, is that the _executives_ are compromised, and that they _actively_ sabotage the USG in getting Google tech while also sending that information abroad. This is an extraordinary claim that I'm less inclined to take seriously from someone who has been been both negligent in how his own company has handled the data of Americans in his own country and also stands to gain, via Palantir, the weakening of Google's relationship with the USG.

>Google/MSFT/Amazon/Autonomous vehicle companies/chip manufacturers are in a different league than Facebook as far as IP

I think what is effectively surveillance data on 90% of Americans is a far higher bar than Autonomous vehicle data that hardly works outside of Palo Alto.
I find it hard to believe that there AREN'T droves of spies from every single country working at Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. If there aren't, they're not doing their jobs.
I don’t feel that macOS not shipping with a particular feature can fairly be called an Apple-imposed restriction, especially if you can get that feature from third-party software.

There are plenty of things that you can’t do out-of-the-box on Windows but can on macOS, like SSH into remote machines.
First, that is incorrect. It exists for Mac as well. Second, why on Earth would anyone care about the store as long as they can get the games on their platform?

https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/6/18129978/epic-games-store-...
A major difference is that the Go compiler will not run build scripts when you build the code. You have to manually run codegen scripts, which is error prone since people are not good at remembering to do manual steps. Rust will automatically run the build script before building your code. It just allows you to logically separate build time I/O from runtime I/O, which I find is nice for reproducibility of builds and maintainability of code. The build script is still written in Rust, and you can import Rust code from wherever into that build script. The plan is to support arbitrary non-I/O computation in constant functions anywhere in Rust, since those are just pure functions.

As far as your comment about databases, you should look at Diesel. It handles this very nicely in Rust, so... that’s not a problem at all.

> Note that D also has an LLVM-based compiler backend that is slower to compile but produces much faster code, which can be used for release builds.

Is it compatible with 100% of the code that the current DMD release is compatible with? That’s all I ask for in alternate compiler implementations... but it seems like a lot, sometimes.
> Not hard to achieve during unscheduled disassembly.

I think the assumption is that by the time a RUD starts you no longer care about whether the various parts of your fuel system are going to explode, since the fuel is a far larger concern and it's going to go up anyways.
Dark ages is a bit extreme.

I’m a pretty heavy vim user, but I do recommend folks getting started to give VSCode a crack when they are getting started.

I’ve tried it myself, but I find that their vim plugin leaves a lot to be desired (or it did a year ago, when I last tried it). IdeaVim has been the best I’ve used.

Even better, Oni2 is a project to provide an out of the box editor running the text editor part on real Vim (or Neovim) but with a fancy GUI and VSCode features and plugins. No emulation necessary!
Thats absolutely right as the U stands for universal, and theres nothing universal in it anymore
Doesn't it say as much about you that you were applying to work there?
TextMate is mocked? Why?
If Google trade secrets are relevant for national security, non US governments shouldn't allow Google to operate without revealing those trade secrets to their intelligence agencies.
this made me lol.. still laughing at this tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpzNDwm6H4
They make good products and the military needs good products. I'd much rather they support the military that's generally trying to do the right thing than people trying just to make money.
I use lightning every day. I use bitrefill to buy pretty much anything I want. Recently bought a game on steam and some late night uber eats.

Also loads of websites where you can use it.
> Why don't they give NAMES to these different types of cables?

The whole catchy idea behind USB-C (unfortunately perpetuated here by people who should know better) is that there is ONE SOCKET, ONE PLUG and ONE CABLE. Oh, the dream of using a single connector.

Unfortunately, this is far from reality and the result is a complete mess, which is why I'm not a big fan of the whole USB-C thing. Especially given that I'm a hostage, because a certain computer company whose computers generally suck the least, decided to show courage by moving to USB-C even though the ecosystem is nowhere near mature — let's put pressure on the manufacturers by getting hostages (oops, "users") on board.

I wish USB-C mandated some sort of connector marking: color strips, or whatever, that would let me figure out what would work.
My wife ordered pizza today and less than a minute later I got an unusual ad for panago pizza in YouTube. I’ve never seen a pizza ad before. I use a VPN and she doesn’t, but it still figures out we live together and connected the dots
The Technium is a superorganism.
Ooh, I'll have to keep an eye out! Have you read Ignition! [0] to give a comparison?

0: https://www.amazon.com/Ignition-informal-history-liquid-prop...

EDIT: archive.org appears to have it: https://archive.org/details/somebirdsdontfly00paul
I'd pay for one that aggregates SaaS ideas from HN.
Isn’t Japan famous for manning a lot of jobs, culturally?

Around here (Central Europe, Austria, Germany, Italy too IIRC) I don’t see non-kiosk McDonalds anymore, as they went through the kiosk upgrade in the past few years. Noticeably fewer employees.
> I really want to find ways to integrate Racket into my work.

Normally engineers search for tools to solve their problems. Somehow, when it comes to programming languages, software engineers start a search for problems for their cute tools. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not making a snarky comment against lisp. I'm very much in love with lisp, but I do understand how people see us lisp people like bunch of gray wizards in some remote castle. What needs to be shown is a set of problems that can adequately be solved by racket that cannot be solved as well with competing languages. We should really stop treating programming languages anything other than tools. I use GNU grep for 20 years, one day I realize ripgrep is better, I switch.

Again, I want to underscore that I'm not saying that particularly disagrees with you. I just don't think this rhetoric is helpful. We should be thinking about what makes racket that puts a smile on our face, and discuss whether we can use these tools in other languages. Not that this is not being discussed, of course.
The more Visual Studio gets rewritten in .net the slower and more bloated it becomes. Even in 2003 though it's acceptable resource usage was a result of computers improving faster than the VS team could slow things down, in the late 90's it was a very bloated resource hog, the sort that people would upgrade their computers to use.

What's amazing is just how much more bloated it is now compared to the feature set of 20 years ago, there have been very few features added that I care about day to day and even many of them fall into the category of nice to have but not particularly resource intensive.
Why can’t the parents set the account up with no credit card and top the account up with gift cards that you can buy online and in most supermarkets?

I set up my brothers’ account like this and he used it until he was around 14/15 and old enough to know the consequences of spending all your money. Then we linked it up to _his_ debit card. We allowed for something like £10 a month on the App Store, and about £100 a year on the Xbox store with the gift card method.

The limit of the budget taught him not to spend all his money at once or he would have none left. But a lot of parents seem to think these companies should do the parenting for them because they can’t be bothered.
To be fair ‘all time’ is an odd choice of words, given that its literal meaning is not the intended meaning, and the intended meaning is unknown. Does the timeframe go back to 1900? Or 1980? Does it go back to friggin Jamestown? The timeframe matters, because the further back it goes, the worse this news is for the Black community.

The editor whiffed with this title...and then proceeded to not mention the timeframe in the article, either.
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In every class that I took, any such example was always introduced with "Not that a perfectly elastic ball actually exists" whereas with this Baumol effect they are suggesting that this is a real thing in the real world.
Does 5G pose health risks?
in germany it is illegal to advertise any other price than what the consumer will end up paying. that includes taxes and fees and also deposits.

i don't know if that extends to hotels as well or just consumer goods.
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So the matchmaking equivalent to hellbanning

I wonder if anyone has actually put any real thought into effectiveness of such concepts? Creating a parallel universe to stick your undesirables; 4chan and reddit do something similar (though the user self-influcts it) with their containment boards, so the history definitely exists
This part is worth considering:

> Thiel, a Facebook Inc. board member, argued that the kind of AI developed by DeepMind, which like Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., should be thought of as a potential “military weapon.” “We’ve been a lot more dishonest about that in Silicon Valley than the nuclear physicists were in the 1940s,” he said in the opening speech at the National Conservatism conference.

If one believes this to be true, then how you consider its use to be weaponized can dramatically alter one's view of both Google and Facebook.

If it's a weapon like strong encryption, then it is a defensive measure for the benefit of their users, as they are sheltered and made safe by its use.

If it's a weapon like any other, then its use is an attack upon those it tracks and analyzes, as they are made less private, more vulnerable, and easier to manipulate.

Somehow I don't think Thiel is arguing that Facebook is attacking American citizens, though.
Sure, my intention was not to get in a dynamic vs static lang argument, when seeing "partial moved structs" and "ergonomics" in the same sentence my mind jump to think that there is something Rust that can make it feel closer to a dynamic lang regarding types ;) Thanks.
> fast featureless editors like Sublime Text, Gedit, Notepad++, Vim/Emacs etc.

How do you count any of these editors — especially Sublime, Vim and Emacs — as featureless? If anything, Vim and Emacs are more fully featured than VSCode and Sublime Text not exactly far behind. I haven’t used the other two during the last few years, so can’t really comment on the state of plugin ecosystem for them.
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1. If negligence in this case means treason, there are several companies you can investigate then - it makes less sense to single out Google when Cisco has likely suffered more. Huawei was literally founded on stealing foreign technology and is allegedly built by Cisco engineers.

2. Rather than investigating if Google negligence is treason, would Thiel agree to charge Zuckerberg with treason due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal? There's hard proof right there, why not get the quick win with Facebook?
It's hard to take anyone with such a cutthroat capitalist mindset as anything but the sum of their incentives. That goes for Thiel especially because he's promoted this as a strict political belief system.
I agree with what you are saying, I really do, but it's still a really bad idea to give a child access to an store account connected to a credit or debit card.

This problem needs to be solved in both ends.
Seems more like a Palantir motivated position.
I have not! Thanks!
I'll rephrase: 99% of the time, the desktop version of a site is better than the mobile version in every way. This site is no exception.

I have now had a chance to see it in a mobile browser though, and yeah, it is pretty bad. Still, the desktop site is much better, as usual.
Is this Thiel speaking about treason as a New Zealand citizen or as a US citizen?
> So generally whenever somebody in America mentions treason, they're being hyperbolic or misleading,

Some people simply don't need to understand the distinction between similarly used terms. In the end, prosecutors can file multiple charges but practically pick and choose based on a variety of factors.
Considering Thiel's other...business ventures, this is about as 'throwing a stone while living in a glass house' as it gets.
My first WinMo device (and still the most convenient smartphone I've ever had, the SCH-i760) was perfectly well operable 95% of the time even without the stylus -- there was a joystick (and a dialpad) on the front. I rarely had to actually use a stylus.

IE eventually got pretty useless, but unlike iPhone you could always load alternative browsers, shells, and what not.

Sorry, I am still seeing that yes, iPhone is easier to use, as long as you don't need to do much, but functional? Not back then. And whether capacitive or resistive screen is better is a big question -- at least resistive is far more precise.
It's not operated by a company with a penchant for abusing its 800 pound gorilla status?
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I wouldn't expect that ruling to survive this particular SCOTUS. They've broken years of precedence and created law from thin air that don't exist prior. It's not likely to survive when the pendulum swings on the court again, justice like judicial overreach on anti trust with the previous liberal majority was generally overturned.
If only he were just seeking the destruction of Facebook, I'd jump right on that fucking bandwagon, and try to drive it myself.
Having canceled Project Maven and dropped out of competition for the DoD cloud contract on principle, Google continues to operate an AI center in Beijing. They host conferences with Chinese companies and research institutions who they tutor on the use of Google's ML tools.

How much of this knowledge (much of it focused on computer vision and image understanding) has been applied to China's surveillance program in Xinjiang, which has put over 1 million ethnic Uighurs in concentration camps? Why has Google continued to operate their China AI center, which aids and educates China's state-controlled enterprises, while refusing to work with the US government even on vanilla I.T. systems?

[0] https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2165209/google-shrugs-trad...
But aren't they stealing IP from the companies? In that case it's not treason, is it? In fact, in these cases it's the government's job to help the company affected.
Check out the demo. There’s a significant UI available.
Strong encryption is used for offensive measures as well.
Thiel is definitely hypocritical. That alone does not make him wrong. (He may be right or wrong, I don't know).
Well population growth over that period was ~1% and inflation was ~3.7% so still ~1.3% real increase in spending a year...