skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was another side of the story. Another video of this particular event shared among Mainland Chinese students showed that the HK students picked fight first and one female HK side student faked fall to ground after the Mainland side tried to push her away gently. Chinese students were angered by the selective coverage by BBC. BBC was also criticized for its selective coverage of HK protect that became riot. The most criticized case was a video showing a police officer pointing a short gun at protesters. There was a few minutes of video before that showing mobs attacked and beaten some police officers then this particular officer loaded the shotgun with rubber bullets.

HK protect started peacefully now turned into riot with no clear political purpose. The extradition bill is dead already. I haven't heard any clear political demand from those protesters afterwards. It could hardly be called pro-democracy demonstration now.
Is the interpretation that an international number can’t be spoofed now, or that the source being international AND spoofing (which may include domestic numbers) is considered illegal?
The vast majority of the comments on 'hacker' 'news' are either anecdotes based on the title or nitpicking the title. Since no one has any anecdotes to argue about and the title is pretty straight forward, there are very few comments here.
I suppose that's how the Butlerian Jihad[1] really gets started, then?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
From working on Purelymail (which does offer mail for ~$1 a month), I would say that it's feasible to run such a service and be profitable, but that the $5/month services have a lot more leeway in marketing, hires, opportunity for huge profits, etc.
When you invest large sums into a new long term project it gets in as capex in your quarterly results, significantly altering your balance sheets and missing analyst expectations. There are tons of ambitious projects companies can invest in including medical research (ex. cancer medicines), communication networks (ex. ubiquitous wifi), transportation networks (ex. flying cars, underground tunnels), space (ex. astroid mining, zero-g manufacturing), robotics etc. Most of them will need a tremendous amount of capital and very long term vision. Typically stock market would support projects with low to medium capex and high payouts in near to medium term. Everything else would tank your stock. There is no dearth of interesting challenges and ambitious ideas but the way we have setup public companies, quarterly results and analyst expectations of continous growth simply doesn't allow big capital expenditures.
London people are funny. They thing if you are outside of Zone 2 that you are "out in the sticks" (an idiom for "living in the countryside"), make fun of you and desperately want you to want to live in London.
Roaring glacial melt under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland
When you get a $700 for two pills of ibuprofen, and five minutes of a doctor's time, what percentage of that bill was the ibuprofen?
I always got a kick out of the DO's in training at a WA DO school telling us they were all on WA medicaid, as they didn't have another option in which to obtain healthcare.

Huh, that's odd.

A friend who asked how much the retina re-attachement would cost. Weighing her options.

I'm just sad that healthcare seems like such a luxury.

I do enjoy stories of friends not just being complacent. Going out of country for dental procedures. Getting good results for 1/10 the price.
I wonder if anyone has gotten the Wi-Fi pairing process to work outside of the Amazon app. Otherwise, you can't change your wireless password without bricking any buttons you might be misusing for other DIY uses after Amazon kills support.
Thanks, sincerely.
Yes, that is true too. It also depended on what software being used to run the BBS.
Depends on the area of expertise we're talking about. In sport amateurs absolutely can be as good or better than professional athletes. Musician or painter or programmer, same thing. But a skilled worker in jobs that are all about practice and experience? For instance I can manage to lay a brick wall or put tiles on the wall, but I did it only a few times in my life and I doubt that anyone not doing it professionally can have a significantly more experience than that - you just don't get a chance to do a lot of DIY projects like that - while someone who does that professionally is doing it for many hours a day, every day. That makes a HUGE difference in experience and that translates into the quality and speed. As DIY amateur, even if you come close in the quality, it will certainly take you 10x more time than professional.
But that was OK! Because BBS's worked like Usenet. You logged in, checked your messages, and logged out. A lot of multi-line BBS's had lines dedicated to downloads and lines dedicated to interactive use.

I am having a weird time-travel moment remembering Telix continuously trying to redial through busy signals to BBS's to play my next turn on some door game while I listened to Smiths songs on FM radio and soldered crystals into Radio Shack touchpads so I could get free calls from pay phones.

Let's see how many of those concepts the median HN user remembers. :)
Well, for starters it used to be fast (so we know it can be done and they have the source code to reference), so I imagine a couple of months of dev time (tens of thousands?) would be enough to make significant improvements.
Totally anecdotal, but I have long thought distribution of programmer skill becomes increasingly bimodal as they/we age, with them/us either becoming particularly skilled or particularly unskilled.

Either the one language/framework/paradigm that the aging developer is locked into becomes ever more aged and irrelevant, or else if the programmer has made good use of their time and experience, becomes particularly skillful and insightful and valuable with time.

I've known some amazingly sharp older developers, and I've also known some particularly poor ones.

Just a theory.
Here is a descent looking Haskell library that implements functional encryption concepts https://github.com/cpeikert/Lol
Don't worry about it, I'm sure it's in the backlog
They need to do a large consolidation loan and cut up the cards. paying 6 or 7 different cards at the mins kills people. I did this myself and my score went up 70 points. However, it's hard to convince a lender you're worthy of it. I think a lot of people need to change their ways after getting consolidated.

So now instead of 2100 a month paying mostly minimums and looking at 8 years I'm doing 1450 and looking at 3 years. The extra 600 I'm "saving" per month may sometimes go towards the consolidated loan, but often I need to use it - which is what the credit cards were piling up for.

Debt can be a trap because people are simply not paid enough but their expenses outweigh their income. If this happens you need to change jobs, ask your boss for more or change your budget. In my case I asked for $30k more per year and got $20k more per year.

Other tricks: Go to ting or a cheap MNVO, Stop justifying yet another $10 / month netflix/prime/hulu - they all add up quickly. Get off the $160/mo cable plan. Buy your own cable modem and don't rent it from the cable company. They cost $40 and your cable provider is renting it to you for $10 per month.

Food: Set up a "chipotle" at your house, cook in large batches and think of ways to make Tacos or Burritos quickly. This is the most complicated area - people get tired of food quickly. Food can be the most expensive if you just keep eating out.

And of course, as mentioned many times - budget budget budget. There's no way to get out of debt if you don't simply have a balance sheet showing income and expenditures per month. If you don't know then there's no way to stay below the line.

I'm sure there are some banks out there now that help with this. I'm sure it's been said elsewhere but you don't owe society anything - you're just here like everyone else. Stop gifting people, stop xmas shopping, stop going to weddings, stop having kids. I've done all these things and I'm quite happy. My parents stopped sending me stuff and there's no expectations either way now, it's fabulous for everyone.
InstaZuck and ZuckApp
Well, sure. I'm not saying that anyone will read this thread. That's unlikely. But I believe that this thread will at least be available somewhere in some archive pretty much for the remainder of human history.
While this may be fine for you, it sucks for people reading the coding and searching it. Reading code is already a high concentration task, having to purposely ignore blocks of non-functional code makes it harder than it has to be. Also, now I can't just grep the codebase, I need to see the surrounding code as well to see if the search results are valid.
Not necessarily. The vast majority of recording media we have are not nearly as robust as stone or vellum. Not much outside of archival paper will survive.
I think the issue is not in your sentiment but in your tone. I could argue your comment violates at least three guidelines[1] as it stands.

No worries though, they're just internet points and there's always the next comment

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From 30 to 230 docker container per host
Quote from the article:

> “We don’t know how to deal with this either,” Tu Xinquan, the president of the China Institute for W.T.O. Studies at the University of International Business and Economics.

> “Is he a sane person at all?” Professor Tu said of the latest move by Mr. Trump. “It’s quite surprising. Didn’t the White House just announce that the trade talks were constructive?”

I'm afraid that Beijing still did not realise that all of the above is pretty much planned. Trump will keep "nightmaring" them, keeping them tense, showering them with unending negative publicity of them keeping failing the trade talks time and time again, while propping up his profile.

Things like this keep showing just how inept and naive are the people making the Chinese elite class.

In a sharp contrast, Chinese business elites are the real sharks, all very sharp people.

Sooner or later, this will end up in conflict in between the two.
I agree, but all of that said, the surveillance state is much much worse right now in Britain, so I'm told.
> There is no way to opt-out of this. I can't believe how stupid the "Hacker" "News" community is--commenting on things that don't matter, then shutting up for matters of grave importance.

There are a lot of people here who take these concerns extremely seriously, and are working to fix things.

But they may not post much about it on Hacker news, because not every site needs to be political, even if it's far, far more important right now than most of the content here.
I don't think it's freely available right now. I think Hiebert only has access to it because of his credentials, position, and relationship with the Federal Government of Canada.

"Hiebert, who frequently advises the federal government"
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-can...
Samsung's was

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/samsung-source-code-leak/
> the actual work of being a developer/programmer in a professional setting is a really shitty job and sad life for the majority of people on those jobs.

Oh man, I cannot relate to this at all. I feel very lucky to be a software developer - there are far more boring jobs out there, that pay far less, with less flexible hours.
That’s not how the process works for an ER. A doc in a box urgent care would essentially do that.

An ER handles everything from bee stings to shootings or strokes. They’re optimized to deal with those emergencies, not optimize cost for minor dings, especially when most of the minor issues are uninsured people who won’t pay anyway.

Emergency medicine is not a profit center, and is often mandated to exist. You’re paying for all of the lost receivables and capability.
I think Zuckerberg is still too idealistic and thinks that Facebook should get “credit.” He needs to start thinking of Facebook more of a holding company like Philip Morris which does all the unethical stuff and takes the fall for it, allowing the consumer brands like Instagram and WhatsApp to remain unscathed.
Technically we tested them on Iraq and Afghanistan.

Guess it's our turn.
Beware as this explanation does not apply to every country in the world, in France for residential systems at least, the protection (green/yellow) wire is never connected to the neutral (blue) wire, only to earth with a metal rod at the house. You would get a shock if it was somehow disconnected from the rod/earth. Neutral is also not bounded to earth inside the house. Be safe!
We have to go through major hoops now to play old DRMed games that may not even play on an upgrade to the same operating system anymore.

Will companies DCMA all versions of a "pirated" game in the future? Will there still be windows to play on it? Etc
Sweet summer child...
In nature, the best parasites divert a 'balanced' amount of resources from the host so as to prolong the interaction for as long as possible.

Sometimes reading about things like "balancing publisher monetization" puts the picture in my head of a bunch of anthropomorphized tapeworms trying to have a public policy debate.
I remember when my friend - who ran a popular warez BBS in my area - finally got his 14.4kbps USRobotics Sportster modem. I literally sprinted to his house for a demo, watching the warez download 6x faster than the 2400bps we were used to. It was so exciting.

Kids these days have no idea..
In the US you had the option to cancel
the little groups I've been part, people started with release notes/bragging rights in a readme1st file, which then evolved into a elaborated ascii poster, and eventually the release included (in the dump or besides it) a demo. and since most groups were 2-4ppl, it was the same ones doing all that "PR"
The fact that people haven't commented "this is bad" doesn't mean lots of people don't think it's bad. But such comments don't change anything, and the site guidelines specifically discourage them because they just add noise.

Insulting people, however, tends to derail any useful discussion.
They didn't have to check that, and certainly didn't. They knew the prices off the top of their head.

The doctor had no idea what health plan I had or even if I had one -- they leave that up to their staff to sort out, they couldn't care less personally.
wait... there's talk of breaking up tech companies, and a tech company immediately after decides to prominently brand itself on all its (nearly) monopolistic empires?

that doesn't seem like smart business to me?
I feel like this perfectly makes the case for Andrew Yang.
Ah so loon possibly was never about internet
Tesla’s Megapack battery is big enough to help grids handle peak demand
TFA says: ‘He gives an anecdote on how hard it would be to create just one new protein by chance — the odds are so astronomical that there are fewer atoms in the entire universe in comparison: “The odds bury you. It can’t be done.”‘

This is ridiculous. I mean, it is exactly the sort of argument you get from the young earth creationists like Ken Hamm. (That’s the nut who founded the Creation Museum. Which is highly entertaining to visit.)

Yale’s public intellectuals are pretty embarrassing, lately.
I love skipping the middle meal (lunch) but there is no research for that unfortunately
Kinda had the same reaction, but if you went to your friend's house every week and drank all his beer an never gave anything back, eventually that would make you feel bad.

If I'm getting something that required skill and labor, 'moral fiber' suggests some quid pro quo. How are you going to reciprocate?

At some point someone observed "we can profit off of audiences" so that answer was "by being an audience member." But now it's kind of a mess, and either we haven't found a better model or inertia and collusion have prevented it from arriving.
This is basically the "plot" of "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.
I don't understand what would be the problem in that case, the market would find and set the price?
If this had been another s3 bucket on AWS we would be blaming amazon. Here we don’t blame jira/atlassian. Why do we do this? (Honest question)
See also Bloom's two-sigma problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
The problem with showing graphs that college degrees being correlated with higher income is that it's still what you'd expect if higher education was a scam.

A useful graph would show data that is different than what you'd expect if higher education was a scam.

I think it's generally understood that "top" schools merely select the best students, they don't create the best graduates.
the fact this is legal everywhere is mindblowing.

it's virtually impossible to buy food today that is not owned by 3 companies, who will eventually "take the fall" but be too big for it to matter
Then it will be great to constantly log them down and sell them as carbon credit.
If you have to go to minor emergency clinics that are popping up all over, say you dont have insurance and want the cash price, its 1/4th the cost. If you pay with insurance and have a co-pay or a yearly deductible its just not worth it. Then pay with your HSA card.
and libra can be facebra.
That should be a method of carbon sequestration.
The electric generators aren't connected to your neutral wire. They deliver three phase power with three different "hot" lines, and then only one of those phases gets pulled down into your house electricity.
> Sooner or later, this will end up in conflict in between the two.

Could it be that Trump knows this and is pushing for it?
Plastic water bottles banned from SFO
Never go to an er unless it is serious or you’ll have a long wait. I took my daughter to CHOC with a 106 fever and still waited two hours to see a doctor. I’d rather go to an urgent care because you can usually see a doctor in under 30 minutes and at fraction of the cost.
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The legal system has well-established means for dealing with the loss of important papers like titles, deeds, contracts, wills, power of attorneys, passports, birth certificates, receipts, etc.

For example, you can make a certified copy, and deposit the copy in a safe deposit box or with your lawyer.
Tariffs are a way to force local businesses to produce something that's more cheaply available elsewhere. Usually it's exactly in an anticipation of a conflict (even armed) which would sever vital supplies of that stuff.

Open markets work best when there is a common peaceful order, and an enforcer of it. US used to be, and largely continues to be such an enforcer, but not in the China's area of influence.
National Geographic: The Evolution of Diet (2013)
> Were Beijing to pull the inverse Huawei ban on any company in the West, that company would be dead in a few months no matter what it is.

China can't do any of that because it would harm their own economy far more (what remains of their industrial / trade trust would vaporize further) and it wouldn't likely kill the company they target (unless it was a small hyper dependent company). The US move against Huawei works particularly well because of the US partners willing to go along with it as a group; the same is true of US sanctions. China has very few allies and few global levers.

Plus, the US would respond very harshly and China knows that. China isn't a gentle flower, it isn't avoiding hammering strategic US companies out of the goodness of its heart; it isn't attempting that maneuver because it knows the cost is too high for itself.

The US is one of the least trade dependent nations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_trade-to-...

And: https://i.imgur.com/7JIIX8Q.jpg

On imports + exports as a share of GDP, the US ranks #6 in the world as least dependent, with those two items making up 27% of the US GDP. China is at 40%. Germany is 87%, France is 63% and the UK is 62% by comparison.

The US is also, essentially, entirely energy self-sufficient, with Canada's help. Something China is nowhere near being. The US could shut off China's access to foreign oil and a lot of coal supply very easily and it would grind up their economy.

Let's run the hypothetical though. Ok, do it to Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Oracle. Those are three of the five largest US companies and four of the largest tech companies.

Might as well also hit Netflix, Adobe, Intuit, Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, Uber, Lyft, Twitter, Snap, Pinterest, Slack, Dropbox, etc.

Also Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, Phillips 66, Valero, Marathon, EOG.

Run it against JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, NY Mellon, Fidelity, Vanguard, etc.

Next up do Visa, PayPal, Mastercard, Discover, Amex, Square, Stripe.

Then do it to Pfizer, Amgen, Merck, AbbVie, Gilead, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Biogen, Eli Lilly.

Maybe Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrup and General Dynamics.

How about Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile / Sprint.

Also McDonald's, Yum Brands, Kraft, Mondelez, Coca Cola, Pepsi.

Total result: barely a scratch overall, if that.

Few of these companies, many of which are among the largest corporations on the planet, have a critical (threat-of-death type) exposure to China. A few would lose 5-10% of their businesses and life would continue just fine.

This is the fundamental mistake China made by keeping its economy so restricted and locked down to foreign companies. Most of the US economy doesn't have a critical dependency on China. That's also why the large China tariffs are having near zero inflationary effect and that will continue to be the case. The only serious effect it's having is that it's pushing manufacturing out of China, which was one of the goals.

Also fortunately Taiwan != China
Awesome! Cant wait to try this out. Are there any plans in the future to incorporate sentence/word generation?
Another case in point:

I used to make electronic music. Back in the 90s, I made a track and uploaded it to mp3.com, back when that was a place for people to share music. It got relatively popular, for what "popular" meant at that. I got messages from people saying they liked it, there were lots of downloads.

As far as I can tell, that song no longer exists anywhere on the Internet.
I don't quite understand why everybody and their mother are trying to remove Zookeeper from their setup.

In my past I've seen this many times and each time people went back to Zookeeper after a while, because - as it turns out - consensus is hard; and Zookeeper is battle hardened.
I still remember getting an $1,800 phone bill when I was 16 because the state I lived in split 2 counties into separate area codes and my ISP had a number I used to use labeled as local even though it was now long distance.

My mom was pissed but luckily we got the phone company to drop the charge due to all of the confusion.

This was shortly after the BBS era when dial-up ISPs started to pop up everywhere. Earthlink, Mindspring, NetZero, etc.. It was nice having a lot of competition back then. There was one ISP in NY called Red (or Red something). I remember it gave the best ping times in Quake. Does anyone remember what that ISP was named? It was during the late 1990s or maybe very early 2000s.