skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taiwan as Taiwan, or Taiwan as the Republic of China?

Taiwan can call itself whatever it wants.

Recognising the island’s right to govern itself would be reasonable. Nobody would recognise Taiwan’s claim on the mainland.

> There is only one UN Security Council seat for China

Out of all the challenges around recognising Taiwan, this is like the nine hundredth most pressing.
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-97/p...

I might hazard to say that (in my opinion) no OS written in a memory unsafe language is secure by design.
> Do more with less clutter, fewer clicks, less scroll, fewer tabs, fewer pages, fewer buttons, fewer ads, less mess...

Looks very promising if it is really a native desktop app, but then if it is electron, then that is the equivalent to having a fixed set of Chrome tabs open with an ad-blocker on.

I hope when you say 'native' that this app actually is native, otherwise it will be yet another bloated app to add to my collection of electron apps on my MacBook.
> not least because they labeled mainland people as 'locust' and waved British flags calling for foreign intervention

well when that's all the news is allowed to cover, it's no surprise they have that sentiment
I'm curious of the effectiveness of this model. Do you have any metrics on how many users have paid?
> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.

Read the “Show HN” rules please: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Is there a group for paranoid people? The first thing I think of is how, with our societies stigmas around mental health, peoples life's could get ruined if this site had a data leak.
The second thing is how do you prevent groups preying through your site on people when they are vulnerable and recruit them into extremist ideologies and other cultish entities?
Urban armed resistance in Hong Kong would be insanely difficult to deal with.

The city is all sky scrapers with tiny winding streets and secret entrances and exits to and from everywhere. Resistance could probably persist for decades unless China were willing to just level the islands and start over.
The point is China, not HK. Whatever HK does at the moment have 0 or negative effect in China itself.
The market allows me to voluntarily trade my wealth for goods and services that I perceive as having equal or greater value than what I'm giving up in trade. Every single voluntary purchase is a net benefit to both me and the seller.

The same can't be said for involuntary trades, like those that filter through the government. This is the situation we're discussing right now. The government took your money and spent it on some pet project, probably tied to a donor. They then opened that project to "the public," some of whom use it without paying in. That is definitely a problem. But it is not solved by moving up to the next tier of government. That only makes the situation worse, because the pet project/donor is more likely to be even further from you geographically. At least with the local government there is some chance you will benefit from the project, and you have more ability to oversee and change local political priorities.
Have tried this a couple of times with zero relief unfortunately. I have conductive hearing loss due to otosclerosis (plaque buildup on stapes) so that might be why it doesn't work for me.
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No. First, the US has considerably more media freedom, so they had at least the potential to access non-government-narrative sources. Second, the US has a volunteer army, not a conscript one.
I'm sure the people of Hong Kong would end up better this way :/
I agree. HK would need Singapore level armed forces to make the price tag high enough for the PLA. If even then.
Who said transcendental rationality had to be something that completely aligned with sustainably contributing to life or honesty?

He didn't make the word. I you don't like it, maybe propose a different one to describe people who intentionally shed the teachings from society?
> But hardly any new cars have that ….

I'm in a 2019 Subaru Outback, and I have two. One for the front seat, one for the back.

WRT a setting - CarPlay must be explicitly enabled, and has a per-vehicle pairing. I imagine Android has a similar requirement.
It is much more complicated than that. It was a protest for change that started it with mao’s consent, but quickly spiraled out of control, beyond even Mao’s control. Even before Mao’s death it was being vigorously disavowed and many of its victims were rehabilitated.

The CR made the party fear chaos above all else. HK actually learned the same lesson under the British during the same timeframe (Maoist protesters almost tore the city apart). Not that it justifies their behavior, it just explains it.
Actually in most industrialized countries one can possess a firearm with a permit. It's just that the restrictions are extreme, and getting one is also extremely difficult.

I'm living in the UK and I could get a rifle licence if I really wanted to, it's just that the restrictions are far too severe. Must be straight-pull that's manufactured that way, not converted. Makes an AR-15 equivalent worth $5k. That is after you have spent a year on getting the permit and other technicalities.

Instead I just travel to eastern europe or the United States every now and then to shoot some guns as the rules are a lot more lax in say, Poland, Estonia, Czech Republic and Latvia. In those countries you can generally go to a range and they'll accomodate you. Although ammunition costs about 5-10x what it would cost in the States.
Exactly. This is India vs the British Empire, non-violence is the only thing that stands a chance.
Thanks, 4ntonius8lock for your time! I thought so from the start about being clear of whom this site for but then decided to present it in a more funy way. I think I need reconsider many things here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmT0_hKSUrw
These have their uses.

A friend who frequently does contract development in the toy space has (or at least used to have) a favorite go-to MCU that costs under $0.06 in bare die. It is essentially a 6502 with 100 bytes of RAM and a metric butt-load of mask-programmable ROM. It was originally designed for greeting cards. He has designed it into toys.

It is hard to use, you need a dev kit and a good relationship with the distributor to get the documentation. It only makes sense in high-volume products, since it comes as passivated bare die so assembly requires a die-bonder and expoxy encapsulation depositer.

Not for everyday use. But as my friend says: “You haven’t lived until you have spent an entire afternoon arguing over $0.05 on the BOM.”
Hefty university fees are sending some grad students to food banks
Will consider making the Yack profile optional. For the beta version it was necessary because the app has a "Feedback" community, which is built on top of Discourse - This is where users provide feedback and report bugs.

Creating Yack profile automatically creates an account on Yack's Discourse instance but it never associates plugin accounts (hacker news, reddit, etc) with your Yack profile.
Like this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
https://kubedex.com/ - I write about playing with Kubernetes

When I was young, before my first IT job, I used to love playing with Xen, distcc and watching my desktop pc scroll compiler output for days rebuilding my X-Windows. I fell in love with the idea of Beowulf clusters and Gestalt computing.

Kubernetes combines a lot of all of that stuff so I'm very lucky to both work and spend my free time on what would be a hobby anyway.
> ... is this just a straight disable of full-function chips?

> Some vendors will sell chips with reduced function because it permits them to sell chips with defects that disable only specific functions, where the rest of the chip is fine.

If one is able to get a less expensive, albeit less powerful, device for cheaper, is there any difference?
It's also recommended to use Pentoo Linux, much of the open source SDR software out there is tricky to get set up.

I'd grab an RTL-SDR, a thumb drive with Pentoo, and then you can play around in the live environment very easily.
Questions:

>Bill

>The final cost for Jaclyn’s three and a half hours of keyboard cleaning: $95.55.

But you miss to state what the offer was, it seems to me you knew from the start you were going to pay US $ 95.55 for 3.5 hours of "house cleaning" at 26,00 each.

Or was the offer (say) 1 hour and it took 3.5 hours?

Or was the offer only stating the rate of 26,00 per hour?

Feedback:

1) It is IMHO that dumb

2) the first two "lessons" you learned from the experience are wrong.

Namely, if you decide to outsource something, you should outsorce it to a professional, which will charge you - say - 90 US$ per hour to do professional keyboard cleaning (in one hour time) and won't have you around during the process.
Necrotic rashes are no joke. TEN/SJS is literally treated in the burn ward.
> I'm sure the people of Hong Kong would end up better this way

We’re exploring the hypothetical military suppression of Hong Kong’s system of laws and government. Nothing is good in this scenario. The options are coöperation (and likely concentration camps), escape and resistance.
Does yarn allow reproducible builds?
This is the subtle truth that I've seen a few folks on Twitter talking about for the past year or so: That Google has slowly but steadily reduced both the outbound clicks to other websites, but also the portion of their revenue that's based on ads hosted by other websites, while bringing both the "results" and the ad placements in-house, where they no longer have to pay out a share to site owners.

Whereas Google was previously a way for sites to be discovered and for sites to generate revenue, it is increasingly becoming the sole source system where data is scraped and imported into Google, and Google keeps all of the revenue to itself.
Or... people will just pay a bit more to MS and stay on AWS.

It's not like AWS and Windows are for the cost conscious.
“Colonel, instead of requirements you’ll call them user stories.”
When "creative destruction" is used as a euphemism for change, it encourages us to forget that "destructive destruction" is always a potential outcome.

See: the Great Leap Forward
Kind of like random Iraqi and Afghani militias not being capable or resisting US marines. Oh wait. You’d be surprised what an armed population can do to resist a superior force when it comes to guerilla warfare.
Incremental improvement can have a life changing impacts. Google maps is just a map, we had them for thousands of years, I'm still mind blown every time I use it. A kindle is just a book, an A320 is just the same as the Wright brother's plane, &c.

> Most of the major technological changes in computing were already available by 1980:

Sure, but no one had access to it. Availability of tech also plays a huge role in "progress".
"Drop a single rocket on Beijing" is "war", not just "confrontation".
Launch HN: Boost Biomes (YC S19) – Microbes for better crop yields, shelf life
Hi Hacker News, we're Jamie and Adam, cofounders of Boost Biomes (http://boostbiomes.com/). Boost is developing spray treatments for fruits and crops to prevent mold, mildew and fungi. Packagers can use our products to extend shelf-life for fruits, and farmers can increase yield of crops. The active ingredients are live microbes.

I (Jamie) have been in biotech for over a dozen years. A decade ago, I was at a biofuels company working to grow algae, and fungi ruined our crop. At the time I realized that if we could control the ecosystem, we could prevent these kinds of agricultural disasters. In the meantime, Adam, as a professor at Berkeley National Lab and UC-Berkeley over the last two decades, had been developing a technology platform to understand microbial ecology. When Adam and I met a few years ago, we realized that his technology could address these kinds of challenges. No longer interested in algae as a crop, we saw the opportunity in high-value crops. These include strawberries in the field, apples post-harvest and cannabis as an exploding opportunity.

We're clearly not the first ones to think about microbial products for ag. What sets our approach apart is the technology that Adam developed. Using his approach, we are able to determine what we call an interaction map - the complete set of interactions between microbes from a given environment. The interaction map generates leads for us, including groups of microbes that work together as 'consortia'. Our current lead product candidates are in fact consortia.

Our first product is a soil amendment being sold into the cannabis market. There's a real excitement of the opportunities for the market to expand, and it's an industry full of early-adopters. We're looking longer term, though, as our products will address food production and waste. Fungi destroy enough food to feed 600M people every year—this represents 60% of the people going hungry every year! This is the kind of impact we're after with our tech and with the company.

We look forward to discussing the opportunity and technology!
Ask HN: Favorite blogs, newsletters or books on product management?
People often confuse ownership and sovereignty.

The land there is very likely owned by the local people according to whatever arrangements they have.

There is no country claiming sovereignty, which is what makes it interesting.

I guess it's true that no third country could make a claim, though it would be fun to to see one try. Or if the locals declared independence. If one country made a complaint, would it be seen as giving up their claim on the other part? :)
Crazy. So any process can use MSCTF (Text Services Framework) to elevate itself into NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM through UAC prompts or logon screen, because Microsoft forgot to implement access control!

I wonder whether this can also be used to escape sandboxes, but don't have time right now to analyze that. If so, this will be even more dangerous.

Edit: Yup, can be used for sandbox (AppContainer) escapes. The blog post mentions it, just didn't notice at first scan.

While I respect Google's security team's 90 day vendor response policy in general, I think it is too reckless in this case. This can too easily escalate previous "harmless" contained sandbox compromises into full system wide ones. A lot of people are potentially now on the harm's way.
The problem is that not doing anything signals weakness, as in Beijing stops trying to make a city do something if it protests. China can’t afford letting other cities learn ”wait, so if we protest the CCP would stop trying to forcefullt implement something we don’t want?”

Beijing wants the message to be ”protests lead to nothing but mayhem and disorder, in the end the CCP lays down the law of the land”.
The real question is why companies are still running Windows Servers in the cloud. It is already 50% more expensive to run Windows Server on AWS compared to a Linux based OS, so I can really only justify running Windows Server for legacy applications that are too difficult to migrate. Actually I am happy with this price increase, it will give me some leverage to migrate the remaining applications away from Windows.
And that is a very non-sophisticated answer to a complex problem. This will not be tolerated in China, but HK is an entirely different story. What you need to do is to actually go into the pro and cons from the perspective of the Chinese government to predict their action, instead of just saying "China will not tolearte because all authoritative government will not tolerate dissent".
The events of June 1989 were horrific, but were they actually a miscalculation? China wasn’t quite the world’s factory yet and the fall of communism was just starting around the world. If there was a time that the rest of the world would have imposed consequences on the Communist Chinese regime for murdering their own people, it would have been 1989. Instead everything was forgiven and after five years the US granted China “most favored nation” trade status.

These days China produces an absolute majority of the world’s steel, many individual products like port cranes are solely manufactured in China, Shenzhen is an indispensable center of economic activity to a probably higher degree than even Silicon Valley, and the Belt-and-Road initiative is establishing Chinese soft power throughout the most rapidly growing parts of the world.

At the same time, this is a regime that deals with ethnic and religious tensions by throwing people into concentration camps and brainwashing them into the majority culture, as they are doing with the Uyghurs today. Has that resulted in any consequences for them?

Let’s face it, the “free world” these days is feckless and divided, China has turned into a superpower even since 1989, and the developing world can tell which direction the wind is blowing. Nobody can tell the CPC what to do anymore. And Hong Kong is a “disharmonious” part of China, much like Xinkiang. The CPC has a history of “solving” these “problems” by any means necessary.
Half of the fun is implementing the radios yourself, it's a great learning exercise.
Why is it not ok to disable some features on a device and sell it cheaper?

How is this anti-competitive? How is this customer-unfriendly?
> while bloody they can pacify quickly

This is far from universal. Chechnya was bloody. Syria remains bloody. Short of razing a city, we don’t have great tools for fighting urban insurgencies.
Yes, in a comment below I added "and pray for western assistance".

It would at least cause a delay big enough for the west to act.
Yeah, this right here. I work on a MVC 5 app that uses some pretty large legacy libraries that's going to be hard to move from. Some of it is legacy stuff that may or may not have a .NET Core or .NET Standard equivalent. Others like Entity Framework have a Core equivalent that changes some paradigms to be a bit more modern, but ultimately creates a situation where it's not a drop in replacement.

There's also the question of SQL server. It's not so much of an issue when you're dealing with Azure, but SQL server on Linux isn't ready for prime time yet IMO.
Hey, thanks for the heads up. The app is ready and can be downloaded and unlocked via the landing page. It's beta at the moment but is very stable based on the feedback we've received from over 1.5k beta testers.
When the percentage of 'wrong or stupid' people is low enough, say below 1%, I would agree. Maybe even 10%. But the number of people who are wrong or stupid in this way is still quite high; at least 25-30% in the US, possibly more who are wrong or stupid but keep quiet about it. You can personally ignore these people, but they are legally allowed to vote in every election and consume whatever they can afford and kill or burn most anything on their property. We ignore them systematically as a society to our own peril.
Still need to turn this into a proper blog but you can find me at https://dev.to/carlmungazi writing about my journey rebuilding different parts of the frontend stack (think framework, testing library, build tool etc).
Would you mind naming/giving a range of the acquisition price?
One substantive reaction would be re-invigorating Tsai Ing-wen across the strait, at a time when the PRC is otherwise at the brink of getting the most mainland friendly President of Taiwan ever. That's likely playing a bigger role in motivating strategy than worries about Western responses.
The goal is to make HK part of China.
"I can't not do it" is a phrase I've been employing for a few years trying (though mostly, it feels, failing) to explain what it is that compells me to do what I do.

But yeah, I get that.
To add, the reason it has such a high mortality rate is TEN/SJS are almost isomorphic to 2nd and 3rd degree burns over a high percentage of your body, which is also very commonly fatal. The "30%" mortality rate is greatly dependent on how bad the SJS/TEN manifests.
You can find an answer in my other comments. If they were not enough, please let me know I will try to explain it more.
"climate change denial" is a blanket term for anyone who disagrees with anything.

"You dont want to give No-Strings-Attached money to China to help the environment? You must be a Anti-Science Denier!"
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> less scrupulous countries dealing with urban combat

Do you have any examples? I'm not challenging you, I just don't know much about this topic.
There are a bunch of dubious journals and conferences around the world, and researching a topic without filtering down to a handful of journals can turn up a lot of crap.

There's been a number of times where I've been researching niche topics and found "peer reviewed" publications where the math was incorrect, the code examples were invalid syntax, and had results/analysis that I couldn't recreate.

Sometimes I wonder if the authors submit to journals until they find one that sticks.

That's not to say "good" journals don't have "bad" publications. Some have various levels of peer review, like full text/abstract only/not reviewed at all. Sometimes you wind up with content that deserves a tech blog post, not a journal article. But different strokes for different folks, it's not hard to filter out mentally once you're familiar with the literature.
BGP filters fix this. Only accept routes from customers for IP space that they control.

I imagine Verizon has some sort of webUI with bad defaults (no filter) so that their helpdesk can setup new customers - Hanlon's razor being what it is.
This is very interesting. Can you point me to some articles or further resources?
Could you imagine how this kind of technology might change something as boring and frustrating as Ikea furniture assembly?

Ikea tries hard to avoid using text in its instructions, because the products are sold in so many countries. So its assembly instructions tend to be very constrained 2D illustrations with simple pictograms.

But it would be so much easier if you could just slap on some AR glasses and visualize in 3D what your next step should be!
Are you saying the people saying we shouldn't give China free money à la TPP are the problem? Because you've basically undermined your whole argument from where I am sitting.
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I'd never heard of Blockstack, I quit the sign up as soon as I saw it. I didn't want to waste my time being forced into yet another unknown brand.
Fair, my apologies. Thank you for the considered reply.
Those stats are not publicly available. In general, for any company, at best they may or may not include the stats in quarterly earnings statements if the company is publicly traded. Although Tumblr has been owned by public companies since 2013, its corporate owners have not made these stats publicly available.

Elsewhere in this subthread, I've linked to public info showing that in absolute content creation numbers, the impact of the adult content ban was far less than a majority of content, and also far smaller than the slow drop-off of users over the previous five years.

Judging by your use of quotes around "correct", it seems you've already made up your mind anyway and I'm wasting my time discussing this. If you want to trust clearly incorrect numbers in The Verge over the person who built the company's relational storage tier, I suppose that's your prerogative.
Ward Cunningham, who coined the term "Technical Debt", would often use the analogy "If you borrowed $500K for a house that is now worth $1M..."
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I don't think I understand this concept.

If I search for something using Google, and don't click on a link, doesn't that mean my search was fruitless? What else do we mean by 'zero-click searches'?

Edit: Unless it's the simple '6 x 10' or 'What is the time in London', in which case, are we surprised these queries are handled by $SearchEngine? DDG does the same thing (albeit, uses a third party website and gives credit)