skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it is seriously disputed, because there's no evidence that Huawei has engaged in more serious IP theft than most other major tech companies.

The same examples are always trotted out. Huawei copied some extremely minor Cisco code over 15 years ago, and the two companies privately settled the issue, and Huawei engineers took pictures of the "Tappy" robot and took some of its fingertips a few years ago. If you compare these relatively minor incidents to the types of disputes other major tech companies have had, they're nothing. Google wholesale copied the Java API, and internal emails showed that senior executives knew this was potentially a legal problem. Samsung copied the design of the iPhone. Microsoft Windows' UI was largely cloned from Macintosh. The list goes on. Yet Huawei, which hasn't had any major IP disputes of this sort, is somehow the problem.

> the Chinese government widely disseminates the IP it obtains via forced technology transfers that are required to do business in the country.

This is not how things work in China. First of all, technology transfer is not required in most industries. Second of all, the companies that transfer technology do so willingly, because they believe access to the Chinese market is worth it. The Chinese government didn't put a gun to their head and tell them they had to open a factory in China. They benefit from cheap labor in China, and in return, China benefits from technology transfer. Companies wouldn't agree to this if they didn't regard it as a fair trade, and I don't see why it's unreasonable for a developing country to set these conditions on foreign investment. But again, these regulations don't cover most economic sectors.

However, I haven't seen anything to suggest that Huawei has benefitted from this sort of technology transfer. Again, claiming that Huawei has just looks like baseless innuendo, like so many of the accusations against the company.
I don't have a problem with deporting illegal immigrants. However, when you literally become like Hitler and use them as a scapegoat for the economic issues of the masses, and then you start rounding up children and putting them into fenced off camps, start drugging children with powerful anti-psychotics because you can't control them, separate them from their parents and so on... Then, I see you and those who support it as a big menace to be stopped.

Like where is all the "think of the children" (tm) rhetoric that they love to throw around when the children actually need it?

I mean in fact Trump is harassing these children as much as a pedophile would separating them from their parents and putting them in fenced off ghettos.
International Air Transport Association Climate Change Report (2019) [pdf]
This sums it up best.
Jeffrey Epstein takes own life instead of working with Justice system
I had to watch that show with subtitles when I started out. And I’m an American. Great show though, along with The Wire.
Then why didn't you support a more traditional Republican candidate?

Trump was the alt-right candidate, his campaign was as much a repudiation of mainstream conservatism and Republicanism as anything else.
Could you post a link to the event?
At least for the CCC, the main focus is always privacy concerns, politics, freedom, etc. (besides the technical topics). Wikipedia and Wikileaks are often represented there. China is often given as one of the bad examples with respect to freedom, e.g. think about the Great Firewall of China. So I wonder, how does a hacker event fit into this? Wouldn't you be afraid to discuss such topics there? Or do you avoid such topics there, and focus more on just technical topics?
Acceleration is the one performance metric that drivers push daily, whether it's merging on the highway, passing, or just a thrill from the light. It is a bit disingenuous to say that it's "easy to achieve" given how it has long been the metric of supercars.
Nice. Wish I'd thought of that. FWIW, I played points based games like cribbage with my youngsters to better encourage mental maths.
Interesting, but way more information is found on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine
I also suffered from hand pain from typing and took up climbing both inside and a bit of outside for a good 8 years solid.

I found bouldering to be way more intense than just top rope (eventually getting into lead) climbing. Most of my hand/arm injuries were from bouldering.

I concur with the previous response though... climbing, done well and not over doing it... was the 100% solution to my pain problem.

Sitting and typing all day, you lose muscle and strength, not just in your hands, but your arms, shoulders and neck. Climbing builds it right back and really helped more than any special keyboards or posture changes I tried.
How much was too much? I can certainly imagine that bouldering could cause wrist injuries. But in my case, like above, it strengthened my wrists and improved the pain I was having from typing.
Didn't Heartbleed rely on reading uninitialized data? I'd assume memory safety includes preventing code from reading uninitialized data.
Purely functional web UI library
I come from a post-socialist country, and when growing up in the 90s we and 90% of the society was so poor after 50 years of socialism that my parents could not afford a pair of Nike or Adidas.

Did they have a house though?
Considering PTSD affects the amygdala part of the brain and our base instincts (fight, flight, or freeze is pretty primitive), I wouldn't be too shocked if even reptiles could have PTSD.

I've had two rescue animals, and they most definitely had PTSD issues (ones with people and the other with cars). Seems pretty obvious.
I don’t know anything about Europe, but most escape room owners in the US can report multiple visits by the Fire Marshall. (I just got back from the national conference and talked to a lot of them.) It varies by municipality, but most places in the US pay more attention to escape rooms than the average business. They’re probably more safe than the office suite next door to which nobody pays attention.
Surprisingly, their google amp version doesn’t show that screen.
This reads like BS.

They mention increases in efficiency like it matters when electic motors are already ~95% efficient.

They mention cogging as a problem, when everyone solved that a decade ago by using FOC drivers.

It does field weakening by physically rotating part of itself? That doesn't sound like a good idea. At all.

A single reduction gear is complex and heavy? Uh no, its probably the cheapest part of the motor
When Einstein Tilted at Windmills (2016)
Hi, I wrote the post! I'm actually very grateful to my neurologist who gave me my idiopathic diagnosis, because he was the only doctor to figure out the mechanism of action. He's been enormously helpful.

It doesn't change the fact that, as a patient, an idiopathic diagnosis is not a satisfying outcome if it doesn't point to a course of treatment. And it's certainly not something I view as a "final diagnosis" -- I'm patient, and technology and medicine are still improving and I hope it'll be possible to identify the cause and treat it in the future.
The apple security whitepaper is actually a decent place to start https://www.apple.com/business/docs/site/iOS_Security_Guide....

There is also a blackhat talk from Ivan Krstic (one of the top security people at apple) where he goes surprisingly deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U
Ted Chiang is the reason I started writing fiction. A few months ago I got the chance to meet him and have him critique one of my stories, as well as pick his brain on his process. I wrote about it here for those that are curious:

https://tinyletter.com/jamesyu/letters/meeting-ted-chiang-an...
I only answered once. The other code was from another guy.
How the hell is that new research, when it's been clear to everyone since time began?
Yes, but humans abhor doing nothing!
> […] on Apple rumour sites and so on it’s often breathlessly reported that all staff leave has been cancelled for whatever dates.

You’re asking for details on protocol to a rumored policy, which begs the question of whether this rumor can be substantiated.

In my experience with the company in question, no such policy exists.
Yea I guess in base 4, 5 would be 11.
While this is easy to agree to broadly, what exactly does she intend that these "technology-based 21st century capabilities" are? If she's talking about something like PRISM, are we going to be any happier with that solution?
Very likely that they bought the exploit and did the rest themselves, so, their skill at phishing, exploiting and RATing won't be correlated.
CCC covers more society and political topics as well, beyond the topics mentioned above which CCC also had plenty of last time I went.

Regarding attendees, I am not sure - haven't been Defcon in a few years (mostly as it started being not so well organized), but went to CCC and that was gigantic in scale.
Good point, but I think part of the problem is that some people are champing at the bit to call someone alt-right or facist when that person does something that they don't like or doesn't align with their own views. (Even if those views are relatively tame compared to what the pure definition of alt-right or facist is.

People are getting increasingly segmented into their own belief systems and are un-willing to even slightly concede to differing opinions, or aren't willing to even associate with people who believe in different things.

Seems like religion is phasing out of style and political beliefs are becoming the new religion.
To get good acceleration you just need a big engine, traction and not much else. 0-60 is not even that meaningful for real world use of acceleration. 30-70 would be much more useful there.
That site claims that OpenCV is a facial detection algorithm...
If by "socialism" you mean government owning all the robots, deciding what to build, and how much everyone should get, then the majority of people will not get good life.

Is that so far from Walmart?
Yeah, a lot of people in the UK use stones for weight. Even young people in my experience.
No, because in addition to interests, I would want to make sure this person is one I could trust.

I get queasy around people as is.
True, but honestly, with so many people clearly after him, I'm not sure we can assume any of them got him. His psyche had clearly been cracking for many weeks now: I got as much sadistic pleasure as anyone else out of watching him basically flat-out break down and beg the judge for a chance to flee. We already know he'd tried to kill himself once before any of his long list of enemies could get their hands on him. If he was indeed "found dead", then yeah, it's fun to joke that he was clearly hanged 37 times by the CIA, the Clintons, Hollywood, MI6, MIT, the Russians, Trump, and at least two alien species, but I don't think we can discount the possibility that he simply siezed on the next opportunity to beat any of them to the punch.

He should have gotten that horrible 24-hour naked suicide watch thing that Manning got, all the way until trial. Certainly he demonstrated better need for it.
You can support the party even though you didn't support the representative being voted in.
Ah I see, that's a different thing entirely
> Many of the recently-publicized shootings in the US have occurred in California, which has some of the most strict firearms laws in the nation.

How many of those had an out of state purchase like the most recent one though (Gilroy)?
> Long term storage is probably more hydrogen and mass thermal storage.

I was thinking about how multiple big heating packs[1] would stack up. Seems the Wikipedia reference[2] has the topic well covered. Tricky but possible. And apparently (duh) not a novel idea by any means[3][4].

Though the references I could find were mostly for home-size installations or for actual heating packs. Here in Norway we're blessed with lots of mountains with lakes, so we can do pumped hydro for latent storage. But for flatter countries (say our neighbors Denmark), is grid-size PCM storage viable?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_acetate

[2]: https://books.google.com/books?id=EsfcWE5lX40C&q=latent+heat...

[3]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13594...

[4]: https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/appene/v221y2018icp522-534.htm...
Why would you doubt suicide?
> Telling this is like telling "Just believe in God".

It is nothing like it. Believing or disbelieving actually means you don’t know, but are not accepting it as that.

If you know something it is useful, if you admit that you don’t know something it is a possibility for knowing, so it is also useful. Belief and disbelief have no such usefulness - it’s just forming an opinion based on what you don’t know. Basically, it’s bullshit.

As for the mind, it’s similar to the body in that it can be trained. It’s not easy but plenty of people have managed. But if you don’t work on it it will never happen. If you wait until your are 60 to start then you will need to do a lot more work.

Nobody can “enchant” your life except for you. If you are willing to put in the effort there are plenty of tools available, after all this problem is as old as humanity. But it is your responsibility to fix your own life.
They wouldn't be able to install the new OS over the old one without the passcode, though.
At the beginning of the story I empathized with the author, myself having had to deal with pain in my hands that required injections to resolve.

But their attempt to make their article more “funny” and dramatic at the expense of their doctors rubbed me the wrong way. It’s not cool to use other people like that to get more clicks.

The tipping point for me was the author making their doctor ask them to leave their office. It’s just as bad as people being rude to retail workers who can’t accept a refund.
On QRAM- Joe Fitzsimons
Sure, but not 0-60 acceleration. The joy of driving a Porsche is that you can kick donw th pedal at 130 km/h and still feel the force of acceleration pushing your body into the seat.
Yes! I'm a Canadian whose brain works in km but I spent a year and a bit working a job that had me flying to (and subsequently driving around) places across the USA. All the time I'd be finding myself going "Okay, 30 mph... what the heck is that?".

Double four times, and divide by ten as soon as possible (ie: the first time you see a zero on the end, drop it).

So 30 mph => 3 (drop the zero) => 6 => 12 => 24 => 48 km/h

The nice thing about this method is that you know that the kph is going to be more than mph, but less than double it, so you don't have to count the doublings very well- when you're in the right range, you're at the right number.

Example: 135 miles to destination is how many km? Okay, double to 270; drop the zero to 27; double to 54; double to 108;... we're still less than the mph, so we must need to double again to get 216 km. Now we're between 135 and 2*135, so we must be at the answer. 216 km. (actual answer is 217.3).
My intuition is that one can apply these principles in a flipped manner to design safer schools and other public buildings.
I’m guessing this is on HN because it’s where Epstein was being held.
Everything you say was true in 2004, when i was there, and they tried to do the same thing with SuSe without buying it.
Ask HN: Will ad-blocker wars force ad-tech to start serving pages as canvas?
I see a constant evolving game of cat and mouse between client side adblockers and ad publishers.
Does this mean that eventually all webpages will start to be served on a canvas? Or maybe something like flash based pages where the ads can't be blocked at all?
Hm, maybe in USA DEFCON is more well known. I was aware while writing this that this is probably debatable (but I was disagreeing with the assessment that DEFCON is clearly the best known, as said in the article). (Also, I'm clearly seeing now that it is indeed very debatable, as the votes for this comment go up and down all the time.)

W.r.t. attendees, I am not sure. CCC has multiple events per year, and is also a club with many members. The biggest of their events it the CCC congress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress) which has attendees in a similar order, maybe slightly less, but that is only one of multiple events.

I have heard from people attending both events (DEFCON and CCC) that CCC is much more diverse in topics and what's happening at the events.
> Notably, a positive punch biopsy for small fiber neuropathy IS diagnosis with treatment that works fairly well. Ideopathic simply means that the base cause is unknown.

What is the treatment you claim?

Wikipedia claims that "Treatment [for small fiber neuropathy] is based on the underlying cause, if any." Given that idiopathic means having an unknown cause, that seems to contradict your statement.
When was the last time all the computing power in the world equaled one iPhone?
The absolute pedantry on this site.
Deep End Fitness
IBM's customers have been slowly transitioning from proprietary IBM OSs (AIX, z/OS) to Linux for a lot of their workloads

Yes, but that’s only a coincidence. What they have really been doing is transitioning from proprietary to commodity hardware. Which IBM no longer makes. Where does IBM make money? Mainframe sales. There can be only one winner here... IBM will need to kill off their mainframe business to justify this purchase, something they have proved very reluctant to do.
I'm thinking that VR/AR might be a perfect solution to this, but that seems so obvious that I have to assume the technology just isn't ready yet, or there are other unknown factors standing in the way. Maybe it just wouldn't be as much fun.

Still, a mostly empty warehouse and a few sets of goggles seems more cost effective, and a virtual set would be easier to reconfigure and reload.
I hope y'all realize I can remember a discussion just like this happening 25 years ago on the cypherpunks mailing list. I just wanted to note that before I closed the tab.
Russia Skyfall Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile Is Tested
Has anyone mixed up escape rooms with role-playing, or additional narrative/gimmick? Maybe targeting corporate team-building customers who'll pay a big premium?

For example, company signs up for an ostensible corporate off-site retreat meeting that suddenly turns into a team-building (obviously fake) kidnapping. (Blindfolding, and moving to the maze, kidnappers go elsewhere but can be overheard arguing about ransom, then the group manages to untie each other, and try to escape the building, while whispering and evading the occasional guard, time element when they overhear kidnapper threatening to wait only 10 more minutes for ransom call, etc. There could even be a second part, in which the team gets to a dead end, with a cache of laser tag toys, obviously to fight the rest of their way out of the building, and can team-building heal each other when they get hit.) Followed by refreshments, with messages from manager/CEO or product brainstorming, etc.

I'm pretty sure the exact above thing would never get past HR at some companies, but I've heard of big-name dotcoms doing questionable parties and team events, so maybe enough companies would pay enough for it?
Equatorial weather patterns are not all that relevant because most of the energy consumption is at higher latitudes which experience significant seasonality.

And your daily commute/boat towing "analogy" is not really helpful because those problems are not comparable. Boat towing is an optional luxury and can be worked around at a slight inconvenience by visiting charging stations. Lack of long-term storage on the other hand can't be worked around, it requires double-spending to keep dispatchable fossil fuel plants in standby.

And I don't think there is a dichotomy either. Variability exists on a continuous time-scale from seconds to seasons, so storage solutions can expand along that continuum.
"Tesla's ludicrous launch is a party trick."

I live in a rural exurb area. Every spring-fall weekend features parades of supercars of the various supercar clubs. Million dollar plus vehicles. All driving at 60km, driving no differently than the Corolla that accidentally turned into their procession. Because it's all party tricks. These people aren't racing these cars, but are just sitting on potential.

As an aside, I don't remember Tesla ever claiming that their vehicles were the "fastest production car", which is normally a measure of top speed. The Tesla has a positively mediocre top speed compared to supercars, and on any longer run will be demolished. It isn't built for repeat launches, or a quick lap at Nürburgring.

But if you want a very confident merge on the highway, pass on the single lane highway, etc, it can confidently provide what you need.

As an aside, all lithium ion batteries are degraded by high drain (similarly they are degraded by fast charging). Porsche is seeming buying the exact same technology in LG packs. They have identical issues that Tesla does. If you launch a P100d without ludicrous mode you'll do 0-60 in 2.9 seconds.
Quantum RAM is known to be the holy-grail of NISQ era quantum computers. Almost all machine learning speedups are predicated on having an existing qRAM. It seems whoever would be the first one to have a working patent is likely to be a billionaire. I am wondering if some highly lucrative companies like Google X could be building such a chip. People always fabricate FGPA's, why is it hard to do a qRAM as an FGPA.
I don't think the author is trying to exploit doctors to get clicks. I think they're expressing genuine anger and frustration with the healthcare systems they've encountered and the dismissal they've experienced from doctors in those systems.
> single server distro is becoming irrelevant as the unit of computation resources is the kubernetes cluster

In the HN/cloud echo chamber, that might be worth pointing out.
So you don't plan over optimistically. Safety margin.
So here's an example where it matters in python:

def f_to_c(deg_f=None):
if deg_f:
return (deg_f - 32) * 5 / 9
else:
raise TypeError('Invalid value passed in')

The problem is that it works for all numbers, except 0, because 0 is falsy, and will return a TypeError exception.

There are lots of different solutions to this issue, but I wouldn't write the pedantic if statements.

I would just do this:

def f_to_c(deg_f):
return (deg_f - 32) * 5 / 9

And let python raise the TypeError.
A dying company trying to extend their “squeeze your base” policy to another vendor. I think they overpaid for RedHat. After a particularly painful audit at my Fortune 500, we kicked out RedHat. We spend more time talking to IBMs auditors than we do to their Salespeople and engineers. This merger seems like the modern version of HP and Compaq. The only winners are the shareholders who bolt early. Customers, employees and late shareholders are all losers.
The detail of Prince Andrew touching her up with a hand-puppet of Prince Andrew, is the kind of thing I suspect you are very unlikely to invent if you are trying to convince people of a story, rather than just telling the truth.

This whole thing is fucking ugly, and given that Epstein is now very unsurprisingly dead, it will be even harder to get to the bottom of it. With any luck he has a confessional linked to a dead hand trigger, but something tells me that we aren't currently in the lucky universe.
I've been at a company that did a hiring/salary freeze. Really hurts moral. We can expect Uber's services to potentially degrade/not improve much for a while.
Doesn’t Red Hat own CoreOS?
It’s a little easier for them to just lie to customers.
There are tons of stats that serve as effective proxies for such things: What schools did you go to, what is your name, who are your friends, etc.

So yes, it is EXTREMELY hard.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...

Thats exactly what amazon tried to do here, but because the AI based its decisions on amazon's previous hires (that is, almost no women) and blinded the AI to gender, it instead proxied women for one of a dozen other things such as school, courses taken, etc.