skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly haven't seen conclusive evidence that Huawei has spied or been asked to in the past. Alas, imo, that's irrelevant because I'm aware that Huawei would not be able to turn down a spying request and continue to exist as a company.

That Huawei has engaged company-spondored IP theft has been widely reported, as well as the fact that the Chinese government widely disseminates the IP it obtains via forced technology transfers that are required to do business in the country.
Way insufficient.
$156 per year.

If Disney (DIS) keeps paying average dividend 1.25%, you can make them pay for the subscription if you buy DIS stock for $12,500. (more if you want to account for taxes, costs and their future price increases).

I bought DIS few months ago when I realized how big the Disney+ launch will be. The price seems to be good without too much expectations.
Which episode? There are 635 of them...
Pretty low bar honestly, even if they had pivoted to stagecoaches it’s hard to knock them if they’d been successful. The ends are more important. Gox was really stupid though.
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But cable is actual trash. It has ads despite already paying and you can't chose the show you want to watch. This is miles better even if it's more expensive (and it's not).
Considering the number of Latin named companies I'd be surprised if there weren't more with misunderstood names.

If sure if you read Chinese, you'd be able to find some interesting tatoos also.
This makes me think that the whole IP sharing/stealing is in the cultural fabric of Chinese business dealings. And it would be nearly impossible for Trump to fix it through his current trade negotiations.
I've been working on a prototype that lets you run self-hosted applications on a server which are then accessed through your web browser. I've been looking forward to incorporating applications that are on the awesome selfhosted list. Code here: https://github.com/cloud-computer/cloud-computer
It's admittedly less common than it used to be but sometimes you're vacationing somewhere that just doesn't have connectivity. Even leaving aside being off in the Himalayas or wherever, even a lot of areas in the western US like Death Valley have pretty limited coverage. And, if I'm backpacking, even if I have a cell signal there's not much I can do if it's not something I can fix with a few words based on what's in my brain.

To the broader point though. I do find being mostly connected is largely a plus. It's easier to take time off when I know that I can do a bit of flexible work and can be reached when needed rather than being tethered to a network just in case. I have worked both ways over my career and I much prefer today.
I don't know much about blockchain. Care to explain how this of all usecases is where blockchain shines?
Disagree. You preemptively publicly say that you "are skeptical" because of something irrelevant to the argument and don't address anything I brought up - that is kind of the definition of poisoning the well.

>...To commit a preemptive ad hominem attack against an opponent. That is, to prime the audience with adverse information about the opponent from the start, in an attempt to make your claim more acceptable or discount the credibility of your opponent’s claim.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...

>...For example, Canada has a huge number of flights passing over it without stopping there (lots of flights between the US and Europe and Asia pass over Canada) and ATC for flights in cruise is vastly easier than ATC for flights descending to land or climbing to cruise.

This is odd speculation on your part. Doing a google search on air traffic safety brought up this paper which examined the air traffic control systems of the US and Australia, Germany, New Zealand, and Switzerland:

>…An analysis was made to determine the effect privatization had on operating cost and air MIC safety involving the privatized ATC systems of Australia, Germany, New Zealand, and Switzerland. The study showed reduced operating cost and increased safety would result from corporate structuring of the ATC system. It was concluded that corporate style policy regarding personnel management and equipment procurement procedures would increase efficiency, which would reduce operating cost and increase ATC flight safety.

https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1521&co...

>...At any rate, privatized ATC is still under strict government regulation and control, so they really just show us another effective model for socialized health care, rather than serving as an argument against it.

Most people don't associate the idea of "socialized health care" with the regulatory bodies that exist like the FDA. Most people would not say we have "socialized nuclear power" just because the NRC regulates nuclear power plants, etc.

>...If there's a country where ATC is run by many different competing businesses with wide latitude in how they operate, and that country's ATC is better, then that would be another matter. I doubt there are any.

Straw man. I didn't claim there was. What I said was "Air traffic control is not a great example to cite here. The USA is one of the few countries where the regulator also provides the ATC service." and I cited 2 articles showing how it is less efficient and behind other countries. Your claim was that it was "superb".

Considering that every other major country has separated the regulation and provision of air traffic control, if you want to claim the current ATC system is "superb", you should provide some evidence why you think that.
If the only difference between the two is that one is said out in the open while the other is said in hushed voiced, then what's wrong with it? Is it not arguably more honest and ethical in a twisted way?
German here. Never heard that translation. Could be either regional or an old translation. Here, we would say "Nutze den Tag" -- "make use of the day" in the sense of "don't waste it".
OTOH Blockbuster paid for the DVD once and got to rent it out as long as it lasted. How much do itunes/Amazon have to pay to the studio every time they rent out a movie?
CVE-2019-1579: Remote Code Execution in PAN-OS 7.1.18 and earlier – paloalto net
I for one welcome this...more choices are better and it’s about time we get starwars on subscription
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up.

You're not supposed to think critically or ask any questions. Just quietly go about your life, be an obedient citizen, don't make any ruckus, and, of course, trust the government -- they know what's best for you and me and have nothing but our best interests in mind! Unfortunately, they won't be able to stop all of the pedophile terrorists from getting to us if they don't have access to everything. They're "going dark", remember!?

Why don't you want to give them this access anyways? Just what is it that YOU are hiding? What don't you want them to see?

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> ... crimes that could have been prevented if law enforcement had been given lawful access to encrypted evidence.

That's an earlier quote from Barr (prior to these shootings).

The implication is that if they had access to all of the encrypted communications in real-time (iMessages, WhatsApp, etc.) that law enforcement maybe could have prevented these deaths from happening (nevermind their "track record" for preventing these types of incidents or the fact that most of these shootings are conducted by a single person)...

...but if they aren't able to read all of our messages then of course they can't do anything and so people will continue to die.
With every Pixar film, the team learns something new or how to do something better. This has been said in multiple interviews with newer Pixar films that come out compared to the old ones.

Aside from the superb storytelling and all that, it makes the team push for new breakthrough in animation.

I can see Lion King serving as a real world project for Disney animators in the same way, and a way to get paid to learn and push the fold in realistic animation. Not saying that's the reason behind it as I'm sure remaking a bunch of these movies was likely planned already but if you can level up your team, learn something new in the process, and get paid for doing it, why not.
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I really enjoyed this, thanks. Do you have any other similar ones, or tangentially related bookmarks you could share?
I find article about DIY chips super exciting. Given how important and ubiquitous chips are I think every university and maybe even schools should have a mini fab to teach the public how sand turns into a computer.

I was lucky to have this at my university. We had a professor who build a complete mini fab, mostly from industry donations of discarded equipment. Our semester built a complete and functioning surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter from the wafer to the bonded and housed chip. One of the best practical courses I've ever had.
Late to the party: CMD + L selects the URL of your tab. Comes in quite handy for sending URLs to people. CMD + L => CMD + C => done :)
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Nope, you are wrong. Many people I know are switching subscriptions on monthly bases. So if you know GOT is on , get 2 month hbo and cancel netflix. You see stranger things trending, get 1 month netflix and pause other subs. People are combining shows to watch and then watch it in one month. Not like cable at all.
Some of the worst garbage is posted under people's real names and bylines in newspapers. Or on the Presidential Twitter feed.

Mandated real names are just pre-doxing everyone so they can be censored by real world retaliation. If you're already powerful, this has no effect. If you're vulnerable, it's silencing.
Let’s be honest, Uber massively over hired in tech, either to create the illusion of being a tech company (to help raise VC), or because some within the company truly believed they were. They are no more a tech company than WeWork or Airbnb is. The company blog gives a clue to this, they seem to do an awful lot that is cool and fun and completely unrelated to regulatory arbitrage (or booking taxis). Uber could ditch anywhere between 50-90% of their techs tomorrow and it would not impact their operations one iota.

Anyone working in tech there needs to polish up their resume and hope that the many scandals at Uber hasn’t tainted them too.
Thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955549
It annoys me to no end how much beating around the bush there is on this topic; particularly on NPR. They have the kid gloves on and pundits that won't come out and say the obvious.

"But why the concern about Huawei and not Facebook and Google". Because they are controlled by a fascist government, a point we have largely been ignoring for decades while they weren't the 2nd largest economy?! Recently they had a guy on saying the USA intelligence/military community saw China as the biggest "strategic challenge" in the future. I'm PRETTY darn sure they mean and have said "threat to national security". He was also insinuating the the idea we couldn't coexist with their government was absurd because we "have been since 19xx". Well, were they the second largest economy in 1950-20xx? No they were not and their soft power plays are becoming much more bold.

It's almost like the NPR and the media have given up on the ideals of liberal democracy? Good grief.
We’ve gone back to buying DVDs/Blurays and renting movies. My most recent purchase was all seasons of x-files in a single box for $15. Usually it’s a tad more expensive to pick up an entire season of something though, so there is some front load to pay, but in 10 years not having had 3-5 subscriptions will have saved us money. And we will still have access to our library of things.

That being said, if Disney+ makes it to Denmark, that might actually be the one streaming service we want because of our children.

It probably should be noted that the Danish national public service tv station has streaming apps for all their channels, as well as a Netflix style selection for their own content. So that gives us 6 commercial free BBC quality channels.
What really boils the noggin is realizing that it's not just "other" people who fall for this. We all do. Some portion of all of our political, economic, and moral views were put into our heads by corporate or government propaganda.
From 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20631123
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There’s a subreddit about this /r/hailcorporate. Some stuff there seems pretty benign but sometimes you get really blatant advertising by brand new accounts. It’d be silly if they weren’t also commenting.
I have been annoyed that on several occasions I wanted to rent a movie and iTunes only had it for purchase. I agree that iTunes has a decent selection, but I have basically zero interest in "owning" (renting for my lifetime, or the lifetime of the iTunes store, whichever is shorter) movie downloads from iTunes.
I don't understand your thought process. If you have a system where a corrupt organizer can end up amassing power uncontrolled, then sure you're going to end up with dictators. The system is self-selecting for a catastrophe. But this does not really say much about humanity in general.

The trick is to design systems with checks. Well-run states have these checks, both in the state organizations themselves and towards other sectors. Even if you're rich, there are limits to what you can get away with in a Western society.

And yes, these checks are not perfect, defending against corruption is really hard.

As we get better at automation, unless we screw up in the Western world, I have a hunch we're going to end up with universal income and a Star Trek-like society, probably not that far from what Marx imagined when he was ranting about the horrible conditions for factory workers at that time. The trick is to make everything so cheap that the universal income is affordable for society.
Thanks, :)
the English language has serious limitations in how meaning can be molded to convey multiple-entendres, unlike some Asian/Oriental languages where one line can have at least 4 to 5 differing, contradictory-yet-supporting senses, which in the end causes an intellectual high that makes one stop--you cannot digest more than one line a day--and even so it makes you think about it all day long. :)
Ah, I'm glad to see this make it to HN. I first learned of Emperor Norton sometime back in the 00's when I was listening to music by Emperor Norton Records. I looked them up, and learned about Emperor Norton himself in the process. It's a very San Francisco story, to me. I love it.
Does any of this video show him building a bucky ball out of straws while speaking, and then jumping up and down on it while continuing to speak? A friend told me he saw him do that back then, and I'd like to see it.
I found out that Google Flights just have smaller time margins between flights. Might be something to look out for.
This definitely does happen, and occasionally it's really blatent.
If you are the user that posted the story, you can see an edit link in the listing of stories. (For a limited time after posting.)
How neat to have a reference to the Journal of the Georgian Geophysical Society. I so rarely get to see Georgian script, like in the subsequent paper by ბ. ნურტაევი and ლ. ნურტაევი (last page on the document).

What makes it odd, however, is that the chart you mentioned is an uncited reprint of a chart made by noted global warming denialist David Archibald. See https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/12/david-archibald-on-cl... . You'll note that this paper by Nurtaev and Nurtaev uses a low quality image paste, so almost certainly did not generate it themselves.

Also odd is the source citations, from Dansgaard (1969) and Schönwiese (1995). You'll note that those are 1) not stated in the references, and 2) they are very old, at 50 and nearly 25 years, respectively.

Compare that to the citations in the xkcd comic, which are to 2012 and 2013.

This is important because we've improved our understanding of the temperature records. The xkcd comic notes "Medieval warm period in Europe and some northern regions (too regional to affect the global average much)" and Wikipedia's entry for the Medieval Warm Period comments "Other regions were colder, such as the tropical Pacific. Averaged global mean temperatures have been calculated to be similar to early-mid 20th century warming"

While the chart in Nurtaev and Nurtaev says there is a distinct global warming during that period.

How odd that they use information which is so out of date.

How odd that the paper promotes a solar model which has long been demonstrated to be wrong - and mostly only lives among the fringe group of global warming denialists.

How odd that you decided to post a link to this paper, instead of the source material, and argued that it was more accurate when it appears to be less.

Could you describe how you came across this paper, and what about it lead you to conclude it was a more accurate source of information?
All of these anecdotes have something in common. That the person who is asked to do something is informed about proper procedures. That is uncommon in IT, and especially in companies where proper procedure is too costly and not worth pursuing.
Usenet still works well :)
This is a BBC documentary about Intel's fab from the late 1970s. It's similar technology level. Also probably the first and last time that Intel allowed cameras into one of their fabs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5Fvk8FNOQ

BBC Horizon: 1977-1978 Now The Chips Are Down
How long until someone converts a cruise ship to a hospital ship and parks it off the coast.

The US healthcare system just gets weirder and weirder, almost everything has been tried except fixing it.
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That's funny because I think that the syntax of elixir is simpler than that of erlang. Records, for example, are rather atrocious, and meaningful line terminators makes code slightly harder to read, and reuse and refactoring... Annoying. And then there's header files...
Who is this “we”? I consume things I don’t need because I like them; your own decision making process may differ from mine though, so I wouldn’t like to speak for anyone else.

We need very little ; food is cheap, air and water are generally free, shelter is not strictly necessary. I choose to spend money on things I don’t need, such as a warm and comfortable indoor place to sleep, because they bring me more pleasure than the extra dollars in my bank balance might.

“Need” is a pretty high bar to clear, I don’t think that should be your standard for what you buy. I think what you’re asking is something more like “why do people buy things which fail to give them enough benefit to justify their purchase”, which is a good question, but perhaps can only be answered by the individual concerned, through introspection.

Sometimes I worry I’m the opposite — that instead of spending too much money on things that don’t give me benefit I’m being too cheap, and failing to buy things that actually would be worthwhile. On the other hand I’m sure I make errors on both sides.
The infrastructure to carry out that attack against BCH would cost around a billion dollars in mining equipment and power. Not exactly what you would call a small miner. BCH also has rolling 10 block checkpoints so max you could reorg would be 10 blocks or < 2 hours of transactions.

In reality there is nowhere you could rent this hashpower and miners that do have it would never risk the legal, social and monetary consequences to rollback 2 hours of transactions.
A couple of hundred critical apps is a huge understimation in my opinion.

What is different now than when Windows Phone flopped? They had tens of thousands of phone apps (although I can't find an exact number), and it clearly wasn't enough.
To some extent has been true for every big country that has successfully become a first world country after the WWII devastation. After the WWII Japan, South Korea, and Germany all had trade policies where the government coordinated closely with big export sector companies. Japan was famous for copying everything. Japanese businessmen toured western factories as potential customers with cameras, went home and build the same factory.

The trick to success is to expose companies to free competition in the global markets while protecting and supporting them in every other way. State aid in financing loan guarantees was the norm. Protecting home markets from competition was the norm.
>Sounds like an administration completely out of control.

This isn't an administration completely out of control.

This is a society completely out of control.

The administration simply reflects the prevailing social attitude, and that attitude is that we want to take away the rights of children to properly develop (and more to the point, limit the rights of parents to allow their children to develop) and hand it over to concern trolls and/or the paranoid so that they may exercise power over their neighbors under the guise of looking out for them- remember, abuse from CPS is always initiated by a "concerned citizen".
Oppression, after all, is always at its worst when the oppressors act with the approval of their own conscience.

Societies typically fail to deal with this kind of person appropriately, because when risk is exposed it both presses emotional buttons and provides an easy way out (by banning the risk).

The way it's correctly dealt with is to write laws that ban society from paying that kind of Dane-geld. These laws codify things called "rights"; and their primary function is to prevent unwarranted risk aversity (be it genuine, or fake to score political points) by setting down a baseline beyond which those that spread terror are not negotiated with (that your children will be abducted unless you pay the ransom of never letting them outside, or that they'll grow up to be mass killers unless you pay the ransom of banning rock music, D&D, and video games), even if the allegations are correct (a child raised in a locked cage will by definition never be abducted).

Utah has passed such a law (I'm not sure about other places, though Red states are by current definition more likely than Blue ones to do this) explicitly codifying the right of way of minors of "sufficient age and maturity" in its state definition of "neglect" so that State power can't be abused to harass them. While it's not a permanent solution explicitly recognizing the rights of persons of sufficient age and maturity (as it could easily be changed later, and even if minors had the explicit right of way they would be unlikely to realize if it was being infringed), it's a good first step.
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Huawei’s HarmonyOS Is Still Far from Being a Real Competitor for Android
Is the American government position “Guns don’t kill people, encryption kills people”, or am I just combining the personal opinions of a bunch of unrelated people who work for the government?
That's the most out of touch American thing I've ever read on this site.
Almost no one writes macros in the elixir ecosystem though, only the biggest players (phoenix, ecto, exunit).

I have no problem reading my elixir code from a year ago. The erlang otp tftp module, by contrast, is indecipherable, with three layers of module indirection I had to fight against (there was a fatal bug with a misspelled atom that I couldn't trace the code path to). In the end, I just wrote my own tftp.
That is not true at all.

There are state-owned companies, and there are private companies. Competition is intense.

The links of private companies with party officials is not caused by some cultural difference that makes boundaries fuzzy but by plain old unchecked power and corruption: The Party can make or break you so you need to stay on "friendly" terms with them.

This tends to happen everywhere there is no separation of powers and rule of law. In China it is simply perhaps better organised (or perhaps not).

A corollary is that being a Party member is useful for one's career. The Party also recruits as a way of keeping control.