skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huawei responded to this study, and the author responded to Huawei's response [1]. Salient point:

> Our bottom-line conclusion about what it all means is just our opinion. If readers disagree with our conception of what employee ownership means and prefer Huawei’s, that’s their opinion. As long as everyone understands what the structure is, what label one puts on it is not ultimately that important.

[1] https://thechinacollection.org/huaweis-ownership-huaweis-sta...
The interesting thing that after the paper was published Huawei launched a campaign about this topic

https://www.huawei.com/minisite/who-runs-huawei/en/

https://twitter.com/huawei/status/1157213584985751553
Should suffice for my needs, see for example here

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R4200

under R4300i which mentions 45mm² for the die.

Also mentioned here [2] https://bits-chips.nl/artikel/small-series-of-chips-profitab...

are 0.25-micron to be released this year, with 190nm and smaller on the roadmap.

Which leads us to [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/250_nanometer at least.

Maybe not comparable in die size for all the chips mentioned there, i don't care so much, because i don't want to clone or emulate them. I want to go simpler. Rebranch from the 70ies so to speak, to take all the roads not taken since then. Just to see what's there :-)
I believe there's something like 59 sponsors of the bill in Congress. A complete list is here: https://energyinnovationact.org/

Encourage your representative to sponsor the bill! You can also encourage people and organizations to endorse the bill: https://energyinnovationact.org/endorse/
One of the benefits to ex. firejail is precisely that a Firefox exploit does not compromise ex. ~/.ssh
He also purchased a decommissioned, broken electron microscope from a university lab on eBay, and repaired it by himself.
Your faux intellectualism and politeness is a thin veil for your own blatant dishonesty. Or is it head-in-sand ignorance? Either way, you won't hear what you don't want to hear, and you don't want anyone else to hear it, either.

Shameful Marxist liars. One way or another, you won't stop until you starve millions of people, just like the Marxists before you. Evil never sleeps.
> In the US this would have taken many weeks and thousands of dollars.

The many weeks part is not true, the $ part is pretty much random and unknown.

Every time I've gotten injured, it has been a next day appointment, or I just walk into urgent care, and an MRI/Xray scheduled a day or two later.

The imaging clinic my doctor uses provides a complete price sheet before any services are given, saying exactly:

1. How much the overall bill is

2. How much they will be billing and reimbursed from the health insurance company

3. What the patient's total will be

> Meanwhile, back in Seattle,

I'm also in Seattle, find a better clinic! (Also ERs are overkill for 99% of things, sucks if you get injured after Urgent Care hours though...)
My company gives us unlimited time off - provided your team isn't going to be left with too few people then you just stick it in the calendar. It's incredibly liberating not having to plan your holidays to ensure you stay within X days, not having to request approval etc.
You are completely right, but this sounds to me like this puts Streisand in an even worse position.
This rule applies to certain Catholic traditions, eg abstaining from meat on Fridays.
I've been developing VueJS with Vuetify lately using only the CDN links with editing an html file.

Quasar and Vuetify are very similar, with Quasar appearing to have a few more components. The documentation is even very similar, and I like the readability of Quasar a little better.

It's good to know this exists!
This Acquired podcast episode did a great job covering the rise of Huawei https://lnns.co/oPr5nUSzLxX
What's the Consumer Protection on Dropbox?
Years of membership at 9.99. Happy with what a simple program could do. Not even at max capacity. THEN Dropbox wants to update and charge more. $2.00 a month more or 120.00 to get the old monthly rate. THEN they slam you into the program with lots of stuff I, for one, don't need or want. They don't even offer to grandfather their loyal customers in (since 2014). Seems to me there should be some consumer protection somewhere. Anyone know the agency to contact?
I think this is a perfectly reasonable analogy. It’s not controversial to say that defence contractors in the US operate at the behest of the US government. The government uses national security to control their IP and dictate who they’re allowed to do business with, ensuring that their commercial activity is aligned with policy objectives. The Chinese government effectively has that level of control over their entire economy.
This is also age of consent in many European countries.
Architectural question: why are people fighting to drag x86 unwillingly into the open space rather than taking something open (ARM, MIPS, anything else) and bringing it up the security curve?

Crypto and VPN seem like ideal points to basically put a fork in x86 since they are not dependent upon raw CPU performance. It would seem that fracturing the x86 world by picking off individual use cases until x86 has very little left would be the best option (ie. exactly what x86 did to mainframes).
or is on the outside of a big group shot

By definition, someone is always "on the outside".
I’m not too surprised by this. The function of every form, wizard, walk-thru, or guided app is to end up with a blob of data to post to the backend. While the blob could be relatively simple, e.g. iCal for recurring event, the UI can be extremely complicated because every valid combination must be achievable but all invalid combinations must be blocked. Google Flights UI is better than United at coming up with the right data blob to post. Once the blob is created, United final page and backend have no problem parsing and posting it.
Hi friends, can I ask another question related to MySQL? And maybe AWS!

I have a lot of spreadsheets and PDFs as a silo, and I want be able to build a searchable MySQL database from those documents.
Does it possible? How?
Maybe you are taking the article to literally.

I thought it was a great read & enjoyed the writing style. I took it to be very tounge in cheek. It was a good overview of a number of cool products I was unaware of, while also being very funny and entertaining.

Pretty silly ending, he just went back to doing the same old stuff he used to do. Fun read!
It was getting out of the Canadian credit card market, not it's relationship with JPMorgan (which is the same company).
Clearly the “and” was not strong enough, based on the negative comments.

“is that the man was both guilty and white” might have done the trick.
You must be my son from the future...takes everything literally.
How much do you think they'd pay to get to torture small animals?

I had a boss who brought up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Sanity and organizational sociopaths about twice a month.

He must have been doing a better job of shielding us from his bosses than I thought, or I've had more crazy bosses than I thought, because a lot of it seemed like normal bureaucratic pathology to me, if a little more intense than usual.
If you think convenience is a bad thing, then you’re free to live your life accordingly. But you’re not going to convince many other people to join you.
Just shutting down for a month like many companies in parts of Europe is great. Means you don’t even have “time off work”, it means work doesn’t exist because no one else works either. You return after (at least) a month to an empty inbox.
Farm subsidies started during the New Deal. I believe one effect of those subsidies was to maintain a reserve of farm capacity that was used in WWII to provide needed food aid to our allies, including the Soviets.
Can you name one security vulnerability from this document that, in a functionally-similar architecture that used OpenBSD and didn't use Kubernetes, would have been prevented by OpenBSD's security model?

("Don't build the system you want to build, build the system I want you to build" isn't an answer.)
Very impressive result. But Christ is it ugly.
Combined profit margin for all US airlines was a touch above 6% in 2018. But that was still $11.8 billion in profit.

https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2018-annual-and-4th-quarter-us-...
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698235
I find this social behavior amazing. And I'm very surprised that humans are capable of it. This is a behavior often recognised in animals that are in captivity.

Personal experience is with some finches. Finches refuse to hatch their fertilised eggs by breaking them, if they were forced to mate in a cage. I was a breeder for a brief while.
>It is so improbable that a labor class is also a capital class

I do not see how Huawei isn’t any more a cooperative than how Iran or the US has popular representation.

Just because there is several layers of indirection does not prevent representation, it also requires the alignment of the represented’s desired outcomes with the representation’s actual accomplishments.
Marxists have a term for what you're describing: "state capitalism."
I very much think socioeconomic status is more likely a better fit.

I have a feeling if you did the same test but instead of “crime” you did “wealth percentile” you’d probably end up with the same results in the United States though unfortunately.

Not a lot of well off minority neighborhoods throughout the country and the wealth disparity even with all the poor white people is very real.
Haha yeah, probably, because people make all sorts of mistakes every day. I see people going through stop signs all the time, for instance.
Huawei reveals HarmonyOS, its alternative to Android
> We know nothing about the internal governance procedures of the trade union committee.

> We do not know who the committee members or other trade union leaders are, or how they are selected.

> Given the public nature of trade unions in China, if the ownership stake of the trade union committee is genuine, and if the trade union and its committee function as trade unions generally function in China, then Huawei may be deemed effectively state-owned.

There are lots of unknowns and many if's. It is far-fetched at best that Huawei is state-owned.
Now which of these are easy to run locally?

I'm starting to work with minikube at work and I feel like that would be a fun solution for installation (well, minikube + helm).

Another solution that seemed cool but sort of puttered out was https://sandstorm.io
Drivers cause congestion on the roads not the sidewalks, they’re only affecting other drivers, and if you expect the center of major cities to be a quiet and peaceful place, then I think you’re just setting yourself up for a lifelong disappointment on that front.
Pretty sure it was called farecast.com
One sketch of such a system is to physically mate an effective high T solar absorber to an effective narrow spectrum photon emitter (as described in this work). Then that can be coupled with a typical solar cell with bandgap matched precisely to the emitter wavelength. So your solar cell is near ideally efficient for the photons it receives. As I understand the emissivity of these materials can exceed blackbody radiation in the near-field but not the far-field (or something like that? Search "Superplanckian emission").

The devices as I am familiar are often called thermophotovoltaic cells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophotovoltaic

See eg http://xlab.me.berkeley.edu/pdf/259.pdf for a great overview, esp section 3.3.

I saw this video recently that I found accessible from an undergrad physics background and got me interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnVVyTD7CzM
Superlife STC30 – Plant Based Stem Cell Supplement
I think the interviewing method depends on the role. If it is a senior developer role that requires solid knowledge of a specific technology, I would absolutely value their ability to write code. If it is a junior dev position, then I would value critical thinking skills and attitude since they are expected to learn and grow.

Regardless, I like simple coding questions. My favorite one to ask: given a string of text, output the frequency of each word. Does the candidate know how to use a map/dictionary? Can they split a string? Does the candidate consider apostrophes and punctuation?
I've seen it. Lower your expectations.
>The more regulation the more ownership of the state. Private companies are mostly an illusion these days as you can't do whatever you want with "your" company.

Yes, it's just disgusting that private companies and their owners have to obey laws like anyone else.
I sold at the height of the right-hand shoulder. So if I stayed in, I'd actually be worse-off now.
> For anything ~ 200k+ that isn't literally holding your baby hostage from imminent death, it's probably cheaper to get a degree in chemistry and some lab equipment.

Or find a chemist who was tempted by Breaking Bad but found the ethical problems and risk profile unsatisfactory, who would jump at the chance for a little profitable humanitarian patent infringement.

Which leads to an interesting HN startup idea (or at least a Cory Doctorow novel): SciHub, but for drugs…
I looked at Vuetify too but what finally sold me on Quasar was the integrated deployment to mobile, desktop and PWA.
That's 122mm², which is larger than some Pentium II dies, so if you're okay with designing to a circular die[0], you could fit a Pentium II-grade CPU on each wafer.

0: The main reason to use a rectangular die is that they tesselate better to fit many dies per wafer.
Islamic State wages desert-based insurgency in Iraq and Syria
I’d argue that we saw automated propaganda at least three years ago — and there’s a case Facebook et al have been engaging for at least a decade.
WeWork to Unveil IPO Filing as Soon as Next Week
The sources of this paper are a bunch of random Chinese internet portal news. Is this considered academic research these days?
83 Italian scientists recently signed a letter to their government saying that the AGW hypothesis is unproven and largely false.

But you won't see that on Wikipedia or Bloomberg, just pretty pictures with "reputable" sources.

Of course, science is all about consensus, right? That's what John Cook says, anyway, and he's so "skeptical."
I well and truly hope the Gel-Mann effect applies here and this is being exaggerated or misreported.

Cause what is described here is absolutely insane.
In an ideal world, all government regulations are well thought out and limited to things that are minimally invasive to the citizen, and still allow the citizen to be free to make a choice. Nutrition labels are a good example of this.

In the real world, many regulations are influenced by corporations to serve their own interests. The food pyramid is an example of this.

Anyone aware of the latter should be skeptical of any proposed regulation, especially in the US. Is it in the best interest of the populace, or was it influenced to be in the best interest of a lobbying organization?
> Can you usually purchase cheap local produce for less than that offered by a conglomerate?

You can never purchase local, small batch ____ than you can from large companies. That's why companies get large - they are more efficient the larger they get (to oversimplify).

Your local farmer has much less land than factory farm, and he doesn't have the state of the art equipment to harvest or store his crops. He can't justify spending so much money on equipment when he runs such a small farm.

There's also a good chance he uses "organic" as a selling feature, which means his yeild per area land is way lower than an efficient farm.

He also has to work much harder to actually sell his crop. He doesn't have large commercial deals that put his product directly onto shelves at Aldi. He has to spend half his time driving all over the place to various farmers markets to try and get people to buy his stuff.

You might think all of this is pedantic or obvious, but I think efficiency of food production is very important. Food production is a massive contributor to climate change and opting for methods than can save on land area and water usage can have big impacts.
Proving significant state ownership should be the goal then. Doesn't have to be majority. Maybe 15-30%?

Chinese state owns some of most Chinese companies. Some passive through the central bank open market operations, some more direct and controlling.

So it is almost like trying to prove a negative, with Chinese companies, but if we really want to dive deeper on this particular issuance, the opaque trade union governance is a nice tip of the iceberg.

I just think it is such a weird assertion to start with.
Is this what people actually do? I mean I'm aware I could neutralize them, but Cu is still going to be in there and I still can't pour this stuff down the drain. Then there's ferric chloride which is just nasty stuff that will likely stain everything it comes in contact with. I just want to get rid of it in a fully environmentally safe way.
It's not just Google, there are startups making enterprise software these days that officially don't support Firefox.
By photography, I meant the photolithography, as you mentioned to another replier. This inherently will cause softness as described since there's always going to be light leakage and the masks you use will never be truly perfect. Given the sizes though, they're pretty damn good.

As for 'modern tech' vs. old tech, I'm referring to if you made the same size silicon structure on newer tech. When you get down to 7nm or whatever, the same problems show up (or even new ones) because the sizes get smaller. I wouldn't be surprised if the image from 1997 is 180nm or larger nodes.

Also, unlike the other replier, I don't think there's any meaningful diffraction (causing softness) by the actual SEM images... they don't use glass lenses like traditional cameras.
Secretly?
Ah, that makes more sense. Thank you!
> This point to an actual use of the cryptocurrency - exploiting a 0 day against someone who might have a crypto wallet means you can actually directly make money off exploits. Prior to crypto, having a 0 day wasn't equal with ability to make blackhat money with it...

Why would that be the case when it is not illegal to sell exploits?
Do you confuse this robot with your mother?
Even if you can manage to find li-ion cheaper, you would need to build a pack of 6+ 18650 cells for comparative capacity. A single Pb is much simpler. Bam, $18, done, a single unit, 80Wh ready to go, super simple to charge too.

It's not like the size or weight matters to him, and it seems his panel is big enough to avoid deep cycling it too often.
would you classify Tencent on the same level as Huawei? And if so, does that mean most American youth are plugged into League Of Legends & Fortnite, a Chinese Surveillance system ? lol
> Put payment for a procedure in escrow, sign all the malpractice waivers and try to attract a doctor like tinder. I'll sign all malpractice waivers if you'll just cut this cancer out of my gut. We can use my living room! It's this or death anyways so fuck it! America WOO

Nice try, buster. The medical profession is one of the most intensely regulated that exists. There is simply no opportunity to sell "best effort gallbladder removal by a student who took some years of medicine in Guatemala". You would be instantly jailed for a very long time.

Even if, overall, the availability of such a service would save much more lifes than the current situation. Americans painted themselves into a corner: they asked the state to guarantee the quality of medical services while allowing providers to run for profit. What you get is an out of control lobby spiral that optimizes for more regulation that makes it even harder to compete, pushing competitors out of the market and the prices and profits of the incumbents soaring.
Had it been a reading list from anyone else I may not have looked as I feel as fatigued as your statement suggest you are as well(and you are very much talking about my bookshelf as well)...

But there is a special place in my heart for certain folks...Alan Kay is one of em. Time to move some of that dust on my shelf around.
Creator of Tailwind here, that's exactly what I would recommend too.

Here are the markdown styles for my own personal website for example:

https://gist.github.com/adamwathan/d257699f16ec7cc1b002b5fb7...
Energy density isn't arbitrary. It normally means something can be used in compact form (batteries, oil, gasoline, coal, uranium) and deliver energy at will.

Look at the capacity factor of wind and solar, add to that the huge areas they need and the fact that they are intermittent and you start to get a glimpse of the problem.

This is neither economically nor technically feasible. You can't generate as much as you think and you can't do it at a cost that makes it feasible generally for society not even with lowered cost.

Currently, we are talking 1% of world energy consumption not expected to be much more than 3-4% in 2040 and that's despite huge investments and all the political goodwill you can ask for [1] Keep in mind that the numbers you normally see displayed is for electricity not for energy. Electricity is only a subset of energy.

Furthermore, investments in solar and wind is decreasing especially when you take china out of the equation. [2]

And again. Lab results or theoretically possible advantages most of the times aren't feasible in reality and at scale.

[1] https://www.iea.org/weo/?fbclid=IwAR3eH1AFcRSPSEit8JINLCMvE_...

[2] https://www.globalresearch.ca/growth-renewables-stalled-inve...
> I suppose in some sense this is dependent on a temperature difference

It is absolutely dependent on a temperature difference, because it relies on cooler water that isn't already flashing into steam.
Nah. "Move fast and break things" usually has an implicit "and bypass all the security, we'll fix it later"
You can call it silly all you want it doesn't change the facts.

We aren't close to doing anything even in rich countries. Wind and solar is less than 1% of world energy. And even in countries that are rich the cost is pushed onto the consumers just ask Germany.

https://www.iea.org/weo/?fbclid=IwAR3eH1AFcRSPSEit8JINLCMvE_...
Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut Costs