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>The truth is that the U.S. China relationship has been extremely one-sided for a very long time now: China buys the hardware it needs, and keeps all of the software opportunities for itself — and, of course, pursues software opportunities abroad.

The US started off the game with a lot more technology, knowledge, and power than the Chinese. I'm kind of iffy that developing nations should open their markets entirely to the largest multinational corporations especially if that means steamrolling the local companies. A lot of Chinese companies would not have been able to start if they instantly got out marketed by large American ones.
It seems like the legislature and Governor tried to skirt the intention of the electorate and in practice prevent people with convictions from voting.
It’d be much worse if what you say was completely true, though certainly there are idiot countries trying to fool everyone including themselves that doing business with dictators is good for them.
That's right. By including the Intercooler.js library, we don't need to write custom JS when developing features in our web app. We can take full advantage of JS APIs like AJAX and EventSource by only adding declarative HTML attributes to our markup.
This. So much this.

Deplatforming is deplatforming. If one supported the deplatforming of Alex Jones, and doesn't also support China on this, then they are a hypocrite engaging in severe cognitive dissonance.

Freedom of speech is not some "loophole" that allows people to say nasty things. It's a bulwark against authoritarianism. The ones who forget that need to study world history when it comes to freedom of speech and expression.
Which of those signifies benevolence?

What foreign infrastructure projects? Surely not the ones where they lend money to foreigners but then China owns them? That's just investment, it's not benevolent.

The same for providing loans.

Neither of these are benevolent - they are financial tools to gain traction and influence on the world stage, as well as to make money. I don't think we can attribute any positive intent (towards the rest of the world) to these behaviors.
Hopefully tariffs and sanctions convince them to back off. This kind of commercial censorship is arguably a trade infringement that can be responded against in kind.
The logical argument you are making re: these employees is to say that women and men should all enlist to fight the British Army and if they don't then the British Army is right to continue committing human atrocities on them.
People under 18 would be in the less desirable crowd that the parent referred to. Crying babies and out of control teenagers are 50% of why I avoid public transit (the other two being drunks/addicts and/or the homeless).
We need to adopt an economic system that doesn't prize currency above human dignity.
They support freedom from logic too, apparently. Probably because logic was outlawed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_in_China#The_repression_...
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My definition of open source is the definition of open source. This is a fact. If you are gaslighting people to believe otherwise you are an enemy of the open source community.
It proves that you're too lazy to read, which is generally the winning point in an argument.
Yes, I meant the OSI.

Yes, it doesn't fit either definition, so it shouldn't be called either.

The term 'free software' is hard to keep 'pure', because it has an obvious meaning for people who know nothing about software licensing.

But IMO, the terms 'libre software' and 'open source' should not be diluted. It doesn't serve any purpose to mis-use those terms, except confusing everyone.
Not quite true.

* Vilnius takes down ads after China promotes unsanctioned commemoration – 'it's a geopolitical provocation' [1]

* Lithuania hands note to China over incident during Hong Kong support rally in Vilnius [2]

[1] https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/news-in-english/19/1100141/viln...

[2] https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/news-in-english/19/1093636/lith...

Edit: Included titles
> To my knowledge, this is the first time that serious AI researchers have publicly espoused the view that human-level or superhuman AI is impossible

Well, there's your first problem. Serious AI researchers have been publicly calling bullshit on superhuman AI since at least 1987, when my old professor Terry Winograd wrote the following in Understanding Computers and Cognition (1):

"one cannot build machines that either exhibit or model intelligence behavior"

The idea that "no serious researchers are skeptical about AGI" is a total fantasy perpetuated by people who haven o idea what they are talking about.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Computers-Cognition-Fou...
> the Chinese mindset is extremely subtle, resourceful, calculated, opportunistic, and oftentimes underhanded.

This is dark and is the type of claim that could be applied to almost any group of people without evidence (i.e. the American mindset is extremely subtle, resourceful, calculated, opportunistic, and oftentimes underhanded).
>anyone who can address that problem

If no one addresses this problem, regulations will be imposed.
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More like you go in the middle of the street and say, America shouldn't support south american dictators, and as a result all ISPs refuse you provide you with internet service. They're private companies they have the right do to so but good luck navigating todays world with out it.
> How about the US government?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/04/trump-china-ho...

Clearly our chief executive is happy to silence efforts. All for support re-electing him.

Why China would agree I don't know (the Falun Gong who hates the current Chinese government was, a few months ago the top-dollar supporter of the Trump campaign, not to mention the trade war).
>calling Hong Kong protesters “separatists”, etc.

Devil's advocate here...Are they not separatist? If not, shouldn't they be?

It's hard to imagine your "country" working on a death clock. In 2047 it all ends. So, what is the point of fighting the good fight at this point? Why not face the inevitable and leave while you can? Or fight for a final independence now, while you can?
And if they didn't use a GUI they either wouldn't use git at all or they would struggle with that too.
That's the rub with a free society. It's the same terrible people. If we foster hate speech, many people will eventually die. By allowing hate speech, you are allowing that outcome. Perhaps reprehensible is too strong of a word, but morally responsible certainly fits.

A small limitation on an 'unassailable' right (where is that status derived from?) is actually the solution that maximizes liberalism by limiting genocide.
If math is invented, then why are some answers right and some answers wrong?
Exactly. Taxing property encourages speculation and under-development.

Showing an alternative, Pennsylvania has several towns and cities with a split-rate tax, which means that there's a higher tax on the assessed land value than on the assessed value of the property. Taking this to an extreme, you can tax only the land value, not the property, providing a very strong incentive to make the best use of desirable land. A split rate tax just lets you turn the dial between typical property taxes and a land tax.

Many arguments in favor of the land value tax are based in concepts of economic rent and fairness. While I'm sympathetic to these arguments, I think the best argument is that it seems to work, both in theory and practice. Places that implement a split rate or land value tax tend to have fewer empty lots, parking lots, single-family homes in the middle of downtown, etc.

And not just that, but typical property taxes provide a disincentive to even improve your own property, since you'll pay more tax. They encourage blight.

It's not just California, it's everywhere. Tax policy isn't the only thing stopping us from avoiding sprawl by "thickening up" valuable areas of towns and cities, but it's a big one. Parking minimums are another, and of course zoning is yet another. All of them are important in terms of making our cities walkable, amenable to public transit, and sustainable environmentally.

*edit -- I should clarify that Prop-13 makes this effect worse in California than many places, though.
I asked some questions, rather than trying to convey some arguments, since I'm not expert in any way about Hong Kong situation. The only thing led me making this post is after watching the old lady video I felt it's important to introduce some other viewpoints to the discussion happening on HN, a website I visit daily and I appreciate the HN community. Other than that I don't have any stake in the game. You might watched the beginning of the second video and think I talk about clean up after pretesting? In that video protesters shined laser on that old lady.

I might not have expressed my question clearly. Thanks for bearing with me:

1. Let's say the whole city would like to obtain democracy as fast as they can, strike would be one of the most effective method for nonviolent resistance, no? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance) I'm curious why this way of protesting has not been employed yet?

2.
>My wife was just showing me a video of an undercover police officer trashing government property and threatening pepper spray when videoed --

I'm very aware of those police shenanigans. I'm also ok with violence against oppressive police/military. However, does this justify violence against not armed civilians with different opinions? If your answer is yes then it's fine. It would help me understand the perspective of westerners better.
This likely works because a) you know what you're doing (cherry-pick), and b) you're being careful (staging carefully).

Anything works when both of those prerequisites are met. You're unlikely to do the bad things that force more advanced needs.

Everyone should do this. Think back to how much time you've lost due to git problems. It'd probably take less time to learn it correctly up-front, and never have to deal with them ever again.
Too little data to train on?
Our future has really been stolen from us. Decades of pollution from greed and decadence and excess, as Thunberg says “fantasies of eternal economic growth”, have totally destroyed our future (speaking as a young person). Climate change robs us of a stable world, robots rob us of our livelihoods, and decades of ‘economic growth’ have poisoned our bodies and minds from birth through polluted water, air, and food.

Everything is an ecosystem. You can’t have wild growth without paying for it, and the people of the past 75 years have stolen our bright futures from us and stuck us with the bill. Your comment reminded me of just how fucked up everything is. I think the 21st century will be consumed by the efforts to clean up the giant mess the 20th century left us. Goodbye economic growth. They stripmined the timeline and left us nothing.
Wow thanks Yev ! It's #499226

No hard feelings at all against the support guy, who probably has to deal with dubious customer claims all day. But it was pretty frustrating when he told me the log file I looked at couldn't possibly have anything relevant in it, when I had in fact just showed him plenty of relevant things from it :)
It's easy today to imagine we are smarter than people 2000+ years ago, but it's more like we are standing on the shoulders of a ton of generations before us. I always wonder if I went back in time 2000 years from today, if I would be able to translate my knowledge at all into the limitations of back then. The folks who built this only knew what they knew back then or could imagine, but were still able to build this complex machine.
One of Spiderman's developers gave a very interesting talk about this (and more) during the Game Developers Conference this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDhKyIZd3O8
I'm not sure how the law is actually skirting the constitutional amendment. It seems to actively conflicting with it. I updated my post to be more clear.
why did this post get so low so quickly? who is downvoting?
How is this anti China propaganda? These are legitimate complaints that haven't been properly addressed nor called out for years.
What is going on in Coyhaique, Chile, I wonder.

Edit: made headlines https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/17/a-city-suffoc...
Probably there's a bit of a continuum here between starving China and not batting an eye as they scoop the living eyes out of some poor Falun Gong after they slice him open and cut out all his organs.
I struggle to believe that this is a core concern, and not a response to other pressures. For example, being reliant on other countries for energy.
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That doesn't seem like as big of a problem, because you, as the user of an open source library, can take steps to prevent such things from affecting you. Most places I've worked at have their own repos with copies of any maven/node/ruby/whatever dependencies used.
> What about it-ism doesn't get us anywhere.

This is false. Energy, money, time and resources are better used focusing on domestic concerns that can easily be resolved, not foreign matters.

The USA has never owned up to anything without violent protests, and as you say yourself, a war. China will have the same growing pains I'm sure. I won't bother list what USA has done in foreign nations, but suffice it to say it's pretty bad.

The point is that people don't actually care about the bad things, it's just typical anti-China sentiment being fed by major publications.
Yeah, the Han Chinese have zero history of considering other peoples inferior. Give me a fucking break.

You sound like someone who was on the Shah's payroll in the 70s.
Give me a break, this guy literally just wrote out "cow-towing"
If you ask ten different cartographers to create a map of the world, you'll get ten different maps. That hardly proves that the world doesn't exist.

We decide where the line should be drawn through argument and public debate, and by refusing to comply with weaker definitions from anyone who can't convince us using reason that where they want to draw the line is actually in the interest of the people.
I think consciousness raising is important to. Many have made efforts to explain these downsides, but it is a never ending challenge to keep the public aware of why closed source technology harms them compared to potential open options. Consumer opinion is one of the tools we can use to change this situation, and an important one IMO.
Medical equipment more and more often has networked embedded software that can't be updated. They won't throw away a multimillion-dollar device just because it can't be upgraded from Windows XP.
You're getting some negative reaction because you're missing the points OP was making.

1) At points, they were waging a war that did not rely on terrorist/guerrilla tactics. OP did not claim they don't do 'terrorist stuff' at all. Waging conventional war requires control of territory, which is why this is important.

2) Saying ISIS is/controls a state would have you labeled as a terrorist sympathizer in the media or in conversation. This demonstrates that calling something a 'state' has an implicit moral connotation in popular culture. OP is arguing this should not be true.

None of OPs points were a _moral_ judgement of ISIS. I think we can all agree ISIS is bad.

For instance, I strongly believe Palestine should be an independent, free state distinct from Israel. However, the UN _recognizing_ it as a state does not mean it magically becomes one. The UN is just making a political point, but sadly one that has little impact on the reality in Palestine.
Jeremy Lin is Taiwanese bruh
> Spec 2 has been kind of stalled out as Rich is thinking through some of the work we were doing on how to rework function specs and the use case of automating form/map versions of the specs.

It's fascinating to watch a major enterprise language with a Steve Jobs figure at the top, who maintains a firm grip on the wheel, keeping it on track with his clear vision even as its community grows in scale, to the point where he alone would be a bottleneck in its design process.

I mean it's clearly working out - as it worked out for Jobs - it's just highly unusual.
The lens is that of an SRE, but what the author is basically doing is applying an iterative improvement process, or learning cycle, or decision cycle. There are many examples of them in many industries. Many of them are used to improve quality, but they can also be used to fix crappy process. I find they work best when implemented asynchronously (e.g. an outsider who is pissed off decides to fix the broken thing, and goes around and helps improve different parts of the process)
$50 is incredibly cheap for a home-router (which also is a wireless access point, a switch and a firewall).
Prosumer or enterprise grade hardware is usually magnitudes more expensive.

An edgerouter X is $50 for instance, but doesn't have wifi and lacks serious routing features. It is considered a very low end router compared to more expensive stuff from Juniper or Cisco. (even an entry grade router/firewall like an SRX300 will run you back atleast 4x the price of the edgerouter.)

One thing these $50 routers lack besides proper software is stability. Most consumer networking equipment has an abysmal track record in terms of reliability.
Cleaning all that stuff up is an opportunity for growth. Entire industries will need to be involved in order to pull it off.
It is a bit beyond frustrating. More like infuriating.
Whoever patches them will be the one who maintains control over them. What organizations are best positioned to do that? I suggest the intelligence agencies of Russia, Israel, and the US. Whether any of them will take the opportunity is anyone’s guess.

Of course, the underlying problem here is that users depend on vendors for patching, and their incentives are misaligned. Free software like DD-WRT removes that dependency and thus the incentive misalignment problem. To the extent that educational, legal, and technical measures prevent users from exercising the freedoms of free software in practice, these problems will get worse and worse
So all this sad show is based on false reporting about something that Stallman didn't say about something that Minsky didn't even do.

I don't know how the people who caused this can look at their reflection in the mirror with a straight face.
This times a thousand!
> a Chinese term for a deep bow of respect

Not so much a "deep bow" as "prostration on the ground".
Self-driving cars will render these obsolete
Oh, yeah, I remember that one !
Sure you can. You can add flavour with other languages, too. For example, I only really learned about the subjunctive mood after learning it in French, which uses it much more distinctly than in English.
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SF water comes from Hetch Hetchy so it's probably ok. I would worry about lead maybe..
Unlike BDS, decoupling from China will require real tangible sacrifices and effort and can create serious pushback. Israel punches way above it's weight both geopolitical and economically, but they are still not big player. Most people are activists only when it is safe, cheap and convenient.
Policy Failures Are Killing the American Dream
This wasn't the government's decision though, was it? It was Blizzard's decision.

Just makes me wonder where all of this is going. Americans left and right are choosing China's cultural decisions over America's cultural ... legacy for the lack of a better word.

Over money.

It's like the Americans who love America, because America made them rich, are now loving China because China is richer. I don't know which is more American, actually.

It might be more "American" to love money more than America. Americans have shown it is more important to love money more than where you were born.

It's all so ... poetically disturbing.
So we should be like the Chinese and prize power over human dignity instead?
Well written thoughts.

I am more terse in my summary RE RMS: A genius asshole is obviously a genius, but more importantly, still a [royal fucking] asshole.

I do feel bad for RMS, aside from my criticism of him. I feel like he is a tragic figure who could have had wildly different outcomes if he had even 10 or 20% more inter-personal social skills. That said, I will never attempt to minimize or discredit his meaningful contributions.
A Taxonomy of Tests
None of China’s checks and balances proceed past theory. In reality, they just have a hierarchy and and as long as the top leader says something is ok, it is. Under Hu it was a bit better, since Hu was so weak, but in that case the result of the hierarchy breaking down was an increase in corruption.

Yes, China has laws and those laws are often enforced, you won’t get away with murder probably. But if an official feels like they want to intervene, all bets are off; the only recourse for justice are the whims of an even greater official.

And I’m not saying that China is a dangerous place to live: as long as you don’t go against the party’s (or a family member of such) interest, you aren’t going to be effected by a lack of rule of law (though you still have to be careful of rule by law). The pollution will kill you before anything bad happens to you in china’s legal system.
"rights" as defined by libertarians and anarchists who follow the non aggression principles, are assumed as axiomatic, or considered "self-evident" to them at least. It is a belief based on a form of trancendencent morality above the whims of flawed humans, but universally exist (somewhere) in the hearts of all humans. There is no proof of this of course, but many believe it.
That's true, but is fundamentally a different idea than your earlier framing suggested to me. Lobbying is absolutely a thing and tends to be funded by people with deep pockets.
You don't watch Mr. Robot do you?
This is a useful essay and I can't disagree with any of the points made, but I'm afraid it strikes me as over-intellectualized and over-written. The points being discussed don't demand such dense language or esoteric diction — to the extent, even, that I think it will turn many would-be readers away. If I had a free hour maybe I'd write a (much) shorter and more approachable TL;DR, but, alas...
Looks awesome! I want it for New York ver.
With same mentality and illusion, westerners collectively destroied Iraq, Libya, cause huge human rights issue. It's ridiculous that while condeming China's cencorship, a lot of truths are suppressed by downvoting based on the illusion that the activists here who believe they stand on a higher moral ground. Wake up guys, those who condemned China's human right abuse are the same people who are responsible for the suffer of Iraq and Libya people.
It's not just executables. I once caught Microsoft Defender sending copies of sensitives files like places.sqlite out of my Firefox profile directory to Redmond. Needless to say, I disabled that feature permanently via local policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_%27Em_All
It's easy to frame "team fit" as "a team of 1Xers will be more productive than a team or 10Xers who all can't stand each other," but I am going to put Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album on and say "citation needed."

Also, "team fit" is very nice when used in good faith, but all-too-often, hiring for "culture fit" or "team fit" ends up being a euphemism for "valuing a monoculture over valuing competence."

Here's HN discussing this exact subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3868873
I don't think there is anything practical to be learned from this writing...

Anecdotally, I've been working in the software industry for only one year (used to be in academia), but I really feel like the main challenge is collaboration and team organization. That, and tackling huge code bases.

Designing abstractions, algorithms, and all that technical stuff really is the easy part.
Yeah the old guard of scifi embody the "never meet your heroes" quip.
You basically need to keep your windows open in SV. That and live up in the hills.