skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can we get Tim Cook to make a statement regarding democracy in Hong Kong? Either he refuses, which would be supporting the brutal crackdowns, or he forces China to act as they did like in the NBA case.
But on the other hand, 'picking and choosing' can be automated in many ways (eg A/B testing), and in a very real sense, that's what the last research OA released on GPT-2 is about: https://openai.com/blog/fine-tuning-gpt-2/ (Because the human preferences are used to train a critic which then 'picks and chooses' by ranking output by quality to further train the text generator.)
As China has become increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic, etc recently (foreigners in China are seeing more and more hostility and visits by cops, and minders that follow them and keep tabs) they've been taking their business opportunities to Vietnam, etc. Apple should work to do the same.
> Taiwan (labor is more expensive, but they could maybe rely on automation more)

A few years ago, I was surprised to learn that Taiwan actually has low-cost but high-end (university-educated) labor. Ph.D. graduates abound.

It is an advanced economy yet wages are surprisingly low due to its export-focused strategy and various other structural causes. Cost of living in Taiwan also appears to be pretty low, which makes low wages bearable. It is a low-growth economy and it doesn't have the glitziness of Hong Kong, but everything feels 1st world (clean, technically advanced, efficient) so I'm not sure how the balance sheet there actually works out.

(that said, I understand many recent TW graduates tend to seek their fortunes in mainland China, where the pay is better.)
>We've heard over and over that we have freedom of speech, not freedom from the consequences of our speech.

Thats some nice doublespeak. By that definition the chinese people have total freedom of speech, just no freedom from the consequences of being disappeared by the CCP!
Isn't "clickbait" sensationalistic? In this case, the title and content strike me as boringly factual.
Define 'something'. As it stands, it's too broad.
> There is a difference between tolerating Blitzchung's opinions and letting him hijack an interview to make a political statement that has nothing to do with Hearthstone. I mean, he appeared wearing goggles and a gas mask, and the first (an only) thing he said was "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" in a post-game interview.

Wow, that is really offensive. I can see why they would ban him for a year for saying such horrible things.
> But they don't own any factories, right? Wouldn't it destroy Foxconn and only defer revenue a bit for Apple?

Do you realise that there would be no shortage of customers for them in China after Apple leaves? The biggest problem as I wrote in a post below is that Apple may leave China, but Foxconn can not. It will still have an absolutely mammoth manufacturing capacity that will be sold to Apple's competitors the moment they leave.

The biggest shock to me in recent days was seeing an advertisement for a humongous amounts of manufacturing machinery being pretty much liquidated by Foxconn. With the amount of stuff being sold, it can possibly be a double digit of Iphone production capacity.
For me, some are:

[1] High Output Management

[2] Thinking Fast and Slow (not technically a business book but very applicable)

[3] Blue Ocean Strategy

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[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Manag...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-a...

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4898.Blue_Ocean_Strategy
The history podcaster Mike Duncan gave a good example. On one of his shows he explained that when he’s researching a new topic, he’ll start by searching “[topic] historiography”. This gets you a history of the scholarship around a topic, rather than the history itself. What do experts think about different approaches and primary sources? How have those approaches changed? What are the major theories and strains of thought? Then the initial meta-historical reading points you towards actual sources and gives you a context to understand them in.
Trump’s Trade War Could Put Swiss-Size Dent in Global Economy, IMF Warns
Howdy, Automattic CEO here. The trial is meant to be mutual, so both sides get a realistic idea of what it’s like to work together.

I would say that how we work now 1 month is on the outside of how long I want the entire process to take, from application to offer letter. So that means the trial project can be a lot shorter.

People come in from all sorts of situations in terms of when and how they can participate, the key there is just communication. The team is very flexible in tailoring the process to be inclusive of different time restrictions people may have.

Finally I’ll just say as someone who used to be deep in the code and systems myself as WordPress and Automattic started and scaled, one of my favorite things today is seeing the impact new engineers joining can have on products and teams that impact large swathes of the web. If you’re curious at all about working with a fully distributed company with open source deep in its ethos, please drop in an application and come meet our folks. I’m always happy as well to exchange DMs or hop on a quick call to talk about our opportunities.
Vietnam is too small to go it alone, and that insecurity means that they are more aggressive about integrating themselves into the world economy, and making allies with the west (as a counter to China, ironically).
There's a write-up here with some details on the why/how and a few experiments (deduping >56T in 125 raw disks): https://blog.heckel.io/2019/07/22/deduplicating-ntfs-file-sy...
Your comments here and below have broken the site guidelines badly. Please read and follow them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note this one: Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data.

No one who reads these threads remotely objectively would say "The pro-china movement on HN is extremely strong". Accounts that argue that side are a tiny minority, and frequently get barraged with accusations of bad faith, which is a form of internet bullying. It's true that people sometimes create throwaway accounts to argue the other side. But it's easy to understand why—like I just said, they get barraged.

When we look into such cases, we nearly always find—to the extent that we find anything—that these commenters are people in Western countries who are either of Chinese background, have experience in China, or are Chinese expats. Sometimes they are Westerners living in China. Overwhelmingly, the evidence is that they are good faith users just like you are, who have different backgrounds and experiences from you, which lead them to see the same situations differently than you do. What that calls for is not accusation and suppression but tolerance. As a seasoned HN user, someone who has shared many of your own wide-ranging experiences over the years, you ought to be practicing and modeling that for others.

Could they be spies or shills or foreign agents? Sure they could; so could you. What can we do other than look for evidence? Some evidence of something—anything. You have zero evidence for making these dramatic sinister claims, which poison discussion and destroy community. Just imagine if someone accused you of being a paid propagandist or spy when you were simply posting in good faith. This is a mob behavior. It's not welcome on HN, which is why we have that guideline. (No, not because we're pro-Chinese or secret communists.)

How you leap from zero evidence to "it couldn't be more obvious" or (downthread) "the increasing number of accounts that are very, very obviously paid or otherwise government controlled to influence opinions on HN" is really shocking to me. You're far from the only user doing this—it's rampant—but it's utterly dismaying to see a longstanding and good HN contributor pouring this poison in here by the bucket.

By the way, when we find accounts that are using HN primarily for political battle, including nationalistic battle, we either ban them or ask them to stop. We do that regardless of what they happen to be battling for—it's against the site guidelines either way. But I can tell you from the heart, as the person responsible for keeping the peace here, that pro-China accounts doing such things are barely a blip of an issue compared to comments like the ones you posted here. They exist, but they're impotent. It's comments like yours, which manifest the real shadow of this community, that have me scared and worried for HN.
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Ticker and Tween and Controller = Basis of All Flutter Animations
Not all costs are monetary. The long term ramifications of our businesses cow-towing to mass-murdering authoritarians is far greater than potential profits.
AWS Lambda Golang: Image manipulation on lambda using Golang
Hi there, fellow golang folks.

I’m working on a project that requires some image transformation on the fly using aws lambda with s3.

Till now I was only able to find some good blogs on writing golang code to do image conversion and transformations, yet I could not find any dedicated golang library that can be deployed straight to AWS lambda with some config. Of which I got up with a thought of creating one myself for the community.

The focus of the library would be to give maximum possible implementation that a dedicated CDN like cloudinary does. Yet CDN thing will be the next milestone.

So just wanted to know before jumping into this. If this thing is really a requirement at all.
Good, there shouldn’t be money in sports.
Pretty common story from industrial and military waste. I had a biochemistry professor from Oklahoma whose hometown was exposed to industrial pollutants and the population had a substantially increased rate of endocrine cancers over decades.
Sure, but you surely you have stats? And why is latency a factor - surely you can work around that by improving your network protocol (think less TCP, more QUIC or something similar, etc)?

Anyway, okay, I'll test your trial again. :)
That's about passenger-miles, not commutes by person.

The statistic I'm seeing is that 76% commute to work by driving themselves. Another 9% carpool, and then the rest walk, bike, bus, train, etc.
But specialized education and the extent of that education is a privilege. Not everyone has access to the same levels of education.
Not really.

Kotlin already has an impedance mismatch with the JVM, because like all guest languages they have come up with their own ideas, which don't follow how the platform ended up implementing them.

Examples are sequences vs streams, lambdas vs SAM types, default interface methods, co-routines vs fibers, inline classes vs records, reflection.

Only first class support on JetBrains products, while many Java shops are still Eclipse, NetBeans and Oracle Studio users.

Additionally, since they want to stretch outside the JVM, there are semantic restrictions if the code is also supposed to be compiled by Kotlin/Native.

Kotlin has indeed a future on Android, given that Google is unwilling to move their support beyond the Android Java flavour (aka Google's own J++) and with #KotlinFirst, Android has become the KVM.

So, on Android I do agree that Kotlin has a bright future, however in what concerns the JVM I forsee an adoption cycle like every other JVM guest language.
NE Michigan is suffering from the pollution of PFAS as well. Been aware of it for about 9 years now but really only in the past year, maybe two, has the cleanup and awareness gained traction. It's still used in firefighting foam and any area near an Air Force or Army base likely has high risk of exposure to it.
This is not limited to closed software.
Remember the Chef developer who got all political and deleted his github.
This is the new norm in software it appears.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/chef_roasted_for_ic...

Luckily it was something that could be easily remedied.
I'm not saying this is not censorship. I'm just giving the boundary of free speech.
> We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles, we don't need any Molotov cocktails, we just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda – fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You managed some sort of internet trifecta here: Reddit, Nazis, and astroturfing.

This comment breaks several of the site guidelines badly. Could you please read them and follow them here from now on? We've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Density will eventually become relevant. What is the maximum human population of the Earth? How much energy would a planet-sized city need? How much space for cultivation or food manufacture?

Agreed about the current market factors, but constant is easier to manage.
I’m all for reform. I’d prefer we drop the whole notion of copyright but if we can just get sane terms with real expiration I’m on board.
U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
Brett I meant. Too late for edit.
> reducing my presents on the internet.

Presence?

Though I also agree that you shouldn't have presents on the internet, either.
https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/category/all

Interesting resource. But, how do you filter for just self-hosted... I can't find that as a specific category.
You aren't, by chance, referring to Rocketdyne and Simi Valley are you? Bc I lived in Simi in the 90s and this is freaking me out.
I mean, that concept was considerably developed by Indian thinkers. The only eurocentricism here is that poster's personal bias.
I have a question for you that I've always wondered about the answer, but I do not know anyone to which to pose the question.

How accessible is a basic, plain vanilla, semantic HTML document? I.e., a fully server side rendered HTML doc that uses paragraph and heading and so forth tags for what they semantically mean. Are those type pages accessible, or is more work required to make them accessible?
Yup, I can never understand these snap responses. I don't share the desire for authority to be correct that almost everyone else seems to share. Maybe the difference is most seek safety and conformity by adhering to groups and react negatively when those groups are attacked. Whereas others like myself seek novelty and truth and not safety. It's a haughty thought. But I wonder if it is actually true...
Doubt it. There's lots of money to be made: http://www.ycchina.com/
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How can people in the US live with this level of poison in the water? I would think that the government would pick up on it and get it fixed. It is an essential element for life. Even before we start talking to damage to the environment.
This would require it to be generally possible to audit AI at all, which would be a nice problem to solve.
Not too many coders seem to be concerned, but QuickTime was never really replaced. AVFoundation is not a full replacement for QuickTime if you do advanced authoring...
You may have to compromise on either speed or quality, but watching videos is not impossible. FWIW I had the best connection at 4 in the night, when I assume no one else in my apartment complex was still online. (All data 1 year out of data. Maybe everything is different now.)
I don’t work there, but have a few friends who do, and they have all said it’s a great company to work for and the compensation is good.
U.S. Adds Chinese Firms to Blacklist, Citing Repression of Muslim Minorities
Play the game in text mode ASCIIDENT in the browser
I don’t want folks to get too hung up on the 25/hr number, it’s not meant to be a negotiation or imply a salary — in fact it’s identical for every role at the company, whether you’re doing a trial project in support, engineering, or to be our new CFO. At the time when we introduced it other companies were having candidates invest a lot of time to get hired with zero compensation, which didn’t seem fair and we wanted to shift that. You can also compare 10-20 hours of a remote trial to the time spent flying to and from a city, being there for a day, and doing lots of on-site work and interviews.
Just like many Lisp and Scheme implementations that came before it.
Historically China's leaders have been very wary of even a small uprising: there is historical precedent for a dynasty being overthrown starting with the protest of just one man. It is believed by some that the memory of that potential is why Chinese authorities cracked down so brutally during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Part of me wonders if cancelling access to the NBA, which has more fans in China than in the rest of the world combined, could foment discontent... and if that, along with some sufficiently acceptable apologies on the part of the NBA will cause everyone to resume amicability and allow the NBA games to be shown without interruption this fall. After all, without basketball to watch, more than a few Chinese might have the time to learn about what's happening in Hong Kong.
>they realize China needs the NBA more than the NBA needs China.

I was with you right up until this point. How is that?
Tangentially, here's a neat WHO's map of global air pollution I find useful when traveling abroad: http://maps.who.int/airpollution/
Met with an Automatic recruiter last month and had the same reaction. I just didn't have the time to dedicate so much of my focus to this opportunity while having a full time job. Perhaps if I take a sabbatical I will consider Automatic but I'd rather spend and hour leetcoding every day for a few weeks than go through their process.
Or just add NSFW in front to bypass age verification

https://nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q
Yev, can you clarify whether this new release supports NAS? I see that it allows you to "Back up all your attached external drives", but my drives happen to be connected via Ethernet.
Bollocks.

78% of American citizens live in the 25+ states of the union that have passed actual laws that will punish you or your company if you even so much as voice boycotting a particular foreign country.

You really need to get out more often.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/9/18172826/bd...
Lego collect and redistribute old bricks (in the US)
It helps to know a little bit about what's been going on in Hong Kong, before you all line up and take your daily dump on China.

It all started a few months ago when someone committed a crime in Taiwan and fled to Hong Kong. To prevent HK from becoming a safe haven for criminals, the Chief Executive of HK proposed a new law to facilitate extradition of these crime suspects from HK to various jurisdictions in the region, including Taiwan and mainland China.

The proposed law even explicitly stated that it's not applicably to crimes political in nature. But some HK people were nevertheless concerned that it might be abused by China to target political dissidents in HK.

So they have taken to the streets to protest that law. As a result, the law was quickly suspended before it had a chance to pass, and a few weeks ago the HK Chief Executive officially announced the withdrawal of the law.

However, despite the concession from the HK government, the protesters pressed on, demanding four more concessions from the government, chief among them universal suffrage, or the direct election of the HK Chief Executive, who up to this point have been nominated from a narrow pool of Beijing-approved candidates, then voted on by a committee.

It's not entirely clear that China even had anything to do with the proposal of the law which started this ordeal. But the protesters have been shrewd to paint a picture, to great effect, of big bad China stomping on the poor helpless people of HK.

What I cannot stress enough, is the rampant violence and destruction from these protesters, which has done this great city, and many innocent citizens, unimaginable harm. Feel free to support their peaceful protests, but please don't simply pile on and encourage these violence and destruction.

(EDIT: If anything I said is untrue, please correct me. Use the truth to argue your side, don't be a coward and hide behind your downvote.)
I'm not sure how you even go about "insulating companies from lost revenue" though. The online mob may not be responding rationally (or in a way you agree with) but groups of people certainly have the right to publicly denounce and call for boycotts of a company.

Which, as you say can be damaging to their brand and ultimately their revenue, ability to hire people, etc. The fact is that the path of least resistance to mitigate and close out the damaging outcry as quickly as possible is often to apologize, fire someone, make some harmless concession, etc.
Can it be used on cryogenically frozen brains? The flick "Sleeper" could become a reality, although you'd probably have an android or R2D2 like body.
Agreed, I've gotten huge speedups from ujson in the past and the numbers in the post are markedly different from my experience, making me think that they are measuring something different / there is something significant about this use case that is different than the ones I've had in the past.
If you're one VP of many, you might have to work out of hours occasionally, but you can have a special emergency line that's only used ten times a year. You don't need to sacrifice your life the way a small business CEO might have to.

> And yeah, you clearly haven’t been keeping up with dev pay scales at big companies if you think it tops out at 150k.

Okay. I don't know any of these devs and just did a search.
I can't tell if you're talking about china or america.
Unless you're building an application that doesn't interact with external systems, chances are your job is never finished, even if you choose to consider it finished.

If you don't want to be a lifetime maintainer, then you have to transfer ownership to someone else or consider the project to have reached its end of support.

Consider an analogy to building houses, it may appear that the builder has finished their job since the house is fully constructed, but like any system, it requires maintenance for the entire duration of its lifetime.

Systems degrade over time without maintenance.
Yeah, she has a kind of intelligence that goes beyond precision and rigour. It reaches out in into a holistic space. I got the feeling, reading her writing that she was way, way smarter than I am. Which, blowing my own trumpet, is not that common for me.
Both points are perfectly encapsulated in UK hate speech laws.

They subvert free speech with the heckler's veto, and there's nothing anyone can do about them, "democratic" or not.
Same here but from Visual Studio, Eclipse and Tortoise GIT, while missing Subversion and Mercurial.