skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that I really like about the Trump administration is that finally the WH has decided to act against the systemic threat posed by China.

Can someone who is well versed in politics shed some light on if this is a trump specific phenonemon or had there been a sea change and the dems are now on board too ?
What you describe is something that holds itself out as a moral authority.
Most routers I've seen have a setting to enable "remote management". The DIR 655 does (see pg. 75 of its manual). If you have enabled that, then its login page is accessible via the Internet.

Many small businesses not only have unprotected file shares, and have remote admin turned on so that their IT person can administer the router remotely (as silly as it is). I saw this so many times when I worked in IT. People make all sorts of assumptions about LAN privacy when setting up their network and devices.
> Photographs also looked harsh. It turns out that many people prefer images, too, to be desaturated in dark mode

This is an interesting choice. While it might be easier on the eyes, personally it feels kind of icky to change colors on images…
Fun to see the NBA come up on HN.

One topic to bring up is how the NBA is targeting India as it's next country to try to bring basketball to [0]. What should happen to comments people might have about the India-Pakistan boarder conflict? Would the people here commenting about how rich people shouldn't be targeting China for money and growth complain about the NBA looking to grow in other markets? They've grown incredibly large in Europe over the past couple decades. Yes for money, but also popularity is fun to have, and amazing stories of players from those places.

I suppose my current stance on this, and a stance after only a few days and reading comments and posts from so many people which might change later or after responses to my comment here, is that the NBA should wave its hands and say the other countries can do what they want in terms of not even admitting the Rockets exist, or hide games completely, but reiterate that the players, GMs, and even owners, can say what they want, and that the NBA can and should continue to push the NBA to other markets.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/asia/nba-india-intl-hnk-scli/...)
The api already supports returning the hamming distances/cosine similarities along with the duplicate file list which can be used to sort the files. Please refer the docs for 'find_duplicates' function for more.
Here's a perfect opportunity for anyone that sees the world through the lens of Marxism to make a bet on the future. I found the essay full of post-modernist style of language and consequently difficult for me to interpret as actionable.

The Obamas don't seem to be investing in the direction suggested by this essay; they are spending $15 Million on an estate that will be low as 3ft above sea level according to [1] and [2]. Perhaps someone has a more authoritative citation on the elevation of their future home.

[1] https://www.whatismyelevation.com/location/41.36189,-70.5457...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenhowley/2019/09/01/insid...
New Galaxy Fold teardown finds “chainmail armor” under the display
Magic, science, religion and philosophy are three dimensions of this issue. Magic and science are the practical dimensions, while religion and philosophy are the theoretical dimensions.

There is overlap, so religion has it's practical side, but here I realy mean theology.

In the early eras magic and science were essentially indistinguishable, because people had limited intellectual tools to determine what really worked and what didn't. As those tools became more codified and more reliable, science started to distinguish itself. So for example modern chemistry extricated itself from alchemy.

Nowadays we look at these questions in hindsight using the lens of modern rationalism and scientific methods, so we can distinguish between activities that were effective and reliable from those based on fanciful ideas and 'magical' thinking.

A lot of historical magic was based on a religious view of the world. So there were spells for summoning demons that could help you find treasure, or protect you from evil influences, or make someone fall in love with you. These evolved from religious practices, but then again what is a marriage ceremony or blessing if not a magical spell? They are attempts to invoke esoteric powers to make a change in the world.

Other forms of magic evolved from natural philosophy. This includes a lot of early medicine that tried to manipulate the balance of the humours in the body, or magic that invoked elemental powers or principles. The modern equivalent is crystal healing and such.

So one way to look at it is that magic is stuff based on theological or folkloric ideas, or (to not put too fine a point on it) false philosophy. That's a very modern way to slice things though. Modern occultists have also invented new and interesting ways to redefine magic, Crowley for example. And yes, I'd put him in the modern category.
You can use Javascript in an ad to make the browser connect to the internal IP address, which often is something like 192.168.1.1 and then once you’re in you can add the device to a botnet and sell its bandwidth or reroute its traffic.
It's pretty ridiculous. If no government entity can give you a straight answer to the question "if I vote in the next election will I go to jail?", you are disenfranchised for all practical purposes.
Or AsusWRT! I'm pretty happy with my RT-AC3200.
Perfect, that is about the time I will be too old to drive myself.
If every western luxury disappeared from China overnight, I think they'd struggle to come up with domestic replacements quickly enough.
Right. There are differences in incentives and how easy it is to make receiving updates mandatory or the default. But it's reasonable to assume that, however implemented and legislated, everyone ends up--from a financial perspective--having to pay for an ongoing support subscription.
$4B isn't a bump in stock prices though, right ?

Anyway, I am not crying over the top 1% losing money over that, I am talking about the paycheck to paycheck workers whose means of subsistence depends on their employers doing okay.

I am not saying Chinese products shouldn't be boycotted or that China shouldn't be pressured into aligning better with western values but who is going to pay in the end ?
There's a partial repeal of Prop 13 on our 2020 ballot. [0]

It would make commercial properties no longer subject to Prop 13.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/California_Tax_on_Commercial_and_Ind...
Oh I think you misunderstood, they are all small, there's just a million of them. I think they were all about 1k.
I'd be careful about reading too much into the results of that poll, or the number of upvotes on the github issue. The people who disagree with you are far more incentivized to vote than those who agree as well as those who are neutral.
I agree. Obama was way too buddy-buddy with Xi.

I hope the next president is even more hardline against China than Trump.
So it's even worse. They're charging as much as possible for slum lord services.
My I'm just feeling cynical, but this just sounds to me like an easy way to have it both ways:

1. Placate the US by putting out a public statement saying "We support freedom of speech for our people."

2. Placate China by using a backchannel to ensure that no one in the NBA actually uses this nominal freedom to say something that hurts China's feelings.

Actually standing up would require supporting a statement that had been said instead of offerring vague support for future statements which may or may not ever occur.
"Tricks are what a whore does for money."
Why make it manipulation of another person? It could include the self as in the case of invocation.
Or you could go the Crowley route and say Magick is causing change in accordance with will...
> probably a troll.

It's telling that anyone who seriously questions American Exceptionalism is viewed instinctively as a troll.

> Very few intelligent Americans believe in our absolute exceptionalism.

This assertion is not falsifiable, and just sounds like praising "moderation" while simultaneously supporting the status quo. Meaningless.

> Do you think Saddam was a good guy?

Life in Iraq under Saddam was substantially better for most Iraqis than life in Iraq during the American war and occupation. Note that the death toll for US Iraq adventures is approaching 1 Million, so it is harder to find dissenting voices than it would otherwise be.

> Do you think North Korea is a good place?

I don't think there is any reason why tiny NK needs to be fodder for such dramatic propaganda toward US citizens. At best, NK is relevant because of some broader conflict between the US and China, and is a pawn used by both sides.

> But you're saying since their record is not 100% perfect, then it is a bad actor.

No, I am simply saying that the US is most definitely a bad actor when measured by any reasonable standard. The idea that the US has (overall) a glowing "record" is simply a way of incorporating past successes (WW2) into the rhetoric for today's backward policies. The US may not have always been a bad actor, but it has been for the past 3 or 4 decades.

> Tough threshold you have there.

As a US citizen, my job is to be honest and direct about the failures of US foreign and domestic policies. I have a duty to do that. I certainly think we all have a duty to fix our own country before throwing stones at others.

> It's obvious you're just anti-US

You forgot to provide attribution for this quote. It's attributable (in paraphrase) to George W. Bush, who said "You're either with us or against us".

Here are the things that would allow the US to take some first steps toward stopping being a bad actor:

- Have an internal discussion about US national interest that does not involve personal attacks or accusations of insanity or ideological extremism directed toward foreign peoples/leaders.

- Allow for the possibility that the US might undertake wars of aggression or might attempt to simply steal resources that belong to other countries for its own selfish gains, and not for humanitarian reasons. All foreign policy is now explained in American Exceptionalist platitudes about freedom, women's rights, etc. Give me a break.

- The pentagon budget should be fully auditable

- All foreign operations/engagements that cost over $1M, involve over 100 troops or last longer than 30 days should require a congressional majority. All operations and spending should be re-approved via a new congressional vote every six months.
not the first time they are free from logic or basic human decency:
https://supchina.com/2019/09/11/china-daily-conflates-hong-k...
Like my sibling point mentions, it's using a technicality and probably in bad faith to engage in voter suppression.
Free trade works so long as you are the economic hegemon. After the Napoleonic Wars, Britain was the strongest economic power and championed free trade until the 1870s. Then German and French manufacturing, US and Argentinian agriculture competed favorably with British manufacturers and landowners and free trade was not so popular in the run up to WW I.

Similarly, after WW II, the US was dominant and free trade served us well. However, as other nations develop their competitive advantages, free trade is not so popular in the US.
There may be other answers here, but this is really the only guaranteed one.

OpenWRT really is the greatest.
Well, what would we do though? I mean, start boycotting China, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Rwanda, etc, etc etc.

I mean, I guess I should ask, in your view, where would that stop? Boycott every nation in the world with human rights violations?
These were small though, I just made a small sample of a million of them and still saw a 2x improvement.
I tried deleting my account just now and was prompted with a screen asking for it. "Might" might well be an understatement.
A large part of the air pollution from cars comes from nitrogen and sulfer oxides, which are byproducts of combustion.
IIRC, a typical city has 3.5 parking spots per car. A car that can always return to it's "home" spot doesn't need more than 1 spot. And if you can assume that a certain percentage of cars are always on the road you might be able to have more cars than parking spots.

Of course the increased traffic of homing cars might turn the roads into metaphorical parking spots...
Can you explain to me how a subscription, for which only subscribers get fixes, is not a perverse incentive to ship broken software?

Normal software has an argument towards subscriptions if it's adding features. But routers shouldn't be adding features. Routers should be fixing bugs.
It's always worth re-reading Annie Dillard; "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" does a very good treatment of such things.
This is one of the big reasons I think Warren's first priority plan of voting reforms might be more important than any other. Gerrymandering, poll closures, voter ID laws all of it is one big effort to hold on to power despite losing the support of the voters which is the whole basis of the legitimacy of government power in the US.
The same way Dell and HP do with a Windows PC. The OpenWrt buildroot can help them do that too! ;-)
Have any other candidates expressed support for hardline Chinese policies? Trump easily has 4 more years, but I'm not sure who can successfully keep this going after that. I haven't paid much attention to the field, but I haven't seen any news on anyone else making statements on the topic.
This is a common self-aggrandizing misconception in the West, but Levis and Coca Cola didn't do shit to bring the USSR down. Neither did a half-senile actor from California banging his shoe on a desk, and yelling about tearing down a wall.

Glasnost, Perestroika, Afghanistan, economic stagnation, and the growing squeamishness of the country's leadership to use mass violence for political repression did.

If the economy of the USSR were growing 7% year over year, the Berlin wall would be six hundred feet tall by now, and communists would still be in charge of half of Europe.

Change in superpowers comes from within, not from foreign grandstanding.
browser.in-content.dark-mode
No, Chinese people invented it.

The CCP gets upset about it.
The cnn methods in the package are particularly robust against resolution differences. In fact, if it's just a simple up/downscale that differentiates 2 images, then even hashing algorithms could be expected to do a good job.
That's not going to help if everyone is going to work and coming home from work around the same time. And it's only going to make a difference if a large % of people stop owning cars and start renting them from other people. Buses and trains would actually help during rush hours though.
I haven't ever understood how being a felon removes a right ?

Rights aren't something the govt gives so how can the govt remove them ?
This. I just decommissioned 5 x AP and 2 x backhaul radios this summer from Ubiquiti at a remote site I manage. These were all purchased and installed in 2011. I replaced them all with newer equivalents, not because they weren't working or weren't receiving updates - but because I'm 4 hours from the site and told the owner they've gotten their ROI and needed to preemptively replace. This happens to be my in-laws place and I don't want to deal with replacing some outdoor radios in the middle of a Midwestern winter. I sold all the gear as a package for about $150 and the buyer was well aware of the age and the fact that 3 of the devices had been outside that entire time. I commend Ubiquiti on the commitment to their line of products and the updates all devices that were in service continue to receive.
A question - do know of any good resources for jq? I haven't quite been "angry enough" to use jq much beyond using it for formatting json - but that's also partly because I can't seem to quite grasp the syntax.

It isn't quite "awk-ish", not quite cut/join/sort/uniq. But also not quite graphql? Which I suppose would be the "natural" language for a json-query tool?

I feel like I'm missing a piece - and missing out...
No, it's not. If you're selling broccoli but you call it "peaches", taking a poll will not change peaches to broccoli.

Open Source has a very precise, clear, and widely-agreed-on definition. That definition is published at https://opensource.org/definition. Free Software is equally agreed-on and equally clearly defined: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en

Millions of developers and thousands of companies, governments, and other organizations agree on these definitions and have been using them consistently for decades now.

You can't make non-open-source software magically become open source by just calling it "open source". All you do is damage a widely-used term that people depend on (for example, my time was wasted when I clicked on a link to your project because the link said the destination was "open source" -- if it had been accurately labeled, then my time would not have been wasted!) Please stop damaging the language and wasting people's time. Your license is not open source; therefore do not call it that.
Complaining about Reagan didn’t do much to protect us anyway, we gave our power away willingly.
>Of course, in reality, this CVE seems almost un-exploitable in the wild, anyway. How will an exploiter get to the login page in the first place? They'd have to know your network password and be in your physical vicinity, or your ISP would have to send traffic to your router's login page from the Internet.

Nope. Not at all. Most router attacks these days are malicious JavaScript (like in ads and trackers) that send HTTP requests to the router from the user's own web browser (already inside the network). No proximity access is needed

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/websi...
Just looked up that a new Honda Civic weighs approximately 3000 pounds. A Toyota Camry weighs between 3200 and 3500 pounds. A Tesla Model 3 weighs around 4000 pounds.

A significant difference, to be sure, but not dramatic. And battery technology is improving rapidly.

Combined with the fact that there's no exhaust, on balance EVs are already superior for health, as long as the local power plant is anything other than coal.
This is not about it officially airing on Chinese TV, it’s about blocking it entirely from the whole of the Chinese Internet. You can’t even search for “South Park” and get any search results, not just on video sharing sites but on web search and social media sites as well. There’s another discussion on hacker news today that goes in the more details, it’s pretty scary the extent to which the Chinese government can wipe an entire topic off their corner of the internet. And with centralized chat systems like WeChat, your messages won’t go through either if they catch censorship algorithms. This effectively allows them to limit conversation about topics, which greatly hampers the Streisand effect everyone else is alluding to.
You are missing a LICENSE file, and only one of the two package.json files contains a license declaration (although I have no idea where those fields fall on the spectrum of precedence for repo-wide licensing)
> Fascism is widely regarded as always and everywhere the opposite/enemy of Communism and Communists.

By who? Is there a reason for this?

Fascism's self-description is basically just the motto "united we stand, divided we fall". It's right there in the name. As a philosophy, I know it best for strict intolerance of public dissent. That sort of thing undermines unity.

And that's pretty much it. I would have said that "fascism" in modern American usage had lost all meaning other than as a generic term of abuse; I would never have guessed that it was supposed to mean "the opposite of communism, whatever that might mean". "The opposite of communism" is usually considered to be capitalism.

But there seem to be many good correspondences between Chinese practice today and original, Mussolini-style fascism.
This is sadly true: about 10 years ago when self driving cars were on the horizon* I looked into buying some parking lots in Manhattan and SF figuring that I could get a good price now and turn them into something valuable down the road.

Turned out the people who owned them weren't dummies and had the same strategy. The prices I could get (and few were even willing to talk) were enormous multiples of likely revenue: basically the price of a buildable city lot where you didn't have to demolish an existing structure.

* They seemed only a decade away. Now, 10 years later, they are only a couple of decades away. Like fusion power.
I feel the same way that the quality of discussion here has declined significantly and even as an American I'm tired of politicizing everything in a pro-US light. Do you have any recommendations for alternative sources of tech news?
I wonder if labyrinthian fines could get classified as excessive fines, somehow. But if the fine complexity is O(n) where n is the number of convictions you have, I don't see what the big deal is.
Like @mkmk linked: by booting I mean "wheel clamping". Your car is immobilized in the lot instead of being towed from the lot, and you have to pay the fine.
Schneier has recently argued that there is a missing market for IOT security in the sense that devices manufacturers have no incentive to patch impose external costs on society, and that this might be hard to fix without regulation.

https://www.eweek.com/security/ibm-s-schneier-it-s-time-to-r...
The smoking gun you're looking for is in the Language Log posts linked from the blog post. In particular, https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=21847 shows how trivial changes to punctuation can inflate a paragraph's score from 4.4 to 12.5.
I can't believe the way that Trump's anti-China rhetoric is so eagerly supported by so many people. China is just being China, what has changed is that the Trump administration is trying to raise the stakes on its trade war.
If parole is tracked and the felons are not on the list, then I'm not sure it even counts as a technicality.

I agree the desired effect is likely the same.
> To my knowledge chinese government does not interfere in personal religious beliefs.

...

The Chinese government spent 1966 to 1976 violently destroying churches and holy sites of all religions and imprisoning, torturing, and killing priests and worshipers.

Since then they've officially embraced freedom of religion, especially traditional Chinese religion that emphasizes submission to authority, but in the last decade they've been "waging the most severe systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious freedom was written into the Chinese constitution in 1982," including "destroying crosses, burning bibles, shutting churches and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_China#People's_Rep...

EDIT: "Account created: 3 hours ago"
I'd argue that the damages will only happen one way as people in China will seek other ways to watch the NBA (which people have already been very accustomed to anyways), but NBA will lose all sources of revenue from China.
Legitimate question: at what point does censorship become something more benign such as blacklist or sanctions? If we do it?
Well, your issue isn't actually with the people with China. Therefore, it would be wise to frame the argument around Xi and the CCP, as opposed to "China." It's like when radicals in the middle east yell "death to America" they're not talking about the people, but instead "the system."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_v._Ramirez
Agree with this 100%
Turkey is halfway in EU accession process and adopts EU norms as time progresses.
This is so important. Anyone with goals of being a "10x developer" (whatever that is) also needs to focus on being 0.1x stuck.