skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deryl Morey has learned the power Chinese Communist Interests have over his human rights. China has instilled fear in the NBA that they must kowtow or suffer monetarily. None of them are allowed to question the crimes against humanity the CPC commits on its own people.

The NBA has a choice between human rights and money. Of course they chose money. US culture has been designed around money and greed so long it has forgotten principals it was supposedly founded on. Sure we fought a civil war over human rights vs greed, but that was a long time ago. After right-wing interests outsourced all the production and jobs for money in the past few decades, Steve Jobs was right: Those jobs aren't coming back.
Facial Recognition, AI, Identity
Research: People Want Their Employers to Talk About Mental Health
>many users of websites such as this are young and tend to skew more left of center

This is true.

>much right-winged content is associated with hate speech and violence.

I guess this is also true, but I think its more subtle than that.

I think it depends on who you identify as being "canonical representation" for the right-wing. Popular media would lead you to believe that it is the people that appear on 8chan or went to the Unite the Right rally. They are certainly a very vocal group among that representation, but I don't quite think they accurately represent that group. If you buy into the idea of a "silent majority" (a typically conservative notion), then you might agree that it would be difficult to find an accurate "representation" of said group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Consequence...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System#Implicati...

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-xinjiang-prisoners-bli...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/ch...
Python wasn’t pretty but I’m happy it was done. Than if we were still on python 2 with only a portion of the changes. There would be a lot of discontent if that was the case too.
I've only had restore the odd file now and then. But that's OK :-)

I have a pretty thorough and redundant on-site backup system these days. But I still really appreciate having a totally independent off-site backup system. Nothing makes you suddenly wonder if your backup system is really all in order as when you lose your primary disk.

It's definitely a subscription that a lot of people should have if they don't.
The Lo-Fi Manifesto (2015)
1) Stopping HK employee taxes flow, will stop China how? This is not really their concern

2) Peaceful protest and cleaning up after themselves would make many people very happy. They did this during the umbrella and occupy central protests: however many thousands of people protesting, but the streets were spotless. They were very polite at that time; but still increasingly cannot trust the government

For instance the extradition law that started this protest was declared dead multiple times, but we're still awaiting the government to actually do that -- maybe when they re-convene on the 16th it will be removed from the agenda?

I like your views about peaceful protest, but will it lead to the peaceful removal of democracy, expression, belief, etc? Any HKers in support of the government are looking forward to that peaceful life

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On your links:
The SCMP is a China owned news source, and it should be easy to find other videos of police shooting people with rubber bullets, etc??

My wife was just showing me a video of an undercover police officer trashing government property and threatening pepper spray when videoed -- I do appreciate your questions and approach though, and wish life was that simple

> Fighting under the name of freedom to actually express their hatred toward mainlanders?

Sorry you could feel that. I don't. We don't. We apologize
There's also just you know, installing Custom Firmware if you're determined enough.
$50 honestly seems expensive considering how long home routers have been around. It's not as if it's novel technology.

I'd expect cheap mass-produced routers to be around $15 - $25, like an immersion blender.. I don't quite understand why cheap ones are still $40-$60.
Relevant XKCD from way back in 2006: https://www.xkcd.com/137/
Upvoted.

(And yeah, I feel like I have been personally aware at least during the past ten years or so. Things move slowly.)
Yeah, I think the more general problem is people can only get so enraged if they realize it's a bot. So the sentences have to be good enough to pass a perfunctory Turing test. The math is only one of several tells in these.
Maybe this should be the way forward. We all should buy hardware that can run Software like OpenWRT
Exactly this. They have no claim of neutrality or being apolitical. They have already demonstrated that losing money for the sake of attacking lgbt rights is a sacrifice they're willing to make. The values of team owners and major nba stakeholders are already more in line with the ccp than the american public, so let them choke on our scorn. It's our collective responsibility to do them enough financial damage that this becomes a learning experience.
Why would you want to? The maintenance phase is the point where most projects finally get into the black after being a net loss for several years.
Here's a concrete example of the connotation in action: I wouldn't have clicked thru to the comments or the project's site if the title of this posting was "Source-Available Alternative for Zapier".

I saw "Open Source" and assumed, as I suspect many people did, that it was talking about the Open Source Initiative definition of Open Source. Intended or not, those two words carry a connotation for a lot of people. I'd rather not see that connotation watered-down, either.
What if it impacts US citizen's pension funds or other (public?) investing strategies ? It's not like financial assets aren't intermixed.
Mobile app idea: to help the elderly(or anyone) have an always on, quick response, highly versatile, support system. If they need quick help, just want to talk, need help with future planning, need help finding a roomate, or may want to consider other living options, and more. Create an app with a live 24/7 receptionist to listen to their needs, provide options, check on them on a specific schedule, calendar notifications for events, help with shopping or getting items delivered, to keep a journal on their status(that could be accessed by friends/relatives/medical/etc), weather info and warnings, schedule rides, event scheduling/reminders, and more. Subscription fee could be based upon their tax info (what they can afford)? Ideally this would be video communication and may include an in-house camera or 2-way video system. Relatives and friends would have free access to review their loved ones journal thru the app.
A related ($10mo) app is based around dementia: https://outline.com/w3m2Kq
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.appery.proj...
How would this app (scale) work with 1 user, 10 users, 50 users, etc?
Administrators could purchase/return items (verbally) from a range of websites and would be delivered wherever (as part of the regular service).
North Korea is totalitarian, and it will hopefully change to something acceptable.

I think of the current regime in China as more an authoritarian single party regime. We have tolerated or been allied with authoritarian single party regimes in earlier decades such as Taiwan under the KMT, Japan under the early LDP, and South Korea under Rhee.

China places a higher priority on enforcing social harmony than the US, but China has a history where there have been multiple periods of severe social disturbance causing 10s of millions of deaths, such as the Taiping Rebellion. In actual practice most people have quite a lot of freedom on most subjects most of the time since, "Heaven is high, and the Emperor is far away."
>I can totally understand if a person says "I do not want to contribute code to a project for free when somebody else can make money with it"

It's not so much that somebody can make money with it. It's that you, the project maintainer, will be reaping all the monetary benefits for yourself. With open source software theoretically anyone can benefit. If you don't like what the maintainer is doing, you can fork it. In this case, though I believe the commons clause does allow you to fork it, you would still be the one reaping any monetary benefits from the fork.

In my opinion the biggest issue with the commons clause is it no longer makes logical sense to fork the project. If the project dies because you couldn't make any money off it, and you don't go back and relicense your work, the code is practically dead as an 'open source' project. Well, that and that the consulting clause seems to be just sitting there waiting for a major court case to decide what it truly means (even the lawyer who led drafting the clause admitted as such [1]).

[1] https://github.com/fossas/commons-clause/issues/4#issuecomme...
Not OP, but I deal with a variety of proprietary binary/encoded files in the 10s of MB to the 10s of GB range at work, and we have started decoding to JSON as the first step in our normalization, indexing and analytics pipeline (To be honest we essentially just throw everything in to MongoDB). Daily we're in the terabyte range.

It's the perfect solution because you can use the same decoder + something like jq for debugging and manipulation on the command line.
Certain people would of course still do so. But of comparable scale and quality? Maybe a few, truly-committed souls, but there would certainly be an impact. Without money, even if an artist produces one work, he will quite possibly lack the means to produce another.

There is the argument that what the market wants is not always the "best" or "most innovative", but the value of art is basically determined by a "market" (even if the artist seeks validation rather than $$). It's a subjective matter, so such a problem is somewhat inherent.
People don’t have memories, as such. People have opinions about what their memories ought to be. Then they construct false memories as needed.

Note: I am describing everyone, not just “other people”.
Why is it any less the responsibility of American businessmen than American politicians? We're a nation of free people, and we all share in both the benefits and responsibilities of freedom. You don't get to pretend to be an American and then put your head in the sand and say, "Oh I'm just a businessman." If that's your first loyalty then fine, but at least be straight about it and don't try to have it both ways with this "we love free expression but the dollars, sorry" crap.
>Already-rich folks kowtowing to fascists for a quick buck is beyond pathetic.

Most NBA team owners are already billionaires. I believe most of them are self-made and have signed the giving pledge, meaning they will donate much of their wealth to charities at or before their death. If anyone can afford to take a stand, it would seem to be them.
You should update the Blizzard entry. Blizzard didn't just ban the player, they rescinded his prize money and fired the 2 casters that were with him on air.
They are taking a stance:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/media/nba-adam-silver/index.h...
Of course we do, we allow and encourage discrimination on a number of fronts. The most obvious is discrimination based on socioeconomic status; we have a whole host of "luxury" products that are kept inaccessible to lower income people so they can serve as a status symbol. Education is another lateral that is generally viewed as acceptable for discrimination (i.e. jobs that require a particular degree). Financial, employment and criminal histories are all also acceptable to discriminate based on.

It's perfectly acceptable to not allow someone to rent an apartment because they have a criminal history, or a poor financial or employment history. It's also acceptable for American Express to not issue black cards to people who don't make a million dollars a year.

We have codified some traits that we do not allow discrimination based on, but generally speaking, discrimination is acceptable. Unless you change the general definition of "discrimination" to the legal one, which would seem to make the argument circular (i.e. we have banned discrimination where discrimination is the things we have banned).
I started a new company recently and we are a major user of the same back end in our platform that our customers use.

I can say that hopefully never again will I work on a system where the users are remote and isolated from Dev. The benefits of dog fooding are enormous. So many small and large UI discoveries that you would never know about if the input trickled in through jira tickets.

If you want to build an elegant, user-friendly system, then use it yourself. Constantly. Repetitively. Then scratch your own itch.
It does when the criticism is "web application with its own keybindings doesn't behave like a document."

Like if this was a Google Docs link I don't think you would flinch at the idea that arrow down moves the cursor instead of scrolling the page.
hmm, that one hit
Funny how this story is itself a scissor. I loved it and thought that, although exaggerated, it did a really good job of being a piece of hard science fiction. Relatively plausible but somewhat future technology (better RNN implementations that have been forthcoming in response to the story) and its somewhat exaggerated implications to show off the danger to society of that general direction of technology.
Include timed content that occurs on specific schedules (bi-weekly, monthly, etc).
While I agree with your general sentiment, free speech absolutism is meaningless in employment settings without something like militant labor organizing to defend it. It’s not protected in many cases and they can always just fire you and exhaust your resources in any resulting legal battle.

If you had a union on the other hand, it could stipulate protection of this kind of speech as part of the employment contract and marshal the resources to mount an actual, meaningful defense if your employer were to try these tactics.
Because HN has generally smart and well thought comnents except when it come to china. Not sure why.

Just take the article when China was first to ban the Boeing 737. Everyone here yell at bad china like in a tabloid forum...
The fact that you have 60k karma and left such a naive and foolish comment either means this was a serious lapse in judgement on your part or the hackernews rating system is completely worthless.
Time to vote with our wallets. No reforged for this guy ^^^^
If a car spontaneously combusts we hold the auto manufacturable liable for correcting that defect. It doesn't matter if it's a Prius or a Ferrari. These vendors are selling defective devices and it is fixable via software patch. Just because they stopped selling them doesn't mean they shouldn't have to fix it.
No, it's because salt stops working below a certain temperature.
The problem is that a design decision like this calls into question the competence of the developers, and therefore the safety of any modifications they've made in the past.
Not exactly what you’re asking for, and it has its own problems [0], but the US military has a “trusted foundry program” [1] for sourcing chips.

[0] https://semiengineering.com/a-crisis-in-dods-trusted-foundry...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Foundry_Program
Insulin pill could replace injections for people with type 1 diabetes
The Disparate Impact Doctrine doesn't allow adverse effects on that could cause unintentional discriminatory impact for protected class minority groups. This law exists for decades before algorithmic decision making become a fad. In case of supply/demand ratio arguments, this doctrine takes into consideration the "outcomes" relative to the input. That is, if you are able to give a reasonable explanation for your outcomes - you wouldn't be labeled illegal.
> I upvoted you for a thought-provoking perspective, but I think you're wrong historically. Most totalitarian governments fail on the battlefield, or they fail when the charismatic leader dies and his heirs are not so charismatic. Think of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, the empires that fell during WW1, the Axis powers in WW2, Libya post-Gaddafi, or Saddam Hussein. Totalitarianism seems to be an effective way to rapidly modernize a population to take advantage of already-discovered technological advances, and then to mobilize the population for war. It fails heavily at actually waging war, where the life-or-death competition between powers leads to a rapidly shifting reality that totalitarian governments cannot keep up with, because totalitarianism requires a near-total distortion of reality in order to keep the ruling clique in power. Additionally, liberal democracies often have a deeper bench of talent and technological developments waiting in the wings; totalitarianism requires the extermination of these institutions as potential threats to the regime, but liberal democracy cultivates these institutions in times of peace and then can draw on them in times of war. Witness how quickly the allies deployed radar, sonar, codebreaking, convoy systems, fire control computers, mass production, strategic bombing, and nuclear weapons during WW2: almost all of these inventions existed within Nazi Germany (some of them were discovered there), but their widespread development was blocked by Hitler's disfavor or inattention, and so they never got the resources they needed.

Most of modern China's advances came in times of freewheeling Jiang-Hu era, and Xi mostly coasts on inertia. Domestic electronics manufacturing has been on retreat for the last decade, being supplanted by government pushed initiatives. Billions are being bamboozled on "O2O," "AI," "5G," "Big Data" by people who don't have even a remotest idea of what those are besides nice CG animations.

Industrial parks that made local makes famous during Shanzhai era are being bulldozed year after year to be replaced by campuses of firms brandishing current tech fashion trend buzzword. This severely impacts the output of local original products. Things like cheap LED lighting, battery banks, vapes, selfie sticks, hoverboards, quadcopters, stick computers, damn fidget spinners, portable audio amplifier, loads of bluetooth gizmos, tons of cellphone accessories, and so on — all that stuff was originally a product of Chinese garage industry. I can not imagine anything like this coming in such amounts in current cultural and business climate.
Seems like they pulled a Streisand as now I've downloaded the entire free package just in case it disappears.

Some of these are a blast too. dads.adjusted.cocktail is probably my favourite combo I've found so far.

Nope: describe.myself.touchy is my new favourite.
How? I don't know anyone that currently lives in China. I don't see posts like, anywhere, from people who currently live in China.

From my perspective, they seem to be basically cut off from the rest of the world. So how can I differentiate between the chinese government and the individual, when for all I know most of the individuals support everything their government is doing?
Clever Cosmogonies of the 17th Century
Any sense of proportion is often the first thing thrown out the window in nationalist debates, unfortunately.
If you're a SaaS company that can't implement controls and governance systems to satisfy HIPPA, SOC2, etc, enterprises subject to regulation have no choice but to self-host.

Disclaimer: Worked at a SaaS company, now work in highly regulated financial services.
Popular web design frameworks like Bootstrap consider accessibility and encourage it in their documentation. See: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/getting-started/accessibil...

Are there any accessibility-first web design frameworks?
I don't particularly want to engage further with what I consider a pure smear campaign, but it seems fair to at least take the time to share the information with you that the woman's deposition mentions she was 'directed to' have sex with Marvin Minsky, but not that she actually did, and there is an eyewitness testifying that Minsky turned her down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20909030

I don't find anything objectionable about Stallman's opinions here either. Quite the contrary in fact.
Some inspiration for all aspiring devs: How I became a Self-Taught Programmer
LinkedIn supports Age and Gender demographics? That's something I'd like to learn a lot more about.
What is the best wifi-router out now for home hackers? I'd like to do a pi-hole type setup but without the pi-hole and I also need a stronger wifi signal than on the box my ISP gives me.
Most people who play sports never earn money for it, perhaps you shoud ask them.
Cook is a friend of Trump, just saying.
That is just another part of the check. The executive nominates judges, legislative approves judges, judges then interpret. Ya, it isn’t perfect, but you still have a few judges (Kennedy before and Roberts now) who are independent enough to sometimes do the right thing against their ideology (judges are mostly independent after being approved, so influence is limited).
That's quite the screening though, isn't it? "Must be willing and able to take a 2-3 month salary loss"

I suppose it works out well for you, you will get only those that really want to work at Automattic and are willing do sacrifice for a chance, since they risk running a substantial loss if they aren't offered a position after doing a three month try-out. That is, for all areas where $25/hr is hard to impossible to live off of, especially for people with children, you end up either with those that are set up by previous engagements or are true believers.
OK, are you going to post about the many US atrocities as well? Slavery, extermination of the indigenous population, redlining, Jim Crow, exploitation of illegal immigrant labor, etc. Keep in mind this isn't even counting what the USA does abroad.

China is bad, but USA is bad too. Make no mistake.
“Show don't tell” doesn't mean avoid dialogue, though it does imply (in filmmaking) avoiding gap filling by omniscient voice-over narration. It also means minimizing exposition in favor of demonstration, but much dialogue in film is demonstration, not exposition.
I'll never use vendor firmware again. If the router doesn't support OpenWRT, it's a time bomb waiting to go off, as this article shows; plus, of course, OpenWRT has sufficient additional functionality that that alone makes it worthwhile.

And once again, we're all reminded of the divide between people who know how to do things like this and people who don't, and how the people who do know have an advantage in life.
Poll: Is it OK for n8n to use the term “Open Source”
n8n uses the term "Open Source (Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause)". Even though it is not correct according to the definition of the OSI as it is not Open Source anymore as soon as the Common Clause gets attached as some rights get restricted.

The reasoning for doing it anyway it can be found here:
https://docs.n8n.io/#/faq?id=license

The reasoning against it here:
https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/30/Its-not-okay-to-pretend-youre-open-source.html

Is it OK for n8n to use the term "Open Source"
Ask HN: Any memory tricks for authentication vs. authentication?
I understand the difference in concept between authentication vs authorization, but due to the words being so alike, I tend to get them mixed up.

Does anyone have any good memory hacks to distinguish authentication and authorization?
Can we relax with the self-made, altruistic view of billionaires? Self-made is a myth, and an NBA owner just released a book titled "Shut Up and Listen." Money talks, and it seems pretty clear that all of the moves previously made were actually for profits, not social causes.