skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taiwan and Hong Kong are totally different cases.

Taiwan is an independent country, no matter Chinese gov admits it or not. It has their own government, laws, military etc.

Hong Kong is not, it’s only a special area belonging to China. When British handed it over to China years ago, China promised the situation will not change for 50 years. Although it’s a lie, it shows that China will have full control of HK eventually.
Brian Kibler put it very well:

http://bmkgaming.com/statement-on-blitzchung/

> I do think that Blizzard was correct in issuing him a penalty for his actions. They do not want to set the precedent for their official broadcasts being used as political tools. The players agreed to particular rules for behavior, and he violated those rules.

[..]

> All that having been said, there are additional factors at play here. The punishment meted out to Blitzchung is incredibly harsh. I could understand a fine, or even a short suspension from competitive play, but removal from Grandmasters, clawing back the prizes he already earned, and banning him for a full year seems completely overboard to an extent that feels completely unwarranted and unfair.

> I won’t pretend to understand either the intricacies of the geopolitical situation in China and Hong Kong or the full extent of Blizzard’s business interests there, but to me this penalty feels like it is deeply rooted in both. The heavy-handedness of it feels like someone insisted that Blizzard make an example of Blitzchung, not only to discourage others from similar acts in the future but also to appease those upset by the outburst itself.

> That kind of appeasement is simply not something I can in good conscience be associated with. When I learned about the ruling, I reached out to Blizzard and informed them that I no longer feel comfortable casting the Grandmasters finals at BlizzCon. I will not be a smiling face on camera that tacitly endorses this decision. Unless something changes, I will have no involvement in Grandmasters moving forward.

What isn't even mentioned there is that the two casters apparently got fired, too. They didn't know he was going to say that, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe they laughed supportingly, or didn't show enough disapproval, I haven't seen it. But the punishment was extremely heavy-handed and disproportionate at any rate, no matter how you look at it.
I am surprised at how some people speak out there against the new Code of Conduct. Someone may want to point out their comments to their employer or friends.
Incidentally, forgetting I had inverted colors for nighttime reading, to me the image looked like a fuzzy peach colored microphone or something similar. Took me a while to figure out how it was obscene! :)
If they had jumped straight to USB-C on their phones it never would have been tangled. Exact data speeds don't matter for a phone, they could have avoided any headphone adapter confusion, and the issue of charging-only cables exists no matter what, on lightning too.

And adding an adapter onto lightning plugs is less invasive than the issues with removing the headphone jack.

Edit: So would anyone like to explain how any of that is such a bad contribution it deserves a downvote? I'm always surprised when a comment gets silently downvoted, it's never something where I expected any downvotes...
> The point I was hoping (but probably failed) to make

In the the author reads this: you can definitely rest assured you very well made your point, at least for me! :-)
On my last job instead of a raise, I asked to switch to 90% with the same pay and got it, that was awesome.

On my current job, I work 80% because we have a daughter now and like the extra day with her. I also work from home, which adds more time for her on working days.

I think right now, the most important thing I can do is spend time with my kid, soon kids ;) It is only a couple of years until they also start going to kindergarten and school and also have a schedule.
Official FAQ on Gender Pronouns and Code of Conduct Changes
There's definitely a preference for writing new code vs. maintaining and extending existing code, especially when it isn't even yours.

This is a general human nature thing, it's apparent everywhere in life:

"It's more attractive to create new problems than address existing ones"
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."
Have a look at dashblock.com, they went through YC recently
Ask HN: Is the most recent iOS update sending old unsent mail drafts?
For the second day in a row I've gotten what seem like strange emails from family members with iPhones. All of them are incomplete in some way like they were in draft but never finished and some of them can be dated by subject matter to years ago.

I've gone through Gmail access logs with everyone, there isn't any unauthorized access, but the iPhone messages in question are just sent from SMTP rather than the detailed authorized app description usually provided (but with the same IP, so it's coming from the same phone).

The one thing they have in common is that they did an update overnight.
Valve did that.
The story of treasures guarded by dormant robots evoked Laputa, Castle in the Sky by Studio Ghibli. Its a city in the sky, like in Gulliver's travels and a legend to aviators. Giant robots wake up to guard it. I wonder if Japan also picked up the lore.

The machines that could efficiently cut down many men evoked Enthiran (same word as yanthra in Tamil), about an android falling in love like Bicentiennal Man but at one point building a mega gun with his magnetic powers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-V_Vp_J9b0
By the way, when you submit a valid DMCA takedown notice, you have to identify yourself and make a declaration under penalty of perjury. There is a specific remedy for a false notice in 17 USC §512(f):

> Misrepresentations.—Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section—
> (1) that material or activity is infringing, or
> (2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
> shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.
That is what happens when the community turns Chrome into the Web, 'cause "Do no evil", "IE sucks" and all of that.
To be fair, the article is written in such a way that it shows you what you want to see. If you want it to be about myths, then it's about myths. If you want it to be a claim of actual ancient robotics, then you can ignore the few lines buried in there that use the word "legend".
> that there is only a niche market for a librebooted computer (mostly due to performance), and as a company, it's systems76's responsibility to meet the market

They have no responsibility of the sort.
It could get this bad...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Sleep_Experiment
A customer of mine uses Kanbanize to organize software development. Think Trello on steroids. I imagine that instead of dragging cards to their destination we could open a menu and select the destination column. Maybe that would be even faster sometimes. However reordering cards inside a column without drag and drop would be a pain: Move Up, Move Down buttons, no thanks.
Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
> I wouldn't call sftp more modern. They're from the same time.

No. scp was included in Tatu Ylönens original ssh in 1995. sftp is significantly newer, e.g. openssh gained both client and server implementation with the 2.5 release in 2001, and is dependent on the ssh 2.0 protocol.

> One is interactive, and the other isn't. Nothing more. Nothing less.

No. They are different network protocols. And per CVE-2019-6111 mentioned in the link I provided in the previous post, the scp protocol has some questionable semantics, which is why the openssh developers are recommending people to switch to better designed protocols such as sftp or rsync.

> So, if you're using it to load code for net booting, scp is the obvious choice since you want to automate the retrieval of a specific file from a specific place, to a specific destination. And you don't want to have to babysit it every time.

You can automate sftp as well. Fetching files is as simple as with scp, but uploading is more tedious, but doable if, for instance, you don't have rsync available. Something like "sftp -b - user@server:/path <<< 'put filename'".

> There are so many things wrong with the idea that rsync is more modern.

rsync is not a fundamentally broken network protocol like scp. And as another answer mentioned, you can tunnel rsync over ssh, which nowadays even is the default if you don't specify otherwise.
it could also be argued that the current system of partnering with a chinese government backed partner company is more work. in these systems efficiency is only one consideration, abiding by the laws and regulations of the host country is another. however in this case from what i've read your icloud data is tied to the account's country.
Not really. A dysfunctional private monopoly will go as bad as they can go without having people just abandon a product/service category entirely. Which, in case of captive audience or a necessity, can be really bad. Oh, and with falling quality prices can still go up - it's a monopoly, after all, it's not like customers can go elsewhere.
USB and displays have been hot-pluggable for decades. If there's a kernel panic then it's Apple's fault, not an entire industry.
I use this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/, you can override per website or globally.
I hate to tell you this but I worked with a lot of anti-communist and anti-censorship efforts in the early 2000s.

The Chinese Government intelligence agencies are quite adept at using social media. People were "disappeared" with frightening regularity. Someone getting on the Chinese equivalent of the "Do Not Fly List" is pretty easy.

You can probably see it happen in person if you go to a local "police" station and ask about Tiananmen Square....
Can't maintain them? Don't start them.
The company is not your pet project's daddy.
Offtopic, I have a personal concern in this. Could you please email me? (See my profile)
That I can explain. The world tide is currently shifting - gaming just happens to be one very clear example of it. China, for instance, literally has more gamers than the US has citizens. [1](2014) The US market is still #1 in terms of revenue, but that's ending imminently - literally perhaps next year. We're currently at $36.87bn compared to China's $36.54bn. [2] And that's with an untapped market of hundreds of millions in China. And their rapid economic growth means all players, new and old, are going to be able and willing to spend more money. Within the next two decades, the US gaming market will likely be a fraction of the Chinese market.

This creates an interesting little micro-paradox. Customers in the US claiming they will boycott Blizzard over this situation are precisely why Blizzard is motivated to act in this fashion. Because there would be a mirror situation in China with a vastly larger customer base acting in an equal but opposite fashion. Until people (around the world) can accept individuals behaving in a way they find deplorable, we're only going to end up in a world where the biggest wins. And as the geopolitical status quo changes, that's no longer simply synonymous with USA or even the west in general.

This is one of the many reasons I think the trend of 'free speech is only the government' is so incredibly myopic. People don't consider that the views they support will inevitably also come under fire from the powers that be - and they'll rapidly find themselves facing silencing and censorship with no recourse. Free speech is a value, not an amendment. Dismissing this because it's convenient is something that will only come back to haunt people as the tides shift, which they inevitably do. We should base our values on a system of ethos, not whichever chain of often contradictory positions we think will work as a means to achieve whatever ends we think we're going to get.

[1] - https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-number-of-chinese-game...

[2] - https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-10-countries-by-gam...
Yes, it is. ISC is, for those who may not know it, an MIT license reworded, to match international jurisdiction, which implies certain rights from the ground up.
I voted Obama in 2008, that was more than enough. When will you acknowledge that your immigration claim about state law was in error?
If sleep is so important. Why didn’t we evolve to have our newborns and toddlers not destroy our sleep? Are parents sacrificed for the well being of the kiddos?

sleep deprived and frustrated father
The app is now available to install from the developers twitter account
https://twitter.com/of_yarns

There's a link to the apk stored on S3.

I've been playing it a bit, it's an interesting games with a lot of thoughts by the author on branching the story based on your actions.
I've hit 24 hours twice on accident shortly after coming home with a newborn child, and was seeing pulsating walls and other weird visual stuff and generally feeling pretty shitty. The first time, it took me until much later to realize I had been awake so long. So definitely some YMMV.
No, because unlike Taiwan, Hong Kong is internationally recognized (as well as by its own government) as a part of China. The Qing government declared a war on drugs in the 1800s, and started seizing and destroying British opium shipments. The British retaliated by occupying HK and forced the Qing to cede it, resulting in a 99 year lease. So while the other concessions were returned to China after the modern era began, Hong Kong remained British until 1997.

Come 1997, the Brits tried to tie various conditions on the return, mostly around them maintaining control over the government despite the territory now being owned by China. These were made under the guise of protecting freedom, but arguments can be made that they were just trying to hold on to some power. Given relative weakness of China at the time, they eventually agreed to this One Country, Two Systems compromise you might've heard of.

All this is to say, it's complicated; China has actually adhered to most aspects of it to date - there's no Great Firewall, HKers have their own passports, various freedoms of speech and assembly you'd be familiar with in the West. But it has no sovereignty of its own, and is very vulnerable to China encroaching on its citizens.
I think by theft GP meant "random citizens stealing infrastructural elements made from copper for scrap value" and stuff like this. A private entity ready to steal from people or itself still won't tolerate outsiders stealing from them.
Yes, I'm using this one in Firefox for Android: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
I'm a bit confused about what it adds to tmux. It seems everything it does can be accomplished with tmux without much effort.
So like us, then.
I hope I'm not promoting conspiracy theory so much as probability theory.

I don't think we can trust Apple not to have NSA backdoors anymore. We all know about Microsoft's reputation, but Apple may be the slimiest of them all. Everything is closed source and encrypted on the network level, so instead, we have to judge from Apple's corporate and PR behaviour.

Apple care about their branding and profits above all, and not one iota about their customers, truth, or transparency.

Thus, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple had surveillance backdoors in secret, making a complete mockery of the whole 'privacy play' they maintain as a branding differentiator against Google.
... and this, reader, is why we have end-to-end testing.
This should do the trick:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-st...
> Incidentally, the popular book/film 300, which focuses heavily on the bravery and martial ethos of the Spartans, instead depicts the Persian fleet as being destroyed by a storm prior to the decisive battle. This makes for a simpler story, but at a rather significant loss of historical accuracy.

Justified in the story, given who's narrating.
Previously discussed two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199701
Now that PostGIS outputs pngs directly, we can imagine future databases handling 3d assets (select * from objects where can_fit_in(x);) and even rendering them.

https://postgis.net/docs/RT_ST_AsRaster.html
Let's hope so, because probably it was/is being used as the backend for the mobile applications too! Otherwise there is probably mirrors, both the front- and back-end
That's what I tried to use but did not work at first. It works if you use block list mode and list .skype.com and .live.com.

Heh. It's the same old web app from the works-in-firefox days.
It was that strongly worded because I've been fighting the "neutralized" rumor ever since it was started (presumably to try to save x86 market share among security conscious people, given its origin). I'm tired of doing so, and it's unfortunately showing, which means I'll probably have to stop talking about it. That's a loss for everyone, especially those who might unknowingly trust their lives to a hostile machine in certain repressive regimes and pay the ultimate price as a result.

This "neutralized" or "disabled" ME rumor is extremely persistent over literally years, probably due to feeding on what people want to hear versus what the reality of the situation is. Every time it's propagated not only does the person that believes it not get what they think they got, but it harms anyone trying to push for truly open computing vs. half-open computing.

The Cambridge English Dictionary states the following primary definition for the word "neutralize":

"1. to stop something from having an effect"

If you were to actually do that to the ME on a modern Intel system (or the PSP on a modern AMD system), here's what you would see:

<blank screen>

This is because the system will not come out of reset until at least the BUP (and for newer systems more ME modules as well) have started. Those modules are signed, proprietary binaries for which source code will never be released per Intel's statements.

So, we have an apparent conflict. How can the ME be "neutralized", according to the standard English definition, while your machine still starts (thereby proving the ME has had at least some required effect prior to coreboot launching)?
... by the mechanism of emotions, for instance.
If we don’t talk about zero day vulnerability, which may be used by government to spy citizens, iMessage is end to end encrypted and secure.

Chinese local chat app like WeChat, or customized Android from Xiaomi or Huawei, they have back doors, which allow Chinese gov access data directly.

Spyware from unintentional vulnerability vs. intentional back doors are different.
Switch charges just fine from a MacBook power adapter. The issues are hugely overblown.
I secretly suspect this is everybody, and the people who claim to be coming up with real solutions in their sleep are back justifying what happened when they had enough time to sleep well and felt nice.
That thing charges my phone in 30 minutes
I don't know that industry, but shouldn't "SEO professionals" be experienced with/sensible on any kind of advertisement, cold calls and well-done spam? For me these mails look totally as spam.
Completely agree. I think GP put it this way because it’s easier to convince a “productivity ninja” that sleep is good for productivity than to convince them that productivity shouldn’t be their sole focus. If the goal is for them to get more sleep, this is how to reason with them.
> Maintenance doesn't provide immediate economic value

Reading Taleb's Skin in the game helped me articulate it to my team and managers how tech debt is a huge risk and need to find sustainable ways to pay it off. For last few years I have insisted on making sure that every sprint one engineer in dedicated to working on maintenance. Also once every year we do a 1% hackthon (2-3 days) where we work on low priority tickets that have not be worked on for a long time. This stops low priority tasks getting starved out. They impact only a very small number of customers, but added up do end up increasing overall satisfaction of all customers.
Amazon hit a sweet spot of "good enough, so why bother looking elsewhere." If you wanted a widget, they'd have it, it would be roughly what you expected, at the right price, shipped quickly. That's what got them where they were. Once you're committed to that philosophy, stuff like paying for Prime or using their automatic-services (Dash buttons before they were deprecated) is a feasible leap and encourages their stickiness.

The moment you lose that perception, things fall apart rapidly. People go back to comparison shopping and I'm not convinced Amazon wins that battle.

They lost "They'd have it" with terrible search and attempts to salvage a cross-sell out of anything. Their search might still be able to work for "I want a FooCorp model 37ABC34567 television" but a simple browsing-focused request like "PCI-E 802.11ac cards" is going to be a nightmare of miscategorized items and terrible filters.

They're losing "It would be roughly what you expected" with the combined-inventory scandal, but also the product line so broad that there's going to be room for inherently dodgy crap. Specialist retailers provide value in curation-- they won't sell the absolute worst junk that sneaks into essentially unpoliced AliExpress/eBay/Amazon listings.

"At the right price" is surprisingly spotty. They often aren't the cheapest, and some items are locked behind a $120-per-annum paywall. They also put their pricing reputation on the line with third-party sellers on board-- for the last month, they'd have been happy to sell you a Ryzen 3900X, but at 50% over MSRP. Even now, they're still $60 over sticker. Retailers: It is not a sign of weakness to say you're out of stock, rather than hand off the sale to a bottom-feeder reseller who's treating their wares like Cabbage Patch Kids in 1982.

"Shipped quickly" has become a joke. Maybe if you buy Prime it's different, but I never know what to expect for paid shipping. They'll quote a range 5-10 days from now, and sometimes it will take 1 day and sometimes the full 10. I hesitate to buy time-sensitive gifts with them and would fear to trust it for business-critical timing. You've built one of the most sophisticated logistics networks on Earth, cutting out USPS/UPS/etc. and you can't get me a more accurate delivery estimate than a mail-in offer from the back of a cereal box?
> You don't hear about 14 million iPhones being infected by malware

No, but I have heard of 400 million iPhones being infected by malware via Xcodeghost. This is serious data exfiltrating malware, not simply ad popup malware, and this is on the official app store and legitimately sourced devices unlike the malware in your first three links.
From their front page:

> We act

> Maintaining self and society through reflection, research, and advocacy.

Where is something actual in the list of the ways they act?
Thanx, this one works.
CA requires a unique gasoline mix, I think that’s responsible for a lot of the price diff overall.