skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a good chance it was not authorized by HQ and might be some China-specific PR division acting autonomously.

I have a feeling blizzard just wants this problem to go away, otherwise people are going to turn blizzcon 2019 into a shitshow
Because they've done a very shitty thing.
Because they want to reserve some ammo in case Trump puts a 25% tariff on all Mercedes and Audi's.
That's an obviously false equivalence. There are plenty of ways to work effectively without relying on fascism.
Apparently Powell is quoted as saying

> “This is not QE. In no sense is this QE,” he said in a
question and answer session after the speech.

How is this not QE? I'm honestly asking. I'm not that technically knowledgeable but this seems to me to be the definition of QE.
No Western government really cares about human rights unless it's opportune. Why doesn't anyone put Saudi Arabia on a blacklist for human rights violations?
Forgot about talking with North Korea, as a new "West Korea" is forming under the leadership of Xi, who is painting himself as Mao.
Why is this comment flagged and downvoted when in fact it isnt anyhow pro-inflammatory. Hes just stating facts. Whats with this proCCP wave??
Greg did that at Blekko as well. That is why you always crack the sysadmins password first, and use that. So when they crack it they know that you known that they know.
Google Travel
Understood, you can only login at the actual computer, not from anywhere. Should be mandatory for the elderly that are the most targeted victims.
The HN frontpage of the 2nd day
Use this as the low-T side of a heat engine, and you've got a nice little generating technology.
Maybe filtering the outgoing radiation to enhance an available low-absorbance band (or bands) and you might be able to help yourself to the T of the background sky.
I've actually thought about this a fair bit for things like low-T geothermal resources (increasing the Carnot Delta T by working on the low-T side).
Any optical physicists want to prove to me that I'm full of crap?
...and therefore the companies didn't try to censor?

You've made a very convincing argument - if those that are censored are afterwards lauded, then the lauding means they're not being censored. But if they're condemned, that means it's people refusing to listen - again not censorship. And if they're neither lauded nor condemned, because no-one heard of them because the censorship was successful, well then we don't even talk about it. No matter what happens, it's not censorship!
The accounting seems to be done per category. Manufacturing is a wasteful process, so when you import finished goods instead of manufacturing them yourself and account on basis of mass, a lot of used mass is missing.

Now ordinarily, I'd assume it's a trivial thing that obviously must have been corrected for. But recently I read that apparently, US's disappearing manufacturing was hidden in statistics for a long time, because some people miscounted semiconductor industry as if it was manufacturing appliances. So I guess mistakes like that happen.
Can you explain the relevance to the topic of discussion?
This reminds me of the phrase "if you only have a hammer, every problem is a nail".

> Poor people buy less stuff, and presumably rich people get rich by not buying more stuff commensurate with their incomes

One implication of the above statement would be that everyone is now buying less and yet somehow the economy is growing? Those two ideas aren't strictly necessarily opposed to one another but it certainly doesn't seem like a good place to start. The economy could only be growing through investment if this were the case.

> Even the falling fertilizer consumption might be explained if poorer people are shifting to more processed junk food.

Is there any junk food that isn't composed of organic matter primarily? Most "junk" food in the US that I can think of is corn based which would of course still require fertilizer...
It's an absolutely terrible analogy.

First off, putting cameras in restrooms is illegal in most places.

Regardless of that, it boils down to a legitimate company need. Ensuring that users aren't using passwords definitely passes that test. Ensuring that employees aren't sexually harassing other employees also definitely passes that test. Yes, it's unusual that a password tipped people off to bad behavior, but if you see possible evidence of bad behavior, even if it comes from a strange source, you are ethically obligated to look into it. And for a company, not doing so could create legal liability.

Now, bathrooms? Well, for starters, you said "use of work bathrooms being made public". There was nothing "public" about this password case. The password was shared, privately, with HR and the guy's manager. The closest possible bathroom analogy I can think of might be someone reporting to HR that they see someone going into the bathroom multiple times a day, coming out with white powder residue under their nose, and subsequently acting very strangely, like they're on drugs. Which... seems like an entirely appropriate thing to notice and report.
Many companies have already moved or are moving to India, Malaysia, etc. Apple is already manufacturing some models of iPhones in India.
You have to analyze the costs & benefits to all relevant parties when thinking about that sort of thing. I think you've only analyzed the costs to one party in that analysis.

"Cutting off all US supply chain in China" is on the table, but definitely way down the list of what China wants to do. The US decoupling from their economy isn't their big winning play, it's a nightmare scenario for them. If it was a big winning play right now for them, they'd already have done it.
Actually there are limits for how much lead is considered harmful in your system. OSHA has exposure limits that indicate amounts per hour, and those amounts decrease the longer you're exposed. It takes a long time for lead to leave your system and prolonged exposure at levels higher than your system can process will result in a net gain or build up.

If you're above the acceptable limit, and you don't reduce exposure to below that limit, then there's no benefit.
> why the European Union is watching and not doing the same as US?

LOL. US is arguably the bigger foul than China to EU now. Airbus/German car manufactures are on the Trump's target list.
The Macintosh had most commands hidden in menus. The lucky thing was that there wasn't space for a lot of commands. The writer of this article would probably recommend toolbars, which were introduced much later, possibly by Microsoft in one of their Windows applications.
Someone should build a phone app that removes eyeball reflections and exif data.

I have a feeling that, when people take selfies, they are using other apps and not their camera app itself.
It's probably not a good sign for Samsung that when I saw the headline, I assumed there were more dangerous hardware problems. The Note hasn't been able to escape the history of exploding problems and TSA warnings...
Tau Linked to RNA Splicing Errors in Flies
Computer-assisted judging is being tested at gymnastics world championships
My understanding is that the AGPL is an answer to an older problem and didn't see the cloud coming. It addressed those running web-hosted GPL licensed applications who were side-stepping the viral aspect of the GPL by claiming that they were not "technically" distributing a binary by making the application available on the internet as an executing web app.

The AGPL requires those who create web applications derived from the AGPL (whether they're distributed as binaries or not) to make the code for their web applications available.

The AGPL does not address the cloud-hosting conundrum at all. This conundrum is where a cloud hosting company (e.g. Amazon AWS) can replicate the original author's service offering using the unmodified open source tool (wrapping it and interacting via API at most), and undercut the original author's business model. I.e., you can imagine a power user of some AGPL software competitively putting the software author's company out of business.

This is the reason for the recent licensing restrictions around ElasticSearch and MongoDB. The originating companies have had their hosted service revenue models undercut by Amazon AWS offerings that simply repackaged the software as part of their cloud offering.

Making the AGPL even stronger by adding in a viral API clause would pigeon hole AGPL software to only the most fringe ideological use-cases as everyone would be afraid to run AGPL software in a business context.
No. Nix requires much less maintenance than gentoo. The maintenance it does require is typically very fast. Gentoo builds everything from source and portage is not immutable the way Nix is. My experience running Gentoo (and I ran it during the GCC 3 -> 4 upgrade, which required a full emerge world) is that updates cane be slow, and prone to breakage, due to missing or clashing or outdated dependencies.

Nix is a dream come true. Due to the way the nix store keeps all dependencies separate and reproduces builds to a high fidelity, when you do need to build a system package (very rare, as most are just downloaded straight out of a binary cache), it will invariably succeed with few exceptions, and the resulting binaries will work correctly.

But the best part about nix vs portage is that it won't leave your system in a half way state. Upgrading NixOS means downloading or building a bunch of packages. This can be interrupted at anytime. At no point during the download or build will the old system become unusable. Nothing in the old system is overwritten. At the time you have everything built and are ready to change, the change occurs atomically and instantly. If the new system does not work, you can revert back to the old system atomically and instantly as well. In the rare case that the new system has made your computer unstable, you can reboot the system back into the old version without the need for a rescue CD or USB stick.
I would bet their wish would be to have the power to sanction a country and then forbid any other country from doing business with them.

Even going as far as being able to arrest foreign executives that break those sanctions.
You can buy a very nice used car for less than $6,000 all day long, and (if you're still indoctrinated to believe the lie of "carbon dioxide = global heat") has a much SMALLER impact on carbon emissions than ANY new EV.

Chinese crap is just that... CRAP. The Chinese don't care about durability one iota, their entire culture is set up to be cheap and disposable.

The reason Chinese gas cars are never sold in the U.S. is because they don't meet even the most lax of safety standards. Get into what would be a "fender-bender" in an American car, and the Chinese car will fold up like a bad hand of poker.

The REASON that EVs are expensive is because, at least for now, they use rare earth minerals to power them (not to mention the existence of labor unions and burdensome federal regulations on the auto industry driving costs up). Once graphene ultra-capacitors are perfected, you won't need to build a one-ton battery pack made of toxic minerals, so the cost will drop faster than Tesla sales after their government bribes to consumers ran out.

Tesla cars are LUXURY TOYS only afforded by the very wealthy. Teslas are marketed to BMW M5 shoppers... NOT Toyota Camry shoppers. (Because a Toyota Camry beats every Tesla in every possible measure except raw acceleration, including purchase cost, running cost, and even carbon impact for the first 2 years. 5 years if you buy used.)
Heh. I used to put way too much effort into open source and side projects, and this made me a terrible employee -- I was always too tired at work, because I'd stay up late the night before, coding side projects!

Although that could be just me, I think it's a common problem.
In the current environment, these "good relationships" don't matter much. They will be used as pawns in the larger scheme.
You might like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I've have no idea why you specifically would be targeted, I know nothing about you. Black Hat Hackers will create tools to target anything and everything. If they can gain control of a phone then it's plausible they'd then have access to your bank details and more.

But I now don't know anything specific to assist you.

Good luck with your research.
> Without understanding this factor, how can "dematerialization" be taken seriously?

I don't think it can. My thought went to suspecting we simply don't "directly" consume raw materials only because this story doesn't pass the common sense 'sniff' test. If I look around me at my lifestyle or my friends/family/coworker's lifestyles, consumerism seems to have increased and not decreased. Think of the rise of ubiquitous handheld electronic devices, fast fashion (Forever 21, H&M, and so on), online shopping, and so on.
So why would you change to a less reliable company?
May I have "Taiwan" option instead of "Chinese Taipei" for signing up an Epic account? Even Blizzard is not doing this.
tl;dr if you take possession of any 'new' crypto holdings after a hard fork you now have new tax liability !
NBA did the same thing.

Their Chinese statement was way more apologetic than the English one.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2019/10/07/nba-chin...
A decent email client will display these as a foldable hierarchy, sort of like HN or Reddit's posting interface, just with the body of the posts hidden. With that and full text search it's not so hard. It's the web interfaces that are a bit bulky.
"There was just a paper released about a widely used pesticide that did not appear to actually increase yields."

When my father was in a university geology department in an Agriculturally intensive midwestern state in the 80's, he worked on a few projects with farmers related to water use. One thing he looked into (unrelated to the main research project) was the cost/benefit of ferilizer use. The gist of it was that he came up a curve representing the marginal value added of fertilizer, which started high, and eventually went negative. Past a certain point, less fertilizer was absorbed into the soil and more went directly to runoff/there was more than the plants could use, something like that, and thereafter the added cost outweighed the further crop gains. Most of the farmers in the area were going beyond that point to some extent, and could increase their profit by decreasing fertilizer use to some extent. He said the farmers he talked to were skeptical, but one tried it out on one of their fields that year, found it to be an improvement, and a number of farmers in the area reduced their fertilizer to some extent using the curve as a guidance. The fertilizer sellers would probably just have said that more fertilizers would lead lead to more productivity, which was true, but not presented the cost/benefit.

I don't know too much about farming/crop science, but could see there having been improvements in things like this as well as GMO's & selective breeding. At one point Iowa State University was one of the leading statistics department in the US, which I believe was in large part due to the applicibility of statistics to farming.

"Or all the least efficient farmers were bankrupted out of the market."

One of the trends in the Midwest over the last few decades has been the transition from a larger number of smaller farms to a smaller number of very large farms. Perhaps this is greater efficiency/mechanization/scale.
Oh no, my employer might mandate that I use Zoom!

If that's your biggest complaint about your job, you have a pretty nice job.
Bringing (automated) manufacturing back to the US and ensuring the security of our supply chains while also doing economic harm to an authoritarian government while they're in a precariously unstable economic situation? As a US citizen, I'm fully onboard. Call China's bluff. Monetary policy (cheap money) is in a phenomenal place to support the necessary infrastructure investments (roads, rail, energy, etc), and that spending will keep the US economy humming while further decoupling us from China's.

What good are values as a nation if we're willing to trade them for profits and cheap goods from China?
why would i buy this when Fiddler/Charles is free?
Study of sewage gives clues about socioeconomic status, habits
Would you consider a feature request for a setting to disable the tmux integration feature? The exploit seems like good evidence for the need for this.

I finally got around to installing iTerm2 this year. It's great, thanks to you (and to all contributors) for all your hard work! I will say, though, that while features like shell integration sound powerful, I personally choose to keep them disabled in order to minimize attack surface. It would be nice to be able to disable tmux integration as well for the same reason, given I don't use tmux.

EDIT: clarification
Very embarrassing, I was thinking only of human transport. OK, but still, some facts.

> look forward to your surveillance photographs of enemy territory taken on a train

"In 1794, during the Battle of Fleurus, the French Aerostatic Corps balloon L'Entreprenant remained afloat for nine hours. French officers used the balloon to observe the movements of the Austrian Army, dropping notes to the ground for collection by the French Army,[3] and also signalled messages using semaphore.[4]"

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_aircraft#Pre_Worl...

A little more dubiously (I'd need to read up a bit to be sure it's not total tripe):

"In or around the second or third century, a prototype hot air balloon, the Kongming lantern, was invented in China, serving as a military communication station.[2][3]"

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aerial_warfare

> So will taking the train from remote regions to the hospital

same could be said of roads. Once a road is present new areas are immediately much more accessible. Roads are ancient.

> the nerd dildo can't compare

Dildos have been around for a long time. Not sure this ad hom adds to your point though.
Redditors are already talking about going in Rockets gear and Winnie the Pooh shirts.
Now I know his chess move.
> Peter Thiel

See also: his dark revolution aka "The Dark Enlightenment".

Examples: https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/Searle20160815
> It's multiplicative, not additive. 3DES is about 2^56 times as difficult to crack as DES. (Not 2^112 times because there is an attack that effectively limits it to twice the effective bits of DES, rather than the three times you might expect at first).

If you’re using 3 different keys, yes, that makes sense. But if you’re just keystretching one key, wouldn’t it just take 3 times as long because you encrypt, decrypt, encrypt (3 processes)?
Every Saturday, Lorne Michaels picks an older episode of SNL and it is run alongside the live broadcast. In the event of something catastrophic that would stop the show, like a performer dying, the feed will switch from the live broadcast to the older episode.

Only tangentially related, but morbidly fascinating.
I don't honestly think people would give a damn so long as the porn was legal.
Show HN: Naming and shaming companies who kowtow to Chinese censorship requests
That's the thing -- I do want to use the UI and I don't want to have to hand-edit XML. I just want the UI to not use the single worst dialog box in all of windows.

I am baffled at why Backblaze clings so tightly to the existing dialog box.
Prisons are pretty expensive, couldn't Mexico be paid to house exiles? I doubt they couldn't handle a few people with violent tendencies if paid the right price.
Sixers fans say they were ejected from preseason game for 'Free Hong Kong' signs
If anything that article proves the law is working as intended. Truthful claims were allowed.
Just for grins and giggles, I clicked on a few of the posts to see which ones were still valid links -- I found two. One from Techcrunch.
Self-defense is violent, yes
What are your thoughts on how to prevent the entire class of vulnerability from being able to happen again?
What does this mean if I have coins on an exchange when they fork and the exchange decides not to support the new coin? Is that theft?
Thanks I didn't know about the possibility of dissolving uranium into seawater.
The India move is a strategic move probably to see if they can get the same quality from their assembly lines. The key is still access to supply chains for important semi conductor metals.
Some Amazon’s Choice Sellers Bribe Customers for Good Reviews
I'm puzzled by the downvote, as my question seems appropriate to me. Anyone care to provide feedback? Thanks.
Big corporations doing big business in market too big to be ignored...

Still, I think they should grow some balls.

Acting like this now mean it will be worse in the future.
Agree completely - Eyesight impresses me on a regular basis on the complexity of scenarios it seems to be able to react to, both when it comes to collision alerts / automatic breaking and when used for assisted cruise control.

I haven’t had any experiences with pedestrians at speed in front of the vehicle, but the rear automatic breaking in my Subaru is very aware of / sensitive to people walking behind it.
The inventor of PHP is Danish, and Anders Hejlsberg is also Danish, so we had a hand in C# and TypeScript as well. However, this doesn't mean there is a nationally endorsed programming language.
...and the crowd goes mild!

Does anyone actually use Windows containers? How is it? I'm not the most connected person, but I really want to know who's actually using this?
Right. It's not the size. It's how you use it.
This got me to actually update and I love the new minimal theme. I also like having CPU/Memory usage statistics in the status bar.
The spam filter is super stringent or just plain doesn't like self-hosted email servers, unfortunately.
Two funny things about this:

1. Both Americans and China are furious at the NBA, both are threatening to boycott it.

2. Tencent just signed a $1.5 Billion streaming deal with the NBA. If the Chinese ban the NBA, then the first casualty (besides the NBA) is their own company.
https://twitter.com/DiMartinoBooth/status/118164877586722816...

you're not the only one who is confused
PlayStation 5: The VR Effect
Haha! It is not us it is the engineering team blaming culture
What's blizzard? Can't tell from the post.
That is brilliant information, and I appreciate you writing up such a great reply. A lot of food for thought.
You could say that he's a troll, attempting to overrun social media channels while making claims in bad faith.