skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually like this idea a lot. So the application to get information gets a reply in the form of "no" or the information that was requested, and the requesters can't unilaterally get the info even if they want to.

It's not a perfect solution, but it's the right kind of bureaucratic quagmire to actually make a difference.
Not sure if shill or just really disconnected? Trump saying outrageous stuff with little to no actual consequence is a FAR cry from the dictatorship of China.
The tables are fundamentally imbalanced now, I see nothing wrong with the US attempting to finally start addressing the issue. The fact that US companies have been exploiting that imbalance to pursue cheap labor is irrelevant to the conversation.
Or simply reach peak population growth which is a common occurrence on the small scale. With population at a steady state, there is nothing GDP needs to outgrow.
Seems pretty conflicted with their "think globally" core value. Maybe they should update that one to "divide and conquer."
That commitment is very light and easily adjusted, though.

Once you have types in your source code, automatic refactorings are not just blazingly fast, they are also safe.

These days, dynamically typed languages have realistically zero advantages over a modern statically typed language.
One of the reasons I don't have a dog is because I live in a city. You can't let a dog of the leash and let it run about in a city.
We can make our life purpose the awakening of humanity.
> And Apple is such a high profile company that it would likely cause an international incident.

That's an overstatement in my opinion. Can you provide an example where a high profile (tech) company caused an international incident?

Could be the case for companies with a national-security profile like energy or food industry, but the Chinese can live without iPhones and Apple, while feeling the bump, will move on.
Someone I know posted a picture of an empty rolodex today, saying that they'd moved their friends to 'the cloud.' I'm sure you can look at your phone apps and see other things that would've been physical objects ten or twenty years ago. So, that's one way material use has, at least, shifted.

There are two other trends that worry me more. One is visible in the freezer section at the grocery store; a "half-gallon" of ice cream is no longer actually a half-gallon. Many other food items have shrunk. The article's example of lighter buildings is what I view as the same category, something blogger Yves Smith terms 'crapification.' We've now had at least two generations of spreadsheet-wielding MBA's optimizing corporate costs to reduce what is spent on materials and labor. Evidence of their success is showing up across the economy, and politics, and society at large.

The other trend is money supply; One of the chief problems leading to the 2008 financial crisis was that much more credit had been extended than could ever be paid back by those to whom it was loaned. The 'solution' was to have central banks 'pay back' the loans that never should've been made. That put a lot of credit in to the economy, which shows up as economic growth. I'd like to see an analysis of 'economic growth' where the contributions of resources and credit are accounted for separately.
Humans will not 'migrate' to other planets, Nobel winner says
EO12333 effectively suspends the fourth amendment for people subject to background investigations. FBI is just following this guidance.

https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/eo12333.html
This trade war instigated by Trump is purely playing on Nationalism. It is making me sick to my stomach that even smart Hacker News readers are getting caught up in the Nationalist fervor.

I'm not a fan of China at all. We SHOULD impose sanctions on China and ALL OTHER countries engaging in flagrant human rights abuses. But the idea that this trade war would be over China's treatment of Muslim minorities is 100% bullshit and everyone knows it. If Trump gave a shit about human rights, he wouldn't be best friends with the leaders of Russia, Israel, Brazil, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc.

We're all hackers here. American hackers, Chinese hackers, Russian hackers, Swedish hackers, Arab hackers, German hackers... The point isn't who can scream "$my_country #1!!!" the loudest. We should be beyond that stuff.
That wouldn't work for a robotic hand.
It isn't necessary for the original bootstrap seed to run on many platforms. Just at least one trustworthy one. From there we can cross-compile everything else.
There could be a shitstorm of the other side, i.e. "how could blizzard have streamer defend the rioter in Hong Kong, this is an outrage!"
I guess this kind of complaints would improve the citizen social credit
Misspelling and using a few character replacements makes a dictionary attack much more difficult. You don't have to make it too hard on yourself, just a few changes to make a really secure password.
It can still cost them customers, e.g. hardcore Christians. Today, it is still brave, just less than 20-30 years ago.

Throughout the entire existence of WoW they've actively prohibited LGBT community to express themselves in WoW. While they did nothing about virtual RP sex on RP servers.
Like you said, nobody is born with an opinion. Same questions you asked above can be asked of Americans. Democracy != Good and Communism != Bad

Things aren't as black and white as people make it out to be.

Now, I'll tell you I'm Chinese, but I've been in the US for almost ten years now. I've seen perspectives from both sides and the truth is far from what western media tells you. The unfortunate problem is the language barrier. Many people in English speaking countries cannot read Chinese, thus relying on "Chinese experts" for their opinions, without realizing many of the so-called experts themselves cannot speak Chinese.

I tell you that I don't support the Hong Kong protest, this is not posted on Weibo or any Chinese social media. This is my own feeling and judgement. It's sad I even need to make this disclaimer. Now you have this one data point from me as a Chinese citizen, if that's worth anything.
There's a pretty significant difference: China has way more untapped human capital than the Soviet Union. There's a good chance they end up with a level of economic development closer to South Korea or Japan than Eastern Europe. If that's the case, then it's like the Cold War, except it doesn't end in the economic collapse of the other side.
I guess you could switch keycaps at a much lower cost, depending on your keyboard model. If those are blank, randomly shuffling them around might be enough as well (if you can do without the new keyboard, and don't think that an attacker would look at the keyswitches wear.

This is also something I see quite often on mobile phones with a pin/pattern unlock: you can often infer the pin from the wear pattern, or the grease marks on the screen if the phone was used recently.

My keycap wear pattern more or less mirrors the letter frequency in the languages I write.
The same is true of coffee. A 1 pound coffee can is the same size it always was but now has 10 or 11 ounces of coffee in it.
python has a awesome type system , even though it has support for dynamic typing. you cant use dict, int, list interchangeably given enough time you notice operations and methods which can only work for a given type. but when the types share similarity like they are iterate-able they work predictably.

although its not for everyone , but if your talking about large projects you could use metaclasses to enforce type checking during instantiation.

tech debt can sometimes be unavoidable. i often find the case to be that a project stops progressing due to fear of breaking something and not knowing how to fix it. In python this fear is reduced almost by an order of magnitude compared to other programming languages.

also in typed languages used in large projects. the project itself behaves like a standard or a protocol , people memorize the values of bytes each request contains , people start maintaining informal codes to access the project or it becomes some hob goblin of word documents , pdf and jira .

and god forbid you need to make a change in the datamodel to a more optimized model, you would most likely have to throw away most of your code which you wont do because solving all the build issues and waiting for it to compile from start doesn't go on the clock as time spent coding something useful.
that happened at least once before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests - next 30 years weren't exactly bad for China.
No, this is how it works in China. When Tencent has seats the board, it's how it works in the US, too.

What Tencent has never seen before, and what all Chinese companies need a wake-up call to, is punishment for bending over backward to a dickbag government.

US companies are used to weighing what the government wants and what its consumers want and finding a decent footing (to maximally benefit shareholders). Chinese companies just do whatever the party wants. It's bad for everyone except the CCP.
I doubt it. Maybe mars and venus, but even there getting self sustaining is going to be hard. There is no reason to suspect that we will ever be able to get anywhere else with less than a generation ship, and no reason to believe we can make one them them that will work long enough...

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207011 which coincidentally happened to be in new articles when I checked...
Nah, it's 99% handwaving and bandwagoning, like you're doing.
There was a thing a few years ago where a Russian political troll ring was exposed, and the big focus of their messaging to left-wingers was "there's no point in voting because both parties are equally bad."

What you said is what they want you to think. Lord knows both major parties in the US have serious problems, but if you think they're indistinguishable, you're not paying attention.
What would happen if the US and EU are not made available to Chinese consumers at all? That is not an option now as most of the manufacturing happens there but if we assume this can be done and Chinese consumers don’t get anything made or owned by US and EU companies how big of a problem will it be for the Chinese government?
The /etc/passwd file from which this password was unearthed has a date of Jan 5 1980 (from a 3BSD tar file). Presumably ken has updated his password since then.
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Is there any recorded instance of Weibo stuff forcefully posting on behalf of an account?
Growth for who? Interestingly the words poverty, austerity, unemployment, education and health cuts are all missing from this "economics" article. There has been a single trend since Capitalism began centuries ago - the rich have been getting richer and the poor poorer. Yield curve's looking good today dear, we're being evicted, but damn it looks good.
The "airdrop" terminology is interesting to say the least.

The closest thing I can see to a definition is in 26 CFR 1.61-1:

> An airdrop is a means of distributing units of a cryptocurrency to the distributed ledger addresses of multiple taxpayers. A hard fork followed by an airdrop results in the distribution of units of the new cryptocurrency to addresses containing the legacy cryptocurrency. However, a hard fork is not always followed by an airdrop.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-19-24.pdf

Consider the Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash hard fork of 2017. No "distributed ledger addresses" received an airdrop distribution.

What happened instead is that the tokens previously valid on a single network (Bitcoin) became valid on a new network (Bitcoin Cash). There was no "distribution" and as such there was no airdrop according to the IRS definition.

On the first block of the Bitcoin Cash split, there was no "recording" of cryptocurrency receipt on the "distributed ledger." There was just a block containing some unrelated (for most users) Bitcoin Cash transactions.

Either the IRS doesn't understand the basis of a hard fork, or it's specifically singling out hard forks coupled to "airdrops" as having received income.

Likewise Situation 1, from the same document:

> Situation 1: A holds 50 units of Crypto M, a cryptocurrency. On Date 1, the distributed ledger for Crypto M experiences a hard fork, resulting in the creation of Crypto N. Crypto N is not airdropped or otherwise transferred to an account owned or controlled by A.

> ...

> A did not receive units of the new cryptocurrency, Crypto N, from the hard fork; therefore, A does not have an accession to wealth and does not have gross income under § 61 as a result of the hard fork.

The use of the word "account" is also problematic, as it implies a custodial relationship with a financial institution, which has nothing to do with Bitcoin itself.

Filling in the blanks:

A holds 50 BTC. On Date 1, BTC experiences a hard fork, resulting in the creation of Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash is not airdropped or otherwise transferred to an account owned or controlled by A.

A did not receive units of the new cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Cash, from the hard fork; therefore A does not have an accession to wealth and does not have gross income under § 61 as a result of the hard fork.

Stay tuned because these rules are going to be refined - a lot.
I'm skeptical that a stepper motor would be able to support it's own weight and more without a gearbox. This is especially important for making serial manipulators. Also keep in mind that what they're aiming for here is repeatability so that researchers can easily compare their algorithms. That means using parts that don't vary too much and minimizing the amount of assembly researchers have to do. There are much cheaper knock off versions of these actuators, although they may not be as repeatable. At the very least they aren't as well documented.
Moving manufacturing out of China is not synonymous with moving manufacturing into the US. A great deal of that manufacturing would move to other countries with cheap labor and burgeoning supply chains.
China makes things as good or bad as the client wants. My 12 yr old laptop was made in China.
I've been staring at the text trying to see the strawman argument, and have failed.

The author asserts that many GNU developers consider RMS to be GNU's rightful leader. The author asserts that that Stallman is pretending to run things. I can see that the author can be wrong. I don't see where it's a strawman.

BTW, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" at https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm is relevant. A social group with "an apparent lack of structure too often disguise[s] an informal, unacknowledged and unaccountable leadership that [is] all the more pernicious because its very existence [is] denied." (quoting Hilary Wainwright at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne... ).

If Stallman doesn't "run things" at least to some extent, then what decisions is is referring to when he writes at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-10/msg00005... :

> "I would like to make incremental changes in how some decisions are made, because I won't be here forever and we need to ready others to make GNU Project decisions when I can no longer do so."
I.. I'm not even sure.. Why? Do the employees just want to increase the fire now?
A lot changed in the last 6 years. China like no other country is rising and fast becoming a global power. It may not be a problem if they were a democracy or used unnecessary means to steal the IP of US companies.
They can't so they don't. That's why its irrelevant.
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> the actual reaction of Chinese people on Weibo and other Chinese social media.

That isn't the actual reaction of Chinese people, that's the reaction that the Chinese social media companies permit to be displayed. Do you think that a post supporting the Hong Kong protesters would be permitted by the censors?
I sent more than one message from God by telnet to <mail server> 25. Good times!

Around the same time, someone at my school made a much, much worse semi-accidental prank. Semi-accidental because he didn't think it would work. See, the campus list serve was setup to only allow certain senders to send messages. Makes sense, only a few top administrators should be able to do that. This person theorized that a simple <smtp: from> hack, using an authorized person's email, might circumvent the restriction. He was right! Unfortunately, rather than "test 1 2 3" or something, he sent a message, from the president, that all classes had been cancelled. Had he stopped there, maybe it would have been chalked up to a prank. But he went further: The president would be using this free time to, um, entertain amorous visitors at their leisure. So, yeah, expelled. His excuse, when interviewed by the student newspaper, was "I didn't think it would work."
“Planning on” is an exaggeration. It would be good if someone did that, but those 120MB are still five orders of magnitude bigger than the MES seed, and that's a much bigger problem right now.
"Gee, why is there a pool of water on the floor ever since the rain started? Do you think maybe the roof is leaking?"

"Don't be silly! Just because there is water dripping from the ceiling doesn't mean there is a leak in the roof. Things just get wet sometimes. I'm sure there's a wonderful explanation besides the roof leaking. No sense in hiring someone to come look at the roof either. That would be a waste of resources."
NBA needs to decide whether they are an organ of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) or whether they have some self respect. They're in an important position to protect the sport, but if they go chasing after money from the CCP what will they be then?

And what do they think will happen to the protesters in Hong Kong? Probably the same thing that has happened to others.

https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgement-report/

Why identify with the CCP by doing what they say?
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So if you get a new coin from a hard fork, you owe taxes on the fair market value of that new coin you get. This seems pretty dangerous - if the fair market value is high on the first day of trading, but declines a lot, you could get taxed on value that you never realized.

It seems like this will incentivize people to sell off new tokens immediately, in order to pay the taxes they incurred during the fork.

To me it seems very unintuitive to tax a hard fork. It is like taxing a stock split. Your asset hasn't really changed, it is just now represented in a different way.

Another weird thing about these taxes is that they assume that one of the forks is the "real asset" and the other fork is the "new asset". In practice, it seems like a lot of times a fork happens along with a lot of argument about which side of the fork is the "real" one.

Well, I guess the IRS does not see cryptocurrency the same way as my intuition would.
What breed is she out of interest? My Parents are on their third Aireldale - they have great personalities, but also require a fair bit of time and energy - something I don't have enough of at present for owning one.
What we need is an economic partnership that can stand up to China, like a union of companies that can actually deter China from throwing its weight around. This partnership should be more than just the United States too. It should span across the entire Pacific region, including Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore and others. Maybe we could call it a "Cross-Pacific-Partnership". This is a totally new idea that I'm having in response to recent events and nobody could have foreseen the need for this.
That only solves part of the problem -- there's still the issue of agents with access to the system using it to look up ex lovers and such.

That part can be solved with technology by requiring multiple approvals for access to data so no one agent can't look up his girlfriend (or be bribed to look up information by a private investigator) unless he can convince his supervisor (or an audit department) that person is related to some active investigation.
But you do trust Google for privacy?
And yet the International Postal Union still considers China a developing country so we all subsidise their shipping.

What counts as a developed country if it isn’t giant pools of money that every corporation around the world wants to be involved in?
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A lot of key people have been accused of being pedophiles, and in league with a person running an underaged sex trafficking ring, complete with a bizarre tropical pedophile island. Nothing happened - the person who could tie it all together was suicided in his jail cell, and the evidence obtained is doubtless consigned to the same dusty warehouse where the Top Men are keeping the Ark of the Covenant...
The experience we have with elm at my company is pretty good, actually. We have two teams staffed and productive, with no specific recruitment. All devs were trained in-house.

The language has some problems of course, but in terms of developers availability, training effectiveness makes it good.
Is the radiative cooler really just an aluminum disc painted black? Why this material versus some of the other designs out there (some groups have made these out of wood, others with glass microspheres in polypropylene, etc)
The answer to your question is that societies are in transition from Spiral Dynamics stage blue/orange through high orange (late capitalism) and on their way to green, which will be a very painful but necessary evolution for our survival.

For more information, check out Clair Graves' model of psychological evolution, Spiral Dynamics, Leo Gura of Actualized dot org does an excellent video series on this model and the blog post about The Big Picture of Global Politics is an excellent application of this model to everything we're dealing with from China to Trump currently.

Humanity must awaken to it's devilry.
The US decoupling her economy from China isn't the nightmare scenario, it's losing her global prestige. Imagine all of our allies suddenly realizing that the US is in an untenable bargaining position and all tariffs are raised all over the world, all at once. That's the nightmare scenario.

Trump's a dealmaker, he's shown himself to be less than utterly stupid in regards to foreign policy. But building a coalition against China might be more than he can handle.
I use x11docker to run a recent firefox on Guix for now. https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker
"Cutting off all US supply chain in China" is on the table, but definitely way down the list of what China wants to do.

Exactly. It's one thing for China cut off the supply of microchips to the United States. The U.S. would have to make a massive investment in building new supply chains domestically and with other countries.

It's another thing if the United States cuts China off from $6 billion in soybeans each year. China's population will start to starve long before a microchip shortage really hurts the U.S.
> Everything we do at Vy is done in close collaboration with the customer.

To understand this correctly; 'we' means the company 'Bekk' and the customer is 'Vy', right?

I don't find it too strange that it is relatively easy to onboard new Elm programmers when they are part of the same company. But what happens when competing companies want to bid for jobs at Vy? Vy is after all wholly owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, so new future contracts are bound to come up. A language decision like this–beyond the merit of the language itself–might create a vendor lock-in that can stifle competition. Without being an Elm programmer myself, I am not sure that the technical merits of Elm is really worth it when taking the competition aspect into condsideration.
The manufacturing won't come back it'd move to other Asian countries like Vietnam first.
I really don't get Bloomberg. They post articles with wild conspiratorial nonsense as fact, absolutely destroying their credibility, but then they make sure to tow the line with China on human rights violations being "alleged".

Shows you who their masters are.