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Thanks for continuing the discussion in a constructive way!

> it is really hard to know the impact of many really amazing, crazy foundational things until 50 years after the fact.

That's absolutely untrue in all of the examples I listed. Nukes, antibiotics, supersonic jets, space flight, the invention of computers; all of these things were immediately recognized as of titanic importance. There is nothing recognizable in the last 50 years as being of comparable importance. Cell phones and search engines are cool, but not hugely different from what we had before, and again: not comparable to the previous 50 years. They were minor revolutions, and how I make my living, but compared to antibiotics? Feh!

Sure there may be things in the lab now or back a few years which will eventually prove amazing. That's pretty impossible to talk about; I doubt there is even a single decent example from the prior 50 years you could name that was as hidden as these alleged breakthroughs are now. Important things aren't often kept secret. I mean, maybe the air force has antigravity UFOs like the tinfoil hat brigades say; I kind of doubt it! There is a distinct lack of obvious breakthroughs of the last 50 years. That's what I keep saying! Maybe CRISPR or whatever will change everything; but they've been saying stuff like this since the 70s, and again, the biggest biotech revolution thus far is ... as I said ... cheap insulin. Not even close to antibiotics.

Your point about us not developing super-weapons is not obviously true. The US has basically failed at this, just as it continues to fail at most things involving large scale industry: but the Russians just fielded a nuclear ramjet cruise missile (the US was working on this in the 50s) as well as a crazy doomsday torpedo and some weird hypersonic things I haven't fully parsed yet. Also, antibiotics wasn't a super weapon, nor was computers, nor any number of other examples; but these technologies conveyed huge advantages on the possessors of such technologies that have military implications. The point of measuring breakthrough techs via their military advantages is to have some obvious metric. It's a pretty good one! Nothing is perfect, but it's a decent way of pointing out why some technological innovations are more important than others; evolutionary fitness.

Re productivity; if you remove chip improvements from economic measures of productivity; things look super grim. That's what I said in the original article!
Hmm, perhaps the best approach is to use the official translated word from Chinese: Fajia, to represent the concept and minimize confusion.

Ex: We could translate "Samurai" into "Knight", except a Samurai code of feudalism was completely different than a Knight's code of feudalism (even if both were forms of feudalism). There are also major differences in how the aristocracy worked between Japan and Europe. At some point, its best to just stick with the native tongue.
Google did not have as much skin in the game as Apple does. If Apple defied the CCP, they could lose their factories overnight. To say this would cause immense damage is an understatement. They would have no product to sell within weeks and they would have no means to produce anything. It would be catastrophic.

Google, on the other hand, walked away from China and it's business as usual for them.
Sounds like you're admitting to sending massive illegal payments to each MoC...
That may be. I'm just quoting the statement, not necessarily saying that I agree with their assertion.

Given the subject matter, you can bet this will be part of this rapidly growing conversation about China and Hong Kong.
Complete and total nonsense. "Passion" is a buzzword meaning work for free until we deem you worthy of payment - and that time frame keeps getting longer and longer as the race to the bottom in labor keeps happening. NAFTA was a prelude to the internet revolution. Like programming? Well, someone living where rent is a tenth of yours can do it better than you. Enjoy poverty!
generally these types of activities don't actually follow a bell curve but a power law where a very tiny population reap the vast majority of the rewards and everyone else shares the scraps, trailing off and approaching zero. Think 10 YT videos get 10 billion views and the rest share a billion, with the mean being somewhere close to zero
The article mentions "composite material". From the pictures it is hard to say whether it is fiberglass/polyester, carbon fiber/epoxy or what; but either way these materials are much harder to recycle than steel.
I was expelled from university for pulling off the exact same exploit with the "workstation only" feature in Novell. In my case, they put a computer in every dorm room, and every single one of them had a domain-wide administrator account cached in its SAM file. It was inevitable that a student would find it. It's been almost 15 years now but I believe the password was rac3c4r or something trivial like that. I ran Ophcrack overnight and in the morning I had admin access to every machine on campus.

I also had the bright idea to try this on library computers and email kiosks around campus used by thousands of students. Rather than booting into Ophcrack I'd just log in with the admin account and run pwdump from a USB stick to collect password hashes. I figured out how to enumerate Windows machines over the network using NetBIOS and ran the pwdump utility remotely using psexec, so that I could hit every computer in the library at once, or every computer in a computer lab, etc.

I ended up cracking credentials for most students and faculty on the entire campus. I was really young at the time and thought this was some real cool James Bond shit. I never once used it for evil: never read anyone's email, never viewed anyone's private files, never poked around the academic file shares for test solutions, never tried to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers from the finance office's file share. It was purely a hack for the thrill of breaking down barriers and outsmarting the security. But MONTHS later after I had long since grown tired of tinkering with this stuff, a couple of uniformed police officers pulled me out of Calculus class and took me downtown. They tossed my dorm room and confiscated my computer and my phone and every piece of digital storage I owned. The school threw the book at me, I guess because they were so embarrassed by their incompetence on display from being beaten by a 16 year old.

(Posting on my alt account for obvious reasons.)
Good point, it definitely perpetuates a false dichotomy.
This sounds like you guys aren't doing your job correctly.

You're literally serving a text file with a browser based editor, this doesn't need tremendous amounts of caching.

If you can't handle the traffic a news article might bring to a google docs document, then you probably shouldn't be pushing for google docs.

I can't believe I'm having to say this to someone who used to be an SRE at Google, but this is literally YOUR problem to solve.
Just need to be sure they can't prove it was malicious in court
What secret space programs?
First post here, hi! I would say that a good way to ditch Google from your information is to use PGP.
I think that is absurd and you are in the right to think that there should be a better option. I much prefer just depositing cash into family member's accounts when they need it instead of having to use yet another app to do so.
Where are the pictures and videos? A missed opportunity.
The people at the top didn't do anything, they just wrote up a process.

The people at the bottom aren't responsible for anything, they were just following their process
It's not suited for it right now, but it very much disproves "If it's offline for six months, it clearly isn't that important."
Wind turbine blades, such as those used on this playground, are typically not recycled and have little scrap value. Their structure is primarily of fiberglass, some with carbon fiber, often with foam and balsa wood as well. There is some metal, typically in the lightning protection system (copper and aluminum) and blade root (blade studs, covers, possibly a steel blade root insert), but they do not comprise the majority of the structure. On decommissioning it is relatively common for blades to be shredded and landfilled.
It it looks like it was a bad code push and it was being reverted? So, I mean, those things happen for non nefarious reasons. So unless people know it was for the actual text of the doc, I think it’s likely just an unlucky glitch.
From the comments:
"I live in Virginia and have always gotten this unfortunate smell when outside, but noticed most people do not. My brothers get it, and occasionally my husband, but not my mother or any other people I know. My husband and I call it smelling “sparkly” because the pungent, slightly metallic smell is initially so strong once I come indoors it makes me envision the smell actively jumping or popping around my skin, hair and clothes like tiny firecrackers. It calms down within a half hour or so, but doesn’t completely disappear. I only have to be outside for couple minutes, but when I come back in I smell “sparkly.” If I am around people I avoid any trips outside as much as possible."

This needs to be researched. Is this some sort of psychological affliction? There is no outside smell. What if you lived in a hut? What separates the outside from the inside?
Sure, but that's not the agreement both parties entered into. You can't simply go back on an agreement because you decide halfway through you won't like the results at the end (obviously China is testing that theory, so maybe you can). It's simply not in good faith.

Obviously the move from China makes logical sense from their perspective, but that means that the protests are equally logical from the HK side.
> and (C) own some real estate in California (but not necessarily the property in question?!)

I think that's a protection against the business owning a Trust that owns the land. It's to force the business to own the land directly.
Sure, that's a good enough excuse. I look forward to defeating government facial recognition algorithms by holding my head at an angle.
Compute is one part of it but not much different across clouds. Databases are the other big part (each customer needs their own DB). The SQL Server databases in Azure for our usage scenario turns out a lot cheaper. We’ll explain more in a future post.
I've found that ideally all product changes should be developed in close collaboration between a product owner, a UI/UX-person, and a developer. The design shouldn't be made upfront and handed to the developer, it should be made iteratively with the developer providing feedback. And the same goes for the product owner, giving input about user needs and their mental model. The developer should provide feedback about what is feasible and easy instead of just being expected to code up a design that's thrown over the wall. If you allow any of these parties to do most of their work before the others, then you'll get a local optimization that will either constrain the others to do sub-optimal solutions for their areas, or force the final result to break out of the optimum from the first area. The best result comes by having each side provide input in each iteration. Getting a team to work like this is rare though, in my experience - I guess that's part of what makes unicorns so valuable, since they'll integrate several of these roles in one person.
Arno Schmidt is a somewhat obscure German author, known for the use of this system. He wrote a book titled "Zettel's Traum".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schmidt

https://www.zinzin.com/observations/2013/who-was-arno-schmid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom%27s_Dream
What do you mean? Lots of social media activity?
> Are you arguing that ... the human driver isn't responsible ...

I'm arguing that "responsibility" and "fault" are appropriate for resolving a legal dispute, but they don't tell you if a system as a whole is more safe or not.

> The rule of thumb is that you pick a dot that just enters your field of view...

How often do you do this check? And why?
A goose is still a goose, even if not viewed from the "normal" orientation.
What worries me is that a compromise of the app could directly expose my bank info. Wells Fargo said the change was made to stop money laundering. I doubt that will do any good for the cause.
How Do You Destroy $5M Worth of Guns?
Sure, so cap the backup process to 25.

Having a connection that's more asymmetrical than 5:1 is dumb, but those numbers are still good enough for online backup.
This is false. Companies are made of people. They're not machines, they're organizations of people. There is no "business ethics" there's just ethics. People in leadership positions can take actions that aren't always in the interest of short term profit maximization, and will not get fired for it, so long as these actions are vaguely aligned to the long term health of the organization.

One might suggest that encouraging freedom / democracy is in the long run health of all for-profit companies. I haven't seen any boards or shareholder activists argue against this yet.
You heard a salesman explain it to you, or read about it when purchasing the vehicle.
> You're literally serving a text file with a browser based editor, this doesn't need tremendous amounts of caching.

Serving anything dynamic at thousands of QPS requires a lot of caching.
So is a smartphone now literally required in order to use the financial system? I realize most people have them now, but far from everyone. That's pretty scary.
Or at least promoted.
We wrote an article on this topic and we call it The Talent Economy - https://topt.al/kcV6G

We believe our arguments are a bit more pointed and speak to the dynamics of the gig economy vs. [name your catchy other economy here].
Monitor was bought by Deloitte.
We need some crazy tech billionaire to fund development for a POC of one of these patents.
I hold the - apparently controversial - view that if your ML algorithm cannot detect a clean picture of a goose when you rotate it by 90°, your ML algorithm is garbage. How is this of any use when it's so easily fooled?
This is a good guide for "thinking in hooks": https://wattenberger.com/blog/react-hooks

You can combine whatever inputs you want, whether props or internal state variables. Hooks are basically a way to specific "do X whenever any of Y variables change", regardless of what those vars are.
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That's a very limited concept of 'business friendly' and inaccurate in any case with regards to the US.
Even with recent events, I'm still leaning towards technical glitch(es).

We've recently used this exact process (to remove an authenticator), and it was glitchy/problematic even before today, with a ton of people trying to use it at once (and I assume Blizzard staff manually verifying IDs?) I suspect Blizzard's verification system has imploded.

Kind of a similar thing happened when "WoW Classic" launched. The first 24-48 hours the whole ID recovery workflow was doing similar things/broken.

It is still on them to fix it, and people are still entitled to complain, this post is more a remark on intent (purposely down Vs. just having a bad recovery system). Although "It has sucked for a while" isn't a great defense anyway.
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Somewhat tangential: Is there a website that tracks companies which do not have Chinese investors and does not use Chinese manufacturing in their supply chain?

I'd like to try to avoid giving money to China, but they are so ingrained into the American economy I'm not sure how to do this in practice.
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I've done a fair amount of work with DirectX, and I've never particularly had to be cognizant that it used COM.

That's probably more a reflection of DirectX being reasonably well designed.
Are we crawling toward some broader realization that corporate gaming and liberty are a questionable mix?
Most metals are relatively easily recycled. Therefore scrap metal has value as feedstock for production of new equipment. A modern wind turbine tower might have 150 metric tons of steel in it, which absolutely makes sense to recycle.
In Australia I remember them being described solely as urinals. Back then women weren't allowed in pubs anyway.

I suppose America is more sophisticated, hence urinals needed to be referred to by the more genteel use for spitting.
Almost every social media platform now has its own video hosting service, and that is the service privileged with automatic-playing or otherwise friction-free playing video content. As a result, on, say, Twitter or Facebook, the videos that get the most virality are the ones being hosted natively on that social network's corresponding video platform.

I agree with you that it would be better if everyone self-hosted and was able to charge what they wanted. I think it may be more realistic to hope for more platforms—competing with each other—to whittle down the rent they are able to seek from the creators that bring them value. Make them compete for the content creators. And, if they grow too unwieldy, regulate them (or threaten to) so that they set reasonable ground rules.
> It's troubling for China to have as much influence as it does when it's directly trying to undermine freedoms that we have fought tooth and nail and died a million lives to get in The West.

WE have thrown it away already, China is just trying to speed things up.

I've thought quite a bit about this, and my conclusion is that everything is cyclical and has a rise and fall because it only takes a few generations to unlearn hard-fought lessons. Only this time around technology is going to enable a level of control that has never been achieved before. I can only hope that technology will also allow the escape of that same level of control.

A perfect example is how larger and larger swathes of the populace is ok hampering free speech in the name of empathy. They don't fully understand the implications, and there will be generations that will be forced to relearn those lessons, and it won't be a cheap lesson.
I agree with the main argument but would like to note "crank" in not an all or nothing description. Sometimes the problem as publicized doesn't exactly match the precise problem. For example you can trisect an arbitrary angle if allowed an infinite number of steps. Sometimes the problem is in breaking the abstraction layer. For example one of my kids thought you could make arbitrarily slow motion videos by taking slow motion videos of slow motion videos. And that brings up the issue of how to handle a crank. I loved that my son thought through the video issue and didn't want to inhibit future thinking. We ran some experiments taking video of the tv and it was fun. Sometimes people won't accept counter arguments and evidence (sometimes that person is me) and there's a time to move on. Still, in my experience few people are true die hard cranks and most people respond well if given the right direction.
I have a stable of Android devices for compatibility testing. All of the handsets are still working, even the 2014 ones. But I don't expect you to treat my anecdotes as data!

Report: "Strategy Analytics: Average U.S. Smartphone Upgrade Cycle Now 33 Months"

https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/08/23/strategy-analytics...

Smartphone upgrade cycles have been steadily lengthening for years, which has important implications for smartphone vendors and wireless carriers alike. Slowing unit sales have led companies like Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) to pivot toward subscription services in an effort to better monetize all of the devices that are already out there. ...

The slowing replacement cycle makes sense to me, for basically the same reasons that I don't upgrade my PCs nearly as fast as I did in the 1990s. The improvements aren't as dramatic from model to model or year to year. I'll keep using my current phone as long as it works, which looks to easily be 4+ years.

If phone manufacturers are deliberately trying to drive shorter replacement cycles, it's not working, at least not in the American market.
It's one bank.

My credit union will dump change in a counter for members.
There's a flipside of this, where people incorrectly lord "mathematical impossibility" over others as a way to shut down discussion. You see this on the topic of cryptographic backdoors especially. I'm against cryptographic backdoors, but claiming they're not technically possible is a losing position.

The interface between plain language and math is messy. I don't think I've ever seen something suggested that was actually mathematically impossible. Even the halting problem is easily solved in practice.
I'm Chinese and can say some words explaining the perspective from where I sit. I don't think memory of historical wrongs lie at the root of Chinese reactions. They may be the reasons most commonly given, but I don't think it's psychologically operative for most Chinese people. (This as following partly from introspective observation as a Chinese, and partly from the general principle against giving much credence to reasons given in explaining one's own actions and attitudes.) I think what lies at the root of Chinese reactions is simply the perception that the all the noble moral condemnations from the West do not feel genuine at all, that they do not feel like they come from the noble place they purport to. There are so many alternative explanations of what really lies behind these moral condemnations (e.g. that they really come from a place of self-interest (the Plaza Accord theories are very popoular here), from bias and hostility, from a malevelant intention to do harm, or simply from the desire to find someone to blame) and --- I hope this is something even an American can agree with --- the West has done very very little, nothing even, by way of ruling out those explanations for China. It simply repeats the moral condemnations. It's hard not to see this as showing either gross arrogance (I don't need to prove anything to you) or that one of those explanations really is true.

We can all agree that if someone criticizes us morally we should examine our behavior, so we can do better. However, what if you have reasonable suspicion that ulterior motives lie behind the critic's "criticism", that the critic is doing this only because he stands to profit from it somehow at your expenses, and that the critic doesn't really believe in the noble ideals he purport to believe in? Are you to give in to such a person so that he can get what he wants?
I’m sure lots of people reading HN know of plenty of providers for email etc that are not related to google, but what about all the other services? What are alternatives to things like google docs? SMB shares and suchlike can work as a replacement for google drive, but I don’t know of anyone (other than keybase) who has a strong security model for anything like that.
You should pickup TF2. It has tighter gun mechanics and doesn't have the ultimate garbage(imo).
Yes - the 4 days is cool... you’d hope if some where had been hacked with your pass you would be notified within that timeframe
Though that sounds tricky to set up all the UI for. For now you can set up a separate backup of that stuff. Set B2 as the backend and you get 10GB free.
Serious question: Was this illegal to crack?
As I said, nothing lines up on the ribbon so hunting is harder.
It’s not an either or situation.

The stats are more clear on 45 year old women having ~1/3 the odds of becoming pregnant and after that over 90% of any pregnancies spontaneously aborting. It’s only after that that the odds are further lowered from ~3% to below 1% because they also have less unprotected sex. Still, based on relative odd it seems that biology is playing a significantly larger role than culture.