skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the government is interested in something from my mail servers, I'll see the legal request or judges orders and will know what is going on, and will be able to take appropriate action.

Or the mail servers of the person/people you're communicating with. At which point you wouldn't know, because they'd be subject to the same laws, and less well equipped to fight them.
>China is a major world power. Its existence and growing economic prowess are not dependent upon our acceptance, investment or "good will".

China is less than 15% of the world economy, 'the west' makes up a vast majority of the remaining 85%. If it is a war of values I don't think China really has a chance if they want to participate in the world market.
World has changed a lot since Roman empire, the British empire and the French colonialism. I am not convinced if the same dynamics still apply. You acutely omit the fall of the Nazi party for example. They didn't like their neighbors, tried to invade them and we all know how it went. You should be making a list of all the potential superpowers that didn't become by pissing off their neighbors.
Citation needed.

I've been a ham in the US for 11 years and not once has this come up. It's a commonly touted threat or rumor that could happen, but not a single proposal has made it through the FCC (or has even been proposed afaik), nor has the FCC made any public advances to do such a thing. One recent thwarted infiltration was a proposal by Thales to make 2m amateur spectrum shared with radionavigation, which was quickly put down.
Giant planet around tiny star ‘should not exist’
This.

And even if you are planning to write desktop only software or an app for mobile, think in advance how do you want to package and release it, sign the code, provide help, branding customisation, etc.

Agile is an anti-pattern of SDLC as the lie "improve as you go" doesn't apply to release planning
Apple removes police-tracking app used in Hong Kong protests from its app store
Unfortunate that "CUCU", "C Interpreter", and "Small C for I386 (IA-32)" are already dead links, although the page history shows that it was created only a little over 2 years ago.
This rings to me much like the stage orange human tendency to take the beauty of the natural world and commoditize and monetize it, destroying what made it beautiful in the process.

(Spiral Dynamics stage orange)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_convers...

The distances in question are greater than 10m, but yes.
In 2010 I asked two different party members* about the western Muslim relations. Both had the same answer that it was the same as the black people prison population in the US, and a red herring the US used for leverage. My Chinese and their English was never good enough to discuss things like due process. At any rate, the pressure on human rights needs to come from countries other than the US.

* being a party member not quite what you’d expect. Requires being in the top 10% of your HS class plus learning a bit of propaganda, and agreeing to harsher punishment for committing crimes. The ones I spoke to were successful business people, and willing to criticize the party.
Wow. I have never heard of this and not considered it before, but you are right. If you had pushed a fix for the nightly build prior to a fix being available on the main branch, it would have amounted to a disclosure about the stable version to any watching would-be attackers. At least for critical vulnerabilities like these, holding off for a coordinated disclosure like this which raises user notice as much as possible while not tipping your hand does seem like a very smart policy. I follow security stuff pretty regularly (I'm not a user of iTerm2 and read this article and these comments to find out what the exploit would be and what bug led to it, for instance.) but I have never come across a developer doing this intentionally. Is it a well-known security posture thing that I have just missed?

In any case, thanks for your contributions with a tool that is obviously so useful to so many. I almost never use macOS, but I do own a 2015 MBP from some development I needed it for in the past. Next time I boot it up, you can be sure I will be installing iTerm2. (I might actually have it and just not remember, but I don't think so, I never invested too much into the platform.)
In my area we frequently do service events for races (foot, bike, and autocross), and this is exactly what we do in the hills of the Mark Twain forest in Missouri. It works great, and you don't even need braincells for most of the event. Drive/Hike to a good peak, set up a station, and forget it (until it breaks).
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Running 10.9 today is like running Windows Xp. You are putting yourself and your data at risk
A true on-tap database. Seems like one of the last true differentiators. That and legit, lights out, load balancing.

Both hard tech problems too.
I think this is the first time that the IRS has explicitly stated that specific identification is a valid accounting method for virtual currency:

Q36. I own multiple units of one kind of virtual currency, some of which were acquired at different times and have different basis amounts. If I sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of some units of that virtual currency, can I choose which units are deemed sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of?

A36. Yes. You may choose which units of virtual currency are deemed to be sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of if you can specifically identify which unit or units of virtual currency are involved in the transaction and substantiate your basis in those units.

Q37. How do I identify a specific unit of virtual currency?

A37. You may identify a specific unit of virtual currency either by documenting the specific unit’s unique digital identifier such as a private key, public key, and address, or by records showing the transaction information for all units of a specific virtual currency, such as Bitcoin, held in a single account, wallet, or address. This information must show (1) the date and time each unit was acquired, (2) your basis and the fair market value of each unit at the time it was acquired, (3) the date and time each unit was sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of, and (4) the fair market value of each unit when sold, exchanged, or disposed of, and the amount of money or the value of property received for each unit.

Note, however, that they also clarify that this is not the default accounting method:

Q38. How do I account for a sale, exchange, or other disposition of units of virtual currency if I do not specifically identify the units?

A38. If you do not identify specific units of virtual currency, the units are deemed to have been sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of in chronological order beginning with the earliest unit of the virtual currency you purchased or acquired; that is, on a first in, first out (FIFO) basis.
Oh wow. That's quite something.
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You're completely right that there's a big difference in how much control the government has over the legal system. I'm just trying to communicate how the end result looks similarly justifiable to the people in each country. After all, that end result is what we are upset about.

> What you're comparing is a regional regression of a particular demographic or culture. Imagine locking down 1.4 million people of Seattle metropolitan region because they worship no god and enjoy particular rituals

You're not really engaging with the example -- you substituted it for another. I'm sure if you proposed locking up 1.4 million people from Shanghai for no good reason, the average Chinese citizen would react in horror, while they would dismiss what is actually happening exactly as you did, as a "regional regression of a particular demographic".
Yeah this. Not just Rome, but think about the Spanish Empire. They conquered south and middle America seeking gold and forcing Catholicism on the natives. The British Empire? Hard to argue it was some sort of moral authority. They were just as bad as the Spanish. What makes a super power? Money and military. That's all. We can dress up American power with all the highest ideals we like, none of it means a thing without money and might.
So, the old ladies I'd see walking up the ramps with their walkers asking for CBD tablets and bath soaps were addicted? The quadriplegics and cancer patients I'd regularly see at the dispensery I used to go to were addicts? There are no more affordable places for actual medical patients to acquire their medicine. Personally, I like it for my back pain and it helps me sleep at night. I've worked a lot of physical jobs over the years. I'm in pain most days. Smoking weed genuinely helps with this.
Could you please shed some light from Taiwan about what has been going on lately with China, US and HK? What is the public opinion?
You need to understand that just because there are upsides and downsides doesn't imply they're in any way equal, and pretending they are causes plenty of harm.
I think Godel's has been proven in Coq, but I also heard that it relies on library functions that don't make sense to use when proving incompleteness... and that if you weaken what's in the library to account for it, I'm not sure if the proof still works. Then again, I think that thought came from a notable crank, so I'm not sure it's true.
They only ask the name. The prospective voter can read the address from the log before ever being asked it as long as they can read it upside down. Even reciting "your own" address incorrectly isn't cause to deny you a ballot.
Assigning significant blame to PGE for fires even when their equipment is at fault is stupid. The main factor in every big fire is hot, dry conditions. It doesn't really matter where the initial spark comes from, it's inevitable that big fires will happen in conditions like this.

I think a reasonable way to handle this would be to assign liability for fires according to the cost of handling a typical fire, not the specific fire. It shouldn't matter whether effectively the same negligent act causes a small brush fire that causes no damage and goes out by itself or a monster wildfire. The difference between those two outcomes has nothing to do with the negligent actions and everything to do with the surrounding conditions.
Won’t the number of deaths from power outages outnumber the deaths from fires?

Also, what if a fire still happens, and people don’t know because the power is out?
Courage. And user privacy.

Tim Cook should just resign at this point with all his hypocrisy. I don't know how he looks himself in the mirror with a straight gaze these days.
It was discussed extensively at the links below, where some users have also posted links to other sources for those that don't mind bypassing the copyright restrictions.

After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21189899

South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21186916

'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21189967
Should China split into smaller localized manageable regions?
oh how i wish i knew this back when...or just looked harder i guess ;)
Lean 4 WIP is public now: https://github.com/leanprover/lean4. But PRs aren't welcome. Personally I think Coq's done waaay better at community management.
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Along those same lines, I'm very interested to see which direction Russia heads after Putin kicks the bucket.
You use it as a tool to compute what happens in real things, such as quark-gluon plasma or certain condensed matter systems.
Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. And there are second-order effects to consider:

- Food waste from freezers and refrigerators

- Candle use increasing risk of fires

- Generators being purchased that will largely end up collecting dust or being returned

- Loss of business at local stores/restaurants/bars/etc

What else?
So I’m sitting here in 94087 waiting for the lights to go out, but still have electricity here. Depite PG&E’s robo-caller leaving me a warning twice a day.

Anyway, my generator is ready to go so that the freezer doesn’t thaw. Otherwise so far it has been a non-event.
California insists on following its own drummer.

There is a National Emergency Communications Plan available at https://www.cisa.gov/necp. Duly-licensed amateur radio operators are discussed under AUXCOMM in the plan as a type of resource states typically choose to utilize. Again, California's needs are apparently different than the other 49 states. More power to them, I suppose?
I didn't say the FCC was being shown to be open to this, but that some companies were making the push for it. Like Thales.
The world has a long history of bloody revolutions fought for independence from overreaching parents.

Will it continue with Hong Kong or eventually Taiwan?
You're being downvoted, but we' re basically drunk on these amazing successes in Computer Vision and apply at least some magical thinking when expecting them to extend to general (e.g. reinforcement learning) domains.
My bad, I see the problem with the Seattle analogy. Let's just say locking down people of Alaska (remote, has some culture). It would still be equally outrageous.
PG&E will be seized for this.
Be a bullshit artist?
You have it backwards. China has the military might but chooses not to, because what the CCP wants is a peaceful resolution within its own region. On the contrary, the West's supposedly moral support of the "peaceful" demonstration is seeing 48/58 subway stations closing due to vandalism, many banks and phone stores getting robbed. These aren't pictures that Western media would portray, but that's the closer to truth reality that's occurring in HK. My friend in HK are evading to Shenzhen for protection, and other friend is attempting to understand the immigration process better to leave the unstable HK. Is this the real meaning of liberating HK? Just because other states, AKA Middle East hasn't gotten enough soft influence to show the world what "liberating" them means (destroyed states that cannot recover in decades), China will not take the soft course and actually stands to protect its own territory.
This way he gets to sell iPhones in China and the Chinese should obviously avoid using iCloud. If Apple was hiding this fact then I would have a problem with it. And if the device encryption isn’t compromised, then local data is probably safer on an iPhone than a lot of other devices.
1200 baud email is extremely standard in EmComm ham radio using winlink. 1200 baud is still muuuuuuuuuch faster than voice and just as reliable. You can use a regular repeater and email each other via simplex if necessary.
First you have to convince those of us that see no little in static typing when weighed against it constraints that it is a valid development philosophy that created a clear advantage over dynamic typed languages.

Me personally I don't see it, I have worked on some pretty big JavaScript and LISP codebases and I cannot recall a single instance where static types would have helped us. But can think of a thousand cases where we could not have produce compact, simple and elegant code for solutions to complex problems.

I am in the camp of static vs dynamic is a developer's aesthetics preference, both are valid ways of getting the job done, but they depend on the developers perceptions and the way they process code. Anything beyond that is a religious war as both can be used to build large applications if people know the tool they are working with. I don't disagree with some of your other points, the way Redux is implemented is not the way I would have done it, that being said it is effective, you can build large apps with it and personally it saves me from having to maintain that concern in custom code. As I said in my other comment I prefer an event driven architecture, it is the way Eich originally designed JavaScript and the browser API and it works.
just another propaganda brought up by trade war
I agree. I just don't get why:

1) Everyone assumes the good will outweigh the bad. (And why proof of humans doing one task better than AI is somehow also taken as self-evident proof that the AI will be better at everything else.)

2) No one assumes that we, as humans, will ever be able to improve our driving skills in way that can keep up with AI advances. Someone could invent a magic driving pill. Which is crazy. I just don't assume that it's any crazier than a near-perfect driving AI.
>What separates math from pure logic is that math has a set of very intuitive axioms.

Taking certain sets of axioms can lead to very un-intuitive conclusions, that's why some people care about building a solid foundations. A classic example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox , which states "Given a solid ball in 3‑dimensional space, there exists a decomposition of the ball into a finite number of disjoint subsets, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball." If we change the foundations to remove the axiom of choice, this paradox (and many others like it) is destroyed.
Um... PG&E was way behind on brush clearing. They still are.

Of course, there are people that don’t want PG&E to trim their trees, hopefully those folks have got religion now.

The Santa Rosa fire was absolutely started by PG&E equipment and deferred brush clearing.
I wonder if the Nazis had stopped at Poland, Austria, and Hungary and just built up their power more slowly if they wouldn't have survived? The U.S.S.R. was no better but they had far more staying power and the remnants of that still influence politics to this day.

The main point I take from history is that the past does not necessarily determine the future. There's no such thing as fate. The Nazis could have won if they didn't make certain strategic errors. If Rome didn't make certain strategic errors, it would still be an empire today. China itself is older than Rome and there's really no guarantees that they don't win this whole cold war or whatever it is that's brewing.
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Wow. Now that's a heavy worded article. I recommend watching The Coming War with China documentary on Al Jazeera for a more balanced perspective.
From NBC News reporter @DylanByers on Twitter:

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Indeed I believe you are more correct, and I think the author agrees with you. But saying it is harder isn't a useful direction, I think because complex things usually _feel_ harder.

> complexity lets you do more complex things, have whatever you are building or rules you are making achieve more complex outcomes, and to better understand and explain things that are complex, which is most things. Complexity is highly useful.

Anyway, I liked the values the author shared. That is values to consider when designing a complex system: Resonance, Chunking, Ramping, Hiding, Emergent. They actually sound like a good way to organize presentations.
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Human rights are universal, but one involves literal concentration camps while the other is people who are voluntarily there, even if it is abusive. I think that Epic Games should change their policies, and so should the rest of the game development industry, but I prioritize disliking fascism over disliking poor working conditions.
Thank you for not suggesting he get rooked.
Parent didn’t say it was the only source just said that rates correlated.

The fluctuation year to year may be due better growing seasons so farmers use more, but potentially so do golf courses and lawns. The usage of the others may definitely be drivers as well but agricultural use is correlated
Don't forget nearly every law forcing people to comply at gunpoint is passed by a special interest group representing corporate profit motives. If there are any real investigative reporters left I bet the money trail could be followed and I wouldn't be the least surprised if there is a company in the wings looking to supplant the volunteer system for a chunk of taxpayer money.
Sounds like you're mostly interested in provenance and lineage. Pandas doesn't really help with that and I haven't seen any serious efforts to build on top of pandas for it.

If you want to roll code, you could use decorators or overload pandas methods like joins to build a provenance graph.

If you don't want to roll code, you can treat the transform as a black box and define your inputs and outputs in terms of database/store tables.
Public: Lets elect representatives.

Legislation: Lets pass a bill that lets technocrats decide the details on regulations.

Technocrats: I don't like the look for those emergency antennas from my vacation cabin in the mountains.

Gun-> shoot-> foot

Yay. Good luck with that, California. For some people it could be their purpose in life is just to serve as a example for others. This seems to be California's role as of late.
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