skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My business partners and I had a satire book published through Amazon's platform for a couple years. This past spring the book gained some viral traction thanks to Unilad (or similar site - I forget which), but that attention led to copycats submitting a takedown notice on the book before republishing our book as their own.

The appeal process was a complete joke; we had to get a lawyer involved to get Amazon to release the royalties it withheld because of the take-down.
As an opinionated non-expert, I have to ask: isn’t “” This means intra-company VPN systems will no longer be authorized in China by anyone, including foreign companies. This in turn means all company email and data transfer will be required to use Chinese operated communication systems that are fully open to the China’s Cybersecurity Bureau. All data servers that make any use of Chinese based communications networks will also be required to be open to the Cybersecurity Bureau’s surveillance and monitoring system.”” really the Chinese government shooting itself in the foot?

This reminds when a decade or two ago Senators Hillary Clinton and Frits Hollings tried to pass Disney written SSCA legislation that would require every Internet device like smart TVs, computers, etc. to have backdoors so companies like Disney and the government could check for copyright material.

In either the Clinton bill or what the Chinese are doing there is a huge risk of third party getting access to encryption keys and other form of access. Large scale organized crime would love this as would bad behaving state actors.
NYC is probably not a good example to use here. Its median property prices are negative this year and flat for two years before that. It's likely (IMHO) that the post-recession building boom is a factor.

https://streeteasy.com/blog/data-dashboard/?agg=Median&metri...
> I don't see how they're not criminally liable now.

Amazon's protection against state action has always been that it offers a good enough return experience that people will turn to it rather than public authorities with problems. It's not a legal shield so much as a practical one, though.
Native Mandarin speaker here. All three separate allusions are a single attempt to translate the four-character Chinese idiom of 粉身碎骨, which is a figurative way of saying crushed to death. In this context, the meaning is the attempts to split China will be completely defeated and offenders subject to severe punishment.
Are you telling me Apple is gonna grow 100x in 10 years? shit!
What's your point? That you have Dell Complete Care on a work machine you don't pay for?
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The politics and the motivations to do business with China is another issue.

However if somebody has to do business there, the point is that there are ways to minimize the damages to your company, partners or customers outside of the wall.
Reddit's ProgrammingHumor subreddit had stints with several topics in this vein: volume knobs, phone inputs, etc. I think you can find them at https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/search/?q=flair%3A%...

It seems that there's a subreddit for such things now: https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/

The whole thing started with a couple inputs found in the wild: a volume slider bar that glitched and had to be slided in the 10px across instead of the >100px along the bar. And a phone number input that had four-digit groups as dropdown inputs with 9999 values.
A lot of stuff happens in the third world, I guess we become numb to it. But if it happens in the first world...then it stands out a bit?
Exactly. The rule should be that China must pay western wages and subsidize western working conditions if they want western trade secrets
Fastmail handles my mail, Newsblur for RSS, iCloud for calendar. My blog is hosted on Netlify.

The only things I host are either just hobbies or non-essentials:

At home:
- Node-red for home automation
- PiHole for ad filtering on the local network
- Plex on my NAS for videos
- A Raspi for reading my Ruuvitags and pushing the info to MQTT
On Upcloud and DigitalOcean and a third place:
- Unifi NVR (remote storage for security cameras)
- Flexget + Deluge for torrents
- InfluxDB + Grafana for visualizing all kinds of stuff I measure
- Mosquitto for MQTT
You wouldn't even need a roof... A tarp likely would have done it...
I just came here to say that lattes haven't been cool for a very long time. Offtopic, yes, but about the most substantial allegation made in the post.
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Atleast from what I've seen in SMB; we have been buying AMD. Plenty of AMD. For our servers.
I would suggest changing the title of this HN post. Maybe "The MCAS design should never have been approved" or something to that effect. IMO, the current "My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine" is far too ambiguous.
Prosecuting the sessionist is a bad move by Spain regardless of the laws. Prosecution is always discretionary and what they're doing is just creating martyrs. Sessionists lost and Spain is the one being petty here.
I predict I will see new life for this movement in my lifetime.
What about systems that are not strictly with two sides?
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Ok, but that's not generally what sedition means
How Star Wars Was Saved In The Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMyMxMYDNk

A good video. I believe the content is largely pulled from a book on the topic, but this is definitely a case where video helps, and if you haven't read or even heard of the book (like me), it's new stuff, not just a rehashing of the same old Star Wars stuff, and interesting from a film school point of view, not just a Star Wars point of view.

I'll also just echo the grandparent post and say that you can see this pattern in a lot of artists: Heinlein, probably JK Rowling (her later books definitely were getting flabby and she's had no comparable success since the original series), all kinds. Hollywood has an interesting pattern where a director makes a huge hit, and they kind of have a defined structure for letting them make a "passion project" before putting them back under some editorial control. The passion projects usually do fairly poorly. I'm not sure what happens if one of them becomes a big hit. That would be interesting to see.
I wouldn't trust my life with Amazon's inventory practices, given their track record.
Politicians have more than one opponent (except in USA I guess...)
I mean we have had to deal with climate change in all of human history and we have only become increasingly better.

We also live places today which wasn't possible 100 year ago.

Migration have always been a fact of life and we have always managed to deal with it. We are better at that today than any other time in history.

So the question I am trying to get answered is what have been scientifically demonstrated to be the case with climate change that we cant deal with if we don't "do anything" today?

Climate is always changing yes, the temperature have been rising yes, that will have consequences on us yes, but which changes have been demonstrated that would be worth the cost of upending the current use of ex fossil fuels to help modern civilization deliver goods and services to it's growing population and to reduce the amount of funding for new scientific discoveries or R&D in Molten or fusion?

It sounds like a Pascals wager to me but without the upside and instant damnation of the existing people inhabiting the planet.
I think very relevant: Effective Altruism -- a community of people working on finding effective ways to make the world a better place.

One of the initiatives from the movement is 80,000 Hours - encouraging and providing resources to help people do meaningful work (80,000 hours is roughly how many hours one will spend working during their working career: with this many hours to spend, one can do a tremendous amount of good if targeted properly!).

https://80000hours.org
Yes! Thanks! I couldn't find it.
> What you probably really need is a patient adult with a driver's license

Which is the issue, as I have no friends or family nearby, nor anyone I'm close enough with to ask such a favor of.
A bit of hyperbole. Dark aisles? Stack of wooden pallets? Not in my Costco. Its almost too bright in there, and stuff is racked on custom high-volume plastic pallets?
I think the $2.4 trillion of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War is more trustworthy.
In the UK coal is becoming obsolete, we use natural gas turbine generators instead. "Better than coal" is damning with faint praise.
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Japan is the worst place for renewable. Very limited surface with a very high price for solar. For onshore wind japan is too densely populated, or too hilly. And for offshore wind the coast sink too quickly to be feasible except floatable except it is largely unproven and not a good match with typhoon in Japan.
Nuclear is still the best hope for a decarbonized electricity generation in Japa.
This is sage advice.

There is an anti-pattern, counter to this advice, which I call software-psychopathy.

This is when someone (the psychopath-developer) surveys the entire problem landscape of the full system and identifies a sub-problem, carves out a sub-system that is unnatural but fits their competency and through their position in the software-social-order and/or through personal charisma pushes a solution which makes all surrounding problem space even harder to solve.

The psychopath-developer says, "I see we have problems, A, B, C and D. I will solve B with X and now all that the solutions to A, C and D need to do is satisfy requirements L, M, N, O and certainly Q. Aren't I a genius? Now, excuse me as I leave the details to you and go "help" another group!"

A more charitable term might be "picking low-hanging fruit". Inside this metaphor, by thoughtlessly picking the heavy low-hanging fruit the psychopath-developer unweights the branch sending the rest of the fruit higher, out of easy reach and adding burden to those suckers that come later to actually get all the fruit. Meanwhile, the psychopath-fruit-picker is long gone enjoying the fruits of his easy labor.
Tangent - is there a systems reason (aside from the "base ecological ethics" of wanting to preserve biodiversity and not eradicate any unique ecosystems) why humans would not want to get rid of deserts?

Obviously having more arable or at least livable land is useful to human society, but I generally assume that messing with any large scale climates or biomes has adverse effects. I'm not yet aware of what that would be for deserts though. I suppose they have fairly high albedo, unlike most land formations that can exist in lower latitudes.

(To be clear my own views aren't necessarily so utilitarian and I like deserts. Just curious about a rational geoengineering civilization might do.)
Unlikely, as such an ending would probably have catastrophic consequences for Chinese trade and international relations.

Tiananmen Square set Chinese diplomatic relations back well over a decade, and with their economy showing signs of a possible slowdown, they’re particularly conscious of the consequences that any militaristic response would have.
This takes on the wrong side of the closed e-reader problem, IMHO. There are lots of top notch devices available for cheap, but they have closed software. However they generally run Linux.

Making a custom kernel/distribution for existing devices would be a better way to go. The Open Inkpot project tried this years ago, but never really got anywhere.

It's low-hanging fruit though: compared to what projects like lineageOS are doing, this is very doable.

And if this Open Book project ever gets usable hardware out, they'll still have to take on the software side.
I’ve lived in a house from the 1940s and it only needed a new roof. There’s a log cabin a common ancestor built in the early 1800s that was made from whatever was around.

How many high rises made from stone and brick have been torn down in NYC to make room for modern buildings? New England has a ton of really old wood houses that people pay a premium for.
In my experience, when we talk about software (hardware issues are always a thing on less used systems) Linux is the less black-box of these three OSes. If you have a non trivial problem with Windows or OSX OSes or apps, you're out of luck. With Linux, you have the tools to reach the root causes. Or at least, that used to be the case. New apps in Linux (particularly in Ubuntu) want to be as "friendly" as Windows or OSX, so they hide how things works, and put layer over layer of abstraction to the point where nothing is obvious anymore.
Isn't that fairly rational? The difference between $100k a year and $60k a year is enormous.
Most of the comments strike me as negative, like the article's discussing a bad thing. This is weird because the article itself is very positive.

From the conclusion:

> It is natural to be fearful of the consequences, for it is a leap into the unknown. But the more accurate and efficient markets are, the better both investors and companies are served.

Sure this is bad for people who wanted to do the jobs getting automated, much as self-driving trucks are bad for people who wanted a career in driving trucks. But if we automate away all of the jobs with machines that do them better than humans ever could, is that really a bad thing?

I mean, sure, we'll need to rework our economic systems to adapt to a world in which the economy neither requires nor desires human laborers -- and, yeah, that's gonna require quite the overhaul -- but is a world in which people don't need jobs to survive really so scary?
I didn't even see a link to a translation in the article, but I believe it's about the following three standards:

GB/T 22239-2019 信息安全技术 网络安全等级保护基本要求 Information security technology — Baseline for classified protection of cybersecurity http://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=BAFB47E887...

GB/T 25070-2019 信息安全技术 网络安全等级保护安全设计技术要求 Information security technology — Technical requirements of security design for classified protection of cybersecurity http://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=9FB6EE8597...

GB/T 28448-2019 信息安全技术 网络安全等级保护测评要求 Information security technology —Evaluation requirement for classified protection of cybersecurity http://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=7E736CDF45...

The link to read online requires Flash...
I started using linux in 2006 and I'd say linux is best its ever been. I used to have so many problems with my graphics drivers, now things usually work out of the box. I have not had any problems with multi-monitor support, although I have heard that HDPI screen experience still needs to be refined. I have a macbook pro running Mojave, and my gaming desktop runs Windows, my personal and favorite device runs Manjaro linux. I use all 3 main operating systems regularly and I'd say the linux story suits me and my needs best.
> Apple 2019: plugging an external projector will most likely not work. Fanboys are very vocal that this is the fault of projector manufacturers for not ensuring that their HW works with every Apple model.

I just setup a new Macbook Pro with Catalina (one day ago). Plugged three monitors. (Adapters were cheap knock-off from China). And it worked fine.

> Apple 2019: There is only True Way of installing software: using the Apple store. If you do anything else you are bad and you should feel bad.

I'd say the state of OSX is much better than Linux. Apple doesn't favor the Apple store as far as I'm aware but just signing apps. Apps in MacOS are simpler. They are a "single" file bundle (but the bundle is mostly non-exposed to the user). Uninstall is also simpler: you just remove the file from your applications folder.

In the longer run, this should make you trust your applications more although signed by apple doesn't mean it's not going to harm your setup. This might prevent average users from installing apps but more sophisticated ones will just go around it.

> Apple 2019: only a limited number of hardware works out of the box, even for popular devices like Android phones. Things either don't work at all, have reduced functionality, or kinda work but fail spuriously every now and then for no discernible reason.

I already have the whole laptop working from the get-go. That's already an advantage over Linux. I have my old printer working. Ledger worked out of the box with no drivers setup. Maybe I'm in the minority.

> Apple 2019: it is very difficult to find a laptop with more than two USB ports.

Macbook Pros come with 4 usb-c ports. That's more than enough considering that you can run multiple things on parallel on a single usb-c port.

> Apple 2019: fanboys will let you know in no uncertain terms that their system is the best and will take over all desktop computer usage. Said fanboys are condescending elitist hipster latte web site designers.

Stop talking to retarded people. Your quality of life will increase considerably.
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W.r.t your hidpi/non-hidpi issue - a 'proper' solution is slowly making its way out of the woodwork. Wayland apparently will allow us to solve this problem, but in the meantime here's my solution if it'll help you.

I have a 4k dell xps 13 and a 2k monitor. I have this script set up to run on boot.

https://gist.github.com/kn100/7193667d393fcf34d4d5c6c359a695...

What this does is it forces your internal display to run at exactly quarter resolution (ie 1600x900), and adds your second display at its native resolution to the setup. Since the panel is running at a multiple of its native resolution, it still looks fine, if not quite as pixel perfect. This has the nice side effect of making the laptop feel a bit faster since it's driving a quarter of the pixels it usually has to drive. This makes the monitor panel do the scaling too, which is nice. With this setup, both displays will be running at a roughly similar DPI which will make scaling issues... a non issue!

I hope this helps.
One very good reason to regularly download backups of gmail inbox, and if possible simply stop using it eventually.
"This analogy works well for the points made, but does not apply in this other case. Therefore your argument is invalid"

That is not how analogies work. Also the apple store help is explicitly discussed in the article.
BBC is taking translation liberties, either our of ignorance and deliberate malice. This is unsurprising to anyone familiar with western MSM reporting on Chinese issues. BBC:

>"Anyone who attempts to split any region from China will perish, with their bodies smashed and bones ground to powder," Mr Xi said, according to a foreign ministry statement issued on Sunday.

What the source (Chinese State Media) linked by BBC in the article translates [1]:

>"Those who engage in separatist activities in any part of China will be smashed into pieces, Xi said, adding that external support for separatists will be seen by the Chinese people as delusional."

[1] http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201910/14/WS5da3743da310cf...

You would have to stretch credulity to interpret this as an enthusiastic call for literal violence. Though it doesn't necessarily preclude violent intervention which is not really news. All options are on the table for HK.
> Concentrated harm vs dispersed harm. still coal. Note that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is great for wildlife

Let's remove humans from Earth completely and all the environmental problems will be solved.

I tend to agree with your other arguments.
Many countries were formed by exactly this method - including the US. If you were seriously living under tyranny I suspect you'd have a different opinion.
Even among first tier brands, a lot of products/designs/parts come completely externally sourced.

Flagship, image making products like Apple Iphones are made with some level of in-house involvement, but even they were cookie cutter products based on Samsung reference design up until 3gs.

I myself once worked for a company doing sourcing for a company that did sourcing for Amazon when they were just started venturing into hardware with Kindel. Any such project is at least 50% external input, otherwise they simply don't have an ability to pull it out for the lack of hands on industry expertise.
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Have you tried using tlp/powertop? I'd say my battery life is pretty comparable to Windows after having done some optimizations using aforementioned tools.
It is worth noting that a Linux 2019 entry in that list would be also completely identical to Linux 2000.
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Good point! That was one of the things that were at stake at the trial.
That's what squatters' rights are for. Let the apartments go to folks who will use them.
But there is a difference between advertising and propaganda/activism.

Printing a book that brings you to an understanding of a political idea [1] is one thing. Passively sticking your posters on other people books (after paying) is another.

Propaganda gets a lot of well deserved criticism as it is often dishonest, we simply tolerate similar dishonesty in advertisements.

[1] Whether by truth or lies does not really matter in a sense here.
There are a lot of people in that subprofession which have no business being there. Go to any larger non-Silicon Valley enterprise and the first thing you'll run into are system engineering departments doing work Oracle should have done 40 years ago -- system engineering OS packages out of Oracle's products. Oracle RDBMS is the #1 product Oracle's customers have a system engineering department for; it's just yet another blight on that company's long list of screw-ups.
This is rather harsh punishment.

Do note that if the poster had some apps published on google play those would be gone too.
It felt arcane for those of us who were daily MS-DOS users, as well.

I remember when I first installed QEMM, which addressed these issues in novel ways. It wasn't perfect, but it made things much more pleasant.
That is a ridiculous argument.

The trial is subject to European courts and even if they dont appeal (which they will most probably do), this ensures that they are not abandoned to the purportedly fascist judges. So at the end they will be overseen by the EU.

By the way, Spain is one of the EU countries with the least unfavorable rulings by both the EU Justice Court and the European Court of Human Rights so I think that speak volumes of the fascist remains of our justices.

By the way the whole trial is available for anyone to watch in youtube, and judge Marchena’s job conducting the trial is widely understood to have been impeccable.
Ask HN: Where in Africa would you move to start a business?
Africa is a big place. I've considered Morocco but am interested in others.. Has anyone looked into this?

The business would probably be an internet startup first, and then maybe a (second) physical business once I understand the local economics better.
YMMV, but since switching to Wayland I've found issues like that to be a lot less common. Not gone completely, but rare enough that I never remember the last time when it finally occurs again. ;)