skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is said (by his acquaintances) that Chairman Xi is not a smart guy ("brain dead" is the word). He only has elementary to junior high level of education. Anything higher (including his "PhD") is fake.

His solution to every problem is fight (power struggle) until all your opponents are down. It may work in China's party politics but if taken to the international level, it fails. You can see this same solution being applied to the handling of Hong Kong.

He also believes that China is invincible because they have this massive supply chain thing which nobody else has.
> The way it is going, I can guarantee with certainty that they can have all the financial leverage, moral leverage is what you need in the long term; they can never become a superpower.

I feel the same. This is especially apparent with how they handle their territorial disputes in South East Asia.

Hard to become a superpower when you are antagonizing your neighbors.
Perhaps I missed this obvious cultural sensitivity, I thought his gift to me was from genuine generosity in the true sense of the word.
And they give out Loot Boxes like candy in game. There's no need to purchase them. Play some games? Loot box. Be a positive player? Loot boxes. New event? Loot boxes. Play "Anything but DPS" right now? Loot Box.

I've bought game merch and London Spitfire (Overwatch League) merch, I've bought the OWL Pass thingy, I've cheered bits. And I bought the game at launch (no pre-order).

I've played a lot for a casual player, and I've watched even more. It's the only esport that I've enjoyed watching.

Only once did I ever buy Loot Boxes.

That purchase of Loot Boxes was because they brought out a new event that I loved, for free, and it seemed like a cheap but quantifiable way of showing support for what they were doing. I didn't need any of the skins.

I felt the way they've done Loot Boxes is "Loot Boxes Done Right".

So this feels like a real kick in the balls.

The home stand games for OWL will be brutal. Fan signs are already a bit rough on old Blizz on occasions. I'd give it three matches before a "FREE HONG KONG" sign makes it onto broadcast and there's a massive shitshow.
ummmm.....President Camacho??
Oh, did something similar to change a friend's grades in college. Pretended to be on my smartphone while the professor signed in, and filmed their fingers on the keyboard. Took some trial and error watching the low-res video (this was before phones had nice cameras) frame by frame to figure out which keys he was hitting.
I feel like I'm missing something, the document mentioned a lease, so I am wondering if these repeaters reside on Cal fire owned property, or owned towers. They're not exactly small pieces of equipment, besides the mast and the actual radios, the filters (diplexer) take up quite a lot of space, and there's likely a generator on site as well.

Regardless of land or tower ownership, the provided email doesn't have any timeline, which is somewhat unprofessional when we're talking about something that takes weeks to remove.
iTerm has lots of features and from what I see many have their own favorites. I don't like/use the tmux integration(prefer real tmux) but some do. This is what makes it great.

The essential ones for me are, remapping modifiers and setting the right or left Option key to Meta, Terminal.app only lets you set both or none to Meta.
I know a startup that asked the FAA to create an experimental zone in several rural townships and it was rejected.

UPS got the FAA to write a set of rules that will allow the ag drones to fly and as the article notes that is kind of a big deal.
Is observing a parameter not allowed by quantum mechanics or a current fundamental law?

I am aware of the difficulty involved but an optimistic view is that anything is possible until fundamentally proven otherwise. As far as I’m aware, quantum computers would be able to simulate an entire universe in theory.

Sorry if my initials comment seemed to disregard the enormity of the problem. I realize we might be decades/centuries before any of this is testable. Not unlike how Newton was compared to our current understanding of physics.
There was a photograph of a protester holding a sign saying "We need the second amendment": https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/07/29/hong-kong-proteste...
Remember when BART blocked cell phone access to make it harder for protesters to organize? Fewer communication channels are easier to control. Controlling people is pretty much the definition of governing.
> That’s not image recognition.

How do you do it? Telepathically? You're still just receiving visual input and processing it.
Reminds me of when I cracked the domain admin account at work so that I could install software that I needed to do my job. IT was slow and unresponsive so I figured that I would help them.
Thanks. I'm going to definitely try this route.
Armed protest would be just the thing Beijing needs to send in the mainland military to "help their friends in HK". These days, if you're a regular citizen, even a large group of regular citizens, trying to start a violence escalation game with your government is going to get you killed, and fast.
It's an important reminder that morality is not agreed upon by different cultures (heck, even within the US people disagree about say the extent of free speech).

I think it's okay for the article to make mention of human rights because it's written for a US audience. Basically the article is saying "China doesn't share western values" which is like saying "Missouri doesn't share Californian values".

And if that's the case, maybe we shouldn't be cutting deals which make us feel bad.
I mentioned this elsewhere, but I'll elaborate- I don't think the detection or reaction time is the problem, it's the concept of useful recognition (and prediction). Is that first movement/deviation (that an AI car can certainly measure sooner than I can see) going to be a swerve within their lane or is the car going to come all the way over? It's not the watching for the trigger, but the intuition of what the trigger is, well, triggering.

Humans have an uncanny ability in predicting the overall movement before any perceivable deviation. Of course I'm not saying it's magic; there's obviously some kind of signal to our subconscious that we're able to process and make useful. Perhaps AI can pick up on some of that.

But it's not necessarily the "first movement" of the swerve that is most useful. And the "signal" that humans pick up on may not even be something externally measurable by the car. Like knowing of a particular interstate exit that drivers always seem to almost miss, but swerve across lanes to catch at the last second.

There are also signals that are externally measurable, but have to be learned (seen on a previous trip, or warned by a friend). Like knowing about a bad pothole ahead, and knowing that the car in front of you is going to turn the corner, slam on the brakes and then swerve to avoid it.

These are the kinds of things that I suspect AI will struggle to keep up with in the foreseeable future. And humans rely on this type of intuition way more than I think most people realize.
Soft influence. Release a couple more international films. Allow at least one major American company unfettered access to the Chinese market (better if it were an underdog American company whose brand is an up and coming younger hip version of some big corporate player) to demonstrate the possibilities inherent in playing ball w/ China. Continue to advertise world leadership in AI research and invite cooperation and share advancements with neighboring countries. Continue and expand their space program with international cooperation.

In another 10 years they’d take the mantel of world superpower from the US.

But I guess it’s true of totalitarian government as it is with most evil: it contains the seeds of its own destruction
Trumps actions don’t explain China’s actions that we’re talking about here. If anything, assuming someone smart was in charge in China, Trumps behavior would be cause to show more restraint for now in places like HK to play it very cool and not give your opponents ammunition to accelerate trade wars, etc.
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That they succeeded and were killed by saudi royals?
If a companies business license is dependent upon following FAA rules you're a lot less likely to have a problem than say a teenage hobbyist.
Band in China: https://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s23e02-band-in-china

The one before that was pretty good too, that one was critical of the US
"UNEXP_CONT=$(ls sandbox/..."
this will ignore hidden files. So does the "rm -rf"
The point of eavesdropping would largely be defeated if the person can find out, so I get why it's a part of law.

The thing about NSLs is the target often never finds out because there was no public investigations or courts involved.

I remember reading a particular drug investigation had over 50 wiretaps including the mother's and sister's (of the targets) smartphones because they sometimes used their phones for business, which is pretty common in poorer households. I've always been curious if they found out afterwards.

In The Wire they had a scene where they would pause the audio if it's only someone else talking after x amount of time. But I highly doubt every single text, picture, and message sent to the person isn't being seen by at least one person.
Yeah, but that’s within the culture. They’re not dolts. They know foreigners aren’t well versed in their nuances.

Can you imagine thinking that Americans would feel disrespected because a visiting foreigner made a cultural faux pas?

Oh my god, they didn’t stand up for the anthem!!! They asked my salary!!!
The various local agencies have formal and informal arrangements with the local radio clubs in most of these areas I’m sure. The ham radio community is of immense help in emergency situations, and a well designed old school radio repeater network is basically indestructible in a natural disaster. It’s foolish to take away working comms that cost the state nothing for no reason.
If China paid the CEOs of these companies to stay quiet we’d call that bribery and corruption. Add in some market separation in the transaction and people just say that China is too big to ignore. CEOs get a free pass.
The trajectory changed under Hu in 2009 just after the olympics. Xi accelerated the trend, but didn’t start it.
> Sure there are going to be edge cases where we as humans will be able to point at the car and say "damnit, we could have prevented that"!

This is a meaningless assertion unless you account for how often "edge cases" arise. If unpredictable pedestrians, unplanned road construction, etc., is an "edge case" the car basically won't work in DC or New York.
Well that's an opinion, but not how the law actually works, where misdemeanor/felony levels and minimum sentencing are based in dollar value stolen.
Cadillac super cruise worked pretty damn well when I used it in a rental last month.
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Great point. Seems like Xi never read Sun Tzu's Art of War.
Nobody cares about wonk trade policy

Nobody cares about economic spreadsheets.

People do care about the NBA, like in a real way. The average American will not allow a beloved American institution to cowtow to ChiComms.

China has overplayed and has done it with the wrong President in the office. Trump is looking for anything to move the needle for him on China and they just gifted him something amazing.
From news reports, HK was around 27% of China's GDP in 1993 prior to handover back to China in 1997. Today, HK is less than 3% of China's GDP.
This is a dumb idea if you want to actually take your flight in this situation instead of spending hours discussing privacy with TSA agents.

But I also wonder what is it that they expect to find during these searches. In the world where I can transfer my criminal activity data through the likes of Dropbox (in encrypted form, of course), why would I have it on my phone or a laptop? What's the goal here?
Seems to be misleading clickbait: https://mobile.twitter.com/OH8STN/status/1179637421308293120
Thank you for pointing this out, will certainly use that.
Who cares - is it your problem?
Exactly, and if you dare to suggest that model they will label you communist.
May your chains rest upon you lightly.

It's peaceful here because guns are so common. The gov't tries shows of force on rare occasion, and is reminded that's a bad idea.
This suggests they are SOC compliant, among other things, and been audited by an independent accounting firm: https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056694?hl=en

SOC seems to be the gold standard in terms of what enterprises are asking for, these days. Not that it addresses all the concerns as discussed here, but it does probably start to answer your question.
It's pretty telling when they want almost 10 grand, about half of which is recurring, to draft and administer a lease without ever discussing what the lease might entail.
What scares me the most with consumption economy - the seller is reporting your use and there's little you can do to track yourself. In the case of Comcast it's pretty easy to detect, but when it's AWS or Azure reporting more than what you actually consumed, how do you detect, and how do you prove?
Precious relativism in defense of idle apathy.
That's not as easy as you'd think. The connector contains a chip on a tiny teeny PCB. And you'd need to re-route signals _after_ that chip in order for this to do anything.
> However they're not income until actually received in your exchange account.

What exchange account? -- yes, many (IMO foolish) users keep coins in exchanges, many don't. :)

I'd love to read it the way you're reading it.

> The cost basis of the new coins is $0 because you paid nothing to acquire them.

The document states:

> When a taxpayer receives property that is not purchased, unless otherwise provided in the Code, the taxpayer’s basis in the property received is determined by reference to the amount included in gross income, which is the fair market value of the property when the property is received.

So I guess you'd take the position that if you got access to the coins at the instant of the fork, when there is no FMV yet, then you'd report $0 income and have a $0 cost basis. Otherwise, if your access was delayed and there was a FMV, you'd treat that as income and it would become your cost basis?
"Image recognition" is a small subset of "receiving visual input and processing it." We know how to do image recognition with machine learning. Planning and anticipation is a much harder problem.
Freedom of speech is not permanent. It has to continually be demanded, or it disappears. There will always be people trying to tell you what to do or say. If you don't decide for yourself, someone else will decide for you.
> Hard to become a superpower when you are antagonizing your neighbors.

Er, is this true? I'd have thought quite the opposite: hard to become a superpower _without_ antagonizing neighbors.
Heh. Yes, the correct answer. Neurons are funny sometimes.
> Regardless of land or tower ownership, the provided email doesn't have any timeline, which is somewhat unprofessional when we're talking about something that takes weeks to remove.

It also doesn't have actual lease cost, just some cost ranges for some administrative fees associated with the lease. It seems to be an attempt to determine if further discussion should be directed at developing a plan and timeline for removal or at setting up a lease, not being a notice to pay or leave by a set date.
The price you pay for this 'peace' is quite high however.
I believe the CCP is looking ahead at the next decade or two and realizing that the global economic boom is over for everyone - especially for them.

The experiment with free-market capitalism has to come to an end one way or another, and the CCP has chosen to be in control of the situation instead of letting their citizens decide.
Is there a site with the background on this? There must have been more communication prior to the single email included in this PDF. Something other than the Shasta Defense site which is impossible to read.
The specific threat that ctrl-alt-delete's supposed to mitigate is where a user's already logged in, but a program's running that mimics the login prompt. Since applications can't handle ctrl-alt-del in Windows, if you pressed it at a fake login prompt, you'd get the Windows Security dialog/screen rather than a login prompt and it would be obvious that something's wrong.

Its utility's limited these days since consumer configurations of Windows have users trained not to expect to have to press ctrl-alt-del to log in. I'm not sure that it's even enabled by default on domain-joined machines any more as of Windows 10 (still available via Group Policy, though).
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Mainly for my own reference when I return to this story with more time, links to Professor Kevin Buzzard's project Xena [0][1]

>Basically, Lean can understand mathematics, and can check that it doesn't have any mistakes in. Most of the files here are Lean verifications of various pieces of undergraduate level mathematics.

>Some of the lean files are in a library called Xena. One could imagine Xena as currently studying mathematics at Imperial College London.

[0] https://github.com/kbuzzard/xena

[1] https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/
Hey yours dug up some legit art so nobody’s wrong here.
While Linux would have certainly killed Coherent eventually, that's
not quite the case. First Coherent was out long before Linux. Coh was
around long enough for AT&T to have sent Dennis Ritchie to Chicago to
inspect the code and evaluate it for copyright claims. Coherent ran on
the PDP11 and on the 80286. Linux became a real force in the Unix
market around 1998. MWC went out of business in Feb 1995. The first
round of layoffs at MWC happened in Oct, 1994.

A perfect storm of several things killed Coherent The two biggest
problems were:

The customers dinging Mark Williams Company in the newsgroup mainly
complained about the lack of TCP/IP networking. This happened because
MWC had done a customer pole to see what big feature should come next?
TCP/IP or X11. X11 won.

The real or perceived drop in quality of the product. This one is hard
to explain. Coherent 3.10 and 4.0 had been solid V7 Unix clones with
V7 sensibilities. When 4.2.05 shipped it included a really nasty disk
driver bug that basically destroyed your file system beyond the
ability of fsck to fix. The bug was triggered when your drive when
into a very common thermal recalibration mode. This mode was rare or
hadn't existed during the days of MFM/RLL/ESDI drives but became
common with ATA drives especially as the market got flooded with cheap
504MB drives. While the bug was fixed somewhere between 4.2.10 and
4.2.14, the damage to Coherent's reputation was done.
> To test out the latter, in the summer of 2017 we tasked a team of summer interns with the renewal of our seat map application, a crucial component of the ticket booking process. They were to use Elm, a language they had no prior experience with. To our surprise they took to the language very easily, and their work turned out great.

I think programmers—myself included—tend to be surprised by these stories, because we envision two learning curves: general programming concepts, plus the additional weirdness of learning Elm.

But "general programming concepts" unpacks into: A) valuable stuff everyone needs to learn anyway, B) a bunch of hard-bought mental discipline which Elm makes obsolete, due to its lack of side effects and mutable state. Going cold-turkey into Elm, newcomers fast-forward through a lot of things JS learners for example have to wrestle through.

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To be fair the US throws its weight around quite a bit on exporting its morality (human rights, democracy, freedom of speech, etc), and sometimes not to the best of results.

I don't know if there's been any large political organization that wasn't super pushy about its world view.

I think the issue is that its viewpoint is so different from America's. It's sort of like US politics, depending on who's in the white house the government can have a very different idea of reproductive rights, climate change, and religion/secularism.

Those are big changes but China's morality is even more different. Suddenly criticizing the government is treated like hate speech.
Why did Java later become your favorite language? And why only for a decade?

(I started liking Java a lot more after Java 8 came out.)
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A redditor explained the situation pretty well, without the histrionics:

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/dfn7tw/sate_o...
You could start a fire with moonlight + phosphorus.
SciFi Thoughts interview https://lancerkind.com/podcast/061-orphan-black-audio-drama/
just skimmed thru the PDF and it seems, the ham repeaters are in the way of somebody that wants to monetize something that is free and public.

"If you desire to enter into a formal agreement to operate and maintain said
equipment, you must complete and submit attached collocation application along with fee as
outlined on page one of application.
There is cost associated with getting an agreement in place. In addition to the technical
analysis fee ($2500/application), there is DGS Lease admin cost associated (typically between
$3000-$5000) with preparation of lease. Also, there will be an annual rent charge based upon
equipment type/space."

2500$ tech analysis fee /aplication;
3000-5000 admin fee
- - annual rent

so 5.5 - 7.5 k just to pay administrative, then rent on top. i wonder what would be said if repeaters reverted to a guy on a hilltop with two transciever sets and some braincells.
Is a China + Russia vs. "the west" WWIII off the table? (as a possibility, not a suggestion)
Trumps trade war has been an effective policy. It may not have been the most elegant or the only option. But all things considered not terrible. It may backfire into a recession. Taking some action was both overdue and likely to happen regardless of who was in charge.

I am otherwise aggressively anti trump.
Nothing in the link is clickbait though. It's a town repeater station being told to vacate land because "advancing technology" has rendered it's benefit to the state obsolete. They then request $7500 to perform a study to draft a lease and $5000 a year to administer that lease once the amount is determined.

Most of the link is the site operator's response to the administration and it's all very level headed and well thought out.
I can answer from the manufacturing side only. In manufacturing, "Digital Twin" refers to having a fully-digital version of your manufacturing line modeled and running on a computer. In most cases this takes the form of a kind of dashboard where you can see on a screen (or screens) exactly what is going on with your physical line at any time. So you have the physical, real-world line on your factory floor and you have its "digital twin" on the computer. This is very useful for real-time monitoring and performance improvement. For example, if an assembly station is starved of parts it needs, rather than having to wait for a line supervisor to go to the station, see what's wrong, then go notify the logistics people, your digital twin would immediately show a red indicator with a reason and action can be taken immediately (or prevented if you've got things setup properly for predictive).
Three responses in turn,

1. The courts are profoundly unfair. Are you comfortable forcing harassment victims to go through the courts for what are literally criminal allegations?

2. This example seems too contrived and implausible, as is anything else I could think of. The whole story just seems too magical. Maybe I'm just being hard-headed and arguing with a hero.

3. I will concede that is a more unpleasant series of events without care for semantics.