skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Although this is indeed a sad state of affairs, there is a lot injustice going on the world right now that I feel are not getting the attention they deserve. I feel these news have been partly fueled by the Western propaganda machine, the counterpart of the troll factories employed by Russia etc. And I'm not the one who would often say that, it's just it seems a little bit out of proportion in the context of things. Like US is trying to pressure China for their own benefit. I don't know, I'm speculating of course but this is what it seems to me as a reasonably neutral observer.

And although I'm pro-democracy and think the repression of HK citizens is wrong, I can understand the Chinese government's point of view and their cultural reasoning. I see China as the spiritual successor to Soviet Union which did the right choices for its continuation. And when Soviet Union fell apart it wasn't really a triumph of democracy that followed. Sure other Soviet Union states have been more successful but Russia itself seems to be chronically vulnerable to mafia-type people who will strong-arm themselves into power. Better than Soviet Union? I guess, but Chinese government doesn't seem interested in wanting to try out if democracy would work.

I'm sure the government officials are also more concerned with their own selfish needs than just what would be the best for people. So far the only reason why I would see authoritarian government being good, is that it can act more powerfully than democratically elected government without having to fear their decisions weakening their re-election chances. Yet their privilege in being power only rests on their ability to force people to obey their orders - be it fear, bribery or mass-media brainwash. I don't think that kind of environment is sustainable and is definitely not an equilibrium state for humans to exist in. If something requires you to constantly keep distorting reality in order to keep it going, it can't be a long-term solution. And this is without taking in consideration the humanitarian problems, prevalence of corruption and the absence of critical thought.
I would say that it's not the system that is prone to corruption - it is people in general.
The problem is saying the entire point of the article is to encourage pro-migration sentiment. It's an incorrect generalization. It'd be like saying the entire reason you started a HN account was to point out articles you believe are pro-migration propaganda, and ignoring all the comments you've made about other topics.
How is political defined? What happens in the US is that if certain financing is unavailable to be used in a certain way, like direct support of a candidate or party, then that money is shifted into “issue advertising” which presents a topic of political disagreement to favor one side over another. Within the information domain of a political debate, there may be human activities that are non-political but political organizations disguise themselves within, for example, adoption services in the abortion debate. Many messages, such as car advertising have an implicit political message that public funding of roads is positive and liberating. Maybe Norway has the line between political and everything else figured out or maybe there is a cultural definition that makes it easier, but banning political advertising seems very difficult.
> Trying to write a non-serious article doesn't give you a free pass to say things like

Yes and no. Technically it's his blog and he can put whatever he wants if he doesn't want people to take him seriously. I'm not saying I agree with his language used but he probably wasn't expecting it to feature on news aggregaters and it's not like internet discussions comparing Apple and Linux are known for being devoid of arguments and heated knee-jerk comments; even without the initial flamebait.
And beforehand was part of Aragon. The independence of Catalonia is mythical.
I love that he chose to turn it into a baby blanket - it resonates so much more than if it was just a print or digital image.

As someone without kids, I also feel like I learned something about baby sleep by looking at it. Neat to see it turn from randomness into something ordered.
Langewiesche himself wrote about exactly this paradox in this (excellent) piece on the Air France 447 crash:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...
Phft, amateur. I've forgotten more ways to screw stuff up than this person ever knew.
Absolutely, but then again (almost) everything is a fragile ecosystem. And if man-made climate change is real (I'm inclined to believe that), then it's less of an absolute and more of a trade-off ... a tricky one certainly, but already we're seeing deserts expand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification) and there are efforts to prevent it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall) so it could potentially be another tool.
Another reason to steongly consider the Gell-Mann amnesia effect when reading anything from the NYT.
Most foreign companies that chose to manufacture in China didn't make that decision to acquire access to the local market. Even if that turned out to be lagniappe. They chose it for cheap manufacturing and export.
Problem is that you become dependent on weed if you use it often enough. And it screws with your REM sleep hence crazy dreams (REM rebound) when you stop smoking it.
By around mid-2000s, Mandrake made things reasonably easy, so maybe the headline is a bit too eager in the comparison, but not that far off.
I used CyanogenMod (LinesgeOS) in the past on older phones, but it is not for the average use to download, install and configure all the bits and pieces needed for this. The support for the phones is also very limited, half of the phones in my house are not supported (and they are manufactured by Asus, not by a very small manufacturer).
> I didn't say it contradicts the causality, I say it doesn't support the causality.

You picked the example as a rebuttal to the suggestion that there is causality. For the next time you need an image that doesn’t support this causality, may I suggest a picture of a cat?
If that is the case, then how are groups of people held accountable? If there is a chance for groups to "have rights", then there must be a certain set of obligations that they must fulfill in order to do that.

Nations do not have "rights to vote", for instance: it all comes down to the individuals that make up those nations.

It's really hard for me to understand how groups of people would have rights, if someone could elaborate on that, that would be much appreciated.
Both Germany (10y to life) and France (30y to life) are harder, for example. Source (sorry, spanish): https://www.abc.es/espana/abci-alemania-y-francia-entre-pais...
This much is certain. It's going to be the biggest intelligence grab for non Chinese nations in decades.

I wonder if they're serving birthday cake at the NSA cafeteria today.
You’re not going to be able to trade swaps with a party that doesn’t have an ISDA.
Not bad work for a closed-source platform, enabling all that ownership.
I hope we'll have those kind of sensors in our phones someday. Also you have to be lucky enough to be working with people who care about this stuff
I live also in Germany and I experience the opposite. SW Developera may choose and SW Companies have hire whom they can get. Well things may be different here in Southern Bavaria, as they always are ;)
barbarians are at the gates.
Which SaaS company open sourced their core infrastructure to the point you could self host their services?
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I fear you have an excessively optimistic view of the processes by which humans will form opinions under this proposed regime.
I dropped my personal Dell laptop (XPS13) and broke the screen. Dell sent a tech to my workplace and repaired it.

No charge.
It is good tradeoff, except when you start running out of space, MacOS does not seem to clear the caches when you start running out of space. I have 128GB MacBook Pro and removing the ~/Library/Caches was somewhat regular excercise (it occupies 5-10GB usually) I had to do when I had lots of stuff installed.
Most likely to be a driver (or even hardware) bug. I had a SB AWE32 card which would do that, and I even hacked on the driver for a while to try to diagnose it before concluding the soundcard was probably taking PCI bus master and never releasing it, not really something that Linux could do anything about.

It's possible that the equivalent Windows driver - which didn't crash - had a secret workaround to prevent it from tickling the hardware bug. I used to work on OS-9 drivers for custom hardware at my first job, and we usually ended up bodging the driver to fix hardware bugs, because respinning the hardware was terribly expensive or even not possible in the time available.
Doesn't matter, the $1299 base model and $1499 mid model still only have 2 USB-Cs even with the Touch Bar. The $1799 model upwards have 4.

All MBPs in my company have 2 USB-C ports because my company (like many others) only buys the cheapest model of laptops.
Can't stress this enough. The number one priority for the political and business classes is to tunnel their wealth overseas and the first port of call is usually Hong Kong.

In the last decade, much of the HK stock market (and economy) is propped up by Chinese money and these outflows. Shell companies are sold in Hong Kong just because they are listed on the stock exchange - the underlying businesses are often spun-off as a part of the transaction and the resulting operation just a way to funnel money and business outside of Chinese capital controls.

The property market is also full to the brim with money from the mainland. Hong Kong has a much stronger hand than most people realise, because of the fact that the Chinese elite themselves lack confidence in their own system on the mainland.
I like that, but I think the sky is full of cameras and drones and the Emperor's minions see all.
I don't think this is relevant for the judgments in question if there was no incitement to violence or comparable from the convicted.
Agreed, this feels a bit like the wire loop game where one wrong move makes you lose
GNU/Linux is distributed under the GPL and other Free licenses. Apple is proprietary. Other differences stem from this difference or are cosmetic.

Until Apple releases all its software under Free licenses, the adversarial parts of its relationship with its users will hold it back.
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I must be really bad at this because to me this is the linux of today.
how do you make an independent application (Ruby & gtk3) once you have completed your development? do you need to deliver msys2 too?
First Principle Thinking
Where did that turn "personal"? Who has been attacked or harmed? I did not find any reference to this in the article.
It's also not that that tech is only used to oppress free speech, hunt down dissidents etc. I was tangentially involved in an investigation targeting a child pornography collector/trader and talked a bit with the lead investigator. Their department used a commercial trojan as well, though I don't know whether it was built by FinFisher. "Hey, want to help us take down people that rape children?" doesn't clash with moral principles for most people, I think.
i have those problems still, sometimes after waking up, so i play the game have i tried this usb-c port or not. it usualy works after one two times. thank god i have 4 of them. i have a 2 external monitors and usually close the macbook.

but hey at least it works. on my linux laptop it allways forgets the layout that i had and resorts to puting the external monitor right, and dont ger me started on X and fractional scalling.
My director of studies for my degree made a stochastic sweater. Using a published table of random numbers.
I understand that you may want to collect email addresses to use them later, it's up to you :) But then remove the RSS icon from the single issue page ;)
Wait... You trust Google to keep our information secret? Don't they literally allow access to all our information for money through targeted ads? Didn't Google just admit to reading all of our emails for like a decade now?
It sounds like you’d be surprised about how many industry leaders come from STEM backgrounds. If you take a headcount of the partners of all the quant firms that have been profitable over the last ten years, I’m not sure if STEM nerds would be the majority but they’d certainly make up a significant portion.
tl;dr: Nothing is beyond our reach.

... sounds familiar
the GP solution puzzles me too. i don't want this to be the solution. i wear glasses and my eyes are already damaged and now i need to filter out the color blue? what about we start making better monitors and screens instead?
> I agree with that problem, yet somehow like the idea of notebooks.

You like the tight feedback loop of REPLs, as do I. You don't need the clunky
machinery of jupyter to effect REPLs with emacs and ipython.

> real tragedy here is that jupyter notebooks are not [saved] as a
> valid program with comments

Here's a simple way of doing that: write your code as valid programs with comments.
Right, but that doesn't change the fact the stock market has changed from people taking careful aim before pulling the trigger, to a model where people are mostly looking where everybody else is firing, then firing in the same direction.
Look, their debt bubble is ready to pop as-is. The collapse was already inevitable. With the economy slowing down and the trade war, it's going to come fast.

This is how they contain the damage. Plus the party controls the (enormous) population even more closely during the rapid contraction.
The second person to walk that path didn't know the first person walked that path too.
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Hmmm we have multiple CSP plants in southern Spain, I wonder if we could do that, because it has been predicted that Spain will desertify with coming climate changes.

My issue is what do we do with the byproducts of desalination? If I did understand it there's no really use for that, and I've seen that other countries just dump it into the water, which is a big no no for local ecosystems (and I guess for oceans ph levels if this becomes widespread).
I'm dying for an open eink device with a color eink display. That seems to be a fairly giant limit of the current commercial readers.
They can do so through legal means. It is just hard as we need to agree all together to change the Constitution.
I don't care for paywalls, thank you.
We do standups so people arrive early in the morning.
I was once told that when requesting the standup to be reschedule one hour later.
MathML Core
If every current nuclear reactor melted down, how much of earth would be uninhabitable?
> I think this a wrong strategy to do business with them.

Of course it's wrong, unfortunately however, your corporate overlords don't mind "Big Brother" as long as there's a short-term "trade-off" for them.
Bigger messages to learn from this:

Build for platforms, don't build in a vacuum. Ie. Use an existing battle-tested framework if you can.

And.. Use existing subsystems if they already exist instead of reinventing the wheel.
Do you really think that clock speeds measured in nanoseconds allow enough time for good decisions to be made?
That would work just as well if they print the results on the packaging (which they do).
In fact it's standard practice in the financial industry to deploy everything on the week-end, and indeed starting from Friday night, because that's when most markets are closed.

Obviously don't do that if you don't have to, but sometimes it's actually the best time to deploy stuff.
And how jarring daylight saving time is to a tiny human’s sleep pattern. (Assuming that’s the big shift at the end/bottom.)

Edit: Looking at the picture closer on twitter it seems like it’s ~28 stitches which would be almost 3 hours so not DST.
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I'm sure the workers who were guilty of not following proper safeguards and procedures will commit seppuku.
Perhaps there is an upshot. If the Chinese government have complete access to all traffic in China, they will be unable to deny knowledge of hacking originating from their own IP blocks. By the same token you would expect that all unlawful traffic originating in China to cease.
Im my case, I use Crossover and a VM. They work well for my use cases.

> Word/Excel documents

I run Office 2010 in Crossover, which works very well. (I have a copy of 2016 as well, but it is slower.) You can also try WPS office, which does a decent job of handling Office documents.

> updating the firmware of IOT things

I have a Windows VM and I use USB passthrough for things like iTunes. I usually use it less than once a month.
Yeah but you can't send hard cash over the internet so let's stick to the "digital" requirement.
They'll probably block ESP, since they aren't able to economically reconstruct that real-time.

Fact is VPNs are architectural.

Suppose the companies can use AH to maintain their architecture and comply. All that data they had intended to keep private is now tagged in bright red IPSec headers.

In this case they only compromise information security, but their virtual links are still secured, not opening new security gaps in their architecture.
Queueing Theory and Regular Expressions
That is patently false. Catalan proindependence people have freedom of association, they even created several political parties that are in power.
AS3 was indeed a bad investiment given the direction ECMAScript ultimately went, but I do not believe for one second that it contributed to Flash's loss of popularity over time. Learning it after AS2 was easy and it was a much better language/platform to use, not to mention faster.

If anything I applaud Adobe by starting fresh instead of, say, accumulating warts in the language/VM the way Java did.
Imagine people advocating to go back to open outcry and wining and dining leads
Ah, excellent addition thank you.
> least-crappy

In the meantime, Windows "just works."
Straight up dumping it in the ocean is generally considered bad. The standard trick is to wash/mix the brine with fresh ocean water to reduce the concentration of salt before dumping it back. Another interesting byproduct that is often overlooked are the metals and minerals. Things like lithium (and even gold) are relatively abundant in sea water and could be recovered from the brine (at the cost of complexity of course).
Apple 2019: Siri remind me to call mom when I get home
Linux 2000: …

Apple 2019: Use my iPad as a secondary screen wirelessly
Linux 2000: …

Apple 2019: AirPlay to my TV this content
Linux 2000: …

Apple 2019: Sync my contacts, notes, calendars, wirelessly with all my devices
Linux 2000: …

Can we stop being ridiculous now or do I have to keep lowering myslef to the stupidity of the writer of this?
Why Aren't We Living Longer?
I don't think your single chair-throwing video is anywhere near enough to paint the entire independence movement as the violent aggressors.

Compare those clips to these https://spanishpolice.github.io/
I managed to find a chat buried somewhere deep in Reddit which listed the magical indentation that purges reserved space

I think he meant 'incantation'.
my understanding is that international laws are set so that humans do have rights due to their conditions of being human, based on the assumption that there are things that you cannot do, regardless of the culture you live in. It aims at invalidating the idea that I can only articulate as "that is how things work in this country". For instance, you cannot annihilate groups of people based on religion, that is a crime, internationally, even if your country allows it.

That said, and again, these are individual rights. You can't condemn Rwanda for the crimes committed by their leaders: these leaders are put on trial.

It occurs to me that the US has sanctioned Iran and other countries (not an expert) in the past/present (again, not an expert). But that isn't international law: those are unilateral decisions made by the US government.

I can see both things occurring, but not intertwined. Could you please expand on what you understand by "people do have rights"?
In the light of what Snowden and Assange revealed about what the ‘good guys‘ are actively doing I do enjoy reading this doublethink
Hypnic Jerk
It's your prerogative to do what you want with your machine.

Caps lock being on the home row is a bad design in my opinion. Remapping it to something useful is making your hardware work for you, not against you. You obviously can't make your coworkers change their behavior but you're completely in control of your own, where most of your work is likely being done.
Exactly. We should be just as ok with occasional Nuclear accident deaths as we are with accumulated car deaths.
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We don't concentrate light in the normal PV systems because mirrors aren't cheaper enough when compared to the panels. Things used to be different, then PV got cheap.

Solar water heaters are also much more expensive than they first seem. Houses with pools usually have them, but if you don't own a pool it's normally better to put your money in a more flexible PV.
you are not banned from using VPN otherwise. Did you even read the document ?
>It's made in a chinese guy's garage in northern california using equipment he imported in 2014.

There's nothing on that link that indicates this. So either you're making it up or back up your statement.
You're looking at it from an entirely Apple-internal standpoint. "What makes this phone easy for us to make? What purpose does it serve for the company?"

On the other hand, hrktb is looking at it from a consumer & marketing standpoint. "What is the unique selling point of this phone? Why should I buy this phone over a different iPhone?"

The selling point was, and remains, the 4" screen. People's hands haven't grown in size in the past 4 years. They still want a 4" phone, because it's still a very sensible size.
You've paid for this and you know it.
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High speed is a well documented principal factor in increasing the fatality rate of a given accident, all other things being equal.
Why? The tool works fine for it's purpose - as a tool in Crockford's hands.

It just shouldn't be blindly trusted as production-ready for anyone not intimately acquainted with the interiors.

(That and Tilton isn't even in VC as far as I can tell.)
This isn't about political ads, it's about silencing any politics on the platform.

That's not true at all, at least not on the surface. Do you have any proof of anyone being banned as a user for posting political content?

From the article: “Any paid ads that come into the community need to fit the standards for our platform, and the nature of paid political ads is not something we believe fits the TikTok platform experience,” says Blake Chandlee, TikTok’s VP of Global Business Solutions, who recently joined the company from Facebook.

“To that end, we will not allow paid ads that promote or oppose a candidate, current leader, political party or group or issue at the federal, state or local level — including election-related ads, advocacy ads or issue ads,” he says.
Flex was immensely powerful. Back in 2007 I was able to prototype a Flex app for a financial firm where I could load 20K complex records on UI super fast for various streaming views/Charts/trading views etc. All possible with AS3, BlazeDS/LCDS Java back-end; building trading/streaming applications was fast. Wish Adobe and rest of the guys supported Flash/Flex platform on Desktop at least. Moving to open-source/apache didnt help either; Apache Flex is pretty much written off. Sigh !
I'm good with 2 available ports like my MBPs 2015 have (as they still have MagSafe; which I prefer, btw). The problem with MB(P)s with 2 USB-C is that one is used for charger, hence you got effectively only 1 port.
Not sure what your goals are, but I still make mid six figures.