skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so sure the modern Chinese generally still clings to that.. probably more 自强 than 天下 (Tianxia)

For the past 50 years the global cultural viewpoint is largely Western (used loosely here)... it would be not practical to think that will always be the case, or has been the case for much of human history.

Using an easy to digest example of "individual freedom and unbridled freedom of expression" vs "know your place and be humble in your speech and actions"... <do your own thought scenario analysis>

...

The middle is very quiet... are they forced to be so? It's almost like two rival gangs fighting and a couple of old folks stepping in to try to restore peace. Both gangs will slaughter the old folks and then carry on fighting.
How is holography any more concrete than string theory? It is just as untestable.
Convergence of Human and Old World Monkey Gut Microbiomes
> I don't know if we'll ever see another South Park.

We need more, not fewer South Parks.

Not that I agree with their every riff (being of the Evangelical ilk) but their irreverence is as American as the 1st and 2nd Amendments.

We either wear our South Park with pride, or become as Hong Kong or Venezuela or another country people are fleeing.
kudos for use of "imprimatur"
I'm starting to think driverless cars are this decade's big vaporware.
Curious how much of this is a trade war, screw the U.S. If vape supply dries up there could be a spike in tobacco use.
we left Turkey in NATO for 20 more years, mainly because, why not? Selling them weapons is hella profitable!
> A regular Chinese now matches a regular American in quality of life as measured by typical economical metrics (adjusted for purchase parity, not in nominal value).

No. China’s per capita GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity is still under US$17K. Even with perfectly flat income distribution that would be around half of US median personal income. Realistically, the gap is much more than 2×.
Big Tobacco is behind all of this. Vaping would destabilize the farm grown tobacco industry, and it was just a matter of time...... Call me crazy, but it makes sense. Anyone can create their own vape juice, but how many people are willing to cultivate tobacco?
Nowadays I hope it takes a very long time. As Elon Musk pointed out, once cars can independently generate income as autonomous taxis, there's no reason to sell them to the public at all. Self-driving cars isn't the death of personal driving because they'll be too convenient; it's the death of personal driving because we won't be able to buy a car at a reasonable margin over manufacturing costs.
I'd be very interested to see what sort of jamming was used. What shape were those pulses? Incredibly interesting that whatever it was would know to jam radar.
You can buy a meca500 for 15k USD. If you are just doing learning stuff, it should be more than adequate.
The message from Heartstone's official Weibo account read similarly. It reads like it's written by a party member, not some corporate PR employee. It reads like something I'd expect to have come out of the USSR in the 80s. It's all very disturbing. It's also strangely familiar in that regard, and quite frightening when taken from that perspective.
> Serving anything dynamic at thousands of QPS requires a lot of caching.

QPS = queries per second?
The incandescent light bulb regulations were undone last month. I dunno if that counts as unbanning since the rules weren't coming into effect until 2020.

Dodd Frank was partially repealed last year

Industrial hemp production was also unbanned last December
All I know comes from public reports, which is that YC was planning something in China at some point. I don't know what its status is.

Your question may to be coming from a mistaken place, though. Nothing like that would affect Hacker News moderation.
HN has had editorial independence from YC for years [1, 2] and we don't think about such things while moderating. What we think about is how to keep the site in line with its values [3], and how the community feels about things.

1 https://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/y-combinator-spins-out-ha...

2. https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good Game, Peace Out Rollback Network SDK Is Now Free Under the MIT License
I don’t know about the legalities of this, so my question is, why?
+1 for Essential COM by Don Box, it still survives my bookshelf purges..."just-in-case". IUnknown and IDispatch are burned permanently in my memory from a period of my life building a COM/CORBA bridge.
This is cool. One thing that always bothers me me with these announcements, you never hear of them testing in the rain or fog in London or Boston in February or string winds in Kabaaa.
Is side-loading really that common for an Android user? It hardly seems widespread. Certainly not for your average, tech-illiterate consumer.
Except they all have remote control "employee inside."

https://www.wired.com/story/designated-driver-teleoperations...
> Whens the last time the US government unbanned something?

A number of types of transactions Americans might make involving Cuba were unbanned in 2016.
I have witnessed, firsthand at a major research university, a DoD-funded patent application get pulled back under a secrecy order. It was never made public and all subsequent filings were halted.

If the IP described here is legitimate in terms of having any practical use or viability, it wouldn’t be published.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act?wprov=sf...
Sneaky, I like it. But you'll definitely will need an above-average soldering station, and skill.
Free version:

1. Shout "OY THAT GUY'S PUNCHING THAT OTHER GUY IN THE DICK!"

2. Shout "OY THAT GUY'S PUNCHING THAT OTHER GUY IN THE DICK AGAIN!"

3. Goto 1.
That sounds like a start-up idea. A network of vetted employees doing runs around the city taking care of elderly people. I'd expect their employees would be way happier than the average startup employee, it's meaningful work.
Quartz editor-in-chief steps down in shake-up
I agree. The humans are the bugs thing is an excuse that the pre-programmed proponents keep leaning on. That hypothetical has the unintentional implicit frame; as if it's the non pre-programmed humans that are the problem, when clearly a "self driving" car should be able to handle that mundane situation (although it never will). Adding rules to abstract away the humans is the natural next step that their bad assumptions lead to.
> it's very misleading to equate the two and use is as a way to imply they lied last time around.

Your belief that the GP thinks they lied may be rooted in your own biases than in her or his words.
Larry should double down on cloud, offering .NetCore fronted MySQL/Oracle/Postgres in addition to Java. Be a Heroku style service inside AWS/Azure/GCP. Make his competition front the capital cost of running the data centers. Get back Govt marketshare on AWS GovCloud.
Thanks, @JohnHammersley! Your 2016 writeup of the same name was well-received; given how fast things change in this space, I'd bet this "updated for 2019" version is worth bookmarking.
GDPR isn't global law.
I don't think the singularity is going to happen per se. But I don't think that removes the threat envisioned of "paperclip maximizers" - it increases it. I think we are actually already in the throes of drastic change of society in response to AI, which in no way requires it to be anything like human intelligence. Humanity is going to be shaped in the near future by extreme pressure from the development of whatever you want to call it.
Tesla routinely gets data from the fleet and analyzes it. Here is Andre Karpathy speaking on this subject:

https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE

1:49:30. I’m on mobile otherwise I would link to the exact spot.

Tesla has tens (hundreds?) of thousands of vehicles on the road right now that are continuously feeding training data back to Tesla. What evidence is there that this is insufficient, or even deficient? From what I can gather, Waymo has limited testing geofenced to Phoenix, Arizona. Tesla has cars all over the world with autopilot, all providing training data.

I don’t see a reason for your conviction that Waymo has an advantage here.
What value do you think this comment contributed? The entire article clearly describes it as a commonly mistake and is trying to raise awareness so people stop repeating it.
I have a hard time finding a good heavier duty servo that does not cost the price of a car. I looked into how to make one from a DC motor. There are some open source project about it:

https://hackaday.io/project/9433-brushed-dc-servo-drive

https://www.crowdsupply.com/citrus-cnc/tarocco

But for some reason, most projects I found do not use DC motors:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tropicallabs/mechaduino...

https://odriverobotics.com/

If you ever find a good OSS servo, could you ping me?
Pretty sure they meant "for a product for human consumption" :)
I'm not a purveyor of fast foods but it's interesting to watch the changes in our fast food world. I've had both "low" and "high end" items on McDonald's menu and am never disappointed given that I'm going in with a certain mindset (cheap and perhaps hungover). I appreciate the article's depth.

I'm also interested in the trend towards no-meat (Beyond Meat) products. I had one of Burger King's offerings recently and really enjoyed it to the point I'd like try some more soon. I hope these trends continue and reduce our dependence on meat and reduce our meat based emissions. Just one small (and delicious) step towards a hopefully better future...
So instead of being 'banked' by some institution with actual businesses in places they now have to make sure their phone is always on/loaded when it has to, have to rely/trust some online services which probably costs them money for transactions/credit, and whatnot else. So instead of being unbanked they are banked online which has other hassles.

I can see conventional banking shrinking where i am, by closing off branch offices, offering appcrap instead.
I RESIST! Because it changes parts of the banks responsibilities over to me, reversal of evidence/shifting the burden of proof. Over to gadgets which are inherently incecure. Nice try...
Steppers are highly repeatable.
Does the nicotine in the vapes not come from tobacco? Is tobacco not involved in vapes at all? Why can't the tobacco companies make vapes?
>I feel like the real problem is the technology not the law.

I feel like the real problem is the technology, the law, and the (lack of) enforcement of the law. Every one of these violations should have resulted in a criminal prosecution for a variety of criminal offenses against the government agents who illegally used these databases. Every American who was the subject of one of these illegal searches had their Constitutional rights violated. Neglecting to prosecute government agents who clearly and deliberately violate the law and the Constitution makes a mockery of our entire system of "justice".
Almost bought it after seeing the stunningly low price. $99 for a Unix like OS? It seemed too good to be true. At the time my housemate and I ran a small multiline BBS we wanted to make into something bigger. Coherent would have been to run Picospan after seeing how well M-Net worked. Someone we contacted at the Mark Williams Company said they didn't think Picospan would work with Coherent's memory model. No idea if that was correct but we went with MajorBBS instead for our big upgrade. Still thought about buying it to play with but Linux showed up before I had the spare money for Coherent.
I'll bite the bullet and give my opinion without any hedging. If someone's comment consists of just a pun, or other low effort content that doesn't lead to meaningful dialogue, I'm downvoting them.

It's a housekeeping/ broken windows thing, puns and off topic one liners that exist to solicit some type of thoughtless reaction in the reader, are the first signs of a forum in decline.
The idea is that as you add complexity to a problem, the difficulty goes up exponentially. So being much smarter has no significant impact.

If intelligence as we know it could ramp up to generally solve all problems, then surely evolution would keep increasing it and we'd all be gods or at least Einsteins by now?
Not a device or product but open-source though... for me as a dev, or tech nerd, or advocate of freedoms / defender of rights, or just as an aware citizen, you know... open-source matters to a fundamental layer of our digital-izing civilization.
I am trying to build a suspended robot for about $1000 as an open source project:

http://fae-bot.org/

Unfortunately at that price it comes without a manipulator, but I have bought (very) cheap arms and will experiment with them soon.
Hah, I and a friend did a very similar thing with our school's NetWare. We managed to get ours to silently log the user in after collecting the credentials so it was mostly invisible. We created it to get the password from a particular guy, but in true dragnet style we installed it on as many machines as we could.

I have no idea how network drives were managed with NetWare, but some students always managed to find world writable dirs (that shouldn't be). Then it was a matter of finding some obscure subdirectory, create a new one (typically containing alt+255 characters) and stick games there. Fun times.

We did get his password (and many others), but never actually did anything with it.
I really hate this but it's our everyday life to see actor or singer we love they need to apology to China on their social media almost every month.

These stars from Taiwan who have PRs in China, their Weibo wall may have post they do not agree automatically. That's because these PRs in China work so hard to doing their damage control job before everything goes wrong. I think years before, this may worked in China.

But something changed recently. There are too many "internet red guards" in China. They want to use the same criteria to censor whole world by VPN the great wall. Once "internet red guards" target a company or star, they will dig everything they don't like(maybe 5 years ago!!) and post inside the wall. Then they encourage everyone in China boycott it. After that, government have excuse to suspend someones business. That's why Morey's twit cause NBA so much.

And I don't think situation like this that Weibo post of Blizzard will do any help once Blizzard they need to apology to people outside of china. But we don't see Blizzard have any announcement to us yet. I think this PR post or discussion inside great wall is a clever move that control Blizzard international. They want Blizzard to say nothing or it will cause them more damage in China.

for our everyday life reference:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/world/asia/taiwan-china-s...
I've never seen anyone use Oracle's cloud compute services.

I know it's been sold, because I've some Oracle salespeople friends, and they told me about the incentive kickbacks they got for selling it - one tried to twist my arm to get me to buy a cheap instance to run a website on, call myself an SMB, and she'd split the bonus with me...
A Solar Power Plant designed to deliver 100% of the electricity after sunset
Global Compliance Standards for Cryptocurrency Exchanges
These days (as another poster has already pointed out) it is under an Open Source license.

The author of this page:

https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/index.html

previously worked for MWC and has put some quite detailed notes on setting up various aspects of Coherent running under Virtualbox there.
> Countries with established gas turbine production can build gas combined cycle plants at a cheaper cost, but other countries without established aerospace industries (most countries other than Europe, and North America) would be looking at building up gas turbine production capacity largely from scratch.

What about this is confusing? Combined cycle plants require gas turbines to build. The term gas turbine exclusively refers to turbines burning gas (or gasoline if "gas turbine" is being used to refer to gasoline turbines) to generate an impulse. Plants that burn natural gas to heat a boiler don't use gas turbines, they exclusively use steam turbines. Gas turbines (both the gasoline and natural gas kind) are complex to fabricate and few countries have the technical ability to manufacture large and efficient turbines needed in combined cycle plants.
The latest CDC statements have still been that there hasn't been a single common ingredient found in all the cases. And there have been something like 10% of the cases that claim to have only used tobacco and not any THC vapes.

The guy that died in Oregon was using a legal vape from a regulated dispensary.

News publications do a disservice by over-playing the danger, and not differentiating between thc and tobacco, or street products and regulated thc and large nationwide brands like juul. But I don't think you can fully write this off yet either. I'm personally still avoiding vaping for the time being.
Dogs offer intuition, protection, and companionship where humans will not, for homeless.
CNNs are translation and scale invariant thanks mostly to the pooling operation. Good data augmentation (rotating images for example) would have build a model more robust to this effect.
Consumer fraud lawsuits, and they don't want Venezuelan cash on their balance sheets.
Just like native Americans, except there is no sufficiently strong military power to bake and support "liberating" movement within US, so they just sit tight in reservations and nobody wants to "rescue" them.
Ice cream in Australia is available in 4L tubs down to smaller tubs for premium brands or more exotic flavours. Doesn't seem excessive given it (ideally) takes over a week to get through.
The term in the context of propaganda is as clear as it gets though, if you mean to say "infecting or enabling otherwise 'sane' people with 'undesirable' ideas and behaviors".

Toxic is subtext that directly speaks to people (Chinese) wondering "what should I do?" => don't use it, don't even approach it or look at it (it's toxic).

It's idiomatic and quite explicit, in subtext, in this context (Chinese gov stuff).
I believe that the title is a take from this clip from "Groove Tube" movie (warning, graphic is icky): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008BPUdQ1XA
Like someone said, driverless cars will save thousands, and kill hundreds.

It's obviously the best choice to adapt a technology like that, but I'm not sure our society has the fortitude to do it.
An atomic weapon is just a manifestation of some mathematical optimization in the same way. Math is about relationships, and if those relationships ultimately are about humans, then it can easily be a matter of life and death.

To me, it's more frightening that it's not alive and it's not like human intelligence - that makes it less understandable and harder to control.
Strange! Thank you for your reply!
Scientists Designed a Drug for Just One Patient. Her Name Is Mila
ah sry, see the bar charts here

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/10/pypys-new-json-parser....
I wonder when rental car buses at airports will adopt autonomous driving. On the surface it might seem ideal because it is repeatedly the same route, but the density, diversity and loose rules of vehicular and pedestrian traffic would make it a very challenging environment for machine learning, and I speculate whether or not that might accelerate building the "dense urban environment" corpus.
>For a fun example, administrators have the choice to keep draft copies of emails, even after the email is removed from the draft folder. These drafts can even be ported into Vault minute by minute. In other words, administrators have the ability to read your draft emails live, or replay them after the fact.

wow.
Beautifully put. Kudos.
Why would companies not sell autonomous cars if customers exist who are willing to pay a reasonable margin over manufacturing costs? The fact that autonomous taxis are viable doesn’t preclude personal car ownership.
Any chance it's still available?
Pros at orwellian double-speak which allows them to get away with heinous acts.
AWS Transfer for SFTP Explained: A VPC Use Case
It would be nice if they only made things faster. In practice it seems like they use all my cores to do more things, things that I don't want or care about them doing.
What happens if all the western world stands up to China?
I certainly agree with you about the value of self-hosting for creators. Own your own domain(s) and build your own online properties.

I did see an interesting an interesting article about hosting your own content and then use shadow copies, linking back to original, on Medium, etc. I never tried it though, and I am not convinced it would be a good idea.
Reminded of my past experience and then remembered that already told that story:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418559
Vaping just reopened generations of customers for business to a myriad of tobacco products, why would they choose to go back to their previous shrinking pool of poor or old cigarette buyers?
It's become a political talking point. Your idea is valid: ICE was in place during the Obama years, too. But people allow themselves to be used as pawns, so they allow themselves to be deluded into a rage about it.
Two or three weeks ago I switched from Ubuntu to NixOS. I love it now -- but the first few days were rocky.

The first few times I installed it, once it was installed I could not connect to a network. Eventually I determined I could add these to `environment.systemPackages.pkgs`:
```
networkmanager
plasma-nm
```

I also ran into a permissions issue -- when I migrated my data from Ubuntu I couldn't access most of it. I still have Ubuntu at work so I have to be able to move between the two. The solution was to discover that the default user id NixOS is 1001, whereas the default in Ubuntu is 1000. Adding this to config nearly solved that:

```
# User accounts.
# Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
users.users.jeff = {
uid = 1000; # for compatibility with Ubuntu
isNormalUser = true;
extraGroups = [
"docker"
"wheel" # for sudo
"networkmanager" # for the plasma-nm widget, and
# the privilege of changing settings (adding networks)
"audio"
];
};
```

I say nearly because NixOS won't let you change uid (at least via `configuration.nix`) for an existing user. I had to log in as root, delete the user, rebuild, reboot, then add the user with the options I needed, rebuild, and finally reboot again.

And between those two problems came the problem of trying to use MusNix as a channel (for apps to make music). I followed the instructions on MusNix's README.md and totally broke my system. I found an issue on MusNix's issue tracker with the same complaint, and the response was "are you using an old version of Nix?" But I was using 19.03, which at that time was the latest version. My system told me I had conflicting hardware configurations (some supposed-to-be-unique value was set in multiple places to distinct values), and it wouldn't let me rebuild until I fixed that, and I had no idea how, so I just reinstalled. (Later in that issue the solution seemed to be, "Don't use it as a channel, even though the README says you can.")

But each reinstall was much easier than the last, because (unlike Ubuntu or anything else I've ever used) you don't have to repeat the same set of actions each time. Instead your config script gets more complicated, and you just copy that into the new system, and it handles the rest.

There are still a few tweaks I do by hand, out of ignorance -- I set some KDE options manually, and ... hmm, maybe that's all. But I've read that even those can be copied from one system to another; they just require some digging, as they're scattered around rather than contained in a single place like you might expect.
Then maybe we should focus on fixing the wage stagnation problem, and not kicking the can.