skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met about Coherent thanks a small article in the spanish edition of ComputerWorld[1]. I was 13 y/o and all my computer knowledge was about Basic, Pacal, DOS and Win3.1. Good times. I still remember the accompanying picture in the article, showing the windowing system with an astronaut picture in a window, some terminals and a file explorer. I think that picture inspired my view of what operating systems should be, more than everything I've seen since then.

Also, I recently stumbled upon Idris[2], which, as far as I know, predates Xenix and Coherent in the PC scene.

[1] https://www.computerworld.es/archive/omega-anuncia-coherent-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_(operating_system)
Isn’t cancel culture more or less the same thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-out_culture#Cancel_Cultur...
Maybe his parents are both Chuck Berry fans and time travelers.
> they can never become a superpower.

China has long been a world super power for thousands of years, and probably only lost that title after European renaissance. Read some history[1] dude.

> I had a daily driver in Chengdu for over 1 month who spoke no English, zero, none at all - not even "yes" or "no". We communicated via Google translate (on VPN).

> I recommend reading "Poorly Made in China (2011)" by Paul Midler. It is surprisingly good - factual, objective look of deep issues with China's way of doing things. I resonate with the book with my personal experience.

> Diplomacy is about being able to negotiate well, build trust and foster long term relationships, acknowledge mutual interests and work towards solutions to problems. China has lost the brand image, probably forever.

I don't understand your sentiments here. You started your story by telling everyone you don't speak Chinese and can't communicate with local Chinese people and then later you said China lost the brand image, how can you come to that conclusion if you don't even speak Chinese understand the culture? Without understanding each other, how do you "negotiate well, build trust"? If all you know about China is based on the readings on NYT on China and a 2009 book about Chinese products (which btw, was originally published ten years ago in 2009[2], not 2011 as you mentioned) and your experience in semiconductor sector, then your view about China is very biased(due to NYT's long standing anti-China editorial board) limited, narrow minded and a decade outdated.

Lastly, your repeatedly usage of F-bomb doesn't make your arguments stronger, but make your seem like you have poor vocabulary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorly_Made_in_China
We just had 2 incidents where both Facebook and Twitter broke their privacy policy by using phone numbers for ad targeting when they were only supposed to use them for 2FA & account recovery.

I wouldn’t trust a company with personal data while their main business model depends on violating your privacy, just like you wouldn’t trust an alcoholic with guarding a warehouse full of vodka.

The only way to be somewhat sure is to deal with companies that have zero uses for your personal data - this will not mitigate the risk of a malicious employee poking around but will at least mitigate the risk of large-scale data misuse like ad targeting because there’s simply no ads to target and no infrastructure to do so.
"I'm altering the deal, pray I do not alter it further." But yes, totally okay with USMCA, that's why we decided to put the US first in the name.
To recap:

- Oct 6th: Apple first rejected the app [0],

- Oct 8th: Apple then approved it after criticism for rejection [1]

- Oct 9th: Apple removed it after criticism from the CPC (this story)

[0]: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-hk-protest-map...

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3032001/apple-...
Cancel culture is not remotely related to Apple pulling a maps application off the app store. No one has been cancelled here, unless you count government suppression of speech as "cancel culture".
404: Disney Scrubs Winnie the Pooh Off the Internet
I'm curious what you mean by "Hobby/activity groups are frequently too uncentered, culturally."
I'm curious, would putting your real device in checked in bag and bringing a separate device / burner with you generally enough for bypassing it, or do they check all devices in your bags?
Show HN: FukY.ooo – When you just need a GIF to say Fuck You
Tesla is doing just this right now. It looks scary actually that they got so much freedom in theory. It will probably bite back some time.
"words" doesn't mean anything. Making a death threat isn't just "words". [0]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1/t...
"Short Term Profits and Long Term Death" vs Free Speech
CryptPad [0] provides end-to-end encryption for collaboration on documents. It seems that the server will have some metadata, but no access to content. It would require some development to integrate with existing workflows, but the foundation seems solid.

If you don’t want your data encrypted at rest, self-hosting with Sandstorm [1] would be a good choice.

Though it hasn’t happened yet (to my knowledge), putting CryptPad and Sandstorm together seems like a natural next step.

[0]: https://cryptpad.fr

[1]: https://sandstorm.io

Edit: fix footnote numbering
It is USA. I'm asking about other countries.
Very readable? It's on the cusp of becoming a demon summoning ritual.
Disney Blocks Winnie the Pooh Page in Hong Kong
California might be in a stronger position to maintain their own institutions if the state wasn't more than $400 billion in debt. Perhaps the state government actually needs volunteer help...
Should the United States be split into smaller localized manageable regions?

I would argue yes, personally.
I 100% prefer the US pushing it's agenda over China.
What's the name of the book? What's the name of the bishop?
Twenty Years of FreeBSD Jails, Then and Now
This is probably the best defense one can have, but it is not clear that the door will stay open forever.
If WeChat’s primary purpose was to track protestors overseas, then yeah, it should be banned. But that’s not what the app does.

I want to be clear that I’m not trying to side with anyone here - I’m just calling out a knee-jerk response that I don’t believe is actually based in fact. If there’s good evidence that Apple or the HK government is inventing evidence of misuse, I’ll happily take back what I’ve said.
I really wish Apple would put something in place where you effectively have two user accounts. If you type your actually passcode, it's just your normal account. If you type another specific passcode, it's a burner account with minimal apps and information. It has enough info to make it look like it's being used, but nothing important.

Obviously border control would quickly know about this, but there's no way to verify.
3450 to 3550 MHz (of which 3450 to 3500 MHz is allocated to Amateur Radio) is being looked at.

https://www.multichannel.com/news/spectrum-now-act-introduce...

https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/spectrum_re...
I am familiar with Camden and Mornington Crescent area, but "Shades of Mornington Crescent"?
Is there a way to set up auto-updates outside of the app store?
Why is this story already off the front page?

Currently 117 points in 1 hour, yet somehow behind “The Origin of the Foot Rail” with 39 points in 7 hours.
> Clinton began his term believing that trade sanctions could pressure China to improve human rights conditions. But after a year of debilitating debate, he was forced to reverse his policy of link- ing trade to human rights. >He was right to do so. By continuing to grant MFN to China, Clinton will help advance the $38 billion trading relationship which the U.S. now enjoys with the world's fastest growing economy. Moreover, by increasing prosperity in China through greater trade, the U.S. can help to create the economic freedoms that are the foundation upon which political freedom will someday emerge.

>Clinton began to end this spectacle of confusion last week when he decided to renew MFN almost with- out condition. Perhaps the most important aspect of his decision is philosophical; the President has now adopted the view that trade relations must be separated from U.S. political goals with China. Moreover, he has endorsed the view that increased U.S.-China trade can promote economic freedoms, which in the long run will spur the growth of political freedoms in China.

>This step alone will help to reassure Asian friends and adversaries that Clinton plans to get a better grip on foreign policy.

>Now that Clinton has reversed his policy, he should move quickly to exact a price-of Beijing's cooperation in two areas of critical concern to the U.S. They are:

* Ending North Korea's nuclear threat...

* Better treatment for Hong Kong and Taiwan...
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https://www.heritage.org/report/the-collapse-clintons-china-.... June 3, 1994
I wouldn't be surprised if there are disability concerns. Elevators that don't work, no electricity for medical devices, etc.
Investing in Gold and Silver Coins
"China" didn't get away with the massacre: the oligarchy lost any remnant of respect for the people, enforced the one child policy with forced abortions widened the gulf, the dead are still dead...
The fires were caused by outright negligence.

They didn't happen before because trees were kept cut back. They were not cut back because PGE management chose not to spend the money cutting them back as they had been for decades before.

There was no "high-risk" weather throughout almost all of the area where power was cut. This cut was purely a stunt to get free insurance against deliberate negligent behavior.
I wonder why Google would develop tools to enable such creepy behaviour?
The big difference there would be the relative sizes of the two parties at play, and distance between them.
> I had to explain to people why their giant solar arrays wouldn't be able to power their facility when the grid is down

Is there an actual size of solar array that could power their facility?
>All these tariffs are accomplishing is incentivizing Chinese corporations to rapidly expand their production capabilities in facilities located in other nations. So in fact, we are financing China's increasing power and influence over both its neighbors and within the global economy.

This is the same naivete that got us into this situation in the first place. What, are we "pot committed" and have to continue putting up with this behavior when it starts to actually affect our culture (or mine, since you are implying you're not from the US/Europe)? We don't have to keep financing any of this. We made a deliberate choice around two decades ago to outsource our manufacturing base to them. We can un-do this decision - it will be really expensive, and there will be short term pain for sure - but greater re-ordering of the global economy has happened in the past. Believe me, I'm more than willing to entertain arguments about how Hong Kong should be left alone and that is China's problem to deal with. But in my humble opinion - which I'm grateful that I can express without being censored - the US should make integration as painful as possible. If the cost of "China's Rise" is free speech in the US, then screw it. All bets are off.

Edit: realizing that you copy-pasted a comment from the article itself, which I couldn't see because of ad-blockers.
In US, it's more scare to say you support Trump, and also it's declare to death that you say you don't like black people. And also, you are freely to say that in China, and you may get applause for that. Does that approve anything? Did you get my point?
This conversation seems super interesting & super valuable to a lot of people aspiring to roles like this... or also just junior level folks like myself looking for some insight into how more experienced programmers operate.

Why didn't I see this thread (with over 300 pts) pass through the front page at some point? Maybe I just missed it?
https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-face...
Hey dang, hopefully you're already aware of this, but if not, I just wanted to let you know that a common tactic I've noticed that's increasingly being utilized is to mass flag a submission in order to quickly have it removed from the top of the page.

Since the algorithm automatically lowers the priority of highly flagged posts, and it requires some level of manual intervention in order to unflag a flagged post, it works quite well for selectively bringing down unwanted submissions.

One way of resolving this I think would be to additionally add a weight for the existing prioritization weight associated with the number of flags on a submission such that a post with an increasing amount of upvotes requires a proportionally higher number of flags to be deprioritized.

[e.g. maybe something like (number_of_flags / number_of_upvotes) * (time_decay_between_avg_interval_of_flags_per_unit_time_versus_upvotes_respectively)]
Blizzards Has “NoExtraditionToChina” as Profanity in Wow
If customs detains you with the intent of searching your electronics, they will almost certainly open your checked-in luggage and search that as well.
.. and they caved.
If I had to guess, the mods are bending the scoring to avoid controversial topics again. They’ve done it before with US politics. Lately there’s been a slew of China news and some of the comments have been incredibly vitriolic.

I for one would support this - I like HN being a hacker’s paradise. People grousing over the latest insanity in world news can always find somewhere else to comment.
When the app is removed from the App Store, does it mean that it disappears from all phones, or it means that the new sales of the app are not possible?
problem is that the kurds were not an ally of a us nato ally : turkey. they were neither fighting only assad but for an independant state. the error was siding with them
Yes, there's definitely some truth in what you're saying -- UC Berkeley managed back in 1868 presumably without power, but it's also much bigger and has different facilities now. It's not as simple as just telling 40,000+ students to improvise. Many buildings, especially those with deep basements (like Soda Hall) may have ventilation problems without power. With the number of students here, holding lecture on the lawn or even rearranging to rooms with windows would be complete chaos, assuming that's even possible. To top it all off, elevators might also not function and cause issues for people in wheelchairs, etc.

The current news now is classes will be held unless the power actually does go out.
>It's too much to expect companies to choose ethics over profit, even if the companies are temporarily made up of ethical people -- these are mere components.

What's with the apologist mindset there?

If you can't hold a group of people accountable for ethical conduct, from whence comes the idea that singular actors should be regulatable by traditional justice systems?

Corporations were intended to distribute risk to enable collective groups to attempt something which none individually could have hoped to do without a significant chance of losing everything.

They were not intended as a bulwark through which to engage in ethically dubious behavior in search of profit. Profit is not a right. Merely a happy byproduct of a job well done.

Ethical behavior, and actually performing a valuable service for the society hosting the corporation is the primary goal. Not profit generation.

The sheer bullheaded insistence that profit is the be all end all of human activity needs to die.
The entire field of static analysis is "solving" undecidable problems effectively and productively all the time. Just accept a few false positives or false negatives and suddenly the field opens up to be amazingly useful.

Yes it isn't literally solving the halting problem. But I've had a weird number of people tell me that the stuff I work on doesn't work because of things they learned in undergrad.
The Fluke That Thwarted an Invasion (2014)
Delphi, Eiffel as well.
A truly dumb idea is giving anyone unfettered access to your digital devices. Even/especially governments, depending on the government and your circumstances.

Missing a flight would probably waste less time than rotating passwords/keys for every service I’m logged into on my phone.
Luckily Android has that mode. They call it "Lockdown".

Here's some info on it: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-use-android-9-pi...
> It’s also not part of the European Union, but is within the EU Customs zone.

As opposed to the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, which is within the European Union, but outside the EU Customs area (until Brexit, at which point it leaves the EU too).

The political status of British territories and dependencies is... _complex_.
Sure, that would reduce the problem space by one, but that ain't the reason CV doesn't work.
Why has this story been spiked from the front page?
Even the US govt has written about China's influence in media. [0]

[0]: (2015) https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/Directed%2...
Exact same comment as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21209462 ?
Anecdotal, but I've found that papers from the MIT Media Lab don't have that abstruse academic style. But I'm not sure why that's the case.
I somehow manage to have a comfortable career & good money while having never stepped foot in the US (and no intentions to do so). It’s not impossible or even that difficult.
Oh no the poor corporations, however will the helpless people take care of themselves
When I built a consumer site that processed tons of photos I ran into this all the time. Ended up doing it all myself by parsing the exif data and doing the rotation. Also ended up writing some pretty extensive resize code that worked much better than what was built-in and more like the great scaling effects you see in Preview.app.
The citation was from 2009. I expect, or rather hope, that things have improved. Interesting link, by the way, and very useful to add to the discussion.
I don’t know, they seem relatively related. Both are actions / attempts to silence opposing ideas by putting pressure on businesses and consumers.

Calling for someone to be silenced (cancel culture) is closer to actual censorship than the classic “I disagree with what you say but will fight for your right to say it.”
These articles are sent lower in the ranking because the mods feel they aren't very constructive
Yes, I can admit that I've created an alternative account. Because the American political atmosphere is endangering my ability to freely express the alternative that's other than the popular opinion.

I only come to hope to bring certain other perspective in peace and hoping for scholarly discussions on perspectives that I've not personally considered.

But of course it's all in the willingness of yourself to believe that there can actually be legitimate and unsponsored grassroot opinions not in favor of the West's perspective.
IronPython supports .NET Core which supports COM
I was so amazed when I learned that many Western coniferous trees adapted to drop their lower limbs as they grow and only keep the trunk free of extra kindling near the ground, so they can survive brush fires easily. That's one of the reasons that visibility is so nice out west in the woods! Not as many branches close to the ground where you're walking.
The Cable Industry Makes $28B Annually in Bullshit Fees
Bonus round:

(1) Find the ImageNet (ILSVRC2012) images possessing EXIF orientation metadata.

(2) Of those images, find which ones have the "correct" EXIF orientation.
Hey Tim, courage is not only about removing a headphone jack.
Hey, looks neat. Will be signing up!

Btw, https://docs.mlrequest.com/ is showing an SSL error. Do have a look. Cheers.
Very interesting, given how he made C++/WinRT possible.

Thanks for bringing it up.
Probably 1. flagged by a number of Chinese users and 2. auto-detected as “controversial” which often are more noise than signal.

I hope this is manually set as an exception. This is an extremely important topic in the tech world and needs to be discussed.
“You can’t trust that bag of bits.” That made me giggle.
while visiting costa rica, some friends and i went to a dimly lit entertainment hall that had a dance floor upstairs and a pool hall downstairs (with bars in both). we wanted to play pool, but without saying why, somebody told us women usually don't go downstairs. we assumed it might have been a cultural quirk, so we went anyway. guys kept walking over to the bar and seemingly standing around before coming back. turns out there was a urinal trough next to, but not part of, the bar (which we eventually smelled as well). so there's that.
re:conferences: That's not quite right. In conferences you also meet people, some of whom you knew before and some that you didn't. You get to talk, and ask questions. The ROI of this may be questionable, but it does have value.
Couldn't the maker of the app argue that this app is also used by people who want to avoid protests and violence? And that Apple is now directly hurting citizens by taking that protection away?
Bien, y tu?
This is more about repeatable experiments than particular movements.

Regarding the price, the actuators seem to be ~240USD. A good stepper motor with the appropriate feedback mechanism to make it suitable for servo-like control plus a modern stepper motor controller that is suited for the robotics context will likely not be (much) cheaper and you have to hack together the servo functionality, tune settings, etc. - which seems detrimental if the goal is repeatability accross teams. I'm not in the target audience for these robots either but from the perspective of robustness and repeatable research they don't look too shabby.
Never assume. Chinese presence in the South China Sea, Vietnam's EEZ hints otherwise. Chairman Xi is a somewhat ambitious bureaucrat with no sense of humour. We'll see how he handles HK: soft power or Tianamen style.
> we need to rid ourselves of the idea that all ideas are equally valid and deserve equal amounts of airtime and consideration

What would you call this event? The genocide of ideas (by the righteous)?

Who decides which ideas are invalid or lack merit? Is there a social credit system to value / devalue those with ideas and prevent them from transmitting them?

At what point does it extend from the online world into every day life?

What happens to those people when they can't express themselves online or in real life?

Do you see where I'm going with this?
Quickly, what's X*0?

I'm aware that there's situations where a CGT event occurs even without selling your asset, but this shouldn't be one of them.
Mornington Crescent is a station the you only stop at going one direction on the London underground. If you go in the other direction it disappears. Here it's being used as a short-hand for a complex situation/set of rules. The usage is probably drawn from the fact there was a comedy radio programme in the UK that played a ridiculous game involving many sets of convoluted rules upon rules and the name of the game was Mornington Crescent.
I don't think it's a problem; the Wordpress people fix it once in their most popular themes, which then immediately fixes it for 30% of the web.
Why isn't a "detect and fix orientation" NN, the first stage in the machine vision pipeline?
I know that because I've been attending Hong Kong protests for two months and talking to people.

Off-duty police are not even tracked on the map, so I don't get your argument even if I accepted the false premise that attacks on police are common.
You could tell, because there's no way their motorcycle race would be allowed in the UK.

I was halfexpecting this article to tell us they still used pre-decimalized currency.
Databricks Invests 100 Million Euros in Amsterdam
Except the one without a bright future is Win32.

Since Vista all major APIs are based on COM.