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> Why then is there no outrage that Americans are the victim of their own government as well?

What makes you think there isn't? There's outrage about that kind of thing all the time.

> If TikTok is banned by the US because of the actions of the Chinese government

Where in the article does it say that TikTok could be banned in the US?

> If TikTok is banned by the US because of the actions of the Chinese government, then we are no better than the Chinese government who have banned countless "American" apps, as if apps should even have a nationality in the first place.

Honestly, I believe you're kinda confused and looking at things too shallowly. Sort of like insisting we condemn someone who killed defending a child from murder the same as we'd condemn someone who committed murder, because they both killed a human being. Identical actions can be rightly judged very differently based on circumstances. The PRC bans American apps because (among other things) its authoritarian ruling oligarchy fears that Western ideas like constitutional democracy and human rights could threaten their power, if taken up by the Chinese people. If the US bans Chinese apps (or disinformation outlets like Russia Today), it will likely be because it values those same ideas and fears losing them.
Is ASW something the US military cares at all about anymore?
well asyncio was introduced in 3.5 though, it just happened that initial version was buggy and you should assume asyncio is available since 3.6 (or actually 3.5.3+)
This is fine advice as long as you're under 35 or so, after that you become completely unhireable in many tech companies so you better hang on somewhere.
I don't see any other company doing things as imaginative as Loon, Soli, Waymo or Duplex. What other company do you know with such a breadth of innovation?

But yknow, they killed Reader 10 years ago so you're right, RIP FitBit I guess.
The compilers group might be better, but when I was working in the IMG division at Apple 10 years ago, the yearly raises were barely enough to keep up with inflation.

People who had been there 10 years were only making a little more than I did fresh out of school. I also think a lot of people at Apple are part of the devoted, they used Macs their whole life and were living the dream by working at Apple, and HR took advantage of them.

Of course HR said "we pay the industry standard" but later on Apple was convicted of industry wide wage fixing.

So if anything, you should leave Apple just for the pay raise. When I moved to NYC, having Apple on my resume opened a lot of doors and the finance industry more than doubled my pay.
Impaired temporarily (~12 hours) after taking the tabs.
I'll explain. Most people who criticize contemporary are, usually use a combination of its just a bunch of random lines or a "5 year old could have painted that" - as if the complexity of difficulty of an art piece its what makes it valuable. But nothing is further from the truth, a simple piece, with a strong composition such as Number 17a, could look simple but its quite powerful and complex.

Let me use an analogy you can better understand. I am sure you can appreciate music. Most people who listen to the Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, can understand it's a master piece. Yet, it isn't the most difficult balad Mozart composer and many other musicians have created far more complex balads. Also a gifted 5 year old could probably learn to play it and reproduce it quite accurately. Does that diminish its value because a 5 year old can play it? It's even possible for an average 5 year old to invent a similar balad after listening to it. But could an average 5 year old create something like the Marriage of Figaro from scratch without ever hearing it? It takes a pretty special 5 year old, like Mozart to produce something like that. And its the whole composition that matters, not just a few notes - anyone can play a few notes.

The same happens with Pollock. He was the first drip painter. And while an average 5 year old could drip some paint in a canvas (play a few notes), they won't be able to create a powerful composition of colors that mirrors a full Pollock composition. Sure, there are amazing reproductions of Pollock made by very trained art forgers - yet that doesn't diminish the value of Pollock just because someone else after analyzing his technique is able to reproduce it.

The value is another story. It's worth $200M because of its size and scarcity. Pollock wasn't a big art producers and thus there aren't many paintings around. Yet there are many people who love his work and want to buy it. Supply and demand dictates the price. Sure you can buy something similar from an art forger, but its not the same, the same way that listening to a album on a set of speakers is not the same as having the artist play live for you.
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Especially not in China ;)
> Are you saying that the situation in the US is specifically muddied because politics now incorporates a fight about all aspects of ones life — the Culture Wars?

No. Not quite. In fact, I'm saying quite the opposite. The argument is that people are concerned often about issues, not just candidates. This is a historical norm. It is as important (if not more) to allow platforms where everyone can publish and advertise their policy opinions, rather than just candidate ones. This is a fundamental right in a democracy, and is true whether or not the society is engaged in a 'culture war'.

> Instead, there is more oblique messaging like some pastor saying “vaping is a sin!” as a passive aggressive attack on a candidate for office who made their fortune building a vaping business?

Actually, this is the historical norm. Especially in American politics, moral grandstanding by various factions is the norm. Think camp revivals and the like. The idea that candidates should be the main focus rather than issues is a fictitious utopian pipe dream.
Is it interpreted or compiled?
It seems like it's a problem with your router not being able to handle TLS. Old equipment doesnt
last forever.

HTTP is the internet, and the amount requests a client makes is magnitudes greater than DNS.

Like Google or Cloudfare's DoH isn't slow.
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Maybe releasing more often could improve stability and predictability? Isn't it like they say: if it hurts, do it more often.

This is also what the JavaScript community is moving towards, both for the language specs where new features are "released" once they're ready (see: https://2ality.com/2015/11/tc39-process.html) and their respective implementations in browsers and Node.

As far a I can tell, those release processes (with many millions of users and full backwards compatibility going back to early beginnings of JavaScript) are neither unstable nor unpredictable.
Not just Python. For some reason, Java developers all got together without consulting me and decided that

import org.apache.commons.lang;

if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(s))

is better than

if (s != null && s.length() != 0)

bonus points for:

if (s != null && !StringUtils.isEmpty(s))
> Consumer Reports is unfortunately stuck in an age-old era. There needs to be a more modernized version, with more recent hardware reviews, better discussion forums, better community engagement, etc. etc. A combination of Reddit-like discussions, but with a core set of trusted reviewers who can lead the community (and who can be trusted to be "non-shills").

I've been trying to build this over the last couple years with productdork.com. It's somewhere between review site and community. For a long time it was just me, but it's at a point where I'm getting a few new commenters each week.

Long-term I'd love to have representatives from brands/manufacturers commenting as well. Maybe have badges to provide context to other members of the community.
I think his point was that the following statement doesn't make much sense:

> This is most definitely a Good Thing, as it means for example no malicious extensions can be silently installed by malware etc.
Cats have different personalities, just like people. Not all people like other people, not all cats like people. Cats are allowed to be "unfriendly".
Most OS packages are out of date, putting new features or libraries out of reach of most people using them.
I set one up using a free GCP instance and it's been working great so far. Would definitely handle your described usage and save you $5 a month
All banks should adopt U2F and hopefully sooner than later :)
Maybe so, but please post substantively here. I know that takes time and effort, but it's always an option to just not post anything.

The site guidelines particularly ask: "Please don't post shallow dismissals [...] A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The helicopter guy probably doesn't know the code to get in the bunker or it's biometric etc...
I don't know why so many people here are patting themselves on the back over this. This is not the kind of encryption people were talking about in the 90s and 00s. A lot of this encryption is not point-to-point. It merely secures user's interaction with some middleman (or their server). What would the numbers be if you subtracted all the traffic that can be snooped on by Google, Amazon and Cloudflare?
I think there's a pretty wide gulf between that and government-enforced censorship, to the point that comparing the two seems a bit disingenuous.

"Twitter has even begun censoring political speech from public figures"

vs

"The FBI will require Twitter to censor political speech from public figures"

I think those two scenarios are eons apart.
I've never heard of this. Is this exclusively a Digital Ocean issue?
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As the OP points out just-in-time code generation is a huge improvement over conventional alternatives. If anything it represents a step forward considering developer productivity.
Presumably getting away from the panopticon is part of the reason why she'd go to someplace like Brazil, a huge country with large swathes of land that are relatively thinly populated.
>Fusion is also known to be limited by the lack of funding. I've read stories about 13 year old teenagers building their own fusion reactors.

Wrong. Fusion reactors you can build at home are just novelties, and don't produce more power than they consume. No one has yet figured out how to actually do that, and until you can do that, fusion isn't useful as a power source. The only place we've ever seen fusion produce usable power is in a star. There's lots of research into building complex reactors to try to replicate this without needing something the size of a star, but no one's actually done it yet. It might be doable with enough funding, or it may never actually work; there's no way to say for sure.

The real problem is that too many people on this planet consume too many resources, and Americans are the worst. If most people lived in cities as dense as Tokyo and got around on trains and bicycles instead of cars, we wouldn't be having most of these problems. The amount of energy consumed per capita in America is simply unsustainable, and too many other people want to emulate this, but there's simply no way for that to possibly work on this planet: there isn't enough land or enough energy.
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I'd be willing to try a fitbit if they had a daylight-readable smart watch. I haven't gotten around to getting a Garmin, but last I checked they were the only watch since pebble with a daylight-readable screen--and they support heart-rate. Google has a chance to do better with App integration.
For the curious, the past threads with one or more comments appear to be:

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16756994

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8447518

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6291515

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4561787

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2621177

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1645291
Having just returned from 4 years living in Western Europe, it is laughable how technologically inept the European Union is when it comes to the internet.

Europeans are competent and intelligent. Their universities are competitively amongst the best in the world.

But there is no entrepreneurial or innovative mindset when it comes to the web. I think the ones that have it move to North America. The ones that are left are disincentivized by a comfortable and productive social environment.

All this to say, I don't have much hope for this project's success, and unlike a private enterprise failing and disappearing, this will not fail quietly, but with billions of dollars, and the ones that will suffer are the European Union citizens who will be forced to use inept second tier technology.
I like the idea. Having symbols is hard because you have to know the generally accepted name for that symbol in order to tell it to someone.
Yes, the US government has the power to block mergers. However, consider the hypothetical scenario where Musical.ly rejects TikTok's offer and competes them out of the US market, growing to the same size as TikTok is today. In that case, there would be no merger to block, but the national security implications would remain the same. What would the US government do then? Put them on a blacklist like Huawei?
Expect the Google fit app to have these branding changes over the coming years : Fit - > Fitbit -> Google Fitbit -> Android Fit -> Finally back to Google Fit in 2023
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What you are saying is that if I punch your child, you should punch mine back as the proper response.

There is no need to harm the second child-- you have to deal solely with the person who threw the first punch in a legal, rational, and fair way.
Don't throw it away, send it to me. I'll pay for shipping.
To help aging populations, classify organismal senescence
Dealing with Failure in Distributed Systems
This is awesome and I want to build one for my home, inside of a Tardis
30 years ago people were scared that questionable US values like puritanism/racism would be exported and enforced via media imperialism.

Shoe's now on the other foot.
Some people use tmux when connecting to their virtual machines on the server and forget to quit the htop instances. This adds to the total CPU utilization really quick.
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dang thats a lot of reposts!
kr & wba are two that have what I consider a good P/E and a good dividend.
GCP is the exception in that it’s the only Google business that does not rely on data aggregation and profiling.
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I'm on the outside but always had the impression Eric Schmidt was calling most of the "do evil" important things.
> The pollination industry does not appear to be collapsing despite the widespread, longstanding use of neonicotinoids

Uhhhh, what? It won't happen overnight, just like smoking won't cause you to die after a few pulls. But regardless, there are reported declines from neonicotinoids.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12459

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/neonicotinoid-pesticide...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/widel...
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They also edited a headline for a #1 ranked story about Blizzard and the Hong Kong issue, removing Hong Kong from the headline entirely.

HN sort of reminds me of China -- a dictatorship with zero transparency and a penchant for manipulation.

Edit: Can't forget the spineless bootlickers who are hopelessly devoted to the state! You know you've struck a nerve when the best 'reply' they can offer is a silent downvote.
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There is a conceivable way for actions outdoors to be private. Just roll back the clock a whopping 3 decades. Maybe nosy old Ethel notices when you leave for work in the morning, but she's not tracking your face's position and emotion across the city. Your location and reading history is not being recorded from your cell phone and logged permanently. Would it bother you to send me your exact GPS coordinates right now, or if I dispatched a drone to follow you around at all times the instant you stepped outside your front door, then post the video feed on the internet?

There are multiple billion-dollar companies whose entire business is tying together data from all these disparate systems, e.g. Palantir. There are leaked multiple government programs whose entire purpose is the same, e.g. XKeyscore. Or look at something more general purpose like Splunk, where it is trivial to filter 1TB of logs from different sources and map identifiers.