skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on

That depends on how you measure it. There's a good case to be made for the thesis that we've been in a trade war ever since opening trade with China, but it's only recently that we've actually started counter-attacking.

Also, while it's gained traction recently, the political scientists I know personally have been decrying China's human rights violations for the past 20 years. Some of them were hoping things would improve as trade continued and the Chinese economy forced liberalization on the political sphere. That doesn't seem to be the way things have played out.
> The conversation about China has shifted from being relatively peaceful during the Obama years to war like today.

Just because the fight is now verbalized and on the forefront of the public's mind doesn't mean it wasn't already occurring, just not acknowledged. And I don't see the threat of war as being a serious one, given the nuclear deterrents of both sides.
I was being dramatic but my point still stands. Business and Military don't mix in a warzone
i applaud your willingness to publish this content under your real name, and also understand your real name is closely associated with your software service.

i understand that gives you a certain amount of power that other employees, say of Apple, may not have. kudos to you for using it fruitfully - sincerely.

i am sure this will come across as tin foily, but i would advise you to monitor your digital assets and maybe even personal ones for probing/attack/etc. you're publishing an anti-CCP piece on a widely trafficked web property and are easily identifiable. you are making an enemy of a powerful adversary.

appreciate the piece and best of luck.
> And he’s successful: he leaked marketing images for Apple Watch Series 4, he found iPhone X glyphs showing the notch, and more.

Presumably in violation of the developer program's NDA.
Apple's previously demonstrated their vindictiveness in the official iOS developer guidelines 5 years ago -

'If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps.'

https://web.archive.org/web/20141226094343/https://developer...
WhatsApp Backdoors
It's not about displaying empathy, it's about addressing what will actually help the person, and complaining almost certainly won't.

The quote continues: "Well, you can say that’s waggery, but I suggest that every time you find you’re drifting into self-pity—I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying of cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation—just give yourself one of those cards. It’s a ridiculous way to behave and when you avoid it you get a great advantage over everybody else, almost everybody else, because self-pity is a standard condition and yet you can train yourself out of it."
I don't know why you are being downvoted. Yours in an unpopular but a valid opinion.
In the 80's, rural America was copying cassettes for video and music at home. You could go to flea markets and buy copied products but many homes had tech to record/duplicate.

And then it got wild with cheap media for CD-ROM and DVD duplication just as Napster and other services along with the proliferation of internet connectivity.

In elementary school we made and traded mix tapes of songs from the radio. We rarely traded duped video cassettes.
Walking Ghost phase is a phenomenon in severe exposure to radiation. The patient survives initial ill effects (probably with advanced medical treatment) and now feels fine. They have no nausea, they can walk and talk like anybody else. If you tell them they're actually dying they likely won't believe you. Inside cell reproduction has stopped, and as enough cells naturally die without replacement over the next few days their systems will cease functioning and they'll die of multiple organ failure.

Electricity definitely won't cause that, but yeah, humans can't sense all the terrible things that might have gone wrong with their bodies.
It mentions Dzudzuana three times, but does not explain it. Presumably that is explained elsewhere in the book, but it is used inconsistently, thus confusingly, here.
I'm right handed, but use my left hand for the mouse. Have for years. Took two days to get used to it.
Monero project site and binaries compromised
Technically yes, you can only be banned from the Google Play Store, and you can still host your own app binary. When you consider how many users only look in the app store, the power is still effectively absolute.
That's a crazy incentive to split your information across multiple services. These read like horror stories. I'd be in so much trouble if I got locked out of my google accounts.
We need an open phone. Today.
"We have noticed that you are using an unsupported browser. Please install Google Chrome."
> he leaked marketing images for Apple Watch Series 4

I don’t think this specific one has anything to do with the NDA.
There was an affordable service that would drive your car home for you. The problem leading to its failure, as I understand it, is that drunk people that needed it were too wasted to remember that it existed.
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a Tech Lead to scale terabytes data infra
Combined arms existed in the 1980s.
Very vague article. I would say that the #1 reason to split a monolith is if your engineering team has grown too big. The main advantage in my experience of “microservices” is that they allow groups of engineers to build & deploy with much less inter-group communication. It’s a great way to scale an organization.

There are other reasons to split a monolith of course, like in high-availability high-traffic services, where isolating specific call patterns on separate fleets makes the system behavior much easier to predict. But primarily I think microservices solve organizational problems.
Mozilla just doubled its payouts as it tries to attract vulnerability hunters
Could you elaborate? I'm a sucker for esoteric defense+tech anecdotes.
Show HN: Building a basic AI-powered security camera
Also find myself really learning something new mostly when peeking into other people's code and trying to understand how it works and hacking together working stuff. Even though FCC-like platforms are great and provide practice, it seems that only when you're not doing separate tasks teaching you a particular theme in programming, but rather working through a set of subsequent actions that you need to do in order to make a working prototype do you really start to understand how this or that tool or method works
Sometimes I wonder who are the developers that coded that and if they're proud of their work, destroying a not so insignificant part of many people's live.
I wish I had learned -- in fact I wish everybody learned -- labor economics before going to college. That we expect kids to make such a financially momentous decision without having any idea what they're doing is absolutely nuts.

(Maybe read a microeconomics textbook first; labor economics is a specialization of that.)
Space travel barrier removed as docs freeze and revive human for first time
You can also

pv /dev/zero | ssh your_server "cat > /dev/null"

Both yours and this one check upload speed.

To check download speed:

ssh your_server 'cat /dev/zero' | pv > /dev/null

or based on your suggestion:

ssh your_server yes | pv > /dev/null

And if you don't have a server to login to, you can find a big file on the web and use that to check download speed:

curl -s http://some-place.com/big-file | pv > /dev/null

Though curl also reports speed, so I guess you may as well just:

curl http://some-place.com/big-file > /dev/null
> I'll suggest a longer term vision: no individual consumer will be able to afford any hardware needed to use anything more than a thin client.

Compute power has become cheaper and cheaper over time. If you just look at the ridiculous powerhouses smartphones have become in a very short time, it is apparent that will not happen.

Also, consoles are pretty damn affordable - certainly compared to how expensive console/pc games are. Major game technology updates are mainly driven by new console generations. You might get some extra resolution or niche technologies on an ultra-highend PC, but the main underlying tech of modern games is still tailored to the current generation of consoles. I own a i7 with a 2080ti - and sure, games might look a bit better than their console versions (if available at all) - the game on my 4k+ desktop PC is still essentially the same that I could run on a $300 PS4.
Didn't knew Elon was behind this as well.
Compound interest is a great call. I'll add:
"Never spend your principal."

In fact, people should all read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Richest_Man_in_Babylon
How to use a library. The organization of the books, how to look them up by subject or title, the different media available, how to request inter-library loan, and how to ask a librarian for help finding what you are looking for when you aren't sure.
To be wrong.

Don't identify with your point of view, you are not your opinion and your worth is not defined by its validity.
This was a small project for me to solidify my own learning. It's very basic and essentially recognises my face, and tells anyone else to 'go away' using my computer's text-to-speech engine.

Although it's a silly side-project, it was fun to make and gave me a bit of insight into how facial-recognition works :)
Similar risks on Google.

I know a small team of 3 devs who were developing along just fine. Their app on the play store was mildly popular (relative to a new app) and gaining traction and then their accounts were shutdown without warning.

They received no meaningful response from Google that wasn't effectively "We looked into it" and they just kept them locked out. No explanation why.

They came up with the theory that one of the devs had worked at a company that after he left was associated with some scummy practices where they would buy apps and turn them into spyware. They figured google somehow associated that company's apps / acts to that one developer and then it was guilt by association from there. Sadly that company was still active under new names and the 3 devs who weren't associated with them couldn't get around their ban.

For the record I personally can't confirm any of this except to say I do trust the folks I know that were involved.
Most tickling throwaway account I've seen so far! If you've even expounded on what you're saying here, I'd be delighted to read it!
I would start here:

https://www.improveyoursocialskills.com/basic-social-skills-...

Like any other skill, you are not going to master it in an hour. But an hour of study and practice can produce dramatic results.
“Coming up at 11, rich people don’t understand why poor people don’t just stop being poor.”
The Silver Tsunami is not kind to DoD employment and to hiring managers. The young-uns look around, see nothing but old white dudes, and then head to anything resembling a FAANG. Livermore has had a heck of a problem with it. Even the 35+ year olds are trying to make like a banana.
PSA: Before you attempt to DIY rennovate your flooring
I trust most of our high-quality mainstream news as well as our national broadcasting company, but I’m Danish, so that probably doesn’t help HN much.

As far as more international news I trust the guardian, Dee spiegel, the New York Times and the BBC, as well as the national news stations of Norway and Sweden.
The problem is that doing what the author proposes and severing trade relations entirely would be extremely harmful to the 99% of Americans in the short term. Prices for virtually everything would skyrocket far faster than wages. And they would do so for everyone, not just blue collar workers. In the long term things might be better, but it would be a lot more painful to get there than I think most Americans are prepared to stomach.

Personally, my thoughts are in line with the author’s, but realistically we need to be looking at unified trade sanctions on key goods and potentially clamping down on foreign investment in both directions.
Tangential at best but this is why I literally created a new user ID yesterday solely for Google's Stadia. They have a tendency to lower the ban hammer with little discretion and I'm quite sure sooner or later griefers will figure out how to allege cheating complaints that result in account closure. I'd rather not lose my real Google account to someone's online indigestion.
I've been using it on and off since I got it a few years ago. I'll use it for a few months, then leave it for another few months. The last time I used it was from the beginning of this year 'til August. Stopped using it after that. This basically means I won't use it ever again in the future.
You have to initiate the transfer from the account that owns the apps.
> Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on.

Americans goaded them on to human rights abuses? I strongly suspect that many Uighurs would be in concentration camps even in America had done everything that Beijing wanted.
I don't think that really changes anything.

That article clearly indicates he sourced some information from the developer program betas, which would be a violation of the NDA when publicized.
The Typography of Blade Runner (2016)
EverQuest had some issues, but it was a pioneer in many ways (especially failure in crafting, and experimentation in crafting). I thoroughly enjoyed my time in EQ and EQ II, though I eventually left because I wasn't willing to spend RL money on items.
FCC chairman wants public auction to repurpose satellite bands for 5G
The best trackballs are right-hand only, too.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-trackball-m5...
I’m also a fan of the chain sinnet[0] (or daisy chain) - works really well for storage, including semi rough handling such as tossing in the trunk...

Here is another guide [1].

Note that for longer lines, it is helpful to first fold the line in half to shorten. Also works great for extension cords since both the male/female end are handily together [2].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_sinnet

[1] https://www.animatedknots.com/chain-sinnet-knot

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zXG95quOE7Q
What would you do if your boss showed up and said he wasn't going to do anything to protect your family, home, and country from invaders because he wasn't going to make enough money doing it? They'd be lucky if the military showed up and took direct control before their own employees lynched them.

But that would n ever happen because they'll make plenty of money and if the U.S. is ever invaded, pretty much everyone will become a nationalist.
There is even a limit with the Apple Enterprise Developer program, which we had problems with just the other day. IIRC, the limit was also only 5 - it seemed arbitrarily low.
Actually this makes me wonder if in 20 years you become unemployable if you had your account banned for whatever reason.
There's a whole movie about it if you haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

unless this was an intentional reference, then, whoosh
Automating Issuance of Non-LetsEncrypt Certs
Not really. You first have to talk to the root server, then .xxx, then the server for the domain.
Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)
Consent is an active process. Either party can revoke consent at any time without cause without being an asshole; future consent thus cannot reasonably be assumed in perpetuity.

Use offlineimap; make backups.
I don't think Twitch Prime has the ad-free benefit anymore, they moved that into Twitch Turbo. The ads are also definitely stitched into the HLS playlist as segments, so even if you were to block them you would see a black screen for the duration of the ad, although Twitch does seem to be doing something where if a segment fails to load it tries to load the next one a few seconds later, so you might only see the black screen for 5s or so.
China's Blockchain Push Will Kill Crypto
I just tried Boards out. It's really nice and exactly what I wish Trello could be for a single user. Will follow the progress on this for sure.
In the heat of battle, even the can openers stop working.

All the wiz-bang equipment that is too delicate will quickly be abandoned, only the rugged and simple stuff will be useful. Tremendous amounts of money will be squandered, but war itself is an ecstasy of waste.

Not sure how much it matters, Historically more equipment tends to win vs. better equipment.
There's a much simpler Python-based alternative[1] called make.py.

I rely heavily on Makefiles, and only recently learned about make.py. What Makefiles let you do is great, but make syntax is an absolute minefield.

[1] https://github.com/zwegner/make.py
Oh wow, too weird a coincidence. Glad he's okay now.

My dad was attacked there too. (And no it didn't happen quite like the article said; he didn't stick around to give his name or tell the story.) [1]

[1] https://www.ksl.com/article/24564347
I don't have anything interesting to say about ADT's. Or even many topics I read about. I'm mainly here to learn from others.
Yep, tutorials like FCC have their role but you have to make projects to get better. As you say, hacking about with someone's else's code will do the trick.
Did America block Chinese social media services?

Did America steal Chinese intellectual property and build entire industries based on copying Chinese products?

A trade war doesn't just mean tariffs, it can happen in various forms. American companies did not have a fair game from the getgo competing with chinese companies, it's just that no one cared until now.

So, who started this?
Some Chinese sources have cited the War on Terror as a template for their anti-muslim measures. Of course that could be a convenient post-hoc rationalisation.
Autonomous Wheelchairs at Airports
As per ex-App Store employee it always HELPS. https://youtu.be/tJeEuxn9mug?t=836
This post talks a lot about the Nazi party and its parallels to the CCP, but it really only talks about a couple things so I figure I'd write a list of how I think about it to see where other people think differently:

Nazis - tight control over information, propaganda, and news
CCP - even tighter control over information through technology

Nazis - serious degradation in rule of law across the nation
CCP - lacks legal arbitration (ie. 99% conviction rate)

Nazis - had an army solely devoted to the party and not the German people
CCP - the PLA is beholden to the CCP and none else

Nazis - outlawed all parties except the Nazi party
CCP - no other parties exist in China

Nazis - did not prioritize the individual, prioritized the 1000 year reich
CCP - has no care for individuals, but is focused on the CCP's long term vision at any cost

Nazis - at first territorial ambitions to land it believed was their right
CCP - territorial ambitions in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Nazis - worked hard to build its military to compete & dominate globally
CCP - boosted spending on military 20% last year

Nazis - significant belief of exceptionalism with strong nationalist undertones
CCP - a lot of nationalism coming from the top & propaganda arms ie global times

Nazis - secret police ie Gestapo
CCP - similar tactics to secret police ie interrogating or detaining reporters, insurgents, and stories of people disappearing

Nazis - fought against religiosity of its people
CCP - ethnically cleansed certain minority groups while closing monitoring others

Differing
Nazis - serious degree of racism
CCP - small degree of racism (ie Han vs minorities)

Nazis - severe punishment and brutally violent tactics ie death camps
CCP - less severe in terms of execution and punishment ie concentration camps

Idk these are just some thoughts off the top of my head. Is this uncalled for invective? I know everything is now compared to Nazis these days, but perhaps it's like the boy who cried wolf and now there's a reason to. Btw I am not trying to compare severity, just some similarities. I realize it's nearly impossible to do something worse than the holocaust, and in many ways I doubt the CCP ever would. Also add to the list if you think of anything to change or add.
Get a TLS Certificate for Your Kubernetes App with Cert-Manager
If this is it, Apple should say so, preferably with reference to Apple Developer Program Terms and Conditions. Running a Kafka trap instead is rather rude.
This is nice but quite expensive. Up to 0.09$ per message inbound or outbound!

Pricing for Template messages

Outbound template messages to WhatsApp destinations have two different components:

Edit: Here's the price breakdown. [0]
> Twilio charges a flat fee of $0.005 per message for all WhatsApp messaging. This applies to all incoming messages, outbound Template and Session messages.
> WhatsApp also charges a per-message fee to send outbound Template messages. This fee may vary, depending on the destination country or region.

The second fee varies wildly up to 0.09$ in Germany! [1]

[0] https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037672734-Ho...
[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/pricing/
Sure that's fine until you cook a different rice and then you have to recalibrate. Japanese rice for example requires less water than thai fragrant rice. I just fill up the pot with water from the tap and measure the water amount with my fingers. Sacrilege I know :)
You could, but they would probably not be able to get to the page to transfer ownership to another Apple ID because they'll probably get sent to the contact form dead-end.
Apple's relationship with developers has been a strange one for some time. It shows up in all kinds of ways, from their app development ecosystem to decisions on their hardware.

I used to think the swap to a Unix-based OS was a fundamental shift to move in the developer direction. During the days of XServe i think that might have been true. These days though it more like the development community is some noisy group meant to be ignored. I would argue that the return of a physical Escape key is the only overtly pro-developer move from Apple in the last couple of years. Issues like the OP describes resonate well here because many of us have experienced Apple's tomfoolery in 1st or 2nd hand ways, too.

It is horrible to have your hard work, creative platform and livelihood torn from under you without explanation or for what may feel like arbitrary reasons. If HN comment sections are early indicators, devs are moving on. We are potentially a few years away from OS X apps no longer being best-in-class for dev tooling. That should scare people who are long Apple, a group that presumably includes their management.
Centralized identity management was the grand promise of OAuth. It seems that somehow ended up, in most practical applications, as a "login with Facebook" button.

There are a number of startups working on simplified or "passwordless" auth, but it seems that none have substantive traction. I'd love to be proven wrong, here, though!
I would disagree with your 'crux' of the argument, as the majority of the article is discussing human rights violations, capitulation of some of America's largest institutions to CCP demands, and recent protests in Hong Kong.

I would also disagree with calling a fairly well cited call to action as 'half baked repetitions of what we hear every day'.

Could you go deeper into how we, the Americans, 'goaded China on' to commit human rights atrocities.
If you watched it in the past, it was set in the future. If you watch it tomorrow, it is set in the past. Is today the future you imagined? Is tomorrow the past you remember?
This got me thinking - are there any cases of literal snake oil (or any snake-derived products) having better than placebo effects ? (I assume that it's different from snake venom?)
Meditation. It's a skill that can be learned quickly and teach you to notice not just your constant firehose of thoughts, but the emotions that come with them and which often steer you towards poor decisions.