skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that if you frame it in the context of “class war”, it all makes sense. E.g. there is the Taiwan as corporate interests and Taiwan the people.

The corporate interests don’t give a rat’s ass about who has ultimate sovereignty, or democracy, or human rights. They can’t. It’s systematic and by-design. Corporations only care about profit. As long as there is profit to be made, they wouldn’t care if Taiwan gets annexed by Mainland China.

The people, however, may have different ideas.

So we’re not really talking about “short-sightedness” here. We’re talking about different entities of vastly different wealth and power, within the same country, having different perspectives on the same “problem”. The rich and powerful have liberty; they probably have wealth hidden away and companies set up in multiple countries. They can have plan Bs, lots of them. The rest of the population, however, is stuck.
That said, it's worth noting that the parts that are of interest to someone new to Symplectic Geometry, tend to be those related to Hamiltonian Mechanics or similar, and are likely not under review. Most of Symplectic Geometry is "probably" (I'm using quotes and italics to hedge my bets) "fine"-ish.
The percentage is twice higher, and opioids are regulated and hard to get to boot.

It's plausible that we would be looking at 20%+ if you could get them at the store like you can a beer.
>Put a server on the web that isn't hardened properly

It's easy. Just don't do/enable dynamic things. There's no need for anything more than a static webserver in 99% of cases with personal websites. And static webservers ship very secure by default. There's not a lot of remote exploits in nginx or the like. It's much more risky to use a web browser with javascript enabled.
I can’t just enter my question in to Wikipedia and get an answer back, as I can with google as the default search bar. Why would I use Wikipedia when it is more work than googling?
From https://curlie.io/

> If you like the interface of HTTPie but miss the features of curl, curlie is what you are searching for. Curlie is a frontend to curl that adds the ease of use of httpie, without compromising on features and performance. All curl options are exposed with syntax sugar and output formatting inspired from httpie.

So curlie is curl. Thanks for this.
The headline doesn't say they've made every single one of their smartphones without US parts.

You are reading something into the headline that it doesn't claim.

It doesn't contradict that story.....

Headline:
Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips

The second sentence from the story:
Huawei’s latest phone, which it unveiled in September—the Mate 30 with a curved display and wide-angle cameras that competes with Apple Inc.’s iPhone 11—contained no U.S. parts, according to an analysis by UBS and Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, a Japanese technology lab that took the device apart to inspect its insides.
https://beta.trimread.com/articles/569
It’s amazing to me, and deeply concerning, that you’re being downvoted for this. Those of us who work in tech are so firmly ensconced in that bubble that we actually think microchips defeated the USSR.
This was indeed a part of the early, pre-Web, 'Net.

I'd stumbled across TUO whilst at uni. Two particular oracularities have stuck with me through the years.

One, I've shamelessly borrowed numerous times:

Q: What is the point of anything?

A: The sharp bit at the end.

(https://internetoracle.org/digest.cgi?N=690)

The supplicant owed the Oracle a picture of a porpoise.

The other was one of the occasions on which the oracle instance broke character.

The supplicant was in what was then still sometimes called Yugoslavia, asking why what was happening there was happening -- a rather bloody and horrific civil war slash genocide.

The oracle's response, paraphrased: I'm just a humble graduate student and really cannot answer your question, but yes this is indeed horrible. Told rather better than I'm recounting it here. The impression of two minds sharing empathy across an anonymous interface stuck with me. It's small example of some of the best that the 'Net can do. (And yes, occurred at the same time that genocidal propaganda was also being disseminated across Usenet.)

Likely some point in the 1992 - 1994 timeframe, most likely 1993, and contained within one of the digests.

(I'll see if I can track it down more precisely.)

But the whole schtick generally: grovel, Oracle, payment, Oracle's backstory (girlfriend, etc.). I guess they're a marker for a fairly small subculture.

Here's to having been there.
Assume the layman has been informed that first-order mathematical theories that admit of quantifier elimination (Presburger arithmetic, Euclidean geometry, real closed fields, abelian groups, random graphs, etc.) are complete and decidable.

From the layman's perspective the question then is: WHY is Peano Arithmetic incomplete? What does it add to the mix that makes it categorically different from those other axiom systems?

ENCODING power is the answer; that is, the expressive capacities of PA versus these other systems. In particular, PA is expressive enough to encode itself via Gödel numbering -- and hence construct "the Gödel sentence". Once you have the Gödel sentence, the consequences re: diagonalization/self-reference/Lawvere (depending on your background) are readily understood.

So to my mind, the layman would be more puzzled by the differing expressive powers of formal languages, and why exactly they lead to differences in provability. E.g., is the defineability of exponentiation a prerequisite to linguistic self-encoding? What's the relationship between quantifier elimination and self-reference? To what extent does a robust concept of 'infinity' play a role. Etc., etc.
Should add inferior in the sentence
Really depends on the path an East-West line takes, cost per mile (edit: kilometer), existing generation fuel costs, possible future generation locations, etc.

It’s not just about existing load centers (the population you mention), but possible future generators (big solar plants in the middle of the desert).
The two are quite linked. You can't make a good open EDA package without knowing current design rules and the like, and if you want design rules that aren't old enough to drink you'll be bound by NDAs, as fabs strive to 'protect' every bit of knowledge about their 'crown jewels'.
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I find it completely interesting that I came across Urbit while doing a random search about alternative operating systems - and then I come back to HN and find a raging discussion going on. I tend to think that such 'coincidences' are not coincidence at all. I wonder what is going on in the world right now that is driving new interest in Urbit? I've also seen quite a few references to Industrial Society and its Future of late - What else is the online intelligence driving people towards?
Huawei had to license synopsys/cadence/mentor to design their chip(which is using ARM core), if US really wants to play hardball Huawei's IC design can be killed nearly instantly once those CAD design software is forbidden. In the meantime I heard Huawei etc bought a few years' license right before the trade war, they're actually well prepared.

Another way is to restrict chip manufacturing, Taiwan pretty much owns the best technology for that(TSMC), Intel/Samsung has some, Huawei has none.

And you have Android to some degree, without Android there is no Smartphone dominance from China as of now. Open source in general helped China to catch up and overtake the west extremely efficiently, you don't need any business spies anymore, just download/modify/profit.

At the moment USA still has the possibility to contain IC ecosystem if it really wants to do that. In 10~20 years it will be a different story though, by then USA might not have much leverage if anything at all left.
A fair point, it's not really an invariant. Though the price of a sheep is just as politically linked given that most farm income in the UK comes from EU subsidies, not from selling goods [0].

[0] https://fullfact.org/economy/farming-subsidies-uk/
How many people do you suppose can all get a promotion off of figuring out to make Costco an extra $11M?
On a related note, there was a recent thread debunking most of the book here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850
Astronomers on the verge of detecting “first light”
I think you may be thinking of Stuxnet, which was created by the US and Israel and targeted Iranian nuclear reactors.

If you were trying to steal data this way, how would you get it back out of the infected machine? Stuxnet didn't have this problem, because its goal was purely to sabotage.
A group of k enthusiasts working under the 'kparc' brand has been writing docs for this new in-development k:

https://kcc.kparc.io/
https://ref.kparc.io/
I would say that the "winner" is the one who got hurt less and can recover faster/better but it is all relative. While 2 sides are busy killing each other the third one might get the benefits
No mechanical process, the wall socket is depressed in the wall, so that by the time any metal prongs connect, the prongs are hidden.
Nothing 'needs' recursion, it's always equivalent to an iterative solution. In some languages a recursive solution is more natural and may perform better.
New Manufacturing Method Enables Ultra-Efficient Atomic Computers
Direct observation of bimolecular reactions of ultracold KRb molecules
Excessive unrelated business income causes a loss of public charity status due to failing the public support test. In this case it’s moot because ISOC is giving up on their status regardless. I was wrong saying 501(c)3 status is lost- instead, the organization becomes a private foundation with accompanying restrictions and regulations (e.g. disbursement requirements).

In the case of ICANN, I can see the IRS dropping 501(c)3 status. While the final purchase price of the .org asset may or may not have been at fair market value (as you note, having GS involved gives credibility), it’s undeniable that ICANN made it possible by lifting price hikes. I don’t see how it isn’t self-dealing, unless ICANN truly had absolutely no idea their former CEO was going to acquire .org. I think it’s more likely that they were convinced to lift the price hikes by their former CEO.
Edit: I wasn't clear that I respect her hugely for this.
Note that the word "hippie" actually comes from an older usage of the word "hipster" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/hippie#etymonline_v_12029).
> The only way to manage the solar was to scale back or switch off the coal- and gas-fired power stations that were supposed to be the bedrock of the electricity system.

Oh no. What a tragedy.
Few things are as aggravating to me as people who say they understand CD but then manage avoid practicing any of the tenets of CI.

Automated builds are the smallest part of CI. Necessary, but drastically insufficient. If that's all you're doing you've missed the forest for the trees.
Ah! I was wrong on two counts. This was in the New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-an...

And the breach happened in Kabul, NOT the Pentagon.
100w GaN coming from Sanho. They've done good products in the past, so very optimistic about this. Two USB A and two USB C ports.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hypershop/hyperjuice-wo...
At the least, 'range' (!3 -> 0 1 2) is now deferred (including with offsets eg 1+!3).
Lie by omission is more problematic concept than explicit lie. IMHO one has almost always moral duty to not explicitly lie, but just rarely duty to not 'lie' by omission, depends mainly on whether the person has duty to communicate that information or whether one actively tries to deceive.
How does YouTube handle the site's misinformation, conspiracy theories and hate?
Awesome thanks, I'll check those out too. A very brief skim of the preview pdf makes me think The NoBS guide would be a good fit for me
For better or worse I know a lot of people who smoke methamphetamine. Never smoked it myself and never would.

Most of them smoke it recreationally without it causing any problems in their life or addiction. They have no issues when they're not smoking it, they can stop when they want, and they don't let it negatively affect the rest of their life (work, relationships, etc.). Some of them are weekly smokers, some of them are only once or twice a year. But around 10-20% of the people I know who smoke it have issues with dependence and addiction, and it's caused massive problems for them (and those around them) and for some of them it's destroyed their life.

I don't know anyone who uses heroin, but I'd imagine that it's the same.

"Hard drugs" are surprisingly non-addictive, less addictive than nicotine and probably even less addictive than caffeine. The reason why these drugs are "hard" though is that if people do develop an addiction, it's so incredibly destructive. It becomes their life, everything they do becomes drug-seeking behaviour. They don't even like the drug any more, but they need to keep doing it just to feel normal.
> which is what "old" means in this sense

You’re very mistaken. “Old” in the term “Old Testament” does not mean obsolete and superceded, at least not in the way you mean. To think so would be considered heresy from most mainstream Christian schools of thought.

“Old” and “new” are, with regard to the sections of the Christian bible, temporal designations delineating the law and the prophets that were written before Messiah and the writings that came afterward. But all of it is considered to be the holy word of God.

As any Jew knows, the coming of Messiah heralds major changes in religious life and practice. As Moshe said, “you shall listen to him”. If some believe that has happened, that’s no slight on the former scriptures. In fact, if such a Messiah were to declare them no longer the word of God, any Jew would know and be right to say that such a person is a false messiah.

So there are aspects of the Tanakh that the coming of Messiah causes to be obsolete — like certain temple practices, or the first covenant at Sinai. Jeremiah 31 speaks of a “new covenant” God will make with the house of Israel and Judah. That doesn’t mean the first covenant is no longer God’s word.

It’s like when David gave directions for the construction of the temple and Solomon built it, that didn’t mean Moshe’s directions regarding the tabernacle were no longer God’s holy word — even though there never again was a tabernacle.
Their computers are also matched with Microsoft's for the tallest screen (3:2) you can get, while also being pretty high quality. If you don't want 16:9, the only other options I'm aware of are the newest Dell XPS convertible and Apple (both 16:10). I would get a Huawei Matebook except that it would really rock the boat at my work, and that's not something I want to do.
You have to look at the plug in combination with the socket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko#Safety_features
Maybe some very few, or 'a glass a day' type consumption, sure.

I've seen alcoholic withdrawal and it's not pretty. Drying out from a real addiction can need medical attention.
There was a trade war between US and Japan. What happened to Japan? The same will happen to China but it will take longer because China is more powerful than Japan at the time. All the hatred on China is similar (but stronger) to the one we had on Japan.
I don't know, I was falling into a pattern in games where I kept spending $40-60 just to find out I don't really like a game. A subscription service lets me try out a bunch of stuff and sink time into what I actually like.
> I assume the same kind of care for aesthetics and design goes into their products so if you want a bad cheap copy of the surface level of good design go with Huawei.

If you've been to Huawei stores then you should be familiar with the build quality of Huawei products, otherwise your opinion is incredibly hard to square. And the insinuation that current crop of Huawei devices are copy cat designs is out of touch. The exception being the MateBook line, which if anything, has superior derivative design given Apples poor track record in notebooks these last few years.
I'm just saying, from where I stand (and I'm first to recognize I'm not an expert here) it sure looks like my country is trying to make things harder for China, and is paying the price of making things harder for workers in my own country. Even if the Chinese worker is hurt more than the American worker, the American worker is still being hurt, and as far as I can tell, all involved would be better off if we traded in a more free way.
New device enables battery-free computer input at the tip of your finger
Yeah, it's a stupid headline. The real story here is that the government owned energy utility made a massive loss and is blaming rooftop solar. The headline should say: "Energy planners fail to account for obvious and foreseeable structural change to energy generation".
501(c)(3) status has nothing to do with operational profits. There are many entities that aren't losing money and still have 501(c)(3) status. That status just means the entity is not created to deliver profits to shareholders - like regular commercial company does - but it doesn't mean it has to burn money. It can very well have positive operational cash flow, it just can't redirect that cash flow to pay out the shareholders. I don't see how you conclude that "profits like this unrelated to their normal business" - any evidence substantiating this claim?
Sweet! Ask me anything! The issue tracker[1] needs more activity :)

[1] https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/hode/issues
So tomorrow's smartphone will be 20 times faster and only cost 10 times as much?
Nuclear requires something to help load follow too since reactors don't throttle quickly. The French use hydro and import/export.

Load leveling is a problem that must be solved to go beyond fossil fuels, and even without climate concerns we will run out of cheap easy fossil fuels eventually anyway.
A pyrrhic victory if you will.
For the most part, I agree with what's being said. But we do need the thought experiments, no matter how incompatible they may be to other thoughts and ideas, before one gets to the point someone can design experiments that prove or disprove the ideas we have about how things work.

We went through this with the "humors" for example. Eventually that theory was found to be wrong. We discovered the actual causes of various diseases by experimenting with, and disproving the ideas behind imbalanced humors. The experiments continually uncovered little bits of the truth until arcane mystery became today's mundane knowledge.

At some point in time, we'll look at a whole lot of today's quantum computing concepts and think the scientists involved must have been crazy. Hindsight is 20/20, allowing us to clearly see the folly where it was not evident before.
>On those days, excess solar power from households and businesses spilled uncontrolled on to the system, pushing the amount of power needed from the grid to increasingly low levels.

>Ms Zibelman said WA's isolation amplified this trend because the relative concentration of its solar resources meant fluctuations in supply caused by the weather had an outsized effect.

>The only way to manage the solar was to scale back or switch off the coal- and gas-fired power stations that were supposed to be the bedrock of the electricity system.

>The problem was coal-fired plants were not designed to be quickly ramped up or down in such a way, meaning they were ill-equipped to respond to sudden fluctuations in solar production.

Sounds like it's time rebalance the system with lower baseload assumptions for coal and gas plants. I'm quite sure the incumbents are loathe to suggest that since it means investment in buffers to soak up so-called excess power from solar panels and splitting the profit with solar panel owners.
Idiot-proofing is hard. Figuring out everything people will get wrong is the only reliable way to ensure people don't, but that takes more insight than is needed to set and solve problems correctly.
We're apparently just far enough away from the Berlin wall falling that now people want to re-litigate that the Soviet Union was bad and it was a good thing it collapsed.
John Wheeler’s H-bomb blues
Like it or not, NL queries are exactly what most internet users want. Without them, any search engine is doomed to remain a niche product used exclusively by the very privacy-conscious.
Sure, Gates changed his story from having “no business relationship” with Epstein to actually having met him many times, oh and also the two shared members of their inner circle, and I guess, yeah, they worked on a proposed multibillion dollar deal from which Epstein would have handsomely profited, all after his underage prostitution charge was known to Gates, but really, there’s nothing else to dig up.

Despite your insinuation, I don’t spend any time on conspiracy subreddits. But if you truly think the entire extent of what was going on is out in the open, I admire your credulity.
If A criticizes B's behavior on moral grounds, with the hope of, say, "making the world a better place", then it would be logical mistake to respond to the criticism by pointing to bad behavior on A's own part.

If, however, A's criticism of B is not an attempt to "make the world a better place" but to prove one's own relative moral superiority, then not only is it highly pertinent to point out A's own moral failings, but also there need be nothing relativistic about it, since ex hypothesi the conversation no longer concerns the morality of this or that action but only whether one party has a legitimate claim to feel superior to the other.

It's not always easy to tell whether one is in the one or the other situation.
There is no shortage of suitable locations available for big solar plants that are thousands of kilometres closer to the big load centres than the Northern Territory is.
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Prices did move based on supply and demand. The main issue dictating this was actually the limitations of transport. In areas with ready access to water transport though, you will find price integration (i.e. local prices moving together) and this is definitely true to a significant extent in the UK (another good example, obviously, are the Low Countries which were heavily integrated into global markets).

One thing to bear in mind with the historiography of this is that historians think what you say is true, and it is definitely true to an extent, because food rioting and all the actions limiting the grain trade are highly visible to us. But it is worth remembering that the basis for economic life was quite different. You had the market but, if you were a serf, you were protected against total destitution (except in periods of severe population pressure) so all of this stuff wasn't quite as sensitive as you think (it also wasn't political in any sense that we recognise today, all of this was handled locally). What definitely was sensitive (and often political in a way that makes sense today) were food riots...but that isn't the same thing.

Source: http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/market... - there is tons of stuff generally measuring the cointegration of prices in medieval bulk commodities markets.
Because it's PGP not email providing the encryption. Say we said PGP does count as e2ee for email, why doesn't it count for RCS? What about every protocol, I can just PGP sign messages on them so aren't they all e2ee?

Ideally when talking about e2ee it's not an optional opt in either but that's a whole different debate.
> The article rightly points out that Google is a new "Cambridge Analytica"...

One of the most amusing patterns, both in newspapers and on HN, is how often whenever Facebook does something wrong, the response is "this is why Facebook and Google should be regulated/destroyed/broken up".