skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the reason I've stopped buying red peppers in the summer when the local super market starts importing them from Netherlands. In the winter, they import them from Spain. The quality difference is staggering.

My own country is also great at mass producing poor quality food in the sense of taste - in other terms of look, feel and uniformity it's great.

I'm not convinced they couldn't produce great taste in Netherlands, though, if they put their mind to it. I think it's more of a bug in the market mechanisms. But it's depressing for sure. I root for the day small-scale shipping is automated and solved for good, and then I can be the one deciding who I'm buying peppers from.
Maybe this made sense in 1978. But we are now in an era of zero fee trades, index funds, and microscopic management fees.
All the articles on Chinese people already have this. For example, this one on the writer Lu Xun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun.

This convention is widely practiced in Western journalism, but unfortunately it hasn't become common knowledge. As a Chinese person working in UK, I frequently have to explain my name order, despite the fact that most people have definitely seen "Eastern" names like Xi Jinping and Yao Ming in the news. I guess most people never asked themselves whether "Xi" and "Yao" are given names or family names.

Personally I welcome this change by the Japanese government. My hope is that this will raise awareness of the "Eastern" name order.
Ummm... doesn't everyone know about Ehrlichman's comments by now? You might need some remedial reading:

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nixon-aide-war-dru...
I still don't know what that means. I run chromium. It has an address bar. I can change the search engine.
Both Firefox's and Chromium's source code is completely open (it could be argued that Chromium's code is even more open since it's mostly BSD). Google can't stop you from modifying anything in the browser, and that includes the address bar. The language in which that component is implemented is irrelevant, and Google has certainly not chosen C++ to implement to address bar with the express purpose of making that component harder to modify.
> The rest of your opinions are, as you said, unverifiable

Calling a Tokyo court's criminal judgement [1] an unverifiable opinion is problematic. (It explains the hire, I suppose.)

> we are going to learn from them

For what it's worth, I believe you're well meaning. But you've given away the keys to the kingdom. Your intentions are less relevant. (Best case, I imagine, is you pull a Jan Koum in a couple years.)

If a VPN user wants a vetted, verified, open-source client, they should use OpenVPN or WireGuard's. (If they want a convenient client, they use the VPN provider's.) The unavoidable trust in a VPN relationship is in what's running on the servers. That's a people problem. And PIA has serious people problems.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-mt-gox-bitcoin-bigwig-fo...
Fascinating analysis. I wish we knew more about the goals of the interference operations. I also wonder how much the US Gov monitors this kind of thing. GPS is, after all, a significant military asset.
This seemed to work well. I can't find a better test.

https://patrickhlauke.github.io/recaptcha/
I agree. In the US, we should start domestically. Prisoners earn minimum wage, prisoners do not owe restitution to the state.
> usbmuxd (iPhone USB comms daemon)...was rejected without an explanation

This is development of a tool that helps a competitor's product. And it's not like Android was a random side project no one knew about. This, and developing an iOS app, are the border of doing work that's against Google's interests.
Or, they'll launder the proceeds of the unethical mining by sending it through a few intermediaries so that it is now certified as ethically mined.

We've tried this before, and failed at it before (with respect to diamonds).
Oh wow. That seems very deliberate.
Presumably you're willing to stand trial for your part in that supply chain? And ~2bn other smart phone owners will also need to be imprisoned?
California and Its Diaspora Have Fueled a Western Boom
>Employees have the ability to switch jobs

Skilled employees, sure. But the vast majority of unskilled labor is completely at the whims of their employer without the protections afforded by unions. People fought and died for the right to create these organizations in the past, and we should be reticent to give that up just because the system isn't perfect.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I agree with you that local-only solutions are needed. Home Assistant is sucking up too much of the air in the room. I don't think it will ever be accessible or usable to the general population. If not for Home Assistant, I think the community would have developed better local-only solutions by now.
Della AI – Legal Tech – Getting Machine to Read Contracts
This is an excellent illustration of why everyone should remember that employment is a business arrangement, not a family connection or social one.

As long as corporations in the US are legally obligated to put shareholders or owners before anyone else, this sort of semi-religious philosophy is just another form of drinking the kool-aid... make the employees accept something that's a negative for them by indoctrinating them to think their employer is anything but totally mercenary in nature.
The page at the other end of the hyperlink uses the word "adaptation" twice and "adaption" never.
In fact, Qubes is using hardware virtualization IOMMU/VT-d [0], which has been escaped only once in 2006 by the project founder [1].

[0] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/architecture/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software)
Syzkaller fuzzes that stuff. https://github.com/google/syzkaller
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Hi,

I work at Cliqz in the engineering team and have been involved with this advent project. I'd like to provide some background.

For a while, we have been thinking internally about having a tech blog for Cliqz engineering teams. It is fairly common for tech companies to have a separate blog for technical content, separated from the main website. We picked a name: 0x65.dev (0x65 being the hexadecimal representation of 101, the idea was that we would write about the tech at Cliqz in an accessible way).

To make sure we'd commit to writing on this new blog, we thought of organizing an "advent" for Christmas, where we would publish one article per day digging on one of the aspects of what we do: search, privacy, browsers. When creating the list of topics, we did not optimize for Hacker News (or any other community for that matter, we also post and twitter and Reddit equally), as this was suggested by some other comment. We really wanted to create a coherent schedule to explain why and how we do things, to have a logical progression in the topics (looking at the posts from first to last, it should hopefully make some kind of sense!). We started on day one with "Why the world needs more search engines", to motivate our efforts in this area, and started detailing on following days the way we built our engine from scratch.

One thing we wanted especially, was for engineers to write about the projects they work on, to get their perspective, without any filter. So far, many different people have contributed. If some of the technologies or keywords we use seem "trendy", it's because we are ourselves hyped about those, and we use them internally to build our products.

Before the event we never anticipated this would resonate so much with the HN community, and while very pleasant, it was not the goal. We were of course extremely enthusiastic when we saw the great feedback from the community. If anything, this proves that the topics which we are passionate about are also of interest for a part of the HN community (many of us at Cliqz read HN every day; in fact we all used our personal accounts to submit, comment or discuss about the posts). It also shows that what we do is not disconnected from reality, and that there is real interest around the topics of search, independence, privacy; a good validation for us!
I used to work at a startup that built products for parents of infants and toddlers, such as "smart socks" to monitor babies' vitals, and was involved in the late-stage development of their smart baby monitor camera, which released last year. (A quick web search of certain terms above should give you a good guess as to which company I'm talking about.)

They—and dozens of other companies—use off-the-shelf commodity components from the Chinese corporation Aoni, and their camera is essentially the device linked below, but in a different case: http://anc.cn/ip-camera/smart-wireless-cube-camera/smart-wir...

Check the specs, as well as the general appearance of the thing from the front.

While inspecting the traffic coming in and out of this thing, I saw it making a ton of requests to really weird Chinese IP addresses and uploading a lot of data. It was encrypted, so I couldn't tell for sure what it was, but it presumably was video footage. I raised these concerns to others on my team, but besides a "huh, weird", none of them seemed to care enough to investigate further or properly escalate it. I was just a temp, so I didn't have the pull or influence that full-time employees had.

It was really concerning to me that this stuff wasn't properly addressed, but instead was swept under the rug, despite the fact that it's going to be pointed at babies and toddlers. There are some real disgusting folks out there who will take advantage of this, if they haven't already, especially since it has the same two-way audio that "Santa" used with the Ring cameras.

(If any of my former co-workers are reading this, I genuinely don't mean you any ill will in particular. But the company really needs to fix those issues, and not simply re-case commodity camera systems from surveillance states. There's obviously a backdoor, and if Aoni/China can access it, so can the aforementioned disgusting people.)
There was a California one yesterday that was a domestic dispute. Father vs Mother. The father was stopped when some people surrounded his car at a gas station. Does law enforcement really want people to be "deputized" as law enforcement officers? The whole system is crazy.
401k rules aren't strict enough either, otherwise making sure employees have access to the extremely low cost total market index funds would be required. When an employer or union offers access only to funds with expense ratios 20x+ the going rate, that is not in the best interest either.
I haven't watched the whole thing but this lesson from Barry Harris (and the whole Lincoln Center Jazz Academy) is pretty great for thinking about harmony, solos, and improvisation / voicing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JJncSUdUU&list=PLReW5Mv77O...

I've also enjoyed the Leonard Bernstein Norton lectures at Harvard in terms of overall theory of why things sound good to our ears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHi36dvTdE&list=PLKiz0UZowP...
It fuzzes individual syscalls. Does it string them together into sequences? (Edit: yes it does, but it doesn't look for priv escalations, only crashes, kernel panics and the like)
You can intercept copy and paste using JavaScript.
That is one and the same. The subsidy for large employers is not available to small employers, hence an advantage for large employers.
We can and have. This was all done (originally with partners) because it was necessary to make Amazon competitive with local retail. Amazon is now making shipping/logistics part of their "stack" because, at their scale, it removes a risky dependency, can reduce costs, may give them proprietary advantages, provide another service to sell, etc.
How? Genuine question. Is it because Trump? Because while Trump and many of his supporters may be authoritarian, he was still duly elected, and if he had lost, Hillary would be President. In a dictatorship, Obama would have chosen his successor (generally).
Google has a legal business entity in Turkey.
Path 2.0? I think it's needed now more than ever.

Bootstrapping communities is hard though, how do you plan to do that?
You can’t even mention someone’s place of origin in our politically correct world without a racist accusation.

The above suggestion is a shame. It appears to be a victim “woke” mentality.

Is it possible Bloomberg was describing where the individual was from for reasons outside what you suggest?
Back in the days TIF was just a large uncompressed file.

The initial format is older than GIF87a (no animation which people associate GIF nowadays with). It had header but that pretty much it. Of course the format developed with time and even added LZW once the patent expired. Currently TIF is all kind of things, so writing a fully feature reader is a proper challenge (perhaps not coding-wise, but understand it and implementing the myriads of types/extensions, etc.)
Most informed people would say that the scam is that the original Bitcoin was taken over so that its throughout could be stifled and the people controlling it could sell an awkward and unnecessary second layer.

When one side says the other is a scam but goes to enormous lengths to stop technical discussions while saying that throughput below a 144p YouTube video is too much data, people should start to question whether they are being fed propaganda.
Selecting a Database for an Algorithmic Trading System
Maybe "the sovereignty of your country" is an obsolete concept that we inherited from the Middle Ages that should go away.
Most teachers work for local/state governments not unstoppable modern corporations.
I think this article is high-minded and moralistic. I feel conflicted after reading it because while I sympathize with the plight that journalists face, I also just see so many problems with this author’s analysis and questions.

There is a fundamental distinction between the internet and radio/broadcast television in that the usable spectrum of airwaves is a finite public resource. If I’m broadcasting on 700 AM then you’re not. The licensing and regulatory structure that is (debatably) appropriate for public broadcast has no application to the internet. There is room for everyone to publish what they want.

The advertising model is not broken. The wealth of information and services available to users at zero monetary cost is a miracle of the “free-market free-for-all” and is most beneficial to those with the least amount of disposable income. Coining “surveillance capitalism” as a pejorative term to describe the success of this model is ridiculous.

> While it’s true that public service media like Wikipedia have had to share the landscape with increasingly sophisticated commercial companies, it’s also true that they fill a void in the marketplace.

Wikipedia is not a “public service” media organization. The author uses the same term to describe the BBC. If that were the case, then the sale of every internet-connected device would be taxed to fund Wikipedia and the organization would be run by the government. Instead Wikipedia is funded by voluntary donations from millions of individuals. The fact that it fills a void in the marketplace is a testament to the success of the free market approach to the internet.

> We’ve grown so used to the idea that social media is damaging our democracies that we’ve thought very little about how we might build new networks to strengthen societies.

Built into this is the assumption that social media is doing more damage than or is more susceptible to malevolent influence than state-run news organizations or the monopolistic broadcast and print publications of the 20th century and I reject that. If you don’t like Twitter and Facebook, then stop using them. Asking the government to get involved is the least productive thing anyone can do. Increased regulation will only serve to further cement the current crop of companies in their dominant position and we don’t need any more Quaeros. [The alternatives](https://readup.com) are out there, you just have to be willing to put in the effort to find them and be an active participant instead of passive consumer.
> I’ve forgotten the specific reason for this

It's because they desperately want you to call it "Bitcoin" to further their ploy. Shortening "Bitcoin Cash" to a name that isn't "Bitcoin" exposes them.
I am alluding to the 401k contribution limit being $20k+ versus the IRA contribution limit being $6k. There is absolutely no reason why one should differ from the other, other than one benefits those who have employers that offer 401k.

In fact, couples where one spouse who works for an employer with a 401k and one who doesn't are actually punished by lowering the contribution limit for IRA to zero. Someone explain to me why that was put into law.

https://www.investopedia.com/401-k-vs-ira-contribution-limit...
They're all Ponzi schemes.
Household income per capita in Turkey is less than 1/2 of that in Russia.
The belugas are derived from exiting frames but Airbus programs of their own.

The Dreamlifter is a straight up conversion of second-hand 747-400s by a contracted third-party (Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corporation).
This is FUD. There are seniority based unions, and there are merit based unions. Nothing about a union means you can't negotiate, have merit based promotion, etc.

Also, as someone in tech, I constantly hear people talking about downleveling when they change jobs, I hear people talking about unclear promotion criteria, etc.
>I assume they're probably getting some kickback or something from the arrangement of restricting the 401k/HSA member's funds to high fee investments.

"Liz Cannon, who heads the Indian River chapter of the Florida Education Association, urged union members to buy retirement investments from Valic Financial Advisors Inc. through a firm owned by the union. That way “we also make money,” she said in a November 2017 newsletter, through regular dividends."

It's stated clearly in the article that there functionally are.

Tip of the iceberg at that. I'm sure there's a few folks between the investment firm and related parties that have bought themselves a boat based on the massive haircut the teachers are taking.

The kick in the gut though is the WSJ article itself. To the naive reader, it makes it seem as if 1% fees are good. They're not. 1% is wildly un-competitive in today's environment.
faith is the foundation of any economic system
Isn’t this common in Hungarian too?
If ever there was a moment where a good open source phone OS as GUI toolkit could break onto the market, that time is now.
Technically, a coup is just a violent overthrow of the government. That can happen with democracies; it just generally doesn’t because the people can just vote out the current president if they don’t like him/her.
“Of the five people that were fired, three of us are trans women,” Spiers said. “That is either an unbelievable coincidence or Google is targeting the most vulnerable.”

Wow. I’ve read a few other articles and HN comment threads about Spiers being fired, and this is the first time I’ve heard of this. It adds needed context to the article title.
In case no one noticed : https://xkcd.com/927/
> What do people think Florida is going to do? They're already losing their drinking water and they're still in denial.

> Build pumps, dikes and create flood plains.

Just want to point out this approach won't work for Florida (and I'm not implying you said it would). The land in south Florida is porous limestone, and the water will just pass under any dykes you build.
Besides the BCH part of that quote, the "fans" part is also interesting. Coins having fans is... new.
Only by value. We specialized in expensive produce.
As someone who is also pro competition, I don't mind if a peaceful actor like Google is able to compete in some sense with an oppressive warring state like Turkey.

Yeah, I'm being provocative. But think about it.
People really seem to be sharpening the axe for our big tech companies these days. Personally I find it disturbing. These companies are a river of prosperity for our people, especially software developers
Corporations deciding not to carry your message to a large audience and the government sending you to a political gulag do not seem comparable.
Other than profits, YouTube has many problems that no other product has - like dealing with bad content, detecting and enforcing copyright infringements, comment spam, storage costs. After going through all these headaches, the profits seem even smaller.
Declining birth rates... sounds exactly like what we need.

Anyone who hasn't yet, just realize that toxic masculinity is a figment of your imagination, and there it's stopped.
Some of the answers here are straight up imbecilic. The best thing you can do is get yourself a private music teacher.
You're right. That part of my answer was dumb.
Just for the sake of completeness, "knowingly" is a specific legalese term. It means you know the goods are coming from the prohibited source, but still decide to buy it.

The total spectrum looks like this:

- purposefully: you won't buy cobalt, unless it says "mined by slave children" on the tin

- knowingly: you buy cobalt even if it says "mined by slave children" on the tin

- recklessly: you know that 90% of world cobalt is mined by slave children. You hope that yours comes from the remaining 10%

- negligently: you know that 10% of world cobalt is mined by slave children, so you decided to take a chance and bought yours without checking
I’m struggling to sympathize. The most popular creators (using the word loosely here) earn millions. They have an option to hire a production team, work less or simply go do something different. The model used to gain popularity - high frequency of new content produced with minimal resources - doesn’t scale against the expectations they themselves set with their audiences. And the algorithm just perpetuates it.
> Anyone who has unlimited power + boards can take all

So, nobody can take all, then. Even putting aside power, nobody has unlimited boards. The supply of GPUs is very tightly limited by real-world factors, as anybody who tried to buy an AMD GPU a few years ago found out.
> Database credentials and fine-grained file/directory permissions were the only security measures. That and the NAT. ;)

It baffles me that the CCNA materials is still based around these use cases.
I read that as realism, not fatalism. And not indicating any level of agreement or support of the prospect.

Your ad hom is utterly uncalled for.
Political land grabs for the "new hotness".
For anyone not following the the link, cptskippy has given a user perspective that summarises things nicely in my view:

“It's easier to tell when you're not using BLE. :)
The Tesla Model 3 uses traditional Bluetooth for phone calls and streaming but the Phone as a Key functionality is BLE. When you walk up to the car and try to open it and the car says FU then BLE isn't working.
When your Xiaomi Mi Band smartwatch hasn't buzzed all day but you pull your smartphone out of your pocket and have 8 missed calls, 100 messages, and 500 emails then BLE isn't working.
When you're at a Tech Conference and the Conference App uses BLE Beacons to help navigate you indoors and it can't determine your location then BLE isn't working.”
Long Names Are Long – How to Not Name Variables
Finally, the correct name for an ICO.
Facebook fail to convince lawmakers it needs to track your location at all times
My uncle thinks the atmosphere will explode when the Siberian permafrost releases its methane. Then I started thinking, maybe that is what happened in Tunguska. For a thermobaric event of geological proportions maybe it was small.

ED: Didn't mean to scare anyone. Just following a thread of logic.
I was at a brick-and-mortar restaurant in a good location ordering and saw that 90% of their orders were going to GrubHub and Postmates. It seemed silly to pay of the downtown overhead and make the courier deal with parking for something that could be done out of a warehouse. So part of this model I get.