skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese national here, about to bite the bullet.

> Government subsidizes real estate investments in Western nations by Chinese investors

Source please. From what I read Wang Jianlin got into serious political trouble for taking foreign currency out of China to buy foreign real estate.

> Severely undercutting manufacturing prices for decades

Do you mind elaborating why this is "waging economic warfare"? I'm not an Economist but this sounds like China is merely trying to be competent?

> Devaluing the Yuan

This might be valid.

> opening trade agreements around the world to protect itself from US sanctions and tariffs

Again why is this "waging economic warfare"? Sounds like fair game to me.

> Purchasing billions annually in US treasury bonds

One of the reasons on China's purchase of US bonds was to get a relatively low-risk investment for all the USD China gets from trade surplus. From [0]: With trillions of U.S. dollars, China has found the U.S .Treasury securities to offer the safest investment destination for Chinese forex reserves.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/040115/reaso...

One side note: worker protection and condition has seen great improvement since China joined WTO but it's still not on par with developed economies (obviously).
And apparently no punishment for those who lied.
> Email has hefty overhead per message.

I don't think that poster was talking about protocol innards, although kudos for you for having that knowledge, but perhaps they were, but in terms of user experience, slack/group chat is very low cost in terms of requiring any sort of mental pause before sending the message, specifically as a cost for the message itself. So much so, that a type of usage of verbal diarrhea can occur, so as to caution oneself against such usage, a little bit of thought before sending messages is always advised.

Specifically, if I can echo the primary differentiation, all you need to initiate a chat communication is a name and a message, that simplicity works a lot for people. I've used both e-mail and Slack, and a combination of both is great in my opinion, but the comparison can seen by an example message in my workflows (I don't use Slack anymore though):

Slack:
1) Find user/group by name lookup
2) Hi X, QUESTION_TEXT.
3) When done conversation, write outro

E-mail
1) Find user/group by name lookup, if user is not encoded in e-mail alias, query relevant databases
2) Write subject
3) Write intro, message, and outro

From my experience the reply from Slack 2) vs. E-mail 3) is much faster in the former case.
https://outline.com/Ed7kVS
My favorite is 'old dog new trick.' I won't post a link myself because I once spent a long email thread with Larson's secretary trying, and failing, to get permission to use the cartoon in a slide deck. He has described that he thinks of the cartoons as his children and that, like children, he wants to know where they are. I respect that, though I wish he felt differently.
Threats to Free Speech at University, and How to Deal with Them
STEM graduate programs are for the most part immigration programs for India and China. Going to STEM graduate school for Americans who don’t need to jump through immigration hoops quite often has negative expected value, not to mention the stress and lack of career options in academia.

And not only that, but the push for STEM imo has more to do with lowering wages and getting more software engineers (especially for S and M, I don’t think there is any real critical lack of PhDs. In fact a very large amount of physics and math phds just go into data science or software engineering). It’s entirely an economic problem, if it’s even a problem at all.
The US has raped every nation abroad for resources. None of this is "natural" or humane or moral. The US is a landlocked imperial force that can act with impunity.
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Another recommendation: "Automatically grant green cards to postgraduate degree holders."

This idea may have some merit, but I want to be very blunt about this - PhD programs aren't doing a good job attracting and retaining good students, at least not the ones who aren't bound by US residency and work rights in their choice about what sort of degree to pursue. Elite Law and Medical schools typically have an attrition rate of below one half of one percent, <0.5%. For PhD programs, it's typically 35%-50%, and while there's less data for MS programs, we're still looking at 25%. Sorry no cite, I documented this a few times in comments, I may go back and get it later.

On a personal level, I was a doctoral student in an engineering program at Berkeley, and I will say with full confidence they couldn't give less of a fuck if a student fails to get the degree. I don't swear on HN much, and if you look at my history, I hope you'll see I don't like to troll. But in this case, I'll repeat it, they could. not. give. a. fuck.

Give these people power to bestow the right to reside in the US, and I assure you, the'll give even less of a fuck if anyone is happy in their program, or if their PhD or even MS programs are competitive with MBA, Law, Medicine, and other programs that require attracting and retaining people who already have the right to live and work in the US.
Yeah—that Wikipedia link goes into the more complex history.

I just remember the RadioShack near my hometown that was full of walls of components. Now you're lucky to find a blank F-connector at The Source in the largest city in the country. Sentimentality got to me.

That said—for other Torontonians, or visitors, there's an awesome (edit: AWESOME) shop on College St between Spadina and Bathurst called Creatron: https://www.creatroninc.com/ (and surprisingly don't discount Long and McQuade [repair shop, Bloor St] for good quality pots and switches, albeit at a markup).
Or maybe, due to different requirements, it's just not possible to design one map that works for everyone.
Yes, it could have been Google's competitor making up these stories so enterprise customers would stop and think before switching, it is also better for competitors's sales to pitch on the potential of a shuttered GCP, which you can tell full well if I was a sales I would be referencing this article.

And it wouldn't matter of there wasn't even an ounce of truth there, Google's reputation on future roadmap, communication, marketing and product dropping has always been on the negative.

Google needs to work hard to earn customer's trust. That is the basic fundamental of doing business. Microsoft is still working their asses off because of what they have done during IE era.
In our company we are the test team for MS TEAMS. Short but honest. MS TEAMS is a real mess. I have no idea why MS let this software going public like this. Does anybody think that's a good piece of software?
GSK invested $300 million into 23andMe and created an exclusive collaboration agreement [1]. To be clear, these things happened together, one doesn't exist without the other.

If a publicly traded-company has more than 5% of outstanding shares owned by a single entity, they have to file an SEC Form 13D. This is a typical cut-off to indicate an activist investor [2]. Far less than the 14.5% GSK owns. Without knowing who owns the other 85.5% of 23andMe (or visibility into their board and voting structure), we have no idea who controls the company.

You would need to spend about $44 billion to own 5%, or 24.8 million shares, of Amazon. I'm still not clear on how GSK's purchase of 14.5% of 23andMe along with the exclusive agreement that came with it is the same as buying a single share of Amazon stock.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/24/glaxosmithkline-23andme-team...

[2]https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/schedule13d.asp
Improving Out-of-Distribution Detection in Machine Learning Models
Annoyingly, if you want to get a let's encrypt cert you have to serve http. Back when I was manually purchasing & installing certs I didn't even listen on 80 for several services.

(Exception being if you use the dns challenge)
Check out Shoutcast, they've been enabling what you're describing since 1999.

https://shoutcast.com/
Well a mouse is likely next to a couple of client devices (phone, laptop, smart watch) that each have their own radio. Maybe it adds up?
> Potentially controversial opinion: This isn't really open source.

I know you were looking for this but I don't agree. Let's remind that Open Source fundamentally means _no expectations_. No expectations of support, no expectations of features, not even expectations of goodwill. Whenever a company complains that this or that open-source software doesn't work as expected and should do this, we all shout in chorus "this is open source, take it or leave it". This is exactly the same case here. I know it's frustrating because the feature exists in a fork that happens to be run by the same people, but that is exactly what is permitted by this license.

Does anyone here complain that SQLite isn't _exactly_ open source because they don't ship their full test suite in the open source package (https://www.sqlite.org/th3.html), even though each release passes it ?
Many Americans don't like the idea of a national state-funded propaganda outlet. Not that a national PBS would necessarily be like that, but it has happened in many other countries, and it's a valid concern.

Edit: there are a number of other reasons as well, including the difficulty of coordinating national broadcasts at the time that PBS was founded. Major networks were once also primarily driven by local affiliates, with some differences in local programming. The US is a big place.
Yes and no. The analogy with the halting problem is a good one, and I completely agree that mathematicians are guided by what's interesting, not just by enumerating propositions. But they also advance many conjectures that are considered interesting open propositions to prove or disprove. Very very few of these interesting conjectures have turned out to be undecidable (the Continuum Hypothesis being, again, a notable special exception). And I guess that's my point: it's a curious fact that undecidability and "interestingness" don't seem to intersect very much, as far as we can tell. I don't think that's something that self-evidently had to be the case, but it's where we are after close on 100 years of living with what Gödel showed us.
Checking, I'm seeing rates approaching 4% for 30-year mortgages here (the US), down to 3.5% for a 15-year, which squares with what's been more-or-less the norm for a while, so is probably about right. 1% on a mortgage would... not be normal here.
It really doesn't, but was helpful for me when I had to patch a few issues.
I upvote and unflag you just to have an opportunity to disapprove what you said. What you said is very tendentious.

> - Government subsidizes real estate investments in Western nations by Chinese investors, driving up real estate and turning a significant segment of the US population from homeowners to renters.

Western nations do subsidize the real estate industry a great lot, but China is not a party to be blamed for that. Foreign buyers across all Western nations barely approach 10% even in the most hot markets.

Prime benefactors of such subsidies are rich, well connected upper classes from the West who live rentier lifestyles. Coincidentally, those make a big part of the political establishment there.

> - Severely undercutting manufacturing prices for decades, to the point that Western nations have lost the ability to manufacture many products.

Why Western nations didn't follow the suite and did not slash prices on their own?

Western business culture chases profitability, Chinese chases volume. Though, it is unfortunately starting to change. The ideological virus of "MBA/lawyer/banker culture" has now reached China too...

> - Devaluing the Yuan and opening trade agreements around the world to protect itself from US sanctions and tariffs

China only managed to keep devalue its Yuan so far only thanks to patently endless supply of US treasury bills at attractive rates, which China's central bank uses to counterweight its own FX trades.

If US want Yuan to shoot up to the sky, it only has to stop the crazy government spending. In fact, China has more and more often to keep Yuan from falling too much than from overappreciating in the last few years.

China is now having a problem with its own bonds getting too attractive to foreign buyers too as of late.

> At the same time, China's might is costing its citizens dearly: unsafe or abusive working conditions, severe human rights abuses, and an Orwellian surveillance state

Well, yes... Yet China is one of the best markets around. It's a very bitter candy to swallow.
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Chances are high nobody will ever find out.
DBLog: Change-Data-Capture for Every Database
Yeah, ads best medium since golden age of tv and it’s not like it’s all strikeouts. They’ve had insanely successful addons:

- maps

- gmail / google domains / docs

- chrome / chrome box / chrome books

- Android

- YouTube

It just seem like the “dream is dead”. Great business though.
Which model Chromecast do you have?
Then the sensitivity goes down and you gotta compensate by increasing the sensitivity elsewhere. Can never get it quite right.
Comments moved thither, since that article is the original source (and now unlocked for HN readers).
They aren't that great for books anymore, either. They've starting shipping books in a padded envelope that don't do much to protect the book. I've ordered a number of books that have arrived all beat up. Not a big deal for a cheap novel that I'm going to read and then give away, or a school textbook that I don't care about beyond the class.

However, the last book I ordered from them was Python in a Nutshell about a year ago. It's an expensive book, so I was less willing to tolerate damage to a $50 book that I want to keep and use a lot. I had to return it twice to get one that wasn't beat all to hell. And even then I feel like I settled for something not in as good condition as I expected.

Amazon used to put books between two pieces of cardboard, shrinkwrap it, then put it in a box with padding. Books always arrived in good condition. Books in the padded envelope always arrive with crushed corners, and sometimes damage to the cover.
It's something I'm trying to do something about. I was homeless for years. I run a number of websites and am starting some Reddits to try to put out useful information.

Thank you for commenting. It means something to me.
It is impossible to overstate how much laughter and joy 'The Far Side' brought me growing up. Between 'The Far Side' and 'Calvin and Hobbes' I was set.
Fixed!
But I still left the part about not using the code for purposes prohibited by law...
Do you have an upgraded GPU? I think it’s the Radeon 560 in mine.
Reflections on Trusting Trust: Ken Thompson [pdf]
Despite the hoopla from various organs of state, I'm at the point of thinking the US government is violently committed to the destruction of the US talent pool. Professional societies outside engineering (medicine, law, military) need to belly up to the bar and move the "professional" grade math requirements from calculus to linear algebra. Society has advanced technologically, sorry.
Are we talking about the same Oracle Fusion that powers most of the world's corporation's accounting backends today (including Netsuite, which Oracle acquired several years ago)?

Because if so, he did a pretty good job of achieving his objective: establishing market dominance in the face of superior competing products.

Hiring Kurian is a message to investors that Google is serious[1] about trying to take over the cloud platform space, through any means necessary.

[1] At this moment, at least. Given Google's history, their actual commitment to their cloud platform remains to be seen.
Ruby 2.7-rc1 release with GC compaction
Stephen Wolfram has an interesting article about Gödel and the implications of his work for the 21st century.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2006/05/kurt-godels-100t...
https://www.thefarside.com/
Skeptical about the science? You mean the lack thereof?

They do a once off 'experiment' with a sample size of 3 and claim that it's conclusive evidence that eating meat "is bad". Yikes.
Until the pill costs one million and you get nothing, or even, if you need it you can't afford it.
I saw them, read their blog (for inspirational purposes of course :) and even wrote them. But I believe it's really overpriced. I'm working on the paid modules/components but I will keep the price moderate.
Could you suggest how to use Alipay or WechatPay as a foreigner without a local bank account?

Things like city bikes are great and very convenient. In Kaohsiung it used docking stations and a metro card. From what I hear, in China they are dockless, and use mobile apps (which means an expensive roaming data plan) and Chinese payments. These may be convenient for locals, but very user-unfriendly to foreigners. Locals probably have their routine figured out, whereas foreigners are probably going to visit new places, and will therefore use bicycles more.
Dark Matter is the most abundant matter in the universe, yet we have none of it available to us on earth.
I've never needed a plumber in 20 years, and before that I can't recall my parents ever needing a plumber, either.

Should I buy a lottery ticket?
If you think the API mandate necessitated or created AWS then yes, you misunderstand that memo. The API memo simply mandated a service-oriented architecture. That can run on any compute and indeed predates AWS by several years.

The origins of AWS are entirely unrelated, Amazon simply realized it was good at operating infrastructure. This led to the conception of offering infrastructure as a service. The initial AWS service offerings were built based on Amazon's experience and expertise but were not the literal internal services of Amazon.

See https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/the-myth-about-... for more historical details.

Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft) is an anomaly, the things Amazon needs to operate Amazon.com are very very different from what most companies need. The internal services and architecture are purpose built although today they do heavily leverage AWS under the hood. Amazon.com is just a customer of AWS, there's no special installation.

Almost nobody needs Amazon.com's infrastructure (except Amazon) or could even afford to staff it. What people do need are generalized, managed services they can combine for their own use cases.
Maybe not the same, but it is a fundamental user experience principle.

"Showing users things they can recognize improves usability over needing to recall items from scratch because the extra context helps users retrieve information from memory."

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/recognition-and-recall/
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Hijacking a specific, known account is only one attack vector, and it is not the attack vector that has brought Ring's security into the news lately. Modern cloud services provide throttling and other protection from brute force attacks:

> Ring hackers' software works by rapidly checking if an email address and password on the Ring web login portal works; hackers will typically use a list of already compromised combinations from other services. If someone makes too many incorrect requests to login, many online services will stop them temporarily from doing so, mark their IP address as suspicious, or present a captcha to check that the user trying to login is a human rather than an automated program. Ring appears to have minimal protections in place for this though. Motherboard deliberately entered the wrong password to our account on the login portal while connecting from the Tor anonymity network dozens of times in quick succession. At no point did Ring try to limit our login attempts or present a captcha.
More precisely, always have a backup plan. Nothing wrong with running on GCP if you're using it in a platform-abstract way (either by using it as a simple hosting provider, or by going through a layer like the "serverless" framework).
Hmmm.

I'm going to have to investigate this more thoroughly. If it's true, then I'll delete my data at 23&me (and hope that data deletion actually does what it says).
What would be the cheapest-approved mechanism of presenting this legally mandated notice to employees? Remembering this isn’t just a generic legal requirement but a specific demand imposed on Google at this point in time.
> Views like the one you espouse are insidious because they give people a justification to stop trying and spend everything they make.

Nah. I think it's views like the one you're espousing that are insidious, because they present the illusion that the difference between normal people and the genuinely wealthy is just a matter of some personal self sacrifice, rather than a set of fundamental policy failures that have lead to a collapse of social order and rising inequality.

Of course it's better, for them, if the masses are focused on index funds instead of the abusive effects of concentrated financial power on the middle class.
Has anyone ever considered that maybe we should be preventing the backlog from growing that large in the first place?
Right, that's why the rest of the sentence is "but Amazon-owned home security company Ring is not doing enough to stop hackers breaking into customer accounts"
I beg to differ. The worst that those who post anti-LGBT sentiments have to fear is getting flagged, lambasted in the comments, and perhaps an account suspension.

But government-funded hackers (Chinese or otherwise) are capable of causing all sorts of havoc to my life. I try not to underestimate the operational threat they pose.
The original iPhone shipped without an app ecosystem. Was something like a year before they had an app store.
The results are affected by the density of geologists.
I have a desktop computer running Linux, I think the monitor is what's whining, but I'm not entirely sure.
Just because it exists in some 10,000 page backoffice document doesn't mean that's how reality is going to play out. They will find a way.
Yes, there's a few listed in this blog post: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/bey...
- Kubernetes admission controllers, OSS part of Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admi...
- Kritis, OSS: https://opensource.google/projects/kritis
- OPA Gatekeeper, OSS: https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper
- Binary Authorization on GKE/Anthos: https://cloud.google.com/binary-authorization/
They don't all do all the pieces. The hardest part is going to be integrating whatever enforcement solution you choose with your upstream CI/CD pipeline.

Disclosure: I work at Google and helped write this whitepaper on Binary Authorization for Borg.