skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might well be embrace, extend, extinguish. But if so, in this instance it isn't Microsoft's doing it.

The embrace started long ago, with things like Samba, a free implementation of vfat, Wine and Active Directory. Extend also started long ago, with things like, getting gcc to run on it, cygwin, the LAMP stack, Firefox - lots of things that let Windows do things only Linux boxes could do, and for free.

Then came extinguish. WinCE followed by WinPhone, and now 1/2 of Azure runs Linux boxes which I guess pretty much signals the fate of Windows on the server arena. Whereas two decades ago most computers an end user interacted with run Windows now they don't.
For me, this narrative seems to remind people don't over trust iMessage and WhatsApp, instead of "why don't you use Wechat they are not different anyway".

All the westerners I know in China don't send sensitive information through Wechat. It's just good to have a low trust stance by default.
When did you think I was going to get coffee and/or check Slack for more annoying work to do? It's like you want me to get things _done_, which is not fun at all.
Had thinkpad for years as an office laptop earlier when it was IBM and then a while after it became Lenovo. Have Dropped them many times, no issues. They had a sensor where it will detect motion while you drop and park the hard disk head before it hits the ground, Also configured the sensor to use it like WII once. It was one of the best laptops i've ever used.
This is what I came up with: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/04/early-retire...

Looks like private insurance, previous employer benefits, your spouse's insurance (if they're still employed), and bare-bones plans are all options.
Unlike that article and its use of the word "gestapo", it is not an exaggeration to say that China has a secret police that can cause you to disappear.
So kind of like how a bar has a bowl of nuts or pretzels out for free.

Or, at work, I bought a pastry from the cafeteria. About 5 minutes later they put out a whole platter of the same pastries in the dining area for free (they didn't sell, and would be dumped otherwise).
People who understand the mess are much more influential and they are moving the show forwards. Making things easy for newcomers is just not very high on the agenda (anymore)

Perhaps things have to get complicated enough for it to get priority, perhaps cool things will happen all of a sudden. I was highly amused by the spreadsheet programming tool a while back. It seems a giant leap in the other direction.
The general attitude here reminds a bit of the following post from the architect of the Varnish proxy. I think the attitude comes down to the fact that modern kernels and in general the foundations of network programming are pretty strong. We should trust them more.

https://varnish-cache.org/docs/5.2/phk/notes.html
For fixed vehicles, using one of the two to seven standardish plugs makes a lot more sense. Giving up 8% efficiency to save 30 seconds over usually 20-30/minutes of dwell time isn't worth it.

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, charging forklifts or something in a warehouse in motion, or while briefly stopped drives up how long you can use an electric powered device, and the added utility pays for efficency loss.

Of course, it's easier to add this to cover enough of a warehouse than to cover enough of a highway system.
From my experience, large enterprises sabotage the effectiveness of internal IT with bureaucracy and politics in a misguided attempt to eliminate all possibility of mistakes being made.

It's usually done with the "let's pretend it is ITIL" process.

Let me give two examples where if I had been the client then I would absolutely have sprinted for the cloud if I could, or at the very least start talking it up as much better.

1) System outage, time to fix 5 hours and 3 minutes. The 5 hours was me sitting in front of my computer with screens open showing the problem and waiting for various managers/decision-makers to fly by and take a look as they were ping-ponging around the office panicking about what would be impacted by the fix. Everything that was going to get impacted was already impacted by the system not working, and I had to explain that to them multiple times. Towards the end of the day, I eventually got the go-ahead to do the 3 minutes of work to fix the system. This system being down had prevented another team from doing any work for the entire afternoon.

2) Two full days of politics and paperwork to get approval to do 30 minutes of work, all while the client was impatiently asking "is it done yet" every few hours.
Huh, with enough testing kits (and 2 day turnaround time on them?), why not test every arriving tourist, and quarantine them for 2 days until their test returns negative. Of course there's a danger that they get infected between the test and the quarantine (e.g. they share a bus to the quarantine location with an infected), so if someone you may have come into contact with is infected, then your 2 day quarantine becomes a 14 day one (or can they retest you on e.g. day 4 and let you go on day 6?)
Your 2018 link is the same opinion piece that I rejected in the comment I linked.

Your 2005 link includes the following quotes:

> Congress controls the supply of physicians by how much federal funding it provides for medical residencies — the graduate training required of all doctors.

and

> Even the American Medical Association (AMA), the influential lobbying group for physicians, has abandoned its long-standing position that an "oversupply exists or is immediately expected."

That second quote precludes me from having to respond to the 1986 or 1995 links since my original comment said "no longer true"
And they also went earlier and harder than the US... Which the US could have also done, but chose not to.
Yeah, 8% at what distance? The inverse square law is a bitch.
me too.

said it has no real purpose yet. that's key. no doubt she knows what she is writing about and also picked a favorable language. but the gunicorn folks have also been doing this server thing forever now. they probably have their share of stories.

hope some code gets released soon.
I think this might be the number one thing that bugs me about this field.

For instance, when I was in college, I had a job that paid by the hour. I didn't need a lot of money, so I worked one day a week.

In our field, there's no option where you can opt to work four days a week, or work part time.

You would think that at some point, and employer would come up with the idea of opening up some part time positions. There's got to be thousands of talented techies who've reached a point in their life where they don't want to work 50 hours a week. But such a role simply does not exist.

It's particularly odd since a lot of us make good money. IE, my Dentist probably works 20 hours a week, and I imagine the reason he works so little is because he isn't living paycheck to paycheck.
Years ago I used to spend time in NZ when I was part of the US Antarctic program which stages out of Christchurch. In the late 90's when I was going down there, one of the airlines had my favorite promotion ever: for NZ$99 (about USD$59) they would give you a round trip ticket to somewhere. You'd find out where you were going after you bought the ticket, and they'd guarantee it was a same day round trip. I always thought what an incredibly fun and cheap way to spend the day in a beautiful country.
> probably from some famous designer

I mean that's it in its entirety right? Otherwise by similar reduction, a Picasso is just some acrylic on canvas.
s/contract/contact/
i have a solution in the works
Resilient Retail: A lingerie company that might be a tech company
AFAIR Whatsapp does send a copy of your messages to facebook if the messages flag the apps internal 'sounds-like-criminal-activity' scanner.
Is there something stopping poor people from getting these cards? I mean sure, if they have bad credit they can't, but I know plenty of poor people with good credit.
It does not take that much time to get up to speed on another tech stack, but it does take some time, and servers are really cheap. Even if the learning curve is close to none, it's just cheaper to rent a dozen machines than have an engineering team spend a day or two looking into a new ecosystem.
But my suggestion isn't just to prohibit visitors. It is to basically isolate all living staff. Cleaners, caretakers, all. If need, rent out hotels nearby to spread them out.

Note. Not cheap. At all.

For the at home rate, we need the question of would that have simply shifted if we sent them home?

Edit. Realized I didn't say it directly. I do find these interesting. Thanks!
By that logic, everything that helps the poor helps the rich. Not that helpful when it comes to policy decisions.
Considering how banned Google and Facebook products are in China, I'm not sure what you're getting at with this comment.
A big chunk of it is probably writer's block.

For instance, if my wife asked me to make a pizza, I know very specifically what steps are necessary.

When a client asks my employer to create a piece of software, it's a lot like being told to write a book. Sometimes you don't know where to begin and a lot of the time you get the thing 40% finished and you feel like throwing it in the trash and starting over from step one.
I imagine if you could make the most out of vector instruction set in your code (where they can operate on a vector of data at once instead of one by one), you'll get a huge performance boost for "free". GP seem to be working on a vm that let you do that (a lot of it was flying over my head though, need some coffee).
Your source says nothing about who pays the most taxes.

So let me google that for you: "the top 10% of income earners pay 70% of all income taxes".

https://www.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/T054-C000-S001-how-y...
can you actually make a symlink to a commit in .git/ ? neat...
Been using https://getsession.org/

I don't like how signal requires phone number.
It doesn't matter who cares about it, Godel proved that anything Kuhn calls a "paradigm" must be inconsistent and/or incomplete, and therefore must fail eventually. If that were not true, then some complete paradigm would arrive eventually and be dominant forever.
Welcome to every media outlet out there ... from CNN to MSNBC to Fox News ... spewing out their slanted reality to rile up their base who are clueless to what's happening and keep coming back for more outrage.

Tune the media out.. watch the press conferences, interviews and dig a little deeper yourself to get the real story. BBC America is pretty decent .. they just tell the news without reality tv outrage drama.
Evidence matters.
Do you have a reference for this please? All I can find is this "false alarm": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backd...
I tried hard to read that book, but really struggled to get through it unfortunately. It seemed right down my alley but I couldn't get in to it. Might be time to dig it out and try again
Thanks that's actually helpful. I did some more reading and it looks like it is as you say, the new military transmitters are directional and steerable, beam forming done on the receiving side.

But still it seems that power is still part of the solution given the increased power density of the new military antennas. I guess what I'm wondering is why they can't just reserve more band, move to regional antennas for whatever other technologies in addition to fighting polluters/jammers/spoofers and noisy neighbors. Or is that the plan?
it’s a counterintuitive argument but I completely agree
The only problem is the CTU mess if you're analyzing more than one file, thus the aforementioned tools' necessity.

Hopefully in a future version the kinks are ironed out and we can just use the flag without any hassle. It's like if we needed to still manually link our files with ld before compiling them instead of clang auto doing it.
I am not looking for you to concede anything. You said nothing has been done to show you that the calculus of their priorities has changed and I listed some things that could possibly show that. It’s up to you if you believe that is significant enough to convince you.

Frankly, I don’t care if it does or not. I was just providing some visible signs of investment.
This is common knowledge. You can't send a picture of winnie the pooh without it being scanned first and deleted over the wire before being received.

People don't use WeChat to organise dissent against the government or for any kind of malicious or illegal activity. The intention is for well meaning folk to communicate and do business online.
Same. I'm more inclined to trust apple on privacy than most of the other big companies.
I think the assumption behind your claim of false equivalency is exactly what the parent comment wanted to discuss.

You say the security failings of iMessage and WhatsApp pale in comparison to WeChat; I agree with parent comment and ask - in light of PRISM etc. - on what grounds can you say we should not be just as suspicious?
> REPENT
You can search for exoplanets with this app
Something I haven't seen mentioned is how great their API documentation is. Each database (AKA "base" in Airtable parlance) gets a generated set of docs that uses the actual names of the tables and fields (and the field types), as well as javascript examples that use your real data as sample output values.
Sometimes I can tell. Usually you get better detailing with the expensive stuff, in the same way that you get nicer interiors on a Lexus than a Toyota.

Granted the difference in quality is definitely not worth the difference in cost (like many luxury goods you'll end up paying 5x in price for what feels like a 1.2x improvement in quality).

I recently replaced 20 or so $10 target shirts with a handful of $60 shirts from Nordstrom (NM sells them too) and they're much more comfortable, hold up better in the wash too.
If anyone wants to play with this idea, you can use the base and bounds registers in the ARM-M and ARM-R specs to do this for one example.
What does Airtable give you over gsheets for you? I use gsheets but I am interested.
What part of this approach is a "PE trick"? Taking on loans?
Welfare mostly.
what games have you tried? I guess trying a shitty experience does not help
It’s impossible to take seriously that some 2-inch deep trenches and some stray cables are “ruining” streets.
https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255 Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000.
How does Signal protects metadata? I love Signal but that's not true. Your phone number, your IP, who you send a message to, at what time, etc. is sent to the server.

What metadata are you talking about?
If this was a west coast city, I'm sure they knew one of their target customers very well... they might even have Mandarin speaking staff.
I won't go endemic in the rest of the world because countries with competent governments are going to eliminate covid19. Leaving the US and couple of other fucked up countries as pariahs.
Even if he did enter politics (in America), it’s not at all the same thing.
Can you imagine trying to democratize phd level mathematics? This boot camp shit has gotten insane.
you are correct. I'm not the original poster though.
> The more I study, the more I realize that the western view of CCP is... not exactly wrong, but very very problematic

What's problematic to me is that a government censors information that could change people's minds. How can we call "legitimate" a government that is not allowing those who are supposed to be the source of its legitimacy, to access opinions and ideas that could influence their choice of which party they would legitimise?

Of course it would be hypocritical to say that our western governments don't try to do the same. But at least they are forced to limit the scope of their control to information that can somewhat fit under the umbrella of "National Security" -and at least their propaganda is forced to compete with everything else out there. Censoring by force books, websites and public media that express vastly opposing ideas is out of the question -as it should be -don't you agree?
> the iOS Bluetooth in sleep workaround method

Why do they need to find a workaround? Can't Apple tell them the best way or push an iOS patch to help?
Having a core+utils area and then separate feature (i.e. business) areas I think is another way of saying this, it's not entirely uncommon.
The false equivalency also begs a deeper moral analysis. Let's assume the US government has as complete access to iMessage and WhatsApp as the CCP does to WeChat. The story doesn't end there, since you have to examine the nature of the entities that have access to your information.

Would I prefer that access be held by the US Government, which for all its faults is extremely engaged with and integrated into the global system, beholden to Law and a robust court system which enforces a strict set of checks and balances on its behavior, and is philosophically rooted in individual liberty?

Or would I prefer the CCP, which does not even recognize the concept of individual liberty, is beholden to no one but itself and its own desires, and ruthlessly upholds its iron and unquestioned (unquestionable, at least in China) will upon the entire nation with absolutely 0 oversight?

Yeah, gonna go with the US here.
> Why don't those landlords just lower their rents to meet demand then?

Keep in mind how the concept of an "anchor tenant" works.

For instance, Sears had leases that were as long as 99 years long, with rates that were as low as one dollar per year. (No joke: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/09/26/kmart-monaco-evans-den...)

The way that the retail model was structured, back in the 70s and the 80s, was that the anchor would bring buyers into the area, and the landlord would make the lion's share of their income off of the stores around it, such as restaurants, jewelry stores, movie theaters, etc.

If all that makes sense, you can see that a lot of these landlords would actually be thrilled to see these department stores go away, because then they could re-purpose the space into something that generates more money.

Fry's Electronics, Sears, Macy's... they're all an example of this.
Looking at the comments I think that most of commenters missed an important point. It's not just that the app is tracking users, but the messages sent by any non-Chinese user help the regime censor the content for Chinese users. In other words, if you use WeChat, and you send a photo of something that happened in Hong Kong along with some text that explains it, then you actually help Chinese authorities to censor this photo in China.

> Upon analysis, files deemed politically sensitive are used to invisibly train and build up WeChat’s Chinese political censorship system.

Also I think it's super cool how they did the research.
Correct; there is no free lunch, spend time or spend money.
manned space missions are necessary in order to advance manned spaceflight.

we need the experience from sending 5, 10, etc people there before we can send hundred or more.

we need much more data on the effects of longterm space travel. this kind of experience can not be bootstrapped.

bootstrapping colonization would be worthwhile if we were ready to build a viable colony in the next few decades. but i do not believe we are.

i believe we do not yet have enough data to know if long term space missions are even possible.

getting machines to mars is easy. but getting the experience necessary for human colonization alone will take several decades more before we are ready. we don't need that bootstrapping as much as we need the experience of human spaceflight in order to build a colony.
It is only fair in the sense that people need to be able to move on. Unfair is perhaps not the right word but I struggle to think of a better description.

Ill try a perhaps stupid example I guess..

If I agree to borrow my car to you I kinda want it back eventually? In bankruptcy it becomes a conversation about who needs my car more? uhh??

Others should learn from that not to allow anyone else to drive their car (even if they badly need it) and that having the keys mean you don't have to give it back.

Banks creating money out of thin air does change the topic a lot.

I'd like to see a [small] basic income that pulls a substantial number of people out of the paycheck-to-paycheck horror movie.
People are routinely jailed in china for sending messages on WeChat [0] [1] [2]... This has been going on almost on a daily basis since WeChat started... Did anyone think they weren't monitoring and censoring it?

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/jailed...

[1] http://www.phayul.com/2020/03/22/42960/

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/tech...
How to Leverage Deep Learning Cognitive Computing for Cybersecurity?
What is unusable about them? I often find the information I need pretty easily. I often select last year to get rid of stale information, but that can be optional.
Keith Collins writes mostly business articles for NYT. This kind of shady journalism is probably better written by NYT medical-related staff. #caring
I've been a very happy user of https://fruux.com/ for years now.
Emacs has vi emulation. Does vi have Emacs emulation?
Become Abnormal
I used ThinkPads exclusively since 2000 but had a very bad experience around 2011 when the whole office upgraded to T410s machines and every single one (about a dozen) would die within a year the exact same way. They all got replaced and all died again, the second time out of warranty.

Something wrong with screen or the ribbon cable connecting the LCD screen caused the screen to die in a vertical strip about two inches from the left side. [1] You could press down on the bezel just under the distorted/dead strip to try to bring it back, but eventually even that would stop working. Referred to as MIGR-76367.

I actually haven’t bought a ThinkPad since that one. I switched to a MacBook Air running Bootcamp. I do miss the keyboard.

[1] -https://youtu.be/rM9_ZM_8qkQ
Even that depends now. For awhile there was a strategy for diffusion lines where brands would sell cheaper goods under a slightly different label. Think Burberry Brit, Versace Collection, or Polo Ralph Lauren.

Nowadays the trend is to put everything under the mainline brand, which I find kind of deceptive. You really have to check garment quality and price for everything.
Philosophers consider the problem of distinguishing good science from bad to be not solved. That's what the article is about.

For more, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem
too low.
I've been trying it these days, I'd say Slack is much slicker, but the differences are bridgeable.

One thing I don't like is that your message shows in grey for a few secs in Matrix. What does it mean? I don't know. But what does it feel like? Like it's lagging.
One alternative is to run the same program away from SF. It should be better than this.
EscayaAST an alternative to ESTree AST specifications
It would have to be built into the DAO smart contract. You could make a smart contract where it can't be sold.