skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The Axios journalist who did this, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, is a huge thorn in the CCP's side - one of the most outspoken, widely read, and retweeted media critics of China's domestic policies and international activities.

Allen-Ebrahimian has focused on the crackdown against peaceful pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong and the dismantling of "one country, two systems" (1), genomic surveillance of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang (2), and Huawei (3), among other topics. Last week, a CCP mouthpiece publication labelled her an "anti-China journalist" for her work (4).

She also uses WeChat for research (5).

I believe her WeChat account was very closely monitored, more than the average Western user.

1. https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/12634694294358835...

2. https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/12682239479397457...

3. https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/12063586414246830...

4. https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/12657932056285552...

5. https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/10961659522643312...
Just being candid, in case anyone is under the delusion that it might be worth trying.
I have a Lisp process that has been running for weeks now (window manager + devel. stuff), and any time I need to compute something I can go the REPL.

I suppose Snail could be used in a same way (https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail)
Sounds like taking the "I know better than the users to another level".
Just wanting to add support for this strategy.

As I mentioned in another similar post awhile back[0] I did an in person version of this and have seen it first hand from those who were online.

I've worked with a bunch of people at this point who primarily were connected by a shared language or project and relationships that developed online.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167473
This really is so much of it! I started this journey a couple of years ago. A few more steps I've found since:

- Clean the spaces you are in, bedroom, kitchen, office, living room, etc
- Learn to communicate with an open heart. The book "Nonviolent Communication" is a great resource.
- Be careful of your thoughts. Don't even joke negatively about yourself. It really does affect you even if you're not aware.
Yeah. I'd argue this is quite a bit better. People can comment on the image, add it to their dropbox, view entire galleries, preview things like word files that couldn't open natively in the browser. And it doesn't make it any harder to just look at the image if that's what you want.

It seems very reasonable to me that they're not designing for the use case of people who are trying to host images for their website directly from their Dropbox folder. That was never what Dropbox was meant for.
Python repl in a newly opened terminal session. Which is similar to the posted submission.

During grad school, I went through a period of trying many different GUI based calculators, until I realized what I really wanted was a language's repl.
Lots of negativity in here. As a paying Dropbox customer, I am interested to see what Dropbox can bring to the table. I’ve been stuck on 1Password 6 since they moved to a subscription model. If Dropbox’s offering works well, I would switch.
> I use signal, but am a little bit at unease because it's free. What's in it for the developers?

I feel your question subtly touches on one of the reasons people like open source and develop for it - there are many people who just enjoying doing their tech-nerdy things and giving it away for free. Before it was called Open Source it was Freeware, Public Domain and other words - the inherent desire to just do something and give it away for free is inherent in the nature of some folks, with no expectations on return (money, fame, etc.). Postcardware and Beerware were even a thing - "like my thing? send me a postcard from where you live" and I sent a bunch of postcards. :)
I don't get this site sometimes. This is a pretty quiet launch of a pretty minor GSuite feature, the wild extrapolating in this thread is ridiculous.
Can you put down your email on your profile?
For background, this isn't about the human health impacts of these sprays, but of the impact on other farmers' crops and on wild plants: cash crop (corn, soy, cotton mainly) farmers growing herbicide resistant GMO crops often act like they own the whole countryside. They spray indiscriminately and damage or destroy the crops of people who grow things that aren't resistant, like my grapes, or anything else really. Because they are the majority of what is grown on farmland they have a lot of voice and power.

This has been an issue with glyphosate (Roundup) for years, but as weeds have grown resistant to glyphosate they're using stronger and stronger herbicides with new resistant varieties. Dicamba and 2,4d spray can drift for miles, damaging plants not only of other farmers but wild native plants in forested areas between farms, etc.

I just wish a similar decision could be made up here in Canada. Canada was the first country in the world to approve 2,4d tolerant soy and dicamba tolerant soy.
What percentage of your networth would you bet that the Chinese government can't access WeChat passwords?
I remember a week of work in Madrid, where a Spanish company, a US company and an Australian company were working together on a bid for a job.

The US people suggested breakfast meetings at 7 in the hotel. The Spanish and Aussie people flatly refused.

The Spanish wanted lunch from 2 until 4, the Aussies preferred 1 until 2, the Americans 12-1.

Dinner was 7 for the Americans, 8-9 for the Aussies, and 9-12 for the Spanish.

We didn't win the bid, but as an Aussie, I much prefer the Spanish daily schedule.
It is enough to have at least a few independent relays to cover the trace. Everyone who can should be running a relay node at home I guess. Also we generally need more participants in Tor of course.

There is also I2P network, which is even harder to break (unless someone owns practically all nodes there).
There is the -XStrict language pragma that makes everything strict.
For me none of the SaaS bug tracking systems are usable. They're all much worse than c. 1996 Bugzilla.
The "Technology" (page 82) and "Surveillance" (page 98) sub-chapters as well as the Index of "Law Enforcement Computerized Information Systems" (page 222) might be of particular interest to the HN crowd.
My friend told me don't study for free.. make sure you get paid
Look up Programming Languages, part A and B
Not neccersarilly, if a project delivers 50% of the benefits for 75% of the money, it's less likely to be built.
We do not agree about what is best for the commons. You are constructing a straw monster, but the opposition is largely operating in good faith.
Here's a trick (that I haven't tried personally): say you're looking for 3 (paid) internships, say you don't care about money, you only want them to improve your resume. Ask if they want to be one of the three companies on your resume. Say you will need $1,500/month just for food/rent, otherwise you work for free. The good thing is you can get an income immediately, and internship income isn't considered a "salary", so in case you do a great job and they want to hire you, you can start a negotiation without the low $1500/month working against you.

The reason this can work is that many companies (including all the ones I worked at) are happy to pay for a small number of interns over the summer.
My PC broke 6 months ago. It's forced me to stop gaming and focus on work (as that is all my laptop can handle.)

I've seen an improvement in physical health and productivity, as well as a noticeable increase in "pleasure" from doing work.

This shift has led me to believe that videogames, atleast for me, were a net negative. I will still hop on Steam to chat with friends, but I don't feel the addictive pull to play that i did in the first few months.
Well, I mean you are trying to get them from Cobol 1.0 to Cobol 2.0. I'd be hesitant as well.
US Jobless Rate Fell in May as Hiring Rebounded
The only way to win, is not to play, and refuse to prticipate when you see it played by others. Remember, those with bias feel that it helps their life somehow. Few are trying to promote strife for its own sake. There is no 'other side', we are all on the same team. We win with love. Meet people where they are at, and guide them to wisdom. Yelling from the other side of the divide that they are bad and wrong will never win a heart. Misunderstandings are all around us, in all spheres of society.
I have benefitted from Dr. Sapolsky's video series as well. I recommend it to others fairly often.
This is absolutely at the foundation. Would add to that get regular sleep and enough of it.

At some level our bodies are like machines. Feed it crappy fuel (food) and don’t give it good maintenance (exercise and sleep) and it won’t run well.
With its well defined AST, I think Go can "easily" accommodate optimizations as described, but obviously at the expense of compililation time. And I gotta tell you that keeping compile times down is the more important optimization for me. However, I happily add automated scans for safety and correctness into my release candidates, and I would gladly pay for optimizations at that point. As long as I can test rapidly with the knowledge that I can add an "-O3" flag just before release would be a perfect compromise for me.
That strongly suggests that instead of using hash-based authorization, WeChat stores the passwords in cleartext.

That means hackers can break in to WeChat and leak all the passwords.
Is it more likely that they want people to have nice passwords so set up filters to make sure, or that they know everyone’s password because they want to be able to see what all of China is saying to each other? I’ll continue to believe it’s the latter unless I see a better explanation.
I would use syncthing and totally drop dropbox if they had an iphone app.
Examples: Legal cases on social media defamation and freedom of expression
IDK about JIRA, but Trello allows offline access and that’s been very helpful at times (works if you have loaded the board while online fairly recently).

So not too small of a nitpick.
My personal decisions require neither your cooperation nor consent.

I do what I do to mitigate the spread, not because I expect you to do the same, but because it's what I feel is right.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
The problem is that people are conflating "one guy got lucky and got a $500k remote job" with "here is a repeatable process to generate a full-time income by working on open source on spec." Even getting a $50k remote job is not a guarantee, and telling people to work for free on open source is the Hacker News equivalent of telling a designer that you'll pay them if you like the logo they make you. Only this is much more insidious because you're telling them to work full-time, for free, for "3 or 4 months."

We complain about job interviews taking an entire day yet have no problem telling this person to dump 750 hours into something with the hope of "getting noticed."
Compared t the US? Sure. And not from the government itself.
A caring dev sneaking in a blacklist to reduce the risk of physical harm for users who unexpectedly find themselves in a rubber hose attack?

Surely the least likely of all possible explanations, but an easter egg blocking passwords that are variations of "I refuse to cooperate" would be a hidden artistic statement in its own way.
Worth noting that the OP said "mid-sized company", which probably means one that doesn't have a runway measured in months. That makes a big difference.
I'm frequently using Wikipedia and similar sources as entry points for old games. E.g. recently I finally recovered a bunch of small DOS games that were bundled on some demo disc—since I was particularly interested in a Pong clone, I went through the list of Pong clones on Wikipedia and spotted the familiar company name. So if you remember any metadata apart from the Sidekick connection, you might want to try those angles.

(The game itself, ‘PLBM Pong’, had settings for many parameters, e.g. the initial speed and acceleration on each turn—so you could start at a crawl pace and proceed to test your reaction speed. PLBM turned out to be a one-man operation.)
Arguably anyone that could outsource to very low cost centres has already tried to outsource there and many have learned (expensive) lessons from it.

What seems to work: Geographically distributed but autonomous product-dev centers, with remote workers aligned within a certain timezone.

What doesn't seem to work: Outsourcing pure dev work to timezones with no overlap.

I don't believe the above will change even if things become more remote-friendly. Perhaps we'll see more dev centers pop up to service the needs / wants / cultural or language asynchronicity of a given region, but that would lend more toward expansion than cost reduction. This also resonates with the approaches being discussed that I've read and heard first hand from company leaders during COVID.
It make sense for London to be more attractive to US companies than France due to language and cultural similarities.
> why is it that EU companies don't have the market share that US ones have? Why are our companies not big enough?

They created the Cloud and we arrived late on this market, so we lag, therefore our companies are not big enough. This FR-GER initiative will secure market shares for european actors, in order they can grow enough to provide a sovereign platform for EU companies which need it.

> Are you going to force EU companies to choose a EU cloud provider, even when they would have preferred a US one?

All defense/sensitive/state owned companies, administration and maybe banking companies will not have the choice as they must comply to EU or national rules about data management. And I guess many european companies competiting with US and Chinese ones in highly competitive markets where bleeding edge techs and secrecy matter are looking for sovereign European solutions.
There's a whole lot going on here, so I'm going to unpack this in a few different points.

1. Anytime someone (especially a politician) suggests something both incendiary and unlikely (putting a domestic organization on the foreign terrorism org list), the goal is the same as a stage magician making a joke - it's to distract you. The correct question then to ask is what are you being distracted from.

2. It's hard to say Antifa isn't involved when they stated they are attending. As you say, they are not a monolithic organization but neither are white supremacists or most street gangs - we don't have a problem holding them accountable. Antifa does have a specific ideology based on pre-emptive violence, and they do have ideological founders and a history of violence.

3. Regardless of who you think may be responsible, this is a good point to realize that it's not smart to be associated with violent groups. They don't have the monopoly on use of force (that would be the state[^1] by definition) and therefore they'll eventually attempt to use violence, get noticed and get dismantled one way or another. Usually that process isn't peaceful when both sides are committed to violence, and there's a reason the state tends to win.

As I often point out with software, theory is great but reality tends to be something else. When your claim to fame is that you show up and commit acts of violence against people you don't like, well, you've sort of signed up to be blamed when you attend a rally and acts of violence start happening.

[^1]: The state here should be taken to mean the organized government as a singular entity
It's pretty clear that the instigators planned to try to start a riot either way.
>For this study, which was done online, participants had to decide how much of a 10-point endowment to give to other people. The points had monetary value to the participants; giving cost them something.

Totally contrived study which completely ignores culture. Growing up in a shitty area in NYC for example will teach you that plenty of people are all too eager to act selfishly even when it is trivial to be considerate.

Soft sciences are a joke and they erode layman credibility in hard sciences.
Then you have my respect, and hopefully it has a net-positive effect.
So you're saying building an AWS equivalent is harder to do than building ASML? Again: if Europe could come up with ASML (which is just an example I'm familiar with, I assume there are successful companies), why can't it build in AWS equivalent? Which is even easier to do since the problem of scaling server instances is better understood and more intuitive than developing lithography machines like ASML is doing.
Maybe if you just look at gross numbers. It's the old GDP vs happiness as an index for a country's rank debate.

I worked for a multi-national in Berlin; heading a team of 40 internals and another 40 externals, the latter mostly in Ukraine.

As a director I saw the salaries of everyone working under other directors under the same VP. Including the teams in Chicago and San Diego. Salaries were maybe 10-15% lower in Berlin.

We regularly swapped developers around. Usually for six months. People from both CA & IL that came to live in Berlin with their families were always overwhelmed about quality of life in here. Particularly the food. Well, then they fly to Italy over the weekend (affordable, with their spouse & kids, mind you) and they are completely blown away.

If you look at net salary and what it buys you, quality of life, quality of food, healthcare, rent, 20 days/y of paid holidays (+12 paid public holidays in Berlin, more if you live in a state with a Catholic majority ofc.), 6 months (unpaid) unconditional sabbatical after you complete five years with that company, job security because of German laws. The list goes on.

On these measures the US sucks compared to most of Europe. Compared to Germany for sure.

I pay 1,250 EUR/month for a bright, 1075 sqft apartment in the very center of Berlin. The city surely is one of the cheapest capitals in Europe but still.

From my friends in SF or Boston who work in tech, earn more (gross) than me and who visit me from time to time I always hear they're jealous about the quality of life we have here.

I was an expat for 15 years working in India, Australia, Asia and the UK. During the last five years I was on business trips to the US every 2-3 months. Affordable food sucks, good food will cost you $$$ and you can't get it just in any supermarket like here.

I have only one body. What do I care if I make 30% more and live 10 years less to enjoy it?

Being back on the continent for another decade now I know I made the right decision. The only country I lived in with comparable quality of life in many aspects (and even better health care) is Japan.

Finally, in software location is a non issue when you want to start a business. You can shop for money anywhere and you can set up the business where it is convenient, e.g. for tax reasons or access to investors.

I had a software company in Hong Kong seven years ago. I was in Europe most of the time. The team was from all over the planet.

My experience is that if investors want to meet f2f they actually love if you're in Europe as they have an excuse to fly there and meet you.

One of my best friends who's Mexican co-heads a big home delivery SaaS that is growing at crazy pace. He bought a flat here. His workplace is a modest desk in a rather mediocre co-working space in the center of Berlin.

He also bought a flat in Austin, TX. But he only goes there maybe for one month/year. Because ... quality of life. It trumps salaries every time ... if you have understood what it truly means to be human.
>If you're a proper patriotic member of the CCP you'll understand that it's all for the good of the Party.

"g̶o̶d̶ the ccp works in mysterious ways"
This is pretty reductionist and simplistic. H1N1 variants were in the same family as influenza D.

One killed 17-50 million people in two years, the other is not yet known to even infect animals.
Is this relevant to hacker news?
People tend to surround themselves with like minded people. The best measure is to look at actual demand, which appears to be quite high.
Interesting, it does indeed start in seconds instead of minutes now. That’s great!

I also see that the other issues I noticed previously (high latency when typing, “compose key” not working) have now been fixed as well.
>Not a bad experience but not a great one, either.

I think this is different because the circumstances chose it for you as opposed to actively feeling the need to disconnect.
How to Save Emails to Pocket
How do you shut it down or delete the session after you are done?
I've never heard of pCloud before, is it really better than Dropbox?
If there is one group of people who are constitutionally (heh) ill-equipped to monitor free citizens who are exercising their constitutional rights to petition their government for redress of grievances, it's people whose entire job history has been the exercise of power over incarcerated federal offenders, who do not have the right to peaceably assemble.

Doubly so when they're prison riot control officers who all look like they're clones of Byron Hadley, The Screw Everyone Hates from "Shawshank Redemption".

When a prison guard sees a crowd chanting protests, they are going to react very badly.

Get them out.

And get badges on the rest of them. Then get them out, too.
It's not even a good example. Humans are about the least physically agile vertebrates on the planet.

Think of a fruit fly. It can walk, fly, forage for food, mate, etc. The entire critter has a mass of .2mg and their brains have ~135k neurons. Making the horrible assumption of linear power scaling, that's one microwatt.
Putin brought “little green men” into Ukraine in 2014.

Trump and Barr now do the same in Washington. It’s not a surprise if inhabitants feel like under an occupation force.
The trick isn't to disagree. It is to suggest a well thought out alternative that has more benefits. One that is concrete, fleshed out, and quantitative.

Don't just raise red flags about other peoples' plans. Make your own plan and sell it.

When you sell this new plan, it should barely even mention the plan you don't like. It should stand on its own, but it should also solve the problems that the original plan you dislike solves.

tldr; Be part of the solution.
100% this.

For instance I'm an engineer who cares far more for business/technical alignment than software practices.

If I had to choose between company A where I work closely with domain experts but the software practices are awful, vs company B where we understand the problem domain through 4 layers of management and business analysts but the software practices are top notch. I'd choose company A every time.

Also poorly applied software practices upset me far more than no software practices. For instance most places that implement code review don't use structured code reviews and spend most of their time enforcing their tech leads specific nitpicks (which are never written down) instead of actually looking through the code to reduce bugs.