skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have been worse than useless. There was a point where they told the public that masks don’t help. And recently one of their leaders said that “asymptotic transmission is rare” which is a deadly lie. It was retracted, but incalculable damage is done by these mixed, inconsistent messages.
So basically we see the reemergence of the communist scare, a sick and demented policy that criminalized professionals who were perceived to be "collaborating" with an "enemy" foreign country. This makes me disgusted.
Until recently there was a free Bizspark program which granted you five MSDN subscription for two years. Apart from that, there is a Action Pack which comes with (among others) three MSDN subscriptions and ten Windows 10 Enterprise licenses for 500 USD/yr.
Population distribution in conjunction with geography is what makes it difficult. Even though most of the US population lives in cities, it is necessary to serve the health needs of sparsely populated areas as well. The cost to serve those areas is significantly higher and the distribution of those areas around the U.S. geographically is much different challenge than in Europe. In general, the EU is much more densely populated than the U.S. [1]. Shortages of specialists and emergency services are common examples of challenges with serving rural U.S. areas.

The diversity of the population matters because, for example, different cultural practices result in many different health impacts that result in a more diverse set of healthcare challenges aside from the technical ones. Even something as seemingly simple as patients being able to effectively communicate their health issues and healthcare providers being able to understand these needs is a challenge due to cultural barriers. We can make specific comparisons, but in general EU countries populations are more homogeneous than the U.S. [2]. There is significant challenge to be able to train and maintain a healthcare work force that can understand needs of a diverse population.

I'm not sure how spending on military affects healthcare directly either, but the VA program is definitely a factor in how the US spends on healthcare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density#/media/File...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/16...
> Alaska is substantially larger than any of the European countries you listed, and is not very urban.

Sure, but hospital requirements don't scale with area. If the US had a horrible healthcare system in Alaska, and a great one in urban areas, maybe we wouldn't have this debate.

> Given how badly the US has mucked it up?

Is the mucking up due to size though? That is the crux of the matter, and I can see no evidence that that is the case.

> Pretty solid evidence that it can't be done.

This sounds like insanity to me. It's literally one datapoint! Isn't that a bit like saying "China hasn't gone to the moon, so that's pretty solid evidence that the preference of rice over potatoes as main starchy staple makes moon landings impossible".

> Healthcare is similar to housing. Sickness is location-specific and population-specific. For education the arguments take a slightly different flavour; but boil down to different industries have different educational needs and a one-size-fits-all educational system will either systematically under- or over- educate students in different cities with different industry needs/opportunities.

There's nothing of substance in what you're saying here. You made a very bold claim, and all your evidence for it seems to be "oh it could be that, it could be this, maybe that".
Yeah, from the article:

"Lauer also presented data on the nature of the violations that NIH has uncovered. Some 70% (133) of the researchers had failed to disclose to NIH the receipt of a foreign grant, and 54% had failed to disclose participation in a foreign talent program. In contrast, Lauer said, only 9% hid ties to a foreign company, and only 4% had an undisclosed foreign patent. Some 5% of cases involved a violation of NIH’s peer-review system."

So sounds like ~90% of the 189 violations maybe just not checking a box. It's not clear to me what the violations were for the 54 people who were fired.

From where I sit, science espionage from China certainly sounds plausible (And should be dealt with), but ginning up negligible issues to get rid of the wrong kind of people is a completely plausible move from the current administration.
I’m a developer. I use safari/WebKit for 95% of my browsing. You can enable the full address among a bunch of other excellent developer settings and move on with life with a browser that works great.
Definitely, and it continues to exist after as well.

But telemetry gives web developers an extremely simple and convenient tool to know what users are actually doing without even inconveniencing the users with explicit questions. I've done web development with a good telemetry set built into a page, and it is extremely informative regarding how users actually use the tool, as opposed to how the UX designers have predicted flow through the tool will be.

To give a concrete example, a user might tell you that configuring permissions is "hard," and sitting with them during over the shoulder testing (which is expensive) might tell you a little bit about why. But without even asking the user, page telemetry can tell you that they are making a transition jump from the permissions configuration page to the page listing all of the resource names, because that's what's slowing them down---the UI didn't give them enough information to configure the resources because we assumed they knew what the resources were named.

For a browser, anonymized usage stats can tell you whether most users keep all their bookmarks flat at the top of the bookmark bar or deeply nested in multiple subfolders, and that's usually valuable for deciding whether you want to emphasize a flat bar or folder management in the design.

If most power users disable automatic anonymous telemetry and also use deeply-listed folders, no one should be surprised if deeply nested folders doesn't get better.
Is it possible that you have trouble with other opinions?
Variants are not the same as having an API to override styles of inner components. You can use variants in Material UI too (which btw is inspired by styled-system and prior art): https://material-ui.com/system/basics/#variants

Variants are defined by the implementor of the component in question. What I am talking about is overriding styles by the user of the component. One way to do it is through the ThemeProvider. But that does so globally. If I want to override a style for a particular component only in one place (and the nested components within it) then I will have to use CSS nested selectors or a nested ThemeProvider (which is hacky and ends up slowing down the app depending on how it is implemented). Then I am tightly coupling the implementation with the presentation. There is no API as such to change the nested component styles directly. That is the area where I feel Material UI does better. It has standardized how inner components are exposed to the World for styling. That standardization should happen at the library level instead of at application level. So whenever you import the library you know you have that option available to you too.
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I think the fact they added the non-compete after is not the issue. Also the fact he was told otherwise prior to relocating. My guess it's a standard thing for all US based workers as he was told and there was a "bug" in the process. I doubt it was done intentionally.

The issue is the states that allow this to happen. Capitalist America.
It doesn't matter if .1% of users turn off their telemetry, their use case wasn't going to be optimized for either way. In fact the Google employees themselves are part of that .1%, they don't need the data to tell them what's important to advanced users.
Why is the article flagged? I've seen this happen to a few posts about China lately. Its starting to hurt the discourse on HN, its unhealthy for the forum.
I’d say calling them ‘spies’ may be unwarranted, particularly when it appears—from the context of the article–this was more about trying to cement the importance of paying close attention when disclosing your funding sources.

Those who the investigation found had disclosed their funding sources were from other countries didn’t seem to be impacted.
No, it absolutely is because we do not create enough of these things. In industries where there really is an abundance of supply and that supply is controlled by many firms - things like food, or manufacturing, or houses in the Rust Belt, or haircuts - it's really difficult to raise prices. Customers will just go to the firm next door who's struggling for business and sitting idle.

That we think there's "enough" of health care, education, and housing indicates that our view of "enough" is warped. "Enough" housing doesn't mean that you have 2 bidders on each house instead of 10. It means that you have vacant units sitting empty, and so if a landlord tries to raise rents, you go rent from (or squat in) the unit next door. Similarly, "enough" education isn't that you get into half of the colleges you apply to. It's that when you want an education, you log onto the Internet and get one for free. "Enough" health care means that going to a doctor is as easy and cheap as getting a haircut (which, given the amount of training needed to be a good doctor, seems unlikely without some really good AI).

The loans and government stimulus don't help. You get inflation when you have lots of money chasing few goods, and so areas with a lot of money involved (housing, health care, and education) tend to get high prices. But providers wouldn't be able to charge those high prices in the first place unless there aren't enough goods & services to go around for everyone.
"Spend more money on your computer" is a fine solution for a bay area software engineer. It's not a solution at all for the half of America that would have to sell their car to cover a $400 ER visit.
IANAL but this looks to me (sorry, in Spanish) like an example of one that was enforced without anything particularly nefarious, and included the employee having to return the compensation and pay an additional amount for damages on top of that. https://cdn.cuestioneslaborales.es/wp-content/uploads/2014/1...
Swift is trivial compared to the rest of iOS/macOS/iDevice development. CoreData, nasty Cocoa/AppKit APIs, SwiftUI buggyness, all the legacy objc cruft, 99% of resources online being for iOS, not macOS.

Swift idiosyncrasies don't even put a dent in the learning curve imo.

I don't think anything gets this across quite like onboarding experienced devs into a client app that haven't done mobile client dev before. They'll ask you completely reasonable questions about Appkit/UIKit/CoreData like why is NSBox used here and you realize 90% of the time your best answer is just "well, that's just kind of how you learn to do it over time." Very few questions about Swift itself.
These illustrations are great!

Regarding software, one thing I’ve long wanted and/or dreamed of making is an app that can be pointed at any directory of markdown files and images that would then use some kind of AI to analyze the data, look for patterns, present statistics, automatically tag things, etc. I want to be able to dump things in without much organization, but then to be able to view it in an organized way. One small example is the way that the Bear app finds to-do items in any of the notes and presents them in a separate list. That, but with all kinds of data.
I don't see this kind of hostility. China is a commercial competitor. The US is trying to transform commercial competition into a racist war. I think this is despicable.
IIRC, some of those were entrapment, luring gullible individuals and goading them into terrorism.
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> Even though most of the US population lives in cities, it is necessary to serve the health needs of sparsely populated areas as well.

That would perhaps be a valid starting point for further discussions if the urban parts of the US had a good healthcare system.

> The diversity of the population matters because, for example, different cultural practices result in many different health impacts that result in a more diverse set of healthcare challenges aside from the technical ones.

Citation needed! This is just armchairing.
the question was not why are there different policies in different cultures, the question was why would universal health care not work because of diversity of the population.

I suppose that universal health care will work for diverse populations because once that is introduced to the population the benefit should be clear, and that really the only thing that should be required for universal health care to work for diverse populations is that they be human - hence my reference to mortality.

I believed this chain of thought would be clear, unfortunately I was mistaken.
But NIH is all published - how can you IP steal? Maybe you get it a year ahead of time I guess?
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hi, the first day when i attepted the apply the uopeople is im so afraid becaurse they many university online which is non accredited in the world,but when i recognized the uopeople is accredited im try to fill the application then im locky to get this university.becaurse is higher education in the world.im totally changing my life becaurse of uopeople.
as now im expiriance too in my feild at uopeople.
im happy to get uopeople in my life.
and also thank to my programme advisor,which is farhanaz.
I read it that way that it was after relocation but before the beginning of the job in Seattle
Howdy, I design optical integrated circuits for coherent communication. mmmBacon is correct. See here[0] or [1] for examples of the types of forward error correction used in coherent links. Pre-FEC bit error rate thresholds of 1e-3 or 2e-2 for <1e-15 post-FEC errors are fairly standard.

[0] https://www.cablelabs.com/forward-error-correction-fec-a-pri...
[1] PDF warning: https://www.infinera.com/wp-content/uploads/Soft-Decision-Fo...
Yeah. You pay a premium but the experience is very seamless and professional. Not something I could see scaling easily, at least how Silvercar operates, but really successful in its niche.
Yeah, invading people's privacy always makes things easier for everyone else, doesn't it? Doesn't mean people who care about it don't want or deserve quality...
Isn‘t that usually written as “you can verb any noun”?

/gd&r
I'm a very anti-racist and anti-fascist person. I'm in favour of removing slavers and white supremacists statues.
But these silly debates in the tech world makes me cringe a little and I wish our community was different. Isn't it of little importance how a branch is named? Let's focus on politics, on inclusion, on essential debates that our societies need to improve and let's not waste our energies changing stupid little things that have no meaning other than to a minority of rich white males from Silicon Valley, as a method to self-redemption. Like giving some money to charities and be done with it, instead of rolling up our sleeves and do some direct work. Very White, American, Protestant thing to do. And very easy. And it's also free marketing, the cynic in me thinks.
A Chinese spymaster would probably see this as a feature.

The CIA/FBI always seemed to be a bit gobsmacked by who ended up being spies, so best to take advantage of their blind spots.
Oh, tankie is a pejorative term for authoritarian "communists". The vast majority of leftists, at this point in time, are very anti-authoritarian.

Everyone on the left hates China except the tiny percentage of tankies. And I'm using "left" in the political science meaning, so your Democrats are centrists in that model.

How on earth did you get the idea that any leftists weren't against a very authoritarian state-capitalist form of government?
But parent hasn't acknowledged that you were an inspiration. I find this insistence quite rude. Especially when it's taking well trodden ground in desktop software and putting it on the web.
Power outlets built into the floor, most likely.
Enforcement might deter ( is this proper English? ).
Was the quote supposed to be an opinion? My opinion is that if you share someone else's thoughts in place of your own, then it's not your opinion. And Orwell is dead. I can't ask him what he thinks about this.

edit for the non-insulting reply: I only flagged the low-effort non-contribution that started this thread and the insult below. Someone else is responsible for the rest. Your other comments, though not very substantial, are more of a downvote situation--which I can't do on replies--than a flag situation.
If I pretend they left entirely for principled reasons then it shouldn’t matter that the public is too stupid to understand that.

I guess I take the position that doing the ethical thing is done because it’s the right thing to do and not necessarily because you’ll be rewarded for it with virtue from the public.

I agree that the public’s position on technology companies is often uninformed and contradictory, but I don’t really care about that.

If I worked at google I wouldn’t want to enable CCP censorship - not because I expect the public to like me for it it, but because I don’t want to be complicit in the oppression of Chinese citizens.

If they regret it and are willing to re-enter and comply then it wasn’t really based on ethics in the first place.

That said, I’m pretty sure the hack was the main motivation and the speech issue was just a nice story to tell about it.
Most finance is not algorithmic trading, and we already have trade secret law for this sort of thing.
non compete clauses are even a thing in the EU. but as the are mostly too broad termed they are not enforceable, at least in my country
Maybe a bit late, but chiming in here to say that prosemirror in general is absolutely amazing. Used it to build my own note taking app, highly recommended.
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hi, the first day when i attepted the apply the uopeople is im so afraid becaurse they many university online which is non accredited in the world,but when i recognized the uopeople is accredited im try to fill the application then im locky to get this university.becaurse is higher education in the world.im totally changing my life becaurse of uopeople.
as now im expiriance too in my feild at uopeople.
im happy to get uopeople in my life.
and also thank to my programme advisor,which is farhanaz.
“ We've seen massive amounts of people at beaches in Florida, Texas and other places, as well as these protests and riots, and there are no massive spikes in fatalities 2~4 weeks after those events.”

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/06/13/texas-sets-another-recor...

Wrong. But yes please continue trying to explain shit you have no idea about.
I didn't see any specific proposed punishments in the article other than some people no longer being allowed to review articles for some journals.

Having gotten grants and attended the "if you lie about using US money it is a felony" mandatory in person talk...

Well, it's not necessarily that they had foreign grants, though it is possible that would have made them ineligible for something. But not disclosing stuff like that is really bad.

I don't know why they didn't, the reasons might be innocuous in which case I doubt there would be harsh punishments.

Or maybe they got two grants from different governments paying for the same research (big no) or maybe they were simply given money by a foreign asset that now can blackmail them into disclosing secret research that the US funded.

The article doesn't really give that level of detail so I can only say it ranges from "mistake on your taxes" bad where the repercussions are mostly financial penalities and "stole money and gave nuclear missile designs to a foreign country because of the influence of their money".

If I were to bet: they either didn't keep good track of things, are the kind of people that simply don't care about the rules enough to know they broke them (even though they don't intend harm it's definitely their fault), or they would have been ineligible for funding if they disclosed the foreign source and were too greedy to take a pass on it.
"Everybody wants to live" is one side. I'm certain there's no issue there. "Everybody wants to pay for the system the same way" is another. I assure you, there are issues here.

Do you see how it might be a thing that different cultures approach differently?
I have never worked with a true Smalltalk.
However, I am using a Smalltalk-inspired language pretty extensively, SuperCollider.

I never really dived into a comparison, since I am lacking real Smalltalk knowledge. However, I'd be interested what someone who knows both languages things about SC compared to Smalltalk.
1) I haven't actually seen a tooling configuration that gives you the experience of having the concrete type in your code when you write code that uses an interface (in e.g. golang or Java) for the sole purpose of swapping it out in a test.

2) Right. I agree.

3) It looks like your original post in this thread says "Do not make black box tests. Make white box tests"
As a hiring manager, what signs do you look for to confirm someone with leadership experience doesn’t have “founder damage”?
It a shame this is happening. Surprisingly the new Space Force show on Netflix is remarkably topical. There's an episode where a political disagreement is encountered between America and the PRC. The chief scientist at space force (whose character is basically "science good, military bad") argues that a simple conversation with the PRC science team should clear things up, because "science is a fraternity that knows no borders." It goes FUBAR when the PRC science team turn out to be just as political as their bureaucratic counterparts.

Ideally science would be a borderless fraternity/sorority... I wonder how bureaucrats and politicians manage to override scientist's own values as such to indoctrinate them with patriotism?
> Is YOLOv5 the Correct Name?

> Candidly, the Roboflow team does not know.

It seems like, unless you can say with certainty that you have a legitimate claim to use an existing name, the right and safe thing to do would be to not use it. Just name your project something else. You lose the brand recognition of the existing name, but on the other hand you avoid the risk of your project getting dragged like this.

When in doubt, save yourself a headache and just use a different name.
Racism is the definition of weak thinking. The idea that you can somehow forgo logic if your goals are sufficiently important is even weaker thinking.

The US Government has had a history of targeting (in hindsight) unrelated people in their efforts to "curb foreign influence". See the history of Japanese Internment camps and the McCarthyist Red Scare. This is taught in most US highschools.

We even see the same illogical reasoning being carried out in this comment section (ironically by non-Americans), where any argument against this political culling is dismissed as "CCP Propaganda" and any attempt to point out that the tensions between the US and Russia/Japan/China are unnecessary are met with generic references to past "hostilities" but never specific examples.
It's really weird to me that this is (currently) the top-voted comment on this article. This little quip is not what the article is about nor does it represent the author's views.

Do you have any feedback on that article's thesis that the closure syntax could have been handled better?
They don't do the supertuck through hard corners of course. That would be absolute madness.

Here is a video of Frome descending.[0] There are some hard corners by 6km. He's back up in the saddle and choosing lines through them.

[0] https://youtu.be/zojjIghKQoM?t=143