skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they still recognised ROC instead of PRC they could have returned it to ROC instead.

Alternatively, UK could have made switching recognition from ROC to PRC conditional on a New Territories lease renewal.
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This is just another example of why I’d like to see some kind of platform that requires “skin in the game” to make these kinds of actions.

For GitHub, I’m not quite sure how that would work, but perhaps for a Medium type platform, you’d have to verify that you’ve read someone’s writings before you can follow them.
I hear you on complexity.

The difficult part of platforms is that nobody agrees on which part is essentially simple.
You're using yubikey agent or ykcs11 or yubico-piv-tool or somesuch nonsense most likely that actually provides PKCS#11. That is it wraps whatever PIV is supposed to do and gives you PKCS#11 interface. I'm talking about something that isn't Yubico specific and provides PKCS#11 and PKCS#15 with OpenSC straight ootb.

e.g. issues that described here are avoided https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent#alternatives
I can confirm that my own comment above was 100% spontaneous.

That said, Shawn has been writing this book in public, so anyone who's been following him does know that he was about to launch.
Interesting. Anyone have any idea if this will lead to a Comac C919 order? [0] Just remembered, this would have to pass the EASA certification at a minimum, if that happens or they start pushing for it it might be an indicator. Belt and Road no doubt, and quite possibly seeking to capitalise on the duopoly having a hard time. May lead to EU / US shoring up their respective industries. Maybe also burying their WTO hatchets?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919

[EDIT] asked further questions
Grant is most certainly arbitrary.
Losing its special trading status with the US should already be the catalyst for that.

But the market based economies of China's Special Economic Zones should make Hong Kong as attractive as any other major financial center, instead of as a micro-state.

There are many international HQs in major financial centers under high tax regimes, whether it is Shanghai, New York City, London, Frankfurt.

I would say 30% move, so less than 50%. Incumbents in Hong Kong are already beneficiaries of the Communist Party in Beijing, otherwise corporate consensus in the LegCo would have matched the individual consensus already.
Imo these are researchers. Their job was to validate their algorithm for doing generative super-resolution on a dataset, they chose the largest and most well-known dataset, it worked reasonably well on their dataset. The model itself is not productive ready for at least the reason that the dataset is not representative. This is ubiquitous in ML papers, they validate their idea on not completely realistic but widely available datasets. The outcome is a piece of knowledge about the behavior on that dataset not a product.
As an American English speaker, the description of the product and explanation about why a whole new paradigm was necessary was not very idiomatic and therefore pretty difficult to read.
so how does that work? i cannot think of a workable solution short of an end to the world wide web, and the beginning of a system of national internets and data ports (as in, places you send your data to to export them from one country and import them to another).

otherwise, the democratic oversight will just be whatever the u.s can manage.

the internet is already falling apart; i notice many u.s media sites are inaccessible from europe. i guess national internets are less painful in europe, where almost every country has its own language, than in the anglosphere, where there are many smaller countries that use english.

it solves many problems - it puts an end to cyberattacks, for instance. but is it right? i doubt it.
The fact that it works on BSNL means absolutely nothing. The implementation of blocking across ISPs is extremely inconsistent: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08590

> Note that r/India is very intolerant of views which are pro-India

/r/india heavily skews liberal and anti-Modi. That is not the same thing as being intolerant of pro-India views.
My first thought as well -- would be interesting to see the C919 flown on more western routes.
Basically it boils down to this Zuck quote from a chat he had with a friend in 2004. Things haven't changed much since then.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

We're all still "dumb fucks" to Zuckerberg.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
So I think you're saying that, people are brainwashed to believe in the party?
What I'd like to see is the process documented and actually stuck to. Not the content of the interviews, but the actual composition of the process - how many interviews, timelines, etc.

I've been on both ends of terrible recruiting processes. Processes which have gone so slow that good candidates get away, processes with slow follow ups after interviews, processes where candidates are asked to come back in with short notice.

I think documenting and sharing how the process is going to run might cause it to actually run that way. That may be wishful thinking.
I find their "weekly subscriptions" to be shady at best.

There was a good discussion of App Store billing practices and how they're abused in this podcast episode: https://www.relay.fm/radar/176
> because Pinterest has done such a good job of labeling and categorizing images

No. Nobody cares about the deduplication part. Good for them. And if they used their own users' content to increase search accuracy for their own users, nobody would care either. What people care about is that they're actively seeking out and borrowing non users' content (metadata and descriptions) to trick Google image search and pull in other non users who then can't even see the pictures they clicked for.

> Show me on the doll where it touched you.

Interesting how such an irrelevant metaphor comes so readily to mind for you, and that you think it's something to joke about. Hint: it's a super bad look for you.
> The bridge was a replacement

Yeah, a whole new bridge to replace the old one. Have you seen it? It's nice. They put lights on it and it makes patterns at night.

> the tunnel is a decade late and still not complete.

But it's there, right? (Technically not there.) You don't doubt that it will get finished?

> Both are way over budget.

But they exist, right?

If you want to talk about how the Millennium Tower tilts, or the Transbay Terminal cracked, or the sidewalks in the new Mission Bay are abandoning the buildings and sinking into the bay, let's rap.

But you can't claim we don't build. We build.

> China build 16,000 miles of fully connected high speed rail in the same period of time.

If you want to admire the CCP for the very real economic revolution they have accomplished in the last few decades we can do that too, as long as we also talk the fucked up things like how the Chinese people can't use the fully connected high speed rail to move to a different city without government permission.

Look, China has done some crazy impressive things like building cities and railroad and so on, but they're also playing catch-up, lifting hundreds of millions of people from archaic poverty to modern semi-luxury.

We did it last century. (Not on the same scale, of course, but we built our cities and railroads and interstate highways and such already, is my point.)

> the future is not in San Francisco.

Well it never was, except in Star Trek. These tech companies don't come to SF for the city itself: they ruined the city. They're here for vanity mostly, not solid economics. The East Bay over the hill makes way more sense. (FWIW if I were starting a startup I'd do it in Davis.)

Believe me when I say that the old timers in SF (who survived the tech onslaught) can't wait to see the tech scene move on. We will not miss "the future" at all.
Not to mention to most rigorously trained pilots and the face of the planet. Not to mention the tops minds designing the Aircraft and the software, rather than outsourcing it to code-by-the pound shops like Boeing did.
It doesn't happen on something like an A380 (especially since there isn't exactly any other plane type to switch to from an A380 without huge issues), but it's pretty common on smaller jets, especially in the A320 family or 737 family where they are nearly-identically-sized jets that can be swapped out easily.

If you're scheduled to fly on a 737-800 but there's a problem with the jet, they might swap it out for a 737-400 (which is pretty much just an older generation of the -800, similar to how the -800 is an older generation of the MAX 8) and it would go completely unnoticed by almost every passenger. That happens less often nowadays that most (all?) of the -400s are retired, but I would expect it to start happening again once the MAXs return to service and they are being deployed side-by-side with the NGs.
There's cheaper power chairs out there.. the Air Hawk is like $2k, though obviously not for everyone. These aren't going to be fitted or customized for your injury/ability, so they'll be worse but cheaper.
So it can't grab a person's iTunes Gift card balance?
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I currently work as a Systems Engineer at iyzico (leading Fintech startup in Turkey) and previously done Fullstack as a freelancer and side-projects.

Even though I havent listed here, I am open to new tech/code, doing different things. (https://github.com/pvtmert) Not really having a 'goal', so different things are absolutely ok. I have built multiple projects while and after university, which this year I'm graduated.

I've been the 'joker' person mostly. I am the go-to person for technical questions or 'google' in the company.

I'm looking forward to leave Turkey (because you know, politics and economy is really bad) for preferably Europe.

I've contributed to Swift, Go, Objective-C but my understanding on those are in basic level. I am open to new things / small guidence will be enough to kickstart me :)
Suppose you are the copyright holder of a book, and are asking $1000. For years, there are no takers; you have no revenue. I come along and would like to read your book, but at most I'm willing to pay $10. I get a little idea: I advertise that I have this book for sale for $10 a copy, and start taking orders. I collect 99 paid orders. At that point, I have $990 of other people's money. I add $10 of my own to make $1000 and buy the book from you. Without your permission, I make 99 copies, and fill the orders.

Am I a pirate? Or a businessman who provided liquidity at a rationally determined market price, and enabled you to finally sell a copy and at least get a $1000?

Also, what amount did I demonstrate a willingness to pay? Certainly not $1000, right? It looks as if my willingness to pay was limited to the $10 of my own that I pitched in.

If I were to be sued, how should the damages be determined?

According to your "demonstrated willingness" concept for calculating damages, all 100 pirates demonstrated a willingness to pay $10, so the damages were $1000. But that's exactly what you got already. Everyone demonstrated willingness to pay $10, forked it over, and it was passed on to you.

So you see, this willingness to pay concept works very well with nonzero amounts too, in such a way that even pirates who charge money can come out smelling like roses.
...

For Devops parts I have experience with:

- Containers/Docker: Transitioned half of the stack to containerized environment in my current position)

- Java/Maven build and release (managed and maintained releases, bit legacy stuff via Bamboo on-prem)

- Android release/build and signing via GitLab runner

- K8s on-prem cluster setup & maintenance

- Internal structure setup & maintenance, namely DHCP/DNS (dnsmasq and unbound) Nginx, a little HAProxy, NFS, SSH

- I've setup Kafka cluster, Splunk Enterprise, Apache Airflow, Zabbix among other stuff I don't remember rightnow.

- I personally managed Iven's entire cloud for 2yrs (AWS and Digitalocean) and personally using GCP and DO for 4 years.

For Fullstack:

- Java and Kotlin Android development

- Experience with Vanilla JS and various peripheral API's in browser, eg WebBluetooth

- Experience with Flask and Python, also written 'middleware' applications which converts custom TCP/UDP or Embedded Serial protocols into structured JSON and vice-versa

- NodeJS experience similarly to python. My apps mostly run inside Raspberry Pi's inside refrigerators :)

- A little experience with Java/spring-boot (mostly debugging production stuff)

- Visualisation experience with three.js, Processing, and p5.js

- A plain PHP experince not tied to any framework etc)

- A little side-project/PoC/demo experince with Flutter

- C experience is mostly systems-programming (nowadays python) and embedded development (esp32, arduino etc)
Didn't star anything of mine as far as I can tell
Ask HN: How in the world is $TSLA worth more than $TM?
Tesla is now worth more than Toyota, and yet has pretty much lost money every quarter. Toyota, on the other hand, has had billions in profit every quarter for years.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=net-income&axis=single&comp=TM:TSLA

Is there a reasonable explanation for this, or is it a complete bubble?
> While China is obviously much more powerful than Guatemala,

China isn't just more powerful than Guatemala, it's more powerful than the UK.

> they still wouldn't have been able to invade given that it would have caused a nuclear war.

If Deng Xiaoping really thought the UK would accept nuclear ese as the cost of keeping China out of HK, sure, that might have kept China out. But literally no one would believe that.
What does their export market and foreign currency reserves tell you? (I don't know myself, just suggesting the points of leverage.)
> And a majority of the nation supports ending systemic racism in our laws and institutions

I'd wager that a majority of the nation knows there's no "systemic" racism in our laws and institutions, but does support ending the institutional problems that affect everyone who enters the justice system.
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I live in Vancouver.

The pattern for many Hong Kong immigrants is to have the mother and children live in Canada while the father works in HK.The family doesn't declare the foreign income in Canada.

So they enjoy the benefits of a low tax HK income. And they get all the nice things that go with living in high tax Canada while not contributing to it -free healthcare, subsided University, safe communities, clean environment, low income benefits.

It's so common it has a name, satalite family/astronaut dad.

This isn't a good deal for Canada and Canadians.

https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/the-unsettled-live...
I only need ephemeral storage. I really like the pub sub functionality (which is the my most urgent need) of redis and the key value pair store suits me for now.
Immigration was a big part of it.

Although unemployment was officially low, many in low end jobs felt that the huge influx of Eastern Europeans pushed wages down.

There is also the societal aspect of it because of the demographic change caused by a large influx of immigrants into an area.

Then, the prospect of Turkey joining the EU was raised, which would mean free movement for Turkish nationals and that scared people as well.
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> [1] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/07/12/income-inequality.... but you'll have to manually calculate the percentages

I'm completely overwhelmed by your evidence of median black income moving from 59% of whites in 1970 to 65% in 2016, and appearing to not change substantively in the last 15 years of the dataset. If the overall trend continues, we'll reach parity in another 269 years.

And it hardly has been happening in a world where considering race and proxies of race is considered "OK".

This is an absolutely comical piece of evidence you advance to try and justify your view.
RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) – Tree Planting API
Well, it did star one of my repos after a few minutes I starred it (and followed it as well). I guess waiting might help?
I'm surprised at how sensitive they can be. I was listening to "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" on NPR one morning in my living room, at a fairly low volume.

I noticed that there was music coming from my kitchen. My Google Home Mini that serves as a kitchen timer was playing a Frank Sinatra song. According to the logs it heard someone say "Hey Google, play some Sinatra".

I was surprised that it would hear a low volume radio in the living room from the kitchen. Also, even if it thought it heard "Hey Google", there was nothing that should have sounded like "play some Sinatra".

The Echo Dot in my living room puzzles me in the opposite direction. Amazon runs TV commercials advertising Alexa and Amazon Music that consist of some song by a particular artist playing over some animation of a singing mouth, then the music stops and the mouth says "Alexa, play <artist> on Amazon Music".

That frequently triggers the Dot, but only once has it actually then played music in response. Here we have it hearing a clear "Alexa", triggering, and somehow realizing that it should not actually do the command. How does it know?
I feel this is a generalisation. A lot of coding assignments are unrelated to the actual work and have no value to the potential employer besides assessing skills.
I found this side project the other day and it’s an API that essentially helps connect apps to tree restoration organizations

Still looks like it’s in an MVP stage but it’s a really cool to see how tech can be used for environmental purposes!
Agreed. I'm ignorant of Indian culture, but I am married to someone from a very different racial and ethnic backround than my own. My experience has led me to believe that intermarriage is one of the most powerful ways to break down cultural barriers. I would not go so far as to say people should avoid marrying people similar to themselves, but I do believe barriers to intermarriage are harmful. And if you seek a rich life full of new and interesting experiences, marrying someone from a totally different background than your own isn't a bad way to start!
LOL! people are staring this repo as well. So they are not wrong with their idea.
Does AR require ambient light? couldn't you use a VR approach where everything is drawn in, and reality is derived from cameras?
Tradegate is even 08-22...
If your makefile has so many targets, maybe you are doing too much and you need to use another tool such as autoconf/automake on top?
So if country A asks for a loan, then immediately dissolve its government and form a new one, should the loan be forgiven?
My brief, terrible experience as a Facebook advertiser
That compound in particular is used to help replace a C-OH bond with a C-CN bond. It may seem like a weird chemical but it's very commonly used in organic synthesis.

> Why wouldn't the same but with a more typical fully-carbon backbone work?

Because a fully carbon backbone would not be as reactive and would not attach/detach from the intermediate as needed
The motor does appear to drive the rear with a chain drive

https://notawheelchair.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/202001...

Not sure what a good way to run power to the front of it would be esp given the steering system and two front axels
Here we're talking about AI biases though. Such as the possibility of an AI giving a bad score to a black loan applicant because of implicit biases in the training.

On the other hand, China is in a conflict with the Uighur population of Xinjiang. As far as I understand it, there are elements both of cultural clash (China doesn't like religion in general, and the Uighurs are muslim) and the Uighurs' reaction to an influx of ethnically chinese population in the region. Anyway, Uighurs engaged in terrorism: this BBC article seems pretty balanced and lists a number of terror attacks by Uighurs as well as the repressive actions by China: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-26414014

In this context, I think that China might be using AI not to "round up" Uighurs, but as an intelligence measure to prevent more terror attacks. Similar to how the US intelligence is (I have no doubts about it) profiling muslims and middle eastern immigrants- not because it has anything against those groups per se, but because it has reasons to believe terrorists might hide in their ranks.
There's a lot more than two conditions there, and turns me off trying. Even though, I could probably use the networking.

I mean, kudos to him certainly; who you know is more important than what you know to getting seen and heard. This is a great leg up for the right people.
This Open Letter is bullshit (purely personal opinion obviously). I note they are transparent about the pricing in specific markets but that the CEO fails to be so transparent about the pricing for generics in other markets. I’m aware of the studies regarding its effectiveness but hate hand-wavy B.S. like this so here's some snippets taken from Gilead's own website.

"All descriptive printed matter, including advertising and promotional material, relating to the use of the remdesivir clearly and conspicuously shall state that:
:the remdesivir have not been approved [sic]
:the remdesivir have been authorized by FDA under an EUA [sic]"
page 6 https://www.gilead.com/-/media/files/pdfs/remdesivir/eua-fda...

and "Remdesivir is an investigational drug that has not been approved by the FDA for any use." https://www.gilead.com/remdesivir

I was in two minds about correcting the grammar but since they are all snips from the links decided to leave as is.

[Edit to clarify] My main point was that if they were pricing generics at a reasonable price they would have been trumpeting in the same press release as this. eg. if one is so reasonable that they openly discuss it then why not the pricing of generics.