skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On paper, yes, China takes official examination rather seriously. In realty, a saying in China goes: as long as there are exams, there are cheaters.

An ancient Chinese source estimates that 20% to 30% participants of imperial exams are imposters.

Endless examples of high ranking officials pave way for their descendants to succeed as top performers. A renown prime minister invited the chief examiner to his library, where he had removed all reading materials except a copy of an essay his son would write for the upcoming exam. The chief examiner was left waiting forever, so he was forced to read the only reading material within reach. When he later read it again as part of national exam, he recognized it immediately and made the the son of the prime minister NO. 1. This only came out because the emperor did not want PM's family become too powerful, but merely demoted the son from NO. 1 to NO. 3.

Not unlike elite institutions in the West, publicly the imperial exam system was lauded but a system of "donation" co-existed to fill official posts. This is a legal way to buy one's way into officialdom. "Legacy" entry was also available, not unlike today's system in China or elsewhere. Human nature prevails everywhere.
This was Scott's message to the readers:

> There is no comments section for this post. The appropriate comments section is the feedback page of the New York Times. You may also want to email the New York Times technology editor Pui-Wing Tam at pui-wing.tam@nytimes.com, contact her on Twitter at @puiwingtam, or phone the New York Times at 844-NYTNEWS.

> (please be polite – I don’t know if Ms. Tam was personally involved in this decision, and whoever is stuck answering feedback forms definitely wasn’t. Remember that you are representing me and the SSC community, and I will be very sad if you are a jerk to anybody. Please just explain the situation and ask them to stop doxxing random bloggers for clicks. If you are some sort of important tech person who the New York Times technology section might want to maintain good relations with, mention that.)

Can you elaborate on what was un-civil about this? How is directly the users towards the feedback page of the New York Times and the editor in charge of the NYT technology section (the sub-group that Carl Metz belongs to), accompanied with explicit calls to be civil uncivil?

The notion that this is a harassment campaign is nothing less than laughable.

Even if the author's real name were used:

> Community message, pls share around as you like

> If you have spoken with Cade Metz, or if he has reached out to you, since the day that Scott took down Slate Star Codex: there may be something you can do to help

> Please feel free to reach out to me by DM and I can fill you in

How would this be considered harassment? This user is asking for people who have spoken to Cade Metz to get into contact. How is this evidence of harassment?

You seem to be inserting your own imagination that this tweet author is planning to release private contact information or something similar. When in reality this could easily be people sharing their experiences with Cade and whether similar situations of doxxing or de-anonymoization by the NYT authoer have occurred in the past.
I ran Gentoo in college for a couple of years. Oh god the compilation.
Ready-Search. Source: I named it.
Let’s not sugar coat history.

Adobe claimed that they could have gotten Flash working on the first generation iPhone if Apple had allowed them.

When Flash finally was running barely on Android, it required a 1Ghz professor and 1GB RAM.

The original iPhone had 128MB RAM and 400Mhz processor. It wasn’t until 2011 that an iPhone had those specs.
I am aware of it but that’s mostly for Dev only content.
I would be writing about other stuff as well.
gentoo is too addictive, unless you want `emerge` as part of your routine
You should read about history, it's far from being white and black. Europeans were brutal, they were brutal to Europeans and toward other tribes. The only difference is that the Europeans won.
> The argument can be made that to protect peaceful assemblies, tools need to be engineered so those rioters can be differentiated from the lawful protesters and bring them to justice.

This is the same reasoning behind the argument for putting backdoors into crypto algorithms, and it's a bad argument for the same reasons.
Concorde had afterburners, but only used them for take-off and breaking through Mach 1.
And they were optional for both.
As a law abiding protestor I don’t buy this because it was done to me without my knowledge. They can use tools to watch criminals without compiling data on peaceful protestors without their knowledge
Not everything in life is perfect. The law isn't either, but it's reasonable to attempt to deal with imperfect situations.
Look: Innovation in Armory's (YC W17) OSS Spinnaker's CVE Process
Any chance you could link to some of her work? Not that it would make that much difference in the overall scheme of things, but I bet a lot of people reading this comment are curious now!
his real identity has been up on the internet for ages, years in fact. He even used to blog under his actual name on less wrong, and has been at public events that he himself organised. Not to mention that as a medical professional that info is obviously going to be online as long as he practises.

If your pseudonym is your actual first and middle name and you're relevant enough to be on the frontpage of google right now you're not being doxed, that's just public information at that point.
The touch bar is too sensitive. When just slighly brushing over it activates it then it is useless. Those are keys. And when I want to backspace and accidentically start some other action then this is a design flaw.

It needs to have a force touch, so that just hovering or touching it won't activate it. you need to press down. Until this is implemented the whole touch bar is just annoying.

Oh and when you need to use BetterTouchTool to actually make the touch bar useful then something is really wrong.

Alos use th same too to map fn+<> for volume up down and other things. just because looking for that on the touch bar is just ... stupid.
You can't really spoof from addresses anymore. I mean, you can, but no email provider will accept it. See SPF, DKIM, etc. That part of why sorting based on sender is such a good idea.
As a Chinese person, I totally understand that Chinese culture is not ok with tyranny. China's rise to riches can only be done with the efficiencies of a dictatorship. In order to understand China, you must understand China's poverty and shame from foreign rule.

With China's new digital surveillance system, it will be pretty hard to overthrow any dictator. China's control on news and media will ensure loyalty from a large percentage of the population. People who were critical of China's initial Covid response were silenced. Some disappeared. I guarantee you many people of Wuhan did not think that there was prosperity and justice.

Western democracy is being tested but I think the United States constitution is holding up pretty well. Today's Supreme Court ruling was 7-2 against Trump, with both justices nominated by Trump voting against Trump. The Supreme Court is focused on being impartial, so the navigated a ruling that will only release Trump's tax returns after the election.

"We reaffirm that principle today and hold that the President is neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers nor entitled to a heightened standard of need." - Justice Roberts

The Supreme Court, 9-0 affirmed that the President is not above the law. This ruling will be executed on up and down the government chain. Trump wants to build a wall but he can't. Trump wants to deport DACA immigrants and he can't. While Trump did accomplish a lot for Republicans, the most egregious actions were prevented. Ultimately, Trump's damage can be limited and contained.

I agree that the US does not know how to handle foreign interference through social media. Trump seems like he's allowing it to happen. I'm reserving judgement till the next president gets involved. I also agree that Iran sanctions from Trump is criminal.

Ultimately, no system is perfect. United states and Western democracies are designed to limit the damage, which in turn can limit upsides. Dictatorships are efficient but can easily run afoul. The hope is that we can all choose the system we prefer.
"Western democracy is really being torn at the seams with Trump and Brexit"

Really, torn at the seams? Brexit is going fine and now with covid it might work out better in the longrun.

America likes strong leaders. Trump isn't creating a new divide he is navigating the existing fault lines.

More importantly:

China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population: (source AP)

Are you aware of this? What is your,opinion on those events?
I've been thinking about this for quite a while and finally worked out a way to do this in my head the other day and I plan on writing it down to code soon-ish. I'm glad to see others interested in this, and would love to collaborate if you're interested!
The Balkan mentality, greatly twisted in the half millennium of Ottoman rule, does not help much either.

I don't think this sort of ethnic essentialism is at all necessary to explain Bulgaria's current problems. It seems especially misplaced given Bulgarian Turks and muslims were subjected to ethnic cleansing quite recently, in the decade before the horrors in neighbouring Yugoslavia.

Petko Slaveykov's famous line 'не сме народ, а мърша' was written in 1875. The fact that it's becoming more literally true than he meant it is hardly the fault of the Ottoman Empire.
Sad to hear, people really need to learn the concept of "voting with your dollar"
Except for the larger channels any individual channel doesn't bring in much revenue and the larger channels get some contact with a rep where they can get actual support. Though even that can be spotty from the stories some channels tell; like the time one of CGPGrey's secondary channels was banned... for impersonating CGPGrey.
Is there a reputable startup / company that employs Linux kernel developers?
I’ve had good luck with Devuan (Debian - systemd), though they tend to run a bit behind Debian Stable.

For me, the stability of it working (well) as it has for the last few decades is worth missing a few of the latest updates.
This is excellent - really conveys the scope, power and engineering prowess of Rome.

OT: For anybody interested, the original subway map (Harry Beck's for the London Underground) was constructed in his spare time; it was a massive hit with the public and his name is now printed with the map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_map#Beck's_maps
But that's the thing, it's not called a life sentence, and the thing that is called a life sentence, isn't a life sentence.

I dunno if I buy the "dehumanizing" argument, but I certainly think it's unnecessarily confusing.
> "Apple got caught literally slowing their older models down on purpose in order to have people switch into newer models."

"Apple denied wrongdoing and settled the nationwide case to avoid the burdens and costs of litigation, court papers show." - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphones-settlement-...

They haven't been "caught" doing that; they have been accused of that. Why is it the stupid conspiracy theory which wins the popularity contest, instead of the much more annoying true story - Apple cheaped out on batteries which couldn't provide enough current to run the phone as they aged? Or, just as factual, Apple slowed down the phone to keep it working longer on the same hardware thus making people avoid having to buy new phones.
Why is it laughable? I have already said several times what was uncivil about it. If I was a psychologist who read the comments of my posts I would have realize that subtle suggestions can be blown out of proportions and I would be very careful with what words I was using to express my intent.

A civil phrasing would have been, "I'm making this decision of my own volition but I personally plan to work out a peaceful solution for all parties involved". That would have been civil. Asking anyone to act on your behalf by giving feedback to a 3rd party when it's obvious the intent is negative is not civil. It is sinister.

It's also becoming clear to me these conversations are no longer productive and I have started to re-iterate points I made in other posts. If you want to argue further make sure you understand what point I'm making and why and then make a good faith and pertinent point. Otherwise I will no longer engage with anyone responding to posts in this thread.

You can also email me if you want and make your points in a longer format. I will consider them and respond if you have well researched rebuttals.
The realtor will blame the title insurance firm and will be out of the picture. The title insurance firm will claim they did nothing wrong, and that it is the landowner's actions (or inactions) that have caused the landowner's losses.
The dissent says that the 'reservation' was disestablished over time with the effect of many laws. So those 'unlawful' acts were, in fact not unlawful.

The whole thing is an interesting read.
I saw a figure once (they're hard to come by) that the value of the health insurance benefit for WA public school teachers was $36,000/year.

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/with-a-price-tag-...

https://www.hca.wa.gov/about-hca/school-employees-benefits-b...

Those links provide facts and figures, but no figure on what the value of the employee benefit is.

I'd encourage anyone interested to ask their employer's HR dept what the value is of their employer provided health care benefit, and compare.
Interview: Arm Server Chip Momentum (Clip)
Yah, I’m always looking for a good hat.
> we'll have to account for the fact that our day to day functioning has come to depend on a number of large federal regulatory bodies whose legitimacy is derived from it (ex FDA, FCC, etc).

The simplest way to deal with that would be to have those bodies continue to exist and publish "suggested" rules, which all the states could then adopt wholesale if they don't want to be bothered to do anything different.

Or a state could do something different, if they wanted to, which is kind of the point.
>According to this article[0], the early US adopted numerous restrictions on guns based on preexisting English common law, and during the revolutionary war even forbid anyone from owning a firearm without first swearing a loyalty oath to the government

Which is not what I was talking about. I was talking about gun types not regulations to get a gun, store a gun, registration or anything like that.

>And of course 200 years ago, slaves weren't allowed to own guns for obvious reasons[2]. Of course, slaves weren't considered persons at the time either.

I wasn't clear. I meant any free adult not anybody.

Some slaves were slave drivers. White slave drivers had access to guns. It is not clear if slave drivers who were slaves had guns but it is possible. This of course would be an exception if it did happen.

The average slave of course would not own a gun.

>It doesn't appear that there was ever actually a time in the US when gun ownership was completely unrestricted.

Again, that is not what I was arguing. There doesn't appear to be any restriction on the type of gun you could own. There were other restrictions like not shooting cannons inside of city limits for example. People were allowed to own cannons though.
I don't understand why a state need to interfere with the price businesses put on a service? How is it even legal to do something like that? and why this specific service and not any other service that charge more than 10%?
That of course was complete bs. The story of him trying to help a fictional Roma was fabricated after the fact to save his ass. What he did is he got drunk and stabbed somebody. Bulgaria does have issues with the rule of law but that particular drunken hooligan is not part of it.
That's great and all, but if you keep writing about it on the internet and telling everyone, eventually the flies will find out.
Things like not forcing birth control on a minority population gives them the high ground.

www.aljazeera.com
China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population: AP
> And what about other states? I vaguely recall that the Mohawk have claimed a large chunk of New York.

https://www.srmt-nsn.gov/resolve-the-boundary
I'm adding my thought that hosting a website on Tor primarily, will make it totally unavailable from many workplaces. Currently, Tor is not the place for a site that doesn't _require_ an extremely high level of anonymity of access.

The network policy does ban all personal devices, in order to control what connections originate from inside the network.

To be clear, I'm not demonizing Tor or Tor users. I like what the Tor project wants to do, and I support it, but believing it will be allowed in many corporate settings, in July 2020, is extremely naive. As I already mentioned, there's no legitimate use case to allow this in a corporate setting.
I don’t really think that a lot of day to day functioning depends on FDA. FDA definitely has a lot to say about a lot of things, and, arguably, without it, some undesirable things would happen more often, but all in all, we would be mostly fine.
Viewing a public tweet is not trespassing - its the point of the entire platform. US vs Jones determined that installing a tracker on a private vehicle is trespassing.

As a tax payer, I would prefer my tax dollars are used as efficiently as possible - so if the alternative is to hire human police officers to manually search twitter and create reports then I would oppose that in favor of automated technology. I don't think the technology is the debate here, it simply enables us as humans to be more efficient. The decision to surveil is the debate here, and I can see it both ways. Do I think the police should be aware of a large gathering (regardless of purpose) in their cities? Yes, I think that's prudent for a variety of public safety reasons. Do I want this done in a way that does not interfere with protests or have a chilling effect? Yes, absolutely.
Well, I do use an app called HapticKey which provides haptic feedback, but yes I was able to consistently activate things on it without looking even before I started using the app. Most actions I used provided direct feedback on the screen (e.g. deleting, opening a tab, opening an info window, etc...) so feedback was less an issue.
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> (very very close).

Eh, within 15 miles or so. 4MPH * 24h = 96 mile circumference circle, 96 miles / 2pi ~= 15 miles.
> Also I'm a bit confused by your stance given the realities of encryption. Does your network strictly block all outbound traffic that it can't actively MITM? If not, a nefarious employee could proxy their criminal (Tor or other) traffic through an external machine that they controlled. In fact this would be the obvious thing to do as visiting an HTTPS (apparently) website on a personal device would seem much less likely to arouse suspicion.

Yes - with some exceptions (lunch break facebook/youtube etc)
It's one thing for a private citizen to donate money to a Basic Income experiment, it's another thing entirely to legislate the Fed into minting cash for distribution. Basic Income is a necessary future, but the Universal part does not make any sense, and even this is not a Universal experiment, it's a surgical tactical strike. More reasonably at the national level could be a Guaranteed Progressive Income that was doled out below certain economic lines. Putting water on every house just because some homes are burning is a waste of precious water (that in this case also devalues water - to stick with the metaphor).
They also make boonie hats with retractable bug netting. You can forget it's there until you really need it. After a really buggy May/June trip I never go camping without mine.
I'd rather pay the 10% than touch facebook with a 10-foot pole.
The Pack.png Project
I really liked that place. I vacationed to Seattle and I saw it the same day as the Connections Museum, which is exceptionally fantastic.

Old telecom switches, some over 100 years old, still fully operational. The guided tour was just extraordinary. https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/

They have multiple phones hooked up to these old switches. After explaining the machine the tour guide picked up a handset, dialed a number and you'd hear "clickety clickety whir whir" and see these mechanical bars move around and the other phone would start ringing. You'd pick it up and have a conversation. Really magnificent. They had two 1960s video phones and you could have a conversation across the room.

There's a constant humming of belts and mechanical clicking, it's this really unique and distinct experience. Not many people were there the day I went so it was just me and a friend on what felt like a private tour. Very intimate. The guide was an old homebrew computing club member, extremely competent.

Also if this is your thing, Berlin has a computer gaming museum which is also amazing called Computerspielemuseum.

The living computer museum was just too good to be true. I hope it comes back. They had a Xerox Alto and an Apple 1 you could use. Just walk up and start typing away.

I had read a lot about the Xerox machines but I never used one. So it was just extraordinary to try all the things I've read about, it was like meeting a celebrity. The kludgy copy and paste before dragging was "invented", the VisiOn style menus, the clunky scrolling without scrollbars, all there.

They even encouraged you to program on punch cards to feed into some 1960s era machines they had running, including a CDC super computer. Or you could go use Unix on a teletype terminal and see the reams of paper pass by.

I had read Tracy Kiddals Soul of a New Machine about the Data General Eagle Computer, but I never thought I'd see one in person, just sitting there waiting for me to interact with it.

Or that I'd ever have a chance to just lounge on the couch of a Cray XMP.

The only things missing were foreign machines. No acorn or omron or any of the Soviet clones but if you set that aside, just great (unless there was a room off to the side dedicated to them that I missed... Quite possible)

As long as I'm plugging museums here's my short list: Imperial War Museum and the British Library, London, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City.

Every 5 feet of all of those is just shocking in what famous and wonderful artifacts they have. Philadelphia's is world class, better than the MET, better than the Smithsonian, don't pass on it if you get the opportunity
The real mistake was to make Senators elected rather than appointed by the states as they originally were. Representation of the general population is the purpose of the House, the Senate was meant to represent the states in the federal government.
It's certainly something to think about when so much today revolves around giving the government even more power and control, all the way down to what we can say.

The Cherokees made up a large portion of the "Trail of Tears". The saddest part is they were largely fully "assimilated" into the "American" culture at the time. Most were fully "Christianized", spoke English, they translated many church hymns into their native language, built towns, and lived in houses. All like the "white man". Then they were asked to give up their guns and property and start marching.