skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Future-dating it is a sensible move to allow people to get used to the idea, to disseminate the news, and to allow time to obtain the necessary equipment. It will increase compliance compared to an immediate rule change. Bear in mind that only about 5%-10% of people in UK currently are wearing masks in shops (based on my own local observations).
Is 5G really already “critical”? I thought it was only just starting to be phased in when the virus became more important to worry about.
Whether China liberalise is a red herring.

This is a geopolitical clash of power. It's not about respective political regimes, it's about relative power and influence. If China liberalises tomorrow none of the fundamental issues will change and China will still be a threat to the US. The only thing that will change is that the US will have to find something else in order to label China 'evil'.
You're assuming everyone who must to go to a shop in the next 11 days already have in their possession an appropriate face covering; the definition of which is as yet unknown.
Wow; quite the downvotes for even thinking it could be sabotage?
the USN investigators will consider it as a possibility, even if unlikely.
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Will the brexit still be in progress by then?
Don’t forget how they won’t even acknowledge hardware is the problem until 5 years after the device came out and many complained. By that time, they might even be so generous as to offer fixing the problem with a partial recall, long after anyone got rid of their lemon. See the gfx chipset desoldering itself in 2012 (I think it was that year?) MacBooks, the butterfly keyboard that stops working the second a tiny spec of dust gets under it, etc.
And if you pretend deflation is bad, you also have entirely missed the point.
I think your fix would have to be eligible for some program of theirs like the one they had for the GPU issues [1]. Best to check with an authorized reseller/service and have a look at their current Repair Extension programs [2].

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/20/apple-ends-2011-macbook...
[2] https://support.apple.com/exchange_repair
Sure, then how about these paragons of military justice:

1. In 1998, a US maring navigator flew - against US regulations - his fighter aircraft at low altitude over the Cavalese ski resort in Italy.

The muppets managed to cut the wires of crowded cable car - killing 20 allied civilians. Captain Ashby and Captain Schweitzer were put on trial … and found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide.

2. In 2001 the Navy Los Angeles-class submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) submarine deliberately breached the surface to impress some politicians onboard. The muppets managed to sink a Japanese teaching ship - killing 9 allied civilians, including 4 children.

After Commander Waddle had faced the Naval Board of Inquiry, it was decided that a full court-martial would be unnecessary and he was given an honorable discharge.

I can go on, but I doubt I have the karma :)
I think I saw one of these demonstrations! I recall him mentioning the tiny temperature difference being enough, as liquid nitrogen is a few degrees colder than liquid oxygen. Wasn't sure at the time if he was kidding about his supplier refusing to sell him oxygen; now I know he wasn't.

Assuming I have my memories straight, I must have been about 12 at the time. I had the honour of being handed some candy from his stash [0]. Seemed like a nice gesture. Of course, his next demonstration was some kind of sugar-fuelled pyrotechnics. Evidently, he made a lasting impression.

It seems unfair that chemistry has fire and explosions as such a universal and compelling demonstration. I suppose computer science has graphics.

[0] Of course, this being in England, I was in truth handed sweets, but one makes accommodations for our American cousins.
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That's not true for a lot of products. Take car, or bicycles, for example.

The high end ones are always breaking down and are extremely expensive to repair.

Same with anything cutting edge. It's new tech, it's not durable tech.
LXD is awesome. I use it via REST for exploit.courses to dynamically create containers for users.
I agree wireless chargers are super finicky, but don't most phone screens wake up when they start charging? I always used that as the indicator for when I had gotten it to the right spot.
First reported case of transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Well, that's not quite the full story, is it. He couldn't take time off work because he'd used all his vacation and holiday; presumably he couldn't quit because he needed money to eat.

He didn't seem to be mentally well; who would start a second fire after the first? ISTM that a society which forces people to work at the margin like this is going to reap a harvest of questionable quality.
> It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

As much as I like Douglas Aadms, this statement is just wrong. A lot of bird chatter is songs to demarcate territory, threat warnings, contact calls to maintain flock awareness, young birds saying 'feed me', and others.

I know when a cat has entered my garden by the clucking warning calls that the blackbirds make. They make a different warning noise when I interrupt them on my bird feeder. Sometimes I'm alerted to a buzzard by the calls of rooks who are ganging up on it.
Significantly more won’t post about their product working as expected.
While that is true, these rules should’ve been brought in months ago.

(Also: do people really need more than one week?)
So basically exactly what Zim-Wiki does, except that Zim uses its own markup (can be copied as Markdown/text/pandoc, though). Otherwise every page is just a txt file, directory structure is respected, other files (images, etc.) accessible/linkable from notes, etc.

Has the advantage of being not Mac-only.
Pandemic
Obviously people all over the world is adjusting to the new normal way of life but my worry is will social gathering become a thing of the past even for the generation yet unborn?
A resolution is difficult. China is a totalitarian country and totalitarianism needs to be fought, but I doubt that a democratic China would be any different when it comes to their claims to the world. They'd want to expand just as they want to expand now. Just look at the various western colonial empires of history. Many of them were democracies in some form or fashion.

Any long term resolution to the conflict has to involve the realization that China has had 100 bad years and now has a giant comeback. And that the US has had 60 good years but now large parts of it decline.
Many things represent a national security risk. Switching off the equipment overnight, I would argue, also represents a risk to national security.
I couldn't finish reading this. While interesting, I sense a lot of hype, and deliberate bending of meaning (e.g. federal government less strict about requiring college degree -> all companies less strict)

Traditional college is not just about information scarcity either. People also go to bond, network, participate in extracurricular groups, party, etc.

Traditional college isnt going to go anywhere.

Also, it's depressing to think of society sitting behind a screen all day. I think most people feel the same way. We need to stop using technology to tear apart the social fabric of society.
Maybe the fact that one is a totalitarian state and the other is an ally?
This is spot on - A large majority of residential internet customers would see no difference between a 50/5 plan and a 300/30 plan. I done a significant amount of consulting in the ISP would and every time we would do mass speed increases there would be virtually no increase in aggregate traffic levels. As long as people could go to a speed test and get their subscribed speed they were happy. An HD Netflix stream takes the same amount of bandwidth no matter what your max speed is.

Most consumers aren't willing to pay the monthly cost that ISPs would be need to charge to make overbuilding fiber economically feasible. DSL providers overbuild with fiber because they can't compete with cable and the rising cost of maintenance of a copper plant. Some cable providers will do new builds with FTTH or overbuild when upgrading the existing plant is cost prohibitive. But overbuilding a working coax plant almost never makes since. Spending millions of dollars to offer higher speeds at the same price just doesn't make business sense.
Right. I think it's mostly just to keep the US happy.
yet, dissimilar in so many ways (number of manufacturers, ease of access, cost, offenses against fellow humans notwithstanding)
I'm constantly seeing westerners whine about Chinese human rights violations while simultaneously ignoring the HR violations occurring everywhere else, especially in the west. American cops routinely kill people. Yet, how many people have died in Hong Kong because of their protests?

The notion that China lacks 'proper civil society' is in my mind rooted in a western sense of orientalism and good old fashioned racism. I'm no defender of China, but let's recognize that the same nations trying to punish China because 'human rights'(US, UK) are the same ones responsible for killing close to 1 million Iraqis and creating the largest humanitarian crisis on earth(Yemen).
Because it incentivises a specific mindset, which then cascades into everyday situations. Computers do what they are told (by root), other humans don’t do that - it can be a source of friction and frustration. A frightening amount of radicalised terrorists eventually turn out to be IT people... IMHO we don’t yet appreciate the influence that the tools we live and breathe have on ourselves.
Given we've found zero proof that China has ever put backdoors in hardware.

And the devastation to their economy if we did find backdoors which would forever poison Chinese electronics is a far greater security risk to them, than any advantage they may possibly get from implementing backdoors.

I assume it's actually because 5G has to be found causing the Coronvirus and they are covering it up?
I am very much talking about the unit shutting down from heat. If I plan on rendering video overnight or anything like that, I change the maximum CPU utilization to 97%. If I want to play a modern game with heavy requirements, I set it to 80% or even less.
Good afternoon
Bought a PC case last year which has a green power LED. It's infuriating how bright it is in the dark, and despite being placed below my desk I can still see it e.g. when playing a game in the dark. I wrote a message to the manufacturer and suggested that this is pretty annoying. They were quite dismissive and replied that it's "impossible to make it darker". I'm not an electrical engineer but I'm positive even I could accomplish that task with some additional resistors.

Edit: I should also add that the LED is part of the power button, so it's not so simple to just tape over it. If I want to play in the dark, I put a piece of paper / cardboard on top of the PC.
>Another great insight from him is that companies go downhill once a sales person runs it, not a product person.

Here's the video if anyone hasn't seen it [1], think it rings so true to Tim Cook's Apple. The purity of the product vision just isn't there anymore and things are actively made worse for the user just to scrape back a few measly dollars: e.g no longer shipping a short power cable with $2000 laptops.

Think it's sad that a lot of the fans of Apple who used to say believe that it doesn't matter if Windows sells more, Mac OS is the better product.

Now if you say anything negative about Tim Cook's Apple you just get told how successful it is as if thats a metric for a good product. Just because something is successful and profitable doesn't mean it's good by following that logic there is literally no reason for the Macintosh to exist, everything before it was already successful and it was actually less successful for decades.

[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
I'm not sure it's just a China-US thing. I think Europe will increasingly find itself taking a role. India too.

To clarify, while US-China superficially seem like the 'sides'. Really, what I think is happening is that the values of many (especially Western) countries around human rights, democracy, freedom of religion and expression, are coming into conflict with a new kind of Chinese authoritarianism that really doesn't care for these things and is quite willing to subjugate large groups of people in doing so (Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, claims to Taiwan, etc.).
I made a GUI too, but dont actively develop it anymore. https://github.com/dobin/lxd-webgui
I'm not in the US.
do you make a new account for every comment somehow?
If you need some encouragement: i agree that this is hard. But experiences like this are the most valuable. Many advances in our field came from a place like this.

Sometimes it means throwing away stuff and starting from scratch. This isn’t giving up, quite the opposite.
This is a good analysis. You aren't seeing a constant drumbeat of bad China news because the US suddenly cares very deeply about Muslim lives - otherwise we'd be hearing a lot more about India, for example. China threatens the US' global hegemony. To the extent people in power care about China's political system, it is used to rope in liberals to an anti-China stance and manufacture consent for various measures against them, military or otherwise.
Yes, but you need a lot more gateways, jumphosts and general indirection to deal with the different network segments. And you need to customize a lot if stuff, because you can't just log "it came from 10.12.13.14", you need to log the network segment and gateway it came from as well. Non-flat address spaces are hell.

That said, the real solution is IPv6
they could introduce the measure immediately for all but essential shops, with essential shops a week later to allow people to acquire appropriate face covering
new 2018 MBP battery can't be repaired and you have to replace the whole casing.
Manager Can’t Code? They Shouldn’t Be Your Manager
> As an European I don't what to think that the US seems so against kit from a Chinese company and completely fine with jit from an European company.

The US would of course prefer that American technology be available, but since it's not then I suppose a partnership with two trusted allies is preferable to one with an untrusted adversary.

Nokia and Ericsson also aren't arms of the state widely believed (fairly or not) to actively facilitate global industrial and military espionage activities on behalf of a hostile government, so there's that.
Cheaper than buying a pack of single-use round stickers is using a sewing needle to make a tiny hole in a piece of electrical tape, and sticking that over the LED such that just a little light can come through the hole. It's enough to see the state of the indicator when you care, and also enough to keep it from annoying when you don't.
This! I also use electrical tape for complete blackout, and paper tape for dimming.

On a side note, also black electrical tape for laptop camera covering :)
"ideally"
Killer app... Exterminate!
Fair, I should have said "still on a ballistic trajectory". Given that a bullet fired not straight up may travel miles, I'm just guessing here, but legal was probably not too keen on them testing the more likely scenario. And, of course, every wants the payoff of full scale.

I totally agree that simulations of the most likely events would have been nice. The show could have benefited from more strict adherence to the scientific method. Alas, that probably would have made the show less appealing for a large segment of the audience.
This is why the Chinese strategy is not to give in to US bullying but create an alternative order in the world. Either the US comes to terms with it or we see the US empire lash out even harder
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> If China liberalises tomorrow none of the fundamental issues will change and China will still be a threat to the US. The only thing that will change is that the US will have to find something else in order to label China 'evil'.

Cite please. And won't the best way to debunk the "propaganda" be to just liberalize right? So ... everybody is waiting and has been waiting for decades, China should stop making excuses and get on with it.
I celebrate efforts to educate and credential students that don't put them into a lifetime of debt. But, a few points of order/grains of salt:

Even though going to college means you may take out more debt that you can pay off in any reasonable amount of time, bailing on college to classes from social media entrepreneurs or to start a company backed by Peter Thiel is a risk-heavy strategy that will not pay off for most. Yes, autodidacts with a safe family situation will likely do well.

But what about students from poor backgrounds, students without stable family life, or just students who don't fall into the upper echelons of industriousness? How many of these students are thriving right now in a world of Zoom classes? Talking with friends who are teachers, many students are just skipping their classes altogether. Why would we expect them to do well in this new online world?

College, although way too expensive, works decently well for many of these students. I don't think online influencer courses will substitute.

Yes, unbundle Harvard. But the harder and more impactful piece is providing quality education to those who aren't in the tails of the distribution.
Turning Arabian Desert air into bottled water
Not to mention the sheer embarrassment. It’s one thing to choose to junk a ship.

Another to do so in public after an accidental fire at port on a 1.5B mini aircraft carrier.
The founders of the (rather successful) company I work at now likes to say the entire company is based on two things: "How hard can it be?" followed by "Hold my beer."

Sure, there have been occasions when that has been the wrong approach. But it's also been the right approach in a profitable enough way to compensate for the failures!
It's more ethical and efficient to burn paper money, if that's your goal.
If this is just Realpolitik/hardware independence, fine, but security..?

Any worthwhile Internet traffic should be encrypted in 2020, and if it isn’t, Huawei probably isn’t the most immediate concern.

And if it is encrypted, does it really matter who is listening?

Comments welcome, I know zilch about telecoms hardware.
I haven't found this video but I got this one about the terminal velocity of a penny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxvMLoKRWg

Long story short, it's not enough to kill you or even really hurt you (Adam Savage even shot his own hand to prove that).

That being said a bullet's terminal velocity is probably much higher thanks to it's much more aerodynamic shape. I can't be bothered to see if the math adds up because Mythbusters uses feet per second and miles per hour and I just refuse to touch this nonsense.
Can confirm that Roomba running over dog poop is a bad way to start the day
I was pleased with Vanatoo speakers that allow for dimming or shutoff of the LED lights.
Apple has the most impressive astro-turfing service out there. It's honestly scary impressive. Most of Apple's issues seem to be erased from the history of the internet and people's memories.

Do you remember iPad naming memes and jokes? Now it's one of the most iconic names in the world. Remember iPhone's antenna issues? People still claim it has always been phone with best cellular connection. Bendy phones? iPhone build quality is unmatched!

Cyberpunk corporate culture is here just without all of the neon aesthetics so no one has noticed.
Months ago there were massive shortages of PPE and UK was largely in lockdown with most people only going out to exercise and to shop, not going anywhere else, and not seeing famliy, friends etc.

Now the risk profile of things has changed because people are out and about more.

But 11 days does seem a bit long, sure.
Color e-ink displays are arriving soon in eBook and e-note devices
I recently got a docsis 3.1 modem, you have to call and activate the MAC. They just used the same IP, conveniently enough.
Unfortunately we currently don't. We do have the option to install it on k8s with a helm chart though https://github.com/mistio/mist-ce/tree/master/chart/mist
>I very much enjoyed the existence of €1 and €2 coins

Uggh. When I travel in Europe--especially Germany with its remaining heavy use of cash--I hate coinage that is sufficiently valuable that I can't just basically ignore it. The US seriously tried to do a dollar coin (the Susan B. Anthony)--which was arguably ill-conceived for at least a couple of reasons but I'm very happy with US coinage being basically loose change although I'd be happy to eliminate basically disposable pennies and maybe even nickels.

Though to tell the truth I normally use cash so seldom and/or at so few places in the US that it probably doesn't matter.
Both my TV and my router have options in the menu to turn the indicator lights off.
Is this just a big organic advertising operation? Or is this shallow, "buzzfeed-top list" style writing really something that can be called Reporting?

I guess it's only appropriate that someone that wrote their thesis on the telephone game/chinese wispers ends up making a newsletter summarising twitter rumours.
This complaint seems really flawed.

> PagerDuty for example doesn't save people any time, it just sends alerts.

Have you tried building a pagerduty in house? That is literally the time save. The "value of pagerduty" is still measured the same way as any other tool.

Do I build it custom in house? Do I pay someone else a modest amount?

That is what this tool is doing and is geared towards startups who make this decision very regularly. It's got 5 question boxes - of course, there's no way it's going to cover an enterprise consideration that needs 3 analysts to decide whether buying that SAP module is really worth $3mm/year.

Someone made a free tool and you're complaining about it as if it shouldn't exist. Very unsupportive.

Downvoted.
Little of consequence most likely, but in the USA the route would be an fcc complaint I believe.

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

The technical details as to why they are failing to unsubscribe you does not matter at all. What matters is, you've unsubscribed repeatedly and they are failing to register your intent.
From a EU/UK perspective there’s no good coming from it.

It’s like being caught in a fight between your drunk uncle and your berserk cousin.
It's hard for robots to compete with below minimum wage illegal immigrant labor. I pay $100 for two people to spend 4 hours cleaning a 3000 square foot home - including laundry.
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Because we need the JVM to die?
The only way this makes sense is abstract of any value judgements, and yes sure, if we in the west ignore that everything about the Chinese Communist Party and how it conducts itself is an affront to our values then it makes no difference. But we are humans, we have values, we make value judgements.
Taking your vitamins is the first step. People seem healthy until it turns out they had chronic low levels of vitamin D and K.
Problem is Twitter is heavily manipulated by actors with the money.
Journalists weakened position as laborers created a generation of journalists without real mentorship. This in turn made us lose knowledge of consequences and thus ethics.

Finally neo journalists just watch Twitter all day long, which makes it their main source. This amplifies the adverserial content farms employed by centralized money.

In a sense, mass "social" media is the modern incarnation of royalty's replacement for religion.
If the face masks are that essential (which they probably are): wrap a t shirt around your face.
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