skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And apparently fuck me for having the gall to want to control my air conditioner from my computer rather than GE Android app #12 that has God-knows-what baked in and that's going to be abandoned in two years anyway.

My aircon is infrared based so I bought a $20 infrared emitter, recorded all the button signals from the remote control and plugged it into HomeKit. Now I can voicecontrol/Remote control my antique aircon better than current models that still don’t support HomeKit

Bonus points: I put the emitter in line with both aircon and TV and use the same device to control both
> Banning something which hasn't broken US laws, on arbitrary grounds shouldn't be possible.

Of course it should. They control their store fronts. This is an extremist position you are taking.

> Also dictating which apps an individual can install/not install shouldn't be the job of the Federal Government.

They aren't doing that. Install the app from an APK if you care so much.

Protecting their citizens from hostile state actors is very much in their purview and mandate.

> At this point US is seemingly acting like a dictatorship with very less transparency.

Nonsense. TikTok isn't a US citizen. And they need to obey regulations. Ensuring US infrastructure and the private data of their citizens is protected is the sort of thing a democracy does.

> Chinese policy seems to have not significantly changed in the last 5 years towards the US,

I agree actually. They've been pulling this shit for more than a decade now. War on all fronts except military. I'm glad the world is starting to wake up to it.
What exactly does that have to do with US policies?
I join forums where I neglect to cultivate the necessary social capital required for anyone to care about anything I do. Then I get banned.

Coding is 99% marketing and 1% actual coding. You should give up and start a band that plays covers of songs by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Musicians have a better chance of success than coders.
You are focused on outputs what about inputs?
Don't know why this is getting downvoted - it's a legitimate (albeit rhetorical) question highlighting that China has never allowed western companies to compete fairly in their market.

See: Google, Facebook, etc. etc.
One of the easiest ways to fall into medieval behavior is to convince yourself that the property of being reprehensible, or disgusting, plays any part, even small, in "deserving" to suffer punishment by the state. It's the antithesis of civilization, and a dire evil.
Part of what I do is something I'll call "pile of reserve" investing. I'll hold like $X in some leveraged fund but I have 50x in cash on the side so if things go south I can dollar average my way to profitability. This also requires constantly winnowing down profitable investments to insulate from risk. I've been doing this for about 3 years. About a 3x return on my current holdings, which is about 50% of the maximum I've had in.

This will very likely make less money but really, I can pay all my (admittedly very modest) bills with my portfolio and have returns left over + my actual day job income so honestly, why do I care?

I come from a privileged background and I lived that life. I didn't like it and have no interest in returning to it.

People have to find the strategy and mix that works for them.
When it comes to language learning, the biggest problems aren't that the QA forum isn't right in terms of how the software is designed. There's far more complex problems around ensuring good and correct content is curated so that people aren't mislead, providing correct language-specific learning tools (stroke order, toggle-able furigana, highlighting of names are all super helpful for japanese for example).

Creating a forum with a slightly different QA model is technically interesting, but this one doesn't seem to be tackling any of the more important things around moderation, curation, and actually having a good community.

I also have some specific critiques of this website.

The login flow / signup flow is, to say the best, not great.

If I open the network tab in my browser, this thing is constantly making requests to 'chsk' the entire time the site is open.

In addition, all the current question's answers are just plain bad, so I'm wary of the community its attracted thusfar. Usually you'll want to "seed" software like this with a group of trusted contributors who are knowledgeable, and a few possible users who need help.
Clearly, right now it's not that.
"Just throw more hardware at it."
Starlink doesn't have to completely match Comcast one-to-one, they just have to be a credible competitor. That increases the bargaining power of the consumer. Particularly as Starlink grows and as OneWeb and especially Project Kuiper comes online.

These low-latency satellite constellations will reduce the local oligopoly/monopoly rents (and thus profitability) of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Cox, Frontier, etc... And the money that would've been profit will go to consumers' pockets, even if they don't themselves subscribe.
No, it is a native Chinese word that predates European language influences.

那個 = that thing

那些 = those (plural)

那裡 = that place / over there

那天 = that day

那種 = that kind of
Different, the Secure Enclave was basically the one thing unaffected by checkm8.
They are technically correct the hostile policy hasnt changed in the last 5 years.
My understanding is he could see the numbers but failed to recognize or make sense of these pictures.He wasn’t aware of the letter pictures anymore and could not associate them with the “numerical symbols” stored in his memory (if our brains do it this way). But with the stored symbols he still can do mental math so his higher cognitive function must be at least partly intact. Using the computer program metaphor we can say his input routine for numbers is scrambled but the other calculation routines remained intact.

My guest is because we do math, our brain create the association for not only the numbers but also what we do with these numbers (maths routines). And because we don’t work with numbers all the time (we also can do symbolic maths), it’s necessary to separate the numbers with its meaning to accomplish these feats. If I would “program” our brain, it’ll be much more efficient to separate the recognition routines with the higher-function routines because we need to adjust the recognition routines all the time due the (slightly) different fonts and hand scripts of all the people.
You might find Mark Handley's visualization illuminating:
https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY
Code formatting is indeed minor here compared to the rest, but you missed the one that popped out at me: The opening curly braces are sometimes on the same line as the condition, sometimes on the following line.

That said,

> I’m absolutely sure that the code above is fake.

> That’s the first time that I see a synchronous SQL query:

var accounts = apiService.sql(
"SELECT * FROM users"
);

Pretty sure you meant synchronous ajax/web request rather than sql query. This could be old code, because it totally used the be a thing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequ...

Edit: Actually hell, it still works, at least in Firefox. It just also logs the deprecation warning mentioned on that page. I thought this was already removed.
Does opening this google doc give the owner my
email address?
It wasn’t just patent infringement — they stole corporate documents and assets from Peloton Levandowski-style. There are other companies doing exercise streaming like Mirror which haven’t had to shut down so I don’t think this is some kind of massive patent roadblock for the industry.
the technical term for this is "mutual" or "mutualized"
Nothing, that's the point. Censorship is not a "US conservative complaint", it's a problem independent of nationalities or political parties.
Canada has both juries and common law; I can't imagine a conviction for something so lacking in obvious criminal intent.
It's not 4% ROI, it's 4% withdrawal rate. And even that is not super safe if you're retiring for many decades (the RE part).

You can use a variety of online calculators to back test a 4% withdrawal rate - maybe 80% safe, but 20% of the time you'll go broke before dying.
Obviously these old Web 1.0 sites are still relevant because they ~always had high-quality content. I wonder if not jumping on the latest design bandwagon helped cement them in that place. And how much does the design turn off the average Robinhood investor (and I do mean investor, not speculator)?
Some context—in JS1024, the code has to fit in 1024 bytes, so you can safely assume that “efficiency” refers to size and not runtime performance.

This particular demo only creates the Path2D objects once, at startup, and then hammers the canvas with a ridiculous amount of overdraw.
Looks like the bullet list of things we might complain about, almost randomly presented.

Since there's no reasoning presented, I guess there's no point engaging?
> (2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that— ...

> (B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

So you'd need to convince the court that the DRM-cracking device that you sell ("offer to the public") has more than "limited commercially significant purpose" despite being intended and marketed for use only on out-of-copyright works.

The vast majority of DRM-encumbered media works probably have over 80 years of future copyright term applying to them, so a consumer would die before they ever need to crack the DRM and enjoy their access to the then-public domain works. On the other hand, works are entering the public domain every year, and some of these will be available in formats that are DRM-encumbered, so it seems unreasonable for Congress to have passed a law which effectively prevents people from selling devices that allow copyright to expire in practice.
Most follow based network at least injects some sort of content that isn't 'followed'.
You'll need to run some kind of line for any kind of mini-split. Seems kinda moot point if it's 220 vs 110. Anything that isn't removed and evidence of install hidden within less than a day is probably not going to be doable with a rental.
But how would you call this API from the browser synchronously? I guess in theory there is a synchronous XHR call but I’ve never seen it used. That could be something you add to the problems.
what about not collecting user data? isnt that better than msft collecting it?
Huh interesting. Do you have sources for that information?
Would that be a mobius strip of universes? That makes me think of the central finite curve from Rick and Morty.
Look at the hugest YouTubers. They aren’t putting out 30m videos once a month like TC is. This isn’t an attempt to game things.
Poh-Shen Lo's daily challenge website. Buy a module https://daily.poshenloh.com/ and do it yourself too, its competitive math for kids her age. He's the current US Olympiad coach
> One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist etc.

Having a BB gun in your backpack doesn't make you a terrorist [1]. This is absurd.

> If you're position is US good, China bad, and Pompeo is not a China-hawk (forgone consensus among China watchers) then there's very little we can reconcile on.

Pompeo appears to have had no position on China before becoming Secretary of State in '18. Furthermore he drew a clear distinction between the CCP and the Chinese people in his speech last week:

"But our approach can’t just be about getting tough. That’s unlikely to achieve the outcome that we desire. We must also engage and empower the Chinese people, a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party."

> China didn't start the decoupling or cold war, nor start and continues to ramp up bellicose escalations.

The fact is that the CCP is a fascistic regime, and the US can no longer ignore it. We have been _exceedingly_ cool with them, have worked well together in the region, and we'd super love to get rich together. But we can't ignore the mass surveillance state. We can't ignore the Uighur concentration camps, the Great Firewall (and its DDoS attacks), the human rights abuses in Hong Kong, the invasion of India and the South China Sea, the missile-firing and election interference against Taiwan, the relentless cyberattacks, or honestly, just the fountain of cartoonish fury whenever someone tweets something like "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong".

> You're welcome to believe US/Pompeo is virtuous in their crusade, and CCP is bankrupt, but it doesn't stop the fact that China is big enough to respond, has responded, and will continue to.

Well in US political terms I'm pretty progressive (the amount I donated to Senator Warren's presidential campaign is, uh, a good measure of my privilege haha) so I wouldn't say I believe either the US or Pompeo are "virtuous". What I will say though--to return to my original point--is that there is absolutely no comparison between the Magnitsky acts and the CCP's National Security Law. The Magnitsky acts target corrupt murderers; the NSL targets Hongkonger democracy activists. Case closed.

I'll change my tune if the CCP writes up racist Alabama prosecutors though. Fair is fair (seriously).

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...
It seems you agree with me that UBI is a good idea, but that human beings and imperfect systems muck it all up.

I have yet to see a government institution remain uncorrupted and focused on the original principles upon which it was founded. That has little to do with politics as every party comes up with some bad ideas once they find themselves with power. This is at least partially due to the fact that every party is under constant pressure to 'do something' even if doing absolutely nothing (or at least nothing visible) is the right choice.
With the demise of FatWallet Finance (which I read daily) I haven't really had a good source for the kind of content that used to live there.

The Bogleheads forums live in kind of a parallel universe, with sometimes very similar content but a very different outlook. I try to read weekly but a lot of it is kind of "interesting but not useful".

Another interesting resource, although not my niche, is the Whitecoatinvestor forums, which offer a neat view at a very specific profession's finances at every stage of their career.
> after asking them to sell the vaccine at cost

Reading the article it sounds like it’s supposed to be a break-even affair.
Ok, fair, but for the 80%+ of the U.S. that aren't high income earners 5x won't be as easy. I obviously didn't include a ton of nuance in my original post.
Someone else answered your question, but I’d add that I previously owned a Sunny SF-B1002 “dumb” belt drive spin bike for about $350 and it worked great. It’s 90% as good for much less money. I only upgraded because I use it a lot and wanted a couple M3 features (infinite frame geometry adjustment and numbered/repeatable resistance control), or I’d still use the Sunny.
Also "national security purposes" is exactly what the Chinese government said when they banned Facebook, Twitter, etc.
The technical argument from the court is quite intriguing.

The Supreme Court justice only wants to prevent access to the blocked profiles within Brazil. However, he says Facebook should not allow Brazilians themselves to view such profiles by “subterfuge” (by changing their registered country on Facebook settings or using VPNs, according to the Court’s tech advisors).

In the end, the most efficient way for Facebook to comply with this order is a worldwide ban.

Facebook may have a shot at reversing the ban and the fines on its appeal. But it certainly doesn't help that several previous orders on this case had been ignored before.
I would do anything for Facebook to leave mine. If this is a step in that direction, I'm all for it.
In the early days of ajax proliferation, I remember reading blog posts where people recommended synchronous XHR to keep your code linear, instead of trying to understand callbacks, which would make the code too complicated.
You are conflating rule of law and sovereignty.
I was, long ago, a microwave radio tech. It's cool to me that line of sight issues still create issues. For the most part, my old line of work is dead because tech marches on. My immediate reaction is that your neighbor should be able to use a troposcatter shot[1] to fix his issues, but I suppose the provider has bigger fish to fry.

I'm a bit sad about it, because tech advances have technically made this sort of thing dead easy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_scatter
I hope you can afford my answer. It’s time to live your life for you, not “them.”
In the time it took you to ask, you could have been searching. This is the first result on "shuttle design airforce" in Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_design_process#A...
The MIT license is so simple, just add/delete to make your own. My bespoke license is free and open source for the user, but restricts them using it for or on behalf of another person.
This vaguely sounds like MIDI to me
If it's reciprocity, then perhaps the government should state so, lest people think the US is becoming China.
> Inexperienced bicyclists have a very real chance of getting hit by a car.

I have 3 friends that were hit by cars last year, 2 bikes and one e-scooter.

None of them were at fault.
More or less. I doubt Mr. Bolsonaro is going to make much effort to enforce this ruling, even if he could.
Everyone has roads at all stages in their development. It's not an either-or. But based on a few historical samples, it seems like developing nations (US a century ago included) build national rail lines to support rapid development. Then build interstates (or some equivalent, assuming they are big enough to need them) to upgrade their highway system after being fully developed.
Including features that are never used is bad design even if they don't compromise every other aspect of the design.

What mainly doomed the shuttle was the DoD requirement that the shuttle be able to pluck a satellite from a polar orbit in one orbit, making it necessary to include the massive wings so that it wouldn't be forced to land in the Pacific as the world rotated underneath it.
Ok, but this is still about one single case.

It’s like people who have no experience with Tesla vehicles hate the company for whatever reason and are looking for validation of their judgement.
The video seems to be no longer live, so times have changed (?). Undocking now starts at 6m45s: https://youtu.be/13OkD0C_TWU?t=400

Physical separation is at 11m35s: https://youtu.be/13OkD0C_TWU?t=695
spoiled consumer.
It has since be sold to an American enterprise.
https://theconversation.com/is-it-ethical-to-use-data-from-n...

It's a very complex issue. My read of the linked article is that, at a minimum, the victims whose likeness is used should consent to its use. Even given that, I'm not sure that our society would tolerate such an endeavor.
That doesn't help much that the problem here is people objecting to the content hosted, regardless of whether they view it or not.
May I ask why you decided to roll your own forum software instead of using something off the shelf like NodeBB (disclaimer, I own NodeBB)?

It may seem like a good idea at first to build just what you need, but you will get feature creeped HARD by your users wondering why your forum-lite software doesn't have X feature (that other forums have), once you get past the MVP stage...
Unfortunately it wasn’t planned so I bought it on the spot. Cost £200 or around 28k yen.
If you didn't make it to the very end, he finds out from his bank right after the implant that the PayTag will no longer be supported in 3 years! What an unfortunate turn of events!
Sure, by enacting strict laws that forbid individual competitors from exceeding some amount of market share or forming conglomerates. Corporate breakups are self-executing. No compliance bureaucracy required, just investigators and lawyers. The government doesn't acquire the power to pick winners and losers, they indifferently breakup any player who gets big enough to distort the market or centralize too much power.
Yeah the international version of TikTok is already restricted here in China. Last time I tried to use it with VPN but it didn't work.
Honestly I think this just doesn't work out this way in reality. First of all, we know that deplatforming racists/fascists does actually help to stop the spread of racist/fascist ideas.

Secondly, and I think this is the more salient point, encountering racist/sexist/transphobic/whatever speech as a person who is the target of such rhetoric is immediately harmful and othering, especially when these views aren't actively challenged or disavowed by society. This doesn't even include the possibility that hearing hate speech might trigger some prior trauma experienced because of one's identity.

By taking this stance, you're implicitly advocating the allowance of direct threats to other people's very existence, under the justitification that everyone will be better off that way because it's all out in the open. To me, that just sounds like you don't really understand the impact that hate speech can have on a person's ability to live with the same freedoms and opportunities that other members of society enjoy.

Example: You have a job interview downtown, but you're black and the Klan has a parade scheduled that day, and you're scared of the calls for violence. You don't make the interview, so you obviously don't get the job. You were denied the opportunity to because of the 'free speech' of others.

I for one would like to see more focus on Freedom of Association alongside Freedom of Speech in discussions like these - you can argue whatever you like, but nobody has to listen to you or give you a platform (and if you're a fascist, they shouldn't, and should be actively deplatforming you because your ideas are so awful/dangerous).
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Which companies are locked out? Last I looked China is packed full of American companies, far moreso than the other way around. Apple, Walmart, Nike, Coke(61% marketshare), P&G, KFC, McDonald's, GE, GM, Boeing (50% marketshare), MS (99% marketshare) all make billions each year on the mainland, many make more there than in the US.

It's frankly quite disturbing how something so completely wrong constantly ends up the top of HN comments on these tiktok threads lately. 2 of the top 3 comments say this and it's not true whatsoever. It's just plain jingoism.

Since you've raised the issue can I as an Australian, sell my lamb to US consumers unhindered? We have a free trade agreement, take a guess about our market access in certain farming sectors? Even with shipping I can sell for far better prices than domestic farmers so your government sets up tariffs and sanctions to stop that happening. Ask some South American corn farmers about their market access too while this topic is hot :)

The US is so blatantly hypocritical and that's the real "cringe" here. The ultra-nationalist sentiment in this place is laughable.

Tiktok was a risk and I don't really have much of a problem with the choices made but the online justifications are unreal to listen to.
It’s interesting that folks are generally giving Trump the benefit of the doubt. There are many comments to the effect of “while there is no public evidence, maybe the US government has secret evidence that TikTok has broken the law.”

Trump is incredibly vindictive. Remember a month ago when he hosted a way under-attended rally, because of a fake registration movement that spread on, yup, TikTok? Trump remembers.
Mental illness is a broad category of people. Some types are more serious than others. Some exhibit repulsive behaviors, some don't.