skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand (and even support) the government not wanting foreign companies exfiltrating data for national security reasons. But why this one specific company? Why only the Chinese government? Why now? Why not address the wider problem and protect all of our data from exfiltration by all foreign companies? Or regulate and monitor companies that do?

I’ve never used TikTok and I’m really not a fan of any social media company but the way this whole situation is being handled feels decidedly un-American and frankly unfair to TikTok/ByteDance.
I think there are several reasons:

- The pricing for their flagship models made absolutely no sense given the specs, poor battery life and questionable QA.

- Samsung and the big Chinese manufacturers advertise everywhere, you can get their phones at the shop around the corner. At least now in Germany you can find the Pixels at Saturn and Mediamarkt (and often at a discount).

- Most people don't care about software updates. They might notice the custom Samsung UI and be annoyed by pre-installed bloatware, but they won't know which version of Android the phone is running, let alone its latest security patch. Even a 200€ phone will get Google Play services updates and be able to install almost anything for 5+ years.

So in the end, you see Pixels in the US where Google does advertise them a bit, and also because there are still a lot of people who get subsidized phones from their carriers (or Google Fi for that matter).

But yeah in Europe... I do remember people getting the Nexus 4, 5, the 5X once it got cheaper. But the Pixel 1/2/3/4, not so much. The 3a has probably done better lately as resellers tried to get rid of their stock, I think I've seen it sold as low as 239€.

I think it's good if Google goes back to mid-range models. I don't think they'll ever be able to make a good flagship. But I really wonder why they aren't trying harder (or at all, in most countries). For now Android One phones are lagging behind in the camera department, but I cannot believe it'll be the case forever. Once Nokia has caught up, what's going to be left to overpriced Pixels?
Yeah, Wire failed my requirements, but I probably should have mentioned it. (I simply forgot about it when I was posting.)

There's the issue you mentioned, and there's also the issue of them violating their published policy (either by the letter or in spirit) when they accepted new owners/investors.[1] Even if it met my requirements, I would be leery, and reluctant to suggest that others invest their time and build their communications network on such a foundation.

Of course, things can change over time. Maybe Wire will do things differently in the future, and become more appealing. That doesn't solve a problem for me today, though.

For the record, there's some discussion of Wire and other apps scattered about the privacytools.io issue tracker[2]. The signal:noise ratio there isn't great, but some folks here might find it interesting. As long as I'm posting links, their main site is worth a look, and the section about instant messengers[3] relates directly to this thread.

[1] https://nitter.net/Snowden/status/1194396764293550080

[2] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues

[3] https://www.privacytools.io/software/real-time-communication...
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My guess is their evaluation is somewhat in parallel and at least some communication existed before this proposal was made. Thus I expect their requirements to be largely compatible with this proposal.
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The iPhone defaults to HEIF, and all Android devices running at least Android 9 have the option to save images in HEIF. That being said, I have no idea if you get any of the benefits of a higher bit-depth.
> It seems that in an AOA DISAGREE situation, the flight is still permitted to take off.

That requires the AOA sensors to disagree while on the ground. Do they even report meaningful values while on the ground? (I mean, I suppose on takeoff roll they begin to do so...)
They don't have a monopoly, but that only makes Patreon's decisions even more foolish.
>The camera and its clean version of Android are the main ways that Google is aiming to differentiate the Pixel 4A from the likes of the OnePlus Nord, Samsung Galaxy S71, and iPhone SE.

I think it's weird to include the SE on that list. iOS seems like a great choice for a "clean" OS and the SE's camera, while not the highest end or with several sensors, is pretty great. A better emphasis would be storage and RAM which is pretty incredible and the inclusion of a headphone jack.
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AFAIK the AOA disagree alert was an optional add-on sold by Boeing!

https://qz.com/1608362/boeing-says-it-didnt-deactivate-stand...
> Windows software written in .NET and Java has little to worry about what CPU is being used, and there is plenty of it to chose from.

Considering many/ most pro apps like Photoshop are not written in .NET or Java, it is a significant concern. Likewise games—a category of software Microsoft has long dominated—are not generally written in Java/ .NET. Likewise, huge chunks of legacy corporate software is not very portable.

> Also outside HN bubble right there in the real world, macOS desktops are about 8% across the whole world. It doesn't really matter what CPU they have.

I wasn't talking about unit sales, I was talking about how much software the platform supports. Regardless of whether the Mac has 3% or 99%, there is going to be a better selection of software available for Mac on ARM in 6 months than for Windows ARM.
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Nintendo devices seem to be generally poor at supporting networking standards. The DS did not support WPA or WPA2. The Switch does not support IPv6.
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Now that they've read this post I'm sure they're firing up a few Sunfire machines for exploit development as we speak.
If it was only over a few weeks probably not, but I’m pretty sure that your past few weeks diet is representative of your average diet during the last ten years, and that could be riskier than a 737 max flight.
Not so with CarPlay. I’ve noticed that while using the Podcasts app and Apple Maps with CarPlay, it pauses the podcast while the maps app is speaking and then resumes it.
Let's pose the problem mathematically. Initial state is (0, forwards).

State (0, *) transitions to (1, forwards)

For k > 1, state (k, forwards) transitions to (k+1, forwards) with 5/8 probability and to (k-1, backwards) with probability 3/8.

For k > 1, state (k, backwards) transitions to (k+1, forwards) with 1/8 probability and to (k-1, backwards) with probability 7/8.

My intuition is that this very much resembles a biased walk so it should take exponential time. But there is the "momentum" to take into account.

Edit: It looks like we can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorbing_Markov_chain#Expecte...
What exactly are you guys looking for? A techie to help during due diligence without all the fuss from pathetic agencies like PWC, or someone to find opportunities out there? Or both?
That seems to be related to a rule that FAA added after some other incident but the MAX was not forced to follow this new rule, it is not an issue that was discovered when scrutinizing the MAX.
This seems to be a legitimate business move on the part of Microsoft. What is not legitimate is The-Donald/Twitler objecting simply because one of his rallies was oversubscribed by US Tik-Tok members. He is being a petulant toddler (ass-hat) and wants revenge.
Breathe.
Not trolling. Deep breathing for a minute clears my head so I can prioritize the right things such as taking care of my body instead of finishing that line of code. It also reduces stress.
Wireless charging for next to your bed makes it worth it. You just set it down on the charger and if you need to pick it up to answer a call you don't have to deal with the plug. And then when you're finished you just set it back down again without having to deal with the plug.

Same for if you're working at a desk you can just set it down on the charger when you're not using it 95% of the time.
Flu transmission and Covid transmission are not identical. Covid seems to be mainly transmitted by relatively large respiratory droplets. The expiration and transmission of those droplets is greatly reduced by a mask, even if some leakage occurs around the edges. Perhaps because the drops are more likely to just drop as a result.

Most of the studies have been done in high risk, high exposure situations. The high concentration and repeated exposure over extended periods of time greatly increase the chance of infection. This does not reflect the lower concentrations and shorter duration of most civilian exposures. It generally takes more than a single virus to actually result in infection.

Since there are indications that wearing masks does give you some protection and does give significant protection to those around you, why not accept the minor inconvenience and wear one?
Yeah, stop with this bullshit please.
This essay also appears in a book called "Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey" put together by the AMS and MAA recently. Its a collection of essays kind of like this about near (or actual) mathematical failures and what happened afterward. The whole thing is here [1]. Most of the essays are from pretty "normal" mathematicians rather than super-duper stars like Tao.

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Vampires get 10% discount.
Good ol winamp
How are you getting to the airport? However the method, it's far more likely to injure you than flying on a 737 MAX.
Keeping a tenant at 80% rent is still better than having no tenant at 100% rent. If business are having a few quarters of negative profitability, why can't the same happen to commercial real estate?
Even for floats & ints, try doing some array operations without allocating memory for intermediate results. In Julia, I can write whole PDE simulations that never allocate intermediate values inside the time integration loop. I haven’t done serious work with NumPy in a while, but I’m pretty sure that’s impossible for anything non-trivial, even a simple FD stencil such as `du[2:end-1] = D * (u[1:end-2] - 2*u[2:end-1] + u[3:end]) / dx^2`.
Hopefully this is a small enough partnership/stake to not torpedo the Samsung Smartthings / ADT partnership. I'm not a user of the latter, but appreciate the growing ecosystem.
I love that book
I'm re-reading it as we speak :)
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I was kind of hoping they'd change it to have an easter egg, if it determines it's likely in a left only hedge maze the path finding cheats and just walks to the exit.
What you describe isn't a "capital" thing. What you describe is a "power" thing. It describes princes and bureaucracies at least as well as it does capital, and there are plenty of investments into capital in the world which do not take place at these massive scales (indeed, probably the majority).

This becomes particularly relevant as one prescribes massive government interventions to "fix" this concentration of power, delivering it into the hands of even-more-powerful politicians.
OnePlus Nord and 7T should be around the same price as the 4a by the time it comes out. Oneplus has an incredibly clean OS. Compared to Samsung it is pristine. They also push updates for years and in a timely manner. Good luck trying to get that with Samsung.

But if you find the headphone jack the most important feature for a phone then the Oneplus is not for you,.

Interestingly enough, you might try to find a cheap Oneplus 5T from 2017 which is still a better phone than the 4a in 2020 and I think it was cheaper on release.

Google isn't really current when it comes to hardware.
I don't think the choice for founders is between $50 million and a small shot at $10 billion - it's between $50 million and a near-guarantee of getting crushed.

In your example, before giving you an offer, the big software company will conduct an internal analysis to figure out how much money they'd have to spend to develop the bare-minimum featureset to prevent their customers from fleeing to your competing product, then they'll back that number off a little bit, and try to buy you out. This number will probably be significantly higher than the amount it costed you to build the thing, because for them to replicate your features, they have the added overhead, bureaucracy, and inefficiencies that come with being a megacorp.

If you accept the offer, it saves them money and time.

If you decline the offer, they'll just greenlight their internal projects and steamroll you.
We need both collaboration and deep work. In my experience, deep work is just shy of non-existent (or gets done late in the evening and on weekends). A proper balance between the two is when a company can truly shine.
I agree completely on masks being preferable to this, but I wonder whether it may have some utility anyways, because even if it does not catch many asymptomatic people, if it is widely deployed and it catches _some_ people, those people don't go on to spread the virus, and then if you deploy those measures broadly, you have managed to halt a few potentially exponential sources of spread.

I should hasten to add that I'm not an epidemiologist, so I don't know whether this is true. But my intuition suggests that even if this is just partially effective it might still be worthwhile in the context of national efforts to control the spread, which is a numbers game.

I think this is a crucial distinction between "security theater" and "hygiene theater" -- security risks are not contagious and don't have the same potential for exponential growth that virus transmission does.
While I have no solution to offer, having two instead of one walled garden protected by a Great Firewall is certainly worse.
I’ve actually seen some narcissistic type leaders flaunt their leadership course completion while continuing to damage company operations
A few of my own thoughts from when I was working on this full-time:

"Dialogue designers replace graphic designers when creating voice interfaces"

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Is this really true? You do not think China's actions in Hong Kong has put more doubts into China's policy on human rights compared to United States?

If you tell me you believe they are equal, I'll take your word for it. While the United States has plenty of flaws, I think they are still far more trusted when it comes to human rights.
It's not just a matter of how effective they are…one must consider the risk of these answers being included in a security breach's data dump. It's easy to imagine a sort of "dark web data broker" that has aggregated any "found" answers, keyed by each user's e-mail address. It would be extremely valuable to anyone trying to steal an identity.

That's why I lie whenever I see them, and I keep track of the lies in my password manager's notes, which are regularly printed and stored off-site for disaster recovery purposes.
Completely agree. Given that a lot of smartphone maker's model has been to wait for Apple to do something and then copy it (whether it was a good idea or not) I was really surprised that wireless charging didn't become a standard feature for Android phones after Apple added it.
How's the actual mask use? The majority of people I see reuse the same one over and over, frequently touch it and adjust it, and then touch other things. I don't see how they're achieving much more than safety theater that way.
I guess I'm really old.

Before Fast and Furious, I lived through the slammed mini truck / monster car stereo (speakers, speakers, speakers) craze of the late 80s.

And before that there were many, many trends, like muscle cars, etc.

It's always been like this...
I wonder what simple improvements one could make to the pathfinding algorithm to make it perform better.

I appreciate that a "proper" pathfinding algorithm like A* would not be feasible given the number of guests but maybe taking into account what the guest sees ahead of them would already make it quite a bit more realistic?

You could weight the probabilities for each direction by the square root of the length of the path or something like that. And if you can see the exit set p=0, if you can see the exit set p=1.

I'm sure it would still be easy to fool though - just build very long indents and make sure the entry/exit are not visible until the last moment.
> I’ve no idea what all the valves in the picture below do, but I bet they don’t all open things that relate to each other.

Disappointingly, the picture is just a bank of water meters for an apartment building (possibly in Israel?). It does convey the message though: they are unrelated because each relates to a separate apartment but are all in one place so a inspector can read them from outside the building.
This answer you've written is one of the reasons why I keep coming back to HN. I think I expect most online conversations to devolve into ad hominem attacks, whether towards me or the third party to whom we refer, and yet this didn't. I worried it may become antagonistic, but on the contrary, I feel grateful for what you've said and how you've given me more to think about.

I often prefer dialogue to debate—a conversation of cooperative learning instead of competitive proving.
This has happened with other planes before, like the DC-10.
The DC10 had a phenomenal safety record after the initial crashes. There is a tremendous amount of incentive to ensure the MAX doesn't crash within the first 5 years after being recertified. I would definitely take a MAX when it becomes available again.
Looking back, I was being a bit too cynical and dismissive. There are of course other factors in a device being eco-friendly, and in practice hotter chips will tend to use more power unless restrained.

On my intel laptops, I used "powertop" to measure power consumption as reported by the battery. Powertop is an intel specific tool, but I think most batteries will have an entry in linux's sysfs. Here it's under "/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0", where two files "voltage_now" and "current_now" list the voltage and current in microvolts and microamperes.

[eery@darkshire ~]$ cd /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0
[eery@darkshire BAT0]$ cat current_now
269000
[eery@darkshire BAT0]$ cat voltage_now
8423000

So 269,000 µA x 8,423,000 µV is about 2.266 watts.

Measuring while connected to mains/AC power will probably need some kind of physical device to measure the current being pulled by the charger, sadly. Only server grade hardware seem to have built in current meters :(
Is "strain relief" the nomenclature you're looking for?
This acryonym never made sense here or for Rust (where I think the name came from>?). "call" means function applications, but the vast majority of the text is on function declarations.

Fine if new ways of calling things stem from new ways of declaring things, but then let's please name the feature after the root change rather than it's ramifications!

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On a different note. I am very excited for C++ to ape Rust features. Please keep doing it. The end result ought to be a lower marginal cost of Clang implementing Rust, in which case we can get really good C++ <-> Rust FFI....and migrate away from C++.

Please, build a bridge from the sinking island.
This is really interesting, I always thought Amazon is available almost everywhere and works the same everywhere. I live in Germany I have not encountered any of the problems mentioned in the article. amazon.de has a wide selection of products and many sellers are not even in Germany but in another European country. I personally ordered from UK sellers via the German Amazon website. The only problem here is that you don't get an invoice with German VAT. For personal orders this is not a problem and with an Amazon enterprise account you can easily exclude those sellers. So completely different experience from a nearby European country...
I'm confused about something and hope someone here can clear it up. A threat of stopping the sale unless the US gets paid "a substantial amount of money" sounds like extortion to me. Is there any precedence for the US getting cuts of acquisitions?
Rule of law is very important, but part of the problem is the "law" is pretty expansive with the powers it gives to the President. So I don't necessarily think there is a "rule of law" problem in this instance, but instead a problem with the extent of powers given to the federal government in general and to the President specifically. Disclaimer: I haven't read a good legal analysis of Trump's actions as of yet.

This is a long standing problem with the size, scope, and complexity of our federal government.

One of the things I do "enjoy" about Trump is how his actions gets everyone to argue for a less powerful federal government. It would be nice if these structural arguments weren't dependent on who was in the White House, but it is nice to hear them anyway.
We can eat some inflation, and it's worth remembering that the developed world has trouble with underinflation these days, so adding inflation isn't a negative in the short term.
Newer Canon mirrorless cameras now support HEIF (R5 and R6), and I think newer Sony ones will as well, so the groundswell might be starting in the higher-end.

But iPhones have defaulted to using HEIF for years now I think, and no browser (even Safari) supports the format yet, so...