skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you're still one level more abstract than what is happening here.

Tariffs are set for classes/types of goods/materials/etc... and Kinder Eggs were banned because they didn't comply to a regulation (small dangerous foreign objects contained in the product - maybe other similar products had to be banned as well but those ones didn't reach the headlines).

In this case the decision applies to a very specific company/product and that decision is not based on a rule/regulation/etc..., I think => on one hand it doesn't have any impact on other similar companies/products, on the other hand it scares me that a single person is able to enforce on-the-fly these kind of decisions.
Less that, then at some point we have to move on and live life.

How many years of shutdown can we handle?

Nearly every person I know is beyond stressed out. I’ve seen work people break down on calls. Remote just isn’t for everyone.

There is a period where you allow time for doctors to figure out best treatment. Maybe we’ll get a vaccine.

How many people are going start dying from sitting and watching tv all day.
I work in the health field. You have no idea how many iOS exclusive apps are out there for my field that can be really helpful.
I disagree. The definition of "arbitrarily" states: "on the basis of random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system". I think the President's decision is based on reason and is not a random choice or a personal whim as much as it might seem to some. Now, why is that?

Well, it became public yesterday that Microsoft was in talks with TikTok to acquire them. Though every business decision by big players like Microsoft may seem like a calculated risk, no one can predict the future. In this scenario, that risk is clearly foreign state infiltration. Keep in mind, we're in 2020 and morse code is no longer a thing. Due to the uncertain nature of what this deal might bright about, the President reasoned that it was appropriate from him to take this executive action to protect national security interests. I do believe that if Microsoft can sell the government on mitigating or completely removing any risk exposure that this deal might bring, that the ban will be lifted. Again, this is just my opinion.
I know in the good old days it was the way to go, and HR people are also more open to get external solicitation at any time, so I believe you when you say it works.

I’d put on the table that I twice received direct contact from candidates and it felt super weird (I don’t work in HR to be clear). I guess some would value the scrappiness, I had more of a “have I been stalked ? am I getting spammed ?” sensation.

We also had automated pipelines to handle candidates applying through our recruiting page, so entering them manually into the system would have been more of a PITA (I actually politely told them to apply through the site)

In general I’d say for small/middle size companies, direct candidature through the company’s own site is not going through a blackhole, and pretty much appreciated (no recruiting fee, went through the front door etc.)
Just save everything you like locally. I still do that for most stuff.
A somewhat funny story happened at a company I used to work.

Due to legal concerns, a product had to be renamed and the sales and marketing team spent weeks looking for a new name.

Those teams were basically entirely native English speakers in a non English speaking country. Despite having lived there for a few years, none of them had more than a basic proficiency in the local language.

Anyway, they sent a company wide email, proudly announcing the new name, and asking if anyone saw any issue with it. It happened to be a pretty embarrassing word in the local language, which everyone had on their mind, but no one dared say anything, until the big mouth in the company just sent the item in question as a picture to every one in the company.

A different name was promptly announced.
"One CD sold at a gig for $10 is equal to about 2,000 Spotify plays"

Assuming the album is 10 songs, am I then right in thinking that once I've listened to an album over 200 times (2000 individual song-plays) then the artist would have been better off if I'd used spotify rather than buying the cd?

200 plays over a few decades of album ownership sounds like a pretty low threshold for cds to be better for artists than spotify. Perversely, it looks as though the only artists who will have done better from me buying their album are ones I grew tired of quickly (though my reselling the album could mitigate that).
"Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake (2017)"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-stake/peter-thie...
> If you claim that this app is a national security threat then any app is.

How so? Not every app is 1. Owned and controlled by an adversarial state, 2. In the hands of every American youth, and 3. Providing opaquely generated/sorted content.

So explain how every app is an equivalent security threat.
I was thinking MPC might work for set intersection. For oblivious query, can't you do it by sending the query directly into the remote trusted execution environment, encrypted with the TEE's public key?
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I agree it's unfair, but when you defend something for moral reasons or claim to have a moral high ground, you should stick with it even if it's unfair, right?

The West has always said that the Chinese bans to Western social media and tech companies were authoritarian and antidemocratic. How is this less so?
It's because of that cash stockpile apple is valued so much. Stock Buyback gives company the option to decide share price.
"Their servers" implies that it's something they own.

In fact it's more about ensuring that data is living inside their legislative boundaries.

The servers are not owned by China/EU/US states; they're still owned by the companies that operate them, just the data isn't exfiltrated to be outside the reach of the police.
All over this thread, it is musicians themselves being castigated. Not "music industry executives need to wake up", but "musicians need to wake up". Don't try to make this all about executives and lawyers now.

Good grief, how I hate the disregard for musicians so commonly seen in the tech industry.
There is a gut feeling that indies and up-and-coming artists are losing out with their fans effectively subsidizing pop that gets more ‘disposable’ plays.

I’m sure Spotify will know the numbers for moving to user centric streaming payouts, would be very interesting to know the truth of who the winners and losers would be.

There’s a bit of info and some research here:
https://musically.com/2020/05/13/what-are-user-centric-music...

I think the option to be user centric could be a compelling feature for premium customers, to show money is going to artists fans love, and ultimately move more people on to the premium versions of streaming platforms

Personally at this time I’m more concerned that my Spotify subscription is subsidizing podcasts by Joe Rogan than Drake / Taylor Swift.
Donald Trump to Ban TikTok in the US
The third path is to not ban anything.
I think "alternative to photoshop" pushes it into the expert category. Non-expert would be something like MS Paint.

I don't consider Gimp to have radically worse UX either. I've got a couple of minor gripes but nothing major.
I'm gonna go against the circlejerk and say that the GIMP is a great piece of software for image editing. Its biggest problem is how unfriendly it is to new users, specially when compared to Photoshop and the like.

If you have a minimum of technical experience, you can probably answer all the "Great to Hear! But how do I ..." questions yourself by spending some time to RTFM.
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> China has been able to maintain its civilization state and it has a continuous history

I'm baffled by what this means. Could you compare it to the United Kingdom for me? Are you conflating written history with continuous history?
I think it's wholly different to have data sovereignty laws on citizens (IE; keeping data within your regulatory/legislative area) vs the _forced sale_ of a public company.
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FWIW "lisp" also refers to a disability
This is an impossible field to be working in - I know - and it's to do with the way our medical research and treatment systems are set up.

We began as a species focused on making sick people healthy, and it's the way the entire system works. It's near impossible to get studies approved that tackle aging and proactive healthcare with drugs, as they will largely need to look at the effects on people who are healthy now, but will almost assuredly die from dementia, Alzheimer's and heart disease.

I understand why it is the way it is, but it's frustrating to see the system wait until you have heart disease in your 70s before doing something about it.
Maybe it's me not grokking async, but the code seems right to me. `once` is a decorator, so `future` is "instantiated" once per decorated function, which is then accessed as nonlocal in the wrapper. So in the last code sample, every call to `one_time_setup()` is accessing the same `future`.
> For someone in China to criticise the central government is for them to risk their liberty.

Only with enough publicity. For now, in order to summon something which can threaten your real life, you have to at least post the criticism on Twitter, and have several people "reporting" it by making it go viral. Posting on HN is far more below than that bar, yet people imagine this is what's happening in a "reversed FUD" way.

> And if you can't hear a certain viewpoint then you are less likely to consider it.

True, but mind you HN is blocked by GFW. So if a Chinese citizen appears here, it means he can read whatever he want, sans the language barrier. Surely he can't have high profile public debate with his peers, but I've seen really healthy talks about these topics on "underground" communities, usually on blocked messenger services e.g. Telegram.

> So you have to imagine the missing comments from China

There are real reasons why people may not prioritize freedom (not saying that I agree with this) and are happy to accept an alternative narrative about China. OP talked about his own observations of whats happening on their state-owned media, and the general reception of these contents, then made his prediction on what would happen if the U.S. ban TikTok, which sounds perfectly reasonable to me and pointed out a potential weakness of the CCP narrative. It is usually a mistake to dismiss these words and fill the blanks with your imagination.
> It‘s a question of distribution power. If the power is granted to the executive branch, they can do it.

Any notably the power the executive branch holds, which the US classically prided themselves on being strictly limited in scope - as directly opposed to the monarchies the founding fathers resent, has exploded in power since 9/11 under Bush, then later even more so under Obama.

People had been critiquing the power grabs at the time for this exact reasons, knowing that they won't just be used to fight 'terrorism', which was always the pretext.

The fact almost every controversial thing Trump has done outside of congress has been using national security powers is not surprising. That authority was handed to them long ago and was always open to abuse.

The very broad national security laws in the US are the root source of the centralization of power. Simply changing who the president won't stop this train either. A lot of other country's presidents/prime ministers gained tons of power under the guise of counter-terrorism - including Canada and the UK.
Thought experiment. Suppose 10K people have the technology and willingness to volunteer enough worktime to provide the essentials for all of the US. Some basic income program is implemented to distribute these necessities. Possible? Yes. Sustainable? Yes, bounded by science and political stability. Good? Yes on quality of life floor and economic freedom. Conditional yes depending on competitive accessibility of the system (anti corruption/abuse). Fair? Better if more people share the work burden.

Wise governments should set policies to help this transition.
he seems to never blink
The other use case is text message dictation while driving - which is excellent.

These types of system can’t be released “only when perfect” unfortunately as they need many iterations with real world data.
I had a 2 hours technical interview with 5 people where I enthusiastically expressed my thoughts about the role just to end up receiving a "does not fit into the team" later.
None of the other chatty interview bore fruit despite of having a good atmosphere and constructive chat of likely minded persons that I ended with good feelings.
Likely a lot of other aspects weight much more. Especially with sometimes socially awkward technical (geek) persons.
But just 2 months ago there was an article on HN that stated:

The database is a key value store prepopulated with the english names of countries and their capital cities from the continent of Europe. Selecting the country will perform a search of the matching capital. On a 2019 Macbook Pro laptop, the example searches take under 80 seconds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23435305

And today this article claims only a 40x compute cost for "machine learning"?

What is the cause of the disparity?
Pulp Fiction is only one of the greatest films of all time. So anybody who hasn't heard of that particular meaning of the term has been living locked up in a small dark room under the basement staircase for the past 26 years.

https://www.thegreatestfilms.com/Film/1994/Pulp-Fiction
> Maybe people will have to invent some kind of transformer software, like you plug a western chat app on one side and it passes messages through a third party relay to a chinese messaging app.

That's what XMPP and matrix is. Self host your own Chinese instance to communicate with people there.
As a geopolitical tool, they serve the same purpose. China doesn't control SWIFT, so it will coerce in other ways. There's no meaningful difference unless you honestly think Magnisky is for human rights in which case we'll just have to agree to disagree. The significance is overall signalling method, China is stating their national security concerns _publicly_ extends around the world the same way US does. They're not going the oblique route of exploiting interpol or quietly coercing with United Front in this case. It's a new development. It has nothing to do with authoritarianism, just a growing power declaring it's claims on customary supranational privileges that comes with the territory. Though it's hardly enforceable, that said countries with extradition treaties to China aren't insignificant. In the meantime it's designed to chill anti-China diasphora abroad.
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Failed to identify the Italian word 'scopa' - which means 'broom', but also something very NSFW.

It did recognize 'Sega' as an Italian term for a bout of self-abuse. However, that ship sailed a long time ago.
You get bounded-Turing completeness. This is sufficient for all practical applications as we live in a finite universe.
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So [1] claims "A variant of fully homomorphic encryption scheme for Turing machines, where one can evaluate a Turing machine M on an encrypted input x in time that is dependent on the running time of M on input x as opposed to the worst-case runtime of M".

I admit understanding this paper is a bit beyond me. But, does their construction evaluate Turing machine conditionals by evaluating both branches? If it did, how could the running time be "dependent on the running time of M on input x as opposed to the worst-case runtime of M"? It seems to me that having to evaluate every branch irrespective of the input would result in the running-time always being M's worst case, not varying runtime depending on the input.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/229.pdf
In your profile set "Show dead" to "Yes" and two[0] submissions[1] show up ... there may be more. They have been flagged by "the community" and so are dead. As I write this I see that it has been submitted yet again[2].

Edit: Now that's flagged dead as well

Submissions are sometimes flagged as just being so far wide of the general community interest so as to be irrelevant to the vast majority. But sometimes they're flagged because they are divisive, and known (or expected) to produce flame wars and unpleasant exchanges.

But whatever the reason, it would appear that this article is thought to be interesting by some, and inappropriate by others. That's part of how HN works.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24015300

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24014806

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24019257
Their hardware sucks, just like their software. This is from a person who went from Nokia Symbian, to Microsoft's Nokia and finally the dead Windows Phone.

They somehow managed to take Nokia with their amazing hardware (look at Nokia N9, N900 and Maemo) and turn it into pure garbage (Microsoft Lumia series and their POS Windows Phone 10).
So if a Swedish company creates a revolutionary pesticide called 'BugSlut', you'll have no qualms recommending it to your green-fingered elderly relatives?
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No, they’re threatened by two things:

1. Equipping the CCP with a sensor placed in the pockets of millions of American citizens. This is already a problem when American companies are doing it for ad targeting purposes. But to do the same and funnel the data to an increasingly militaristic near-peer adversary? It in fact makes it qualitatively, not just quantitatively, different.

2. Tiktok opaquely selects which content it shows users. Again, American social media companies do this to a lesser degree (non-chronological feeds), but they don’t tweak their algorithms at the direction of the government to opaquely modify the information environment a citizen exists in. Note that there is currently very public tension between the US establishment and these companies because yes, authoritarians love this capability and no, they don’t yet have it in the US. Tiktok has no ability to refuse CCP’s requests to, e.g. erase any references to their concentration camps or to amplify claims that Bill Gates is trying to inject microchips via the COVID vaccine.

Whether a US executive should be able to single handedly make such a decree, I really don’t know. It doesn’t seem right to me but I ought to think about it more. What is 100% obvious to anyone looking at TikTok and the CCP with clear eyes is that it is a huge threat.
What it depends upon is not your IP location but in what country your Apple/Google account was said to be made in
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I agree. These are totally legitimate ways to still use FHE even if you need to compute a Turing-complete thing. It doesn't thwart my theoretical point, because you're not doing pure FHE anymore: you're using FHE for the "Turing-incomplete" part of your algorithm, plus some external oracle to check for termination.

Practically this might still be an acceptable way to tackle the problem. I mean, "practically" as much as FHE itself is.
This has been submitted a least twice[0] before[1] and flagged dead each time. Submissions are sometimes flagged as being thought so far wide of the general community core interest so as to be irrelevant to the vast majority. But sometimes they're flagged because they are divisive, and known (or expected) to produce flame wars and unpleasant exchanges.

It would appear that this article is thought to be interesting by some, and inappropriate by others. That's part of how HN works.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24015300

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24014806
Note that HTML is not escaped correctly. I don't think this can lead to XSS because <> is removed and the word is not echoed inside any tag attribute, but escaping &, ', and " might be something to fix regardless.

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According to their "algorithm", they show everyone's videos randomly to a small set of people and if people watch all of it (as in don't immediately swipe up), share or comment quickly then they show it to more people implying that the content I made is actually interesting to people. TikTok obv wants to surface good viral content to as many people as possible so the incentives are aligned. Think of it as being able to automate AB testing across hundreds of thousands of pieces of content.

As a result, I don't think traffic was given to me for absolutely no reason but there is a component of luck that they are explicit about which makes it even more compelling to creators. Compared to FB/IG/YouTube where I have to pay influencers or ad networks to get my work seen, they've evened the playing field a bit if my content has enough "inertia". It just motivates me to create better content next time and to try more often. You see how they're getting creators addicted?
> and we have avenues for oversight/reform available to us that we don't necessarily have with tiktok

Avenues that seem to be working oh-so-well, with the NSA continuing to operate PRISM and hand out NSLs and gag orders?
My computer is not Turing complete, yet it can do arbitrary computations.

FHE is bounded-memory Turing complete, the same as every computer on the planet.
I’m one of the wokest people I know and I really enjoy debating my non-woke friends, it’s very entertaining to me to watch them squirm under the pressure of my wit, which is like a forceful wall of the sea.
Nobody thinks of sexual fetishism when editing something with GIMP.

Nobody thinks of the word “chrome” when using Chrome, or of a literal window when using Windows, or of a literal docker ship when using Docker.
By far, most experts use Photoshop.
+1 ! Although I am far away from coding, I know more about build toolchains and quality software packages. I also never want to do that again.
Better protected with a CC because you are spending a banks
money and not your own. Obviously they will care alot more about theirs, however nowadays Debit Cards have very similar protections. Just pay the full balance every month and you never go into debt and with the right card you will earn a free vacation once a year with the bonuses.
Ask HN: How many working on passion projects solo? How come?
What does "functionally complete" means for you?
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China can harm the US with trade regulations much, much more than the US can harm China.

Trump is playing with fire here and it’s honestly not very smart. Not when the US has outsourced its industry to China.
I have genuinely started hating Jeff Atwood for this and the lemmings that followed blindly.

Now I have to resign myself to being questioned if I can program not matter how many years of experience I accumulated.
> These kids getting hit with a 30 year sentence

They will not get hit with a 30 year sentence.
A better analogy for this situation is banning skateboards, video games, or rock music made in China. If TikTok is banned, most teens would switch to an American platform. Their outlet for creativity is not reduced, just changed.
Plenty of mainlanders can read fanti FYI. Writing is harder as that requires active memory and practice but fanti is perfectly decipherable for a fluent mandarin speaker. And when in doubt using a dictionary is trivial. If the text is digital you can pretty much get a 1-1 mapping 99% of the time. Especially if it is putonghua (as opposed to dialect)

Obviously something as big as the introduction of jianti is quite radical and will have downsides but it's really overplayed by armchair spectators. For a fluent speaker it is at most an inconvenience - like reading chaucer or shakespeare, except the grammar is exactly the same only the spelling differs.