skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Forcing a foreign business to "sell or close" is an insult to the rule of law

These powers are precedented—-this is how antitrust law works. The U.S. has had similar procedures in CFIUS since 1975 [1][2], which is likely how U.S. would enforce this decision.

Keep in mind, it’s not sell or close. It’s an order to unwind the Musical.ly acquisition [3] or face sanctions.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investm...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon–Florio_Amendment

[3] https://hans.vc/bytedance-musical-ly-merger/
Funny you mention JetBrains, they have the best subscription model of any software company I have used.

You pay a yearly fee to get the latest stuff within that year and you can use the current or any previous version forever if you stop paying.

There was a bit of mob forming with JetBrains first announced the subscription model and the current one developed by working with their customers.

This subscription model, combined with the largely open source codebase for their products means I'll probably be paying JetBrains for the rest of my life.
Olaudah Equiano and Mary Seacole would be the classic nonwhite choices, especially considering we've had William Wilberforce and Florence Nightingale on banknotes for related achievements.
I guess having Gandhi cancels out his longstanding critic Churchill...
When sociopaths enter relationships, but are two shy to end them.
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> Since when does one need permission of USA President to make the deal?

Since 1975 [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investm...
The downvoters are thick as pig sh!t
One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever
A lot of pre-iPhone phones had a micro version of Java on them, and you could download via WAP stores, or even over the data cable, little apps and games. The SonyEricsson range of phones had full theming ability allowing you to customise the look and feel of the GUI completely.
An oversimplification which might make it easier to understand that rule: Don't mistreat others.
What makes crime "organised"? There's no indication that this involved more than one thief.
2019, not 2009.
Your last point is a new argument for me and is really understated. The HTML/CSS fragmentation appears to be a historical artifact more than an architectural ideal
Well guys I did some work in a insurance company a few years ago. From my experience, the issue here is not that the guy is black, the issue is the location where the business are to be open. The banks and insurance companies will evaluate the risk of lending money more than twice for business in those high crime areas.

Just take a look at the news in the Minneapolis protests and the amount of black owned business burn to the ground on those areas. After events like this most banks will be reluctant to invest money there, is not so complicated.

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/al/birmingham/crime
Excuse me. This is not intrinsically how capitalism works. Capitalism can exist in free and non-free markets. Capitalism in a free market is efficient if property rights which exist and are enforced, there are low barriers to entry, and there are low transaction costs. You have just described capitalism with barriers to entry. At this point you have left free-market capitalism, and entered a world with no particular term of art describing it. I would say it is best called by an epithet like "crony capitalism."

The operation of free markets is Intro to Econ material. You should pursue a remedial course that you may understand this before proposing remedies, because while some of your proposed remedies hit near the mark, I think this is by accident.

The most effective remedy is competition, achieved once you can dismantle the barriers to entry. You mention antitrust in passing, which is the key policy-based approach, and regulatory provisions against trusts are mentioned in passing in the article — but mostly you focus on a "union" of customers, and I have grave doubts to its efficacy in practice. There is a massive coordination problem here, thousands of firms and their legal departments who must agree to risk substantial consequences individually in order (denying themselves key software) to achieve the collective goal.
this reminds me of something i recently read about the parents of the first Qin emperor, who were embroiled in a similar scandal, albeit without passionate murder.
I think this could have been stressed a bit more clearly in the section I referenced - since it's vitally important!
Only the US part seems to be for sale.
The establishment of "Chinanet", such as Alibaba and Tencent, do pledge allegiance to (and are owned in part by) the party in name and action, in return they benefit from the protection and favorable policy it ensues.

I personally don't like ByteDance mainly due to its product philosophy of reducing users to mindless eyeballs (it's a general indifference to social consequences in China tho ), but can't
help but clarify that ByteDance isn't like those.

Having billion-dollar app killed by the party without recourse is just not a remote possibility for the Chinanet establishment, but it is a reality for ByteDance. This is not to say it's impervious to CCP influence, but the dynamics is more nuanced. Old comment:

>The CCP high officials don't really care about anyone but their own relatives and cronies, while your assumption is mostly right as in the cases like Alibaba and Tencent, ByteDance isn't exactly like them, it has a kind of autonomy and internationalization those companies wouldn't dare to dream of. ByteDance isn't as beholden to the party as those two since it's a startup capitalized on the app economy, it's growth is organic, didn't rely on government policies and protection.
>In fact ByteDance already has blockbuster app Neihan Duanzi killed by Chinese authorities overngiht.
It will be nice If you read bit more and learn, instead of many myths floating around especially from the camp of right wing Hindu nationalist, who killed him and running a sustained campaign to malign his image to boost themselves.
Why Microsoft though, is there other company competing for the deal?
>try it out for sculpting.

I bet the Index has potential for that with the finger control
Well perhaps if you try criticising the CCP and the Chinese ambassador to the UK through this bizzare interview of the footage such as this [0] and repost it on TikTok and it goes viral, you might see yourself banned immediately.

[0] https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1284784810200838145
Tiktok at this point should also sell their India business to Microsoft. It would make sense for Microsoft because their are millions of people in India who want TikTok back but don't want China associated with it. Also, I don't think Indian government would have any issue if it's Microsoft.
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I have the exact same problem and symptoms and my cheap solution to completely and radically change diets fixed my IBS and lifelong mood disturbances in a week. It's so good that this weekend I had a "bad food" binge and I've spent 5 hours on the toilet and the whole weekend in a sorry state of mind.

I can't wait for the day until GPs will try and diagnose digestive and psychological issues with dietary changes that are not just "eat whole grains, plenty greens and less meat" which completely miss the mark.
There is no 'chicken and egg' problem. Banks don't use race as criteria for loans, just as auto insurance companies don't use race as criteria for setting rates.

I also find perspectives like yours very perplexing. Debt is not charity. It is not charitable to provide debt to someone who cannot afford it. Not for the debtor, nor the lender. I've seen people suffer for years drowning in debt they could not afford. I've seen people with mortgages (variable rates in foreign currency) that went underwater when the rates and currency exchange shifted the wrong way. Bankruptcy is an incredibly painful process to go through as well. Debt is not charity.

Banks also do not just give out big loans (no matter what your credit score is) unless there is collateral. It is clear as day, that the bank valued the collateral to be low or inconsequential (i.e. judged one property at land-value at $1/sqft and $0 for the building). So there was no collateral for those loans, because redevelopment of those properties was expensive, with lots of risk. Why do you think it hasn't happened yet? Why do you think these properties were standing there rotting away? Why didn't anybody take a flyer on those, given how inexpensive these properties probably are? Because there are major risks associated with redevelopment. In our city, a property, seemingly in a prime location, stood abandoned for years .. turns out, the property was cheap, the land was cheap, the environmental cleanup necessary for redevelopment, was not.

>Were that person not black, it would be easier to get funding at a time of need

Says who!? Have you actually tried? Our company was only extended a line of credit years after we were in business, and it was collateralized against purchase orders and revenue (and we had to provide lots of documentation to prove those). Banks do not want to give out loans with even a little bit of risk associated. They are not like venture capital firms and haven't been for a long time.
Nowadays you don't have to pay ODA anymore when can use GPL-3 LibreDWG. In the end opensource CAD will win, but it's still a long march.
That's nothing. I can sabotage my relationships before they even start.
Correct

Of course another company could come forward to buy it but it seems it's MS that has a foot on the door already
Great point. You could say that the "lies" are propaganda, as much as the advertisement that they are the vehicle for. Inundated with this much propaganda, which points to the impotence of the individual, no wonder we're seeing so much mass unrest.
> What are the most interesting things in tech you've seen lately?

Same old, same old. People revisiting old tech (linear algebra, newton-rhapson, euclidean graph theory, bfs etc etc.) and rediscovering its value are getting rich with new and interesting projects, people chasing new tech pipe dreams getting scammed or scamming others. The scene hasn't changed much recently.
>A computer is a tool, such as a hammer. Would anyone argue about the age of a hammer if its in good working condition?

The computer is not a tool ‚such as a hammer‘, since the progress in computer innovation obviously outpaces the progress in hammer innovation.

It is all about the features, not the age. You are definitely not crazy for using whatever tool you enjoy using, though.
(This is already getting tiring, so forgive me for the flippant answer)

I don't want to associate with Richard Stallman (even before his stupid comments regarding pedophilia), yet I use Emacs every single day of my life. If you tell me that Emacs itself only came to existence due to any of Stallman's ridiculous statements or if you tell me that my usage of Emacs enables Stallman in any way to be the asswipe that he is, then I would seriously consider dropping it.
There hasn’t been a rule of law in the US for four years. Congress and the judiciary have both been rubber stamping everything the President does.

Yet and still this is the same government that for some strange reason many on HN trust to “regulate tech”.
I'm a hobby writer, and as a professional developer also I have a large retro- collection, and one of the things I love most about having a selection of machines to choose from, is that I can write my stories and ideas in peace - no Internet, no distractions.

The Olivetti M10 is a dream for when the ideas need to flow. I can't get anywhere near as much text written on my modern MBP, as I can in an hour on an Oric Atmos. These machines are great for my productivity.

Of course, I still take my MBP with me everywhere I go. ;) But when I'm in my home office, and need to write .. the older machines are great.
> Imagine a world where a gun sold is by the US to a poor wartorn nation

There is no need to imagine it.
> By definition, ByteDance is owned by the CCP.

This is just absurd, that's not the case at all. Your argument boils down to some bizarre implication that any Chinese company is state-run.

For all the over-emotional CCP rants on this website this has to be up there as one of the most hilariously ill-informed.

I get the feeling it's not possible to have a good faith discussion here.
Archive.is bypasses paywalls and does not honor takedown requests. Copyright infringement is what it's designed for.

As you said, bona fide archiving happens on archive.org
And working with a country which enforces that practice for over 40 years is not? (China if you didn't notice).

This is the only way to truly fight back to their own anti-competitive practices. Either that, or outright banning them from doing business until they change their own laws, and honestly I much prefer the second option, even though I can tolerate the current solution proposed by Trump.
This looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing. In a quick test on Mobile Safari with the demo site, it doesn’t seem to render a “mobile friendly” version... and worse I can’t scroll left/right. I’ll check a different device to make sure and can an open an issue with more details.
The US has permanently lost China's technologists and entrepreneurs at this point. I'm seeing people in the tech industry advocating for Facebook to get secondary sanctions from China - as in, companies which operate in China are not allowed to do business with Facebook. Presumably, this would mean Apple and Google (via Android)...
No plans to go the VC route. We've hired three people now — two developers focused almost entirely on open-source, and another who splits his time between our commercial projects and contributing in our OSS community by answering questions, writing documentation and guides, etc.

We keep a few hundred grand in the bank as a payroll cushion but everything else gets pulled out and put in our personal bank accounts. We're both millionaires and financially independent at this point, and are only continuing to do what we do because we really enjoy it. We're building a small team so we have more freedom to pursue other fun R&D-style projects while still delivering on what our customers and community are asking for.
> imagine that black landowners go bankrupt more often. And sadly, this could be because black landowners go bankrupt more often!

But to fix this is "simple" - lend to those higher risk businesses at a higher rate. If those businesses are actually _not_ in reality more likely to fail, then the lender makes more money.

As lenders are able to make more money, there should be more competition to lend to those risky-seeming businesses which isn't actually risky. And competition would then drive the rates back down. Therefore, leading to an equilibrium rate.
Conspiracies are a never ending source for new ownable keywords and terminology, which combined with the "research it yourself mantra" only drives people deeper into the ecosystem of alternative book stores and prepper online shops etc. If people would know how the web works they'd be more sceptic about the media they encounter and their calls to action.
These 50 architectural firms should pool their money and create an Open Source Design Lab that can do for architecture and building construction what https://www.khronos.org/ has done for 3d.

I had the idea to create a company that helps organizations create these niche open source governance structures. While I love the result (more open source), I have no business or non-profit skills, and it sounds like a hard boring job. I do recommend someone explore this space, who knows it might not be that difficult.
Ask HN: Is Quantic (E)MBA worth it?
I have been wanting for years to get an MBA or Executive MBA but the time constraints and money have been holding me back form doing it. I'm a mid-career executive and the lack of "business experience" has definitely hurt my advancement (cost me a CTO job... I was demoted to a VP of a company I helped found) and I'm hoping an MBA would help.

Quantic at < $10k for the EMBA seems like a good deal but it's not from a recognized university. My wife thinks I'd be no better off than if I got an MBA at a local (translation: "real") university.

Has any one tried it? Do you learn as much as a traditional program? Does it carry any weight at all in industry?
A landmark "historic" building in downtown Ensley is an abandoned hazard.

https://bhamnow.com/2020/04/23/ensleys-ramsay-mccormack-buil...

And it turns out that his properties are close to this large abandoned one.

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020/04/johnson-with-rams...

I found another article where at least one building is described as held together by decay.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-13/why-it-s-...
The carrier can inspect TTL (or hop limit in IPv6) values which decrease with every hop, so TTL at the point your packet reaches the carrier is typically lower when you are tethering.

Of course it is easy to circumvent by changing TTL on the terhered device from 64 to 65 or something like that, but I guess the solution is esoteric enough that carriers still make money doing crap like this.
Since using iTunes/Music for this is apparently more than some are willing to put up with I did a bit more research and on a Mac it is even easier than what I suggested at first.

Step 1: create an aac-encoded file with the .m4r extension to its name

Step 2: connect phone to Mac and drag and drop .m4r file on to iPhone on desktop

Step 3: there is no step 3

For those who want to do this without needing a Mac or PC there are apps that will do the job as well.
> Congress and the judiciary have both been rubber stamping everything the President does

This is patently false—the U.S. has been losing court cases left and right [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/why-trump-...
Since when could the President singlehandedly do it? Also, this has nothing to do with anti trust. How is TikTok a monopoly?
It still leaks all the connections metadata. It's very easy to correlate TCP connections to and from the server.
I bought the $150 package. It’s easily saved me $150 in hours I haven’t spent tinkering with design. It’s a great value proposition. I don’t use tailwind CSS; just the designs.
If its association with China is the only problem, then that means you'll have no problems with Bytedance selling Tiktok to a US company, and putting US employees in charge, right?
So nothing really surprising, shame he didn't go into the encryption lib but I'd guess it's something boring and normal.
What a shitshow.
I kind of wonder about this. The US Government pours money on Microsoft. The number of Windows servers in government reels the mind, and of course every desktop is Windows, with Office. They previously acquired LinkedIn, which is where a huge number of US citizens, and particularly military folks, park their resumes and roledexes. The LinkedIn social graph essentially subtracts children and stay-at-home spouses, making it somewhat denser with the type of information a foreign government might be interested in. Similarly, GitHub is of huge US national, probably Western strategic interest.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if some folks at Microsoft were "encouraged" to pursue those deals to keep them out of other hands.
I don't think this needs to be such a simple chicken and egg problem.

Because, even if black landowners are say 50% more likely to go bankrupt, they could at the very least, still get some loans. Just maybe not as high a loan. It's not like banks have to say 'yes/no' to customers. They have variously strong variants of 'yes' when someone asks for credit.

I think there are many other cases (e.g. affluent people choosing a public school / area to live in) where this problem is much more prevalent, because the only options in the decision are 'yes / no'. And since there is a correlation between black neighborhoods / public schools and crime / worse results, it makes sense for these people to avoid the mentioned downsides.

Thing is, those correlations aren't causal. It's just that being black is correlated to being poor for historic reasons, being poor causes the downsides. And the above chicken / egg problem exacerbates the problem.
Grothendieck's work is, for me, a rather perfect example of what's happened in the 20th century to mathematics, where the boundaries of knowledge have been pushed so hard and so far that there is almost no hope for anyone to even begin to understand the substance of the work outside a very tiny circle of people who pretty much dedicated life to that arcane corner of the field.

I really wish vulgarization was an actual scientific disciple rather than being done in an ad-hoc fashion by people who happen to be good at it.

I also really wish I could read a vulgarized summary of Grothendieck's body of work, and specifically:

. why everyone is so excited about the work
. what potential practical application do (or will) exist.
Not if this is the only way to protect its citizens. Not saying it's the case here but forcing a company to sale it's business to a local entity in order to proceed offering it on a local market isn't unheard of and can make sense.
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I agree that current levels of flying are likely excessive and unsustainable. But I think it's important to ask the right questions and not just cry out 'shut it down'.

> Air travel is ecologically unsustainable.

Too much air travel is ecologically unsustainable. But then again, that's more or less a tautology.

What is interesting it to work out how much air travel is sustainable.

> This archaic sector and transition that part of the economy to something more future sustainable.

Sounds good to me. What is that something?
Yet and still.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-didnt-like-rul...
The US government just took a large step towards becoming like China's today, at least in terms of how it oversees its technology industry.
Unable to checkout Git repo on Windows?
This is exactly like those UX Instagram accounts that for example say "make sure to have a high enough text contrast" then procedes to completely brake that rule in the next post.
Microsoft uses password-less login across its services (like Outlook, Windows/MS Store, etc). I can still use my password if I absolutely want/have to, but once I enter my email, my Microsoft authenticator app on my phone prompts me for approval. Once I've given it, the site (or app or whatever) lets me in without having to enter the password. I really like it and sort of wish more sites did this.
"Transparency is the new objectivity."
You might want to look at Wire

https://wire.com/
Where exactly did I cast anyone who disagrees with me as unreasonable and/or unwilling to listen to reason?

The problem with a referendum and abstract propositions is that people all put something different behind the Brexit vote and it was then impossible to reconcile all the positions (plus all the empty promises like the 350m for the NHS). Brexit became something very different than what was originally sold and some people asked for a second referendum to clarify the situation now that things were getting clearer. This act can be criticized or misunderstood, but I don't think anyone can argue that Brexit is a very different animal 4 years later (the unicorn honestly looks more like a donkey up close).

Brexit has shown that the disconnection between the political class and the people had nothing to do with the EU. Dominic Cumming refused to quit despite being caught in clear breach of the lockdown is the perfect example of it.

The EU parliament is elected directly by the voters, and representative are nominated by governments that are also elected. The US has a completely different electoral system, where (like in the UK), candidates with fewer national votes can become leaders (I find these systems undemocratic, a voice is a voice, its geographical location should not matter).