skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of fireflies in my backyard every night, probably because it is partially flooded due to the record high water levels in the Great lakes. Have been trying to film them. But subpar results so far.
I have a vintage 70-200 lens adopted to m4/3. It says macro on the lens, but I can't focus on anything close at all.
Alt-right used to mean alternative-to-Boomer-conservative (i.e. right-leaning 4chan/meme culture) and then it meant neo-Nazi (e.g. Richard Spencer).

What does it mean to you?
While AI remains out of reach, AS (Artificial Stupidity) once again asserts it's omnipresence.
The order says:

> By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
The other post asking for examples is downvoted, but I think your statement could really use some. I can only think of one highly visible one, and it's interesting how much it reminds me of this one, though on the opposite side. But more examples would be illuminating.
What? He says he remembers fields full of fireflies. Why imply that it's memory distortion? I'm surrounded by fields and in the high point or July there are breathtaking displays of fireflies at night, and it's not my imagination. Why tell someone that they misremembered that?
One of my favorite Marcus Aurelius quote is
"Leave the harm done by other where it started."

Excluding self defense, I wonder if this can be applied to nations too.
Try your sarcasm with someone else. Won't work on me. When you have some facts to back your allegations that has been established in some Court of Law then you can come back to me. Until then keep trying.
It is absolutely within the purview of a Sovereign Nation to decide, within the confines of relevant statutes, what companies are allowed to operate within its borders. Trade restrictions are absolutely normal, and are well inline with established practices. What are economic sanctions, after all, but a restriction on the freedom to conduct commerce?
>All my neighbors make like blue collar salaries; $50k at the most

$24 per hour, and presumably that's per worker. Over three times national minimum wage, and nearly double California's minimum wage.

Median households income is $63k as of 2018, meaning all your neighbors are likely above this.
Which companies? If you mean Google search, they decided it wasn't worth complying with Chinese laws and left. You may not agree with the specific laws but complying with local laws is a bare minimum requirement for entry into the market of every country. Google even made a second attempt to reenter China, but shut down due to criticism from employees and the US government.
I think you need to take a look at some other ethical systems. There's a famous example of Kant saying it's immoral to lie to prevent your friend from being murdered - that the consequences of the act have no bearing on whether the act is moral or not. The parallels here should be at least somewhat apparent. This isn't my code, but it's not exactly unheard of. (And a ton of people would argue that Kantian ethics are fucking stupid. In the end, all ethical systems lead to absurdity at the edges)

For the mall example... That other person, who chose to come there and be exposed? The one with roommates, and a grandmother living next door? It's not me - living alone, in this scenario - who chooses to expose them. It's the one who lives with them, if anyone. You're taking their responsibility and piling it on to me - but there's a lot of links in the causal chain before the harm comes to pass, and some of those links bear far more responsibility. It's like blaming the guy who goes to the bar after a long day for the actions of another guy who goes to the same bar and kills a family drunk driving home, because by being there he contributed to an atmosphere of heavy drinking.

The language of individual risk and responsibility isn't quite so limited in my mind as it is in yours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

"Operation Aurora was a series of cyber attacks conducted by advanced persistent threats such as the Elderwood Group based in Beijing, China, with ties to the People's Liberation Army.[2] First publicly disclosed by Google on January 12, 2010, in a blog post,[1] the attacks began in mid-2009 and continued through December 2009.[3]

The attack was aimed at dozens of other organizations, of which Adobe Systems,[4] Akamai Technologies,[5] Juniper Networks[6] and Rackspace[7] have publicly confirmed that they were targeted. According to media reports, Yahoo, Symantec, Northrop Grumman, Morgan Stanley,[8] Dow Chemical,[9] and BlackBerry [10] were also among the targets."

Why force to sell when you can do the above?
Not quite so crazy now that everyone's working from home, right? Unless you also use a VPN?
Ask HN: Data Analyst to Data Scientist
I am almost 40 now and I have worked with excel, power points, and Access in an independent contributor role for the last 15 years. I almost feel like hit a dead end. Any suggestions on transition to Data Scientist?
> never turned into a full-on war.

But almost did (Cuban Missile Crisis), and there were several wars* by proxy (some with China too).

*conflicts technically, as Congress hasn't declared war since WW2
Being tall isn't usually regarded as an ability. Also, if I remember correctly, he was talking about differences in the long tail, not differences in the mean.

If you're looking for biological long-tail distribution differences, sports world and Olympic record differences are probably your best argument. A combination of sexism and biological differences are to blame for there being very few female players in the NFL, NBA, and MLB, despite none of them currently having rules against female players. (I'm only aware of Ann Meyers Drysdale.)

In any case, virtually nobody argues against natural physical ability differences between men and women. Damore was clearly talking about mental abilities, so pointing out physical ability differences are a straw-man argument.
I agree with you on the overall perspective. But I do think exceptions can and do exist.

This not just a case of “they did A, so we will respond with B”. It's a case of “they did A, B, C, etc. so we are responding with X after 10+ years“. To be fair, successive US administrations across party lines gave CCP a long enough rope.
>Why not just look at other countries, see which have had the best outcomes, and copy them?

Because if the R0 value for asymptomatic cases is high enough you will need 2 week quarantine for all travelers and fortress boarders until the virus is eradicated everywhere.

Something New Zealand is currently doing after implementing the most draconian nation wide lock-down.

Do you support a barb wire wall around both the Canadian and Mexican border with lethal force counter measures if anyone tries to pass and forced isolation of all travelers?
I don't see anything about misinformation or the election in the executive orders [1, 2]. It talks about data collection, e.g. "potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage" and " the application captures the personal and proprietary information of Chinese nationals visiting the United States, thereby allowing the Chinese Communist Party a mechanism for keeping tabs on Chinese citizens who may be enjoying the benefits of a free society for the first time in their lives".

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...
[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

Edit: okay, there is a bit, e.g. "This mobile application may also be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party, such as when TikTok videos spread debunked conspiracy theories about the origins of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus"
Same here. I use them dozens/hundreds of times. Maybe our facial hair is softer or we aren't discriminating enough! I notice the difference with a new blade, but it doesn't bother me.
This is frequently an unreasonable request. To take an example from higher in this thread (not proving his claim), you can easily say that CGTN French does not have 20 million subscribers, but you can't easily say that any individual subscriber is fake.

The same can apply to social media, it can be pretty obvious based on commenting patterns that there is some propaganda going on in posts blatantly about China, without it being able to identify with any degree of certainty which comments are problematic.

(I take no stance on whether or not there is obviously propaganda here, the commenting and voting does strike me as suspicious, but not to the degree that I think it's a slam dunk that it's not just the result of a biased sample of HN users being interested in posts like this).
Soft Money, Soft Minds
At least the Chinese Communist Party has the decency to make policy that has the effect of banning foreign businesses from operating and kangaroo courts to keep up the charade.

I think this is going to be tossed out in court. The President does not have the power to unilaterally decide trade policy, and it's really hard to argue that a consumer software product has national security implications (even if I think it does, I don't think our courts have technically literate judges who would agree).

If you want to provide consumer privacy protections that would prevent the alleged (and very likely) malfeasance of nominally-private businesses from China, write some fucking policy instead of signing an EO with no weight.

Another day, more disillusionment from our federal government's ability to govern. Regardless of how much I want something like this to be in place, I want Congress to write a law that enshrines consumer privacy protection and recognizes that any business doing what they purport Chinese businesses to be doing is a national security threat ; be it from businesses foreign or domestic.
Perhaps this was intentionally vague requiring clarification by WH? Everyone tonight learned how much of our media is owned by Tencent.
"No one knows everything" is much different from "No one knows anything so anyone can make anything up". We already know that it is bigger than 1.

And you're mistaken if you think your comment has no political connotation.
I would have agreed with you 20 years ago, but China is now the second largest economy in the world, and on track to becoming the largest. Combine that with its gross domestic human rights violations, censorship, IP theft, and expansionist foreign policy (looking at the South China Sea, NE India, SE Asia, Africa etc.), and they aren't getting any sympathy from me.
I agree, we may have reached peak level of Seth Godin-approved consumer startups.

Re: 1, it does bother me producing all that plastic when a cardboard structure with sterile, swappable lining might do just as well in non-windy areas.
> Ridiculous argument, in 1900 most people had no money and had families up to 10 kids easily - being poor did not prevent them from having kids.

So your argument is that as a society we’ve made no progress in 120 years?
How many members does a household have above 50% and below 50%? Further, the study is paywalled but some percent of the 50% above the median likely also fall below the asset poverty threshold.

The headline may be wrong, I'm unsure, but you aren't even looking at the data.
The people who read the above statement by Damore and think he meant that women can't be in tech/leadership positions is just confirming their own world view of full equality of outcomes.

So much so that they cannot even have a discussion with rational evidence and neutrality, of whether there are systemic biological differences that, in the aggregate, cause these unequal representations. The premise is dismissed immediately, and labelled bigotry or anti-feminist, discriminatory, sexist, and all manner of other derogatory terms.
No shortage of lightning bugs here either. The only thing killing them is the spiders.
"Guilty by association". That's the argument.
Satoshi Nakamoto!
a)Allowing US Internet companies to compete fairly instead of using the firewall as an excuse to promote state controlled tech monopolies.
b) Having a fair and transparent judiciary to handle cases of intellectual property violations.
Do I really believe that people should take care about the way they tell personal anecdotes about professional interactions with women, if they do not want to be seen as perpetuating sexist tropes? Yes, I do.

If the OP was trying to share a moment when they enjoyed learning from a great mind, the way they told that story was not a good way to express that. I wanted to give them the feedback that they might want to reframe the story because, telling it the way they did they run the risk of coming across as having behaved poorly. I feel I approached that with reasonable tact and in a spirit of good faith.

I appreciate dang’s commentary back to me about exercising the principle of charity. But I don’t accept that I was nasty. And I don’t appreciate your presumption of bad faith on my part.
I appreciate the measured response, thanks.

Nobody is claiming that Damore said it applies to all women, in fact, he hides his argument behind an appeal to averages. He says that no individual women is less capable than men, but on average, women are. The same way that a racist would say, "I'm not saying all black men are criminals, but on average, they go to prison more."

This is what I was referring to about weak-wording earlier. Damore claims that he's pro-diversity, then makes anti-diversity arguments. He gives the tone of a peer reviewed paper, but really it's a word doc with cherry picked citations. He claims that it's not all women, just distributed averages (so the typical woman) on a whole.
"His arguments and reasoning were edited for tone and posted by others and HR did not take any of that down. He wasn't fired for what he said, but how he said it. His post was vicious and demeaning toward other FB employees. It directly attacked the character and ethical constitution of specific employees in the company." - I thought free speech meant one could say whatever they wanted. Why is HR being the arbiter of decency here?

"Although I think at FB there are many things you can't say, his actual beliefs were not bold or rare. Many people say similar things all the time. But you can't go around attacking people like that." - that's what people do 'on' Facebook all the time and no action is taken.
Was Vine available in China? It seems quite unlikely considering how little western social media is... so while I can't tell from a quick search I'm guessing that you really should remember that.
That’s not really a handy abstraction though, because you ain’t gonna need it. The exception being you scale past Postgres in which case you’re going to need a new architecture anyway. Way better to leverage the robust tooling that Postgres provides rather than rolling your own. Bravo to Supabase for having the technical insight to bring that leverage to the mainstream.
Seems like a thread where people might be interested in https://knifesteelnerds.com/, which has made the front page on HN on a couple of occasions. I have no relationship of any kind, beyond finding it interesting.
I had no idea that Tencent had full ownership of Riot games. Same thing with 40% ownership of Epic Games. Wow!
For once, I agree with Trump that governments shouldn't be spying on users data. But let's start by ending the NSA dragnet.
Sending multiple small transactions to evade limits might get you flagged by your bank, or FinCEN, as a potential money launderer.
Australia is looking at up to 40% of all households with mortgages to be foreclosed on within the next 3 years:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-04/covid-recession-mortg...
Will the New Education Policy Make India AI-Ready
The population argument stands, whether differences exist or not.

Secondly, if you accept physical differences exist but refuse to accept mental difference exist? Physical difference are mental differences, biology is physical. If you accept physical differences then by definition you accept mental differences exist.

There are barely any white players in the NBA, is that the result of racism or more due to biological factors?
The food-tech startups that would see her as a potential user likely wouldn't be renting out her kitchen space.

Instead, they'd be trying to give her equipment, courses, software, or whathave you to solve her problems -- probably for free -- both for user research, and to gain marketshare.

The food tech startups she talks about in the parent article were not in that category.
Seems pretty weak to be honest. Definitely not the "American Great Firewall" that some were predicting.
The EU will probably start to tax tech companies that avoid taxes by registering in tax havens within the next few years. If that's the US' sole motivation, it seems like a receipt for disaster.
Zapier integration process more severe than big-techs.
Apple attempted to levy a 30% App Store fee on Hey subscriptions, despite the fact that Hey doesn’t actually allow in-app purchases (payments happen on the web). While Apple’s actions were not necessarily in response to the competition, they do call out Apple’s incredible power over app developers.

Last January, the entrepreneur took his Twitter rants directly to Congress, testifying in front of the House Antitrust Committee:

“A small company like ours simply has no real agency to reject or resist the rules set by big tech. And neither do consumers. The promise that the internet was going to cut out the middleman has been broken”

This dictatorial nature is not limited to big-tech, but in my recent experience, while submitting an integration to Zapier, here is what I discovered.

1. Do the API integrations as per them - which is fair and expected.

2. Create a blog-post and documentation about your submission.

3. Send this to your subscribers.

4. It does not stop here. Create Zap templates on Zapier and then embed it on your website.

5. As if this was not enough, now they want you to bring them 50 customers. Unless you do that, your app is in beta.

If not dictatorial, what is this? If you want to submit your app

1. Give me free backlink
2. Give me a blog post
3. Give me a website embed.
4. Give me an email shout-out to your subscribers.
5. Well that is not enough, I want 50 of your customers to sign up with us.

What do you think about it?
No, no one forgot those guys. It's a necessary but not sufficient condition if you want to make a highly disruptive startup. You don't win by repeating the status quo. But you can most definitely lose by not repeating the status quo.
Ghostscript Safer Sandbox Breakout (CVE-2020-15900)
TSMC has great potential to degrade into kinetic war.
We know the Nazis used German census data to identify Jews to round up. They also had many pseudo-scientific tests such as the size of a nose, to help them identify the Untermenschen in the general population. The next regime that pushes a superman theory will be able to base their selection criteria on DNA testing as soon as the perfect Nordic / Aryan genes are determined. Or pseudo determined. That's how you get from DNA testing to millions being killed or enslaved.
> Do countries get to do this to each other whenever they feel like it now ? Can China force Tesla to sell its Chinese operations because Teslas data gathering poses a national security risk ?

Yes? Are you unaware that China has been doing exactly this for many, many years?

Just as two examples, AWS was forced by China to sell off its Chinese operations to a Chinese company because of arbitrary national security reasons. Blizzard Entertainment was forced by China to go through a Chinese intermediary who controls and publishes all Blizzard games in China.
ReactJS Documentation PDF/Kindle
The trend is unflattering for you one way or another.
Well, I guess Apple will continue being a 3rd rate gaming platform then. Fuck ‘em. People who want a good gaming platform have never wanted anything to do with Apple anyway.

I’m glad that these games will not come to iOS. That means people will continue using and making games for better platforms. Apple tech is boring and sterile by comparison. The children that grew up on iOS will realize that soon enough.
1. I'm not super familiar with razors, but I am pretty familiar with knives. The chipping they describe is typical of a knife that is ground with an angle that is too acute. In knives made of hard material they fail by chipping, whereas in knives with a softer edge (think German kitchen knives) the edge rolls instead.

The classic solution to this problem is to grind the secondary bevel more obtusely so that there is more material to "support" the edge. This results in a knife that is less sharp, but more durable. That may be a tradeoff that razor manufacturers are not willing to make.

2. There are already steel making processes that are designed to make more homogenous steel. The most famous one is probably CPM (Crucible Particle Metallurgy):

Instead of pouring an ingot (where the additives have a chance to settle into a non-homogenous state, they basically pour the steel through something similar to a shot tower - making lots of tiny homogenous micro-ingots that they later fuse together in what is essentially a sintering process. The end result is a much more homogenous ingot. Practical testing shows that steel made in this way is more performant, although it presumably increases the manufacturing cost.
I understand the irony but here's the case where most Gitlab users only have account with their company's self hosted gitlab platform and hence can't contribute to FOSS on Gitlab unless they create another account.
I hosted it on Gitlab for OSS visibility and get more users contributing to the project.
Was the human right of George Floyd and millions of African Americans respected in the US?
>We already know that it is bigger than 1.

Do we? Do you have a study?
I already specifically avoid both companies, so go nuts.
If you point to a comment that only has pro-China comments, then yes, it could be seen as propaganda.

But especially when it comes to China, when someone has an opinion that slightly goes against the general sentiment, it's marked as propaganda, or a paid troll, just as a way to invalidate their opinions.

Hence why I'm asking, because I don't see any obvious propaganda here. Just people with a different opinion trying to have a discussion about it. And I'm only asking because someone pointed it out without posting evidence.
This feels like the kind of thing that could make sense as part of a broad portfolio of carefully analyzed actions to thwart the rise of CCP soft and hard power, but instead is a one-off poorly considered fit of pique from a self-dealing bona fide moron right before an election.
I agree that many people seem to find asking a question in the first place to be inherently * ist. Personally, I think that by refusing to ask questions we make it impossible to find better solutions and leave openings for other belief systems to thrive. (If the only people explaining a difference are the Nazis because everyone else says there's no difference, well then anyone who goes looking for the cause is going to find what the Nazis what you to find. Easier to twist a narrative when you don't have any competition)
For Cassandra: https://github.com/apache/cassandra-diff

(Designed for correctness testing at petabyte scale)