skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof-of-Work Mechanisms in Social Networks
It's a complicated situation in this case. My comment was more about censoring the internet in general, as that seems to be the more important part, with the individual case being more of an excuse to address this issue yet again.

I mostly think the tiktok ban is justified, for one because china has been playing unfair for ages now and because it is a national security problem when the chinese government could, at any moment, give itself access to this much information that could be used to blackmail large numbers of people.
My favorite “feels natural” thing on Apple keyboards was putting raised dots on D and K, on the Keyboard II and Extended Keyboard II. This goes under the middle finger, just like on the numeric keypad.

Eventually they relented and put the dots under F and J like the rest of the PCs.
I think you mean 'echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf'
We already had that with AOL. You could still access the regular internet but at the time a lot of people stayed around the AOL homepage and AOL sites. It was great for older people and children.
Ask HN: How do you network being remote?
I currently hold a position in finance, but would like to change sectors, etc. I do not have a freelance background so usually I attend meetup and events like this to network. What are your suggestions now?
As a matter of fact, there are several! FalconSat-3 is the one most people connect to in the USA. I think there might also be one aboard the ISS, but most people use the ISS for forwarding APRS packets.

You need an amateur radio license to connect to these, but once you have one you can get into all sorts of other radio projects around the world too :)

Edit: The downside, of course, is that you usually only have (at most) a 20-minute connection window before you lose line-of-sight, since these satellites are in LEO.

https://www.amsat.org/falconsat-3/
The ramp needs to be very long or we'd need to build a very rugged spacecraft - enough of its brains and propulsion would need to survive the acceleration and the aerodynamic losses on the way up in order to circularize the orbit and not cross the ground on its way back.

Which brings a very scary failure more - being hit by the payload that is mostly dead, but coming back to the ground at near orbital speeds.
Please don't derail the discussion by talking about apps.

This is not just about TikTok or other apps, and not just about app stores. As the title says, it's about whether we will have open networks in the future.

"Clean Carrier: To ensure untrusted People’s Republic of China (PRC) carriers are not connected with U.S. telecommunications networks. Such companies pose a danger to U.S. national security and should not provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States."

https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-...

Note that it's also not just about the CCP, but "malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist Party".

Do you think the US administration has enough integrity to be trusted with such matters?
Sure, if it were a clearly communicated retaliation to a specific protectionist act of China. But it's not, and it is relevant to consider the context in which this measure happens to understand how this can be perceived.

The current administration has had numerous unproductive scuffles with allies and trading partners to renegotiate trade agreements, after running a presidential campaign on a protectionist platform, promising to return manufacturing jobs to the US.

After these negotiations were largely unsuccessful, close to the next presidential election, the administration abruptly locks in on one of the only globally successful social media companies that isn't US-controlled and insists that it must be purchased by a US-based company in order to continue operations in the US, without even attempting to resolve the issue through regulation. Due to the size of the US market, the company is bound to give in.

Of course, I'm deliberately telling the story in a biased way, but (as someone not from the US) I do feel that the US has been steadily on the way down as a credible defender of the principles of free trade. And this is just one more incident to add to the pile.
Air Force Eyes Hypersonic Passenger Aircraft in New Deal with Aviation Startup
I think we'd all be better off in the long run if the EU did more to hobble American tech companies operating in the EU.

Well, all except shareholders of those companies.
If it is indeed blocked by courts, this would validate those of us who do not believe that this action should happen, in the way that it does, in a free, open and rules-based democracy.

It would shame all those, including those SV thought leaders, who defend the US now engaging in the practice of "banning apps" based on short-sighted opportunism and "what about them" arguments, with now regard to fundamental principals we are supposed to stand for.
I don’t want racists to have free reign on Facebook, and I don’t want Presidents to arbitrarily ban social networks they don’t like.

And if you say it’s impossible to have both: until 24h or so ago, we did have it both. And in 24 weeks, we will have it again.
More naive than hoping that there won't be any authoritarian censoring in the first place? Not by much, I'd say, but maybe I'm just being very pessimistic. Honestly I'm just kinda disillusioned. I know most people would gladly go along with this kind of BS and the rest of us would just get dragged along, as has happened countless times already. (Or do you really think we're in a better position now than east Germany was right after whitnessing the horrors of the Nazi dictatorship?)
Yep, effectively! That is what is great about these fuels (H2 and CH4) vs something like RP-1. First you get hydrogen by electrolyzing water. Then you can go H2 + CO2 → CH4 via the Sabatier process[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
> a way that crush doesn't and can't

What do you mean by can't? If it misses some mode of interaction, that can be always added.
Instagram Feed API with NoCode
FWIW, I've found cmd+left to be very consistent, the only app(s) that I can think of that it doesn't work in are terminal apps, where I use ctrl+a etc.

And thankfully, the Safari bug/inconsistency has been fixed. In all the major browsers on macos now, CMD+left will behave like "beginning of line" when you're in a text box.

I feel your struggle though, as someone who frequently has to / chooses to use Win/Linux, I don't think I'll ever end the fight against the shortcut patterns that have been ingrained in my hands.
These firms have to guard their data. It’s all they have. So yeah they put up big walls and add lots of hurdles (calls, agreements, phases, etc) to increase the perceived value of what they are selling you.

If this data was more accessible, it would definitely be a game changer.

Finding it and presenting it and making it explorable is the really hard part.
That's a nice theory. In reality, VMs have no innate source of randomness and call into their hypervisor for that sweet sweet entropy - just as they ask hypervisors to map hardware into their address space, which drivers then proceed to innately trust.

This improves the situation by an infinitesimally small amount.
Sorry, I replied to the wrong comment!
>We have tariffs against many countries for many different reasons... This is nothing new. That is just how trade relations work.

That's not trade, it's politics. Any economist would point out that tariffs hurt Americans by increasing the prices they pay. Yeah, let's teach those Chinese a lesson by making goods more expensive and reducing our standard of living!
Yup, the more massive a star the short it lives. The Sun for example will live around 10 billion years, whereas a star 10 times the mass of the Sun will only live for 30 or so million years.

Using some hand-wavy arguments you could say that fusion pauses a star's collapse, so the more massive a star is, the more energy generation it needs to stay in equilibrium during this pause.
Python or Clojure for Data Analysis?
I’m starting a new role that will be heavy on data analysis. In the past I’ve focused on web dev/CRUD apps using Go, JS, PHP, other web stuff. All that to say, this will be new territory for me. Conventional wisdom seems to be that Python is the tool of choice for data science type roles, along with pandas/numpy and Jupyter notebooks. That or maybe R or Julia. On the other hand I hear about how Clojure is great for data munging type tasks. I have no experience with lisps but I’m interested in dipping my toe in the water if it will be a good fit for what I’m going to be doing. Which one in your experience will pay off more in the long run? Python with its tooling and community or Clojure’s language design?
I am the ghost of 2020 AMA (2)
Do you know how we got here? Do you have any questions?
I disagree about this. Populations can evolve rapidly within a few decades if the selection pressures are significant enough.
If you look at the farming industry, there are many examples of evolution happening very quickly due to artificial selection pressures.
Within a few decades, cows evolved to produce much more milk, chickens evolved to grow faster and produce large amounts of eggs, fruits evolved to have smaller seeds, grow faster and look better.

Artificial selection pressures created by humans have a way of greatly speeding up evolution.
They were available until they stopped complying with China’s data and information laws. They chose to leave.
This. I also am old enough to remember when people were upset at the web giants replacing the old decentralized internet- "what will happen if one day they'll start censoring stuff?". And now all you hear is people getting mad at internet giants because they don't censor enough.
You need to read Debra soh's book if you really believe that nonsense.

Our brains work in very much the same way but their configuration is incredibly different.

Hell its development is primed on all sorts of hormones our whole lives to behave for a certain outcome.
He does publish the passwords hashed, with the number of times each password was leaked (without salt and the weak sha1).
Can you please clarify whether what you are claiming is factual or speculative?
This is how I felt powershell ought to go on Linux - parsers from every config format to a common intermediate and back, argument completers for every common shell command to a standard intermediate representation.

I think that’s a losing battle as well due to the brittle nature, any tweak to any command output could break something, meaning endless maintenance work on a large scale.

Rewriting concepts into new commands at least bring consistency and a chance of shrinking maintenance work as it settles on a nice design - and if not the maintenance won’t be endless rebuilds of the same parsers.
Intel investigating breach after 20GB of internal documents leak online
To add to this, often the primary goal of the person who paid the security auditor is not to actually increase security. It is to get to claim that they did their due diligence when something does happen. Any arguments with the auditor, no matter how well founded, will weaken that claim.
yeah, records in China inaccessible to IRS, but we are discussing here WeChat ban in US
Got nothing to do with it. Computing wasn't invented in 1990.

Ctrl-c/v is a essentially a kludge introduced into Windows because the IBM Model M keyboard and similar didn't have a Meta key. It wasn't until Windows 3.1 that we see Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V being a 'thing'. Before then it was all about IBMs CUA. Apple had CMD-C/V/X on the Lisa 9 years before. I'm not sure what Xerox did on the Alto or if it even used keyboard shortcuts, but they did refer to the operation as Copy/Paste (coined by Larry Tesla who went on to work at Apple).
In-app propaganda? What the hell are you talking about? Have you even used the app?
Ask HN: What are some interesting single purpose Twitter bot accounts?
What are some entertaining or interesting 'single purpose' bot accounts on Twitter that you know of? Preferably image based. Some examples:

https://twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot - "Automated bot that creates random flags from 2 existing flags picked randomly."

https://twitter.com/BracketMemeBot - "Making arbitrary brackets, sourced from Wikipedia."

https://twitter.com/nounverbed - "New FromSoft game design possibilities every 3 hours."

https://twitter.com/placesfromorbit - "A randomly selected 5×5 km square anywhere in the world, every 4 hours. Imagery courtesy of Google Maps."
TL;DR they use Intel's SGX.

Intel's 20GB data leak was on HN yesterday, with a hint that more is coming. Will be interesting to watch ;-)
I've heard that foreign investment and foreign companies face difficult regulatory red tape. Can someone with a better understanding on it weigh in on whether that is applicable to this?
Define a CI/CD pipeline in few steps
> It ceases to be reciprocal if you distinguish groups at an only slightly higher resolution: Chinese businesses like TikTok and WeChat and American businesses like Google and Facebook in addition to the Chinese and American governments.

This is pretty much exactly how reciprocity works in other areas like travel and immigration. We treat their nationals as they treat ours. You can see examples worldwide right now with travel restrictions.

And these Chinese companies benefit from the lack of US-based competition at home. Would WeChat ever have gotten that big without China's restrictions on US companies? It's not arbitrary to counter that benefit with a loss of access to the US.

Congress specifically gives the president the power to counter unfair trade practices by foreign governments. The president executes the laws, he doesn't dictate them.
The principle is that if you are in support of CCP, you get what you preach, and should be treated according to Marxist norms. Free market is for those who respect and support free market and fair competition.
Alternative Data for Finance can boost your business
The author of this article mentions that the TikTok algorithm alone is worth 30B. One TikTok user claims to have figured it out.

1 rewatch = 6 points

1 completion = 5 points

Share = 3 points

Comments = 2 points

Like = 1 point

Videos with the most points above a minimum threshold are shown to an increasingly wider audience.

Full video: https://vm.tiktok.com/Jjv2cXC/
Yeah, I've no idea how it was that much slower but they were reasonably sized tables (x00M rows) with tens of columns and it was basically a full join on each column - probably would need an index on every column to make it sensible?

[edit: And with CDR mediation, it's not as simple as "do all the columns match exactly?" because some of them are going to be different in certain allowed ways which needs to be considered a match and also you need to be able to identify which rows differ in one column to say "these look the same but XYZ is different?" Which is probably why the query was horrendous.]
China is far older than the cancer of the CCP and the Chinese people will cut that cancer out eventually. The CCP have been doing it to everyone else and their own for years. The difference is they go to far greater extremes to cancel everything and everyone who doesn't tow the party line. They deserve what's coming to them.
> gets me through the day just fine

just because it gets YOU through the day, doesn't mean it gets others, people use phones differently, for starters their phones have different Screen on Time per day, so while 1-2 hours is fine for you and gets you through the day, for others 7hrs is not enough and phone will die for them before dinner
thanks, edited my comment
The irony of these trite whataboutist responses is that China would be in such a better position as global leader if it were open or democratic. Unfortunately for the Chinese people, the Party is more interested in maintaining personal power than charting a good path for humanity.
Good question, built in content hash on those lambda function would be great to have.
Are you seriously wishing for war with a nuclear power with ICBMs and the largest manufacturing capacity in the world?
Discussed extensively: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23685915
Presumably that was because BitTorrent sends data even before receiving 100% of it? But I assume that downloading these files would not be allowed in this case anyway as per Zákon č. 121/2000 Sb. §29 (2) since this is not a published work.
I'm in Singapore and most of my colleagues here view the US as the bad guy in all this.
Oh come on, you want to talk about rules. When did CCP follow the rules that it agreed to follow when entering WTO?

Laws in authoritarian China are the tool for oppression. It is not well written and can be interpreted as how CCP like.
I personally found vue to be much easier to pickup compared to React so I would pick vue. But React is good enough as well I am sure.
> ... and calling everybody a communist

I have to admit, when I read that a pole (old enough to have firsthand experience with both) claimed that gay ideology be worse than communism, it made me reevaluate my prior estimate of how bad communism must have been in poland.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/06/20/gay-ideology-is-...

PS. thinking of the Solidarity poster: Amy Kane, or Helen Ramirez?
> I'm sure China will manage to copy a Boeing 737 pretty soon, which is 1960s technology. Meanwhile we are doing:

Well, good enough is good enough. Boeing 737 is currently the most popular plane, and if China's regime manages to steal enough tech to be able build an equivalent product, even if it steals only 60s technology, then China's regime will be in a position to outcompete Boeing based on metrics that matter such as cost or soft power.

It really doesn't matter who has the cutting-edge after a point of diminishing returns. When that point is reached, good old economics start to become the leading criteria.
There are no examples. Thats the point he is making.
Is either one any easier when migrating an existing web?
Oh sorry, I thought we were discussing working with rational people.

If you're working with irrational people you're going to have to do irrational things, but that's kind of a given isn't it? We don't really need to discuss that.
A Pi4 with 4/8 GB of RAM and NVMe SSD would be a pretty solid general purpose computer honestly!
I agree to an extent on most you’ve written but I do think we need to be careful too. A general insect decline (objective data points to this) seems to exist. But a single persons observation that they remember more fire flies than today doesn’t necessarily hold water. I replied to another response that I had a similar thought only to eventually realize I was biasing a small number of events from the past that were probably a standard deviation or more in the “lots of Fire flies” direction. I wasn’t considering all the times there weren’t.

Our brains do this. We key on certain experiences and memory favors the extreme. Over time our memory does distort. It doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. But that we should be careful with anecdotal memories to make generalized pr specific statements about today’s reality.

As for “history repeating itself” - does it? Or do historians who write history repeat themselves? Historians write about long sequences of events that seem inevitable and if only such and such action were taken then a disaster or triumph would have been avoided or accomplished. But the recording of select historical events is more a persons narrative - a story - rather than the actual past.

What are the motivations of the historian writing about the past? What have they negated? What have they chosen to focus on? What of their memories or the subjects they used to inform their history? Which people do you choose to understand what they “said or saw”?
As a European, all I see is US spying on everyone through their US companies/apps, and bullying other countries that try to so the same...

Europe standing clueless in the middle, European council with an average age of 70ish not understanding what all the fuss is about.
"Imagine hating databases" ... "just so you don't have to deal with them"

Do you normally respond to issues by trying to characterise people?

Imagine this fictional world where anyone that disagrees with me is incompetent.

In my experience, I think working with database specific functionality is like dropping to lower-level of code generally. Something I have done in ORM->Raw SQL and C->Assembly. There is a point where the price in development cost, testing development time, platform lock-in, reduced code reuse IP, subset of experienced programmers within the team/salaries/training, loss of access to future updates and bug fixes, and so on is worth it. But almost never in my experience. Almost but not entirely.
> Cultural Revolution was not a civil war

That's splitting hairs.

Mao's Red Guards -- student revolutionaries and young adults -- effected a drastic shift in power, from a more liberal government to Mao (a strong authoritarian), and something on the order of three million people died as a direct consequence.

Moreover, China lost an unbelievable amount of its history, as revolutionaries purged the "Four Olds" (customs, culture, habits, and ideas).
The funny thing is this is one of my favorite features, it keeps the switcher uncluttered. If you don't like it, you can use "Mission Control" (Control+Up Arrow) that will show you all windows across all applications (pressing Control+Down Arrow is the same but only within windows of the current application).

You can also switch with Command+Tab and once you hover over the application you want, you can press Command+Down Arrow (or Up Arrow or even Key 1) and that will show you all windows within that application (the same as Control+Down Arrow). Notice that each window has a title and you can press the initial letter and that window will get focus. You can then press Enter to select it.
Saying that the US companies chose not to obey China laws, etc is simplifying the situation dramatically in favour of China. In this case, don't the Chinese laws include a requirement for a Chinese "partner" company and obligations towards IP transfer? These requirements don't sound like a fair arrangement to me and, as far as I know, there are no comparable requirements in the US on foreign companies.
Will CV19 Usher People Out of Major Cities
Further to other comments, looking here it seems that C, X, V for Copy, Cut, Paste were first used by Apple in the Lisa in 1983 and then later adopted by Microsoft for Windows:

"The IBM Common User Access (CUA) standard also uses combinations of the Insert, Del, Shift and Control keys. Early versions of Windows used the IBM standard. Microsoft later also adopted the Apple key combinations with the introduction of Windows, using the control key as modifier key. For users migrating to Windows from MS-DOS this was a big change as MS-DOS users used the "copy" and "move" commands."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste#Populariz...
I've never written a Rust RFC before, but I know how to start forum topics. Let's go!

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-user-namespaces-on...
Chief Data and Analytics Officers, Government – Washington 2020 (Conference)
> Increasingly the only thing that matters is which side you are on

You mean, what matters to the political and economic elites in the US, perhaps. In the rest of the world, most of us (IMNSHO) don't share this outlook, nor would we like to be on any one of the two sides.
I absolutely despised having to memorize passages in school. To this day, I can't find a single way that has helped me.
a very informative article on the times us Cypriots didn't do the extra step to reclaim the city, https://politis.com.cy/apopseis/oi-epta-fores-poy-arnithikam... (it's in greek).
To me it's a good example of Opportunity Cost. We could spend the time and effort memorising jq's special snowflake language, but that time and effort would almost certainly be better spent on something else. I deleted it a while back. Can't be bothered with it.