skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why, because of the protests? If the protests had the potential to overthrow the government by force, they would be met with bombs and bullets. Civil wars are fought by armies and the US military is completely unified behind the preservation of the US government.
To quote one of my favorite banter from Skyfall(2012) between Bond and Q.

> Q : Age is no guarantee of efficiency.

> Bond : And youth is no guarantee of innovation.

At the end of the day, we all can learn from each other... Different perspective brings different insight.
> The problem here is that this is an obvious escalation with US as the aggressor and not all US allies are willing to follow the US into war as the current administration is seen as unreliable.

I don't see how US is the aggressor. The kind of control CCP has over these companies is well known and as someone who is not an American, I was surprised why the US admin had not taken stern measures till now. This standoff was initiated when China decided to kick out American companies for not subscribing to their censorship policies. And the way companies like WeChat feed into CCP's censorship framework is well known.

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/
> If capitalism does what it says on the tin, I don’t get why can't we have a market cleaning price for buildings. Are we doing too much capitalism, or not enough? Is this just all very efficient but I’m not smart enough to figure out how?

Mostly too little capitalism - buildings are very heavily regulated. Zoning, property tax, planning laws, rent control, and habitability laws are big factors. For example maybe it's illegal to rent out the building because the kitchens are too small, and renovating it would not only cost a lot up-front but also push up the property taxes, so you'd have to be confident of getting a return - and maybe you're intending to knock it down and build a replacement as soon as you get planning approval.
you left out the parts about having to operate via a chinese 'partner' and having to transfer your IP to that partner (full source code)
Or (gasp) shippable features.
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
Yes, but also no. It is more like an AppStore because it offers interactive content (games) that is 100% like what the AppStore already offers and wants to audit and control.

I am not saying that Apple should not allow this in the store, I can just see a legitimate angle as well as the more fishy angle that I mentioned.

Also, if Netflix were to start offering porn lets say, I bet Apple would have concerns there too.
The dataset was growing and sheets were slowing down. Excel installed locally on a machine with good hardware is a pleasure to work with. As the team grew more and more people were asking for office licenses and like i said, we have colleagues who've been using excel for ages and they like to have 2-3 files open on multiple screens and work between files using references. It's just not as fast as using excel locally.

I'd like to add that we also had an issue with our clients using only excel and there were issues with calculations not working, not so often but with enough people making noise our management decided to get the subscription. I've been using sheets for years even as a student when i couldn't afford an office license.
The silver lining is that the reason for that change was because a proposal for stable inline assembly is actually making progress now, which is IMO fantastic and long overdue.
Follow up: I just added some social sharing buttons, but without impacting page performance. The snippet is here:

https://anonyfox.com/spells/frontend-social-buttons-without-...

Very basic but does the job I'd say. :)
We can call it digital warfare.
I negotiated such arrangement once as a software dev (well, Thursday and Friday off). It's doable as long as the employer really does not want to lose you.
The answer is democracy. If a policy doesn't work out, elect a new government with no political investment in the old failed policy, and in fact maybe even a platform to fix it, and have them fix it. Prohibition in the US is a classic case in point.
As smoking on Netflix rises, fears of normalization grow
> But no sane person could call the Japanese people racist

I would disagree with that. You will see many sane people pointing out the racism against koreans, chinese, tourists, western residents, etc in Japan.
I think the point of this article is how the Meet team handled the increase usage, not whether if this product is better of worst than competitors.

I bookmarked the article that can be seen as an engineering approach to solve a problem like this.
Except that the comment at the head of the thread was the one arguing that two wrongs make a right - that if the US does this, then all of a sudden China could start doing the same thing to US companies. The reply is just pointing out that this ignores the fact China already does this, on much vaster scales, and has done since forever. (Given that China is about the closest thing we have to a second superpower, this fits interestingly with your argument.)
The united states shut down 50 coal power plants since Trump took office.

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-coal-power-trump.html

What isn't the rest of the world doing its part to address climate change?
Maybe to show benefits of natural law.
That sounds like it would make the development iteration even more terrible than it was - WASM builds were slooow last time I tried it - with webpack in HMR mode or flutter you get instant feedback - this is probably the biggest productivity boost in UI development - I've yet to see anything from .NET offer similar performance, I suspect it would be challenging due to the static nature of IL.
I can understand the lack of high speed internet or lack of sewage if you live in a rural aread, but electricy? If you hadn't said you lived in Florida I would have guessed something in a developing or 3rd world country. How is that possible?
I wonder if there are countries where, if you do black magic and it "works" (e.g. you curse your competitor and subsequently bad stuff happens to him) you can get sued and/or go to jail.
This rings so true to me. I got engaged during the last 6 months of my PhD student tenure, and lo and behold, I defended my thesis in the same month we got married. https://pornogratisaqu.com/es/category/33/Garganta%20profund... In the same vein as above, the added perspective and fire under me resulted in a number of novel solutions to problems that probably would have been major issues in the past, including a full change in direction of my research conclusions after realizing a substantial issue in the practical application of the technology.
Because China was a poor country back then but had the potential to become a huge market. China was given all sorts of advantages to allow it to develop its economy on the hope that western companies could do business there. China is now a fully developed country (well, the cities are at least), yet it still retains the same economic advantages but market access is still a carrot they dangle before western companies.
And how does following suit not in fact ratify the business model because now banning on security grounds is legitimate? (Note that nowhere is the justification or condition stated to be one of reciprocal market access.) Isn't it interesting that there are laws on the books and authority vested in a single man to do this already? If this isn't struck down by the courts, then it just shows to the world, not for the first time, that America's vaunted values are a pretty thin veneer, conveniently discarded when it suits.
Right, but the unix philosophy is that everything consumes and emits text.

Having something more than a blob is great.

Of course, there will be a performance tax.
How Vulnerable Is GPS?
China does it, so it is okay for us to do it is just a very weak defense of this behaviour for us looking at this from outside of China and the US.

The US stood for free markets, democracy and human rights and (at least) pretended to make international decisions based on those values. Now the fig leaf is gone and it is clear that those are mostly used to make transactions to US benefit even if it comes at the cost to others.

If you value something like free markets, you stand by it even if it comes at a cost in the near future. If opaque TikTok recommendation engines are a problem, maybe regulate them in a way that solves the problem in general? That would hurt Youtube, Facebook and co. but it also would make the EU more comfortable in the negotiation for the Privacy Shield successor.
If this is referring to namespacing, that's a crates.io concern, not a Cargo concern. Cargo is fully capable of using other registries, and there's nothing stopping those registries from using namespaces to organize and disambiguate crates.
The personal subjective feeling at this point is fewer places having snowy winters and more frequent and severe heatwaves — the phrase “9 of the hottest years on record were in the last decade” being in the news most (or all?) years since the late 1990s.

Most individual people won’t feel the change that’s happened over their lifetime unless they’re wondering why it doesn’t snow any more or how they ever managed without air conditioning; it shows up in higher costs for national-scale-multi-year weather damage or crop and fishing productivity.

And of course, this is a global rather than local effect, so some places have more change than others. My first trip to the USA was the 2014/15 winter when there was simultaneously record cold on the Atlantic coast and record warm on the Pacific coast.
The Teletype editor was a marvel. The whole program on one line (cond & & ..). In 1976 I remember I tried to invent something similar to natural languages. Finnish was very suited for this, with long words with plenty of affixes, but the base words are mostly short.
It's rather surprising that US policies are blamed for the current standoff instead of China's Great Firewall, which has been getting stronger by each year due to lack of a stronger opposition.
RocksDB have nothing to do with Mongo. Mongo uses the WiredTiger storage engine.
That sounds like an excellent way for the US to torpedo their relationship with Canada, as if the trade war and COVID response isn't doing enough already. Canada's stance on the arrest is based on its legitimacy and the impartiality of the judiciary. The public will be outraged if it comes out that we've had to suffer China's wrath for a political stunt by the US.
Baby boomers are most likely to vote right wing conservative.

And so there is always bias present in "research" conducted by left leaning sources.
This seems to have minimal upside and heaps of downside - you can only use the features that every database has.

You should be running the same database in test as in production anyway - there are heaps of problems you won't catch if you don't.
Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)
If you extend HR policies to your users, you won't have too much left after a while. And that isn't what free speech means at all. It is trivial that there a consequences to speech as there are consequences for trying to police speech.
I think a big part in this story will be Brexit and how much UK turns to US for trade partnership and how much friction that causes over EU industry interest groups.
I agree. If isn't an operational security risk, can you share pictures of your setup?
As Trump Signs Orders Banning ByteDance and Tencent, WeChat Stock Plummets
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15934183
Thats not unequal. They did it to us, so we are doing it to them. This is how trade relations have worked since forever.

It is not complicated. If another country engages in negative trade actions to us, it seems reasonable to do similar trade sanctions against them, so that we are treating them similarly to how they are treating us.

This is the basis of most international trade agreements and relations.

If a country puts a tariff on you, then it is almost certain that a tariff will be put on them as well.

If you don't respond, then you are letting people take advantage of you, and it encourages them to continue to do it in the future.

This is basic trade relations, and game theory 101. This is simple stuff. This is how international relations works on numerous different fronts.

It is simple accepted, basic, and uncontroversial, that, in international relations, when a country does a bad thing to you, then there is often a response to that bad thing, and you don't just let them get away with it.

This is uncontroversial to anyone who knows anything about international relations.
There's a story that the soviet Communist Party actually circulated copies of George Orwell's 1984, not as a warning against how totalitarianism could go wrong, but as a manual for how to implement it more effectively. I'm not sure if there's any truth to it.
I wonder how in a situation like that you can check the authenticity of archives. It must have been tempting for the KGB to plant incriminating material once they realised they were going to lose control of an archive - though they probably didn't have a huge amount of time to do that.
This is super common, to the point where Microsoft used a similar password scheme as an example when talking about password spraying attacks at an RSA conference presentation

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-99-9-of-compromised-...

It's why I'm advocating within my organisation to get rid of password expiration and enforce 2FA for clients, but there's a lot of inertia to push against with some of them. At least uptake of 2FA is consistently increasing.
I kinda like the mystical feeling of jq.

As with haskell, it'll feel as though I've arrived somehow, should I achieve real understanding.
Since it's highly unlikely that the lethality of the virus depends on which continent it's on, a more likely explanation is that people in the US are more likely to belong to any of the risk groups by being obese or by having diabetes.

Check the number of deaths by age group at EuroMOMO: https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

The total number of covid-19 dead that were younger than 45 in the countries that EuroMOMO covers is in the low thousands, while the total number of covid-19 dead is in the low hundreds of thousands. That's two magnitudes lower risk compared to the general lethality.

Every individual has to do their own risk analysis, and see if they belong to any of the risk groups for covid-19, because that changes the individual equation.
Is the fact that the vaccine is "proprietary" relevant to the efficacy? Would a non proprietary vaccine be ok?
Your own link (from the summary) states that it's a mixed bag at best:

> The relationship between obesity and socioeconomic status differs by sex and race and ethnicity group. Among women, and specifically non-Hispanic white women, obesity prevalence increases as income (PIR) decreases, while among non-Hispanic black and Mexican-American men obesity prevalence decreases as income (PIR) decreases. Although the prevalence of obesity among women with income below 130% of the poverty level is higher than among those with higher incomes, most obese women do not have incomes below 130% of the poverty level.

And considering education tends to (roughly) map to income, the most damning sentence is the last:

> Among men and women with a college degree, the prevalence of obesity is lower than among those with some college education. Moreover, college educated women are less likely to be obese compared with those with less than a high school diploma.

While OP may be incorrect in claiming most poor Americans are overweight, it doesn't look like they're too far off claiming those in poverty tend to be heavier. Doubly so considering this evidence is pulled solely from the link you're trying to use to refute their claim.
IsDir can return false for filesystems that don't have that concept, which would of course be the correct value in that case. Mode and ModTime are more concerning, but practically, FileMode(0) and time.Time{} can be used respectively in implementations that have no use for them.

In terms of the ideal of preferring types as a means to constrain functionality, I think FileInfo fields should have been expressed as granularly as possible using extension interfaces in this case, but practically I'd prefer putting some placeholder values in FileInfo for missing functionality over the clunky way these extensions have to be implemented in in Go.
Yes, but it's like saying: the distance he walked is 5km per hour for one hour. Easier to just say 5km.
Elf_diff: A tool to compare ELF binaries
Microsoft condemns Apple’s App Store policies
This is how war festers. You lose the common communication mediums. It becomes easier and easier to see the other guy as BarBar-speaking barbarians.

Fuck the fuckers that would rather punch back than uphold their own integrity.

You can't call the other team an asshole for cheating, and then go right ahead and cheat in the exact same way. It makes you even worse than they ever were, because you ever presumed you were better.

How absolutely sad.

We deserve to choke on the toxic fruits these seeds may bear.
Pandas basics and tricks every Data Science aspirant must know
As a desktop developer I really miss the Big Bang releases and slow pace yes. We are doing a 2-year transition between 4.7.1 and 4.7.2 now! What goes on beyond that is just a fog. Some of our third party dependencies are probably never going to be ported core while many others are starting to lose maintenance on netfx. Being in the position of having to maintain a netfx desktop app for the coming 10-20 years is looking bleak.
“It’s not somebody who is impacted by COVID, but somebody who is taking advantage of the situation”

Taking advantage here is an interesting choice. It seems to mean: Reducing your profits that you usually get as a landlord taking advantage of the situation.
US banning Chineese apps is an anti-China move and not an anti-free market move.

An anti free market move would be protecting their own companies against all global competition, irrespective of country.
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My point was that any consideration of the US as a "national security threat" to Germany should take into account the physical national security and ask what national security actually means when there are troops from the other country stationed in yours (along with their associated CIA listening posts etc). It makes it very hard to suddenly treat the US as a hostile power. "The cars have to go but the troops can stay" is obviously nonsense.
I'm talking about the general sentiment. You can see this on every* site, HN included. The litmus paper is that even pointing out something objectively true will get criticism (downvotes) rather than critical thinking. In the current atmosphere nobody asks the question when it comes to China/Russia/NK/Iran but will when it comes to the US despite the known history of hacking/spying on everyone else.

*Recently a reputable tech site wrote an article introducing DJI (ostensibly a company needing no introduction) as "Chinese-made drone app in Google Play spooks security researchers". One day later the same author wrote an article "Hackers actively exploit high-severity networking vulnerabilities" when referring to Cisco and F5. The difference in approach is quite staggering especially considering that Cisco is known to have been involved, even unwittingly, in the NSA exploits leaked in the past.

This highlights the sentiment mentioned above: people ask the question only when they feel comfortable that the answer reinforces their opinion.
EX mode

How to get there? Press Q in normal mode.

What is it about? To punish you for trying to type while still in normal mode, or for having fat fingers. An opportunity to type "visual" to go to Normal mode.
When Kr00k was released we almost knows that this isn't special "feature" only for Broadcom chips. And was just matter of time Qualcomm to be hit with similar.
Election. Team Trump believes it needs to take a firm stand on something or other.

There are much more obvious national security threats, but this is kindergarten tit for tat politics for ratings. So don't expect any action on those.

Or any understanding of second order consequences for the US. Or a coherent national IT security strategy, which is what the US and EU really need.
What are the benefits? In this context they are not clear to me.

"If you punch me in the face then, later, I'll punch _you_ in the face".

This type of behavior may be par for the course in USA but how is it good for humanity?
> China does it, so it is okay for us to do it is just a very weak defense of this behaviour for us looking at this from outside of China and the US.

This is how trade relationships work.

If china puts a tariff on us, for corn, or steel, or whatever, then the US is going to put the same exact corn/steel tariff on them.

Reciprocity is a foundational premise of trade relations.

> The US stood for free markets

We have tariffs against many countries for many different reasons... This is nothing new. That is just how trade relations work.
I did say 'contrast', not 'compare'. I agree the information is not roughly equivalent (the smartphone gathers much more data) and agree the level of betrayal is not there (as with the line about the advantages of making the landlord and the tenant the same person, there are also advantages to making the informer and the informee the same person).

For the aunt/uncle comment: No, I don't believe "the government"/"the corporations"/"the illuminati" are actively listening to every[1] conversation. However, is there any technical reason why they couldn't?[2]

Ad networks[3] already know many web pages I visit; why would my own devices (or devices between me and my ISP's gateway) not know them all?

As I doubt there are any technical solutions to this problem, I hope we[4] eventually come up with some social ones.

[1] In the early 1960's, watch lists were only a few thousand words:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7950_Harvest#Usage

[2] Having had friends whose research became unpublishable due to having been classified midstream, I have a bad habit of looking for dual-use. A friend of mine was excited to work on https://eos.com due to the (for the time) cutting edge transfer, storage, and retrieval issues. I couldn't help but think that there were no doubt other agencies besides his funder, who had similar problems, albeit slightly different data sets.

Dual-use technology is an existence proof that many systems can be used for good or for ill, depending solely upon intent (or the signs of certain parameters).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768824

[3] cf p.88 "5.A.1.j. does not apply to systems or equipment, specially designed for any of the following:
a. Marketing purpose; ..."

https://www.wassenaar.org/app/uploads/2019/12/WA-DOC-19-PUB-...

[4] "What you mean we, kemo sabe?"
While I have some relatively extensive experience with Perl, I'd rather write assembler using morse than touch that ever again. The language is one guy's not-too-well-thought-through hack that gained enormous traction by filling a void, and from there grew far too organically. There are lots and lots of cryptic ways to do the most mundane things, lots of inconsistencies, the language really makes it hard to write software that isn't terrible to maintain.
Haven't looked into this for a while, but most projects I saw were using Amazon's API, which I guess has the largest international catalog of books. The typical next result is GoodReads, which would be awkward to lean on for building a competitor.