skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China does not prevent american businesses to do business in China as long as they follow the law.

European and foreign businesses get much higher fines compares to local businesses (e.g. Volkswagen, Deutsche Bank, Bayer (e.g. just after buying Massato), Toyota, etc...)

On the other hand Europe allows american businesses to access the european market without following the local laws. No user data can be transfered to the USA where protection clearly is not adequate, still they do.

EDIT: You can downvote me, but it's all true:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/business/dealbook/volkswa...

"Criminal fines in the United States from 2001-12 were on average more than seven times the size for overseas entities than for American companies"
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Definitely present in Snow Leopard (the last good version).
It's not even so much about protecting the secret sauce as protecting user data. Every tool interfacing to the Google backend is a potential attack vector. When the time comes that nobody's willing to bear the cost to keep it updated as the core infrastructure changes, the product dies.

In a world where Google is split up, that'll still be true; it'll look more like "Google CoreCloud has just changed API foo to protect against backflooper attacks; all users must change by Q4 2022." And spin-offs that can't afford the change will kill features or products.

In fact, in a world where individual pieces of Alphabet are required to sink or swim based on their own profitability, I expect more products dead, not fewer. Ads pays for search. Who pays for search in a world where the government has stepped in and divested ads and search from each other?
Trump officially bans Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat. What happens now?
I don't think there will be much difference between, say, one month of use and times that are longer than that. Of course a good cleaning after use is necessary.
One of the leaked documents this article is based on explains a lot more of the background: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7016657-Five-Rules-o...

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
it's somewhat reasonable argument for rent in regions where landlords have siphoned off huge economic rents, but for everyone else in the economy falling prices means economic damage as well, people are being paid with the money you pay for groceries and coffee.
> Now you've gone completely off the rails. Gavi's primary role is as a purchaser of vaccines and not in development.

Both Gavi and the Gates Foundation are intended to create "healthy markets" for vaccines. Gates didn't design Windows 95 either; he was a business and marketing guy promoting it. It's not the development that's the issue, it's the fact that these alliances are profit motivated and vaccines have been a loosing bet for years due to the incredibly amount of research funding needed to bring one to market.

Their motives for rushing a vaccine to market right now are not altruistic. They want to prove they can bring vaccines for novel viruses to the market quickly. It could work, but it could also be a disaster. The fact that this is an 'emergency' allows them to avoid a lot of regulations, and even liability if the trials end up making people sick or killing them.
Interesting idea. I hope it works out connecting both sides.

Two random initial thoughts:

1. combining 'my' and 'startups' (plural) in the name seemed a bit off, like my current startup was going to fail or something. Of course it's hard to come up with good available names.

2. I generally never like seeing implementation exposed and seeing the .php extensions seems dated or less professional.
To restore a minimized window, cmd-tab to that app, then control-down arrow to show all the windows of the app, then use the arrow keys to select that window (minimized windows are smaller at the bottom), then return to open it.
Ask HN: What are the reasons that startups need too many founders?
I currently work at a startup that has more than 3 founders. I would love to hear the thoughts of this community about too many founders in practice.
There are far bigger concerns with data harvesting than simple ad targeting.
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But only if you already developed technology needed to survive on mars and have an industrial base not touched by those nukes.

Having a self-sustaining outpost somewhere other than earth is valuable not only for its own sake, but also due to the developed technology and industry and infrastructure implied by its existence.

If tomorrow you suddenly need a huge fleet of fully reusable ships for some reason, the right time to start working on them was 20 years ago, or as soon as basic science and technology level allow.

There are also political risks (we are all too close to each other).
This is common, any big size tech company with a good antitrust lawyer would do something like this. Nothing shocking about this at all.
Pretty much everyone who matters if you're trying to convince people of something.
> We use the term ‘User Preference for Google Search’ and never the term market share,” that document says

Now that this document is out, can't the government just map their fancy words back to the original word using this doc as a map?
I wonder if kernel aware green threads will obscolete conventional green threads such as in Loom.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-U...
ServiceTitan[1] is a big company that does exactly this, but there's probably space for more than one player.

[1] https://www.servicetitan.com/
Tech bubble and Google were similarly chagrined to realize normals used SERPs to navigate to web sites when organic results didn't have the site itself top of the list and users were ending up at places that confused them.

From Feb 15, 2010:

"Suddenly, the two worlds collided. The tech savvy ran head-on into the tech illiterate and mockery and disbelief started to overtake confusion as the general tone..."

"While we mock those users, the simple fact is they haven't necessarily failed, something failed them. With all of our talk about the semantic Web and search engine optimization and tailoring search results to the individual user, there are thousands upon thousands of users performing the same simple search and following the same wrong road. If this were a standard traffic sign misdirecting this many people, it would have been pulled down long ago."

// via readwriteweb.com: https://web.archive.org/web/20100215124750/http://www.readwr...
Surprisingly, it's not. It's evidence that Google knows some words are open to misinterpretation, so engineers are encouraged to use more accurate words and not stray into words with colloquial meanings differing from their legal meanings (because subpoenas lack context).

If I say I'm "killing it" this week, I'm not committing homicide.
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Agreed! Well said

If you moderate by common decency values, massive chunks of conservative voices would be off Reddit, FB, Twitter - and then they will evolve to dodge the new filters, or cause filters to create collateral damage.

Deplatforming these voices also plays into their strategy of calling themselves victims. Since most people don’t know the ins and outs of frequency of rule breaking, and the disproportionate amount of false information in conservative circles, people assume (wrongly) that it can’t be “that bad.”

I wish someone had a cost benefit analysis on what is the most effective way to resolve this, but right now social media firms are forced to treat outright conspiracy theories at the same level as science and research.

Perhaps it’s a civilization level issue - we have the technology and structures to create platforms - servers, networks, computer science theories.

We don’t have a solution or science for handling the structures that come on top of it, like what is the societal cost of keeping crazy theories on a network, vs the cost or methods required to stamp it out, and the philosophical arguments that support or prohibit such action.
Why should the American middle class give two shits about American businesses having to jump through hoops to operate in China?

90% of their income comes from wages, not investments. The last thing they want is for American businesses to operate in China, period - because operating in China typically means that manufacturing capacity gets moved there. This unfairness is only unfair to the owner class - the middle class is actually a net beneficiary of policies that make offshoring harder.

China's policies that make foreign operation in it difficult are, in that sense, actually a gift to the American middle class.
I had to teach a new colleague (MBA with an innovation major) ctrl+c anf ctrl+v. To him, icons in a bar would probably be way more intuitive than looking for shorcuts online.
Could you use something like confidential computing to attest over http(s) what software is actually running on the server? This would offer a very interesting trust model together with reproducible builds, where you could have the CPU attest over http(s) that it is indeed the code base published on Github/Gitlab that is actually running on the server and receiving your data.
>Now that the US has shown it can ban foreign tech companies if it's in their own interest, and all the moralizing talk about the free market has been exposed as the self-serving propaganda it has always been

regardless of the administration's actual motivations[1], banning tiktok/wechat can be plausibly justified as retaliation for what china did. There's nothing contradictory or hypocritical about preaching the free market but also engaging in anti-free market in retaliation against non-reciprocating countries, just as there's nothing contradictory or hypocritical about preaching peace, but engaging in violence in retaliation against non-peaceful countries.

[1] eg. some people speculate that trump wanted tiktok banned because people shared videos on there that embarrassed him
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Good point. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if the fed started renting empty units.
You have a macbook, but it seems to me you almost certainly grew up on Windows, because in situations where they take different approaches to the same problem you always expect the Windows behavior and haven't discovered the corresponding mac behavior. Then you blame mac for not behaving as you expect.

> start the program again

Case in point. On mac, choosing (through the dock, through Cmd+Tab, through Finder, through Spotlight, through terminal) an already open program has the semantics of giving it focus. On windows, it opens multiple copies. Sometimes.
I'm not a virologist or anything close, but reading this it seems like definitely good news?

If I am understanding it right, it's saying many people already have T-cells from common colds that can to some extent recognise Covid-19, and those that have had Covid, even a mild case, have T-cells that seem to last quite a while.
Stop moving the goalposts. First you asked for evidence they had to hand over trade secrets and IP and now you're saying "so that's just part of trading". You are not being an adult here with your argument.
Well Congress needs to get reasonable with the boost per week for unemployment rather than the $600 a week boost; a number likely chosen for that 600/40 magic number. The $600 isn't sustainable let alone on top of the $1200 per house hold plus $500 per dependent.

Worse is the stuffing of the bills with defense appropriations and more items not related to COVID19. Worse is the attempt to feed the state governments between five hundred to a trillion dollars to shore up budgets of states that are not even trying to clip their expenditures, most of this is routed towards shoring up their pension systems and again, not COVID19 related.

The real pandemic is the debt bomb that Congress is foisting on the American public, remember, no serious crisis can be allowed to go to waste. It is time for the money to flow to friends and family.
I wish there was a way to differentiate a “search engine” as in one that crawls the web and a “search engine” like Elastic or Solr.

Maybe the latter should be a search server?
Thanks!

But also wow, just wow.

Oh, wait. I just tried and it turns out you can simply use the up down arrow keys once you've tabbed to the app. Neither control or option keys are required just keep holding command and then use the arrow keys. Who knew?!

Not perfect but better than nothing (which is what I had before).
Is that a bet on a basically functional society, or a bet on which place is better to live in for individual?
12 years is a "very long time"? What is considered a "long time" or a "short time"?
My guess is the decrease in using aluminium cookware can explain this. Those areas that didn't see the dementia reduction are also likely poorer areas where they still cook using aluminium.
You're ignoring the fact of FB, Google et al opening offices all over Germany/EU and paying ludicrous salaries to even junior devs. It is a form of resource theft IMHO.

They have the deep coffers to lure young people who otherwise might've started their own businesses. As a result, the IT and developer market is entirely fucked up here in Southern Germany. Yes, yes, "software eating the World" and all that — but the big players (US corps, mostly) are not just by buying up most of the talent but _they create unhealty expectations for the rest of the crowd_.

_"I know where to put a semicolon in JS, I expect a starting salary of €100k"_ etc.
That is not the same, because ownership of _account_ isn't enforced if it's just a string. Imagine someone else uploading qayxc-resume, for example.
hehe, I'm in my 50's and have been doing this for >25 years. I still don't know where that line is
Fundamentally, classic sites works differently than new sites. It's basically not possible, for example, to make a classic sites website mobile responsive. That's a table-stakes feature for website builders today.

To your Squarespace comparison, Squarespace went through a similar transition - Squarespace 5 worked very similar to Classic Sites, and was replaced with Squarespace 6, which was a complete end-to-end rewrite.
This is expected, most people who were paying attention have been wondering when it will happen and the corona virus gave us the answer.
> We spent a lot of time these last 40–50 years chasing performance above all else, prioritising it before safety, expressiveness & development time.

I would agree with this for operating systems, but I just don't see this being true for application development. I am thinking Electron and deep levels of abstraction introduced by the Web.
I think the latter case is not a solution to the problem, but rather a form of procrastination. Instead of trying figure out how to resolve the issues in a peaceful way, you declare peace and hope for the best. Doesn’t work in the long run. Of course you can buy time by declaring peace to figure things out and for that tolerance is useful, but it is certainly not the most important thing that assures peaceful coexistence. Any peace it would bring is too fragile. Reason gives you permanent peace.
Interesting the author didn't mention lists which are my favorite way to escape the firehose of Twitter. The trick is to add just /one/ account to a list, and then you can visit that 'list' when you want, rather than that account being forced upon you randomly when you fire up the app.

It's also a quick way to access an account without having to search for the account each time. You're probably thinking that defeats the purpose of a 'list' if there's just one account in it, but it's been my go-to method for a long time now, and I have bookmarked so many useful tweets, and I sometimes even reference these gems in blogposts, or share the tweet with friends on other social media channels.

It's all about having the time to /mull/ and assimilate knowledge rather than drinking from a firehose.
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Not easily, because how do you separate the now-two uses of "people prefer Google search?" Sometimes they mean "market share" and sometimes they mean "people prefer Google search," and there's now no way to tease them apart reliably.
* People don't have work, they are using the stock market like a casino.

* Big Tech use skyrockets taking the market higher.

* Fed pumping trillions inflates asset prices.
The only time I've seen someone bring this up in real life is to shut down someone else they disagree with.
>>pesticide trucks driving down the street

That was DDT. Occassional exposures like that aren't linked to anything horrible in humans. It was banned for its impacts on birds, specifically their eggs. (Google "silent Spring".)
The term you are looking for is "nuclear binding energy curve". Basically lighter isotopes can gain energy by fusing, and heavier isotopes can gain energy by splitting, but somewhere in the middle (around iron and nickle) the isotopes are the most stable. So you gain energy by moving towards iron, whether from the light end or the heavy end of the periodic table.
So I should hang deep red LED strips all over my home office, then.

I finally have an excuse...
> Or you hate the Chinese fifth of the World population?

This is a spurious comparison. Every time someone accuses someone else of racism in this thread, there should be the same answer: The US (after a looong while!) is doing to Chinese companies the same China does to US companies. To ensure the benefits of globalization are not concentrated by China's protectionist policies
>Why should the US allow Chinese companies to operate in the US?

The US gains very substantial economic benefits from being an attractive place for international companies to do business. Foreign investors know that when they invest in America, they're getting a stable regulatory environment and a reasonably trustworthy civil legal system. If America decides to undermine that trust for short-term gain, there will be a substantial long-term cost.

You might believe that hostile trade policies prevent American companies from competing in the Chinese market, but that's starkly contradicted by the number of American companies for whom China is a key market. Apple earn $11bn a year in China. Wal-Mart have thousands of stores there. Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell) have 40% of the Chinese fast food market and make more revenue there than anywhere else. Starbucks have 70% of the Chinese coffee market. The shelves of Chinese convenience stores are groaning with American-owned brands.

An all-out trade war with China might be appealing, but be under no illusions that it'll be all upside for America. If China want to put the hurt on America, they have more levers to pull and more staying power. It's definitely not a fight you want to lose, but it might not even be a fight worth winning.

China aren't thinking about next quarter or next year, they're thinking about the next generation. Where does the US see itself in 2050?
When it comes to legal jargon, we've always been there. There aren't really "magic words" in law, but there are words that carry legal meaning and the meaning can be misinterpreted when one sees the word out of context in a subpoena'd document.
Every publicly traded company I've ever worked for made similar requests of words we shouldn't use, including "dominant" when talking about one of our products that had a large market share. I don't think this caution is unique to Google.
That's a bit too much, but we still have a few month left in 2020...
It happens, but rarely. We should really ease pressure by putting in laws to keep prices lower. In three cities I've lived, every 'good deal' is snatched in cash by landlords or flippers. Why not regulate the amount or at least the velocity of how many homes a person can own? My current landlord has 16 houses, that's ridiculous.
I have a dedicated lock button on the touch bar, which I use multiple times a day in the office. It's also great for searching through video and trimming in Final Cut.
this news does not make sense, what chips they would use for high end smartphones? because it can't be qualcomm

also what are they gonna use for smart watches, TV and their other products which are powered by kirin chips? you can't replace those that easy
Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
There was a similar rule when I was at Microsoft: I'm paraphrasing, but we couldn't talk about beating the competition, we had to just frame things in a specific way.
User-scheduled kernel threads mostly address the context-switch question (and, more generally, the choice of an appropriate scheduling algorithm), but don't help as much with the footprint, and so with the level of concurrency, L, and that's where the biggest win is. To do that requires a deeper knowledge of how the language makes use of the stack than the OS can do. Still, they have their uses, too, and the expectation is that when they arrive, Java will support them, too, as a third implementation of threads.
Isn't this just a form of theater? Word swapping doesn't change anything about the actual reality.
Ask HN: If a HN user downvotes all comments by another user, is that punished?
The scenario I'm describing is not just downvoting another user's comments in a particular thread.

What I mean is that if User A monitors all comments posted by User B across multiple stories and consistently downvotes them (e.g. in retribution for a perceived slight), does HN have a way of detecting that kind of behavior, and if so, is it treated as abusive?
Well, I’ve never known any colloquial use of “network effects”, it’s quite the technical term with well defined meaning.
At Amazon, all employees are trained not to use the words: "marketplace", "platform", and a few others.
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Just tried it, and it does work exactly that way, because the Docker menu -> settings choice opens an application called Docker Desktop, which can be switched to-and-from with the keyboard. I'm not arguing with your basic point, because I think that Mac strategies for keyboard navigation are simply different, not worse, but for your specific example, keyboard is fine.
Witch does exactly this, and more! It's an amazing little program with lots of customizable options, and the ability to override default shortcuts:

https://manytricks.com/witch/
> We spent a lot of time these last 40–50 years chasing performance above all else, prioritising it before safety, expressiveness & development time.

I'm not sure I agree with this assessment. Certainly some developers have been targeting performance (particularly compiler devs. Arguably UI devs). However, in corporate development, performance has ALWAYS come second to development time. The only time performance matters is.. well, when it does :). That is to say, it only matters when slow things are causing unhappy clients or missed deadlines.
Your reply makes sense, but you are buying into the notion that there is 'hate' and 'racism' involved.

This is a spurious comparison. Every time someone accuses someone else of racism in this thread, there should be the same answer: The US (after a looong while!) is doing to Chinese companies the same China does to US companies. To ensure the benefits of globalization are not concentrated by China's protectionist policies
Don't worry, patriot. The five year plan accounts for it. Once the Fed owns the entire market, capitalism shall overcome!
Isn’t this standard practice in big corps? These trainings are usually contracted to third parties and they tend to have similar content with small customizations for each company.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentratio...

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