skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not about the iPhone (or coffees, avocado toast, etc.) It’s about the habit of unnecessary spending. Many people (obviously not all) could handle unexpected expenses if they had better financial habits.
No, we don’t. Trade restrictions on China are restrictions on the freedom of Americans.
I didn't really see it as trashing but a real person running a real business in a real world, who just can't believe these young people who live in a fantasy world that is funded by VC.
Overwatch is Blizzard, not Epic.
TikTok and the Great Firewall of America
What problems are you talking about that she doesn't know how to solve? Many of these startups seem to be the lack of a solution in search of a problem.
Those companies are free to operate in China if the comply with Chinese law.

The US hasn’t issued any legal barriers for TikTok to jump over, they just straight out banned it.
Unless there is actual data it’s probably best to not trust your memory. Every time you remember something the reality of it changes. Memory is lossy. Bias and selection are favored over improvement or precision of recall. Every recollection is inferior to the previous one.

I have a few memories of extensive fire fly experiences back in the day. But when I really think about it, I don’t remember all the days and years without a dramatic memory. And the ones I have may be distorted.
IIRC, You can do it by embedded the content into an Office file, which is a zip file.
This also potentially has many ramifications in different industries.
Tencent (owner of WeChat) is a big investor in media and entertainment companies.
One side effect, for example, is blocking financial payments to Riot Games, Epic Games, Fortnite, and half the gaming industry.
So in your hypothetical world there is some conspiracy between the thousands of ISPs which will work together to decide what content peoples see.

Even though consumers will simply move to another ISP just like they are free to move to another website.
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So it is saying in order to serve ads from China, all data will still go thru Adtiger? Can’t US ban that too?
With regards to right wing pages who contact Facebook to get their flags resolved, the article seems to suggest it's inappropriate that they reached out directly -- but the business relationship is between Facebook and the user with a profile, not the user with a profile and a 3rd party.

These and other interventions appear to be in violation of Facebook’s official policy, which requires publishers wishing to dispute a fact check rating to contact the Facebook fact-checking partner responsible.

[...]

Instead of appealing to the fact-checker they immediately call their rep at Facebook...

This is a little like when my package gets lost, and -- very rarely -- the shipper tells me to contact the post office instead of simply claiming the insurance and refunding me. These shippers often don't give me the receipt I need to show the post office that it was insured -- because telling me to contact the post office is just another way to say, not my problem. The post office is likely to say: please contact the shipper...

If the user isn't happy with what Facebook did -- regardless of whose advice Facebook took -- they have every right to contact Facebook.
> Do countries get to do this to each other whenever they feel like it now ?

No, countries get to do this to each other whenever they feel like since the dawn of mankind. "Now" isn't any different.
Had to memorize this in grade school. I'll never be able to appreciate it properly because of that trauma.
This also potentially has many ramifications in different industries. Tencent (owner of WeChat) is a big investor in media and entertainment companies. One side effect, for example, is blocking financial payments to Riot Games, Epic Games, Fortnite, and half the gaming industry.
I’m confused too, this seemed like a normal comment
I'm sorry that most of the other replies to your comment end with sass or sarcasm. However, you are misunderstanding that quote if you think it implies that women are biologically incapable of anything, or that _all_ women are biologically _less_ capable of anything. And by that I don't mean you're misunderstanding the intent or the subtext (what he really meant), I mean you are definitely not understanding the literal meaning of the quote.
Oh, easy. That was the internet when it was mostly composed of enthusiasts or people interested in discovering things. That time has gone, and the internet now is mostly a tool for normies to reproduce their "real" life on the internet. Pictures, personas, various frivolities that early users of the internet were trying to get away from.
Does your organization disable the "Non-secure" prompt in the browser as well? If not, I'd say that it does seem like a security risk to train your users to ignore browser warnings like that.
Nobody is forced to do business with China, but you and those who support these policies are forcing me not to do business with China.

Leave me alone.
Trump Escalates His China Tech Ban from TikTok to WeChat
> no longer lead by example to bring the world closer together by encouraging free markets and free people.

It does not work very well if you are the only nice guy within a group of a--holes. You just end up being beaten up. Free Markets work well if pretty much everyone adopts the same rules of commerce, but China is way beyond that point.
A lot of cooking has been automated, though. Consider an industrial bakery, or frozen pizza factory, or your favorite candy. We just don't normally call automated food production "cooking".
Cisco123
Daniele is a great guy and I deal w/ him regularly as he's the author of psycopg2. However the mistake he makes here is in the realm of database abstraction tools having the sole rationale of "database agnostic code". That's really not the main rationale, nor is it really "hide the database so people don't have to learn SQL". The main one is "automation of work". A lot of the comments here refer to situations where hand-rolling everything always was just too error prone. There's a thing we do in computers when a job is very repetitive, tedious, error prone, and follows a complete pattern that you can define algorithmically, which is, write a program to do it!. that said I'm sort of glad Django took the heat on this one and not SQLAlchemy so I can get to bed without obsessing :)
Because it's false? Companies are banned in China for not following Chinese laws or directives. Like... how they report on Tiananmen Square, for example.

When you learn a bit more about geopolitics, you realize that there's more to these things than initially appears. Tiananmen Square was pretty bad. But when you look at the utter collapse of Russia after it tried to Westernize, and the poor shape of America because of her own economic policies, someone not living in the Anglo/American news bubble would really have to wonder.

To that end, companies that have an easier time skirting around the dirty politics – like Tesla, Ford, and GM – have been able to have successful and profitable operations in China. As the parent points out, there's a pandora's box that's being opened. And if you are led to believe that it's a normal comment, it's the same nationalistic stuff you've being trained to fall in line with.
I didn't say they can't I said they will not likely going to try at all.
Ending Corporate America’s reliance on Chinese slave labor would create global recession.

Not likely that Trump would inflict even more economic damage during his presidency just before the Election.
I'll now need a new VPN to access sites in China, just as I do to access sites outside of it...
If we are talking restaurants, human costs are around 1/3 of the total expense- the rest being rent and food.

I don't see how splurging on massive capital investments like machines winds up being cheaper than having a human do the food prep- humans are remarkably efficient at quality control, repetitive but flexible tasks (I.e. dealing with imperfect non-manufactured things like food items) and require little capital to get going (just basic training).

The only thing machines beat humans at in food is volume of high precision, highly controlled tasks- think producing bags of chips rather than prepared meals.

It seems like food startups are trying to jump straight to scale, hoping to prove out that eliminating some human jobs works- saving maybe 1/6 of their costs at best, rather than proving that a market exists for whatever product they are selling.
Any pundit who thinks the ultimate goal of exchanging goods and services with another country is regime change is a lunatic.
> As long as one is clear about what one is optimising for, both strategies are fine.

I know this is HN orthodoxy, considering the audience and our beneficent hosts.

But I think this assumption bears questioning. Is the startup model really morally equivalent? Clearly we wouldn't say that all cost functions a business could optimize are all equivalent. So why should the traditional small business and startup model be assumed to be equivalent?

And moreover, even if it is morally equivalent... is it really that good of a strategy? By which I mean two things: 1) is it a fit strategy in of itself, and 2) is it good for the entire business ecosystem?

As food for thought... why hasn't Silicon Valley adequately considered a "slow-up" model that combines the traditional survival and sustainable growth focuses with the advantages of massive cash influxes and rapid iteration towards a viable product (even if that means pivoting)?

I think the answer is clear: venture capitalists want a return, and a large one, before they die. Is a business model optimized for generating returns before investors die really a healthy strategy to have so much capital allocated towards? Especially when these businesses in particular (tech startups) can often have such a large impact on culture and society.
How does this move affect your ability to do business with China?
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No, but they certainly could if it suited their interests. What I find interesting in this thread is this assumption of both proportionality and rationality from the other party. China isn't, and hasn't, followed the same rules as the rest of the West. Why would we expect them to now? Moreover, from a game theoretical perspective it seems suicidal to act like they will, and then do nothing but complain about them "not following the rules".
Second GIS. ESRI is ripe for disruption.
I live the same way, small house, cheap car. No debt. Then I see all the irresponsible people/biz/localgov getting bailed out and wonder why I bother.

It would have been smarter If i could have figured out how to work the (fractional reserve banking) system, instead I just avoided it as much as possible.
Some of these points look like a common sense nowadays (is there any software team in year 2020 that does not use any VCS?), but do not agree with a couple of them.

> Do you use the best tools money can buy?

This is just unrealistic, and actually not required - the tools do not have to be the best, they should be adequate. Which author kind of confirms discussing his #1: "I’ve used CVS, which is free, and let me tell you, CVS is fine."

> Do you do hallway usability testing?

Usability testing is important, of course, but IMHO it should not be done in hallway, but rather among the target audience. Otherwise you'll end up with UI that is easy to do some basic things with, but very inconvenient for real work, in real workflow that is not possible to test in hallway (not providing any examples to not hurt anybody feelings by accident, but from my experience this is quite common, unfortunately).
Not just Facebook but Twitter and social media as whole. We are are all voluntarily choosing to support technology that beams us deception, mistruths, and lies of omission at all times. Worse, we like it because of our own vanity. Aldous Huxley warned about a society where people voluntarily enter into a totalitarian society because they are both easily deceived and receive cheap instant gratification from those in control. Seems like we are about here.

Aldous Huxley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40
Alstom[0] and Toshiba[1].

0. A popular narrative in China holds that the US trapped France to sell Alstom in 2014. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom#Acquisition_by_General_... and https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/07/an-unlikely-...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba-Kongsberg_scandal
I've had a number of tik tok-ers tell me they don't care what app it is. They care about the community and creators, and they will find each other on whatever replaces TT.

I was intrigued by this sentiment, the idea that the conceptual social network is the thing of value, not the application one interacts with it through.
Probably not; I suspect that gumby would say that the position is inherently sexist, no matter how sincerely held.

I read the memo as sincerely asking whether the data showed a sexist conclusion. Either it is inherently sexist to ask the question, or it isn't. If it is, then... what? Is it inherently sexist to note that men are faster than women? (Yes, I am aware that there are 12-year-old girls who can beat me in the 100 meters. No, that doesn't invalidate my point.) Then is reality sexist? Or is it only sexist to notice? Or to admit that you noticed?

If it isn't inherently sexist to ask the question, then we start into judgment on whether he asked it in good faith. That's a different question, on which I will not pass judgment. But I suspect that what's happening is that people have decided that it is sexist to ask the question, and therefore he couldn't have asked it in good faith.
and these retards wonder why China blocked all western social media ages ago. This is exactly the reason.
According to Sam Dean (LA Times): "Video game companies owned by Tencent will NOT be affected by this executive order! White House official confirmed to the LA Times that the EO only blocks transactions related to WeChat." [0]

So that clears up at least a little of the ambiguity.

[0]: https://twitter.com/SamAugustDean/status/1291576813685108736
Most Teachers get summers off
At this point US has lost all credibility when it comes to privacy and security. While everybody was watching China, US has implemented exact same Orwellian nightmare at home where every citizen is tracked https://www.coindesk.com/tiktok-and-the-great-firewall-of-am...
Better argument for it than for Canadian aluminum.
Not with just a single truck, probably, but a fleet of them with prime locations (like outside major tourist attractions on a hot day) and selling a premium offering for $8 per ice cream? You could probably make pretty good money doing that, especially if you have some kind of secret recipe (sprinkle some crack in every pint!).

You can become a millionaire by scaling up almost any business. I doubt you’d become a billionaire but who cares?
With all due respect, I don't think your assertion is correct that the Damore memo claimed that "women [are] biologically incapable of leadership and programmer roles".

Instead, what the memo said was that statistically, women have a different distribution of traits than men, and this difference in distribution may lead to, on average, women being less predisposed to software engineering roles as they exist today. It did not say that women are incapable of being software engineers. Instead the message is that women who are happy in a software engineering role (and therefore women who will work as software engineers) are going to be further out on the bell curve than men who are happy as software engineers, and so there will be fewer of them.

The memo also suggested some ways to improve gender diversity without discrimantory hiring practises (based on the assumption that these statistical trait differences are in fact the main cause of gender ratio differences), which I think was a positive contribution to the discussion.

Overall I think the memo made some good points (although it is maybe a little long-winded and could be more rigorously cited). I'd encourage you to read it in full if you haven't just to understand what it's saying. There is a PDF at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I... .

Edit: I do agree that claiming that women may have different abilities, as opposed to simply preferences, is problematic and oversteps the bounds of professionalism. This claim was limited to two words in one place in the document ("and abilities"), but I don't think that's the major bent of the document.
The way I see it, because the government cannot censor speech AOC wants companies like Facebook to do it. Very dishonest. I would expect calls from people against any censorship, not for it.
So WeChat is likely to be banned by the US govt?
This was the predominant geopolitical theory with regards to China for most of the past ~40 years.
> I've heard a second hand story about some titanium razors made internally at <large razor company> which were given out to employees as gifts. They lasted for years, but could never be released as they simply wouldn't be able to turn a profit.

That seems unlikely to me.

Properly heat treated steel is considerably harder than titanium. This is why titanium knife blades are generally limited to niche applications (like dive knives, although that market is being contested by modern rust-proof steels like H1).

Material hardness is one of the leading factors in edge retention.
You are not even American. Please do not act like you understand the political process and it's everyday implications.

This is why you have no other retort other than "XENOPHOBIA!". Grow up.
Insofar as alt-right is a synonym for neo-Nazi that would certainly be a laughably ridiculous claim.
Sometimes an inexperienced auditor will show a minor finding that is a sign of a bigger issue. For example, if Windows is in FIPS mode, some MD5 functions will be disabled.

If you need to be operating in FIPS 140 mode, that may be a problem of some consequence.
You are bringing me back nightmares, how I wish I was Python-litterate during my previous employment.
Negative cashflow doesn’t cause immediate death. Many (most?) people who suddenly lose income have a a negative cashflow in the immediate term (especially in consumerist societies) — many expenses take time to adjust. And people generally aren’t planning to be on unemployment for the long term anyway.
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It is a database you can easily update and watch for changes in your website's javascript. Now you can also log people in with the same service. With those two you can move much of the logic that was traditionally done on the server onto the client-side.
It is well known China has stolen IP from western companies and strong armed them into partnership agreements if they wanted to operate in China, as well as using illegitimate anti-monopoly crackdowns to handicap them.

https://fortune.com/2014/08/11/china-western-companies-monop... (China vs. Western companies: Best defense is a strong offense)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/1-in-5-companies-say-china-s... (1 in 5 corporations say China has stolen their IP within the last year: CNBC CFO survey)

https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/05/news/economy/china-foreign-... (How China gets what it wants from American companies)

https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/23/technology/china-us-trump-t... (How much has the US lost from China’s IP theft?)
Both the US and the Soviets did these things and to a far greater degree.

As I said, we will likely see a Cold War scenario of two separate spheres of economic influence. The divestment process is already underway.
Does anyone know what the definition of a transaction is? The executive action is not clear at all and provides no definition of transaction. Big surprise.

Furthermore, what is the government going to do if I refuse to stop using WeChat? Is the U.S. going to embark on blocking the app at the network level? If not, how will they enforce this? What if a person as defined in the order travels to China? Are they banned from using the app there, where it's one of two apps basically required to get around efficiently?

This is just pure authoritarianism on the part of Trump. I am sick of him hijacking this country. And all of this is in a bid to get re-elected. He has been holding this country hostage, trying everything he can to ensure his re-election.

For me personally, I use WeChat on a daily basis as it is the primary method of communication between myself and my fiancee, a Chinese citizen, who is still banned from re-entering the U.S. despite living and working here. So now it's the U.S. government's policy to implement it's own authoritarian controls on what citizens can and can't use.

Honest to god. This country is a lost cause. It's filled with people who think their freedom allows them to demand access to military weapons and that their liberties are at risk due to requiring masks, but these same people will applaud this.
You don’t have be google to allow this. My employer does this as well.
A lot of good comments here.

A different way to approach this problem, is to consider culture: 'people like us, are attracted to certain things'.

Those fields are overwhelmed.

So, where are the 'completely unsexy' areas?

1) Human Waste. Port-o-potties are a huge business, and it's a nasty problem, pun intended.

2) Agriculture. Farms are not hip.

3) A lot of goods and services targeting low-income people who are extremely price sensitive and don't care about how cool things look.

4) Anything to do with a business that is mundane: cleaning, forensic accounting, physical security, garbage, etc..

Literally walk down the street and look at what people do, it's funny how you can get an instinct for how very 'specific' YC pattern types are, and how we're a little bit out of touch.
Nokia was in the process of switching from Symbian to Maemo, but Microsoft installed a Trojan of a Stephen Elop and forced the crap that is Windows Phone down Nokia's throat.
Oh paper it might seem so, but a teacher works far more hours outside the butt-in-chair hours during in session and out of sessions. At least my AP teachers did.
Anytime you do business with China your essentially doing business with the CCP.

We would all like China to be a positive part of the global community but the fact of the matter is you can't ignore their overall policy. A possible genocide against the ethnic Uighurs, aggressive expansion in the South China Sea, normalization of censorship and suppression, treatment of Hong Kong & Taiwan: all of which are a complete contrast of Western values.

Could China force Tesla to sell Chinese operations? Absolutely. I don't think any one would be surprised. Companies that enter the Chinese market (if they can in the first place) are subjected to getting a smaller piece of the pie from the start.

Facebook has relentlessly tried to tap the Chinese market but are blocked by the CCP. So why does TikTok get a free pass to the American market? Why does __any__ Chinese company get a pass?

I think we need to continuously evaluate our relationship with China.
This is a fantastic start.

More people need to become aware of what China is currently doing with their so-called "reeducation camps".

I would like to see other countries doing the same, and not just with fancy (but mostly useless) things like TikTok, but cut off Chinese involvement in anything critical where countries depend on them.

It has become clear they have total disregard for human rights.
Small typo at the beginning, seems the microcontroller is ESP32, not EPS32.