skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it's not.

The Chinese government sets their (extremely authoritarian) rules on censorship for companies to legally operate in China but the rules apply to everyone equally.

Chinese companies of course have to comply, but foreign companies have the choice to comply or not. Google chose to comply initially but decided to pull out later on. Microsoft/Apple choose to comply and are still operating in significant ways in China.

In contrast, US is proposing to ban TikTok, Huawei, DJI without clear rules: the reason to ban these companies is that they are Chinese companies. In other words, Chinese companies are "born a crime" to the US in the current climate, without the need to show what rules are violated or evidence of wrongdoing.

China also doesn't have the monopolistic power in tech that the US does: forbidding Google to operate in China it's not the same as forcing app stores to de-list certain apps globally.

It's even more absurd to force ByteDance to sell their US business to a US company. If the US feels justified that this could be done on "national security" ground, why shouldn't EU do the same to US tech companies?

I do hope that US citizens see that for much of the world, US is no longer the champion of free market, promoter of free-speech or guardian of world-order. All that matters is if these values benefit US economically or politically.

The US lost it when Japan was economically sanctioned for its competitive auto/electronic sector in 1980s. China is taking the same heat today and India would be the next target if India were to want to play its role on the international stage. The best outcome for the world would be to have multiple strong economies globally that keep each other in check; rather than one country having monopolistic power over all globally significant online forums.
How to build a nuclear warning for 10k years’ time
No, seriously, do you have any data to support your claims that it is riskier to get the vaccine

Since I don't have a crystal ball to see 4 years into the future, when this executive predicts the negative side effects will emerge, presumably based on experience with other vaccines, no. By all means, volunteer to be amongst the first to test it, and be sure to let HN know.

Perhaps you could provide some data on how normal it is for companies to disclaim liability before a product is even launched?
I dunno. I think I'd start maintaining again several of my popular-but-not-maintained projects even if they paid only $1/month each. There's something about being rewarded, materially, for your work that's personally motivating.

I'd love to be able to say "people appreciated all the work I did the past year, so they paid me $12 for this awesome annual meal"
Thought experiment: What feature additions would modern C++ need to be a good Clojure compile target? Besides the obvious GC.
Great replies so far. I'd add that if people want namespacing to actually happen they need to collaborate on an RFC (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/0000-template....). Ideally someone would post a pre-RFC to internals.rust-lang.org so it can be improved before formal submission.

Any such RFC needs to take in to account previous discussions (and appreciate that the crates.io team is small). E.g.:

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/crates-io-package-policies...

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/namespacing-on-crates-io/8...

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-packages-as-namesp...
Gamers and crypto miners do various nasty things to PCIe cards in order to use cheapest cable possible to extend it and actual hardware damage resulting from that seems pretty minimal.
My advice: don't use twitter. It is a terrible way to communicate.

PS I'm old school in the sense that I don't have any inclination to tell you about who I am, but rather delight in the simple act of sharing ideas.
US Government issues New Zealand travel warning due to its '23 active cases'
you um... just collapsed like fifty different problems into one paragraph. Eviction moratorium is pretty far from Greece's illegal airbnbs.
Ask HN: Why software developers are against marketing Dev-posts?
Yes, many things are theoretically possible. In relative terms Coronavirus isnt that mutagenic. Every year for many years millions of people get seasonal coronaviruses there hasn’t been a “morph” (whatever that means). The SARS and SARS/CoV-2 crossovers did come from somewhere and it was bats which are REALLY good at being virus incubators. We are not. I guess in the environment we all are now in I’d prefer a message not be spread of a seasonal cold turning into a deadly respiratory disease based on such an apparently unlikely hypothetical. Or Let’s worry about things like swine and avian flus, which are orders of magnitude better at “morphing” yet much of the population still refuses to vaccinate annually.
I started using this just to test it out when I started studying compci a year ago.

It works relatively well for me, though I have become extremely relaxed in the way I use it.

When I started I would write much more in the "recall" column. Now when I write in the note section, I add to the recall section if it makes sense for the note (so, not always - before I would always try to write in the recall column even for things where it didn't make sense to). I also skip the summary bit out of pure laziness.

It works alright. It's become more of a routine study thing more than anything. But I do think it helps me order my thoughts, creating questions in the recall column is a useful exercise I feel.
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Not even the majority of users commenting on this post seem to like this change.

This one is my personal favourite response: [0]

Makes you wonder if this whole idea of renaming 'master' which in the context of Git has nothing to do with 'master-slave' links makes any sense.

I'm still waiting for Mastercard to rename their deeply 'offensive' company name then. /s

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/azure-repos-default-br...
The truth is, you don't need much in the way of AV software if you are willing to outright block certain types of files.

In most large corporations you are basically not allowed to send anything that could even potentially hide a virus except for maybe Office files (nobody yet built a compelling alternative to Powerpoint and Excel).

Typical rules already block all executable binaries, scripts and password protected archives (because they could hold binaries or scripts), etc. As a Java developer I have recently discovered my company started blocking *.java files.
I normally hate it when people bring up the slippery slope fallacy, mostly because they don't actually understand it, but that's the sort of argument that you are making.

It's not an unfair question, though. But it dismisses the fact that humans usually find stopping points; that their decisions don't boil down to a series of if-then statements. We have warred for millennia, and yet we haven't totally obliterated ourselves.
How should they? The average person has no clue of Nazi Germany, let alone what factors made it possible. Many (young) Americans today think everyone in Germany is still a Nazi.
No it's not "exactly this".

The Chinese government sets their (extremely authoritarian) rules on censorship for companies to legally operate in China but the rules apply to everyone equally.

Chinese companies of course have to comply, but foreign companies have the choice to comply or not. Google chose to comply initially but decided to pull out later on. Microsoft/Apple choose to comply and are still operating in significant ways in China.

In contrast, US is proposing to ban TikTok, Huawei, DJI without clear rules: the reason to ban these companies is that they are Chinese companies. In other words, Chinese companies are "born a crime" to the US in the current climate, without the need to show what rules are violated or evidence of wrongdoing.

China also doesn't have the monopolistic power in tech that the US does: forbidding Google to operate in China it's not the same as forcing app stores to de-list certain apps globally.

It's even more absurd to force ByteDance to sell their US business to a US company. If the US feels justified that this could be done on "national security" ground, why shouldn't EU do the same to US tech companies?

I do hope that US citizens see that for much of the world, US is no longer the champion of free market, promoter of free-speech or guardian of world-order. All that matters is if these values benefit US economically or politically.

The US lost it when Japan was economically sanctioned for its competitive auto/electronic sector in 1980s. China is taking the same heat today and India would be the next target if India were to want to play its role on the international stage. The best outcome for the world would be to have multiple strong economies globally that keep each other in check; rather than one country having monopolistic power over all globally significant online forums.
REBOL Quick Start (Clock Example)
The people that get bash.org jokes in contrast... :)
Difference Between Centralized and Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange
Do you mean the west is closer to Nazism than China?
Nvidia Launching RTX 3080 in September
The understanding that the US would respond in kind by banning the import of VW Group vehicles or putting a very high tariff on them. In any case it wouldn’t be in Germany’s interest with the new Tesla factory going up there.
Golang package and CLI tool to download files 4x faster than cURL and Wget
What you want is tagged and/or typed pipes. Once a pipe declares how its data is encoded, you can build all kinds of modern tooling and high-level automation on top of that.

The whole “But everything’s a text file!” is an outrageous lie, and always has been: just an excuse to cover up a massive omission in the design of the Unix file system (untyped, untagged “file” resources). Such egregious corner-cutting might have been understandable—even forgivable—back in K&R’s day, when they were bootstrapping C and Unix on hardware with less processing power than a modern microwave oven controller. But we’re decades on from that now and there’s no excuse for perpetuating it: we know how to build safe powerful modern static and dynamic type systems, and we’re spoiled rotten for the hardware resources to support it.

Fifty years ago, K&R built C and Unix, in a cave, with scraps. Nowadays you can bootstrap a complete hardware stack for less than the cost of a 360, and there are modern kernels (L4) and systems language (Rust) already available for free off the shelf. So pick a target market and build the userland for that. All that’s missing is a modern-day Kernighan and Ritchie to step up and get on with it, so it’d be a sorry indictment of this generation if they do not exist.
Code reviews miss things.

(1) Code is in part a communication medium. This says "We use MD5"

(2) Code changes. If some sees something cryptohashed, they may use it differently in 5 years.
Spain’s Iberia Continuing United States, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Ecuador Flights
Must be imperial. If hogshead can be a unit of measure, why not puffin?
Are you still trying to find logic in trumps actions?

The popular opinion on reddit seems to be that this is just trump being told that tiktok users where responsible for his failed tulsa rally, and personally, that explanation seems just as likely as any of the other explanations given here...
They have 45 days to agree on something, and that will determine "transactions" in this case. Pure pressure.
Parent is not arguing that Nerve stimulation is not used.

The argument is (as with many of these therapies) that it is rare to have robust enough methodologies when testing this and that the positive effects claimed are often null/negligible or worse non-reproducible.

Arguing peripheral nerve stimulation is effective because it is used as a therapy, gives it as much evidence-based robustness as homeopathy.
I think it would be fine if the transcript had photographs, but as it is, the transcript is not really sufficient on its own, so you're forced to watch the video anyway.
Infinity: open-source search engine
The Curious History of Steam Heat and Pandemics
There's a whole lot factually wrong about your comment (Starbucks started as a single cafe, it wasn't funded by VC, and it started in the 70s/80s when money was far from cheap, and 1/3 of its total outlets are in Asia).

But that's all beside the point. I'm not saying an Italian would be able to replicate Starbucks in Italy. What I'm saying is that there are countless opportunities staring us right in the face, every day, and 99% of people see a cafe and think "it can't scale, it's local demand only, there's no point, why bother", the remaining 1% see Starbucks.
I wrote a little blog post on just that, feel free to take a look: https://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/life/twitter-tips/

TLDR AI research community is quite active on there so it's a good way to keep up with big news and conversations (and more).

I think the usefulness for most people is equal parts keeping up w news/conversations and funny memes.
This is a superb project, really nice work!

I kept thinking "oh nice, you'd just want to add a---" and you've already done it! Incredible stuff. I can't wait to see how this progresses. The keyboard design is really neat. It reminds me a lot of the old Nokia N900, still the best phone I've ever owned.

Do you have any idea how much battery life you get?
OneCoin lawyers persuaded UK’s FCA to take down scam warning
I'm also completely in favor of reducing lights or even banning LED light bulbs, which in my opinion are also harmful to humans. Let's raise fuel prices by 100% and go back to incandescent!

But you correctly hint at the actual reason for German politics:

Nothing that hurts the economy like banning pesticides or cars will be done. So a scapegoat is needed, in this case the lights.
Ah, good to know. I have no experience with Django and the article gave me the impression that Django migrations can’t be handled manually.
> what impact do they actually have? It's pretty much irrelevant what he says there

They literally cannot be irrelevant because they're official presidential communications - "The Department of Justice on Monday told a federal district court judge In Washington, D.C. that Donald Trump’s tweets are “official statements of the President of the United States.”"

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/government_says_trum...
Would it even reach orbit? The drag beyond Mach 1 must be huge, so the compression forces on the "saucer" would be huge too.
> What I wonder is why don't they seed plants that don't grow high?

Because within a few years, there will be plants that grow high anyway. In a few years more, they will dominate.

In climates that support trees and bushes, the only way to have grassland is regular grazing or mowing.
Thanks. They're all experimental and YMMV.
What's exciting with tVNS cf tDCS is that you can use HRV as a measure of efficacy.
a) Fair enough. But I reserve some doubts it will be that easy. If it gets to the point that China bans Boeing, I'm convinced many EU companies would also be in the firing line of US sanction regulators and China.

b) Cormac cannot even produce jet engines after 25+ years of state backed R&D.
I'm not saying that I think that it is probable, but if one where to look at other civil wars in history, would they all really be that different from current america?
Google launches its first 2020 budget smartphone – pixel 4a with powerful specs
> Your shell is not for me.

And that's okay. Personally, I'm thrilled by the idea of a new shell. I don't plan to use Crush in production (yet?!) but I definitely plan on installing it on my laptop.

I'm excited to see how things go. I understand, for a while, it won't have all the bells and whistles of zsh. But that's okay. Everything has to start somewhere. I remember back when alacritty didn't even have easy scrollback!

Best of luck to Crosh and its author, liljencrantz!
You may be thinking of MongoRocks. MongoDB with a RocksDB storage engine https://github.com/mongodb-partners/mongo-rocks/wiki
I think in general all our life quality will improve if we significantly reduce light polution. Not to mention the energy savings. Sometimes I forget how beautiful the night sky is just because I'm usually so blind to it.
China didn't ban them, they just asked them to play by Chinese Rules. I think it should be the same. Instead of Banning the US should setup what US rules they expect international companies to play by, as should the EU etc.
Indeed. Vega has been one of our inspirations. Though, we took a more business use-case focussed approach for the visualizations, and also more focus on performance.
> But having the president order arbitrary punishment without proof of guilt (what happened to presumption of innocence?) looks like a dictatorship to me.

It is. There's a faction in the US that believes the US has to have a dictatorship to compete with China.

We've been here before. The USSR looked like an unstoppable juggernaut until the late 1960s / early 1970s. Like China they started from a state of relative backwardness and rapidly industrialized and modernized. The pace seemed incredible until they ran out of stuff to copy.

Totalitarian systems excel at execution, but they are not creative. A vertically integrated totalitarian state will always beat a liberal democracy at "see that? do a whole lot of that!" type challenges. Totalitarianism fails utterly when the leaders are incompetent or deluded, but when the leadership has at least basic competence they can appear formidable... as long as there is a "that" to "do a lot of." When totalitarianism runs out of clear obvious paths forward, it flounders.

Totalitarian systems find it very hard to innovate because innovation is disobedience. It goes against entrenched bureaucratic and monetary interests and sometimes even laws. The latter is why states with a minimalist doctrine of law (some version of "that which is not explicitly forbidden is permitted") tend to do better at innovation.

For a real world example of above: look at how ISPs which are state backed monopolies use the law to push against competitors be they local or municipal broadband or Starlink. In a totalitarian state, those sorts of entrenched interests almost always win. Once something becomes entrenched in the power structure it is immovable and competing with it becomes effectively illegal.

During the Cold War there were always factions in the USA and Western Europe who argued that we must become more like the USSR. The right pushed for more militarization and executive power, while the left pushed for more central management and central planning. They were really pushing for "right" and "left" variants of the same thing: a vertically integrated totalitarian system like the Soviet state.

The same thing is happening now. I think a major reason many at the top of the financial and intelligence world pushed (sometimes covertly) for Trump is as an answer to Xi Jinpeng. There is always a temptation in any conflict or tension to emulate the adversary. It won't work. The real answer is to encourage and protect our ability to innovate while waiting for China to run out of things to copy.

That being said, I am all for cutting China off from easy access to inside knowledge and training. We shouldn't make it easy for the CCP to copy everything. As such I am not opposed to disengagement. We should move production to places like India, Africa, Indonesia, etc. so as not to readily share industrial and technological expertise.

Edit: I mean no racism here. The Chinese can innovate just fine. China under Xinpeng finds it hard to do anything but copy, because it's a dictatorship.
I think it is unreasonable for people to need to own a domain (or at least pretend to own it) just to publish a package. Not everyone is part of some company or runs a website.
The “array size constant” antipattern
Newline separated what? Basically all Linux config files are newline separated lines, but that won’t get you the equals separated data pairs, indented blocks, pretend-xml sections, ad-hoc boolean representations, INI-style sections, ad-hoc list-of-values style data out of them.

> What if it allowed parsing of XML natively, allowing instant scrapers to be written in a single command?

Powershell’s Invoke-RestMethod parses xml natively to a structured output; it’s useful but not enough to make XML fun or trivial to work with beyond root.node.foo.title simple scraping.
I would say the same. It is about team size:

If you are alone and don't care whether your client succeeds after you've got fired: Go for it.

If you are in a really complex structure, you most likely have dedicated database people, who want to do their thing anyway.

In any other circumstance, it is a really bad idea to ignore the standards of your framework and build your own thing. If you have to manually change the database, at least stick it into a standard migration. Don't use your own thing. Documentation will be lacking, edge cases will be ignored, the old standard will still stick around and new people will try to use it.
there's an impact on stock market:
https://www.athensjournals.gr/business/2018-4-4-2-Colonescu....

see also just a few months ago. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-says-sto...
Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok
China Builds Surveillance Network in South China Sea
I have been reviewer in this field (ACL-related conferences) for a couple years now. Based on the results of the yearly surveys:

One of the biggest challenges was to decide what to do about ArXiv and pre-prints in general - most researchers keep track of new papers on their area, and therefore it is likely that they will be assigned as reviewers for a paper that they have already seen (and for which they already know who the authors are). This issue came up for a vote a couple years ago, and the chosen answer was to not disqualify papers for this outright but to kindly ask authors to refer from doing so.

At the same time, "88% consider double-blind reviewing at ACL conferences to be important", and only 14% of reviewers would penalize a paper for not including a relevant pre-print. This seems to me like a fair compromise. There is also work in progress to either talk to ArXiv to allow for author masking, and/or to create a new pre-print server that allows it. There is a very detailed report on the results of the survey in [1].

A second issue is whether the reviews should be made public, because it could compromise the double-blind process. The general result of the survey [2] was against it, where "support for public review tended to be inversely correlated with reviewing experience (and) female respondents were less likely to support public review than male respondents".

[1] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/sites/default/files/SurveyRepo...

[2] http://acl2019pcblog.fileli.unipi.it/wp-content/uploads/2019...
IANAPhysicist, but the article makes "feel" how cool all of that is. Good read.
Ours definitely does, what I pay for HOA dues is nothing compared to what I'd be paying if they didn't cover my cable, internet + HBO. They bundle it up for every resident. I've seen what others pay for cable, my HOA dues basically are in the ballpark of a pretty basic internet + cable plan (in Florida) now imagine paying double, cause that's what it'd be like if they didn't bundle it. I'm pretty sure our HOA pays like $30 - $50 per house or something for plans that normally cost $100+ so it's definitely severely discounted.
Chrome's password manager, doesn't use HIBP. Neither does Apple's implementation.

The barrier to collecting leaked dumps and compiling a database from them is not that high. Many of the security outfits and large tech vendors are doing it already.
Basic research takes a long time; The technology of today is based on the advances made a decade ago, or even more in the past.