skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which means if someone gets access to the internal network, they can read all traffic. And even dev systems can send confidential data. With letsencrypt and easy to generate certificates, https everywhere is very reasonable.
A better PowerShell? I'll take it! What's the story behind the name 'Crush'?
When did Google meet get better? I used it actively in April had a some really bad customer meetings on it (it seemed to be bandwidth heavy though that is anecdotal). I decided on Zoom and haven’t really looked back. I also was irritated at the Google Meets browser compatibility issues as I mostly use Firefox.
Here is the real thing: are you confident enough in your statement to argue that way when confronted by your government (or whatever is the concerned body here)? If yes, then feel free to do whatever you want with your free time and bandwidth, but otherwise you're better to stay as far as possible from these data.
They need synonyms for mute words
I don't agree that laws influence culture.
not yet, but this just shows how unpredictable US is. that will surely have an effect on many businesses.
Even with VPN. I don't want any person on the vpn to be potentially able to read traffic between internal services. I think that would fail many audits.
No one seems to be asking the most illuminating remark about this situation:

The US should allow TikTok if China agrees to allow unrestricted use of Instagram in China. That should have been the deal that Trump could make to expose the assymmetry of "open market" that China keeps touting about.

Everything, all arguments in this thread fall apart if people are complaining, condemning US's move to block TikTok. I agree, the justification provided by President Trump hides behind national security, it would have been far better to make a case for free trade and unrestricted access to China's domestic market.

Imagine, the opportunity for Instagram to advertise to a country of 1.4 billion people. The opportunity cost is massive.
The mortality rate may be low over the long run. But certainly over the short run, it was very very high. It is not a normal thing for city morgues to run out of room such that they need to truck in refrigeration units to hold dead bodies. This has happened in multiple American cities. That cannot be called a low rate by any stretch of the imagination, unless taking an average over a very long length of time.
A more realistic scenario is that US have a 3 months deadline to fix their political system, as rationality need an empiric and humane system to work within.
Every Day austronaut did show though that even theoretical aerospike engines are not a good choice if you don't go single stage to orbit, and even with aerospike engines, an SSTO is worse than a multi-stage rocket, especially if it can be (partially) reused like the falcon.
You didn't answer the question from OP. "What makes Facebook different from FedEx that it should censor messages between willing participants?" Of course Facebook isn't a UPS or a mail carrier, etc, we know that.
I agree, NA has massive stores because they have the space, e.g. population density is much lower than in Europe or Asia
I'm not sure that having dash cam footage is analogous to having access to private conversations to the degree of a social media company.
That is an absurd notion entirely inconsistent with the history of US gov actions. It does everything to protect the corporations and nothing for the greater population.
You couldn't be wronger.

Alibaba wasn't protected by the government at all. Ebay's then CEO bought a local e-biz site eachnet and relocated to Shanghai but still failed at competing with Alibaba.

Amazon bought some local e-biz site too and failed at competing with Alibaba too.

MSN was a huge player in China with far more users than QQ when it was taking off. ICQ was in China too. At the time IM wans't a big deal for big players. Tencent went IPO as very small startup, far less than Sina, Sohu etc., China's portals.

Chinese internet giants could win because they adapted fast to local market.
Something like this has been a business idea I've been sitting on, but it's hard to get started (chicken egg, have to get enough customers AND tradespeople for it to be worth either's time), and could be capital intensive.

I figured it's actually easier to sell this service, at least to start with, to small and medium sized businesses which don't need fulltime staff for some trades oriented work, but have enough of that kind of work for it to be worth setting up a business relationship. But of course the issue with this is it's just a small business idea - you'd need to figure out how to add value to differentiate yourself from the thousands of contractors already doing this if you want to scale beyond the lifestyle level.
I can imagine lots of reasons. To build on PowerShell means either integrating your changes upstream (not likely, given fixing some of the clunkiness would require breaking changes) or maintaining a separate fork and incorporating patches from upstream constantly (a lot of work, and constant conflicts aren't fun).

Plus the fact that PowerShell is .NET-based and not the most snappy shell out there either.

Plus the fact that extending something requires investing a lot of work just understanding how things tie together, and then avoiding messing up all the hacks and idiosyncrasies added along the way instead of having a clean slate to build on.
And it's good! Code Reviews can't surface all issues. Independent audits should be welcomed by developers to find more bugs and potential security risks (even though I'm a bigger fan of penetration tests instead of audits).
This looks absolutely brilliant.
Isn't this how real life social networks work? Some of your friends are on phone only, some you email, some on a chat service?
The only place I know where that would be the case is Switzerland, there downloading copyrighted material isn't illegal (and companies aren't allowed to track IPs of people downloading files via torrent), but sharing is. But in the context of a data leak of confidential trade secrets, that's likely to be a completely different situation.
There's a rule in English grammar that every English speaker knows, but likely doesn't know they know.

The rule was popularised by a Tweet [1], but I learned about it here on HN.

[1] https://twitter.com/MattAndersonNYT/status/77200275722200268...
The fact that we are allies with Germany and that the US probably buys a lot more from Germany than Germany buys from the US.

With China, well, they are already blocking lots of American software companies so this would be more of a proportional response than anything else.
I would imagine because "two wrongs don't make a right" and because "doing like the others" validates their doing.

Giving up the moral high ground is not a move of a superpower, and aides in destabilising the geopolitical playing field.
> What are the national security concerns for these apps that are not present in the multitude of other apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Zoom, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Gmail, iMessage, Facetime, Vine, Snapchat, YouTube, etc?

These are all American companies. Wechat and TikTok are controlled by Chinese companies.

> What about the suspicions that Trump is upset that TikTok users helped sabotage one of his big rallies and this is retaliation and thus an overextension of his powers and an exercise in authoritarianism (something he's already done many times anyway)?

I suspect that was actually his motive, and the national security reasoning is just a pretext. That said, a stopped clock is right twice a day.
> I think it’s a bit too thick to reclaim anything,

Current chase for thinness by manufacturers, even if it means sacrificing structural integrity[1] is laughably absurd.

May be I'm bit biased since I was frankensteining a similar concept with my limited capacity, but if the thickness of the device in this prototype is ~2.5" to 3" then the size of the final production device wouldn't be a deal breaker for many.

[1]https://youtu.be/eweyhaE6mpI?t=518
But way more people would use md5 for password hashing than crc32. Of course someone could circumvent these tests, but the risk of someone copying an old tutorial where md5 is used for password hashing can be mitigated.
What kind of SBC to use for such a project really is an interesting question.

On one hand I would love a "shell" where I could just plug in a compute module and have a working portable. On the other hand, the compute modules are more expensive and seem really hard to source, why it's easy and cheap to find a Pi Zero. If one would need to solder it to an expansion board oneself, this would probably be a hurdle for many people. And then, if we are thinking about different boards, why not something else entirely? With more/better capabilities, like included charging circuit or as you mentioned, PCI-E?

I guess there is just no good answer on what would be an adequate basis for such a type of computer. Every option has some drawbacks somewhere.
Trump issues executive order to ban transactions with TikTok's Chinese owners
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-trump/trump-issues-order-to-ban-transactions-with-tiktoks-chinese-owner-idUSKCN25304R

The executive orders announced Thursday and effective in 45 days come after the Trump administration this week flagged increased effort to purge “untrusted” Chinese apps from U.S. digital networks, calling Tencent Holdings Ltd’s (0700.HK) WeChat and Bytedance’s popular TikTok “significant threats.”
It matters little with irrational decisionmaking overruling and abusing wargame results.
The US attempted to extradite a British citizen for copyright infringement that wasn't an offence in the UK. The British government approved the extradition, although he finally reached an agreement that allowed the US to fine him and remotely monitor him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer
utorrent works.
TBH I can see how Tesla could be labelled that, and if it was a Chinese company I'd suspect it would eventually, the spying potential from all those streaming cameras and AI without any insight or oversight of the process.

Germany is in bed with the US, especially the secret service.
Banning wechat feels like pure Pompeo. Trump probably doesn't even know what wechat is. The craziest bat shit tier China-hawk already got purged, but this is still Pompeo, and if anything hes... good at manufacturing consent.
Russia is much much much smaller, but they have a large mental footprint.
I would imagine there is a massive library API available somewhere.
Well, investors get jittery if there's a lot of noise. Deals have failed because of controversy started by Twitter dogpiles.

And you really don't need to go as far as a baby-blender interaction to generate a Twitter storm. Just hint at anything that might be construed as limiting a journalist's right to publish wtf they feel like publishing ;)
>>it was Chinas 500 billion dollar stimulus that kick started demand and pulled the world out of a depression.

unlikely. That much doesn't move the needle, world economy right now is $140+ TRILLION. USA gave out over $700 Billion for that matter in 2008-2009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...

EU gave $200+ billion, plus each country did their own thing.

Ask FB or Google about their Chinese websites. How are they doing? This should have been done long time ago, tit for tat.

As for the rest, I doubt China can resort to stupid stuff. US and EU are not happy with them for a lot of things, including Covid, and China desperately needs them. China allowed manufacturing not to help us, but to gain taxes, employment and to steel IP.
Go and read John Bolton's book, Xi made it clear to Trump in person that he wants Trump to have two more terms. An irrational US president undermining the US credibility in all possible aspects is good for China. Why Chinese would possibly want this trend to change?
That's the thing, you need to explicitly run on a transaction.atomic, with sqlalchemy, that's something that just works..
It is always good to see new approaches to testing but I don't see how this one is going to work. I've worked at multiple database companies. Diff'ing data is one of the weakest and most cumbersome ways to verify correctness.

Diffs are relatively slow, when they fail you get a blizzard of errors, and the oracles (i.e. the "good" output) have to be updated constantly as the product changes. Plus I don't see how this helps with schema migration or performance issues, which are major problems in data management. And don't get me started on handling things like dates, which change constantly, hence break diffs.

If you really care about correctness it's better to use approaches like having focused test cases that check specific predicates on data. They can run blindingly fast and give you actionable data about regressions. They're also a pain to code but are most productive in the long run.
This is nothing new; it's geopolitics. The big boys have been doing this since the dawn of time.

Think of it like a playground: Everyone generally gets along, but the big kids can and sometimes do monopolize things they think are important at the time. The smaller kids make way for the bigger kids, and every now and then there's a fight between the bigger kids when they disagree strongly enough. They exchange words, jostle and block each other, or maybe it even comes to blows, and then things return to the status-quo for awhile.

That's how geopolitics work, except that it's usually a LOT more subtle or at least hidden from the public eye. Trump isn't a member of the political elite and is completely lacking in tact, so it's a lot harder to keep an appearance of calmness when he's in the room. Expect a much cleaner appearance of normalcy once he's out of office.
I'm not the author but it's probably for the simple reason that writing something from scratch without dependencies can be extremely rewarding and fun.
I guess Steam Link is treated more like VNC/RDP client for your gaming PC.
One of my ex bosses had a liver transplant and it meant the rest of his life was spent consuming pills to prevent his immune system from attack the donor liver. I only found this out when I asked a colleague why did he smell funny. Having tried raw liver myself and experiencing the stimulating energising effects compared to cooked liver, I wonder how much folded proteins created by cooking food contributes its own problems. In some cases, if a folded protein gets into a cell, the only remedy for the cell is to have the immune system destroy it. That puts a demand on stem cell generation to fill the void. Its been suggested sweating is the 3rd kidney and that spending 15mins in a 80DegreesC sauna can sweat more toxins than the kidneys can excrete in a 24hr period. Its looking like our sedentary air conditioned office lifestyles could be more harmful than we first thought.

I have found it interesting that Methylation is now being looked at as another form of antioxidant process especially when considering its relationship to cancer progression. When looking at the methylation processes, its clear even the most organic of diets dont contain enough molecules for us humans to maintain healthy methylation, probably because the host animal or plant needs the same molecule to maintain its own life, thus leaving little else for us to use. What constitutes "essential" nutrients is certainly being reconsidered now a days.
I removed Babel from my toolchains a while ago (and instead use TS to transpile even dependencies), so the compilation times are fine.
I don't know much about contract negotiation, but for organizing "high touch" doesn't begin to describe it! The labor organizer's job is to convince the worker, who likely and often rightly fears for her job if she actively and publicly supports the union, that it's still the right thing to do. Not only convince intellectually, but psychologically prepare the worker to stick with the union effort in the face of a concerted effort from the employer to defeat it. To do that the organizer needs to ask the right questions, listen carefully, build trust, and finally push, and potentially do this repeatedly with the same person. It is psychologically demanding and not everyone can do it; I tried and I couldn't. A chatbot cannot convince a factory worker with kids to feed that he needs to stick up for his coworkers who in turn will stick up for him. All that said I think there is room in the process for profitable automation, but it's auxiliary to the main work.

If you're interested Jane McAlevey's book Raising Expectations and Raising Hell is a good introduction to union organizing.
You could've probably reported this. Logging login times of everyone for all employees to see likely violates employees' privacy.
well in any case thanks for FUDge-packing this discussion and sharing your opinion which is based on nothing. i'll make sure to credit you as my partner-in-crime after I get my door kicked in for downloading files on the internet.
This is incorrect. Actually, yes, the files were in fact browseable and Akamai servers typically front with DNS names that presumably resolve to their any-cast addresses where they use SNI to select content bucket, so there would have been a "friendly" name involved. Going to https://server.com/folder displayed a list of folders and files all hyper-linked and connected as is common on the internet. The fact that the server was initially discovered by way of a crawler, a scan, is irrelevant (this is actually how search engines discover content, btw). The fact that a browser could browse these files suggests that it is not "well beyond the realm of browsing public websites".
Fortunately, we can search:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19905701

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20446963 (Boeing is part of ULA)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22095120 (Claims that SpaceX is treated better than Boeing)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22096380 (I've seen more accidents from SpaceX than launches from Boeing)

To be clear, I just searched "site:news.ycombinator.com spacex boeing" and grabbed the first few I could. Took me 5 minutes.

It probably isn't too far to go to find comments about how ULA hasn't had a single explosion or some such thing.
FastestNotes- A keyboard first oriented app for notes, tasks and projects
Clearly many companies benefit from outsourcing manufacturing to China. But they don't own the manufacturing process, they're basically using contract labor and supply chains. Software and design has proven harder to outsource or I'm sure that would be gone, too. The point is that our software apps are not freely allowed to exist there. The firewall is a thing, information is tightly controlled, and they can't allow freedom of speech so they typically ban or limit many American applications.
that dude's team actually call China a state capitalist country, that is pretty different from "commies".

just look at all the handouts from the US federal government, that is what commies do. to the max of my knowledge, in capitalist China, no one gets unemployment support for COVID-19.

communism is a cancer, sadly US has it.
What is your solution to make the Chinese Govt play by the rules?
Many other reviews were just as critical.

Scott Aaronson wrote good professional critique where he just politely debunked the main points of the book. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0206089
How long does the black bar usually remain. I thought it was 24 hours, but it feels like it was less than 12 this time. People were asking for it midday when I checked HN and I didn't notice it until the evening. It is already gone in the early morning here.
That seems like overinterpretation to me, based on the ideological battle lines of the moment. Even if you're right, though, I think people mostly do that because they want to stand up for someone.

Edit: maybe it would be of interest to add that, from the therapeutic work I've been involved in, it is clear that people's motivations in these areas can often be traced to family dynamics—which is to say, to love. Even when it doesn't look or sound like love, love is usually the driving force. I often think of Chesterton's line, "The soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him". You can say the same thing about political and ideological battles, which after all are (quoting a different celebrity) war by other means.

This is an optimistic view, because the more we can see and acknowledge that love in each other, the less we need to be in conflict. The challenge is that such love often goes through complex transformations and distortions which can be hard to disentangle.
Beer brand and leather store unwittingly named after Māori word for 'pubic hair'
I feel this is a really solid summary of the world order for the coming decades. We're still in a cold war mindset that suggests there has to be US vs. X with X now increasingly being China), but in a globalized world we'll see a more fragmented landscape. The US seems to move towards the final stages of its dominance which leaves space for others, but this space can be filled by a multitude of interlinked competitors.
> I don't think Huawei is being accused of stealing 5G technology.

That too:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-01/did-china...
American Civil War 2 is an impossible fantasy. You need regional divisions in the military, which we don't have. These new alliances don't make sense either.
> as Congress hasn't declared war since WW2

because they couldn't win in Vietnam or Korea.
proportional? China gave a clear path forward to those companies if they want to operate in China (setting up severs in China, complying local laws, etc..) They chose not to do so and left. Did US gave any clear path how these tech companies can continue operate in the US other than selling themselves and giving the goverment a commission?
I've read many research papers, and the emotionless way they describe doing things like breaking legs, breaking backs and inducing various medical conditions, always bothers me.

I can't see any good alternatives, and I know this is important to advance human medicine, but I can't help but feel it.
Growing wild-type coronavirus is easier than making the current vaccine approaches? How/Why?
As someone familiar with virology and cGMPs, I don’t see how that is the case.
>(a) are distrustful of the tech giants' business and wealth and don't really believe it's been beneficial

This is a stance I wish non lefties picked up on tbh.
Even if you're rather right wing or liberal it should be obvious that larger companies being able to pay less taxes and being able to get more benefits than your local business or startup is unfair.
Or that anticompetitive practices that squash smaller competitors, give unfair advantage and/or establish monopsonies is terrible for entrepreneurship, social mobility and the free market in general.

yet it's self-proclaimed 'capitalist to the bone' that I see defending it's erosion of it's dynamics and benefits.
The arrest of Meng Wanzhou was never meant to seem legitimate imo, the point was power projection. "Don't fuck with us."

I don't think the moral high ground means much in geopolitics. Power is way more important. "Better not curtail us, it'll make you seem mean..." This is the US we're talking about, known around the world for turning half the middle east into a desert. That's really not their primary concern.
But if Chinese social media firms are freely operating in the USA why can't the likes of FB and Twitter be allowed same free access in their market. Let's not see this as harming anybody but this is one of the ways to force China to open up and allow foreign businesses(social media) to spread in their domain. Imagine being forced to open a WeChat account just to chat with someone in China. If this kind of business model is allowed to continue only Chinese companies would thrive in the future.
Good examples. AirBnB operated fine in China even has a China BU last time I checked. Uber sold it's operation in China to local competitors as they were losing any way.