skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called a chain of trust. You assume an unhealthy amount of tinfoil when someone suggests full chain compromise and move on with your life.
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I remember during Beijing Olympics, there were these "protest zones" that were created which theoretically should have allowed dissent in these areas. A pass based system was introduced to get access to these places. I remember people who applied for passes getting rounded up by the police.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2008/08/13/china-police-detain-woul...
One would actually have to make a change to their global git config to set the pretty setting to display oneline or add a bash alias to run git log --oneline.

That is true, but I literally can't think of any developer I've worked with in many years who had not done something like that. The typical display in every GUI for git repos that I've come across in recent times is also geared to single-line display, though some of them are marginally better with at least indicating the presence of additional lines than git's own one-line display formats in the CLI.

YMMV, and apparently it does, based on your second paragraph.
I'm surprised there hasn't been a spiritual successor of the original ThinkPads from a premium small-scale producer in Shenzhen (that I'm aware of), given the amount of niche mom & pop phone/PC producers over there.

(I know there's a company that puts new chips in old chassis, but it'd be great to see new chassis from scratch as well).
And that water has a higher specific heat than air.
Maybe now that its getting bombed to bits because of COVID, something good might end up happening?
It's off-topic, but (as a non-American) I personally believe Trump will win re-election. Steve Bannon (the architect of Trump's 2016 election win) has said Trump will win re-election if the Chinese Communist Party is the central issue of the election (which it increasingly is).

Come November they'll likely be multiple vaccine candidates in late-stage trials, and the compelling argument can be made saying the botched crisis is almost over and Trump will soon be returning the economy to four more years of ~3% growth. After the vaccine is widely deployed, whoever is President will see a year of 6+% growth (after 2020's 10+% contraction)
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> there is absolutely no verification or security in this system

Regarding 1, 2, & 4: You aren't taking the physical angle into account. In all of these cases it sounds to me like one US institution dealing with another. Wire fraud is a federal crime. All US institutions collect a fair bit of identifying information when you open an account. Good luck fraudulently transferring money into an account you control and getting away with it.

Regarding 2: They probably verified a picture of you that they had on file without you realizing it. Moreover, it's safe to assume the bank lobby was absolutely carpeted in cameras. I expect you would be unlikely to successfully commit fraud with this approach.
There are a few things most outsiders don't understand about US healthcare:

- It's primary purpose it to bill people, not to cure people. It is doing really well at this.

- The secondary purpose is to provide incredible care to the richest of people. It does pretty well at this as well. Not as good as it used to, but still probably good enough.

Pretty far down the list of priorities is to heal poor people and make sure they don't fall sick again. It is not something most people give a shit about. If they die, they hey they should have been rich instead.

It is slowly changing with the middle class that was rich enough to get good care being eroded away enough to realize no-one gives a shit about them but they have enough voting power that people have to pretend (similar situations happen all over the world, just maybe not with healthcare).
And relevant to this conversation, software can be written anywhere especially if you need alternative ethics.
No, it is free.
Tor doesn't provide enough value that users will use it. The average person will not partake unless it gives them value or it's free. Expecting anything else is a fantasy
How is one canceled day-to-day? Unless the definition is extending to include any disagreement?
Could you elaborate on that, please?
> Our security sucks in general.

Don't forget to account for physical enforcement.
Power move! If we can arrest him, imagine what we can do to you. China has gone from 0-60mph in record speed.

as the article says, anything critical to the Party carries a treason-like sentence.
The monopoly Bell had made so much innovation possible - did society as a whole really benefit when Bell was broken up?
Interesting. Facebook did argue for being a publisher in one case so that they could limit their liability for defamation. But that move would then limit their protections as a platform (as mentioned by another user as a reply to your comment.)
The title on HN at this time is "Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics".

Is this suppose to be Swiss Army Knife? Or is there some kind of thing where they wanted to call it Glasgow and so then had to invent a new corruption on the Swiss army knife analogy to make it Scottish?
You need to pay Oracle $lots for a GraalVM enterprise licence to get profile guided optimisations, if you want some of your peak performance back.
Can you expand more how it destroys the definition of democracy:

> Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to choose their governing legislation. Who people are and how authority is shared among them are core issues for democratic theory, development and constitution. Some cornerstones of these issues are freedom of assembly and speech, inclusiveness and equality, membership, consent, voting, right to life and minority rights.

Democracy is more than just political lobbying.
Sometimes being a founder is boring
He had AppleCare. Then Apple sent his broken iMac to Best Buy
Snap seems to be doing just fine, with a share price up 150% since the virus lockdowns began. FB shares are also up, but only half as much.
This is only a benefit during cold seasons or in colder regions of the world.
Is there evidence that doctors and lawyers are, by virtue of their oaths, codes of conduct, and background study of ethics, more ethical, moral, and upright than members of the general population?

Also, whose ethics would such a Hippocratic Oath advance? For every privacy-conscious person saying that encryption-everywhere is good, there is a law enforcement officer speaking of reduced abilities to solve crimes.

Imagine a software engineer who has been asked to place a backdoor in some software. Is there any piece of uncontroversial advice which you can give them?

And like several previous commenters have asked, could this be a way to shift responsibility from institutions and their management cadre to individual developers?
Hitler also sent word that he supports restoration of the monarchy...only to kill those that agreed with that
If I understand correctly, the difference between jpackage and GraalVM is this:

Jpackage bundles a small Java VM (with only the features you use) together with your compiled bytecode into a single executable. When it runs it starts up the VM and executes bytecode on that VM exactly the same as it would be if you were to run a jar on a preexisting JDK/JRE installation.

Graal compiles your full app ahead of time into a native code binary. There is no bytecode/translation happening at runtime. That is why GraalVM advertises faster startup and lower memory footprint.

So there are essentially 3 ways to run JVM (Java/Scala/Kotlin/...) code:

* compile into bytecode jar -> requires existing VM runtime

* compile into bytecode jar + bundle VM runtime -> no dependencies required, runs as the previous option

* compile into native binary -> no dependencies required, runs native, starts and runs faster
Turn down the burner as much as you can, or even off.
There are definitely Han-supremacy fascist elements. Xi Jingpin's speeches have a clever interplay between sounding patriotic and whilst edging into aforementioned motifs.
Since you're talking about multinationals, since when have ethical standards not deviated significantly between different countries?

Are you now going to ask for more software import/export laws?
I am not sure this is true, tho it sounds interesting.

Before WW2 there wasn't much infrastructure to begin with, the big highways have been built after.

The metro lines from before are still there and the bridges that were built before the war have just been rebuilt in the same places (i.e. were the roads arrived and the river was narrow).

Most of the big cities also still have medieval and older city centers, and we're still using roman-era routes for roads.
Being rich and successful isn't inherently evil, nor anti-democratic. Weak and corrupt governments who bend themselves to please evil people who are also rich, however, are very much a threat to democracy.
> People have already been prosecuted for breaking quarantine

Oh, good, that's somewhat reassuring to know.
It's easy and lazy to attack the parent like this. I generally agree with them. I feel like the number of cases of "unjustly canceled" are extremely few - perhaps zero to two (I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I recall feeling that way). There are of course many I'd consider arguable, however. The point is, your attack is unreasonable.
My advice would be to figure out what platform attracts you. Programming is a bit too broad nowadays. For instance, some people like the size and the environment of mobile apps. They have an iPhone/iPad, or an Android phone, and would like to learn how that works. So they learn Swift (for iPhone) or Kotlin or Java (both Android).

Others are attracted to the web, so they become web developers. You'll need to learn HTML and CSS, and later Python or PHP.

Then there are people who have a deep appreciation for desktop apps, so if they have a Windows machine, they learn C#. And if they have an Apple computer of some sorts, they learn Swift.

If you're leaning towards electronics as well as software, then you'll probably want to buy a Raspberry Pi, and learn how to code in C.

Personally, I'd pick my poison, go to Reddit and join the appropriate subreddit. They are a bit more welcoming to newbies.
There are no stats published, so this is all anecdotal, but it's generally suspected that they operate on some kind of quota basis. The Chinese quota is large (but no longer infinite, esp for mainland Chinese), the Indian/Other quota is small, and the Malay/Muslim quota is nearly zero.
This is irrelevant, whether such law should exists is a different matter.

USA arrests, say Islamic terrorists, for conduct that occurred outside USA. If you incite acts against USA you will get charged no matter where you are.
Excessive lobbying can lead to where although people are able to vote for representatives, said representatives are likely to do what is best for them only -- taking money from lobbyists to do things that may or may not be unethical.

This leads to a situation where although you voted, you don't actually get a say in government.

Of course, this only applies to representative democracy.

Edit: see also kemonocode's response to my above comment. That's what I was trying (badly) to say.
That's true, but having a fridge in your house is going to generate waste heat no matter what climate you live in. Just a question of what you do with it.
Well said. This is what I was trying to say, but I'm stupid.

Edit 0:
I would point out: weak governments bending over backward to rich people requires rich people opposed to good governments.

Edit 1: See dbtc's comment. I removed the word evil from this comment.
Hm did you read the article? I ask because you're just repeating things brought up in it.
This is clearly a signaling move for the wealthiest and most influential business leaders in Hong Kong who might be tempted to subvert Beijing's authority. If they can get the biggest and wealthiest pro-democracy tycoon, they can get anyone.

This is like when Putin arrested Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2003. The Russian oligarchs fell into line shortly thereafter.
I'm picturing the tiny knife they keep in their socks when they're wearing their kilts.
The CCP isn't a tremendously controversial issue in the US (the consensus against it is strong and bipartisan), so it's hard to see how it could become the central issue of the election.
Yeah, how about not abusing their market dominance with lock-in and anti-competitive shenanigans? MS could benefit from sticking to proper business practices first. Preaching ethics while the company engages in shady behavior is hypocritical, not Hippocratic.
Laracon online had a livestream video/chat or forum where speakers would join in after to answer questions before covid.

I feel like we should be using second life.
Even without the nukes, there is no practical way for the U.S. to project enough force to China to compel it to do anything. The Chinese people would not likely thank us for doing so if we tried. Not only that, it would be grossly disproportionate considering there are hundreds of millions of people in dozens of countries living under authoritarian rule elsewhere. All those states combined would probably make a softer target than China. So as long as we are planning to cure the world's ills with our guns let's start in Eritrea or something.
One of my high school English teachers showed us the movie this was based on. It definitely had an effect on me. I do believe, unfortunately, that most people are sheep and would go along with and get swept up in a popular movement like Nazism. But too many people focus on the particular ideology of Nazis rather than the mechanics of the social movement itself. One could easily imagine a modern movement with completely different outgroups than who the Nazis targeted, that may not even be considered offensive to ostracize today, and a good number of people would go along with it and get swept up in the emotions and the frenzy of it all.

A modern example that absolutely concerns me is the Sunrise Movement: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

"We're building an army of young people to create millions of good jobs and stop climate change in the process."

Building an army? Check. Recruiting young, impressionable people? Check. Strong symbolism and personal sacrifice for "greater good" moral overtones? Check.

Yeah, if I had to guess the next Nazi movement will be in the name of fighting climate change or some other quixotic mission like that. As HL Mencken said, "the desire to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it."
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Interesting- on mine, this hose is external. There is a fitting that goes all the way through the wall insulation and hose runs along the back of the fridge.
Spain has states with relatively similar state/federal power to the USA. The EU has nation states with more or less power depending where you look. Australia has states, Canada has provinces...

One aspect of US taxation and funding that seems wildly out of step: Primarily local funding of schools. Way to build inequality into the system!
Could a software engineer writing guided missile targeting software be held accountable to such an oath?
From the article, only 49 of 316 GW (16%) of coal capacity was replaced in eight years.

This is Detroit and fuel efficiency all over again. Look how good we are doing dragging our feet! (Even though the results allow a lot of cool things).
What kind of stoves do you guys use where this is a risk? Guessing it's not induction?
The problem with jmp.chat and Google Voice and all of their kin (all of those "disposable number" or "second line" apps on the various app stores) is the numbers provided by them are SMS-capable VoIP numbers and a significant minority of businesses will flatly refuse to allow users to use that type of numbers.

T-Mobile's DIGITS service was fantastic for this, at least for doing SMS with a number not attached to the SIM you have inserted in your phone, but they blocked almost all short-code senders when the service entered production.

What I do these days is give banks and businesses a mobile number attached to the second SIM in my iPhone. That number is on a prepaid carrier under a completely different name and address than mine. There's the non-zero chance that someday I'll have to "prove" who I am to that prepaid carrier and won't be able to prove that name. The odds of that are a lot lower than the odds of having my main number snatched from my mobile carrier just by an attacker knowing the last four digits of my SSN and persuading a customer service rep to swap SIMs on the "strength" of knowing this information.
> is it not just a way of more learning to be able to remember the other ones too?

Yes, but that will take a long time and much dedication, and I don't know anybody interested in trying to remember many notes. There is also the risk that the more notes you try to memorize, the less reliable it gets. It's a lot more practical to just remember a few anchor notes and put the effort into training relative pitch.

For the purpose of performing music (or any practical activity), I'd say a good relatively pitch and a good memory of a few anchor notes, is as useful as absolute pitch. Functionally, AP isn't much more valuable.

But I do think, based on observation, that there is something fundamentally different with AP. It's like they hear sounds very differently, and their brain has a special mapping of frequency that I don't have.

They recognize very subtle deviations in frequency. I have had a person tell me "It's too sharp" when I was only off by 3 cents according to the tuner.

They don't make mistakes and they are fast, almost naming the pitch as soon as they hear it. It's effortless, precise, and accurate.
The parent didn't say anything remotely approaching witch hunting, and you're calling them "a bad person"? This seems like a wild jump to express some very explicit anger.
Wikipedia has a much shorter summary [0], with a very useful note:

> .... the expected value of the lottery only grows logarithmically with the resources of the casino. As a result, the expected value of the lottery, even when played against a casino with the largest resources realistically conceivable, is quite modest.

This then shows that if the max reward is limited to US GDP ($13.8 trillion), the expected value is $44.

This, for me, completely solves the paradox.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
Is the efficiency benefit bigger than getting a different model or taping some styrofoam to the outside of the fridge?
I think that is easy for us as outsiders to say or hope. Leaving everything behind and moving into a foreign land with a different culture is hard and not a lot of places are very welcoming.
Ask HN: Why are there fewer non-tech personal blogs? (athletes', architects')
As far as I could read, there seems to be very few individual blogs unlike a developer's or programmer's one. In my country, about 70% of population use Facebook everyday (which have already quite problematic). There are short and long posts from electricians or from a local chef which I and/or many people enjoy reading. But the obvious problem is these posts are behind the walled-garden as they don't have personal websites (am thinking about creating one soon).

Although the web seems to be easier for posting knowledgeable essays compare to 2000s, why are there fewer personal websites and some recent human knowledge (opinions ...) are behind wall-garden?

It's quite easy for a tech-savvy guy to start running a jamstack in no time. But is that becoming really easy for an accountant or a barista? to share their experience as easy as hitting tweet button or What's on your mind textarea?
> When opening an empty upright freezer, all the cold air can just "fall out"

I recently found that the ice-cream refrigerators of street vendors (and everything else that is being sold when the doors are frequently opened) are opening on the top for that exact reason - to not let cold air "fall out" (because cold air is on the bottom)
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Most of the networks I used to hang out on no longer exist, but I am still primarily on Rizon. I can be found on some other smaller specialty networks as well. I will eventually make the effort to set Matrix up again to see if it's gotten better because at least one of the networks I used to hang on has been revived on Matrix.
Why are we empowering this regime? Shouldn't we force companies like Apple to make a statement of why they manufacture their goods in China?

Apple is happy make a statement about BLM - it is cheap, doesn't cost them anything. But when it comes to things that actually harm profits and challenge shareholder responsibilities, they stay mum. We need to force Apple (and other giant corporations) to speak up about atrocities in HK and what their stance is. Before you downvote me, please, I plead you to respond about your thoughts - is there a reason why we shouldn't? Why is there no noise about this? No one seems to be protesting at Apple HQ.

Imagine:

WWDC 2021 - Opens with strong statements about how Apple supports democracy and open culture, how they appreciate people's voices and ability to think with liberty, how they inspire great people when government is of the people, by the people and for the people.

Alas - democracy will slowly erode away, chip away at a pace slow enough for normal humans like me and you to not be bothered, life goes on. One small step after another. Until you look back at the erosion and its a massive cliff.
Agreed, the vast majority of software engineering disasters can be laid at the feet of bad management, not software engineers. Let's clean house in management first, just like Deming did when he straightened out Ford.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
It really shouldn't. She's alleged to have committed bank fraud against American banks. Bank fraud is a crime everywhere.
In the current state of things, that is factually true.

However the same argument could be applied to labor abuses in the textile/garment and shoe manufacturing industry. Most people who follow news are probably aware that about 20 years ago Nike, Adidas and other brands went through a period of terrible public relations disasters, after the working conditions in some of their shoe factories in developing nations were exposed by journalists.

The argument that could have been made at that time would also have been "well but if we don't employ these people, somebody else will just do the same thing with equally terrible labor/human rights violations somewhere else in the world, with even cheaper factories".

The situation today is not great, but it is significantly improved from how it was twenty years ago. There are third party neutral inspection/oversight agencies. Companies in the garment industry are forced to make public commitments to labor rights and reasonable working conditions, and to allow external auditing. They can't just hand wave away the problem and say "but if we don't do it , someone else will.."
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The - prefix operator is very useful and still works.

Google should reinstate the + prefix operator. It was only taken out because it screwed up the search results for Google+, which is dead now.