skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article says, it's not about what they are collecting. It's about what they would do with that information and who they would ban.

Yes the US government does collect information, but at least to some extent they can be held accountable by it's citizens. No one can hold the CCP accountable and they can use these companies as a proxy to enforce Chinese censorship in other countries. (See Zoom banning US accounts made by Chinese protestors)

So I think you see the ban as a technological security risk, which, relative to most other big tech, it's not. It's a national security risk to the US and India.
> Negotiation: I recommend starting with the classic, "getting to yes."

Could you elaborate?
I'd hazard to guess that most people have notifications turned on on their phones and typically not on their computer.

Take Facebook as an example. Your phone will ding on FB updates or incoming messages on Messenger, even when the phone isn't actively being used. On a computer you need to have a browser open and have Facebook opened in a tab for it to give you any notifications.

So it's easier to avoid on your desktop than on your phone.
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I am a fan of the author, but the headline is far stronger than the piece itself, which is weak and weakly argued.

Behavior at the federal level on COVID overall-

* refusal to engage
* denial of reality
* hiding of data
* propagation of false information and fraudulent non-solutions
* obstruction of useful state and city-level plans

plus indications of misappropriation for financial gain are plainly criminal. That criminal acts are carried out by elected officials at the time of pandemic is a level of sociopathic abuse that cannot be tolerated in democratic society.

Actions in the context of schools derive from the sociopathy. Only one district- the largest, NYC, operating in the context of NYC's largely self-governing citystate bubble- has been able to even get into a position to have a rational, non-politicized conversation about reopening.

As a parent in NYC following the conversation very closely I am engaging with the school system to continue the discussion about return and can see best case circumstances that permit me to feel comfortable with my kids attending in person- which IMO is much, much better from social/emotional and intellectual perspectives than remote. But given the chaos and worse orchestrated at the federal level, I expect the in-person program to not last even to the end of the first quarter, and as winter sets in, expect a grim, difficult lockdown.

I find behavior and reports eg. from Georgia so saddening, and so utterly astonishing. Even theories like Stockholm Syndrome fail to explain to me the degree to which families are willingly marching to their own needless, often permanent harm.

The bottom line is that the most important interests a community and society serve are those of its children. A democratic society expects elected officials not only to act in accordance with those interests but to possess the attributes that allow them to hear and listen and respond in a balanced way across the range of views of their constituents. That's not what we are seeing.

Many officials presently in power at the federal level- and many of a particular party at the state and municipal levels- are not fit for that level of public service, should resign or be expelled, and should face the consequences of their criminal actions, including forfeiture of their private assets, which many have grown through graft, misappropriation, and corruption.

Whether or not one thinks these consequences can actually be brought to bear is a different question. One has to identify the right answer first, then fight to achieve it.

Best wishes.
I've generally had two choices: 5-12Mbps DSL or cable. A couple times I was able to get Google Fiber, but I'm sure you know how limited the availability of that is.
Yeah can confirm for the same use case though I use Ubiquiti Edge Router X SFPs off a Ubiquiti Edge Router 12P so I get more ports.

Of course at this point we're close to Wi-Fi 6E hardware and I probably wouldn't have done all of this at this point.
It's possible to safely reopen schools provided there is a consistent and regular testing scheme. This isn't doable with PCR tests due to the expense and lab requirements. But in the "This Week in Virology" podcast, virology researchers suggest deploying cheap and rapid testing methods regularly to school children. It's possible to design cheap $1 per test paperstrips that diagnose saliva samples that can be administered by teachers (or even parents). The technology is there, but it's not approved by the FDA because it's not reliable at very low dosages (where the individual isn't probably infectious anyways). But the goal of those tests is to fight the pandemic on a population scale, not to help with diagnosis on the individual scale, so the criteria for the test should be different. Non-N95 masks aren't 100% effective either, but they have an effect that does save lives. With a regular testing scheme in place, reopening schools should be safe enough.

See also these resources:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZWuyvBAWWQ

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDj4Zyq3yOA

* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opinion/coronavirus-tests...
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Ask HN: Can someone please invent a global opt-in service for cookie acceptance
To me the internet seems a little broken now as every single website I visit wants me to accept the fact that they use cookies so store information, following GDPR of course. This usually involves presenting a pop over that takes up 80% of the screen and take 5 attempts to accept the click event from my mobile browser so that I can find out the price of a can of dog food. From a UX perspective it’s UX Armageddon. Has anyone tried yet to create a global opt in service so that I can get back to using the internet? I realise companies hold data on me. No kidding. I think we are a little past worrying about that now unless you want to shutdown Google and Facebook.
Does anyone still read though? I feel most of what I write goes unread, but people do engage with screenshots or videos.
I'd say Gorillaz fit into the "outside of a few cases (mostly in Japan) they're irrelevant.." thing I wrote about...

A single case, so not enough to generalize of any major demand for this sort of thing. And they played off the people knowing it's Albarn behind the scenes (who was already popular with Blur).
Where it’s feasible for a given task, I find nothing more productive than just switching to a Linux virtual console and running Emacs in text mode there. The complete absence of doodads gives a huge boost to my focus.
There's no hotkey for that but boy do I have a solution for you. The dumbest thing I've ever made but it might actually help someone's workflow so here you go: https://gitlab.com/utf_8x/pastesave
3D images from ultrasounds allow blind parents to feel their infant's face
Everything mentioned in the article can be simply done by writing a kubernetes validation webhook in the language of your choice. Why would you specifically need the configuration to be a real language?
That was part of the impetus behind ReasonML IIRC, JS tooling in OCaml-ish. Not sure if the performance benefits translated though.
A younger ages I don’t see it as a platform problem — humans rely on a plethora of non verbal social and environmental cues which are not replicable when every interaction is disintermediated by a screen.
Don't forget that outdoor cable oftentimes has a metal strength member in it so it can be run from poles. The underground direct-bury kind of cable has metal armour for rodent-proofing and protection when the ground settles. Just because it's fiber cable doesn't mean you can forget about lightning protection and proper grounding. If the airwaves aren't too congested wireless might be a better option here.
Can you say what database you're using? If I were to guess this is an application specific UI over something like Neo4J although it's not very specific and seems quite general.
Since this is 2 years old, how has things been since?
>Thank your for recognizing that California and Newsom fit in the same general pattern as the widely derided, Republican-governed, late-surging states.

I was acknowledging that having cases grow later indicates they also did something wrong, not that they did the same thing wrong as others nor for the same reasons.

CA nor NY can not absolve the Republicans, no amount of failure by their enemies can absolve them of leading their own people to destruction.
I work for Red Hat, and Red Hat is the best at training I've ever seen (which you would hope for an org that sells training :-D).

"Enablement" is encouraged and provided liberally. There are pros and cons about Red Hat just as every company, but this is the first place I've been where I felt like I was the bottle neck in advancement. At past companies I had to buy my own books, build my own labs, etc. Red Hat provides a RHLS subscription for free to employees, which comes with labs and such (if you work for a company that gives RHLS subs to employees, you are really shorting yourself if you don't take it. It's amazing how many companies I work with as a consultant have available/purchased subs but no employees wanting to use them). There are also internal/partner resources as well. There is enough training available for free to employees/partners that you will never consume it all.
I drew a poignant yet very off color political cartoon the moment the scandal dropped showing German Sociopath 1940s with a gas chamber, side by side with German Sociopath 2010s with VW TDI’s tailpipe connected to a hose going into the same building, the new version with a sign above saying earth.

I know the comparison is dark and compares a targeted ethnic genocide with indiscriminate killing, but the truth is that the damage diesel exhaust does to the human body is truly hard to overstate. To be pushing out 40x the legal limit for years while smugly marketing yourself as so much better than all other diesel vehicles is just a level of evil that immediately drew the comparison for me
Found it, on another (insecure) site: http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/13609620
I live in Ontario, Canada. To be honest, I'm going to be pretty pissed if schools are a major reason why a second wave happens in the fall largely because the government basically did nothing to help schools reduce the likelihood of transmission via decreasing classroom sizes. Where I live, they even had the gall to say that schools should use cafeterias as spaces for teaching in spite of the fact that most schools here don't have cafeterias.

I also dislike the fact that they haven't even bothered to experiment with different ideas, but are instead just going full steam ahead with normal school schedules in spite of the fact that literally every sector in the province is doing things very differently to suppress the spread of the virus.
Nitpick intended to be helpful, "steganography" is hiding data within other data, "stenography" basically just means writing something down. Confusingly similar terms.
Armored fiber is another useful tool for the home or small business user. Much less fragile which can be a big help depending on your application

https://community.fs.com/blog/what-is-armored-fiber-optic-ca...
I used to correct people who made this error, but I've stopped since realizing my phone's autocorrect sneakily turns its to it's every damn time regardless of the context.
Note that this sort of software can be extremely sensitive to cache arrangement.

Not only actual performance but also small details such as data arrangement, line size, replacement model and coherency model.

Source: I worked on performance improvement for a related piece of software.
Most other major UNIXes, before of BSD/Linux takeover weren't on sh, rather tsch and ksh.
The author seems way too focused on the exact meaning of "expert" without thinking about what they actually need from a subject matter expert for a specific hearing. Who you need for an ethics hearing will likely be different than who you need for a political hearing even though they are both "experts".

A subject matter expert before a political hearing needs to understand the societal and financial decisions of a class of technology and be able to explain it in a way that others can understand. Pretty much any tech leader should be able to do this. A major issue with this is that politics in the US (and plenty of other countries) are so driven by money that you end up with a bunch of politicians that are willfully ignorant of the sectors they are supposed to legislate for because they are paid to just do what the people with the money want you to do.
I wish I could upvote this twice.

The technique they mention (AVRT addictive voice recognition technique) is actually useful for all sorts of things. “That’s my anxiety speaking. It is separate from me and I don’t have to listen to it”, etc.

You can personify and diminish all sorts of negative personality traits. “That’s my impulse to complain / interrupt / lash out / etc”
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Also, the dishwasher is very effective at disinfecting since it uses steam.
>It seems you're confounding, for some reason, the concept of spirit of the law with an initial usecase of a technology.

Not exactly. When the grandparent (metalliqaz) wrote "This is not what copyright is for", I felt like they were the one confusing/conflating the "spirit of the law"(about copyright) with what copyright is actually used for, and intented to be used for, by the parties passing copyright laws and benefiting from them.

Copyright might not have been "for this", in some original "spirit of the law" sense, but it very much is for this in the de facto, 70 years plus running, sense.

So, I'm saying that there's an expressed spirit of the law and an operating (de facto) spirit of the law. Or, if you will, what the law hypocritically pays lip service to, and what the law is actually drafted and passed to achieve.

Those laws might have started back in the day with the intention (spirit) to promote the arts and protect creators etc, but for nearly a century they have been extended with the intention of making the entertainment business more profitable and protecting a multi-trillion US industry.

That's the actual spirit those laws are drafted, proposed, passed, and enforced for 70+ years now...

Few (if any) in the lawmaking and in the industry cares for the original "spirit of the law", the original wording is just left there as a historical artifact, to justify a different (and even opposing) application of the copyright law.
With something as complicated as 9 separate locations, I'd definitely avoid unmanaged media converters. Managed ones will be able to tell you how well, or how poorly, your fiber links are doing.
I thought HN was more about tech news than propaganda.

Can we avoid this turning into reddit?
Is any of the evidence supporting these claims of IRA actions disclosed, or is that to be taken on faith?

I ask because having been through the aluminum tubes, baby incubators story a few years back, I now have fairly strict epistemic standards when it comes to military related matters. I realize skepticism of one's government isn't a terribly popular stance here on HN, but to me it is important.
This could be solved by a carbon tax. If the company lied about their emissions and got caught, you could retroactively charge them to make up for the difference, and then any profit they would have gained from skirting the regulations would be nullified. Other businesses would see this new environment and adapt or die.

American businesses don't avoid (domestic) child labor because it's illegal, they avoid it because the potential charges for getting caught make the whole endeavor unprofitable.
Yes, but severe pneumonia is what sends COVID patients to hospital. It's a frequent complication, much more frequent than in the annual flu.
Yes. Mitigations drastically increase the cost of branch mispredictions, which has always been expensive on x86 and has gotten even worse. See also the sister comment.

Cache misses have the same problem.
When Apple releases ARM Macs I think we are all going to be really impressed. Take these phone chips, beef them up a bit with more cores and maybe more cache, clock them a bit higher, and give them better cooling so they can sustain higher speeds.

If it goes how I think it will go, X86 is done. People will really start wanting ARM on servers.
Nor do they know that before bash takeover of the UNIX world via BSD and GNU/Linux clones, it was just another shell among many others, with tsch and ksh also having a place on the table.
> It's possible to design cheap $1 per test paperstrips that diagnose saliva samples that can be administered by teachers (or even parents). The technology is there, but it's not approved by the FDA because it's not reliable at very low dosages (where the individual isn't probably infectious anyways).

Is this “possible” in that it exists and the FDA hasn’t acted on it or this is test only theoretical?
Commenters here gave great recommendations. I'll try mentioning the unmentioned.

- Gifted (2017):

Drama about a single man raising a genius girl. Some small bits of the film explore about the responsibility of extraordinary people vs their right to feel like normal human, but most of the film is about the human aspect of it.

- The Wind Rises (2013):

The Ghibli Studio film dramatizing the story of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. This is one of Ghibli film that is more grounded to reality than the others.

- Sorry to Bother You (2018):

Black Comedy Drama about a young black telemarketer who are really good at his jobs, gets involved in a huge corporate conspiracy where he must choose between profit and joining his activist friend.

- Don't fuck with cats (2019):

Documentary about people over the internet brings down the infamous murderer Luka Magnotta.

- The Great Hack (2019):

A great documentary for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

- Justice League (2017):

Please don't flag, I'm not joking! The film itself didn't change anything. It was a little under my expectation. What happens following the release of the film, though, is the gem. The snydercut movement is a very rare phenomenon where a significant amount of people actually take action against disappointment from a change in a film's direction. Long story short, fans investigate how it could be and uncovered a great deal of what they think a miss-handling of a film production. It opened a window where we can see how moviemakers and everyone involved has their own political agenda and some actually falls for what they do. The movement is actually successful considering it has the power for the film industry to react and the fans seems to get what they wanted.
You have to have the virus under control to even consider a plan. Denmark reopened schools months ago, after painful negotiations with the government, parents, and faculty. There were new rules and lots of remodeling (I think they even added bathrooms).

We don't have any of this, and it's aggravated by a large population of aggressively ignorant and anti-science parents.

Israel was one of the models for controlling COVID-19, and school reopening completely wrecked their progress.
As an American I somewhat agree with your sentiment in that Google is probably just as bad as ByteDance. However, I think we see about the same amount of flak against Google on this website so I don’t agree with your point about it being specific to China.

Also, I believe the CCP is certainly evil based on reports of numerous human rights violations. The USA is also on the whole evil, but I would say to a much lesser degree.
Do we need to consider only intent, or can we extrapolate
probable futures?

Because then I worry about deepfakes making actors obsolete (as we have made obsolete so many other professions)
It is such a different story to talk about prek-5 vs "old enough to learn via YouTube".

Send little kids to school. Don't send older kids. The nuance starts there.
Most of my computer time is spent on my work-issued laptop. I try to avoid anything social/personal on work machines.
There at most 2 wired internet options at every address I’ve seen. You have wired cable internet via coaxial from TV company, and fiber to the home from the telephone company, if you’re lucky (a very small percent of homes have this option). Most people just have the option of cable internet from TV company.

And wired DSL with 3Mbps from phone company doesn’t count as broadband internet, in my opinion.
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I really want to see the Apple Silicon under some real world load running a current gen AAA video game in 4K ultra settings while streaming with OBS, playing music, and having Chrome open with 100+ tabs. Because that's what my current PC does for example so I'm really curious about everything (performance, temps etc.)

To some extent it's just hard to believe that the iPhone CPU is better in every thing compared to the current gen top of the line Intel and AMD desktop CPUs.
I think it’s crazy to see comments like this because there is this presumption that we know what all the edge cases are regarding coronavirus complications. Just see the recent stories of the CDC itself having to shut down offices because the lockdown period allowed an emergence of Legionella.

Personally I think it’s way too soon to reopen schools really anywhere, even in cities or countries with mask mandates and positive test rates around 1% or lower.

We just absolutely don’t know what the effects will be. We’ve never shut down school buildings for months and reopened them. We’ve never needed to understand the effects on busing, learning rates, transmission via children to adults, effects of children being back in these buildings, etc. etc.

It feels so shortsighted to act like the only issues we need to certify are first order, direct properties of the virus itself, like testing, masks, transmission rates, and not being more humble to say, wait a minute, we just totally do not know all the effects or edge cases we need to be worried about.
From the experience of my own businesses, there is often a clear difference in strategy needed for B2B and B2C.

If you're doing serious professional work for business clients, you definitely want to charge a serious rate for it. Cheap prices attract cheap clients and all that.

On the other hand, if you're making some mobile or web app aimed at the average person in the street who happens to have a certain need or interest, your market may be extremely price-sensitive. Even quite a small increase in prices can cause a huge drop-off in conversion rates. Even quite a small decrease in prices can cause a bump in conversions that easily pays for the difference. Finding the sweet spot is something I would prioritise in any future B2C business I was starting.
This might not be very popular among the "think of the children" crowd, but what if we plainly stop classifying 12-year old kids staying at home alone as child neglect for the duration of this crisis? Asking kids to run a gauntlet of bureaucratic strictures with all of the stress that school entails but not half the socialization and fun is not going to do them any better in terms of mental health. And parents are spending as much time with their children as never before (see https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-.... ); it's not like we're in danger of getting wolf children if we turn the crank down a bit.
The easiest way to do stuff like this is with a keyboard that supports macros.
You can bring that argument, but only until you decide to use YAML, instead of something declarative and simple like JSON.

Once you switch to something as powerful as YAML, you might as well reach for a real programming language.