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And India is very oppressive in Kashmir but most people just conveniently forget about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/world/asia/kashmir-india-...
They are hosted on AWS cloud, so one would presume they can just scale back their infra to the levels needed, avoid any code changes unless its 100% necessary, and cut back their work force to the bare minimum.
These acts of destruction should be compared to the full context of the historic moment and not observed in isolation. At the time the US had been dragged in to the war by a surprise bombing that, while targeted at a military installation, was not backed by any declaration of hostilities. The ensuing battles from island to island were also brutal and from every documentary I've ever seen and every historical account I've ever read painted a very clear picture: that conventional war would not end without far higher casualties on both sides and a protracted land battle with guerilla warfare and atrocities committed by all sides.

In that context an overwhelming and undeniable show of force arguably lead to less death on the obvious side, but also of those who would have been consumed on the side that surrendered as well. Consideration of the 'lessons learned' from (then, possibly either, 'the great war' or WWI) also required the consideration of recovery after the war.

My supposition is that for Japan the outcome is probably within the best likely range of variations. Cultural identity intact; culture nudged towards an easy, slow, movement towards global integration, tolerance and equality; a post-war rebuilding effort to ensure that recovery would stick and general prosperity would persist.

We should be so lucky to reflect upon the post-war lessons and once again apply them within as a New-New Deal. I hope that is how we apply the lessons of recovering from the world wars to recovering from the current 'war' on the pandemic (and all of the forces that cause it to be as bad as it has been; most domestic).
There's also an expectation that memory footprint will be lower and that can contribute to speed by reducing GC time. The "JIT can do it too" arguments generally don't consider bounded memory.
Oops, yes...
Yes, it so wonderfully crafted, all things leading to the father scene.

I was surprised to find out how low rated this movie is, because it's wonderful.

I think this movie killed my videogame addiction. I was refusing to go on trips with my family so I could play games. After this movie I could no longer find satisfaction in hour long game playing.
Well anyone who has extensively published novel research that has altered best practise in the field for the better and has a track record of being sensible, well-reasoned, logical, has an understanding of how humans organise not just the natural world and has wonderful command of spoken and written expression would be near the top of the wish-list.

It's not how long it took that person to demonstrate this. It's that Gates kinda hasn't really done it.

He's far from terrible but he gets pretty low scores on most of those attributes. He's not going to be listened to if he didn't bring the money. His experience in making microsoft a juggernaut in the 80s and 90s is not super-relevant here but that's why he's being held up as an "authority." That position of authority is one he seems very happy to hold and use as a pulpit.

Is it deserved at all? Maybe it is. He did bring the money to a lot of programs and I believe he is even bankrolling the WHO nowadays (worthwhile after their multiple screwups that continue? I don't know. Maybe it is and a vital service he's performed there). Gates an expert? Hmm. Don't think he's really demonstrated that conclusively. He'd use his position to get advice from one or more, one would think.

To be clear. More power to him giving his vast wealth away to try and make the world better in tangible ways. You can't possibly spend more than $100m in your life on consumption even if you're totally nuts. Go for immortality. Do it in a way that's kinda good. Go Bill! I pray your good intentions don't pave a road you don't want built as I do everyone's good intentions, including my own.
Thanks. I'm realizing this as well with sibling comment's photo and my reply. AT&T's blue is not as vivid as shown in these photos and the ones you linked. It's more muted/desaturated.

I know there's no telco switching stuff here, but I had (wrongly) assumed that, since it was Bell Labs, that it was their own hardware using the same scheme.

I stand by my admiration of that 5e, even though it appears the photos here aren't representative of it. :)
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173173

Discussed at the time (of the article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6520678
While I agree that the so-called inherent motivation is an important aspect to take care of, some skills that help remove external distractions and help you focus better could be equally useful. No matter how motivated somebody is, if they have a poor mental hygiene of constantly distracting themselves with social media, or don't have separate areas for work and for entertainment in their apartment, or as a more extreme example, is constantly disrupted by noise, they will likely suffer from suboptimal productivity. Both aspects are worth being taken care of.
I didn't bring family with me, I'm building one here. Re: neighbor acceptance, it's hit or miss but mostly hit. In my last apartment, my next-door neighbor was an older guy who spoke no English but always wanted to shoot the shit about my project cars. I think he used to be a bosozoku (young Japanese biker gangs) back in the day. My Japanese is pretty poor but I can express myself on certain subjects, especially cars. There's a guy at one of my favorite junkyards who keeps inviting me to go drifting with him and I barely understand his Japanese; he has a very heavy local accent. There was also a young guy who worked at my local Family Mart convenience store who was a metalhead (he was wearing a band T-shirt one day), so we would occasionally talk about bands. Him: "Do you know....Fleshgod?" "Fleshgod Apocalypse? mochiron sa (Eng: of course!) I saw them live in Osaka!" "Ahh, sugoii (cool) ! They are....very good! I like." \m/ >_< \m/

You'll always be "the gaijin" but most people are friendly. I had some good experiences in Thailand as well, having just the right physical features to kinda blend in as long as I didn't open my mouth. But that's a longer story...
If you're feeling despair, there are real things that you can do. I do one thing that makes me proud every day.

I run an obfs4 Tor bridge on an old Linux Mint box that's just sitting around in my home.*

The bare minimum thing that Chinese and any other country's citizens need is information, and freedom of information. This is where tech truly, truly helps.

[*] Yes, they may first need to connect to a working VPN, but that's OK, to really become free they can then connect to a Tor bridge like mine.
“The Egyptian” by Mika Waltari is a bit rare in English but it’s really a stupefyingly good historical novel. There is also a Hollywood film from 1954 but can’t really recommend it. The book is timeless, and describes all sorts things a person can face in a complex society (while retaining a historical context). It’s a bit like Catch-22 but without the humour, but the dark tone results in a cathartic reading experience.

The protagonist is effectively an expert professional and a fallible human rather than a Mary-sue swashbuckler - and as such is very relatable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egyptian
The US should have simply interned all citizens regardless of their background to fully guarantee that no citizen could have sabotaged the war effort.
not to mention that software is reusable: a technology might be invented with all the good intentions and ideals... and later be used for evil purposes.
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Rixed, that’s a nickname I hadn’t seen in a while (25 years?). You were on Eden BBS maybe? You contributed to Le Reporter didn’t you?
While video is currently unlikely to be entirely fabricated at this point, you might be surprised at what can be accomplished with camera angles, choosing the start and end times of your clip, and cuts and reordering of clips: for a silly example of this, see "Obama sings Call Me Maybe"[1]. Videos can also be staged with varying levels of convincingness.

If you are digging for evidence, the source of your information must be taken into account. Deepfakes will probably be detectable in retrospect, even if they are not detectable at the time of publication, so if you stick with sources with a long history of only publishing real information, you're probably still fine even in the age of deepfakes.

The arguable lack of journalistic sources with a demonstrated history of integrity is its own problem, but not one that is made significantly worse by the presence of deepfakes.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hX1YVzdnpEc
For sure there have been other threads about this on HN but I can't find them at the moment.

Edit: never mind, I found it - from 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167683. There's some question about how much of the story was embellished or distorted after the fact, especially because decades went by before some of the interviews about it. But there's at least one contemporaneous source.
> The CCP is going rogue and hostile towards worlds peace. We all must come together to boycott them. One more company that should take a stand and remove China from its supply chain is Amazon. They have let their store run amock with low grade goods

The CCP was always against World Peace, just look at their actions, be it in Tienanmen or against the 'others' (non-Han) in Tibet or Xianjing prior to Hong Kong. You think they would hesitate to do any of that, or worse, in Africa as its gotten in deeper over the years?

I've been convinced that we have to move away from Chinese manufacturing reliance for many reasons and have been advocating for this for nearly a decade now, which is what made me end up having to source many things I'd normally buy new on the second hand market that are made in Japan/US/EU or simply often simply do without unless absolutely unavoidable (non obsolete laptops/PC) and even then I'd buy used or repaired broken devices.

But I think it has only now become apparent to the masses that the CCP are utterly insane and suicidal. They lie about everything and nothing they say can be trusted.

I hope we use COVID as the proverbial 'straw that broke the camels back' in what we'd tolerate for mass produced, cheaply made, disposable trinkets from sweatshops using slave labour and move towards a post ;Made in China' World. People like to mock N. Korea, but I fear Xi and the CCP is worse because of how insidious and pervasive they have wielded its influence on the World. The US is guilty of this, too, but China is a violent Autocracy with a long history of erasing People and events from it's History to suit its own end: a perverse form of Powerful State-sponsored Corporatism that seems extremely dystopically Cyberpunk.

Boycotting their goods and returning manufacturing locally is the most effective, and ideally non-violent approach as we isolate and impose an embargo on the CCP until China reforms. The UK did a 180 on the Huawei 5G that essentially did what most thought was impossible and undid and pivoted the Supply Chain with an incredibly short turn-around on the matter proving it can be done if there is a resolve to do so.

With all of the massive unemployment in the US (but all over the World really) and what what will certainly be a soon to be seen retail real estate Apocalypse you'd think any sensible person (oxymoron?) running for office would put 2 and 2 together and see the obvious platform and run on that campaign and win in a landslide.

1: https://www.zdnet.com/article/unmade-the-uks-5g-reversal-spl...
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I think that this might be an typo or at least it has plausible deniability. I have changed my coding style to always put constant on left side just to avoid such an error (such typo gave me a few days of debugging multithreaded code and I have just said "Never again!!" :D)
This is my recollection too.
When you have total control of the media(social/traditional), you can spread your narrative easily. I would assume it would look something like, "Look at the company aiding secessionists in HK and helping them". There is no way this narrative gets countered there.

I don't think they will seize factories, as it just means every foreign company would look to exit. They will probably simply not allow them to sell their products in mainland and not give them any concessions.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23719559
Most of those fees don't apply to e.g. Europe. It's pretty much just hardware (starts at 30 euro or so for the cheap versions) and some transaction costs (1.5% or less, depending on volume). It's often cheaper to accept electronic payments than cash. Handling cash costs money (bank deposits, buying change, vaults, cash registers, higher insurance cost).

Even street and marker vendors in The Netherlands accept electronic payments.
I see how hard we are still trying to rationalize such a despicable act as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"We choose not to destroy cultural value" seems a compassion argument until one realizes that the atomic bomb murdered more civilians that a conventional attack would have killed. To try to justify the attack, to talk about the process, the decisions, removes a very important part of the discussion. And that is the consequences on the civil population.

I accept that talking about strategies and politics make sense. But, to remove any human consideration from the discussion only makes us one step closer to repeat the horrific acts of the past.

As we have seen so recently, facts do not change people's minds, but feelings do. To talk about the effects on the population, to talk about the suffering will help people to change their minds about using atomic bombs.
> Yeah, to be clear, I don't think software engineers have an infinite level of responsibility for understanding the ethical implications of their work.

Yep. That's more the responsibility of product managers, upper managements and chief architects/engineers.
That is the difference between an industry with ethics and an industry without. When ethics are the standard of employment an ethics violation prevents employement at any employer.

An example is a lawyer having a disagreement with their law firm may lose their job, but they are still employable. On the other hand if that lawyer loses their law license they lose their current job and cannot get another job at any law firm. In that very real scenario when there is a choice between employment and following the ethical standard the choice is always clearly the later.
How are people identified as having AP?
This is true, but I've found it far more common that a predecessor at the company I'm at wrote the code and isn't around to support it anymore.
For simple components it's no biggie, but for non-trivial components it can take about the same time to debug as an external module, the benefit of the external module generally being better documentation, although thats not a given.
> China uses HK to access world markets, to launder their money etc. - ending that ability would really hurt them a lot.

On the contrary.

https://imgur.com/gallery/WFl43ZX

The world is benefiting from HK more than China.
Any OOP with inheritance does multiple dispatch. Java, C++ vitual functions, python via ducktyping.

The article's concern is real but overstated in my opinion. When adding a new function in a hierarchy you'll either have a good default or you'll be implementing via type matching branches or 10 implementations in each type behind multiple dispatch.

The difference, to me, is minimal.
> Think of a US media tycoon who went to China to meet with the Secretary of State, used the media to incite riots in his country, appeared on the streets of protest, and publicly called on China to intervene in the United States. What are the consequences of this?

That would be a wonderful thing if my government were currently persecuting 1 million people solely based on their religious and cultural identity. The consequences would be carried by hope.
There have been many threads (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...) including:

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20987946

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19885922

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16859559

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995967
I find it hard to believe that it's more annoying in suburbs.

I currently live in an apartment building of 25 people and am closely surrounded by similar apartment buildings. This means that there are literally a couple hundreds of people than can annoy me at any time - either by listening to loud music, by doing some house renovations, by leaving a constantly barking dog at the apartment, by parking a loud car/motorcycle near my window, by having loud conversations near my window etc. In the suburbs, you get similar factors (+ most likely more lawnmowers and leaf blowers than in my district), but you only need to worry about perhaps 10-20 people creating a nuisance, not hundreds. Not to mention that, in an apartment block, I am often able to hear (over the walls) conversations happening in surrounding apartments, while this is just a nonissue in the burbs.

If burbs people complain more, it might be because they expect perfection (they bear the daily long commute so they want to get real peace and quiet in return), while apartment dwellers just live in resignation.
Zuckerberg grants an interview to opine, he can get that in any newspaper or magazine and it's on the front page here.

Musk's ramblings are always covered and he's used them to build a brand in Tesla the equal of Mercedess without spending a single dollar on advertising.

President Trump is the actual president of the USA. God bless us all.

I see the point you're trying to make and I wish were true, but it just isn't as supported by the precise examples you've given.
nothing to do with whataboutism. It has to do with where you are when you commit the crime. In China doing those things is a crime and it doesn't matter where or who are when you commit the crimes. The same with the USA and I guess most countries
It's probably a web 3.0/IoT way of saying an ESP8266 with a couple of sensors and a relay. From there you could do some slightly smart stuff like observe the rate of warming towards ambient when idle (i.e. determine the volume of material in the freezer) to determine how long you can go without running the compressor. And from there you could manipulate the thermostat's target depending on current and future predicted electricity prices.

With a load sensor attached to the tub, you could determine when a substantial volume of new material has been added and preemptively run the compressor hard for a bit.

Many things are possible. Most of them not worth the complexity.
I think code like this shouldn't even compile like in other languages

>Operator '&&' cannot be applied to operands of type 'bool' and 'int'
Brad Smith has been with Microsoft since 1993, and is one of the lawyers that enabled the business practices that made Microsoft notorious, and the target of multiple legal actions. Microsoft only settled with the DOJ in 2002. The company pursued policies of forced upgrades to Windows 10 and aggressive use of telemetry whilst he was president.

Feel free to tell us how your professional ethics as a lawyer enabled you to make change at Microsoft before you were general counsel and president, Brad. Or after you got the top jobs.
Currently, you'd use the polyglot package that ships with the GraalVM SDK:

https://www.graalvm.org/sdk/javadoc/org/graalvm/polyglot/Con...

Here are a couple of demos:

https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-demos

I said "currently", because you currently have to use the host Java, that is the Java on top of which all other languages are implemented. The GraalVM team is working on Project Espresso, a Java written in Truffle. That will make polyglot programming with Java much more consistent with the rest of the languages. Project Espresso isn't public yet, but here's the latest update from the team working on it:

https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/1656#issuecomment-664...
Trust me, to many non-Americans US remains the sole idea of a free country, whatever happened over there so far.
The CCP might look stronger than it actually is. Due to the restricted flow of information, a lot of the conflicts are not well publicized.

If the CCP were to collapse, it'd be from the inside.
Xinjiang, Tibet, Taiwan always wanted independence.
It's difficult enough to unify a small group so just imagine with 1.4 billion people.
I hope AI will make as much people jobless as possible. Especially lazy Europeans who took too much money away from me via huge taxes. I hate all Europeans very very much.
The minute we do that all software engineering will be shipped off to countries that don’t require that.
there is also

3 : he wants to use his money for philanthropic cause. I can't overstate how great it is. The way he uses his money though, has been pretty controversial. From pushing a pro patent agenda in countries that are too poor to afford medicine made under that system to accusations of straight up using his money so his ideas are applied, even when they go against actual experts with data (and actual expertise) to back their positions.

For the lazy, there was a recent video on the topic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-fqcFaZKHQ
While listening, ask follow up questions. That is really the easiest way to make social interactions smooth, get to know people better and make them appreciate you.
US's bipartisan opposition might just be electioneering.

I think Germany's actions speak far more than any other country's. I would have assumed someone like Merkel to be tough here based on her standing on social issues and how she handled the migrant crisis. She, at least in the West had an image of a liberal leader with the right attitude on challenges of our times like climate change. But even Germany seems to be tiptoeing around while they look to sign a trade deal.
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GraalVM is “open core”: the community edition is free as in freedom, but the enterprise version (which you need for any serious production usage) is commercial and “Oracle expensive”.

It’s a bit of a shame, because it’s really nice tech, but it will likely continue to struggle for adoption as long as it’s owned by Oracle. I wish they would spin it off; the same product, with more or less the same commercial model, would probably work very well in the market, as long as it lived far away from the the toxic Oracle-licensing nightmare.