skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really comes off as a hastily prepared political dig against China, when there are in addition so many other actors and countries trying to take advantage of poor security. The JPEGed giant logo at the top doesn't help...

Other observations:

-- "Remove untrusted applications from US mobile app stores": so, this would call for even tighter control by Apple, Google, over its app distribution and monopolies?

-- Clean Apps: "Prevent untrusted PRC OEMs from installing trusted apps on their apps store... should remove apps to ensure they are not partnering with a human rights abuser." Umm, seriously, we're going to open this can of worms?

Edit to add a last thought:

I have yet to understand or read a coherent description about how we do not have the technical ability to protect against eavesdropping/etc regardless of who owns the physical hardware. Why is CCP-owned infrastructure uniquely susceptible to this? If we can't protect our transmissions with encryption, secure data storage techniques, what does it matter that the equipment is supplied by China? What unusual attack do they get access to by owning or manufacturing the equipment?
>>And as to fibre backhaul - I’ve just run 300m of trenched fibre down from the mast to a really awkward spot, and including media adaptors, SWA 4x fibre, and all the rest, it came to less than £1.5k.

I know it's not your fiefdom, but if the numbers are so far off it might be worth reaching out to Ch4lke Mobile (i.e. the Wiltshire Chalk Valley parish council members) or the local MP John Glen to figure out where they could cut down on superfluous costs.

If they're going to roll out this type of model to other rural not-spots any cost savings that could be pragmatically realized would be fewer quid from taxpayer pockets.
Hahahaha yes. That's when I realized that it was totally reasonable and that my brain's mental model of the world has been thoroughly rewired...
Currently using TypeORM in a production system, has caused us so many issues to be honest highly recommend everyone avoiding.

IMO they’ve added every feature under the sun but not bothered on focusing on quality, some things just don’t work at all, or you get stuck with horrific performance issues. If we weren’t so far down the line with it I’d rip the whole thing out although it’s causing so much pain I might just bite the bullet and do it anyways

I did see MikroORM the other day and looked promising so cheers for the quick review, if anyone else has any recommendations would be good to hear!
It's easier to bootstrap in Europe, it's harder to go further than that because of much higher regulatory barriers (ex: need to implement GDPR from day one) and a lack of investment dollars relatively. Also since it's more comfortable, european startups looks more like Radical Fish Games (from germany) or Bear (from Italy) than they do like Spotify or Nokia.
Farming luck with a portfolio of small bets
>they will be expensive services for the few. At least for starters.

What is the problem with this? Most things start out this way as efficiencies typically grow as you gain scale.

Let's instead get it built as quickly as possible so we can make it to the scaling phase.
The good news is that past Trump administration environmental rollbacks have been so sloppy and so hasty that they've actually ended up being overturned in some courts, and the resulting legal ambiguity that has resulted has actually resulted in fossil fuels projects becoming less viable since they're guaranteed to be tied up in litigation.
2000 / 52 ≈ 38 hours a week, every week of the year.
That's 9am-5:30pm Mon-Fri with 30m for lunch.
So basically a household of two full-time jobs to make £45k/yr gross.

When exactly do these two people take holiday or sick leave?
> It’s very hard to understand why the current administration has such an urge to roll back environmental regulations.

No, it's very easy. Environmental regulations cost money. Lots of money. It's much more profitable to keep these externalities.
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> £2.25M! 3 years!

That is not what the article said. They have already created the network out of their own money.

What the article said was, "The fledgling network has just secured part of a £2.25m government grant". So they just got "part" of £2.25m. What part? I don't know. This grant money maybe spread across multiple organizations. The article doesn't specify.
>Countries that didn't confined ( brazil and sweden) didn't show that much of a difference compared to some others that did (france).

Huh? France had an early outbreak, instituted lockdowns and have since crushed their numbers. Brazil is still on fire.

Here's a graph for Brazil: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

Here's a graph for France: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

These look nothing alike.
If pretty sure he's opening it in the browser.
> due to luck

Not just due to luck. Due to a lot of hard work by a lot of people.
Countless imagemagick users are probably in debt to Anthony thanks to his imagemagick documentation & samples.

https://imagemagick.org/Usage/
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Exactly. This has nothing to do with ethics and the school wasn't wrong from an economic perspective, which is what you learn about in, ah, business school.
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The coefficient of the specific employer's distribution of compensation, not the Gino coefficient of the entire population where they are located.

It is a number that can be calculated for any distribution.
I use qpdfview and it works very well.
>So does that make a new estimate of the mass of the Earth copyrightable?

Likely not on its own (due to fair use). But in a "collection" of estimates for the mass of all known celestial bodies then yes, it absolutely would be copyrightable. The same way a collection of stock price targets produced by a research company are copyrightable.

I agree with the rest of your comment in general but it's relevance to the discussion is questionable. In court, the speed of light would certainly be "a fact" unless it was expressed to a precision beyond the margin of error, and that margin of error was relevant to the copyright claim. That's getting way off track from the original point since we'd be talking about a singular number instead of a collection of numbers.

Back to the original discussion: A collection of facts is not copyright-able. The poster said the collection of wealth estimates was factual and therefore not copyright-able. That's provably false since another, equally skilled researcher would come up with different numbers and they can't both be factual. Right?

>the CNW guy presumably got competent legal advice and concluded the copyright angle wasn't worth pursuing

You're trying to imply that this means he had no legal basis for his claim. I find that very disingenuous. Besides, there's no need to speculate on why he didn't pursue legal action, the reasons are clearly outlined in the write up.

Edit: I see now why the "speed of light" example is not a good one since the meter is derived from the speed of light. Perhaps pi is the best example of a simple, agreed upon, physical constant or "fact" for the purpose of this debate.
Dr. Peter Carter, an IPCC expert reviewer, provides one of the most concise and sobering summaries of the trajectory of our planet as methane and carbon emissions continue to rise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa13KrOvE2s

It's one of the first things I think about when I read articles like this that demonstrate that not only are the powers that be not taking climate change seriously, they are actively accelerating it for profit.
That's why I prefer Books. It's kinda "meh," otherwise, but I have come to rely on it for an eBook reader.
OK, imagine you're disabled and unable to procure your own food and water. Now what?
I'm used to it, unfortunately. Something's gone very wrong with the discourse in almost every forum I frequent; hopefully it's just temporary pandemic stress.
What is a 95% panel? Solar cell efficiency is generally in the 20-30% range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency#/media/F...
Because people helped by something not happening don't put huge amounts of money into Republican politics and companies that have to 'properly' [0] dispose of their toxic byproducts have money to spend.

It's a problem with collective action on a lot of climate problems in particular; the benefits are in the future and dilute while the costs are concentrated and immediate. Because of that there's a LOT of money available to push off imposing those costs and no direct money available to push for imposing them.

[0] Giant air quotes here because the approved disposal method is usually a poorly maintained pond that leeches into the water anyways.
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Remember Sunrise before Microsoft bought it?

Big companies do stupid things to non-core product offerings they acquire.

I’m happy for the twitch team getting paid but the writing is on the wall that Amazon will nuke their hard work.
That is an intermediate draft between C18 and C2x with diff markers, so it isn't the best reference to use. My notes have:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/

n1256.pdf - C99 including technical corrigenda up to TC3

n1570.pdf - C11 final draft

n2176.pdf - C18 final draft (password protected; C18 is basically C11 with corrections)

n2478.pdf - latest C2x draft (now typeset by LaTeX instead of troff)
> I always find myself in the weird position, that i
> think, i have to defend this kind of wealth.

You can easily just...not.

To continue using Bezos as an example: sure, he built a logistical empire that can deliver cat litter to my home in under 48hrs, and a computing empire that's surprisingly well used despite being absolutely obtuse.

If that's all he did, and everyone who worked for Amazon was treated well, made middle-class salaries without overworking themselves, and had world-class healthcare? Sure. I got no complaints.

But that isn't what's happening. Wealth inequality isn't "I'm jealous of someone" or "I'm opposed to this just because" -- it's recognizing that it only seems to happen when the folks on the bottom of the org chart suffer.
During an extended power outage years ago I used my Back-UPS to keep my phone charged while I watched Netflix over cellular. I ended up wrapping the thing in a whole bunch of blankets and towels to muffle the obnoxious beeping. Huge oversight that there isn't any button to silence the alarm, there are plenty of reasons someone would want to do it.

I meant to tear it apart and remove the beeper after that but never got around to it before the battery made it useless anyway. TBF it was a few years old at that point so the battery giving up wasn't unexpected.
I laughed, but also ... yes? As a lover of liberty I would much rather just my own government (by which I am ostensibly represented) have the ability to infringe on that liberty than 2 governments. I would want to support regulations that protect myself and neighbors from the influence of those other infringers, no?
Any organisation developing safety-critical code will already be following rules strict enough that they have an established deviation approval and documentation procedure.

And frankly, the idea that people writing software where defects could kill people would prefer not to be shown new defects because fixing them is an inconvenience is a pretty insulting view of that industry's professionalism and ethics.
These are all valid reasons for concerns yet these do not qualify as proof of wrongdoing from Huawai. For 2) specifically, I'm not sure it would be helpful to declare all private companies started by veterans as "sharing deep ties to $Country's military operations".

There's no shortage of "guesses" and "plausible connections" around but the parent comment is specifically asking for actual proof in this instance.
This is a discussion about my current approach in life to get more of what I want. Been seeing some good results so far, but more importantly having a blast in the process :D

Would love to hear what others think!
I don’t see your point. What does the bugfreeness of historically used approaches have to do with it. The new kids on the block have to prove they are better in some tangible way. The onus is not on established programming languages to prove anything.

As far as evidence is concerned, you’re not going to solve problems faster, safer, cheaper, more reliably or more extensibly with Rust or Haskell than you are with C or Python, apart from some very niche exceptions.

That just an empirical observation, not an opinion.
Maybe if they served up some of Google's AMP™ pages they would get higher search rankings.
Newer models have a button you can press and hold to toggle the alarms without plugging into a computer.
Definitely can be gamed, as anything can be, but I wouldn't call it trivial. Companies are reluctant to outsource their core competencies.
Although I agree that PDFs (and screens in general) are not the best for reading, the PDF file format is a minor miracle. It is a thing of beauty, combining text and graphics to preserve the author's design.

I have built a business on PDF. I develop graphics software, enabling my customers to create large charts (36" x 96" and bigger) in PDF format, which they can take to the print shop for printing on large-format plotters and printers.

The sharp crispness of PDF text and vector graphics allows unlimited zooming while never pixellating (except the photos, of course).

If you are familiar with the technical specifications of PDF (1,300 pages 2006 ed.), you will appreciate the sophistication and power of the internal structure of PDF.

As an exchange medium, PDF has made huge contributions to commerce, technology and culture.
I've noticed that the number of bug trackers, like the number of wikis, seems to grow roughly logarithmically with respect to org size. It does also seem that as these numbers grow, the more teams revert to tribal knowledge, as nobody knows quite where to look for or create documentation.
What knowledge you might need in the future is an unknown unknown. If everything is going well with a piece of infrastructure you might not touch the wiki for years.

The author's justification (at least in part) for deleting all of this information? It can be bad in the hands of employees which aren't intelligent to recognize the fact it is out of date. The solution? Trust those same employees to recognize that even though they know how to perform a completely obscure process, they should download a Wiki that they never use but will be incredibly important in the case of their own death or departure.

Absolutely brilliant.
You seem to be dismissing FOSS, despite that it has taken over the world when it comes to servers and smartphones.

> OSS doesn't really solve the usefulness problem.

Most Linux kernel devs are paid professionals, making improvements that have value to their employer, and making the improvements available to all (a triumph of copyleft). It's not just hobbyists tinkering in ways they find interesting. Hasn't been that way for decades.

> It's good at producing software that's appealing to people who like using and tinkering with OSS software - but no one else really cares unless it's handed to them inside a product which has been assembled to be useful.

I have the choice of several different FOSS browsers, text-editors, C++ compilers. FOSS is quite capable of producing a 'finished product' that just works.

> even then it's about the product, not about a largely imaginary "freedom" which is inaccessible to most users because it specialised skills, advanced knowledge, and plenty of free time

It's not just developers who are affected by issues like tracking, intrusive telemetry, and even just unskippable ads in DVDs. It's true that developers are more aware of these issues.
That hypothetical engineer would then argue with the counterfactual universe (our universe) where warnings were never added in the first place because people were afraid of adding warnings. I.e. punishing people for having this process sets the wrong incentives.
Using a 1930 teletype as a Linux terminal
I definitely understand and feel the same way but I also think he's gonna win despite every fuck up he's made along the way.
Hardware vulnerability and issues are hard to address at times as it can be connected to other vendor hardware or softwares. I always wonder if these flaws are left in the design intentionally or its just a sneaky bad bugs.
One of the most memorable experiences of my life was when I was moving out of a place and I had a beautiful loft bed with a slide for my son.

I more or less gave it away (or... sold a $1500 bed for $50) and the mother who bought it cried because she said this is the nicest thing she has ever bought for her son.

So... If you can afford to do it, do it.
I used to know someone whose favorite "are they kidding or serious" joke was that octopi were aliens.

This often lead to a discussion about how we'd be an aquatic civilization of octopi lived much longer than they do.
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> That's a completely needless swipe.

gp edited his/her comment after mine
They are more efficient in keeping the food frozen. But they are less efficient in getting the food out of it. This is how you find 5 year old products at in the bottom of the freezer when you finally clean it up.
I prefer UBI to phase out based on how much you make. You give everyone five dollars an hour. if I make 6 dollars an hour, UBI only pays me an extra 1 dollar. So there is no cutoff like with welfare today.

I think UBI would function as a replacement for minimum wage, in this case. Why would anyone take a job paying less than 5?
Pretty much. It is annoying, but it is not difficult to understand.
I think we've all seen various attempts to solve this issue over the years, but no one has quite figured out a decent UX to replicate the party experience. I'm glad to see you haven't gone the common & kind of intellectually-lazy route of moving an avatar around a virtual space.

Am I far off in thinking that the core challenge would be replicating the transition between sub-groups? That moment where you'd like to move on from a conversation and can gracefully step away without interrupting a conversation to announce your exit, walk through the room until you hear something interesting, sidle on up to another conversation without it feeling obtrusive, then join in.

I wonder if the abrupt nature of popping into someone's conversation with a new video-chat window would go against this. Either way, seems like an interesting puzzle to solve. Plus, the market is big, has a ton of attention right now, and any product has some inherent virality built in since some number of attendees will try it again afterwards. Very cool.
It's a privileged american centric view on top of an american centric view. Lots of people use uber and lyft here on HN, and in other corners of the internet occupied by people satiated with a tech worker's salary. But for most working people, rideshare remains a frivolous cost that can quickly add up to the price of whatever you were doing at that destination, and it is not this world changing thing that some imagine, but just another service for the wealthy.
I wonder what the numbers are on people who have successfully retrieved their phone using these compared to people who can see where their phones are but never got it back.

When my wife got her iPhone stolen in Rome, we were able to use the Find My Friends feature to watch it move across the country, and eventually end up in Tunisia. This was before you could remotely wipe an iPhone, so there was nothing I could do other than send angry text messages to whomever stole it.
A favicon is historically associated with a site, rather than a page. If you look at it that way it seems wrong to attach an extra header to every HTTP request, rather than just incurring the overhead on the first visit to a site.

Of course you can now have a different favicon for every page, or update it dynamically, so that semantic argument is no longer as strong.
GCC warns of assignment in conditional, even without -Wall or -pendantic. I don't know when it started doing that, but it seems like a sore thumb today, different in 2003 maybe?
I suspect this is somewhat a problem of age and experience. When you are younger (at least typically speaking... ignoring the rare exceptional people), you get caught up in the job at hand. It is new to you, and the environment is exciting. You focus your attention and your effort narrowly.

If you have someone to shake you from your myopia, or you get older and start to gain perspective, you question your efforts and their potential outcomes.

To be fair though, at the lowest CRUD level, it's no worse than someone who builds roads or cooks food. We cannot reasonably consider nor police the use of those roads or the meals we make.
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This can also be summarized as "Early on, don't be afraid of doing things that don't scale".

In this particular example, my "reset password" functionality could be sending me an email, and I have to reset the password manually and email you a temporary one that you can use. Bad solution? Yes. Doesn't scale? Of course. But if you have 5 customers it's not a big deal and you can use your time on something else.

The key here is to have good people in the team. A decent Senior Engineer / Architect would know that 'Reset password' will be needed. That is why a very technically solid person is gold in the first round, because they can design the signup in such a way that it's prepared for future requirements. They of course would also know that you can't store in plain text, that it should be hashed, that you might have to use a vault, that you need to randomize the hash, and that in the future limit access to the "user" table and never ever expose it through an endpoint where a user can reach it, as well as protecting against XSS and SQL injections.

Which of the list above goes off the list? There is a balance there in getting the right solution without scope creep, but also not implementing something so silly that it's going to get you into trouble later. The genius of a competent person is being able to tell what needs to be solved now vs. later
Back in 1982, the CIA is alleged to have modified some computers that ultimately blew up a gas pipeline.

Spies to spy things. It's safe to assume that everyone with the power to do so is exploiting any advantage that they have.