skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:) Funny

Of course we don't know what might or might not occur, if the situation were different. But the fact is that neither you nor I decided on roads. The government decided. I don't see what's weak about that.

The government is 'they', its not 'we' (though you may identify with its actions). I want no part of it, but despite my lack of agreement with anything that it does, it is inflicted on me anyway. I am coerced to pay taxes. You are in agreement with a system where a big gang can use their superior numbers to force another person to do what they say, despite that other person having done them no wrong.

So, seriously, if you have a counter argument, please go ahead and make it. Please explain what number or percentage of people makes it ok to force another person to part with 40% of their income against their will. I'd like to hear your argument. Be sure to explain the difference between government tax and mafia protection money too.

Cheers.
Securing routers and network cables is basic stuff that we should be doing anyway (and probably are, at a classified level.) You don't need to balkanize the net in order to do those things.

Removing "Chinese apps" just means that different Candy Crush clones will be collecting that data, either directly or through their advertising networks. Or it means the Chinese companies who need to collect data will collect it through data breaches.

The best thing you can say is that this puts a speed bump in front of attackers, but since speed bumps aren't a security measure the reality is that it won't do anything.
You don't need an UPS to protect against surges. In fact, UPSs aren't surge protection devices; they may filter a few of those, but they should be protected too.
Are trade unions still as frowned upon as I remember them to be in the US?
Amazon Underground, and as a hobbyist game developer it's the most money I've made on a mobile platform. I was sad to see it go. I put the same game on Amazon, Play, and App stores, with the same (minimal) advertising, and underground was an order of magnitude more profitable.
Trump's USPS' Postmaster General replacement fired 23 USPS executives. It's possible that vote-by-mail will be the easiest way for gerrymandering to occur.

"Lawmakers Demand Removal of Postmaster General DeJoy Over 'Nefarious' Efforts to Destroy the Postal Service and 'Aid Trump Reelection'" - https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/i71z41/lawmakers_....
Yea, i'd rather not follow suit.
reason 0: EU startups focus on the EU market first.
Well first of all, this is in response to the idea that "Most of Amazon's workers are badly treated and either actually in poverty or less than a month's pay away from it.", which we KNOW to be untrue.

But even with the new goalposts: comparing Amazon workers to the median worker in other OECD nations, it is objectively untrue that Amazon's group health insurance plan is worse than that of public health insurance in other developed countries. America's problem isn't that workers of rich corporations have inadequate healthcare, it's that you have to work for a rich corporation to have adequate healthcare.

You have to keep in mind that healthcare isn't 100% free in most of the world, there's still co-insurance, co-pays, etc. With that in mind, I work in insurance, and I can tell you right now that the health insurance plans afforded to software engineers of most of the big tech companies are on average more generous than those of most European countries in terms of total out-of-pocket expenditure. At Amazon, the US warehouse workers are given the same health insurance as their company-mates sitting in the cubicles.
The US is ran & staffed by the hyper-partisan “Z-team” right now.

This is tragic & dangerous bc we need shrewd & wise people to make decisions + build coalitions in the opening decades of 21st century, not hyper-partisan kooks.

Some of the worst actors in cyber space rn is the Russian gov’t & their intelligence + “security” services —- it sure is funny (funny as in strange, not humorous) how difficult it is to get any of these apparatchiks to publicly acknowledge that
how will Chinese internet "swing back" if Pompeo stops existing. Chinese invented their great firewall for trump, that your logic?
This is being partly addressed in the latest draft CSS specifications...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24093273
Double-paned windows are not allowed in several historic neighborhoods I’ve lived or worked in. Pretty sure they’re banned in much of SF.
What will you do after printing the pdf document, send it to legal? Lawyers are not humans, right? I agree to it's good for paper not for screen, everything else is just phony.
Oh yeah. I missunderstood that
Are there any cybersecurity professionals on here who want to comment about the pros and cons of the network? I don't have the necessary expertise to ascertain the merits of it (actual threat vs. mitigated threat) but I don't like the "clean" verbiage. Nor do I like China's own longstanding protectionism and Great Firewall.
This has been known for decades, companies knew, and the way they dealt with this was to only give China obsolete tech or tech about to get out of date, so they didn't care. That's no longer the case as China is catching up fast and really threatening the competitive advantage of truly innovative companies all around the world.
Yes, that was also a huge factor.
There's no good intention here. Its clearly a political document. It even calls out hiding covid research from China as if that helps humanity in any way.
> This doesn't fix all security problems, but it removes some of China's current advantages in cyberwarfare.

How? It makes attacks slightly more expensive (because you need to use infrastructure in a "clean" country), but it doesn't stop anyone that's dedicated and has money to spend.

Want your spy-app on the app store? Don't register your company in China, just do it in the US. Voila, you're "clean."
Well, I can attest from personal experience that he was still stuffing his foot in his mouth that way as late as 2016; I didn't leave the talk, but I saw enough people do so that it was clearly not by happenstance.

I've discussed the incidents of that talk before on Hacker News, at considerable length and in the face of the same anger borne of discomfited hero worship that seems to attend every criticism of Stallman's behavior. If you're interested in the details of that discussion, I'll ask you to find it in my comment history here, as I have occasions today both more urgent and more appealing than to attract yet another tiresome crowd of would-be shouters-down.
This seems irrelevant.
Realistically, this isn't super new. After what happened to Dalvik 10 years back, and later to Adopt, one could argue that the Java Community Process itself, and therefore the very soul of Java, has been weaponized.
This is an unsupported assertion. We have no specific data to suggest that this would happen.
This is an energy storage mechanism (in the form of combustable fuel), not a fuel-generation mechanism.
TikTok: A Ticking Time Bomb?
With one more combinator we can decompose this slightly further:

stepSplit :: ([a] -> Split a) -> Split a -> Split a
stepSplit f = uncurry first . bimap (++) f

skip n = stepSplit (splitAt n)

removeOneIfNot p = stepSplit (second (drop 1) . span p)

Or in perhaps-more-familiar monadic terms:

import Control.Monad (replicateM_)
import Control.Monad.Trans (lift)
import Control.Monad.Trans.State (StateT, evalStateT, state, get)
import Control.Monad.Trans.Writer (WriterT, execWriterT, tell)
import Data.Bifunctor (second)
import Data.Functor.Identity (Identity, runIdentity)

type SplitterT b m = WriterT [b] (StateT [b] m)
type Splitter b = SplitterT b Identity

splitter :: Monad m => ([b] -> ([b], [b])) -> SplitterT b m ()
splitter f = lift (state f) >>= tell

execSplitterT :: Monad m => SplitterT b m a -> [b] -> m [b]
execSplitterT m = evalStateT (execWriterT (m >> lift get >>= tell))

execSplitter :: Splitter b a -> [b] -> [b]
execSplitter m = runIdentity . execSplitterT m

skip :: Monad m => Int -> SplitterT b m ()
skip n = splitter (splitAt n)

removeOneIfNot :: Monad m => (b -> Bool) -> SplitterT b m ()
removeOneIfNot p = splitter (second (drop 1) . span p)

GHCI> execSplitter (skip 5 >> replicateM_ 3 (removeOneIfNot even)) [1..15]
[1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,13,14,15]

It's hard to say which version is clearer. It probably depends on what you're used to. The code is essentially the same under the Writer/State abstraction, with `execSplitter` replacing both `unsplit` and `splitStart` and monadic bind in place of function composition. The `Splitter b ()` type is isomorphic to the `[b] -> ([b], [b])` used for the argument to `stepSplit` in the first version.
I usually avoid Stephenson (only because it's so wordy and I don't have much free time) and hadn't even read the wikipedia tl;dr of Anathem, but you mentioning it together with A Canticle for Leibowitz caused me to read the first few paragraphs of the wiki page for it and now I'm going to make an exception and find time to read it.

Thanks!
Some military equipment, especially naval, has something called a "battleshort" where electrical protections can be disabled during combat, where losing equipment could be more dangerous than electrical hazards. It's interesting to think about whether this could be applied to DC environments, but honestly, I think few DCs actually have this kind of risk aversion for downtime. Alternatives like precautionary replacement of generators that have been oversped probably come at too high of a cost, not to mention that many of those false-positive-prone protective devices are there to reduce risk of fire.
The whole point is for the US to be a leader, not a follower. If China wants their own internet, let them suffer.
Renaming Twitch to Amazon Gaming would be like renaming Lamborghini to Volkswagen Sports.
This is a remarkably complete summary of the state of things.
This seems like a good start:
https://skepticalscience.com/skeptic_Richard_Lindzen.htm
It's not officially supported, but you can get windows to run on a Pi 4.
I do. Alec's blog entry is outright pathetic in comparison. It does not even scratch the surface of fravia+'s treasure chest.
Being There - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There

Memento

The Usual Suspects

Lawrence of Arabia
Herein lies the issue. The real minimum wage is 0. You can pay people for doing nothing, but if you pay them only if they work, they can choose to not do the job. If you fire them, then you go back to the real minimum wage being 0. The other option some societies have used in the past is to make it illegal to perform poorly, which has generally led to even worse results than poverty.
This writing is so Orwellian it seems like a parody
A lot of streamers have their in-game or in-client user names include "TTV" to let you know they're on the platform and so you can easily find them.

I wonder how streamers would feel having to change their names from something like "ProGamerTTV" to "ProGramerAG" or if it would even happen/matter.
I actually like this song, and the several covers people has performed of it.
Have worked at a firm where this was done. Confirming it's a bad idea.
Odds of Catching Covid on a Plane Are Slim
Probably true. At the same time, they may have no choice. This sort of thing is not elective.

There are a lot of people around me taking that as a list of companies not to do business with. As if this will save them from the global surveillance dragnet. But here's the thing, you either submit to american surveillance and tracking, or you submit to some other nation's surveillance and tracking. You will not be able to choose companies that don't partner with their national governments for surveillance and tracking. So people taking this as a list of cooperating companies, and asking how to avoid this system, are being a little naive. Thinking that somehow, not being on our network will save them from surveillance. It won't. Best case, it saves them from surveillance by us.

It is a sad future. I'll concede you that.
The impression put out there by many people is that in China, the state, the military, and the corporations should be thought about as part of the same whole, not separate interests.
When researching the levis funding and the partnership with 'everytown' - they use words like 'common sense', and 'ending violence' - in the headings.. but when you look at the agenda and what they actually advocate for - it's not background checks - they are actively trying to ban a long list of weapons and putting up other barriers to make it harder for people to bear arms.
(see what they tried to push through in VA recently)
It is not just 'background checks'.

I will happily re-read this doc any day.

Funny you mention fox news winning the battle, I read an article in the last few hours that says they are. They are crushing every other news group - all of the primetime news - even though they are cable only in most markets and the others have further ota reach.

However I don't celebrate that. They are not my primary news source. I put them about 9th or 10th in my reads.
Show HN: Send short messages on postcards for $2.00
Hey HN, I'm excited to share my quarantine side project.
www.postanote.app

I've always loved sending and receiving mail from people I care about. That unexpected surprise of finding something personal in a sea of bills and marketing junk was always a highlight. However, the time required for putting together a card kept me from doing it as often to as I'd like. I had to go buy a postcard (1-2$), go home and write it, then go to the post-office, buy a stamp($0.35), and mail it. I wanted to build a simple site to make this process easier and reduce it down to the only element that matters: The message.

I wanted to avoid sign-ups and all that bs. I just want to make it feel like an express checkout lane. I also wanted the price to be competitive, so I set it at 2 bucks flat.

I used the JAMStack. Front-end is made in Svelte (Can't recommend enough) and hosted on Netlify. The backend is on Firebase Functions, and I use firestore as the database. Payment processing is done using Stripe.

Hope you like it. If you do, please support it on Product Hunt. Just launched today! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/post-a-note-app
No argument here, but before social security was used as the general welfare fund, it was a relatively balanced budget. Of course, it was just an inflation mechanism, the government bought it's own securities (treasuries) as 'investments' for social security.

Similar to how the UAW pension was stuff full of unsecured bonds from GM, and they went crying to the government for a handout after decades of idiot-level decision making.
the US Venture Capital industry was kicked off by the US government, who created a program where they were backing venture funds with $3 to every $1 of private capital.

That's what kickstarted Silicon Valley, eventually leading to enough private capital and expertise in that sort of investing that VC became what it is today.

European countries did not take that action 60 years ago, and thus are on a different path today.

If regulations were the primary issue, Silicon Valley would be in a low regulation state. It is in a high reg state because it is primarily about the long-lasting knock-on effects of the investment program.
what's uptime like on an Rpi? I want to start working on a home website and have an old rpi laying around. But I've read that their reliability isn't great since they use SD cards. Any advice?
A New Cold War Breaks Out, and Bitcoin Will Emerge as the Big Winner
That reminds me of a "feature" in many of the consumer grade UPS units on the market now. I don't think it's enabled by default, but they do have an option to power down the UPS when the primary outlet is no longer seeing any power consumption.
This is disgusting. Anybody working at an American firm that's supporting this initiative should be ashamed. Anybody working on this project is actively contributing to the destruction of international trust and cooperation.

I am beyond disgusted at my government. This Republican administration has been an unprecedented disaster on every front.
Money given to people with no disposable income tends to be spent right away, unlike richer people, who tend to "park" their money.
This section on Wikipedia covers the history of the concerns. I wouldn't say there's a definitive smoking gun that's public knowledge. Instead, there are several instances of vulnerabilities discovered in Huawei systems that may have been taken advantage of (by the PRC or other parties). My guess is that there's more to a few of these stories that only the intelligence community knows about.

One other point of concern from Western governments is that Chinese law compels Huawei to cooperate with Chinese intelligence services, which presents a vulnerability whether that law has been taken advantage of or not. This is much different than say, Apple, which has refused (or it has been simply impossible due to E2E) for them to cooperate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei#Espionage_...
There is a way to turn off the beeps on the APC UPS line (at least the ES 700 I have), but it involves installing software that comes with it onto a Windows machine, connecting to the UPS via USB and changing the settings.

It's enough of a pain to do that rather than configure all 3 UPS devices in my house, I've only ever gotten around to doing it on one.

Can't say I've noticed the electrical hum, except during a blackout. But I don't have mine in a bedroom.
And the answer is yes, his tweets really do threaten China's national security. People internally questioning the CCP delegitimizes the CPP and Xi. That threatens, not China, but the ruling party. They defined their continued rule as the national security of China.
How I Learned to Write My First 100 Lines of Golang Code
On a related note, whatever happened to HP's memristor-based The Machine?
There's not a meaningful distinction between the party and companies.
It will be interesting to see how many telecoms in EU would join this.
Fresh timestamps on the wrong answer defeats the purpose of a wiki.

I`ve personally seen a Fortune 500`s informal wiki/support infrastructure and knowledge consolidation is not as black and white as FIFO or GIGO (it was nonexistent aamaf).

Its rare to find an F500 company that has big data analysts working front-line roles to even get a grasp on a consolidation strategy, but shareholders can dream.
Now we must all become Professor X
I never bother adding in text. It's just a matter of choosing images that are obviously-related for me.

Working on the graphic novel? Go to the desktop with a model sheet of one of the characters/props. Working on the Mastodon instance? It's the desktop with the image I drew for the front of the site. Drawing furry porn commissions? Hello, desktop with an endless rotation of Doug Winger's work.
This exactly. If your power only goes out once or twice a year, your crappy UPS is more likely to fail before it proves any value.
Building something like tiktok covertly is orders of magnitude harder than building it openly in China.
At the reasonably sized datacentre that I ran we had a voltage conditioner that also had "sag protection". It was an HPC shop and we decided that it wasn't worth the money to put the compute on UPS (just storage and core servers but the Top 500 machines ran off mains) but we still had 10s of millions of dollars worth of hardware that a lightning strike etc could fry.

The conditioner provided a constant voltage to the servers and could correct "sags" where the voltage would drop, and it could keep things going for a few seconds if the power went off completely. As you say this took our total outages down from probably 10 a year to maybe 1 or 2 - most outages are quite short. Although looking at the graphs on this thing, there were pretty frequent surges and sags coming from the street, like when you see light bulbs flicker in your house.

One other thing we noticed was that if there was a short interruption, all of the HP servers could survive for a second but the Dells turned off right away. Different power supplies store up some amount of power locally.

https://new.abb.com/ups/power-and-voltage-conditioners/volta...
> If you come home after power was lost for more than a day or so, TAPE THE DOORS OF YOUR FRIDGE SHUT AND DO NOT OPEN IT.

I think your timing is off here. I lost power for about three days during Hurricane Charley. This was the middle of summer in Orlando, Florida so hot hot hot. As far as I remember, my roommate and I left the fridge closed and evacuated. When we returned, the contents of the fridge were spoiled, but I don't remember anything particularly horrendous about it.
Why the hell does any of this have to be China specific? Tomorrow the bugbear could be anyone else

Like, we want clean networks free of foreign influence and sruveillance, full stop. Or are they implying that Five Eyes surveillance is good and OK?
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Or arresting a Hong Kong democratic leader for "uttering seditious words" (exact phrasing of the CCP today).
What i don't get is why we should care about this (care as in, advocate for). MITM is a great argument for distrusting the everyone in the middle, not trying to increase trust in the middle man - no?

This just feels like an attempt to control who is the middleman spying on data, not actually securing Americans data. Which makes sense, coming from the government and whatnot - but i'm just trying to make sense of if there's an actual reason i should like this "Clean Network" (which is to say, my comment is an honest question, not an attack on the proposal).

Perhaps i'm just biased because of my (pet) passion for distributed systems. I don't trust any MITM, so i think i struggle to understand the concern for _who_ is in the middle.

I'd be far more interested in this type of pitch if it came with heavy support for encryption, distribution, etc.
This isn't just protocols, though.

At least to me it sounds like an announcement that they plan to "cut the lines" to countries that don't adhere to the standards of the current American administration.

A new protocol won't allow you to communicate with people in the United States if you're on a "blacklisted" comms company's network.
Ask HN: Why does the HN CSS stylesheet block font size adjustments?
Line 91 of the news.css for HN:

body { padding: 0; margin: 0; width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; }

The webkit-text-size-adjust overrides the minimum font size settings in Chrome. I use Chrome's minimum font size settings to help make up for my declining eyesight. This css property prevents Chrome (and other webkit browsers) from increasing the font size.

I suspect this property is causing accessibility problems for many users with poor or declining eyesight.

Is there a reason to include this property, beyond just to ensure consistent design?

I respectfully request that you remove the -webkit-text-size-adjust property entirely.
Why do you think it's 'disgusting'?

edit: in case someone was confused, talking about the initiative, not the government in general
in fact the best thing to do to fight the Great Firewall of China is to make it easier for the Chinese people to access the internet-at-large including sites hosted in the US. This program will do the opposite.
> No argument here, but before social security was used as the general welfare fund, it was a relatively balanced budget.

Social Security has never been used as the general welfare fund, and it has better budget balance when there wasn't a large demographic bulge in retirement age.

Because, duh.