skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We created terrorists in Xinjiang, just as we did in Afghanistan. They murdered thousands of Chinese and, now that China has them under control, we make up stories about them.

This argument is made in bad faith given the author's statements below. In any case, the Xinjiang had attempted to get out from under China's thumb for centuries. Does that "murdered thousands" suddenly give moral permission to imprison, torture, and sell the organs of millions -- especially millions who's only "crime" in this argument is having the wrong ethnicity. Finally, the red revolution in China killed millions and then famine killed millions more.

> I do believe that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones applies here. I am part American Indian and those people are not here (in the US) in the numbers they once were because of severe genocidal policies on the part of the European majority

Nobody alive today is rounding up American Indians (instead SCOTUS is giving back half of Oklahoma). Can someone's children be held accountable for their parent's actions?

That said, if the Chinese gave the Xinjiang and Tibet the same level of autonomy that the US gives reservations today, I doubt anyone anywhere would be complaining about anything. Once again, this is a bad faith argument.

> US Ambassador Chas. H. Freeman, Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981: "The CIA programs in Tibet, which were very effective in destabilizing it, did not succeed in Xinjiang. There were similar efforts made with the Uyghurs during the Cold War that never really got off the ground. In both cases you had religion waved as a banner in support of a desire for independence or autonomy which is, of course, is anathema to any state.

The whole point of a banner is to serve as a rallying point for like-minded people. If some random person on the street starts waving a nazi flag, does that suddenly mean everyone turns into nazis?

A banner can only rally people who think they hold the position that banner represents. The US could wave a religious banner, but unless the people already agreed, it wouldn't build up support (it's not possible to parse whether Xinjiang didn't rally because they didn't want to join or the rallying cry was not heard).

If anything, the fact that the US tried to empower people to fight for their independence from a despotic, racist regime who hated them should at least be neutral if not morally just.
sure, that's a fair point. Neuromancer trilogy has European family offices, it has an American media/tech company Sense/Net, Zeiss and Braun are mentioned.

but the books really do feel like Japan is the dominant economic power, in a way that seems very stuck in the 1980s (the Nikkei still has never recovered to its peak in 1991). the way this gets translated is always rainy city streets with neon signs in kanji, and synthesizers. a lot of work that is heavily derivative of Neuromancer just copies these choices blindly rather than trying to convey the same spirit as it tells the story. i liked Void Star because it did the opposite.

another thing underappreciated about Gibson is that much of his world is not particularly futuristic. there's implied to be plenty of buildings left around from the 21st century. the bars, hotels, motels, and restaurants are mostly described as being like normal restaurants today. stuff like Cyberpunk 2077 seems to miss this.
It definitely is. For example I get a lot of emails sent to me+ni@mydomian for "Not Important" which I use kind of like an RSS reader. They never appear in my inbox and I catch up on them every once and a while.

You can do this for a wide variety of things and combine it with filters to get a lot of extra value from your email.
The is the first I (as well as others here, apparently) had ever heard of the "fediverse". Wikipedia [1] helps me out with what it is technically... but can anyone who knows describe what its content is actually like?

In terms of hate speech or illegal content... does that make up the vast majority of fediverse content, in the way that pirated media makes up the vast majority of torrents? (Even though torrents can also still be used for 100% legitimate and legal purposes.)

Or is it like the dark web, which from what I understand is mostly legal content, but still hosts a sizeable proportion of content for illegal services and content?

Or is it more like what Reddit used to be, where it's 99% all for good and fun, but with a tiny minority of super-hateful communities? (These days all those super-hateful communities have been banned for a while, which is why I mean the "old Reddit".)

Just trying to get a basic context here. Not looking for speculation, but the impressions from people who actually use it...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
a so-called Chinese Chomsky (an academic type as you say) could indeed advocate either of those two points or variations between them from inside China but for one thing, he or she would have to couch their phrasing in very careful ways to avoid being coercively punished by the apparatus of the state. Furthermore, they'd have a harder time of doing these things today with Xinping's domineering influence at play. In 2005 or 2006, it would have been much easier.

Secondly and much more fundamentally, even if they made such arguments, at no point could they get away with simply advocating for the full removal of the CCP's monopoly on political power.

That's a no-go and it's also something that defines a huge difference between China and, say, the U.S, where an academic or media personality or pretty much anyone can freely advocate all kinds of stuff against the political system without having to phrase it in any particularly careful way.

This includes being able to state that the Republican/Democrat duopoloy is a piece of ineffective garbage and needs to be removed. They might face some social backlash from fans of opposing views but they won't have their legal, financial or human standing destroyed by the government through literal punishments.
I am 'pwinnski' nearly everywhere now, because on April 1, 2005, I was not allowed to create a gmail account of only the first five characters. Goodbye to 15 years of the old 5-character username, and hello to what is now 15 years of the new 8-character username!

At the time, I thought about pestering my Google-employee friends, but decided to just suck it up.
I signed up years ago with a dot in my username, before I knew this. Folks can reach me sans dot, but my username still has the dot (so, outgoing mail does too). It bothers me a lot!

If there is a Googler reading this with the power to remove the dot from my username, please email me (with or without the dot) :)
Germany: Coronavirus contact data from restaurant visits vulnerable to hacking
My company prohibited and even remote-force uninstalled zoom and mandated Skype or MS Teams right after the last rash of bad zoom PR.

I feel pretty certain there was coordination from our Microsoft account manager and Microsoft's PR team on this front.

The funny part is that Skype is famous for zero days while zoom is famous for people running pseudo public non-password protected conference calls that got invaded by teenagers.
Yes, I've read quite a few maths and CS journal articles and conference papers on it, including some two-column ones. Things I'd have previously printed on paper. It's a good substitute (I'm happy, and I'm reading more, as this device can help me stay away from laptop/phone), with a couple of caveats:

- The screen size is slightly smaller than a regular A4 or Letter sized sheet of paper. You can go to "Adjust View" on the reMarkable and choose a smaller region of each page to fill the available screen (i.e., get rid of the margins and header/footer), which increases the size a bit.

- Academic papers often have footnotes / references on the last page or two, and if you care about them you'll want to flip back and forth (or in some cases you may also want to flip between two separate documents), which is quite a bit more annoying on this device than it would be on paper. Using https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks adds some features that make it better.

On the plus side, on this device I feel more free to write on it and mark up etc (can always undo / erase cleanly), while on paper (even printouts, let alone books) I somehow hesitate a bit more.
> But I also think it's obvious that I shouldn't trust you to make the decision of who needs to shut up. And definitely not the government.

Well right now social media companies seem to have that power. How is that better?

I hear this point all the time. Is there a better response than this?
Pilots know what "autopilot" means because they have a certification to be a pilot. In popular culture, "autopilot" has a stronger connotation than is technically correct. I don't think it's a coincidence that Tesla chose that name for their feature.
Whenever this argument comes up I feel like I'm missing something. which typical European regulations get in the way of bootstrapping startups?
FB, Google, and Microsoft all lowered their revenue guidance they set pre-COVID. This stay at home situation has clearly benefited some companies (Zoom, Docusign, Amazon), but definitely not most tech companies.
Antirez very consciously and specifically chose the BSD license for Redis with the exact expectation that companies will be more likely to contribute back to upstream if they are adopting and improving it without a legal stranglehold requiring them to do so.

Maybe he has equity, maybe not. I hope he does. But a company profiting off of Redis without contributing back is a very conscious choice by the author and not at all the fault of weak copyright enforcement.
> Your ascii art is much better

A skill honed in deep procrastination :).

> I think 3 other things should be discussed as well.

Strongly agreed with all three.

> Dynamic problems (people often reduce things to static and try to turn positive sum games into zero sum.

That's what I implicitly meant by talking (again and again) about feedback loops; problems with such loops are a subset of dynamic problems, and one very frequently seen in the world. But you've rightfully pointed out the superset. I think most people, like you say, try to turn everything into a static problem as soon as possible, so they can have a conclusive and time-invariant opinion on it. But it's not the proper way to think about the world[0]!

(I only disagree with the "try to turn positive sum games into zero sum"; zero-sum games also require perceiving the feedback loops involved. And then there are negative-sum games.)

> probabilistic problems

Yup. Basic probability is taught to schoolchildren, but as a toy (or just another math oddity) rather than a tool for perceiving the world.

(Thank you for the kind words :).)

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[0] - Unless your problem has a fixed point that you can point out.
Has the acquisition of Keybase done anything for Zoom yet? What was the purpose--to get engineers that knew about security?
It is worth noting that these are different addresses. They all go to the same inbox but that isn't part of the "email API".

Of course some services don't like this so they special case gmail.com addresses to try to block this but it is perfectly legal for a mail server to route these to different mailboxes (such as GSuite accounts do).
> waiting to report you to the FCC for any kind of experimentation (a bad thing),

This is what always kept me away from HAM Radios. Everyone I knew that was into it was a huge stickler about the rules and would talk about all the bad stuff that should happen to rule breakers.

It was pretty unnerving.
Apologies both to the fine people of North Carolina and the good people of Charleston. You do not all look the same and I did not mean to imply that Charleston has anything to do with North Carolina.

(I'm from the midwest, we take our cross-border rivalries far more seriously than should be legal, but nobody outside the midwest can tell you the difference between Iowa/Illinois/Indiana/Missouri and have no qualms about saying it to your face. The struggle is real)
Law school graduates in Florida say bar test software compromised computers
If maintainers have withdrawn from the project, may be it should be forked by those who are ready to contribute?
Any physical infrastructure, such as roads, is going to be distorted by local topography, which furthermore may not be entirely consistent from year to year (land can creep forward or hillsides erode somewhat). This deviation will tend to enormously outweigh the errors caused by map projection.

Another note is that legal boundaries tend to be defined on the basis of actual surveyed boundary markers, not on the logical definition of the line. So the US-Canada border, while originally defined as exactly 49°N, the actual border is actually generally about a few hundred feet south of that line. These surveys were generally conducted by people running literal chains in a constant bearing for some distance (maybe several hundred yards at most) and then taking another reading of their position to correct the line. Of note is the Mason-Dixon Line, which was precise enough to note that the errors in their surveying had a systematic error to them--which was realized to be the physical mass of the Appalachian Mountains ever-so-slightly deviating plumb lines from vertical.

Also note that historical boundaries were more often specified as "reference point and bearing" (or along line meridians/parallels, which amounts to the same thing) then "from point A to point B". In this regard, the straight line on a Mercator map is more accurate than the geodesic shortest-distance-between-two-points.
Step 1: seed the knowledge part of your brain by learning of the existence of an Elecraft’s KX2 and KX3 radios: https://elecraft.com/products/kx2-ssb-cw-data-80-10-m-transc...

Step 2: sit back and relax as the rest of your brain goes into overdrive to attain a license in order to justify purchasing one of these radios.

You never knew you wanted one until now! Time to start revising for the license exam!
Unsubscribe, man, I'm jealous.

Some dude 2,000 miles away from me has bought a Lexus and now I get regular emails about the status of his vehicle, receipts for all work done to it, and reminders of all maintenance not done to it. For a year and counting.

Each email helpfully includes instructions for unsubscribing: First, you log into the Lexus app...

I finally got fed up with it and reported them to abuse@.
I rather like United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, in no small part because the book won.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Book_Call...
Is it hard for Google to blacklist these questionable domains and block them at the Android level instead? .. if the claimed issue is really a concern. That way browsers will also benefit from it.
Not in the same way the airwaves are. You can run your own network cable but everyone has to share the same limited airwaves.
from page 2:

> Bruce: wannabe Shadowrun or Cyberpunk 2077 media tie-in fic.

so yeah, basically an elitist point of view filled with "no true scotsman" kind of platitudes.

that'd be like saying every fantasy sucks because it's just a lord of the ring tie in.

> Bruce: I would dearly love to see a new form of SF emerge that reflects the baseline of now

if only he was a writer. oh wait.
This is what GPL covers I believe? I want to be sure, but a lot of OSS license explainer sites I see aren’t super clear.
The first amendment, like less encompassing provisions in other liberal countries, was arguably intended to forbid prior censorship, whereby opinions had to be vetted by some authority before publication. It was expanded in its interpretation to other kinds of censorship, through the idea that a chilling effect on speech was comparable to a priori censorship.
Or an aftermarket sticker is interfering with the wifi antenna?
Great demo! This was super inspiring. I haven't touched game dev stuff in a couple of years (after a bit of a Unity rabbit hole before that). Just might have to get back into tinkering after playing through this...
Are you referring to the popular group Bigots Love Marxism?
I don't understand this argument. Hosting providers are providing... hosting. I don't see how the tools they host on their platform (eg redis) is relevant.

If they didn't offer automatically provisioned tools users would still use those tools, they'd have to set them up manually or using their own automation.
Sure, but anyone who talks about that there is a punching bag. It's all awful people. They don't need to do that work, the users do it for them.
Very good point.

I think the world ultimately was caught completely unprepared for this pandemic. I'm hoping that by the time the next one comes, we'll have given due considerations to psychological and emotional needs of everyone, so that even if we need to step into a cage for a while again, at least the cage will be a nice place to stay in.
The issue is that you are sleeping the computer vs hibernating it.

Sleep is still powering the ram. Hibernate writes the ram contents out to a file and shuts the computer off.

It often takes some tinkering to get hibernation to work, if at all.

That is why your computer kills the battery in a few days.
Joint NBA and NBPA Statement
It is more a massive collection of the different resources of many different people.
They claim all voice processing will be done on device and no processing will be done via the cloud. So why are they charging a monthly fee in addition to the hardware purchase price?

Also... it’s it kind of weird for Amazon to have a timeline of my mood at all times?
10,000 sketches/scratch papers/PDFs in your hand.

Bigger than a Kindle, syncs with phone/laptop, doesn't feel like screen time.

For me it replaced a small whiteboard, printer paper, planner, and sketchpads.

If you do storyboarding, wireframing, process mapping, planning, or frequent note taking, it's brilliant.

To my knowledge, it's the best thinking tool available.

Edit: it's also brilliant for meeting notes.

Also, anything backlit is a non-starter for me. Too much screen time and I love working outside.
They shouldn't be connecting with SBC. Mine connect with AptX by default on macOS.

You can also force them to connect with AptX by following this guide: https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/31/mac-how-to-force-aptx-aac-on-...
Yes there are. MariaDB has built a license that prevents strip-mining of open source code and prevents Cloud providers from offering it as-a-service.

CockRoachDB followed suit and implemented the same.
Just like a flat tire is a problem with the tire, not with the car.
Maybe he's aligned with Cliven Bundy and down on the Bureau of Land Management.
China became a synonym of low quality, whereas Vietnam has an experience of being production hub for Nokia in a best company's years. Also, there are few countries where situation with human rights worse than in China. In India and Vietnam it is definitely better.
Thank you! So in a nutshell, it's doable through VNC (among other solutions), but there's noticeable lag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwkSVVwZO9o has a demo.
BLM isn't the driver for unrest. On-going (For decades) criminal behaviour by police forces is the driver for unrest.

People don't go out to protest, to get shot by less-lethal bullets, to get gassed, to have flashbangs thrown at them because they are bored. They do it because they are tired and angry, and because their cause is just.
Haha, as a certified fan of the Wrecker call-out of Chapo I doubt I'll last long there.
Were you self-hosting, or using the free service? If self-hosting, I'm curious what resources you were devoting to your VPS, and which hosting provider?
Could we stop trying to make Facebook responsible for every damn thing that happens?
> while deliberately hyperbolic

It's not hyperbolic at all, or have you not seen the "Silence is Violence" rhetoric everywhere? It could literally come from Orwell's world of "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength"

The book, The Coddling of the American Mind, does a great job of showing how the goalposts for what is and isn't violent have been moved considerably in the past few years in academic circles.

Finally, violence is okay, so long as it's against the "wrong people," like the professor who was put on probation for assaulting an opposing party member with a bicycle lock, or the guy in Charlottesville who was fined $1 for assault:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/war-is-hell/#the-normaliz...

> I don't think anyone would say that words literally murder people

There are people who are literally saying that now.
I have been increasingly disinterested in daily tasks, etc as this pandemic has marched on. I have even been going out, accepting there are risks, but still I'm not able to shake the sort of melancholy. The first few months of the pandemic were incredibly stressful at my job due to a vendor going under due to COVID, and I still have not recovered.

Since then I've been seeing more and more of my friends or former coworkers being laid off from their jobs, the growing social unrest around the US, all while some of the richest people I know are doing better than ever. I think for me, the feeling is brought on wondering if this pandemic has put me further behind, after I've already been effected by the 2007-2008 crisis. It really does feel, maybe for the first time (for me,) that the divide between those that can take advantage of this situation and those that cannot has grown into an insurmountable chasm.

I'm not even doing terribly but feel very far from my goals...which now feel even more in jeopardy, so I can't even imagine how other people are feeling.
Still, so maybe we should be mathematical about this: how much it costs to fix this and tax every new satellite proportional with it's pollution. SpaceX tried to "fix" things only when bad PR hit them, before that some leaders there decided that this is not an issue.

The tax would also insensitivese to launch better/smaller satellites and not abuse the fact that launch is cheap so let's put as many stuff in orbit because we can (maybe US can get their shit together and use cables for internet like rest of the world) so Internet satellites would be used only by remote communities. IMO if you managed to somehow have electricity and old fashion telephone cables then what the hell is expensive to drag a new cable for internet to this places ?
Distributed Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs
X240 also had it. I swapped mine out with X250 parts(some pliers work required). E440 as well, probably all of 3-digit 40 series.

I think the idea is as Lenovo not being IBM, they had to have ﾐ田 key and trackpad to get Windows license, while Apple is also praised of their huge clickpads, so the decision to integrate TrackPoint buttons and trackpad into single clickpad made sense on paper, except implementation sucked.
Really? If you want to one-click-add a Zoom meeting to your Google calendar, Zoom requires read history to your full Google Calendar (including all history!) That seems incredibly intrusive.

How do corporations even allow access for this particular features?
Fine, but then the EU market is equally funny.
70k stars, 12k forks. I bet those forks have some good stuff in them.