skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His trade war is hurting China a lot - companies are being forced to leave due to the high tariffs, Chinese companies are suffering (for instance, Huawei not being allowed to use Android, banned from using chips with US tech, etc.), TAIPEI Act and Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act was also signed under his administration. He’s the first US President to speak directly with Taiwan’s President since 1979, he made the largest arms sale to Taiwan in the past few decades, China Mobile were blocked from offering services in US, Huawei is being blocked from building 5G networks (even paying other nations to block them as well), TikTok and WeChat likely to be banned from the App Stores as well (hopefully worldwide), he keep reminding people that the Wuhan Virus originated in China and that they’re responsible for the pandemic, China about to lose the developing country WTO status, HK special status revoked, etc.

There’s really not a single person who’s done more to stand up to China than Trump has. Just look at China’s reputation today compared to 4 years ago.. the world is finally starting to wake up to the dangers of the CCP. And I really don’t care what his motives are.. I know he probably couldn’t care less about the Uyghurs, but his actions towards China are helping the hundreds of millions of people currently and about to suffer from the CCP.
Yes. Many sites on HN have complanied about Google 'detecting fraud on your site' and banning it.

You can get your competitor's site banned this way. Just run bots on his site.

'Pay us, or we'll get Google to ban your ads' -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22348568
Growing a Facebook Page as an Introvert
No one could disagree. My inane comment was just a distraction from the topic, sorry. I really only wanted to say that a sober suggestion could convince more people than a crudely aggressive one. Try again?
Tom, would also love to ask you a few questions via email.

m@replace-with-my-username.com
Just started reading and and already very much getting sucked into it. Will post a review once I'm done!
This is a bad example. The floppy disk icon means "save" and has now for very nearly as long as floppy disk were in common use. It's the same as a "tape" icon means something to do with video even though video cassettes were only a common thing for 10 years.

The Apple II was the first computer that was widespread enough for people to have seen that had a floppy disk. It came out in 1977. Apple dropped the floppy disk in 1998 (21 years later), so it's been 22 years since it was standard in Macs.

Even allowing for some switching time, it has meant "save" for longer than it was a common physical object.
Good point - I am optimistic that people will naturally find other local hams / clubs and join or establish communities and meetups and things. But it'll be interesting to see...

Must confess that I don't actually live in the UK any more so I am having to hold out for the Full to become available online before I get back on the air so I haven't been listening in or transmitting. For me though I'm really keen to just build analogue circuits and QRP stuff, so I've been enjoying studying this lately.
You get banned from recaptcha and youtube too.

They don't stop showing you ads. They just don't register your clicks as part of impressions.

Open TOR. You get ads on all sites. But do a google search, you'll get a infinite captcha.
A simple law that I think would solve a lot of the perverse incentives that exist in platform economies:

Make it illegal to compete on your own platform.

Amazon would no longer be allowed to sell products on Amazon. Google would no longer be allowed to promote its own services on Google. etc..

It's pretty obvious to me that platforms are natural monopolies: the best platform experience is where there's just one and it has all the inventory.

I wonder what the side-effects of a law like this would be? Would it create new problems I'm not thinking of?
The UI is probably what got people to switch from IE to Firefox.

Because Firefox had tabs!

But I agree, browser UI is irrelevant in 2020.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23806543

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24139713
Care to explain why you are trolling every thread?
BuzzFeed News is a legitimate news organization. They are not like BuzzFeed itself.
I've been using Pluto for several weeks and I absolutely love it for quickly iterating on plots and making small UIs for interactively showing off results. It's altogether a much better experience than Jupyter for me.
or, OP simply does not want their true identity to be labeled as "pro-China" and created this specific account given how toxic, biased and hostile HN comment section has become wrt "pro-China" sentiment, by people like yourself.

Counter the argument for what it is if you wish but going after OP's account history is not called for.
> Nonsense. End users have the power to configure their browsers just like they have the power to configure their DNS settings, their operating system and all the rest.

This power is illusory. If Google decides Chrome will no longer allow changing DNS providers, game over for 60% of internet users. Consider how it's no longer possible to block ads the way you want to in Chrome with manifest 3.
Big name SV companies not making profits?

Shocked! I am shocked I tell you!

> This is a baffling form of might-be capitalism

This is just plain old capitalism. They were speculating on hollow companies and selling snake oil long before 1929.
> Something else must explain why Covid hasn't been bigger here but it is not hygiene

For one, Japanese are significantly healthier on average, including many of the risk factors for COVID-19. Even a slight difference in average can make a huge difference at the tail ends, that is the number of people that actually die, as well as the people that develop no symptoms whatsoever.
Unfortunately, Ultralight has no accessibility support. I brought this up when Ultralight was initially announced a couple of years ago. So I hope that so far it is only being used by game developers.

Also, while it's good that you bring up accessibility on threads like this one, I don't think it's a good idea to go straight for the threat of legal action. The natural response to that tactic is to question whether there will really be legal reprocussions, and that's a distraction from the real issue. Instead, I tend to focus on the moral problem of blocking people from doing their job, getting their education, etc.
Are you saying sites shouldn't use Google Ads, or users shouldn't use Google Products?
I am not agreeing or disagreeing. I do think if you explained your idea further, you'd get your point across better. Not everyone has read Nietzsche in the original German.
Hmm, I doubt that is the case. It’s almost certain they are using TeslaSwift, an open source swift implementation that communicates directly with Tesla’s own private APIs.

It’s quite common for you to instead do such a thing, since the cost of hosting such a service is nothing for you. The APIs are also extremely stable, so it’s not like Tesla is going to pull the rug from under you.

The only benefit of layering your own API on top of Tesla’s would be some sort of data collection.
There's definitely space. But it also requires creativity, and even the big chains fail.

There's an Eastern Mountain Sports near me. It's an anchor in a small "boutique" mall. Not a single screen in the whole store. Now how are you going to capture the interest and imagination of the casual walk-through traffic? With racks of cookie-cutter clothing?

B&M certainly isn't easy. What is? But having done B&M and ecomm, B&M has something online does not...presences. Mind you, that's not a plus ATM but pre-C19 very few were fully exploiting that unique asset. And yet they cry about inline? As if boring and generic will win over convenience??
Sounds like they are probably talking about Hong Kong.
I assume of course they are replacing. Finnair (like SAS) had a bunch of DC-9s and derivatives, then when replacing those, instead of going full Airbus A32x, they also got Embraer 190:s, and now are probably looking at A220:s.
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This is similar to the presumption of innocence. You can believe someone acts in good faith initially. Yet, if they don't, you should turn against them immediately to protect yourself.
It sounds like you may not be aware that the NBA has been actively and specifically blocking criticism of China. It sounds like currently they've reversed that policy on at least what custom jerseys they'll print, but only after a lot of pressure. The NBA is not neutrally "permitting" their players to protest things if they happen to want to, they have taken an extremely active role in what political actions are and are not allowed, and anti-China protests have consistently been on the "not allowed" side, by the league. The NBA, as an organization, is not a neutral; they have chosen sides.
eh. talk is free. post mortems need effort. sla/refunds/compensation actually cost money.
Yeah I'm kinda in the same place (not literally, but I'm not a UK resident - Finland now) so I leveled up to intermediate but I'm still waiting on Full (which gives you HAREC, so a reciprocal full in most of the world) before I start transmitting, do hope the RSGB set it up soon :)
The origin seems pretty obvious to me — Abe is part of the old guard, a plutocrat and moral conservative, like his propagandist supporters in the US media. Doesn't take any squinting to see their interests align
In 2013, we were hacking away a document tracking system to solve exactly this. We thought we were disrupting the legal market while in reality the lawyers were way too comfortable with Word and emailing docx files.

Exactly like you've hinted, the right way to crack this is to bring a full-fledged word processor like Google Docs, but instead of ad-hoc realtime collaborations the software has to enable customizable unidirectional document workflows with controlled collaboration.

Most serious document creators don't want to branch and merge, instead they want to pass on the document through a series of stages. They want statistics on when, what and why of each stage. And at any point of time the document is in one definitive stage not scattered across emails/folders/versions/forks.
>A really good "code smell" for political bullshit is when a person or idea is simultaneously an ineffectual loser and a grave, powerful, insidious force.

I've read that somewhere.

By the same "heuristic" anti-Trump talk is "political bullshit", because he is said to be simultanously a buffon/ineffectual loser and a very powerful insidious force.

But of course such heuristics are themselves usually selectively applied to opinions which those applying them already agree are "political bullshit".
Wrong site?

https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html
>Most job losses ever? Or highest deficits ever? Or highest unemployment rate ever?

>Does that win anyone over?

How can you blame Trump for that when the unemployment rate was the lowest in over a decade before 2020, and the job losses / fall in unemployment was due to lockdowns he didn't support? Overall the unemployment rate is much better in Red states, which have weaker or no lockdowns: https://www.aier.org/article/unemployment-far-worse-in-lockd...
And so we get incredibly far away from the very laudable goal of protecting Internet users - the majority of who primarily use a web browser - by default from malicious DNS servers.
Is that somehow a terrible thing for a patriotic Chinese person who doesn't believe the details of the stories being used to gin up animus against their country? It isn't like you've had to look far for anti-Chinese sentiment coming from the US government since right after WWII.
What was better about primary candidates pre-2000?
Why can't this just be centralized? upload KYC once and that one service verifies to other companies that you're legit, compared to uploading KYC to 33 different websites.
This is a nice-ish idea. But... does that mean that Apple and MS would not ve allowed to make any apps if they make the OS?
They could take a guess that myapp.com shouldn’t have control over a Tesla. It’s publicly verifiable that Tesla doesn’t provide official API documentation or access to 3rd-party developers.
The part that usually completes this idea is that the person or idea only has power because people give it to them. So the person in itself is not powerful but they are given power.
So true.

The other hidden complexity was reception and tuning - so many people had problems getting the antenna pass-through working, and then getting the VCR picture to display on a TV channel (no switchable inputs in those days).
Reposting the top comment on the article, was wondering what HN thought about this:

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Godfree Roberts:

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.

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. 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”. 8/31/19
The pronunciation is slightly different in English but in French Celera is pronunced exactly as scelerat [1]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scelerat
I don't know it, I live in Europe, not sure of this is a thing here
To be fair - a 33% reduction in size is massive for something that has remained largely unchanged for the better part of 2 centuries.
Values! Let's talk about what is happening this minute. Somebody just talked to me and then disappeared. All sorts of people with political opinions are self editing and deleting their own comments - or being banned or shadowbanned because their opinions don't fit consensus.

It is difficult for anybody to stand for their values in these conditions. China does not pretend to be a politically free society - but I believe I'd have a better shot freely talking about Western politics on a Chinese service than an American internet service today.

People with my opinions are not a threat to the CCP - so I would be left alone. The number of times I've been banned for speaking simple opinions that just don't conform to the consensus of the hour is more than I can count. All from American web services. Even Sam Altman - who owns some of those services has said the same. It's the synchronization that is causing all the overreactions and underreactions to events.
There's a huge difference. China needs the west to keep buying their stuff. China had a huge economic development thanks to the money from the west. They don't even have to care about their internal economy as long as billions and billions flow in from the west.

Now, if we change that by let's say moving factories back home or to Africa, they'll be in trouble.

If you're a Chinese citizen, first of all you don't have a voice. The CCP owns the country, they make the rules, and economically they don't have the upper hand. That's why the only thing they do is threaten any foreign official who won't submit to them.
When the marginal cost of electricity is 0, you can also build overcapacity and dump electricity that you don’t know what to do about without any problems.

But anyway am the issue here is about storage. And storage is getting cheaper by the day. Utility scale storage is also a lot cheaper.

Finally, if Germany was to build nuclear today it would cost far more than what they are paying for any other electricity source.

There’s a huge difference between the cost of nuclear whose capex was already paid for by the government decades ago and new nuclear. New renewables are cheaper by far than new nuclear.
>Boycotting China is definitely possible, simply stop buying their goods.

You'd find out that 90% of "their goods" are what you consider yours and other third party goods... Even BMW's are largely made there from what I've read.
This is possibly going to happen due to the anti-trust investigations into Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook:

> One possibility is what he described as a Glass-Steagall law for technology platforms. That Depression-era law separated commercial and investment banking until it was repealed during the Clinton administration. For tech companies, it would mean prohibiting them from running a platform and competing on it at the same time.

> That’s a common complaint about Amazon in particular because it both runs a marketplace and competes with third-party sellers with its own line of products.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-26/house-ant...

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/26/antitrust-investigation...
Fair enough, but most cases of COVID are largely asymptomatic and the infectiousness has its peak right before symptom onset.
Bug in OpenSSH / Config Checker
Yes, AMD probably added the optimization because it was a common pattern emitted by compilers.
Do you have a source for the ten bloodiest conflicts? Not saying you’re wrong just curious. Tiananmen Square and maybe some cultural revolution moments come to mind. But I also haven’t studied much Chinese history, which is why I’m curious.
The Pros and Cons of Different Software Team Sizes
Good spot regarding the non-Free licence. Instant deal-breaker. It forbids distribution of the source-code, forbids reverse-engineering, and forbids commercial use.
Wardley Mapping seems like an interesting idea I never heard about - thanks for sharing.
There's a pro Abe narrative in the west I do not understand.

It's a one party system, and as all one party systems it's incredibly corrupt. Under his tenure poor people became poorer, his friends became richer, and press freedoms got crushed into the earth. What on earth did he do or attempt to do that was admirable?
I implemented something just like this but in CVS for legal documents back in 2007.

I am finally replacing it with a sharepoint solution. Its a headache to have to maintain versions for non-technical people.
Many sites were banned from running ads.

Google.com ads are search specific. They'll ban you first, before stopping ads.
I named these 2 companies because the parent referenced them in their argument. But I agree that they are the ones that are the ahead in their individual approaches, though I think Tesla is not really that near to autonomous driving. They have a lot of features in development that their test drivers (=consumers) are using, and that gives the impression that they got that already (Elon even claimed Tesla has FSD on highways in early 2019), but the step to "the driver doesn't always have to pay attention" is gigantic and far away - and on that scale, Tesla's lead to other manufacturers (who don't do that kind of marketing or testing on consumers) is relatively small.

They're still doing better than a lot of the wannabe-unicorns that pursue self-driving or Lidar though.
To add to the “greatest website of all time” aspect, they provide STEP files of a ton of those parts (maybe all of them?). When you’re drawing up a project like the OP’s in CAD, you can import the STEP file of the parts from McMaster and verify fit right there. If you’re using Fusion 360, there’s a button right in the app to browse McMaster and download the model!

And... if you need a part with a particular shape but not necessarily the strength of metal... shhhh... you can just 3D print it yourself from the STEP file.
In order to get proper error response when deadlock occurs in testing (not just in Go), use isolation level serializable on every transaction / connection. This is simplest most effective way I have found so far, also you can get in detail why/where it happened. Watch out for different packages test executions since they run in parallel by default, use

go test -p 1
New Zealand turns to spy agency as hackers target stock exchange
No shit.

Has anyone actually hoped that the commies would cooperate?

The best case for CCP is they covered up a naturally occurring breakout - not good, as it implies incompetence and lies at the highest level of CCP. A more likely cause is they performed experiments that other nations have banned, lost control of the virus and then lied about it for months while destroying evidence.

Let's not forget that flights from Wuhan to the rest of China were banned before flights from Wuhan to abroad.
There is nothing 'toxic' about calling out astroturfing where it is blatant, especially since there is no way to flag individual accounts on this platform.
I would be more concerned about challenges like these in my local area, i.e. the west (millions refugees living in tents as a result of western wars, for profit prisons, children refugees in border camps, etc). if we can't solve it in our own countries, what chance is there to solve it in china through twitter.
Anyone have experience using OCaml on Windows? I do some development for a cross-platform project where researchers wrote one of the components in OCaml. Installing this particular component on Windows is a giant pain requiring the user to first install Cygwin + a couple Cygwin tools. Is this typical for OCaml projects on Windows or do you think it'd be easy/possible to streamline this install process?
I don't choose China. I'll speak up against anything that I think is wrong. China treatment to the Uighurs is one of them.

You won't see me saying "black lives don't matter" only to earn some money.
Based on my limited observation as a layman, it seems to encourage reckless investments in ideas that seemingly don't work. How many more 100 million quid bike rental schemes does the world need?
I can say exactly why I feel saddened by that. I miss the Lego that did things like this. http://www.whatitisisbeautiful.com/1981-lego-ad
I think a lot of young(er) people like me who would otherwise get into ham radio are being sniped by SDR. You can buy a $30 piece of hardware and listen to planes talking to the airport, see weather imaging from satellites, intercept and read pager messages, listen to emergency and police radio, listen to all channels of consumer grade walkie talkies, and also just generally see the invisible world of wireless communications going on around us. For a few hundred dollars, you can transmit things back. All on frequencies that require no license with equipment that is very cheap compared to ham radio.
Or just another case of made-up US exceptionalism ("oh, how braver we are than those others for saying no to China now"), after the US corporations/market had profited from cheap Chinese manufacturing and sweat shop labor for years, and takes the high moral ground only now that "coincidentally" has an economic problem and wants to stop all the outsourcing.

Meanwhile, all this talk of "global moral cowardice" was hardly there for hundreds of instances of the US doing all kinds of shit to third countries throughout the 20th and 21st century with bi-partisan agreement and the public hardly caring...

China is shitted upon for those detention camps (and rightly so). Meanwhile, over a million muslim deaths have been directly and indirectly (e.g. pharmaceutical and food shortages) caused by the Iraq embargo/invasion alone [1] (one of several), and people talk about China as if their shit doesn't smell...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq#Estimat...
I am well aware of the NBA's actions. The specific question was about an NBA player, which would be the NBA Players Association, not the league itself. They work for the league, in the same way many of the companies HN Readers work for do business in China.