skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to believe her, but again:

"Her story, first told to the Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation, is difficult to verify. It is hard to take photos inside detention facilities and there is little documentation. But details match accounts by other camp detainees and research into coercive birth control practices."

This person's story is heartbreaking, but it is merely a thread in an investigation if hard evidence isn't there. The DURF, when you go to their website (https://www.duhrf.org/who-are-the-uyghurs/), is run by five apparently anonymous individuals. They have links to other organizations, one of which I know has at least some leadership linked to American regime change projects.

I'm Jewish. I can't stand authoritarian regimes or concentration camps (hence my objections to the current US regime). However, I don't want to be lead by the nose into another war or brutal sanctions regime that kills hundreds of thousands or millions (as has happened many times in the past) because I didn't ask for evidence when it mattered. If China is really doing this stuff, show me hard evidence.
Sorry for the delay responding to this. The big ones, at least for small and medium sized businesses, is going to be endpoint configuration management, Windows Defender ATP, MAM/MDM via Intune, data loss prevention, Azure AD, SSO through Azure AD, various identity management tool sets, Bitdefender, patch management, etc. On top of that, each licensed user receives a Windows 10 enterprise license, access to the entire Office desktop suite, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Audio Conferencing #, etc.

Microsoft 365 (note: not O365) provides a very solid solution.

M365 on GCC makes it much much easier to implement the required security controls for FISMA, DFARs, ISO 27001, etc. and it provides it through one service/SLA. If I wanted to do the same things with Amazon, it would be a much more involved process, more complicated implementation, and almost certainly require multiple vendors.
Wouldn't the cost be more than your hypothetical $550? Since they are buying their own items on Amazon, isn't Amazon still taking a cut from it?

I think this is part of the problem. Amazon still earns money off these fakes. This almost seems similar to the business just buying ads, except I bet this is a cheaper version of ads and is more effective
> I know a lot of 'do it yourself' types and none of them are wealthy.

You have to do the math on this carefully though.

A lot of people think like this. I get paid $200 an hour, my electrician gets paid $100 an hour, therefore I should pay my electrician $100 and use the time I saved to make $200. But plenty of those jobs don't actually take an hour, even though that's the minimum billing time. So when they take ten minutes, you've got to pay the electrician $600 before you save enough time to make $200 yourself.

Then you've got a transaction costs problem. You called the plumber, but now you've got to let them in, explain the problem, review the invoice, submit payment. It could take the same amount of time as doing it yourself. It could take longer.

Then you've got a knowledge problem. If you take the time to understand how things work then you see warning signs, so you fix things while they're still a $5 problem instead of not understanding that it will turn into a $5000 problem. Or in reverse, not realizing that the person you're paying for services is charging you $5000 for something that could still be fixed for $5.

Then you've got a tax problem. You thought you were "making" $200, but actually half of that is going to taxes, whereas 100% of the money you're spending is actually getting spent.

The result is that the person who works more and pays for everything instead of doing it themselves has a higher annual income on paper, but less actual disposable income because they lose more than that to taxes and costs, and less free time because they're actually working more in reality.
Looks like either I'm not a guy or I unknowingly have a partner.
Interesting how all of the examples of hate speech are from the far right, but none from the left.

Sounds like Ashok is just upset Facebook doesn’t censor political views he disagrees with.
I have a plan for this, and it involves scraping content and using the web that way. This is something I have started work on, on a small scale for the stuff I care about the most.

Ideally (well ideally really, companies themselves would provide APIs for accessing the content but unfortunately that makes it difficult for them to make money, both directly through loss of ad revenue when clients don’t show their ads and indirectly by making it easier to pirate stuff), we’d have a joint open effort to do this on a massive scale. For now I am doing it on a small scale on my own, writing tools for my own use only.

In addition to this I have also started work on retrieving the content that is walled off in apps that I use. For example, there are some magazines that I used to subscribe to for a while, and I’d rather be able to keep my access to the content indefinitely than to see it disappear whenever the publisher decides that the magazine has run its course and subsequently stops updating the app and then shuts down the servers that host the data.

On top of this, I have for a longer period of time (years now) been using for example Facebook as little as possible. I only use it for Messenger and for upcoming events mostly. Meanwhile, Instagram also owned by Facebook is worth it for me to continue to use much more actively for now. But I am also slowly working to make something of my own to host content that I myself produce, with the intent of continuing to consume content shared on Instagram but to cut back on posting to Instagram and instead to post my stuff on my own server. It’s not like any of my stuff gets much attention anyways, so for me it will not be a big difference in terms of engagement. Mostly the way I use Instagram in terms of the content that I myself post, is that I post pictures and videos that I have made that I think are worth sharing and then when in conversation with friends and aquaintances I sometimes pull up my phone to show them in person something that I did or made recently. A self-hosted service could serve the same purpose.

As for the increasingly slow experience of browsing the web, I come to realize that this might in fact contribute to what the parent to yours said, about people on HN not reading the linked article. At least, for myself I find that I often don’t click through to the linked articles, and I think the experience of slow-scrolling, megabytes heavy pages is contributing to this. I try, however, to not comment on the story itself unless I have read it first. Meanwhile, HN itself is lightweight and comfortable to be on. And often the comments will encourage one to click through to the linked story if it is worth reading, either directly stating that it is worth reading or indirectly stating it by quoting something good from the page or talking about some good data points or novel information from the linked page. (Novel to me, I should note.)
Oh interesting, I guess I've always thought about problem solving and creativity as being one and the same. Mind expanding on this a bit?
The Bushido Code
26 m^3 of tungsten is what, less than a 3x3x3m cube? If they stack 10 cubes at the bottom they get mostly the full storage (-3m at least) for each weight. Seems feasible.
Robert X. Cringely?
That's what I do, too.
Where are you? Gold Bridge?
I had no idea dosemu2 could translate VGA to S-Lang. That's very nice, and I will look into it.

WordPerfect was a great word processor, I remember using version 5.1 for years because it was wicked fast, rock stable, and most importantly, it was predictable. By contrast, MS Word -- even today -- seems to have a mind of its own. You move an image, and suddenly all your numbered bullet points appear in a different font except for the last one, and nothing short of retyping the whole thing in another document seems to fix it.
> That was not a time when people were peaceful and "concerned with trading and so on".

In relative terms, Pax Romana definetly was such a time.
All of his claim can more or less be trace backed to Adrian Zenz, who is a 'Senior Fellow of China Studies' at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. If the name was not immediately telling, it was set up and paid for by the US government.
Plenty of medicines were new and then removed from the market.

Being cautious about new techniques seems reasonable, given the history of medicine. (And frankly, a lot of other fields)

It would be nice to be able to say this new vaccine is based on existing methods that we know from years of experience are very safe; but we can't for this candidate. That doesn't make it less safe (or more safe), but it makes the risk more unknown.
I’m not trying to insult anyone but just stating an objective fact - life exists to reproduce life. Weak life dies out and strong life continues until it too is superseded. Evolution is a thing. Look outside and you see it everywhere.

I’m not a biological essentialist but I also won’t deny this simple fact that binds humans to plants - we exist to generate new variations of ourselves.

It doesn’t mean someone who won’t or can’t have children can’t contribute to humanity in a range of ways for their lives are just as worthy. But regardless if you choose to not or can not have children, this biological imperative has not selected you and your DNA will die with you. That’s just a fact.
I wrote a ton in WordPerfect. During college, they had WordPerfect on the UNIX and OpenVMS systems. Then, at a job, we did all our documentation using Wordstar, WordPerfect was only for the legal team.

Because of that, I still tend to install joe and use jstar quite a bit on any box I use with any regularity.
I secretly miss my long commutes. 90 minutes on a train with no expectations. Good enough internet to surf, not to remote into work or dial into a meeting.
Everyone knows that you should run openbsd on a modded t420, with coreboot and only use emacs for graphical work.

Sent from eww.
I don't know the direct answer, but I have a deduction in my head to work with...? I'll just put it out there: I think speed is deeply impacted by high-level frameworks that parse or compile at runtime. React Native is a framework on Android, which is a framework on Java, which compiles at runtime. IDK if anything in that chain compiles down to Assembly or machine code before you open an app made in React Native. That tied with the bloat of JIC background services sitting idle eats bandwidth. Garbage collection checks operate in a loop, checking again and again if all these unused but loaded processes still exist at their addresses. And when you pile those on each other, it seems relatively easy to see how modern CPUs don't seem much faster than chipsets from 5-6 years ago.

I stopped programming around 8 years ago because I hate the current MVC model most software is created and maintained with. What got me interested recently in dipping back in was a video on branchless programming. I love the idea of unit testing at the machine code level for efficiency, and then figuring out how to trick the compiler or runtime and the chipset into making quick, predictive outputs to reduce idling on branches or making 15 steps for something doable in as little as 4.

That feels like a completely opposing direction to take given the current priorities of engineers across almost all industries, even oldtime ones like Gaming.
https://web.archive.org/web/20020214094236/http://www.columb...
This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
> Slavery was abolished a long time ago in the US

No, it wasn't.

Chattel slavery was converted almost overnight into penal slavery, with largely pretextual criminalization of the exact same group previously subject to chattel slavery, a long time ago in the United States.
Yeah I always assumed the people that write these have played the game a bunch of times. There will always be superfans, and its kind of cool they have an creative outlet for their passion that helps others.
> This administration messed up any opportunity to curtail China

Companies are stepping over each other to move factories out of China. Just check chinalawblog. Any sane COO is de-risking right now. And what about Pompeo's speech? tariffs? banning wechat? supporting Taiwan? There's an endless list of this administration actions trying to curtail China.

> dropping TPP.

TPP was still an IF still when 2017 rolled around.

> Chinese know what a joke this administration is which is why they basically captured Hong Kong, are trying to destroy Vietnam, extracting as much from Australia and India

China is making stupid mistakes after mistakes. It managed to piss off almost every surrounding neighbors: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, etc. It is basically at war with India right now. And US, Canada, UK, France, and some EU countries are in conflict with China as well. Just recently, even Germany, one of its last ally in Europe has condemned China publically for the czech republic situation

China is so knee deep in trouble, with internal top leadership conflict, coronavirus, job losses, suffering trade, flooding, food shortage, that it has no choice but to establish internal "order" with inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet. But it is messing up there too.

> Also, comparing to Germany, a country with a population less than 20% of the US

That's just dishonest hand waving. Everyone knows Germany leads the EU.

> Why don’t you compare to India

China literally killed Indian soldiers - an act of war. There's no comparison here. And again, this is election year. This US administration cannot piss off every US companies by an absolute economic sanction on China.
What's with all the emojis?

I tried reading the article, but I gave up after twenty or so emojis. They're attention-grabbing for no reason.

There's something seriously off-putting about so many emojis in an article written by an adult. It's like the author doesn't even care about his own writing.
Morrowind walkthroughs in particular used to read like an adventure novel written in second person. For example, what's below is from https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/913818-the-elder-scrolls-ii...:

Next, we're looking for a staff. Felen Maryon's staff. It's an ebony staff, too. Oooh. However, Felen is a powerful wizard and will most likely kill you in one wave of his hand. If you want the job, take it. If not, pass.

Felen Maryon is in Tel Branora, to the south, and he's one of Mistress Therana's personal retainers. If you know little about the Telvanni, let me inform you that Therana is one of the six head honchos, and this personal retainer will be a damn sight powerful. But hey, it's your skin :)

Take the boat to Tel Branora, and head towards the tower off to your left. Follow the paths up as far as you can, then enter the Upper Tower. More info about telvanni - the most powerful people in each tower always live at the very top. And you were given the levitation potions because you'll need them. Telvanni aren't real fond of stairs.

Follow the tunnel opposite the doorway up, then take either door to Therana's Chamber. Use one of the potions to ascend the chute, and you'll find Felen in one of the end rooms. Note the shiny staff behind him.

SAVE, importantly. You'll screw this up a few times before you get it right, I know I did. Firstly, if you're REALLY good you can get the staff without even using magic, simply sneak around behind him until the hand appears, and seize the moment.

But if you're like me, you're not that good :( So have your custom Chameleon spell handy. The idea is to get both the sneak hand and chameleon working in your favour, and the easiest way to do this is to get BEHIND the bookcase it rests against. You'll always have the sneak hand, even if he faces the bookcase.

Cast your chameleon, and swipe the staff without a hitch. Hike back to Sadrith Mora, and proudly show it over to Big Helende. You good little thief, you."
> Sorry, but this is so naive. Or I guess, a superiority complex?

Or basic knowledge of immigration statistics.

Visa applications vastly outnumber the amount issued. Of the 330 million people living in the US, ~45 million are foreign born. Increasing the amount of allowed immigration could easily make that number larger.

This wouldn't have to happen in a short time span. 50% fewer people having children doesn't mean 160 million people disappear overnight. It means that the number of yearly births goes from 3.8 million to 1.9 million. About 1 million immigrants arrive each year currently [1]. Doubling immigration would make for a stable population. This is more than achievable.

In fact, this dynamic already exists in the US, and has existed for years now. The US's birth rate is below replacement rates. But the US continues to have a growing population due to immigration.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-finding....
Not really, most of these countries ( African, Middle East and Pakistan ) don’t speak out because their economies depend on it (Belt and Road initiative). None of them have the stability to withstand economic sanctions against them by the Chinese.
Yikes, thought we were speaking generally
"CEO of horizontally integrated monopolistic anticompetitive conglomerate denounces vertically integrated monopolistic anticompetitive competitor."

It's like something out of Flatland.
>it only takes one mis-typed email address and the entire conversation could be leaked.

Then perhaps the people involved should be encouraged to trim all the old junk from the bottom of their messages... for exactly the reason you have described.

A discussion between 15 people is inevitably going to get leaked to some extent no matter what the medium. Sometimes you can break things into smaller discussion groups.

You could set up a private web forum. That's probably it for web based stuff.
> Epic, however, takes 5%..... after you pull in $1mil in revenue. That's it.

That's it, for now. Epic is trying to set themselves up as publisher like Steam. Once they can get first-party status as an app store on iOS their tune will change.

This is about money, and one way to make money is to get people hooked on your product then jack up the price.
I always thought it'd be interesting to do the gravity storage inside the column of a wind turbine. After all you've already built a tall steel tower. Individually it's tiny storage, but in aggregate it's not meaningless, especially as we keep building more towers.

But I assume there's structural issues with suspending a few extra tons on your structure.
> Progress management I talked to did NOT want to stand behind SQL for CRUD applications.

Of course not - the entire business model behind OpenEdge (which is far from "open") is to have applications built with their laughably irrelevant ABL/4GL language and only working with data in OLTP / one-record-at-a-time because that makes it almost impossible to switch to the conventional (RDBMS + web-service + frontend) architecture that the entire industry shifted to 20 years ago.

OpenEdge (nee "Progress DB") was a cool platform in the late-1980s through to the early 2000s because it supported IBM's AS/400, MS Windows, and Linux - with their UI system that let you design an input form once and have it magically work in text-mode AS/400 terminals and the Windows desktop - but the fundamental design of OpenEdge is still based on its AS/400 roots and it really doesn't work well with modern systems (e.g. it has this design with multiple "broker" processes which is a PITA to configure).

Their anti-open-source article on Progress' website that the GP post linked to was infuriating to read: it felt like the same anti-GPL propaganda that did the rounds around 2003 when SCO was claiming Linux contained their copyrighted code and Microsoft was astroturfing articles about the "risks" of open-source code and seemingly intentionally confusing people about MIT/Apache vs. GPL licenses. Le sigh.
Two years ago when I started experimenting with Julia and the Flux DL library, I paused to code up non numerical problems in Julia: web scraping, making REST calls, SPARQL queries, build simple web site, etc. Julia was OK for all of these tasks.

I am going to watch Julia adoption, and use it more, when and if it becomes more popular.
I agree with this.

As a person who is single and just moved far away from my parents to work, having to cook at home isn't hard. Acquisition and management of ingredients is hard. Cooking for one is annoying, it's hard to even buy ingredients that won't go bad faster than I can eat them.

Additionally, my whole life was tuned around having food and transportation from work. Given no time to prepare, I now have no car, and I'm unable to carry lots of food back from each trip to the store. Each trip to the store also carries a certain necessary amount of COVID caution.

I'm aware that many of these problems are problems for people with families as well, but I've definitely felt some exacerbation due to living alone, not having a car, and not having anyone else to help me cook or to cook for.
A big one as been making it a point to contact everyone on the team regularly, even if there's nothing urgent to discuss. This could be via email or video chat. If there's no programmatic reason to chat, I'll surely have come across some new tidbit of information or insight that's at least tangentially related to work and use that as an excuse. One of the dudes I'm working with is a far better C++ coder than me, so I'm regularly asking him questions, but I'm also mentoring some junior engineers, and I'll reach out to point out things to them.

For colleagues that I'm not directly working with but want to stay in contact with, I'll email them at least every few months with any interesting problems that I solved as well as the approach that are might be of interest to them. On my team, we'll regularly do tech surveys for advancing areas of our project, and the results of them will also get sent out. I also know their interests, and if I come across something they might like, I won't hesitate to send it their way.

It's really easy to buckle down and only address what's in front of your nose. But people get weird when that goes on too long. Better to take a break a couple times a week and check in with everyone else. I find that our morning scrum isn't enough.
See my reply above. You're just declaring we only experience Schmidt bases for no particular reason. Where are you getting this "clear connection" between experience and the decomposition in one particular basis. Do you have a reference?
Ten times the cases, and ten times the deaths of its neighbors, and a 8.6% drop in GDP in Q2.

Meanwhile, Norway lost 5.3% of its GDP, and Finland lost 4.9%.

Exactly which part of this strategy has merit?
Slightly off topic, but Rupert Sheldrake's son Cosmo Sheldrake is a very unique and interesting composer/multi-instrumentalist. Much of his music can be found on his youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBFczwEgDaLeRWeyw0h7FfA
Parenting is not voluntary. Yes, becoming a parent is voluntary, but once you have a child in your home you cannot put being a parent on hold while you focus on other things.
I see "individuals" as generally preferable to "users", though possibly less clear as to ... er, use role.
Voluntary enrollment in nursing/assisted living facilities is far more accepted (for good reason) than voluntarily turning your children over to foster or other care arrangements. In that regard, I’d say that elder care is more voluntary than childcare.