skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evidently the government can force you to wear a mask but not a condom.
Sure let's talk about some related things:

- Let's ban alcohol due to all the harm it does in the world and plus I, a non-drinker, don't want get hit by a drunk driver. It's better we just ban it all together and everyone will be safe - what do you say?

- Next up is mandatory condoms! I mean there's no assurance that people won't spread AIDS so in the name of public health condoms are now mandatory. Enjoy!

- Time for our old friend "unhealthy" food. Obesity makes my insurance premiums go up and it's well established that obesity is a social disease. Time to put an end to this too.

- Ugh, smoking. All smoking will be banned because I can definitely smell that when the car ahead of me has a smoker in it. Ban this too.

I think first up we should do alcohol, what do you say?
I have just started hearing about Jax. But it seems to be a low level library that Tensorflow uses right ?

The latest release of Tensorflow probability uses JAX under the hood. So what do you mean when you say you're moving to JAX versus Tensorflow
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I'm upset that there was no scatter plot between vapor permeability and water resistance.
A scientific calculator.
There's a small dropdown at the left of each command to toggle between different man page versions. Unfortunately no BSD/Darwin though (at least for the command I've tried).
For games, which many are pretty run entirely locally, things are noticeably faster and higher quality.

For networked applications, I feel like the much bigger limit is the network. The Tidal streaming service ran into this with its business model; streaming lossless, high quality audio is a bit of a moot point if the network doesn't allow you to download all of it without noticeable buffering when listening to music.
I think most of the restaurants that are thriving in my area are ones that were able to adapt to the new reality quickly. Many just completely transformed their menu's for takeout centric foods. The city here shut down roads and creating large social distanced out door seating. Enhanced all the alcohol permits for takeout, etc.

Restaurants can survive this. But what they were doing in 2019 is not going to work.
If WeChat and all US-China apps are banned due to the conflicting US and Chinese policies on communications control, those Chinese users don't matter anymore because they have no options.
I think that's a pretty fair assessment, there's generally minimal risk at normal dosages you find in the store (1000IU or whatever). If you're really concerned, a quick visit to the doctor to get baseline labs is a good way to make sure you're not gonna verge on toxicity.
Would you rather abandon the rule of law entirely rather than admit prohibition was a massive mistake and/or not done in good faith? (Not directed at you specifically because I assume your comment was fecetious, just posing the question to clarify thoughts on the matter.)
I think the best way to do this would be American Congress passing a law giving President power to directly "Ban equivalent companies of other countries, which ban American companies on their respective jurisdiction". This is full of subjective opinionated law to pass, but at least courts would have some ground to held the bans. Courts are good at deciphering "intent" of the law.

This ban is effectively a Tit-for-tat. Thats it.
"Just print money"

Yeah maybe they will have to buy less hundred dollar toilet cover for the military, or less last generation missiles, I think that should be more than enough to pay for it. Or maybe less subsidies for the oil industry.
I’ve seen fancy tea strainers made from skeletonized leaves, so I clicked to see their process. I’ve been thinking of making some, but the only skeletonized leaves I’ve seen were in creeks and are pretty fragile. It seems like leaf selection is the hard part, not the method, since creeks do the job fine and with lye the leaves were still fragile. Looks like I need some peepal leaves!
I'm not sure how your decoupling the gov's various "public health" efforts from the results?

Stay home! Translates to "not going to my fave lunch spot." And so on.

Large companies are dependent on the pre-school and K to 12 edu system.

On what legal grounds would the gov ban air travel? Again. Stay home! Vagas ain't home baby.

Furthermore, there's consumer confidence. You don't go on holiday or make frilly expenses when the air is saturated with uncertainty.
Is the claim that British mercantilism caused all of this? The Qing dynasty had many problems, the British being one. The Taiping rebellion killed millions, Japanese imperialism further weakened the empire, losing their own colonial status over Korea - we can go on as the events cascade. To solely blame British mercantilism is to drive a wholly western narrative for what was not.
> Second, other life destroying poisons include: alcohol, nicotine, sugar, fast food, dopamine hits from social media feedback/gambling/gaming... are you ready for the government to decide your intake for those?

The government does regulate alcohol ad nicotine directly. The federal gov subsidizes sugar, various localities tax it. Various politicians have made it clear they want to regulate or ban social media. Gambling is banned, monopolized, or regulated by every state government. Ever heard "video games cause violence"?

My point is that the government has its hands in everything. People should be free to do all of the above activities. I fully support legalization of everything mentioned. But unfortunately it's not outlandish for the government to control them.
Indeed. I got the impression this was one of many pieces of evidence used to put the case together.

The biggest one was the money laundering.

Porras had used a money laundering service controlled by Homeland Security Investigations. Vendors sent the money launderer a certain amount of Bitcoin and the money launderer mailed cash back to the vendor. At some point in the money launderer’s career, federal agents quietly took control of the money laundering operation and used the position to identify dozens of darkweb vendors.
> Typically it's the Democrats who are pro-immigration, but in reality they don't care much about H1B style immigration and are in fact likely against it due to American tech unions hating H1Bs,

Wait, what? Tech unions? I've never seen a single union in my entire 20 year career. I was sympathetic up until you complained about that. What unions?

The H1B stuff goes back and forth politically. If you ask me, if the economy is poor then there's no excuse for encouraging immigration, especially of high paid labor. If unemployment is high, that is (and that's the part that fluctuates). Not to mention H1B is used to reduce wages and dump tech workers when they get old or expensive. However, the uncertainty you describe is intolerable, it should be a clear path and if someone is laying down roots and family, they shouldn't be living in fear. It's obviously a very mixed bag.
I 'vouch'ed for your comment, for what it's worth. I still don't know 'who'.
This is why I'm so happy Internet Archive exists. Listened to the first episode, and it's not too bad! Thanks for this gem.
The American colonies were subject to mercantilism for 170 years before the American Revolution started. To suggest that the American colonies weren't subject to foreign gunships forcing trade policies upon them is simply a ridiculous statement. The American colonies were prevented, by force, from trading with the French, Spanish and Dutch. The British Empire captured New Amsterdam in 1664 in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and renamed it New York. Just because the British Empire's economic policies escalated in the decade leading up to the American Revolution doesn't mean that is either where mercantilism began or ended. Please don't belittle American history, there are far more parallels than you may realize.
I know it doesn't have AES encryption acceleration (at least in the CPU).

That's why it's an interesting thing to measure, how much the competition between boot tasks and AES encryption affect the boot. It may not be much because I suspect boot is IO bound, but I don't know.
Cool! This sounds like a lighter-touch way to do it. A long time ago, to help with the filter issue, I went through a phase of signing up for services as (mygmail)+(theirdomain)@gmail.com (though perhaps it would have been smarter to do +spam@gmail.com). Though occasionally these places will send messages you want to read, so I like your solution more.
The pandemic, from the virus's point of view, is a great success story
The shitty franchises are the ones that are most likely to survive. Does anybody really think McDonalds or Subway is imperilled? They'll do fine. But the independent burger shop I used to enjoy will probably never come back.
> Law enforcement made a number of controlled purchases during the investigation into Porras and his co-conspirators. The purchases and subsequent surveillance followed the same pattern every time: make a purchase; watch Porras drive to a storage facility where he stored product; follow Porras to the Post Office; talk to Postal Inspectors about the package Porras or his co-conspirator had dropped into a USPS Blue Box.
> Turns out people willing to step in the code to investigate and pinpoint exactly where is an issue (or that there is no issue) is incredibly rare.

Ayyyup

One of the reasons people just decide to rewrite everything instead...
On the contrary, if the courts are powerful protectors of rights they'll inevitably come into conflict with the executive. I'd like to see a touch fewer conflicts than American presidents tend to get into, but if I saw no conflicts I'd conclude that the courts just have no power to stop the executive from doing what he'd like.
Are there any Uyghurs in China who dispute what's happening in China?

Is the video fake?
> (dense weave, regularly reapply wax)

Barbour?
That's in the indictment too. He misspelled "quality" across several different posts.

Alone it's not conclusive, but it's one more piece of evidence linking all of the activity together.
I agree with where you're coming from, but really the underlying feeling is basically a rational response to the growing problem of surveillance capitalism. The rest of the world has just been a frog slowly boiling while USG siphons more and more of their citizens' information, but now there is a significant non-US player.

The right response would be something like a US GDPR, allowing US persons to opt out of surveillance foreign and domestic. But that would upset the Silicon Valley gravy train, so instead we get a ham-fisted response that deflects concern onto a tiny slice of the overall problem.
In these conversations people focus exclusively on productivity. Yet as a worker I want to also optimize my relationships. So there is at least some incentive to have a place to come together professionally. Of course not in same the daily commute sense, but I would give a lot to deepen relationships with colleagues right now and meetup at some central location.
If this is your legitimately held view (and I agree to some extent with the core idea), at least let's not be naive about it.

Don't think that this was a well-reasoned decision with careful justification about the causes, potential, solutions, and impacts on US economics and society. It was a guy asking "what can we do to create some leverage over this adversary I don't like? (and was just told about yesterday)"

Don't deceive yourself that this is some step in a principled fight. If it were that, we'd have slapped tariffs/embargoes and more on Russia a couple of years ago. We'd be implementing measures against Venezuela, Myanmar, North Korea, a whole host of countries doing similar or worse. I haven't heard a peep about those.

It's not good when government operates on a whim. Don't deceive yourself about what principle (and person) you're getting behind.
*uMatrix, not uBO
The vector extension is getting close to being formally submitted, so things should settle down. There was a major compatibility break a few weeks ago, but I'm hoping that was the last one. We won't know for sure until it is approved.

Vendors advertising vector support will have to maintain their own toolchains if they implement drafts. Most vector support is in IP cores, and they can be changed to follow the draft. There is no problem until someone makes an ASIC. Unfortunately Alibaba already did that and they are going to have lots of problems as they are incompatible with everyone else. But most everyone else is waiting for the official vector extension before making ASICs.
China fought a land war against a coalition of invaders who attempted to subvert its economic, political and religious sovereignty.

China lost, was forced to cede Hong Kong to the British for 99 years, and paid 668,661,220 taels of silver from 1901 to 1939, equivalent in 2010 to $US 61 billion on a purchasing power parity basis.

A large portion of the reparations paid to the United States was diverted to pay for the education of Chinese students in U.S. universities under the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program. To prepare the students chosen for this program an institute was established to teach the English language and to serve as a preparatory school. When the first of these students returned to China they undertook the teaching of subsequent students; from this institute was born Tsinghua University.
Everything is OpenJDK now, forget oracle. AWS put out LTS JRE's etc.
Try and get your employer to pay for a jetbrains IDE, IntelliJ IDEA.
Use Maven for builds. It's simple-ish.
Use Spring for frameworks. Everything's been done so you wont be first with any problems here.
And all the stuff from 12 years ago is probably what people know and do, so it's still on point.
No one does inheritance anymore composition's all the rage. Not passing judgement on that, it's just a thing.
What exactly would be gained by FUCKING LEADERSHIP here?

The United States because of it's physical size (geography) and spread out population, which are interdependent on each other for a way of life, was going to have the cases and problems that it has now no matter what anyone did.

You can blame Trump, but if someone else was in there we'd be in the exact same place, with less media obsession, and people would just be saying "there's nothing we can do better" because, frankly, we can't. The makeup of the United States is incredibly vulnerable to events like this (JIT delivery, trucking as the primary means of goods distribution, long distances and disparate population centers, with different climates, etc., etc.), and the sheer population size makes it difficult to respond to anything en masse, especially when the people can't agree what that en masse response should be!

So yes, it's fucked right now, but it's America, not Trump.
https://ustechworkers.com/ for example.

I don't know what makes something 'officially' a labor union but at least they call themselves that. There was also Washington state Tech Workers Union.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, Formula 1 was also supposed to deliver cutting edge tech into mass-produced cars, besides just being a racing event. I think that (semi-)automated gas/charging stations would have been great to have, from both safety and convenience perspectives.
The executive order bans the service, not the users. Users can speak freely in any forum that exists
While processors have become more powerful, we're now coding our apps in Javascript, which negates any progress described by Moore's Law. Of course I'm being hyperbolic but you get my point.
I had a commercial investment related visa in the US. Our mobile digital video company, in which I was basically #2 right under the CTO, was very successful and was acquired by HTC. Unfortunately, my position disappeared in the restructuring. I phoned up the immigration department and they said I had 10 days to get out of the country. This was 2011.
High COL regions continue to lean on marquee companies and the supposed geographic affinities. The trend of companies fleeing to cheaper locales isn't theoretical, its decades-old already and merely being highlighted and accelerated. The myopia of Bay Area techies is even worse, they don't understand how far along this trend already is.

Both California and NY suffer from fiscal mismanagement and large looming retirement crises and other costs. Why stick around to fund the inevitable tax increases if you don't have to? Both states will attempt and fail to establish something like an exit tax. Cities and counties can go bankrupt. The Federal government has a printing press. States have neither option.

California may be in even worse shape than NY - it is going to get progressively more expensive to recover from fires. Why pay the bill? Just move away. If you stay, you run the risk of having your financial independence taxed away and then you can't move.
Just another big F1 fan (I've watched every race since Mansell won the world championship).

Thank you for helping keep the sport safe, both with Sensor Biometric and the medical car driving. I remember Martin Brundle doing a great piece on the medical car.

I was vaguely aware of the biometric glove tech but looks super cool now I'm reading more about it.
I was in a similar position a couple of years ago. I recommend the book "Core Java for the Impatient" by Cay Horstmann. The printed version is for Java 8 but there is a preview available for Java 11. It's a concise book but it covers all the important bits.

Regarding the "bite the bullet". I was also a bit afraid, but Java is a great language. Yes, it's a bit verbose but that's compensated by its amazing tooling, specially IntelliJ IDEA.
Something that bugs me about this metaphor is the foregone conclusion that the thing on the ground is identifiably a $100 bill. Clearly anyone seeing a great idea for the taking will do so, but the discussion is really more comparable to seeing a bit of trash on the ground and pondering whether it might be money or not.

The issue is having ideas but not the ability to determine whether they are good ideas nobody has capitalized on yet or bad ideas that others have abandoned. I find myself asking this question often about a lot of things -- am I somehow so fortunate or clever that I've conjured a great idea, or do I lack the clarity of thought or prior knowledge to understand why my idea is bad, useless, or somehow infeasible?
I'd gladly pay an annual subscription for anyone willing to maintain it.
Any discussion about China has to be taken with more than a small amount of skepticism about the truth in reporting.
> Judge Beeler, sitting in San Francisco, noted that "while the general evidence about the threat to national security related to China (regarding technology and mobile technology) is considerable, the specific evidence about WeChat is modest".

I understand the presidential prerogative for national security. I also understand it’s the judges who get to check said authority.

In this case it’s pretty interesting. The judge admits there is evidence, but not overwhelming so limits authority over wechat. However, we know (for a fact) China effectively forces every one of its citizens (and visitors) on wechat[1]. Honestly, the evidence is probably more solid for wechat there than other apps.

Personally, I bet this wasn’t explicitly based on just evidence. Wechat is also the only way many Chinese communicate with family members back home, transfer funds, etc. I suspect it’s also the damage it’ll cause.

In any case, I suspect this will be overturned as spying on communications by a foreign power IS a big security risk. Further, particularly with wechat, it seems like a way to capture communications of other people (who don’t use the app, but message people who do).

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/wechat-spying-on-foreig...
Google App Engine lets you create unlimited subdomains for phishing pages
and malware C&C server to make it hard for corporate security solutions to implement IOC/domain-based blocks.
If China can block Facebook, Google, etc., then why can't the US block Chinese apps?
LOL. Using "people" and "unselfishly" in the same sentence is deep. There may be perhaps one out of 100 who acts unselfishly, the rest only cares about themselves or their direct dependents. And usually that one out of 100 only thinks he is acting unselfishly, but just didn't yet honestly evaluate why he/she is caring about other people (to feel better?! Oops).

And fun fact: Even if you were right, and locally this would be true for some unfathomable reason... The lockdown has saved lives... Lives of the rich and well off. However it has cost much more lives than those few percent who would have died if we didn't do anything. And it has caused unimaginable economic hardship across the world. But since the people who die and suffer now, are people not included in the statistics, nobody really cares. I mean why would you care about the repercussions of lockdowns in the 3rd world? We have soo much to worry about here, and we are so unselfishly staying at home to help our fellow humans... What an euphemism.
>You will forget the people who hurt you. But you will remember the people you hurt.

Could you elaborate on this? It seems like the exact opposite to me, I would more likely remember someone who hurt me than someone I've hurt, which in most cases I wouldn't even know I hurt them.
The Supreme Court if the United States disagrees with you. Free Speech rights are projected in public forums operated by private entities. Shopping malls are a classic example.
If some new restrictive law saves Just One Life™ in a world of billions, then you'd have to be a murderous sociopath to oppose it!
It mentions he had already been a convicted, or at least arrested, for a prior crime. That's why they had his fingerprints on file.

Whether that crime was a felony, I don't know.

But I believe the "felons can't possess firearms" also includes possession while committing a felony - you don't need an actual conviction (but the felony would need to be proved).
The war on drugs (officially) started in the 70s. What do we have to show for it 50 years later? Are there more drugs or less drugs today? How many lives destroyed by the drugs vs the enforcement and violence caused by their legal status?
> age of cancer

Well that's just all of time.
Each year the companies listen to user feedback and iteratively improve the hardware and software.

I've never used an iPhone, but Galaxy phones used to have a really stupid and annoying button for their intrusive personal assistant. Now they don't have any such intrusive hardware or software designs.

The newest versions of Android, which are only supported on newer devices, allow much more fine-grained security permissions. In particular, I like that they allow blocking background access to a capability if the app isn't currently in use.

The new AR camera apps are really fun.

WiFi 6 and 5G provide noticeable improvement in internet speed.

The higher definition screens without bezels provide better video experiences for the same device dimensions.

Allowing fingerprint reading through the screen makes for a better experience.

Wireless charging, particularly in the car with a magnetic mount, is very slick and you never will want to go back.

If you need a cable, USB-C is clearly better than micro-USB.

All of this stuff only became common in the past couple years. If your phone is 3 years old, you probably don't have any of it. You will be fumbling with cables on a much less capable device.

I can't imagine what other sorts of polish they will figure out, but betting against it seems like a historical loser.
I think you should start with the Media and freedom of speech. They've done more harm than all of those things in the last few decades.
Again, how do you know there aren't humans on the other side of the cameras/sensors facilitating this?

At the scale they're operating at and the accuracy you point out, to me it's more plausible they're having humans assist.