skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not like Google doing business with, say, Adobe. The federal government has absolute authority over international transactions. Their options for enforcement are extensive. Not that it would, but if it came to it, they could shatter Google all the way to the foundation.

Edit: For the galaxy-brains, me pointing out the government has the authority to do this is not an endorsement of them doing it.
My wife had to abort due to an etopic pregnancy. Nothing to due about it, would have killed them both. Still bothers us.
My daughter was supposed to be a twin, the other didn’t make it. That really hurts.

I can understand arguments about first few weeks.

People that support giving birth to the baby then killing it. Well, they are the worst sort of killer imaginable.
Luckily we have technology such as greenhouses that means this is ultimately a cost issue and not an extinction level issue.
There's so much variation in flags for version, I've taken the habit of always using the long `--version` flag.
His point was that the WH and Senate shouldn't contemplate a SCOTUS nominee in an election year if they are controlled by opposite parties. Not hypocritical as that's not the case this time.
Aussies in January 2020: Our country is on fire! Stop climate change! Look what we're doing!

Aussies in September 2020: 7h Flight to nowhere sells out in 10min breaking all records.
How many "fraudulent" registrations and cancellations does GoDaddy do each day?

Could it be that it isn't GoDaddy being malicious, but perhaps a third party? It's pretty easy to get a feed of queries into the GoDaddy search box - all you'd need to do is partner with any registrar.
Yeah fair haha. But so does the US government if Facebook leaves. I do not actually think the current state of things is sustainable but I don’t think anyone knows how it will resolve.
The people who have the apps installed now can keep using it and it can still talk to their servers. But no new features, no app updates, no new apps, probably can’t negotiate a new data center contract or form a new partnership. But the basic app still works.
I’ve also heard of the Loch Ness Monster, and it’s just as real.
My pet theory is that's because WeChat is heavily used by Chinese community.
Yep. It's pretty much needed as if the election is contested and needs to be decided by the Supreme Court, not having a justice will be a disaster. Also presidency ends on January 20th - you can't go without a justice for 4 months.
Someone who's tasked with maintaining shell scripts better be familiar with the shell.
There is plenty of doubt about whether a Democratic majority in the Senate would add seats to the Supreme Court. It would only take a couple of holdouts to stop any bill that does this, and a lot of Senators are really reluctant to do anything that might be construed as rocking the boat.

I absolutely think that Democrats should expand the court, but (along with substantially reforming the filibuster) I don't have great confidence in Senate Democrats to actually do it if the opportunity presents itself.
Your entire post, every paragraph, screams to me that you don’t want to write client side logic. You are hoping some magic thing does it for you and yet you still want the benefits of client side logic.

My only advise is to take a step back and re-examine what you are willing to achieve. There is a massive disconnect between what you wish you have and the work you are wanting to perform.
Flipping through news channels I hear talk about “Biden packing the court” casually suggested as if it’s a totally reasonable option.
What’s your source on air cargo not growing? I would have thought it was boom in with eCommerce going through the roof. (Perhaps the same amount of goods, but distributed through many more packages)
Millenial here, Thats been my experience with Gen Z, technical familiarity, low technical literacy, low patience.

Not bad, just something that should be understood. Millenials are expected to be “internet natives” and “good with computers”. This didnt translate to Gen Z linearly.
Yes. Why would a government (any government) not have the ability to make more or less arbitrary mandates in the interest of national security? It's arguably one of the primary purposes of having a government in the first place.

That said, I'm sure there are complex legal criteria in the US that could lead to a lengthy court case.
There's latency in identifying the spike. And people are not going to deal well with yoyoing lockdowns. They'll become less effective each time.
You don't need VPN, it's just the app stores that cannot offer it anymore, you can still side load it.
The States don't have a "Great Firewall" equivalent... yet.
> you should take the actual CO2 emissions of your flights and bump them up two- or three-fold

Why two-three? Why not 1.1-1.2? Why not 10-20?

> that's around 7 -- 11% of an average Australian per-capita annual climate footprint

And just to be fair, most people cannot afford long-haul flight, only richer people can. So it's rich people who produce CO2 when flying, but the same rich people produce more CO2 when they do everything else.

The argument let's ban flying because rich people produce CO would become the argument as let's ban building new houses with concrete, because only rich people can afford them, and concrete emits CO2.

Total emission of CO2 from all aviation including freight including poor countries is about 2% of all CO2 emissions.
Trump's got a 96% approval amongst conservatives.
Sure. A simple "You are hereby required to cease distribution of X by <deadline>. Failure to comply will result in a fine of $2,000 per day until compliance."

It's basically what they did to -- uhh, what was it called? The encrypted email service Snowden used when he was smuggling NSA docs. $2k per day, increasing over time, adds up fast.

Once you're staring at an executive order, questions of whether they really have the power fall to lawyers. In the meantime, corporations comply.
I wanted to get rid of my phone, but the leverage given by my portable emacs machine + instant Wikipedia lookup was just too much to give away.

Without much success I have tried for a long time to quit the most addictive things on my phone (reading news, watching videos), until I recently came up with a doctrine that has been working well: I keep the fun for my laptop, and away from my phone. This way I am not constantly attracted to it, but also not completely out of the loop in a way that would make me abandon my discipline.

Texting remains an unsolved problem... Bantering with all my friend circles at multiple timezones the whole day does distract me very much, but is also a big source of non-programming happiness, which I am in dire need during the pandemic.
Tiktok is not the only product of BytesDance. It developed tons of other apps in China market.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14639967
How exactly does this move help him win reelection? I'm genuinely curious, I just don't see how this action would move anyone into a Trump vote who was previously not already planning to vote Trump.
It can be, Indian call center scammers are more scared of FBI than Indian law enforcement.

Criminals have different value set nothing to do with nationality. We still have a article on the front page about an American CEO embezzing funds. You will not hear anyone saying be careful of American CEOs.
Sounds like they might have used the CEOs computer and perhaps he has a modified PDF report ready, downloaded the actual report but provided the altered version.

Agree with the other comments, the auditor should get the reports independently or use their own laptop to login/get the report.
Orthorectification was my second favourite geography “puzzle” in undergrad. I’m delighted to see some handy tooling to do it from the browser. It’s so empowering to be able to register public participation remote sensing data to a map frame.
There should've been a provision in the constitution against using "national security" as a justification for anything, or any verbiage along those lines. As Picard put it: "The age-old cry of the oppressor."

It's such a beautiful phrase. "National security." Who wouldn't want to help with national security? Are you getting in the way of our nation's security?

(A bit unsettled we now live in an era of "It's illegal to download <app to watch cat videos>," even if the national security concerns were true.)
How is trusting random VPN in Cayman Islands a good thing?
> The miles flown is also more than one would drive in a day trip.

But people don't take these flights every day, rather once a lifetime at most.
Yes... the article is about the new, updated list as of last week.
HN is very quick to criticize the administration (which believe me has a ton to criticize) for this move but also defend China's blocking of international apps.
No, I don't want an extension for a simple, basic piece of functionality that everyone keeps asking for.

about:tabs would be the easiest thing in the world.
> (a concept which is not part of the Constitution)?

And which was very much worried about and warned against by the founders, even if they immediately fell into it themselves.
It's amazing how if someone shared NYTimes, WaPo, VOX, VICE etc, then everyone's cool. But if someone shares a slightly right leaning source, people start asking for "non-conservative" source.
It's fairly well accepted that UV-C is carcinogenic to humans.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposu...
CO2 emissions per mile is infinite.
It’s talk like this that truly disgusts me. And it only comes from the left. Anyone in a position of power that effectively promotes opposing views is labeled as pure evil. The more effective, the more evil.

Just because your side is losing does not mean the other side is working for Satan. It’s talk like that that leads to violence.
Make a triangle with side lengths 7,8, and 9.

Also, one doesnt usually just find a constraint solver to use. You'll want a geometric constraint solver which will be built on top of a non-linear algebraic constraint solver. It really needs to be integrated into the CAD system.
So the saying the US would do the same thing China would do then?
This kind of advice kills people.
That's not the relevant comparison.
> Well, obviously your comment is not insightful.

Nope his comment was, yours isn't.

> How bad is airline travel?

What part about a journey to nowhere confuses you? Let me break it down:

1. That's not travel
2. It's quite bad for the environment compared to doing just about any other possible leisure activity - because that's what a trip to nowhere is, not travel.

> Or is it worse to take one such flight once a year, or renting larger apartment which consumes more electricity due to air conditioning?

A truly irrelevant question to top off the delight that is your contribution to this thread. Is your ~20% larger apartment's AC fueled by burning methane?
“If you know people personally, that kind of gross oversimplification seems strange,”

Gates is right on. These comparisons are more entertainment than anything, like celebrity fantasy scorekeeping, most of the nuance and qualitative differences are either papered over or exaggerated. Red team vs. blue team, etc.
How, as an Amazon customer, do you report something that looks odd and could be shady? (It involves the term "debit card credit voucher", if that helps any. And do you all have your Amazon purchases show up as Seattle ATM withdrawals?)
Disclaimer: this is my perception. Many will disagree and many will downvoted, but I want to put it out there in case it resonates with anyone and generates good, enlightening conversation. I hope people read and respond in the same spirit of good faith.

Perhaps Newt was a catalyst in Washington, but I think the broader cultural change was less related. Even as a lifelong liberal, I recall the 2000s as being a period of liberal snark toward conservatives, especially in the media and on the emerging Internet (I know some will argue that conservative policies are horrible so they deserved to be treated this way, but such arguments miss the point of civility: you debate bad ideas; you don’t attack people). It wasn’t the sort of ruthless display we see today, but it was relentless and it went on for more than a decade. Conservatives generally maintained decorum, but eventually the dam burst and the resentment cascaded over and Trump arrived on the scene to personify the middle finger that many on the right wanted to give to those they felt mistreated them for so long.

None of this is meant to impute blame or innocence on anyone, but to serve as a framework for understanding how we got here as that is prerequisite for getting black to a healthier state.
A lot of what FDR did was overturned as unconstitutional, though.
I am using the words of the president and leader of the party. The party that abandoned precedent a refused to draft a platform in 2020, instead choosing to just support the president.
Somehow it looks like the bot was not responding on twitter, but the unrolled thread was created.
Thanks for the memories, and the inspiration!

Based on trends I saw in NetCaptor, I wrote an add-on for my favorite browser at the time, Opera, and happily used it for probably years.

I don't have the code nor the binary anymore, but a screenshot still remains:
They could enable side loading of apps easier.

I won’t hold my breath.
It's not a handwave and it's not even remotely easy. If it were easy, it wouldn't have taken centuries of bloodshed for humanity to develop the basic concept of peacefully tolerating disagreements over fundamental values.
I lived across the street from a small regional airport for 3 years in a rural college town.

Overall, the turboprops that the airlines used didn't ever bother me at all.

But, on parents weekend and at graduation, the airport had a lot of private jets flying in, and the noise difference between the prop planes and the jets was disruptive.
> Many American corporations gather and abuse much more data than any allegations against TikTok and WeChat.

You're inventing a false premise with that setup. The issue with TikTok isn't primarily data collection unto itself. It's that they're owned by China (ie who is doing the data collecting), and without exception all large corporations in China are directly commanded by the CCP. They have CCP committees that 'advise' the boards and outline what the companies may or may not do at all times; primarily focused on major decisions, sensitive matters for the CCP, or matters of national strategy. The only reason ByteDance isn't selling TikTok for example, is because the CCP said they weren't allowed to because it would make China look weak; that's not a decision that is up to ByteDance, because they're not in control of anything ultimately. In China's dictatorship, all power by default rests with the CCP (and increasingly with future Chairman Xi's new cult of personality, as the purges have begun); that approach means they can do anything at any time for any reason.

They even started hijacking boards in Hong Kong back in 2016:

WSJ 2017: "Since 2016, at least 32 Chinese state-owned companies or units listed in Hong Kong have proposed changes to their corporate structures to install Communist Party committees that advise their boards of directors." [1]

China isn't an ally of the US, they're a blend of enemy and super competitor. They don't freely allow US companies - such as Facebook, Google, Reddit, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, Amazon AWS, and dozens of others - to operate inside of China. It's entirely reasonable to disallow some China-owned corporations from operating in the US as a matter of trade reciprocation.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/now-advising-chinas-state-firms...
you might want to at -p for preserving permissions in there are well, handy for archiving
I remember when the US was the one for a free and open internet instead of a segmented one.
Almost everything in today's hospitals is a computer
Then people should spend vacation home, or in a hotel in a nearby town.
So you're saying that you think Millennials are peak computer users? And Gen Z users are worse?

I wonder if this has anything to do with how platforms became locked down at the generational boundary.

Millennials grew up on 90's and 00's internet, where you could download and install anything. It was the most open tech has ever been. Run your own chat software, embed HTML in your MySpace profile, create a forum, etc. Apply patches and cracks to pirated software. Re-skin Winamp. All of it was par for the course for your typical Millennial teenager.

Gen Z has curated experiences in the form of walled silos. Less exposure to the underlying tech.

Granted, some subset will always be attracted to hobbyist pursuit. Game development, app development, Minecraft mods, etc. But it's not as much a part of the day to day experience.
To me, the most relevant difference between then and now is the looseness of the union. It makes sense that all states get an equal vote... only when the votes don't really matter. If California broke up into 5 states, they would get 5x the power by the holy virtue of making that administrative decision.

An alliance of states can make sense. Everyone at the table knows they're not equal, because they're representing totally different entities. However, they all have a voice because they all have decision power. In an alliance, votes don't make sense as a decision-making apparatus with power. The gathering is for the purpose of international diplomacy, and freedom of action is determined by the real capabilities of each sovereign.
This was absolutely not the case in Italy, where many people died because no ICU spaces were available for them.

If it didn't happen elsewhere, it didn't happen because lockdowns, and other physical distancing measures, worked.

Arguing against taking defensive measures because they worked is like arguing that Y2K was a non-event without taking into consideration the hundreds of millions of dollars that were put into making sure it was a non-event.
If you really want to find a compelling starting point for the state of our current public political discourse, you may find it in the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. Rush Limbaugh's first radio broadcast airs in 1988 which introduced "anger-tainment" as a very profitable political news model. As time passes, this new business model affected every news organization in one way or another, to various degrees, willingly or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
> I used the speeding analogy because it shares many similarities:

That's so an obvious lie, seriously please be honest. You could use ANY analogy where there's no danger, which would then have more similarities, but still decided not to do that?

Hell you could even go with going 80 miles an hours in a 60 miles an hour zone and then challenging the legality of that. Why would you go with an infraction that big as an analogy?

You chose a dangerous one to break, while there's literally no danger involved in the infringement of Epic. You chose to use theses emotions to support your argument.
I started to used wormhole: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

There is also a Golang port: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
In this situation in 2020, I agree, they would. In 2016? I don’t see the reasoning that they would have.

The reality of the situation is that in the US one party constantly pushes boundaries and test limits. The other party then adjusts to attempt to counteract that. Yet it’s sold as “both sides are just as bad as each other”
Web History Chapter 4: Search
They should nullify all the acts passed by trump and all the appointments made by the senate once the criminal in chief is convicted of treason.
Chamath Launches SPAC, SPAC and SPAC as He SPACs the World with SPACs
Political doesn’t mean partisan. It means characterized by political considerations, rather than rules. Partisanship is one aspect of politics which the founders wanted to avoid. But they always contemplated that the Senate majority and Presidency might disagree for political reasons.
There is no national security justification for banning TikTok. Where's the relevant source code? It would be easy to make the claim totally obvious, yet this isn't done. Conclusion: It's false.
I agree, bash vs sh is night and day. Although these days I mostly use python. If I really really need something I can always shell out in python as well.
I think octopuses are a good counter-example to the concept of Intelligent design.

edit: to clarify, they're MAGNIFICENT creatures, and are a testament to the unfeeling unemotional beauty of actual Evolution - it has no plan. It is random. It only works because of odds. That some traits get selected for more frequently ON AVERAGE.

Sometimes that can lead to some interesting places...octopus, platypus, narwals. Hell, most animals are RIDICULOUS when you get down close.

But this curse of the octopus's intelligence being severely artificially limited so they can't progress and evolve.

Maybe the meaning of life is for us to use our technology and medicine to help the Octopuses live long and fulfilling lives and put them on a path to continuing evolution and together the human and octopuses species are meant to conquer the galaxy.

Alas, in this dimension, we fucked up and destroyed their habitat instead.
I think it's more than that.

In my OP I very deliberately stuck to abstracts that I'd hoped "nobody could disagree with".

And nobody seemed to - until I put more words beneath it.

You're right though - engaging with your own posts is perceived as negative. People read the platitude and hit 'like' - the more you put beneath it, the greater the opportunity for something to annoy somebody (and scroll up to try to kill the thread)
Also reported by NPR in the original post:

Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
Because the presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity.
McConnell says Trump nominee to replace Ginsburg ‘will receive a [Senate] vote’
Could these big tech firms challenge this in court? It seems like a very ambiguous use of "national security reasons".
Wait, really? On the post this morning folks were applauding this decision and others were pointing out that they criticized China for it.

A lot has changed in the last 12 hours I guess.
No, flooding your country with the third-world will be your downfall. I give you thirty years before the civil war.
A new documentary on Netflix called, "My Octopus Teacher" is worth checking out.

"An unusual friendship develops between a filmmaker and an octopus living in a South African kelp forest that shares the mysteries of its world."

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81045007
I do 95% of my work on linux so bash it is. I'm not really concerned about other systems. I can always google later. It would take down my productivity quite a bit if I worried if all my scripting needed to be compatible with BSD or other unix varieties. YAGNI is mostly true.
I checked this out extensively; it (claims) not to collect data unless you enable one of the settings which blocks adult sites.

From the extension options:

> Enable/disable the option to block sites in bulk by category. This allows BlockSite to access information about the sites you visit, for use as explained in our Privacy Policy.

And from the privacy policy itself:

> You may opt out of the automatic collection and sharing of Non-Personal Information described above as follows:

> For the BlockSite browser add-on extension:

> By deselecting the checkbox next to the words “Block Adult Sites” which can be found under the Settings tab of the Options page for the BlockSite extension.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/15/20866829/b...