skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the US government obviously has alot more info than me, and probably submitted direct evidence of the Chinese government controlling wechat and applying threats/ban/disappearance to the ovesea wechat users and their families in China.

And the judge looks at the fact that Chinese government, of which Pompeo just gave a speech on the future conflict between freedom and dictatorship, controls a crucial communication tool used by Chinese-born and American citizens in US and said the threat was....'modest'.
I wanted to love the touch bar, but the current implementation is a failure -- it needs to be pressure sensitive. A light brushing of a physical key doesn't register and a good implementation of the touch bar would behave the same way.

In the meantime, I would pay extra to the replace the touch bar with the physical buttons we used to have. I've gotten so tired of accidentally hitting the touch bar that I have disabled it as much as possible -- I have it configured so holding the fn button brings it back, making it much more difficult to accidentally trigger something. Of course, as the article mentions, this makes it even more difficult to trigger the sound controls when they're uncomfortably loud, but that's still a trade off I'm willing to make to avoid so many false positive interactions with the touch bar.
Is there a reason to expect union membership would change the decisions of patients? Data can be wrong always, but I don't understand the confounding effect you're imagining. Generally chasing correlations like that leads to more noise, not less.
In defence of Java, I read somewhere it's 25 years old ;-)

Part of the reason for its success has been its strong commitment to backward compatibility, so it's to be expected that it might accumulate many ways of doing things. Python wisdom tells us this is often a Bad Thing. [0]

I imagine Java's approach to concurrency and parallelism might be quite different if it were designed today.

[0] https://wiki.python.org/moin/TOOWTDI
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535374
‘We Learned to Thrive When People Betted Against Us’ Detroit Ecosystem Resilient
I agree with you, but there is no shortage of people who believe the IPCC is no more credible than Thunburg. Asking people to read those reports doesn’t seem to motivate anyone to do so. I often wonder what a valid alternative would be. It’s a hard problem.
> The idea that college graduates will want to make such a transition from the most social environment possible to working from home, alone, for 8 to 10 hours per day, seems very strange to me

It's the worst.
I just got a PineTab. It’s about as close to that as you can get right now
Just to be clear. The ICIJ is not a state enterprise. In fairness you said mainstream/state but mainstream is a meaningless term in my experience. It is what it is. Their about page gives more details.
I had a job offer and TN status with a US company and I decided (last minute practically) not to move to the US for precisely this reason. That I'd have to leave the country on the same day I lost my job. Doing this with a family seemed too risky for me. I'm not sure what my parallel universe life in Seattle would have looked like but I've no regrets staying in Canada.
It's worse than this article depicts. Without authentication, you can't even be sure you have confidentiality. Case in point: in the CBC scheme contemplated here, you can do more than change words in the plaintext; you can recover the entire plaintext, by feeding the decrypter a series of blocks with strategically corrupted padding.
Actually my group in Oracle Labs launched a Java ML library last week - https://tribuo.org.
I'm a young person: I used an analogue washer/dryer for the first time after moving out of my parents' house, and I was impressed by how well designed they were compared to the digital piece of shit my parents had. Plus the digital washer had several software bugs which made it sometimes stop washing mid-cycle, but the analogue ones have never failed.
Like the author I have also been very happy with Borg backup software ( https://www.borgbackup.org/ ).

The compression and de-duplication is very useful. A little bit of a learning curve to get everything up and running, but not too bad.
I kinda like step-based control of my stove

I hate it on my oven. It defaults to 200 degrees, and to change it to 450 takes almost a full minute as it plods along in five-degree increments.
Not necessarily.

A house is an asset you can continue to own if you leave the country, by renting it. There is no requirement to be US resident or even eligible to visit the US to own property in the US.

Breaking a lease can cost tens of thousands of dollars which is just waste - and if you ever intend on coming back to the country at some point, simply abandoning the lease is not advisable since the impact on credit reporting can be substantial.

So I'd suggest that it's actually cheaper to own a house, and simply _not_ unwind it.
You never know... so always be careful of what you wish for
I mean if you deployed the police and national guard to enforce a 24/7 curfew with police escort required to leave at all the virus would probably have been eradicated pretty swiftly.

The question is always how much freedom are we willing to exchange for increased effectiveness and in the US the answer was very little.

And we’re currently paying for that decision but as long as we understand and accept the consequences I don’t think it is an invalid choice. I might personally disagree but that’s the nature of collective decision making.
C/C++ are also used at Google, FB, Amazon, etc. It doesn't mean that it's not a problem.
NATO also included dictatorships in its membership. Greece has been a member since 1954. It wasn't pure democracy and was more. The point is they don't always side with democracies not that thet always side with them or against them. "Locality and rivalry" have more to do with than nominal stance although some may be correlated with unfriendly actions like how nations which go communist tend to repeatably have the pattern of expropriating foreign owned and getting embargoed in response.

Essentially automatic "claimed affinity alliances" based upon any shared characteristic never work out in the absolute in practice be it race, bloodline, class, or mode of government.
> Crime (eased bail laws; increased rampant crime; riots)

Honestly do you people live in these cities?
Company is making carbon offsets by putting seaweed on the ocean floor
I tried. I honestly tried. Java is my #1 most hated programming language (maybe unless you forget everything before 8 .. and even then.. import java.util.function.BiFunction makes me want to run to a mountain)
They still need some more time with GraalVM. Currently you need Microsoft's C++ Compiler in order to use GraalVM on Windows. They will need time to polish these things... But GraalVM performance is already on par with HotSpot - with better startup times!
Can we stop pretending that's true? Like there are really jobs that are sooooo unique that NO Americans have the skills and only some foreign worker unicorns can fulfill them?

H1Bs are just skilled worker visas, let's stop with the charade that they're anything else.
> People (selfishly) don't want to catch the virus and also want to listen to public health advice.

So the invisible hand of Adam Smith is only relevant when it's making the capitalists fat and happy, but not when it's keeping individuals alive?

People start businesses out of self interest. People don't want to catch COVID and die or kill their relatives out of self interest.
If you missed out on the uniswap airdrop dont worry another started not long ago
I don't understand how Paul Manafort resigning makes him someone U.S. banks should not do business with. Some "criminals" are so small and so insignificant, but U.S. financial laws like the one being used in this article will drastically ruin the lives of these people.

Further, like others said, these financial laws do not allow the prosperity of those marginalized or who never entered the financial globalization system.
It’s not illegal to do business with people you ”suspect” of doing “bad” things. It would be the most Orwellian thought crime if it was.

Banks have to file a SAR for any group of transactions over $25,000, do you expect them to stop doing business with anyone who accumulates transfers over $25,000?
Same for exchange students in France. Usually they get buddied up with someone to register at their address to get a bank account if they'll be there longer term and need their own lease.
So by your comment I think you agree with me. I'm not going to be prescriptive in how this power imbalance should be addressed as I really don't know.

You seem to be of the opinion that we have as a society attempted to resolve this imbalance with wealth and government programs. However due to the unfortunate characteristics of those affected communities they have failed. Likewise, if these communities would only be like other groups of your choosing they would be much better off and societies' efforts at redress would not have been wasted. Is this correct?

I think this might be relevant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/08/how-democr...
It’s not the transfers that are problematic, it’s the theft.
I think it's the libraries. They're like Barbie - they have everything. You need, say, to store affine transforms in your SQL database? Java can bridge those very different worlds. (It literally has affine transforms in the library.)
Crime is not rampant here, that's a lie being told to you by conservative media.
More from the same source: FinCEN Files: Sanctioned Putin associate ‘laundered millions’ through Barclays

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54225577
I was careful to buy a benchtop oven and microwave with mechanical knobs. They just work instantly and intuitively as well as being cheaper than all the stupid electronic button and display nonsense. I can even use the oven's timer to time other cooking things because it's clockwork and works without the oven being turned on.
In terms of domestic spying, it's hard to articulate any practical effect it's had though. People have certainly reacted to it (see the move to TLS everywhere, for example) but I can't actually think of any enforcement actions its linked to. There's almost certainly parallel construction out there, but compared to the war on drugs, which has lead to mandatory minimums, constant police harrassment, no knock warrants, etc, I'd have to concider the war on drugs the higher priority target for fighting.
Ancient Roman roads endure for millennia. UTA is researching why (DARPA project)
By wiretapping, I mean bugging.
I think they're saying that humans behind cameras likely wouldn't be able to do this accurately.
As you pointed out by “their people,” they clearly have a distinct cultural community. And if nepotism and inheritance, and favoritism has any effect in the preservation and continuation of wealth within cultural and racial bounds across generations, then it stands the damage done to black people can last for many generations. This is of course before even considering the hurdles and barriers actively placed upon black people by people who seem to think they must be fundamentally oppressed.

Yes affirmative action is just a bandaid, but it’s necessary due to the symptoms of injustice and oppression still being present.
Old computer had a lot of things we don't have toady anymore

On Macs, you could highlight a number in any document or screen, option-click, and have your Bluetooth-connected flip phone dial it. This was pre-iPhone.

I never understood why that went away.
Just flash openwrt.org and its amazing
Not sure I agree. It's an extremely effective peice of reporting that shows not only that AML enforcement, as it exists today, is fundamentally broken and easily subverted but also gives a good overview of the perverse incentives, banking and political, that cause it (and the scale of the task needed to fix it).

Nothing in the article suggests "taking people's funds away". The main focus is how meaningless and small the incentives are for major banks to "do the right thing" and the horrendous effects them turning a blind eye has on countries and their populations.

I'm sure the big banks (i.e. those with a global footprint and offering U.S. correspondent accounts - essentially the primary enablers for global laundering) would behave very differently if they faced the real prospect of being whacked with a large regulatory stick (e.g. being cut from USD payment/clearing networks or fines of 5% of global revenue and personal criminal records for the worst offenders within their ranks).

The problem is it's not only Russian kingpins and corrupt Ukranian politicians who need their money laundering. An awful lot of financial corruption also exists/originates within the West. Overhauling and fixing a system that aids and abets all these powerful entities is not easy.
Well, flu season is a thing. We don't lock down every year...
> software like Zoom allows the call host to unmute the microphone on your (!) end.

Does it really allow that? In my experience it only shows a pop-up saying "The host would like you to unmute your microphone" and requiring me to confirm. Maybe there's some kind of setting for it?
Instead fork it and pay some freelancer to fix bugs if any.
The biggest mistake Oracle did with Java was being hostile to Android community with the goal to extract some money from Google.

A significant reason for Java to be relevant even today is Android.
I considered using a padding oracle attack in the post, but it's aimed at a very basic level of understanding. I find padding oracles are much harder to describe to newcomers.

Also, the XOR malleability issue is present in lots of block modes of operation.
Better than doctors who have to put 10+ years into a job interview...
Boy did that document header logo send a chill down my spine at the thought of the ultimate mega-merger of consumer tech.
The term immigrant visa is well defined[1]. If you want to bring your wife and have kids and buy a house you should get an E series visa[2], not an H one. If you choose to go with the H-1B anyhow you are taking your chances and like any chance sometime it doesn't go your way and you have to deal with the consequences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_the_United_Stat...

[2] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...
Just like seizing printing presses didn’t prevent journalists from speaking outside?
My Semiconductor Conspiracy Theories
That's a different problem from the typical rotary encoder used on most modern knobs that can respond instantly but still has discrete steps.
The point is that if that particular job disappears, the visa holder, a human being, often with family, is put in a difficult circumstance which requires adjustment.
until it wears off or catches something between the slider and the base
China does what it does because it wants as much control as possible over its populace.
Yeah this is pretty close to my experience. I had a job offer from a US company. I would have been setting down roots in the US - my kids would have been in a US school, my wife would have been giving up her job. We would have been buying a house. But all of that could have been swept away in the course of a periodic half hour meeting with a border patrol agent to renew my TN status. My whole life would be pulled up and me and my family would have had to leave everything behind and return to Canada within days.

It’s just didn’t make sense so we stayed here.
This is 2010, not 2018.
You can read downthread commenters on this post taking away the message that when you select cryptographic building blocks, you need to determine "if you care about" message tampering. Which is, of course, not the message people need to hear.

Another note would be to point out that the limited attack you presented is a lot simpler to understand and execute in CTR mode (and has the benefit also of being more common in practice).
I'm familiar with the Stamp Act - which I think reinforces my point because it was about direct taxation on the colonies. Even indirect taxation, e.g. on paper, tea, and glass through the Townshend Acts led to violent confrontation, infamously the Boston Massacre.

The point I am making is that the primary instigator for the war was not "we can't legally trade with the Dutch/French/whomever", which is the monopolistic cornerstone of mercantilism. I'm curious if you consider taxation to be a mercantilist policy.
Become a vs Code SuperHero
Potentiometers have that problem too when they get worn, which they always do if they also double as on/off switch like on most cheap radios.
Honestly, what a boring life :)

Basically few hours of sleep, plus a lot of business meetings in a rigid schedule!
>Indeed. IBM could have done a lot more for Power than they are, but they don't understand how. They only understand how to make overpriced hardware for the enterprise. They don't understand how to build a grassroots developer community or the consumer friendly hardware needed for that.

I'm inclined to agree and that's really disappointing.
Tik Tok wasn't on Trumps radar until Tik Tok users trolled his Oklahoma event. His ban is clearly politically motivated.
I hope that most programming is functional to someone.
Yes, I keep a can of contact cleaner around to get rid of the oxidisation.
> Typically it's the Democrats who are pro-immigration

Actually its business tycoons who want cheap, abundant labor. Getting the media to frame it as a social issue was genius.
voting with your wallet

That works for cans of soup, it doesn't work for journalism. This isn't a fight between companies. It's about preserving democracy.

You seem to be under the impression that if enough people subscribed to some very good national publication that it would somehow start covering local school board elections. That simply won't happen.

That's why we need local media. Those local, low-level politicians have to be held accountable, or they end up becoming congressmen and senators, and other high-level officials.
YouTube obviously knows who they are. I think they would want to prevent 4chan from doxing them.
I remember when OpenGL 4.0 came out. It was amazing, I loved it, but it was certainly a big change and I am glad it's not what I had to learn to begin with.
"It depends".

Digital built-in microphones use DMIC, which aiui is a one-wire interface where the microphone just sends a delta-sigma bitstream. If you implement the switch through a multiplexer or logic gate this kills the signal 100 % essentially.

Analog electrets can't be just shorted, because that causes a loud BANG when you switch due to the bias voltage, so you use a capacitor in series, which only shorts the AC portion. Because of the impedances involved, this only gives you 40-60 dB of attenuation, which isn't enough for a good ADC.

Similar for XLR microphones (hot+cold are shorted, not disconnected, because of phantom power).
Why does Y Combinator.com have a SSL cert that says they're “Cloudflare”
"news.ycombinator.com" has an SSL certificate issued to Organization "Y Combinator, Inc.". That's correct. The Common Name is "news.ycombinator.com", cert issued by DigiCert. That's normal. Works fine.

"ycombinator.com", the corporate level, has a SSL certificate issued to Organization "Cloudflare, Inc", Huh? That's just wrong. The organization name is supposed to be the actual owner of the web site, not a middlebox service. There's no reason to do that.
Did somebody at YC fill out the form incorrectly, or what.

That cert was issued by Cloudflare, Inc.
I have two custom python scripts that manage my tarsnap process, one that performs my daily backups (dumps various dbs the performs backups) the other scrubs backups older than 45 days based on the name of the backup skipping over. All automated backups are named with an ISO timestamp. Has worked rather well so far, and when needed I can disable the cron that deletes temporarily if needed.
I find this way too charitable to mainstream media organizations, but I don’t have the right understanding to make an argument against.

My impression is that there’s too much news produced. Journalism makes people feel more depressed, and editorial sections are of the most read and most filled with junk parts of publications. Facebook and Google are complicit in generation of division and fake news, but news media has been complicit toward that end my entire life. Most mainstream publications seem to push a particularly narrow neoliberal mindset and little else.

Local news has been filled with poison and junk since at least the mid 90s from my recall.
Simple. Overthrow both dominant political parties in the US and replace them with altruistic "save-the-world" type politicians who are impervious to lobbying/bribery. Er, nevermind, not simple.
My office (well, former office) used to have a touchscreen coffee maker.

Why does a coffee maker even need a touchscreen? There are literally three options!
> they were surprised to find that people who self-identified as black were generally assigned lower risk scores than equally sick white people

> The researchers found that the algorithm assigned risk scores to patients on the basis of total health-care costs accrued in one year.

something something, surprised pikachu meme

What the heck did they expect was going to happen? I'll give the modelers the benefit of the doubt and assume the authors here didn't mean to imply that total costs was the ONLY input to the model. This was easily foreseeable
Cooking on gas is much more pleasurable than most electric stoves. There's much more "feel" to control the heat
Excellent! Thanks for the update.
Obligatory reference to Cat-inspired Kitten: https://kittenlang.org/
With chat programs, the concern is over monitoring. The US can issue warrants to get your chat records from Messenger/Hangouts. Those warrants are obtained a bit too easily due to FISA/Security Letters, but that's another due process issue/policy issue. With Chinese companies, they don't even need the illusion of warrants or due process.

FB/Twitter/Tiktok are different because they control WHAT you see. None of them show things chronologically. Their algorithms show things that are popular, and the weights they use are trade secrets. Being able to influence ideas takes classic advertising, or even targeted advertising, to an entirely new level. It has an entirely different set of legal and ethical challenges.
NYC’s entire budget this year is 88B I believe. The NYPD is about 5 of that if I’m recalling correctly.

It was 96Bn last year minus the 8Bn in cuts as a result of the decrease in revenues occurring due to the pandemic.

The NYPD, again off the top of my head, is about 7% of the annual budget?

A far cry from many American cities which can spend between a quarter and a half of their budgets on policing (see Chicago, and LA for examples).

But, there may still be wiggle room. I was pretty disgusted by their actions during the protests personally what with the shoving women to the ground hard enough to cause seizures and concussions, the driving vans into protesters, and whatnot.

Also the discriminatory policing in mask enforcement. There’s gotta be a better way. I’m very curious about the efficacy of their anti terrorism efforts but have no data or really any idea on what they’re doing in that regard.

The city is certainly safer than it used to be although violent crime seems to be ticking up nation wide, which I presume to be because everyone’s home rubbing shoulders in their neighborhoods instead of at work.

Lots of variables in play.
They were also shipping Xanax and Meth and those two ruin lives. But yeah spending time busting weed dealers is dumb.
Also prevents audio drivers putting your hardware into a low-power standby state (especially ridiculous on a desktop), which causes ~1 s of lag when starting to play audio again.