skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tencent is the world's largest video game vendor, as well as one of the most financially valuable companies. It is among the largest social media, venture capital, and investment corporations. Its services include social network, music, web portals, e-commerce, mobile games, internet services, payment systems, smartphones, and multiplayer online games.

Is it any wonder /at all/ why the US Federal government, and every single competitor in the US is worried about them?

Chinese Government is Tencent is Wechat, Fortnite, PubG along with many other Game&Tech companies.

Allowing more influence in our markets, by the Chinese government is a /horri-bad/ idea; period.

Blah blah blah, tech companies. Blah blah blah, open markets.

You DO realize how large a threat to open markets the Chinese State is, right?

https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-hackers-taiwan-semicondu...

Right?!?!?
We should have a movement for countries to ban the cookie popups.

I bet you could get 80% of the vote in most places on that issue alone, it's probably better than health care, immigration, or anything else.
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As always with cases like this we need to review the actual situation, not just distil it down to a hyper-simplistic minimal summary and then base a conclusion on that.

It's not just a case of believing what the CIA say, they and other independent cyber security teams who have also investigated this, have also presented evidence to back up their investigations to show why they think this. There are also other cases of known proven Russian hacking. Assange has provided nothing. So let's not pretend this is a symmetric case of word versus word.
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Not one of those organizations has a history or reputation of honesty or credibility sooooo no.
I have no doubt that had TikTok been a Russian app and its ultimate stakeholder were the Russian government, some of you here would have no problem with the ban. I am really tired of the double standard.

But most importantly, what the US is applying is plain and old-fashioned Reciprocity trade rules. It is a completely valid and accepted course of action. If China closes its market to US-based social network companies, then the US should do the same. It happens everywhere and you don't see people screaming bloody murder because of it.

In my opinion, it is about time. Not only we are creating a disadvantage to our local companies (FB, Whatsapp, etc), we are inviting a hostile agent to openly collect information on our citizens. I understand that some here want a more stringent policy concerning privacy and data collection. I think it is a fair point, but it is not mutually exclusive here.
My post on kicking the can to the extreme: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775799
The 3090 has a TDP of 350W which is a lot but it's not unprecedented either. There have definitely been cards from even the Fermi days in that region (590?)
How many people worked on these features vs how many are employed though?
I personally do not accept app camera permissions for any app that I don't fully trust. I stopped trusting the Facebook app years ago when it launched itself constantly in the background.
The corruption of the current American administration is staggering.
I'd hesitate to discount the value of photos.

Photos have quite-accurate GPS and frequently-accurate compass heading. Add face detection and you have location tracking for everyone in frame.

Online tracking is valuable for ad targeting, but physical tracking is as well, especially for brick-and-mortar businesses.
Similarly, asymptotic complexity is not always an adequate approximation of energy consumption.

More code leads to more cache misses. More code leads to more energy consumed transmitting that data over the internet, and wireless radios are energy-expensive. More code leads to more time parsing, compiling, optimizing, and then JITing code, which can utterly dominate actual runtime energy cost if the program is not long-lived - which describes a lot of webpages.

Finally, very few webpages actually need to even be a "moderately complex React/Vue/Svelte app" - the essential complexity to the task being done is low, and webdevs add extra, unnecessary features for very poor reasons (showing off?). Take https://nabeelqu.co/understanding for example - 1.17M downloaded for 21K of text and two small images (one of which didn't load anyway). There's a 276K JavaScript file in there, among others - and the primary purpose of this page is to display a static document. Or, take any modern newspaper website you want - bloated with images, tracking, and JavaScript providing near-useless (and probably near-unused) features with a data-size:content-size ratio of over 100. If something is moderately complex, it would be much better as a native app in the majority of situations, which comes with significant performance improvements.
It's not a weak argument at all. The units in renewables are small (for PV, very very small), compared to the units in SMRs. What's more, the consequences of failure of the units in renewables are minor, compared to the consequences in a reactor.

It has not been demonstrated that the diseconomy of scale in SMRs is actually tolerable. The experience at NuScale is not providing much comfort there.

Of course the lower demand for skilled labor is good. "Civilization advances by increasing the number of things that can be done without thinking about them." The simpler the task, the less training is required, and the faster workers can be brought up to speed. The high skills needed for nuclear work are one of the reasons nuclear builds are in trouble.

(You might object to that if you are a skilled laborer feeding off this trough. Well, too bad, the purpose of energy isn't to employ you. You are a cost, not a goal.)

Nuclear has taken on an religious fervor that's not based anywhere in reality. Nuclear is demonstrably a failure, yet the proponents are blinded by their dogma.
I have used OpenSCAD for a while. I should write a more thoughtful critique but ... dang, it is often hard to know which approach will just dramatically consume days of CPU time and which will not. I suppose one gets a feel for it eventually.

Modeling objects in my head parametrically is a snap.

The language is a bit clunky and counter-intuitive but I have gotten used to it. I do not mind its imperative nature; adding and subtracting material is imperative at its heart. Still, it makes more abstract reference points more difficult.

I found myself resorting to hacks like moving one object .001 into another object just to make sure they would meld smoothly.

The underlying library, last I checked, did not support multi-threading so the aforementioned CPU consumption is especially painful.

Exporting to giant .STL files is a little annoying. Sometimes the .STL files are "broken" according to Shapeways, so that is also bothersome.
But thats exactly what I dont want to pay for. So how does that make sense?
Well, you could convince me I suppose ! Since I don't think ads are inherently bad, it doesn't bother me though. The line between information and "decent" advertising is quite blurry in my opinion anyway. (Decent meaning roughly "we merely want to inform you our product exist and we hope you'll maybe like it")
> I stand by the fact that anything implying Elon is successful because of his family money is a hugely far-left opinion, if not communist, and has its roots in your resentment for Elon's success.

This is not okay. Please, pursue empathy.
We in the US also thought the president was bound by convention to use it rarely. Trump has ignored the convention without any consequences.
Tree Style Tabs?

And then you can organise them somewhat into groups ?

I use tree style tabs with some custom theming to make it take up only enough room on the left to show the site favicon. It then opens up when I mouse-over.
The downvotes demonstrate quite clearly what earnest environmentalist think about continuing the existing trend of fossil fueled energy.
SpaceX’s Darker Starlink Satellites Are Nonetheless Ruining Astronomers Analysis
Are Cockpit Electromagnetic Fields Killing Pilots?
Have you read any of these "reports"? They contain no "evidence" that could be presented in a court. Did you see Mueller's disastrous Congressional testimony in support of his report? It was clear that he hadn't read it either.

Trump lies like he breathes, but that doesn't mean we have to believe obvious fantasy that obviously supports the continued stupid wars of the military-industrial complex. In general, the most likely possibility is that both the president and the TLAs are lying.
Which will encourage courts to render these "agreements" invalid. I think there was a study that showed that it would take the average user 40 man-years to read and understand each software or serive legal agreements they "agree" to.

Software legal agreements are a farce, and it's only a matter of time before governments step in and regulate the shit out of it.
Sure thing. By the way, I should have said esp32.net, not esp32.com. The latter is the official discussion board, but the former is an unofficial reference site that's incredibly useful.
MagicaVoxel looks pretty neat, thanks. According to an article I found from 2018, it can also be used via Wine in Linux. Fingers crossed.

https://medium.com/tech-notes-and-geek-stuff/install-magicav...
> I don't view banning TikTok and WeChat as making America less free. We can just make our own. And we're only doing this to China and it's deserved.

If an American on US soil wants to watch videos on TikTok, and the American government says "sorry, we've decided you can't view that, contrary to your own wishes" then Americans are less free.

PS: "China" isn't a person and you shouldn't personify groups of millions of people.
> The SIGINT also shows, according to Hanyok, that a second attack, on August 4, 1964, by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on U.S. ships, did not occur despite claims to the contrary by the Johnson administration. President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara treated Agency SIGINT reports as vital evidence of a second attack and used this claim to support retaliatory air strikes and to buttress the administration's request for a Congressional resolution that would give the White House freedom of action in Vietnam.

This is exactly what I said.

> Hanyok further argues that Agency officials had "mishandled" SIGINT concerning the events of August 4 and provided top level officials with "skewed" intelligence supporting claims of an August 4 attack. "The overwhelming body of reports, if used, would have told the story that no attack occurred." Key pieces of evidence are missing from the Agency's archives, such as the original decrypted Vietnamese text of a document that played an important role in the White House's case. Hanyok has not found a "smoking gun" to demonstrate a cover-up but believes that the evidence suggests "an active effort to make SIGINT fit the claim of what happened during the evening of 4 August in the Gulf of Tonkin." Senior officials at the Agency, the Pentagon, and the White House were none the wiser about the gaps in the intelligence. Hanyok's conclusions have sparked controversy among old Agency hands but his research confirms the insight of journalist I.F. Stone, who questioned the second attack only weeks after the events. Hanyok's article is part of a larger study on the National Security Agency and the Vietnam War, "Spartans in Darkness," which is the subject of a pending FOIA request by the National Security Archive.

To figure out who the liars are we need to know who engaged in a cover-up. Who manipulated, withheld information, or lied. You already know my opinion: I don't think it was the NSA.

For example "The overwhelming body of reports, if used, would have told the story that no attack occurred" suggests that the NSA's information was, in fact, good. It just was ignored, manipulated, omitted, etc.
Current act being put in place seems to include the scenario
Truth is not the majority opinion.
accepted by who, the same media pundits who were discrediting intelligence agency press releases 10 years ago?
Crowdstrike admitted there was no actual evidence. Unfortunatley, if all you watch is mainstream corporate-backed news, you're getting a lot of propaganda without realizing it.

It's like religion, you think your news source is right while all the other ones are wrong (Fox news watchers don't think theirs is propaganda, while MSNBC/CNN viewers clearly see Fox News as propaganda. But MSNBC/CNN does as much propaganda as Fox News).

Anyways, if you're interested in non-corporate news, where if you watch it over many months, thing start to become obvious to the point where you can't unsee it anymore, I recommend Jimmy Dore. He's a comedien. Kind of like a modern day court jester who can tell the truth. Of course, make your own decisions, he may be totally wrong as well, but I've found it to be an insightful source.

Here is one on Crowdstrike:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRoTGlQ4JMA
Well imagine if there is only $55 worth of currency in circulation. Or better yet only $52. The lender ends up with all the currency in the end (and maybe some that does not exist yet). The response is that currency is printed. If the production of society increases at the same rate as interest, then there is no problem, but that is rarely the case. This is why there is more debt than money in the world. Currencies are then deliberately debased in order to pay back debt quicker.

https://www.cato.org/policy-report/julyaugust-2011/deficits-...

(I realise limiting the money in circulation to $52 is an absurd formulation, but using these crazy limits helps understand the larger system)

The difference between real growth and the amount of currency is the "metabolism" I referred to earlier.
I'm also interested in the "quick sketch" approach. Is there a tool for rough things like a shed, a cabinet, welding something out of angle iron or woodworking?
It would take me more time to design shelves in Freecad than to weld them.
The vulnerability is not in the computer chip. The vulnerability is in the management software of the OEMs.

I was expecting some exotic VPU hardware backdoor.
Nevertheless, the article was a good read.
That's just it. We don't have many facts about this vaccine other than it was rushed. Many folks are probably going to hear 'a vaccine has been created' and think it's a panacea. This article seeks to correct that by pointing out what we don't know about the trial (which appears to be a lot).
The meaning of the term Third World is different depending on the context. In a bureaucratic sense it has a very strict meaning, but more colloquially it's used as a derogatory to imply that a country is backward or almost savage in comparison to First World countries.
There was an interesting study about Germany, that r0 went below 1 even before the nation wide shutdown because people started reducing their own mobility quite heavily. I can't find the source though.
> Are you sure? What law does Youtube and Twitter need to follow to be allowed to operate in China?

They need to start censoring content based on the Chinese government direction. That's what Microsoft, Apple are doing.

> I don't view banning TikTok and WeChat as making America less free. We can just make our own. And we're only doing this to China and it's deserved.

The government arbitrarily deciding what you can and cannot run on your smartphone is a limitation of your freedom.

> But I don't believe that this is mutually exclusive to also banning Chinese companies due to other reasons as highlighted above.

The official reason is that these two apps are spying on US citizens, so stricter privacy laws would prevent them (and other popular apps like FB, Google, Twitter, etc. so it would be an even bigger win for the people) from doing so.
The challenge I have is when someone non-technical needs to send me a very large file.

I’ve resorted to spinning up a pureftp server in docker and having them drop it there.
All EU legislation (Treaties, Directives, Regulations etc.) and case law (decisions of the Court of Justice, and the GC & CST) are up on a website called EUR-LEX, usually in both HTML and PDF, and in every official language of the EU (at the time that the legislation or decision was made—earlier documents aren't retroactively translated into languages of countries that have joined subsequently).

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/

Example of a CJEU decision: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:61...

Example of legislative text (a Directive): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...

If you are comparing it with PACER, there are some differences - PACER contains loads more documents than you get on EUR-LEX including lots of procedural stuff, filings, and so on, while EUR-LEX only tends to have the court opinion, the Advocate-General opinion, and maybe a bit of procedural stuff, but not much else.

This is because the CJEU is in practice a court that only deals with matters of law that have been referred from a national court (or from another EU institution, like the Commission). Comparing the CJEU and a US federal district court is comparing apples with oranges.
How confidant can we be that:

1. Assange really will choose to say who is or isn't a source (that carries its own risks in so many directions...).

2. Assange actually wants to tell the truth about the source...

3. Assange actually KNOWS the nature of the source? If Bob comes to him and says he's from Brazil (random country selected) and he got the info from Australia (another rando country) ... how sure can Assange be?

I'm not sure I find Assange to be a reliable narrator. The nature of wikileaks has for a while felt like it wants to craft its own narrative rather than just release information. Even as far back as when they were on Facebook (not sure if they still are) any question that seemed to even be distantly critical was deleted. They'd announce a big upcoming leak and nothing would happen ... if you asked anything about it your post was deleted.

I felt like they were playing their own game(s).

But even if that isn't the case, I don't trust that Assange can be as sure as he sounds about where information comes from. If he just up and trusts what his source tells him or just assumes he has the resources to be sure, that's kinda naive...
I wouldn't describe the landscape of extractive-government in Russia as "state control" over enterprise: it's not that
the public offices themselves are overstepping their bounds, it's that the holders of those public offices are corrupt and/or compromised.

Yes, this is splitting-hairs, but the Russian Federation isn't anything like North Korea - nor remotely Communist.
My parents are immigrants from a dysfunctional democracy and they can't agree more. Not nearly as bad as there, but the tenor is strikingly similar for a sole superpower. [0]

My greatest fear is Trumpism is a harbinger for a half century or more of American instability and decline, the same way Peronism was.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/can-bal-keshav-th...
So, he's selling pardons for political gain now?
It doesn't matter. It's still shady as shit and figuring out good UX with the camera off is a design constraint.
Hey Mike! Hope you're well.
Look again. :) That's how I have it.
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Do you use Precision Drawing Tools (PDT) released with Blender 2.82?
Saying that they're arguing for freedom from social consequences is a very black and white way of looking at things. They're not arguing for that at all. But they are pushing back, necessarily I would say, against those who seek to shut down and marginalize people who hold opinions they deem to be unworthy.

Without any resistance whatsoever from groups like the FSU, the social consequences you mention will tend to spiral into something quite ugly.
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> you'd better have the exact skills I search for

How often does that work out for you? Because I've gotten lucky a couple of times and found people who were really good matches, but I've never found an exact match.

We look for people with a demonstrated ability to solve problems in the space they'll be working, who can learn as they go, with the soft skills and demeanor to mesh with the team.

We end up settling a lot.
MimbleWimble has limitations for privacy, better for scaling and comes with a little bit of unlinkability but not enough.

https://litecoin.com/en/news/the-litecoin-mimblewimble-propo...
They keep making up more of these three letter institutes (CIA, NSA, DoD, ...), I cannot keep up. I mean those that have unaccounted budgets.
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UI is significantly changed for the worse - things like tab handling (tabs go to the top of the list which may be hidden from view), swipe controls (close tab requires some weird "must swipe across 40% of the screen" motion to be recognised) and graphical issues have all suffered badly. It's not just a case of getting used to the new design, usability is an afterthought.

But yeah, the ability to use extensions on mobile was the key feature for me switching to firefox. Now I would just like to find a non-sucky-non-chromium browser.
I hear your objections, and I should have worded my idea better.

The gist was, a bare messaging+microblogging platform is, by its own nature, morally neutral[1]. Of course if the operator starts doing editorial decisions - like algorithmic timelines, or propping up/pushing down content, or manipulating user mood - then the operator clearly is making moral judgements & decisions.

Funny how respecting user privacy does, at least partly, absolve the operator from a lot of risks related to making moral judgements on a mass scale in a hurry.

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[1] with the only caveat that, if somebody believes facilitating communication to be evil or good, then it would be considered respectively evil or good.
IMO, I think if OpenSCAD somehow had an assembly feature it would really make it more attractive for users who are programmers to switch from the likes of Fusion360 etc.
No. I renewed through the normal Namecheap checkout process and the renewal failed somewhere inside Namecheap. I guess there isn't any sort of process to catch a successful order where the renewal date doesn't change.

As a result of Namecheap not doing their due diligence as a registrar my domain got deleted and picked up by SEDO.
What would be a reasonable FOSS alternative to Sketchup?

I know a number of architects who are dead set on using Sketchup versions circa 2014 - 2017 for most of the preliminary work.

It seems to fit their workflow the best.

They only go to AutoCAD when absolutely necessary.

We are talking architects with 20 years of AutoCAD experience.
Following up if anyone finds this: In general, when you do upgrade your gear, the closer it is to the source, the more of a difference it will make. So for an acoustic instrument, prefer to upgrade the instrument first, then treat the room where you’re recording, then upgrade the microphone, then the preamp, then the software interface(s).