skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are right that twitter is their main thing indeed. Though I think that most of the arguments against facebook can be easily applied to twitter too. And any action against facebook would be regulatory in nature and probably hit twitter too. I think this discussion is more appropriate about social media not a specific platform.

What do you think? Is there enough of a difference between the way the platforms handle disinformation and calls to violence to distinguish them?
You are right, damage to the DNA can kill an organism, if extensive enough. As for rendering it infertile, that's usually all that's needed to prevent bacteria from spoiling things (food, beverages, etc).
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This was also my experience with the Lumia 920 (greatest phone + OS combo ever IMHO).

The maps ("Here") on Windows Mobile were actually not bad at all.

Using this phone taught me not to be obsessed with instant mail notifications among other things.
Hmm, interesting. There's two sorts of monopolies here right?

From the consumer side you can move from iOS to Android and vice versa relatively easily.

But from the developer side, despite having access to similar numbers of US consumers the Apple market is far more profitable and can't be abandoned.

Are monopolies measured from the perspective of third parties like that? The developers being the third parties here.
Frankly I don't see any disagreement. I didn't say "old guys" as an epithet. They call themselves that...
Joe Rogan makes an apology and a retraction: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSYnUFA8Fb/?igshid=z7u5pv3sjemu

Given the vast amount of conversations he records and releases, it doesn't seem suprising in the least that he would make a mistake here and there.
Yet CUDA is still fully proprietary & total vendor lock-in...
I mean if the Send money feature is what triggers it then isn't it already banned prior to this ban?

There are also many non-Chinese that use wechat.
I often hear people wonder how Biden would deal with China - to those I say look at what he and Obama accomplished (with regard to China) during their 8 years, and you’ll have your answer.

Passing laws can also easily be overturned and ignored, and usually amount to nothing because the process is so slow.

Trump’s actions (and China’s reactions) have rightfully turned CCP’s into the worlds greatest enemy. It’s not just the tariffs that will force companies to leave China (and they’re unlikely to return once they’ve set up base elsewhere, and once India, Vietnam, Taiwan, etc. establish manufacturing hubs capable of assembling high tech), you also have Huawei not being allowed to use Android and chips with US tech (which will basically kill their phones) and being blocked from building 5G networks (even paying other nations to block them as well), China Mobile being blocked from offering services in US, HK special status being revoked, pushing for China to lose their WTO developing country status, continuously reminding the world that China are responsible for the Wuhan virus. Trump also managed to force Universal Postal Union to allow countries to raise postal rates (something China have been abusing, forcing other countries to cover shipping costs for cheap junk brought on aliexpress), his administration also requested Meng Wanzhou’s arrest in Canada which resulted in China arbitrarily arresting Canadian citizens, he was the US President to speak directly with Taiwan’s President since 1979, he made the largest arms sale to Taiwan in the past few decades, TAIPEI Act and Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act was signed under his administration, and he’s now banning TikTok and WeChat.. I could probably find many more things to add to the list, but my point is that unlike previous administrations (and other countries), he’s actually doing something meaningful to stand up to China.
It is great to be an idealist but in the end, we will lose precepts of the Enlightenment unless we act strong and intelligently.
They actually did[0], although admittedly it's quite a long way down the thread.

[0] - https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1251483589914423296?s=19
Plus it's a bat virus originally, and bats are largely nocturnal, and also roost in dark areas like caves during the day. Resistance to UV light is not that useful to a bat pathogen.
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Please see 'Can I post a job ad?' on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
As someone who doesn't know anything about the US legal system, what is that indicative of?
Your point is well said and accurate, and was the first thing I thought of as well.

That said, I think we're well past the point of no return vis-a-vis giving Facebook the benefit of the doubt on basically anything privacy-related. I don't know anyone who would argue that Facebook wouldn't do this if they thought they could get away with it; the "Facebook is listening to my conversations and showing me ads" conspiracy theory gained so much traction, not because people want to believe in conspiracy theories, but because people have no difficulty imagining that Facebook would do something like that if they could.
Both. Download the pdf and buy the paper version on Amazon.

The latter would be a better option at a higher price if it were autographed. I think he could sellout of them at $50 or more if autographed.
Perhaps it's functioning as a substitute for the constant social interaction that was once a facet of living in a tribal society.

We always had someone near us we were chatting with, but now that we have eliminated that level of social connection in the modern social environment, we have replaced it with the smartphone. It may just be satisfying a hardwired biological need for constant chit-chat.

If you look at it that way, as a coping technique for loneliness, it doesn't seem too bad.
How do they know if they are being recorded?
you can write write anything in anything these days. This sentence bears no value.
> And besides, who didn’t flex a slide or two to show future numbers how they hoped it will look instead of honest truth. If thats the case then DOJ has to come and knock at door of every Hacker News user, or any IT person in that matter.

Unethical people commonly state their belief that everybody else does as they do. This is self-delusion meant to assuage feelings of guilt.

Hence the proverb (which I understand to exist in numerous languages): A thief thinks every man steals.
> WeChat ban is just evil

Yes, they do some evil spyware things, but so do many US apps as well.

> no justifiable benefit.

Maybe to you, but this does not apply to everyone. This is supposed to be a free country, but projecting one person's idea of benefits on everyone is exactly the opposite of a free country.

> Almost all the users in America are overseas Chinese who use it to talk to friends and family in China and send money.

Well yes, people need a way to talk to their family, and we shouldn't be taking out country politics on civilians' basic human needs, including both visitors and US citizens with family in China. As a free country we should be respecting the needs of the overseas Chinese and overseas everyone-else who is here.

While I do support apps not being evil, I don't think the right answer is to ban WeChat. Rather, the right answer is better and stricter privacy controls on phone OSes that prevent these apps from doing evil things, like arbitrarily scanning your Wi-Fi networks, which both WeChat and Google do.

LineageOS (Android fork) has a good set of tools for this and can run WeChat just fine while spoofing fake data to their servers for most of these spy attempts.
Calling the ban evil is a bit hyperbolic IMO, or maybe just incomplete. Phones with the software could easily be compromised. Users with the software can be profiled and tracked by the Chinese government pretty easily. The Chinese market bans most of America's social media software, and we're entering a trade war. All these are real, legitimate reasons to ban it.
I agree that the mere concept of a bare messaging+microblogging platform is morally neutral, but frankly I just don't see what the point is of making that observation, because we don't have one of those, at least not something that's wildly successful enough to matter. (By that I mean that a platform that has 100 or 1000 or even a million users can do whatever it wants; unethical behavior just doesn't move the needle on a global scale.)

It's the classic argument, "technology is neutral; how it's used determines the ethics". Well, yes, I agree with that, but here we have a company that's using it unethically, and has no desire or need to stop their bad behavior. And that bad behavior has been instrumental to their success. That's what matters.
...What? In what situation does this happen?

If I'm busy then I'll let it go to voicemail and call back.
Require accounts, tracking, no throwaway emails, heavily logged, no anon uploads, fingerprinting clients on register to prevent multiple-account freeloading, making money off plans to have full time abuse team
I feel like "tracking" has a very bad connotation here at hn. As an associate product manager working remotely I would want to know if a certain software engineer has checked in for the day so that I can ask him for an update. I personally would not want to disturb him when he's off the clock. Again, its not about not trusting employees but creating a sense of transparency and closeness in a team
I agree that the argument for perceived threat is not great, but I can't say that I feel too bad for ByteDance or Tencent given that they are de-facto extensions of a government who has spent a lot of time imposing ridiculous restrictions and conditions on entering their markets, mainly forced technology transfer.

Also, if you think banning a chat app is more of a government restriction on free speech than requiring filmmakers to censor their movies and require Chinese government minders to be on the set in order to be screened in China then I would disagree with you.
In the EU forcing consent by not allowing people to close these boxes without accepting just is not consent. Most sites these days have a reasonable way to refuse most tracking.
Erm... I'm talking about the entity in charge of the TLD.
You would think so, but I think the general consensus is that every SV tech company will do evil in a heartbeat if it will improve adoption, retention, or any other KPI, making privacy-respecting companies the exception, not the rule.
I'd rather they not institutionalize this. More bureaucracy isn't going to be meaningful if this is the model, the bureaucracy will just exist to whitewash this stuff in the future.
I can't quantify it, but I get the impression that the Rust community is starting to turn against unnecessary use of generics and proc macros of late, albeit largely because of their impact on compile/link times rather than readability.
From this page [1] on Raspberry Pi's Docs it seems like it's been like that for a while. Had there been a big change with this ROM specifically?

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
This is a good point - I worked as a sports ref in HS, and let me tell you, you'll be made aware when you screw something up even the smallest bit.

But you know what? You learn to (1) tune it out quick, (2) maintain your confidence, and (3) move on - a skill that's been invaluable for me going forward.
Sex and ads and product and sex, virtual gifts, ugh. All of this is such bullshit, unproductive work; massive software systems and pieces of infrastructure built just to deliver fresh naked pixels to your screen, pixels that are trying to extract money from you and/or sell you something that you don't need.

It's all very tiresome. It's soulless, and of course especially in the case of OnlyFans, as a new aspect of the porn industry. For many, it can be destructive to your life, as you're consumed and chewed up by a machine that preys upon the youngest women it legally can and then moves on from them after a few years.

All of this is very seedy and regrettable; a symptom of the continual human desire for unending novelty in our vices.
The VRAM bandwidth is still under a terabyte per second so you still need a fair bit of data intensity to actually approach that. It's still amazing.

I think I know what Jesus In A Leather Jacket has planned for next year though.
I don't agree.

The fact is that women simply represent a small percentage of the overall workforce in engineering. The only way you can get parity in representation is to get parity in the underlying workforce. The only way to do that is to encourage women to pursue a career in this industry, but that's not something you can change overnight and I doubt companies care enough to invest in something that may pay off in 20 years.

I'm all for doing things that aren't discriminatory and removing unconscious biases in interviews, job descriptions, and whatever, but that will not move the needle. It's a supply issue.

Discrimination is discrimination, no matter how you want to dress it up, and it's never OK.

I'll add that some of my best colleagues have been women. I much rather not work in a sausage fest, but I also don't want to work in a world where active discrimination is supported.
How is Google/Twitter/Facebook any different? Lemme guess your answer: well, they're on our side because it's an American company, and we can control them!

It's been 10+ years of these companies and no meaningful oversight has been exerted, at least not on behalf of users. Not after:

1. Self-admitted election interference https://www.vox.com/2017/4/28/15476142/facebook-report-trump...

2. Tracking and targeting individuals' political speech in the US https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/31/20837448/social-media-dhs...

3. Tracking and targeting individuals' political speech in autocratic nations: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/07/777352750/how-saudi-arabia-us...

4. Paid to suggest pro-CCP propaganda! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/technology/china-facebook...
>Here's the thing though: What this Servo dev thought of as "production ready" and what the Gecko team thinks is "production ready" are very different things. In Gecko-land, it's not enough to do best-practice things like continuous integration, regression tests, error handling, etc. For Gecko, it's also about compatibility -- both with 25+ years of web content (much of it malformed) and a wide range of supported combinations of operating systems and hardware.

>If you're working on Servo, you can be much more strict about what hardware combinations you support and what kind of content renders well. Look, there's a reason that the lineage of all widespread web engines go back 20+ years: it's much easier to incrementally improve that engine while ensuring that you're not breaking anything than it is to start over from scratch.

>I would also like to point out that you don't have to take my word for it: It has taken at least 3 years (probably closer to 4 years) to get WebRender ported over to Gecko from Servo and get it running well enough to the point that we can start saying that it will likely reach 100% deployment within months instead of years.

>My point is that, while Servo was great for demonstrating new ideas and producing eye-popping demos, it was not going to replace Gecko anytime soon, regardless of what those few Servo developers thought. In all the time I've worked at Mozilla, I have never once heard anybody in charge of Firefox say that we were going to do a wholesale swap out of Gecko with Servo.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200815135321/https://tildes.ne...
> They’re able to hire the best. And the best people don’t get emotional.

A players do their best to hire A players.

B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

It takes a few B players at the top to ruin the whole thing.

If being able to do something was the limiting factor, governments would hire the best and yet, the opposite seems to be universally true.

All groups fall prey to B players running things and ruining everything which is why we have this wonderful renewal mechanism of birth and death, so that things don't stagnate too much :)
I just finished watching a Netflix documentary about an octopus. The kids loved it.

It was probably one of the most fascinating documentaries I have ever seen. What a story & some amazing footage. I could not help but think that octopus are very intelligent.

“My Octopus Teacher”

Edit: spoiler alert on the link. Watch it without reading Wikipedia. The twists and turns are part of the experience.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Octopus_Teacher
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> It came a few years later but the ARM1 which used 25,000 transistors and was built on roughly the same process size [1] and was much faster than the 8086/8088 shows what might have been had Intel gone down a RISC route.

The 8086 the 8088 was based on was released in 1978. The ARM1 was released in 1985. That was an eternity.
I'm hearing about consumer grade UVC sanitizing devices[1] more, and also see "electrostatic cleaning"[2] touted by building management companies. I've had trouble determining if these are just buzzwords or if these really make a difference.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/uvlyzer-sleek-uvc-sanitiz...

[2] https://www.cloroxpro.com/products/clorox/total-360/
I recently realized that I slowly lost my ability to do simple calculations that was used to be easy, eg total bill of grocery shopping before going to the cashier. I put the blame to the calculator app on my phone
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Six indicted in multimillion dollar scheme to bribe Amazon staff
The court case is happening the USA.

Which means that the relevant market is 50% of the US market. (As apple has about 50% of the USA smartphone market)
> its so easy to proof he deceived investors because well he doesn’t have any numbers to show

There is a huge difference between saying "we're killing it" while you're hustling, highlighting bookings because your revenues suck, sending invoices early to bring up revenue, on one hand, and forging bank statements. The former move from almost expected to borderline behaviour. The last is simply fraud.
Here you go: M5Stack tiny computer with a camera, LCD and RISC-V AI-capable Chinese chip (Kendryte K210). Available on Digikey for $26.50: https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=K027&v=2221
The point is that it is naive to claim that a foreign government will have no power over you.
I guess using a really old model helps avoid it.
Parent said that ban is evil, not that app itself is evil.
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven Strogatz is pretty good. Nonlinear dynamics is one of the backbones of complex systems, so it's worth delving into. Graph theory/topology is a close second. Complex Networks by Latora, Nicosia, and Russo is a nice introduction to the graph-theoretical perspective. Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell is a nice and brief introduction. I can also recommend Spin Glasses and Complexity by Stein and Newman. Spin glasses are basically the "model organism" of complexity science, so it wouldn't hurt to get acquainted with them.
On the flip side maybe Fdroid will take off. Is fdroid open source repos only? If Bytedance was gutsy they could release an open source version of tiktok. They could keep their algo as closed off either as compiled code or for the app to make API calls?

The rest of the code base, everyone could see.
Are those numbers accurate? Am I literally releasing _two tons_ of CO2 into the atmosphere per year just by programming?

I mean, I'm certain I'm not hitting 500W just on my MBP, but with the TV, and Switch, and the rest.

2 tons? That's staggering. Would it really weight 4000 lbs??

That's absolutely a mind blowing moment for me and I'm probably going to spend some time in the near future figuring out how much carbon my relatively low footprint (no commute, bike lots, public transportation the rest, etc) lifestyle is producing.

I think I've got some old electricity bills, and of course it must depend on your power source.

Just wild to think about how many _tons_ of CO2 are now floating around because of just my lonesome if a computer can produce multiple tons a year.
Using multiple Git accounts on your machine
More detailed info: https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/blob/sfc-improvements/active-r...
Can you please give a link about Netflix deal with Apple? Brief google search yields nothing.
I am assuming you have some problem with creating intra team transparency?
Maybe the argument is that you don't need to declare a war to start one?
I recently took a camping trip with some friends (one weekend) and left my phone at home. Except for not knowing which time it is, it was a very positive experience.
Something noteworthy is the higher nm tend to be a bit faster than the smaller nm, so Samsung's 8nm isn't going to be slower than TSMC's 7nm.

The reason lower nm is better, beyond cost savings, is heat output and power consumption. If heat becomes a problem, the chip has to limit itself, as we're seeing with laptops. Nvidia's new cooling solution seems to fit the bill just fine, so 8nm is no problem.

I suspect the next generation is going to be on 7nm, is going to be a bit faster and will consume a fair bit less power, which will be nice, especially if you plan on training neural nets all day.
Hopefully you went with a real VR headset instead of the Quest. I guarantee you will be disappointed with the Quest.
Right. Beat Saber works because the virtual world does not rotate relative to the real world. That rotation is what induces nausea. The player is confined to a small box in the virtual world; they never move very far, and the virtual world is locked to the real world.[1]

Games with that constraint are limited. You could do ping-pong. Shooting galleries.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1sw4lfwFw
I would check out SolveSpace for some of your personal projects. It is no SolidWorks but it is a parametric CAD program that works well, within its limitations. Very lightweight and not as crashy as FreeCAD.

If your part doesn't need lofts, NURBs, extrude-along-path, you can probably design it about as fast in SolveSpace as in SW, and with a similar mindset (vs. having to shift completely into programmer-mode for OpenSCAD).

e.g. Hood of a car? No way José, can't be done. Crankshaft and pistons? Easy.
So, separate from the Trump Administration's actual motivations (which I think are at best vague and at worst petty retaliation), I thought this NY Times editorial made a pretty strong case in favor of banning these platforms:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/opinion/tiktok-wechat-ban...

TikTok and WeChat benefit from being the only social networks that can be accessed from all of the largest internet markets in the world. And the only social networks that can do that are... the ones from China. When the US is permissive, and China is not, China gets to write all the rules.

This gives China the ability to effectively export their restrictions on speech around the world, as they have shown an eagerness to do. If you want to be a global social network, you have to play by China's rules, globally.

I'm not personally convinced that banning these platforms is the right move, but I think the case is legitimate, and it's certainly a major problem.
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