skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no talk of TikTok selling to Oracle. The public proposal is a data agreement (basically, Oracle would be storing TikTok data in the US).

Some details are here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/technology/tiktok-oracle-...
I love articles like this, just because I can't wait to see them satirized on n-gate.com. My favorite moment was when they said radio allows only one person to talk at once (like that's a bad thing).

But yeah, how did you get from the bedroom to the kitchen today? Was it by futuristic nucular (sic) hoverboard, or did you use million-year-old "walking" technology you damned stuck-in-the-past Luddite?

Firefighting is one of those things that takes place when various types of shit are hitting the fan. No one involved should hitch their wagon to the availability of any advanced-ish technology, including an internet connection.
Don't outsource critical business logic (like whether an 8-9 figure account should be suspended) to Indian low level contractors?

This has long been a major issue with Amazon - often the people making the decisions as to whether a business with dozens of employees gets to keep selling or goes bankrupt are being paid less than US minimum wage in another country.
"SWIFT" is already in Belgium and INSTEX isn't a SWIFT replacement.

This isn't a technical problem (one can transfer money other ways as well, for example). If an entity does business with Iran it risks being put on the US Entity List (think Huawei) or other sanctions. US influence currently is still far reaching and many businesses don't want to risk (future) complications for little gain (Iran isn't that large of an economy). The calculus changes if it is a market as large as China, though.
Makefiles are one situation where one is essentially writing small shell scripts, but which are not really supposed to be quick and dirty in my opinion.
I know this gets said over and over again, but it's so depressing to look at what major social networking sites have become. I remember actually having fun on Facebook and twitter when they were in there early years. I feel like when I used Facebook in high school I didn't have this overwhelming sadness and whenever I logged off.
Yeah, and if I ban you from using postal services, you can just rely on using pigeon carriers for mail.

If what I said sounds ridiculous, that's exactly how your email proposition sounds to people who are used to WeChat. We can argue semantics and details, like "but it isn't the same, because this and that, etc.". But, at the end of the day, if email was even close to being as convenient as WeChat for the purposes that most people use WeChat for, people would've been using email already.
Leonardo da Vinci and the mystery of the most expensive painting
Under what analogy might the United States be justified in doing this?
Huh? It's not just apps are banned from the store but you can't get out of the Great Firewall even if you have the apps.
My guess is that anyone who ended up "saying something" to the CEO was either quieted by lies or forced out of the business.
Hydrogen for energy STORAGE. Yes, it could be used in turbines like natural gas currently is. The key observation here is that backing up the grid with turbines is not that expensive. A simple cycle gas turbine power plant is just a few percent of the capital cost of a nuclear power plant of the same output. Combustion turbines are amazing! So, we have stacks of turbines that are needed when there's no sun or wind and the short term storage has run down, burning hydrogen produced with excess renewable power when there's plenty of sun and wind. If the levelized cost of the renewables is sufficiently below that of nuclear then nuclear optimizes out to zero.
Sad to say it, but HN got worse. On reddit you can at least still choose some different subreddit with different culture.
The sort of people that use Facebook in Russia know their way around a ban.
> Apple can still legally exercise their right to terminate the contract.

No, not if ending the contract helps them maintain their significant market power, and helps Apple continue their illegal anti-competitive behavior, or helps keep out competitors.

The courts have ruled in the past, that if enforcement of certain contract provisions helps a company maintain their significant market power, then this all falls under anti-competitive behavior, and can all be illegal.

This is generally referred to as the concept of "monopoly maintenance".

Contract enforcement, that would be otherwise legal in other situations, can be illegal, if it is helps maintain a companies market position.

> That's because they did.

Nope. Companies have no obligation to follow illegally anti-competitive contracts. If the contract is illegally anti-competitive, then they can break it.

And the company that is trying to maintain their illegally anti-competitive market position can be forced to take certain actions, and continue to deal with the company that was within their rights to not follow the anti-competitive contract.
There is a fine difference between agreeing to do something as a personal sacrifice and being obliged to do so.

Yes, it is reasonable to expect some level of sacrifice. That it is given voluntarily is part of making a relationship work well. But just that being unwilling to make certain sacrifices would put a strain on the relationship does not in turn imply an absolute obligation to them.

> How long would a relationship last of one person started refusing to talk to the other person, at moments seemingly for no reason to the other person? How long would that last?

Having been privy to a (non-amorous) relationship in which exactly this happened, I can tell you that trying to obligate the non-communicative side to communication is exactly the wrong thing to do. That doesn't mean that the relationship is over, but it does mean that there is a grave problem. Solving that problem is the way forward, not insisting on some "moral obligation".

> If you are refusing sex for no good reason

I'm a bit confused what you consider "good reasons". Do I need a "good reason" for not wanting to dance? Or for not wanting to go to the pool? Is it necessary that I communicate my entire mental state in a way that makes the decision retraceable for you, or do you trust me when I say that I really don't feel like it? Or is it only physical incapability that counts?
I found the links to be interesting as well!

I had never heard of aimfight.com, or the lady who turns pets into pillows. Also interesting that Boeing adding wi-fi was news at that time, something taken for granted on flights in 2020.

More comments from ^ iphone link:

"I would be much more excited about an Apple-branding smartphone with iPod level storage capacity. This is neat, but doesn't appeal to me."

"lol, i think that the target demographic are the crazy consumer who since the Ipod have been running rampant buying up any and all things related to "i" or "pod". just look at the naming of podcast or the iscreen and u can see that a lot of ppl are hopping on the i bandwagon. they probably just see a way to make some moneys with their iphone. altho, i must say if the phone looks like the 1 in that picture, thats kinda cool."
That wasn't talking about the actual iPhone (which wasn't introduced until 2007), but about some hypothetical Motorola cobranded iTunes phone that hypothetically looked like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061103062221/http://www.applei...

It's nothing like the iPhone, and easy to see why no one was excited by that.
That guy wasn’t wrong.
Latter seasons of Highlander tell me they were mostly for people to test their rivals out before a final confrontation in another part of the city in the final act.
It was discovered the TikTok app was specifically gathering a lot more data from your phone than was relevant to the service at hand. This was a big thread on HN a little while back.

I do agree with your second point however.
Hi everyone, Devin here. Stephen, Suyash, and I built Dear Diary for the Bitrate Hackathon in hopes of encouraging more people to journal. Journaling is proven to alleviate stress, depression, and anxiety. Also as a long time songwriter and music teacher myself, I love helping more people feel musical.

We used Google's Magenta tools and NLP to help users create music as they type.

Share something you built with us, and feel free to ask us any questions, cheers!

https://deardiary.ai/entry/y94GPozBFY8Rpp3xpsjh
It was such a beautiful story with a great underwater video to go along. I have a hard time imagining filming that footage with just snorkels. Amazing!
Believe it or not, there are still MP3 players (or, more commonly known these days as Digital Audio Players) out there that kick ass.

This Sony device [0] even offers Tidal integration. Not sure if Spotify is among the list of supported services.

[0] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1538890-REG/sony_nwzx...
They tried, but apparently the sale was blocked due to AI export control laws in China.
>I know that this is probably a terrible thing to bring into the world given all the conspiracy theory groups (it keeps them in their filter bubble),

So exactly what social media sites do already?
You have an endless number of outlets to organize and discuss your political views in 2020. Any political discussion at work is likely to be of low value anyway due to one-sidedness, which stems from the high-risk nature of presenting out-of-line views with one's primary income at stake.

It's very well documented that some people in high places can't control their emotions when it comes to politics (im thinking of the video where google execs are crying about Trump's election, which is always hard to find on Google for some reason). I would not be comfortable sharing my views at the Google (if i had any). I'd probably dye my hair pink and buy those thick-rimmed glasses to avoid raising suspicion that i might be apolitical.
https://deardiary.ai/entry/tnsi1vzVhgth8jFdxMBk

I love this!!! So cool and creative.
How does next cloud sync to a dumb phone?

The question is where do you store the music since it's a dumb phone
>And whose fault is it that "all other similar apps are banned in China"?

I'm not sure that 'China is doing it too' has any bearing on the lawfulness of US government action.

>without overwhelming evidence that there's absolutely no connection between the Chinese government and WeChat

I think the burden of proof goes the other way.
Jesus Christ this is terrible.
Excellent paper. Aside from the main points, I notice that the key phrase "category theory" is in the abstract, to aid indexing, but there's no category theory here. I don't think djb's unaware of abstract algebra, so I wonder why he chose this otherwise-irrelevant phrase for indexing.
Low effort spam is easier to deal with then "marketing", because marketing is about reputation and intent not content.

If there is a thread on the HN front page for some Cisco zero day and the top comment is explaining the user's positive "personal experience" with Ubiquiti gear, is that marketing or just some network engineers sharing their genuine opinion on a tech forum?

The content is the same but is received differently based on the user's reputation and their intent.

HN, Reddit, Slashdot + many more try the score/points approach but it hasn't solved the problem.
+1 for Cluster. I settled for OneTab like many, until it deleted all my tabs. Happened to many people, and is fatal. Then I used Session Buddy. Only wished it had drag and drop, which is when I found Cluster. Drag and drop is important for when you branch out from the group and for weeding and consolidating tabs. Cluster works great with a big screen too which is what I have.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cluster-window-tab...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...
That's definitely a concern, but the more pressing concern is allowing the government to hold this power – something I think we can all agree shouldn't be allowed (without due process).
My biggest issue is the brainwashing aspect. Saw another commenter say that it's exporting Chinese censorship. You can get banned for what you say. Pro-China and anti-American articles spread, anti-China gets banned.

Facebook and Google does tracking, but I can post as much anti-Trump material as I want. Try putting anti Xi material on WeChat and see what happens.
This is awesome. I have no aesthetic ability, and whenever I need to include a diagram it looks awful and takes me ages. With this I can get awful-to-decent looking pictures quickly.

(Awfulness entirely mine, not sure any tool can help me)
The value TikTok brings to the CCP cannot be understated.

> ByteDance has had a party committee since 2017 and is headed by CCP secretary and company editor-in-chief Zhang Fuping (張輔評), reported Human Rights Watch. Members of the committee hold regular gatherings at which they study speeches by Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping (習近平) and "pledge to follow the party in technological innovation."

> In addition, ByteDance on April 25, 2019, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Public Security's Press and Publicity Bureau (公安部新聞宣傳局) in Beijing. The agreement was billed as "aiming to give full play to the professional technology and platform advantages of Toutiao and Tiktok in big data analysis," strengthen the creation and production of "public security new media works," boost "network influence and online discourse power," and enhance "public security propaganda, guidance, influence, and credibility," among other aspects.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3982027
This is a point most people seem to forget. In simpler terms it's retaliation - granted they could have done this a long time a go? maybe... but right now there are other interests at stake as well.
Bill Gates on the Difference Between Elon Musk and Steve Jobs
Yandex and VK /s
Trump doesn't want another social network that he cannot control. Tiktok's young user are not his base. He wants to silence them. It's censorship of free speech right before the election. It is impeachable.
That conclusion about willpower is quite suspect, fyi. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion.
Thanks for the link, that's an interesting read.

The media is trying its darnedest to paint China as the biggest bully, except it doesn't even compare to US in real world.
I don't find that it slows down FF. How long ago did you try TST?
I've been confused by some of Evan's presentations about performance gains and other statistics. For example, the release notes say

> updates (up to 133% faster)

How can something be > 100% faster?
Do you know homeassistant?

https://github.com/home-assistant/plugin-audio
That would a lathe. The queen of machines.
More specifically a screw-cutting lathe .

Could add a link but you will have more fun digging your own rabbit hole.

An as a rule of thumb, if you fall into this hobby, you are allowed one per decade old you are before it it has a hording disorder smell.
Try looking on r/thinkpad there’s a lot of decicated enthusiasts. Or if you can read Chinese, 51nb is your best bet.
I do not presume to be an authority. In fact, that is what my original comment was asking: What is transphobia? You have rejected one definition but failed to provide an alternative. That leads me to the second part of my original comment: is it something subjective that you'll know when you see it?

I'll have to read her work in more depth to form an opinion on the rigor of her work. Suffice to say, I view your evaluation of her work with skepticism as well.
Wow, downvotes for quoting a statement which is not only relevant, but also recorded.
I wonder how he feels about auto-promoting the most controversial divisive opinions to his employees to drive internal engagement?

Think he's onboard for that?
By doing twice as much in the same time, I guess.
I have pretty much the same reaction. Rolling my eyes every time I see another sword "forged" with a small trickle of red-hot something pouring into flat form.
Sure, they can, but they won't bother. The average American isn't going to download software on a PC. They have an iPhone or Android device as their primary computer. Banning the app stores is enough to get the manipulation of the masses that they want.

From what I understand, China does the same. Ban the easy things, only bother to crackdown on the harder things (like VPN or cryptocurrency) when they start to get out of control.
I recently "closed" 12000+ (not a typo) tabs in one of my Firefox profiles into OneTab. In another profile I have 30+ different windows open for different projects and contexts, and I have more profiles (typically one per WM workspace which are topical).

I've tried lots of browser addons/extensions and tools over the years, but none offered proper salvation. I have a design in my head of what kind of tool I'd like, but like everyone else I have no time between work and everything else to build it.

Long ago I used to blame the tools, but these days I realize it's me. I put minimum 32 GB RAM into my boxes, and it's because of VMs and browsers.
Oh wow, this also is such a record in time - Armstrong wins in France - that's when I was there, on that very day, the day before my birthday :) The next day I was in Warsaw celebrating over some fireworks that were apparently in celebration of a former communist holiday, and a local guy we needed up hanging out with told us "We don't let invaders change us, but we'll keep the fireworks and beer they leave behind."
All the attempts at building breeders have experienced serious problems, and estimates of their cost are higher than for thermal reactors.

> No. In a fast reactor the prompt neutron multiplication time is an order or magnitude faster than in a thermal reactor, but still several orders of magnitude slower than in a weapon.

One could still have prompt supercriticality. So, even if the neutrons are slower than in a weapon, they are still much faster than in a thermal reactor, so the doubling time could be much shorter. There's also the possibility that, because the core contains tons of plutonium, the rearrangement driven by the supercriticality could cause the arrange to become MORE reactive, not less (this may be unlikely, but it's very hard to rule out in any possible accident.) Edward Teller famously warned about this issue back in the 1960s.

For this reason I suspect that nothing but a fast MSR could be licensed in the west.

You will note that the French have now abandoned Astrid, which was to be their next attempt at a prototype fast reactor. It's so distant now that it's not worth keeping the expertise around.
Does AWS SES do spam filtering, email rules, aliases, out-of-office, large email attachments, POP/IMAP etc?

You could use other email providers. Fastmail, mailbox.org, runbox.com and more, plus all those who offer domains that include email. Instead of 6 USD/month/employee you'd then pay half. I'd argue company's highest overhead is salary, not spending a couple of USD/month for the most essential communication tool.
I've recently started reading through the archives on the blog. His writing style took me a little getting used to (he's oddly fond of italics), but I think it's really an attempt at transcribing what might otherwise be a lecture into text, and once you get used to it, it's fine.

But the actual writing is amazing, and he's written on an oddly large number of topics that I find fascinating. I also appreciate how he's careful to give citations to source materials, and how he tries to mention, when relevant, that there's a controversy or dispute over some idea, or that the historical record simply doesn't let us know some detail.

I especially liked:

This Isn't Sparta: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

The Fremen Mirage: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...

Practical Polytheism: https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polythei...

Why Don't We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...

Order In Armor: https://acoup.blog/2019/05/03/collections-armor-in-order-par... and https://acoup.blog/2019/05/03/collections-armor-in-order-par...

I could go on. The series on Sparta was especially interesting, because I actually thought I knew a little bit about Sparta, but as it turns out, I really, really did not. Learning new things feels good, but unlearning mistaken beliefs is amazing. :)

If the above links don't seem interesting, try poking around the blog. He's written some fascinating analysis of Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, spaceship design, bow range, and more.
And in the end half of the content is dreck posted by bots for information warfare purposes.
The worst (well known) offender is grep -v meaning grep --invert-match just for the sheer bafflement of "verbose" now hiding what you were looking for.
For the audio version of this story from a different source, I highly recommend the Darknet Diaries podcast episode: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/50/
Unless you are running your own router, like the op, most likely his setup won't help you. You should start by understanding all the components of the system and then figure out how to make it fit in your environment and maybe what changes you need to make. Start here [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment
Did you read the comments? The locals knew that octopus. The octopus was an attraction for nearby divers.

He killed it and doomed its babies.

The article was written by someone clearly amoral about the whole issue.
Hahaha, yeah I meant Al as in Aluminum.

Good fonts let you know the difference between a lowercase l (ell) and an uppercase I (eye).
I have a feeling that anyone competent enough to implement SRD in an FPGA could also invent their own similar protocol.
Others have said this, but I'll reiterate: your description of mass market is precisely what's happening with Quest. Your view of VR seems rooted in pre-Quest (i.e., exclusively PC-tethered) VR and not the stand-alone world.

In fact, so many people literally went to Best Buy or Walmart to purchase a Quest that it has been sold out since the beginning of the year, online and off, with eBay pricing at 50%+ premiums.

You literally open the box, run an app on your phone (for configuration), put the HMD on your face and you're in VR. People not only tell their friends, but buy multiple versions to give to friends and family.

With Quest 2 at a $299 price point, the non-nerds saying "maybe I'll try VR" will happen even more often. The OculusQuest subreddit has a constant stream of questions about this very behavior. It is currently the ~2,000th most popular subreddit, with an impressive growth curve[1]. Some are literally buying the Quest 2 instead of the PS5 (though clearly a small number).

So far, 35 games have made over $1m on Quest alone, with one clearing that figure in 4 days and another in 8 days. Top games have made over $10m, not even including revenue from Steam, PSVR, or the Oculus PC VR platform. These aren't Epic / Apple level mega-wins, but many mobile developers would be happy with $5-10m revenue figures.

Upcoming VR games are coming from top tier publishers like Respawn (Medal of Honor), Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell), and Rockstar (unnamed AAA open world game)[2], Crytek (The Climb 2), and EA (Star Wars: Squadrons).

Additional games include Sniper Elite, Warhammer 40,000, Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge, Jurassic World Aftermath, and Myst. And this is just the tip of the iceberg from brands/publishers you may know.

Point being, stand-alone VR has really addressed many of your (and the market's) concerns.

And, to be fair, in your linked video Linus was trying to use optional, expensive peripherals for full-body tracking while streaming - not exactly a mass-market use case.

[1] https://subredditstats.com/r/oculusquest

[2] https://uploadvr.com/rockstars-new-vr-game-guesses/
The long form of `-a` would be `--archive`, for the same reason that you write `-a` and not `-dR --preserve=all`
Shouldn't they work just as normal if initiated after a user gesture? E.g. a button "enable notifications" can trigger it.