skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please take information with a grain of salt that tries to discredit the researcher, without even mentioning the actual argument.
You might not agree with his world view, but Zenz found hard evidence of repression in Xinjiang and uncovered a Chinese government financed program for forced sterilization.

If you are Chinese, be aware that any state-control model that works in Tibet or Xinjiang might also be transferred to other parts of China. The current political trajectory might continue. Xi Jinping is still young, he might be president for the next 30 years.
I notice your list doesn't include a decent commute to work. You can probably find somewhere in washington state that meets that, although for cheap land, you'll need to avoid population centers. And you'll need to pick a lot carefully. Electric coverage is pretty complete on paved roads, but water, sewage, and fiber networks aren't guaranteed.

Well and septic isn't too bad, if the system is well built and the lot is appropriate (well needs an aquifer, septic needs a big enough flat patch and appropriate soils).
This is why I scoff and roll my eyes at individuals who argue that tech is a meritocracy when discrimination between countrymen is happening even in companies like Google.
It appears it’s mostly the language, interaction with various services and institutions, and skills necessary to get a job.
>To get around that they deployed something that customers are wholly responsible for.

I doubt they were "getting around" anything. The customer being responsible for it is likely the entire point, because the customer who asked for this to be created probably specifically requested that (based on my experience working with AWS SAs).

This post is an "AWS Solutions Implementation". This isn't a service like S3/EC2/Lambda/etc created to be an integral part of AWS. A "Solutions Implementation" is basically the output of a customer making a very specific request from AWS Solutions Architects to build something customized (eg, customer doesn't want to use AWS Config but they want to build something from scratch with Lambda and RDS that works the same way), and then the solutions architects decide to share it publicly just in case any other customers find the same niche solution useful. It isn't meant for wide appeal or to be used by everyone.

I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that this post is getting decent attention means that AWS will use this solution as a proof of concept for investigating a future managed AWS service where the customer doesn't have to fully manage all of these moving pieces, but this post isn't that.
Because landlords are trying to profit off of the conditions created by the broader local community. They make a bet on which space created by the community will allow them to extract more rent than the cost to maintain the building and pay the loan, and later sell the property for more than they paid.

Tenants are either members of the community who want a home, or are trying to provide a service to the community.

One group is trying to speculate on the value others will provide and get a cut, and they're able to do this because as they've ensured scarcity of affordable space. It's extraction
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It's exactly the same. "Rent seeking" means to increase your share of wealth without creating new wealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
I dont know what all this fuss is about. Intellij is great, no need to use all the extra features. If your application wont run by typing java -jar myjar.jar, you have bigger problems than what type of IDE you're using.
The TypeScript support is implemented as an extension.
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Google 'beta'. Release product you will fall in love with it. Abandon in x years later. No thanks.
Probably because they think it's a hawkish sentiment. No way.
Interesting but as yet unfounded summary.

But you are comfortable with the concept of "state secrets"; as long as they're in your favor?
I worked at a place where the entire's company business (images) was stored on a single large drive, and the CEO was too cheap to buy a second, so there was no backup. Never underestimate how dumb people can be sometimes.
No, Roosevelt's New Deal was not forced labor. This is a false equivalence and whataboutism.
Part of the confusion was over the T2 chips that were added back in 2018 that were reportedly[1] bricking computers if non genuine parts were used locking out independent repairers.[2] I'm not sure if that functionality is actually active though.

[1]https://www.extremetech.com/computing/280501-apple-confirms-...

[2]https://www.ifixit.com/News/11673/t2-mac-repairs-test
So China has a free press now to find such proof! How silly of us. This myopic, appeasement view of an authoritarian regime has been shown time and again through our history to not end well.
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I've noticed that the AI generated texts in novels tend to lack narrative cohesion over more than a few paragraphs and that the people who use them often have a human write the beginning and the ending of the book and then the middle is just AI hash that looks perfectly okay if you only read a few pages, but if you actually read the whole book, you realize that the central portion is completely fragmented. If an AI read such a text and concluded that it was great based on stylistic elements and if an agent didn't actually read the book all of the way through, that tool could completely sink the publishing industry because the platforms woudl be saturated by books that are 90% unreadable by humans. You would end up engineering an illiterate population! Kids would pick up those books and not be able to follow the plot in the middle (because there isn't one) and then they would conclude that they don't like to read.
This could be in response of India creating Tibetan special forces division. India wants to create a Tibetan rebellion in case of war.

https://theprint.in/opinion/indias-use-of-secret-guerrilla-f...
Which US airlines are blocking middle seats?
There's always something better on the horizon. If you're waiting for the next thing you'll always be waiting. PCIe gen4 SSDs are already out. They're not quite as fast as this but they still do 4-5GB/s.
That their old culture, and its old power structures, are bad, and that the new culture, and the new power structures (with Han at the top) are good. New is good. Old is a bad look.
Different sense of the word 'free' in use here.
Persona was also known as BrowserID. I've never heard of deuxdrop before though!
I've only heard of Airtable, and that was what popped into my mind too
Assuming the data is at all important, "go buy another drive" is really the only valid solution here...
But at what point does it pretty much become the same thing?
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I use them for progressive enhancement. If javascript is available, I'll add a dynamically generated href, or call .addEventListener("click", ...) and add behaviour to the link. Buttons can be used sometimes, but if you're wanting something that behaves like a link: middle click works, right click "Open in new Tab", Copy link, etc. then a button doesn't work.

I prefer to use buttons to affect the state of the current page. And use anchor tags for all other navigation, even if I'm handling it with .addEventListener("click", ...).

I suppose I could just hide the non-functional links, or add them dynamically with javascript. But that could affect layout.
I remember the day when I'd be excited about any new Google beta. Frankly, I'm not even going to look at this one
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"Since Tim Cook told Kara Swisher “Privacy is a human right; it’s a civil liberty,” the firm’s stock has tripled, adding $1.3 trillion in value."

To imply that has anything to do at all with Apple's stock value tripling is so dishonest.

I get that Scott Galloway has a desire to persuade you of something about brand strategy, but I feel bad that there are people out there that might believe that any sort fluffy privacy marketing has caused a tripling of market cap for Apple.
Facebook tries to make it harder to find an anti-vax group
I'm not certain I agree with OP, but you could call workplace diveristy seminars or code bootcamps reeducation programs.

(Not that I think either of those are bad things)

The words "reeducation program" don't frighten me on their own. I'd like to know more about it.
If by the world you mean the west (do you see the countries in Africa or the Middle East caring about this?) then only when China actually attacks western interests, namely allied democracies like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Note that the Allies in WW2 didn't go to war against the Axis supremacists until they expanded outside their borders, and the western allies didn't take significant action against Japan until Japan expanded into the west's Asian colonies. The Nanjing massacre was December 1937. The US oil embargo on Japan began summer 1941. Why did it take 4 years after a humanitarian crisis? Because Japan began occupying French Indochina in summer 1941 after France fell to Nazi German in summer 1940, and only after Japan started occupying western interests did it draw the full attention of the western Allies.
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I see 100 articles, pre-written, with small changes in tone going up in smoke right now. They had one thing in common: Ed Snowden is doing it for the monies, guys, we swear, look at this court case.
You just cat/pipe it to an Amazon s3 bucket (check out s3 command line tools), trimming the lines you don’t want, and piping through bzip2 as well if needed. Storage cost for an hour or so to hold in s3 it is quicker and cheaper than trying to muck around installing a second hard drive.
And what was done?

Nothing m'lord
There's nothing rational about starting a war with China. The most we can possibly do is propaganda and sanctions.
You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
Thanks for putting the list together! There are a few that you may want to include:

1. Mozilla Labs (first iteration)

2. Mozilla Ubiquity (which we are seeing the concept re-emerge in Google Chrome)

3. Mozilla Prism

4. Mozilla Bespin (which sorta-lives-on)

5. XULRunner

6. Mozilla Test Pilot (1st and 2nd iterations)

I'm likely missing a few more. But a lot of these were experiments, and not concrete product offerings, so take with a grain of salt.
How long till this is abandoned?
They could have launched yesterday, on a Monday(.com).
But this just came out. And Zen 3 is going to be announced in 2 weeks.
It's both, really.
If you print the offset after a write has safely completed, then it should still work. The internal copy is idempotent, up to the number of bytes in the first 300M lines. In other words, assuming reasonable line lengths, you can safely re-do a copy operation. So if you crash, you may not have printed out the last offset, but you have recorded a recent offset. You can then just restart from that recent offset.
Samsung isn't "that far" ahead of the competition. They've been behind. PCIe gen4 drives have been out for most if not of all 2020. The 980 Pro is faster than the competition but the others will have drives this fast out soon too.
Break the great firewall. Show the Chinese citizens exactly what the CCP is doing and hope that they revolt. Starlink should have the power to do that very soon.
Yes obviously we wouldn't mean it.
Hi, my friends and I was recently introduced to the world of databases and we were frustrated by how much work it took to create / setup different databases. This created a barrier where we got too lazy to learn the databases.

Since most databases are open source, we built what we wished existed: An app that has tutorials about databases and all it takes is a click of a button to directly create a new database account to follow along with the tutorial.

We are still learning about these databases, if you want to teach us and help us improve, please let us know!
I guess you tested one of your sites? I agree that typekit is not an ad tracker, and neither is cloudfront.

https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=www.utilitydive.com
If it isn't a credible threat it won't be very effective. Gathering a coalition to embargo China would be a more credible threat, but even that requires some legwork to develop an alternative set of trading partners.
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Cheers. Note I added a link to a great interview with the founder/CEO if interested.
First TikTok then gaming as a crucible of US-China rivalry
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Wow what a mess
You probably getting downvoted for uttering communist ideology. All systems should in theory try to maximise human potential be it capitalism or communism. Niether have worked. One system demands extreme efficiency and takes away the idea of liberty while the other provides us with choc chip ice cream and majority people a step away from destitute. Most countries and peoples dont use either in practice. Capitalist economies have a huge dollop of socialist policies and communist economies have a pigeon-load of capitalist policy for the simple reason that we are humans.
Good point, yeah
This comment seems to top any HN post regarding a google product launch so reliably that perhaps there should be a bot which automatically pins it to the top.
I found it painfully slow and repetitive.
Hi,

That's a good question.

Whilst Perspective sources a lot of data from AWS Config, it also supplements and enriches the data from other sources where resources are not supported or where we wanted to show more detail. We'll be adding in other data sources in future, too.

Additionally, the AWS Config query language is quite helpful but doesn't expose a graph of the resources. Our approach is to pull the individual relationship data out and represent those in a graph DB (Amazon Neptune). Backing on to a graph database gives us the ability to let users navigate through the relationships of interest on the fly, rather than dumping what would inevitably be a complicated mess on the screen if we just showed everything.

Using this approach is also one of the ways we've tried to solve the UI/UX challenges presented in this space. Rather than say "show me all the things" that would lead to a complex mess of interconnections (and probably explode browsers) we instead encourage a workflow that starts with a resource or workload and explores outwards from there. It also allows us to implement some interesting features in future -- we intend to keep working on the project.

The ElasticSearch cluster is used by the discovery process to locate resources based on the metadata we collect; it's part of the way we enrich the data and relationships beyond what we get from Config.
This might die on HN, but I wanted to say thanks for posting anyways -- found it helpful. :)
Very Nice project and a very smart engineer, good luck!
What a useful app. Reminds me of Airtable in some ways. I enjoy a good flexible table app any day.

We're all tired of the obligatory "I wonder how long before Google deprecates this...;)" but I wonder if Google would get better adoption if they explicitly published what would be needed for them not to drop the product... 1M monthly users? 3M? ...xM? or that when a project actually reaches that point.
Are you saying that humans are partially automatons pre-programmed to behave in certain specific ways in certain situations?

What are the implications of a theory like that for free will?
https://miguendes.me

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/

https://blog.acolyer.org/
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Yep, The OOO nature of the cpu might make the static scheduling less attractive for Denver. But I think the public info doesn't say either way vliw or not.

Also it's now mainstream (Intel does it) to have an intermediate code storage format with the introduction of trace caches. I wonder what the usual format of those is.
Is there a repository of cool karabiner techniques?
The costs of running a Send server probably exceed those of its source code alone, which makes it a tricky proposition to say "here's the source code" alone. I'm not familiar myself, but I imagine it looks the same as any other public non-P2P file sharing service:

- Webapp & hosting costs

- Data storage & transfer costs

- Copyright & Abuse response costs
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It seems like some folks at Google just woke up to Airtable and launched a counter MVP. I do not really expect more from Google any more. When there are tough competitors, why would people use something else which does not even look quite finished?

Google has reach (read search monopoly), so I guess that is an angle.
Would be nice if most software engineering roles at Apple weren't forced to work in US. For those without degrees it's rather hard to get a US Visa.
A link that has a noop href should not be a link. Either give it a meaningful href if that’s possible, or realise that it’s actually a button in disguise, and so turn it into a button.

Yes, I am saying that you should never use <a href="javascript:void 0"> or similar. (<a href="#"> is illegitimate in most cases, but is occasionally used honestly to cause scrolling to the top of the page.)
Interesting that they would launch this as a totally separate product and not as a part of G Suite.

Do you think they want to create some distance between them and the rest of Google because ofd Google's reputation of shutting down products? Or maybe they want to launch a product outside the usual bureaucracy?
Yet another comment saying Assange got what was coming.

Always the same argument : He knew so he should not have. Imagine applying the same logic elsewhere :
"Well people went on that strike but they knew that state/company would send the army and shoot at them so they got what was coming"
I could make up a thousand more like that. This is a terrible justification of the order of things.
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You could also disable Firefox's built-in PDF viewer and instead use an external PDF viewer that doesn't even support Javascript.
Put simply, yes, it's highly illegal.

Providing financial or material support to adversarial foreign actors, agents, parties deemed to be national security threats (under sanctions or DOJ/State/Treasury/et. al. special designation) or fugitives from justice violates a number of federal laws.
Yes, in the study he claimed 80% of all China's IUD happened in Xinjiang, where simple math resulted in 8.7%.

link to his report: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629192118/https://jamestown...

link to actual source that Zenz himself used: https://preview.redd.it/xkytzc0iuna51.png?width=1425&format=...

Make it what you will.
Because it looks like using poor logic as a hook to express a rewardable ingroup opinion, and not anything interesting about why the writing quality has declined.

White supremacists are bad, and wrong.
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What does "move everything else down" mean?
A great quote, and very applicable here. I think the author discounts the potential of the human mind to do things without their owners' knowledge or permission.

What I'm trying to say is that when we read a book for knowledge I think we must trust our subconscious to do the heavy lifting. I am a believer that our brains incorporate lessons read and experienced into decision making, even if we're not consciously calling on it or thinking about it directly.
I love how anarchists, who are a tiny sliver of the population which has never had any significant political power, are now scapegoats for all the problems created by the very same powerful right wing plutocrats trying to pin it all on anarchists. And it’s crystal clear that they don’t even know what anarchism is. Lovely.
citation needed, who are these people?
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I have the same. But in my case it lasts for hours after work. Not being able to comprehend the speech of my kids.
For me i got some label to put on it after being diagnozed with Skizotypia
On call shifts were very quiet and typically didn't involve any pages or interruptions. It was certainly not even a full day of extra work typically.
Regardless of what Elon Musk does, very few SpaceX Starlink ground terminals will ever make it into China. Dissidents might smuggle in a few but that isn't going to crack open the Great Firewall on any widespread basis.
I would think you would just strike ' then <space>. I would think it would be less annoying over all if you use accents a lot.
"The Google incubator" is particularly accurate here, if you look at the tags on the blog: "Area 120". This is an app developed by one of their "let these people write random stuff" groups: https://area120.google.com/

To my knowledge, nothing majorly successful or long-term supported has ever come out of Area 120.
Y’all, stop. You’re confusing the hell out of GPT-4.
They certainly extract their pound of flesh for Parasolid

Which to be fair is a very impressive piece of technology
A smart doorbell, light bulb, nanny cam, etc require methods to connect and identify with cloud resources.

Obviously you wouldn't want to have to type in a password or use a secure card to turn your lights on.
> but C# was an amazing language that somehow got gobbled up by the Enterprise black hole and it's a huge shame.

What in the world do you mean by this? C# is more amazing than ever...
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Ah yes, I looked into US International. However the fact that the accent deadkeys (', `, ~, ^, ") are common punctuation kinda messes up my coding productivity, so I had to find another way.

macOS's Option + key chords are highly productive but aren't supported on all platforms, so I settled on the Compose key as a compromise. (my Compose key is mapped to the Menu key on Windows keyboards which almost nobody ever uses -- in contrast the Windows key is used a lot)

Compose keystrokes are slower because they are sequences and not chords, but they're intuitive enough and work well for me.
While PDF is an open format on paper, in practice it's as proprietary as any ancient format. Supporting it in full is not trivial.
Maybe that spaceship campus investment wasn't such a good idea.
Well, imho, that line seems to have been wiped away on 9/11.

The USA has made so many enemies, it is now behaving like the cornered rat in a cage, i.e. just like its enemies.

No government which supports this behavior, should be allowed to sit another democratic session.
We don't say anything because we'd have to admit that the same process is also happening to western nations through policies of multiculturalism and mass migration.
In my case it's because (not counting the machines I get paid to admin, which are indeed behind a VPN) I only admin one isolated VPS, so without a dedicated bastion I feel that the benefit of a VPN is reduced. I just secured it according to the DISA STIG plus some more intrusion detection and stronger selinux confinement.

Adding a dedicated bastion would double my monthly costs, but SELinux costs me nothing if the targeted policy covers my applications, or like half an hour of my time per service if I have to write my own policy modules.

Although, I should point out I'm playing devil's advocate here because my ssh is still on port 22.