skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TikTok is controllable by the CCP

It's extremely ironic that the Trump administration (& their supporters) justify their control over US people and companies, preventing them engaging in normal everyday activities with Chinese partners, by saying "[X] is controllable by the CCP". Even whilst there is no evidence of the latter actually happening.

This is not even "pot meet kettle", this is the pot calling a fridge a kettle.
Nope, not ever. Five years, 3 companies, every single codebase has been a nightmare. The funny thing is that in all these companies, everyone talks the talk and uses all the standard buzzwords about test driven development, clean code and all, it just doesn't quite seem to reflect in the actual output.
Demo chat application from the article using Durable Objects:

- https://edge-chat-demo.cloudflareworkers.com

- A Public Room (to joint test):

hackernews

- Source: https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-chat-demo

Insanely awesome feature add (much needed for truly “serverless” application development). The power to scale here without insane infrastructure headache is amazing.

One day some kid is totally going to build a single-person billion dollar company from his mom’s basement.
Often we don't know the "practical" benefits that will come out of some specific line of investigation. But some people find it interesting to think about. I guess better than spending time playing with facebook.
It's a good thing not only one person is working on all issues at once or we'd have to wait for them to be scheduled to work on this far too long from now.

How many Bureaucrats exist? More than enough to handle a single issue at a time.
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/location/virtual-locations

I work at a “virtual location”. It was in the job description.
My take is Keynesian economics only benefits those closest to power on the little guy's dime.
I think part of it is individuals with mainstream browser settings thinking that because Chrome and reddit remember them every time due to the lack of privacy oriented settings on their system that that happens to everyone. They might have to hit login once every few months and forget what it's like.

Others get so caught up in their own usage habit that they forget others don't want to be prompted to login when they hit reply to a comment (which causes a page reload and they lose their place in the comments) but would rather login up front before commenting.
Lots of new toys to play with in this release! They've also explained each new feature really well...
I think a dumb TV and a small, physically connected network device is optimal. I mean, I just discovered that my TV phones home once a day for software updates, and this cannot be turned off! The tendency for these devices to include microphones, and phone home with information about what you're watching...not to mention that Roku's software has an indelible adspace on a device I paid for. It's all just really disgusting, and it is insane how quickly everyone has sold themselves out, and with such enthusiasm.
Yes, Uber really helped change that. Pretty amazing, probably still would be cash only otherwise...
Have you got a source for the claim about developer costs? It seems believable, but I don’t think many media companies publish detailed information about their labour costs, and I also expect a huge difference between eg. local news and global mastheads with scaling issues.
The physical rooms usually don't have phone numbers. The virtual meetings do.

Anyway, peers shouldn't blame each other for management refusing to provide enough meeting space. It's management's fault.
Agreed that Rust has a bit of an odd fit -- it is in many ways a bit too onerous for day-to-day things like CRMs and web dev, but for the real scenarios where you want formal verification, you can of course also use actual formal methods and get a much higher degree of certainty perhaps. It is well suited for OS and driver dev though, which is arguably the target use case.
I think this the key issue against National Security.
The US has used its tech to spy on everybody else and and using Trump logic nobody should use it. Free trade is over

China's tech could also be used, but I am not a Trump supporter. I would be more afraid of Trump facist controlled NSA backdoors monitoring me than CCP seeing my dance moves
This is insane!

Just curios, are there real-world use cases for stuff like this?
This paper [1] says up to 8GW in Germany with full integration of heating, cooling and mobility.

[1] https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S03062619150018...
I think it's rather a question of introverts vs extraverts than roles. Even among developers, you'll have the occasional extravert, who will probably also decry the lack of "in person" opportunities to come up with ideas.
I understand if you want anonymity here but please share this story with the name of the employer on glassdoor or an appropriate forum. If our government won't protect us from these practices then we must shame such employers, and avoid selling them our labor to the greatest possible extent.
Idk if the ban is justifiable or not, but the singling out of TikTok is definitely not arbitrary. They have quickly become one of the most prominant social media networks and are 80% owned by a China - a nation who the US is actively engaged in a trade war with - one who is legally allowed to compel the company to provide access to private data or modify the platform for the ruling party's benefit in secret - one who has a long history of using data, propaganda, and force to suppress ideological dissenters.

Whether or not the ban is appropriate, there is nothing arbitrary about it.
Thanks for the data on the top of range.

You are though, by definition, taking away an average benefit from those who would retire to give to parents, so I think average is the right reference figure when contemplating "what would the parental benefit be if funded from social security delays?"
What if $DISPLAY is unset? Or if zenity isn't found in $PATH?

If you want to see "user unfriendliness", just present your user with the cryptic error message they'll receive in either of those instances (ask 'em how "modern" they think your script is then)!

I'm obviously not the "target market" for this article anyways but a better example might have included, at the minimum, some basic error checking or perhaps even a graceful fallback to dialog or whiptail or similar.
> Or take the outcry at Google when someone at Google published an internal mail with right wing leaning (if I remember correctly).

The only thing that comes to mind for me here is the Damore memo, except 1) he didn't publish it, and 2) it was very left-leaning. It was about how to actually achieve the company's diversity goals, there were just some parts of it based on actual research that went against accepted narratives.

Was there some other leaked email I'd not seen?
Correct, and this is why trustbusting is so important. Because "Company uses market advantage in one market to force competitors out of an unrelated market." is not a healthy long-term behavior to allow.
The Brain-Computer Interface Is Coming, and We Are So Not Ready for It
This is the same publishing model with extra steps.
It's literally plain language of the law, including a minimim of CCP membership in the company.

https://www.asiatimesfinancial.com/ccp-announces-plan-to-tak...

Further the CCP has already done the same to Western companies across the board. Let's not forget not only the atrocities committed against Uigher people, but the censorship of those atrocities.
The term "survival rate" applies to the infected, not the entire population. When a plane wipes out against a mountain in the Andes, you don't use the population of the entire country to claim that the survival rate of the crash was high, you count only the people who were actually in the plane.

So 209,454 deaths suggests a 96% survival rate[0], based on our current information.

Perhaps more to the point, since humans are generally bad at visualizing statistics, 209,454 people have died, making COVID-19 the third-highest cause of death[1] in the USA this year so far.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[1] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200818/covid-the-third-lea...
Yes, but some of them are dead because of people who learned on Facebook of Bill Gates and the Inter-dimensional Lizard People, and Hillary Clinton's penchant for drinking the blood of infants. Granted those people didn't know any better, and are only indirectly responsible. Also granted, I'm not a medical expert, so I won't pretend to know how many would have died regardless.
I call BS on that one. What about the fact that switching companies is by fare more effective than staying at the same company salary-wise? Then it should also be a problem to employers if someone stayed at a single company for a long time as it constitutes as "missed opportunities for promotion"
I agree its good for a single framework. But the amount of features/ui for things I'll only use once on a blue moon is too high. I'll take config files and shell commands over multiple layers of buttons and menus any day of the week.
Supporting the independent media outlets covering the case is very helpful (eg Craig Murray). A lot of them are frequent victims of legal harrassment which gets expensive.

Another good outlet to support is

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/declassified-uk/

Put the word out to friends NOT to support the Guardian, which has become an Intelligence asset since Katherine Viner became editor and actively worked to frame the story on Assange.

Good background here,

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-u...
Doctors Tell Me I Have Covid. Why Won't the Tests?
IMO the things are not getting more difficult, we are just getting older and some of us don't want to adapt.

I work with go (system programming) and containers today (I'm 40+, working since 94 with Unix) and the whole development/deployment process is way easier/cheaper/better engineered, than it was before when i was writing and maintaining C based services running on Unix. I remember the staging environment was a physical machine (an expensive spare machine idling), the test suite was bad, we needed a huge QA team, we used to debug stuff in production, every deployment was a surprise. Software engineering best practices were almost 0.

> Try explaining your docker compose setup to a beginner that only knows how to use normal desktop software.

Which "beginner that only knows how to use normal desktop" is trying to run "docker compose setup"?
> If you are a few years behind the latest GPU/wifi then there's a good chance your hardware will just work.

This doesn't quite mesh with the slogan "of course it runs NetBSD"...
Would love to hear your use cases for and thoughts on the product whether good, bad or scathing
But this scenario is much easier to handle than an open core meltdown. The Seine supplies drinking water upstream from Nogent. I guess that must be by design when the siting decision was made.

So even the need to discharge contamination in the Seine wouldn't matter that much. It would forbid some uses of the Seine for a few months.

Containment pools can be readily dug to contain discharge until activity levels decay and to dilute the discharge.

These worst case scenarios have already been gamed through during the plant planning process.
For a lot of people who live in the Northern Hemisphere who are about to go into a period of long, dark nights during winter, your advice of "get outside, do things outside under the sun and let your skin do its work" is not really as helpful as taking vitamin D supplements.
What's the TL;DR breakdown of who the target audiences are for FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?
It has been many years since I used NetBSD as a daily driver, but it was (and I trust it stills is) an incredible operating system.

That said, there is a major drawback in a modern context. A lot of modern software assumes a mainstream Linux system. While the ports collection will handle the patches and dependencies, much of the lean, cohesive, and traditional feel of NetBSD disappears as soon as you start pulling in those applications (e.g. an up-to-date web browser). Users of mainstream Linux distributions will also find that there are a lot of skills to relearn with respect to system management, or at least recall from earlier days.
> There's nothing biological about working a job. Why are women forced to stop working when they have a baby? Stop pretending our social problems are science based.

I agree with your last sentence but, like, having a child is one of the few situations where the biological "bias" really is unavoidable, at least for the first couple months.

So women are by default at a disadvantage in that situation, which makes forcing the same work absence onto the father even worse for the family's income as a whole.
What we need is to make sure that that kind of prolonged absence from work doesn't impact either parent too much. At least some 100% paid parental leave would be a good start and enabling remote work, which is possible in the vast majority of jobs, would not only improve the mother's situation, but also allow the parents to freely balance who stays with the child more, increasing equality all-round.
I don't think you can really quote prices when you are talking about battery capacities on the order of the current world wide lithium battery production.

Also, it's interesting that Iceland, with their abundance of geothermal power, don't have an interconnection with Europe. That's only 1000km as the crow flies and yet hasn't been considered economically feasible yet.
I wish regulators would focus on Facebook and Google - but since they are a level of indirection away from physical impact, they get away with mass manipulation with terrible real world impact.
> And this just sounds really unwise: "Roku Inc., which makes devices that stream content to TVs, can’t even buy such Amazon ads tied to its own products"

To everyone wondering how it's an antitrust issue, I think this quote right here hit the nail on the head.

Edit: On the other hand, I just looked up Roku and it's all Roku devices, I guess as long as I don't see an Amazon product on that first page that's fine. It's still weird you can't buy ads for your own product's very name though.

I can't read the full article due to paywall unfortunately, but if they didn't do a more thorough investigation I think someone might just have to, to make sure Amazon's not putting their own ads where they don't allow competitors to buy ads for products they don't actually own themselves like Roku, if they aren't then maybe they're just trying to protect the results given back.
Thank you and wow! The first read of that reply was hard work, the second less so, the third seemed almost to make sense. I'm going to have to get this book - or start trying....
This is why you need input validation. Eg, zod or io-ts.
I see. If she does authorise that, hopefully it is in the most sensitive, least privacy-invading way possible -- e.g. only releasing pertinent records to be viewed in a secure location for a limited period of time, no copies to be made, etc.
There is speculation in the replies to this tweet that the stronger sandboxing could be triggering something. It could also be leftover jailbreak files as he didn't do a full restore (or used backups from when it was jailbroken).

Out of curiosity are you with BoA? That was the bank mentioned in the thread w/ a similar detection after the 14 upgrade.
Survival rate = 1-Ifr. Ifr is ~0.1% so 99.9% is right. There were no 200k corona deaths in the US.
Richard Stallman has always been many things, and arguably doesn't communicate very well in this interview, but he is rarely actually wrong.

People might draw their lines in different places, but it's hard to imagine ClearView operations as Free Software.
> The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) grants some mothers and fathers the ability to take 12 weeks unpaid leave and return to a protected job, depending on the size and type of the company.

Sure, you'll still have your job. And your employer might even have its own leave program to pay you for time off. But you could just never receive assignments again, so if you're working for a consulting company your billable rate will tank and then you'll get PIP'd for "lack of productivity" and then "laid off" because you can't do anything about your boss gatekeeping work away from you.

No, I can't prove this is what happened to me...
> that can achieve exactly the same thing

That's a bold claim. What's the C formal validator which automatically handles both memory management and concurrency in source of any size within seconds/minutes? (Without making the source its own dialect rather than C)
iPad may be a waste of capability but there's no competition in the less-capable camp. Making less capable varieties is waste of design and manufacturing effort.
Given that the implementation seems to be "constant drain of money per time open" then reading it twice costs twice, and the only way to read at your leisure without throwing away money is to paste the text into Notepad.
It's not brain-dead, it's a result of limited training data.

For N languages you need to train N models if you go through English as an intermediate language, but N^2 if you don't use an intermediate language model. OK, computer time is cheap these days, but more importantly, for each language pair you need D high-quality documents translated in each of your two languages.

There are far fewer pieces of writing that exist in both German and Russian than in both German and English or both Russian and English.

There is cool-looking research on zero-shot language translation where the model learns its own internal "intermediate language". But you can be sure that if it produced reliably better results with the data available, the likes of Google would already be using it.
Yes. As I have explained elsewhere, Mr Assange may appeal to the High Court, the Supreme Court, and then potentially the European Court of Human Rights.
Their methodology seems strongly politically motivated, because they rank Germany very highly despite the repression of speech related to Turkey by journalists in Germany. Germany literally made certain types of speech illegal for geopolitical reasons because of their ties to Turkey.

Perhaps these rankings would have been believable 5 years ago, but today, they are not. The United States is also rated much too low here, which also stinks of political motivation. While we do have a President that can't seem to help but open his mouth to release stupidity and toxicity, the US has the strongest legal protections of speech and press in the world, and the only government action against journalists that might shift this belief is the ongoing case with Julian Assange, too recent to have been reflected in these rankings.

There is, to my knowledge, only one country which has Constitutionally protected free speech and it's the United States. There are censorship laws on the books in most other countries, either in fact, or in actuality. Germany for instance censors many types of speech. You may have some argument that this is a good thing, but nonetheless it shouldn't rank higher on any unbiased free speech index than the US, and yet here is one in which it is more than 30 positions higher ranked.
You've obviously never met a bureaucrat. One issue is pushing it.
The funny thing is that in most consumer faced products advertising is generally outsourced to a media agency that does all the work: both creative and media buying (say TV ads, press).

Obviously for software and B2B it is a bit different, because budgets are often smaller and there is more pressure for A/B testing if there is any Return on Investment.

For me "promotion" is more like "price strategy", but they put the word into the 4P since it fits nice.
Hard to argue BCI is not already here, and viable. Here's a link to an Open Access article on the Utrecht NeuroProsthesis, which allows patients with locked in syndrome to control a cursor. Whether BCI evolves into a consumer oriented "fitbit for the mind" or kicks off the transhuman moment remains shrouded in mystery ;)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71774-5
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Obligated mention of runtypes (https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes) that bridges the gap between type-land and runtime-land. It's not seamless at all but if you have a serious need for this sort of thing, it's great
There is a configuration option for Sway that will put information into the title bar to tell you if the window is XWayland or pure Wayland. But I forgot the exact option. It was mentioned in the Sway documentation.
Yes let's buy 200 gallons of diesel on amazon
a public blockchain would do for the digital notary? or hash posted on twitter?
What's wrong with SunRay? We loved them for kiosks.
All these supposed security threats are projection by US. To the point of comedy.

I suspect Tiktok is bending backwards to accomodate Trump, rehosting data in Oracle.

Fellow citizens you should be more afraid Trump monitoring you than CCP. If he gets reelected and you didn't vote for him, that is world Im scared of
I really love the math and the design of this!

I'm not entirely sure I would want a lampshade that blocks most of the light from the bulb, but I'm sure there are applications that make sense, right?
Thinking about this more. I think this project has some promising practical uses when combined with code generation from the typescript ast (which is what my project does).

Since the type system can parse the SQL strings, then it becomes possible to include those strings as a source for the ast. Then the code generator can use the typescript parser to parse all the types and the sql. From that it can generate all the required code to create the runtime queries.

I don’t like ORMs because they make it very difficult to write complex queries (and my own attempt did not solve that very well - I still had to manually type any complex queries). However, if this could essentially allow writing a complex query in raw sql and have it type-checked at code-time, it becomes easier to use. Then the code generator would convert that into a type-safe runtime library which solves 2 problems: 1. The poor editor performance of the type system inferring so many nested types. 2. Actually having a runtime that executes the queries.

The outstanding problem would be migrations...

Anyway, this is certainly a thought provoking project.
Ask HN: Does anyone have a fix for people not using reply-all?
Pretty regularly in my personal life I email people who have obviously not been trained in email etiquette. I intentionally include my spouse on emails, or they me, and then we have to forward responses to each other.

I know a system like zendesk might handle this but it seems a little heavyweight for personal use.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a software solution to this that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13903519

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106743
I tried for a while with a convertible laptop and a stylus that goes with it. In the end it was too bulky and when i spill i might kill it. I am back to the paper notebook for bench work. All data and documentation of results goes into Confluence. This hybrid served me well lately.
Also related: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

"It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end."
Surely that is a solvable problem.
From the HN headline, "I can’t upgrade the firmware of my toothbrush because I once did jailbreak" I thought he had done a jailbrake on his toothbrush, which, honestly, I was much more interested in hearing about.

Turns out he needs to use his phone to update his toothbrush, and being such a security sensitive device as a toothbrush is, Philips won't allow that update to be done on jailbroken devices.