skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole focus on Chinese fishing in foreign EEZs is a red herring (excuse the pun) compared to the real goal behind subsidizing a large deep water fishing fleet.

http://cimsec.org/evolution-of-the-fleet-a-closer-look-at-th...

Most Chinese fishing takes place right outside the EEZ in the high seas, and after the 2017 fiasco with a Chinese ship caught in the Galapagos EEZ they've been very careful not to actually enter its 200nm limit. The linked article has some great maps of AIS data that clearly show this. There may still be scattered instances of ships with AIS transponders turned off being sent into the EEZ or transfers from non-Chinese flagged vessels to Chinese ships, but according to the article "In most cases, what is detectable may not be illegal, and care is clearly being taken by the Chinese fleet to give the appearance of legal compliance with national and international laws."

The real bombshell is this here: "A task force report published in 2010 by Chinese government, industry, and academics argued that countries that have a longer history of using the ocean have more power in determining how resources are distributed and thus receive a larger share of those resources: occupying brings about rights and interests"

China is subsidizing a large deep water fleet so they become the largest fishers on the high seas outside of the 200nm EEZs and so can write the future rules for high seas fishing. As stated in the article, of the regional fishery management organizations that operate in the area very few Chinese ships are registered with the IATTC (founded 1949) despite China being a member. Rather, the ships are all registered with the SPRFMO (founded 2012). It's a lot easier to write organization rules when you're a founding member than when you join decades later. In international politics possession (in this case precedence) is 9/10ths of the law and you can be sure in any future negotiations over fishing quotas in the currently loosely regulated high seas China will have the largest voice because they have the largest fleet and largest historical catch.

While everyone's still back in the 80s guarding their 200nm UNCLOS EEZs China's already got the first mover advantage on everything outside those EEZs.
I would encourage you to at least consider that your issue is a bug or perhaps a wsl version issue rather than throw your hands up and point to a conclusion from years ago that windows is a pretty toy and just not up to the task.

I'm not much of a Windows fan but I do understand the usefulness and convenience of having a linux dev environment when forced to use windows for one reason or another.
That is partially because of federal law and regulations regarding the mortgage industry. They have to have a standard they apply to everybody so as to prove there was no bias against any particular race, gender, etc. So in a non-regulatory world, they might have looked at the income you've had over the period of time and what you've done with it. That being said, it does look weird to a lender why you possibly make more than enough for a mortgage yet only have 10% to put down. In the pre-fiat days, 20-30% was the standard minimum to put down which was also a reason why houses were so cheap.
Why Everybody Hates Your Emails
Bentley are not a major car manufacturer as per se
What about the analog hole?

When it comes to piracy of copyrighted music and movies, the analog hole is deemed to offer a significantly degraded signal and therefore DRM is still effective enough.

When it comes to screenshots, I think a native screenshot and a photo of a screen offer more similarities than differences and therefore it's not worth blocking one without blocking both.
It’s absolutely my decision by to make if they ask me to recommend something to them. Especially if they have been having problems with malware and that’s why they are asking.

If they own the device they get to use it as it was designed to be used.

They also have the legal right to change it themselves (at least in the US).

What you don’t have is any basis for forcing Apple to design software the way you want, or to force my family members not to be able to follow my recommendation to choose iOS as Apple wants to offer it to them.

That’s between them and Apple and me.

What right do have to dictate how any of these three parties choose to interact?

There is no straw man.
1995 +/- a few years: red boxing still worked by talking to the operator and claiming that a button didnt work. Then you would tell the operator what # to call, and they would listen to the tones generated as you "deposited coins". Used to "deposit" ~$30+ in quarters.
One very important point to consider in all of this is that the states administer their own elections and election processes directly. While this makes unifying the voting system practically impossible, it prevents a singular federal authority from directly interfering in the electoral process.

I don't think we can safely assume that a president or any other federal authority should have the power to oversee any aspect of the voting process, regardless of party affiliation. We discovered the value of that power check during this election cycle.
Huh? I'm seeing a 0.5 murders per 100K in Norway which is exceptionally safe no doubt but meanwhile Poland has 0.7 murders per 100K. Bulgaria is 1.3, Czech 0.6...the two most dangerous are Ukraine and Russia.

Belgium's 1.7, France is 1.2, Germany 0.95...

Real mix it seems. But no, it's not safer by an order of magnitude for all of it, mainly just Ukraine and Russia.
Reminds me of the browser wars, and how Microsoft handled the threat of euro antitrust fines: https://phys.org/news/2009-07-eu-microsoft-unbundle-explorer...

Not sure how that affected elsewhere and IE is still bundled where I live but nevertheless reminiscent.
> Don't make an app that allows users to run unapproved software. I think that's a pretty clear rule.

If you think curl or wget are evil unapproved software I don't see how presenting a rational argument as a counterpoint could possibly be of any benefit. Sometimes I forget that people with such opinions actually exist.

This is almost literally like the people I've seen freak out about seeing someone do complex things from the command line in a public place (coffee shop, etc) and jump to the wildly wrong conclusion that something was being "hacked".
> how tf is mask wearing a political issue jfc

The most common argument I've heard isn't about the mask itself, it's about the government acting like a parent that knows better than you. Lots of anti-mask people have said they would wear a mask if the government simply treated people like adults and asked instead of mandated it.
> Apple impacts businesses, consumers, engineers - multiple industries - with their bad behavior

Unfortunately the alternative is letting businesses and engineers impact the life of their own customers negatively.

Developers had way too much power to screw up users for years, and they did: spying and tracking behind our backs. Mandatory rootkits [1]. Piracy Protection and DRM that did way more than advertised and caused nuisance for paying customers. Rootkits on music albums. Apple has fixed or is trying to fix most of those.

If government wants to step up to regulate developers, small or big, maybe it's fine. But until then then Apple has provided the best solution to toxic developers.

Sure you can say "you can't just not install the app from the toxic developer", but then why isn't it ok to use the "you can just not buy an iPhone" argument?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25030660
>Honestly, I am not sure if I've ever heard an "end user" ask to be prevented from doing something they actually wanted to do...

I don't believe that typical end users are knowledgable enough about computers to know that they can or should ask for this in the first place.

Anecdotal example: My computer illiterate mother wants to download some random unscrupulous DMG onto her Mac, claiming to be a file conversion app. I catch her in the act, and tell her no, don't do download that.

Now did my mother ever ask to be prevented from doing this? No. Does she even understand why me preventing her from doing this was a good thing? No. But was it in her best interests overall? Yes. I view the gatekeeping functionality of iOS as largely replicating my role in this scenario.
That is funny imagining the sheer noise! Luckily it's just me in the room with the keyboard.
Fox squirrel bones also glow under UV, it was the subject of my senior research elective. I remember freezing then crushing up a bunch of squirrel bones, doing some extractions, pumping it through the hplc machine and found it to be from porphyrin accumulation and some error in hemoglobin metabolism. Then I graduated before it was published .... end of story.
> the green light of a standard green laser pointer is generated from the non-linear interaction of pairs of 1064nm photons.

Um, no. It is caused by stimulated emission in the lasing medium, when electrons drop from a higher to lower energy level. Pairs of photons do not interact with each other.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_pumping

In rare situations you might have an ion or an entire atom changing energy levels. But never just a photon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulated_emission

If you don't believe that photons are bosons I don't think we're going to get anywhere with this discussion...
>General availability August 22, 2016; 4 years ago [1]

>As of September 2020, 8.85% of Android devices run Nougat (no longer receiving security updates), with 5.17% on Android 7.0 (API 24) and 3.68% using Android 7.1 (API 25).[1]

I had to look it up since I am not well versed on specific Android version. This is quite bad. ~10% of Android, or approximately ~300M.

Edit: Actually it is even worst since it is Android 7.1 Or below [2],
that is 7.1 + 7.0 + 6.0+ 5.1 + 4.4, a total 21% of Android devices. or 600M. These numbers exclude China so actual number would be even higher.

Although by 2021 those devices would have been 4 - 5 years old at least and need a replacement. It still saddens me how the Internet, and just simple web pages have now turned into a whole HTTPS, lots of complexity and encryption by default.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Nougat

[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/android-version-market-share/mobi...
Of course not, scientific studies create artificial conditions so we can claim that overpriced fans are a magic cure for a virus. They should hire these people at Volkswagen, they'd make great emission testers and splendid scientists
Android usually uses busybox/toybox rather than GNU coreutils.
I think it would work better if a visitor could leave comments without logging in. I submitted my project (https://try.yax.com, "tiny websites with free hosting") and paid the $20 to have it promoted to the #3 position in the listings. That was about 3 hours ago and I've had a steady stream of visitors (thanks! my $20 was well-spent) but no comments so far. I definitely want a way to gather comments before going to Product Hunt or Show HN with my project.
This isn't straw man. It's been used twice in this thread incorrectly.

Frankly, it's also my families decision to use Facebook, and they have the freedom to use it, but that doesn't mean I won't continue to discourage them from using the platform. Just because that's their decision doesn't mean they are properly informed about their technical decisions or understand the impact. If absolute distribution freedom was a major concern for them I'd tell them to buy Androids.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I don't understand why. Were the OP's suggestions/observations really that outlandish?!

Also, using your argument, why is there no strict walled garden for macs?
The author’s analysis seems a bit one sided.

He speaks of poor turn out in LA, because of the electoral college system which means additional democratic votes don’t matter. Then speaks about the same lack of Democratic turnout in Texas, because it always go Republican (again, due to the electoral college).

But wouldn’t those same effect apply to Republicans as well? They don’t bother to vote in CA because there is a 0% probability they will affect the outcome. And in addition, there are likely Republicans in Texas who don’t vote because they know the state will go Republican.

I would argue that if you dropped the electoral college, you’d see a massive change in how people vote and it’s not obvious that the popular vote would remain the same.
is the code on github? i was going to build something similar for a different niche.
> but I'm weary after all the years of announcements and then not much actually happening on the ground.

I see Leafs everywhere, Nissan's electric vans, BMW i3s, and I don't live somewhere with a big spend on new cars. Citroen and Puegeot's new cars all have electric options.

The fact that the Germans are well behind due to their relentless insistence that all they need is diesel is bad for them but shrug.
The “what are you doing with my data?” section didn’t answer the question. Are you planning on selling or distributing the dataset to anyone?
Got it, thanks for the clarification. Too late to edit
They have one, via a significantly amplified voice through media, technology and economic influence.

The difference is that California has the power to govern itself. The policies it pushes forward at the federal level make it clear that it also wants to govern everyone else. The electoral college gives everyone else a way to protect themselves from that unwanted governance.
This entirely vacuous argument is surprisingly popular. Possibly because it gets mixed up with a related, more convincing one.

It can never be right to assign the majority of power to a minority of voters. If giving that power to the majority means they can only govern for the majority, then the opposite also holds true: governments elected by a minority can govern for only that minority. And that would seem to be even worse.

There is an argument for the minority to have some powers. First among them is a sort of veto power: requiring (some) support from the minority for enacting laws, or the most significant laws (and constitutional changes) is very effective at protecting them.

The US implements as much by requiring supermajorities for constitutional amendments, and by the non-linear apportionment of power in both houses of congress, and by the Senat's filibuster.

But all that's completely different from awarding the presidency to the minority! And your arguments about the the higher value of rural populations is equally ridiculous. "One person one vote" is a fundamental principle, and for every oh-so-important-farmer in Montana, I can find 10 scientist in a city that are each more important for the supply of food. Plus an additional 10 poets and musicians, because that's also something people need.

Tying political power to land isn't democracy, it's feudalism.
If a comet hits CA tomorrow and the company collapses, do you think I would still be able to "control" my device? What about patching it up or installing a new system?

People who buy iOS devices don't control them. Full stop.
The Australian lower house is based on the British House of Commons, the Australian upper house is based on the American Senate. Since America already has a Senate to prevent the federal government from optimising for high-population cities, it doesn't need the Electoral College as a second factor.
Thanks all.. managed to pick up a good three character domain using namegrep. It is a dot org with a number / letter / number combination.
Cool. The little ones sure are fun. But... damn, they sap a lot of energy!
I don't use it (LibreOffice if anything). You can also try Wine if you are stuck using it.
It doesn't. It only improves Apple's control.
While adding backdoors to encryption is a bad idea my gut sys decentralized reputation is just a bad. Most here know the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive". But it's worse than that, people on different sides of the political spectrum will work to "cancel" people of the other side by working to lower their rep via crowdsourcing. 4chan type groups will do the same for "the lulz", I can even imagine the ransomware people trying to find a way to make bots and "pay us or we destroy your rep"
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You are right, there was a lot of project submissions, but very few comments. This is definitely what I need to work on now: find a way to encourage comments.
I have been thinking that maybe states should get an equal number of electoral votes. We would get the protection of the electoral college and every state would have an equal say.
>They've become their own banana republic.

It's insane that you would compare selling a superior product on a largely free market, to a CIA-backed coup of a foreign independent nation. Can you please point to me to the people Apple murdered to capture their market? This is some incredible anti-Apple rhetoric.

Meanwhile, in our currently implemented "open" platform you have engineers running amok with the personal data of millions of Americans.
Because blacks and latinos and liberals are only worth three fifths of a person.
I had a link to that same video in the post. It was great getting more of the background about them. Good luck with the restore!
I'd love to own a Bentley, and I think an electric version has the potential to make them much more competitive, reliability-wise. (The ghost of Lucas electrics threatens to haunt, though.)

I think Tesla has too much headstart, though. Bentley (and most others) simply won't be able to catch up.
This isnt' an android thing. Allowing BT/BTLE scanning reveals extremely precise location.
I agree. It’s an intentional feature, not a bug.

If it was purely a popular vote system, then the president would always be decided by the large coastal states. The interior would have zero say in who the president is.
I agree with you except that I believe that there is a third alternative.

All the safety issues that are solved by Apple’s approach could be solved by some combination of open source and or open source development, in an open way that does away with the single gatekeeper.

That would be better than either Apple or the Government controlling software distribution.
The ruling grants states the power to enforce the pledge of an elector or penalize them for casting an alternative vote, but it's up to the states to do so.
True, but when I worked on this recruiting was mostly an in person thing. For example for Muslim terrorists it was in a radical mosque. You can still radicalize with writings on the internet, they just need to make the first step in person.
I wasn't aware of that incident. This does appear to be a single isolated case and not a widespread issue.

> That’s not a coincidence, it’s the slope of the line when the left encourages an insurrection

I can see how you'd make a slippery slope argument here. However you're mixing it with some serious hyperbole that diminishes your argument. The left in the US isn't some homogenous, well organized group. You're taking millions of people, many of whom would not be consider "the left" in other countries, and lumping them all together. That's a huge oversimplification.

Can you show me where there are calls for insurrection? Most of the protests in the US in the last year that I'm aware of have been non-violent or were intended that way by their organizers. Some have had violence break out. While I'm sure some of the people involved have been on the far left wing you can't blame all of the violence on the left wing protesters[0][1].

[0] https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity...
[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bGtLQh...
> incredible anti-Apple rhetoric

And it's crazy you think that's wrong!

Stop worshipping the device in your pocket and protect our industry! Apple is a foe. Living in their ecosystem is like living in a Communist dictatorship. Say or do the wrong thing and they take your app own to the gallows and kill it.

Do. Not. Worship. This.
The coast of California would then like to send 20 electors (most of them with rather nice beards, some in wetsuits).

Harvard wants to send another 40. Science is, after all, more important these days than natural resources. Just compare Switzerland (absolutely nothing of value in the ground) to Equatorial Guinea (top-10 oil reserves).

The one export market where the US dominates is culture. Mind if Hollywood sends in a few representatives?
I'd say Scala's support for scientific computing is significantly ahead of Rust; there are good libraries for ML, linear algebra and what have you (including relatively good bindings for native LAPACK), and there's the whole Spark ecosystem.

Scala on a well-tuned JVM can reach much lower latency than you might think. Yes, in theory you'll hit a limit that Rust could help you go beyond. In practice, are you ever going to reach that limit?

Rust's embedded support is mostly theoretical at this point, and the use cases for old-school embedded are increasingly limited. Want to write some code for that cheap off-the-shelf SoC you bought? Scala is probably a perfectly good option, because it's probably an ARM with at least 1Gb of RAM and the JVM will run there just fine. If you're actually writing something that has to run for months off a single charge then yeah, Scala won't cut it whereas Rust may one day be able to. But most "embedded" these days isn't like that.
I guess Norway was just really safe, anyway Eastern Europe is not safer on average than Western Europe from what I could see?
> The system is secure and robust, at least with regards to the mechanics of individual votings.

Not a single vulnerability or shortcoming?

How would one know such a thing?

> You just can't run a scam with senior citizen volunteers in thousands of individual precincts.

Is this the only possible exploit? Is corruption of thousands of precincts even needed in a tight race?

> It would be impossible for fraud to happen on any regular basis and not coming to light.

How would one know such a thing?

Is it possible on an irregular basis?

Is it impossible that it does get noticed, but no serious followup?

Have there been no examples of whistleblowers who were not listened to in the history of the USA, election related or not?

> So the incidence of 0.00002% (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/26/15424270/v...) is somewhat informative.

How might we know that that impressive looking number is accurate? Does vox have an omniscient on staff?

I wonder if when the discussion is about a non-politicized topic (like standard, run of the mill security), might there be a difference in mindset when people are formulating their opinions. If the system in question was for anything other than voting, I suspect IT folks would be a little less accepting of evidence-lite assurances that a distributed, largely manually implemented (by non-experts) system of this scale and frequency of usage is 100% up to snuff. It seems rather unlikely that an inconsistent, somewhat cobbled together and non-expertly manned system of this scope is absolutely perfect. And yet, this seems to be not only the overwhelming narrative, but the fact passed down from the media - the same one that spent the last 4 years assuring us that Russia had hacked the prior election.
Neither Apple’s users, nor developers for iOS are forced to do anything.

Comparing buying a phone to being enslaved is quite bizarre.
I cannot seem to locate the punchline, is there some rational life advice in one parapgraph, or just Hunter rambling along as I witnessed him do at the River Oaks Theater gathering in Houston circa 1986 ?
Sure. And then you also want to query subfields, you can extend your query parameter list with some specific scheme for that (e.g. `subfields=fieldX.subfieldX,fieldY.subfieldY` - and then you can enhance it with filters, mutations, recursion, introspection, types, documentation, deprecation features... and then you have built your own version of graphQL.

At some point, it is better to leave the custom solution field and go for graphQL before rebuilding it.