skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know people cry "whataboutism" when these counter arguments come up, but I'm genuinely curious how all this squares up.

Most of the countries we'd hope would "stand up to China" have a poor human rights record. I don't want to say one is better or worse than the other - I don't know how you measure one group of injustices against another - but in the scale of things, generously, both have room for improvement.

If the argument is that just because country A does B+C+D, doesn't mean they can't stand up to country W for doing X+Y+Z, doesn't it just become an issue of who can yield the bigger stick or carrot? If protecting human rights is selectively applied based on might AND that same might is also used to oppress human rights, isn't that setting an dangerous precedent?
I blocked a number of non Google search bots on one of my smaller sites the other day, increasing the number of bots I have blocked from about 20 to 30. That reduced the load on my database server by over 80%. It's a small site that only generates about $5/day from AdSense, so I need to keep the expenses down on it, and I don't want all of the revenue paying for bots that don't bring in any significant traffic.

If I didn't block any search bots, I bet the bots would make up at least 95% of the traffic.

On my larger sites I don't mind serving a million page views a day to random search bots, but on that smaller one it doesn't make sense.
I noticed the site isn't using Google Analytics, or any tracking pixels for that matter. Wonder if this is in any way connected to the ranking algo.
“I never asked for a Windows license when buying PC, and yet I had no choice.”

I have owned countless computers since the mid 80’s, and I have never been forced to purchase a windows license or used windows on a computer I bought for myself.

There have always been options.
It's really messed up that people like you who take time and effort to do things right and play the SEO game fair and square get stripped of their livelihood overnight but black hat SEO sites and spammy ad-filled sites thrive...
I always wondered who's actually making the money, when so many ads inside free mobile games are for other free mobile games. Someone has to actually buy something at some point!

I wish there was a global tracker for services that make money through ads, that reported the percent of ads that are for other services in the same category. All that data is secret though, probably.
> It'd be pretty surprising if no one was attempting to spy on such organizations

Just last year a professor and two Chinese nationals at Harvard were indicted for something similar: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-...
This article is a masterpiece of disinformation.
I moved across a border like 20 minutes away and got a new number - it is extremely common that both things change at the same time for people. It wasn’t a months old number or anything.
From bed? Horrible! I work laying down on the couch with a 3-axis monitor arm suspended above me, just as all WFH was intended.

I can't quite get the see webcam to make me look like I'm sitting normally though so I have to sit up sometimes like some kind of pre-COVID animal in an "office".
>I would enjoy macOS if it subscribed to open source ideals, but then it wouldn't be Apple right

Yes, and what's more troubling, I think it also wouldn't be macOS.

macOS can be more open, but it can't "subscribe to open source ideals" (and even less so the "bazaar model") without stopping being macOS.

It offers something else, and some of it could be replicated in FOSS (e.g. Gnome has copied tons of those, as have certain distros), but part of it stems from it being walled, and curated.

And it's not cut and dry which parts are the latter ones.

E.g. I think that "deprecating things" the way Apple does and no FOSS would dare do (due to inertia and community-driven nature) makes macOS able to adopt new stuff faster, and adopt it more wholly (e.g. with no leftover apps with 10 layers of old GUIs like in Windows).

Similarly the "my way or the highway" from Apple helps keep the platform focused (as opposed to all the FOSS hoopla, X vs Wayland, KDE vs Gnome vs XFCE etc, systemd vs init, and tons of other minituae and duplication of effort). We'd still be discussing Metal in FOSS land (well, we have 10 years of moving from X to Wayland and it's still going on). In macOS it's a done deal.

(That's irrelevant of whether that new stuff is better or worse, btw. It can be either - but it can be either faster, and more uniformly. That's a quality FOSS lacks, and which I appreciate over customizability).
It's hilarious to say that RSA were ever reputable - they were the butt of every insider infosec joke for decades.

We _knew_ at the time that Dual EC_DRBG was bad - there is an entire openssl mailing list archive from the moment it was announced/proposed talking about it being bad

FireEye / Mandiant are _the_ team within infosec who are experts in the field of attributing state threat actors - you won't find many experts who openly disagree with them
AT&T / Bell was broken up in the 1980s into multiple entities. Splitting local and long distance services resulted in significant competition for long distance, while local phone service remained / remains heavily regulated in many markets. Here in Canada I remember having to pay $0.34 per minute to Bell in the 1980s to call a friend that was a 30 km drive away. Overseas long distance was in the dollars per minute ballpark.

This wasn't without some losses. Bell Labs lost a lot of funding once the Bell monopoly was split up. The amount of R&D that the telecom giants funded over the years resulted in massive public benefits, creating the tech industry we all know and love.
Well there has never been an example of a democratically run company that makes good decisions so far.

It’s a classic principal agent problem. You want to take the voting power away from those with the financial stake and expect the people without a financial mistake to make good business decisions.
> If 2020 taught me anything, it's that society can come close to the brink pretty quickly. I thought there was an inevitable trend toward freedom, but recently think it's perilous. We need ideas to flow to create a more distributed, less unequal, world, and we need it now. We need to unshackle the people.

This seems like an odd claim, as society as a whole was able to weather the pandemic overall in incredible comfort due to technology and content created under our IP regime. And we got a vaccine, covered by IP laws, to people with incredible speed. If anything - it's working well.

I think the burden is on you to demonstrate that we'd have these things without the IP environment of past 100 years.
> Seems like he has a couple of flag words "cheap and fast" in his URL that others have used in the past as indicators of spam domains, at least I've seen that for email. Even good isn't great to use.

My own sense of spam smell got triggered by the name of the site, too. Sounded like a gimmick; you can have all three, after all.

A rebranding might solve his issue.

It could be very interesting to see a sort of A/B test between the current site and a clone of the site but with a different name.
>It is sad that you're so selfish

Is that how you've been taught to discuss?

With ad-hominens, absolute self-certainty on your prioritizations, and pop psychology attacks?
Greatly appreciate the feedback, thank you dang for this and for all that you do. Editing now.
It's fun to try to replicate this in other languages. Here's my attempt in Hoon: https://gist.github.com/lukechampine/1b68178af5e05b30fb8e9ef...
Or pull a George Castanza and put a small mattress under your desk.
>Anyone who thinks that working from bed is good in any way, shape, or form, is deluding themselves

I work from my bed, I work at my desk, I work pretty much everywhere in my home and it's not at all a problem. I'm really annoyed by these overgeneralisations about what's right or wrong for individuals, and all these buzzwords about "separation of life and work", "work-life balance", I love my work and I sleep like a mule even if I work ten minutes before I go to sleep.

I don't at all get these neurotic optimisations that people make, and having random strangers tell them how to live in their own home. If you like to work from your bed work from your bed, if it doesn't work for you stop, but to tell people they're delusional is nuts.

It's not just about this particular topic, there seems to be an entire emerging industry of life-coaches, sleep and whatever else coaches who try to convince people of strange norms that they have to uphold in their workplace or home. It's like the Western version of Feng Shui or something, oh no you slept badly a week, bring in the sleep coach to rearrange your furniture and exorcise the bad software from your bedroom

I'd suggest people who need to compartmentalise their work from their life this much to ask if it isn't that they're unsatisfied with their job that makes them sleepless rather than doing work on a bed.
I'd bet hard money that within epsilon of anyone using a desktop email client in 2020, and thus having one to set up in the first place...is in an organization with access to Microsoft Teams.
I think there might be psychological issues at play here, sadly. If you click onto a news website from a search engine, and it ends up being for the wrong thing, people feel cheated and will want their money back.

This is probably silly, because if you're paying a couple cents per view, you should be concentrating on the value you receive in the aggregate... but people aren't rational, and personally, I don't think I'd be immune to feeling a sense of regret when I spent money on the wrong link.

I'm not going to remember the episode, but I'm pretty sure Planet Money said this is what happened when micropayments were tried in the 90s.

I subscribe to Scroll.com, and I think they've probably got a better model down. Make agreements with lots of sites from different companies, and then offer a bulk subscription which removes ads from all of them. It doesn't let you through paywalls, mind you, but you could imagine a variation on the concept which did.
A Nice “Explain Like I'm 5” on Blockchain Games
What has diversity got to do with anything? Australia is a country of immigrants with people for all over the world living with dramatically less crime per capital than the US. Are you claiming that certain races or cultures are somehow inherently more criminal? If yes please provide evidence.
Or maybe playing the SEO game for its own sake is not something we should stand for and for the scumbags & cheaters it is only a matter of time.

If somebody asked nicely to shit on your lawn, would you say yes?
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You are absolutely correct. However, as a US citizen, I am much more concerned with harm caused by domestic intelligence services than by foreign actors. Unscrupulous people are everywhere, not just in the “axis of evil” Russia/Iran/NK etc.

Furthermore, I am ashamed of some of the things my government has done with my tax dollars and in my name around the world, and I won’t be duped into defending my abuser in some state-level blackmail game.
Can we switch the url to the actual thread with Linus talking?

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpost...
Just a note of feedback (I'm hiring a tech writer right now): there's no reason why I would request your resume from this info. I'm just going to move on. You gotta at least put /why/ I would ask for it if you're not going to publicly post it. What is your actual experience?
Around ten direct replies to your post and I still don't feel like the reason why pictures on CVs is a bad idea has been explained explicitly.

I'm in the UK, where race, age, gender, religion, disability are among protected characteristics. As such, that information, should it be included, is often either stripped from the CV automatically or the CV discarded entirely to obviate the risk of being accused of discrimination.
Garuda KDE Dr460nized (arch based)
We see around one base pair mutation per host transmission, so that would likely already put us outside 99.9% similarity even among humans with coronavirus wouldn't it?

Rough estimate:

(29,000 base pairs, just assuming 3.5 days between generations, 395 days since first affected person (probably it was a bit more), would be 112 mutations = 99.6% similarity)

And I think we'd expect more changes to be selected for in the early period of host adaptation.
Are you ignoring alternatives like Debian and PureOS? They may not be as widely used but they exist.
That is blindingly obvious. The US culture has an undercurrent of cruelty against the poor/people of colour. The prison system is a prime example of this.
This is the m.o for a lot of these blog content mills. Link to well sourced and thorough original reporting (in this case[0]) and attach some unfounded and outdated greybeard stroking opinion around it and then file your piece for that day.

This article is _terrible_ - from the "security through obscurity" sections through to Microsoft not taking security seriously (ask anybody who was around in the late 90s when they had issues - they essentially pivoted the entire company around securing their products) and complete ignorance to "dumping" Orion

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/politics/russian-hacki...
I don’t want my video conferencing software to choose different sized rectangles and/or different aspect ratios for different people. The splitting into vertical slices in MS Teams in driving me nuts, with its (crappy) automated panning to keep the face in view, that they had to add because they decided to chop the sides off. Just put all same-sized rectangles that all have the same aspect ratio in the view and allow some background if the number of people isn’t a rectangular number.
Slow code bottlenecked by string operations is probably just bad, though - no matter which way you code your strings. Strings are not what computers like to do. Computers like integers and subscripting operations. Strings can make sense for inter-process scenarios (for example, file paths are usually the right thing and you don't want to reference files with inodes).

There is a culture of bad C code from the 90s - especially C code written in OOP-y ways where that was never necessary. Like, calling malloc() + free() for every little thing instead of more structured memory management. A lot of that code is written in C not with a efficiency or elegance mindset but simply because C was the language that you wrote programs in.
I don't think we should get involved at all, but was just arguing that we do care what other countries do within their borders. That's all
It may as well be since the screen doesn’t matter.
They already said it was helping them outside Haskell. I can confirm that my long affair with Haskell (and I still use it for private projects) did so as well.

On the other hand, it also makes for an often frustrating experience of "this would be so much simpler/easier if it were Haskell or at least had x", where x could be algebraic data types, higher order types, Monads, Applicative Functors, dependent types, laziness, and so on and so on...

EDIT: Addendum: Rust scratches some of that itch and seems more and more accepted in the workforce world, so at least that's a good direction we're moving towards.
> So what you're saying is you are willing sacrifice personal privacy and security so that technically illiterate people can have a good user experience?

Well, yes. Who is this for if not the tech-illiterate? I’ll be fine. I can use PGP and Tor if I want to.
I meant the User name>Settings>Security & Privacy page. It can be found when you click on the username. Verifying devices on new login, keeping the recovery key safe, etc. will be difficult for users.
Start embedding links in the text of your old content that point to your new content (when contextually appropriate, of course). Not as warnings, but if for some reason you mention a topic or word that's relevant to a newer article...
This bull market may just be getting started, see the recent OCC news for some very positive legislative action. How much are you willing to bleed to try and make a point. Even if you don't believe in Bitcoin, shorting it at this point in time is complete lunacy. There are far better plays to make with your money.
> Have you considered that these measures are _temporary_?

I will never consider this given the excesses and absolute indefensible failures of the emergency powers introduced in service of the Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya/etc. wars. Nothing has been rolled back.

Emergency powers should never be treated as temporary given history.

> Personally, it seems like objections to basic preventive measures, such as wearing a mask, are more rooted in ego and entitlement

This is a diversion to minimize that the "preventive measures" have continuously failed and been extended. "2 weeks to stop the spread" have turned into multiple years. Practically every "enlightened" & "advanced" system of Europe that the US is compared to has failed. The most drastic measures in South America, likewise have failed. We are told to act like countries on the other side of the globe - it's laughably unrealistic and divorced from reality.

Say "it's just temporary" to someone months behind on rent and unemployed. It's shockingly insensitive and paternalistic. Honestly, it's despotic given the protracted, dire circumstances of anyone that's not stably employed.

I don't even oppose mask usage. If masks solved the issue (which clearly they don't), I'd be happy.

> Personally, it seems like objections to basic preventive measures, such as wearing a mask, are more rooted in ego and entitlement.

Entitlement? Entitlement is how to describe every comfy white collar worker that rolls out of bed and hops on Zoom, and then condescendingly and abusively berates everyone else that does not have that privilege.
Because Apple’s policies are so much more restrictive, particularly around background modes and streaming games.
I'd like to ask everyone commenting on this article: who wrote it?

Seriously -- what do you know about the author of these words? (There's no "author's bio" anywhere on the page, or even if you click on his name.) So what do any of us know about him?

If you look him up on Wikipedia, it lists his occupation as novelist and fiction writer, as well as an "essayist." ("His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization....")

"Out of a total of ten fiction books, he also wrote three erotic novels."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson_Baker

His nonfiction works include a book about his more-famous fiction-writer friend John Updike, and a book about public libraries.
> The "contract" between the employee and the employer is that the employee does what the employer asks of them, and in return gets paid for his work. If these employees do not desire to work on projects that Google is getting, then they should terminate the contract and find work elsewhere.

Ah, okay. So if your current employer asked you and your coworkers to do something that was legal but highly unethical, you and every one of your coworkers would be financially secure enough to quit at the drop of a hat? Must be nice.
To go one step further, have three, or more, identical fire walled systems running and have them vote on every calculation with the votes sent to a hardwired switch, that prevents the system from advancing if there’s a disagreement, and shuts off power to the RAM if there’s too many in a row. The chances of any compromise happening to all the systems within the same nanosecond would be infinitesimal.
My favorite part of the article is where he says "there is no direct evidence for an experimental mishap..."

Followed a few words later by the word "Nevertheless..."
This is part of why I love working in the Bitcoin industry. Security there actually matters in a tangible way. Slipping on security can result in irreversible monetary theft of epic proportions. Potentially losing other peoples’ money is much higher stakes than losing their magic social security number.
You can't operate a number station in someone else's country.... they might not be able to crack the code, but they can sure track down the number station and turn it off/arrest the operator.
This already exists at Google
You’re comparing Norway’s 2 year recidivism Reconviction rate with the US’s 2 year Reimprisonment rate. The US’s 2 year Reconviction rate is 36%.
How would one apply?
> No, US media has some sort of infatuation with China right now

Now? I've seen this since 2014 when the Yellow Movement happened in Hong Kong, and I was living in a jungle on an Island in the middle of the Pacific. What World are you living on that you didn't see the rise of a tyrannical juggernaut that had no qualms intervening in affairs of it's neighbors to flex its power on the World stage, and kicking sand in the face of people's metaphorical face when it came to Human Rights abuses all while using its populace as slave labour, debasing its currency to create ghost towns with massive cheap fiat and calling it prosperity while the CCP controlled Industries sourced endless amounts of funding from Elites in the West that systemically undercut most local and small businesses?

No, I'd say most people who believe that China is only now in the Media are the problem as they didn't see the obvious and thought buying cheap disposable goods from China would never ensure that manufacturing base of most countries would be centralized and create a massive central point of failure which would put supply chains in a very detrimental position and in the hands of the CCP. COVID only happened to expose just how deadly this was, but this was very clear to see if you bothered to look at China's behaviour in the last 2 decades.

Sinophobia, as it were, isn't what I think should be the focus as I honestly have a great deal of sympathy and sorrow for the plight of the average Chinese citizen who is simply trying to get ahead in what is a short window in what has otherwise been a state of poverty, wide spread perpetual misery and economic despair coupled with countless purges and Civil warfare.

And before I get accused of being racist: its worth noting that one side of my family has it's origin in Guangzhou.