skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of stems from a vision of China that is based on the aspects most relevant to Westerners as relayed by the media. Of all the things you cited, the vast majority of Chinese were not impacted and will therefore view the government in light of all the boring and complex policy changes that did in fact affect them. Note that I am not so much criticizing the way the media frames China as much as simply pointing out the parts that aren't discussed but that are germane to the evaluation of the country.

The notion that Chinese people aren't perceptive and that they would adopt Western ideals if only we could reach out to them is pretty much orientalism 101 mixed with the End of History. There is a wealth of diversity in terms of opinions at all echelons of Chinese society, including inside the Party structure. This diversity will tend to touch on ideas orthogonal to the Western equivalent. Similar or identical in parts, but very different in others.

Picture someone whose only understanding of America would be specific events like Guantanamo Bay or a smattering of memes relating to Trump. You'd want to tell this person about the complex interplay of history and culture that shaped America into what it is today, and that they are missing out on 99% of it since they are so zoomed out. What I have described here is in fact the equivalent of what the typical person commenting on China thinks and knows about the country. I myself absolutely do not claim to be an expert, just that I got a taste of how much I don't know about the topic.

All of this matters greatly since it has an effect on how the West will conduct its strategy going forward.
Wait, how does this credit work? If someone can make a 6k electric car, can you basically get a free EV?
OWAL – AI cameras for commercial entities
> Ah, yes, it was so hard for authors to benefit from their works 95 years after their death. Now it's so easy, and inspires authors to produce great new works even in afterlife.

There are a few near-future scenarios that intersect in interesting ways:

The possibility of life extending interventions such that average life expectancy climbs first toward, and then perhaps past, the century mark (life-of-the-author plus anything starts to look ridiculous).

The possibility of uploading whether it is a true digitization/emulation or 'just' a simulation of a particular consciousness given enough data.

Cryogenic preservation and revivification.

Legal decisions on whether such events count as 'death' for purposes of copyright, debt, inheritance, etc.

Legal decisions on the personhood and potential emancipation of digitizations, simulations, emulations, etc.

Legal decisions on the criminal and civil culpability of such simulations etc. (if considered persons, or their owners if not) for their originals' acts (such as copyright infringement).

The copyright status of works created post-mortem by such entities, whether they are considered persons or not (such works might simply be considered or passed-off as 'unpublished', for example)

If nothing else, I'm pretty sure that there will be attempts to hack around any legal uncertainty with various permutations and combinations of corporate personhood, copyright assignment, work-for-hire agreements, and smart contracts to get to some desired result regardless of how the legal environment changes, but those still might fail in 'interesting' ways.

All of which is to say that we might very well get in
to a situation where it is possible to provide incentives for the creation of new works by dead authors, legally speaking. At which point the public, and the public domain, will be well and truly screwed over.
Yes I don't see how this isn't 'passing off' in a trademark sense, when I hear about some of the worst offenders.
Thank you for sharing. Very useful.
I completely agree. At work they never work out because there are inevitably so many detours. OKRs do nothing but reveal that management know nothing about the environment they're managing. Unfortunately, when the fad does pass, you know some other nonsense fad is going to arrive on the scene. If only people would stop with fadding.
Reciprocity is very common in trade fights.
Ericsson fears this as China is clearly a bigger market opportunity for it than Sweden is. Just a numbers game probably.
I knew someone would come up with a counter example.
Or restoring over the block device.

But at least these mistakes are easy to avoid. While with duplicity destruction was fairly easy.
Joe or Bao? Isn't "Bao" a dumpling?
Irvine, Orange County, California - both my wife and son had in January 2020 a pretty bad "flu" - low-grade fever, coughs, shortness of breath. Is it possible that we had some other mutation in the early days, which wasn't as bad the as dominant ones today?
The Strange Behavior of Rolling Things (1969)
A timely read, as I just got a Fitbit Versa as a gift and have been exploring the watch faces.

The Fitbit store has tons of them, mostly just crap IMO - the Hallmark card of watch faces as it were, with a lot of variations of "cute kitty background". But there are a few gems, including one I found that's based on a Tokyo Flash design.
Well, except when people start jumping from buildings.

I know two people, one of whom successfully jumped from the 3rd floor of a building and another that had to be restrained from doing so. It's a real risk, although I personally have done psychedelics many hundreds of times and never felt the urge to jump even when climbing trees, building exteriors, etc.
Both right

a) the public facing jira.atlassian.com is Server/DC instance - but this instance is only used for customer/outside world facing tickets (I think)

b) internally for our own development we use a few (several?) cloud instances -> but I can only speak to those I interact with (Conf Cloud and Jira Cloud primarily).
This is the real kicker. It seems very reasonable that any app that's getting a "change or else" letter ought to be flagged if Apple has featured it. That's basically a brand-endorsement from Apple, and it's in their best interest to white glove those.
Isn’t that what the Model 3 is supposed to be?
For a long time this must have been on the recommendation list - because password forms with insane complexity (12 charachters, upper, lower etc), but then non copy pastable forms and 60 day change requirements remained very common.

The current IRS requirements are 90 day password changes. Ergo - many people write their passwords down in a text document next to the software launch icon.

What I don't get - if your computer is hacked, and you force people to write down their passwords on the computer being hacked, they will even more easily be able to access the systems you have access to.

Google seems to get this right. I have had same password for 20 years, if I login with a new device I use my MFA (no SMS). If I do a security sensitive op I need to login and do an MFA again (password reset etc). I imagine they actually monitor and rate limit bad login attempts etc. A 10 character password is really fine then in my view as an example.
I'm thinking more of the case where there is clear evidence but there also are people who refuse to believe the evidence. I may produce some evidence but you say it is manufactured. In such case how can I convince you you should open your mind to the possibility that the evidence is real?

I think one way might be to get the person to question their reasons for why they believe them, why not as well believe something else?

In such a case an honest and open-minded person might say hey maybe I believe what I have believed so far because that is what I WANT to believe. Say I believe Trump won the election. Maybe I believe so because I want to believe it is true.
If we can indiscriminately bomb 10s of thousands of civilians in the area, we can drop down a helicopter to pick him up.
A showreel is more like a resume / sales sheet than a summary of a particular year. The 2020 date would only mean it included stuff up to and including 2020.
I have never heard of bupstash before. I am a happy user of borg and my first reaction was, why another backup tool? But then I noticed that bupstash is written in Rust and if I understand it correctly, only requires a single binary on the server? That could give it an edge, as borg requires the Python runtime. But given that bupstash is alpha, I will surely "wait and see"
Contrary to what the others posted, the name is only a reference. The weather service is not a continuation of the earlier group.

It was acquired by The Weather Channel (later The Weather Company) which was later acquired by IBM.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, except that perhaps there’s a lot of younger folks here who don’t remember just how utterly despised GWB was. He was Trump before Trump — both “literally Hitler” and the dumbest man on the planet at the same time. Obama’s Nobel prize was most certainly a “congratulations on not being Bush” prize. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Biden picks up one this year.
> It would be hard to imagine the Government getting away with bombing downtown San Francisco without any consequences.

No one ever faced any consequences for the MOVE bombing, and it wasn't even a secret that the (local) government did it.
Lookup the QF-4 and QF-16. US knows how to convert fighter jets into drones just fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_A_rEZoXSg
I’m just replying to the note about the title.

However, as the grandparent post notes, “DOJ Argues” makes it sound like the Attorney General / the entire DOJ argues such a thing. “DOJ Lawyer” makes it clear “some lawyer at the DOJ said”.

I would certainly agree that winning a case with this argument would establish such a precedent. But again, it’s not clear that “the DOJ” stated this, nor is it (seemingly) an argument that worked.
One technique I've used as a team lead to limit tech debt that makes it into production is to have devs write prototypes in a different language than what we actually support in prod. This has a few really nice advantages.

1. Devs enjoy getting to use new languages in the real world, and helps keep us learning.

2. The better you know a language, the more tempting it is to take shortcuts. When you don't know a language well enough to write really gross things that work "for now", you have to think carefully about the simplest possible solution to a problem that you can express clearly in an unfamiliar language.

3. You learn tons the first time you solve a particular problem. At the end of the solution, when all of your hacks and tradeoffs are fresh in your mind, you are the best possible person to tackle all the shortcomings and immediately do a rewrite in a language you are expert in.

3. Management really can't twist your arm to just go ahead and transition the prototype to MVP. All you can really do is throw it out there as a public beta with no guarantees while you build the MVP properly using everything you just learned from doing it the first.

4. You can start collecting feedback on what users want included in v1 and get an idea of where the user base is heading with their desires and plan some of that into your design, again reducing long-term tech debt.

If your prototype sticks the landing well enough for management to decide to move forward to MVP, then it's good enough to mark your territory in the problem space while you do the rewrite. You won't lose competitive advantage while it's sitting out there in a separate VPC collecting users and activity.

In a healthy company, this isn't a difficult sell to management. They'll understand the short and long-term value to the company. In more toxic environments, it will look more like you're throwing a poison pill into your dev process—which you kind of are. So, you know, tread carefully. But when people buy in to this process, it works really nicely and has far better long-term outcomes.
So currently the "logic" is that CIA can kill anyone (even a US citizen) using drones as long as it happens somewhere far away like in Yemen or Pakistan? Am I getting this right?

I wonder if POTUS has to at least sign all the kill orders.

EDIT FOLLOWS:

The problem is (independently) verifying that the targeted person was a combatant and in a war against USA. If anybody can be a combatant, CIA can kill anybody. See the following, regarding the Obama presidency:

> It is also because Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.

The obvious questions are:

* Does belonging to Al-Qaeda or similar make you eligible for a drone strike? I don't really think of (potential) terrorists as combatants.

* What about another organization designated as "terrorist"? The executive branch unilaterally puts organizations and people on that list. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_St...

* What oversight and control should there be over the decision to kill someone?

Another interesting point is that it seems that only a fraction of persons killed in drone strikes were intended as targets: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...
It sounds good at first, until you find out the role was filled by a swarm of bees shaped like a human being.
It's Hacker News do you expect people to not compulsively bend the knee when a corporation is discussed?
No, the whole reasons for a drone war is that drones work very well in conditions where you can't safely land people on the ground to do things, or even operate manned aircraft without unreasonable risk of losses.
I came to this realization a while ago:

Without fail, one way or another, the shit US dishes to non-US citizens will eventually find its way back to US citizens.

If US citizens shrug when their government does bad things to other people, they better be prepared to also shrug when their government decides to do the same to them. Murder-without-trial and all.
Interestingly, ServiceNow is twice the market cap of Atlassian.
As a borg user I've been quite happy after iterating between rolling my own and managing the headaches.

My most recent memory of borg was when I realized I'd been backing up superfluous files I didn't expect. I thought I'd be stuck with them until the end of time because they've made it in to my long term snapshots. Fortunately `borg recreate` did exactly what I needed and didn't feel as dangerous as the page suggests.
Unmanned F-16 Taking Off (Cockpit View)
> Unfortunately as you suggest, the outcome is hiring as cheap as possible and fixing all issues by not changing anything other than replacing everything every few years.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there. It seems like every organisation I’ve been part of which has a significant Windows presence is either static or planning a rollout of and migration to some new magical enterprise software that replaces the old enterprise software they purchased and this time it’ll definitely make everything better. It’s amazing to me how much money gets spent on per-seat licensing for what essentially amounts to no noticeable improvement for anyone involved. But sure, I’m sure this company-wide spyware of choice will be the one that finally means we can just stop caring about security or provisioning machines, right folks?

It’s like the folks doing it have mastered the art of finding busywork that’s just complicated enough that folks signing the cheques can’t really tell they’re burning money. In that sense it’s beautiful I suppose.

Just, erm, ignore the fact a dozen different developers have essentially root access to production databases... at least they can’t install software!
Intellectual Ventures for example makes extensive use of shell companies.1 However, the database proposed to created under this bill will be "nonpublic at FinCEN".

1 http://www.plainsite.org/tags/index.html?id=640
I think it's actually more accurate to say that is the plaintiff's lawyer's counterargument. The DOJ lawyer didn't say it at all. He is merely fighting a request to reveal classified information at the behest of a complainant with a pretty thin justification.
Or oil companies could pack up their tent and wander off
Citing any WWII action is dubious at best. And South Korea was a dictatorship in the time afterwards so not exactly a paragon of freedom. If your argument hinges on the Kosovo air war as proof that the US war intervention isn't a default failure, then you've already lost the argument.
Trump has done precious little in the war department, so I don't think Biden will pick one up without actually doing something this go around.
That assumes the people choosing apps to be featured are the same people doing the review process.
I'm not saying this is an ideal solution but what would be a better way to handle enemy combatants that happen to be US citizens?
This is talking about targeting decisions in a war zone.
Especially since Trump actually brokered more peace deals/treaties.
A very interesting (though I think it’s impossible to proof or refute) read related to this: https://www.julianjaynes.org/resources/books/ooc/

I learned about it while reading Dawkins’ “The God Delusion,” and since then, Jaynes and Hofstadter have been the biggest influences on my personal philosophy.
The real motivation here is that mobile carriers want to take market share from cable companies. Mobile carriers want to be able to provide wireless to your phone that is good enough that you will pay more for an unlimited plan and cancel your cable subscription. 5G doesn't really do that much for garbage cans, they could already have 4G or wifi chips in them if anyone wanted that.
It also seems like a fishing expedition. The plaintiff doesn't have any evidence they were targeted at all. It's speculation because bombs landed near him in a war zone. It's not impossible but I understand the gov not wanting to hand over such sensitive information without a very strong justification.
A gallon of gas in
Paris is $7.

France gets 70% of its power from nuclear.

https://www.numbeo.com/gas-prices/in/Paris?displayCurrency=U...
Supercomputer simulation re-enacts the birth of the Moon
It's both a surname and can mean other things (mostly depends on tones). Bāo and Bào are surnames. The "bao" you're thinking of is short for bāo zi.
Personally, I would rather spend my time doing things I find fulfilling instead of killing an hour+ scrolling through Reddit and getting distracted by the internet. I don’t care that if I’m spending all my time on my computer if Im doing things I find meaningful. Compulsively checking my phone and scrolling Reddit is in no way meaningful to me anymore.
On your Garmin the out of the box Sunrise and Sunset widget displays civil twilight times...

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/fenix66s6xpro/EN-US/...

Or check the Solaris watch face which shows civil twilight, nautical twilight, astronomical twilight, and night.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/0e019a96-aeb3-4aaf-81ed-4...

Above subject to which device you have.
Use personalcapital.com to track everything.

Put all charges onto a sold rewards card, Costco Visa in my case.

Pay off credit card every paycheck and put the rest into Ally Invest account.

Buy Etfs to maintain the balance of a solid portfolio.

Examine monthly budget from personalcapital.com and finds ways to trim expenses.
Both sides had post nineties upgrades for Su 30, and Mig 29, and they could've risked using them, but chose not to.

Both sides didn't even bomb each other's airfields for real.

Most drones were launched, and operated in the field.
Looks cool! How are you getting customers?
If the US military itself concedes that drones are superior, then other countries would presumably want to purchase drones which are likely far cheaper and easier to operate than expensive F-35s.
Obama was a good speaker but his actions were quite a bit different... maybe that's why. At least with Trump, you know what you're getting because he appears to be brutally honest.
Modern FPGAs do it pretty much the same -- there are high and low drivers, and one of them gets activated at a time.

Note that this link is tri-state, not ternary. The "tri-state" is still binary, the third state is to allow attaching multiple outputs to the same bus. Or in the C pseudocode:

Regular binary:

enum { FALSE, TRUE } value;
value = result()

Ternary:

enum { UNKNOWN, FALSE, TRUE } value;
value = result()

Tri-state (as Z80 and every modern computer does it):

enum { FALSE, TRUE } value;
if (enabled())
value = result()

(the idea is you might have multiple components driving the same "value", and only one of them should be enabled at a time. Bad things happen if more than one is enabled at a time, or none are)
Perhaps something related to an existing interest? Help catch poachers etc
Yeah just like that time everyone raged on about how Apple didn't refund the 30% it took when a customer got a refund on the App store. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23987584
Like what? Not knowledgeable at all, so just curious to hear in what ways!
I used to read your blog back when I was into shareware. What a trip down the memory lane. Glad to see you are still in the biz!
A part of a product I worked on was killed by the business and outsourced instead. I’m 100% sure this was in fact because of technical debt, even though my team members would disagree.

It wasn’t even technical debt in the sense that it was bad code, it was because they prematurely tried to optimise everything, so adding a feature would take twice as long. We also couldn’t add new devs to the project because the team lead’s decision to not document the code, because “code should document itself”.

Bugs could only be identified by the dev who wrote that feature because the code was so obscure and undocumented.
I do the same. I even used the terminal commands to change the granularity of the blocks and extend the length.

And the same things happens to me. A lot of times I don't even want or think of going to HN, Reddit, Twitter. I'm just bored or frustrated and, almost unconsciously, I hit the shortcuts for Browser > New Tab > Focus Address Bar > Start typing n, r or m (for mobile.twitter.com).

Some things that helped a lot with this, together with SelfControl, is to change all new tabs to a blank page and disable autocomplete in the Firefox navbar.

That last one is not very good for everything, so it would be better to just delete those automatic sites from the suggestion list. I never really took the time to see how it's done of FF, though.

To change the timings in SelfControl, use (sorry, it is a very very old note in Evernote so I don't have the original source anymore):

defaults write org.eyebeam.SelfControl MaxBlockLength -int [maximum block length in minutes]

defaults write org.eyebeam.SelfControl BlockLengthInterval -int [block length interval in minutes]
Satiation is a time-bound variable so I imagine it varies
Have the accuser face the accused in court and prove to a jury of 12 people beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime has occured. After which, if the jury finds the accused guilty, a judge will determine what the sentence should be based upon guidlines provided by the law (which is written by congress).

We used to have a system like this. I thought it worked pretty well. Sure it wasn't perfect, but I liked the transparency.