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I have no clue who that is but from reading other comments, I learned

> She was pardoned by Clinton

Her sentence was commuted. She wasn't pardoned.

> Not sure how she has paid for her crimes

She served 16 years of a 58-year sentence. You can consider that at least partial payment.
Anyone who is living in China, citizen or expat, is going to toe the party line (literally) since the consequences for not doing so these days can be severe.

We’ve been through this before with other business people or defrocked public officials: Jack Ma is currently having a peaceful relaxing vacation at one of the party’s many secure resorts (Chinese have memes too). Whether he comes out of this like Fan Binbin or not isn’t anything we will know until it happens.
The mouSTer project – a tiny USB mouse adapter for multiple retro computers
This problem is famously solved by Progressive GANs - which are trained with images of increasing size, starting from very small; it helps eliminate the deformities by learning shape at multiple scales.
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The article seems amazingly ignorant of the technique thieves are using to steal all the modern cars: key signal relay. These theft devices are as little as $50 on the black market. The article's claim that modern cars aren't being stolen is false and I'm surprised his sources didn't tell him this.
>Would you publicly curse Xi and denounce the CCP?

What if they don't want to? There is a trend in the west that pretends like dissent would overflow in China if it wasn't suppressed, but what if people genuinely actually like the government? That doesn't seem to fit the narrative that people have the agency to think differently from the status quo Americans would like to impose upon the world.

>I'm worried about what happens when Chinese software developers outnumber us

Is this Great Replacement propaganda?

>When we have no other advantage, what then? Do we implode?

You sit down and try to succeed on merit rather than privilege for once in your life, not unlike the 200-odd countries that aren't superpowers.
Oh cool, I did this! I hope one day we end up with something like rustup to make it even easier for everyone.
Just wanted to say I've seen you around HN and respect your principles on this front. Would love to get in touch, contact info is in my profile or I can send you a message if your profile Gmail is accurate.
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For what it's worth, Twilio states they did not ban Parler. Some rando Twitter comment thread started that rumor.

https://twitter.com/twilio/status/1348719143172927491?s=20

Twilio said the Parler platform was in violation of the acceptable use policy (not just the use of Twilio services), and was told by Parler that they had already disabled Twilio.
I’m thinking that’s a big driver? Google must be pissed.

But correct me if I’m wrong this has no impact on civil suits? So he’s still on the hook for any damages.
The one you're replying to sounds like sarcasm to me. Or a very ironic comment given the comment it's replying to. It's hard to tell.
Back after Trump cut the FCC budget, I heard the number of active staff patrolling the airwaves went down to < 11. Think of that... 11 people for all of the United States. I know they have listening stations in various areas, but still 11 people can't effectively police the whole United States.
Nothing. Demoing novel wasm usage maybe?
Huh. That's a pretty nifty thing to do. Just wrote a python script to do that for me and it's running in the background right now. Shall be interesting to come back to it today in the evening. Do you recall how many seconds each screenshot would show itself in the final video (basically what was the framerate?). Currently considering about 4 frames per second but would love to get your take on it :)
She was at the head of a mob of people breaking through the door into a Congressional chamber during a core part of the peaceful transfer of power. Suffice it to say that's a much higher bar than normal.
Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy (2019) by Bill Gertz is an excellent starting point: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50927537-deceiving-the-s...
Not him, but there is progress in the Ethereum ecosystem on multiple fronts (in a way that's lacking in Bitcoin), so following that progress seems viable. There are working ERC-20-compatible layer 2 low-fee/instant transfer systems on Ethereum that Brave could use, and Ethereum does have plans being developed for sharding layer 1 transactions which will reduce fees for normal transactions.

(Disclaimer: I'm a bit biased toward Ethereum. I think it's more meaningfully decentralized and I own some eth.)
I had one here in The Netherlands on my Volvo. I also remember setting it off accidentally many times.
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I used to use Google Drive but I am getting a bit scared about the control the platform has and the effect of losing access or someone gaining access to it all.
The problem with these is that they are all made of aluminum and are easily cut through. My next door neighbor last month in fact.
> In this instance, yesterday our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts.

I mean, come on. There’s no way someone in a leadership position would legitimately think that’s okay. I suppose to some degree we should reserve judgment until hearing her side of the story - maybe this was just unambiguous evidence destined for her lawyer and the EEOC - but it’s hard to avoid some pretty negative conclusions about the prevailing culture in this group.
This is an important distinction.

China is awesome. The CCP sucks.
Guessing you misread that? It was "Iran", not "India". ;)
I know they renamed it, but something inside me want me to keep saying dat. It's familiar.
Hi George, I'm joining you in this curiosity. Also a bunch of software developers here, interested in the same topic.
I think both those cases happen with a certain frequency, yes, your last element is a bit trickier, though in Python it is represented by A[-1] (so that would turn into A[len-1])

Yeah, maybe there's no fundamental advantage, one would have to check the most common cases.

> Why would you need to "wrap around" an array?

Ring buffers
Perhaps it is the fact that they are one of the largest employers of software engineers in the world.
I guess it kind of "sticks it" to Google, who Trump thinks is "so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous!"

I have no idea if there is such a thing as a "revenge pardon", but I guess it's a thing now.

(Incidentally, I wanted to use an exact Trump quote in that first paragraph, and I found it here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/19/upshot/trump-...)
Not that philosophers aren't interested in decisions being correct.
As mentioned by some in the comments, the thing that drained me the most (probably more than the isolation itself) was that I could see the vast majority of people being so compliant and accepting drastic reduction in freedoms without raising a finger and even encouraging the government to be more drastic.

Because of this it has now become trivial to impose new lockdown measures. "We have a few cases there? ok, we just place this under strict lockdown". It's become so easy for them to cut through freedoms.
Maybe some measures are needed, even strict ones, but the lack of serious discussion surrounding it is terrifying for me.

To give an example, where I live, they instated a nighttime curfew and mask wearing even outdoors. They did this when there were 10.000 cases a day.
We now have around 2-3000 cases (majority of them in some areas only) and still have the same measures country-wide.

A right is easy to loose and hard to gain back I guess...
He is not the CEO. I don't think he holds any official title since late 2019.
If I was holding Jack Ma in captivity, I would definitely ask him to do this just for the benefits of doing insider trading on his appearances
So... where's multi-billionaire Xiao Jianhua? After being abducted from the Four Seasons in Hong Kong by the CCP, he popped up to explain he was seeking medical treatment on the mainland (haha) three years ago, and nobody's heard from him since. Also laying low? Or do you think he's discovered a new love of mining rare earth minerals in Xinjiang?

C'mon now, this isn't exactly some big exoneration one way or the other, is it? This happens from time to time. We both know there's a list of famous and semi-famous people as long as your arm you haven't heard from in a while.

Where's Fan Bingbing? Where's the former head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei? [2] Think they too have discovered a sudden need for mainland medical treatment -- or do you think it's more likely they may have discovered a passion for mining minerals also?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/world/asia/xiao-jianhua-c...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-06/the-people-who-china-...
In your thinking, how is Jack Ma's reappearance "good news"? Doesn't that imply that he was potentially in danger, or taken "out of commission," and it's reassuring that he's not dead or in jail?

This sort of conversation would never take place if a high-profile US executive like Bezos, Musk, or Gates disappeared for months after criticizing the government, and reappeared without making any mention of it. People would be freaking out and we would already have 500+ investigative journalists on the case, articles all over the place, widespread speculation... In China, it seems all of those are disallowed.

If anything, this seems to be pro-China hypocrisy, not the other way around.
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There are probably just as many scams on other public sites like facebook marketplace
A Chinese hacking group is stealing airline passenger details
From a cursory look, jvm byte code and wasm byte code seem quite similar. where is the major mismatch btw underlying machine abstractions?
I've never understood this "what-about-ism". I see it as a bad faith tactic of deflecting attention from one issue to another, when the person doing it knows exactly how bad and indefensible their chosen stance is, and is trying to downplay it. I think it would be vocal to see why this OP is so instinctively fixated on BLM, Seattle and Portland and not on the Capitol attack. What does this reveal about the OP's own biases and what and whom they consider important?
> I'll also add that his crime was trafficking 37 tons. He wasn't the seller or buyer.

Good for him that he was pardoned, but I find it sad that it's those 37tons that make the pardon unsurprising.
I don't think he would ever be pardoned for trafficking 37 pounds.
Cool but how would this work when ordering from a website, etc?
Melbourne went from a peak of 725 daily cases to achieving 60 days with zero local transmission. Suggesting that all the lockdown measures were ineffective, and that eradication was entirely the result of circumstantial factors, doesn't pass the sniff test for me.

Given that the reduction in cases fitted closely with expected modelling, and only began after stage 4 lockdown was enacted, it's a logical conclusion that at least some measures of the lockdown were effective at containing the spread.

That's not to say that none of your suggested reasons weren't a factor, or that every single one of the lockdown measures were effective. But on balance, the lockdown and other governmental measures were effective.

Montreal is a city of similar size, wealth, and demographics to Melbourne, and has 88k confirmed cases, compared to Melbourne's 20k. That kind of difference is more than discrepancies in testing methodology and case definitions. Incidentally, ten days ago the city went into lockdown (although less strict that Melbourne), so if in a few weeks there's a subsequent drop in cases, I think that it will be pretty safe to make the conclusion that lockdowns work.
Teslas are literally the least stolen car in USA and often retrieved when they are stolen. It's partly the built-in tracking, partly the PIN to drive feature, and partly that its parts market is weak for various reasons.
More than a billion is quite a stretch, but you could probably find a few hundred million without too much trouble.
Including "Gitee Enterprise" and similar. ;)
We are taught the important bits of a lot of this in the regular coursework since it is fundamental to the field. I think these lists are for the people who might enjoy walking through the development of the field for their own pleasure and curiosity. And to learn something in the process!
I honestly think you'd have a hard time finding any politician that made more than trump from his office. Mar a lago was literally a place to go pay 200k so you could lobby trump.

His re-election campaign ran out of money! How could that even be possible without massive embezzlement!?

His fake stop the steal con pulled in over 200 mil! Most of that is going to end up in his pocket.
Nice, you can actually do something a bit more flexible using SQLite on AWS Lambda. "Just" mount an elastic file system (EFS) onto your functions. I wrote about it here: https://franz.hamburg/writing/shared-storage-for-lambda-func...
Because they are largely hypocrites. In fact a lot of them identify more with the capitol rioters being delatformed and are scared that they could be next in line, and this was not the case with ISIS for example.
I'm surprised that trace.moe only needs 430 GB of data to work as well as it does.
I was disappointed to find out that AI ethicists at Google aren't LessWrong style AI ethicists. I've just read one Google AI ethics paper in it's entirety but it seemed pretty non-insightful and not actionable.

That said, if Google is "investigating" her because she was trying to find evidence of discrimination or bad treatment of Dr. Gebru, that seems borderline criminal behavior. (Assuming her attempts at trying to find evidence did not involve exfiltrating secret information).
Have you ever gotten free money in your life?

Was your housing status critical in that decision?
I found the greatest offenders of media that portrays China in a poor light are CCTV, xinhua, people’s daily, etc... if you consume those media, you get the impression that China is a backwards authoritarian state with lots of flaws, but of course the truth is more nuanced.

I first visited China in 1999, did a 6 month Chinese course at PKU in 2002, and lived/worked in Beijing from 2007-2016. Frankly, the political situation simply got worse from 2008 on, whereas before it really looked like China was opening up and would continue to do so.
If none of us heard from Bezos for months and the resurfacing video appeared to be him reading off a script, there would be questions. The optics would be off.
the same too.
RIP Conway.
reading the article is really how i always felt about the a16z podcast. it feels so 'advertise-ish' the few times I listened to it. Like some sort of manufactured low key sales pitch on the companies they invest in.

Anyway I think the general takeaway from the article is the degree to which VC culture has become media/influencer/entertainment dominated. I really had to laugh when I read his "build" article and the next thing I read was that he pumped countless of dollars into clubhouse, a digital nightclub. So much for building real stuff. I feel like at this point if you put all the VC people together they couldn't build a bus station.

Never been the biggest fan of Elon personally but in contrast to all the valley types he and his companies to me represent what technologists should actually do, build companies that actually manufacture things.
This is what I've never understood about post presentient lives.

People like Trump and Bush can barely deliver a speech or speak coherently, who is paying to hear them attempt it??
It's gaslighting. The pro-China crowd has gotten very good at this. Look for the downvotes on posts with countervailing narratives.
UK is much bigger/different/more affordable than London. Tfa article talks about a family moving to York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution
It’s “toe the line.”
I don't see how fb marketplace avoids these issues
> you can't use dashcam recordings of an accident in trial.

What's the rationale to that? Concern over manipulated videos? That would seem dumb if the video files are transferred at the accident (which happens in USA).
Chinese here (and sorry for the bad English).

I agree with everything FooBarWidget said, and it's super annoying every time HN has an anti-China boner based on ridiculous things (don't even let me start about Reddit.)

And then, I found myself.. don't want to risk saying anything here with my main account (hence this throwaway account), even if it's defending China.

Will anything happen to me? Very unlikely, even if I "curse Xi". But still, I don't want any topics about Chinese politics to be related with my main ID, "just in case". Unlike FooBarWidget who (by glancing at his Twitter) has settled in EU, I don't have this luxury still plan to go back to China.

I found this whole "mental gymnastics" I have myself ironic and, to be honest, pathetic. So I just stopped. :/
> so much so it really felt like magic (there's a quote to be put here, which I can't find the author here. HN help me).

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke

:)
First, it's "toe the line."

Second, you're essentially saying that if the other person lives in China it doesn't matter what they say. Think about that for a second, and also about whether or not it really matters where they live if you've put some critical thought into their arguments. Granted some of what he says is subjective, but for something like this that's all you can really get. But if you've already decided the enemy must be wrong then there's no point discussing anything.

Third, the OP you were replying to said he lived in China, but according to his Twitter he's not living in China. So does that meet your standards of considering his opinions?
The odd outbreak aside (and Shijiazhuang is nowhere near Hangzhou), lockdowns are long over in China, there's no need for Ma to cower in a basement.

That said, I actually agree with you that the "hurr durr CCP torture cell" comments are overblown. It's entirely plausible that he's keeping a low profile for a while, if likely in response to some rather heavy-handed advice.
The changing and evolution of language is neither a good nor bad thing, it just is.
Also in Trump's last hurrah is pardoning Kwame Kilpatrick. https://www.crimetownshow.com/ I have no idea how he fits in the profile of Trump's other pardons. Maybe just resonates with Trump as another shameless, corrupt politician.
I think that from their several actions that China/CCP is not the best example of democracy and criticism acceptance

So no I don't buy the retoric of misunderstood China

> I am from China and I have family in China.

So you're not behind the great firewall and don't need to contend with official internet censorship.
As someone who's been homeless (and didn't have a drink or drug problem thanks) please fuck off. A night in a shelter costs money. Clothes which regularly get stolen cost money. Going to the bathroom costs money. Having a shower costs money. Travel to find jobs costs money. Medication costs money. Toothpaste costs money.
I have a Google Cloud Function that uses SQLite to store a user's previous day tweets and do some minor sorting and filtering of data. Works very well and saves me the cost of a "real" SQL instance.
No Shkreli?
According to the unsealed indictment, bannon received $1m through a non-profit, which he used to transfer to pay for unrelated shit using fake invoices.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1306611...
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I am guessing that there's only two ways for them to remove the tweet.

1. Delete it with an apology (admitting guilt is not likely to be great for the lawsuit).

2. Delete it and say nothing (destruction of evidence is not likely to be great for the lawsuit).
You're not proposing a plan to save the world here, what you're proposing is imperialism.
A pardon requires delivery and acceptance. (Actually, I think delivery is incomplete without acceptance.) Theoretically an incoming president could recall the pardon if it hasn't been delivered. Not sure what may constitute as delivery; or acceptance, for that matter. I don't think the manner of delivery or acceptance has been tested, let alone enumerated. If it's as simple as a phone call, then presumably nothing could be done.

I think a more interesting question is whether there's a specificity requirement. AFAIU, that hasn't been answered, either.
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With all due respect, you are presumably also not the multibillionaire CEO of one of the world's largest Internet companies.

If I saw Zuck, Satya or Sundar do a video conference looking like they're chained to the radiator in somebody's basement, I'd also be kinda concerned. (At least for the latter two. Zuck, maybe not so much.)
Quite naive so.
The thinking that one can at least understand the rationale of not killing a hen laying golden eggs has no place in China.

The reality is exact the opposite, and elites routinely keeping shooting the country, and themselves in the foot. Why should they care?

Any ranked party member half way the ladder already has enough privileges to swim in lard for the rest of his life.

I was pretty much there when Shenzhen govt bulldozed close to 10000 factories in between 2009, and 2012 for universiade vanities. That was one third of regions industry! One third

That was single most economically suicidal move I've seen any government do, and that was right after the global financial crisis.

That made a double digit dip in country's exports, and industrial output, so big it was.
Pro-CCP crew out in force tonight!
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Jack Ma delivers video speech in first public appearance in three months
Where's the SQLite database written? How do you ensure only one writer is modifying it?
Indeed it's quite stupid. Any alternative catchy name for the concept?
Another perspective on this drama to me is what the official expectation of a team labelled "Ethical AI" is/was. I doubt the only focus was to prevent discrimination by sex or race,

For example, there's also prevention of mass manipulation (AI learns human psychology, $BAD_ACTOR uses that to manipulates masses) and AI based profile generation of individuals with the goal of creating leverage for blackmail/extortion/whatever. Or, how would one form a controlling body of unethical usage in AI in such areas. There are quite a few aspects never mentioned in these discussions, and a search via google scholar turns up lots of the sex/gender/race papers, but none of the others (at least on the first few pages)-
People who want to say to their friends that they were in the same room as those people. It's social capital.
Given China's history to staging videos / forging evidence / faking suicides for oppositions [1][2], I'd say this is a valid concern.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai#Release_from_PSB_cu...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books