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Possibly never. The reason China's isolationist policies work is their massive population is big enough to form a mini world without a ton of knowledge gaps.

The US and maybe western Europe could be in a similar position, if they wanted to.

IMO the reason you don't want to be isolationist(as a big country) is more about political clout than tech. China has no "soft power" because their firewall works both ways.

The US and western Europe have military prescence and political allies worldwide because the free flow of information and technology fosters all sorts of political, corporate, and cultural mixing.

What influence China has on its neighbors (and worldwide to an extent) is maintained through pressure and threats, because frankly, their ultra nationalist policies just don't make many friends. I personally don't think this is sustainable long term but it is yet to be seen. Instead of allies wanting you to succeed, other nations are encouraged to obstruct as much as possible to weaken you and your unwelcome influence. You can see this unfolding in the last few years with increasing tariff and trade restrictions on China. And I don't see it letting up until Xi is out
> Multicore--Node, Ruby, Python etc. all seem to be doing fine without it.

Ruby 3.0, released last month, has experimental parallel support via limited sharing “Ractors”.
We're about 60% as productive as we were pre-lockdown. In our case this is largely due to the lack of face to face whiteboard discussions, being unable to have two or three people look through a bunch of code or design together, the ad-hoc conversations and face time with colleagues. It now takes far longer to thrash out thorny technical and design issues than it did in 2019.

With revenues falling last year, my company decided to slash salaries and close several roles. This obviously led to a much greater workload for everyone else, and people getting increasingly burned out.

As the exodus continues, the senior management decided to pivot towards building and selling more features to increase revenues, instead of taking a look at how to stabilize the teams and stop the blood-letting, hence more pressure on the remaining engineers to deliver features, leading to much lower quality, more bugs and more pressure.

The situation can be salvaged, though, if we are able to get real about the situation with the engineering teams, scale back our commitments and hire for some key roles where people resigned last year.
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Within USA, legislation differs significantly between terrorism originating inside versus outside the country. This is because some terrorist groups’ right of assembly is protected by a Supreme Court decision.
So, it’s not that terrorism has controversial definitions, but that terrorists are legally permitted to gather peacefully in public. This condition is not important enough to grant to non-USA-citizens outside the country.

If part of the media coverage of mass violence is that the perpetrators intended to “send a message”, I usually conclude its terrorism. Your news source might/might not distinguish this from violence that seems inspired to simply spread chaos.

So, your news source might describe an act of terrorism as the work of a “lone wolf” but my news source might connect his rhetoric to a particular movement. And vice versa.

But in USA, the criminal sentencing is unambiguous: if swept up in a terrorism sting, sentencing minimums are not mutable by the judge.
> Stephen K. Bannon – President Trump granted a full pardon to Stephen Bannon. Prosecutors pursued Mr. Bannon with charges related to fraud stemming from his involvement in a political project. Mr. Bannon has been an important leader in the conservative movement and is known for his political acumen.

This one is hilarious. The "political project" was raising money for a border wall via crowdfunding and putting it into his own pocket. He scammed the most hardcore Trump supporters, and got pardoned by Trump for it.
"The investigation did not find evidence that the TrumpCampaign recovered any such Clinton emails, or that these contacts were part of a coordinated effort between Russia and the Trump Campaign."

"The investigation did not, however, yield evidence sufficient to sustain any charge that any individual affiliated withthe TrumpCampaign acted as an agentofa foreign principal within themeaning of FARA or, in terms of Section 951, subject to the direction or control of the governmentof Russia, or any official thereof. In particular, the Office did not find evidence likely to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Campaign officials such as Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and Carter Page acted as agents of the Russian government—or atits direction,control, or request—during the relevant time period.1"

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It requests an application/json response from the API at https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/search/images/?..., which returns metadata for an apparently random image (which may indeed be a 'never been seen' image, depending on what the backend does).

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Just restart your computer. That ought to do it.
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But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Python supports multi-line strings for this. No need for comments.
Disappointingly paranoid comments jumping to conclusions here. It's equally possible that Ma's disappearance is self-imposed after making an out of character speech that was not well received by investors and regulators alike. We don't know either way at this point. To quote Leo Lewis of the FT: "His miscalculation now looks spectacular, even by his astral standards of showmanship." [1]

1. https://www.ft.com/content/b3a94f55-5e44-417f-a869-a542d0527...
Having MUSHA Aleste on one screen and Dodonpachi on the other is a pretty big flex!
This is disturbingly reminiscent of Michael Chricton's novel The Terminal Man.
Espresso's README.md contains some interesting details, for example:

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> Running HelloWorld on three nested layers of Espresso takes ~15 minutes.

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I don't know if Ma is quite at that point yet... Maybe they've put him through a short stint in Room 101.
Didn't think I'd seen Corvain mentioned on HN. He's actually a great guy and a hell of an entrepreneur. Without trying to take any credit for his release my team was involved in the process of raising awareness of his incarceration for the last year and got deeply involved in bringing his cannabis brand to the California market. We've been early-celebrating all week about his pending release.

I'll also add that his crime was trafficking 37 tons. He wasn't the seller or buyer.
I meant the RPi Editors
Total bullshit.

This is the CCP stepping on this man's throat.
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You know I was thinking the same it’s more room 101 as well but the look in his eyes as pointed out by the parent comment.
This is all so hilariously corrupt. I'm not sure I can even muster anger for this, just laughter. (I'll reserve the anger for the pandemic and this administration's callous, frankly criminal handling of it).

(So Levandowski and Jared are going to launch a venture fund soon, right?)
How is Elixir’s design different from Erlang’s? Semantically they’re pretty much the same language.

A better example would be Java/Clojure.
Why don't you read the book-length version?

You're right that I'm stating things that are correlated without showing a good argument for causation. But the book that I keep recommending, which (incidentally) is on record as Bill Gates' favorite book, shows multiple lines of evidence including lines that indicate causation.

But if you don't want to be convinced, I won't bother trying to convince you. Because any one line of evidence is easily dismissed and life is too short for me to pursue this topic in full depth.
Maybe he should have just commuted the sentences of offenders like him instead of the likes of Bannon, Levandowski, and Broidy. Makes Marc Rich look tame.
The Carter Administration had funded a transition to community-based outpatient mental health. Then the Reagan administration proceeded to pull the rug out by repealing the MHSA and leaving it to the states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1...
As one does not simply ‘walk’ into Mordor, Trump does not ‘work’ to do anything not in his immediate self interest
In the last Hacker News thread, people were so sure that the government jailed him for criticizing the party. Even though there was no evidence of such, people just assumed it MUST be true because the CCP MUST be evil.

And before Jack Ma "disappeared", people were worried about Jack Ma and Ant Group being a national security threat, because of his ties with CCP. Because "CCP evil". No matter the facts, people just conveniently change their interpretation to shoehorn everything in a nonsensical "see, CCP is evil" narrative.

I think it's time to accept that most people have a SERIOUSLY deranged and inaccurate view of China, and that things in China are far more complex and nuanced than people give it credit for. I say this as someone who's born in China, and have a Chinese wife, and family in China. Maybe there's an alternative point of view than "CCP is evil" that is at least just as valid.

So it turns out he was just laying low after all. Yes his comments were not appreciated, but that doesn't mean they jail anyone for the slightest criticism. The reason why his comments upset people is because China, after having experienced a huge boom in material wealth in the 2000s, which accompanied mass government corruption and increase in inequality, China is now in a phase with more focus on equality and sharing the wealth. Jack's criticism hit a nerve because it came over as a rich man trying to change society for his own benefit, rather than lifting society with him.

See Cyrus Janssen's blog post about this:
https://cyrusjanssen.substack.com/p/trump-free-speech-and-wh...
Cyrus is an expat who has worked in China for 12 years.

Does China have problems? Of course it does. But that doesn't mean we need to villify it at every turn, and interpret everything in the worst possible manner in the absence of evidence.

When the west better understands China, and when the west and China come together, the whole world wins.
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What kind of computer configuration does it require to train a model like this? Speaking as noob, is it possible to create models like this on your average Ryzen 5 / GTX 1060 6GB type PC? If so, how much time would it take?

I feel really excited to experiment on such projects in my spare time but reading how it costs researchers hundreds and thousands of dollar don't even try.
>easy path to citizenship in the West

Since when the U.S. providing free citizenships to the countries in need of help?
Sure, why not. Good for him to be able to keep his bigoted values and remain successful, good for Mozilla to stand by theirs. I don't see the problem here.

His replacement at Mozilla by all accounts seems to be not great, but they could just as well have signed someone who was and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
They're only useful precisely because they aren't being used for that.

What you really want instead is something like the HAM license allowing the use of point to point equipment at higher power and on frequencies reserved for operators that respect the communications medium.
It was a grassroots effort and, in the end, lobbied through the right channels. He caught a lucky break. Now that Corvain is getting release he'll be lobbying for the release of other non-violent cannabis offenders. It will take time but we'll get all non-violent cannabis offenders released.
The battle for science and research talent is probably the biggest silent battle that's ever gone on, and the general public is completely unaware.

I really, really hope the new administration has someone who cranks up the "brain drain agenda" to 10. The only challenge is doing so without importing too many spies or covert actors — and that's a REAL challenge. Perhaps it would be easier to aggressively brain-drain China's allies (not that there are any I can think of)...

I was quite shocked that an opthamologist at a clinic I regularly visit resigned after being ousted as a member of the Thousand Talents Program, here in San Diego [0].

[0]: https://timesofsandiego.com/education/2019/07/08/ucsd-doctor...
I don't think it matters that he's reading off of a script. Imagine Bezos in the same situation, do you honestly think he wouldn't delegate the responsibility of speechwriting to his team of publicists?
or non-sexualized minors, gross
using s3 as a cdn is a complete different thing than leaking intentionally credentials.
Can you compile Julia programs to native binaries with a singe command ? Can Julia run on mobile and embedded devices ? A real general purpose programming language should do all of those.
No, no "period". There are plenty of languages that either require you to initialize your variables, don't allow to use a variable until it's initialized, or give an uninitialized variable a special value like "undef" or "Nil".

I agree that BASIC is inconsistent, but there are many languages beyond Basic and its descendants...

I'm afraid your argument still sounds like "C does it, so it is right" mentality.
But are you really locking your car from 5 miles away? I doubt the radio in the key will be strong enough for that distance.
Staff in our state (WA) are required to wear masks. Kids under 5 aren’t required to wear masks. They take precautions, but at least we are allowed to escort our kid to class and talk to the teacher everyday.
It's certainly possible but the fact is that there's no evidence or indication one way or the other at this point.
But we kind of do, BSDs are enjoying lots of upstream changes from Apple and Sony.

And in what concerns x86, they would just support it as well, as Solaris did. HP-UX and Aix also have supported a couple of CPU architectures, as did some of the others.

Just Irix was kind of married with MIPS.

Or Windows would just have won the x86 server room instead.

In any case, there are a couple of major surviving GPL projects, all competition against Linux on the IoT space are BSD/MIT FOSS POSIX clones, ironically one of them being sponsored by Linux foundation (Zephyr), so those around in 20 years will get to appreciate how much of GPL will still be left around.
Where you live theft in general is pretty much nonexistent (or at least, blue collar theft is). So I’m not sure it’s specific to cars
First thing, I think Graal/Truffle is really cool tech. Second thing... what's the story when it comes to Truffle licensing? :-)

Would Oracle control the implementation of a particular language that used Truffle? Could they decide to "deplatform" that language? ("we don't authorize the use of Truffle in language implementation X for Y reasons") Or charge for licenses for users of that language? Or other somber scenarios... according to current licensing or in a hypothetical future ...

Compare with, say, LLVM infrastructure, were it seems more certain that a language can be implemented as free software and with less restrictions or caveats.
I wish this were possible too.

I want to engage with my users and explain things. But look at this conversation, it is going to take me hours to walk through the whole thing with you, and I am luckily a policy/forum history wonk.

I thrive on figuring this stuff out.

Doing this for ALL users who are angry or disagree with our moderation? Goddamn man, this is a volunteer role, and we are already tired from dealing with even worse users.

While you may respect your users as community members, on moderation your knowledge and peoples assumptions diverge far too much. Which means you stop taking them seriously.

It sucks, it creates a wall between users and mods, and a sense of working with lords and ladies. Most mods don’t want it, but its fated to happen.

I honestly urge everyone who is unhappy with moderation to try it out themselves. I think there is no faster way for people to start working on this problem than having their own experience to drive new solutions.
Isnt that ultimately every business trying to do save costs? I dont see anything wrong as long as it is legal. ElasticSearch here wants to pervade the notion that they are open but wants to exclusively maintain cloud hosted versions. Thats not how opensource works, Open source works through open collaboration and feeedom. Opensource forks are completely valid as long as they dont violate the licensing terms.
"CCP allows / forces Jack Ma to publish a video" , would be closer to truth .
No, but selling said book could be construed that way by authorities. I don't think you reject the label "American novelist" when you see it, and I doubt the relevant authorities do either.
Fair point, but his speech also seems forced, and the location is quite strange.

If Bezos or Gates were to give an address like this, they'd have a great camera setup in their fancy home office with good lighting.

For reference, take a look at Gates appearing on the Daily Show: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iyFT8qXcOrM.

Ma looks the opposite here.
> Additionally, if you're smart that time can wind up being compensated later. I wrote JavaScript on my own for 3.5 years before I started doing it professionally, and while I didn't get paid, it allowed me to eventually double my income, so I consider it a great investment.

Great if you are young and have no commitments. Not so great if you are old and have many commitments.

Or are we expecting programmers to program after work even during their later years?
You mean other than charging the Secret Service for his weekly stays at his resort? Or how lobbyists in DC made sure to book at a Trump property?
>I am not sure (1) is a very convincing argument. The subtraction of 1 internally is not necessarily gonna be there once the code gets compiled.

Theoretically one can optimize it - though only when one can statically infer the index and the compiler decides to inline the array access function. If you can't do that, the best you can hope for is a fast CPU instruction like LEA or something.

In theory one could make a lot of things fast, in practice they rarely are, and it's always better to avoid problems now than to pray later.
Not saying I agree with parent, but:

i) "The west" is much bigger than the US

ii) Right of political asylum has been "a thing" for a long while, specially for people fleeing authoritarian regimes.
Not giving, but selling for maybe $20 average. Which scales just fine, ebay is full of games.

> Imagine if digital licenses could be transferred instantly, for free, and infinitely.

Sure, instant rental would break some things. But this isn't very far from the Netflix (DVD) or library model. If libraries stocked up on video game discs, would you be upset by that? Is everything fine if you have to wait two days between transfers of a copy?
This reminded me of the song "Pirates & Emperors", which you might enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBWGo7pef8

Too long, didn't listen: If you rob with a little ship, you're a "pirate", but if you steal with a big fleet, thou art "emperor".
IPv6 doesn't solve the difficulties of container networking. Containers have private network namespaces, which means that a container can't communicate with other hosts without (1) a dedicated interface or (2) a bridge (basically a software switch) for host-to-container communication.

These problems are Layer 2 problems, while IPv4 and IPv6 are at layer 3.
That's GraalVM targeting WASM, not JVM on top of WASM. I suspect some level of GC support will be needed in WASM for good performance
Congrats! If only all inmates unjustly incarcerated could receive fair re-trials / pardons / relief / release depending on circumstances. There are so damn many people in need of justice in this way.
What do you think we should compromise on? (Asking because curious, and from the long thread that followed this it seemed like you'd actually have an opinion).
sometimes i program in Lua (which is 1-based) but mainly i write code in 0-based languages.

The worst is really when you switch between the languages, but after a while you get used to it.

You just need to watch out like a hawk, when calculating the index of the last element ;)
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Secure drop is not a middleman, each newspaper/org has its own instance.
How much more mental gymnastics do we need? I think it's time to accept that he WASN'T jailed rather than trying to forcefully shoehorn the facts into a 'but China still bad' narrative.

The HN commentary went from 'Jack Ma is a national security threat' to 'Jack Ma is a poor victim of the CCP will will never be seen again' to 'this is fake, he is still jailed'. If he shows up someone else in person next time, will people say that the CCP staged that too? It's getting too ridiculous.

Cyrus Janssen, an expat who has worked in China for 12 years, blogged about this. I think he has a much more accurate view of what happened. Jack Ma was laying low, not jailed. And the rrason why his comments pissed off people is because the phase of development China is now in, rather than a generic "thou shall not criticize the party" https://cyrusjanssen.substack.com/p/trump-free-speech-and-wh...

In contrast to China's reputation here in the west, the govt actually DOES listen to criticism. Yes they censor at the same time. Calling for violence and overthrow of the govt is not allowed. But at the same time they do listen, and for the past 20 years they've continuously reformed policy based on citizen's criticism on social media, or those submitted via official channels. The key is to be constructive, and to criticize policy rather than people.

This also applies to this latest incident. Yes it bugged a lot of people in the government, but at the same time they're really looking into the actual criticism made and whether there's a need for reform.

I am from China and I have family in China.
> I doubt it'll even be a topic of conversation in a few years, just like we don't talk about 1983 United States Senate bombing today at all.

We still talk about the Clinton impeachment today, and the acts that precipitated it. Students of history still study the Andrew Johnson impeachment. You're being naive if you think an unprecedented, record, second impeachment of a president will be forgotten that quickly.
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During the video he keeps blinking 'e' in morse code. If real, he could be trying to communicate that he's hungry? 饿 :-)
At this point you're just applying your cultural bias.