skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean all the people all the time. But this harranguing of any random individual asking them why they aren't criticizing the CCP with every living breath seems to count on the idea that they are afraid to speak up and/or brainwashed with evil oriental commie magic.
I'll be honest i did not...

He hasn't had much air time over here since leaving office, my opinion of him is all drawn from 2000-2008.
There aren’t many physical releases for short games anymore. Any game in the 2 to 8 range probably costs $15 to $30 and is digital only. Physical releases are largely reserved for full priced titles where the overheard of manufacturing, distribution, and middle-man cut make it still worth while.

eBay has plenty of games if you want them. But as a percentage of the industry it’s not a big deal. GameStop is unique in that it was one of the top sellers of games AND their business was predicated on selling recent games as used. The incentives are perverse.

Honestly I think digital solves pricing relatively well. Everyone knows a brand new $60 game will be $30 in a few months and $20 in a year. Anyone can buy in at the price they deem appropriate. For PC if there’s a DRM-free version either at launch or after a year there’s no major concern about a game disappearing from the world.

There’s a lot of ways you can drawn the line. But they’re all arbitrary and based on what you want to min/max rather than natural or obvious laws.

Digital is weird because we make copies every time we install! Even game discs make a full copy on HDD. Afterwards the only thing a disc does is provide DRM. The game is fully installed and played from a copy on the HDD! (Because reading data from a DVD is slow as shit). And modern games have so many patches the content on a disc is worthless. The disc literally provides no value except DRM.

FWIW I would also change copyright law such that it doesn’t last 50+ years. More content should become public domain far faster. You can dig into my comment history for some recent discussion about that.

I’d like to think I’m pro-consumer and pro-creator. There is a tension there. Tricky balance. But I’m anti-middle men. Especially those who have a moat and use it to extract value while providing little to nothing in return.
You've been bamboozled. Look up "Operation O-KKK". Next you're gonna tell me drinking milk is racist.
Nope I'm from the UK but we have a system that is closer to the American then the Swiss. There are services out there but they're incredibly poorly funded.
Well, it'd be great to hear this from a respectable and ethical person and not someone who'll lie for their own gain, right?
Who said deep state?
Somewhat related - Levandowski (the crook that stole the self driving docs) was just pardoned by Trump. The pardon was supported by Thiel, Luckey, and other Founders Fund people. I find this pretty irritating, but I guess when you’re in the company of actual war criminals like Eddie Gallagher then the bar is pretty low.[0]

——

Separately, from the drama I’ve seen around the recent AI ethics stuff, I’d bet money Google is on the right side of this and the activists are not.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843040
OOP is not "the biggest mistake"; following it blindly and applying to everything is. We saw this pattern then and we see it today.
In Nova Scotia, Canada ours does have an identifying detail. It has the number of the relevant inspection. It’s suppose to be applied by the garage. You as the car owner are not suppose to be able to remove and reattach it.

The other guy is right. If the colour matches and the month is good they won’t catch it unless they are being super careful. It’s not 100% but like 95%.
Plenty of languages (commercially) target the CLR, however given its Windows focus, many UNIX FOSS based researchers never cared about it, even in the presence of mono.
Many if not most of them are not in precarious situations or at the bottom of society. Like the retired USAF colonel.

They got conned, but only because they really wanted to believe in the kind of supremacy that Trump radiates.
It's not about the lack of startup projects, it's the lack of genuine unicorn projects that pays for the other 19 companies that fail in their portfolio along the way from MVP to IPO.

Everyone has ideas for companies that can be worth millions. But the current orthodoxy around VC economics balk if your game plan is to be a 50M sale. Either you make the big time, or you can be a tax write off when you fail. A "moderate" success won't pay the Limited Partners back at the end of the 10 year vesting cycle the billions the put in at the start.
The file names are ingested as a string so there is no way they’re being interpreted by the Go runtime (and in fact, Go being a AOT compiles language rather than a dynamic one means it wouldn’t be possible for file names to conflict like described in the readme).

This suggests to me that the author is misunderstanding why ‘&’ causes POSIX shells to do weird things.

I think what’s happening is the author tried a web URI that had an ampersand in, Bash then background the process and the author panicked thinking the Go runtime was parsing the ampersand rather than his or her $SHELL.
Gopher does.
Such a cool project. I found skimming the author's tutorial vids useful to get a sense of how it works:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SBYFBlr9k

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIr0IP-MxDQ
Seems it requires chrome to work?
Most of the stuff people use Docker for, I was already doing in 2006 with WebSphere and EAR "images".
The search term you are looking for is "repressive tolerance". Old concept, newly applied.
European law foresees those exact cases and IIRC prohibits automated treatment of personal information that leads to decisions that affects someone’s life, if no human takes the final decision and if the specific elements for the decision cannot be explained. In my opinion this forbids black boxes.
Except that as many have pointed out already it works in firefox by just using an extension.
Could this also be for the purpose of data attraction?
Driving an MX-5 in San Francisco...I have to ask - manual transmission? Because if not, you're not really getting the full experience; but if so, those hills must be fun. I'm thinking of some of the streets in the Marina going up to Pac Heights with stop signs.
Which is why you can enjoy all the LLVM features used by Apple, Sony and Nintendo. /s
Hey @dang, I appreciate your comment and will take it into account. I certainly appreciate your moderation and how quiet a place HN is in comparison with the rest of the rowdy world & internet. It's certainly a special place and I don't want to disturb that.

As you can see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843540, I do try to reach out where the opportunity is available, even with those I might disagree with.

--

It seems you think this issue is particularly inflammatory to me (and others) because of "nationalistic interests," but for me it's much more about friendships. I have a group of Falun Gong practicing friends in Amsterdam, my math tutor was Taiwanese and had family who disappeared on the mainland, and I know a lot of people who were lucky enough to get out of China, including a very good family friend.

On the other hand, an opthamologist who almost treated me and whose clinic I regularly visit stepped down after being ousted as a member of the Thousand Talents Program (see https://timesofsandiego.com/education/2019/07/08/ucsd-doctor...).

--

With respect, I do think there is a lot of gaslighting in this thread (from my side as well, perhaps).

I'll refrain from posting such things in the future.
They've done stuff like this in the past and followed through with it.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/11/20/16679480/...
> Anyone who is living in China, citizen or expat

Neither myself, nor Cyrus Janssen, are currently living in China. This is my genuine opinion, believe it or not. Nobody forces me, nobody pays me. I thought people are supposed to be "against the CCP but support the Chinese people". Is your support limited to Chinese people who are against the CCP? Why do you not reflect for a while on why someone like me, who has grown up with western culture and has independently investigated China, is not as anti-China as you are? Why is it hard to accept that maybe some of of core assumptions you have about China is wrong?

And no, you don't go to jail for not toeing the party line. That's not how it works. They censor you if your views are stirring up social unrest or calling for overthrow. But they don't force you to say things they want.

At least, that's the case for average citizen. I suppose if you're a high-level business executive with many ties to the government, then things become more complex. But that's not very different from the west, is it? If you piss off a government customer, you won't be jailed, but do you think they'd be happy to continue doing business with you?
ethernet wire +
old laptop (desemble no lcd no keyboard hide it in the box etc in the wall) +
flash directly dietpi on hdd/ssd
put it back in the wall +
ssh in to it and encrypt hdd or ssd +
put firewall
openvpn (for reaching over wan) =
NextCloud is your sollution

rpi might work too, but slow.

But if you are paranoyed that someone can steal your *photos.
From your home.

Then use batteries from old laptop, take them out 3.7V 6 or 8 of them and use few for cloud backup if main power is off and for powerup rpi with cammera for face detection and movement sensors and main electricity inficator and usb 3G or 4G ethernet dongle if that thief will turn off electricity you can get notification via 4G network. If electricity is not turned off you still can get motion detection.

Use rpi gpins to send electroshock to burn that hdd.

Good luck experimenting.
So if IMAP-sync to corporate-owned laptops is a common and allowed use case how did an automated system notice this activity?

It's not like the IMAP protocol sends the host MAC address or /etc/machine-id as part of the command stream.

I'm really having a hard time imagining a plausible automated security system that would have led to this outcome.
That's interesting, i am big fan of generating code. Right now i am using handlebars for generating code but i am curious about your approach, what are you using?
I like this idea. Writing a memo and adding tasks while writing, maybe assigning to some people. The only drawback is that there are already so many todo apps. However it could be a good idea if it could work together with some Todo apps like Todoist.
He'll commit more felonies because criminals can't stop themselves from criming.
Two-phase commit[0] could do the job

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol
Leaking sensitive material is not unethical by definition, some situations might impose a moral imperative to act in this manner.

In the narrow ethical world of top down organizations, be they for profit corporations or the Army, it's of course a mortal sin, as is every other attempt to bring accountability to upper levels and redirect the flow of bullshit from top-down to bottom-up. I'll let you guess who decides what "ethics" stands for in this situation.
Ah, but I would argue that making business choices based on politics is always gonna end badly.
Issued on January 20th, 2021.... Didn't Joe Biden just win the popular vote with 51.3% on... November 3rd, 2020, over two months ago? Why does the US political system wait months to enact the peoples' will? I don't understand this at all.
Or powerful ones: https://twitter.com/rsingel/status/1351783622362030082
The “battery down” beep isn’t usually the same as the alarm in my experience
You are the one behind the times, Java has had support for AOT compilation since around 2000, just not as free beer.

Most 3rd party commercial JDKs have offered it, specially for embedded deployment scenarios.

Besides Android Java isn't Java, rather a Google dialect with cherry picked packages from (nowadays) OpenJDK, most likely to die frozen in its current state as they embrace Kotlin über alles.
Because Google has a stellar ethical track record and would never lie for their own gain, right? I think they’ve exhausted the benefit of the doubt.
Can you configure this tool to login to websites (for paid news subscriptions) and get past those paywalls?
I'm disappointed in Michael Ovitz, who I've thought well of before now. Why would he stoop to this? Lewandowski was clearly very much in the wrong. Justice was in no way miscarried by his conviction.
Sorry. Please flag or remove if I took it too far.
Just a minor point - type hints only really help if you put them in struct fields. In function signatures they only limit what can be dispatched to that specific method, there's (almost always) no difference to leaving it untyped since functions are compiled for specialized types anyway.
AWS is the fly in the ointment there

No, many SaaS providers have discovered that it’s the back door in the GPL, Google were the leaders in this field. AWS is egregious but they didn’t invent doing this.
But Get-NetAdapter just works. Your command, I don't have a /sys/class/net/ens33 on this Ubuntu virtual server. I do have a /sys/class/net/venet0 but /sys/class/net/venet0/address is blank, even though the VM does have an IP address.

Grepping everything under /sys/class/net/* can't find the IP in there. It shows up in `ip addr` as venet0:0 and as a P-t-P link, so I assume that's related; doesn't work unless you know the adapter name and still might not work then? What kind of "contract" is that?
> ...the US had one of the longest growth periods in its history...

How are we measuring this? Because from 2007 -> 2019 US nominal GDP is up 50% and the M2 was up 102%. I don't think this argument that keeping price inflation contained to assets rather than consumer goods justifies calling it a period of growth. Someone is collecting all this money and it doesn't look like it is people who earn wages.

The US debt/GDP ratios have also crossed lines where there isn't even room to pretend they are going to come down again voluntarily. US debt to GDP is out of control.

The US doesn't look like it is coming out of a long period of growth. If that were true it is surprising how much trouble it is having covering its bills, and giving money to already wealthy asset owners isn't helping.
> Davis Adams, who works at Honda and drives an S2000, told me about a Lotus Elise he used to own that had a motion sensor. "If you locked the door, and moved your hand in the open air," he said, "the alarm would go off. So if you left a dog in the car, or someone leaned in the open convertible to look, it'd trigger the alarm."

20 year Lotus Elise owner here. I have had thieves slash the roof and and steal items. And I would never leave a dog alone in it.
Has anyone used bookdown on R?
https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/
That is such a subjective statement. One persons morals differ from another’s - a leak is a leak doesn’t matter what excuses one makes to justify it
Yup, them saying

>2. Culture war. Tell Disney it's time to stop being cozy and make a "Chernobyl" style film about Tiananmen, Uyghurs, Tibetans, et al.

That's just straight up propaganda coming from a country that has plenty of bad stuff Disney could make movies from too.
Existing thread on same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25842855
name them so that others are careful in dealing with them
Trump apparently decreased his wealth severely.
Java livecoding now doesn't look all that out of reach.
https://archive.is/GWdeQ
I appreciate that you have deep personal connections to this issue, as do many other commenters, both on your side and the opposite side. What are we to do with that but try harder to respect each other?
Cool project, but can you add API?

I coded this basic python script to show colors in terminal;

https://github.com/tuxys/python/blob/main/color.py
I find the gwern.net page extraordinary and really unconventional for a personal site. What an interesting and peculiar person.
No, because beggars can't be choosers right? And the best thing to do to a person when they are at their absolute worst is to take away their last scrap of autonomy. I'm sorry, in future I will humbly accept the advice of the self righteous with a doff of my cap and a mumbled thank you.
accept that the tiranical, genocidal, dictatorial regime is appreciated by many in china.
Parler was killed for one reason. They said they wouldn't ban Trump. It's probably tamer than Facebook, Twitter or even Reddit where one search and you can find threats and calls for violence.
Section 230 makes them not liable.
Just get rid of this meaningless ethical department. Have lawyers worry about ethics, Google focus on your business and continue to grow it. People think companies are democracies - just quit the job instead of feeling the need to change the company because that will just not happen and you will have unnecessary stress
Just a note — there is basically zero chance that Jeff Bezos would face any sort of governmental action if he "pissed off a guy in a government department," however influential that person may be. AWS just blocked Parler, and I'm sure our current president — arguably the most powerful man on Earth (until tomorrow) — was not very happy with that.

We don't see Jeff Bezos in hiding for doing that, nor would he have to go into hiding for anything far less.

I don't say this to accuse you (@dang trying not to flamewar) — do you not see that this argument is a little disingenuous? If you don't, I'd love to hear your thinking on why.
I keep coming up against this phenomenon when discussing online. People on both sides take license to interpret the words of Trump to mean whatever they want it to.

Calling this confirmation bias is too generous. Trump's statements are simply a Rorschach test at this point. The content of his statements is immaterial to the conclusions drawn from them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25744023
Ask HN: Software for good online masterclasses experience?
Due current covid/online trend I am moving my masterclasses online. The last thing i want is experience to suffer.
What kind of software (beyond the usual Teleconf/Keynote) would you recommend to make things more efficient (collaboration, communication, preparation, involvement...)?
Please don't bring in someone's posts on other sites as ammunition in an argument here. I know it always feels relevant, but the general case of people behaving this way is very ugly indeed, and we're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here.

It's sufficient to reply to what someone has actually posted in this context.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=online%20shaming%20by%3Adang&s...
This is a great explanation! Thank you, it makes perfect sense now.
> And no, you don't go to jail for not toeing the party line. That's not how it works.

No you don’t. But you might find your work visa renewal denied. Things can get inconvenient really quickly, as a foreigner you don’t want to be a grass mud horse while in China, river crab is the only way to go.

> If you're Jeff Bezos and you piss off the guy in a government department...

Then Jeff Bezos sues the government, which is exactly what happened.
Is this a serious question? This is what most systems do right? Hold an election and then the newly elected sit at some later point in time.

Or are you suggesting the second we know the winner the previous president should be booted out?
*below median ;)
I'm 41, Israel opened up the vaccines to people over 40 yesterday. Called my HMO, made a same day appointment for their vaccination center at the local stadium, went there by bus in the rain. swiped in with my card when I got there and was given a number. waited close to an hour for my number to be called, got quickly stabbed in the upper arm an soon left.

It really shouldn't be that hard. My parents (i.e. 70ish) are now scheduled to get the vaccine towards the end of february in maryland.
I don't get this concern. What specifically are you worried about here, that a bad parameter will crash the program? The code is there in case you wanted to verify it's not doing anything nefarious.

This looks like just a cute script/program the author wanted to share with HN, I don't think it's a big deal if they didn't fully productionize the thing and just wanted it to be seen.
With blackjack!
Likely not without some modification, but you could try this:

https://www.jacoduplessis.co.za/bypass-paywall/
For some definition of “wasn’t much pressure”. All four of Trump’s yearly budget requests zeroed out the funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, though Congress wasn’t interested.
I just don’t see much reason to believe that she has the kind of evidence that would justify calling her a whistleblower. I could be wrong, and if she releases emails of Sundar being racist or something I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong, but it seems a lot more like she was just angry over the Gebru firing.
Errors vs. exceptions in Go and C++ in 2020
You're entirely right.

In the words of MLK:

> Hate cannot drown out hate, only love can do that.

Please don't get me wrong — I wasn't trying to excuse my wording; I was just trying to explain that I don't mean to create a flamewar or bitter argument. My comments are a genuine expression of my thinking, and I'm not trying to make HN a place for ideological battle. I suppose these discussions just naturally veer into that sort of back-and-forth.

I hope that makes sense.
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Please don't post flamewar comments to HN. We've had to ask you this many times. Nationalistic flamewar is particularly unwelcome here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Haha I quickly read that as hot metal, as in bullets. Well, hot meal is better for sure. :D
This is where I land. Anyone arguing one way or the other tends to make up some arbitrary reason or impose assumptions on the implementation of the language. They are both perfectly fine and logical numbering systems, however since 95% of developers expect a 0-based numbering system, that is what we should use.
that helps the chinese people how? i mean i see the benefit for americans, but how do you propose to get people in china to support this?
if this view is commonly held by westerners then doesn't this just give the CCP more legitimacy?
This is exactly what iranian people told me: they are democratic country. AND in the very same sentence they concluded that they can ban messaging apps if government want to.
> The government monitors social media as well for grievances.

I personally know people whose parents were stupid enough to go for such "anonymous grievance boxes" just to get a knock on the door from district committee enforcers the next day.

You don't seem to know anything about modern China if you don't even know that.

> After all, 2 generations ago the Chinese were dirt-poor. When I was born, food rationing still existed!

> mainland Chinese value unity, face, action over talk and freedom from poverty

If Beijing ever cared about freedom from poverty, China wouldn't be so poor as a result of its actions.

And I am not talking about Mao era here, but very much modern day.

> China is not interested in exporting its governance model. It has never done that.

> It's not in their interest to change others' governance model.

Then, why it is doing it?

Beijing sent armed Maoists to Naxalite insurgency, Indonesian Maoist insurgency, Malaysian Maoist insurgency, Singapore coup attempt, North Korea, Nepal, Burma, Laos, Campuchia, Sri Lanka, and ~10 African countries?

A solid record by any measure.
Is there a lightweight IPFS server suitable for hosting a low-volume personal website on a severely resource-constrained VM?

Last time I looked IPFS software used a lot of memory and bandwidth.
I agree with you on how protestors should be treated, but take issue calling the people at the Capitol "protestors". Some certainly were simply protestors, but quite a few -- those we are talking about now -- crossed the line from protesting into breaking and entering, vandalism, and in some cases violent behavior.