skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't really compare CCP with the likes of Tatmadaw or Lukashenko's clique. While all of them are authoritarian, the quality of their governance is quite different.

The difference with CCP and Tatmadaw (Myanmar army) generals, is that the CCP actually understands how to govern.

Tatmadaw is making things objectively worse for everyone economically, while CCP has succeeded in improving the lives of Chinese people. (Yes, and it is authoritarian and suppresses ethnic minorities but these qualities do not signify it as inept).

Or in DD terms, Tatmadaw is borderline chaotic evil while CCP is lawful evil.
Regarding Germany's official Corona tracing app (not the of this post), by the end of last year there was a discussion about collecting movement data of the app users [0]. The discussion was part of the "German Infection Protection Act", resulted in public protests and in the end got declined. I wonder what the state of this is in other countries?

[0] https://www.sciencemediacenter.de/alle-angebote/rapid-reacti...
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Apple has the power of a government? Like with sovereign territory, and army, and a seat in the UN?
IPOs typically outperform in the short term. While I agree retail investors shouldn’t go anywhere near an IPO based on an ad in a food delivery app, in other ways it is rational.

EDIT: also, WeWork was somehow a tech company. Until it wasn't...
I believe it was Nato's invasion of Kosovo that I last believed political action has power.
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Literally the first line of Dante's Inferno is "Midway upon the journey of our life", and we know that the story takes place in 1300, when Dante was 35 years old. (Although Dante himself died in malaria at 56.)

I don't know where this "in the Middle Ages you were considered old folk by the age of 30" myth comes from, but it has no right to exist. It's the history equivalent of the tongue map. Wrong but so widespread that even teachers believe it sometimes.
Wow, that’s a real kicker.
Do you think they understand just adding the copyright notice to the source code is not sufficient to comply with the license?
5 tweets deep it hits you with the signup or login to read and then it’s tab over
And many times, airplanes have 100 passengers or less. I’ve flown on flights with only two or three dozen sometimes. I think OPs point wasn’t that it’s ok, but that, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not out of the ordinary. Is it bad, sure, but we should also be fighting back against air travel in general then. Pollution taxes are one way to do that.
This is just saying that rich people are rich.

Someone with obscene wealth can be imprisoned and still buy a yacht - even incarceration has a much greater impact on a poor person.

As such, I'd rather fine them in proportion to their wealth.
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Says “cloud managed” on every piece of equipment. Do you know if that’s optional?
Not being able to sell the shares you own is separate from not owning shares in the first place.
Han Chinese reproduce like rabbits and CCP sends them to Tibet, Xinjiang to erase local culture. Those are the people who buy in H&M. Its irrelevant that there is one actress who is popular. If CCP wants it can disappear or put them in concentration camp. Its like saying you have a black friend and therefore not racist.
Just popping in here with the customary reminder that even if the sector is growing rapidly, that does not make any individual company in that sector automatically a good investment. Just look at the giant graveyard of solar panel companies that went bankrupt.
Indeed it is a pun on a cloud-free sky.
Simple do it yourself tricks to exploit at home
You only have to deal with the extra complexity if you choose to put non-pointers into an Optional, though. If you use the same capabilities go has, there's no problem.

Not that "maybe it uses an extra byte, maybe it doesn't" is going to matter in 99% of situations.
How on earth is blockchain going to scale to authenticate all online communication?
There are some really interesting things you can find when treating Shakespeare as a DB.

There are some characters with no lines: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/02/characters-in-shakespeare-w...

And at least once character exits the stage without entering! https://github.com/edent/Open-Source-Shakespeare/pull/2
I read it as a pretty reflective thread of him admitting he was multiple strategic steps behind Asana at pretty much every stage of growth because of his own ignorance about where VC money can actually be useful.
Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the 'bomb' in Wuhan market
Without questioning it, I never understood how “sharing economy” companies lose money. Are they subsidising their “partners”? My base assumption was always that eg Uber passes costs and revenue to the riders. Or is it their bloated central operations, needed to justify the VC valuations?
I clicked 'Get Started', and it wants me to sign up for lifetime access.

As I understand it, this is probably just an automated questionnaire that spits out a country name at the end, right? (Is it more complex than that?) There's also no way to test out the product: you need to buy before using.

Your About page, https://remotechoice.co/about, contains the very non-useful text:

> If you work remotely and want to see where in the world is suitable for you to live and work from, then this is for you.

and links to the paid page. But:

* What will it show me?

* What info is there that I can't glean just by searching online?

* How does it work? Does it ask me questions and give a suitable country/ies?

There's _no information_. Nothing about what the service really provides.

I did find your list of locations: https://remotechoice.co/location-list and I note they all seem to be along the equator, plus or minus, with a few exceptions like Germany. Where's Estonia, one of the highest-tech countries in the world... but far north? Where are Russia, Japan, New Zealand?

Then there is a free guide to see what you get (also took some finding): https://remotechoice.co/free-guide/mexico which contains next to no information at all. Not even irrelevant info to choosing the country for remote working - there's literally almost no info there, relevant or not! It has some basic stats (population, currency, phone calling code etc), three "random facts", a Google Map showing where it is, brief visa info that is the sort of data you usually trust the embassy website to get, a list of places containing... two... and a video.

That's it.

If I'm considering remote working, I choose based on other info. For example:

* What is the culture like: what sort of culture shock will I experience?

* In practice, how well can I get by in [my native language]?

* Are things like working in cafes accepted? (It's not everywhere; some countries view taking up a seat for hours per coffee as close to theft.)

* How easy is it to meet people? Cultures vary very widely here. How easy is it to meet people who are not also expats / remote workers? How easy is it to integrate into society?

* Is there a startup culture?

* What's the healthcare like?

* What's the food like? Is it easy to find food for various diets?

* What's the cost of living - not as an index, but in practice? What does a $250, $500 and $1000 / month apartment look like?

The concept of a resource about remote working looks useful as a free site - the sort of thing an altruistic traveller would put together - but this doesn't seem to provide useful information for choosing a country to live in; it makes it difficult to find what info you will be given; and I am not sure why I'd need lifetime access to it.
Yes, that's the idea. At least in the place I live, you just need to go to a convenience store, tell the cashier the phone number and pay cash.
This is what I do at home (kvm serial console on sulogin with root's password locked), but I would never consider that for a multi-tenant cloud provider.

A simple "rely on IAM for access control" doesn't match with my idea of defense in depth.
Just another App Store rejection story
That's a good point. Ah the things you can do when you hold the economies of entire cities hostage.
Hm, my conclusion of the thread was less “VC is evil” and more like “We underestimated the impact VC had and overestimated the impact “organic growth” would have for us.” What’s hypocritical about that?
This is completely false.

US government imposed sanctions on 17 Saudi officials who were connected with the killing.

They couldn't punish Prince Mohammed bin Salman because he is expected to be King at some point soon which means any sanctions would be nonsensical. How does a travel ban for example work against the leader of any country let alone an (unfortunate) ally.

There simply isn't any good options for punishing world leaders.
I prefer to use 2 delivery apps, I am not going to keep on installing new apps all the time. Habits are hard to change.
(OP) Title of original article has now changed to:

Race report: UK a model for other white majority countries
Switching to FreeBSD, my khadas sounds leaps and bounds better
+1 for Peplink, Surprised more people haven't mentioned them
Twitter Censors Martin Kulldorff, Professor Harvard Medical School
> The difference between signed tags and signed commits is minimal — in the case of commit signing, the signature goes into the commit object itself. It is generally a good practice to PGP-sign commits

Note: Linus says otherwise, the two are very different: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...

One of the most important reasons it doesn't make sense to sign commits is that keys expire so when you sign something you implicitly say it is valid at most until the key is valid; nothing can be guaranteed after that. It is easy enough to re-sign a tag (even automatically) but you can't re-sign a commit without changing its identity and that defeats the whole purpose of git.

The only reason you'd want to sign commits is to defend from malicious maintainers ie if your patch is changed before being merged, or your authorship is removed, or a patch impersonating you is merged. It's probably better to sign your patches (ie the temporary moment where you interact) in that case: I see there was some work in that direction (https://lwn.net/Articles/813646/) but apparently it hasn't caught up (https://lore.kernel.org/signatures/ shows last signatures end of 2020)
Telling someone how they must complete a task (i.e. use specific equipment) is one of the things that turns contractors into employees under AU law.
Facebook now lets users and pages turn off comments on their posts
What does minimalist design have to do with database sequence number generation?

Or am I incorrectly assuming that once sentence is intended to flow on from the previous one and they are just two separate random thoughts.

I do agree with your assessment that the UI is a bit too slick for its own good. Slightly annoying in fact.
Yes, but now you can make plasma and microwave popcorn simultaneously with just one device!
Which means there is no barrier to entry. The riders will go to any platform which takes a lower share of commission, since they are limited by the number of workable hours. And because restaurants host themselves on all platforms, there isn't any loyalty there. And customers go to platforms only looking for deals that cheapen the prices, since otherwise they have to pay 20ish% extra.
"no longer" is weird phrasing if it never was there.
They gave it a product name instead of a designation.
CCP is borderline lawful evil, too.

After all, their laws means nothing without without a nod and wink from the CCP. China is not a nation of laws.

Edit: fsloth nailed it below
Don't forget that ZooKeeper was the only service that passed all Jepsen [1] tests out of the box.

[1] https://jepsen.io/analyses
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This would also seem to be a vulnerability of Canonical's centralised snap store. Would they take down submissions containing content that the CCP objects to?
> Browsing Google Maps is a joke on the PinePhone's weak processor.

So you probably need Librem 5 for more performance. There is also OpenStreetMap, which is much faster.

> Desktop Firefox was never designed to work at those screen dimensions.

It already mostly works. Software updates make it more usable every week.
Pretty much that. It's also very simple nowadays. you just tick the box on the Wireless Security tab, and check that the mobility domain match between all the APs - it should by default, I think it's derived from the SSID.
Let's hope Google's FLoC is as successful as their switch to Google+
Hetzner: New dedicated vCPU servers with AMD EPYC 7003 are now available
> I mean capitalism goes together with authoritarianism pretty good. Just look at the companies that still exist today that helped the Third Reich.

The above sentence makes no sense:

1) The Third Reich no longer exists.

2) I think you're implying that companies that operated under the Third Reich should be punished, but that is orthogonal to capitalism and the Third Reich.

It actually appears that you don't understand what the words "capitalism" and "authoritarianism" mean.

But since you brought it up, note that the current owners of those companies are largely the grandchildren of Nazis (no exaggeration.) Hope that made your day! :)
Most of it is marketing, fighting legal issues and attrition of goods delivered / compensation. And also the insane discounts they have to provide to stay ahead of the competition. Airbnb is somewhat immune, since their only major competitors are old school hotels.
Please give an example of a cure that has been hidden by pharma. I'm all ears.
I had to find a way to start something on boot recently and I found it trivial. I just did a google search for starting thing on boot systemd, copied a 5 line service file, enabled it and it worked.

And if you just want to start a gui, Gnome Tweaks has a page which is super simple.
The auto-unlock thing is more for Datacenters etc. If your SSD/HD explode you can safely throw them into the recycle-bin, without the fear that someone can access the data stored on.
This relativism is ridiculous. As much as western governments have their own problems - are you seriously going to pretend individuals are protected similarly between China and EU or US ?
Ugh, sorry to hear that. :(

They can be a little nasty to users on the forum as well but in general I really like the product.
It's not the official German contact tracing app. It's a private app. See replies to the top comment for more details.
Link fairly-prosecuting the perpetrators of Khashoggi's murder to the continuation of US military aid?
How about spinning up a container with the entire host file-system mounted in a Copy-on-Write configuration. This way you can trash the container as much as you want without affecting anything on the outside.

Combine it with syscall logging and you might actually have a great tool for figuring out exactly how a command is affecting your system.
It was serendipitous that it happened, but my god, that's not supposed to happen in clinical trials run by companies like AZ.
We should also remember that we are discussing a different civilization to that of the 'western' sphere.

Not in the orientalist sense of being incomprehensible, but by just by understanding the political history and hence the intuitive sensibilities of what is understood to be a just way of running a government being quite different.

This is not to claim democracy would not fit all, but rather, it is quite a different thing to introduce it to an environment which already accepts as its philosophical inheritance the democracy of Athens, the Republic of Rome, the Magna Carta, and so on, to one for whom these are exotic and foreign historical references.

And frankly, a stable government - no matter how legalistic or authoritarian - is almost always better than no government at all (ref. all the areas with failed states and ruled by warlords).

In a political environment that has never known anything but authoritarian rule, it is actually quite safe bet that any destabilizing forces are not trying to "improve peoples lives" but actually just to replace the existing authoritarian power structure with a one of their own.

So... while mistreating demonstrator is reprhensible ... the situation is not necessarily about "good v.s bad" but actually about "stability vs. chaos" and in both situations there are losers - only in the "chaos" case the number of losers is larger.
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We might have different definitions of cheap.
The C# compiler has always been included with the .NET Framework, it has never required Visual Studio:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/861384/is-it-possible-to...
I like the expressibility, its easy to improve performance in the compiler later.
I think the topic was overall quality of governance. This affects the lives of all citizens, not just those in the political opposition. There is quite large variance in the capability to govern with CCP and Tatmadaw.
I'm so glad it is not just me. There are 2-3 restaurants that are only on UberEats. Every time I open it, I hate it. The Uber ride app was/is the pinnacle of good design; UberEats has extremely poor information architecture that makes using it painful.
Vecteezy.com is still independently owned :)
I’ve been doing this since I was a kid. Was disappointed that the linked article wasn’t about it.

Also accidentally did it with sliced carrots a couple times.
Deliveroo takes a very high commission (54% in one case [0]), and that is a commission on the total order value, not the delivery charge! I was not aware that Deliveroo takes so much away from restaurants, had I known I would've used it less and preferred to order more directly from restaurants where possible.

I wouldn't have invested in Deliveroo anyway: the best possible scenario for Deliveroo was the pandemic, once it is over it can only go downhill from there, there isn't more room to grow than that.
[0] https://www.facebook.com/the.olive.grove.cambridge/photos/a....
Since neither Flow nor Asana are innovative ideas for a startup, they basically ended up competing in a zero-sum game trying to out spend each other in marketing and features.

That is why innovation and finding a niche with loyal users are key ingredients for startups. But in SV, you can keep pumping money onto a mediocre ideas/products round after round and increase it's valuation. Basically drying out the competition (our author in this case) and pushing their products down the market throat using sheer force powered by marketing and developers VC supplied capital.
Exactly! We have, as an industry, collectively forgotten that computing power can be had without connecting to the Internet. Nobody’s objecting to smart gadgets—we are objecting to gadgets that needlessly rely on Internet to work, serve unwanted ads to us, and surreptitiously send god knows what data back to the manufacturer.
I don't know if this is still true, but a few years ago Uber was losing money on every trip [1]. They also, five years ago, had 6000 employees, of which 2000 were engineers [2]. Apologies for the outdated links, there's probably more precise data out there.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/ubers-plan-to-lose-m...
[2] http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/10/12/lessons-learned-f....
Canada suspends use of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for those under 55
Apple lobbying against Uighur Forced Labor Prevention Act in the United States goes beyond that.
It is common today too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitation_(healthcare)
Presumably not, as long as those government requests/demands are valid within the eyes of local law.

To say otherwise is to suggest that companies should exist above the law, and ignore the rule of law where it’s inconvenient. I don’t think that’s a precedent you want to set.

With regards to moral obligations of US companies seeking to do business in countries that don’t uphold the same standards as the US. I would argue a better place to have that conversation is in Congress, which could then seek to apply export controls to all companies. Rather than just relying on the good will and moral judgment of amoral companies.

I would personally love to see restrictions on trade with China tied to their human rights violations. But don’t think right approach is campaigning individual companies.
> interviewing over and over has a non-negligible cost

I would say, specifically in the US where this type of question is asked, it is negligible compared to a dev's yearly salary. What one should consider is the time spent interviewing all candidates versus the cost of making a bad hire and doing it all over again. The only thing you're limiting when interviewing fewer people is the short-term cost of "hours spent doing interviews". That's a myopic metric.

Another thing I didn't mention in my list is churn or employee retention. Another aspect is if your domain/application might be more appealing to someone who doesn't have a degree and might stay interested and on board longer.

> A serious CS degree provides a better signal to noise ratio.

For one, noise is subjective. And in filtering out the noise, you're filtering out outliers - both good and bad. Even assuming you're right, that would only mainly apply to juniors.

> And should cover most of the points you listed as potentially required to program anyways.

The question is if you're selecting for the right criteria, since some of my points can only be arrived at through experience and general maturity.

The simple fact is: an education is only one aspect of someone's CV, a start and a depreciating asset over time. There is no sense in ignoring the candidate's job experience, general life path, public repos, etc.
Lawful evil in the context of DD does not mean "law abiding".

"A lawful evil villain methodically takes what he wants within the limits of his code of conduct without regard for whom it hurts. He cares about tradition, loyalty, and order but not about freedom, dignity or life. He plays by the rules but without mercy or compassion. He is comfortable in a hierarchy and would like to rule, but is willing to serve."

I find this characterization quite fitting with the worst aspects of CCP rule.

Of course "order over human rights" is part of legalism as a framework for governance so labeling it as "evil" may or may not be culturally insensitive.
A whole team in our company left weeks after the CEO talked about its future and how the main focus will be a new branch of the company.

The team leader asked the CEO what about us. You told us last year we will grow, and he said: I changed my mind about that, your team will stay like it is.

When the team left, there was an emergency meeting where he asked us if we know anything about what happened, why they all left. I said you basically told them they don't have a future here.

His response? Thank's for your input, but that's not it. Anybody else?
Soon after, I resigned too.
I was thinking of this one: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/springtime
For context:

- We are talking about a file of 200 lines of code.

- It's replaceable functionality that isn't exactly rocket science.

- The issue was fixed within a few hours.

[Edit: replaced "error" with "issue" to avoid implicit judgement and establish a common baseline]
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Erm, no. A single JDAM would send much stronger signal. Of course it would bring repercussions, and that is the reason for purely symbolic actions taken instead: USA won’t do anything that could hamper their military influence in region.
Your lego guy that pops out asking to share something you've been working on is a bit annoying - I'm already half way through reading one article.

OK, I'm not now, I got distracted to come here and comment.
While these phones exist, they are practically not much of a use for 99% of the population as many of the basic apps aren't available.