skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, China asked citizens around the world to buy up local supplies of PPE and ship it back to China at the earliest stages of the pandemic (Jan 2020).

> In Nagoya, Japan, volunteers drove to pharmacies and bought 520,000 masks in three days, according to an account carried by Xinhua, China’s official news agency. By Jan. 26, the head of a Chinese chamber of commerce in Toronto, just back from a trip to Beijing, started making calls to members telling them they needed to join the effort, the report said. Almost 100 people drove to Toronto—some overnight, on icy roads—and were dispatched to buy supplies. Planes out of Kenya and Milan were packed with boxes and suitcases filled with PPE bound for China. An overseas Chinese association in Argentina sent some 25,000 masks within a week of receiving the request.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-17/behind-ch...

Then they sold defective PPE and Covid Tests to the world.

Friday, June 5, 2020

> “The charges alleged in this complaint show a blatant disregard for the safety of American citizens,” Acting FBI-Newark Special Agent in Charge Douglas Korneski said. “Had it not been for the actions of the investigative team, this defendant would have put first responders, hospital employees, and other front line workers directly in harm’s way with faulty equipment just to make a buck. The defendant tried to bypass the government's regulations by misbranding the quality of the equipment being peddled. The FBI remains vigilant in the pursuit of criminals trying to exploit the current crisis.”

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/chinese-manufacturer-char...

> AA growing list of foreign complaints about faulty medical gear and testing kits imported from China has upset Beijing's designs. Within the last few weeks, scientists and health authorities in Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey and Britain have complained of faulty antigen or antibody coronavirus tests purchased from Chinese companies — in some cases, costing these governments millions of dollars.

https://news.yahoo.com/faulty-masks-flawed-tests-chinas-1718...
I think personally that proof of stake and proof of work both don’t matter in the end.

I believe that all cryptocurrencies are at their heart scams.

Proof of stake doesn’t change this dynamic.

As I see it, cryptocurrencies doesn’t actually solve any real, significant problems we face as a (global) society.

And to pick one important thing: they exclusively enable crypolocker randsomeware, and we know their devastating impact.

Dollars are abused too, but the dollar gives so much back, our societies are based on it.

I see no benefit to society of cryptocurrencies and I would really like to see them go.

Nothing good has come from them. Zero.
Kaiser has this policy when getting an in person test. I have n95s so I simply put the disposable blue thing over my main one. (another needed story I think at least some are counterfeit)
I'm going to echo the Insight Data Science Fellowship Program as, by far, the best in that space. Even then, please pick up a copy of Clean Code if you're from another field. That's a chronic issue with data science candidates.
Afaik, the people in these occupations live shorter on average. Some do live long, but generally the conditions take toll on the body.
Effectiveness of masks should be so easy to proof, but just isn't. It should be obvious to anyone when you're so desperate.

Btw Swedes live mostly in the south and in big cities (100k+). You didn't even check that.
> In the case of this particular tweetstorm, the business was likely not incorporated as the author kept feeding it from his own bank account.

That is a terrible assumption. Of course the business was incorporated. There is nothing stopping you from investing money into an LLC or corporation. That's how VC funding works.
I do block Google trackers, and have network state partitioning enabled, however the reCAPTCHA tests are usually bearable. (often a checkbox, sometimes a page) It seem like I get at least 2 pages of tests for hCaptcha every time.
> One reason is that disparate impls of POSIX utils don't behave as similarly as one would hope. It's easy to cross the line from using flags that are guaranteed to be available to using flags and behaviors only available on your machine.

Certainly not, it's as easy as looking up the specification for anything else; what is and isn't POSIX is well documented.

> everybody who saw it had a visceral negative reaction

This is a reaction rooted in emotion, not reason.
This story is about them attempting to do exactly what you suggest.
> I wonder how many people who got into crypto and found something they clicked with and were able to make something of compared with a dead end job

For every one of these people who bought cryptocurrency and "made something", there is someone - for the sake of discussion, another poor sap with a dead end job - who just bought cryptocurrency and hasn't made anything. And lots more from the second group who have made a tiny minority of crypto owners rich.
What a terrible article. Crypto is a new technology that will likely have many uses, to advocate banning it nationally is dangerous and would quickly put us behind the rest of the world.

There are easier ways around the "energy use dilemma": carbon tax. If your energy used for mining comes from renewable resources, then there is no issue.
Just for the sake of discussion, if we assume any general, generic computer process that works fine serially breaks in a parallel environment, is that really a valid argument for or against parallelism?

In the short term, things breaking like this are of course frustrating, but if it was my environment I’d prefer that this dependency was an explicit part of the configuration rather than something that works “by accident”, unless one prefers that initialization should never be anything but serial, but I personally at least don’t see the benefits of that outweighing what systemd offers.
>This is either false or unknowable

Alright well that means it could also be true...
> For a website that has 10,000 visitors per month, in one year you could save about 4.5 kilograms of CO2 emissions just by replacing Google analytics with Plausible.

What the hell? How do you calculate this figure? That's roughly equivalent to the CO2 created by driving a gas-burning car 10 feet to the data center to ferry information about each request (figuring a car emits about 1.2 pounds of CO2 per mile traveled). That's an astounding claim, and there's no effort to even explain the idea behind it.
It’s not like Googles solution is watertight.
Ask HN: How do I get started with learning about crypto?
I'm a graduating CS major and I've been generally interested in what crypto is, but I think the concepts are a bit obscure and I don't fully understand it.

I want to start by learning the fundamentals and then more advanced concepts. I'm not looking to learning programming in crypto -- just looking to learn and read more. Thanks for the help, HN!
Some producers do get "points" just for production, even if they don't get a full writer credit.

Production can mean anything and everything from project management, sound design, co-writing, arranging to hands-on instrumental parts - to turning up once a week and saying "Sounds great. Carry on."

The split depends on the producer/artist agreement.

Session musicians don't usually get points even though they may literally write their parts. In publishing terms a song is melody+lyrics, and everything else is work-for-hire arrangement.

This often gets renegotiated because it's clearly nonsense. But that's the starting point.
I used to have a lot of respect for him, he's very intelligent and a great hacker. But man he's really gone down the rabbit hole basically on the edge of consipiracy theorist lately. It's sad. His viewpoints are naive and he never proposes viable solutions.

It's easy to say ban "X" when that is never going to happen. If he was really interested in a solution he would acknowledge the benefits that people are getting out of Bitcoin and provide alternative solutions.

But meanwhile people will continue to complain about Bitcoin while it's market cap will continue to rise and it will keep on growing in usage.

All major banks are now planning serious efforts in the crypto space with massive investments. This isn't going to go away with magical thinking.
I'm not at all surprised to see this. The writing has been on the wall that Hitachi has an appetite for getting into enterprise software. 5-ish years ago they bought an SAP infrastructure shop that I used to work with when I consulted in the space. At the time it seemed they were dipping their toes but it felt like only a matter of time until they made a bigger push into enterprise software services.
Let it be said that this author certainly puts a lot of journalistic (and typesetting, and annotating, and linking) effort into the work -- something that I love to see and we don't see often enough. Not surprisingly, the author is also a Wikipedia admin and I see the page uses a lot of wiki-style formatting tricks. Quite cool.
I wrote a proper response to this, then deleted it.

Because seriously, you're asking why a clear demonstration of how someone doesn't understand/is ignorant of power dynamics isn't a sign that person shouldn't be anywhere near positions of power and influence?

And maybe the explaining that needs to be done is yourself.
Wow, impressive. Probably not much interest because they trade at a low multiple, but that's quite the company. In my experience the quality of the experience you get when working with a software consultancy/dev shop is inversely correlated to the size of the firm. But I guess it works for others.
That doesn’t seem to justify the environmental impact to me.
I am a bit skeptic when it comes to these things. But, I have been doing a 1 min "prayer" every day while taking a shower in the morning. I remind myself how well I am off compared to many people and what a great family I have etc. It has really helped me to start the day with a calmer mind.
Am I in the minority that I don't want to see updates monthly for a desktop application? It seems like every time I launch paint.net, for example, it wants to update. I don't want to update! I want to edit an image.
> I honestly am baffled as to why anyone would not choose rails for most web apps

Maybe it's the insane memory requirements of Rails leading ot large AWS bills. It can be worse than running a JVM for a fraction of the performance. Rails didn't go out of fashion for nothing.
I wouldn't say that about the OP. It obviously has political overlap, but it's not generic-ideological. That would be more like "all corporations always do what authoritarian governments say"—yet even such an article could conceivably be on topic here if it were substantive, went deeply into specific evidence, and wasn't primarily flamebait. What we don't want as an initial condition for a thread here is the unsubstantive sort of ideological article that hurls flameballs of snarky rhetoric.

After that, it's the commenters' duty not to take thread further into flamewar, such as with generic ideological rhetoric. I know it's not easy but it's not as if the principle is hard to understand.
I know a lot of people buy gifts that way, but I try to avoid getting people gifts for their hobbies and interests. If it's their expertise and not yours, there's a very good chance that it's going to be something they either already have or chose not to have.

It's not impossible to find that "Oh, I always wanted one of these" gifts, but even when I get such a gift, it feels oddly disconnected if the giver doesn't know why it's important to me.

The best gifts are the ones that you get because they share something with you. "I picked this up because it reminded me of that trip we took", or "The net time we go golfing together, I know you'll like this putter because it worked so well for me."

There are still uses for such a list: even when you share things it helps to have something jog your memory and spark ideas. But I'd be worry about finding a fishing lure for a fishing-obsessed friend no matter how many fishing aficionadoes recommended it. I'll do that if I have no other ideas, but it would feel desperate.

So thanks for creating it, and good luck.
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Cardano mainnet doesn't exist? What?...

The Mainnet has 2,289 active stake pool operators, which comes out to >99% decentralized, with 71.09% of the total ADA in circulation being actively staked on those pools ($26.83b/$37.7b). It has an incredibly active and healthy mainnet...
I use QtCreator and it would be able to do this.

If I had

#define SEVENTEEN 17

and another macro

#define OTHER_THING 17

I could simply refactor SEVENTEEN to

#define MY_NEW_NAME 17

which would change all occurrences of SEVENTEEN to MY_NEW_NAME, and then I would just change the value of that macro.

#define MY_NEW_NAME 23
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Why would they do this, and not have their own collectables database which they could more easily make money off?
Gambling-adjacent reasons are: it's difficult to tax in a fair way (what proportion the capital gains due on crypto have been paid?), and has potential to be used as a front for organised money laundering.
Why is [a] in brackets?
Actually they don't. There may or may not be a publishing advance, and a lot of songs do the rounds on spec.
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I thought I'd read something about them ceasing production due to the odd brand association, but upon further research it appears that they're still making it, but without Hitachi markings, and distributing through a company called Vibratex.
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Do you think terrorist organisations use BTC ? Of course no, they are fine with USD. Should we ban USD too?
You're free to your opinion, but I see little benefit in a technology for your average constituent that is more expensive than instant payments to move funds, has a highly volatile value (which is an anti pattern of a currency), and provides little to no recourse in the event there is fraud or theft (again, an anti-pattern crypto proponents champion as some sort of feature). One person's authoritarianism is another's properly functioning regulatory environment. If crypto is instead treated as a commodity (Bitcoin), than that and similar crypto tech can be regulated as a commodity by government (which the CFTC and IRS does today).

The US government has the authority to regulate crypto's use as a currency and absolutely should exert that regulatory power.
A centralized company running a database absolutely can provide digital scarcity. If they could not, then why would there be a real money market around in-game items for many games (which may include some limited run or even one-of-a-kind items).

Sure one can say that NFTs are uniquly identifyable. But that does not mean very much. People might claim it means the owner of the database cannot just make your unique item into something super common by creating many copies.

But they still can create many nearly identical copies differing basically only the NFT token's id, which in effect would act like a serial number.

I don't see this providing any scarcity that a centralized list of "offical" owners does not provide.
Sure it might work with a database, just as you don't need a blockchain to do what Visa does. But Brave is really one of the best showcases for what crypto can achieve imo.

They've tied anonymity, opt-in advertisements, and micropayments into one thing. I think it would actually be more difficult to do this without a cryptocurrency.
Sure it's cool but I don't see what's unexpected about it. So long as the reward is the same and the cheating is mostly effortless, I don't see why a cheater would prefer to play against honest people and have to compete against genuine skill versus a cheater competing against other cheaters.

If the reward were a function of how honest the environment/population was and cheaters still preferred the dishonest environment, then I'd find that to be interesting... but if the reward is mostly the same regardless of the nature of participants, then I don't see why cheaters would prefer to play against honest individuals.

I also don't think this finding generalizes very well, for example when cheating still requires a great deal of effort on the part of the cheater. For example take a competitive sport that is notorious for cheating, cycling. I'd be surprised if cyclists who take performance enhancement drugs would prefer to compete against other cyclists who use those drugs compared to competing against cyclists who don't use drugs.

Find me a study that comes to that conclusion and I'll be a lot more interested.
> I honestly have no clue if there’s a market for this product.

I bet you there is. Try offering it as a service of some sort.
Yeah come to think of it, I've seen Hitachi hard drives as well
> Bitcoin is objective, hard, honest money

Yes, definitely makes sense when the main usage of it is money laundering and mindless speculation
The problem with governments creating welfare states is that other citizens (and the government) become responsible for the financial implosion of individuals which incentivizes stupid behavior. I don't believe gambling should be banned but should taxpayers be liable for the healthcare of someone who used their health insurance money to speculate on cryptocurrency? This is actually the main division between conservatives and liberals (I mean small government vs. big government) that conservatives are so bad at articulating. Once the government is responsible for the well-being of its citizens, it has weird effects like banning cryptocurrency because they don't want to be left holding the bag.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying...
This is called a zaibatsu in Japan and a chaebol in South Korea. The Korean ones in particular are simultaneously fascinating and disturbing due to their interwovenness with the state.
Except it almost never works out that way. Foreign aid goes to the foreign government, which uses it to stay in power (e.g., giving food only to loyal supporters). Since the problems of developing countries are usually related to tyrannical governments, foreign aid is a way of ensuring that the people cannot topple their tyrannical governments.
Disclaimer: I work at AWS, primarily in the compute space, but I'm not speaking in an official capacity.

As fguerraz mentioned, modern AWS instance families are basically all powered by Nitro, which refers to the ecosystem around the hypervisor and hardware acceleration cards utilized. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/
It's not a question of quality control.

The masks were advertised as containing graphene. It was supposedly used for filtration.
Or the ‘Just rewrite it in Rust!’ clan
I, obviously, bring it up because the author is making statements of fact that they can't possibly know to be true. This should be a reasonable criticism of the author. Don't talk nonsense if you're trying to write a serious argument.
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It's pretty simple really. It tries to do a lot of complicated things, and it's underspecified so it's possible to have compliant devices that behave wildly differently between vendors. It also rarely breaks compatibility so there's a lot of cruft for ancient devices.
> It's not better-enough to motivate switching away from C in places where C is still used

I suspect zig will eventually fill this niche. Proper arrays and strings and better compile time execution support while still being a small, simple, explicit language are quite significant improvements on C.
I mean shitty singers fucking rich
Currently rolling out to Android, coming to iOS soon.

For years I have tried to use the chron view on iOS, and it's been broken for most of that time. The first post will be from 2-3 days ago, even though I know there are many newer posts. And if I scroll down it shows me maybe 30 more posts, and then it says there are no more. It was as if they knew it was broken but intentionally didn't fix it so that people wouldn't use the feature.
You start the login process with the account that you want to know about, and then click, forgot password and start a password reset. Then twitter gives you a list with a radio button for the reset link.

Send txt to: 555 ** *8
Email : na*****@g**.**
But the devs who would define SEVENTEEN to be 17 are unlikely to define OTHER_THING at all, since there’s a “perfectly good” macro that evaluates to 17 and avoids hard-coded numbers already. (They might even cite DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself as a misapplied best-practices shibboleth.)

See the (contrived) Declaration of Independence line above. Your editor would dutifully change the date to be off by six hundred years.
To indicate I edited it (to make it grammatically correct in my sentence).
In my personal experience most people think of cryptocurrencies as a Ponzi scheme, some kind of money laundering operation, a tremendous waste of energy, or some combination of those three. In light of that, I think a cryptocurrency ban would be easy for politicians to sell to the public using those terms.

How effective the ban would be is another question, but I am mainly talking about how I think the politicians would justify the ban.
...or maybe havetheyfoundlifeonotherplanetsyet.com
I'm not sure. Do these DeFi schemes involve currencies which cannot be cancelled or created in large amounts by political decision (e.g. democratic)? If the answer is "yes", then these may be just another form of pyramid scheme, perhaps less taxing on the environment.
This guy will be mad when he finds out than Ethereum 2.0 will be energy efficient (no more mining).
This, but slightly revised: it's because Samsung is in the market of selling cheap hardware. Apple sells luxury products and part of their value-add is leverage with their vendors.

Apple can come to a vendor and say "these are our constraints on what we are willing to buy. Here's testing benchmarks. You are required to meet them. Failure to do so voids the purchase contract."

The vendor will then, of course, say "We'll have to charge you more if we're spinning up a test infrastructure we don't have."

And then Apple will negotiate a price point and pass the anti-savings onto the consumer.

They do this at multiple levels at multiple points in their hardware story. I met someone once who worked on the USB integration specs back in the first-couple-generation iBooks. Apple built a rig for physically testing the connectors (including multiple cycles of intentional mis-plug, i.e. flipping a USB-A connector over wrong-side-up and pushing hard against the socket). They told the vendors selling them USB sockets that the sockets had to survive the rig, or the sale was void. Vendors priced accordingly. But the resulting product is more robust than others on the market.