skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>paying attention to recent developments

I follow the subject closely. The "no intent to kill" pertains to scope of Chinese influence operations, in terms of harm they're minimal relative to other actors. IRC the dailybeast link was about PRC trolls mocking lockdown skepticism, listening to them would have helped not harmed. These events do not occuring in void, PRC/US responds to each other's disinformation efforts. And will continue to, that's expected, what's unexpected IMO is PRC isn't pushing propaganda nearly that hard according to recent analysis.

>bridge the gap becomes

No one's figured out a solution to tribalism. Much of the "blame CCP but not Chinese people '' narrative out there does not feel genuine, doubting western criticisms is not misplaced. Which overlooks the point that the propaganda environment with competing antithetical claims is designed to fracture. The more absurd narrative west feeds their populus, which diaspora sees through, the more the gap continues to widen.

>should not speak for natives in this regard

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>VPN's are becoming more and more unreliable

Why not? I follow developments in PRC cyber policy and deal with it myself back and forth. I didn't claim it was safe to conduct anti-state activities, even nationalists get punished for using VPN occasionally. Overall it's fine, like torrenting. Sometimes copyright letters get sent out to unsuspecting victims, but most people slide by. VPN more unreliable, especially leading up to CCP centennial, but seems like there's more Chinese nationalists trolling abroad than ever, and since current analysis suggest CCP coordinated disinfo is not large, it's fair to presume whatever VPN and cyber policies changes, it hasn't substantially impeded PRC ability to interact with abroad.

To circle back on topic, the condition is such that lots of genuine PRC voices are making it’s way over the GFC, but not vice versa. That’s just unfortunate asymmetry between open and close internet, and it’s a problem west needs to deal with, so far strategy seems to be maligning PRC voices as inauthentic shills / 50c with the aim of discrediting pro-China or anti-west opinions. Narrative has been manufactured to the point where PRC discussions in many spaces online are saturated with useful idiots calling for bans of pro-China opinions because it must be state funded 50c activity. Like why even highlight the two anti-BBC replies above, lots of people, especially diaspora from the global south, do not trust the FVEY media machine, it's staple compaint in variety of reporting on IR news.
html with some css some basic javascript. It's 15 pages of pdf links. This is a few days project for an average developer at most.
It's worth considering Argentina's political history in addition to its economic history. From independence, it quickly became a "feudal dictatorship" under Juan Manuel de Rosas, leading a confederation of largely autonomous provinces, from 1829-52. Then a "cold civil war" ensued from 1852-61 between the dominant province of Buenos Aires and the rest of the Confederation, with Buenos Aires eventually winning under Bartolome Mitre, who established a voice-voting faux-democracy that enshrined de facto one-party rule from 1862-1910.

This period of false democracy coincided with Argentina's miraculous economic rise, as well as the subjugation of its remaining autonomous indigenous peoples. The first free election in Argentina was held in 1916, and only fourteen years later the adolescent system was thrown into disarray by the Infamous Decade and half a century of periodic coups.

The past 38 years since the election of Raul Alfonsin in 1983 have been the longest continuous period of democracy and peace in Argentine history, by far. When we compare Canada's origin under the partially democratic English system or Japan's gradual adoption of Western values from 1868 to Argentina's eruption from an ossified Spanish Empire in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, we see more "anchors of stability" in the former two, in one case the tradition of English parliamentarianism and in the second the Japanese "flexible monarchy" that gradually relinquished power. But this is an unpleasant conclusion for those looking to change the fortunes of countries that lack such guideposts; traditions take a long time to build, and for every George Washington there are five Santa Annas.
Why was he in Fiji anyway? What was the health emergency? I hope they are OK.

Most likely it's all a coincidence, and once he was in NZ anyway, he completed the application.

But if it wasn't just a coincidence, why the big hurry?

* edit: He was in Fiji to 'ride out' the covid-19 pandemic. He applied for NZ residency 3 months ago. Discussions about the medivac have been ongoing 'for months'. So it appears this was not just some last-minute emergency, that just so happened to be a convenient opportunity to complete citizenship. Perhaps Fiji was a strategically planned choice too, given NZ was very closed at the time? NZ should make vaccination a requirement for citizenship, if not for entry.
Unlike the other games going for ridiculous prices, a mint boxed SMB is genuinely rare since nobody really had a need to purchase it and later retail variants came combined with Duck Hunt.
It's the tech version of being edgy.

Some people in tech like to believe that it takes a real asshole to get things done.
They can just use the data and see "50% of verified humans clicked this" and know that it is debatable or not obviously a match but not a verified not-match.
There’s a book from 1970 by Paul Goodman called New Reformation that I recently started reading that’s all about the issues surrounding government funding of science. It’s pretty interesting. Apparently there were walkouts at institutions like MIT, CalTech etc in the 60s protesting government intrusion into the sciences, but it seems to have had little effect: government funds science to get the research it thinks is important, and as you write, taxpayers pay for it many times over.
A couple things:

1) They do indeed vet reviewers, both their reviewers and also who ends up on their editorial boards, which for most people on them is just "Yeah, you're going to get more review requests." Editors should - but often don't - also evaluate the quality of the reviews themselves.

2) Some journals do copyediting and layout. Several times this has markedly improved the paper, including one that remade a figure.

3)They also handle some backend stuff. For example, for most medical journals, you just have to check a box saying "This was funded by the NIH" and they'll handle putting it in the appropriate repositories, etc.
One entity can sign and publish the data, but that doesn’t mean everyone agrees with it. If everyone agrees, they yes they could all sign the data as well. And if the ordering of the data is important, might as well put in a pointer to the previous data. And now we have a blockchain!
No my theory is garbage, totally unproven and not supported by any data. The point I'm trying to make is that the OP's is the same. I guess I could have just said citation needed.
> It's not easy to imagine a lunar base generating >$7bn of returns every year. Apart from space tourism, there isn't a whole lot you can do/build/sell on a moon base that has more value on Earth than it would cost to transport back here.

Perhaps manufacturing? We might find out stuff that is better done in low gravity.
My current covid theory is all the imperfect masks and imperfect lockdowns selected highly contagious variants.
Here is the "Commodity Jurisdiction Request" for the RSA in Perl t-shirt, mentioned in TFA:

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/archive/1995/10/msg00317.html

My recollection is that this was filed, but not long afterwards, the 40 bit restrictions were lifted, rendering the question moot.
Is Taiwan Next?
I fully agree that some people are conflating the imessage nudity detection to the detriment of the public dialog. Though I think there are also problems with imessage, including the fact that minors are not completely devoid of civil rights relative their parents, that the same mechanisms could be easily retargeted against adults (with some dictatorships taking on the role of the parent accounts), and that doing so normalizes our children to a pervasive electronic surveillance... I think it is a substantially different matter and one of less concern.

I don't think I agree on the "sort of"--

It is unambitious the effective law in the US, established in court, that if the tech company scanning is a product of government coercion than the scanning cannot be performed without a warrant.

In Ackerman Google went out of their way to testify that they were not being coerced by the government, but were scanning out of their own commercial interest (to avoid a public loss of reputation for hosting child porn on their systems).

If Apple wants to defend their failure to act in their user's best interest, they need to do so directly by calling out the governments coercion. Or otherwise, they ought to admit (as google did) that no meaningful government coercion exists and that their actions at the users expense are driven by their commercial interests.

There are two central possibilities: That the searching is coerced, in which case it is an unlawful violation of the user's fourth amendment rights, or that it is not coerced, in which case it is an activity that Apple is freely engaging with for the benefit of their commercial interests.

In either case-- facilitating an unlawful invasion of user's constitutional rights on behalf of the government, or voluntarily invading the privacy of their users for commercial benefit Apple is ethically in the wrong.

I don't doubt that this dichotomy, if widely recognized, would put apple in a difficult position-- but that's a cost of doing business.
This seems like exactly the sort of issue the Unison language is trying to tackle. They want straightforward execution of distributed computations using the same language, with no friction across machine boundaries, no sacrificing composibility.

The article mentions:

> remote procedure calls with higher-order functional arguments would require serializing those functions, which is not easy to do safely or efficiently.

This is exactly what Unison is designed to do. Code is not stored as text, but is stored in a serialized AST form and identified by hash. Therefore, transmission between nodes is trivial. The language is still a work in progress, but it's making rapid strides.

Here's an explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI

The part relevant to distributed computation is at 30:08, but the earlier parts go through the basics of how code is stored, and why this design choice was made, which might help with understanding what's going on.
It looks to be rather close to the sea, and at fairly low elevation?
Proof of work is horrific. Means someones old phone has a meltdown trying to load the page while a warehouse in china with the latest GPUs cranks out billions of proofs per second. You could even utilize botnets to get random laptops and fridges to do your PoW.
Most dams here put west still have water. Some dams have shut down. They also have more water to work with in spring than late summer even in normal non drought seasons (assuming they are fed by glaciers).
The old westerns where the cowboys are riding outside at what's supposed to be nighttime, but really is just a filtered daytime shot come to mind. (It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize they were trying to simulate nighttime lighting.)

Contrast this with the first few minutes of Netflix's Godless, which has possibly the best example of HDR capability I've seen, imho. The scene is extremely low lit, but visible, and intermittently gets fully illuminated by lightning.

Not sure I've got a point here, other than as impressive as the new technology is, there's something culturally special about the nighttime horse riding scenes, visible clouds and all.
Median strip?
Editors basically make sure that the good research get published and the bad ones are thrown out. They invite submissions, do basic QA, find potential reviewers and send the submissions out for review, make final accept/reject or revision decision. Only after that the publishers do the actual work, e.g. copy-editing, proofing, printing and distribution of the research.

Top journals usually have distinguished professors from reputed institutions in the editorial panel. That's why we can rely (somewhat) on peer-reviewed articles in those journals instead of random blog posts or arXiv submissions.

> why it's important for some research on a rare degenerative illness to be known by people who are suffering said disease?

Well I can only imagine the pain and suffering such person and their loved ones would go through, but I guess it will give them some glimmer of hope and respite. Most people lack the expertise to understand and follow cutting edge research, so someone in a position to understand the research and simultaneously benefit from it personally should have access to the said research by all means.
Not all journals charge the authors. Indeed, one of my annoyances is that the open access movement has moved the burden of paying for journals from institutions to individual PIs, which hurts new PIs worse.
Yeah, in my (fairly long) career, the most abusive workplace environments were the ones ones with the fake smiles and passive aggressive behaviour. And I had the chronic neck pain and burnout to prove it.
> First of all it'll get picked up by the people who set up the serial number printer. They don't just set it to a random number - the factory will have a procedure to make sure the number is set right.

Printer ran out of toner and nobody noticed until the next shift.

> Then it'll get picked up by the end-of-line testing, as test reports are filed by serial number.

Nah, test report operator was out sick that day and product needed to be pushed anyway. Manager assumed they're all good and overrode tests.

> Then it'll get picked up when the first part comes off the production line and gets checked by the factory's most conscientious testers and engineers.

Those testers and engineers don't have all day to test every single product. They only tested the first 100.

> Then it'll get picked up at goods inbound, when they count the items and check them in, and find the system says some of them are used, or there's a discrepancy in the number of items.

Counted by total weight divided by individual weight.

> Then it'll get picked up at acceptance testing, when they find the shipment's test records aren't in order.

Counted total number of UPCs.

> Then it'll get picked up by accounts payable, when the manufacturer bills for parts they've already been paid for.

Accounts payable sees a box, of 1000 parts and they're labeled and the top 100 appear genuine... pay it.

> Then depending on the numbers and costs involved, you either send the bad units back for relabelling or trash them, in either case at the manufacturer's expense.

Manufacturer thinks you're trying to defraud them and won't authorize a return without a serial number.
I really really wish I am wrong, but nothing in the current NAND industry roadmap ( known knowns ) and future technology improvement ( known unknowns ) suggest NAND's cost /bit will get substantially cheaper. Cheapest 2.5" 2TB SSD currently goes for about ~$180. Even something like sub $100 will be hard to achieve before 2026. Barring over supply of NAND which causes price to drop to irregular level.

Speed on the other hand seems to be limited by controller and interconnect. We should see a PCI-E 6.0 SSD capable of ~30GB/s and I wont be surprised if PCI-E 7.0 are already shipping by 2026.

Most price projection on SSD vs HDD cost uses TCO ( Total Cost of ownership ), which includes power and workload generally speaking flavours SSD. I dont know about others but I only care about cost / GB.
This is mostly good, but you should use four to seven random words, not three.

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/netbook-misc-devel/bitwords.... has several different ways of generating strings of random words from strong randomness, as well as other forms of random passwords. It uses the frequencies from the British National Corpus http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/wordlist. The word lists I've found most effective have 2048 or 4096 words, thus 11-12 bits of entropy per word; much larger lists of words include a lot of strange words that are much harder to memorize. So, person acid hidden, cases truck merge, KNIT SOOT CEIL, worn profession products, claw gerry teeth, or TIDY ANY HUG, but not fitzwilliam preside maxine, relieve scottish seminar, or tunis orange formerly, which use a 32768-entry wordlist.

However, three 12-bit words is only 36 bits of entropy. If an unsalted password hash database containing 2000 users' passwords gets stolen, every 34 million hash operations will yield one of those passwords. If a salted password hash gets stolen, every 34 billion hash operations will yield one, but the attacker can choose which one.

To non-computer people this probably sounds like a lot, but john on one core of this quad-core laptop can try 8500 md5crypt passwords per second or 480 bcrypt passwords per second with 32 iterations. So one password cracked per 34 million hash operations, assuming md5crypt, is one user account cracked every 17 minutes, and one password cracked per 34 billion hash operations is an average of 12 days to crack your target password.

Unless the attacker has more than a US$300 used laptop to attack with, that is. If they're using a 19" rack full of equipment, possibly equpiment that doesn't actually belong to them, they could quite easily have 256 times as much hashpower, so they can crack your password in 65 minutes. Or 19 hours if you were using bcrypt or something better like scrypt, configured for that level of resistance.

By contrast, if you use four random 12-bit words, they'll need 130 years with my laptop to crack your account if it's using md5crypt, 6 months if they're using a rack full of equipment, or 9 years if they're using the rack full of equipment but the passwords were hashed with 32-round bcrypt.

With a 72-bit-entropy password like "thank reason massive derived reasonably go", "pick sat adams orcs arabs being", or "ALL JURY SAUL BILK ADD RULE CUB", you should be reasonably safe even with a poorly chosen password hashing algorithm and a more seriously funded attacker.

If the password hash database is not stolen, and the attacker is limited to an online attack, three words might be reasonable, but four words is safer.

A key point that people often miss here is that you really need to use real randomness to generate the passwords. Don't use "random" passwords from your mind, because, as any mentalist knows, those are enormously less random than you think they are. Use actual physical dice, as with Diceware, or /dev/urandom.
No, it's not nonsense.

The person earning $15-20/h is 100% affected by this, since it leads to even greater inequality.

These people you describe are renting and landlords want a certain yield on their properties. Higher demand for houses (or reduced supply) push prices up, which in turn push up rents.
Like I said, for the placement of your agents/assets in important places. Having insiders working in places like Google would seem to me to be of great strategic importance.
> This isn't a court of law, there is no "burden of proof."

That's exactly the problem with news publications like this; they are extrajudicial. They throw away the right to due process. And make no mistake: The consequences for the accused are very tangible.

There are also important second order effects from legitimizing this rhetoric. A democracy cannot exist without a rule of law. When we violate those basic legal principles, we risk destabilizing our society at large.

In some jurisdictions, defamation is illegal irrespective of the claims' veracity in order to ensure the right to due process and avoid non-sactioned punishments. I cannot help but feel legalization in other countries, including the US and UK, have not yet caught up with the forces enabled by today's social media climate.
Ouch, did it hurt stretching for that?
A good editor can make or break a journal. Some of the ones who are the best at what they do are amazing.
Guess who is hosting such a stupid thing?

Facebook. The stupid stick of the internet.
For a password you have to easily memorize, a decent algorithm for generating strong-ish passwords has been to take an easily memorize-able saying/lyric/phrase:

Ex: "All we have to fear is fear itself"
Ex: "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."

and then reduce it to only the first letters of each word:

Ex: Awhtfifi
Ex: IwtbotIwtwot

The phrase is the memorable part, and then you simply have to encode it into a seemingly random string of letters that are unlikely to be dictionaried. Salt it with numbers and other characters and I think that makes for a halfway decent password.

Of course, I just use a password manager and all actual passwords are 20bit strings.
In many cases, yes.

There’s an incentive to get better test results by undersizing motors or fans that provide cooling.

The heat related stuff is easiest to see in consumer fridges and freezers.

The motor sizing stuff is easiest to see in washing machines. If you compare a model that is used for commercial laundromats like a Speed Queen to a like “consumer” washer, the Speed Queen will use 5-7% more power, due to a larger motor and heavier parts. It also costs less and includes a 5 year parts warranty.

Obviously energy regulatory stuff isn’t the only driver, but it’s a one dimensional regulatory framework that has bad consumer outcomes imho. (Unlike cars, where emissions controls made cars better)
We don't need the heat for fire. Maybe for comfort though. The moon gets mighty cold at night. Its temperature range is about 80 to 370 Kelvin.

You could use the same kit to radiate away some of that intense daytime heat too. Spread it across all of Earth.

Now as to solar PV, in principle it might be doable I guess. But I am not able to make the necessary calculations. How large would the crater need to be for 10MW say?

Even as a heat engine, you might get useful power out. If you could achieve say 150 - 200 celsius difference between your concentrator and night time temperature of the surrounding rocks. Which rocks serve as both the engine's heat-sink and a relatively comfy foundation for your habitat.
Effectively they have already begun. Many people are on the move now because their original location has become uninhabitable.

55 million people last year alone, for some perspective.
"It used to be that journals would at least do good editorial work, help with editing, formatting, and perhaps even graphics. All of this work is now on the author"

Not universally.
The other thing is that it’s (in the absence of specific bot detection) really really easy to cheat at online chess. Just crack open your chess app of choice and crank the AI skill to max.

With marathons you have to sneak on and off the course, with steroids you have to find a safe and reliable source of steroids and even then still train a ton, with shooter games you have to find an aimbot specifically designed for your game of choice - but here any old chess app with a bot function works as a cheat.
> On the ground, there are tales of heroism

> His wife and child safely evacuated

> I hid when the order arrived to evacuate

This isn't heroism. This is complete and utter stupidity. Whoever wrote this article should be fired on the spot.

The advice is there for a reason. People die doing this all the time. I know someone (a child at the time) whose parents went back to try protect their house. That child was raised without parents.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Preparing for and dealing with something like COVID would have been highly cost effective as well. And yet, here we are. Climate change is a lot harder on the scale of problems to deal with.
This is the type of project 20 years that was done by two or three people over a week or two.

Now a days it's a few hours.