skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we're integrating our market more with China's market, making the relationship less one-sided. Some economists have argued that China is actually more economically free than the West in certain areas (like the overhead involved in starting a new business), though I'd say we're at least slightly better off here overall.

However, the West definitely has China beat in the area of free speech. Speech and the market are intertwined at various levels, so we'll see friction there. I'd say it has less to do with market freedom (of either participant) and more to do with China simply not having anything close to free speech.

Whether we decide to stand our ground on this or not is a separate question. One good way to do it at least for the internet is to favor open, non-proprietary systems that aren't controlled by any one profit-focused company. That way we don't all have to suffer the consequences when a single company like Google bends the knee to China for their own financial gain, and leaves the rest of us holding the bag on the reduced free speech front.
What makes a country 2nd or 3rd world? Intuitively, I'd say India is straddling both categories, they're doing 2nd/1st world things in space, but vast swathes of their population still live in decidedly 3rd world conditions. I guess as far as passports are concerned, considering India 3rd world isn't far off the mark.
If you can, maybe try wireguard? I have not had any issues with that on my devices roaming between different networks.

I don't use their app though, but the actual Wireguard config files.
People are being pretty harsh on Duolingo.

Having used it, my biggest issue was misalignment with my goal of being able to speak. Verbal is the weakest part of their offering, the emphasis is on reading & writing which I don't care much about. I found it an OK way of learning new vocabulary.
> In 20 days, Project Taara lead Baris Erkmen says the link transmitted nearly 700TB of data

700 TiB / 20 days ~= 3.56 Gbps

700 TB / 20 days ~= 3.24 Gbps
The vaccines are not rushed. They have been in development for ages.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
According to their annual report (which you can download for free from hitta.se) they transferred Mullvad to the subsidiary Mullvad VPN AB in 2020, which had a revenue of $4M: https://www.allabolag.se/5592384001/mullvad-vpn-ab
Good to know you're moving towards putting the annotations back on the side, but please deploy that for Firefox users too.
That could work but at the end of the day it’s the guards who have physical control of the surveillance system. We would have to rely on this other system (powered by ML — who designed this system? - and independent auditors) working for prisoners instead of for the guards when anything goes wrong (sorry the recording malfunctioned during the exact period you claim you were assaulted).

Unfortunately prisoners are usually on the losing end of systems designed by their jailers, as they lack strong advocacy and a role in designing the system itself.
> "ancestors shaped and fought for"

Your ancestors fought for a "society" that won't tolerate newcomers or people wishing to join it "from the outside"?

What was it that they fought for, exactly? Are you sure the country and society "they fought for" is the same one you live in today?
That price isn’t always denominated in money. There are people that value altruism or other motivations.
Shocking Pixel 6 rumor lists Google SoC with two ARM X1 CPU cores
I don't think the original commenter here is lying by omission, they're adding additional context - that even if you have natural immunity, you still benefit from getting vaccinated.
> the websites were all strangely disreputable

Interesting you'd feel that way when sites without "modern design" are encountered. Is this your own bias perhaps creating a judgment or are they sites that you already know have a bad reputation?
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From a pedantic perspective, maybe... another way to put it:

real_company_worth = sum(valueOf(technology), valueOf(people), valueOf(assets))
sale_price = max(total_money_raised_owed, real_company_worth)

if sale_price == total_money_raised_owed {
sale_price < real_company_worth // likely, since rarely total_money_raised_owed == real_company_worth
}

Better?
Rationalized it? Haha, that's a good one. They also haven't rationalized why I've had to work (remotely) within distance of the campus instead of allowing me to work out-of-state, which would enable me to actually buy a house and live closer to family. Instead, I've been arbitrarily trapped with the perennial promise that a post-COVID remote work policy is on the horizon.
I wasn’t making a comparison.

I’m just pointing out that in the west, class is almost a verboten discussion.
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I was wondering how an MIT research lab had 80 megabucks to buy a website

https://www.media.mit.edu/
VPNs, at least in Switzerland, are regulated differently and aren't forced to give up their customers.
Did his work look only at people who passed the Google process? I would guess so, since he probably didn't have the resources to track down the careers of people outside of Google.

The statement "Amongst people who passed the Google interview, the technical screen had no connection with Google career success" is a very different statement than "no connection between technical interview performance and career performance" due to the selection bias.
With the rise of dictatorships worldwide and the complete inability of liberal democracies to fight back, I would guess there's a lot of growth in this market
Relevant quote: "Nvidia has pledged to honor Arm's commitments and to continue licensing the architecture, even to its rivals, if the [Nvidia ARM acquisition] deal does go through"

I'm looking forward to a bright future for ARM (fingers crossed).
I believe the whole reason for this post is because Kape just bought ExpressVPN.
Antibodies are not produced forever and do not hang around for more than a few months. If you think you had covid last year you’re S.O.L. on the antibody testing front, because those antibodies are loooong gone.
> "If you are some what handy, it's not that difficult to owner build your own house."

but without any experience (which is ~99% of us, even if handy), it is difficult to know how to build a house both efficiently (tools, techniques, sequencing, etc.) while meeting regulatory and bioenvironmental goals (airflow, water control, power, waste, etc.), because it's a whole glut of little things to know, most of which are not "hard" by themselves but overwhelming in totality.

for the inexperienced, i'd heartily recommend volunteering for habitat for humanity (at least a half-day weekly, more the better) and asking lots of questions of the experienced workers there to learn those little things (esp. the locale-dependent stuff) while networking with them to boot.
That honestly seems like a nice feature. No more trying to call yourself when you lose your phone, it's in whichever room has the lights on.
You realize a massive market crash is coming soon? The quick sugar high from all the stinky $$$ will dry up soon, and then the market will crash. If that happens, expect it to be very cheap to buy a house and a used car when all the people who could barely afford their new car/house find themselves underwater, unemployed, and no longer receiving Covid stimulus checks.

But who knows, maybe the economy will just keep booming forever
Appreciated. The more things fill up with monetizing shit, the more I stay away. There's something beautiful in having higher purposes than grubbing for cash.
Developer, you may need a co-founder in marketing
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They are trying to capture the people leaving from Express VPN. There probably was a small exodus when PIA was bought and they learned from it. Meanwhile, I'm a happy PIA customer and just got a new 3 year contract.
The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
Of course, will it be always possible to catch data some way. But it's a difference whether you actively work against the company and must invest money and time into it, or not.

And outside the technical level, discord also has the legal way. They can try to shut down your service, remove your code from public space and make you sink more time and money in an uphill-battle.

This is the same battle people are fighting against all walled gardens. And so far the gardens usually win. So someone taking on that fight, should be aware of this.
> Elizabeth Holmes followed the Silicon Valley playbook to a T.

No, what Theranos did wasn't normal.

Theranos wasn't even a Silicon Valley favorite. They were famously passed on by many respected VCs who vetted the company.

There's a reason why the bulk of Theranos' investment cames from the Walton family, Rupert Murdoch, Betsy DeVos, and the Cox family instead of traditional VC firms.

Even Theranos' board was composed of people with political or military backgrounds instead of medtech backgrounds.

The reason Elizabeth Holmes is on trial is because the company was fraudulent from the start. Let's not try to rewrite history and pretend it was business as usual.
I share the same experiences. Only around half of your (temporal) experience and every conversation with a recruiter ends the same way: "When can we schedule you for a technical screening? You'll probably want some time to brush up on leetcode as well".

My experience doesn't matter. The fact that I've now worked at (and currently work at) 3 of the big tech firms, doesn't matter (to be fair, I only got jobs at these places back when I was willing to grind out leetcode and memorize as many problems as I could - a task which I refuse to do today). The fact that I have a history of leading teams, areas, and spend at least 50% of my time also "writing code" for high performance, high reliability, global services, --and-- can speak in depth regarding my accomplishments, design decisions, technical decisions, collaboration, etc. doesn't matter.

The only thing that matters is: Can I pretend like I've never seen this toy leetcode problem before during an interview, and magically come up with a perfect solution in 30 minutes or less. (and if I haven't happened to memorize it, and dare legitimately appear to struggle, well... game over).
My understanding is that "fake queues" at airports are for security. To spread people out so that they are not all waiting in the same place.

Long queues are a prime target for terrorists, and if something bad happens, small groups of people are more manageable than large groups.
War is coming.
If the customer's first point of contact is through an iOS app, then Apple established that relationship. Apple is serving their iPhone customers to Amazon. That's the entire crux of the change. Amazon initially presented their Kindle app as a way for existing customers to read their books on iOS. Once it changed to the point where customers were entering Amazon's ecosystem with iPhone as the first point of contact, Amazon was benefiting from both Apple's customer base and their relaxed terms.
Minimum wage is completely different than child labor laws.
Yes. And the account also requires a phone number as often as not, and of course the agreement to their abusive TOS that is so restrictive that it even bans political cartoons.
Piracy does not even inherently inhibit the creators from getting their monetary compensation.

Nowadays, I pirate games I paid for, so I don't have to run invasive and performance-degrading DRM software that makes assumptions about current computers that might not hold in the future.

It's about convenience and archival, and the creator's compensation.

Philosophically, it's also about protesting about the nature of private property and how in many cases nowadays, a "purchase" is in fact more akin to a lease.
>You're just being intentionally obtuse.

Please avoid assuming bad faith, this is against the rules here, and it's pretty hostile to me and makes me not want to talk to you.

I don't see how that argument follows, as I have said, Richard Stallman does not develop GNU software, very rarely influences its development regardless of his position, and also one does not need to have any presence at the FSF to influence the development of GNU software. In general the FSF does not drive development of GNU software, the contributors do. And many GNU contributors are not involved with the FSF at all (similar to how many Linux contributors are not involved with the Linux Foundation).
Does it filter out ad-heavy copy-paste/autogenerated fake sites? Tired of seeing those on the first few pages of Google. Bing gets more and more usable, but far from perfect.
Apple hires ex-Cuomo PR chief who helped gov fight sex-harass allegations
> nor morally defensible.

I don't think this is accurate. There are plenty of legitimate critiques against intellectual property, for example: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intellectual-property/#Ge...
Would be very pleasantly surprised if this holds true.

I was expecting dual X1 cores to be the mainstay of 2022 flagship SOCs, so to see Google do this at least 6 months earlier (Samsung S22 should come out in Feb) could bode well for the Pixel 6 and its public perception.
Are We in the Last Days of Civilization? [video]
I would love to have pre-spam Usenet back, or threaded forums like they used to make them before everyone used the BB-style flat forums. But I can understand companies not wanting to bother with this kind of software, moderation, data retention and privacy laws etc. ...
I liked that they had Eminem explain some of his lyrics. That was fucking dope!

I think it's great they gave it a shot. Good stuff.
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> It also focuses on websites in English, Swedish and Latin and tries to identify and ignore the rest

When I search for Japanese terms, it "says <query> needs to be a word", which wasn't the best error message. Maybe the error message should say something like "sorry, your language isn't support yet"?
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Also, without an algorithm it's going to be useless. Tik Tok works because the algorithm allows you to find new creators.
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I recall that one of the early metrics at Google was actually how short a time the user spent at their site.

The idea (absolutely correct, IMO) was that the shorter the visit, the more successful the search was. I.e., if they provide exactly the desired result at the top of the list, the user would promptly click off to their desired destination, whereas if they gave poor results, there would be many more search actions.

However, they have long since strayed away from such sound reasoning.
I don't think weather my photos were good or not has anything to do with this
You've payed no attention whatsoever to US gun culture 2.0, we welcome women and minorities with open arms, and women were always welcome, every heard of Annie Oakley?? Seen the NRA celebrating on the front page of their membership magazine women who won all gender national championships?

You completely misunderstand our motivations for keeping and bearing arms, and thus your hope is doomed to not come true.
China Leads in Innovative Blockchains for Business
"Daniel has a deep understanding of the tools and techniques used by the adversaries we aim to protect users against, and as such is a uniquely qualified expert to advise on defense against such threats. Our product and infrastructure have already benefited from that understanding in better securing user data,"
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>no matter what you think about crypto they were probably one of if not the first companies in the world to start accepting bitcoin in 2010

I remember spending north of 25 bitcoins on a month of Mullvad back in those days. I don't remember the exact price, but I do remember mining a single 50 bitcoin block was not enough to purchase 2 months. That is at least $1.2m a month for VPN service if we use today's prices. If they actually held on to any of the bitcoin from those days, I am guessing the company and the owners have no real financial motivation to sell.
A Node based forum - NodeBB. I've not tried but this has been on my radar for years

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB
How much money did you have saved when you quit?
Show HN: https://kbclip.com

I don't think you can prevent people from migrating to discord or slack, but I built a Slack app that tries to bring the best and most frequent conversations to the web.

The issues brought up here are exactly what I am trying to solve.
Irish watchdog launches two inquiries into TikTok over GDPR data sent to China
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Android Drivers in Rust
The reality is that it means both of those things, because people use them interchangeably. That's just how it is.
You sure that's not just badly defined priority based queues or something else going on in-between? 20s is a hell of a lot of buffer unless this connection is via dialup modem.

That being said it sounds like this connection is a good candidate for using BBR anyways so I'd give that a shot and see if anything changes.
Also Alaska [1] and Montana [2].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/covid-delta...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-15/montana-s...
The much heavier traffic and variety of traffic in urban areas probably means looser rules. Even if just to reduce the noise for the great firewall admins.
> it's CL + custom macro/DSL systems per project

How is this any different from building an overly convoluted architecture in any other language where you have layers upon layers of objects, getters, setters, proxys, callbacks, VisitorFactoryFactory's, configuration files, multi-level build systems, virtual methods, type system hacks, generic functions?

I've been programming in CL for years now, and I have more of a problem keeping my non-macro code from spiraling out of control than my macros. What makes macros any more than just a thing you have to exercise discipline with, like "normal" code?
China officially applies to join CPTPP trade pact
Discord is not end to end encrypted, so Discord can see, mine, and sell off your private DM chat contents.

Don't type anything into discord you wouldn't print out and mail to Microsoft Legal. (And don't install the client, it is spyware.)
Mine has not. But from people I know who's CEOs have, basically a return on investment in office space is the only reason that can be articulated.
Somewhere in the middle of Go, Julia and Rust is the programming language I'd really like to use.
> No, in representative democracy, it isn't subjective at all. Each voter should be represented equally.

I think this is just semantics. Whether everyone should be represented equally is still a subjective matter (irrespective of whether or not you or I agree). In particular, the constitution was designed to give each state 2 senate seats for a reason--so a few populous areas couldn't tyrannize the whole country. I think that holds today as well. And Democrats can and have worked within this system in the past, so it seems clearly workable to me.

> The Senate is part of what enabled this dysfunction to spread, and fixing it should be a part of the solution.

You say this like the constitution guarantees that Republicans get the rural vote or something. That's obviously not true, Republicans got the rural vote because Democrats gave it to them. It seems like your position is "Democrats should be free to offend rural voters without loss of power" and I don't think that's a desirable property.
It's not a great workflow but everyone serious does it with instagram, too (even with phone photos, doing post on the phone is awful).
There is some evidence, however, that violent media tends to cause people to perceive their surroundings as more dangerous. Certainly not as bad as making people psychos, but worth a second of contemplation.
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Here's a few that might be relevant, some are more military than espionage

- SPECIAL OPERATIONS, IRREGULAR WARFARE, AND OPERATIONAL ART: A THEORY OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS, Major William D. Harris Jr.

- The counter insurgency manual, Leroy Thompson

- Counter terrorism and open source intelligence, Uffe Kock Wiil (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783709103876)

- Enyclopedia of the CIA, W. Thomas Smith Jr.

- Espionage and Intelligence Gathering, Louise I. Gerdes

- Open Source Intelligence in the 21st Century New Approaches and Opportunities (Palgrave MacMillan)

- Open Source Intelligence Methodology, Robert André Furuhaug

- Special Operations Forces Reference Manual, JSOU press

- A Spy's guide to thinking, John Braddock

- Surprise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen

- The Intelligence War, Col William V Kennedy

- A theory of special operations, Robert J Spular Jr

- Finally, there's a 23GB dump called "Strategic Intelligence Network" with material relevant to your interests. Found it on /r/datahoarder a while back.

One of the books above has a link to springer.com, you'll find more interesting books & journals on there (CS, cryptology, security, behavior etc). Some of the ebooks are floating around on the web.
Building apps without the use of Apple’s SDK is already considered to be against the developer program terms.
I remember in the beginning of Rap Genius it seemed like a lot of the lyrics were just scraped from OHHLA. I didn't even realize OHHLA was still around.
check reply to OP
For a PHP based forum, glance at Flarum - I have not tried but it's been on my radar for years.

https://github.com/flarum/flarum
>Sure they created the phone, operating system, etc, but without those third party apps the iPhone would be a stupid toy not a bajillion dollar a year business.

But then it's a chicken or egg scenario. The iPhone was one of the best-selling smartphones of all time even before the App Store existed. If those third-party apps didn't exist without the ecosystem Apple set up and maintains to this day, the whole progression stops cold. Apple uses the 30% to justify the entire App Store ecosystem (payments, reviews, localization, distribution, updates, etc.) because it guarantees that it's scalable and sustainable. If the App Store and apps become more popular, they're still covering the costs. Console manufacturers and other platform manufacturers (hardware/software) have agreed and set their prices at nearly the same levels independently of Apple. That's not a coincidence.
The delivery technology has been in development for ages. The payload was tested for about 1 year. IIRC the formulation was done early 2020 in 2 days.

Re your link, it asserts 'MYTH: If I’ve already had COVID-19, I don’t need a vaccine.'. I have serious doubts that is the case, see the OA.

The flu vaccines have been on a yearly basis update schedule. As an organics kind of guy that never sit well with me, but I knew little about vaccines and the flu damage seemed low enough to not matter. It's just an inactivated virus, I'm going to get it either way. These days I wonder how safe the iterated flu shot really is.