skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ok, so what percentage of that stuff is actually high value-add?

Millions of factory owners have individually decided that waiting 3+ weeks for shipping from Shenzhen was better than any US-based equivalent manufacturer, who probably could ship them the parts in just 5 days at much cheaper shipping prices.

There's no singular person from on high encouraging people to trade with China (at least, any more so than say NAFTA encourages trade with Mexico). This is an individual decision that was ad-hoc decided en-masse over multiple years.

In fact, we had a trade deal with all of Asia (except China) called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. So that we'd encourage trade with Vietnam, India, Mexico, Australia, Canada _INSTEAD_ of China. But we elected a President in 2016 who got rid of the trade deal (and instead pushed for ineffective Tariffs).

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Look, its Apple who decided to manufacture iPads and iPhones in China rather than the USA. In fact, President Obama famously sat down with Steve Jobs to ask him what the USA needed to bring manufacturing back to state-side.

Steve Jobs famously replied: nothing. There's nothing the USA could do to win back the iPad / iPhone. That's how big of a lead China has on manufacturing and assembly. At this point, its a question of what we, the USA can do, to win back the hearts and minds of manufacturers.

Thumping anti-Chinese attitudes is probably counterproductive. They see China as a superior manufacturing chain than USA. Its more important to recognize the reality, and begin to emulate Shenzhen. What can the USA do to "build our own Shenzhen" ??
Is it whiny and melodramatic to want banking and investment services in your country of residence?

Is it whiny and melodramatic to want to be able to utilize the retirement savings plans of your country of residence?

This isn’t just economics and convenience. It is basic living and Americans abroad are treated like second class citizens relative to those of other countries.
I'm amused by her complaint that overseas Americans' votes are few and far between and thus she doesn't feel represented combined with her "no taxation without representation" quip.

Just because you don't belong to a group that has enough power to force the changes YOU want doesn't mean that you aren't being represented. I have no idea why any single person would expect to have a disproportionate amount of power simply because of where they don't live.
> a) Disclose this through e.g. the press b) Approach the mayor and try to get him to fix his stuff. Somehow, when it comes to IT security, people wanna see hackers do b) because a) would clearly be irresponsible. Wtf?

Huh? This analogy doesn't really make sense. The difference for software is extremely basic: if you publicize a vulnerability immediately, you give more opportunity for it to be exploited while it's being fixed. Malicious actors who hadn't found the vulnerability yet now get it handed to them on a silver platter.

Private notification simply gives the operator a head start on closing the hole before it's more widely known by potential attackers.
I think that's a valid response if the person letting you in wasn't expecting you and didn't want you there. Like, what are you doing knocking on random doors and going into random places just to look around? That's not honest behavior. Honest behavior is that if you know you're not supposed to have access to a thing, you shouldn't obtain access to the thing even if you technically can. I think it's pretty clear that you shouldn't have access to another company's healthcare plans. The first one is a mistake, maybe. The subsequent browsing and comparison shopping of restricted materials is definitely not okay though, and the harsh, suspicious response was warranted.
The closest real-life equivalent to asking a computer server for a document and getting it is asking a human server (e.g. office clerk, archivist) for a document and getting it. If I go to the IRS to do some paperwork and notice it says "File #7881991" in the top right corner and I go to the clerk and ask them "Hey, can I have files 7881992 and 7881993, too?" and they give them to me, who is liable for that? It's quite obvious.
> We could be billions more if we chose to live this way.

This line of reasoning is problematic as it just delays the stabilization. Maybe we could have a few billion more people now but surely there must be a limit somewhere. 10B, 50, 100? Sooner or later we'll have to stabilize.

> For some reasons, all the people I know who campaign for population stabilization/reduction are among those with the worst footprint.

To be clear, I personally believe we have to both stabilize the population AND dramatically reduce footprint per capita.
That's a very small detail, there are a whole slew of posts on this subject, why pick out that one item?
That's fascinating.

I'm not a lawyer but I'd guess that since you're citizen at the time, you'd have to follow the law for renouncing citizenship. You "unilaterally" renouncing it wouldn't mean anything since the law of the country says different.

Perhaps consult a lawyer and if they say that there might be something there try to crowdfund it.
> similar simulations/etc?

I'm not sure I understand what you're looking for.

What I saw in that video was a walk cycle that used as the basis for a bunch of different effects animations. So, basically an Art project. It doesn't look like it has anything to do with AR. That's more live generation, isn't it?

What makes that unique for you among art projects? Can you be more specific?
My perception is that people aren't expecting facebook to solve teenage depression, but to prevent themselves from contributing to it if they are. FB's research has been criticized by scientists as being of poor quality [0], and Zuckerberg claims the findings were cherry picked. This actually good news for FB if true. Should they partner with neutral, third party university research teams, as well as commit to a transparent investigation, they'll be able to clear things up. Not everyone would agree, but I believe that many people are capable of changing their minds when presented with new evidence.

The metaphor of a phone company cutting off an argument is an interesting one. I agree that people arguing is a fact of society / nature, and I also agree that cutting off a phone call seems like an absurd way to try and solve the larger problem. But at the same time, I don't think the metaphor fully applies, for the following reasons:

First, a phone call is a one-to-one communication, and Facebook is one-to-many. It's rare if not unheard of for strangers to call each other and say what they think about, for example, a NYT article. Second, there is no recommendation system pushing "engaging" subjects, where engagement can be defined in terms of how controversial it is. Third, only 9% of FB users speak english, and Haugen testified that the non-english safety features, tweaks to the ranking algorithm, and tooling are not as good (potentially drastically worse?) in non-english languages.

Most people would argue that phone companies have some responsibility to prevent spam calls, similar to how an email services prevent or flag spam emails. These are network level actions, and a lot of Haugen's testimony was about how FB was being irresponsible in this regard.

[0] https://unherd.com/2021/09/facebooks-bad-science/
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In this example they're already a dual citizen before starting down this road.
Citizenship is a meaningful thing to most people. Of course it's a legal fiction, but so is marriage. Personally I've never given up a citizenship, but I imagine that it'd be an emotional experience.
In practice the 2021 108k per person foreign earned income exclusion is reasonably large and uncomplicated to claim. After that the list of countries we have tax treaties with is pretty large:

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/united-states/individual/foreig...
Where was it assumed her experiences were exaggerated? The point is that her experiences are the result of her own choices, not anything that was "done to" her.
It needs a mindset change. The thing is trying to help you. It points out issues that you didn’t think about. It’s naturally difficult to think about things you’ve never had to think about before. It also turns out that architecting software in certain ways (like ECS) makes it easier to think less about borrowing.
Finally found THE URL to send to people requesting stupid checkboxes everywhere.

Now we need a mass popup version to close that loop.
Microsoft .NET updates include C and C++ code in Blazor WebAssembly
Don't get me wrong. 8 have the Apple on my hobby bench for stuff like this, but I also have my Atari and when I replace it, C64 for gaming goodness.

Just saying...
There’s no extra constitutional protections. It’s all under free speech. Everyone is equal.
Coinbase could solve that problem by becoming a bank. Or a broker. Or a commodity exchange. But they want "none of the above".
This company makes a software product called "Halide" for your mobile camera, AFAICT it is an iOS app [1].

But interestingly enough there's an image processing programming language called halide, too [2].

[1] https://halide.cam/

[2] https://halide-lang.org/
wow, what fraction of websites leak data I want to look at? should I be poking at every non-tech-giant site I go to?
> As I mentioned, my wife and kiddo use Spotify and have never complained about music gone missing, but my experience with Spotify is probably a few years out of date.

Probably depends on the region. There are plenty of japanese songs suddenly gone from my spotify playlist, probably because the labels decided to pull out from spotify. I never see that happen on western songs on my playlist.
But good actors can also have words/actions taken out of context, no?
That is what I was talking about; pretty good example, except the missing protocol and "://".

I'm remembering the difficulty of explaining what is a forward slash and what is a backward slash. After all, they both lean forward - one leads with its feet, the other with its head. It doesn't help if your contact is using a different keyboard from you. You have to keep asking them to read it back to you.

I still have to do this occasionally; it feels like swimming through treakle.

Edit: Oh, and then there's people who don't know what "colon" means. And "hash" and "pound" have different meanings depending where you are. At least in this country, punctuation is less and less emphasised. I had to teach my kids to punctutate myself, and I suspect I'm the only person they use punctuation for.
Thanks for the correction on the chip factories, and I agree with your last point about "needing to be in first place" but this pandemic has surely made it more evident how quickly we can be disrupted by either an Act of God or a country just waking up one day and deciding they no longer want to sell us things.
What do you mean by 'near-worthless'? A small radio station that provides connection, information and entertainment to a rural area and a handful of jobs for community members might be "worthless" in the sense that it wont create massive returns for an investor but that doesnt make it worthless to the community it is a part of.

The problem is these vultures come in make false promises about supporting the station and then suck it dry. In the end the vultures walk away with a tidy profit and the community is worse off.

Just because we cant quantify the value of something in terms of hard currency doesnt make it worthless.
Whiny and melodramatic is the tone.

Banking and investment and retirement are entirely economical reasons.

Convenience is not wanting to file taxes, etc.
Which brings up the one ideal use for these that hasn't been mentioned: spare tires, if you can make them narrower with the same load capacity.
I’d say it’s 99% open source. Do you have any significant example of non open source red hat software ?
blender grew beyond words, but I'm still not sure if it does reactive DAG propagation for animated attributes (like Maya). I was a bit shocked to read that you need to setup propagators or controllers (forgot the term tbh) to get a similar effect. Maybe I need to RTFM.
Yes. “Use a friggin tripod” still applies. So does “bring your own damn light.”
Yes, definitely. The conclusion of the article is

> OK, so how does this happen? Why were a group of physicists who are obviously skilled and mathematically competent unable to detect that they’d rediscovered known methods? How is it that none of the reviewers for their PNAS paper were able to point this out to them? I think part of the answer lies in how vast the sphere of human knowledge really is. It is beyond anyone to keep up with the details of more than small portions of it. Research communities focus on their particular sets of problems and communication between different research communities is often weak to non-existent. This is not out of laziness, incompetence, or malevolence, but because the difficulty of such communication tests our limits. Just keeping on top of ones own field and publishing consistently is challenging enough. How to properly review cross-disciplinary research is a difficult problem.

Given that the referenced article was written in good faith and published in PNAS, I thought maybe this common understanding isn't widespread enough and wrote my article in response. Edit: Also, note that the connection is older and at a more fundamental level than the Boltzmann regression step in skip-gram data structures. ET Jaynes demonstrated that Fermi-Dirac statistics can be seen as an inference problem that is equivalent to a logistic regression in the 1950s [1]. Boltzmann distribution regression is essentially another name for logistic regression as far as I'm aware [2].

[1] https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf

[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5726803
This is embarrassing, so lets pretend it's a crime for the reporter to report the truth. This tactic might work for the NSA, but I hope it doesn't work here.
hi all, coauthor of both the blog post and solidity template here. this project started off as a weekend thing, and we spent the last few weeks refining it for a beta launch!

excited to share it with everybody and take in any feedback to improve the template more :)
I've considered getting my Series 65 for this same reason, but my concern was how it would affect my other investments. e.g. your typical low-cost brokerage accounts with TD Ameritrade, Schwab, etc are not available for professionals. In fact, it seems like everything costs a lot more if you are a licensed professional.
I've assumed for a long time we are living in simulation for marketing research of some kind ... Most likely, in support of an ad campaign to sell toaster waffles in the plane of reality that is simulating ours (but that's just a working theory).
Kudos to the creator for pursuing his original vision. Immense success :)
Well, this blogger wasn't paying her taxes, so...
I'm sure there are people that might lobby that 80-100k/year in Long Beach qualifies as minimum wage with housing prices! Ha.
Thanks for sharing! A lot of these issues have been on my mind for awhile, so appreciate having this framework to share them with my cofounder.
x1000 this.

The freedom of the press is a right granted to all citizenry of the United States, not a specialized permission granted to an elite caste.
I went through the donut tutorial on 2x speed. If you’re interested in learning modern visual arts (computer graphics, photography, videography, etc.) you’re going to have to deal with video tutorials. Make them work for you.
Maybe it's my money and I should be able to do whatever I want with it?

I don't want the SEC "protecting" me from things like ethereum. I don't even want the SEC "protecting" me from things like cardano, or "SHIBE" or "safemoon".

Maybe provide recommendations, but it's my money. Or is it not my money?

It is incredibly frustrating watching The US turn its back on what is quite obviously a major technological/financial paradigm shift. I understand the detractors 10 years ago, but...guys it's been 10 years now and blockchain technology has only increased in penetration into industries. It's not going away. The idea that the US is going to regulate itself away from being the epicenter of this is pathetic.

Here's how far along it is: coinbase was a YC company that has already gone through the entire cycle of conception, startup, raising money, and going public with a $50B market cap. People like this stuff. It's not going to go away like a fad.
Hmm, I meant that we are just talking about the same thing...
And yet the pandora papers aren't getting much coverage in the US because there aren't that many Americans named in them. Gotta wonder if the two are connected.
But isn't this the same refrain you hear stateside as well? "I don't feel represented by the system".

It reminds me of Chappelle's "Since when did America give a ** about any of us?"
A) is there a shortage of trucks or drivers?

B) are there bottlenecks at the ports that prevent more trucks?

C) can rail be used to move boxes?

D) who is making money by things NOT moving?
Yeah, the funny part is that I have never even been to US of A let alone having anything in common with the said movement. No, to be honest, I don't recall anyone mentioning it here on HN or GitHub. I don't use other social media, though, I guess it would be more of an issue there. However, I was wrongly suspended on Twitter once despite not posting (or even "liking") anything the whole decade of being there. I just used the account for OAuth subscription, one day it stopped working, I had to write a letter and wait for manual "unsuspension.

I chose my now "nom de plume" way back in zeros for its seeming originality and simplicity, when compared to my rather common and unwieldy "real" Polish name.
As the name implies, that only applies to Earned Income. Not investment or business income not taken as salary or any other form of income.
I don't think Google has a profit rate massively higher than other similar companies (say, Apple or Facebook). It gets a lot of profit because it is large.

Compare:
https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/profit_margin
https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/profit_margin
https://ycharts.com/companies/FB/profit_margin

Of course, manufacturing companies have a lot less:
https://ycharts.com/companies/GM/profit_margin
What a nefarious ransomware attack!
If you take the perspective that some people are "just better" than others, why are we idolizing these people?

Being born with high intelligence and favourable traits is not an achievement.
you wouldn't; neither would most of us on this site. ~50% of the population wouldn't. They are targeting the 50% + 1 of their state population that voted for this man. They are probably doing a pretty good job of it too.
systemd doesn't support anything but Linux, as it is designed around Linux-specific APIs.
Why would a Blender class in high school be mandatory??
I don't think citizenship in general can be unilaterally renounced, in the same way as you usually can't unilaterally divorce somebody. Citizenship includes obligations both from the state towards an individual and vice versa. In my understanding (IANAL) the easiest way to unilaterally renounce a citizenship is to seek political asylum.
DNS? Is that a high school level subject?
It's well more than the median income in the area. People are taking jobs that pay less. So it clearly has more to do with other factors like the work conditions or training requirements or such. Companies not willing to pay for training is a common story...
This quote is mine, and is related to a game we were working on for Microsoft before we pivoted to pinball. There was a bug - probably mine - where the game displayed the previous state for an object, but the object had changed state, so the resulting behavior was confusing. 'she' and 'glue bottle' were referring to imagery used for the placeholder prototype artwork. I was trying to explain what was going on, and it made sense, but only in that incredibly constrained context. Outside of that context it's nonsense, but that's what makes it memorable and humorous to us.
I would have thought that knowledge of company systems and domain knowledge would be of value of companies, but it isn’t.
maybe this will be helpful https://balanced-walk-789.notion.site/The-Ultimate-No-BS-Gui...
In practice US citizens have it difficult to even open simple bank account. Most foreign companies prefer not to deal with US gov.
Smart move on trying to create a self-regulating body like FINRA for crypto.
you aren't kidding, that's pretty impressive really
Blender’s video editing capability is most useful as a replacement for After Effects. A free tool like Davinci Resolve is a better replacement for Premiere.
Analogies are never helpful for things like this.

We don't need to reach for analogies to observe that while the theoretical ideal is to report it after just one false access, that no significant damage was done by accessing just a few more via human manipulation of the browser URL, with no recording or sharing of the results. From a human perspective, no damage was done.

Whether that legally crosses a line involves a whole lot of details that few, if any people here, will be able to speak to, because of the complication of the law, and HN's conclusion as to the legality is of marginal interest even if someone competent were to give an opinion.

We can speak to the fact that even if it does technically cross a line, a prosecutor really ought to use their discretion to not prosecute since nobody was hurt. We can say that because that's just an opinion. I expect we don't have very many people here who actually want the book thrown here (though, as always, enough read this that it's probably non-zero).
The term "melodrama" implies exaggeration.
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I would trust Jony Ive to be a better judge of the design principles behind the site than Hacker News. I'm confident it's speaking to its intended audience.

As far as why, who knows? Maybe it's a placeholder and other content is forthcoming. Maybe it's just a fun typographic novelty flier. Maybe it's just marketing. It's not a startup, he doesn't have to gauge market receptivity or convert leads.
I am reliably informed by people with some insight into Missouri government that Parson is exceptionally terrible. Incompetent or malicious, depending on the day.

I gather the previous (also Republican) governor, Greitens, who may or may not have been into some weird/illegal sex stuff and was forced out over it, was actually pretty good. Seemed to truly care about governing well and improving the functions of state government, at least, which Parson does not.
(this is not a personal attack on you, but merely an attempt to use journalistic tactics (such as taking things out of context) with your words to fit meta-narratives that many news consumers like to read.)

The alleged suspect, AlbertCory, has been associated with internet hacking sites (hackernews.com), which feature many posts from Russian sources. On these hacking sites, AlbertCory has boasted about his knowledge of other 'bad actors', rising suspicions amongst the sources we talked to that he is a member of a Russian operative group.

In a likely recent disinformation campaign, AlbertCory sought to discredit vaccine confidence for Americans by claiming "Fauci has done more damage to "science" than any 100 religious authorities ever did."[1]

AlbertCory has not denied the allegations and declined to comment when we reached out to them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=28856201&goto=threads%...
Sometimes this firing action causes leakers to be recognized as martyrs, which results in new willing leakers emerging to replace the ones that were fired. The chilling effect of firing is not sufficient to fix all leaks.