skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both. I have been refused access to a place because the landlord was openly racist and didn't want to rent to me after she found out I was a foreigner. There is pretty much no recourse for foreigners who are victims of racism in China, it's an extremely racist country. When you're a foreigner you just kinda have to accept that there are people who will cross the street or shield their kids when they see you, loudly complain when you sit next to them on the bus, refuse to do business with you, etc etc. Of course in rich areas of tier one cities where the government has an image to uphold, this will happen much less frequently.

That said, definitely in the case of hotels there are loads of hotels it seems there is a legal aspect as well. If you lived in China you might be familiar with the long and boring process of registration with the police every time you move house. Sometimes you even have to register at more than one place because you moved into a different urban area. According to the law, all foreigners must do this everywhere they go in China, including tourists who are on holiday. It wouldn't be very efficient to make tourists spend a couple hours at the police station every time they checked into a hotel, so some hotels have some arrangement with the local police to do this on their guests' behalf behind the scenes. Most tourists nowadays don't even know that they have been registered with the police everywhere they travel. But smaller hotels don't provide that service. I have successfully blagged my way into staying at one smaller hotel by assuring them i would visit the local police myself to register, but a lot of them don't want the hassle or (perhaps) attention from the local authorities, so they just ban foreigners.

When I left China it was during the pandemic, and pretty much no hotels at all would allow foreigners to stay. This was xenophobia, pure and simple. There were a few times I had to first visit the police station and ask the police where I could stay, because hotel after hotel after hotel refused me, despite my green health code, valid visa and so on.
If you're nobody, you can be anything you want to.
What will happen to Chinese games on Steam? I will be profoundly sad if they disappear. For example: Dyson Sphere Program is one of my favorite games of all time. If that's gone, I'm going to have a hard time not making the CCP my mortal enemy
When I was a teenager (12-18) I often did meditation during 23:30 - 0:10 for new year countdown, pretty calm transition. And taking a walk (or running) 5:00am - 7:00am in the morning on Jan 1, it's pretty great start of new year. Recommended for lone wolf!
Please accept my warmest Christmas wishes - your message is very kind, and you have all my encouragement.

Lately I've been coming back to reading short citations from philosophers. What's great is that you can chose any topic you like, and find quotes from all kinds of influential people on the topic (on one of the "quotes" cites, there are several) and see what the collective wisdom of civilizations has to propose - it's like a conversation with the past, and has been part of the solution for me.

Most of all I would recommend reading Proverbs - consider it a toolbox to peruse - I think most anyone can find some "missing piece" there that can get one unstuck from whatever rut one might be in:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+1&vers...

Finally, if you feel up to it at some point, I would encourage you to seek out those who are also lonely - I've been doing music at retirement homes for a while now, and it's very worthwhile - perhaps there are charities involved in alleviating loneliness in your area - visiting, talking, organizing events... there is lots of room for creativity and meeting generous people.

Best wishes,
Sebastian.
Every. Damn. Single. Thing. You. Said.
And despite this apparently a million people legally and illegally enter this place despite these issues apparently worse than the Soviet Union.

Why, instead, don’t these million plus seek a life in China or Cuba, if that system is, apparently better than the North American system?

In addition, Americans are actually free to leave but very few do, especially those affected by your examples of suffering from the system. We know people of very few means can emigrate, so given poor Americans have more purchasing power than poor who move here from elsewhere, if it were repressive we’d see an exodus of Americans to greener freer pastures.
I'm an Atheist. At some point you will have to realize that religious people exist, and many astronauts are devout Catholic.
do you use something like https://docassemble.org/ ?
Yeah, that one's much better! Also more historically accurate it seems, as many of the claims in the article seem to be of a rather dubious origin and may be little more than yarn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IceFeFsS_GY
From what I gathered, it's a book geared towards programmers new to C++.
Set-Clipboard in PowerShell works as well, if you're in to that sort of thing.
Last year, I got caught in a divorce. If my experience is of any consolation, it will get better, I promise.
It’s not just employees who leak data from corporate devices. Malware often exfiltrates data through compromised, “benign” websites.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

I'm an only child with a very small family, so our holidays were just me, mom, and dad. Growing up (and even a little bit today) I always felt lonely, especially when comparing our family to all the large Irish and Italian families that I went to grade school with.

But the older I get, the more I focus on just being grateful for the time I still have with them. It does make me sad to think of when they pass away (my dad is 74 with health conditions).

Virtual hugs to you all.
As other posts have said, the GFW isn’t just a whole heap of blocked IPs. There’s some of that (Google, FB, etc.), but a lot more of it is DPI and other inspection techniques that also have the effect of slowing overseas data to a crawl. In that sense it is quite sophisticated.

I remember getting 300KB/sec at the best of times to overseas sites. VPNs didn’t really make a difference for speed (I believe I had poor routing on top of that), but I could use WG and SS to maintain access to blocked content for weeks on end.

The end result is that internet users are corralled into domestic services where the CCP can flex its power. If anything overseas continues to be too anti-government then it cops a more concrete block.

As also mentioned, the educated class might get VPN access but Joe Bloggs on the street won’t know how to. Also, it’s hard to get a VPN from within China, but once set up with one you can relatively easily keep using it.
>:D<
Inspired by MacOS pbcopy:

alias xpaste='xclip -out -sel clipboard'
alias xcopy='xclip -in -sel clipboard'
> What exactly are the pain points you experienced with C libraries?

1. Varying build systems. Does the dependency use cmake? Autoconf? A shell script where you’re instructed to modify some variables specific to your system?

2. The above, but my software is shipping on Linux, windows, and Mac. What’s the best way to get this dependency compiled? Does upstream even support all these OSes?

In all my years of doing C programming, I’ve never seen some add a single function library like is_even and then another like is_odd. But you do see it in languages where it is really easy to add libraries.
I didn't know until now that Tencent owned such a large stake in Epic. Makes me wonder a little about the disputes with Google & Apple.

Whilst Epic seems to be fighting the good fight, I've thought it was very odd that they were putting so much on the line in their Google & Apple battles. Now I have to wonder if Tencent endorsed those legal battles with some more ambitious goal in mind.
To love and to hate, two perfectly human desires
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jan/30/bright-id...
https://time.com/49399/oxytocin-racism-study/
Well this is certainly a bizarre story. As I'd never heard of Defector, I checked around to see if a more familiar news source had anything about this. AP News has a story about the deal, though it mentions nothing about the questionable existence of Color Star.

This is an interesting mystery that I don't really have the resources to investigate.
Well yeah, you're self selecting for people who

a. Left China
b. Are talking to a foreigner about politics

CCP maintains considerable support among the mainland population.
Well, at some point in the past Denmark was changeable and was changed, so there is no reason to think that at present other places are changeable and will be changed in a similar way.

Merry grav-mass!
Buzz Aldrin took communion on the Moon. Not everything is Either/Or
Xkcdsay, the Xkcd comics in your terminal
Where did you get this from? US hotels most definitely do not “register (resident or non-resident) guests with the local government”.

A few states require hotel guests to present an ID at checkin.
Hard part is done- now for the really scary part.

Hundreds of deployment steps will follow. Each one has to go perfectly. If it doesn't, the JWST fails and tens of billions of dollars and 30 years wasted (by some definition of 'waste').

But for every single one of those steps, an incredible amount of work has been done to ensure that it cannot fail.

But if any step fails, there's no repair mission possible for at least a decade or more.
(Wow thanks for that gem, looks amazing I just bought it in case it goes away.)
Whilst I readily admit that focussing my attention on the West's criticism of China depletes my limited resources to affect positive change in China, I actually believe I am ultimately having a greater impact.

What I'm saying is that if we truly have China's, or namely humanity's best interests at heart when we criticise China, then we could profoundly increase our effectiveness if we demonstrated even just a basic understanding of context. Namely that the West is defined by its colonialism — its power and influence comes from exploitation of more than half the world.

To give an example, if a government truly wants people to wear masks and socially isolate, then the prime minister (Boris Johnson of the UK in this case), should not throw private parties.

We can argue about whether what the West did was net good or bad, but I don't think we can argue about whether the effectiveness of one's words are diminished by acts that are contrary to those words.
I have a question seeing how this project has been decades in the making. Wouldn't newer technologies have been discovered in the meantime? Do they still send whatever devices they built years ago? How exactly does it work?
A Leatherman Kick.
What Thirteen-Stage, Four-Issue, Out-of-Order Processor Means
This is easy to understand. All the things you mention are issues that affect everybody. A better understanding of what it means to be man affects a very small percentage, so when when a govt looks past everything it should care about in order to mess with natural roles then it is really obvious that they are in the wrong.
An Economic History of Restaurants
He's a 80 year old American politician. It's the demographic of people that see religion and God everywhere, even when talking about an international, deeply scientific endeavour. It's a cultural quirk I guess.
I am asking what would you bet for.
It's a giga-budget space telescope, mostly paid for by U.S. taxpayers. Most of whom are not nearly so interested in science geekery than the average HN'er. If it can be sold (as worth funding) to a bunch of the more-religious taxpayers as "a pilgrimage to discover and admire the handwork of God", or something similar, that's a plus in my book. The country is already suffering far too much "science vs. religion" divisiveness.
How to Troubleshoot RocksDB Write Stalls in TiKV
I have family at home so I’m not alone on a personal level. But in business, my co-founders have been gone for two years now. One silently sulking and one more or less retired. I’ve gone on to keep everything running for the sake of our employees but I feel a bit more like Scrooge in his counting house each year when I’m chugging along on Christmas Eve.

As an ecomm play, the holidays are also mark the end of our busy season. So it’s a lot at once, but I try to keep in mind that I am still happier working for myself than I ever was working for someone else. I am also so grateful for all the joy we bring to the world.
Canada isn't much a vacation destination. Canadians travel South. Mexico is not very attractive to Americans right now due to crime.
Maybe not unique to Germany, but the market failing to properly fund and support OSS software projects?
There are a lot of Christmas streams you can go and watch today. Who needs family when you have online friends to hang out with.
I’m an expat in Japan - I wonder if there are effective ways to get your kids to have separate friend groups in different languages so that they end up learning to a high level of proficiency from peers in either group, like classmates speak English at some international school or something + all Japanese in some Kendo club or some kind of hybrid multilingual school. Maybe religious groups have been a good source of local/foreign language peer groups in this sense?
How does DPI work on encrypted traffic? Most of the web uses HTTPS now. Are they able to decrypt most of that?
Totally OT, but what is it like to be inside a Category 5 hurricane ?
Serious question, if the sun shield does fail for some reason, would the telescope still operate but just at reduced sensitivity? Asking to the infrared astronomers out there…
There was a small discussion about it on reddit but nothing new really, just shady company does shady things, all part of the process.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/rn62qy/defector_what_t...
The original comment was worse, although this one is not much better.
You really must be quite westernized if you can't talk about China anymore without using the US as a reference point, and have to rely on Westerners spreading lies about China in service of their own agenda to speak for you.
A common medical joke:

A cold takes 7 days to resolve on its own. With modern medicine, it will take merely a week !

The placebo is not to eliminate the cancer, it’s to guarantee that we know the “normal” path without the drug, and gives a comparison point between the control and the target. The fundamental problem is that cancer can just resolve/improve on its own, or rather without intervention… so just poking and watching isn’t sufficient proof of the drug’s efficacy
Most (all?) LSP implementations are open source. If the same effort they put into reimplementing the compilers went into making better LSP-based solutions, LSP would run circles around custom plugins, because LSP has accurate data from the official compiler. However, I guess I know why they are not doing that: because that would benefit the competition as well.

And yeah, obviously Java story is definitely polished, but it has been under development for decades, and also Java is quite a limited language.
Given the history of "interesting" choices that AT&T has made in the past decade perhaps the 5 Billion isn't all that far fetched. Perhaps, in an attempt to increase growth, they will by a major grocery chain instead of expanding their fiber deployments because we all know how spending 10's of billions of satellites and entertainment companies worked out for them.
> he'd often send the blog posts to the paper authors he was corresponding with and no one pointed it out yet

That's not necessarily because they don't read his blog posts. There's every chance they read them and notice the misspelled acronym, but just assume it's a typo and don't mention it. It comes across as rude and petty to nitpick someone's critical writing by pointing out their typos.
As the article states, there are lots of Western countries (including mine) that do not require a second stairwell for midrise apartment buildings. It's not a theoretical question. In a properly compartmentalized apartment building, you should not exit your apartment unless it's the one that's on fire.
> If that's gone, I'm going to have a hard time not making the CCP my mortal enemy

Wouldn't be a bad choice, regardless of what happens with Steam.
Zolatron 64 – First PCBs
What? The US doesn't require anyone to register with the local government when traveling, foreigner or US citizen. Where are you getting this kind of misinformation?
The statement here is that some "basic digital infrastructure" like compilers or security protocols are fundamental to every individuals participation in the "digital revolution".
Therefore the government wants to fund some of this basic infrastructure in order to prevent it from going closed-source or proprietary.

The point is that open-source software is not and should not be regulated by the market, as it should not be profit driven.
From the release notes, it looks like it only supports x86-64.

From the bug report [0] it sounds like they may also support ARM64 in the future.

[0] - https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18229
Thank you so much for this.

I just had a Christmas dinner alone spiraling on how much of a failure i am given my horrible social skill. But this really cheer me up!
When I lived in China I rented a server in Hong Kong and ran OpenVPN, that pretty much worked fine. Back then VPNs weren't technically illegal I believe but that's changed in recent years. Major VPN providers would stop working for periods of time because China would keep blocking IPs.
You need to hire a burner person in your legal corporation, to be the owner of your FB accoubt.

Bonus: economic opportunity for lower class.
This Metaverse / NFT thing is depressing, I wouldn't recommend this.
If you are alone, better take the "celebrations" as an opportunity to discover people that are a little bit of your usual circle by inviting them for a dinner or movie.
The COVID-19 makes more people lonely, and actually, it's a positive thing for people who are usually alone because it makes it easier for them to live with the social stigma of being alone.
First of all, the reason people view the government using the data as different is that the government has coercive powers (and a monopoly on Violence) that other actors don’t.

Secondly, the government making use of an unethical or nefarious practice only serves to legitimize it, and make it harder to roll back.

Lastly, if everything was above board, why be forthright about the use the employment of such data sets?
> Examples of digital infrastructure include code libraries or standardized protocols used by developers to write and test application software.

Not everything is business and there should be support for new infrastructure that falls outside the purview of businesses. I’m glad there’s some initiative from my Govt to address digital infrastructure woes. It’ll be interesting to see how it’ll pan out. However The most important thing is a periodic audit to avoid a Luca App like situation.
Let’s say I am a farmer who owns a tractor. I provide it to you to work my land. I request that you not use it on your adjacent farm. You agree. Do I have the right to watch where you drive it?

I am not trying to trap you. I am genuinely trying to figure out where the lines are.
The only Hong Kongers who will remain prosperous in 20 years are the sycophants who embrace this new fear-based system imposed upon them by a genocidal regime.

They can never speak out against their unwanted political overlords or end up like the incarcerated opposition politicians, journalists, lawyers, students, doctors, etc

Basically anyone who want to voice their own truth under their own free will ends up jailed and maybe tortured until they recant their true feelings and become another crushed spirit.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/hong-kong-tycoon-jimm...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-28/hong-kong-detains-pro...
What kind of issues does "xeyes" help you troubleshoot?
Here are most of the big ones, with timing: https://planet4589.org/space/misc/webb/time.html
There are no such exemptions, and I don't know from where did this idea came
I am spending Christmas 'alone' , but together with a bunch of solo travellers on a backpacking trip. My loneliness was a result of US visa regulations cancelling my plans to meet my loved ones, but I do wonder about all of my other co-travellers.

They're bunch of white Americans aged 40-70? for whom Christmas would usually be a big day. I dont know them well enough to ask personal questions about family, but a backpacking crew does feel like comforting place to be 'alone'.

America's holidays are so strongly tied to the last week of Dec (24-31), that not having any plans can feel really isolating even if you don't care for Christmas. Calling friends on that long week to ask to hang out and repeatedly realizing that everyone has 'plans', can make you feel super left out.

For a while I did wonder if I was being actively left out. Then realized that being a single guy without family in the US means having to find the few others like you who WILL make plans in November. Either seek them out or lead the planning efforts. But, trying to find a plan to hop on into in December is a terrible idea.
Until China starts launching large scale space telescopes perhaps such readings are required to keep the more conservative politicians voting for science funding.
Eurocircuits for NDA stuff. They are slow to work with and expensive, but I trust their integrity and they produce fully inside Europe.

Aisler is super fast and cheap, but I need to solder myself, so I use them for small interface boards

pcbway is in China, but I can send in my own components. I used them for example for an usb3+fpga+RAM base board. They are great for stock modules like USB interfaces, but have no NDA options.

jlcpcb is in China and cheap and fast, but you can only use components in their list. So I use them for larger batches of boards that I prototyped with aisler. Also no NDA option.
The reality is the Americans footed most of the bill. That gives them certain authority.

Even as a member of a highly involved country (Canada) I can acknowledge that on this road trip, they're the driver of the vehicle and they get to decide what's on the radio.

It would be nice if the Americans were more considerate, but that's a general problem and not specific to this. (I kid, I kid).
If the building is properly compartmentalized, you're supposed to stay in your apartment in case of a fire (unless yours is the one that's on fire, obviously!)
They do. They fingerprint for OpenVPN in real time and block it. In 2018 I was cycling through multiple VPNs at a time. The only thing that worked was Shadowsocks.
I am European and not affiliated in any way with China. And don't want to whitewash them.

Still, there is a double standard regarding China vs the Western World. While China gets (IMHO deserved) criticism for their territorial claims and human right abuse, the Iraq War (over 400k deaths) was "business as usual".

The same goes with anti-pandemic restrictions - when it happens in China, it's an authoritarian rule. When in the West - it's social responsibility.
When China started vaccinating children, I saw an article with "child soldiers" and a photo of a crying kid. The same action in the West had a picture of a smiling kid, and a more welcoming title.

Or even when it comes to pollution and worker's rights, the West is hypocritical. Blames China, while happily outsources most heavy industry there, due to lower costs. (When was the last time you bought some electronics and there were not "Manufactured in PRL"?)