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We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive comments and for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Btw, could you please also stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that as well, and this in the guidelines too.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Apple could provide a genuine parts and stolen parts tracking tool for the most valuable parts: screen, camera, motherboard.

The goal is to make stolen iPhones worth nearly zero to thieves, which makes iPhones more valuable to all iPhone owners. Otherwise stolen iPhones are worth enough to incentivise a stolen iPhone economy. https://www.ifixit.com/Parts/iPhone_13/Screens Not having your phone stolen is worth your replacement cost to you.
I forgot the exact numbers we used for this exercise but we did a standard hypothesis test on wrongful convictions in my stat 101 class and even mathematically, only 95% convictions are “rightful”. So essentially there is 5% innocent people. The 5% mainly consist of the poor and/or non-white.
This prevailing argument on hackernews that "American and China are equally authoritarian regimes" is patently absurd.

One is used to hearing these types of nonsense points being made in high school by kids trying to be provocative
and contrarian but it getting to a supposedly "rational" community makes me think the community has been infiltrated by Chinese agents or other special interest groups astroturfing.
U.S. Treasury Seeks Comment on Crypto’s Illicit Finance Risks
Do you assume AfD electorate in Germany is also "military minded, semi-trained and armed"?
This sounds just like online advertising to me.
Serial definitely was an inflection point in the history of podcasts.
String Functions: Nim vs. Python (updated 2021)
I tried a bit of Undisclosed but it was... too much for me. In Serial, I was able to keep all the details of the case straight in my head, but Undisclosed went too far.

That said, their objective wasn't to entertain and I respect that.
What is the [MX] button? I don't think I've ever seen that on a calculator.

TBH, though, this is still kind of like arguing that people should never need GUIs because you can do everything on the command line. There is a pretty obvious, fundamental difference being able to see everything on the screen at the same time, vs having to remember what you stored in memory (and what calculations went into it).

As for RPN, while I agree most people are never taught RPN.
Famous Chinese dissident journalist Julian Assange.
Those are perfect examples of what not to do.
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Why do gasoline prices go up and down all the time? same for airline ticket prices? I'm afraid your theory has a lot of 'splainin' to do.
CATL unveils module to bracket battery technology for heavy trucks
This prevailing argument on hackernews that "American and China are equally authoritarian regimes" is patently absurd.

One is used to hearing these types of nonsense points being made in high school by kids trying to be proactive and contrarian but it getting to a supposedly "rational" community makes me think the community has been infiltrated by Chinese agents or other special interest groups astroturfing.
if you still live in france they will probably need to pay for french benefits and you have no “risks” since you are not moving

if you become self employed and work for them this way, you need to multiply your net salary in france by 3x so you can pay all taxes and build a safety cushion
The headline of the third article on your list:

> Joo Koon train collision: Some passengers cried and there was vomit in the train, says witness

“Vomit in the train” would never make a headline in an American newspaper.
I think US hegemony is the biggest threat to global stability, but this is starting to veer off topic.
Are you familiar with the whistleblower Edward Snowden?
Absolutely. This is so damn puzzling to me.
Half of josh's comments show up as dead, so maybe you and others who can, look around and vouch for them as well. There's something nefarious going on...
The fluids contain charges and salts, I could see all sorts of corrosion and shorting damage.
I agree that the responsibility for quality and security of open-source lies with the consumers of that code. But legal liability for negligence is another thing altogether. If the ultimate customer or user wants their vendor to accept liability for failures or defects then they need to negotiate that up front in a binding contract. If customers don't want to pay for that then that's their problem, they can take whatever garbage their vendors shovel out and then deal with the consequences.
> Companies must stop expecting others to do their job for them. OSS devs already wrote the code for free because, ostensibly, it was fun

This is not really true. Open source is much more than hobbyists doing things in their spare time for fun. A huge amount of open source is developed by and released by paid software professionals as part of their jobs. Some of those companies are directly doing it as part of their actual business offering. Others are doing it because they value owning the mind share in a space. Then, a huge amount of other OSS is developed by people who want to enhance their professional reputations.

EDIT: I see the article actually confines itself to OSS software that was written as a hobby. In that case I think my words above are probably out of context. But by the same token, the whole article scope is diluted a lot. Yes, if you have pinned your project on something someone wrote on the weekend for fun with no intention to maintain it, you've got problems. But let's not brand all of open source with that problem.
A thing that modern, typically liberal people and journals don’t understand about people like Crumb is they come from a background of not trusting authority. And they conflate 1960s counter culture of not trusting Nixon and the mainstream conservative culture with trusting liberal authority. And for some, sure. But for many it’s about not trusting authority regardless of which side wields it.

So his Covid paranoia is totally consistent with a worldview of not trusting authority ever and never assuming that there’s a group of “good guys”. It’s difficult for The NY Times editor to understand because they are in fact part of the authority and want a particular side of it to be it.
Those acronyms surely are not implying anything
Over half this person's comments (the Josh-pdap person I mean) have been flagged.

Not sure if this is some false positive on anti-spam (new account, lots of comments in a short time on a single story) or if it's someone with a vendetta. @dang this is a little weird...

(I know, this site doesn't have magic @, but also i think the site moderator probably has scripts searching for mentions/summons anyway. I would anyway...)
> "accomplice who's story had checked out"

I'm not sure that's how i would put it. He changed his story several times until it fit.
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x2 won’t be enough as you might be temporarily unemployed and that needs to be paid for as well
The evidence is in the way the CCP treats private companies (Alibaba, Tencent, etc.), it really doesn't take much logical thinking to realize that at any point the black-box algorithm can change on the whim of a party official.
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Is it only me who sees a humble man enjoying his own ikigai[0] in simple but challenging creation? The photo says it all.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
This is textbook “whataboutism” where instead of responding to the points being made you switch out to an attack on an opponent who has done something similar in the past.

If you are of the opinion that the US government’s past behaviour has been a bad thing then you should be absolutely horrified by the CCP’s track record.
> - There is an in-depth article about implementing the "old enough to run errands" in America. Again, the author did not just throw their kid out on the street. They invested a lot of time skill-building.

I often think about the chores and trips I took with my dad growing up, and how he slowly and cleverly worked me up to doing things.

For instance when we would stop at a gas station, unless I had to go to the bathroom I had to stay in the car as it was dangerous, I might get hit by a car etc. But I could help by gathering any trash and handing it to him. Then as I got older, I could help by getting out and washing the side mirrors, then the door windows and finally the windshield once I could reach. The genesis really was that it was boring to sit in the car and I wanted to do something, and he capitalized on that.

Same thing when we would take the recycling to the drop off point. First I had to stay in the car (you'll note a consistent theme here: I couldn't just stay at home at my leisure while chores were going on) and watch, then I could help with the light things like the cans, then the newspapers, then the glass.

....I'm still salty that I had to mow all 2 acres with a push mower for years and years, and he only bought a tractor with a giant mower deck after us kids moved out, though. The cheeky old bastard.
Yes it is a real Minecraft server implementation you can connect a standard client to but it is not a vanilla survival implementation. It's a redstone sandbox.
New study suggests Gen-Z are using TikTok instead of Google
standard american power cord for 120V
One of my history teachers in high school had a large stack of 'Soviet Life' magazines that he said we could read if we wanted whenever we were done with our work but he warned they were propaganda. I was surprised by what I read because I was expecting it to be stories about the evils of capitalism and the mighty strength of communism but instead it was mostly 'slice of life' stories about average people in the various Soviet republics. Took me a while to figure out that was the propaganda. Part of that was due to my preconceived notions of what propaganda would look like because I had been primed by popular media in the US to expect it to be "you capitalist pigs" rants instead of one that pushed the narrative that the Soviets were peacefully trying to go about their lives without bothering anyone. I often wonder if that's why our teach made them available to us so we'd figure that out on our own.
FBI, and beurocrats want to control the discourse,
and pick favorites which candidates Americans get. It's harder to do that when platform is foreign.
Still perhaps the best thing for Americans to have an alternative main stream source of information.
Platforms should not get to do view point discrimination and censorship.
Pendulums swing, and public opinion matters..the law will follow.
Edit: And I think we should all be very worried about Google, Facebook, etc. These domestic corporations are too big to have any morals. The employees might but the machine is just a machine.
Please tell me that you've retired now due to your incredible billing rates and track record of success.
They want to be THE de-facto global hegemon. They've stated this time and time again. It's literally in their name (Middle Country).

They don't want to kill us per-say, but they don't mind getting their hands dirty as long as the ends justify the means. In a battle over geopolitical, technological and militaristic superiority, killing one's enemy can happen.
I feel like many people take the "comments will go out of date" adage the wrong way. To me, it doesn't say "don't write comments", it says "give your comments some love while you code".

It's meant to warn against letting comments become false, not against writing them. To me, at least.
> This is a historically narrow view of the situation.

> We aren't paying people to 'steal' your code. We're paying people to act like professionals.

I think you have a narrow view of the situation, or you are trying to misrepresent the reality we are living in.

We are signing up for OSS-derived SaaS mostly because of the existence of cloud-computing network effects. There have been many fights fought by companies 'acting like professionals' that could accept payment. They are re-licensing their software because developers and companies are utilizing a forked cloud-vendor-specific clones of their work. Forking software to provide it to a captive audience doesn't seem professional, it seems anti-competitive.

That said, most popular licenses allow it, so it is legal, but I don't think it is ethical.
The changes in algorithms directed by the CCP can be tracked like purchases of online ads through facebook/twitter?

What kind of nonsense comparison is this good lord.
"canceling" means getting kicked off of social media platforms and fired. if you're not on social media platforms and self-employed then you can't really be "cancelled" at all.
I love the ‘complexity horizon’ of algorithms: If something can be made simple, then we’ll build more complex things until we can’t understand it. All algorithm are always right above the maximum complexity that a single human can handle.

Actually I believe it’s another surprising emergent effect of open-source: Linux’s or Postgres’ complexity horizon seem to have been managed, so that adding new stuff didn’t increase complexity, and it’s still possible to add new stuff THIRTY years later.

As opposed to Excel.
It comes from the fact that the CCP is not above committing genocide on its own citizens, or disappearing high profile figures who are critical of the party line.

Pretty easy to imagine what would happen if a party official said "please promote content that is divisive or favors pro CCP propaganda".

I can't imagine the CEO of Binance saying no to that, and the ability to detect changes to a black-box recommendation algorithm are non-existant.
The most important part of this project is in the very last sentence: it's all implemented on an FPGA (one which doesn't have any backdoorable-for-surveillance hard cores).

Without that, none of the other stuff would be trustable.
I like Firefox and am a loyal, long term user - used it before quantum kind of loyal - but it is by far the least efficient browser on macOS with M1. In my rough personal testing Brave (based on chromium) is significantly more energy efficient, getting me up to 30% more battery time. I'm not sure why, but it's making it harder and harder to justify sticking with FF.
EASA flight time requirements are super short 200 hours. Basically 5 40 hour weeks. That’s probably a bad thing junior pilot error is a common contributing factor in many recent crashes for airplanes flying under EASA rules.
That's just obvious enough that we might have already done it. We might, for instance, have looked at the inflation data 13 months after Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. And based on that data, we might have reached conclusions that are spectacularly different from yours.

If you want to convince us, you're going to have to do more than just say "look at the data" and repeat your previous point. Specifically what data are you looking at, and over what time frame, and how do you think it demonstrates your position?
properties are overvalued. how are you going to buy them for a reasonable price? sounds like this will only work if you can buy properties cheaply.
> encode a grapheme cluster as a constant size […] totally possible with damn near every language that people actually use

This is not true. For a concrete example: the languages Hindi and Marathi, with ~500 million speakers, use the Devanagari script (also used by Nepali and Sanskrit), in which a grapheme cluster is (usually) a sequence of consonants followed by a vowel. For instance, something like "bhuktvā" (भुक्त्वा) would be two grapheme clusters, one (भु) for "bhu" and one (क्त्वा) for "ktvā". In Unicode each vowel and consonant (here, bh, u, k, t, v, ā) is separately encoded, which is the only reasonable thing to do, and inevitably means that grapheme clusters can have different lengths (number of code points). The alternative would have been to encode every possible (sequence of consonants + vowel) as a single codepoint, which gets ridiculous quickly: these sequences can be up to 5 consonants long, so you'd end up having to encode (33^5 * 13 ≈ 500M) codepoints for Devanagari alone (or completely prevent certain sequences of consonants from being expressed, which makes no sense either), not to mention that most of the scripts of the Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia follow the same principle and have similar issues (e.g. Bengali with 250M speakers, Telugu, Javanese, Punjabi, Kannada, Gujarati, Thai with over 50M speakers each, etc).

(See chapters 12–17 of the Unicode standard, currently version 15: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch12.pdf)
Free speech isn't about giving all ideas an equal footing. It's about letting any individual speak their mind without fear of repercussions. And that is exactly what MIT appears to be pledging to do here.

Ideas are still subject to the marketplace, and the MIT community is a very discriminating market.
> ...will always be running in the background and constantly monitoring the vehicle for deviation from normal driving habits, which will also mean the vehicle will need to learn your specific idiosyncrasies behind the wheel in order to better profile your behavior...

Who will be responsible for the possible malfunction of this new software?
Russia has "filtration camps" right now. China commits genocide against the Uyghurs. I'd say _that's_ a baseline for calling someone a terrorist. USA is marginally better.
Western democracies discuss, legislate, and impose limitations on those collections powers in great detail.
The FBI, a large portion of whose budget would be eliminated if such crimes subsided or disappeared?

Who themselves has been caught engineering acts of terrorism, again to secure budgets and make themselves seem needed?

What a source to cite.
Most startups are of course going to fail, but to give yourself the best chance for success, split the stock equally between cofounders (leaving ~20% for future employees); devote 100% of your time to the startup; and once you get funding, take a salary that allows you to live comfortably and continue to devote 100% of your time to the company.

Also, because life is short and your savings aren't infinite, set some metrics (X many users, Y much revenue, Z much funding, etc) to meet under some time horizon (3 months, a year, etc), and when that time point arrives, if you're not close to your goals, fold the company and try something new.
How can you claim you do C++ and not evwn know that virtual did NOT check if it was an override of what you wanted or you were introducing an entirely new function? Your understanding of C++ is quite poor. You have a wrong mental model even about how virtual functions worked. There was no way for the compiler to say you were overriding or not hence now way to emit an error!!No religions here, just objectively better features. I bet you did not refactor hierarchies pre and post-C++11 otherwise you would not say that. It is not that trivial and marking overrides catches all intents of fake overrides. Before that was not possible.

Seems suspicious to me that you claim to have used C++ for long. You do not understand even how virtual functions worked in the language.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I would assume that it could help tremendously with PSYOPs.

If you could identifying some target group, like those easily influenced about a particular topic, then videos could be recommended to try to push them towards some perspective about that topic. I would even claim that the user generated content varies enough that the need for planted/sponsored videos would be rare.

I don't think it's remotely controversial to claim that they have the majority of the eyes of the US youth under their control [1]. I doubt there's ever been another time in history where a foreign, not-so-good-relation, government has had anything close to this level of direct, push, access to another countries population.

Lets flip it. If the most viewed media company in China were US based, partly owned by the US government (as ByteDance is by the CCP), I think we can all assume that a three letter agency would be using it to their advantage. They use our own companies to their advantage. China is demonstrably similar, in this way. But, China would never allow that scenario to happen.

1. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-report-on-teen-soc...
Flash is EOL and Adobe no longer supports it. Why would Adobe want to continue with Flash? It was a mistake. They have disowned it because to own it would be to own a dumpster fire that keeps on burning.

If you have SVG, WebGL, canvas, and sound API just use those directly, don't make a flash portability layer.
> 1 week before an American election? 80 million Americans start being bombarded with "Why you should vote how the CCP wants you to vote" videos. That is a national security threat.

Of course, it wouldn't be that dumb and obvious. If they were smart, they'd pick compelling organic content that aligns with their agenda, and amplify that for susceptible audiences (e.g. if they want to hurt Biden, they might take best videos criticizing him for allowing more oil drilling, and then un-organically push that content to users with environmentalist leanings).
Larry Ellison’s company blocked Lanai Beach from public access in Hawaii
Comparing the level of intrusion of a dysfunctional government (USA) with a full blown dictatorship (China) is even more disingenuous. If you think I'm wrong look at the wisdom of the masses: why nobody wants to emigrate to China?
there's that many HN folks in the Sacramento area?

Sounds like we could take over Discovery Park and call it good. :)
Why use a micro at all? You could have implemented the entire circuit with a couple extra discrete components to reduce complexity.
Wow, lucky kid that his case got this much attention. It can't be the only ambiguous case out there.
I wish someone would setup neighborhood geothermal heat pumps as a heating utility or coop model. It's so expensive for everyone to bore into the ground for this.
Josh, many of your comments here are displaying as "dead." The HN FAQ[0] says:

> What does [dead] mean?

> The post was killed by software, user flags, or moderators. Dead posts aren't displayed by default.

I suspect that it is a false positive. Maybe email the mods for help? hn@ycombinator.com

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Imagine one day you run for office, or hold a position with national security interest.

In this scenario, it would be a lot easier to setup a honeypot thanks to all this additional information. In some cases, even blackmail you if you have a private TikTok account that's been linked back to your real identity.

I wouldn't be surprised if the CCP keeps a dossier on high profile figures in various countries as part of their influence operations.
Your other posts to this thread were bad enough, and I already replied once. But this sort of slur is beyond the pale and not allowed on HN, so i've banned this account.

It also looks like you've been using HN primarily for political/ideological/nationalistic battle, which is another line at which we ban accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...).

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html