skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Wow. This entire thread seems to be written by Chinese agents"

No, what about people who dont believe american propaganda?

"minimize the threat against the West by China.
Clearly TikTok can be a national security issue."

The "west" is not a country. Who is being menaced here? The "west" (what countries are the west exactly? Bolivia is in the Western Emisphere, and they are more aligned with China than with the american Empire.) By "West" do you actually mean the NATO military alliance?

"Western governments can only access data from private companies if they have a search warrant."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Snowden is laughing his ass off!

"By actively looking to undermine the West."

Again, what do you mean by "the West"? The Western Emisphere? Developed countries? The Imperial Core? The NATO military-imperialistic-warmonger alliance?

I will tell you the regions of the world that don't benefit from the West, and the exploitation it produces: the whole of Latin America, Africa, Asia and Russia. Those are vast regions of land where billions have been historically EXPLOITED, SUBJUGATED and ENSLAVED by "The West". Fuck the west! It should completely be undermined and destroyed, to be replaced by a socialistic, humanistic and civilized society.

As long as "The West" and the wars, bloodbaths and constant bombings, coups, civil wars, guerrilla fighting and exploitation they promote exists, that cannot be achieved.
hey, which of those two have *actually* committed genocide?
Vans may be slightly harder to hide than phone repair equipment.
You'd think TV repair was dead, but we have a local TV repair guy who has a few lucrative warranty repair contracts with some of the bigger brand names.

He usually doesn't do much other than replace fried main boards, but occasionally will do a proper repair (where possible) on out of warranty TVs. That work I can't see how he makes money out of it, but he does it anyway.

I'm glad he is still going, he is a dab hand at fixing vintage hi-fi which is subsidised by his TV warranty work.
As a long time scanner enthusiast, if you actually spend anytime listening to PD radios (which is legal and easy), you will be disappointed with how little information actually goes out over the unencrypted air - just enough to get units rolling, after that, very little, for obvious reasons.
> One of the suspects had threatened Lee, saying “he would make her (Ms. Lee) disappear. He would kill her,” according to the filing.

> “Given the stunning lack of reliable evidence implicating Mr. Syed, coupled with increasing evidence pointing to other suspects, this unjust conviction cannot stand,” said Assistant Public Defender Erica Suter, Mr. Syed’s attorney and, Director of the Innocence Project Clinic. “Mr. Syed is grateful that this information has finally seen the light of day and looks forward to his day in court.”

> The suspects were known persons at the time of the original investigation and were not properly ruled out nor disclosed to the defense, prosecutors said.

source: https://apnews.com/article/adnan-syed-conviction-baltimore-p...

I think this is enough to justify letting him get out and they can decide if they want to do another trial. That's a pretty important miss on the prosecutors originally and the other suspects should have been ruled out before focusing all on him.

EDIT: Also, on a personal level and in a normative sense, it's been 20 years and he should be allowed to re-enter society and of all the crazy people we let back, he's probably one of the safer choices for rehabilitation.
I think that commenter may have not been that literal and meant something more along the lines of "made podcasts more mainstream in an exponential manner." I know plenty of people in my life who weren't podcast people at that time but were constantly talking about it or walking around saying "mail... keemp?" as a joke. (A reference to Serial)
I think people in the West forget that Imperial China was a kind of superpower in the past, and the Chinese people have neither forgotten that they are capable of it back then and are capable of it now.

Being underestimated is to China’a advantage.

Another thing is that, Americans don’t see the effect of soft power and cultural imperialism because it has often been American culture and technology being exported elsewhere. Tik Tok is an example of a successful export by China, and it likely won’t be the last.

That bit about Western governments can only access the data through search warrant is not strictly true. The US have gotten around their own laws by such things as, purchasing consumer data on the open market without a warrant, or making agreements with other government intelligence agencies to obtain domestic surveillance data through a foreign ally’s foreign surveillance program.
By actually Googling things?!

Your specific experience might be different from mine as well. In most places I have been there were lots of 'standard' things in use that were easily Google-able. You may also mainly work in languages that make it hard to find things you don't already have a mental model of (scripting languages, untyped languages etc.) vs. where I like working: typed languages where I can let the IDE guide me through. Frameworks that make things easily string searchable etc.

There's a price for not asking: To take the example I gave before. If you take 2 weeks to get up to "I can deploy code for development and debug it" that's a bad sign. If you're up an running in a day or two, you're usually golden.
Yes - operating in China.
It’s a distinct art form, with it’s own cultural norms (eg “use A on B”, where neither has any obvious relationship to the problem at hand).

As far as I can tell, exhaustive search tends to be the solution.
> language in maths is not a programming language used to tell a computer how to go from A to B, but a natural language

Right, we're on the same page, I just think this is a bad thing and you evidently think it's a good thing. I'm well aware many mathematicians don't, because it's how they were trained and unlearning is the hardest kind of learning. The ambiguity[1] of natural language is observably ill-suited for formal reasoning, and the experience of computing science has shown this conclusively.

Do bear in mind that the pioneers in our field were virtually all trained mathematicians. They were well aware of the historic faults of the field because having to make programs actually work forced them to be.

The legacy fuzzy pencil and paper approach of traditional mathematics is going to end up being to proper formal mathematics just as what's now called philosophy is to formal logic.

[1] Let's not confuse ambiguity with generality.
I'm actually kind of shocked. The calculator apps emulate a calculator, but they don't take any advantage of having the phone screen. A proper calculator app would allow you to type

1.6*2/3

and display the equation on the screen, not just the 3.
Wondering if they have those 2 other now uncovered suspects in custody? If not, would they not now skidaddle at the soonest??
Just fine tune the model? Prompt leakage and bypass is only a problem with zero/few shot inference, and is trivially solved by removing the need for a prompt.
"Robert Daly, the director of the Kissinger Institute "

Quoting the director of the Kissinger Institute! You cant make this shit up. Is just too funny.
The backup only needs to last long enough until the production database is rebuilt from the source of truth, and then swapped back to the most recent search database.

In other words, it only has to be good enough for a few days (ideally - hours).
The “work at a startup” meetups were fun, even if only to hear the pitches and see what Sam had to say.

Is that still a thing?
The US government has become much more authoritarian since 9/11 and nationalism is on the rise.

A few big tech companies have spent hundreds of millions keeping the state out of their databases, which probably gets billed to their PR budgets. Most tech companies do not put up such a big fight. Some court the state to get sweetheart deals, and the public has no basis for feeling confident that covert access wasn't an unpublicized provision of those deals.

The US federal government can quite easily throw me in prison or destroy my livelihood if the right person/corporation with enough institutional clout had a grudge against me (see Steven Donziger, US lawyer who has been imprisoned for trying to hold Chevron accountable for illegally polluting in ecuador).

Why should I, a US citizen who has no business need to travel to China currently, worry about the CCP's authoritarianism more than the US govts?
People who are just slightly ahead of their time tend to have competitors, people who looked at the same world and have essentially the same idea, and then it's down to whether we think Liebniz or Newton invented it, or whether we confusingly credit one but rely on the techniques of the other (see also Edison & Tesla).

I think history has unfortunately proven Babbage a dreamer. He had no contemporary who could swoop in and profit from his slow progress, because his work was not obvious/compelling to anyone else of his caliber.
It's not that TVs are so cheap that they are disposable, but rather that repairs are so expensive that you might as well just replace the whole thing. Even when all you'd need are some inexpensive parts the cost of parts + service just to get am extra year or two out of a TV before something else fails (as they are designed to do) is less attractive than just replacing the device.
Having worked in the Chinese tech sector I have honestly no idea where this cartoonish idea comes from that the Chinese government magically runs every tech company in the country. I seriously question if anyone who says that has any personal experience with the country at all. This is some strange techno-orientalism where Asian governments apparently have superpowers nobody else possesses. Does anyone here think the American government is physically able to own or run every technology company or even one?

The Chinese tech sector, including TikTok (which is a distinct western entity anyway, the Chinese app is called Doujin) faced comparatively little oversight, and regulators usually aren't exactly competent. Chinese entrepreneurs navigate laws and regulations just like they do everywhere else, with the added difficulty that they tend to be even more confusing than anywhere else. There is no mastermind sitting in a dark room smoking a cigar controlling entire sectors of the economy, because only the tech companies actually know how to operate themselves, same as anywhere else.

The government in China considers its own tech sector to be a competing power center, not some extended arm of the party, which is why they brought the hammer down on significant parts of the industry recently, wiping out ungodly sums of money in the process. You don't do that to an asset. Chinese tech tends to attempt to skirt the rules (usually for its own benefit) whenever possible.
Thank you for your work with this! One question I have:

You say in your FAQ "We aren't a watchdog—our activism is data collection and accessibility, not analysis or research."

Can you note any instances of other people using your data for analysis or research?
Still, I don’t want to enable the CCP propagating with their explicit authoritarianism without the modicum of checks we seem to have available here. Whatever hurts them is good for me. That being said what they’re doing seems to be effective, they’ve essentially lifted all 1 billion of their people out of poverty in the span of 20 years, it really is an incredible achievement.
Sorry I thought this was an economic conversation, I’m not really debating how best to manage the disease at this stage, but if X deaths a year becomes part of the run rate economics should normalize.

> normalization of mask wearing in public indoor settings.

However, I am curious how this is not normalized now? It’s personal choice where I live and nobody blinks twice if you want to wear it. And my state is full of antimaskers. The issue becomes when you expect other people to wear it and they don’t want to.
Lol FB and all the rest you mentioned do not have access to anything in China.

Thats the difference.
> But simply claiming that their economy is planned is clearly wrong.

I didn't claim that. I was pointing out that the centrally planned part isn't working. China has a mixed economy.
Failed my family in midlife, lost them all, lost everything. Here are my thoughts.

Find gratitude. Find humility. Give up ego. Shut down that voice that says 'but I deserve....'. You live better than almost all of humanity ever has. The King of France had a guy with a bucket follow him around and he would crap into it in public. You live better than the King of France. Find a way to make that enough, more than enough, to be something to be grateful for. Appreciate the gift that is your life every day. Try to not have resentment.

Impact the world through raising your child a little better than your parents did, and try to instill them raising their children a little better than you. That has true meaning, not knowledge in your head that will be lost when you are dust.

Go to any local public flower gardens and enjoy the beauty. It is as mind blowing a gift from the Universe as the principles underlying physics. And you can share the beauty of nature with your family and young child with much less effort.

Accept that NOTHING will be enough. Not understanding deep theories, not a Porsche Speedster. Not the vacations with family. Not academic praise, or 1% level riches. Turn your focus from those things you are trying to fill a hole with, and figure out why the hole is there and it's cause. You wouldn't just start putting dirt in a sync hole without understanding the cause.

Find a place where hopefully you are loved, but at the very least find a place within you to understand that you, as a person, are very much worthy of being loved.

As someone who failed the midlife crisis thing, I always go back to moments with family for strength, never to moments of 'ah ha' about some great programming algorithm or when I was in class and learned of some great discovery. General Relativity exists whether you study it or not, but those moments between Markus and those in his family that CHOSE HIM as their family, and CHOOSE to keep him family every day, those are very, very finite, and those others are choosing to GIVE their finite moments to be with YOU.

If you can not give those around you what they need, don't be a coward and wait until you fail them. Leave them now, stop stealing their finite time and energy. If that is the case, choose to be a failure, but not a failure and a thief :(

If you chose not to leave, then understand YOU CHOOSE this situation. No resentments in your head, this is your choice. You can choose to leave, but not to resent. Physical bodies change. Children come before our wants. Choose it, or leave. Don't pretend, don't steal the days of other's lives, and lie through omission.

You are halfway done with the period of time in which you can give and receive hugs. Some stupid Reddit that made me cry pointed out, at some point, you will pick up your child for the last time, then set them down and not in the moment realize that you will never pick them up again :( Make every time you pick your child up count. It is a special, finite thing, along with every other moment you have as the consciousness known as markus_zhang on HN.
If you paste an expression into the search box…
Try it with (66/6)^2/2
I think if a project like ours ever did use blockchain, it would be behind the scenes as a part of the product; decentralization and transparency are key parts of our ethos! However, it's too unstable and as you can see by the comments, mentioning "web3" costs a lot of credibility in many, or maybe most, communities online.

https://knish.io/ is a good example of people using blockchain to make real products. I don't know that it's ready though.
The problem is, to many people around the world it is hard to describe the U.S. as democratic.

As I see it, in the U.S. the corporations have completely subverted the government whereas in China the corporations are afraid of the government.

I am not sure why private interests controlling governments is less scary than governments controlling private interests?

The U.S. lays claim to all data say Google stores about me, even the ones stored outside the U.S. As an European, the U.S. is much more likely to reach me if they wanted than China.

I am not sure why the U.S. model is better than China's. Perhaps we in the West would do better to admit it's two sides of the same coin.
Not sure why this got killed (dead in HN terms) but I vouched for it.
I don't really understand this argument: if GitHub allows hosting things that completely disclaim warranty and people are using things from GitHub, don't you effectively have this "tossing a blueprint into the world" problem? Sure, you aren't entitled to it, but there are plenty of places that offer this kind of service and plenty of consumers who get software from these services.
Agree with this. Governance is an important issue.

The US is not perfect, but multi-party democratic states have mechanisms for checking and balancing misuse.

The reality in authoritarian states is that misuse is done quietly and without dissent.
I realise that the Chinese Communist Party would like to label any questioning of their activities as 'sinophobia' but it's not so. The CCP is one thing and the Chinese people are another.
Yes, it's just a coincidence that Apple and Google's anticompetitive policies in the mobile OS and app distribution markets have converged such that they are both practically identical and also allow them to leverage their dominance in those markets to dominate other markets like mobile app payments, as well.
It's easy to forget that the United States of the ratification of the Constitution is a different United States than the one we live in now. Both the Civil War and the radical reinterpretations of several federal powers during the Great Depression fundamentally changed the nature of federal and state government.

The Second Amemdent's in there because without it, the states wouldn't have been willing to ratify a Constitution that allowed the federal government to take their guns away. After all, they had just won a war against a monarch an ocean away; they weren't about to give their power of defense to an executive half a continent away. Remember, there was no guarantee a Constitution was going to happen at all; quite a few compromises and curveballs in that document are there because every single state had the option of rejecting the whole thing and being their own country. Many Founding Fathers envisioned defense of the US would look like individual states generally handling their own affairs, and a national army only being mobilized in the event of a national threat (however, practically speaking, that didn't come to pass... No sooner was the Constitution ratified than Washington led the Continental Army to force the citizens of western Pennsylvania to pay federal taxes).

Gun regulation was properly recognized as a state authority for most of the country's history prior to the Civil War and varied wildly from state to state, with many being significantly more restrictive than modern law. It's only with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment (and the Due Process clause, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law") that the Second Amendment ties the hands of state governments in the same way it tied the hands of the federal government. This restriction has been re-interpreted over the decades, but broadly speaking that's how we got from a 1700s Philadelphia that banned gun ownership for some immigrants to the modern interpretation where even tracking who owns a firearm might be considered an abridgment of the right of ownership.
> Ask yourself if it cheaper to fully review, sign, compile, and maintain third party OSS code or to write something focused on your needs on stop of the standard library yourself.

Why stop at the standard library?
What about the rest of the language toolchain? Compilers, interpreters. What about the OS?
Ask HN: How do you find sidegigs?
I'm looking to supplement my income with a couple of side projects/jobs just for hobby/vacation money. How did you go about finding your sidegig?
Today: The CCP now has your data

What data does the CCP have? The people I follow? The kind of videos I like to watch. My favorites? Videos I "liked"? How exactly is this a national security threat?

I'm all for pushing back against the CCP but it's not clear what "data" they have
Custom engine called Dinky I believe I saw in the credits, as I started it earlier.
Backpacking (in the wilderness - not across cities)
The main difference is that you get a timeline (flame chart) rather than flame graph. This allows you to understand the order in which operations are taking place. You also get walltime (instead of CPU time), so you can debug Off-CPU performance bottlenecks (e.g. database calls) without the need for additional instrumentation. Last but not least you get everything broken down per-goroutine, so you can understand which operations are executed concurrently vs sequentially.

The Go CPU profiler is great for reducing CPU utilization. But unless you're CPU-bound, it's not very useful for improving latency. fgtrace is trying to help with that.
Yep, it's here forever. It won't go away, that was never on the cards. Thanks again China.
You don't think the NSA/DHS has a giant social graph database of US citizens? I'd be shocked if they didn't.
> I just want to publish software that I think is neat so that other hobbyists can use and learn from it, and I otherwise want to be left the hell alone.

Me, too. Which is why I pretty much abandoned the formal "OSS" world and don't use Github and the like. I still make software, I still provide a free license for anyone to use it, and I'll even maintain it for as long as it interests me.

But it's a hobby, not a job. If someone uses my software commercially, it's on them to make sure that it's properly maintained. They have the source, they can do it.
Once upon a time many years ago, Chrome was marginally better than Firefox.

That time has long since passed.

I know, I switched from Firefox to Chrome and used it for a couple of years, but Firefox got better and Chrome got worse, so I've been back on Firefox for many years again now.

If Chrome doesn't do what you want or what you like, use Firefox. It does everything Chrome does, and more.
I'd rather this be handled at the insurance level. Insurers already have a pretty good model of risk if you've been driving for a while. This type of monitoring might be good for inexperienced drivers for whom the insurance company doesn't understand the risk at a fine grained level yet. If you don't want to use the device to reduce that risk, your premiums are based on what they already know about you. If you're a long time driver, it doesn't make much of a difference but for those without much of a driving history, it could save them on premiums because of the lowered risk. Making this a government mandate for everyone when they get a new car reeks of power hunger authoritarians seeing yet another way to insert themselves into everyone's daily lives.
TFA says "national security threat", not personal privacy threat.
The sensitive nature of our business forced the equation for us. We are basically a pure Microsoft shop because it makes survival of audits feasible. 100% of our B2B clients are already doing business with them, so the conversation is fairly simple.
42 year old here... Definitely go down the "Alan watts" rabbit hole... He spit out books like he did public radio talks, and he was on the air for awhile in the 60s early 70s... Lots of him out there. He's definitely worth the midlife listen