skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s great to hear these auto makers are playing catch-up now wrt battery manufacturing capacity compared to when Tesla announced their Gigafactory in 2014. It only took a decade. I’m not being disingenuous, I’m just pointing out poor businesses operations, forecasting, and a lack of will at legacy automakers. Only very recently did Toyota shift their strategy from hydrogen to batteries because Tesla gave them no choice.

Tesla spent the $1B on their superchargers. Why would you let your competitor who are barely trying to deliver EVs freeload on it? Spend your own capital on fast dc chargers (or contribute to Teslas capital costs) if you want to offer your vehicle buyers a premium long distance experience (instead of the sadness that is random CCS chargers with no assurances they’ll work when you arrive). Legacy automakers will continue to have to be dragged to an EV future because of lackluster management and shareholders who can’t get comfortable with the cannibalization and transformation combustion vehicle manufacturing will have to go through to come out as EV makers on the other side.

High level, don’t slow down when you’re winning and don’t help your competitors. Drive them into the sea. “Innovator’s Dilemma” and all that jazz. Europe is a microcosm in the world where public transportation is likely a better option than EVs to your point (due to preindustrial revolution land use and urban planning). The rest of the world needs quality long range electric mobility.

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/g...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclus...
It’s actually much worse. People in western countries saying that Russia is in the right and that Putin’s government is to be trusted more.
Is this heat? The opposition seems very minor, IMHO! After years of fighting for more housing in California my skin has thickened. If I'm not slandered with five different slurs and and accused of at least four different blatant lies delivered with utmost confidence, then it's a friendly conversation IMHO.
This is why every country should develop its own industry, technology and weapons. Imagine the US or China just turning off your weapons remotely if you decide to cross them.
Agreed (unfortunately). There is too much of an obsession in avoiding unsafe at all costs in my opinion. When you consider all C/C++ is effectively written in an unsafe block then it seems a bit ludicrous to assume you would never ever use unsafe in tight, performant code.
Doesn’t everybody have the right to not answer questions? Americans don’t have to do this either
Ericsson essentially lost its 2nd largest market because of Sweden's decision to ban Huawei.

From [0]:

> Swedish telecommunication equipment maker Ericsson plans to restructure its operations in China, its second-largest market, after its sales in the country plunged for a second consecutive quarter in the wake of its home government's move to exclude Huawei Technologies and ZTE from 5G mobile networks.

> Ericsson recorded a 74% drop in revenues from China, to 1.3 billion Swedish krona ($150.3 million), in the July-September quarter compared with a year earlier. This followed a 63% drop, to 1.5 billion krona, in China revenues in the second quarter when the company wrote off 300 million krona worth of Chinese inventories.

0. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Telecommunication/Ericsson-...
Black Friday is used to dump loss leaders, over runs and special order low function items that look like more expensive products. I have yet to ever buy anything offered on these sales.

Edit: There's plenty of info available regarding my statement. Here's a few links.

1. https://marketrealist.com/consumer/are-black-friday-tvs-lowe...

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2012/11/21/why...

3. https://www.businessinsider.com/black-friday-insider-secrets...
I am very much in agreement with PG's thesis in this essay, but I am a little surprised that he didn't at least address Socrates' famous critique of writing (and not just by pointing out that the only reason we know about it is that somebody else wrote it down).
Holy Mountain made big chunks of money. Jodorowsky is the only alt/psychedelic filmmaker I know of who ever made money. That’s how he got to keep making films.
Oh I'm all on the other side... I think it's a mistake to think anything SBF does is not shady. It's his history, everything that revolves about him, ftx, alameda, or his past is shady.

I think SBF was VERY informed, especially looking at his background. It's simple greed for power (not even the money).
Is this an executive measure?
Does the executive have authority to do such a thing, based on vague and nebulous claims of threat to national security? Were these companies providing sevices/supplying goods in the US market subject to necessary US regulatory approvals? On which grounds can such approvals be rescinded without evidence that will stand in courts?

Moreover this is infact a restriction on US citizens/ firms from buying these goods?
Does it not impinge on their rights to fair choice?
However, the attempts to reform and limit campaign financing have been very partisan
A number of European countries have "freedom to roam". It would be nice if America had an equivalent, but given how lobbying works that seems impossible at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
I think a lot of people who don’t have electric cars don’t realize that essentially every electric car can be charged with a “Hoover charging cord.”
I like wording as in my opinion you managed to write it in a way where people are not to blame for their choices.

Yes they made choices in life that led them to not be able to hold a job and pay for housing - but to say it was "bad choices" one need context of their lives to judge that and in addition it might be the case that choice was made for them and they could not do much about it.
Of course it will help shape policy, AND I want to know, as a technologist! How can we know what standard to apply in our work when we don’t know which standard has been broken?! As a fellow infosec practitioner who works at one of the world’s biggest security companies, I don’t want to leave it up to imagination, I want to know exactly what the wrongdoing is, because my job may depend on it in the future!
It was a very common stance until the world changed and we learned better, yeah.
Apple won't do it since unlike Parler, Twitter is still a major social media platform and many millions of its customers use the iPhone's TWitter app.

Also, this app is back on the App Store, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parler/id1402727988 and I don't think Twitter's moderation even as it is now, is going to be worse than Parler.
It seems to me that this is a straightforward monopsony problem: The workers are already at what could be the best job they can get and yet the conditions are still terrible.

They can get a job somewhere else but it won't be as good. Better to protest/strike at their current job than go somewhere else. Especially when you consider that there's no reason why their current employer can't pay more and improve conditions other than greed.

If there was more realistic competition in the area for workers then the pay and conditions would never have gotten to this point.
Yes, exactly. For those in a hurry, here's an excerpt from the executive summary.

```
Despite hours of interviews, extensive and repeated document requests, a
review of open-source information, and an open hearing with witnesses from both
companies, the Committee remains unsatisfied with the level of cooperation and
candor provided by each company. Neither company was willing to provide
sufficient evidence to ameliorate the Committee’s concerns. Neither company
was forthcoming with detailed information about its formal relationships or
regulatory interaction with Chinese authorities. Neither company provided
specific details about the precise role of each company’s Chinese Communist
Party Committee. Furthermore, neither company provided detailed information
about its operations in the United States. Huawei, in particular, failed to provide
thorough information about its corporate structure, history, ownership, operations,
financial arrangements, or management. Most importantly, neither company
provided sufficient internal documentation or other evidence to support the limited
answers they did provide to Committee investigators.
During the investigation, the Committee received information from
industry experts and current and former Huawei employees suggesting that
Huawei, in particular, may be violating United States laws. These allegations
describe a company that has not followed United States legal obligations or
international standards of business behavior. The Committee will be referring
these allegations to Executive Branch agencies for further review, including
possible investigation.
```
to be clear, I don't care if people are allowed to get rich. that's fine. If you're skilled enough to get rich, then you should be allowed to get rich. I hope that rich people are altruistic, and some are, but most aren't. whatever.

what really, really rubs me raw is that we let people fall out of society and into nothingness. livable minimum wage should not even be a discussion. Free physical and mental healthcare should not even be a discussion. affordable housing should not even be a discussion - these are all table stakes for a society that is worthy of existing. No one should be left behind. be as rich as you like; just don't be so greedy that you take someone's ability to live freely away from them because you don't pay them enough, and now they can't afford rent or gas for their car.

I guess that makes me either a socialist or someone in favor of very strong welfare policies, but whatever you want to call it, it's the bare minimum that a society should offer its citizens, imo. the whole point of a society or of a nation is that the citizens are taken care of, be it from foreign invader, or domestic threat. those kinds of things are why the collective resources of the people are pooled. that's the whole reason. i see no difference between people dying of poverty and people dying because of bombardment.
Chinese government takes a much stronger involvement in their companies than the US government. Do you know the chaos that would ensue if every Huawei router injected 100+V into the LAN cables connected to it at a fixed time? What if the phones all caught fire at the same time as well, and all the 5G modems jammed everything from GPS to WiFi bands, including aircraft communication, sattelite comms etc. This could easily bring a country to it's knees for a week, never mind the time spent cleaning up and purging the mess. Compare that, and the US's still ongoing reaction, to just two buildings in NYC being destroyed over 20 years ago.
"Probably a german address in the imprint."

Just any adress. Their point is, it needs to be an physical adress - so in case someone wants to sue the website, they have somewhere to send the physical letters to.

In other words, many people got expensive physical letters, to make it in general easier for other people to send them expensive phyical letters.

But yes, as far as I know, this only affects germans. But once we control the EU, who knows.
I wonder how many countries treat American telecom equipment the same way due to NSA involvement.
I've been driving a motorcycle for over 30 years; I still own one although I never use it anymore. I may die today on my bicycle but one thing is certain: I'm too old to die young.
That's correct, they certainly have the right to not answer questions...and the US government has the right to interpret that lack of cooperation any way it chooses, and, say, ban their products.
Very interesting to note that India is not on this list even though it has the largest WhatsApp user base.
They aren't being exploited, at least not in the normal way. The Chinese government insists on a zero Covid policy, but they also want to keep the economy running. So you can keep your business running if no one leaves. The alternatives are:

- keep working and earning money, which is why you migrated to the city in the first place. A lot of these migrant workers are bunking it with 4 - 8 other people in one anyway, so it's not like leaving work is some comfy place. But it's more profitable than subsistence farming.

- be locked into your apartment and get no money at all (but still have to pay rent). For the migrant workers who are the manufacturing labor force, that defeats the whole purpose of being in the city in the first place. Besides, they aren't living in comfy apartments.

- the government stop the zero Covid policy so that people can be normal. That's an option anyone but Xi Jinping can take, though.

I've seen some rural villages in Sichuan, and it is definitely subsistence farming. There is not really a feasible way to better yourself besides move elsewhere, so a lot of the parents go work in the city to get a pool of money to improve the lot of their family. Unfortunately, "move elsewhere" is not exactly feasible, either, because of the hukou system, which Mao created to prevent people from moving.

So I'd call it oppression, not exploitation. And it's not the factory owners who are oppressing them, so much as the government. The factory owners are actually providing a means of bettering themselves. (The factory owners might also be exploiting them, but the situation referred to is not an example of that.)
Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers is an illustrated, well written history of mathematics, helped me see how all the different concepts came about. https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Birth-Numbers-Jan-Gullber...
Is government involvement problematic? Many firms have government involvement, often in an under the table manner. For example Airbus. Government involvement is in itself no grounds for banning a company.
But most companies don't actually want to host things themselves. If they did, 'cloud computing' wouldn't be so popular.
I wouldn’t want that in the US. We have more than enough national public land where people are free to roam. The last thing I want is some random camping in my backyard. We are a very individualistic people, I don’t want people in my little nation state.
An other question is, what does that become when you actually invest in proper bike and pedestrian infrastructure?
I still love the interactive interpreter. It's such a fantastic, no friction, teaching tool, especially for in person demonstration of fundamentals with immediate feedback. Its been an invaluable tool in showing my daughter (9) concepts I have difficulty describing in a way she can understand.
Because as visually interesting as his films are they are barely watchable. I love how insane they are and I love the imagery but I've never watched one twice.
Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705532 - Nov 2022 (74 comments)
A lot of Americans are American because their European ancestors got sick of European affairs and wanted a clean break from it.

Nonetheless, a lot of the anti-interventionist rhetoric seen on the net today feels very astroturfed. Anybody accusing NATO of warmongering is safe to write off as a Russian-aligned troll, considering Russia is the one who actually invaded a foreign country. NATO's "war mongering" amounts to offering sanctuary to the countries with a rational fear of being invaded by Russia.
Boeing Saves Millions in Manufacturing Costs with Titanium 3D Printing (2017)
This is a first and the simplest layer of the argument. If "just quitting" was such a great option, what's the point of the entire labor rights movement?
I feel like a lot of the comments here are focused on HN part of the problem, but I would imagine if you didn’t have HN you’d have something else to distract yourself with.

I don’t have an answer, but I know of a small minority of SWEs that suffer deeply from this.

You may find this blog post relatable
https://medium.com/@jimmypostwick_90910/a-day-in-the-life-of...
the drawback with a subscription is resale value: the next guy will need to buy the subscription too. You cannot recoup the money spent on subscription when you sell your used car.
Yeah, 60GB (“big”) and there is a “large” act’s Docker image whose size is 16GB: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/107#issuecomment-760376...
I don't think this is an issue that can be solved by authoritarian thinking. If politicians do something people don't like, people will vote them out next time around.
My fridge is not ‘smart’ but the water filter has a chip in it that does not allow third party filters. Funny how that fact was not advertised when I bought it.
Reducing tax evasion has nothing to do with how much a certain income/wealth percentile is taxed.

Marginal income/wealth/sales/property tax rates determine how much a given income/wealth percentile is taxed (including effects of deductions/credits/allowances).
Related:

The Internet Tidal Wave [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3455264 - Jan 2012 (1 comment)

The Internet Tidal Wave (Gates, 1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899714 - Aug 2011 (10 comments)

Pretty sure there have been other threads about this, if anyone wants to look...
I would try to correlate this list with previous massive Facebook leak. Cross-validating it would be much easier feat than scraping from scratch.
Bah! In my day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we wrote on transparent plastic slides using special pens, the way our fathers did, and their fathers before them! And then we displayed them using machines called overhead projectors, powered by halogen bulbs that always burned out at the wrong moment! Youngsters these days … what do they know?
When it's some country's Congress questioning, there are usually penalties to not answering. But, of course, one can always just face the penalties.
OpenOffice has been good enough for a while, but we're still here. I'm not sure what's missing for governments to adopt it, but the solution isn't just "more open source development." Something else is wrong.
Americans do have to answer questions posed by Congress or a court in many, many situations. It is commonplace for large public companies for example, to have to answer questions from regulators or Congress.

For example, any time there's a merger, the federal government must approve it to ensure anti-monopoly laws are not violated by the new market arrangement.

Or you may recall the famous cases of auto executives being questioned over car safety, or Zuckerberg being questioned over social media's effects on society.

Are you new to following US business news?

Are you just very confused and think the famous "fifth amendment" applies here? Go back and read it if so.

> Americans don’t have to do this either
Ask HN: What are some inspirational tech/programming books?
I checked the charge time for a twizy a while ago and that’s in the same ballpark regarding battery size, even slightly bigger. It charges to 80% in 2.5 hours and to full in 3.5 hours on a standard European wall socket. No fast charge, obviously, but plenty usable.
Billionaire's Travel Calander
Why not treat it as another kind of sale? Namely, you know you are going to need X soon, you are not in a hurry to buy it, so you can wait until a sale/black Friday/January sale comes in.
I have, and I think they're epic. That's why I think Jodorowsky has a big cult following that would have made it a financially sound idea to give him both money and creative freedom to make more movies.
What government can do is limited by the constitution. Generally speaking, unless these companies have done something unlawful there is no ground for banning their products. Is it established that they have broken US laws?
There's a similar selection of electric vehicles at Alibaba. I'm a little tempted by the electric truck on offer. On my rural property, it might actually be useful. Even if not useful, would be fun to drive around. It's not street legal, but my small town has no problem with ATVs & golf carts. And it has air conditioning.

The shipping process sounds very painful, so hoping something like this would show up at local dealers. I'd think the ATV and small tractor dealers could find a market for these.

Previous HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32231209
A video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bixJDOH864U
>It's quite interesting, it's pretty much the only place on the internet I encounter such posts.

You can find similar or even wierder ideas on reddit. Like one dude that said is from USA was telling me that Russia is the victim, was provoked by USA and on top of that he was on the opinion that countries in Easter Europe belong to Russia sphere of influence, that we the Easter Europeans have no rights, only USA and Russia have the rights to split the world and if Ukraine or Mopldvoa wants in EU is USA fault and is against the rights of Russia to "influence" countries East of Berlin.

I am curious, is this something many USA people think, that the "sphere of influences" crap is still relevant today and that we the small countries should not have a choice in it?
I really doubt they’re that common.
They only became available on motherboards fairly recently, and are quite expensive.

I’d guess that they’re a small minority of devices at the moment.
I'm sure you were outside the embassy calling for Indonesia to be added to the OFAC list when they started massacring East Timorans. Or when Turkey invaded North Cyprus.
Yes, you might be onto something.
No, they should just quit if they don’t like it. The reason they don’t is that they are getting extra compensation in the form of status and credential they are working towards, or legal immigration status for many foreign students. It is silly to ignore these and focus exclusively on financial compensation.

As a thought experiment: imagine that these grad students were offered a deal, where their pay is doubled, their job responsibilities are unchanged, but they are removed from the students roll, no longer can qualify for PhD degree (though they can still and in fact are expected to publish just as much as before), and their job title is now “lab technician” instead of “graduate students”. How many of them do you think would have taken the deal? My belief is that basically none of them would consider double the pay to be worth it.
When that government is actively stealing your intellectual property, hacking your computer systems and installing ransomware, threatening war against an important ally...

And when the product is telecommunications technology...

I'm going with yes. The EU and the PRC are not even remotely comparable from the perspective of the U.S.
"During the investigation, the Committee received information from industry experts and current and former Huawei employees suggesting that Huawei, in particular, may be violating United States laws. "

This is a claim which can only be proven in a court of law.