skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you or any relation/acquaintance/company/nation you belong to do not offend China, you're cool.

Case in point: the two Michaels from Canada detained 'suddenly' after a Huawei executive was detained in Canada in relation to a US govt case: https://globalnews.ca/news/8224094/canada-china-two-michaels...

Though a third Canadian had his conviction retried to a worse sentence - death.
pg had too much success too quickly for it to be chance (IMHO).

Leaving Viaweb aside (Yahoo was buying all kinds of stuff back then so it’s hard to know how cool-headed finance would have valued it) he clearly saw and exploited a massive opportunity around technology investment. And it’s worth bearing in mind that he drove several of the first few monster batches through an overall market meltdown that had a lot of VCs saying it was the end of the world.

There was a definite luck factor called the iPhone: someone was going to build an army of businesses on the back of a platform revolution like that, but he got there first and executed.

Now the public good component is a more complicated story, I honestly don’t know if replacing one club of secret-handshaking insiders who routinely fail up with a different one is a net win, and I certainly don’t buy the argument that you can measure it by market cap, but at least the new club doesn’t care who your parents are I guess? I think it’s probably a win vs. an admittedly abysmal bar.
This assumes an universal ultimate moral precept: that peaceful coexistence despite moral disagreement over every other precept is the ultimate and univeral moral rule.

Of course, one thing on which the vast majority of people, regardless of their different moral systems, agree on is that this is not the case.
Adtech is psychological manipulation. Radicalisation uses the same techniques: Create the perception of a vacuum and then provide the solution to fill it.

One is actively censored and you can go to jail for, the other isn't even on the legislative agenda. There are semi-understandable reasons, but it's far from entirely non-hypocritical.

- Do you trust your constituency to make up their own minds or not?

- Who are you trying to protect?

- From what?

- From whom?

And this is without even mentioning online advertising as a (seemingly increasing) vector of scams, frauds, malware and viruses.
No idea of what API they're hitting but basically half of my old humble library won't run anymore - they show a warning about old APIs, show the title screen, then crash to desktop.

Even some old games I paid for are gone from the Play Store too. Like, I paid for Puffle Launch and it's just plain gone from my library.

Edit: ahah, I was looking in the wrong spot! Its still in my "not installed" list, just not in my "family library". Either way, not compatible with any device I own.
Secret Recordings of Top German Physicists After the Hiroshima Nuking [pdf]
SpaceX never done a human space program, they are purely about making launch vehicles that, after they have seen substantial development, are taken into consideration by NASA for a human space program.

Furthermore, Starship is not a launch vehicle in the context of Artemis, it is to be used as a lander. The launcher that will launch humans is still SLS (which fits point 39 perfectly).

And SpaceX never was on schedule. Starship development is seriously impressive, but the planned first launch for "BFR" was 2022, and we only got an expectedly failed test flight in 2023. We have absolutely no idea about when it will launch its first payload. Probably not before 2024. The first manned mission (which is not a full manned launch) is planned for 2025 (2 manned launches originally planned for 2024), and is extremely unlikely to make it by that time.

Still excellent by space standards, but doesn't contradict point 39.
What are the pros and cons of RCS?
Ah yes, the Twitter Files. That's a one-sided interpretation.
Great video about the "one stroke" engine from driving4answers
https://youtu.be/9I0_3qFmPUM
This is a bit much.

> This person was held hostage for five days in a high-end U.S. hotel room in Qingdao and had to be led out of that room and driven to Beijing by what was essentially a swat team we organized to get her out. She was able to fly out of China because she was not subject to an exit ban. I write about this because it makes for a great story and because it highlights how exit bans and hostage taking can overlap
..would you be fine with forcibly having to do a new job that you have absolutely no desire to do? And these are most likely cheap crappy things, never mind ones that got returned, so worse than the regular amount of crappy, so it could easily just not be worth your time to figure out what to even sell it as, assuming anyone would even want to buy crappy returned things that came from who knows where. And then there's the customs charges, costs if your resold items get returned, and probably some other things, that would likely just guarantee unprofitability.

If it was so simple to re-sell returned things with a profit, I'd imagine plenty of companies would already have noticed, and would be providing "please send me your crap" addresses to these sellers who can't be bothered to handle returns, and pay a couple pennies to said sellers or something.
Why would you do that? This sounds literally insane.
His boys? MOC? What are you talking about?
This is the actual quote from Google PR:

>Removing it might mean if you have a massive site that we’re better able to crawl other content on the site. But it doesn’t mean we go “oh, now the whole site is so much better” because of what happens with an individual page.

Parsing this carefully, to me it sounds worded to give the impression removing old pages won’t help the ranking of other pages without explicitly saying so. In other words, if it turns out that deleting old pages helps your ranking (indirectly, by making Google crawl your new pages faster), this tweet is truthful on a technicality.

In the context of negative attention where some of the blame for old content being removed is directed toward Google, there is a clear motive for a PR strategy that deflects in this way.
>If you were a farmer or shepherd or fisherman or … 50 years ago, to whom would you talk during the day and work?

Co-workers? their boss? some entity of the company they are employed by?

Are these farmers/fishermen working solo? it could be their family, but generally in such a situation their family is also employing teenage labor in the form of offspring.

>You would just talk to your family when back at home.

how does that work when you have no family? In the classic times you'd also gather around at a bar to discuss the day with strangers. That doesn't quite work out so well in modern urban environments where even bars come in as groups.
Google says so many things about SEO which are not true. There are some rules which are 100% true and some which they just hope their AI thinks they are true.
I'd flash custom firmware at that point. Be aware that i suck at networking however. Is there a compatibility/hardware-related issue?
The severity of the vulnerability has nothing to do with this sensationalized headline.
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and you are essentially trusting the moral integrity of the current maintainer.

why can't there be a method for making sure that such trust cannot be abused? Is this a tractable problem at all?
LFE audio channel is different from subwoofer output.

Subwoofers come with multichannel audio systems in which directional speakers usually can't cover the lower range of audio frequencies. They are responsible for bass content from all channels, and get it from software or hardware crossover filter which is independent from specific input formats. Placement of low frequency speaker does not matter much because of human perception.

LFE track is an additional effects channel for movie theaters and similar amusement rides in which audio system plays low frequencies from other channels just fine. Dedicated LFE emitter then adds rattling and other wub-wub effects without overloading audio speakers with all that extra energy. Movies that lack car chases and explosions routinely have completely silent LFE tracks.
Autolisp was built for AutoCAD but it wasn’t a fully custom language. It was mainly a subset of Lisp with a few custom hooks to connect to AutoCAD commands.
I wonder what they'll call "shadowbanning" once Uber starts doing it in Seattle.
>our minified HTML

Unreadable source code is a crime against humanity.
I largely agree save I'd describe Homo Erectus as mildly dispersed (from my perspective and to the best of my current knowledge, admittedly a few years out of date), never having gone deep into Europe, Mongolian steppes, the Americas, Northern China, the Sahul (Meganesia|Oceania), etc.

These were all extended trips for the kids.
As someone who's contributed to one of the "related" alternatives, I'm struck by the beauty of a JS-based solution. With the browser able to produce the SVGs on its own, on demand, they need never be stored (assuming all viewing is to be done in a browser).
Cheaper and easier isn't always better, or most necessary.
For values of "legacy" referring to "new code written this afternoon, and tomorrow morning".
So more taxes to pay for support. Both will be opposed by the same group of lobbyists. You're paying a game of "heads I win, tails you lose" with them.
“If I’ve learned one thing in this life, it’s that when it’s millions of dollars at stake: you keep your head down, your nose clean, and work twice as hard as the other guy. But when it’s billions of dollars?

The only thing that matters is never, ever saying no.”

Cue Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones
sure start your own thread. Now let's talk about China's exit ban.
It raises the entry bar for startups in this area. Trying to come up with your local version of Uber? Better lawyer up.

The examples of TaskRabbit and Rover, are they just a gray area?
Meanwhile, the only people in 6 years of work in this town I managed to keep talking to in more than one occasion (outside of work) are my co-workers. And I was trying to go to 2-3 meetups a week pre-COVID. Nothing stuck.

If I graduated amidst COVID, I may legitimately not have anyone to talk to.
Spies or people tied to spies. When canada arrested or kidnapped the chinese huawei executive a few years ago on US orders, the chinese government held canadian spies in return. Tit for tat. Of course we whine about it endlessly and push propagnada to make the chinese look like the bad guys.
Seemed like you always needed a trio of main apps. In the graphic design market of the 90s, it was Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator. To a lesser extent it was Pagemaker, Photoshop and Freehand.
I’ll be honest. As an American (originally from 3rd world country) I have zero intention of traveling internationally.

Why would I? I live in the best country in the world. For tech, startups, lifestyle, food (i can eat any cuisine from around the world and access to amazing restaurants), hiking, etc.

The last place I'd visit is some authoritarian place.
> I doubt John Locke would agree that liberty could mean to be suddenly left high and dry with no notice that would likely cost you money.

Its been a while since I’ve read Locke, but my impression was that he would agree with that. (Not that I would, to be sure.)

What makes you think he wouldn’t?
California is not where I think of for the most "liberal" state at all, unless you mean "the most Nancy Pelosi-electing neoliberal" state. But then, it's also the state that gave us the scourge-on-US-history named Reagan, so what's your point?

WA, OR, CO, hell, maybe even MN, are all states that - just off the top of my head - I'd classify as far more progressive than CA, and particularly, less beholden to Silicon Valley investor money.

WA was (alongside CO) the first state in the country to legalize cannabis, Seattle as a city has some of the strongest renter protections in the country behind NYC and Chicago (admittedly this is a ridiculously low bar, "literally any rights at all" is better than 99.99999% of the country), pay transparency even went into effect here before CA. I wouldn't assume that what a CA court thinks of Uber drivers is necessarily what a WA court will.
Public Service Announcements are often aired either when someone hasn't paid for an ad for that spot, they want to be able to say they are serving the public (since the airwaves are theoretically public, broadcast stations have to theoretically serve the public good), or someone actually did pay for them

Anyway, in other articles similar to this that were in the USA (where the law about not having to pay for unsolicited packages applies) the people were getting several packages every day (If I recall it was dozens). So getting one or two things you didn't ask for would be fun, getting several of them every day would not.
One trick gardeners use is to just bury the tag, often the one that came from the store. maybe a eighth of an inch or just under some wood mulch- keeps it from uv and let’s you check if you’re desperate.
You could have a method for locating like 4 inches from the plant stalk to the north.
If you licensed your codebase under GPL, you could demand they publish the modifications to embarrass and discredit them. Otherwise, you likely don't have many options besides complaining to Google and seeing if they agree to take the copycat down.
Maybe the gig economy is a failed model? Does it deserve to be kept alive?
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but from my pov the quality of the service has gone down. Uber started paying drivers less. Drivers left. Uber is now less aggressive when it comes to taking drivers off the app. Now, Uber costs the same as a taxi, or more, and is just as shitty as taxis.

The nyc medallion system needed disruption, sure, but I’m not sure if the current state is a net benefit to very many people, excepting some entrepreneurs who made the right bets.
> the chinese government held canadian spies in return

So they claimed; I don't think this was ever substantiated.
Wouldn't happen to have an archive.org version would you?
Given that the unemployment rate in the US (at least) is still extremely low (about 3.5%), it’s at least worth considering that if the people working gig jobs wanted full or part-time employment, with the set of trade offs that entails, it’s probably available to them.
> Good point. I am aware of the differences between social class as it is in the UK and economic class.

I think traditional concepts of social class count for a lot less in the UK of 2023 than they did in the UK of 1973. But wealth counts for just as much, even more.

Were Rishi Sunak's parents "upper class"? And yet, he'd surely be a far more valuable social connection to have than Baron Forgettable who happens to be the King's fifth cousin. And I think that will remain true even when his prime ministership is over.
Fair contracts need negotiating power on both sides.
An extension of that, we are still doing ego worshipping and attributing the success to single individuals. Both in academia (PIs get the fame, money and recognition even when they didn't initiate or even believed in the idea) or in business (CEOs or founders get pretty much the same treatment). And I wonder if that's not impending on the success of the teams.
Low quality "china scary" article that basically reiterates something that is true in virtually all five eyes and shengen countries.

Violate the law and you can be held for criminal prosecution.
> I have a family, neighbors, close friends I see frequently and less close friends I see occasionally

I guess some people have all the luck. By the time I graduated:

- my family was across the country

- neighbors have never been really friends

- close friends mostly went to San Fransico. No one was in my town.

- Meetups didn't form any relationships.

If there was no work I'd just be lonely, and not for the lack of trying.
If someone who lived in Manhattan said this about traveling domestically, it would sound insane right? Your comment comes off the same way
your doing yourself a disservice judging the US the best country in the world without at least seeing for yourself.
Impossible to read the piece. Scroll down and the page leaps back up to the top. Don't bother clicking.
See: slippery slope fallacy [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
I remember back when you could run the Servo app on macOS, it was a doge inside a cog and you could actually browse the internet, there was an address bar and back/forward buttons. But now they've actually removed that sort of stuff and given up on making a standalone browser in Rust, in favor of augmenting Firefox instead. See Firefox Quantum.
One of the big problems is that it's easy to evaluate the quality of prose, so we use it as a proxy for quality of thought. It's the same issue as giving the masses the ability to solve leetcode problems but not do real engineering tasks, except it applies to anyone reading anything anywhere and not merely job interviews.
Or your 2011 presentation about cloud computing didn't mention containers. I'm not sure it's embarrassing any more than a zillion other forward looking crystal ball glimpses is embarrassing. But there's no real reason to keep on your site unless your intent is to provide a view into technology's twisty path or the various false starts every company makes with its products.
Hawaii responds as deadly wildfires across two islands destroy communities
> The more you dominate the results, the more people will start thinking to come straight to you.

This is a possible outcome but there are people that type in google.com and then the name of their preferred news site, their bank, etc, every day.

The site with the name they search dominates that search but they keep searching it.
The audience for this is management. They'll spend lots of their budget on it. They'll use this to put something together that does something, just not what they want. Then they'll show it to you and tell you to make it work the way they think they want. After all, if a manager can "do it" in 90 minutes with no training a developer should be able to make it perfect in a few days. And they'll make you use the new tool so you learn it and so they can justify the expense.
> if this was in the SUSE offices, it was in Bavaria

SUSE has offices in Washington, Utah, Texas, and Massachussetts AFAICT.
That is not worth highlighting. This sort of behaviour by companies continues the dehumanisation of the workforce and should be unconditionally condemned.

Anyone who thinks this is reasonable can only be stuck in an SV bubble like people who push the gig economy knowing they’ll only ever benefit from it, not be subject to it.
I know this is a very peripheral point but habitable "unclaimed" land has not really existed through most of human history.

At best there might be the occasional power vacuum. Just existing is a political act and the unit of human survival is tribe-sized or larger.

Land described as "unclaimed" is typically a convenient fiction used to support sovereignty transfer.
As far as I can tell, only 1 out of the 45 laws (#45) potentially refers to human spaceflight.
> "Often, there's an algorithm that makes the decision so it's not even a real person who's making the decision to deactivate the worker."

Isn’t this a good thing?
This, along with a very lax vetting process, is certainly not without unexpected repercussions.
Maybe we can rephrase this in a more useful way:

>This sort of government overreach is unfortunate, and is not specific to China. For example, the US unreasonably suppresses Chinese companies, like Huawei, ZTE, DJI, etc., and India groundlessly seizes private corporate assets.

Something like that makes it more relevant to the discussion, I think.

Not commenting on the validity of any of the statements, just trying to be charitable.
>for those raising a family.

Oh I wish...
Even simple things are hard to do in developed countries. Building a house now requires experts.

From what I've seen developing countries don't have that luxury and they accept everything might kill you. Though driving a car is much more dangerous.
I thought I was the only one who longed for Fireworks. Is there anything that comes close to it nowadays? It was so intuitive. (Also, thank you for your service to the graphics industry.)
I just arbitrarily chose MIT :(. I'll make sure to use GPL next time
That's exactly why it is a desirable target for would-be malware distributors.
Nobody seems to have mentioned the MySQL licensing kerfuffle that got it pulled from most main stream Linux distros. For some of us this was the nail in MySQL coffin at a time when Postgres was becomming easier to manage.
Not anymore. But the first 200 people that paid 100Euro got to reserve theirs first, even though final pricing has not yet been released.

The REX-B is 8,250 Euro and sold out. They are both 23hp, but the Rex-B seems to be a much simpler model. It wouldn't surprise me if the price should be similar, or maybe a bit higher due to inflation, etc.

The estimated delivery is December 2023, so I'd hazard to guess the price should be posted soon(ish).

The more powerful 120hp version of this is 500cc, but I didn't see anything on the site about it specifically.

Honestly, 8,250 Euro seems pretty steep for 23 hp. It's very cool though, and could make a big change in how engines get made in the future, so we'll see how it goes.
Nothing in the constitution distinguishes the two they’re both mail.. which is obvious from the root word in the two.
>The limitations in psychiatric medicine and research are widely acknowledged and not a novel insight that the FDA and medical community are ignorant of as many commenters here seem to believe.

One might expect someone who acknowledges the limits of psychiatry wouldn't be chest beating so aggressively about the greatness of the scientific process.

One might also expect a person concerned with mental health issues wouldn't throw around the term "insane" so casually.

>These are determined by scientific processes and debate based on evidence and not philosophical thoughts and feelings.

Who needs philosophy? Just have faith, am I right? That's what science is all about. What do we mean by science? Don't ask that kind of philosophical question. Just have faith.
so, a drawback of the apollo3 (and actually every cpu i've found with a decent deep-sleep state) over an actual vax is that it doesn't have virtual memory or much in the way of memory protection

my current plan is for my nascent jit compiler to implement paged virtual memory using bytecodes for paged-load-byte, paged-load-halfword, paged-load-word, paged-load-multiple, paged-store-byte, paged-store-halfword, paged-store-word, and paged-store-multiple, so that i can compile existing c to its bytecode instruction set; these will be implemented by calls to millicode subroutines

c call and return, argument passing, and accesses to local variables whose addresses are never taken, can be provided by mechanisms that don't involve accessing a paged virtual memory space

i think, and i might be wrong about this, that this will be sufficient to run things like libpng and pcc at useful speeds

if not, i might have to lean harder on making the jit compiler smart

what approach would you take

i very much agree about the clamshell; that would also make it possible to include a keyboard big enough to touch-type on
Well yeah... they're forced to lose money in the same way any failed non-viable business is "forced to lose money" lol