skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is only growing economically to the extent that it's relaxed its socialist, authoritarian policies. As soon as it reasserts them, all that growth will go away. The fact that people's lives are improving is not sufficient evidence that the government is benevolent.

There is only one thing that reliably predicts human behavior: incentives. The incentives of the communist party are much more weakly aligned with the welfare of their people than those in democratic countries. It's as simple as that.
Google's new cloud offering "flower express" you just type someones personal id, and then the Google database looks up last known position and sends a drone.
> In addition, there will still be much need for humans to take care of the maintenance of the trucks and manipulation of the cargo over the next couple decades. So there will likely be a significant number of truckers still employed, perhaps with increased productivity.

There’s already an industry that performs these tasks so there’d be a small percentage of absorption of current truck drivers.

You also assume there’d be more trucks, but there’d likely be fewer, at least at first. Since a fully automated truck could operate substantially more hours than with a driver. Drivers have hours of service that restrict how much they drive per day and per week.

Also, on a macro scale automated trucks wouldn’t be adopted if they didn’t displace workers.
> This is an important point. The Monroe Doctrine wasn't a pretext to invasion and domination, it was actually assistance against those things. The people protected by it welcomed it.

Nah, it was just empty posturing at the time.

Once the US had the capacity to put teeth into it (which wasn't for a long time), it became a pretext for invasion and domination, though.
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In the modern era of central bank capitalism, the dominant purpose of investment is to fight inflation, which is an annualized quantity, so using a linear scale is nonsensical for the most common practical purposes.
I agree that there's definately a need for more dialogue.

>Then there's I think a unique angle to this specific case. If you're going to work for Lockheed Martin or Blackwater you at least know what you're getting into. Google does not present itself as a military contractor. Did everybody who works at Google really know that their code is used for this? Have they been informed, consulted?

When I was reading the article this part jumped out at me too. It's interesting because it's a debate that ultimately focuses on workers rights vs. the rights of the employer. A callous argument could be made that the political views of the employees shouldn't matter because they're not being paid to be policy experts they're paid to make a product. The counter argument of course would be that, even if the first argument is true, an employee who isn't informed about the nature of their work lacks adequate understanding to decide if they feel strongly enough to quit or if they want to take the job in the first place.
Even aluminum producers don’t want Trump’s aluminum tariff
> The basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square root) have a near linear running time

I thought the best known multiplication algorithms (the ones based on Fourier transforms) for large numbers are a little slower than O(N log(N)). Has something better been found?
You are right. Google maps & earth where bought at the same time and share most of their data.
Is this seriously all it is? Laughable.
I would recommend you go and read the post, because what you are saying is simply not true.

I never claimed they are collecting all data sent and recieved from the device, nor would I have any ability to credibly make that claim without access to their servers. I only addressed what is observable in the app’s code.
indeed - i'm not clear on the basis for the outrage here.

from what the article here says (i don't know more about it than that), it's not clear to me that google is doing more than selling their cloud video analysis products to a customer for experimental use on unclassified data. and this kind of sale necessarily comes with offers of (paid) support and consulting services because customers need help. one might object to this customer, certainly - but if so, one might ask, to which customers is google's cloud business not supposed to sell services on this basis? google has never pretended that it didn't sell its products to the defense and intelligence agencies at all; keyhole (google earth) was for many years a major product in the GEOINT sector [0].

if one's objection is to folks working on anything relating to a military or intelligence problem, well, a very large fraction of US senior faculty have taken funding from defense agencies to work on unclassified versions of applications: tracking, image/video/text analysis challenges, etc. etc. etc.

[0] http://trajectorymagazine.com/genesis-google-earth/
In most cases a Chebyshev approximation will just work. There is advice out there which says to use Clenshaw's summation formula to sum the Chebyshev polynomials, however I've found that expanding out the polynomial coefficients to get something like a5 x^5 + a4 x^4 + a3 x^3 to be more accurate in practice.

Scaling the polynomial, as you suggest, would simply require reevaluating the coefficients. For example, a5 (2pix)^5 would become 32 a5 pi^5 x^5.

In the cos case where regions of interest approach zero, divide by another polynomial with the same zeros to create limits. cos(x)/(pi^2/4 - x^2) -> 1/pi as x -> pi/2. Then approximate that function, and evaluate approx(x) \* (pi^2/4 - x^2), so you are multiplying the approximated value by something close to zero. This way you get precision in a way similar to sin(x) = x when x small.
Except the community really can't and live to tell anyone about it (aside from a fringe fork), because the Python Foundation won't let them use the Python name for the fork, even though a fork is in every other way open source and labeled for maintenance purposes only.

Anyone who's every ported a very large project from 2 to 3 might end up despising the PSF for this purpose and might tend to search for a new language (Nim? Go? JS? Scala?
Ruby?!). So much for the B in BDFL..
Kubernetes is the defacto leader but they should be shit scared of AWS
A fine doesn't imply that you can continue processing the data. GDPR also requires them to stop handling all such data if they don't have a legal right to do so (since the default case, if they can't show a valid legal reason, is that they're not allowed to do it).

And that's a maximum fine for a particular decision not the maximum fine annually. They can certainly be fined once and ordered to stop processing the data within, say, 30 days; then fined once more after the 30 days have passed for noncompliance with that order, and then so on.

There also is personal liability for the responsible executives and employees who'd be violating the regulator's order.
There are transaction costs for exchanges but there are also transaction costs for miners. Coinbase I think just lumps these into a single number, but other places you can choose the amount that goes to miners, on the risk of taking longer to confirm your transaction if you pledge a low amount.
All that requires to be exploited "on" localhost is some PHP script interpreting unsanitized user uploads (uploading a php script that has an image file extension's a pretty famous example) on any of a thousand customer sites. You don't want that MySQL user to exist, ever =/
There's archival Bluray format called M-Disc which claims to have a several hundred year storage life and to be "impervious to environmental conditions". You can get the writers fairly inexpensively, and the discs are $88 for 5x100GB on Amazon.

I never believe the projected lives of the things-- but consider it like everything else to be part of a safety net. I burn the irreplaceable things to those in addition to a normal backup strategy.
I recently heard about Everlane, but never tried them. They seem to be very transparent about their supply chain and their prices are totally ok.

I'm not an expert and haven't spend a lot of time researching them. Happy to hear more opinions/insights.
>> What we find is that many of the repositories that tax our servers the most are not unusually big. The most challenging repositories to host are often those that have an unusual internal layout that Git is not optimized for.

Like CocoaPods!

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...
I would guess rebalancing regularly to track their index would result in more fees than the index fund fee.

Edit: Apparently they only rebalance once a year? In which case, nvm.
I believe that Keyhole itself was named after a spy satellite series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Hole

(But I don't know whether there was any other connection between the company and NRO.)
Of course, but the point is that they don't actually add all that much cost. It's a few percent. A nice gain if it goes away, but not something that is going to fundamentally change the economy.
"Index fund" has a meaning if the economy itself the fund is built on top of is stable.

For example, stock market index fund makes sense because stocks are built on top of capitalism, which has proven to work for a long time. Nobody would buy a index fund from a communist country, because time has proven communism is not profitable.

I think people are missing the point if they're investing in crypto index funds, because the whole point of cryptocurrencies right now is that the economy it's built on is extremely unpredictable. The whole point of "index fund" is to minimize risk, but they're not exactly minimizing risk since the whole industry could just go to zero if something radical happens (for example BTC crashes), while not really getting a good deal in terms of upsides which you can get by actively trading.

For most people who lack knowledge I think a better strategy is to invest in aggressive crypto hedge funds which are springing up like crazy nowadays--that is, if you value the potential gains more than potential loss.

And for the rest of those who are risk-averse, I would just keep it in the bank if I were them.

Risk-averse people investing in cryptocurrency is like going to las vegas and thinking they'll make tons of money.
How do you mean? I’m very aware of the difference between the two.
Well, I don't know anything about "neoliberal capitalism", but the big problem with the raiders in the 80's and 90's is that they were all about "maximum efficiency" of money.

The problem is that "maximally efficient" is "minimally robust".

Sure, you can buy that big company and section it into parts. That generally leaves you with 1 or 2 very profitable sections that are what you wanted. That also kills 10 bad sections that deserve to be killed.

The problem is that you also kill a small number of sections that look like they are treading water. These are the sections that produce your next product or that save your company when the main products suddenly die for some reason. And, unfortunately, nobody can tell which of these is going to be successful and which are going to die a priori. Killing these sections is destroying the future in order to produce an extra couple of percentage points of profit in the present.
Since this is an article on privacy in tech here's a mirror not hosted by one of the top invaders of online privacy: http://web.archive.org/web/20180305203213/http://locusmag.co...
but... but you get choose who you call, so you only make one call. But you can't unread tweets to find the one you want to read. So are these just snapshots of a moment in time you look at? Which is nothing like calling someone on the phone.
Well, the captain should have consulted with an SEO expert and used a robots.txt.

ship ships bottle bottles message messages ocean oceans sea seafaring currents ocean-currents weather nautical captain vessel
To me that sounds like a misreading of the statement. It makes more sense to interpret it to the effect that tech companies are worried that "the military-industrial complex is using their stuff to kill people" and that this is incorrect. Google doesn't really specialize in optimizing lethality, but it does make a lot of noise about ethical application of its tech.
Tell me what your ALB costs are going to be next month.

“You are charged for each hour or partial hour that an Application Load Balancer is running and the number of Load Balancer Capacity Units (LCU) used per hour.”

Go here and see how “LCUs” are computed: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/
unless outright fraud has been established

I've always suspected that was part of the reason- it's simply far easier to defraud small fry who don't have the experience to spot fraud or the resources to prosecute it.
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I always imagine an unspoken "at a certain price" when people say they believe in buying locally. I live a short distance from a grocery store in my neighborhood, but I rarely go there because I like to cook and their prices for meat and produce are always higher than the big chains. In the case of their meat the difference has sometimes been as much as $1.50/lb. which is huge if you're someone who prefers a frugal lifestyle.

Edit: As for condoms, I think the situation is a little different. They ruin sex compared to going without a condom, marketing from Trojan be damned. I'm not trying to endorse the mindset, but there are many people who are primarily just trying to avoid getting someone/themselves pregnant so if someone's on the pill that's good enough for them.
Baseless cynicism is not helpful.

Technically you aren't false, this could be just a PR thing, but why would you assume that?

"YC requests these startups because they want these startups" is a much simpler explanation than "YC requests these startups as a marketing ploy".

I don't see a good reason to be so skeptical, so I will go ahead and take this post at face value.

Obviously everyone should think for themselves, and if your startup doesn't fit these categories you should apply anyway (as the article says). I'm just saying that assuming they're being honest here is valuable to me, as a guideline for thinking about startup ideas and YC's vision for the future.

Dismissing this stuff (without a good, specific argument) would hurt more than it helps.
> The US ... did annex large swathes of Mexico

Here's some context for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas
This may have been true in 2017 and prior, as a 1031 like-kind exchange. However, these are no longer allowed under the new tax law.
A good example would be ~$10 per trade to buy any quantity of stock.
It seems you are right. IEEE doesn't say anything, which I guess makes it implementation defined.

However, in glibc, there are definitely code paths for looking up digits of pi.
Facebook tags photos with my face in it without my permission. How do I as a non-Facebook user stop that?

How do I prevent Google from reading my email conversations when a huge chunk of the destinations are on the Gmail platform?

I DON'T have control. And I DON'T like it.
I think what Shmidt is saying is that the concern is about the military using this tech to essentially go out there and kill innocent people.
What percentage of a trucking company’s costs do you think are paid to the driver?

It won’t lower shipping costs that much.
"near linear" is sometimes used to refer to O(n log(n)^O(1)), that is, things that are linear other than a polynomial of log(n). This includes Schönhage–Strassen multiplication, with its O(n log(n) log(log(n))) complexity.
This, unfortunately, is wrong in the USA. The IHS is not staffed by elected officials.

The Native Americans who need our help, and do not receive it from the government IHS, do not have any way of democratically bringing about a more efficient team to run their health services.

The ONLY solution therefore must be a private one.
No, messages that don’t match are not dequeued in the first place. I don’t know why the other poster used the word discard.
i'm not sure i agree.

google's cloud couldn't host this customer's production application because (afaik) google can't host classified data.

so then you're talking about the fact that your tech is inherently "dual-use." but that's almost anything in computing, absent a license that prevents it. in the early days of postgres, we were a little weirded out by some of the support requests we got [0], given the university prototype nature of the system.

[0] https://www.paulaoki.com/.admin/pgapps.html
God damn, as if the others were not enough... Can someone confirm that this dude is a human?
I'm not saying self-censorship is bad, I'm saying that if you do it because someone else misappropriated some language, then you're on a clear path to only saying what other people permit. And this is especially wrong when those 'other people' are actively trying to undermine your ability to communicate.
The people who are doing the automation, or own what is automated, don't want to change the socioeconomic configuration, it's working out very well for them.

> The economy (and society) will change, and this dude can stay with his family. Sounds great.

Given the productivity increases we've seen in the past few decades, this really hasn't been the case.

It is hard to stay home with family, when "home" and "family" means having many low-paying jobs to support both.
It would seem that GDPR requires this ability to exist. Let's wait a few months and see what actually comes out of this and how Google will handle that; AFAIK they haven't laid out how exactly they will comply.
As someone who has backcountry skied in Washington for the past 15 years color me interested!

What are the weather inputs into the models and do you think that will capture enough? Wind transportation seems easy enough to think about but stuff like hoar frost seems harder to predict using available weather data, but maybe that's just clear cold days?

I do wonder as well whether the models should actually be regionally specific. Sure avy patterns are different but that likely falls out if you are basing it all on weather. IE, WA can act like CO when we have many weeks in a row of cold and vice versa during warm spells there.

Anyways, will be keeping an eye on this. Enabling places with no current forecast to have something at all is a noble goal, though I am skeptical that the recent WA deaths would have been prevented, that's just education and group dynamics sadly.
Yesterday I ran across Nick Young’s visualization of 25 cryptocurrencies by creation date and use case https://imgur.com/YGwn9n9

Source: https://github.com/nickwb/cryptographic
I've personally not been there, so I remain skeptical. And if I did go to "Australia" who's to say the plane wouldn't just fly in loops for 6 hours and land outside Las Vegas in an elaborately constructed set made to look like this fabled land of giant spiders and marsupials?

Seems the people who believe in Australia are the same ones who would blindly accept that the earth is round...
So when Damore released his manifesto a lot of people wanted Google to fire him, otherwise they would quit themselves.

Where is the Google employee outrage now? I mean, this right here is bad, it has serious implications. Drone killings are the most outrageous thing the U.S. has done in a while...
I wish there were more concrete advice at the end of this blog. My child will apparently benefit from certain types of books more at her age than others; but what characteristics should I be looking for?
Country with ~1.3 billion people which is crazy diverse (in terms of number of languages, number of scripts, history, culture, cuisine, arts, religion and geography), is guaranteed to have groups of people with many different views.

With such variety, in addition to the great percentage of users on HN being from India (this is just a guess), it's a difficult task to have a good debate without getting the conversation/topic/comment flagged.

While much of the popular international media (CNN, NYT, WSJ, WaPo, BBC, Reuters etc) sitcks to a certain ideology, it is near impossible to expect a fair debate based on the India specific content published in these sources of news, which often tend to view everything from Right/Left or Liberal/Progressive/Conservative POV.

Currently, the issue is that the history of India is written from the British POV, which has been tweaked later by Russian and American POVs. None of them really glorifying anything that is native to India. In fact a movie glorifying Winston Churchill just won 2 oscars in 2018, while people across the world, including many Indians are not aware of the artificial Bengal Famine orchestrated by Churchill, that lead to the death of 3 million Bengalis. Try inserting this in school texts, and similar uproar will occur.

Similarly, contribution of ancient India to the field of science, maths, astronomy and astrophysics is almost non-exsitent. Even now, none of the school texts in India do any justice to this, nor do modern (past 19th century) literature outside India.

Example: Many basic mathematical concepts like pythagorean theorem, the current numerical system etc are considered innovations/inventions from Europe and Arabian peninsula (respectively). In India, there's been enough proof available (as cited by those who believe these are Indian inventions) for many to think these are innovations from India and if not the world, at least kids in India should learn that these are Indian innovations and that Indians need to be proud of it.

Now based on which side of the debate you are, you'd either dismiss this thought, or hold on to it very dearly, or take a step back and say there needs to be more research on this, and in either case, present both the cases to students who are studying in schools.

Many thousand years of scientific understanding remain hidden in plain sight, because of such meddling with history, that draws many many students away from even exploring the real Indian history, from the lens of an Indian, and that is why this is a highly contentious issue.

With a Left/Left-liberal/Socialistic/Marxist type of a government India had for ten years (until 2014), enough meddling with history was done at school level, and now the Right of Center / kind of Capitalist govt wants to undo that, and make up for the tweaked history in India over the last few centuries.

The moment any such move is made in this direction, we have the world media of certain ideology hyperventilating on such issues and publishing clickbait articles.
How does this compare to Bitwise?
Well, but what if it can handle 50% of the journey 100% of the time, and that 50% is known?

IE, for the 100 mile stretch of road in the desert, when it is sunny, it works great, and then when it gets to the city it tells the driver to take over.
> it's simply far easier to defraud small fry who don't have the experience to spot fraud or the resources to prosecute it

Legal and diligence costs on most illiquid investments are tens of thousands of dollars. Anyone investing small amounts (a) can’t afford the diligence, (b) probably doesn’t know what they’re doing and (c) can’t afford to lose even that small amount. That attracts a specific variety of fraudster (see Bitconnect). We’ve seen this happen every time we break the wall between markets with high and low information assymetry.
The one we were taught was "Silly old Hitler caused awful headaches to our allies".
Shouldn't this be pretty simple with an API and a basic script?

You can get the overall market cap and percentages based on something like Coinmarketcap and then just set limit orders to buy/sell rounded to nearest coin requirement.
The thing that sticks out to me is that they expect lego pieces to hit washington state 23 years after the spill without biodegrading.

I hope we're able to fix that someday.
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