skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you claiming China's government isn't massively corrupt right now?

The corruption happens at lower levels, and is usually a byproduct of too much power granted to someone who doesn't deserve it. Enabling democracy would have caused more corruption as it requires a well-informed public. China during the revolution was definitely not full of educated and well-informed people.

> But the question of, "do the Chinese people support their government" is a complicated one that I don't think is even answerable at a meaningful level right now. The Chinese information environment doesn't permit it, since it doesn't give the Chinese people the necessary ideological framework or information about alternatives to even form an independent opinion. I'm sure some people do so anyway, but it's a much harder task. In the west people benefit from concepts like "you can love your country and hate your government;" relatively unbiased information; and more varied, competing, opinions.

You're clearly not Chinese, and probably don't many people in China. But I am, and I know people who live in China (middle class, even poor people), and the sentiment is that the government is doing a good job.

> And those motivations are? The historic national humiliation thing? To be honest that reads as more of a convenient "surface" justification akin to American evidence-laundering via "parallel construction" from evidence obtained by illegal surveillance. It's not supported by the history of Google in China, for instance. They had a large ~30% marketshare until they refused to play ball on censorship, they then they were blocked, but not before.

Protectionism is preferred by countries in the same way as the "Buy USA" rhetoric in America that you may be able to relate to. The unique history China had with colonialism is just a bonus. It turns out that China was smart enough to recognize the national importance of the internet technology industry, and levied massive walls against them. You can't easily put an import tax on Google, but you can block them. I can guarantee you it had nothing to do with censorship. Google/Facebook are businesses and would never make a stand by jeopardizing their China business by not complying with local censorship laws. It was never about that. It was simply because they were not welcome, and that if they did flourish they'd have troves of data on Chinese citizens in the hands of a foreign entity.
The NRO instruments are just optics, optics make up a tiny fraction of the cost of a space telescope. NASA was not gifted fully functional space telescopes they could just launch and then start observing. They still need all of the components to actually turn them into functional instruments, spacecraft systems, cameras, attitude control, etc. The estimated cost for WFIRST alone is $3 billion, only slightly less than if the instrument had been built from scratch, if at all.
Isn't Jaguar considered "racing" car? How about not just automatic driving, but automatic racing?
please refer to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16691368

I am using this extension right now after reading that comment.
Can the Ninth Circuit itself petition the Supreme Court to intervene and stop the Federal Circuit from making a hash of Ninth Circuit law?
Yes, Republicans and Democrats do not always vote lock-step. That does not negate the fact that Republicans tend to fund the sciences more. I'm sorry if this doesn't match up with your rhetoric, but it's true. One of the biggest names out of NASA told you it was true. The Republican controlled Congress just did it again right in front of you. The fact they didn't do it unilaterally does not in any way negate the original premise.

Here's an article talking about the Obama administration recommended budget which cut funding to NASA. It's worth acknowledging here that Trump's requested budget ALSO cut funding for NASA, but the Congressional Republicans over-ruled him.

https://www.universetoday.com/127309/nasa-2017-budget/
It would be extremely risky for such a huge company to pull a stunt like that. All it would take is for one employee to become a whistleblower to put the company into a legal and PR quagmire. And all that for what? Losing 0.1% of their data because of people deleting their account? Not worth it IMO.
I have read it, and I disagree.

I am not arguing that Google has an interoperability exemption. I am arguing that the API is not (or should not be) copyrightable in the first place, because any attempt at interoperability would instantly void it.

I would also argue that interoperability with the training of masses of developers is a thing. Saying it is not only strengthens the relevant network effects, which is bad for competition. I doubt that last one would hold up in court, but still. See how C++ became popular. Not quite compatible with C, but close enough to spur adoption.

And overall, it is very weird that Google's intent matters here. They should be judged on what they did, and maybe whether they did it on purpose. Why they did it should be no more than extenuating or aggravating circumstances.
If there is any substance to a rumor, then there has to be someone that can offer some insight that doesn't stand to make millions from spreading a false or exaggerated rumor with the exact same contents.

> Thompson manages $25 million and his Tesla short is the fund’s biggest position.

I don't doubt there is something to this - but how the hell does a hedge fund manager shorting this very stock become someone to interview and publish in the matter?

Does anyone know what marketwatch does to make money, is it accept money to let people manipulate stocks like this?
i'd say in most projects i worked, threads would be enough. but it is so boring :)
new shiny async code is much more entertaining!

on other hand we should talk about C100k or C1m problems.
What if we refused to join Facebook all along because we saw this coming the whole time?
And yet, the moment you want to move any of those resources from one place to another, you must deal with the US Navy, which, without meaningful resistance, can control all global shipping lanes at will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers#Numb...

When it comes to limiting moves, no country has the ability that the US does.
Rust and Node.js are awesome
Ah yes! It's like shazam for a song you can't get out of your head!
Eh. We've got a close enough approximation. Sci-fi-esque example below.

The more things humans collected, the safer their genes were, and the higher the dopamine hit. Many humans took this to the logical end, collecting things at the expense of all else, including the safety of other humans. This led to severe poverty of all humans not wired to collect more things, which decreased their reproductive fitness.

Over time, the human race in aggregate continued to become more effective at collecting things, until they had wiped out all other life and all viable material was turned to drugs. The end.
> they had 6 months.

You say that like 6 months is automatically a lot of time. "She had 6 months to give birth". Yeah, only it takes 9, so 6 is short.

Consider the scope and depth of the issue and the fact that they probably couldn't involve too many people on this effort.
Bugs are a red-herring to the discussion. Bugs doesn't get you out of copying. The question is: did you copy or not? Google argued "we certainly did copy but APIs can't be copyrighted." Which was not the law at the time they did the copying and is not the law now .
The argument is a little more subtle than that though I didn't explicate it above. It's that the keyboard jockies provide a base and advocate for politicians that will.
GCP person here. We are aware and are working on a fix!

(Should be as "simple" as a polyfill for webcomponents, but I don't want to put words in the team's mouth)
This is what probably keeps me out of the market for a car rental service too. I realize I'm probably in the minority, but trying to fit three car seats and several adults into an Uber is near impossible. Not to mention of it's a one way trip, what do you do? Carry the seats with you, arrange to get them back on a later date?

Personally, I'd much rather buy a car with this technology, than rent it.
With regards to SLS, I do trust the NASA professionals; they originally argued against the system, and then were forced by direct Congressional mandate (pushed forward by representatives of places building the hardware) to develop the thing anyway.
Something I've been wondering while watching the evolution of TypeScript is how many of these features exist in other programming languages and how many are completely new? Specifically I'm thinking of literal types, mapped types, and now conditional types.

Java and Kotlin are the really only other languages with static types that I use so for me these TypeScript features are things I had never even heard of or imagined before. Now that I have them though it's hard to go back to static types without them.
Because a tiny portion of people would use it. Who wants to pay an extra monthly cost on their machine? The only people who would really do this are ones where it is covered by work.
Even better - if all the streaming services had an API that I could query to see who has what shows / movies.

I'm sick of searching 3 catalogs (hulu, netflix, amazon) and finding out none of them have what I'm looking for.
> Does anyone know what marketwatch does to make money

They are one of the largest mainstream financial sites, partnered with CBS and owned by Dow Jones.

This is a very odd question.
That lawyers exist is a good thing. It means we have a human, nuanced perspective on the finer points and interpretation of the law, which in Western civilization reigns supreme over all other things.

Lawyers will never become obsolete until we no longer live in a society that obeys the rule of law.
I wonder if the meaning of this ruling will leak to other areas. For example, is “boilerplate” in contracts and other legal documents copyrightable? Who owns them? The lawyers, the law firms, the clients? Will attorneys pay other attorneys to use the same phrases and paragraphs?
Nvidia's Largest Ever GPU for Artificial Intelligence – DGX-2 512GB, 2 PetaFLOPS
Unfortunately sometimes you can't please everyone. For example, Firefox constantly nags me to update to Quantum. I tried it, realized some of my mission critical plugins (Session Manager) don't work there, so I've been holding out intentionally for alternatives.

Yet Firefox CONSTANTLY nags me to upgrade, and there's not even a "don't bug me for X amount of time" option.
Video recording of Christopher Wylie's appearance before UK lawmakers
I wonder if this service is profitable under some kind of model. They were definitely trying to address a real problem. Shipping stuff, especially awkward/special needs stuff, is a pain. I think it’s pretty hard to offer the service in a way that the value exists and can be explained easily to customers though.
That's not entirely fair – it does work over relatively standard protocols behind the scenes. I'm just annoyed at the lack of care displayed here.
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Well they learned some lessons. But I wonder if AI will turn out to be more like security, in the sense that humans will never be able to build an AI that can not be exploited. It's possible that there will always be new vulnerabilities in AI software, and not just software bugs, which of course will always continue to exist, too, especially as most AIs are written in C++, but also vulnerabilities in algorithms.
Ah, I was thinking about the Cambrige analytica story, and specifically handing over data which we have no control over.

But you're right to point out they used to have 'share by default' on some data.
CE isn't a certification. It is a standard that suppliers claim to adhere to. It relies entirely on their word, but is not verified at all.
Kind of a contorted way of seeing this, but I'll go for it.

So, as a user I have to identify bottlenecks, now..? That would be my first question.

Since you're implying that by not thinking the performance indicator is an important feature for the average user I want GIMP to be slower, yes--actually I would definitely opt for a slower, usable program than a fast unusable one, and I never thought speed was a problem of GIMP.

Right now I'm running Wine to be able to edit this PSD file without going crazy trying to use GIMP's interface, so obviously speed is not what I care about. I'm sure I'm not the only one, since other problems and not speed seem to be stopping people from using GIMP as their image editor.
https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/global_style_...

Ha!
That world council has to get buy-in from every nation, either voluntarily or not. Voluntary won't happen. And the "non-voluntary" part means, essentially, going to war to keep the peace.

> But many people still hang on to their nation as if it were a good thing.

Compared to being ruled by something akin to the UN? (Not the security council, the full UN.) Absolutely, my nation is a good thing compared to that.

Compared to being ruled by the EU? Maybe even compared to that. (And you wouldn't get something as good as the EU, for the same reasons that the UN wasn't as good as the EU.)

Now, true, not every nation can say that. And we weren't talking about affairs within the nation, but affairs between nations. Still... I'd say that assuming the nation is a bad thing "assumes facts not in evidence", as they say in court.
What about NVLink? I'm pretty sure there is no equivalent for AMD right? That would be a pretty big deal.
The point of testing is actually to ensure certain classes of known bugs aren't present. You can't test for bugs of which you have no knowledge.
This is actually a minigame that exists within one of the four card types for the board game Cranium, but a nice mobile implementation for playing with strangers.
The nation state is approaching obsoletion
This was a major political theme of the 1960s especially.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/moond...

See (or hear) Gil Scott Heron's "Whitey on the Moon".

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/gil-s...
Nope and nope. A guild of taxi drivers prevents a "race to the bottom", which does, in fact lead to the benefits I describe. Its not an issue of "fair" wages (although I did use that word), its an issue of _good_ wages. If you want a decent service, you have to attract good providers by paying decent money (and its here that Ubernomics falls down).
If true i cant think of better PR for Palantir.
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He cut Constellation... and at the same time was a strong advocate for the CRS and CCDev commercial projects. If only he'd managed to kill SLS too, and direct its money to more effective space programs.
For anyone curious, as per the pdf they planned the development to take 12 months. According to wikipedia, they pitched Blizzard in January 1995, released the game on 31st December 1996. So that is ~24 months if they started working immediately. They probably didn't. Plus the pdf doesn't mention sales and marketing (Edit: in the schedule). Seems quite an amazing execution.

Please correct any mistakes I made.
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I appreciate the quality of the offering, and indeed I'm excited because I am currently building a product that uses Google's synthesis!

But it's the lack of care displayed here that's really disappointing. It's like nobody involved with this demo went "Hey, maybe people aren't using Chrome and we should at least not totally fail when that happens". It's disappointing; as a mostly front-end dev at a small company, I put a lot of time into making sure that things work cross-platform, even if I don't always get it right. It's disappointing that Google's culture doesn't rate that highly enough.
It wasn't an unknown bug. This was a fix for a known bug. The point is that there was no test in place for memory isolation between users or processes.

FYI, security testers call this type of testing negative testing, which is different from functional testing that is done to test an app works "properly". However, for an OS this test is not negative testing but functional testing if the OS is designed to enforce user and process isolation.
Aussie Telcos Are Failing at Some Fundamental Security Basics
Seems like you'd build up a great dataset for training an automated hum -> song classifier if this gains traction.
If you don't want to run arbitrary 3rd party code on your system, don't run arbitrary 3rd party code on your system.
APIs are copyrightable under a CAFC decision notionally applying 9th Circuit law in this case which the Supreme Court declined to review because, pending the resolution of other issues, they viewed it as not ripe for review. Since this is not within the CAFCs special subject-matter domain (patents or any of the other areas which bring a case within it's jurisdiction; this case is at CAFC because to once had patent claims even though they are no longer live), this ruling doesn't seem to be binding precedent on any lower court. So, it's “law” in only a very weak and tenuous sense.
Have you even, for a fraction of a second, considered what it meant, for example, to invade Irak and kill thousands / millions of civilians, while destabilizing one of the most dangerous areas of the planet?

And you are worried that, in a playing field tilted by and towards the US, China has found a way, maybe playing the system, to improve their economic well-being? I for one hope that they keep on finding ways to force the system to "trickle down", as your right-wing capitalists like to describe your dysfunctional one-percenter system.

According to you, now is the time to call the unfair Chinese trade practices, and yes, you know, we will even maybe take a look at what the US has been doing for decades, yes maybe we will take a look now, but of course the important thing is to make sure that the Chinese do not play the system to their advantage. Once we make sure, then we can forget about the wrongdoings of the US. After all, the US are the good ones, so who cares if you kill one million here, one million there. It is for the greater good.

Rubbish.
Mine and my girlfriends iPhone showed this message every time we switched apps an hour or so ago. Seems to have stopped showing the message now.
I see the point, but that's "whataboutism." I also have no idea who owns the copyright (if anyone does) to stdlib APIs, and whether Oracle obtained license. Do you?
Inquiry finds FBI sued Apple to unlock phone without considering all options
Can you prove he made that up..?
From "Design Principles of the I/O Kit": https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/De...

> "OS X is largely the product of two strains of operating-system technology: Mac OS 9 (and its predecessors) and BSD. Given this pedigree, one might have expected Apple to adopt the device-driver model of Mac OS 9 or FreeBSD. Instead, Apple chose to redesign the model. Several reasons motivated this decision.

> "First, neither the Mac OS 9 driver model nor the FreeBSD driver model offers a set of features rich enough to meet the needs of OS X. The OS X kernel is significantly more advanced than its Mac OS precursors; it handles memory protection, preemptive multitasking, multiprocessing, and other features not present in previous versions of Mac OS. Although FreeBSD is capable of handling these features, the BSD model does not offer other features expected in a modern operating system, including automatic configuration, driver stacking, power management, and dynamic loading of devices."

It sounds like switching to a different kernel, and extending it to support everything that the Mac needs, would be a lot more work than finding and fixing the issues they have now. 3 nasty security bugs in 6 months is bad, but how many would they have if they changed kernels entirely? Mac OS X 10.0 sure wasn't bug-free. (For fun times: try creating a new user on 10.0 with login "root".)

I suspect it's very similar to why they didn't switch the display layer to X11: https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=75257&cid=67...
I guess you could say they do that when they ask for permission to you camera, to your call list, etc...
Where is there pricing information?
In the EU roaming charges were abolished last year.
As I understand it, Chrome does indeed use the Google cloud platform to do its speech synthesis behind the scenes – I suppose we'll see improvements in the quality of those voices soon, too.
Why 10x better? Hypothetically, if you could replace every manually operated car today with a self-driving car and this reduced collisions by .01%, wouldn't you want to do it?
This for every site by default!
Like it would change a thing. He would be just a sacrificial scapegoat, the evil king being stoned to death to keep the public calm then replaced by possibly an even more servile yes-man by top Facebook investors. Zuckerberg is nothing more than a puppet, a rich and powerful one by our standards but still a puppet who jumps when they say so. Vital decisions like using personal data of billions of people to build profiles to be used by 3 letter agencies or disseminating fake news to alter elections around the globe is not something that can be left to decide to a nerd in his mid 30s, no matter how rich and famous he is.
If Waymo's safety record holds, we can hope for a world with sufficiently-few crashes that car seats become unnecessary.
And once again, you'd end up in exactly this legal situation since the names are visible via reflection, but somehow aren't functional as viewed by the court.

That's one of the most important issues with this ruling; it effectively bans even black box reimplementations.
Peterson is also anti-women and pseudo scientific, not a great intellectual on those counts.
It was laughable that Trump would run for President, until he did. And Ronald Reagan: "The actor?"
Article leaves out that Palantir's co-founder Thiel is on the board of Facebook, and donated to a PAC which funded the Cambridge Analytica campaign.
The world is currently moving away from democracy, so the ideal of a democratic world council may not be possible for generations, if ever.

I agree it would be the best way to prevent war, but a slide into autocracy there could hamstring humanity for centuries.

Even without autocracy, global views are already anti-LGBT, and otherwise do not reflect the progressive values of western democracies.
Well, I would love to hear about a circuit court case that says otherwise. Seriously, I have no idea, but I do not believe such exists.
You’re conflating physics with human social organization.

If people want to organize around a certain set of ideals that’s up to them. Codifying it in their law is also up to them.

No one social organizational structure has an inherent right to exist unless the people seem to support it.

Argue brainwashing or propaganda is what maintains it, the reality is: thems the rules in France.
Hands-on with the Google TPU v2
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Facial Recognition Software: Costs and Benefits
> The machines used to be the thing of value, but now it's the software.

Not exactly. The machines were never the value per se, the work they could do was the value.

If you can buy the work without buying the machine, it is significantly better.
If you're in the UK, Three offer plans that are comparable (if I'm understanding correctly). "Feel at Home": http://www.three.co.uk/feel-at-home
Once they admit to copying some of it, it throws the whole clean room process into doubt. I think the courts are working on the "where there's smoke there's fire" principle.
But they didn't just write their own APIs. They copied them. Thousands of them.
The demo is available at https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/

Requires Chrome.