skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who pays for the processing equipment? Clearing? Collection?

The banks were running it as a loss leader?
Reasonably safe is relative. My bank here in Denmark recommends blocking your VISA or MasterCard upon return from the US, or simply have them issue you a new card for use on your trip.
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It is more low level than that and closer to OpenVPN in terms of setup. Which means not bad.

The main gain is in efficiency. It is much less resource intensive and thus sometimes faster.
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I still don't get what makes the 5 digits year count "clever" then. You think humanity will not be there in 8k years, ok, but how does that make the 5 digits clever?
This falls flat when

1) those few companies are "the internet" for major parts of the population (actually it almost falls flat already here)

2) to make it worse those companies has a long history of censoring not only what we all despise but also things they didn't like (business wise), things their staff didn't see the value in (art, histn eoric photos from wars) etc etc.

There, -now you haven't been downvoted without an explanation. (I really don't like anonymous downvotes and think all should do better most of the time.)
I'm perfectly fine not having to read manuals for games...
Where have you been interviewing? And how many interviews have you done so far?
I run Gentoo on mine, and I get a typical battery life of 4-5 hours currently
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I'm sure I'm misunderstanding you but... How is conservation of agricultural land not important?

I mean, isn't not being good stewards of the land what gave us the dust bowl?
Outside of north america and UK the line between credit and debit is much more muddled - you may have "debit cards" attached to a current account that has a significant overdraft limit; you may have "credit cards" that have 0 credit limit and must be prepaid; and there's no major practical difference and no legal differences (unlike, say, USA).
both his work and the age at which he has done his work are impressive. Why do you think these two must be mutually exclusive?
Windows support isn't an insurmountable obstacle. As long as the ACPI implementation works, Windows is (generally) quite happy to run on it

Google's Chromebooks all run vanilla Coreboot, and if modded with SeaBIOS/Tiano, will happily boot and run Windows (though drivers can be troublesome)
Any idea if this is legitimate? [1]

320x24 resolution and it doesn't immediately look like a time of flight camera (seems too expensive, although the range is poor).

Apparently there's an up to 30m version [2].

[1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/Solid-State-TOF-LiDAR-CE30-p-304...
[2] https://diyrobocars.com/2018/04/08/first-impressions-of-bene...
That's a broad question for a side topic...

GCP has better performance (especially raw storage, compute and network), cheaper and simpler pricing, and more consistent experience. The raw primitives to build with are better designed and integrated, and scale without any tuning.

We're not building MVPs (which are just as easy) but have a working product and only use GKE and VMs. If you need all the managed services then AWS is the right choice, but K8S has made that a non-issue for us and allows us to use VMs (which are the most reliable part of any cloud), along with spot/preemptible pricing and better colocation for efficiency.
Not really. 2% on your gross is a lot and any standard commercial policy will cover cash on hand.

50% of the country is broke, 80% live pay check to pay check.

Many working minimum wage, low income bracket do not have bank accounts.

The idea that cash is ‘hard to operate’ is a stretch, we’ve been exchanging currency for as long as commerce existed. If you handle enough cash to need an armored truck, you are far above most businesses in processing.

There are a few places in NYC that do not take cash, and they exist in their own micro economy revolving around serving lunch.
I chanced across an article that I cannot seem to find anymore unfortunately

Someone had heavily modded an "original" display to fix the 50hz interpolation issues as well as kicking the brightness up
> keep those profitable quarters

Isn't it actually illegal for publicly traded companies to do otherwise?
That seems to imply we need two pieces of code for "perfect laws as code": 1) that which writes/defines the laws and 2) that which interprets the prevailing milieu and determines the application of law.

Since we're speculating anyways, why not implement the whole system we currently have? Assuming humanlike-AI (heh!), the following services are imaginable:

1 AI Legislature
2 AI Judge
3 AI Lawyers

Govt programmers handle (1) and (2), applicants and respondents (or prosecution and defence) handle (3). AI Legislature determines laws according to citizen referendum and policy upon consultation with the the AI Judges. Each AI Lawyer makes arguments to the AI Judge who evaluates each against the law and jurisprudence to arrive at a judgement. Wiggle away!

As a final layer which arose out of the Luddite massacres of 2137-40, a group of rubber-stamping human judges at the top serving as final adjudicators and appellate court.
Sometimes this may make sense. I know of an app that decided to start from scratch due to the amassed bad reviews. Too bad for those who already paid for the buggy version, no updates now.
At the same time, slightly outside the centre of Amsterdam many small takeaway places, hairdressers, etc are cash only.
A trademark lawsuit?
No. The judge would decide whether it is a threat or not, and the punishment would correspond to that. If it's not a threat, then what is the problem? (See my other comment in this discussion.)
States should not be in the business of censoring speech, for all sorts of reasons listed below. But there are certain kinds of speech that we commonly do want to hold people to account for -- incitement to violence; dangerous speech ("fire!" in a theatre); speech to manipulate markets (insider trading); hate speech in some nations; CP in many more and so on.

So the way you reconcile the two is not by preventing the speech, but ensuring that it can have consequences. It's why we have laws of libel for instance: governments don't censor the press directly, but if you knowingly lie about someone in print, they will have the right to recourse through the courts against you.

For this to work, though, there needs to be some way to identify someone to hold to account. That takes you into other tricky areas around common carrier vs publisher, and anonymity of users.

It's that balance that really makes this so tricky, and is the real question, I think. If there are no consequences, you get lots of more-or-less problematic speech as we've seen. If there are mechanisms to ensure consequences, if you're not careful you can end up exposing people you'd want to protect (eg posters in oppressive regimes) to consequences you would think unjust.
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Did Tesla get back to them, and did the story change?
There seems to be a hypocrisy with people upset about censorship on behalf of China, but don’t seem all that upset about censorship on behalf of the EU (eg RTBF) or censorship when it supports their politics (eg hate speech)

I don’t support this theoretical move, but asserting Google should pull out/stay out of China and not obey/comply with local laws, and yet argue that the EU local laws should have global reach seems unjustified and unequal respect for sovereignty.
Actually, "PC MASTER RACE" came from a comedy review of the Witcher. In context, the original quote:

> What quickly becomes obvious is that Witcher is very much a PC exclusive game, which are typically designed to be as complex and unintuitive as possible so that those dirty console-playing peasants don't ruin it for the Glorious PC Master Race.

It was not originally intended to be a positive term.
Or: the only way to prevent the polarisation of society, is by throwing out the wish to only hear what you want to hear, but to say whatever you like.
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It's either that or pay dividends...
"Don't be evil" was cute marketing, never a serious statement. It was removed precisely because people kept using it to argue against anything the company did.

Advertisers are also not leaving Google at all, and Facebook is not a replacement.
Reality check: nobody use a mobile app for searching purpose. So either the whistleblower is misleaded, or it's a slightly different app than just search.
Never mind the insane difference in SSD performance.
> A lot of problems would go away if all merchants (voluntarily or by law) explicitly charged their payment costs to the customer.

At least in the US, the contract the retailer signs with the CC processor to be able to accept CC's explicitly bans passing the card fees on to the customer as a specific line item in the receipt.

Which really translates to the merchant increaseing their prices by 1.02x to compensate for the 2% (avg. estimate) fee the cards charge. So the customer still pays, but they do not directly see what part of the price goes directly to the payment network.
Is there content that everyone agrees should not be visible? I don't think that holds for CP, for example. Unless, of course, "everyone" means "the majority", or even "a large majority".
Because the land is owned by the U.S. Federal government after making deals with European countries, Native Americans, and also taking it from Native Americans by force.

No one has yet transfered the property rights to the land to anyone else.
Honestly I can't think of a single fintech startup in Denmark that's is any competition to the banks and card companies.

The only two apps that really have any penetration is MobilePay, but that's the large banks, and eDankort, but that's NETS.

There are a fintech startups, but they all work with or for the large players.
There seems to be a hypocrisy with people upset about censorship on behalf of China, but don’t seem all that upset about censorship on behalf of the EU (eg RTBF) or censorship when it supports their politics (eg hate speech)

I don’t support this theoretical move, but asserting Google should pull out/stay out of China and not obey/comply with local laws, and yet argue that the EU local laws should have global reach seems unjustified and unequal respect for sovereignty.

Let’s face it, the core issue here isn’t free speech and censorship, it’s speech you like or censorship you like vs those you don’t.
It’s an indicator of skimming gone awry. When I worked at a bagel shop, a common transaction was $4.03. Seeing cash coming out, the cashier would subtotal (sending the ticket down to print), and cancel/no sale the transaction.

They would do it 10 times and pull $40.
Conservation isn't the best word there. Maybe optimization is better. It's not scarce, we don't need to agonize over calorie outputs per acre. And if you're going to do that, you don't want to be intensively farming most of this cattle country - there's one of the reasons for the dust bowl.
A lottery at any threshold will create a student body biased away from blacks/natives/latinos, since the entire bell curve of their SAT results is to the left of whites/south Asians/east Asians. (Unless the top students stop applying, which is an unacceptable outcome for any elite school.)

[1] https://i0.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
Placing China and the EU in the same category in regards to human rights, press freedom, and individual freedom is disqualifying yourself from any discussion about the topic.
You're right, you found them. Two of those were written by PR consultants, all of them are opinion pieces, and one was written by a republican speechwriter. How about something written by a person on staff as a writer representing a journalistic organization? You know, like these:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-perspec-z...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/trump-tweet-putin/in...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/pu...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-worst-moment-...

https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-worst-week-yet-will-...
Here is my hot take. Strictly speaking for APS, this funding model does not seem to be a big deal. If you are an active physicist in research, you are very likely to be part of an institution that has a subscription to the journals (university or national labs). If you are not an active physicist in research, the papers are probably prohibitively incomprehensible to you. I also think it makes sense for a society to publish journals. Societies facilitate the communication of research progress. This is clearly one of the goals of conferences. Papers in journals are usually a better format for communicating advances (more detail, can refer back to it at your leisure, peer reviewed, etc)
Do you by any chance mean abcde? I just used that a couple of weeks ago when I noticed that I still had a few CDs that I had not ripped.

A custom CD ripper script was the first program I ever wrote that actually served a useful purpose. Back then, somebody told me not to bother and just use abcde. 16 years later, I have finally come around to follow that advice. :-)
The Right To Be Forgotten is to protect citizens while China's censorship exists to protect its government.
No this is actually a myth.

“More to the point, corporate directors are protected from most interference when it comes to running their business by a doctrine known as the business judgment rule. It says, in brief, that so long as a board of directors is not tainted by personal conflicts of interest and makes a reasonable effort to stay informed, courts will not second-guess the board’s decisions about what is best for the company — even when those decisions predictably reduce profits or share price.”

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
There’s been a lot of talk about “nazis” in the media recently. Like A TON. And I didn’t see anyone in the media actually trying to talk with them.

And yeah sure there are people that are maybe wrong and will not talk with you at all. But in my experience they are a minority. Generally people actually believe what they say they believe and they’re eager to sit down and discuss it.
If you actually talk with people, more often than not their position is more nuanced than “kill all the Jews.” Isn’t that a good thing?

But every time you make even the discussion taboo you just validate their believes. Because if it’s something beyond even mere discussion then it must be something true ‘they’ don’t want you to know about. Or so it seems.

I know the Earth is not flat. Why would I avoid discussing it when truth is on my side?
From a resource perspective there is no surplus, due to opportunity costs in land conversion. Mid-term prospects for meeting global food demand boil down to increasing production yields. (Sure, distant technology will probably change this a bit).

http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/the-future-pr...
China is an authoritarian one-party state with a history of violating the human rights of its citizens. The EU, for all its bureaucratic flaws, is a democratic institution with a history of respect for rights and the rule of law.

So yes, absolutely, there are strong moral reasons to treat EU laws differently than Chinese laws.
I looked into this some and found some of the most useful advice was for people going to Burning Man. For example: https://www.theplayalabs.com/shopping-list-solar

My understanding is that for anything big like a fridge (even a minifridge) the efficiency and reliability of standard well-optimized 120V AC appliances means it's worth it inverting to AC instead of sticking to DC. Lots of RVs use/used 12V DC systems so things are available, they're just not very good. Inverters are very efficient these days. Plus it's really helpful to have a way to run AC things you already have if you need to.

Though if you only want lights, I do see how DC could make more sense if you can either find or DIY the right electronics to handle the voltage issues.
This is certainly not true. Tunneling and VPN protocols have distinct characteristics and capabilities which greatly affect network design. The reason for this is that they are not all designed to accomplish the same objective.
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What is wrong with this? It is as if Google spider bot sits within China.

What is the use of showing the result, if the users can't access the content? It makes sense to filter the result than showing an 'unauthorised' error on clicking the link.
Human judges verifying the data for outcome seems akin to proof reading. If computers get more advanced, less "proof reading" is needed. It seems like automating lawyer work will make society a more fair place, if you agree with me that more cases being brought up is better than no sue or settlement. Price could also go down this way.

I'm very curious if there'd be a different take on common law and civil law when it comes to AI. There's already an AI called NDA Lynn which checks whether an NDA is "fair" for you or not. Its essentially free if you're OK with your data becoming part of the ML base (if not it costs 45 EUR IIRC). [1] The person who made this is a lawyer and isn't afraid this type of tech will put lawyers out of business.

Reading Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age currently, and it was apparent to me that Bud's hearing was all done by humans, and a judge. It seemed to me that it was just that it was crystal clear that he was guilty that the verdict was cast so quickly? Or did I miss something?

[1] https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/02/27/ai...
Google is already censoring content in the US and EU, not even the same results in all countries, and we asked for it, so what's so much different about following Chinese law?
Just because there is a surplus of agricultural does mean we should use it.

The one that we use is already causing massive environmental problems.

Grasing is not an inocous activity, there are the methane emissions that are very impactful.
absolutely not, but the shareholders can stage a rebellion if the company keeps going in a direction they don't want it to. The standard examples here are companies that lose money or make minimal profits due to investing revenue into product development or growth. This is something shareholders are often okay with.
Yeah, that's totally fair. And we treated it that way, asking certain guests to bring certain things instead of gifts.
I guess Google no longer cares about "Free speech on the web" eh?
> Putting perfect laws as code is essentially a humanlike-AI-complete problem. That is, the necessary code would also have to implicitly and completely implement our intuitions about morality, and the mechanisms behind emotions and suffering.

I don't think this applies to all areas of law. Take tax law, for instance. Is there any moral or ethical or otherwise well-founded argument in favour of having tax laws interpreted less strictly than a machine would?
Why should there be a different standard for Google and other tech companies to not expand into China.
If we have a problem with how their government works policy should be applied that prevents/manages how businesses subject to our laws operate abroad.

The majority of people don't really care how corporations behave.
If they did Google search/gmail/maps would not be so popular.
They have the right price point(0$) for people to ignore any moral misgivings they may have. I'm guilty of this and up to my neck in google services
The land used for feed is super low-value land that has no better use. It does contribute a bit to global warming though. The collective action problem we have to solve in order to stop global warming is much more difficult than just getting people to stop eating beef. If you believe feeding livestock in the most cost-effective manner available is wasteful, then there must be an implied route toward less waste. Maybe:

-the government should decree beef and pork illegal

-or implement some sort of high tax or cap and trade measure for livestock and meat

-and perform a massive propoganda campaign to teach people that they should raise their own chickens, eat more beans, and eat less meat/protein overall.

The problem of people not starving to death around the world is not an issue of food supply, it is an issue of food distribution.
So you are marketing your VM data center by talking about how a specific group of non-marketers suck at marketing?

That's bad marketing.

You need to produce communication that reaches those people, who are interested in VM data centers AND have the power to directly or indirectly make the buying decisions.

Now you only reach people who are thinking about marketing in some way. Not good.

Now, the other thing is, you compare buying display ads to a content marketing campaign. That's what this piece is ultimately about.

Well, guess what, you can pay for adverts or you can pay somebody to write blog posts etc (what you call "talking" in the article), you still have to pay and the challenge is to hold these costs down.

You make a value statement, you say you'd rather apply a means of advertising that you can stand behind for humanitarian reasons. I applaud you for this!
As a former Google employee myself, I have a really hard time connecting these actions with the company I used to be very proud of working for.

I understand that reaching the Chinese consumer is a huge opportunity, but drawing the line at refusing to assist in the censorship of 1.4 billion people seemed like an easy line to draw and stick to. If Google won't stand against this, won't the rest tumble? I fear a domino affect that won't be possible to undo.

For the first time in a long time, I am genuinely disappointing at Google and am questioning thoughts I've had in the past of going back to work for them again.
> What about heat in a power outage?

Right now we'd have no heat. I'm thinking of putting together a small general purpose battery backup that we can normally charge via the wall but can also charge via the SPS on the solar system we're installing. I'd use it for whatever was highest priority; depending on time of year that could be boiler, sump pump, fans, or unexpected things.
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Pity so many corporations in our industry harvested good will of their users, expecting to never help their oppressors, and a decade later here we are :(
What a load of bull. Although i think google is a shit company, they are not the problem here. The problem is China forcing google to censor.
Oracles seem to be a good solution. A lot of the time people just need some boilerplate to conduct a transaction and will need to refer back to the contract in the case of a dispute only. Contract as code allows us to naturally standardise on boilerplate for common cases whilst allowing for specialised code in specialised cases.

The 1% of contracts that are disputed could be conditionally successively escalated until human arbitration, settlement or a trial is reached. Oracle reports and contract executes accordingly.
> censorship when it supports their politics (eg hate speech)

It's not hypocrisy per se. We all agree that there are some limits to free speech (the classic "shouting fire in a crowded theater" springs to mind but feel free to substitute your own impossible-to-disagree-with example).

Hypocrisy would imply there's an absolute principle at stake ("absolute free speech" vs "reasonable level of censorship") but nobody truly believes the former so we are all simply disagreeing about "reasonable" in the latter.