skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to exist a belief that China kicked Google out of the country at some point.

I can’t find a record of even just the Chinese side claiming they have “evicted” Google. Perhaps the “Google doesn’t want to censor; kick Google out” version of events makes more sense with each year just because it’s simpler. It also distorts reality, though, so I think reminding everyone (including myself) the more mainstream timeline is worth a moment.

Originally Google China was offering the censored version of search to users within China, which was a controversy. At some point a massive hack targeted Gmail accounts belonging to dissidents and activists of all kinds (from cryptography to Falun Gong religion). Google supposedly could’ve chosen to keep the breach to itself, but did made it public the next year and cited as a reason to reconsider its Chinese operations[0][1].

It’s true that Google’s competitors in search have continued to operate within Chinese market. They have been facing the same issues[2], and by the looks of the history of it many of similar events may well not be publicly known.

As of now the only Google service available within mainland China that I know of is Google Translate. I believe it’s made available via servers in China, as the latency seems on par with other local apps.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#Operation_Aurora_...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/nov/14/news.yaho...
Doesn't help if you're asked for the password, or else face prison.
I wonder how much battery research as increased since ~Tesla
The cost of the non-Epipen / generic auto-injectors are still very high. Usually at least $109 for a 2-pack, from what I can tell, and often $200+ in some places. How much will these cost without insurance? Sometimes there are coupons available from the manufacturer, I guess. But why should I need to jump through these hoops? These injectors lose efficacy over time and need to be replaced regularly for those that need to have them available for a severe allergy.

Epinephrine costs maybe $5 for a dosage. It's been sold for over 100 years. It's a WHO essential medicine for anaphylaxis, and is life saving for humans and pets. It's the same thing with other critical hormones like insulin.

The market for this stuff (even with generics) doesn't work. We know how much these drugs cost to manufacture and it's very little. Essential medicines with overwhelming human impact need to have strict pricing regulation that makes them available worldwide at close to the manufacturing cost.
> This got me thinking that consumers are at fault as well.

It's also partially the doctors. If a doctor writes a prescription as "EpiPen," then the pharmacist has to provide a drug with the brand EpiPen. The doctor has to specify "EpiPen or generic equivalent" on the prescription in order for the pharmacist to be able to fill it with a generic. If doctors don't realize that EpiPen is a name brand -- and "EpiPen" is so ubiquitous as to be nearly genericized at the point -- then doctors may not realize the issue.
Interesting monitization strategy. The app asks for $5 to read an article now.
I didn’t say massive debt. I said it was a part of my decision. And I was able to repay it, eventually. Your assumptions show you are biased in how you read my comment.

Also, I think you’re missing some variables. Or, as they might be called in economics, externalities.

The less money we spend on prisons the better for state and federal coffers, in the short run. The less a company pays a prison guard for their services, the better for the share holders. But what about everything that happens on the day an inmate is released back into society? Are their neighbors happy they were incarcerated by near minimum wage persons with little guidance or oversight and perhaps a bit too much enthusiasm? Are their employers happy they were not given access to higher education or the ability to learn a trade?

Or let’s talk about educators. Or defense attorneys for the indigent. I’ll leave the remaining examples to be worked by the student.

Seriously though, as someone that graduated with dual degrees in political science and economics, worked for a couple years in local government, then went to Manhattan to work in the financial markets for 5 years, and is now working a “tech” job. Sorry I don’t have patience for this.
How does that work securely? What determines if a process can take a screenshot or not? I mean clearly (I hope) only the compositor has access to all the pixels and needs to capture the image, but what determines who can request it to do so?
"Smart speakers" are getting to be everywhere and it really makes me uncomfortable. Like if I book a hotel I now have to remember to check if one is installed so I can unplug/disable it. Or if I'm at someone's house I have to decide if I want to look like a tinfoil wearing loony and ask them to unplug it or just accept that everything I say gets sent to some remote server.
yeah that is exactly the kind of thinking that I found missing in both college and the few jobs I had. There was very few deep/hard thinking about systems. A frightening amount of tinkering and superstition.. and endless meetings.
Saving Lives with Tech Amid Syria’s Endless Civil War
You have to be careful with conflating causality. As we turn college more and more into highschool 2.0, we're going to see the correlation with increased earnings start to deteriorate. There's a simple matter that we're greatly increasing the supply of college educated individuals which, in turn, will have a diminishing effect on their demand which will drive earnings down. The only way this will not happen is if there's a proportional (which is to say sharp) increase in the number of available and desirable positions for college educated individuals.

This is also ignoring that we've greatly widened the demographic attending colleges. The reduced selectivity means that the average person is not going to be as top-notch as they were at one time, which means that the average expectation of an individual with a college degree will also go down. This will also have an aggregate depressing effect on our earning:education correlation. More important than ever will become median earnings for college graduates. The top graduates are earning vastly more than ever before which will mask the overall problem.
Sure not all fermentation produces alcohol, but many fermenting organisms do.

And of course it’s observational bias, I said that I personally can’t imagine how the culture of these countries would be without alcohol, though I’m sure people would get along just fine (we don’t need alcohol to survive after all). Just saying that not everything needs to be banned, otherwise we might as well ban sugar and salt as they probably kill just as many (or more) people as alcohol.
It wasn't long ago that Game AI Pro said “bidirectional pathfinding for A* is usually a poor choice”[1]. There's been some recent work presented at GDC 2018 about bidirectional search[2] but even there they said it was only useful sometimes. Have things been changing? I'm not in the industry so I only hear bits and pieces.

[1] Chapter 17 http://www.gameaipro.com/GameAIPro/GameAIPro_Chapter17_Pathf...

[2] Slides https://www.movingai.com/GDC18/GDC18Bidir.pdf or if you have access to the GDC Vault there's a recording of the talk https://www.gdcvault.com/browse/gdc-18/play/1025071/Bidirect...
The anaphylaxis action plans we've received have all called for a second injection shortly after the first if no improvement is observed. I suppose that could be because most people will have 2 injectors on hand and docs know it.
Censorship can obviously be done by states, but the definition is not restricted to states only.

>Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by a government or private institution
> It's opt-in now, and easy to opt in, yet despite many people saying they support it, few opt in.

Let's take this as a fact. You don't solve the problem by flipping this around, because then you only solve for social gain. You just make it worse for the individual:

> It's opt-out now, and easy to opt out, yet despite many people saying they don't support it, few opt out.

Now you have people not supporting (or wanting to remain blissfully unaware of) donorship, registered as donors. You bank on apathy and ignorance, because a simple and deliberate opt-in was not convincing enough, and turned supporters for or against, but still, for whatever reason, on the fence, into fair gain.

Having your cake and eating it: If it is very easy to go through opt-in process, yet there are problems with registering a deliberate choice, then it will also be very easy to go through opt-out process, but there will be the same problems with registering a deliberate choice. The ease cancels out, and the problems remain. But taking away a human right, until registered protest, is far worse than a deliberate opting out of it.
That is the least generous take of my argument and not conducive to a productive discussion. Never did I make an argument about social justice or the removal of merit from the system. In fact, I was making an elitist argument, that those with great merit will do fine without a subsidy of their tuition and that the market will award them with or without this fund.
So instead of doing the work to figure out how women and men can have the families they want and also the work they want without losing status (for lack of a better word), these companies are throwing money at a social problem and saying 'fixed!'?
Yeah they are definitely my favorite video game company for that reason.

I find it amusing that their long and innovative history also includes things like selling instant rice, their own "love hotels" for people to use with prostitutes, and a taxi company in the time after their playing card business declined but before their video game business took off.

"Nintendo" could mean something very different today had certain parts of their business performed differently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo#History
Inside it isn't all that different.
Doesn't work while caps-lock is on.

I've found most osx window managers too complicated to use. This is extremely easy to use and so far really loving it. Especially love the demo gifs on your site that show how it works, similar to trackpad preferences in osx.
This WontFix made me sad [0]:

> Yes, this is accurate - extensions cannot intercept requests from PDFium. PDFium, in Chrome, is (partially) implemented as a component extension, and extension requests cannot be monitored or manipulated by other extensions. The behavior of protecting component extension requests is critical for security reasons, and we are unlikely to change it.

Ug, not exactly sure what triggers PDFium vs PDF download, but this is especially bad if I could load a PDF in an iframe and get around any of your ad blocking. I also question why it's considered an extension at the user level. Anything installed and enabled by default should be considered part of the core browser and not an extension (regardless of the mechanisms, such as the extension one, they are implemented with). I understand the levels of separation and implementation difficulty fixing this entails, I really do, but the practicalities of your on-by-default PDF renderer making web requests different than a web page is too bad to ignore.

This goes to show that you can not count on extensions to filter web requests in your browser. You must do it at the network level or have a dedicated browser for it (e.g. Tor Browser). Unfortunately it's often extensions that have all the contextual information needed to make the decisions you want.

0 - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=824705...
I think we need to get a map out if we're going to come to any kind of agreement on this.
MAPS is one of the few organizations in the USA legally permitted by the FDA & DEA to conduct clinical research into using schedule 1 substances as medicines to assist psychotherapists and other medical professionals. If you genuinely believe that psychedelics hold potential help improve mental health, MAPS is the organization that bringing these ideas to clinical trial.

In addition to clinical research they also do a lot of public education on harm reduction and safety regarding psychedelics, so they’re an excellent resource for people who have questions or could possibly benefit from participating in a clinical trial.
More people should read, “The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money”

People take it a priori that more education is always good — when there’s a lot of evidence that the vast majority of higher education (in both time and dollars spent) is wasted.
See this for an overview of the design guidelines--part of which is to break out app functionality: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
Using scala in graph algorithms
While I agree with you in principle, turn the theory on its head.

If Google (and Bing, just as an example of a less popular rival) were principled enough to say "you know what? No. We're not censoring." (as has been Google's policy until now) would Western governments meet them halfway and take a stand against rivals that were doing it elsewhere?

I believe that's what it would take to level the playing field (and I admit I could be naive here), but the suggestion itself is preposterous. No western government is ever going to place what would amount to an embargo on a search engine over them censoring results in another country.

I hear what people are saying about user's will vote with their feet (or hands as it were), and that Google is safe with their already dominant position, but I don't think history supports that view.

I also don't think the average user cares that much if someone else is getting censored thousands of miles away. Maybe I'm cynical, but people at large just don't care about this stuff, and I say this as someone who cares deeply about it.

(How many people outside of tech remember Edward Snowden? I'm sure they'll recall the name but I'd be surprised if you'd hear more than "was that the Russian spy guy?")

I really hope Google won't submit to censoring in China, I just think it's likely they will.

And it sucks.

And it sucks more that I believe it'll happen.
that is terrifying!
Pleroma
I got so used to fountain pens that ordinary ball pens feel like writing on sand to me. Interestingly, I like my cheapo Pelikan fountain pen better than the Parkers
I've had discussions with coworkers and friends about this issue and similar issues where there is a lot of moral ambiguity but a lot less academic ambiguity - we basically know what works and doesn't work but what does work is not morally acceptable to about half the country. It is super frustrating to a lot of us because there doesn't seem to be a way to reach them, they can change their minds but only when they are personally affected by the issue but it doesn't seem to then spread much to their peers.

To paraphrase one conversation that reminded me a lot of the larger national conversation "I play by the rules, why shouldn't everyone else?". It didn't matter that punishment didn't help or in a lot of cases, was costing them more and having worse outcomes, the larger (and to me, more trivial) moral and emotional argument won out.
In the US, "closed shop" means the company can only hire union members, which is illegal. "Open shop" means the union has to represent non-members but they don't have to pay for it. It sounds like you're talking about members-only unions.
This isn't new, or unique to 3d printing. Plastic/polymer firearms have been around for a long time, including a few out there with ceramic barrels and chambers.

Ammunition is easier to detect, generally - almost all of it is metallic-cased and uses a metallic projectile. There have been attempts to create practical baseless ammunition, but they've generally been failures and I'm not aware of any available for purchase commercially.

Ultimately, this sort of thing is interesting from a technical perspective but not really very useful. This is even more the case in the US, as firearms are ubiquitous. In 2016, there were 14.5 million active concealed carry permits in the US, and in 11 states, no license was required to carry concealed.

Given that something like one in twenty or so adults in most parts of the country are probably carrying a firearm at any given time, knowing "there's a gun in the room" isn't very useful.
It sounds like, "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." But, hey, if it's good enough for the universe, who are we to try to improve on that?
I was told that in my specific situation, I'd need documentation of leaving an abusive household.

Ironically if I had applied to college while I was 17, they have a category for emancipated minor. But since I was no longer a minor, that didn't apply to me.

And to answer you question, this was repeated from several potential schools' financial aid departments.
Is this old news? I bought a generic epipen in 2016
Well one things certain: I'll never use Private Internet Access after this ridiculous comment from you[0] not even three months ago.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17261149 -- need to have "showdead" enabled in profile
That doesn't demonstrate any conclusions whatsoever about costs. What it demonstrates, however tenuously [1], should surprise no one: physicians have a preference to practice in areas where the costs of their malpractice are minimized. The notion that it brings costs down by increasing supply is a central tenet of the tort reform movement. However, this hypothesis has not been borne out by the evidence [2].

Moreover, as someone who worked in public health in Texas during the post-tort-reform era, particularly with hospitals in rural Texas, I can tell you anecdotally that the supply of physicians available outside major metropolitan areas declined when tort reform activists predicted an increase in supply.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2047433
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5701901/
If we assume they're "there still", TFA seems to indicate that they could be doing a better job?
> This is a rather elaborate conspiracy theory

I wish it was.

> and one that falls apart entirely once you think about the actual costs of residency programs

What are the `actual` costs of residency program?

> the mechanics of matching students

As someone who has seen how the sausage is made ... the junior attendings (usually paid like shit because it's an academic institution) sort through a few thousand ERAS applications who narrow it down to a few dozen candidates. We hold a few interview dates and have a dinner at somewhat nice place. We have a meeting. We make a rank list. An algorithm matches our residents. That's it.

Consider that what the average applicant spends on traveling for interviews (I'd guess ~5-15k, more if couples matching or competitive specialty; many take out loans for this)... I don't feel bad for the programs holding a few interview dinners.

> real ROI that they would make in the process

What are you basing this on? Most teaching hospitals would fall over without cheap resident labor. In practice, my experience is that residents function like extremely cheap, slightly-more capable mid-level providers.
> Scandinavia says hi.

Idk, maybe I'm spending too much on the internet but it seems like the discussion around inequality has shifted from "let's increase the welfare state" to "let's dismantle capitalism and give socialism a try". There seem to be a lot of people these days that call themselves Marxists or capital-S Socialists, and even some who are apologists for the likes of Stalin and Mao. These people are everywhere on Reddit and HackerNews.

I'm all for the Scandinavian model (which, to be clear, is capitalism with a large welfare state and a sovereign wealth fund, not socialism), but do I want a planned economy or a dictatorship of the proletariat? No, because it doesn't work.

> And those "disastrous" times you're talking about are more the result of dictators, than any economic system used.

Socialists use this argument a lot but I can't think of a scenario in which socialism doesn't eventually devolve into fascism. Even if the means of production are owned by the workers, the workplaces are run democratically, and resources are allocated by direct consensus, you'll still need to use coercion to force people to participate in the economy. If people in village A need more grain and the farmers in village B don't want to produce more grain, do you point a gun to the farmers' heads and make them produce more grain? Disagreements will still happen in Socialist societies. People will still fundamentally be selfish. People will still want to barter with each other and enrich themselves through their labor, intellect, and unique talents. How do you seize peoples' property, prevent them from bartering and hoarding, and force them to participate in a planned economy without a massive and violent state apparatus?

The great thing about capitalism is that it recognizes the inherent self-interestedness of human beings and channels it into something that is (mostly) positive for society. Socialism starts with the premise that human beings would behave in higher-minded way if only they had more economic power, which I think is a flawed assumption and the reason why socialist economies will always fail.
Not sure why this is downvoted. There are plenty of degrees that might be useless for making an employer more money, but provide important work for society.
My favorites for note taking have been felt tip pens, after that Pilot gel pens. When i had very little money I’d still try to get some papermate felt tips, though i like staedtlers just for the better grip.
No, College is expensive because it's horribly inefficient. Professors are paid terribly.
I can’t say for sure but it’s possibly related to [0] and [1]. It appears that Aylin has a passion for fostering leadership in women. Can’t think of any reason not to take this at face value.

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/international-womens-day
[1] https://www.missceo.org/aylin/
> Just make college free.

I think a good compromise is to make public universities and community colleges free for residents of that state.

Private schools with massive endowments can do what they already do to make college affordable to the exceptionally poor or talented.
MDMA is well understood to have the potential to induce neurotoxicity, so people may want to slow down and learn more about why that is before they take the ‘yolo’ approach.
This was my experience throughout my K-12 education and I graduated in 2010. Every time I was sick or injured the nurse was at different school, so they'd just send me home. The only exception was when my gym teacher suspected I had a concussion and the nurse drove from another school to examine me.
If it's impossible to prove that you've set up the second password, they can't reasonably demand that you provide it if you deny that it exists.

They could unreasonably demand a working second password and incarcerate/torture you until you either provide one or die, but that's the next level.
I love reading stuff like this, but I also hate reading stuff like this. On the one hand, it confirms once more how wonderful & useful Common Lisp is; on the other, it depresses me how much our industry as a whole refuses to use such a valuable tool.
xorgxrdp has been a great remoting option for X11 linux, check https://github.com/Microsoft/linux-vm-tools/blob/master/ubun...