skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China can prove it wrong and demonstrate having trust between citizens and their government.

You've got to be kidding me. The Chinese dictatorship wants no 'conversation' with its citizens. it wants brainwash and obedience at all costs.

- Former inmates of China’s Muslim ‘reeducation’ camps tell of brainwashing, torture https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inm...

- Detention of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists when visiting mainland China must be investigated https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/08/hong-kong-det...

- Tibet: New Chinese Regulations Treat Tibetan Cultural and Social Activities as ‘Organised Crime’ http://unpo.org/article/20998

Are you seriously a Chinese engineer who's worked in US and have seen the world? And you are still that brainwashed as well? Disgusting.
> it keeps the defense industry rolling, gives the military something to fly, politicians and the media something to talk about, and it's more or less capable of bombing third worlders who can't effectively shoot back

That sounds like the literal definition of a boondoggle.

"work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value."
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We just published a massive Visual Studio Live Share update
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Name that compaction algorithm
> competition itself. It's wasteful, but it's also necessary
> we're too dumb to do it directly

citation needed.

Humanity is planning the colonization of Mars, nuclear fusion and so on and yet, somehow, managing our own resources is always an unsolvable problem?

> I'm criticizing runaway negative-sum games.

They are inevitable with competition.
Glad to see that Esperanto count as living language.
Hi! Cory here. I wrote this post :)

Highly recommend doing this! I volunteered in New York last year and had a great time. If you're even a tiny bit interested, be sure to reach out to a ScriptEd coordinator. They can help accomodate your work schedule, find a convenient school location, and make volunteering work for you!

Feel free to reply if you have any questions about the experience.
It was spotted and fixed within 24 hours in OSM (about 30 days ago), that's the power of a community driven map.

Mapbox don't keep their maps up to date, and probably used a snapshot of the data which happened to have gotten in the few hours before it was reverted.
I know of a large, well established corporation that just decided to open an office in Silicon Valley. I was shocked and could not fathom why they would go to that expense to do so, when they could have just as easily done this in one of their established metropolitan or other less expensive areas.

Silicon Valley is special without a doubt, but does anyone here think it still makes sense to do such a thing? These days people with the skills needed are much more distributed and many are willing to move from Silicon Valley or other places for the right job and quality of life, at least what I have seen.

I suspect that company is going to spend a fortune for not much benefit.
We (users) can make it easy and cheap to extract data out of us, or make it harder and more expensive.

I know which option I want
In mine it just gives me one option that is a money emoji with a “dollar dollar bill” caption.
This would be super handy if I wanted to allow Google personnel or law enforcement to log into my machine with valid credentials. That is a clever way to bypass disk encryption on running machines.
My favorite F35 hack: just buy whatever the latest out of Sukhoi is. It will be cheaper and work better, and we can afford more of them than the Russians can.

Hey, we do it for everything else!
I think it has to do with thr one before latest update which enabled remote camera and mic usage without any notification. Right now I got an update which rolled this back, probably as a response to this reaction by Google.

Interestingly enough, Android lost, which I have been using for past several years, is not working very well on some devices of family members and I have been considering uninstalling it as they now have a data plan and the great function to respond to sms commands is not needed by me anymore.
> Russian State aka Kiev’s Russia started in Ukraine, so saying Russia starved Ukraine is like saying USA starved California, if somehow California got independent and the rest of country blocked food stuffs.

That's ridiculous, almost like saying World War II was a civil war between two Germanic tribes (the Germans and Anglo-Saxons) or between Roman ones (French, Spanish, and Italians). You can't honestly and accurately claim a modern union by pointing back at an ancient political union. You also have to account that many political unions, until recently, were empires, that dominated many distinct nations of people.
That's great. I'm glad you got it working. ;)
I dont buy this.

Nobody Ive ever met gives a shit about non-competes. They aren't really enforceable unless you blatantly steal or copy work.
Commute Discrimination Is a Thing
>>>/pol/
Microsoft will start requiring partners and suppliers to offer paid family leave
The real question is how many Lego versions of the car does this have to sell to pay off.
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There is still hope. It didn't failed, just has morphed into KaiOS, which is primarily focused on the developing world.
You can't see the amount on any feed except the me tab
They will dismiss them as dangerous conspiracy theories, just like Facebook does in America.
No.

This is a fatalist attitude that ignores things like ethics still remaining in developers, the fact that the cat-and-mouse means the defenses ARE working, and the fact that the engineers you are so awed by aren't really magicians.

Yes, there are data breaches and tracking, and it will continue. But the fight has moral and practical value, and I appreciate Mozilla for continuing it.
This reeks of bullcrap to me. Surely you would know if your connection is used as a proxy. Try Hola for example and even if you don’t dig around in analyzing packets or shady processes you should notice it. If you want a more solid opinion you could check comparitech_aaron’s response here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/comments/9bbbvi/we_need_ind...
Facebook are doing some interesting things both having a team curate the OSM maps, and using ML to identify vandalism. Types of vandalism include both shapes and words. I'm not sure if these specific tools are included. From what I recall, results of vandalism are checked by humans to weed out false positives. There was a surprising number of bad edits around the world!

FB (like Mapbox) don't keep their OSM based maps up to date, instead they make sure it's safe. They think that's a very important, and have developed a lot of tools to do that. I'm not sure if Mapbox promise to have their maps safe and curated, they just stopped updating them frequently.
Fascinating stuff and a pretty amazing accomplishment! Good job Lego.

I've built a number of robots out of Lego Technic pieces and the only way to keep them together was often to glue pieces together. There was a MIT interstitial class (6.270) that was pretty influential in the hobby robots scene during the late 80s and one of the fallouts of that was a great building techniques guide that was notes on how to make things like power plants and load supporting beams.

That said, supporting the weight of a person and a car in the air across the distance between the front and read axles would have seemed pretty impossible to me. Now if you looked underneath and there was a row of wheels keeping the middle of the car supported that would not have surprised me. And then a top speed of 20km/h ? That is almost 20' or 6m/second, that is fast for even a small Lego car much less a huge one.
I think the reason is that OSM doesn't have a very large number of non-tech users that are apparently fun to piss off. If a /b/ type group isn't going to get a rise out of a decent number of people, they wouldn't consider it a funny target.

Mapbox is a product aimed at less tech-savvy users, so it's more likely to be a victim of trolls.
Let’s test this assertion. Does it hold in the extreme?

For instance, why then does the person that VP of Engineering reports to not need to be a qualified engineer? If this is the CEO then it’s clearly impossible for them to be qualified at all of the functions they are ultimately responsible for. If we accept that the CEO is essentially incompetent at their job the way it’s defined here, why are we unwilling to accept it one node down? Is the function of that node to somehow insert all the competence the node above them lacks? We will shortly see that this can’t possibly be the case.

Another example — suppose this person has held management positions for the last 15 years. In a large organization this is likely to be true. This person last coded before some of our most popular languages even existed, and in the Node case they have missed umpteen million iterations on what a good webdev stack looks like. They also have never done modern mobile development and probably couldn’t gradient descent themselves out of a paper bag. They wouldn’t get through a phone screen, so how are you so sure their technical skills matter?

Another issue: assuming they somehow find time to keep up to date on some aspect of software engineering, how likely is it that the one area where they are a qualified developer is the only thing they manage? Or is it more likely that they manage distributed systems engineers next to machine learning specialists next to security engineers next to site reliability, system engineers in test, and Bluetooth LE on Android specialists (that’s the reality where I work)? How can they possibly be an expert on all of this? Given that they lack true expertise, why would we value faux expertise?

My simplifying assumption is that skill at a job they do not do is actually close to meaningless and in fact what really matters is their ability to be effective at the thing they spend 10 hours a day on — communication, setting directions, intently listening, resolving conflicts, and integrating the demands of the business, customers, and the people that have entrusted them with a portion of their career.
I’m still waiting for the missing “free” diagram editor for Mac. Or, even better: “Open source”.

Because most decent Mac apps become shareware once they hit version 1.0.

Also, there’s no doubt in my mind that all these utility apps will be web-based in the future. Google Docs and Google Drawings are great examples of this.

Having said that, I wish you the best of luck with your project.
> It was a control law test of the F-35.

Could you explain this, or point me to a link? I don't know the term and I'm having trouble searching it since the words are so common, but I'd love to see a proper breakdown of what was being tested.
In the near future, Firefox will — by default — protect users
by blocking tracking while also offering a clear set of
controls to give our users more choice over what information
they share with sites.

Sounds promising. However, having Google as the default search engine is a good enough reason to discourage one from using Firefox. Wonder if it would ever change.
> I think if everyone stopped advertising unit sales would crash.

It did not happen when some countries switched to much more strict advertising rules.

People don't stop eating, drinking and buying medicines.
Or start saving money that will never be spent.
>I hope we're done with manned aircraft after the F-35, and it is all drone swarms from here on out

That's just going to result in a "multi-purpose" drone that simultaneously carries comm systems for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Civilian Corps, CIA, FBI, and that one experimental group established in the 90s to test communication by aurora borealis. Never underestimate the power of the boondoggle.
There’s a huge leap between “I’m founder or employee #1 and if this flies, it’ll be great.” and the sweeping statement that people that don’t pick up their phone after business hours cannot be entrusted with important projects - which is exactly the statement I took offense with.

And even startups need to get out of “we’ll wing it and cover with our lives for our management failures” mode as early as possible because it’s clearly not sustainable.
> Consumers wouldn't be spending if they didn't have extra cash in their pocket

The entire credit industry would beg to differ.
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Doubt it. Third party seller stuff looks to be shipped by that seller. The way it should be.
One way to achieve that is to use externally triggered DAGs [1][2].

Instead of trying to make the Airflow scheduler work as event-driven though, I've more tried to adapt my approach.

I've used Airflow as a bridge between a micro batch streaming system (Sparking Streaming --> S3, Airflow: S3 --> ...) successfully, but there are some challenges around the edge cases like files landing later than expected.

One approach you can take is to have the Airflow sensor hit a file that's a proxy for all of the files being present. For example, if your process could write hundreds of S3 files, once it's finished the last write for that hour (even if that happens late for whatever reason), then it could write a top-level OK file that the sensor hits.

Can you elaborate on your specific use case?

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50592573/149428

[2]: https://airflow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/scheduler.html#exte...
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It's part of the "move fast and break things" mindset that seems extremely prevalent in the US tech industry in particular, but certainly also in other parts of society. Just charge on, who cares about those who get left by the wayside, if they end up in a bad situation, it was probably their own fault for not working hard enough.

Like I said, it's a very troubling mindset to apply to running a country.

You have a lucky few who make great progress, but at what cost?
Back-end and front-end are two very different things.
I don't know those software or how widely utilized they are in the US and specifically in US national security critical systems.

The US in a unique position, though. Windows and OSX are operating systems; they have complete control of everything else running in the systems they run on. Google has view of the world's web navigation, email authentication, as well as complete control over a grand portion of the world's phones (most of the other portion is controlled by Apple, also a US company), including knowledge of phone calls made between people, and their location at all times. Facebook also has great knowledge of how all people are interrelated.

There's probably lots I'm missing, but the point is that most of the world's cyberspace (a useful word apparently) is controlled by the US. If we translate that to cyberwarfare, that means that the US practically has ALL the guns. A couple guns from other nations are not going to make a difference in this space.
Dante 2 – Just another Medium editor clone built on top of DraftJs
KaiOS includes Google proprietary services.

There's a few alternatives to the Android/iOS ecosystem, notably Librem 5, KDE Mobile, Ubuntu Touch, microG (e.g. with LineageOS), and last but not least Sailfish.
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You are very, very confused. Some datapoints on HN:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/top/?sort=top&t=month
Interested to know what workloads are using multi-TB heap sizes? Largest I've used has only been in the 48-64GB size and even then it seemed like a waste.
about:addons is an iframe that includes the addons.mozilla.org website - which happens to use GA with a special contract. This page now respects the Do-Not-Track setting.
Why vehicle info(plate, not video) can not be sent to server? I think that trajectory can be computed much easier on a server.
I've come to the conclusion that at least 1% of users are actively malicious with at least enough free time, resources, and coordination of a small full time team of professionals. I created and hosted a free self-moderated community which went well for a little while, until at least a couple people became obsessed with spamming the site with extreme gore (see the Mr. OP comment in http://old.reddit.com/r/editfight which is relatively tame compared to other things they've done) and evading every single method I had of stopping or banning them, until I had to just give up altogether and shut the site down. I feel bad for the moderators on imgur.com (where I got the majority of my users) because I read somewhere that many of them now have to go to therapy for some of the things they've seen in doing their job. Online communities and the moderation of them in the modern internet is problematic enough that I personally never want to tackle that again, not even by delegating it to someone else.
Agreed; even from the start I had a dim view of FirefoxOS's chances for success, but the sheer audacity of the move (in conjunction with the implicit acknowledgement of how important it is to have influence over the underlying platform, for the long-term sake of both Firefox specifically and the web in general) earned Mozilla a lot of goodwill from me. (The other audacious move from that period that won my goodwill was their investment in Rust/Servo, for which I initially had a similarly dim outlook and have been happily surprised at how they've far exceeded my expectations; goes to show that "audacious pie-in-the-sky idea" doesn't have to imply "tire-spinning boondoggle".)
> Mountain View required Facebook to give up the free meals benefit to lease a building

Not quite. The rule is that for offices in the Village at San Antonio Center project meals within an office cannot be subsidized more than 50% on a regular basis. Meals that are in restaurants that are open to the public can be subsidized as often and as much as the office wants to.

That development includes several restaurants. I expect Facebook will make arrangements to use them to provide Facebook's free meal benefit at that development.
I agree that is a lot of extra work if you want to delegate part of your work to a third party, but in present you don't send credit cards info, secret api keys to any third party, so it is fair to try protect the other kind of data(not only credit card or medical data)

What I hope is that this third party services will advertise the fact they respect GDPR or put documentation on how to properly use this APIs and respect GDPR.

As a user when I get the GDPR prompt that has only the Accept button I just close that page or if I really want to see the content I use a private window, accept the popup .

If i would build my own product SPA I would avoid the third parties crap, if I can't because I really need the third party I would make sure to read the TOS since at my work I seen how much it sucks getting screwed by a third party.
It's more terrifying because

a) I can block it from websites easily. Not so from Firefox about:... pages.

b) Firefox has a marketing angle that they are privacy protecting. But injecting external tracking code into the browser itself is the opposite.
Didn't the F35 have the same issue, or was that the F22. I seem to recall pilots passing out for some reason a year or two ago.
FWIW, people make this analogy, but I think it’s quite misleading; a ref count system can make things live longer, but borrowing can’t.
I mean suing someone who created a web extension alleging reverse engineering is against ToS
There is waterfox. I'm curious how quickly it will incorporate the new features.
> supporting the weight of a person and a car in the air across the distance between the front and read axles would have seemed pretty impossible to me

Yeah, there is a core steel chassis for that. The main LEGO stuff is the body and engine.
Yup, scary as hell, Google deep embeds itself in everything. Apple would not yield, I hope.
Let's be real, how often does an attack like that happen?

Yes, a localized attack is still possible but you probably have a different set of worries if attacks are going so far as to be within a short distance of you.

These tools are about reducing the effectiveness remote attacks which are much more logical to carry out.
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Apple Is Clearly Working on AR Glasses
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I believe it's from Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" speech, one of his two major speeches against military spending. The other major speech was his farewell address, where he discussed the military industrial complex. If anyone's interested, I'd highly suggest watching Why We Fight, a documentary from 2005
> Many think that refcount isn't a GC algorithm and that it is faster than GC.

As usual, people are confused by improper use of terminology. It's like async in Python, three quarters of the complexity is in abuse of terminology.
Would be far from the dumbest thing people have done on public roads.
The Facebook Container plugin has features that aren't available in the Multi-Account Containers plugin, such as limiting the container to a domain so it doesn't follow you when you click a link. Facebook containers should just be a default/recommended setting for the core containers plugin rather than something that requires its own special plugin.
With regards to Bugatti:

“On [the Chiron] project, we get back in the black,” Bugatti’s Head of Production Christophe Piochon told me. The development of the Veyron’s complex systems over its lifetime, which laid the solid engineering foundation for the Chiron, resulted in $1.62 billion in investment costs. “By the end of the Chiron’s run, we’ll be profitable,” Piochon promised.

The Veyron somewhat infamously was a net loss for Volkswagen, despite its massive price. But ultimately its role was to be a halo car for the entire Volkswagen Group, and as such profit on the car itself wasn't such a concern.
Not going with the flow isn't just frustrating, it's dangerous.
> Russia with Putin as its leader stands in the way of American domination of Eurasia. Hence, the military encirclement of Russia and the belligerent anti-Russian rhetoric from American leaders.

Is the US really dominating Europe and if so, is that not better than being dominated by Russia? Why did the Ukrainian civil war break out, wasn't it the desire of ethnic Ukrainians to break away from Russia? "Greater Russia" is a thing that many ethnic Russians want and Putin would take it if he believed he could get away with it.

Historically, if your nation bets against the US, you end up on the losing side. We're not going to be ever living in a world without major superpowers and the US - imperfect as it may be - is by far the best such "regime" that has ever existed in history. I'm worried about a world where the US retreats from that position, leaving it up to autocrats to divide the spoils among them.

Of course, if you're an international leftist, you're knee-deep in denial and resentment about the abject failure of every regime that ever challenged US hegemony. You crave some sort of justice that history will never deliver to you, defending some of the most oppressive countries in the world while maximizing and exaggerating the oppression at home. Cognitive Dissonance at work!

Having said that, the Democrats really need to move on from whining about the Russians interfering in the elections, it's just not effective.
Hahaha, do they have logs of who did this?
Well, ok. My comment was crap. Removed it.