skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder what Brin would have to say about the issue today, because the facts in China have not changed much since 2010, certainly not to the better.

I wonder about this too.

By this point, it's pretty clear that Google's strategy of leaving China hasn't led to any improvement in China with respect to censorship and individual liberties. Instead, Chinese companies that are willing to do whatever the Chinese government wants without question have filled the gap that Google left.

I wonder if he's concluded that this strategy is a failure and the best way to improve conditions is to re-enter China, even if it means playing by their rules.
I'm not sure what more I can tell you than "everything gated on a credit check tends to deny me service" without literally showing you my credit score.

You can easily live a normal life through your 20's with a bankruptcy on your record. (I don't have one, but I know people who do.)
> What exactly am I supposed to be working on/towards if the system itself seems broken?

Replacing the current system with something better.
I don't like certificate authorities either but "easily compromised", especially in this context, is just disingenuous.

HTTPS would be a meaningful security improvement to this system.
The two key aspects of an autonomous OS are perception and planning. Being able to "see" well enough during a flurry is a perception problem. Knowing whether to maneuver out of it or call for help after spinning out is a planning problem. There are many planning problems left to address and master before autonomous vehicles are ready for widespread adoption. Some planning problems are unique to specific intersections, and dedicated software has to be written just for that intersection, like the intersection of Market and Castro, in SF, for instance.
>"It may be a tiny amount of the dialog, but even then it's often the tiny amount that actually is decisive in motivating the hearings, in much the only way that advertising may be a minority of the airtime on commercial TV networks, but it's 100% of the purpose."

That's a completely absurd analogy.

"Throwing jabs" is most certainly not 100% of the purpose. The purpose of making committee hearings public was part of The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 as well as an earlier reform effort in the 1940s.[1][2].

These acts mandated that standing committees be open to the public. This was done for transparency, accountability and to keep overly powerful chairmen in check. That is 100% of the purpose. Facts matter.

You are also free to attend open hearings in person, its first come first served. If you don't happen to live in Washington, D.C. however public access is by televising these.

I posted a link above last weeks hearing in its' entirety. Please point out the "jabs" and "grandstanding."

[1] https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing...

[2] https://lahood.house.gov/sites/lahood.house.gov/files/brief_...
Cloud is initally is a copy of mainframe just a affordable cheaper version. Mainframe aka z/OS is not old it's just like any other software always upgraded only thing is hardware is also upgraded with it. Positive thing about mainframe is if you write a program and if it serves its propose it can run for decades without an issue. Mainframe is made up of TSO CONSOLE, SDSF, CA7(job scheduling), Db2 database, CICS(online system), JCLs to run batch jobs. Languages are primarily Enterprise COBOL and rexx for developing inhouse tools.

Why to use mainframe, less downtime(data sharing & Plex environments make it look like no downtime), no data theft or any malware destroying data.

Why cloud is better ? Pay as you go, this works for all startups and small companies using latest front applications. With mainframes you will be paying from millions to billions to IBM so only large corporates can afford it.

My opinion, Initially IBM with all this tech boom on cloud they thought they can wait it out and it will fade away and they were mostly focussing on Watson. Since that boom didn't stop, now they have started to put some work. Mainframe is not a JSON world yet. Last few years mainframe is developing rapidly as well new flavours of languages like java and python are introduced. z/Linux and z/VM(like compute engines small z/os vm's) are being introduced. IBM Cloud is bluemix free for only 30days anyone interested can try it out. CA-Endevor which is mainframe change management tool is getting integrated with git mostly preference is given to bitbucket as Altassian has many products like Jira under their wings. Now machine learning is also coming in.

During college days i wanted to be a web designer. But got a job in Mainframe technology and given only month training. That's enough to start in mainframes. Yes, you are going to see black & green screens for rest of your life if you are a mainframer, creating a progress bar in rexx is a skill, it looks cool but stalls the screen so you don't want to do it and you will be aware to things like entire CPU is shared across various users across your organisation.

If you want to learn a technology that processes massive data. Mainframe is the place.
I meant to say powertrain. I need coffee.
Couldn't you short EM to hedge this?
I feel that we're getting down in the dirt with one particular groups' conventions.

On an interpersonal level, I respect the overton window. On a group level, I'm highly concerned with it. It caters too much to the needs of the over sensitive.

I'm on the level of if you're abusive towards other members, you've lost the support of the group and a rule about that is fine. Setting the line at "don't abuse other people" is generic and supported to all people.

But when you codify a rule about pronouns, you're just giving an endorsement to the most oversensitive member that would be 'victimized' by that 'crime.' (Are they going to be easily set off by mistakes?, unintentional misusages during excitement) It also communicates to everyone that it's something you will be rejected and ostrisized from the group over. (That's where the silencing effect comes in).

Anyways, that's my 2c and what I've seen about some groups and how I run my groups to be inclusive.
Should my children wait a year or more to have a specialist examine a chronic skin condition that thus far cannot be treated and causes severe itching?

That sucks for there to be long waits, but the alternative being evaluated (the USA's system) has lots of people not ever getting treatment.
The war was detrimental to my dad. He was fucked up by it. Became and alcoholic and was part of a generation that never could talk about emotional things. He saw combat, unlike the vast majority of servicemen. You look at his warbook (sort of like a year book for school but this for a battalion) at the end you'll see a lot of names underlined in red. Those are the ones that died that he knew. My impression is that it was a lack of opportunity that prevented my uncles from achieving more.
I think that's reasonable, although our time estimates for when this problem solved may disagree.

My main issue is that a large number of people seem to think that cameras + machine learning are enough to solve this problem. And while I'm not an expert at machine learning, what I know about it makes me a pessimist. There's just too many unsolved problems in the machine-learning community to apply machine learning to the car-driving problem.

Machine learning probably can solve weird cases people don't expect. IIRC, CNNs are better at recognizing blurred or garbled text than humans these days. So CNNs can read speed limit signs, road signs, and other texts and and at least process that.

Even figuring out if its a speed limit sign, an address, or a route-number probably can be solved by CNNs. But higher level reasoning (is that spraypaint messing up the signpost?? Which was common in some of the areas I drove through) seems like an unsolved problem.

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Anyway, Machine Learning + Cameras are IMO, at best... a partial solution to some of the problems. Anyone who thinks that cameras + radar + machine learning is sufficient is probably just a TSLA long who wants to believe in the success of their stock. Otherwise, I think most people are reasonable and recognize the importance of experimenting with a ton of different methodologies to solve this problem.
Yes, but your machine learning algos are much much better.
Was that observatory even operational?
Finding enough time for coding (which is great fun).
‘Master/Slave’ Terminology Was Removed from Python Programming Language
Is this to help migration from python 2 to python 3, or a tool to make python 3 better? it's unclear after I read it except it mentions it's based on 2to3.
I don't know how accurate this is or if the research is actually from Morgan Stanley. Russia is not in a crisis...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-30/which-emerging-mar...
Related: Running bash scripts? :)
It sounds like the touts who circle airport arrivals like vultures, looking for tourists to take for a ride...
If the assets are liquid enough, 6 months may be enough to sell them.
new iPhones use eSIM technology,only nine countries in the world support it
Benefit or con? As demonstrated by a few comments here, the TLS by default mindset seems to encourage people to believe that TLS is all you'll ever need, the solution to all your problems.
Right, banks won't make the loans in the first place. Or they'll make much more conservative loans based on major and potential job prospects.

Without an unlimited supply of money, universities will not be able to charge outrageous amounts for tuition and will have to be more in line with what people are actually able to pay. That's better all around.

I mean, if any 18 year old could fill out a form and get a government-guaranteed six figure loan to buy a car. A loan that they were prohibited from ever defaulting on...then Toyota Corollas would probably cost $150k too...
You're drinking some strong kool-aid.
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Not a book, but a series of lectures on old testament from yale open courses. I found them as a young Lutheran, at a time more evangelical and fundamentalist influences were comming into my community, including young-earth creacionists.

Understanding the origin of my sacred text from scientific point of viewhelped me keep my faith while being able to accept modern, liberal society as my own.
I can't help but read this as "White Person Thinks His Values Are Better Than Everyone Else's".

I feel like the decision over whether Google should provide a "censored" version for Mainland China is something that should be decided by Asians themselves (there are over 30000 of them working at Google already: https://diversity.google/annual-report/).
Can they perceive where on the road they should be located when the road is totally covered in snow and you can't see the pavement, let alone the line markets, possibly only tire tracks, if that?
An intelligence animal being able to do something != "with enough processing we should be able to do the same with a control system".
Whatever semantic thread you're trying to cling to in order to keep this argument alive, I'm not interested.
Equally, one could argue a 'good' developer would not in any way be put off by an example that demonstrated good security practice.

And 'good' needs to be put in context: e.g. a 'good' hardware or kernel engineer who never wrote front-end stuff may legitimately be unaware of the need to defend against SQL injection unless its written somewhere.

If they're as 'good' as you're expecting they would probably not even require a getting started tutorial...

Anyway, this is something I see in many tutorials and its somewhat unfair to single out Lucee. I just wish tutorial writers would put effort into real-world examples more often.
Coincidentally I was chatting to someone involved in HR who’s been involved in the tech industry since posting this and they mentioned the same; that they never primarily considered degrees during the hiring process. Thanks for confirming the same about the US as I plan to work and live there after a while.
The worst part about Google's Inbox assassination
Lack of TLS allows this vulnerability to be attacked without compromising any of the mirrors, which makes it a lot more practical to attack.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/15/britains-safest-... for example: "no drivers or passengers killed inside it in the 16 years it has been on sale", with 50k sold in the UK.
Might be worse? Yes, whiteboard coding questions.

Unbiased opinion, but this is a problem I really care and I'm trying to solve with https://type12.com
Biggest thing is to reduce spending. The closer to zero you can get on spending, the longer you can survive.

I dont live in a place where I can afford a home, and Im actually seeing that as an advantage at this point- my investments are relatively liquid compared to a house, especially in a depressed/shocked market. It's not an asset until its sold- no mortgage, no problem.
The Holy Bible.

Even without the religious aspects, it's an incredible document. A lot of human nature is explained.
For anyone interested in this or related topics I highly, highly recommend the series of 100+ videos in Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur ("SFIA") [1].

Relevant to this topic:

- Fermi Paradox series (15 videos) [2]

- Advanced Civilizations (19 videos) [3]

- Alien Civilizations (10 videos) [4]

Of particular relevance is the Kardashev scale [5]. The basic idea is this: unless something catastrophic happens, humanity is destined to become a Kardashev-2 ("K2") civilization without a blink of a cosmic eye (measured in thousands of years). Since the timeline from sentience to K2 is so short (cosmologically speaking) it seems pretty unlikely there are other spacefaring civilizations in our galaxy.

It's worth noting that the scale of such a civilization is so immense and what it is capable of with access to that much energy and resources tends to debunk a lot of ideas that come out of a search for explanations to the Fermi paradox.

For example, there is the idea that civilizations might "hide" and would not be detectable. Such an effort would be futile vs a K2 civilization however.

I mention this because there is the idea that aliens might not use radio technology. Doing so wouldn't keep you hidden from a K2 civilization so there's no point in trying. And I find this a compelling line of reasoning.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0LulClL2dHXh...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0Ls3WMYP_2Fp...

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0Lu97HzMt_BJ...

[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArpj_VxxuQ
Thanks for adding to the discussion. I learned something new.
I was a 20 something developer, now, I'm in my early 30's and still on something similar.

If you find yourself enjoying math, cryptography and security may be for you. It's not a hype like 'data science' or 'AI/ML' but one look at the security community will tell you how important the area is. Give it a try, it may change your life.
What difference does Edge being open source or not make to... anyone? How would that make anyone more interested?
tl;dr: The article is an excerpt from https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300167092/bedroom ("The Bedroom") examining the cultural history of the bedroom. This excerpt details the notion of the adolescent young lady's room in mid to late 1800s Europe, and in particular its treatment in literature.

No conclusions are drawn.
It's not. Certificate authorities are regularly compromised by invasive workplaces, sketchy governments, and crappy CAs. PGP keys are much more secure.

HTTPS would not be a meaningful security improvement, not accounting for justicz's comment. At best, it would be the same amount of security, but more annoying to maintain.
I love iPhones, but if Google were to price the Pixel 3 at $650, a lot of people would pause and at least think about going Android. The Pixel 2 had a better camera than the X, so it’s likely that Pixel 3 would compare favourably to the XR. And Google’s cloud services far exceed what Apple offers.

IIRC the Pixel 2 started at $650 as well.
Is Amazon's plan to increase our efficiency a good thing?
Reminder: $250t debt is $250t assets on someone else's balance sheet. The money is not owed to aliens but to other humans.

Finding who is is owed to is harder. A big chunk is pension funds, insurers and so on, where one person's debt is another person's retirement savings. Which must increase overall as life past retirement does.

But a large chunk is assets of financial industries and the super wealthy, and in order for it to be net paid down they have to get poorer - or at least be forced to reallocate to equities.

(Note also that as interest rates drive ever lower debt naturally expands too. If they can be driven negative it becomes an advantage.)
This is a better link: https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/ That page is using a 10+ year old version of LLVM
I disagree. The SoC performance will be worse, and I think the screen too.
Human Search Engine
The Snow Leopard was so beautiful. I read it slowly, over the course of several months. My girlfriend at the time teased me for reading it so slowly. But it was one of those books I didn't want to read quickly because it was so dense with meaning.
My money market fund withdrawals were halted temporarily when the NAV broke the buck. I have 1 month cash on hand in a safe, the rest of it is in an FDIC high yield savings account I have access to immediately with a debit card.

Liquidity is a sliding scale when the economy is melting down. Fool me once.
The "neural network" terminology is really cringeworthy all things considered. ("Deep learning" is much better.)
What's happening in Turkey? I've only really heard about the political shenanigans going on in the last couple years
tldr; After crunching the numbers, Jeff Bezos spending $2 billion on his new "Day One Fund" is equivalent to the average American spending $1,187.

Which would be about a weeks worth of pay for someone who has a relatively decent job but for many others it would be about 2 weeks of pay.
The tough part about this line of reasoning is you can't tease apart the discriminatory power of human knowledge from human vision. How good does our expert system need to be? How good do our sensors need to be? I'm not so sure this is an easy to question to resolve
I went for the longest time without a cell phone. Then I had a job change and had to get one. (Fortunately, my employer paid for it.)

I started out with a flip phone. That was adequate until somebody showed me the many advantages of a smart phone-- primarily the web browser, which brings weather, news, etc. etc.

I don't need a $1k phone, but I do feel I benefit a lot from a smartphone.
The need to be stationary for 8 hours a day. standing desks help, but not enough. I plan to start doing yoga, which I think will help with this.
Those times when you're not adding business value when developing features
Ghost..is the word you are looking for.
more like deficient machine learning code rather than actual intelligence findings.
Google did something similar with cookies[1], basically treated it like a non-gradient optimization problem[2], using survey results from human participants to estimate the empirical distribution function to be optimized.

[1]: https://www.blog.google/technology/research/makings-smart-co...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative-free_optimization

From the article it makes it seems the MIT students used some kind of generative model to generate new, random recipes and didn't incorporate any human feedback, making it less interesting. After all, we know that RNNs can learn and model the much more complex syntactical structure of code[3], so generating recipes isn't exactly cutting edge.

[3]: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
Not paying for my mother's prescriptions and medical care she needed to survive wasn't an option. I had to pick between the house and her care, and the house went. No regrets about the decision.
No interaction with your instructors. No questions answered, no updates.

No essays, no writing requirement. In fact, no specialized grading is possible. There's only limited curricula that can be satisfied by multiple-choice grading.

Presumably it would have the same work requirements as a traditional class: ~3 hours of lecture / week, ~15 weeks, plus an additional 3-6 (?) hours of reading and exercises per week = 90-150 hours of work. My degree required >= 120 credit hours, so overall that would be 3600-5400 hours of work. Going to do that in your spare time while you wait tables or clerk a convenience store?
Working with other Developers.
It's not really the case here: I did not detail the steps for setting up Org-publish. I detailed some hacks (in the original sense) to extend it to suit my needs. Org-publish is really straightforward and works very well out of the box.
Yes, I know this is the reason. My experience with the people from that generation is that there was nothing special as such with them. They ended up having the greatest opportunities due to GI Bill and other programs.

My dad didn't join up because it was the right thing to do. Neither did his brothers. They joined because they got drafted and at that time, at that age, if you were a guy and not in the military there was a lot of social pressure put on it. Like, "What is your excuse?"

The title partially has to do with post war fortunes because of the great economic expansion that occurred after the war. That generation did build great things and greatly enhanced the way of life of the nation. I think this came from the opportunity government gave them and not from being innately special.

By the way, they didn't save the free world. The vast majority of the fighting and killing in the ETO was done by the Soviet Union. They are the ones who won the war. The British and Americans helped but did not do the bulk of the fighting.
Nope, I gave her credit for her contribution to the project. But as the project lead, I was able to get the monetary reward (grade) while she got extra pudding and told what a good girl she was.