skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more than that - the Wall Street Journal article says Pichai signed off on not disclosing it to the public. It feels a bit like Google only published this blog post today because they knew WSJ was about to go public:

A memo reviewed by the Journal prepared by Google’s legal and policy staff and shared with senior executives warned that disclosing the incident would likely trigger “immediate regulatory interest” and invite comparisons to Facebook’s leak of user information to data firm Cambridge Analytica.

Chief Executive Sundar Pichai was briefed on the plan not to notify users after an internal committee had reached that decision, the people said.

.... The document shows Google officials knew that disclosure could have serious ramifications. Revealing the incident would likely result “in us coming into the spotlight alongside or even instead of Facebook despite having stayed under the radar throughout the Cambridge Analytica scandal,” the memo said. It “almost guarantees Sundar will testify before Congress.”

https://t.co/DExCeKTGHX (seems to link directly to the WSJ article):

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared...
> so you wouldn’t be allowed to drive anyway

Oh yea this is great idea. Lets all just not own cars. I can't wait to wait 10 min for a automated taxi to arrive, where the interior is left gross and nasty by the previous riders who were doing God know what inside. Also if you ever need to leave in a hurry (get a call that a loved one is the hospital, etc.) and need to leave right the fuck now, too bad. Also when your shitty taxi arrives it won't go any faster, it is programmed to never break the speed limit.

Sounds like fucking HELL. NO WAY, NEVER, EVER, EVER. I will fight to the death to keep manually driven cars.
Sometimes the organic milk is not at the back of the store
As far as "the price paid" that you mention: the price is not paid in any way. The price is being put on a high-interest credit card and we're paying the minimum. Someday those cans we've kicked down the road (carbon emissions, pacific garbage patch, destruction of ocean ecosystems in general, deforestation, economic inequality, desertification, etc.) in order to sell more plastic trinkets will come back to collect on our outstanding balance.
You know what the most amazing thing about Google is? 20 years ago they didn't exist. Today they are undoubtedly one of the most influential companies in the world and with enough revenue and influence to achieve as much as anybody. The reason I mention this is that I don't think one should look to get others to try to change the world. People will do what they want to do. Proving the value of your views is difficult, but probably easier than convincing those with the power to adapt them in a meaningful way to do just that.

You have to keep in mind that things look different from different perspectives. It seems that swapping to metric should be no big deal. In reality we already have things like the Mars Climate Orbiter. That was a $300 million probe launched by NASA in 1998. It disintegrated in Mars' orbit. What happened? The spacecraft was built to operate using SI units. Unfortunately one of the systems they were using to direct it was still using customary measurements. $300 million completely wasted because of what you'd think would be no big deal. It should be easy to just ensure all systems are communicating using the same systems of measurement, right? And NASA certainly has decently competent people working for them. But the thing is as things get larger and larger seemingly simple changes can often produce unexpectedly catastrophic side effects, or end up being far more difficult to synchronize than would ever be expected. Actually, this nature of software alone is probably a perfect microcosm of the nature of change in business as well.

So yeah, earn a ton of money doing whatever. And then use that money to do what you think ought be done. If you succeed, great you've changed the world. If not, try again.
But the current administration is working to make citizenship revocable.

I firmly believe that the current administration would love to change the rules on citizenship. However the 14th amendment is extremely clear on this, and the courts have consistently ruled for decades that Congress and the President do not have the right to change the laws to strip citizenship from people. (This was extensively litigated over laws against dual citizenship.)

Therefore it is no more reasonable to fear the current administration making citizenship revocable than to fear the previous administration taking all the guns away.
Stats is on his side. He CAN assume it is safe, since given how many are in the air, and how few problems we have, in his scenario we can assume it is safe unless shown otherwise.

I am for the regulation, but, I am also against people not using basic stats.

Riding a pair of rollerskates can be dangerous to the people around you, but, you wouldn't force people to licence to do that right?

You can hurt someone if they get a paper aircraft in the eye, but you don't licence them either.

It has to be on the basis of how likely you are to get problems, and how dangerous those problems are going to be. Saying "I can (or can't in this case) conceive of a situation where this could be a problem" isn't a high enough bar.

For larger drones, hell yeah you will need licencing, and flying near aircraft, then again, yes.

But this case? In this case, he has stats on his side.
You should know who runs a VPN in my opinion if you're going to trust them. Private Internet Access you at least have a name at London Trust Media, but Andy Yen has a public presence.

I don't trust anyone who uses "military grade encryption", period, even though it is just a marketing ploy.

ProtonVPN has their own data center of some sort in Switzerland. All VPNs are leasing the same servers from Leaseweb and friends (even ProtonVPN). They say it's in an underground retired army bunker, which sounds good for physical security assuming that's really the case. You never know for sure, but it's better than the alternatives.

VPN companies are notoriously shady, and I only trust ProtonVPN. I believe their service in _some_ respects is a cut above the rest, and I am willing to deal with multi-day customer service responses, DDoS attacks, and the like because of that.
Is it really true, however? Or my experience is an outlier? I have been issued a 10 year tourism/business visa to the USA. The interviewer asked me a couple questions and then said "Your visa is approved". She didn't ask for any paper work. No kidding. I got the interview booked, interview and the visa/passport in the same week. The process was flawless and the employees very friendly.

I know a few others in my social circle who setup shop in the US when they wanted to move there. None of them complained about the "waiting time" but there were complaints about the costs and legal expenses to process visas/green cards.

So is it really that bad in the US? Because as far as it is now for me this is way better than Europe. Also no other country has a green card lottery where they arbitrarily give 55k random citizens a Green Card. I have been applying to the Green Card lottery for around 10 years. I almost thought this will be their rejection reason for my visa.

I think the US gets lots of hate but so far is the best country of the bunch. I might be wrong but will be doing more business and lots of travel to the US so it will either confirm my bias or reverse it.
C++ is IMO a bit at the deep end of the pool. I would begin with tutorial information (Meyers and Stroustrup) and work with that. At some point you will get tired of tutorial exercises and start to see how you can use C++ for the topic of DL.
I can't comment on Peters as I am not familiar with that.

Hmmm... It seems not possible to search for "The C++ programming language" on amazon. As fast as I type '++' Amazon deletes the characters. >:( Luckily a search for "The C Programming language" also lists the 4th edition of Stroustrups book. ... And after searching via Google, the Amazon page now works. Weird!
Dropping aviation regulations will lead to dangerous corner-cutting, which will lead to more mistakes (which in aviation, usually means deaths).
I'm starting to think "security flaw", "bug", and "data breach" has become a cover for giving data to people you are not supposed to. Facebook had a "data breach" on September 28th that compromised 50 Million people.

Interesting how this is all happening right before midterms. Could these companies be trying to impact the elections and they need plausible deniability? Announcing an exploit seems like an easy way to cover ones ass.
"Slaughter" would be a much better word and much closer to truth, imo.
1. If you don't understand how you flying 4pound drone at 100ft is putting somebody's life in danger, you absolutely under no circumstances should own or use a drone of any kind. Sorry if that sounds personal or insulting, but I'll stand by that statement.

2. I have a Mavic Air plus a few smaller drones. I'm extremely aware that I can push this thing to 65km/h and do some solid damage, either maliciously, but much much more likely carelessly

3. I have lent several drones to several intelligent, typically safe friends, either under my supervision or alone in a field. Universally they pushed them too hard too fast and lost control quickly.
[I don't care if you're going to say "but that's not me". a) Every one of my friends said that, and b) how is anybody else to trust that _your_ claim specifically is truthful? Prove it.]

4. The more intelligent the drone, unfortunately the more likely the person is to underestimate its danger because "these things fly themselves" and "it has collision avoidance". My nerd friends have started using them like Tesla's autopilot - perfectly safe and awesome until the very moment it isn't, at which point it's too late if you don't have your hands actively on controls.

So as much as it'll HUUUUUGELY inconvenience me, I fully understand that if I need to register and license my car, motorcycle, boat, plane, etc... I need to register and license my other fast-moving piece of dangerous machinery.
Gosh, I like Google+

Am I the only one?
I can't reply to that YouTube message, too much nesting? Anyway, I'll agree that YouTube was a good one. My office was doing Google video, so that project lost out.
Hmmm. Inclined to agree if you replace the company in this argument with a person.

Very disinclined in actuality, since this is a company providing a service to people who have handed over custody of their personal data (It sounds like very high-value data! Cooking videos aren't easy to make!) under the assumption that they will get something out of the deal, i.e., the videos would be hosted and they would be warned if they were going to be deleted (or at least apologized to if they were deleted by accident and not lied to).

>>> If you can’t think of a reason that positively improves the world for us all, and all that you’ve got is “we should hold them up as an example for others to avoid”, this post already does so and without doxxing them.

Hmm, how about "we should hold them up as an example for users to avoid".

Doxxing doesn't exist for corporations, it only exists for individual people. The proper term of art here is whistleblowing or journalism. And the reason the author avoided mentioning the company name is probably to cover someone's ass who signed an NDA.
I could buy this on smaller or older grocery stores, but the Safeways near me have 2 full aisles of frozen goods (and one additional one of refrigerated goods). These aisles extend all the way from the back to the front of the store, and are located in the center of the floor plan.

The milk is still in the back, along with perishable juices. The difference between them and the aisles is that processed foods (frozen dinners, vegetables, snacks, brand name yogurt & cheese, ice cream, breakfasts) are all located near the front of the store, while fresh ones (milk, meat, fish) are located at the back, and perishable-but-non-refrigerated goods (fresh fruits & vegetables) are off to the back & side. So it really seems like a deliberate attempt to put the items you would buy frequently as far away from the door as possible, and make you walk through the goods that you might stock up on on impulse.
Welcome to embedded hell.

Im just going to solder this pins together, and leave you this handcrafted compiler - which is actually just a normal c-compiler, with alot of the normal operations not working or replaced with - undocumented- and well you will find out.

GFX Cards are just a thousand embedded controllers, glued to a pipeline.
I mean...why can't you?
I've lived on the other side of an alley from Austin, in northeast Oak Park, for 13 years, and no: I have never had an issue like the one you describe, nor has my wife and nor have my kids.
Of course not, this is silicon valley.
What annoys me is that I never wanted google+.

Google et al constantly try to force you into their systems, for a while you had to have a google+ account to be able to use hangouts. So when I had to use hangouts I felt it necessary to create a dummy-account that I only used for hangouts (and tried my best to ensure my google+-profile was as locked down as possible). Thanks for that one!

I'm terrified every time there is a new android update (or new device) that I will accidentally missclick something and bam, all your photos are now synced to google photos. If not instantly some genius will simplify the experience and make all your photos public since that's what everyone should want anyway.

Do I have a youtube account? I don't know(!). I've tried my best to avoid it.
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Because that's when it is?
It doesn't work because iOS Safari hasn't implemented WebRTC Data Channels.
Right, but how can you trust a WebAssembly library?

It might have been compiled from Ada, Rust or plain C, just as an example.

Telling just to use a language we trust is not an option if one is just using other people libraries.

Thus bringing to the web the same security level as depending on regular native libraries, because a regular user is not going to check what a web page depends on.
They have this immense cash-generating engine that is AdWords and that means management can make alot of mistakes without it even mattering. If that revenue went away, what would they do?

Conversely, if Bing was shut down at the same time, Microsoft would shrug and keep on rolling.
You could build a decentralized version of facebook or twitter. That would be a truly amazing progress to humankind!
Likely. AMD uses Global Foundries to fab their CPUs. GF's fabs aren't as advanced as Intels, and ramping up clocks (thus more TDP) is the only way AMD can stay competitive on single thread performance.
It's easy to talk about all the shitty things corporations do -- which, to be sure, are many -- but the critics ignore anything good, or just claim that "obviously the government/open source projects/NGO's could've done it just as well".

It's exactly like how hardcore libertarians respond to anything good the government does ever by saying the free market would've done it even better: their dogma doesn't permit them to say otherwise, and so they can safely assume they're always right.
That's very much true. The only way to survive in Toronto is through consulting for fintech. From engineer's point of view those are mostly jobs from hell
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"Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in the corrections themselves." - Peter Lynch
While the tech scene is indeed very strong in some fields (like FinTech), it's also been bleeding since the Brexit vote, and the situation is certainly not going to improve any time soon.

On the other hand, I guess that might mean more opportunities for non-EU immigrants?
Your visa is essentially a visitor visa. You are not authorized to work in USA - you can visit for business while being paid by foreign entity.

It is very different from H1B visa that is tied to a specific employer.
Read the article - LLVM does it correctly.
I'm very much into the last point, do you have more detailed resources/suggestions?
Oh yeah, SOME games are certainly multithreaded well. Doom, Battlegrounds, and more. DX12 apparently helped a lot with that.

But many games are still single-thread bound (despite being multithreaded). As such, Gamers should still prefer single-thread performance.
In many cultures, voicing equivocation, doubt, or similar provisos is a social norm when expressing your opinion. It certainly is in British English, for example. Don’t assume everyone on HN has US social norms.
It might seem illogical, and yet less than a mile from where I sit there is a statute of Christopher Columbus, donated by the local Sons of Italy chapter. Generally they get together on this day each year and hold some speeches too. So while it is historically odd, he has become a symbol for many Italian-American groups.
I’ve never worked at companies where using Jira was synonymous with bug quantity over quality. There will always be buglets, bugs, Bugs, and then BUGS.

On the flip side, every once in a while in the fish-shell GitHub repo we get an idiot that files an issue titled “is this even maintained?” because there is a non-zero number of opened issues (or I file a bug on GH and the the repo owner closes it immediately as “will revisit later” so the issue count doesn’t go up).

It’s not a technology problem. It’s a people problem.
Well. Videos are orders of magnitude larger than many other common web content formats. And there are probably several codecs available on a CDN. It's reasonable to call that expensive and still claim that cloud computing is cheap overall. It is amazing to store gigs of photos for cents per month on AWS.

But I would guess bandwidth dwarfs storage costs here, so it does seem odd.
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Can you please stop using uppercase for emphasis in HN comments? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Genius or Plodder?
Facebook groups are the next best thing (but still pretty terrible as it requires reciprocal participation)
> I'd like to think that's not true, but it wouldn't be the first time such a technique has been used, apparently successfully.

It's also why Twitter wants to 'curate' your timeline, instead of simply displaying tweets from people you follow in temporal order.
Sure thing, if there's a news article that provides additional information from its own sources and supersedes the Google post, we can update the link.
Wireless bioresorbable implant enables sustained neuroregenerative therapy
Then someone will reimplement a dom and a script language in wasm. History is going in circles.
> That’s sad to hear given as I’m looking to raise funds but also hoping to build a distributed team given the abundance of worldwide talent.

Are you looking for VC funding or angel funding?

If you have the ability to use foreign teams, you are probably better off taking angel funding and bootstrapping.

Remember, VC's want "up or out". "Cheap remote workers" isn't really relevant to that to a first approximation.

In fact, some VC's will look at it as a detriment. They wanted you to spend that couple million and succeed or go up in smoke. With cheap remote workers, you look at that couple million as 3+ years of runway for really solid organic growth.
"Classical Verification of Quantum Computations" Mahadev. (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01082

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1804.01082/

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=10138991277567750...
Didn't they use liquid nitrogen cooling and “forgot to mention it”? [1]

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-28-core-cpu-5ghz,372...
If a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound if no one's around to see it or hear it fall? That seems to be Google's logic for not disclosing this.
It's really not. People take jobs for all sorts of reasons. They are answerable to their friends, family, community etc. If that were the case, why would people be resigning from Google over moral issues?
The EB-2 (if that's what you were referring to) is one of the "exceptional ability" visas. The requirements are quite difficult to meet for a regular professional software engineer.
WSJ discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169027

Google blogpost discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243
Not easy pick for me. Intel has 16% performance advantage. Pricing is bad, but they charge because they can. If I wanted to buy best CPU, I probably would have spend 1.5x more. If I wanted to save money, it's another story.
Oh my. The right will have a field day with this one. Satan worshipers promoting a liberal agenda.
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Yeah, having a way to rapidly say no to a lot of otherwise-interesting opportunities is probably valuable to him. And honestly -- getting a 'no' and a clear reason for it is awesome investor behavior compared to the norm. :)
Firefox has something called multi-account containers (this is technically an extension but it's developed by Mozilla) that lets you basically have profiles but on a per-tab basis instead of a per-window basis. It color-codes the tabs to let you know which container it's running in, and you can set it up to always open a given site in a particular container if you want.

Here's the help page if you want more info: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
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Why’s that ? Asking as someone on a tier 2 visa ? I thought I could get a residency in 5 years ?

Or are you saying the visa itself is too hard to get ?
Tulsa, OK. For my Midwestern town's relatively small size, low cost-of-living, & southern hospitality, there's an incredible diversity of ideas. Just recently, I've discussed internet security with Mozilla staff, augmented reality with a credit card processing programmer, media in West Africa with an international, Native-American university, theology with an well-known U.K. author, oil discovery with a geologist, language learning with a Spanish author, poverty education research with a doctorate-earning Nigerian, and permaculture with a data-scientist. There are endless niche tech clubs; international, artisan restaurants; and high-end art, music, & athletics ~ surprises most people who visit.
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Hell no.

This is probably one of the worst-timed product introductions ever. There's no way I'd consider putting a Facebook camera in my home.
Please use us as a caching proxy (rather -- please use us to link to a specific version of online material)! We would love it if random
CMSs used a publish event to trigger our save-page-now functionality to archive content as-shown: https://blog.archive.org/2017/01/25/see-something-save-somet...

(Better yet -- maybe high-traffic sites like HN could trigger SPN on post events to grab a copy of the page as shown so if it goes offline people can continue to view & discuss?)
People choosing to use a walled garden are being punished by those who would rather not? You may have that reversed - this isn't about thinking you're "above" a communication method, but it is worth noting that Facebook requires using their specific service while many other methods (phone, email, etc.) can be used from a variety of providers.

So, saying "I only use Facebook to communicate" and expecting others to conform is a bit more naturally presumptuous than choosing to leave Facebook - and it's a fair point that if a relationship can't survive not using a specific proprietary tool, then maybe it wasn't that strong of a relationship.