skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Vijay Chokal-Ingam" faked being black to get into med school (he himself came out and explained why he did what he did. Just google his name).

That's how bad it is in the US for Asian kids at every level after High School.

Another aspect of what ends up happening due to this is that Asian grads from such universities are always considered to be top notch by default, because it is assumed that they had to be more competitive to get through the sieve.
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> Better to use cameras, which have almost exactly the same issues humans have

Surely, he cries, the argument is to use both and simply apply use some kind of likelihoods/confiendence in the output to combine them?
Depends on who you're worrying about.

If you're worrying about Chinese people, you're improving their access.

If you're worrying about your own moral purity, I suppose you'll have to balance that against above mentioned access.

If you want, you can find some people who live in China and ask them how much Google's "consecration" moves the needle for them.
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Unfortunately this totally ignores the latest discovery of antivirals efficiency and the probable root cause of viruses from the herpes family.
That's what I get for a quick post on my commute. I meant that Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, isn't a founder of Google. So he doesn't have any leverage over the board for moral stances, and is instead stuck doing their bidding.

Of course, I'm also a bit wrong w.r.t. the structure of Alphabet. Where's Alphabet's leadership on this?
They aren't assuming. If you aren't radiating and measuring the return, you're at a massive disadvantage in terms of your sensor package. It's s bit like trusting a computer to drive at 70 mph on a pitch black stretch of highway it has never seem before. Enjoy overdriving your headlights and hitting a deer or something else.

Tesla is cutting corners by eschewing a well-known technology that will increase the fidelity of their autonomous driving system. That is irresponsible.
Well, for starters, you seem to have learned a great deal of useful stuff about life, stuff that takes years to accumulate. So to me you already seem like someone I could have engaging conversations with.

That said, I have no trouble talking to strangers but a colleague of mine once said he found "The Tao of Badass" [0] a useful book. It didn't fix the fact that he was always completely disinterested in what others did with their life. Which was funny because I always greatly enjoyed talking with him and he had a great way of speaking about his own Asperger syndrome, I always felt like the doctors had told him he was almost human, in a way he was almost super human, reminded me of Data from star trek, he sort of objectively tried to understand what he was missing and I really didn't understand that he felt he was missing something. I miss that colleague/friend.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13457225-the-tao-of-bada...
> Likewise, morality beyond legality is much more likely if it doesn’t yield any ground to competitors

Then, why do it at all?

You want to tell the world what is right and wrong, fine, do it as an individual, write a book, found a religion or something. Enforcing your moral values inside the company and even worse, using the company's power to force them to the world - only to abandon them when it hurts profits - is perverse IMO.
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It's very hard to estimate how large the public sector is. Low-ball estimates would put it at around 30% which is a tad more than most in the socialism-leaning Europe. That is when you only count enterprises that are officially state owned. If you loosen it up 50% or even 60% isn't unreasonable (check out work of Derek Scissors).

The communism vs fascism question is always though. Soviet Russia can easily be described as both communist and strongly fascistic.
What would be the work involved to port this to Windows? Does it already have everything provided by Dune in some way?
> We have a responsibility to properly accommodate someone else's specific needs, but also ensure their safety.

You're not ensuring their safety by forcing them to wear helmets. Some statistics for bi-cyclists show that helmet-wearers take greater risk, effectively increasing their risk of injury or death. We don't have similar data for motorcycles, it may well be a different tradeoff.

I disagree with the premise that we need to make such decisions for people. If we really followed through with this safety ideal, we should ban all two-wheelers, they're the riskiest way to take part in traffic.
Yeah, I miss the concept of a special folder that is shared with the rest of the internet. Drop files in there and they are automatically discoverable by random strangers. Like a massive common drive that we all have access to.
How is this the fault of government?
Realtime audio sounds like a good domain. You might also want to check out LuaRadio if you haven't already. http://luaradio.io/
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It might be a slippery slope. Once you are in there, what's to say lord vader doesn't start altering the deal? "I'm gonna need you to put up these propaganda ads on top of yours."
My recommendation would be a ThinkPad with Fedora.

I have 32GB of RAM in mine and they are easy to open, service and upgrade :).

I use both and the last year has been the single best year I've had with Linux in terms of 'it just works', before that I used Ubuntu and while it was generally fine I prefer Fedora.

The cinnamon spin is superb and it makes windows 10 feel clunky by comparison on the daily usability.
Maybe we could add a section regarding Api's, developer features or available authentication methods?
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I think most people are not able to tell the difference between a great piece of software and an average one.

For example, the people at Apple who came with blocks and Grand Central Dispatch did an amazing job, but the difference between them and the average software developer is like 100x. A great software developer can write something that other developers can build on, which makes them more productive.

Conversely, the people who came up with Java, they figured out how to turn a great programmer into an average one, and make them want to quit computers altogether, but the below average programmers are now also average.
> management and employees give the same rationale

That is called ideology

"Ideology is the practice of augmenting reality."

http://mitp.nautil.us/feature/271/ideology-is-the-original-a...
I think that's a bit of a stretch. "Companies have to comply with the law, so they're consecrating it".

What else? People living in the US are consecrating the politics of Donald Trump?

To quote Tim Cook: Your choice is: do you participate, or do you stand on the sideline and yell at how things should be, [...] And my own view very strongly is you show up and you participate, you get in the arena because nothing ever changes from the sideline.
Did s/he publish somewhere? I'm interested in learning more, thanks!
Is Harvard not a private school? Discussions of affirmative action/race aside, if they're a private institution, can't they do pretty much whatever they want? By what basis does anyone have authority/standing to sue?

A private club can refuse admittance for any reason, or for no reason. Is this not the case for private schools?
The cost of firing the dev was whatever he could claim in a wrongful termination suit. Which is, what, millions of dollars? The benefit of firing him is that you appease the devs of the future who demand that their company take a stand on divisive issues.

The opportunity cost of not getting in on the Chinese market by being complicit in human rights abuses is in the billions, and possibly some direct costs if you generate badwill (so, let's add the cost of keeping up a farce for the employees just to be thorough, which is probably in the millions). As long as you keep everyone in the dark about what you're doing you can reap the benefits.
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> You can write a lisp in a few lines of Forth.

Seems unlikely. Forth isn't garbage collected, is untyped, etc etc. So you'd have to add those things in "a few lines".

Though I guess it depends what you mean by "a few". I was thinking a couple of dozen. Looks like someone's done it in 500 (though without GC -- is that still Lisp?): https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/160027/lisp-technical...
Well, if anything, this just makes discrete a soft type of censorship which is algorithmically unavoidable and already widespread in non "censored" countries. We're already in a post-truth world, so why not a post-truth internet?
I've definitely seen this practice, the solution I saw to "fix" this: after 20 attempts fail. Silently.
It was a static file, but it didn't track last file created (of course someone had copied this static file... But that's a separate problem).
If you can communicate random text, you can layer E2E encryption over almost any communication medium. OTR is a great example of this. But it isn't a feature of the protocol.

Many irc servers listen on an ssl port, but this then only encrypts data between client and server. The data is decrypted on the server and sent to other clients. (Maybe encrypted)

Some ircd's support "encrypted only channels" where if you're not connected via ssl, you can't /join
BufferBox. I was, and still am, so pissed at Google for simply buying them just to shut them down. It was so convenient to get packages shipped to a box rather than to my apartment, which invariably ends up with me having to go to some distribution centre.
Google Finance. I really liked the interface and ease of use of tracking tickers and looking up balance sheet metrics. I also liked tracking a personal portfolio.
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You question is valid, ignore the downvotes.

I think it comes about as a way for people to "explain away" or "brush off" things that happen in our modern world that we are just too lazy/busy/preoccupied or otherwise can't be bothered to fix.

It doesn't really matter what the thing that happens is, someone will always chime in with "yeah, that's just like when xyz happened" - which is a completely useless thing to say, but I think it helps people feel better that the world is not utter chaos, and things are not entirely isolated or have no precedent.

Of course, as you say, it would be much more productive to spend time trying to solve or eliminate said things, but gossip and media and reality TV aren't about that.
Yes. I think it's brilliant but the UI/UX needs a big update. Also from a techie point of view it's cool but from a normal user, there are too many options in group chats. Esp when people change phones etc.
Have you tried it as a running app? I want to compare it to Tomtom Spark 3.
> Is physics "hate speech"

If it's somehow an incitement to an immediate illegal action then it may be. Otherwise it's not.

In the US, hate speech isn't like being offended, it's not in the eye of the beholder. It's been covered a number of times by the Supreme Court.

And China is quite different from the US wrt free speech. US courts take a very dim view of restrictions to political free speech. It's quite a stretch to say the same about China. In fact, I'd argue that there are plenty of Western democracies who are less lenient in that regard than the US.
Then I completely remembered it differently/wrong, and my comments perhaps don't apply!

I will review it again.
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As a parent, I can tell you that I'd rather just spend the time with my kids. I owe it to them to be there, to be a role model for them, to make sure they are getting the right start in life and have what they need. In short, it's about them which I think too many Millenial types overlook--once you have kids, it's not about you anymore.

I can't see why I would do a startup. I'm 45, am already fairly well off, and just don't care about all the hassles. Money is not everything. In fact, money is nothing at all. I've been in tech long enough to realize what a scam all of it is--very little has uplifted humanity. We have a huge sense of self importance about it, but honestly, most of it will just be forgotten in another couple of decades. Like it never existed. The only thing that endures is your legacy through your children and if they are mistreated by you, well, there will be nothing at all.

So yeah, work your life away, but I'm not going to.
Opp cost could be even higher. If a Chinese company builds the next great (censored) search engine, they could turn around and launch an uncensored version in the US, challenging Google's monopoly on de-listing 'hate speech' in search. Would be ironic, but only as ironic as Google launching a search engine in China.
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I would try to simplify it like this: "would you be able to look the people China will suppress with your technology in the eye and tell them 'I built the tools China use'?"

edit: reformulated it to something less loaded
firing an engineer who tried to open an honest discussion on a hot subject like 'gender discrimination'

That's not an accurate summary of Damore's motives, or the reasons for firing him.

on the other hand bending over backwards to assist an oppressive - but lucrative - dictatorship in implementing a real-life version of Oceania's Ingsoc

Corporations are amoral by design. So I don't find this odd at all, but is an incredibly dangerous development.
I don't know why I have to keep repeating this, but "uncensored Google" isn't on the table here. Unfortunately.

It's "Google minus political topics" vs "no Google whatsoever".

If you enable more connectivity, however imperfect, you're improving things and you're enabling contact between cultures. Maybe that even enables more political information via side channels. It's a slam dunk net positive compared to not engaging at all.
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So far, legally, yes.
Why do you read that as whataboutism? It's just added context and related information. Whataboutism usually means "X is also bad / worse because they do Y". This was just "here's a similar situation, have a read".

I was interested in the link because it provides more interesting information on the topic. It lacks any comparison / judgement as far as I can tell.
This is not necessarily how things work (source: am a C-suite exec now and was in my previous role too, although not any company nearly as big or important as Google/Alphabet obviously).

Think of shareholders like voters in a not-very-well-functioning democracy. They hold ultimate power, but don't get to vote on things that often and certainly not on every decision. So their power gets exercised on big lumpy things like restructuring the cap table or executive appointments. Big shareholders may well be informed or even consulted about big decisions though, and have informal opportunities to make their general feelings known by meeting senior management. If the shareholders are unhappy they might orchestrate a rebellion and block executive comp or vote on some independent board members or whatever.

The board is like the legislature in a parliamentary democracy. They are accountable to the shareholders because they are appointees, so if the shareholders don't like what they do they can give them the boot and appoint someone else. Likewise they can fire the executives if they need to, and also get a vote about a wider range of issues than the shareholders. They therefore have more direct control than the shareholders, but its still not at a very granular level of detail typically. Or if they are going super granular on one topic they are really zoomed out from everything else (and giving the executives more latitude in those areas). So I have been at board meetings where there is a 100 page board pack and the entire conversation has revolved around a microscopic discussion of one page, with everything else being skipped over.

Then the c-suite are like the executive branch. They deal with the day to day and actually have to get things done. On a daily basis shareholders and the board will generally leave them alone unless things are going poorly (in which case the eye of sauron is on you).

So hopefully it follows from that model that you actually have a lot of leverage as an executive and a lot of latitude to make decisions within a general strategic direction that has been agreed by board and shareholders. Secondly, shareholders are not a uniform blob of faceless avaricious beasts who care only about profit - institutional shareholders will have their respective shareholders and issues like reputational risk etc to consider. As an exec, you can often use credibility you have built up to persuade them of a particular strategic direction and they may or may not give you leeway depending on how much you have delivered in the past etc.
> If it's somehow an incitement to an immediate illegal action then it may be. Otherwise it's not.

So it's not.

> In the US, hate speech isn't like being offended, it's not in the eye of the beholder. It's been covered a number of times by the Supreme Court.

I know. The point is that these people want hate speech to be illegal like it is in many other western nations. They want more censorship for the US, less in china.
I agree that is't a human (moral) problem at it's root, but the problem may be aggravated by the current technical solution.
Indeed there are, but most people are wisely taught to avoid them as there is more risk of installing an app that may have nefarious (hidden) behaviors.

So practically speaking, distributing your app outside of Play store is going to severely limit your reach.

I'd rather build a web app and try to get people to create a "desktop" shortcut.
It would be a bit funny if somebody wrote the Wikipedia article in the same style as the novel (parody, sarcasm, and a complete lie).
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Take a course on compilers. It will teach you these things and give you a much more fundamental understanding.
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Same. I've learned to deal with finviz.com instead, but its not 1 for 1..
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To be fair, HN is probably the biggest single forum of people building alternatives to Google products (aside from internal MS/Apple etc. forums, one presumes).
What makes you assume z3t4 exhaustively tried every other language before settling on JS? It's not typical that you present your opinion of a tv show by giving the few unique positive traits it has in contrast to the union of all positive traits from tv shows in the same genre. You just watch the show on a micro level, record what you liked about it, and report that, regardless of what the macro landscape looks like. That's the same way coders typically report preference about languages (on a micro level, not a macro level).
It's not simply about the first-order effects. Making a large investment in the Chinese market controlled by the CPC means putting up great value at risk that the CPC can leverage to assert influence. Evil influence spreads into the company and it becomes even more evil.

Considering the history of their actions against even their own people, and the words they say, 'evil' is not an understatement.

Yes, other states are also evil, but their evil is deeper and more fundamental. For example, they actively censor the history of their own misdeeds, including massacre of their own people from a few decades ago in 1989, and because of the strong censorship, who knows what else they are doing nowadays that's hidden?

A concrete example of what may happen is that after making a huge investment in China, Google gets a request to do more than just censor, an offer it cannot refuse. It is asked to spread malware to dissidents, or extend the censorship to other countries like Taiwan, or something nefarious like that. If it refuses, it'll be kicked out of China for some bullshit reason. Getting kicked out means incurring a big loss because of the huge investment. What will it do then? If it can't say 'no' now, it will not be able to say 'no' then. This country does not have "rule of law", but it has "rule by law". There is no independent judiciary. The state can say F U and there's nothing you can do about it.
Are the touchbar Macbook Pros still experiencing widespread screen delamination? I thought that was specific to the previous generation.
+1 for this. The Bip is great for the price (I paid £60). If the SW was a little better (e.g. music control, some better watchfaces) it would be perfect. Maybe being a tad smaller + a bit nicer looking as well. It's great as a notifier on your wrist that works well as a watch.
This is true, so it comes down to how well the consensus process reflect reality. It's a pretty interesting process: there are multiple layers of dispute escalation, and the ultimate backstop is that Augur splits in two. You keep REP only on the side of the split you voted for.

The theory is that the version of REP that reports the truth will be more valuable on the open market, and that the split is a credible threat which keeps everyone honest, so it will seldom actually happen.
When you say tariff do you mean price?
As a tech fanatic here is my way of dealing with it:

- no smartphone

- as little social media as possible (yes, I know)

- when with family or others the phone is on silent and I won't answer or text

- adblockers and privacy tools used to the max to get rid of advertising

- no TV

- no radio

Between all those tricks I can get a half decent day's work and still spend time on others, though I have to admit that the better the business is doing there is still pressure there that will need to be relieved somehow.
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Not just the UI but it's still rough around the edges in some cases. I ran into a couple bugs, I realize now I shoulda reported / researched further into, but my use for it is minimalist.
4. Feed the mirror sites mis-leading information that causes them to be less effective than Baidu and/or works past their filter and informs Chinese users.
Which is already provided by extremely successful and well established companies like Baidu. Google would be bringing nothing new except perhaps a mechanism to report the phone numbers attached to "illegal" searches for possible prosecution.
That sounds like a shitty company to work for.
I call it 'Dancing with the dragon'. It's thrilling most of time and you sometime think you tamed the Dragon. But you only get burnt once ...
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Believe me, it's a huge betrayal of the faithful underground Catholics (speaking as a Catholic), who have been suffering persecution for decades.

It's a way of asserting government control over the Church in China, which is antithetical to freedom of religion.

For the Vatican to agree is a watershed moment in the history of the Church, and not in a good way.
eh? CEO pay is bound by the same thing that everyone else pay is - the market rate. As are wall street salaries (which, again, are absolutely market based).

Now - you can argue much more effectively that CEO hiring is not very objective, that comp seems to be decoupled from long term performance, and I'll freely grant that Finance doesn't add the societal value equivalent to its slice of the pie. None of these things should be conflated with the continued existence of aristocracy
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