skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eventually, no matter how virtuous a company claims to be, they'll sell the company to FAANG who I try to avoid as much as possible. When the true end goal of most startups is an exit payday to Google I can't trust them with my data.

And their appealing product will probably get shut down or rendered unrecognizable, either by FAANG or by bankruptcy. I've pretty much sworn off all startups that sell services, products dependent on services, or anything that requires "the cloud."

At some point, my data's going to be sold off and monetized, and I won't even be able to enjoy the product I was supposed to get in return.
Well I guess that depends a lot from market to market. For example, here in Portugal both Coca Cola and McDonalds use youtube a lot (well coca cola used to advertise more overall, now, not so much - maybe because other brands present no threat in this market).

But mass market companies can afford the "waste" broad media has, and can afford frequency - so they pump a lot of GRPs to achieve their goals... a lot of reach and quite some frequency.
Because there are other ways to get decryption keys. Old fashioned "over the shoulder" techniques still work: cameras, informants, even spyware. They just require effort. This is really about cops wanting easy and ready access rather than committing to oldschool detective work.

It is akin to cops wanting to measure a car's speed by directly accessing the data from it's speedometer. That may be far easier than hiding in a bush with a radar gun, but so is the price of constitutional rights.
There’s nothing more “me” than my brain. I expect sufficiently advanced science to be able to narrow down my identity from a detailed enough scan of my brain. Whether this can be done today is a question of technology, and I’m not abreast of the latest findings in this field.
I will never go to a nursing home. I'd rather die. I have seen the inside of those places and I can assure everyone, regardless of how nice they look and whatever amenities it has, it is a horrible place to spend the last years of your life. My Dad died at home and that's the way you do it.
Bringing AI to the edge
I live in the US and can't speak to that, sorry.
The problem is, even if Google is following the spirit of the policy, how do we know whatever policy they introduce now won't be changed in the future?

So the new promise is "Patient data remains under our NHS partners' strict control, and all decisions about its use will continue to lie with them." Except I can think of at least two or three good reasons off the top of my head why Google could renege on that without breaking the spirit of their promise too. Maybe Google decides that the information will be more secure on their servers, and the original point was to make it more secure anyway, right?

Yes, Google's original promise was kinda arbitrary and over-strict. But the way you build trust is you keep promises, even if they're arbitrary. When Google says they're not going to do something, they should not do it. Otherwise, nobody will trust them in the future when they say they're not going to do other things. Nobody wants to live in a world where we have to second guess what the intent is behind everything a company promises and are only able to hold them to that.

If Google can't keep its promises, then it shouldn't have made any promises in the first place. It should have just given a milk-toast answer like, "we care about privacy", which would have communicated exactly the same information without deceiving customers into thinking that there was an actual line in the sand somewhere.
> Pointing out that the US does the very same doesn't necessarily discredit or diminish the problem with China's actions. If anything it shows we should be worried about these things on a global scale.

I think the main issue is that those actions aren't written about or criticised when done by the western powers. Hence why these article seems so hypocritical - they try to paint actions accepted and normal in western world as somehow evil when done by the eastern part. It doesn't mean they're not bad - but it does seem like the articles are just propaganda and not an objective look.
Size is only part of the equation. Fewer binaries you have to worry about security updates of is another.
Hooks in React 16.7.0-alpha
Tests in C/C++ run shockingly fast. I ported an application from Ruby to C++ and the tests ran in well under a second when it was taking 10+ seconds in Ruby. Granted because of C++'s type system there were fewer tests, but it was fast enough that I kept thinking something was wrong.
Banzai Cloud receives $2.5M investment to simplify Kubernetes adoption
So I think we should distinguish between "gluten intolerance" (which is often self-diagnosed) and "celiac disease" (actual medical condition with allergic reaction to gluten). For people with the latter, even trace amounts of gluten are harmful:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1923558

Even inhaled gluten is enough to cause immune system reaction:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc063112

The generally accepted safe threshold of gluten intake for people with celiac disease is somewhere on the order between 6 and 30mg (depending on the study). Even that may be high, there are case studies of individuals where as little as 1mg of gluten prevented recovery of their gut:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15497770

So the parent that asked for separate utensils is not insane; sharing a bread knife between gluten-free and gluten-containing bread can be harmful already.

(A close family member and another close friend of mine have celiac disease, and it is seriously not a joke)
I'd also recommend this other interesting read by the same author and co-authored by Bruce Schneier: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2938033
doubtful, the progressives that humanities departments turn out are the most authoritarian people I know. Many have a quasi-religious propensity to classify anyone who disagrees with them as evil and irredeemable. They'd fit in perfectly with the CPC
Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself
Oracle has/had "value based pricing" for larger contracts

The discussion goes something like this:

Customer: "How much does this cost?"

Oracle sales: "How much money do you have?"

Now this isn't quite as bad as it sounds (charge based on the value that the new system will bring) but the conversation was definitely a bit uncomfortable..... Oracle was not selected as the vendor.

Edit:

SAP weren't selected either for different reasons:

SAP: "You are a manufacturing company and will use SAP like this"

Customer: "We see why you might think that but we don't manufacture things"

SAP: "You are a manufacturing company and will use SAP like this"

Customer: Next...

Obviously, there was more to both conversations - but these are reasonable summaries based upon my dubious memories.
There are some info about Canonical's revenues at https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonica...

Full accounts at https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05055134/filing-h...

If they'll make an IPO next year they'll have to tell us how they are making money. Just wait and see.
I didn’t downvote you because it makes sense if you believe taking money from organizations you dislike would hurt them. Not going to address whether it’s helpful or not because I have no basis to say one way or the other.

The issue is that such a model is based purely on economic grounds rather than on messaging and rhetoric. Accepting money usually implies a form of condonation of the donor because the implication is that you want their assistance. If I take money from the US Nazi party and sue them back (for... something) with said money that’d be complicated but this has happened rarely enough that popular media appears to never show it. This isn’t like a corporate entity like Burger King donating money to a candidate. But it would sure be funny if Burger King donated money to PETA right?

On the flip side, refusing money is usually assumed as a form of demonstration of principle that is even stronger the lesser your wealth; that even if you are poor and destitute (as if our politicians are, yeah I know) you would rather not accept money from someone you disagree with. If a homeless person returns a large sum of money, that makes news (and an ironically higher-compensation Kickstarter / gofundme for the refuser but historically not so). Politicians and powerful people in general work off networks and money as their careers so taking money from someone when you have so much wealth / fame already carries a lot of weight there as well.

Come to think of it, I think I saw someone accept a donation and immediately donate the money to a diametrically opposed organization. But that’s rare enough that it becomes a headline is my point.
Thanks for removing it from GitHub. Would you also consider removing it from the deployed site, please?
[ANN] Dynatrace introduces custom services for Go applications
The Noun Project is a fantastic resource!

The thing is there are so many other creative resources out there that could potentially fall into the category of clip art. Noun Project and Font Awesome provide a huge amount of vector assets that can serve as starting points. There are places like Creative Market and iStockPhoto that sell vector assets. There are limitless places for creatives to pick up graphics to start with.

Perhaps, I should rewrite my concluding paragraph to include your point? In a way clip art is everywhere.
Who do you think sponsors high school math competitions in the US?
It's the NSA. They use it for making decisions on scholarships that require working at the NSA during and after college. In order to work there (and thus to accept the scholarship), you must get security clearance, which includes being vetted for loyalty.

The existence of these types of programs isn't troubling. It's the belligerent geopolitics of the state that are troubling.

http://www.usamts.org

https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/icstudents.html
I suppose you didn't make it to the end? "Toronto reports business receipts are up along the corridor as well, albeit a tiny 0.3 percent" is hardly suffering.
So tonight I'm gonna blog like it's 2002
No one wants to get killed or suffer during war, but everyone wants to be the boss.
PC games of that era rarely used a controller, they were all mouse and keyboard based. Beyond that, the form factor leads me to believe it's just an RPi-like device running DOSbox, with a UI slapped on top. Not entirely out of step with the console makers that started this trend, but still a bit of a head-scratcher.
I'd say that's pretty much everyone.
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In my area, cooking for myself, my weekly supermarket food bill is about £30 (~$40) and that lets me eat pretty well. For comparison, a medium-sized delivery pizza is £17 (~$22).

So I'd be looking at about 4x the cost if I ate a delivery pizza every day.

How do the figures compare in your area? Is delivery food radically cheaper?
The new game of Docker Golf. I once spent like a day trying to debug an issue with pruning dev dependencies from my prod docker image before I stopped to realized how much money I was wasting to save $0.0001 of cloud disk space. It is kinda fun though.
Coursera Co-Founder Launches AI Course for Business Professionals
That's why I'm asking.
100 megakelvins (MK)
Vastly more different. A place like Houston is going to have “sealed” houses far more frequently than Scottsdale for instance. Sealed meaning the air conditioner will keep the indoor environment manageable. I remember as a kid my grandmother would use that god-forsaken attic fan in lieu of her window-unit air-conditioners and it was pretty much the zenith of misery in a Houston summer.

Natural airflow with the outside at 90% relative humidity isn’t going to do a thing other than make the interior occupants ornery.

The natural airflow design of Apple Park for example, that works incredibly well, but that same design in Houston or New Orleans would be catastrophically ridiculous.
Canonical very definitely gets paid every time someone spins up an Ubuntu VM on AWS or any other cloud provider. Not much, perhaps, but there are a lot of Ubuntu VM's spun up.

AWS doesn't necessarily have to pay Canonical for Ubuntu VM's, but if they didn't, they wouldn't be able to use the trademark "Ubuntu".

OVH wasn't paying Canonical, got sued because of it, and had to settle.
Unless they decide to include it in the great repeal ...
> A few weeks ago we had a lecture from a lawyer on exactly this subject. Her main point was that GDPR gives people the right to request their data be deleted but it gives companies the right to refuse if it would cause unreasonable damage to their business.

I guess it still needs to be litigated, but the question on my mind is: Does that right of refusal only apply to the model, or also the data that trained it. If it applies to the data, the regulation is pretty useless, since anyone could avoid the deletion requirements by training models on it, if it doesn't I think the use in the model takes care of itself. At some point they'll need to retrain, and then you're data won't be there.
so elastic!
I think the situation is much more complicated than that. Who do they have allegiance to? What are their ideals, inculcated from their family and society from a young age, even if they appear to you as professional and unbiased? If foreign policy becomes more hostile to China, which it has been and likely will become more so, where will the people who we've employed return to and aid instead of us?

Chinese students have clearly had access to our job and research markets, but that has been changing with sinophobia, along with rising economic opportunity in China coupled with concerted efforts by the Chinese government to repatriate those educated here.

So, I am taking that information into account when I say the situation reduces to the conclusion that the pragmatic solution is to drastically reduce the amount studying here.

I don't think a ban would be a good idea, either. Probably the best outcome, in my estimation, would be for a bipartisan big brother to tap university heads on the shoulder and tell them to cut the inflow dramatically.
Well that is kind of my point, as a company you would think twice about screwing over a country that is capable of such brutality. If you look at Britains leaders today they are old, really poor and hold second class BA degrees in geography, compared to the highly skilled and wealthy adversaries they are up against, such as Eric Schmidt or Jeff Bezos, they are basically outcompeted in every aspect. It is not a level playing field neither on an individual nor even organisational level.
Startup and capital costs for a nuke program are considerably higher, and it is a lot harder to hide that you are building the massive facilities needed to process the raw materials and manufacture nuclear weapons. Not to mention needing to come up with a viable delivery system.

AI is nothing like that. It's just software. Once it is out there, it is going to be copied, and the resources involved are minuscule.

International arms control treaties haven't historically been worth the paper they are printed on, so there are probably a great many things that would be more worthwhile to direct energies towards.
Might try compiling GNU Gnash with Emscripten.
Hmm, my house during winter is usually between 18-20. If I keep the window vents closed (most UK houses have vents above the windows specifically for this reason), I get a lot of condensation around the windows which gets mouldy. Leaving those vents open makes all the difference - no condensation, no mould. Also the house humidity seems to stay under 50% with the vents open.
I really enjoyed this article in general but there were (imvho) some problems with the conclusion.

In order for the conclusion to hold (e.g. "we are not doomed"), society would first needs to change whole industries like legal & forensics.

Courts are outsourcing forensics and judges are relying 100% on "experts". Because judges are so strapped for time, and usually never have the skills to verify an experts claims, cases are ruled in favor of whatever the expert says. e.g. https://iwpr.net/global-voices/icc-unveil-new-investigation-...

Exploit tools sold to Law Enforcement via shady companies like HackingTeam & FinFisher make it easy to hack-back, but also allow the planting evidence. Question is not only if evidence is authentic, but with infinitely complex systems, how can we trust the system not to work against us.

It's infinitely complex to proof it does. What we live through is a constant and incremental power shift from the individual to the system. I highly recommend Jaques Ellul "La Technique", The Technological Society.

The conclusion for me is that we have already every reason to panic.

2 more links on the problem of courts relying to much on external specialists specifically in Germany (sorry in German, please google translate yourself)

https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2013/gutachter103_pa...

https://www.welt.de/regionales/hamburg/article3165169/Die-un...
My wife was born and raised in China. I love her dearly, but my anecdata in large part concurs with yours.

I should mention she's certainly conflicted and aware of some inconsistencies in a good number of her beliefs, even if she generally defends them or changes the topic when they come up.

Though I'm not sure I agree with your suggested course of action.
Or for less than $25 per core, per month. Or clarity on what to do for a 1 VCPU license (1/2 a core). Or how to pay for licenses on ephemeral elastic servers.
The contrast between the fate of the swatter and the killer is quite... striking. Makes it look as if police has no agency not to kill.
25/31 < 31/37. There, I did the math for you. Now if you did the downvote, would you kindly consider undoing it?
JD.com Just Opened Its First Robot Restaurant in China
How to use systemd-nspawn for Linux system recovery
I've definitely run into people who don't beleive its possible to have nice abstractions with zero runtime cost so this is a nice read!

Really cool to see how effortless it is to implement things like this in Julia.
I'd be very surprised if Google wasn't doing that with your data. It's their business model.
It's alright, we're not totally naive. My wife is only heading back to work part-time, and we have baby-sitters lined up for 75% of the time. For the remaining 25% I'm fully expecting that I'll be working catch-up hours in evenings.

However, I was holding onto the hope that I might be able to get some work done with my daughter in the room, and was genuinely curious about the parent post's purported success.
There's a roughly 20 year history of games and animations built for Flash. It would be a shame to lose them indefinitely.
> Only software written in assembly tends to invoke INT 21h directly.

Or anybody that wasn't satisfied with the high-level libraries. We just looked up the functionality[2] we needed in Ralf Brown's list[1].

[1] http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm (INT 21h http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int-21.htm )

[2] http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-0250.htm
Can an “open-blog” style site work where each post is voted up/down?
Show HN: Min – An elegant and minimalistic web framework for Golang
Please see Sid's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18443014. The numbers are from two separate points in time.
..while "the rest of the city was up 3.8 percent over the same period."

Taking inflation into account, downtown receipts are lower than they were before.
Well it might have been a poor choice of words, but there was also a time where online advertising was a mayhem with no centralized inventory - it just evolved very quickly.

Well before online ads and a DIY (or in house) media buying for small companies, there used to be agencies that would help with this - media agencies exist for quite some time... but outside of this, I guess it would depend on the product/service. Basically they had centrals to buy media space a "re-sell" it.

Other then that, you had to go POS (Point of Sale) communication, or go to someone who bought and managed media (agencies).
Speaking of 'trust demolition', here's how Google has demolished my trust: In Chrome they have added a new option: "Allow Chrome sign-in". It appears to be a placebo. Even if it is turned off, if you sign in to Gmail then your browser is also signed in, enabling Google to surveil you even more. There appears to be a pattern here. Google maps tracks your location even when you turn off location history. I used to be an unabashed Google fan, now I am in the process of de-googling my life wherever I can.
Alphabet should never be dealing with healthcare info, correct.
He can't sell Canonical unless someone is willing to pay for it.
Funny, because I can rarely remember GCP's services yet AWS' I don't forget.
I've been through 3-8th grade education in Chengdu at a top 100 school. The rest of my education was in the US, so I may be biased in one way or the other.

From my perspective, I didn't really see it that way. Like any country, the history curriculum focuses on China's history, focusing primarily on ancient history (pre-Qing dynasty) for 3 semesters with one semester of modern Chinese history (Qing to present). While there certainly was a nationalistic tendency in many topics I would regard the information as historically accurate (as compared to courses about east Asian history here in the US). And in reality, my many friends in China with whom I've maintained contact over the years do not have this sort of mentality and are against censorship and much of the nationalistic messaging.

Another interesting note that people here have no knowledge of is professors in China are often times anti-CCP. Many professors take this to the extreme and in papers will often just give a bad grade if it mentions any good policy by the CCP.

On a semi-related note, the comments many make here on HN about China make me extremely uncomfortable. Not because they touch on sensitive topics but because they smear an entire population of people as liars, thieves, and mindless followers. Replace the word "China" and "Chinese" with "Italy" and "Italian" in many comments and they could have been written back in the Ellis Island days.
It's not just car drivers, eleven restaurants in the area have closed since the pilot began.
What do you do as a business owner when city is driving away your customers?
I fly a '76 Cherokee pretty regularly and its ASI is in both knots and miles per hour, with MPH actually being the more prevalent unit.
Neo4j Bolt Driver for Go
This is a very hypocritical stance in my opinion.

All medical research need patient data and every newly admitted medicine has to withstand rigourous (data-driven) testing and this did not change with new technology at all.

Only 2 things changed:
1 - Nowadays with GDPR and increased alertness on data protection (which is a good thing in general as the possibilites evolved more quickly than the regulation), people are explicitly asked about these things.
2 - The big internet companies like Google/Facebook (which did not behave well in the past and are thus partially responsible themselves for the public mistrust in these cases) have most experience/talent for the development of ML/AI-based technologies and are deploying this in new areas like medicine.

I don't get all the negativeness here. I vastly prefer Google/Facebook working on medical progress than working on improving ad targeting. Imo they should be encouraged to use their expertise and resources for progress in these fields.
IF they are indeed found guilty of breaking promises and harvesting highly-sensitive data, shame on them. But this is not the case here.
You must not have been a big Oracle customer =)
Or the Georgia election server under Brian Kemp’s control https://apnews.com/877ee1015f1c43f1965f63538b035d3f