skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why dont western companies band together and threaten a boycott until some kind of IP laws are enforced?

They just keep getting picked off one by one.
>Google can't change the laws in China

But Facebook can influence elections. Something isn't adding up to 100% here.

More so, I'm not worried about Google influencing China, I'm worried about China putting pressure on Google to spy on the world or lose potential profits.
I'm assuming that these are 'built to last' - as once they are no longer working I can only think that they themselves would become radioactive waste that will need disposing of.

Is it unlikely that a human would be able to work on the robots to repair them due to the levels of radiation?
> Repair is possible, just sometimes you need to be a bit creative.

Indeed, and I attempted to do so myself since I know how to handle a soldering iron... yet some of them were in-ear, one was over ear but cracking its case was a one way destructive operation; some had those hair-thin copper wires downright coated with an insulating material that makes soldering a pain, if at all possible. I swear it's made on purpose to thwart attempts at repairs.

I bet I have broken more jacks in a couple of years than during the 20 years before that. Crazy.

Anyway that doesn't change the fact that before that I never thought about having a small, cheap jack-to-jack part in between the headphones and the playing device, as using the adapter was the first time I happened to do something similar, but that's not a property of the adapter itself; or rather, DAC, really, and I find it nice that there are alternative DACs available, at which point if I always have a DAC at hand, well it's less of a problem to not have a jack embedded), but really, I'd rather still have the jack, or having the removal of the jack coincide with the replacement of Lightning with USB-C (together with the USB-C situation not being such a bloody mess) and have some new universal standard emerge across all devices.
Yep just look at Clinkle and (in particular) Theranos
Businesses have to comply with regulations in the form of record-keeping, safeguarding medical data, determining the composition of its board of directors, etc. HIPAA is not for individuals, neither is Sarbanes-Oxley.
Centuries? In Wales perhaps, but not in the large-scale standardised way across England. That was initiated by Edward I who saw the longbow in action during a campaign in Wales, and ordered every able-bodied man in England to practice every Sunday on the village green. That's what lead his grandson to have access to so many highly trained longbow archers.

Archery definitely existed before that time, but that was not the same as the famous heavy longbow of the late Middle Ages.
Businesses are not in the business of simply being profitable, they are usually in the business of increasing revenue and profits beyond the current state.
You'd think electric motor yard tools could be common by now, but instead the deafening gas-powered black-cloud-spewing machines are still ubiquitous.
It boils down to what the American culture, or I guess the employees at Google's culture, are willing to censor.

China wants to censor its own human rights violations, I think there morally bad. Certain EU Nations want to prevent fat right nationalist radicalization via censorship. I think that's clumsy, but good.

So hence "why single out China." It stops whenever the employees put up a fight. Isn't that the point of integrating a company-wide value system? You want to mimic an individual value system, in that you are clear on why you made certain decisions, because you can point to your value system?
It's often a voluntary agreement. A developer builds a collection of houses, then sells them under the condition that the owner must join the home owner association set up for those houses. The idea is that the association forces its members to do upkeep, so that the homes don't collectively lose value for being in a "bad neighborhood".
OH these fresh young naive minds, who think censorship never happens. Censorship happens ALL THE TIME. The Radio, TV, and Film industries in the USA - they have all been censored, from the very beginning.[1] So it was self-censorship at the behest of the government. What's the difference? Censorship is all around us.

Americans self-censor tits and genitals, Europeans self-censor violence. Censorship is everywhere.

I think this whole discussion is extremely naive.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire...
No it wasn't because "innocent until proven guilty" applies. At the moment there only is an accusation of a violation.
It’s not just about having a search engine that’s fast and convenient albeit “censored.”

It’s very plausible that Dragonfly will be used to feed people in China flat out misinformation and lies, and then monitor them 24/7.

News that doesn’t toe the party line will literally be deleted. Try and search for a controversial book or subject, and you’ll be placed on a watchlist. Fake news and government created media will be the first and only result always. In other words, the Chinese government will have more access than ever into the minds of its people, and then it will try to either manipulate them or just repress the problematic ones.

This will happen whether Baidu or Google does it, but that doesn’t make it morally acceptable for Google to join in. We don’t get a free pass to do evil just because we’re not the first.

In fact, it’s worse for Google than Baidu. The people at Baidu don’t have a choice, it’s the country they were born in. But Google is one of the world’s richest companies, and if they chose not to operate in China, it would just maintain the status quo, not actively hurt them.

There’s no moral justification for this, even if now the search engine is faster and more polished.
You deserve massive credit for striking a blow against this madness. A great example of how working people have more power than they think if they're willing to risk dollars and cents for matters of right and wrong.

I say that fully realizing that not everyone is in the financial position where they can risk a fight with their employer. You can't expect everyone to be Ghandi.
The moment you compared the current US president to Hitler is the moment your comment became incoherent and lost any semblance of a discussion you had going. Godwin's law in full force.
I worked for IBM a few years ago as a remote worker. Interestingly, they don't try to solve this problem (Intranet + managed settings for proxying out) at all.

Instead, they have the opposite arrangement: even sitting in an IBM 'work center' (that you needed to use your employee key-card to access), you're actually just on the public Internet, and you need to use a VPN to reach the IBM Intranet.

The VPN backend interacts with a backend that records the device-management (MaaS360) enrollment status of the device, so you can't get onto the Intranet unless your machine is conformant. And if you aren't connected over VPN to the Intranet, you may as well just be sitting in an Internet cafe with a regular laptop—there's no data available for you to exfiltrate.
So you do support censorship, just not on political topics you agree with. Problem is, what's politically acceptable is highly subjective and varies greatly from country to country.
But Google already built a censored search engine that enables state surveillance, that's what we have in the west.
But isn't an asshole just a complex arrangement of proverbial toasters and clothespins?
Agreed and I'm from the "devops" side of the house.

I don't see a lot of build pipelines with automated tests and deployment for IaC. Standardized processes like pull requests with code review are also not ubiquitous.

With terraform one typically writes a template, does a plan, then apply and hopes for the best. What I've seen and the OP mentions the same in his talk is that things occasionally go terribly awry in ways that common software development practices would prevent.
How the BBB Seal Actually Negatively Impacted Conversions on an ECommerce Site
From a skim read this article is pretty sloppy. It argues that the human OEM theory of mind is in some way unique or unreproducible. This conclusion is completely unsupported by the text, which is just a sophisticated word salad.
If only giving up salary was equivalent to serving more ads. I get paid by serving ads so by actively not serving ads they actively not get paid. On top of that offering some of what you do get paid to make up the difference leads to zero quickly. I do agree with you in principle, more alternatives should have been offered if they really wanted to catch someone's ear in upper management
The New York Times has a whole suite of them:

https://fontsinuse.com/tags/758/the-new-york-times
China has a vested interest in spreading it's influence globally, the same way the United States has (and is receding from a bit under the current administration). It would be far more valuable to China to get a global company like Google propagating their censorship requirements than continuing to prop up their own state-run option. If Google caves, other countries might ask for the same demands as well, which supports the notion that China's way of doing things is the 'right' way. In short, having global companies doing China's bidding expands China's influence.

Reading a bit about the Belt and Road Initiative is probably a good primer on some of China's global interests right now.
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In today's world where folks are working hard on stealing crypto, I can't believe anyone would trust a software wallet. If you're blowing cash on crypto, the least a person can do is blow a little more on a hardware wallet or keep it on an exchange.
Yeah, people are getting worked up about a good faith trade off in software features made by a company trying to create products useable by, preferably, every single person on the planet. And since gender is something were are - right now, whether you like it or not - revising our understanding of, it makes sense to wait until you have a better solution to the problem.

I mean, autocorrect can only take you so far anyway, your gonna have to change it a bit anyway and I assume most people with two brain cells knows the gender and preferred pronouns of the people mentioned in the convo and knows how to use them properly even if they don't have a clue about the pronoun debate. This is an edge case, but still something they saw value in avoiding a mistake in.
he had a package called kik, which npm dropped for the benefit of kik the company (though I don't know whether they requested they do so). In response the author unpublished everything from npm.
How to make the best use of office holidays?
Yep, I forgot about ARM. I was referring to https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/ ; Minix is certainly not just a toy, it is very widely used.
Unless 90% of Haskell allocations are value types on the stack, this is irrelevant pedantry.
Domain names are an artificial monopoly that does not work, unless we all agree to play fair.

Otherwise, Oracle could have bought every common word domain at the birth of the internet.
I don't think this is true. The stock market demands their hockey stick. If Google doesn't go after the Chinese market, their stock value will suffer.

It's all about returning as much money to investors as possible. Period. Otherwise you suffer the consequences.
Does the fact that you have a Princess Diana Beanie Baby, 1st Edition mean that no one else has one, or can have one without buying it from you?
If you want to relive the terror I suggest reading the Pulitzer Prize winner "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy". While its focus is on the Cold War it's still relevant today.

https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Hand-Untold-Dangerous-Legacy/dp/...
In that case you can define monopoly however you want.

You could say that YCombinator has a monopoly on posts to HN.
I don’t follow your logic. If the first step to entering the Chinese market requires bending to the government’s will, what makes you think Google would have any leverage in the future to be able to “make it a better place”?
A collector that hoards and sells when enough money is offered is just a speculator.
Apologies, I was specifically referring to performance
It's refreshing to see people deciding that things can be important enough to warrant taking some sort of action other than washing one's hands of the matter.

Recognizing that there are paths available other than "doing what the company says" or "walking away" is a good thing, and people should speak up if they feel their work is being used in unethical ways.

There's a view that employees are subservient to employer's wills, to the extent they agree to stay under their employ. While obviously true to some extent, it seems silly to extend this to carte blanche for what employees must agree to be complicit in.
> and believe me, the later is much worse for a westerner.

"Believe me" signals to me that I'm about to hear something shocking, yet it's followed by the anticlimactic "for a Westerner".
When you agree to play by someone else's rules hoping to "change the system from the inside," the system just changes you. Call it a flaw in human nature, that's just how it goes nearly every time.
> Have you ever worked for the federal government? My part time job is military.

I've done both.

> At the federal reserve they aren't regulated as a federal employer or a federal agency.

Not the same way, no. But that doesn't mean the Federal Reserve is not an instrument of government policy. It is.
Of all of the good and bad things that China is doing, underminding IP laws is probably the most beneficial to society.

The best way for the world to improve is for all scientific and technology advancements to be freely available.
Right now, DevOps.yoga (and SRE.pizza). Shamefully little content so far. If you'd like to add something, just send a PR and I'll merge it!
California falling short on climate change goals; because driving is increasing
NIST's answer to “Do you need a blockchain?”
Amazon specifically does not do the last part of your decree, and their stock price seems to be pretty good.
We've really come full circle if the prevailing wisdom going into 2019 is to store coins in an exchange wallet!
Exceptions in threads is a valid objection, but designs have gotten a lot better. They now usually get automatically re-thrown whenever you access the result of futures. But that seem barely any different than return based error handling to me. If i don't access the result of some thread, I'd probably also forget to check its err.
The way they undermine them also spreads authoritarianism, which is a side effect you may or may not be okay with.
>China watches its citizens abroad

Now with increased efficiency with Dragonfly technology. Find enemies of the state with our world wide database, US and EU results included. All brought to you by the Alphabet platform.
Depending on how you define "properly written." It was easy to write seemingly proper code that assumed TSO and worked for x86 but does not work on architectures with weak memory consistency.
Actions speak, words don't.

(I find I had to update the old aphorism for the late 20th and 21st century. After centuries of studies on how to use words to manipulate people, words are now simply nearly useless and while I'm human and I can't claim total success, I try to just ignore them now. )
it is not a criminal procedure though.
My fear in this is ..."unless they aren't incredibly successful reproducers"? My fear is that we have damaged their reproductive mechanisms, not their habitat, or a short term poisoning.

I hope for your hypothesis...but fear of the consequences makes me want to look at all of the data.
At the moment I am studying history at my local university (as a hobby to be honest). I am also an industrial engineer by training, a supply chain manager and currently a project manager for Integrated Logistics Support. And what I realized is that history is focusing a lot on the social side of things. And yes the military side as well (there is one professor who discouraged students to go after military what-ifs if they don't have the propper background).

What they totally lack is technical, economic and trade / supply side of things. Nobody is really looking into stuff like resource allocation during modern war like WW 1 and WW 2 on the level of military gear developed. Lend-lease is an underrepresented topic imho.

So I am not surprised that you with a technical background and an interest in history can provide insight into the importance bn of blacksmiths a pure historian can't.

And if you look at the area where technology, production and military overlap it really gets tricky. Even current experts are struggling for today's challenges. So I can imagine that in a historical context it is even harder, especially without a strong background in one of the three domains and solid knowledge ib at least one of the others.

I guess what I want to say is, let's go easy on zhe guy and provide some additional ideas. Maybe he's reading this discussion.
I sympathize with your position, especially regarding Taiwan, but I wonder if your early rejection was as effective as employees rebelling? One need not take the most effective route, but given the size of Google, when I was in a similar position to yours I justified it by saying if I got an offer, I'd make it very clear I'd want nothing to do with the censorship work for the exact reason you listed.
I definitely want to and will try it, but its just gonna be a pain to remake decks is all and I assume it's all about the same.
A lot of the "weakness" there is due to the weak 4x64-bit vector units equipped on the Power9. Again: 4x64-bit vector units (Power9) simply has less throughput than 4x128-bit (EPYC) units, which has less throughput than 3x512-bit (Xeon Gold) vector units.

On the few tests which don't have anything to do with vector units, Power9 does incredibly well. See 7-Zip Compression, Stockfish, Fhourstones, LLVM compiles. Power9 is very, very far ahead of the game here.

When vector units (ie: OpenMP or intrinsics) are involved: such as Parboil, Gimp, x264, Rodinia, etc. etc. the Power9 does very poorly.

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Something else I've noticed: Power9 has a lot of latency behind its units: it is always 2-cycles or 3-cycles of latency (while EPYC or Skylake have many operations with 1-cycle of latency, like add or subtract). Power9 relies upon instruction-level parallelism to get things done.

So there are a few cases like the Rust Mandelbrot benchmark, which surely hits that latency problem, while the Rustlang Prime benchmark shows off the ILP goodness the system offers.
Show HN: ChangeOver – A new IDE
The underlying story is here : https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116
I think it's one of many facets of a very interesting topic.
> Given how trash of a search engine Baidu is, Google would likely achieve market share dominance in China within a couple years

You can't be serious. Don't ever underestimate brand inertia, especially in a "super-patriotic" country like China. If Google had any chance at all, and assuming the Chinese government or Baidu's friends in the government wouldn't interfere with the "free market" in China to hurt Google at every turn, it would still take at least 5-7 years for Google to even get close to Baidu's market share.

Also this assumes this wouldn't catch a fire under Baidu's ass to start innovating and investing more into its search software and server farms.

I still believe it would be all but impossible for Google to beat Baidu in China. I just don't ever see it happening. If it was so easy, why hasn't even happened in Russia, where Google actually had significantly larger market share, had to deal with fewer political games than in China, and its Chrome browser I think was actually the most popular there until recently (or it may still be the most popular there).

If Google can't beat Yandex, it absolutely can't beat Baidu, no matter how much it "complies" with the Chinese governments' rules.
The problem is that speculators are not adding value to the market, they're subtracting from it. They've become parasitic actors.
You inadvertently demonstrated exactly what I was talking about. You're thinking in absolutes, and I would point to the legalization of marijuana in Colorado to demonstrate the power of subtle resistance.
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Maybe, but in this case there are millions (billions?) of people that can attest to Google's practices.
I don't quite understand your question, but I'll take a stab at it. When art prints are limited to 1 of 10, does it mean the 11th person is SOL? I'd say yes, unless one of the 10 relinquishes ownership in one way or another.
If the vast majority of customers don't know arithmetic, then yes, that's exactly what happened. Laws are a UX problem, not a theory problem. If most of your users end up getting deceived, you can't say "BUT IT WAS ALL RIGHT THERE IN THE SMALL PRINT, IT'S NOT MY FAULT THEY DIDN'T READ IT!".

Like, this is literally how everything else works.
choice A is for google not to build a Chinese engine and for Chinese to use censored versions of locally built search engines.
Choice B is for them to have a choice of local search engines and a google search engine ( all censored ). Seems to me from moral point of view, Chinese are better off under B and so I don't see why it's wrong for google to go with B
Thanks for this link. Terms that are backed by research are very important for people to communicate effectively without resorting to opinion bashing.
Incidentally, thank you for all your work on libguestfs! It's spectacularly useful.
"(as far from the coasts as possible)" piques my interest. Why do you want to be as far from the coasts as possible?
Can we agree on the fact that censorship in a democracy is different from censorship in an autocracy?
Censorship in the EU is generally intended to protect individuals; censorship in China is meant to protect the ones doing the censoring. The EU has democratically elected governments; China is an authoritarian dictatorship.

Those are differences in kind, not just degree.
> The environment group Greenpeace, which bitterly opposed the opening of Thorp, is enthusiastic about decommissioning.

I feel like the Greenpeace position is anachronistic and still on the wrong side of common sense. They might have missed an opportunity to slow climate change. We've had nuclear generation for 64 years now and harm to the environment is minimal. Three major (to us) accidents and a bunch of lesser material releases have had minimal impact to the earth in the big scheme of things.

Of far greater harm is our extraction and burning of fossil. The California methane leak, all of the various oil spills, and now shale drilling all have substantial, long term harm we can measure in the climate and the local ecologies.

Obviously we'd prefer greener power if possible, but nuclear power appears by far the lesser evil than all the fossil activity.
Calling farmers professionals as it relates to the conscious application of dangerous pesticides is a serious stretch. We're approving new pesticides at an unreal rate. These guys have no idea how this stuff works or its impact on the greater environment. They need to use it because plants and insects are becoming resistant to the old stuff and farms are in the business to make money. Externalities be damned.

Suburban lawn care has been going on for decades, using largely the same approach it always has. Mainly fertilizers applied once or twice a year if you bother to care. Broadleaf weed killers, maybe grub killer. The primary way to getting a nice lawn, though, is to overseed so often you choke out weeds. On the other side of the coin, agriculture is engaging in a broad spectrum application of herbacides, pesticides, etc with new formulas coming all the time. At an insane scale.

There is no comparison to yards. It's agriculture.
A more informative title would be "Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat to Human Distinctiveness than AI?"