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I think this is an early piece of reporting that portraits Japan as victim.

I find this video more convincing, because most things produced by Asian people condemning Japanese war crime during wwii is usually not well received: https://youtu.be/lnAC-Y9p_sY

This is not necessarily propaganda. But the author sure forget who caused this tragedy and who should be held responsible. They only saw the human tragedy suffered by people in Hiroshima. And trying to depict a scenarios that the suffering is general human tragedy.

Of course, it’s not. It’s a tragedy of normal citizens fell for the war propaganda, and willingly start and continue an atrocious war crime against Asian and other peiceful living people.
What does that have to do with development? My point was nearly everyone uses libraries that are written by strangers from the internet. It mostly works.
The difference here is that the 30% cut is on everything digital sold through apple's payment system - including in app purchases. Amazon has removed in-app purchases from it's kindle and comixology apps because they'd owe a 30% cut to apple. Make whatever justifications for the app store purchases you want, it's the digital content from other stores (video, music, books, etc) that will bring about the anti-trust issues. Add to that the fact that apple is the only one restricting users to their app marketplace and you have the recipe for an antitrust lawsuit. Microsoft got hit with antitrust because they included internet explorer by default, how apple has only allowed one source for applications for ten years and never been challenged on it I will never know.
Okay, just read through it. In additon to the, more general points in my other comment I have some more things.

1) The way blacksmith's educated apprentices. Yes, it somehow resembles what knights did. But than it is also what every other craftsman did, be it tailors, carpetmakers or whatever. Strange to again link blacksmiths to knights as the article stated that you have to stop to do that.

2) Sure thing that kings from that period focus in their writing on war. That's what they did and that's what was important for them. Without a powerfull "military" they would have stopped to be kings. So maybe additional sources regarding the civilian life with regards to blacksmiths would have served the article well.

3) I know that it is tempting to look at the "saxy" stuff like swords and arrows and armor while taking the basic stuff for granted. Much like nobody cares today about all the consumer electronics around us today. Yet, the impact of these trivial things and the people making them on a society is huge. Especially in history people should focus more on that, luckily some historians do.

So now that's it. But even with the benefit of doubt the article makes a not to o good editorial.
Too bad for the Chinese state. If you try to promote a view by threatening others who might express a different one, I'm not going to weigh that neutrally.
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We may already be so deep in the uncanny valley of geoengineering, so to speak, that we're past the point of no return and our only chance for survival is to take control of the unintented consequences of human civilization with intentional large scale action. At this point, the losses we've seen so far and our predictions seem so bad that it may be worth the risk of even more damage to gain valuable experience in geoengineering that could be eventually used to turn our planet around.
My wife recently had an event that caused significant organic growth in her Instagram, and immediately afterwards she was followed by approximately 1000 accounts with no connection to her profession. Then she got an email saying, "I just gave you a free boost. Would you like to buy more?"

I can see buying followers being a status symbol for a certain set of teenagers. It's just another way of spending your parents' money.
You know what's even better for standing on outdoors? The actual outdoors. Any park, arboretum, nature trail, beach, etc. The only people who need lawns are the ones who want to pretend they're enjoying the outdoors but can't actually stand to be more than fifty feet from their fridge at any time.
Yes it’s understand that the majority in China are completely fine with the ethnic cleansing of Uyghers. The rest of the world doesn’t need to take part in it.
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Do not optimize what isn't proven by an optimizer.

The features are there, 90% of the cases it doesn't matter for the typical use cases.

When it does matter, they are in reach to any savy Haskell developer.
The same thing happened to gorhill and uBlock/uBlock Origin.

The takeaway seems to be that you should do a background check on anyone asking to become maintainer of your software.

With that said, this thing seems to have blown up because many large companies (Microsoft included) appear to use or depend upon this package. If none of these companies can lend 15 minutes of their engineers' time to help maintain the free software that they leverage, I can certainly understand the author's desire to let the module's maintenance become someone else's problem.
The conversation on nuclear power has never been a rational one. This has some interesting effects.

Because it's so hard to get funding on anything, not that much research has been done on how to decontaminate radioactive waste. You might disagree about doing it in the first place, but still support research to clean up.

Because it's so hard to get permission to build new reactors, older reactors were used for longer. But we've learned a lot about safety and fail-safes since the 80s.

There's a very shabby strip club directly outside Amazon's meeting centre in Seattle for a similar reason. I'm told the owner wouldn't mind renovating or moving, but zoning laws make those difficult. So because the policy making is driven by morality and not rationality, you end up with weird (side)effects.
Management: "Increase revenue per user!"

Azure: "Introducing DTUs, the simplified, easy-to-use pricing metric for SQL Server!"
English is probably one of the harder languages to get gender right in, since only pronouns are gendered.

In more gendered languages, the problem is easier, since the AI could just look at nearby words to make a guess. In those languages, when it gets it wrong, people would likely assume that it just picked the wrong referent, instead of assuming gender.
I'd say it sounds exactly like the google we know.

People want a messenger app? Let's make one! Oh, it takes time and energy. Let's shut it down. Oh wait, people want a messenger app. Let's make one. Oh, it takes [........]
The first part of my sentence only applies if you think you can/have audit(ed) every line of code running on your iOS device. If anything you're the one saying it can be done by you without any substance.
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I rarely see anybody standing on their lawn in my neighborhood. In Florida they even warned us to not let our dog on the lawn because it was so toxic.

I think lawns are mainly for looks.
Is it really that big of an inconvenience if they don't include gender pronouns in automated email responses?

How much revenue would Google be losing over such a decision?

Even if something only affects 2% of the population, the cost of getting it wrong may not be worth the benefits.
Why not let these companies in, let them operate for a few years, then migrate the ownership to a state owned company?
I recall 'dont be evil' was the motto, but it's removed a while ago, maybe it's removed because Google realized as far as company&profit goes, it is not different from any other companies.
Either way, it's not thing that would come close to justifying the extreme importance these tech companies are placing on it.

If you disagree, can you articulate the point in your own words so that others can see the subtlety it's missing?

The point of clear communication is so that someone can understand your argument without having to squint and struggle.

Edit: To which I would add, the point of quoting someone else's thoughts is because they ostensibly communicate it better than you yourself can. I think this quote fails that.
Whenever I see someone point out they are "ethical", it's always according to their own code of ethics that they are unwilling to ever discuss.

I used to be absolutist like that as well as a teenager. It's a shame when some adults don't grow out of it.
I think that was more a result of shared environmental niche more than anything since it happens with non-intelligent species as well. Predators fight over same prey niche even in the same species. Stable multipredator shared prey arrangements have a clear power differential - the stronger one can chase the weaker ones away from kills and if they are slow enough that may be their main strategy.

If there were say merpeople from a similar time table it would take a long time for conflicts to start because they have a totally different environmental niche.

Anyway early bands of hominids were nomadic by necessity due to localized depletion of food supplies. Given that scarcity it is no wonder that they would come into conflict and managed to drive megafauna to extinction. And their numbers weren't exactly high - humanity bears genetic scars of near extinction.

Said scarcity is such a thing of the past that we have food distribution problems instead of production ones.

Granted there is also a long history of zero sum thinking holding humanity back.
"Your land" as your own personal little utopia is a fantasy and fiction that's never existed in civilized society and whose continued reference as some sort of ideal is naive at best.
It's not weird at all. Continuity is, in my opinion, less complex than discrete systems. Discrete systems hold much more information and can often be approximated by continuous solutions, but that approximation comes at a loss of information.
and it's one thing to accept censored Google as a Chinese consumer. what's the choice when all products are censored. whatever your values, you have no choice.

but it's another thing as a Google employee. I assume that working towards a censored product and passing on user data to the Chinese government is opposed to the values of a lot of Googlers. developers do have a choice.
Great story - random question --- but how did you find out about HN? (I'm just asking because you implied you don't work in software, etc.)
> Two bombs that killed ~250,000 people. The USA should be building monuments as a reminder of how they should never let it happen again. ...

The Japanese caused somewhere between 17 and 22 million civilian deaths in China alone in that era according to Wikipedia, nearly double the estimate for even the German Holocaust. And that doesn't include what they did to other nations in Asia.

By your logic, Japan should have a memorial on every street corner, yet they don't.
I've been using battery-powered yard tools for a few years now. String trimmer, blower, bush trimmer. The brand is Ego, sold at Home Depot. I haven't used their battery mower, as my TH's yard is small enough not to need a mower (just a string trimmer).

That said, I plan to remove the small bit of lawn that I do have and replace it with something of an English-style garden.
What use is it if it is too dangerous|volatile to use?
With gas prices going down again for the foreseeable future (barring OPEC doing some serious cutting) that has to mean even more driving.
How long ago? My group of friends switched to Signal a few weeks back and there have been no issues with push notifications for me on iOS. It might be worth another look if it's been a while.
Related:

https://twistedsifter.com/2012/07/picture-of-the-day-the-bom...
Is this gender pronoun controversy primarily in English speaking populations? In other languages, almost every word is gendered. How will they tackle this problem of assuming gender in them?
> how can I join a conversation without being written off as one of them

Usually "treat others like you'd like to be treated" is a good heuristic. If not I'd encourage you to seek a therapist and start working on yourself.
Thank you. We literally need more people exactly like you in this world. The militarization of the police force is something that started with George W., continued unabated with Obama, and will probably be accelerated under Trump, and it is anti-democracy in my opinion.
They can attest to practices, they cannot determine whether it's a violation.
how specifically is the rest of the world worse off because Google is offering a product in China for local China market? I don't see it.
> They might have missed an opportunity to slow climate change.

35 years ago, I was a pretty ardent and sometimes locally active environmentalist, primarily in and around the high mountains of California. And, of course, a member of Greenpeace.

Once the true threat of CO2 and friends became apparent to me, I started raising hell about it at local meetings. Pollution does not matter if global average temperature goes up many degrees F.

So because of their inability to have a wider, more global outlook, I parted ways with Greenpeace around 1990.

I don't dislike the organization, for the most part. But they've been unable to focus on the big picture threats.

This is understandable; it's relatively easy to be passionate about the things Greenpeace is into. Things you can 'touch' and directly see. Had they, as an organization, tried to switch their focus to climate change, they'd probably have lost most of their internal energy.
yep. happens all the time. people flock to brand association because it "must be good". halo effect or some other cognitive bias in action.
> It can also tell you how much you are likely to inherit and what network of people you are linked to as well.

Only to the extent that your parents have the same DNA. The point is that economic success is strongly correlated to genetics independently of social position and nurturing.

Of course this will be controversial; it's the same kind of conclusion that spurred the Soviet Union to promote Lysenkoism and suppress Darwinism.
I morally judge (not condemn) people who work at Google. If you can get a job at Google, you can get a job almost anywhere. There is tons of great work out there for you. People who work at Google are choosing to aid in the suppression of human freedom.
It's not an excuse to violate anti-trust. MS were blasted for this, but Apple got away with this foul behavior.
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Censorship has its uses. I often open these China threads on HN just to add users to my cosmetic filter.
Cool.

It receives about 2,000 calls per day. Who knew?

Perhaps my favorite NIST publication has a section titled 1A Dating of Events in the Vicinity of Leap Seconds at https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1788.pdf
I'd think it's much less of a concern than in space. For one, space robots are far enough away that there's a big time delay to Earth communications, these robots will have control stations <1km away. So the only electronics on board the actual robot should be fairly rugged motor drivers and wireless comms. Add in an extra redundant copy or two of all the IC's (and possibly enough motors to give redundant degrees of freedom), and a policy of pulling out and rebuilding the robot when a certain number of non-function-impairing radiation damage events occur, and it's a non-issue.

Radiation causes huge headaches in space because there's no way to pull it out or send in a replacement, and comms have seconds - minutes of lag. These don't apply to Earth based robots, even in super hazardous environments like this.
Touch keyboards are (mostly) reliant on the user's history, so they offer a ready made "it's your own damn habits" defense that's less accessible for Google.

A larger issue is that touch keyboards predict using single words and pretty quickly spiral into Markov chain incoherence if you let them draft whole messages. Smart Compose tries to offer syntactic and even semantic understanding. If I type "The investor is here, do you want to meet", my phone keyboard is working off 'meet', and will probably suggest 'up'. Smart Compose is working off 'investor' also, and apparently arrived at 'him'. (It's not clear to me from the article if this was actually tracked to specific biases, or if the predictions just adopted the default masculine.)

But most of all, I'm guessing Google's core motivation is explained by the offhand comment that Smart Reply uses the same logic. A gendered pronoun suggestion probably isn't going to spark a scandal, but a feature that encourages you to send Google-drafted text unedited might be subject to a lot more scrutiny.
There are documented and robust genetic contributions to success (measured, for example, as income) even for adopted children.
While I’d like to try and agree... I think you may be missing a sense of scale and the reality of just how replaceable people are... even magically-gifted google employees.
If I've learned one thing from YouTube, it's that there are definitely content creators whose brains are built in such a way that what they want out of life is to put tons of effort into building up a library of highly-structured and predictable content. (I'm not talking about the "putting pre-fabbed CG parts together to make a buck on infants" videos here; I'm talking about things like the infinite stream of nail-art tutorials, or things like SummoningSalt's timelines of speedrunning efforts of a particular game.)

Such people could vary their formula—they're not doing this as work-for-hire with strict requirements under a producer, this is just the stuff they publish as a hobby. And you'd expect a "normal" person in such a situation to get bored and want to vary their formula, especially as they gain more followers. Most creators do, but these ones don't. They just keep on makin' what they're makin', to a strict standard that lets them continue to pump out a lot of it, rather than making each successive work more of a production than before. It's what they like doing.

I'm not a psychiatrist, so I can't say for sure what's going on with such people (though I've heard the phrase "systematizing personality" before and it sounds applicable here.) But I can say for sure that such people certainly do exist.
I wonder whether there might not also be additional factors that we have not considered. For example, insect viruses. We know that when human populations mixed between continents upwards of 95% of one population vanished due to disease. Very few people study insect diseases (and are usually just happy that a 'pest' has been killed), and there are so many species it would be a nearly impossible task to study them all. Globalization is now mixing members of all species and their diseases with them. It would not surprise me if part of this drastic decline was also due to massively virulent diseases sweeping through completely unprepared populations just as European diseases did to the indigenous populations of the Americas.
You might also look at the Pinebook, 11" for $99. I'm considering one also.
As a workaround I use an inductive charger while using headphones. Not a great solution because it only works at my desk, but better than nothing.
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Simple hypothesis re: music: our evolutionary advantage was our better brains that let us use pattern matching to understand things, so the brain evolved to reward pattern matching, and listening to music presents it with an easy exercise in pattern matching by predicting when the chorus will repeat, expecting chord progressions to be resolved, etc.
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That's very interesting, that just made me realize my x299 ITX board has the exact same issue with CSM while trying to boot into OS/X (so also BSD-ish, but hackintosh).
So a good chance of hanging on boot, unless I disable CSM and a power loss event will clear this CSM setting.
I don't think you understand Google culture. Kicking them out would have far greater repercussions. It might also expose them to lawsuits. It also will likely affect what they'll have to pay for top talent: the idea that Google puts core values above profits (or at least that they prioritize them at all) is a major perk.
"Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and chair of the philosophy department at Duke University."

Not a neuroscientist. Not a cognitive psychologist.
He gives short shrift to the utility of different levels of description to inform each other.
I did, and it does not answer my question, because they only address the runv+qemu usecase, not the runv+kvmtool one:

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Apple can go fuck itself.
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In any case, Apple doesn't allow outside contributors, which means they're fine.
Indeed, the author of this package is not at fault here. It is the responsibility of the users depending on this package to check in all their dependencies and ensure to have reproducible builds.

I think many maintainers would have done the same.
Well, his profile says... "Linux fan".
If your web interface breaks because someone is trying to see it on a small monitor, you probably did something very wrong on your end.
Why would you water your lawn? Grass is almost impossible to kill (explicitly attacking it with herbicides aside). There is really no need.
Prisoner's dilemma. If one of those companies jumps ship, it will make more money than the others.
Between the HN attitude shift and this article being flagged (maybe if I linked to a medium article it would be fine. /s) maybe this community isn’t for me anymore.
60 signatures, 88,000 employees :(
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> Who can marry who

Last time I checked people are free to marry whoever they please.

> substances you are allowed to make or put in your body

Marijuana is legal in the majority of states.

Sure these developments are recent but the reason they happened is because as the parent said, American's hate busy bodies.
>other evil projects

Like a search-engine in NSAland?

China isn't any more Evil than The US. Grow up.
I presume they also don't use any chinese made electronics day to day in protest either
I don’t understand why this is being downvoted.

Google is dominant nearly worldwide. If China is able to get Google to cave and build the censorship machine then what barrier is there to turning the feature ‘on’ for other countries that ask for it? There are plenty of oppressive regimes interested in a censored Google but they don’t have the pull to get Google to build it right now. Once it’s built though why wouldn’t Google’s response just be shrugs “sure why not?”

I think it is indeed a slippery slope and legitimizes China’s plan to influence the internet for the worse.
There's a continuation on the series, with SPL graphs and new materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKIye4RZ-5k
Sure, mine wasn't an attempt at refuting what's happening.
That would depend. If the contributor retained their copyright and didn’t assign it, then you couldn’t commerialize closed versions of it without their permission.