skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, with the caveat that its adjusted for inflation. For example, in 1997, minimum wage in California was $5/hour, and in 2018 it's $10.50-$11/hour [0]. So, minimum wage workers are making over double in current dollars, which the article claims is a 1% decrease in real wages, which would be more accurately described as "flat", not "down".

[0] https://www.dir.ca.gov/iwc/MinimumWageHistory.htm
Don’t forget how Google treats the inventors with no resources I.e. this MIT student/researcher’s story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929

Terrible!!!
>"Human rights and basic political speech are not an ignorable edge case."

This aptly summarizes the key point for the critics of Dragonfly. Why isn't this the lede?
It's not FUD. The terms have indeed changed. Oracle Java 8 and previous used the Java BCL. Oracle Java 11 uses the Oracle Technology Network License Agreement. It is completely different.

Java 11 is no longer free for commercial use of any kind. It is only free for personal or development use.

See the new terms: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license...

Particularly this part: "You may not: use the Programs for any data processing or any commercial, production, or internal business purposes other than developing, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating your Application; … All rights not expressly granted in this Agreement are reserved by Oracle. If You want to use the Programs for any purpose other than as expressly permitted under this Agreement, You must obtain from Oracle or an Oracle reseller a valid Programs license under a separate agreement permitting such use."

The only "valid Programs license" currently available is an Oracle Java SE subscription: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaseproducts/overv...

As for the actual cost — It's $25 * cpu cores * Oracle Processor Core Factor for your architecture per month. For an 8 core Xeon VM, this comes out to $1,200 a year. See here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/java-... and here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-...

The solution is to move to an OpenJDK distribution.
As a senior executive at a financial institution, and a father of a daughter, you may not be surprised to hear that I don't agree with this characterisation.

The article focuses on the self-preservation concerns and it would be a lie to suggest that there's no CYA involved.

But it's not the only dynamic. As a senior exec I both legally represent my employer and am seen to represent it by many employees. If how I act or communicate is misconstrued this could have far reaching consequences.

But more important to both of these (because the real risk of something going pear-shaped isn't that large), is the effect that, seemingly inconsequential, actions can have on the recipient.

As an example, a mentee of mine received an email from a senior colleague asking her to go for drinks. She asked my advice as she felt obliged to go but didn't want to give the wrong impression. She was quite concerned. Turns out, he had invited a number of people who had performed well on a project but had omitted to be clear about why they were invited. Entirely innocent, easily misconstrued.

In my view, if senior folk get more thoughtful about their actions, it's likely to be net positive. There may be some unintended consequences (there usually are) but I don't believe the real risk is especially high.
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I'm sure you were attempting to make a point, but you failed. But if you are trying to claim that R.A. Fisher only cared claims that statistics is only about inference, the point is moot because:

1. R.A. Fisher isn't the Almighty Statistical God just because he did laid a lot of foundations in early statistics.

2. Fisher has a long history of seriously stupid personal-beliefs including but not limited to: refuting anything and everything relating to Bayesian statistics, attempting to discredit the studies done showing a link between smoking and lung cancer, and advocating for eugenics and the idea of superiority/inferiority between races.

So just because Fisher may have claimed something doesn't make it so.
You're assuming those stats are correct. I've seen very different stats that say the problem is huge.

But realistically, regardless of what the stats are, if you read news stories about powerful men being shot down through false or trivial accusations every day, stats aren't going to be the main thing on your mind, are they?
Subconscious is fine. It's overt porn they don't want.
Those are a lot of claims. Databases that make half those claim, turn out to be misrepresenting some of them. So far its empty promises on a box.

When can we expect independent 3rd party evaluation of all these claims? The most famous one is Jespen:

https://jepsen.io/analyses

Because this all sounds way too good to be true. What's the catch? How stable is this? Are the claims tested other than in theory?
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Also isn't it the assholes getting all the consentual sex? It's the niceguys getting the rape accusations. Women are telling us in the media and also in person how they always regret sex with niceguys.
I dont know about reasonable, but its a practical necessity. Consider Google Ads. There are a maximum of 13 spots available on the frontpage - How do you chose the 13 out of the billions of possibilities? A mix of quality/relevance and advertising dollars.
No. Most games use it on the CPU, as the GPU accelerated implementation is currently only available on Nvidia cards
This is patently false.
> C pointers being typed is absolutely central.

No it isn't. The rest of your post shows why.

> Firstly, because a pointer is typed, when we dereference it

Nonsensical and circular.

> Secondly, arithmetic on pointers...

Nonsensical and circular.

> Thirdly, we get error checking: there is a good amount of resistance in the language against mixing up types. If we convert one type of pointer...

Circular.

Every single one of your points about why this is an important property of pointers presupposes that the reader knows what a pointer is and how it works. It's a fundamental truism that you can't introduce, explain, and define a term using the term itself.

The OP's introduction does not suffer from this problem, which is why it is superior to your proposal.

(Edit: You all can downvote me all you want, but you're still objectively wrong.)
There are bit-addressable CPUs and DSPs. Examples are many microcontrollers (part of the memory accessible in bit-addressable windows), and famous TMS34010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010).

4-bit CPUs (like the one in your toothbrush or thermometer) can also of course address 4-bit "words", "bytes" or nibbles.

So 8 bits might not be the smallest addressable memory unit.
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Many idealistic engineers were attracted to Google by its promise to not be evil, this is a betrayal of that promise. Microsoft's long reputation of being evil means that engineers that work there don't really care.
Instagram is extremely strict with NSFW content today because of Facebook. Twitter, however, is def more lenient with it.
Yeah, I understand the authentic vibe, but there's something to be said about having every bit of software, ever written for the machine, on a single solid-state SD card. ;)

Re: C128 - I know the feeling .. a pal of mine in the retro-computing group at a local hackrrspace recently set up his C128 for some great assembly hacking (he's building a new game engine for it in assembly) and it has totally inspired me to take another look at it as a machine.

Retro-Computing really has such rewards!
Or maybe, plain simple, they are right?
> The point is that Google should not be held as moral entity.

Any company is just a bunch of people doing stuff. Those people always remain morally responsible, there's just legal exceptions, but no moral ones.

If one doesn't question something, or even seeks to remain ignorant of it, they could be argued to even be responsible even for something they didn't know about -- since it wasn't despite, but because of their efforts that they were ignorant of it.

> simply providing a censored Google search is a morally noble service to Chinese Internet users

There is nothing "noble" about slightly better product, any more than making a slightly thinner laptop is "noble".

> "We could have taken a moral stand, but what good would that have done?" But the moral good of a moral act inheres in the act itself. That is why an act can itself ennoble or corrupt the person who performs it. The victory of instrumental reason in our time has brought about the virtual disappearance of this insight and thus perforce the delegitimation of the very idea of nobility.

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It's a disappearance of insight, not new insights. Some regressed into a moral stone age, but they didn't change the world as much as just themselves with that.
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I see the difference in the way the victim and perpetrator are treated.

If someone robs your house and you see them running away, television strapped to your back, you call the police and give testemony. You say what you saw and the jury judges on the merits of the case.

What doesn't happen, in a robbery, is the defense team lining up a slew of witnesses talking about all the times you left your house unlocked, all the times you invited other suspicious people over, all the times you sold something on Craigslist and all the times you Googled the price of the TV that got stolen. The defence doesn't use this testemony to show that you really wanted to give your TV away, and it wasn't actually stolen, and even if it was, weren't you sorta asking for it anyway?
But there's always the question: Do I stay and try to change things? Or do I leave and expect others to?
If that's the goal, then why buy a platform that's rife with porn in the first place?
Once you hit the IX level you reach the ethical question of should the internet inherently be an equal platform regardless of content. this involves child pornography, terrorism, etc. very very bad things.

My personal stance (as I said above) is that an IX shouldn't discriminate traffic. An ISP downstream could block cp and terrorism and whatnot, by the law of the country they operate in, their own ethical beliefs, or whatever.

I would also argue that google shouldn't discriminate content, but that is its own slippery slope. Here in the US, Google blocks sites in DMCA disputes, sites in FBI takedown disputes, etc.
You should take the time to learn why your argument is so flaccid and insubstantial.
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This is a very common way of looking at this problem, and I find it absurd: Google is creating this "for the Chinese government". How about for the Chinese users? I for one am a Chinese use, and I would love to be able to use Google in China.
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I can't help but notice he died in 2005. Perhaps the premise of the two cultures was more relevant a few decades ago, but in my more recent experience, its absolutely not the case.
This npm / event-stream incident is the perfect teaching moment for POLA (Principle of Least Authority), and for the need to support least authority for JavaScript libraries.

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Most of the time physic is not running on the GPU, it's a CPU thing.
Here's a presentation on one of the examples in the blog post(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7xx9uH2i7w). Used to work with the group, awesome innovation.
Visual Basic is still my preferred language for hobby code. It's the first language I learned, and it's still where my headspace defaults to when I'm writing code. Kinda like my personal native language. If I'm writing in another language, for instance, I might go "I need a Select Case" in my head, and then have to process what it is in that language, like "switch". So when coding for myself, it often saves me a lot of time and effort to just write in VB.

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Russia is also a large market where Google isn't dominant. And there's no regulatory reason for that, Google just has a worse Russian search product than Yandex. In Korea too, Naver is winning.
Really, way to shoot yourself in the foot.

What's next, Twitter banning all bot accounts?
If you're referring to the removal of hate speech from online platforms, it's misleading to characterize that as censorship. I have every right to (and should) kick people out of my house for spewing vitriol, and companies have every right to (and should) do the same.
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Probably the same reason kissing in public is OK, but fucking is not. "Sex sells" doesn't actually mean what it seems to mean.

I'm also wondering why super-targeted advertising (showing actually relevant, and deeper integrated ads for different pages/posts/videos/etc) is still not a thing, there was a movement towards it but it kind of died down, even as everyone is shouting about ML and AI everywhere.
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> Also isn't it the assholes getting all the consentual sex?

No.

> It's the niceguys getting the rape accusations.

Also, very much no.

> Women are telling us in the media and also in person how they always regret sex with niceguys.

Never heard that. Heard a lot of women say they regret involvement, physical and otherwise, with assholes, though.
"That's what the entire Bloomberg article is about! Yes, men apparently now routinely bow out gracefully from relationships with women, because they fear the woman will harm them."

And the article is showing this because it is a massive, unheard of change.
We're in the era where finance has taken over the web, so Google doing business in China is a forgone conclusion [0]. But it would be interesting if Google turned around and published the resulting censorship databases outside of China. I can imagine independent research looking into newsworthy summaries of what's been blocked, models of how practical censorship actually functions, offline thumbdrive dumps (to be smuggled in by activist organizations), etc. It would be a great public dataset for their cloud computing offerings.

[0] as an organ of the Chinese government, just as they're an organ of the US government in the US
So why not quit over Google’s compliance with FISA warrants?

Without drawing some very specific parallels and distinctions, the decision to quit over Dragonfly is mainly a voice of support for neoconservative anti-China warmongers.
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“If the computer means the burden of work will be distributed better and results in a higher standard of living, it will be a real contribution,” said Kates in 1950. "If it places increased profit in the hands of one man and created unemployment, we will have accomplished nothing.”

One wonders what 1950s Kates would have thought about our current crop of tech billionaires and the 'founders' culture.
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Anyone should, it doesn't mean that Nvidia won't feel the pressure that will affect their anti-competitive tactics.
Totally agree. The death rate per capita between heroin users and prescription opioid users is totally different as a result.
I had a couple mention to me "we don't like to big brother our kids".... Without thinking I said "big brother when you are the parent is just parenting." made the wife/mother really mad.

Not sure what you do when they realizing you're watching them and then just get sneaky about it. I remember being sneaky. I assume my kids will be sneaky.
There are tools to do that automatically. A prefix of "xxx" or "xxxxxx" can be found almost instantaneously; "xxxxxxxxx" should be doable given an hour or two.

https://github.com/lachesis/scallion
None of that sounds like it would be affected by this. This move is to try to purge human sexuality from the platform, especially when it is depicted in a positive light. Appeals to insecurity, suffering, and ignorant health advice will still be permitted.