skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right on having a preference that Chinese people would like much more over "Baidu/Bing/whatever". I will give you that. But let's look at it from another perspective.

What stops then some other country to have the exact same exception for themselves? If you can do it for China, surely you can do it for us, right? Legally, this would work.

This situation has a risk of building a dangerous base against freedom :/
That strategy would leave you with dozens and later hundreds of forks and variants. You need to make decision here and appoint product owner to make those decisions consistently.
This seems like it could help:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/t...
I work for Red Hat and this is how VMs are configured by default if you buy RHV, RHOSP, KubeVirt or similar on-prem or public virtualization or cloud products from us. You can turn some of these mitigations off if you want, although I wouldn't personally recommend it - at some time of another there has been a security critical bug which has been mitigated by each one of these changes.

Some of our customers are running untrusted VMs in their public clouds using this configuration. Others will be running on-premises virtualization set ups with VMs from across their companies which can be equally risky.

SELinux is probably the most important mitigation in the list, and while it has a bad reputation that's mostly from people who haven't used it for over a decade. I have SELinux enforcing on every machine I use, and it rarely causes an issue.
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I think google should not be in China for the same reason - so Chinese users do not have it. Let them see how cut off and backwards they are - stuck using second rate clones like baidu - due to the communist party.
"Many idealistic engineers were attracted to Google by it's promise to not be evil"

Really? Just how many idealistic engineers are there?

Sincere idealism is rare. Most of the engineers I've met just want to make lots of money and work on interesting stuff, which is likely why the overwhelming majority of Google employees are still working there.
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I meant that when word gets out, someone is assumed guilty and socially sanctioned in some way.. at least. Previously it was generally the "young lady in question," as a matter of cultural prudence.

I'm not saying that prejudice is right, it's just.. evidently hard to shake.
I agree that cheaper launches will not do much to directly change the business of astroid mining. The majority of the cost, even today, are not related to rockets.
If all goes according to plan, SpaceX will also be launching again tomorrow for their next CRS mission (resupplying the ISS).
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It is hard enough finding the similarities between children and parents. The assumption of face phenotyping is that you could be able to roughly guess what someone will look like based on their grandparents, which seems unlikely for an AI to accomplish, and humans are designed evolutionarily to assess subtleties in faces to identify friends and family from foe.
Nice, from a developer point of view.

Havok was once the leader in this area, but they were refinanced in a down round, acquired by Intel, and then sold off to Microsoft. Now they don't seem to be very active. Their web site announces the new 2013 version.

(I used to work on this stuff. I'm responsible for the ragdoll-falling-downstairs cliche, first shown in 1997.)
Would it still be vulnerable to helium, like MEMS devices are?
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Instead of the usual doom and gloom, or abandoning all hope, are there any tangible ways a person can make a difference? Reducing consumption and consumerism, energy efficiency and habits changing surely help a little, but I'm interested in slightly longer term projects (say the next 10 years).

It seems like we're on track for a huge crisis, but as group we're slow to react.
I bet the developer's a lot happier to fix the code when the impact is more severe than yet another ticket.
> The fairings currently cost a total of $6MM for each launch

WHAAAAA?! What are they made of? I thought the fairings were just the covers for the payload. What makes them so expensive?
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/28/google-dragonfly-letter/

There was a leaked memo of those that support the project.
If he looks as young as he feels, then he doesn't need to legally change his age to say he is 49 on Tinder.
Many frying pans are coated with perfluorinated compounds. You would also see these on many other non-stick coatings like goretex product for example. Exposure from frying pans and jackets will be much lower than people near industrial sources. However, these compounds are extremely persistent and will accumulate in your body throughout your whole lifetime. This is definitely something people should be concerned about.
Not worse than the status quo can still be something unethical to be involved in.

If a government is currently using software to target, kidnap, and torture journalists and you supply them with new software that basically does the same thing then you're still complicit in the bad behavior. You're still responsible for your actions even if others would be willing to do it if you didn't.

In China's case there's also a history of this rationalization that getting involved will help westernize the country, while there's some truth to this with their embrace of capitalism - the government is not trending in a good direction. Eliminating presidential term limits, deep packet inspection, social credit system, total/unrestricted surveillance.

Western companies that operate there in a capacity larger than just manufacturing seem to just have their IP stolen and then a Chinese approved local company gets explicit government support.

It's important to help citizens of countries where the people are more vulnerable - I'd argue it's irresponsible for a company to help an authoritarian government oppress its own people. It's not a question of whether or not it's legal, something can be legal and still be wrong.
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What are you thinking of that they took down? Most of the stuff seems to be nonsexual and more political or gorey
Volatile content-based addressing is way to go.
Tumblr is the only place of the internet where showing your kinks is allowed? And this only affects females? Allow me to call bs.
Because there are no concessions from the Chinese government. Well, their concession is to offer Google revenue from China, but that's hardly a universally recognised good - that's just money flowing from one place to another.
Not if it's highly unlikely anyone with enough knowledge to know otherwise is going to review it. The upside is that you get folks like the one above who automatically assume open source software is safe, and use it.
> Why are young girls so vulnerable to mental disease trends?"

all kids are vulnerable. maybe girls are more sheltered? and..

> "What can we do better as a society to strengthen the resilience of kids?"

stop sheltering them, let them fail.

i am still a little pissed at pink floyd. i get what they are railing against, but yes, yes I do need an education. i nearly took that too literally when i was a kid.
The solution is in societal morals and not in tech companies doing the censoring.
The first stage landing footage was a total lucky break for us - this was a launch profile that could have made it back to land. However, there was another rocket (ULA, I believe) on the pad at Vandenberg with some delicate payloads, so they asked SpaceX to land on the barge just far enough offshore to give themselves some distance from the pads.
I disagree with "mostly". To me, it seems that the majority of flagged comments are attacks on a person or group, or completely off-topic BS.

(And if you're going to argue that attacks are "speaking outside the window of permitted opinions on HN", well, yes, they are, and for very good reason.)
w.r.t. the US specifically, the US is poised to become a net exporter of oil in the near future.
The ISS isn't a big enough water market to merit this kind of activity. This might be viable if we had 100x more people in space.
At its current rate thats a rocket every ~19 days
You have highlighted a key distinction here, but proceeded to go back to "kids" but I wanted to highlight something that the US HHS found when studying the gender differences between bullying and that is girls tend to experience victimization in the form of sexual harrassment or emotional aggression where as boys were more likely to be victimized physically. Whether nor not this leads credence to any sort of gender theory, or how girls and boys are stereotyped or whatever you want to infer, there are real measurable differences between the type of toxicity found through online bullying or in person bullying, and for girls it does tend to be something emotional (think "ew you're fat, you should just stay home", "ew why are you wearing that", "ew you look like such a pig") versus boys where it tends to be physical threats of violence (think "I'm going to beat your ass", "give me all your lunch money fatty or you'll pay")
I figured it wasn't the only one. People who have gone through Cisco material have an outsize exposure to this particular flavor of SEAL because it's one of the few presented alternatives to AES in their material: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/141879/cisco-sa...
Hey, firstly I am so very sorry for what you and your family is going through. Having a child encounter very scary parts of the world is always awful.

I'm now in my early 20's, but when I was a kid about your daughter's age I also stumbled into that awful, awful corner of the web and developed an eating disorder (ED).

As an adult now, my message is it can and will get better. ED is a tough problem, but with work and persistence both she and you can work through it.

I won't tell you how to raise your daughter, at all. Just offering a sympathetic viewpoint!
These are forms of adjusting for bias and one should be cautious when they (or anyone) think they're good at accounting for them. That said, there are times we do feel justified in our decision because we feel we have adequately looked at "all sides."

At times the process of taking a neutral approach and/or vocalizing that neutrality demonstrates weakness. "Plan X makes sense because of A and B, but it does have this trade off D. That said, Plan Y could make sense if we really value D." In meetings, another person often lays out a single POV strongly and wins. Ideally, this opinion is strong because it's well thought out (and bias-adjusted), but sometimes it's strong simply because it's stated as such. "Plan Y is right. Because D, which I didn't even consider until now. <No mention of A or B.>"

Here, one would hope the group or group leader checks and balances this type of behavior so that a single biased-person doesn't carry a generally clear-minded group, but of course that doesn't always happen.

Considering one's biases is a very good thing, but I wonder if the pragmatics of group dynamics render it something good for the soul, but poor for action.
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If engineers were commodities, hiring would be a much simpler process than it is now.

But engineers are not commodities, thus we spend 2, 3, or 4 interview sessions going over silly algorithmic puzzles, so companies can figure out if we're great, or if we suck.

That's the opposite of a commodity.
> Who says that has been the limit of classical statistics.

The professors writing the grants. No not the limit of statistical methods per se but the limit of what they want to consider. Yeah I used to get involved in the review on rare occasions.

> You clearly have no experience in the field if this is what you think statistics is.

Does 18 years count ? I may be wrong about this but you sound like a newish grad student in statistics. If that is true I go back a bit more than you do and know about the state of affairs at the stats departments, their funding/projects/budget woes. I feel glad that the statistics departments got shaken a bit by ML and datamining for statistics to try and become relevant again.

If you follow the link in my parent comment you will see a vigorous argument (presumably by a student of statistics) that there is no reason why statistical packages even need to support 64 bits. This kind of thinking was pervasive, thankfully things are a bit better now and that would not have happened on its own.
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> The rating of a comment has little to do with its validity as does your emotional attachment to its subjective value, or "favorite" as you call it.

I don't understand what you're saying here. What exactly is a comment's validity?

> 80% Logos, 10% Ethos, 10% Pathos.

...fifty percent pain / and a hundred percent reason to remember the name.

How many Logos would your response be if I told you your comment is pompous?
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There is already forced login for tagged adult subs, as well as a quarantine mode that embed the affected subs to your timeline rather than accessible as its own subdomain. If anything this has already killed much discoverability because search engines are prevented from crawling and their in-house search is useless anyway.
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It may not be an "application of statistics" in the direct sense, but that depends on how one defines statistics, which brings one back to the original problem.

Statistics and ML often have similar goals, but ML emphasizes computational efficiency over trace-able accuracy. Thus, I view each field as having different weights on the same sub-goals.
> does Dragonfly make the world a worse place?

Yes. It normalizes suppressing political speech that disagrees with the incumbent power. That flies in the face of values democracies hold dear. "Someone else would do it" isn't a valid excuse. If you're doing it, you're complicit. (Also, Google will do it better than almost anyone else. That a respected American technology giant will work with China's censorship regime gives the institution legitimacy.)
>Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Even if that mission is constrained in China, I think it will provide huge value to Chinese citizens and the rest of the world. As an American I would love a well-indexed Chinese internet.

I don't believe that Google not going into China will at all change Chinese politics. The Chinese government doesn't want Google's capabilities that badly that they would make policy changes in order to appease the employees preventing it. On the other hand, Google going into China could very well influence culture over time.
I've been part of a formal on-call rotation in Ops departments at 3 companies, and only one of them actually compensated us specifically for it, and that was back in the 90s.

I like the idea of compensating by the week; seems like compensating per incident gives a bit of a perverse incentive.
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The only NLP book I ever found had an impact on my life was "Sleight of Mouth" and it had a massive impact.

I learned the raw power of metaphor/analogy from that. Hands down that proved to be the single biggest tool. There are like 12 patterns of speech if I recall correctly in that book and about 4 of them are just insanely useful tactics when you need them.

I think selectively chunking up/down was another quite effective one to steer conversations.

Eliciting someone's heirarchy of values is also a super interesting and very revealing technique. You can use that to get at what the actual objection to something is. It's fairly easy to do too.

The 4th one I found applicable in daily life escapes me. But that whole book is very practical.
Most software developers really aren’t making that much. If you can’t make it into FANG companies or can’t be a founder, find a different career
I would say its in the same vein as an aiding and abetting conviction not being based on the need of the principal offender for that assistance.

Just because a communist country doesn't need our help oppressing people doesn't mean we are A-OKAY to assist them with it..