skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the US won’t prosecute you for stealing in, say, Argentina, there are laws on the books that prohibit all citizens from doing business with certain nations, period.

They’re calling them US sanctions but the UN has also imposed sanctions on Iran. That may explain why Canada arested him. One signatory picking up a person on behalf of a more motivated one.
I think that other countries should improve their cooperation and arrest Western citizens breaking their laws. So that Western citizens and companies that break Chinese, Russian or Iranian laws and violate their trading sanctions, cannot evade a fair trial.

It is annoying to read news like this. US is not a world's police. They should not be telling foreign citizens with whom they should or shouldn't trade.
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In the movies they always leave a key behind the visor.
This answer assumes that your nice neighborhood is somehow provided by the government with the tax dollars you give them. The government, especially the federal one, provides extremely little to upper/middle class neighborhoods. The real beneficiaries of government are the poor and the very rich.

Your neighborhood is only nice because of the people who live there :)
Aging Japan: As one suburb grays, another grows
well, what distinguishes capitalism from feudalism is the free movement of labor...
How can the goal of a study be to manipulate emotions, not to measure the effect of feature X on emotions? I haven't read the paper, but the abstract barely even claims the latter. Honest question.
Nobody told me. Or Google, apparently. https://photos.app.goo.gl/E9qk9KJC73VoEj5y6
Can I quickly prototype my own custom format for an XML document?
So for example, I know that under the hood Word docs are basically XML formatted docs.

Is there a way that I can build my own custom XML tags and prototype my own custom XML document format?
Something like:

<CustomGraphXMLtag>somevaluehere<CustomGraphXMLTag>
<somenewtag2>some other value</>
........

Can I do this with Apache OpenOffice SDK or any other way?
Maybe it's a play off Less Wrong?
Thanks for the latin!

I'd only heard reification in the context of data modelling, where it's often meant to model the meta-model.

For example, RDF reification. RFD involves statements in the triple form (subject, predicate, object). The triple (Mary, enrolled, UCSF) corresponds to the statement that "Mary is enrolled at UCSF". A reification might be to turn that statement into a subject, and to make a statement about the statement. Eg. ((Mary, enrolled, USCF), created, 2018-12-06) - the statement that Mary is enrolled at USCF was created on 2018-12-06.
The allegations surrounding Huawei are much more substantial than that - the export of equipment for building serious internet infrastructure. An example of past allegations:

> Meng isn't a stranger to issues with sanctions. In 2013, Reuters found that Meng served on the board of Skycom Tech, a company that offered to sell HP equipment to Iran in late 2010 with Huawei's apparent blessing -- 13 pages of the proposal were marked as "Huawei confidential." The deal reportedly never went through, but it could have landed at least Huawei and Skycom in trouble. It's unclear if the arrest has a connection to the 2010 sale or is based solely on separate allegations.

If a deal like that went through, that's a pretty intuitive and straightforward violation of sanctions.
What's app, Google? (pun intended)
Then shut down Listening part.
Completely a layperson who’s only read science for the masses type physics and astrophysics, but now imagine that there are all sorts of undiscovered phenomena that are actually just the inverse of existing properties of nature we know. Does that make sense, or resonate with more rigorous scientists, Reade archers, students?
I miss both of those because they supported XMPP, but they dropped that as soon as they started gaining market share.
As the size of a set of rules approaches infinity, it becomes indistinguishable from selective enforcement.
The concept of whether something is "real" is a metaphysical amusement. And it is never meant to be answered in modern physics. Physics has come a long way into what it is today from natural philosophy. I believe all physicists in this day and age subscribe to the notion of model-dependent realism in one way or another. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-dependent_realism

Perhaps someday in the distant future we will discover that many assumptions in physics are simply wrong since we really do indeed live in a computer simulation and it is one where the Von Neumann architecture holds so it is always possible to alter "physics laws" like the Pauli exclusion principle and "physics constants" like the speed of light. And these "physics laws and constants" do get altered under certain if-statements or else there will be bugs and the simulation will crash, rebooting itself as a result.

Or perhaps this simulation does crash and reboot itself very often. It's like elixir. We simply are not aware of it. Maybe that could be why we have things like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and quantum tunnelling.
"Even to the extent that is arguably true, that a fight is an artificial construct or a distraction does not mean that the people at whom it is directed don't deeply buy into and incorporate into their identity the side of the fight they have been propagandized into.

"

Most people don't bother understanding an issue or building a real opinion but just follow the part line Just watch the deficit discussion. When Obama was in power, a lot of people thought deficits are bad. Immediately after Trump came in the same people started worrying about deficits. The propaganda put out by the parties is finely tuned and very effective but that doesn't mean that the effects are lasting.
The Push to End Bumping Passengers from Flights
Even then, the list of hardware profiles taking a dirt nap is pretty long. Gone are the budget Nexus phones and any true Android tablets. All they have left are a laughable "flagship" phone, a high end Chromebook, and a kiloton of Nest smart home gadgets.
This accounts for less than 10% of the difference between healthcare spending between the US and other OECD states. See this report for a much more detailed analysis:

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Healthc...
Physics is highly mathematical and as such, can indeed be "tested" (i.e. proven) to be consistent with mathematical laws. This is fairly straightforward (for suitably mathematically literate people). The real issues are:

1. can the theory make testable predictions that can be verified by observation? e.g. string theory has had issues with this.

2. what does <wierd-mathematical-construct> "mean"? e.g. negative mass, spooky action at a distance, spacetime singularity.

In practice, only 1 really matters. However, 2 tends to bug a lot of people (consider the arguments around what the quantum world really represents). I'm one for whom 2 is important. "But what does it really mean?"

Back to your original point, looking at the paper [0], it doesn't seem too ridiculously hard to validate the math for someone familiar with this space (see what I did there?), unlike me who has forgotten everything I was taught [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.07962.pdf

[1] I have a physics degree but that was 33 years ago and I've been doing nothing but IT since.
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In a word, yes. Those industries already have a high barrier to entry which stifles competition and can lead to high prices. However the governments response to that has not been to try to innovate or subsidize new competitors to lower barriers. Their response has been to establish rules that make it harder or even impossible for new competitors to enter the market.
I think the above poster's point is that there are so many laws on the books that effectively everyone is above said ceiling. Thus, selective enforcement is functionally identical to arbitrary arrest.
Their worst update was with Google Finance. It was a fully functional product with great features before they updated it. Now, you cannot compare the returns of more than two stock, cannot compare across different custom time periods, no way to get annualized financial results, the portfolio feature is gone. It is a mess.
Just to remind you that a 1000 something square ft apartment in Shanghai's perimeters costs like 5 million rmb, that's 50 times the average income there, and in better areas, it easily costs 10 or 20 millions plus.

Think about it.
Which is a good reason to not make doctors spend so many years in school. The Europeans don't and their doctors are just fine.
>and then giving them access to documents pertaining to US military technology

Not true! Once a technology is deemed to fall under ITAR or EAR, the export regulations kick in. Doesn't matter if the technology belongs to the government, a large company, a startup, or a university lab. And for obvious reasons, sometimes people are not aware this fact.
This is actually better, coming 30-some years late. C64 == wine?

If I possibly can, I'm going to dust off ye olde 1541, plug it into the somewhat less dusty C64, boot it all, find a working "diskette" and see if I can't run this.

Why? For the sweet satisfaction.
You mean just like how the messaging "strategy" that gave us Allo also created Duo? Because adding just one new messaging application was not enough. They had to split messaging into two.

Is Duo also being shut down?
>Now explain it to me Google - what's your vision

It's a bunch of very talented, bored engineers who realize that launching a product, even if it fails, is better for their career and resume than doing grunge work that might be better for google's bottom line

Basically resume driven development and Google hasn't done anything to prevent it. They probably don't care, they'd rather have them wasting money at Google than leaving due to boredom and potentially creating a startup or going to a competitor that might disrupt Google somehow.
Also because a price that would significantly incentivise a
senior academic is a price that is way too high for most journals to pay. If you have prestige, a decent if not exorbitant salary, bulletproof job security, a project you're passionate about and want to spend time on, and way too many obligations to actually spend time on your project, how much would you take in exchange for adding yet another obligation to the pile, taking time away from what you really want to spend your time doing?
But if the cost becomes so high that people simply go without the devices, is that really a good tradeoff? Maybe a device with 1 in 10,000 failures is better than no device at all, for some subset of illnesses?

Also, I suspect this is FUD by some entrenched medical devices companies who know how to play the game of complying with standards. Anyone here ever gone through compliance testing with software? I've seen systems pass that are worse than what I would have just thought up in 30 minutes and coded up for fun. It's just a warm fuzzy feeling.
Yep, discovering this repo literally shut down our engineering department for 45 minutes.
https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/ (German, some English pages)

Lots of interesting stuff about hardware and software. Minimal fluff, maximal content.
I think it's the fault of the municipal government of Toronto. I mean really, if you nickname your metropolitan area "the GTA", what do you think will happen?!!
A trade embargo does nothing if any middleman can funnel goods and money across by simply misrepresenting or omitting details about where the goods are going.

If I’m wholesaling Cisco routers and they show up in Syria or Iran, and Cisco and I can prove we didn’t know how they got there , that still doesn’t make it okay.
I take deep umbrage at the suggestion that my country and government would choose corporate money over the global democratic order.
Except osm is used with specific integrations, like graphing locations, showing city layouts. It's incredibly naieve to believe you'll just replace the very real Js use cases without knowing how it works
Most non-competes are usually imposed on very specialized professions like market analysts and accountants at global firms for example. If you're barred from working for another financial firm for 2 years, what are you going to do?

I'm surprised to see such a narrow view about this issue on this forum.
Hahha that's exactly like Counter Strike:Global Offensive (which I do play). It's definitely some dark UX/a manipulative practice, but well within their rights to do, as long as the stuff that comes out doesn't actually affect gameplay.

Breaking the games balance with pay/gamble-to-win stuff is pretty shitty IMO though, yikes.

Now that I think about it, Counter Strike: Source didn't have any of the crate nonsense or skins... Yeah they probably learned that from TF2.
Meh, everyone I know uses Telegram. I haven't used Facebook messages in years because the feature is apparently not on the mobile website and I'm not willing to install an app that requires suspiciously many permissions.
They're not in conflict. The problem is pyproject.toml is superfluous. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18614058
China can always pass a necessary law so that Western citizen will become guilty in full accordance with the law. And US can do the same. There is no difference.
Maps is just so much closer to the ad business than all those glorified ICQ clones and B2C experiments. The traditional web ad isn't terribly attractive for local businesses, but with Google maps effectively filling the role that yellow pages directories used to have, small businesses seem almost desperate to throw their money to Google. And Google carefully keeping maps from becoming a cacophony of virtual billboards only seems to make that urge stronger: "if we can't directly pay for ranking, maybe buying some other Google ad products will make the algorithms more favorable". The two sacrificial offerings comes to mind. Maps must be a core strategical asset for Google, because the aggregate ad spending potential of all those small businesses is huge, even when you are Google.The chat apps etc are insignificant compared to that. Maybe they really are just Google-scale coding katas to the organization.
Bethesda’s attempt to fix a Fallout 76 blunder leaks angry shoppers’ PID
A challenge-response notification would not be susceptible for a replay attack
Seriously? Canada will try to maintain R&D for Huawei vs. risking their relationship with US? Don't say the answer - we know it.
I usually jump right on board when Google engineers build something new.

I must be some kind of masochist.

Is there any internal understanding that these head fakes are punishing to fans?

Me and my friends were the ones that used plus. And buzz. And wave.

Now we're terrified to buy anything on the Play store.

I'm arguably a fanboy and even I am starting to worry that humanity might be better off if all the talent at Google was out from under their direct control. If only all the project teams at Google were free agents or in startups where the baseline comparison wasn't constantly asking if their product was as lucrative as advertising...

Be Bell Labs and dump your enormous profits into fundamental research with no expectation of return. Or be Softbank and just incubate the world.

But paying a bunch of talented engineers to build and maintain things you will kill seems cruel to the engineers, the customers, and maybe even humanity.

We already had Signal, et al. We could have used these cycles for other things.
Look up 5-year cancer survival rates by country. That metric at least attempts to measure the performance of the healthcare system. The studies that say our healthcare system "sucks" are looking at overall health of each country's population, not the performance of their systems.

To condemn the healthcare system based on the overall health of a nation that spends all day watching TV and shoving cheeseburgers in its face is absurdly disingenuous.
For an in depth look at the state of the current US system as compared to other developed countries see this report:

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Healthc...
Cheap cold storage will find its use. So I think it's reasonable to expect the gap to increase for like 10x more in the future, before SSDs overtake storage completely. Have to plan at least for that.
> Make notes as you read

Make executable notes as you read.

FTFY

ie. Add in asserts or logs that check what you believe and log (or abort) if what you believe is false.

Otherwise it's idle speculation that never gets falsified.
That's absolutely the sort of thing that can be fixed in pytest's test discovery algorithm. It's not like this isn't exactly the same fix as in the js world (= ignore node_modules in test discovery).
Lifestyle and trends probably more so. Though if it's a pub like the NYT, they're at least calling some other sources to get some other perspectives and confirm that the pitch isn't total BS. Of course, the further down you get in the journalism food chain, the less direct knowledge reporters have of the topics they're covering and the less time they have to weave a story together from a lot of different inputs.
I wonder if it is mainstream because it is functional rather than because it mirrors reality. The ability to ascribe a moral weight to a choice and then punish or reward an individual for that choice, resolves issues such as nudging people toward "appropriate" behaviour, enacting some vengeance against people who do harm to others, etc. It appears to me to be a neat legal fiction but, perhaps, not the most effective tool.
Almost Every Electric Scooter Comes from This Chinese Company
I checked digitalrightswatch.com.au, there is a video of a hearings they did with parliament people.

They did not even bothered to be present, the girl was on skype and a guy on the phone. Room was empty.
That's crap, often 80% of the price of a drug is marketing and profit.
I doubt it - like most Apple things, it probably only works with other Apple things. Most things in the world are not Apple.
I feel like the proliferation of non-compete agreements is counterproductive even from a practical standpoint. Sure, you get to prevent your employees from jumping ship to your competitors, but your competitors are doing the same thing. Better to be against them even for short-term gains, let alone long-term.
Nope, they're fine with its success.

I've never heard of anyone using it after its launch, felt it was very buggy when it launched and the name implying it only supports two users limits it severely ... but they seem to be happy with it.

... or they forgot it exists.
You can't just handwave "useful" as an explanation for why location-based SERP discrimination is desirable.

It is "useful" for me to be on the phone with someone in Cleveland and describe how to find something on the Web, expecting that they can follow a similar set of steps at a similar time and get a similar result.

A (sort-of-)deterministic Web can be good and useful. It is a very strong statement of preference and exercise of power to declare that "useful" results must be meaningfully different based on the characteristics of the individual searching.

For whom is that exercise of power most beneficial? I would argue that a rapidly shifting, slippery, personally-dependent presentation of the world's information is extremely useful as a tool of control, but gives only occasional and relatively marginal benefit to individual searchers.

The 2016 US election is a big case in point. Personalizing information delivery, when coupled with asymmetric processing power and data availability, lets you have situations where an atomized polity winds up seeing what suits each individual, but with a radically degraded ability to form collective truths or consensus.

The definition of "useful" is an exercise of power.
I'm glad to have the documents, but I have to admit its really sketchy for a government to step in and do that. People are saying 'the sovereign body wanted it', but that's a worrying way to run things.
Has there been any word of how long this has been known about? I recall a certain group of people talking confidently, open but vaguely about a serious k8s security bug at least a few months ago. Given the number of clusters that undoubtedly had to be upgraded for this, it wouldn't surprise me if this was found a while ago.

Also, my heart goes out to the [big company] engineering manager asking in the GitHub thread if 1.7.x clusters are affected.
So if some Western company would trade with Ukraine or Georgia in violation of Russian sanctions, should their representatives be arrested and extradited to Russia?

Also, after Russia-Ukraine conflict many Ukranian politicians are under a criminal investigation in Russia (and I guess Russian politicians are investigated in Ukraine). Should they be extradited too?
The DRAM and NAND markets are similar, but there are important differences. The NAND market has several more major players and is significantly more competitive.

And the Chinese accusations of price fixing need to be understood in the context that they're trying very hard to get their own NAND fabs up and running, almost certainly using at least some stolen tech. Even without Chinese influence, NAND prices have fallen dramatically since that article was written, due to ordinary healthy market forces.
Same here, but there's no sense trying to convince the people here that.
This is it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01892
Waymo's driverless cars on the road: Cautious, clunky, impressive
It's ironic, but I also don't see a huge contradiction.

Launching terrible services is bad. Shutting down services that people have genuinely come to rely on is also bad. But shutting down services that were meritless to begin with -- not a problem, but at the same a good opportunity to criticize Google for their aimless, lukewarm product strategy. Or complete lack of product strategy. Hard to tell.

The real fix is to have a cohesive vision and try to only create products that have merit, high quality and serious commitment behind it. A failure now and then is one thing -- every large company has a little graveyard of failed products -- but to keep making the same mistake repeatedly is something else entirely.
> At 8m and 1.5% safe withdrawl you still need to work.

$8m at 1.5% is $120,000/year. Since he's already mentioned the house and cars being paid off already, that's going to be a living wage even in Silicon Valley, especially considering he also said the $8m is AFTER taxes. He doesn't need to work.
I often don't lock my house. But when I'm not there, there's a dog on the front porch who doesn't like strangers.
Both are, if you ask me. WE are just as bad. The demand drives the supply, in fact.
No, because the fine, jail time, and infamy of "public noodle eating" or whatever has a hard cap. Selective enforcement can only get harassers so far.

China's harassers get to use the much more powerful "lock up whoever I want for no reason at all, forever"