skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But arresting foreign nationals in other countries for violating US sanctions? That's the equivalent of Russia arresting American business executives and extraditing them to China for violating Chinese sanctions against Taiwan - and yes, there are sanctions against Taiwan, which are regularly ignored by the US, of course.

No, it isn't. They're only equivalent if the American executive's company in question is selling, say, Huawei networking equipment (assuming it is banned; I don't know if it's the case) to businesses in Taiwan -- probably under an arrangement where the intention to sell to Taiwan was never made clear and likely actively concealed.

That's circumvention of export controls and likely fraud at the expense of the sanctioning country -- an entirely different beast than merely passive business between the sanctioned and a separate third-party.

>will undoubtedly cause a major international crisis.

It will, but it has less to do with any escalation by the US than it does with China's own, well, unique political environment. If a similar case occurred to CFO of e.g. Yandex, I have a hard time seeing Russians/Russia reacting nearly as strongly as I expect Chinese/China to.
I have seen faulty bids internally that are magnitudes larger.
Turn your phone off and send a message to someone from your computer. Oh wait...
Made me think of an art project in a shopping street in Vienna over 10 years ago where all advertisements and logos were covered by yellow foil.
I remember quite liking it back in the day.

https://www.fontblog.de/fontblog-archiv/C1716572149/E9454162...
http://dativ.at/fotos/panoramas/neubaugasse.html
> The person who determines what the end result should look like.

Not necessarily. In many companies 'project manager' is just the techie name of what used to be called a 'secretary'.
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Google also sells hardware (phones, Nest), Cloud services, gSuite...Ads represent 80-85% of Google revenue but that share is decreasing over time.
Keen to see this. Can you please reply to this message when you share to HN?
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One large argument is that there is larger biological differences than gender-related ones, and we usually do not split the player base based on the biggest biological differences. There is some small exception for sports which historically has a close connection to betting (horse racing and boxing), but then we have sports like baseball which is not separated based on height.

We could introduce a general rule where if a biological trait has above a statistical threshold of being beneficial, then the sport should split based on that trait. I would love see a statistician explore that and paint us a picture of how the most popular sports would look like.
Neither of those are ad-tech companies that make their money from spying on users?
Bummer, isn't it? That was my favorite feature to be honest.

I think there's a lack of connection between Fi and google's other chat products (or even just hangouts and fi) in terms of roadmaps and so on. Fi graduated, now hangouts going away seems a bit... reverse.
Here is my attempt at apolitical summary for those seeking a quick rundown on the situation. Apologies for brevity since I'm on mobile - there's a lot of small things joining together to make this an interesting situation.

Aussie Parliament has two houses: the lower house of representatives, and the upper house (of review). A bill has to pass both in the same form before it can become an Act (law). This one has passed the lower house, and not yet the upper.

The current government can't force through legislation without support from independents since they don't have a clear majority in both houses, and there are some types of lost votes in Parliament that if lost threaten the concept that they're actually a 'government'. This situation involves something like that, but it's a rare thing (1940s was the last time this kind of situation resulted in a government resigning).

Today was the last day of Parliament sitting for this year, and the government had promised to put through the encryption legislation by now, so it's in place for Christmas. They have some reputation on the line, stating many times it is a necessary law to have in place for the safety of the Australian people over summer.

At the same time, there is some legislation in the Parliament that will change how some Australian refugees on the island of Naru are treated, potentially allowing them into Australia. This is a very hot political topic with lots of debate and nuance - so forgive me if I simply say the government wants the refugees to stay on Naru and the opposition wants them to be able to come into Australia.

Both of these law changes were in the Parliament today, and both were expected to go before a house for a vote this afternoon. There is argument over the opposition deliberately aligning the to issues, but I'm not across it. Importantly, it was almost certain that if the Naru bill went to a vote, the government would lose, and be in the unfortunate position above of perhaps not being a legitimate government anymore.

The government therefore faced two choices: Allow the situation to contribute, lose on immigration and stability, but win on security and reputation; or prevent the Parliament continuing and win (for now) on Naru, but lose on security. They chose the latter.

Subsequently, both the government and the opposition have blamed the other for putting politics before people, on one of the two issues respectively. However, the encryption bill only passed the lower house because of the support from the opposition (at the time), who may have been in a better position to know the Naru bill was going to line up in terms of timing.

Quite a busy and tense close to our country's Parliament for the year!
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The HDD industry, Basically Seagate, Toshiba, and WD together are milking it for as long as possible. The Data created per year, or even growth per year far out-weight the growth of HDD capacity.

At some point later, surely NAND will offer more storage in 4U than a 40U Rack. Lower Energy, higher speed.

I have been asking this a lot, at what price point, will the TCO of NAND, where it offer superior speed, higher density per Rack and its capacity cross and it makes sense to store them all in NAND.
Project fi actually DEPENDS on hangouts.

At some point in the last year, I wanted to jump into the "new chat ecosystem" and so I uninstalled hangouts to break bad habits. The entire phone becomes unable to connect to any network.

I love hangouts, and I wish RCS could just roll into it; but how did project fi end up so integrated?
And if you are somewhere where SMS is not free, you might get a hefty bill.
What's VI?
Yes, you should avoid USD like plague. That's why Iran and South Korea established payment facility denominated in won, South Korean currency.

https://www.rt.com/business/443354-iran-south-korea-currenci...
I don't get your argument.

I get the original post's argument of not willing to be tracked by Google, but what hurts you so much in training Google's AI?
it should be Iran not Turkey , trading with israel is not forbidden in Turkey
In this post about D, the top comments are about how great Rust is. But mentioning D in a post about Rust is like sticking your head into a bee-hive.
Aren’t most Google services there to capture eyeballs for the advertisers to service? That’s Google Search (sponsored results), YouTube, and—in some sense—Chrome.
I wonder if it would be reasonable to match their investments albeit on a much smaller scale
"facilitating surveillance and IP theft"
... Which is pretty funny coming from the US!
Saudi Arabia is known to finance Wahhabism groups around the world, its books for children say it is ok to kill non-Muslims and even Muslims of the “wrong kind”, the terorist behind 9/1/1 were from the country, ISIS got its money from SA and the country is engaged in mayor war in the Middle East. Yet SA is a friend of US and many western countries.
35 hours of youtube 'features you didn't know existed'-guides.

I don't know how we're expected to stay up to date without regular user friendly manual updates that get pushed.
As an Australian and residents can tell you we all think the stupid is great here. It's like a clue free zone around law enforcement claims
Single-beam laser becomes multi-beam laser by kicking electrons
Another "old guy" story. I remember working for a very large telecommunications company one time. We had a new box that was supposed to speak a particular protocol (I can't actually remember which protocol it was now -- long time ago). But we didn't finish it in time for the demo. So we had our box at the demo and underneath the table, covered by a cloth, we had our competitor's box. Our box wasn't connected to anything :-) We did the whole demo using the competitor's equipment. We fixed the problems a few months later and nobody was the wiser...

I don't really want to work for that kind of company any more, but it makes for entertaining tales later on in life.
Maybe I've just met an abnormal amount of lucky people, but in my role as one of the more mechanically inclined among my friends and family, I've seen three people completely locked out of their cars when under-door or other concealed keyholes have needed to be used.

I'm not sure if it's been from rust, lack of use + time, or ice, but unused or backup keyholes on vehicles seem to fail far more often than those used for normal entry.
I don't get the node way of doing things. Why should the availability of modules be dependent on the current working directory? Seems brittle to me that your app can't find its libraries because you ran it one directory up/down from where it should be.

As for sudo, there is no situation in which you should use sudo with pip.
Are there any good alternatives to reCAPTCHA? If I remember correctly, it started as an academic/nonprofit from Carnegie Melon to digitize books, but then somehow got acquired by Google.

Have any academic groups looked at offering a replacement?
You're doing work for them for free. It's unpaid Mechanical Turking.
https://duck.co/help/results/sources

> In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

What this means is that they use 400 sources for things like Instant Answers and other widgets but Yahoo and Bing for all their organic search results.
And you think it’s just of US to sell weapons to a authoritarian murderous regime like SA? Previously Saddam in Iraq? And also the Afghan fundamentalists during Russian and Afghanistan war?
Eventually US went to war with both Iraq and Afghanistan with the same leadership they supported earlier.

The Shia militias your talking about is no better nor worse than the kind of people both US and SA and other gulf countries have supported in the region. You think ISIS could have existed without certain external help in the ME?

The question is not if Iran is bad they clearly are, but they are not worse than the rest of the regional powers also not worse compared to US given it’s track record in both supporting totalitarian leaders and fundamentalists.
What are they doing with 1MDB?
Well, mainly because Google is a 1 Trillion $ company and why should you help them in exchange for nothing? It's not like they're open sourcing all their data for others to use. They use and control whatever they can in their own interest.
The Iran sanctions are yet another sad example of the US losing the moral high ground and soft power (followed by hard power). Americans might not like hearing this but increasingly the US is seen a dangerous, untrustworthy and negative value ally. As this continues the EU block will steadily move away from the US eventually NATO will fragment and this will have serious implications for global stability.

Prior to the current return to Iran sanctions the USA had a monopoly on international payments clearance. The EU has responded by setting up an alternative system.
The wealthy want to believe it was their hard work and not luck that made them successful. (It’s both of course.)

Consider where their wealth comes from: it comes from skimming off some of the income earned by employees or by investment - which again, skims off earnings from productive enterprises.

Neither of those incomes come from their own actual work.
I think this analogy is useful. However:

"the early cohort that set off the digital explosion is giving way to a new, more robust form of life"

At this point in time whatever creations mankind has brought to being can hardly be said to be robust. Everything digital is reliant on us to press the buttons, build devices and make decisions. And we rely on the old ecology. If we can no longer live in this world neither can anything digital.
Just uninstalled Duo from a new Android phone.
> Google's only product is advertising,

Google's main product is user attention, which they sell to advertisers in the form of advertising.

Right now, they farm this attention mostly through web search, but hone it through data they collect with other venues, such as e.g. location and other data collected from Android handsets, the vast tentacles of Google Analytics, Google DNS, G-Suite (GMail, G Docs, G Drive, ...) etc.

AFAIK, G-Suite for business is actually making money (a round-off error compared to advertising, but still, a profitable business), and the various cloud storage and compute offering are actually making money that is not a round-off error (though still dwarfed by advertising).

Also, they DO need to make better advertising (and farm better attention), because they are in many ways a "natural monopoly" - they're the monopoly because they are the best in many ways, mostly not because of network effects or anti-competitive behaviour (which they have practiced at times, especially with YouTube, but not nearly to the extent practiced by any other player of this size).
YC's list has a surprising number of errors. Lob is on Seed-DB, though - https://seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011
They revived the app sometime last year and it's back in a usable state now.
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Thank you!
It's even more interesting than that. There are no operations in china at all other than tax preparation. He hires an agency to staff the main office, which does nothing other than shovelling money around.
Devils advocate: you are getting access to a service that uses google's assistance for spam or abuse protection, not entirely unpaid.
I personally haven't felt much heat. It used to inspire more wonder amongst my acquaintances back in 2017, and I could brag more about it. Within the US most comments I get are around the stock as jokes around losing money.

I've still had people ask me for referrals, be interested in what I do and think my job is cool-- just not as much as before.
And I am pretty sure that the mullahs in Tehran are laughing in their beards over the US picking fights with China (and maybe the EU) over the Iran boycots. At least when this is the way it is done.
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You aren't the customer. The website is. They're providing a valuable service to the website. The website is providing a valuable service to you. You get to choose whether or not doing one unit of Google AI training work is worth using the services of the website. Generally speaking, I find that trade to be quite fair.
Maybe a stupid question, but what's the difference between OCSP Stapling and just rotating your TLS certificate more often?

It feels like at the end of the day, my server is essentially asking some authority to sign something that says "yes you are you for the next 24 hours".

I coukd keep the same keypair unless I want to "revoke it". It also doesn't seem more expensive because the authority, in both cases, is just signing something?
> We could have built a tool to manipulate `requirements.txt` files

There's pip-compile from https://pypi.org/project/pip-tools/ that does exactly that. Pipenv uses its resolving mechanism if I'm not mistaken. It produces standard req.txt file with versions pinned and supports separate dev requirements. It had some bug with upgrades last time I checked though, not sure whether it's resolved, currently considering using it for projects at work.
Coincidentally, a Stanford Chinese American scientist, Prof. Shoucheng Zhang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoucheng_Zhang), who discovered the Quantum Spin Hall effect that plays a big part in the recent Intel announcement of the next generation of chip design, was found dead on Stanford campus on Dec. 1st. Before he's death, Prof. Zhang went together with Huawei's CFO to attend a dinner in Argentina on Dec. 1st.

Basically, after that dinner in Argentina, one of them is dead, another is arrested.
These cost reductions are a big deal and they are largely based on energy cost reductions. It offsets some of the inconveniences of not so long range, lack of infrastructure for charging, and having to wait for recharging.

For reference, typical business jets or twin props burn hundreds of gallons of fuel on a single trip costing hundreds of dollars. They also need frequent maintenance as there are a lot of things that need to be checked and fixed with such planes. So, the proposition of charging with cheap electricity and getting rid of most of the stuff that needs fixing and maintaining on a regular basis is highly attractive. If it works as advertised, this plane will sell like crazy. Electrical engines basically last a very long time and are easy to check and service. Charging batteries is comparatively cheap to burning fuel and likely to get cheaper in the future.

Practically speaking, if you have a home base with charging infrastructure but most other airports do not (yet), effectively you are looking at a 300M range for a return trip unless you are flying to a place with infrastructure to charge. That's still fairly nice.

For commercial operations, there are plenty of use-cases that would be well served by a plane like this. A plane like this gets passenger cost down to something that is quite competitive with a train ticket.
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Your reluctance to train the AI has been dully noted.
No, the company that integrates it makes me pay (by doing work for google)
The AI you help train will be used to assist authoritarian governments (e.g. Dragonfly) imprison and murder millions of people so that Google can make a few extra bucks.
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Things like this motivate me to stay in California and work for small companies for the rest of my life, so that California Labor Code § 2870 applies and I get to keep the rights to independent inventions if I'm careful.
Australia's Assistance and Access Bill 2018 has passed
"a site filled with excellent original stories based on historical figures. Some Disney executive should buy them."

And turn it into the mainstream content the author doesn't like?

I mostly don't get this reminiscing about the past state of a technology. When I see it I always suspect someone is remembering their youth in a candid way.
Actually, color sensation is three dimensional because we have three types of cells that are sensitive to different frequencies.

One could maybe argue that the dimensionality of a smell sensation corresponds to the amount of types of receptors we have in our noses.
That sounds like a bad idea, but you could also take it as an opportunity to develop in a new direction and build some experience there.

It's probably a bad deal for people who are extremely specialised and want to stay that way, but it'd be a pretty good deal for people like me, who love an excuse to learn something new.
> People are hiring more women because it improves performance and productivity

> those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

Let's play spot the difference...
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>We may never be able to build a machine that can recognize the full diversity of human emotional experience

Even humans have a lot of problems recognizing full diversity of their own emotional experience, unless trained appropriately.
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new iphones won't do them either. force touch is gone on all 2018 iphones
> maybe they would benefit from an earlier bedtime?

One can try but you will be limited by biology: The problem is that our internal clocks are reset by daylight. You can't just shift yourself to another timezone, since your circadian rhythm will always set itself back to the respective local time. So if your brain prefers you to go to sleep and to wake up at certain points it will always be relative to "local (sunlight) time", not relative to human clock time.