skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that people are rationalizing for a dictatorship-lead China with concentration camps in the west (xinjiang), religious oppression in the south (tibet), democratic oppression in the east (hong kong), and aggression in the east (artificial islands in south china sea, nearly crashing into US battleships, massive buildup in warships), that is seeking to invade Europe with spy technologies from its state firm is:

huawei doesn't have backdoors => the backdoors are (easily?) found by security audits. nothing to see here.
The psychological factor of feeling empowered to take control of your part of the world, however insignificant, is important I think.

"No silver bullet," is something I've said elsewhere. I don't think this article nor I have implied that if everyone went vegan then the climate crisis could be averted. I think it's a good article because it doesn't try to frame our dietary choices as a solution. It informs us of the impact of our choices and makes sure people realize that eating some meat is okay. But if you want to do more, you can, and it will have an impact -- however small -- and that's a good thing in my books.
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Ha! Awesome story, thanks for the write up Chris! We probably shared some classes together at RIT.
How do you negotiate with providers while having a heart attack?

Free markets depend on leverage.
How, just how do activist journalists collude with internal Google employees, to concoct stories where none exist? So 200 out of 72,000 employees want to take their privileged 30% above market salaries, and bully the hand that feeds them, on company time. And this is somehow a news story?

The accurate headline here is: An overwhelming fractional minority of employees at Google protest "perceived" retaliation.
Aren't we told that one should cease thinking during meditation?
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What is RGE?
Also I am curious about the process you took to select best pages.
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One worry is that in a war situation (cyber or shooting) the Chinese govt might be able to disable UK networks, for example by sending an obscure sequence of plaintext bytes which is understood by the routers.
I'm glad you've actually measured this, because you've saved me from doing it! Killing off our "update your browser" nag on our sites has been something I've been considering for a while.

Over the last week we hit the jackpot at work, in that we had errors come into Rollbar caused by every version of Internet Explorer we don't support all the way back to 6. Yes, there was a little celebration in our dev team when we scored our first IE6 exception. :)
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That's a disingenuous reading of "all those links". In the very first link, for example, we have this quote:

> The existence of this historical data suggests minerals may have been an underlining factor in the administration’s decision-making long before their official entanglement in the Afghan conflict. That would explain why, mere weeks after 9/11, and weeks before the official declaration of war, the Pentagon was already commissioning geologists to study caves throughout the country. ...

> ... The process began almost immediately. From 2004 to 2006, the USGS conducted airborne geophysical surveys of the country. This was supplemented by efforts between 2005 and 2007 to consolidate existing information about the deposits in tandem with the AGS. What they found shocked even seasoned geologists, with an internal Pentagon memo from 2007 referring to Afghanistan as a “Saudi Arabia of Lithium.” With peaked interest, experimental hyperspectral imaging surveys began in 2007. But by the time Bush’s tenure as president was over, those surveys were not yet complete.
In my experience, the benefits and job security guaranteed to government workers provides no added benefit for the taxpayer. No market incentives translates to no worker incentives, and everyone is just riding the gravy train to retirement. The bureaucracratic red tape imposed by Congress builds up endlessly, and special interest groups and crony capitalists magnify the inefficiency. Most government pay systems provide raises based 90% on time served instead of performance, though the ship is slowly turning towards performance-based systems. My agency tried pay-for-performance years ago, the union shut it down, went back to GS, now they're trying performance again.

The comment was directed at the VA, there's no reason it needs to be run by government personnel for the most part. A few could be on hand to handle classified matters if necessary. People hired by the government are not necessarily the best subject matter experts, as the rigid pay structure doesn't allow offering to pay what they're worth - and more often, to pay less, as many job classifications are simply salaried too high. Maybe strictly in matters of government policy could an expert find their niche, and I'd agree be a core government competency. Most other government agencies I can think of would be better off contracted out to enact the laws set by the President and Congress, with the flexibilty of private employment pracitices.
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No, the only consistent explanation for both the overwhelming majority of galaxies as well as the few outliers is general relativity and independent dark mater. All other theories that make testable predictions (modified newtonian dynamics or MOND seems to be the only class that is not completely add odds with almost all observations) cannot explain the behaviour of those galacies that are as big as other galaxies but rotate wih a different speed. But the difference is easily explained with different amounts of dark matter in the galaxies, and the bullet cluster cited elsewhere in this thread give a plausible explanation of how these galaxies might form.
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In the meantime electric cycling and public transportation beat both of these 2 ton couches on wheels. Anyone who has ever tried an E-Bike knows that they are freaking amazing. We can do so much better than electric cars.
That's the essence of the issue exactly. There is fraud everywhere, but in most of the world fraud isn't a successful business model. In the PRC, it kind of is.
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I'm not sure what the term for the tech world is, but something similar seems to exist in many areas of many fields.

It's one of the reasons I stopped accepting lawyers and law firms as clients. Every other client would pay on time. Those in the law field would consistently slow-pay, I believe because they knew they wouldn't get sued over it.

"That overdue invoice? Oh, we never received it. Send it again." "Oh, Jenna in accounting must have it, but she's on vacation for two weeks." "Oh, that's in process." "Oh, we still haven't received it." "Oh, you have a signature on a certified mail delivery? It must be upstairs for approval." "Oh, we've already run all the checks for the month, it'll be in next month's batch."

I eventually went to a pre-paid hours, payable by credit card-only model. It was the only way to stay afloat. Plus it was delicious when someone would use up all their hours and give give some excuse.

"Oh, we really need this on the site today." "No problem. I can do that as soon as you buy more hours."

"Oh, we'll get that paid next week." "No problem, your website went offline an hour ago and will be back when you buy more hours next week." Poof! payment comes through three minutes later.
maybe conspiracy but I have a feeling this is part of US strategy to kick Huawei out of Europe, from the last few countries that didn't already ban them, UK and Italy. I can't imagine any way for UK to allow Huawei to build 5G once US said it is forbidden
> no tracking, cookies, or analytics scripts

I am the same with my site, although I recent implemented a very simple page counter because I was curious.

I like your site, especially the Fun with Favicons article.
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One way to think of scientific instruments: like telescopes, microscopes, voltmeters is that they are extensions of our senses.
I'm confused as to what you're saying here. Are you saying (as I originally thought) that the involvement of sociologists and psychologists makes manipulating users more acceptable?

Or are you saying, as it sounds like here, that access to Facebook data is good for the fields of psychology and sociology?

In any case, the involvement of socio/psychologists in the process of user manipulation makes the situation worse precisely because it could very likely make that manipulation more effective.
Indeed, I agree with your point, “Maybe this is an unknown unknown problem.”

I’m not sure why my comment is being downvoted, is there something I said that’s in bad taste?
"Website suddenly breaks on browser that is still in beta and likely isn't baked into all of the acceptance tests" seems like a completely expected result.

Are you suggesting that a new browser that isn't out of beta should be less likely to weirdly break on some websites?
An AG interfering with or blocking the CPS from bringing a prosecution would be a _big_ deal.
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This is one-bit thinking. Things are not either great or terrible. They can always be better or worse.
Well... assuming that the local rules are the same as the rules billions of light-years away is an assumption, based on a philosophical presupposition that the rules are uniform. What probability should we assign to that assumption? 100% in the absence of evidence to the contrary? Or should we reserve some skepticism, remembering that it is an assumption?

Your question is reasonable: Have people formulated specific breakdowns, and gone looking? But it's also unreasonable. An assumption shouldn't necessarily be treated beyond plausible doubt until we can prove it wrong.
I'm extraordinarily concerned if someone believes any source above reproach. Has every wikileaks leak been proven true, is it that there are a ton of unproven ones, and a handful of verified? What's the ratio?
The same Gavin Williamson who threatened China with military action while the Chancellor of the Exchequer was there trying to hold trade talks? I’m shocked.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/16/gavin-willi...
TL;DR = Unity already did it.
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One of the great pleasures of my workday is eating at the local McDonalds, which is clean, run by nice people, and elegantly designed with plenty of natural light. They allow me to stay and use their free wifi for a couple hours if I wish. They have never even suggested that I leave, even after a marathon 3 hour visit. As a person who grew up not rich in a not safe place, I continue to be amazed such a thing is possible. My go-to meal is two cheeseburgers (substitute white cheddar) and unlimited fountain drinks for under USD$3.50, so I'm probably good for a few hundred bucks a year to them. Not exactly a prime customer.

For whatever reason, maybe because I get jacked up on 3 diet cokes by the end of a long visit, it's a fantastic place for me to learn challenging material. I bring a big iPad and a $20 Bluetooth keyboard/iPad stand, then study my ass off and take notes in vim. I am under huge stress lately, and having to absorb a massive amount of technical literature fast while I undertake rewriting a running, production site with a very tight deadline.

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You'd be surprised how many people call to ask for location and time you close or open. It's significant.
I really doubt the oopses were intentional.

It doesn't matter if they were intentional. The author mentioned there may hav been hundreds of these "oops" events. Assuming it wasn't intentional, Google knew there was a problem and chose not to fix it.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

Or in Google's case, "fool Mozilla a hundred times..."
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The potential effect may be low for shrimp but the question is what is the effect on other organisms that consume shrimp in mass quantities and which, themselves, might ultimately end up being consumed by humans. Biomagnification has long been a concern of biologists with respect to pollutants such as DDT and mercury. [0].

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Where in the US can a non governmental entity charge someone with a crime?
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It is unscientific and unfair to bar female athletes with elevated testosterone
Enjoy it while it lasts. Also posting from Firefox.
I believe Symmetry understands that, though the phrase '24 hours a day' should be '24 hours an Earth day' to prevent possible confusion.
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Why do you blog? Isn't the point in blogging sharing your story with as many people you can? Not everything is about self-promotion.

Some metrics can help you understand whether you're reaching the people who you could help out.
It would be a funny thing were it not for the fact that we have a massive company doing blatantly anti-competitive things.

If the Feds every want to try to break up G, this will be submitted as evidence.

Edit: this is exactly what a monopolizer looks like in action. One tactical move at a time, until they have full control of an adjacent layer in the value chain. In this case browsers.
Swedish beef has to be sheltered inside and fed over winter, doesn't it? That's a fairly carbon intense activity.
I don't follow Firefox news. Can you supply some examples?
I don't think we should be focusing on building inclusive AI, at all.

See this slide deck for details: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/crunchconf_2018/sl...
I think he's counting on 'exponential improvement'. You can sort of see where they are going - they have features like summon in a car park or changing lane in traffic that sort of work and they are gradually going to tick off the various driving test skills you need at which point it will sort of work. Then he's hoping it will get reliable as the network learns. It's that last point that may be over optimistic.
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It would be fine to collect plastic bags, as well as other plastic types, if recyclers could use plasma gasifiers ("burns" hotter, cleaner than incineration) on site to generate power (via syngas, waste to energy) instead of waiting for a buyer to arrive that never will. The slag would be used for roads mixed into asphalt aggregate (similar to how colored glass is used for construction aggregate).

Not everything collected through recycling must be "recycled" in the traditional sense. It should be called "landfill diversion", not recycling.
> if Facebook disappears tomorrow another one will take its place before the end of the year, and they will just be as "evil" when it comes to privacy invasion and data gathering

This certainly wasn't true of MySpace.

Also I just disagree with this sentiment in general.
I'm pretty sure "we're subsidizing foreigners" is one of those smokescreens.

It's almost Trumpian in its vague, implausible and detail-free appeal to the baser instincts in order deflect from clear and obvious fraud.