skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be curious as to what the actual critics said. I would gather that it is (significantly) more nuanced than "you demonstrated that something dangerous can be created. You shouldn't be attempting to make dangerous things."
> One preventable death is one death too many.

When are we banning cars?
I've got a Huawei laptop that's pretty nice . . . but I'm reluctant to use it for anything even remotely sensitive.

Am I being overly paranoid? Or should I treat it as basically trustworthy as any other major brand of computer?

The system requires a special app to update drivers and so forth, but frankly this is not additional security exposure, since Huawei bits are all over the machine to begin with.

I'm sure y'all got opinions :-)
Legit the definition of corporate
The product has "twit" right in the name. Twitter is where you go to read twits or become one. Why is anyone surprised?

From its tiny size limits to its byzantine threading and inability to follow all of one person without creating an account (which they often instantly ban, even if it does nothing but read)... Twitter is a communications medium constructed in a way that maximizes the ability ferment outrage and minimizes the ability to inform. Twitter is a platform for twits to be twits as an amusement to other twits.

Fortunately, you don't have to use it and a great majority of people largely don't. For some reason it gets fetishized by the media -- probably because twittishness is good for business -- and spun as if it were important.
So instead of regulating a multi-million dollar “startup” we should regulate everyone else instead.
if you don't mind me asking, when you say your kids 'have been so coddled', well... by whom?
Reads like such a puff piece.
That's a weaker incentive, though. And it comes with a risk of occasional scandals that scare away advertisers, at least temporarily.

I don't think incentives are enough to predict what YouTube will do. The future is uncertain, there are a lot of policies that could plausibly make money, and the decision-makers are people who read the news and have opinions about what's right, not paperclip maximizers. Politics matters as well as economics.
It'd be great if people who want to explore this as a free speech issue would engage with the question of what happens to the free speech (and other) rights of people who are killed by extremists, and whether they are more or less important than the rights of people who advocate such killings.
As someone who disabled GApps on my phone and uses only OSMAnd, I've found it acceptable for me, but know others would not be satisfied.

At least if/when I search and fail to find, I remember and add it later when I get to a desktop. Slowly, OSM should end up being able to serve my uses well enough, and hopefully others too.
Huawei has a ton of repos on Github. What happens to them?
finnaly............
- he posted on sites which were considered targets.
- he posted a manifesto online (it's been censored in NZ)
- he livestreamed the act (also censored)
- his attack has been referenced by subsequent attacks (this was his goal)
- he wants to use the courts as a platform (our media has voluntarily agreed to censor proceedings)
- he said his rights are being infringed by not having phone and other communication (his "rights" need to be weighed against all the dead and injured)
- other groups want to politicize and publicize his agenda (should they be censored?)

His efforts to use the web as a platform for inciting hate and further violence led to our government's response. If the US President incites hate and violence via Twitter we would be having the same discussion no?
Apparently yes: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/3/14/18265646/hua...
Well yes.

I did say it was circumstantial evidence, but there is a lot of it.

>He had a black girlfriend, his son-in-law is Jewish. I really don't see how he can be racist.

As I mentioned elsewhere, H.P. Lovecraft was anti-semitic, and married a Jewish woman. Also, Dick Cheney's daughter is gay, but he doesn't support gay rights (and yes, "gay" is not a race, let's not get bogged down in pedantry.)

It is entirely possible to be a racist and not perfectly consistent with one's racism, and to be racist against certain people or groups based on the admixture of race and class, or race and personal relationships. Racism is emotional, not rational.

The best you can say is that there's evidence for and against, but that still leaves evidence for.
When you were a kid, did you grow up with a "safe" playground, or not? I would imagine that people who grew up with the kinds of playgrounds described in the article are much less likely to be appalled about this notion.
The city ought to tow and impound all of them at once. Last time my car got towed it cost me $250 to get it back; this guy might shape up real quick if he suddenly gets a $4,000 bill to get his cars back, not to mention the time spent running around to how many different tow lots.
"the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health estimates that city dwellers face a nearly 40 percent higher risk of depression, 20 percent higher chance of anxiety, and double the risk of schizophrenia than people living in rural areas."

Wow, that is HUGE. Especially considering the population shift out of rural areas and into cities. We'd better get some social psych types working on this.
In a similar vein, a big park/playground recently opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They had some inspiration from playgrounds outside the US.

https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2018/12/06/the-surprisi... - mentions how some parts were designed to make it easy for kids to go to certain places but hard for parents to follow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/arts/design/tulsa-park-ga...
Even in that case, you'd have to deal with every hosting provider which, at the very least, would require an actual legal DMCA request rather than an automated one and, since people would be able to self-host, a way to contact their ISP who would have to verify that the claim and request are even valid. With YouTube, the automation is what's killing content creators and the archival value of the platform.
We become what we do.
Just left an in patient system after a suicide attempt after my fifth year as a phd student. I blame my advisor 95% for my mental problems, she is a straight lunatic, I hate her so much.
Real questions, which will sound like a conspiracy theory:

- Is being open source, and some eager and independent security researchers having done an audit enough to convince you (or some other well-informed part on the thread) that no clever flaws are intentionally in the source?

- Do the funding or institutions which support the development of a piece of tech change the answer to the above question? E.g. I've been encouraged to avoid Signal b/c it was created partly with US State Dept funding (via the Open Technology Fund). The main point made during that conversation was that the US supports projects like Signal and Tor as a means of supporting dissidents in other countries. But a side implication was that it may be naive to rely on tools (indirectly) provided by the state to avoid surveillance by the state.
I've lived most of my life in rural US. I currently live in a house on about 4 acres.

That's plenty. There aren't any stinky farms or noisy trucks around. There is a lot of grass to mow, though.

All things considered, I like it.
"They do what they want without it."

That argument goes both ways, if they can do what they want now, then there is no need to sign it and it's just a fluff feel good piece of paper. But the fact is, there is power behind people, governments, and organizations throwing in public support.

"This is specious. In a period of ignorance, ignorance reigned supreme (not to mention a theocracy, which is dangerously close to re-emerging in the US). We now, at least in some realms, have an ability to reason and to cite and use fact."

This is literally the point I'm trying to make. The hate is ignorance, and the only way to stop that ignorance is to allow the flow and freedom of information and the exchange of ideas. That's the only way we are going to be able to change any minds.
Some History of Functional Programming Languages (2012) [pdf]
But seriously, when there are literally only 2 places to go out to eat to, they likely close early and aren't great to begin with. Thank god for Sheetz.
What? That's exactly how the internet worked before YouTube. YouTube became the standard because you could easily upload things for free since the content was no longer the product. YouTube is only free because they can sell the data surrounding the videos to advertisers. Without that, we'd have exactly the situation that I'm describing because that's exactly the situation that we did have before YouTube came around (and that YouTube helped before it became beholden to companies rather than creators).
Canada is nice and all but China has a Japan-level quality of human capital and an enormous population. Anything we can do they will be able to do, and probably better. Absent crazy stuff like AGI or genetic engineering changing the source of innovation, China will become the leader in high technology.
Governments lack accountability because there is no incentive to be sustainable. They just tax people more or run a higher deficit.

If Whole Foods wastes their money and goes out of business, I don’t care. I’m not being forced to pay them to make up for it.
Like propane, gasoline fumes are also heavier than air. This becomes a problem in boats, where propane and/or gasoline fumes "collect" down in the hull with no natural ventilation path. Boats with propane stoves or gasoline motors need gas detectors and ventilation to ensure dangerous (suffocating or exploding) levels don't build up below decks...
Stellar Network: Growth and Decentralisation
I think biochar is a CCS technology that works right now, and could be deployed/encouraged at vast scale.

Small-scale farmers char their agricultural wastes rather than just burning it (perhaps in simple earth kilns) and bury it in their fields, capturing carbon, and improving the soil at the same time.
The implication of being put on the entity list is not yet clear. In 2016 ZTE was placed on the entity list but without an actual export ban. In 2018 the action against ZTE was much more severe.
If you're a fan of Musk as a promoter you'd probably be interested in giving this a read [0]. He's not good by evaluation as a public speaker, certainly not what I'd call charismatic, but manages to kill it anyway by just having a well structured presentation. As an autistic salesperson he's basically a role model of mine.

[0] https://medium.com/firm-narrative/want-a-better-pitch-watch-...
Not really surprised, why would you allow US companies to build a network backbone using a company that has close ties with your strategic rival? Ren Zhengfei was in the PLA and the public private partnership operates very differently in China. As if the IP theft and espionage problems aren't bad enough.

It's not a coincidence that many Chinese devices have "bugs" that have them phone home.

Do you think China would allow their telecom companies to build out using Cisco gear?
You mean like the guy who invented the super soaker?

Or the guy who invented the aero press?

Or that time sears ripped off an inventor - and patents ensured they had to pay? [1] Or that other time when they misrepresented the value of a patent [2] - in that case the absence of the patent would mean there was nothing to have stolen.

Seriously, patents only really became terrible in the late 80s and 90s when the US gov. started allowing patents on what were functionally just concepts rather than actual inventions saying how something worked, and allowing patents on obvious uses of computers by virtue of "on a computer".

Patents on mechanical inventions are literally the only way for the "common man" to be able to make money off an invention. Without the patent rights:

* you have to be able to raise the capital to produce the device (corporations and the already rich have that - amazon was kept afloat solely because Bezos was already a billionaire).

* You have to price your device to pay off the capital expenditure, in addition to all the other costs

* You have to do that while also undercutting businesses that already have the manufacturing capacity to replicate your invention.

In the absence of patent protection on your invention you have little likelihood of recovering your investment as an individual.

Think of it this way: copyright says that copying something without/in contravention of a license is not legal, and so you can be sued. That allows things like linux to succeed - you can't make a product that uses it without contributing back. Patents are the same thing for inventions - someone doesn't get to copy your work (the act and work of inventing) without your consent.

[1] https://thehustle.co/sears-patent-infringement

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/09/18/s...
“Twitter engineers were caught on tape talking about shadow banning”
I haven't learned a new phone number in almost 14 years. And the ones I do know are all in the same area code, so I really only have to know 7 digits each.
For those who aren't familiar with Action Park, the story is incredible.

This 14-minute video has some of the highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKDx_piZvsg

This oral history is pretty fascinating too: http://mentalfloss.com/article/536412/action-park-water-park...
Of course Sharpton will call him a "racist" _now_. Not doing so would subject him to intense repercussions as a democrat, his career would be over in an instant.

But Trump is the dude literally _nobody_ had any problems with until he ran against HRC, including the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, etc. He received the Rosa Parks award fer chrissakes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-received-ellis-islan...
Do you mean Cloudfront? I suppose so, but I don't know enough about the company to reach a firm conclusion.
Exploring Interactions with Voice-Controlled TV
In a post snowden world, why would you trust a 5E product anymore?

Not saying that you should trust Chinese companies, but the notion that they're any worst by speculation in the face of evidence for the alternative's being complicate in spying on their users is rather absurd. People can't shake off the good-guy-bad-guy narrative, can they?
Causation? Are we sure it's not being uderreported mental illness and people moving to the cities because of mental illness and addiction problems?
I don't trust that the Government's motives are truly public (maybe the ban is just a consequence of them not being able to implant a backdoor) and I don't trust Huawei... but I also don't trust any other computer/phone manufacturer ever since the Snowden leak. I still use them though because I am not a high value target.
The important question is who the new housing is for.

Building new housing for locals is good, but in some cities what is occurring is new housing is being explicitly marketed to foreign investors seeking yield. This doesn't benefit locals and doesn't ease affordability problems.
Yea, no offense intended with this, my first thought looking at the project is that it's a scam or malware. I would have to personally read through the source code to feel comfortable using this. The main thing is none of the text is vertically centered and everything is lowercased. Maybe I'm just paranoid about financial software.
You're here; therefore, we can assume you're a high-value consumer to advertise to. When enough people take the $1/month option, advertisers will be primarily advertising to consumers with low purchasing power. As that happens, the cost of advertising on Google AdWords nosedives, and Google is left making substantially less money.

Maybe most people aren't like you and I. But I don't think anyone at Alphabet is willing to risk adding complexity to potentially earn less.

This ignores the potential fallout as the message can be distorted from "Optional payment for Google Maps" to "Google starts collecting money for Maps", and finally to "Google Maps costs $X".
If the fake mud is high quality and doesn't just flake off...
Just to expand on this a little bit, it is contingent on ISP and as far as I know, the following websites:

- voat.co

- 4chan.org

- 8ch.net

- liveleak.com

- archive.is

- bitchute.com

- zerohedge.com

- kiwifarms.net

I think I'm right in saying that Telstra, Optus and Vodafone are the 'Big Three', and they have blocked the above.

Here in NZ, It's Vodafone, Spark and 2 Degrees, all of whom, I understand, blocked access, though I've been unable to verify this first-hand.

There are also hefty prison sentences [0] (up to 14 years) and fines for people who read/distributed the manifesto and watched/shared the original footage.

Edit: More comprehensive block-list can be found here: [1]

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/asia/new-zealand-at...

[1] - https://www.citizensagainstidiocracy.com/93/internet-censors...
TV was one-way - at most, you could "reshare" what you heard with friends or colleagues, with a very limited bandwidth and a more considerable effort.

Today, we have created tech that makes it easy and convenient. If you look at practically all social networks, they're essentially optimized for outrage gossip. The human part of that equation is much more difficult to change - as social primates, we have this moral outrage thing hardwired to some extent. But why do we deliberately encourage it?

(For profit, of course.)
> I would imagine that as the price of IPv4 addresses crosses some threshold, people will just start going to IPv6.

Instead we see "carrier grade NAT" and I end up with IP addresses like 10.X.X.X on some of my cellular devices...

'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.' -- Henry Ford
Haha, good luck with that.

Internet trashtalking is the biggest thing since beer muscles. It's an aggression-enabler.
That has no relevance to whether google got money under the threat of violence (government taxation) or whether it’s money that was voluntarily given to them for goods/services.

Google wasting money is no different than my neighbor wasting money. The government wasting money is upsetting because it was taken from me supposedly to help the country.

Your perspective might be different if you pay very little in taxes.
"Are managers from Oracle play the reason?" -> I think bringing in a bunch of managers from bigco to shape up your startup is nearly as bad as bringing in "experienced engineers" because you have too many young engineers. Diversity is strength, but so is culture.

"Did they bring you unnecessary disciplines against engineers" -> What's this mean?

Any examples why you describe Cloudera then "horribly political" -> Not off the top of my head actually i just remembered it burning me
Perhaps what we need to do is make roadways more dangerous for motorists, so they'll slow down and not kill as many pedestrians.
It's more along the lines of 'When are we banning seatbelts'.

Kids might have more fun in the car not wearing seatbelts, for example. I know as a kid I was especially resistant to putting on a seatbelt because why should it restrict my movement? But I would hope we can all understand that seatbelts are a necessity for safety.

We accept that cars in the US are necessary for our daily lives, and take action to prevent as much death or injury as we can. This is why we have regulations on speed, stop signs, lights and more. We've created an entire regulatory system for the sake of making driving safer.

In this case, is it really any different from regulatory agencies ensuring that playgrounds don't have things that could cause clearly preventable injuries?
There's screwing up and having bugs.

And then there's leaving in five separate root logins in just in the first half of 2018. Like, come on.
Activity-based anorexia and animal models
Out of curiosity, does Huawei provide a way to update drivers without the software? I know Dell has a similar offering but you can still download the drivers from their website
The problem with this article is that it doesn't go into detail about what the "taxes and fees" pay for, aside from airport surcharges. Without knowing that it's impossible to determine who should be paying for what.

Airport surcharges should just be a toll gate (E-ZPass) when you enter and exit the airport. Same for roads, ideally. A single fee schedule for everyone.

Parking shouldn't be free. Someone with 3 cars on Turo shouldn't be penalized any more than someone with 3 cars who doesn't rent them on Turo and just leaves them parked most of the time.

I use Turo and Getaround. With Turo, I always end up meeting or interacting with the car owner. I'm not renting luxury vehicles, but in my experience the owners are always regular middle-class people. From what I've seen, "Tesla fleet" Jason Chan from this article is not representative of the average Turo renter. Except perhaps in niche luxury markets, Turo rentals won't be massively profitable because renters are competing against Zipcar, Enterprise, Uber, etc. and there is maintenance, cleaning, depreciation, etc. you have to handle for the cars.

I think we can all agree that regulations and taxes should be fairly and equitably applied. I'm fine with my Turo charges going up to comply with this. But I don't think this article is very balanced. It spends a lot of time talking about Turo without acknowledging the massive inefficiencies in traditional car rental business models, as well as the big difference in customer experience.
No lol. Teasing out how housing prices or rents are connected to macroeconomic conditions & public policy & developer sentiment & the interest rate environment is already complex enough- way more complex than these YIMBY 'supply and demand, it's economics 101 brah!' type arguments. Adding in another country with its own laws and policies and customs and macroeconomic environment is way too complex. My point is that YIMBY/Matt Yglesias-types are already making complex concepts way too simple- we don't need to add in another country that (frankly) virtually no one on Hacker News is qualified to explain on an economic & policy level.

Like, Japan famously hasn't grown in years and years and is arguably suffering from deflation. Does that affect their housing prices as much as anything else? Does anyone here have a PhD to help explain these complex multi-causal factors? Probably not
> The thing that matters is language consistency... [...] Python made the big leap and fixed some huge problems when it went to python 3

And yet, here we are over a decade along and the Python project is still maintaining Python 2 and I still need to maintain a copy of Python 2 on my computer because of the number of actively maintained projects still using it. How many developer-hours that could have gone into doing something else have instead gone into this "language consistency" project?

At any point in the past 25 years someone could have forked PHP to clean the syntax up and accomplished the exact same thing -- and yet apparently nobody has seen the inconsistency as a big enough issue or time sink to do so. I would take that as prima facie evidence that this isn't nearly as important as you seem to think it is.

Meanwhile, one of the strengths of PHP in my opinion has been how carefully they have maintained and managed backward compatibility. While "move fast and break things" might be the new norm, there is still a huge contingent of developers and businesses that see value in slower, more considered change.
Why not use rubber mulch then? Lots of playgrounds already use it, and it offers the cushioning of wood chips and the "softness" of rubber matting.
Pretty sure China used a lot of Cisco gear, including to implement the Great Firewall: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-...
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ISTR my state has an exclusion for local residents. I don’t believe the exclusion applies at rentals at the airport. I wouldn’t be surprised to find most states have rental car/hotel tax exclusions for locals.