skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They use data stolen from western users of their phones to aid in the operation of concentration camps? You're saying that by giving Chinese companies their data by using a Chinese phone, GP should consider themselves complicit in helping China run their concentration camps? What?
How to do hard things
If you dive into old Lisp Machines and Interlisp-D papers, it was already a feature back them.

Many FOSS devs don't have a full picture of Lisps, by constraining themselves to what Emacs+SLIME are able to, without experimenting commercial Common Lisp environments.
> But as you have your happy setup on aws it probably makes little sense to switch.

TBH I lean more towards google cloud services in general, so as long as they had very good ping times between each other, I'd consider it.
>> At the same time I don't think expense will be a setback for autonomous vehicles. The reason being that if vehicles are fully autonomous there would be no reason for any individuals to own them. It would make more sense to have them operate like a taxi service. This is because without the costs of having to pay for a driver, it would be cheaper to just order an autonomous vehicle whenever you need to go anywhere than it would be own your own vehicle.

I have a better idea that we can implement right now without waiting for autonomous driving to become a real technological capability.

We could make big cars with many seats and have them driven around town by humans- just a single human could drive a single vehicle capable of transporting 50, maybe 100 others. We could have those big cars stopping at predetermined points around the city, so that people would know where to get on and off. And we could support that service by asking the users to pay a small fee upon boarding the big car. This would cover the costs of the driver, and the big car, and still leave some to pay for infrastructure, etc.

These big cars would probably have relatively restricted areas of operation, but, for the foreseeable future, so will autonomous cars (which have to be geofenced) and, like I say, we already have the technology for those big-cars-with-many-people-sitting-in-them-and-a-single-driver that I'm talking about.

And since a whole bunch of people would be carried by one or two of those big cars per day, instead of each riding a single (autonomous or not) car, we could drastically reduce the number of automobiles-per-person, and, therefore, the CO2 emissions, thereby reducing pollution and protecting the environment to boot.

So? Anyone want to invest on that?
Western countries export most of their plastic waste to the countries named in the article. Substantial amounts of the plastics China spills into the ocean are ours, exported there for “recycling”
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/queries-with.html
The optional RECURSIVE modifier changes WITH from a mere syntactic convenience into a feature that accomplishes things not otherwise possible in standard SQL.

Am I incorrect in thinking that "standard" CTEs don't have an impact on performance. When I saw this in the article and how it had no performance improvements it reaffirmed my assumption.
But like that's sort of my point. They could have data default to going into a tiny VPS slice that would be free-tier territory, and then automatically move it to whatever infrastructure spanner requires when the time comes. That could all be seamless. Why keep the seams in?
As someone who has worked remotely for not quite a decade myself, there are a few other points I'd consider essential. The big one is remote workers being left out of meetings. "Oh, you can't make it then? We'll just make you optional and fill you in later." Except it doesn't work.

If someone's not there, they get no input. They don't get to correct any facts that are incorrect or out of date. They don't get to bring up a point or principle that's important in the moment, before people start taking sides on what might be a moot point. The quality of the output is usually awful too. The "catch up" often doesn't happen at all. If it does, it's usually just a few action items and open issues. It doesn't capture the ebb and flow of the conversation - what people spent the most energy on, what the points of contention were, pros and cons that flew by so fast nobody wrote them down (but could later turn out to be crucial). That stuff matters as much as the bullet points, not just for the topic under discussion but to understand how people go about their business and thus how to work effectively with them. Maybe even to coach them on how to present their ideas more effectively. As a senior engineer that's something I'm supposed to do, I enjoy doing it, I can if I'm there, but if I'm "optional" that door closes.

There's an art to making meetings effective for people who are remote. If you're remote yourself, expect to spend a certain amount of time coaching and coaxing your team mates on this stuff. They'll usually welcome such advice IMX. People mean well, they just don't have the right knowledge or habits yet. It's worth it to become an advocate and mentor for effective remote or cross-site meetings. Everyone will benefit, but especially you.

There are other fine points to do with time zones, the effect that an 80ms delay has on our unconscious "who speaks next" protocol, and more, but I feel I've gone on long enough.
> Second, knowingly including false information on a DMCA takedown notice is perjury

I've reviewed the DMCA a few times and I am pretty sure this isn't true. It's supposed to be the "teeth" of the DMCA to prevent false claims, but the actual teeth are very blunted.

The requirements a DMCA takedown notice are[1]

1. you have to sign it as someone authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

2. you have to identify the work you claim is being infringed.

3. you have to identify the work you want them to take down.

4. you have to give them your contact information.

5. you have to state that you have a "good faith belief" that the content is infringing.

6. Direct quote, and the only use of the word "perjury" in the notification requirements: "A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly in-fringed."

The only thing you must declare under penalty of perjury is that you are authorized to act for the copyright owner. The only other claim you make is that you are acting in "good faith", which is super fuzzy. An actor sending out notices on content detected by content-id bots is almost certainly acting in "good faith" if they haven't been made aware of potential errors by those bots.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/text-digital-millennium-copyright... (search for "ELEMENTS OF NOTIFICATION")
this topic pop up in eurollvm this year again: the LLVM C API is, and should be the only stable API. Others like C++ API or even ABI stabilities can only be considered as best-efforts.
I wouldn't rule out a protectionist push from the US gov. as being behind this.
Which results in talent being in short supply.

The talent is both better rewarded and considered and treated elsewhere.

It's quite possible for talent to depart locations based on nonfinancial considerations, or considerations with indirect financial effects, as with noncompetes. The Great Migration and Jewish refugee migration (1920s-50s, and later, Europe) are cases in point.

On multiple grounds, California ~1960 - 2000 offerred both better compensation and better considerations for technical talent. The pendulum is swinging based on a few factors, notably housing costs an conditions.
Notice that most American companies over 1M don't have

Customer Email

Customer Web live chat

Customer phone number

Its almost on PURPOSE they hide behind their company band and broken corrupt system that panders to corporations and not the actual creation user
Definitely. One example is Twitch - It seems like Twitch is growing while YouTube Gaming is shrining [1].

The trick to find the niche and be 10x better than youtube for that niche and then expand from there.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/26/twitch-solidifies-its-lead...
Would you please not take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar? First you posted flamebait above ("red guards of the left") and now head straight into the most generic and therefore most boring possible direction ("socialism does not work"). Maybe it doesn't, but all these discussions are the same, and tedious repetition is not what HN is for, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Find a good book. There is something very satisfying to me about reading a very interesting book.
I filed an invention disclosure with my company, but they were not interested in patenting it. Then one of our “business development” people ran his mouth to another division about the technology.

Two years later I get a call from that division, saying they “may” put my name in their patent if I disclose more details about the technology.

I’m still pissed about that.
The order of the New Testament is pretty different from the chronological order, and obscures information about the authorship pretty badly.

A few examples: John, the fourth book of the New Testament, was one of the last written.

Luke and Acts are probably part of the same document, written by the same author, but are separated in the traditional ordering.

And so on...

Edit (Correction): as the person replying to me correctly points out, Luke and Acts were not part of the same document, though they were probably written by the same person.
Source? And how do you define premium? The sentence implies leading as in market shares, and not technological.
Not sure that giving it to a prism+xkeyscore state is thaaat much better. And yes legal protection in the US is a lot better than China, while I as European have little power in either, but also hardly an alternative.
The last thing China wants during a trade war is to have the 3 million people in Apple's supply chain unemployed and angry.

This particular leverage is also why iMessage isn't blocked in China.
There were reports out of the UK about bad software hygiene, with some implications of bug-doors.
Yes, and it's a worldwide phenomena. Embedded in this link is Thaler (A Nobel winner) using such an example as a counterexample to one view of the efficient markets hypothesis: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/10/09/2194613/thaler-the-cu...

tl;dr price for the "CUBA fund" spikes following Obama announcement of normalizing relations, despite the CUBA fund having nothing at all to do with CUBA.
isn’t this pointing to more of a fundamental problem with how browsers/html/document model are designed/implemented than anything else?

html was originally a document format, not an app framework, and i think all of these frameworks (large and small) are just workarounds when what we really need is a fundamental re-imagining of what the browser should/could be.

sometimes i wonder if alan kay was right when he said the browser should have been basically just byte-code interpreter[1]...

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...
> Krafcik went on to say that the auto industry might never produce a car capable of driving at any time of year, in any weather, under any conditions.

What's the likely business model for Waymo if level 5 autonomy is unattainable?

Also, what did he mean by "never"? Did he mean "within our lifetimes" or something? A strangely confusing statement for a CEO of a self driving company.
This is a less technical solution, and less profitable as consequence. It is also subtracting from software's image as magic, which again amongst other things makes it less profitable.
In alot of countries (Australia for example) there is no copyright registration at all. You just automatically own the copyright to things you create.

https://www.copyright.org.au/ACC/Find_an_Answer/FAQ__How_do_...
The "core" and "uncore" are two very different parts of a modern CPU.
No I made no mistake. I get his point. Look at my reference. I literally posted the statement that is categorically wrong. He literally says that in python the if-conditional is a statement. This is False.

I also offer some proof as to why python is a bad choice for his examples because python is actually a highly functional language. It's like trying to use haskell to prove racket is more expressive. It's a bad choice.

Sometimes I don't understand people. I literally posted just factual errors, no opinions on his article and then people misinterpret everything I said as opinion and proceed to tell me I misinterpreted things, then vote me down. Seriously.
I had the privilege to hear the piece at the premiere in Piteå, Sweden. Honestly I didn't know what to expect, but I've never heard music rendered from text so faithfully before.
Sorry, but you can't use HN for nationalistic flamewar, and statements like these are way over the line:

Chinese culture is fundamentally opposed to American culture

laughing at how we live our lives and making a mockery of us

spit on "western values"

I appreciate that your background and personal experiences may give you a special perspective on China-related topics, but you need to share that with others in a much more neutral way if you want to post about this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19951595 and marked it off-topic.
> Because we don't know how to design goal functions.

IIRC that's a large part of what OpenAI's trying to solve. But it is a very hard problem.

I've heard a 'joke' before that there are three kinds of Genies (or AIs) - ones where you can wish for what you should wish for, ones where wishing for anything results in horrible outcomes, and ones that aren't interesting. The goal of OpenAI isn't just to make strong general AI - it's also to make sure it falls into the first category and not the second.
But didn’t the public just vote for coal?
Cost is not the reason all consumer electronics are made in China. Actually, manufacturing there is now more expensive than Estern Europe.

They build them there because all the supply chain is already there. In Shenzhen, the capacitors, resistors, PCBs and most chips are sourced in bulk from around the block. That's something no other country in the West or even East has and it's such a complex interconnected ecosystem that you can't replicate it anywhere else right now.

Most of the CNC, tooling and moulding craftsmen are there as well, the west has far too few left to be able to take over such volumes. Training so many can take years and that's assuming you even find enough people willing to be trained.
If it worked for Rachel Dolezal, it would be unfair to deny the same strategy to students.
Afternoon of Data in Chicago on Juen 12
Wrong imgur link? Shows a random image dump here.
This table rendering bug still haunts me

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8474678/ie9-strange-tabl...
Like building Putin gas pipeline behind EUs back?
But who puts them into the water?
Billionaire promises to pay off student loans for graduating class
Well seeing that the article we are discussing is “American life is improving for the lowest paid”, I fail to see how what Europeans are willing to do is relevant....
PostgreSQL materializes all CTEs so it has a big impact on performance. It's a hack that works around lack of optimizer hints in PostgreSQL to force the execution plan you want. Only in PostgreSQL 12 did they change this: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release-12.html#id-1.1...
And it is impossible to prove innocent.
Crossing into personal attack is not acceptable here, regardless of what appeared in another comment. Please review the site guidelines and don't post like that to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please note that going on about downvoting also breaks the guidelines, as does generic ranting about "useful idiots". We're trying for (much!) higher level of discussion quality than this. If you wouldn't mind helping out with that in the future, we'd be grateful.
Your point reminds me a bit of Theranos, and how they were able to coast on a completely fraudulent but awe-inspiring idea.

It might not be related, but whenever I read stories this, I'm reminded of the ways that tech is marketed in the world. It's impossible for the public to understand whether or not a certain technology is feasible, practical, or even possible, but marketing teams get an unbelievable amount of leeway when marketing products and services. And they get to do it without really telling you what data is collected and how it's used, etc., etc.

The power asymmetry between what tech companies are allowed to say versus the limited technical understanding of the public is brutal, and not getting any better.
Inconsistencies in environmental standards aren't uncommon globally. Even environmental leaders like California have, what I would consider to be, inconsistent water usage policies, even if it does consistently evolve technology to facilitate those policies.
I have one of those Z80 CPM cartridges for my 64. It’s a massive thing. Have never tried it. Got it in a mound of C64 stuff that came with an SX64 on Craigslist.
Plenty of factory automation, medical research device companies, control panels for car monitoring devices, ticket selling machines, and lots of IoT devices deployed with Windows only UIs, some of them now migrating from Windows Embedded into IoT Core variants.
Few years ago I just did a 'react + redux in jquery' on a smaller project. A state of app was in a single object (= super easy debug, undo or save), any user action generates a state delta (which properties of state needs changing), and a central dispatcher updates the UI according to state changes. Quick and painless.
Sure, they were. This is the closest thing to Baghdad Bob's bluster, I have heard in my life.

Here is a helpful read, http://zeihan.com/my-way-or-the-huawei/
yeah okay downvote me for presenting a reasonable solution. This website is full of fucking morons, I'm done here.
Please do not engage in nationalistic flamewar here even if another comment went there first. Having this site not burn in flames requires users to resist being provoked and stay within the site guidelines themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hopefully there will be some tests for this, there are so many of these computers that have onboard 1 gbit card that share the bus with other devices so that in reality you can't route 1 gbit.

For my current router I had to buy separate pcie cards to get proper throughput, the 1gbit cards on the intel motherboard could only sustain 300 mbit/s routing (600 mbit on the bus), but if only one card was used it could accept or send 1 gbit.
There's a finite time that benefits are paid out. At most, it's the maximum lifetime of the retired worker or their spouse. At some point, the workers and their spouses will be dead. They're beneficiaries do not, nor have they ever gotten a pension.

You simply stop giving new workers pensions, and you offer buyouts to the existing workers. None of this is fast, nor did I say it was. Even if you did it today, we're talking probably at least another 50 years before the last pension is paid out. Meanwhile, You're still dealing with the problems of running a pension plan, but at least you're on a path to divest from them.

This strategy is basically what every old company with pensions is doing. The problem here, is that governments don't do it, in large part due to the unions. I don't blame the unions for insisting on pensions, they're a good deal if you've got one But the fact is they're unsustainable. Unlike a company, the government is never going to go out of business, it's just going to become a retirement plan with a police force.
Digital detox - just quitting tech - comes from good intentions, but is misguided. Don't cut out sites and devices entirely - that honestly makes life more painful than it needs to be, and plays right into the hands of platforms competing for your attention, as it makes it seem like the only two options are the extremes of "24/7 FOMO avoidance" and "basically Amish."

Rather than falling into those extremes, try to cut out the bad parts of your tech experience.

Don't nuke your phone, instead remove the apps you waste time on - so you can still see a map or make an important cal when you need to.

Don't nuke all social media, instead, nuke the addictive timelines - so you can still check in with a friend when you want to.

Set timers before you open a specific site that you know to be a time sink - so that you don't get sucked in opening more and more tabs.

Finally, come up with a hobby you can take part in without a computer, and one you do purely for personal enjoyment. It's a lot harder to stop wasting time on a device if your alternative is to stare at a blank wall.
That's really neat, do you have a writeup?
The US doing some market manipulation again; good thing they want to stop companies and countries from spying on people. /s

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
People can care about more than one thing at a time, yes?
Bunker fuel, very much the leftover after the crude oil distillation. Full of sulfur and other nasty stuff.

Anyway, if there were sufficient political will to do things, taxes would solve this shit overnight.
> we can only automate and program something that we understand

I'm pretty sure no one really understands how Alphago Zero works, though - not really. Same goes for a lot of other neural network derived architectures.
Australia exporting coal to India and China is far more likely to be having climate change impact than anything it might be doing domesticaly in terms of power generation.
I have an image of highly rational traders sitting in high pressure meetings coming up with stupid ideas so that they can front-run stupid people.
Of course if we didnt use as much disposable things there would be less trash.

But wouldn't you rather have all this garbage collected somewhere, than scattered throughout the river and beyond?
Conclusion: Fire almost every of your ops engineer, job can be done with smaller workforce as you can see. (JK)
Yea I have a ryzen5 and was shocked that it wouldn't boot without a graphics card. No biggie, so I guess this makes sense. No need to buy another card, presumably something akin to the Intel embedded graphics..
>The author's bias is obvious. She's not even trying to create an impression of objectivity. The activists and this article's author are congratulating each other all over Twitter.

The irony is that actually printing someone taking the appellation "entitled vocal majority" makes them look bad, not the company.

Disclaimer: I do not work for Google, but I'm pre-inclined to favor the employees doing more or less whatever they want, but holy hell, what a way for an activist minority to alienate itself from the base you need to form a union or cooperative.
I doubt it. Relying on taxi services (driven by humans or computers) might work fine for childless urbanites. But I keep a lot of stuff in my car, and there's no way I'm going to waste time loading and unloading a taxi every day. Plus my family likes having a nice clean car. I'm never going to give up convenience and time savings just to save a little money.
No, it's a printed poster. It is the size of a 55 ft. mural. Would be like saying a billboard is a mural.
I find this a little bit funny,

> I was extremely suspicious of the EXISTS optimization, since it changes the logic to exit early.

Does this this mean that if one has found an answer, it is somehow sensible thing not to return the answer right away?
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