skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<cynical interpretation> The data can be retained so long as Facebook is in the business of targeted advertising, and that's "the purpose for which the information was obtained".

Also, I'm now looking forward to Zuck's next apology for "a breach of trust" and his explanation of how they "failed to live up to their own standards" when it becomes publicly undeniable that their "Full and irrevocable anonymisation" of data they've claimed is deleted is as flawed as all the other attempts we've seen of doing that.
Have you bought products manufactured in China? That's your pollution.
Tragedy of the commons. If there is a shared resource, let the people act in their self interest and sap away all of it.
"If you add in the GDP component of the financial and defense industries, you are looking at a massive overhead of markets managed by implicit or explicit government enforcement (or lack of it) for the benefit of a small elite."

This is not true.

To construe 'finance' a just some arguably unnecessary or inefficient 'overhead' in the economy belies a basic lack understanding of what that industry actually does.

It's often opaque to outsiders, but banking is a real value creating part of the economy, and it's also right at the foundation of it.

Also, 'defence spending' is a normal part of every economy, and it has existential impact for all of us.

Consider for a moment that US forces keep most international waterways open for everyone to use, even economic rivals, and even military rivals (!) so long as there's no war. The Suez Canal, Panama Canal, and other critical areas would instantly be under the control of nefarious regional forces if there were a power vacuum.
This is the best take, and I'm excited to live in a world where hardware entertainment devices don't require mass market appeal and can be "artisanal."

In many ways, I think this is the antidote to a lot of the bad behaviors Silicon Valley has developed in the last several years. Sometimes not achieving hyperscale is OK.
A lot of good stuff happened on OS 9. There wasn't a lot of extra cruft, because programmers had to use the whole machine to implement their vision.
To make art is to be an artist.
Why does that matter to you? I don't know if I'll have children and if I do, it'll certainly be <= replacement rate.

It's often said that people used to have a lot of kids in order to insure against child mortality. I understand financial stress et al may be one reason for the lower reproduction rate but less kids can also be a sign of success.
I've always wondered about this. I've seen people jogging in cemeteries before, and it seems...weird.
Actual chrome is impossible, unless somehow a12 can run x86 instructions(efficiently).
No, it was only after the VOC was dissolved that governors where to be appointed by the Crown. To a certain extend, they where the law. Remnants of that past are still to be found in the UN treaty on the high seas as it grants captains of (trade) ships rights and privileges associated with the state, not with civilian commercial enterprises.
Your stories are not mutually exclusive, i'm afraid you both are right.
What is the alternative?

Having kids. Having a sustainable culture rather than some weird human shredder reliant on constant stream of new souls from abroad.
> or, whatever is the appropriate "balancing" field to science

My opinion is that there is no such field, that there never has been such a field, and that we are therefore screwed.
The culture in multiculturalism seems to boil down to restaurant and pop (i.e industrial) culture choices. If it is anything beyond that, it is utilitarianism: the rule of numbers, economics. Capitalism in other words. Any attempt to assimilate the cultural change happening today to that of the past, or to validate it by what happened in the past, is fraud and diversion.
> but it’s no longer quite right to call it homogeneous

Are you sure? Japan is maybe 99% homogeneous? I live in central Tokyo and I can go on for days and days without seeing a foreigner!

> it will inevitably introduce social strains

Sadly, yes. I've observed this on few occasions.
The point is that if enough ethically-minded people who believe facial recognition is bad see Amazon doing things like facial recognition the company will lose customers and staff. The people proposing a ban presumably feel there enough of those people now (and in the future) that Amazon's bottom line is under threat and it needs protecting from itself.

The idea of outsourcing your company's ethics to the government seems very shortsighted to me. Facial recognition may never be banned, yet privacy tech could become a strong factor in where developers want to work. Consequently Amazon are right to consider this sort of thing long before the government steps in.
Because culture is not an abstract set of ideas separate from its people. You can only adopt a culture you weren't brought up in to a certain degree, and usually very shallowly.
Zones are used for the light commuter rail service that connects to counties external to city limits.

Inside city limits, the distances travelled are so compressed (even interborough), that most trips are less than ten minutes of actual train ride.

Once you start dealing with zones, you also have to start operating on fixed schedules. The New York City system does have time tables but they don't really operate to the minute. The listed times are mostly just targets. More important is the frequency of trains, back to back trains (double capacity) with five minute frequencies during rush hour, and graveyard has 20 minute frequencies, everything else aims for ten minutes between each individual train.

Again, most people are travelling less than 45 minutes on trains set for 30MPH speed limits.

(Manhattan is only 20 miles long)
Most spies are not aware of the fact that they are recruited as a spy.
Any city?
>This is one of the least dishonest things they do, some of the other stuff I could tell stories about is far worse.

I would like to know more.
I have no idea why you're citing a government website on an ethical question. You realize that law and policy is just something a bunch of people decided was a good idea? The distinction between rights versus privileges, insofar as it is defined by law and policy, has nothing to do with ethics.
I live in San Diego, 20 miles from the Mexican border. If you want to speak Spanish in Chula Vista or other immigrant enclaves, you'll find plenty of people who speak it. However, the number of second generation immigrants who speak Spanish exclusively is as far as I can tell, negligible.

There are just too many benefits to assimilating. This isn't Quebec.
It's not illegal: https://www.fastcompany.com/3055107/federal-law-now-says-kid.... But it is frowned-upon by the society.
The absolute fastest way to PR is through Highly Skilled Foreign Professional Type 1 visa. PR after a year. That's incredibly fast. Type 2 visa after 3 years IIRC. The difference between 1 and 2 is the number of points one scores.
If the technology doesn't exist or at least isn't already installed, it's significantly more difficult for them to abuse it by just ignoring rules.
I think you corrected the wrong axis, warming will continue for centuries even with the Paris agreement, even with no warming ice sheets will continue melting for quite a while until temperatures return to normal, the "by 2100" timeline is the most significant variable.
So in other words, you dont have anything.
Well that's the way green cards work. Only one spouse needs to pass the Labor Certification (LC) but both spouses get green cards and can work any job.

The H4 work permission was basically a stopgap for Indian citizens who should have gotten green cards years ago but didn't because of processing backlogs.
I think it's baloney that "the American psyche doesn't allow it", it's just that disrupting automobile traffic is a huge burden on a ton of people, and given the history of American cities, most people rely on autos as their primary form of transportation.
Darlin' we are talking about a man who lost a major deal with Disney because he just could not stop making Nazi jokes, there's more than just "a single uttered word".
Needs diagrams to show exactly which weakened muscles they are talking about
This is real. Try buying the good types of baby formula in Australian supermarkets or pharmacies; you quickly learn the need to have a buffer of several lest your baby goes hungry.

Scalpers go in and get what they can, then sell to China for a massive profit. If they're hit by the "max one per customer" they'll come in again and again until they're kicked out of the store.

I feel bad for parents in China who can't trust the products in their own stores.
The ageing and shrinking population is a temporary, one-off problem. There's no fundamental reason why a replacement or below-replacement birth rate is a problem - in many ways it's advantageous - but it's a really big problem over the next few decades because we didn't plan for it. We have a big cohort of baby boomers with long life expectancies, grossly inadequate pension savings and considerable political power. We built our economy on the back of a Ponzi scheme, with the assumption that we'd keep giving birth to more suckers to fund the social security system.

Immigration doesn't fix that problem completely, but it allows us to deflate the Ponzi scheme gently rather than waiting for it to collapse. We buy ourselves three or four decades to raise the retirement age, raise taxes and rebalance the economy to suit a stable population. It's not perfect, not everyone will be happy with it, but it's the only good option.
Oh yes, the famous Four Great Inventions. Unfortunately those are very shaky claims.

Just look at the first one: papyrus was in use for nearly 5000 (five thousand!) years in Ancient Egypt and all over the Mediterranean before paper was conveniently invented by Cai Lun.

The term paper itself is actually derives from "papyrus".

It's really not any different with the rest of those claims.
But Android?
> Here VAT is a flat percentage of the sales value, and from the result you get to subtract VAT that has been withheld by your suppliers, which means that in effect, it's just a tax on what consumers pay. It makes everything in that market more expensive by a certain percentage but otherwise has no impact on the company. It's a tax effectively paid by the consumer.

Income tax is really the same thing. A retailer sells a widget for $100 which it bought for $90, so it pays tax on the $10 in profit. The wholesaler bought the widget for $80 and sold it for $90, so it pays tax on another $10. If you go all the way back to the mine that produced the raw materials that were manufactured into the goods, the entire $100 is profit to somebody. It's the same as VAT. Calling it "profit" rather than "value added" is a distinction without a difference.

An exception as you point out is the treatment for domestic labor, but even that's just an accounting anomaly rather than a real exception -- the worker doesn't collect VAT on their "profits" (wages) but then, no deposit no return, the employer can't deduct them. The real scam is when wages aren't deductible from VAT and yet are still subject to personal income tax, which means they're being double taxed. That is one of the few things the US corporate income tax gets right.

> If you subtract all costs within that market, including labour, it suddenly becomes more attractive to hire labour in the same market where you're selling.

If you like VAT you may enjoy DBCFT.
Hideous at best. Comments that were insightfully sharp about wolf team have been deleted. How much collusion is going on between certain editors on hackernews and wolf team ?
Yes I'm aware of this one as well. Although again, the GUI toolkit doesn't look like much yet compared to the example we're discussing. And this one is written by one guy, Redox not so much.

Great to see examples that are getting close though, although I think my point stands that they are nowhere near as numerous or complete as their C/C++ counterparts.
This quote reeks of self-righteousness. Western corporations have done as much harm as they could get away with to make a quick buck as well.

Jordan Peterson is an individual who seems like he struggled to make sense of the world according to his Christian/Pure-Capitalistic view of the world and decided to concoct wild self-righteous theories to justify his bias rather than change his viewpoint. The only thing he has going for him is that he speaks with extreme confidence. My advide to you: choose a better messiah to save you from whatever disillusionment you are going through.
It is weird to hear: 1) stop having so many kids, it's bad for the Earth, and 2) we're not having enough kids, let's substitute with immigrants.
The problem is that skill and salary don't correlate as much as it should. As bad as we are at taxing negative externalities, we're terrible at rewarding positive externalities.
Australia? Do you have a reference?
They install a symlink from plain "dstat" to pcp-dstat. That's the exact same name part and plausibly objectionable.
Amazon After is a concept to help you get rid of all that stuff you buy online
Codeguppy.com for P5.js Connoisseurs
The iPhone popularised capacitive touch.

His comments on styluses should be seen in light of the technology of the time (Newton/Maemo/Palm OS/WinCE etc) whose input was stabbing at a resistive screen.

(That's not to repudiate finger input being superior to pen for many interactions but styluses of 2019 use vastly different tech to those of 2007.)
Some say the genocides of Communism and the Cultural Revolution wiped out a lot of the old civilized ways and made the survivors callous.
It will be interesting to see how Japan deals with it culturally. From folks I know who lived there they said that while everyone was nice, it was always clear that they were very much outsiders.
Hype Cycles and Pendulum Swings
Exciting, a new culture gets to develop.
I see. Use new tech to build a tunnel a new way and suddenly it must be bad because it not designed the same way as the old systems.

I hope your vacuum tubes don't burn out in your computer.
That's fine. You're not their target market.

I think it's a hilarious idea, and will 100% buy one if I can. I have zero interest in buying a 2DS or Switch though.

Teenage Engineering seem to have a nice little "lifestyle business" producing electronics that most people just go "But why?"

(Also, the crank is demonstrated in the last image is you scroll right down the page. It looks fun!
I mean, this is harsh, but there's a running joke that the big feature terraform is missing is a -twice flag so that it'll re-run itself on failure, since that's what you end up having to do anyways.

Also, the terraform language, HCL? It's, I guess there's no better way to put this: not good.

Am I misunderstanding the complexity of what Terraform is trying to do? To me, it looks like a bunch of tiny API clients tied together with a topological sort --- in other words, it's just another species of "make". It feels like it carries a whole lot more complexity than that concept warrants, but just enough simplicity to make it not a serious programming language. It's, to me, one of those frustrating uncanny valley systems.

I am prepared to be totally wrong about this.
For me the main takeaway from the article is that the robbers have become sophisticated enough to perform phishing attacks to get iCloud credentials.

Also, the author says using Authy is a good alternative as it provides encrypted backup, but account authentication is via OTP to the registered phone number, so it brings back to the same problem. Is there other alternatives to this?
There have been non-ethnically Yamato people in Japan for at least centuries. However Japanese society or law might have treated them, are you saying the Zainichi are culturally less Japanese than ethnic Japanese?

Seems like a lack of faith in societies to properly integrate new arrivals.
Hopefully it should be allowed on the app store, as a clone full of adware[1] has apparently shown up. It is definitely the best shell emulator I have come across for my iPad.

[1] https://github.com/tbodt/ish/issues/371
I don't think they were blaming the government. Just citing it as one of the issues in their quarterly shareholder report.

One of the main ways these companies retain people was this: give the employee promise of onsite deputation if you work for 1-2 years in this project. Now the companies are forced to give them a decent raise or promotion or better projects.

It sucks for 2 people I know who had been working like that for the last 3-4 years. Their work day usually ends at midnight and sometimes 1 am-2am (instead of 6.45 pm). They stayed in that project because they thought one day they could go to US. Their employer applied for their visas, but got denied.
Till recently Huawei phones bootloaders could be easily be unlocked. If they still are people now can get a cheap phone and install lineage or other os
IMHO why can't both take one step back? Forbidding technologies flow leads to different standards in different countries. China forbode Google, Twitter, etc from rooting in China years ago, so China developed a totally different ecosystem than the rest of the world (basically) to take their place: baidu as search engine, QQ as IM, weibo as social media. This made Chinese hard to take a peek to the outside world, while the outside world also has a hard time peeking in.
And now US is doing pretty much the same. Just when Chinese companies are trying to develop overseas business, US bans them. And as people from US and China cannot communicate, hatred grows and lotsa Chinese are now volunteering to ban foreign products. This is truly meaningless.
A dumbfounded example . All you need for this is a cas system or some gruelling head computation that can solve
This step or formula nothing more and not wolfram specifically .
Japan, Korea. It is like a different world.

Why, I don’t have a clue. Maybe it is the last 200 years in China, civil wars, then Communists and Mao. It is weird because there is not much violent crime at all. You won’t get kidnapped or mugged outside your hotel or anything like that.
Mass migration seems to be for economic benefits. A handful of people may immigrate out of appreciation of their new host culture, but millions or tens of millions doing so? Seems unlikely to me. They'll go to earn more money.
'Walking ice' of river Lena filmed around the city of Pokrovsk in Yakutia
I work in Akihabara. I see foreigners everyday. Even in Minato-ku I see plenty of non-Japanese people running around.
I have a bunch of Teenage Engineerings Pocket Operators. I definitely see this as something very similar. It will probably be surprisingly powerful as a platform, but still not going to be trying to compete with the Switch. They'll concentrate on making a fun experience over pushing the boundaries of technology.
Don't worry China won't be alone soon India will be in the same rank for authoritarian rule where everything will be monitored and dissent will be termed anti-national with secession laws applied and people jailed. This is the path India's current administration which might come back again, learned from China and using British methodology of divide and rule (dividing India along religious lines by letting people know where the cabinet is going for holy bath or pilgrimage).
While I agree with you in principle, the idea that Google Ads are carefully vetted and not in fact a teeming mass of malware is already an overly optimistic view that you should be disabused of.
It was on the PEP's original list of things to remove, but they decided to keep it because it's handy for quick scripts. I use it all the time for scripts that I delete shortly after use.
All currently rich "sophisticated" countries were in a similar phase when they were fighting their way out of poverty.

Once countries get rich enough, they can afford to care about the environment. China seems to advance much faster than others did historically, so I'm hopeful.
When you don't trust the other people who may be writing to the data. The advantages of a blockchain are immutability and byzantine fault tolerance: regardless of how malicious your counterparties may be, they can't rewrite the record of the state of the world, because every new record contains a cryptographic proof of the integrity of previous records. Also, this property is symmetric: there is no one person who is "hosting" the data and has full access to it by virtue of having physical possession of the bits. Even if you have physical possession of the bits of a blockchain, you can't rewrite them in any way that the other participants will accept.

Most real-world uses of blockchains (illegal dealings, adversarial relationship with the local nation-state, currency speculation & trading, gambling games) take advantage of this property. If you don't need it, you're almost always better off with an RDBMS, because you pay a heavy price in latency, transaction scalability, and data modeling for it.

Can't think of any business where you wouldn't trust your counterparties? That makes perfect sense, because people today generally do not do business with people they don't trust, because they can't. IMHO most usage of blockchains will happen in new markets doing new things that people would've considered foolhardy before, because its central value proposition enabling transactions that would've been considered foolhardy before.
Is this dryer compatible with Microsoft Silk and Apple iMesh? hmmm.
The way I understand it is that emergency brakes are for when the train desperately needs to not leave the station. Either someone very sick is on the train, or someone dangerous gets on, or there is some other emergency. When that happens, you need a way to absolutely 100% prevent the train from leaving the station, where help is most readily available. Unfortunately this requires trusting passengers to not pull the emergency brake on a whim
> In which country is the the law?

All that respect private property. The shareholders own the company, the management is essentially their employees.

The shareholders may not micromanage their company, but still management's job is to further the aims of the shareholders just as the job of elected politicians in a representative democracy is to further the aims of the people. Otherwise they get fired.

While this may not be working as well as it should, you wouldn't say a law is not the law because enforcement is spotty either.
In my hometown we actually put a park on airport property with a great view of both of our runways. It has a raised "tower" that streams a live feed of the local ATC. Benches, picnic tables, shaded areas, it's honestly one of my favorite spots locally.

Video (city government quality): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReeLuUh8qB4
This will likely prove to be a false equivalence.
Seems like a lack of faith in societies to properly integrate new arrivals.

Yes, exactly. I have little faith in that, because it rarely happens.
this has nothing to do with race

try to use your brain for a second please
The whole point of the West's policies is to increase competition at the low end of the labor market (manual, commodity, factory) while maintaining protectionism at the high end (intellectual property, media, culture, and technology), which is not coincidentally where elites are concentrated. The idea is to keep the price of labor as low as possible (to maximize profit for the owners of enterprises).
Definitely a good idea. But the problem is that it's gone down the memory hole, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am... . It's a bit scary how much of it has been happening, and it's not been completely that either; there's a lot of elements from the other side of the picture. Typically espoused by Brave New World.