skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Richer nations are not externalizing their garbage, they're literally paying for it

They are externalizing it, selling what they can, paying others to take it but not paying the true costs of properly recycling it in the first place.

> If the receivers are not doing their job and putting it in the Earth, then that's not just some industrial by-product problem, it's point blank corruption.

If we know this and continue to sell it to them, are we any less at fault? the answer is no.

>Also, if it's consumer items in the Ocean, then the issue will be about where most consumers are, and how much they pollute, given that the issue might be Asia.

Its thrown away consumer items, which as explained are shipped to asia from western countries as waste.

>But the West obviously has enough of it's problems so it's not like anyone can point fingers really.

everyone sucks, everyone needs to do better. No exceptions.
Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices
To a certain degree yes, Apple theoretically has access to all of that data thanks to my iCloud Drive, Mac, iPhone, etc etc.

Nearly all of my digital life happens on an Apple device. However they have shown that most of this happens on device instead of in the cloud, and they are not in the market of mining that data in order to build a profile that is used so a third party can sell me ads.
> death penalty is permanent, while life imprisonment isn't

I think the word you're looking for here is "irreversible", not "permanent." Life imprisonment is, by definition, permanent.

And yes, you can "reverse" life in prison by setting the prisoner free. But what you can't so easily reverse is the psychological damage done by the false imprisonment.
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”

-- Warren Buffet

This is what your post is based on, right?

Some managers will be better judges of character than others but as soon as you formalize the process, you also very likely open it up to be exploited by people with low integrity and high intelligence.
So what are you using to replace the google services? Because just lineageOS without a replacement or google makes most apps not work properly.
From your linked article, as well:

> According to the FBI, there were 7,175 hate crime incidents in 2017, a 17 percent increase from 2016 and the third year in a row with an increase. The number of incidents in 2017 was also the highest yearly total since 2008. About 58 percent of the hate crimes in 2017 were motivated by race/ethnicity/ancestry.

In addition, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified back in April that White nationalist violence is a “persistent, pervasive threat”.

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/4/18295358/fbi-white-nationalism-...
I wrote a very similar article back in 2007. Nice to see how the process has aged. This was the number 1 article on CenterNetworks until it's founder passed away a few years ago. (RIP Allen Stern)

https://web.archive.org/web/20070508104636/http://www.center...
Your worries about being seen as the same are silly, people can usually tell whether you want something from them a few sentences in and after that a pleasant conversation is usually in progress. It's worth it to strike up conversations with randoms. On the elevator one time I had a fun talk with an optical engineer about detecting methane leakages with lasers and whether it had applications in space.

How often do you get to enjoy that?
The Charter School Empire Prosecutors Say Scammed California for $80M
Ask HN: Alt. paths for a CS guy who has always been tilted away, towards arts?
I'm ~30. Been an Android dev for ~8 years. I am pretty good at coding but I have never been passionate. It just pays the bill. I recently received a promotion that makes me question my current career status quo even more.

I am kind of at my wit's end. I struggle with the idea of resigning and just going travelling for few months but my job is my only source of income. No, I am financially very sorted, just that I don't have a huge savings corpus.

When I look back I have always been interested in literature, cinema, history, and arts in general. But I am also under no impression that I am an artist. Architecture fascinated me. I was opting for it at college but family didn't let me. Peers and seniors all advised against it. At leat in my country (India) only those opted for the field who couldn't get into mainstream engineering streams.

I was listening to a podcast episode once; in that a British woman was the guest and she used to make old stuff for films. Old newspapers, postcards, stained old crumpled pieces of paper. I found that really exciting.

I am a hobbyist beginner level carpenter. I like the idea of making/designing/conceptualising/imagining things that one can touch, look at, admire. I have always been writing in my own capacity. I write in my diary regularly (not just the daily entries but a lot more than that) and sometimes publish among literarily inclined friends and acquaintances in my native language Hindi.

I am trying to find cross disciplinary masters and PhDs and whether I can shift to something else at Masters level than CS that allows me to move into another field. But so far I have really not found anything. Or maybe I am not finding the right way.

I just thought I will post it here hoping someone might have gone down this road. I know no one can give me a readymade route but I hope to get some hints at reading the road signs.
SPLC has come under increasing scrutiny as of late for making false accusations https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty...

'After years of smearing good people with false charges of bigotry, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has finally been held to account. A former Islamic radical named Maajid Nawaz sued the center for including him in its bogus “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” and this week the SPLC agreed to pay him a $3.375 million settlement and issued a public apology.'
MIgrating to NextCloud, I'm pretty happy with it. It has many extensions, plugins, and helper applications. Say no to centralized web :)
Power. Reliable power is hard to come by and is more expensive. Power availability and cost is a significant factor in data center location in the states.
Disclaimer: I am a developer for this company
Imagine how much better they could do without such high emitting activities
After receiving an email like:
> This is all for just $20.88 more a year

1. I never asked for anything more 2. you still charge me for more at a higher price

I just bought 2TB data on iCloud, moving everything there. Now I will have good photo application with face recognition which is awesome. Do not expect any move from Dropbox to make your personal life better, they won't. They are going towards enterprise customers.

Use iCloud that's it if you're in the apple word.
Being punchy about it you've never moved on from thinking you need admin rights on your machine. Chocolatey for Business' self-service installer, SCCM jobs, and a variety of other tools exist to enable you to get specific things that require elevation executed. If you're changing things to test various configurations wouldn't it be handy to have those scripted, get them peer reviewed / linted and you've got yourself the start of a process to get that script executed on demand.

This stuff isn't that hard - but those of us doing it see the mad things that people do when they're given blanket, even time bound, admin access. They're the ones dealing with the support calls when then every SQL Server installation has been done differently with no details of what specifically was done. IaC works.
Strategies for CMOS from a Former Director of Marketing at Facebook
It’s not

> If you <do bad things>

It’s actually:

> If you are convicted of <doing bad things>

You have made many very emotionally charged posts in this thread. Take a rest.
This blog has a really cool page layout
You're feeding a troll. It would have been better to walk away a few comments ago.
Dunno, the first time I went to Google interview I had absolutely brutal one as my first question (a complicated dynamic programming on combinatorial problem without closed form solution), and I absolutely loved it and after some discussion with the interviewer came to a solution in about 20 minutes, all on whiteboards I hate. I am not sure why wouldn't you rather use the time for interview or something more meaningful than to test if somebody can do a programming equivalent of 1+2+3 when you can observe from their CV that they probably aren't complete beginners and you are interviewing to get somebody for a very senior job.
> Try Taiwan or Vietnam - well, Vietnam another one party state, but a burgeoning tech scene and HUGE population of like-minded hackers.

Where can I find those communities you mentioned in Vietnam?
It appears that ZeroNet uses Namecoin, and therefore is reliant on energy-intensive / unsustainable Bitcoin technology, so I cannot support it.

It blows my mind that almost every decentralized system mentioned in the comments here relies on unsustainable proof-of-work systems. Blockchain technology is possible without proof-of-work, and decentralization is possible without blockchain. We can do better, folks.
> And the reply I got was discussion were not mature.

I believe, and his further comments strengthen my belief, that this wasn't aimed at your comment, but at the fact that he got mass downvoted. That has since changed considerably, as it tends to do when it's highlighted. The counts are not public, but at the time I wrote my comment, his was practically background-colored.
iCloud is great for Mac/iOS users. I never felt it worked well on Windows. It never felt right. So yes, Apple still has work to do if they want wider iCloud use. Maybe they don't want to?

But Microsoft and Google are creeping up. Their file sync is almost there with Dropbox.

OneDrive works on Mac and Windows, supports Files on Demand (similar to Dropbox Infinite - essentially placeholder files, very useful for small SSDs), and are working on differential sync for 2019.

The kicker is that OneDrive costs $99 as part of Office 365 Home, and gives you + 5 family members each 1TB storage, GBs of Outlook storage, the desktop Office apps for all devices including Android (they run really well on Android-enabled Chromebooks). And access to phone-based support. What's more, many people can get Office 365 discounted to $70 via the new Home Use Program, or even free if they're students or teachers[1].

Google One (one.google.com) is also a pretty formidable offering where available. File storage via Google Drive, a great photo storage service, tons of Gmail space, and access to Google's support teams.

So yes -- file storage is becoming a feature and the Google & Microsoft offerings will end up tempting many customers. Dropbox still does sync really well and has the best app, in my opinion -- including the only one that works on Linux, but I'm not sure that'll be a massive concern for the average customer.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office
Yeah, what I meant is that, these days, the culture is such that one assumes there will be an OSS tool somewhere, before one even considers a sketchy binary. Maybe the OSS option will be inferior, but it's almost guaranteed that it will get some stuff done and not nuke your machine. That's a significant improvement (of course we know that having a github repo is no guarantee and blablabla, but it correlates well enough for most purposes).
Yeah, I've never had a good experience with the Google Drive client. Heck, I remember when the Windows version would suck up all available file handles and basically make the machine unusable.

That being said, the whole point of Dropbox to me is that its cross-platform. iCloud Drive is basically worthless for the Dropbox use case unless your entire computing universe is on Apple equipment.
> But I wish intelligent people would refrain from supporting the notion that there is any kind of "normal" regarding the climate. There is no such thing.

While I agree that that is true for a sufficiently long timescale, the rate of change that we force on the world right now does make it look like we're changing the normal.
I'm envious of those who managed to script a mass download in time!
That's insane. You're basically putting somebody in a cruel and miserable existence with the expectation that they commit suicide, for the sole purpose of keeping your hands clean. I find it worse than outright killing them.
Is it possible that we have too narrow definition for “life” as in “similar to what we define as life on Earth, and by proxy what we see as life in humans”?
Me too, we try, but it's too easy for people in the management chain to push a fix into the "Too Hard Bucket" (tm) and it dies.
Make the sacrifice of ethical consumption. Refuse to support companies that are in the business of selling technology, weapons and other tools of subjugation to the party or allies of the party.
If most of the returns are to capital, may the issue is simply that most of the people are stuck with wages and not capital.
One more reason to TLS all the things although it might not be enough to discourage these practices.

A VPN would not change much unless the exit node is ran by an ISP/Hosting provider not affected by the route hijacking.
>>As far as I can tell, white nationalists make up an extreme minority voting bloc, and are explicitly denounced and distanced from the current administration.

You are very wrong about the latter part. Trump's response to Charlottesville was so bad that the phrase "both sides" became a meme. To this day, he continues to downplay the problem.
For reasons I cannot fathom, it seems like bigger companies are far less likely to justify the resources to build multi-platform native software than smaller ones.
> ... using network management to in good-faith give a better experience to everyone ...

But that's very much NOT what is going on these days (in the US at least). Providers advertise a plan at a certain speed with "unlimited" usage. By any reasonable interpretation, that would mean I could use up to that rate of transfer 24/7. If they can't provide that rate of transfer to everyone who purchases it, then they have no business offering it!

And that's not even beginning to touch on any of the issues surrounding net neutrality.

I suspect what happens is that due to competitive pressures (ie advertising a larger number to get more customers) they either oversell the network's capacity or they sell at prices that aren't actually profitable for them in the event that people actually use all of what was sold to them.

To get back to the original analogy:

> Example - your water supplier doesn't make a big deal if you use more water because you have a swimming pool but you ISP does and I find that very weird.

In reality, your water supplier generally doesn't oversell their capacity - utilities go to great lengths to be able to meet peak demand. Charging more to, or placing time restrictions on, certain classes of customers who consume large quantities is a key part of that strategy. They also (typically) charge per gallon, which would be equivalent to charging per Gigabyte or whatever, but the rates are very reasonable. This is in addition to charging a low, again reasonable, fixed fee for your connection to their "network".

Your water utility also doesn't charge a different rate depending on whether you're using the kitchen vs bathroom sink (net neutrality), and most certainly doesn't attempt to collect and then sell such data to third parties!

tl;dr - ISPs in the US often engage in false advertising, resulting in outrage when promises aren't met. If they behaved more like actual utilities, we likely wouldn't have these issues.
> Albums are re-issued and re-released all the time.

This is a tactic to stay on the charts and drum-up sales.

On the top-50 albums right now, many of which have spent YEARS on the chart,

- Queen: Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection

- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band: Greatest Hits

- Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys

- Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

- Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

https://www.billboard.com/charts/top-album-sales
Seeing you mentioned downvoted comments I arrived at this post.

>Could someone explain how?

Because there is no such thing as Rule of Law in China. Not in any sense where people understands it. The First Rule of Law in China is Rule of the Party. And there is no system in place that overrules the party. Unlike in the west where there is also something to keep everything in check. The law can also be interrupted in anyway as the Party member wishes, even changing / scrapping it now and trace back all previous wrong doings.

This is fundamentally different to how Rule of Law works in the rest of the world and in Hong Kong.

I am not suggesting Rule of Laws works the same everywhere. But for most developed country, they are at least on the same order of magnitude, China is completely off the chart.
I used to hold this view, until I went and bought myself a dumb device and ended up ditching it a month later. Some apps are just too integral to modern life to lose, and many unavoidable places only function using apps now (my library, parking, bike rental, work access and expenses claims etc).

To counter this issue of distraction, I managed to get my app selection down to about 10-12 essentials, all heavily curated so there's nothing that will 'keep me scrolling'. It basically consists of Email, Messaging, Duolingo, edx, Instagram (only following about 200 close friends so my feed is at most 5-8 pictures a day), Uber, Spotify, MyFitnessPal, Audible, and the apps for the aforementioned uses.

After removing the "continuous distraction" apps from my phone it's gone from a procrastination machine, back to being the worlds most valuable tool.
On the contrary, Apple’s business model seems more and more to be ”privacy you can buy”.
It's hard to see how this one case invalidates the research presented by the GP.
i suspect its not being reported at all.
The new Dropbox for me:

- the free plan completely gimped with only 3 devices allowed to link

- the official Linux client effectively rendered useless as it no longer works on anything except ext4 filesystems (an artificial limitations added years after I’ve gone all in ZFS).

The new Dropbox clearly wants me to leave. Which is a shame.

I’ve always chosen Dropbox because it was the universal solution which “just worked” everywhere, while all the competitors had a catch here or there.

Now Dropbox are intentionally adding limitations making it non-universal, and therefore losing its own unique selling point.
You'd probably really appreciate this comedy sketch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Definitely not a "good talk/blog post/video course" type of thing, however if you are interested on how we built Countly from ground up, together with the technology stack behind, you can check our source code here:

https://github.com/countly/countly-server

While we have used MongoDB, Nodejs, Linux as underlying platforms, there are several options out there you may check.

Note that some (if not most) of the effort would go into SDK development, and to tell you the truth, SDK development is no easy task as it requires knowledge of how different platforms work.

The point is (and take it as a warning): you will never be satisfied with what you have - after you are done with vital data, then there is custom events, raw data, user profiles, online users, and then you will start eating your own dog food as it becomes your part-time job.
Decentralised ledger Radix DLT breaks 1M transactions per second record
Fantastic (IMHO) read on the last paragraph's history and code movement: https://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switc...
Well, at least they are interested. Today evening on a metro, I think quite a few people were watching videos on HK events
When was the last time you tried Google Drive?

I had the exact opposite experience. I tried to sync about 700k files to Dropbox and it chewed up CPU for hours, never got past "Preparing to Sync" (or whatever is the equivalent), then crashed. I tried a number of things. Circa about 2 years ago.

Google drive does annoy me when it decides to do a "full scan" and won't sync anything new until it completes, BUT, it does sync all my data, and it doesn't crash or use tons of CPU.
Call it conjoined triangles of success then.
Or there was just a slowdown caused by temporary congestion somewhere that happened to go away while you were running the speed test.
The trouble is just doing that—yes, even in this modern world of wildly complicated and huge Web standards—wouldn't require anything like the staff and funding they have now. That'd come with a large-double-digits-percentage layoff of staff. Won't happen. Probably they'd have trouble winding back down to just making a good browser now even if their funding dropped to a point that it couldn't sustain their current, expensive, useless fucking about, due to all the organizational death-throes that'd happen.

Remember when Mozilla kinda sucked and were famous bumblers, as an organization, but that little Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox team managed to revive it by producing a great browser that soon ate the entire brand, it was so good, and the organization (improbably!) had enough collective sense to foster that rather than kill it? That's probably the best outcome we can still hope for. IDK if they're organizationally capable of letting that happen anymore, or which quarter of the current Mozilla organization such a thing (whatever it might be) would come from.
If someone is hired on your team that's allegedly under-qualified (at the time of hire) and isn't able to earn their stripes at work (despite being given the opportunity to do so over a long enough time horizon) then they have no business complaining that they're not getting work that delights them. This argument applies to literally anybody regardless of their sex/race/age/orientation.

GP is basically advocating the collection and use of data to verify and possibly correct any manifestation of this alleged unconscious bias. Just because the data isn't perfect doesn't mean it's useless. You seem to be OK with pre-meditated "correction" without looking at the data. You even seem to think that the collected data would vindicate managers of allocating "less glamorous work" to the non-high performers.
No the reason is basically that he didn't move. If SWAT is on your front lawn and you walk out the front door expect a swift death even if you are innocent and completely unarmed. Curl down and hide in a way that makes you completely defenseless? Well first of all they don't have 5 marksmen pointing their gun at you in anticipation because they have to find you first and second they actually have an opportunity to arrest you because you're not running away from them.
If this first-hand account from a person on twitter[0] is to be believed, it isn't.

This is a reply to a thread of photos from a WSJ journo on the ground from a few hours ago. The photos are interesting in themselves.

0: https://twitter.com/mbspinks/status/1138728407464796160
I think you may be missing the larger point the authors are trying to make. It's more nuanced. For every item on a treatment pathway, ask if there is peer reviewed evidence backed by a randomized clinical trial (where possible) to support it. If not, consider doing one.
For evidence of harms done by medical reversal, see the other thread as well as consider reading the book "Ending Medical Reversal" by one of the authors Adam Cifu.
Also consider following them on twitter if this topic is of interest (Adam Cifu, Vinay Prasad et al).