skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago we followed Google Maps directions, and it took us into the middle of a farmer's field in Victoria, Australia. I don't know how it happened, but somehow Google had picked up a very informal sheep track, and it was most definitely not a public road.

Google also sent thousands of tourists to a small residential street in the middle of the Australian Blue Mountains. It wasn't until a major masthead picked up on the story[1] that they bothered to do anything about it, despite the dozens to hundreds of requests to make a change.

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/how-google-got-lost-in-the...
> This is straight up racism

>> No it's not, [banks are scared if the US]

Yes, banks are scared of the US. And perhaps the racism stems from the Italian bank, perhaps it stems from the US government, perhaps it stems from the Iranian definition of citizenship, perhaps all share a part of the blame. But regardless of who gets the blame, it most definitely IS straight up racism.
If you're a paid Google apps customer, these restrictions don't apply.
That is the best use of a referrer I think I have ever seen. Off to boil an egg now.
Well they certainly won't be able to perform a task (in this case critical thinking) if they weren't taught how to do it...

Could you make a cup of tea if you didn't know? Probably, but you'd ruin a lot of tea bags...
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This is as old as a stone. I recall translating part of the essay to Russian when I used to study philosophy as a PhD student back in 2004. https://www.fabmicro.ru/~rz/Progstone_rus.doc
I'd much rather go with Dijkstra than with Uncle Bob, FWIW
I still consider the iPhone 4S to be "the best iPhone". To me it's a design classic. A triumph of balanced form and function. I loved the weight of it, the hardness of it. The cool feel of it in my hand. Nearly indestructible too, unless it fell face first on a tile floor ... if I could still use it as my phone I would.

EDIT in fact 4S + ios 5 was peak iPhone for me. I think, actually that may have been around the time of Steve's passing … RIP "insanely great".
> America's companies and government might very well be giving up a very comfortable monopoly in some key sectors right now by encouraging new ecosystems out of necessity.

At the same time, they are exploiting the monopoly (the US as a hole, that is). I suppose there's a line between "this is too much pain, I'm jumping ship" and "this is an acceptable amount of pain, I'll just pay my tribute and stay". I don't know whether they've crossed that line - especially when adopting a Chinese system won't really change a lot, it will only change who you depend on and whose wishes you need to comply with.
Sanctions only strengthen the regime, while economic prosperity strengthens the progressive people and weakens the regime. Both regimes desperately need an enemy to survive.
Regardless what you think of the tactics, the sanctions are an economic vise -- a negotiating tactic to leverage a position -- it has nothing to do with race.
Unpopular view - Jobs kept Ive focussed. Jobs, for all his many faults, had very, very good taste, and also had a user's-eye view of design.

Ives seems to have a designer's eye view on design. Without Jobs to keep him on track he started designing for posterity and for design magazine pictorials - not for customers.

The classic designs - blue iMac, iPod, iPhone, laptops, possibly the initial MacPro sketches - all happened under Jobs when Apple was trying to expand its share of the mass market.

The failures - gradient tint flat UI in iOS 7, butterfly keyboard, disappearing ports, end of MagSafe, HQ glass wall injuries, etc - are all failures of form over function and happened after Jobs died.

There's some overlap - Anglepoise iMac, some of the special editions, puck mouse, that plastic clamshell laptop - but the hit rate under Jobs was far higher.
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Ranked programming is like probabilistic programming but you don't use probabilities. Instead, you state how your program normally behaves and how it may exceptionally behave. Conceptually it's very similar to probabilistic programming, but the underlying uncertainty formalism is replaced with ranking theory.

You can find an implementation of this idea (based on Scheme/Racket) here:

https://github.com/tjitze/ranked-programming

For more detailed information check the paper linked to on that page.
In my experience, if you can produce results, there is little restraint from modern management to exploit you to the max, there is no concern about burnout, or anything, its a daily battle to reign in demands no matter how much you produce.

From what I can understand it is taught at business school to exploit resources, you must look after yourself and push back, surprisingly hard, again in my experience. I find it abhorrent. It was the .com era when things changed, when the sharks realised the computers own the world, before that it was a bunch of happy engineers making stuff.

Even worse many managers seem to be control freaks who can't measure results, and instead insist on micromanaging everything, looking over your shoulder, continually asking for feedback, and "checking in" to see how things are going.

I've said for many years I produce results in spite of managers "helping". Software development is fairly easy I find, it does take time to produce results though, and because no one can see whats going on managers behave the way they do, there's a huge lack of trust on both sides. End of rant.

P.S. I find it easiest to behave like plumbers, they know you need them to clean up your shit, and they have to pay you, so just do what you have to to survive. I remember one guy I hired years ago to do some plumbing at a place I was renovating, kept saying he was busy, yada, yada, went up to the shops he was wandering around having an Ice cream. Medical specialists are another great example I find, they have people making outrageous demands on them, literally life and death, they make sure that people can't find them outside office hours, they are very good at looking after themselves, as they should be.
All websites collect data on visitors. They don't want to expose themselves to the risk of being fined by the EU for not following their detailed regulations, when they have very few customers from there. It doesn't necessarily mean they're doing anything beyond what most websites in the EU are doing.
Fair enough, I was going to say time as well, but money is time as well, just means you have to multiply it a bit more.
What Is the Business Value of UX Design
Or you could point to Firewire.

The problem is, Apple isn't always right on these things.
guess it got better...
Only 8.4% of US exports are to China, but the number is probably higher for semiconductors. It would have been nice if the article had mentioned what that number actually is.
On the other hand, going from horse-drawn to internal combustion is a clear improvement, which isn't as obvious as going internal combustion to electric
> They have enormous responsibility with the children

Could you elaborate on that? I always thought that there are rules and procedures for everything so the teachers are fine and covered.
I see the same. About once a year, Google will throw a hissy about someone logging on via IMAP/SMTP, even if it is Google themselves logging in (to send email as another account).

My guess is if some fingerprinting/Auth service is down, it fails in a 'safe' state, causing the login to be rejected and your account locked.
I agree with this. I think even under Jobs there were plenty of silly things but one of the things he was great at was attracting talent and keeping them busy. So squirt out the odd dud here and there but they're ready and available for coordinated moonshots.
MS has 'SMS Organizer'. It backups to Google Drive account. Though not sure if it is globally available.
So, racism now doesn't mean race ? Or does race includes nationality in your definition ?
Oh interesting, I did not think of that.
Pseudorandom Ordering for a Memory Efficient Hash Table
The post you linked says that Tao was teaching the class and made notes for it since he didn't like the book
It's really weird, because some people I talk to has never noticed a problem, yet I've been able to reproduce it (unwillingly) every time I've tried to install firefox on any macbook - different machines, different OS version, clean installs, you name it. It's just a matter of installing FF and using it lightly for some minutes (different websites too, or just showing the start page in the background) and the fans are already at full speed.

It makes me really confused because my current understanding on the bug doesn't seem to be compatible with the idea of only affecting some users - and to be clear I'm not casting doubt on your experience either, it's just hard to imagine how a performance issue regarding the compositor and screen redrawing could be affecting users differently.
it is not about you personally, i think OP refers to american foreign policy
This is a very old debate. It was settled a long time ago. Restrictive copyright protection measures hurt sales. Because it prevents potential customers from trying your products. Anyone arguing otherwise is motivated by something other than facts, history, logic.
It's less clear how to do a 'restore' with that model...

Manually forward 10,000 messages to restore@smsbackup.com?
Do you have your MBP screen's resolution set to "more space" on system preferences -> displays? Are you using an external monitor for FF?

(Just curious about how your setup differs from mine)
Why the dual citizenship? Ius sanguinis is not sufficient.

Give it up and we'll reconsider.

Two-faced sons of b.
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I think that is what the current US administration is trying to instigate at the end of the day.
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I would guess that a modern equivalent of that German family will have a mobile phone with them. And my instinct is that SDR makes it practical for phones to be able to become 406MHz COSPAS-SARSAT beacons when they need to not far in the future.

A 406MHz beacon is going to be relevant to a lot of scenarios that people get into in large sparsely populated countries like the US or Australia, because it means somebody knows where you are and that you need help, and then all they've got to do is come help you.
NASA will send drone to explore Titan
Good thing the people don't have guns in Hong Kong. Otherwise it could get ugly.
Good.

Maybe email clients will go back being email clients with IMAP so they can be used with _any_ provider, not just gmail.
...this sounds like a problem with centralizing the whole internet onto two or three servers -- excuse me, clouds.
of course that's not USA's problem with Iran, it's Iranians problem. it's an impossibly difficult problem to solve, and the more economically stable the regime is, the more resources they can spend on their survivability. Saudi Arabia will probably never have a chance to overthrow, they have too much resources to detect and squash any resistance.

Iran on the other hand is in a unique position of instability that they just might have a small chance of brighter future, small chance that will end the moment the sanctions will be lifted.
Is it any better/different than deb packages ? (I'm NOT trying to start a flame war or Debian vs. Fedora troll, just asking out of pure curiousity).
SMSBackup+ works perfectly fine with IMAP backends.
Google webservices make scraping pretty easy. They send all data back in a rest-like API, protobuf encoded.

All you need to do is guess the protobuf schema. Since protobuf is backwards compatible, you can be fairly sure your scraping won't break arbitrary either.

In many cases, they send back more data than is shown in the webUI too.
Totally different.

He said "switch from npm to yarn". I can't imagine the phrase "switch from apt to rpm". The difference here is that there is the whole layer of distribution maintainers who do the actual work to ensure compatibility and quality.

AppImage and Snap are different beasts emerged from the need to bundle proprietary software. There are around two of them like I've said.
Semantic Versioning, Go Modules, and Databases
Google Safety & Security Blog: An update on state-sponsored activity (2018) ...

Detecting and terminating activity on Google properties

"Actors engaged in this type of influence operation violate our policies, and we swiftly remove such content from our services and terminate these actors’ accounts. Additionally, we use a number of robust methods, including IP blocking, to prevent individuals or entities in Iran from opening advertising accounts."

https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/update-st...
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So it's an emotional response to something that if you applied some logical thinking to it you might see things differently?
Comments can be seen like this:
https://comntr.github.io#http://contoso.com/
The trick is that the #... part of the URL isn't sent to the server. This request downloads JS which computes SHA1 and gets comments by that hash from the data server.
Wait, that's... that's actually bad, unlike Gmail.
Drive _is_ a storage endpoint, so is Photos. Not having a way to sync them is a serious issue.
> What could happen (but still unlikely) is that those within the company who made the decisions that led to the deaths of 300 people could be held to account in a court of law.

Sorry, I laughed. That will never happen. Boeing may go under, but those rich bastards will always be able to stay out of jail. Name me one exec of a plane manufacturing company that has gone to jail over a crash. There aren't any.
I think there is a good chapter from "Business Adventures" where it talks about and describes some typical annual shareholder meetings - from the book, it seemed essentially to be lip service by the company. Your average shareholder doesn't have a say. It would be more precise to say "large controlling interests" and by extension "board of directors"
> But I cannot agree more that HR is not on your side.

Just to add a counter in case early career people see this and take it as truth - there are companies out there who have really good HR teams who are aligned to their employees. Don't put up with shitty HR because you think all HR teams are shit.

Org I work for has really good HR teams for both the boring process stuff, and fostering a decent working environment. It's one of the strings still holding me to stay.
It sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea, and I would be happy if it actually works out!

However, I must admit that HR portals are rabbit holes that looks good on paper, but then fall into one of two problems: chicken and egg, or garbage data. You need to have very clear strategy of how both sides of the job market are encouraged to adopt a new "empty" platform, while making sure that job listings are actually clean, truthful, and relevant.

Are you saying that founders will input the resumes? It sounds like a lot of work, and not something I'd expect a person with a failing project on hand be able to do.
I think app development is forbidden in the Quran.
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Did you not pay attention in high school? When you step on the gas your car, you are converting electrical energy into kinetic energy. When you release your foot, the kinetic energy that is stored into the car moves tires, which moves the shaft of the electric motor. What happens if you manually rotate a conductor inside a magnetic field? Obviously induction happens, which converts the kinetic energy back into electricity and heat.

>more things that can go wrong.
Eddy Current Brakes are a passive system with an extremely high safety track record. If you ignore the bearing that holds the wheel/motor in place there are no moving mechanical parts. I couldn't think of a safer way to stop moving objects.
Oh man I think had our bill been that high I’d have been fired for sure. We were a very cash strapped small op at the time.
The semiconductor is game-changing tech. When America allowed the Hygon Dhyana to be made, America fucked up. Hold it back. This is real tech. You can't let it go.

I'm for free societies, but free societies must defend themselves from societies organized to kill free societies. The semiconductor is real. Giving away this will pay poor dividends.
Please allow swiping the address bar to switch tabs.

Otherwise it's just too slow.

That is what keeps me away from using Firefox on mobile (15 years Firefox user).
There are about as many Mormons as there are Southern Baptists, which most consider "a pretty big denomination" of Protestantism. To my knowledge, BYU has not re-banned caffeinated soda. Regarding the Curse of Ham:

"In 1931, Joseph Fielding Smith wrote on the same topic in The Way to Perfection: Short Discourses on Gospel Themes, generating controversy within and without Mormonism. For evidence that modern blacks were descended from Cain, Smith wrote that "it is generally believed that" Cain's curse was continued through his descendants and through Ham's wife. Smith states that "some of the brethren who were associate with Joseph Smith have declared that he taught this doctrine." In 1978, when the church ended the ban on the priesthood, Bruce R. McConkie taught that the ancient curse of Cain and Ham was no longer in effect.[9]:117

General authorities in the LDS church favored Smith's explanation until 2013, when an LDS Church-published online essay "disavowed" the idea that black skin is the sign of a curse."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormonism#Cur...
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That's because having US citizens as customers requires them to file tax information for those customers with the US government, and the German banks don't want the overhead.
What's the practical difference? You're being punished due to a place you've been born in. Not something you did wrong. Just a luck of nature.

And that's wrong. By any moral standard.
Sure, true point. Internet is meant to support freedom
The solution seems pretty pbvious, and it's in use on pretty much every smartphone app. Just have more login buttons that can lead you to the right page.

"login in with email/password", "login in with $SSO".
Race includes nationality in any useful definition of racism, and has done for many many years.

From 2010, written into UK law: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/9

> 9 Race

> (1)Race includes—

> (a)colour;

> (b)nationality;

> (c)ethnic or national origins.

From 1976 (over 40 year ago), written into the previous UK law: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/74/enacted

> 1 Racial discrimination

[...]

> (ii) which he cannot show to be justifiable irrespective of the colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origins of the person to whom it is applied ; and
> an Us and a Them has been the way forward for most of human civilization's existence.

and so was slavery for a long time.

Humanity needs to shed the tribalism from which it was forged. The current political paradigm requires that the politicians to divide and conquer, because most people aren't able to really see what's real and what's propaganda (which makes propaganda so effective). I don't have a solution to this problem unfortunately, but until this is solved, world climate change or inter-planetary colonization (or any other big endeavour) won't happen.
The way I see it, employee engagement is primarily the work and responsibility of middle management, direct supervisors, team leads, etc. They are the ones handling the personal one-to-one relationships between the employee and the company.

As you say, good HR department can help a lot in this regard - but in this function it's the same as in other main HR functions (recruitment, training, discipline issues and firing, compensation, legal compliance); most of what HR departments generally do is support for these line managers in their job of managing the employees, not support for the employees themselves.
It really is crazy to me how a white dude can commit 30 bank robberies and end up doing less tha 4 years in prison. I personally know one guy who is a minority who did 10 for his first attempt, and he was 17.
I think only the older Sunway (SW1600) chips use Alpha ISA, and not the design. The ones in the TaihuLight (SW26010) are not Alpha.

Similar to Loongson, which used the MIPS ISA, but a homegrown design.
The second thing I thought / wondered... 'do most people underestimate how many rural or and suburban people are out there?' - if most people polled are from well internet-connected areas and skew mostly urban cities, it might not be overestimating for the area as opposed to underestimating the amount of people that are not city dwellers. Maybe another poll is needed or has been done. /random-thought
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My general impression, that I don't know how to back up, is that the last Shah of Iran was overthrown, fled the country and died in exile in part because Iranians viewed him as a puppet of the US. Sanctions against Iran in some form or another go back decades, likely rooted in those events.

I think Iran perceives itself to be fighting for its right to self determination. I don't think this is likely to be resolved without that being understood and addressed.

I never hear anyone addressing that, which may explain why this is such an intractable situation.
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The reasons for the power asymmetry do not affect the severity of the asymmetry.
Political messaging has numerous audiences.

For instance, most of organized labor may understand that "Right To Work" legislation is Luntzian doublespeak, because their orgs have policy people to unravel the lies.

But it's effective against non-union labor, editorial boards, and low-information voters. Providing much needed cover for corporate shilling legislators.

"And frankly, the doublespeak involved in labeling restrictions on labor relationships as rights (and thus obviously and unambiguously positive) says much more about your ignorance than theirs."

I don't think he said that.
Wrong default, perhaps for you, but I for one don't care about memory safety at all.
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Thoughts on declarative programming with deterministic output?
Never found myself getting excited about iPhone hardware, I guess partly because with the giant screens you don't really notice it. I've got an 8 Plus now and find it very difficult to go back to the titchy old devices.
> China is pushing it through because it's a long-term investment. That makes sense for them.

The question is why it'd be a good investment for china, but not for the US?
>You guys _do_ realize there is, and through the entire history of the USA has been, a fully-fledged industrial aristocracy in place?

How is that consistent with the fact that the five largest US corporations by market cap (Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Facebook) have not been passed on to offspring and were not started by descendents of the industrial elite of the country?

I agree that social mobility is lacking by in many ways, but the result is clearly not a fully-fledged industrial aristocracy.