skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it would probably take more time and money irrespective of litigation to be sure that there was illicit bias than to just delete everything and call the exercise a failure.
This is definitely true in many cases, but I'd wager that it's the exception, not the rule. (It also probably depends on location.)

It makes sense to me to refuse to help individuals who seem to be abusing goodwill, but I think this is a poor excuse to refuse helping anyone who asks. I always give the benefit of the doubt to those in need.

If you don't want to give, that's your prerogative, but I don't think this is a good justification for that decision.
I've had a similar experience. Caffeine is probably the greatest tool in my belt.

Something you may want to look into is how many carbs you are eating for lunch, and whether your blood sugar is being affected. An amazing number of people have minor hypoglycemia and a carb-heavy lunch can leave them falling asleep at their desk. When I switched to a low/no-carb breakfast/lunch it did help (tho did not cure).
It reminds me of hazing rituals at fraternities - you can't get rid of this bad thing, how would that be fair to us who had to go through it?
Me too, but I suspect at worst it would be like "and make sure to develop and refine the export to UE4 functionality," which is something the community benefits from anyway.
> Bing had the money and persistence to make that investment, but how many others will?

I hypothesized once with an ex Microsoft HIGH up that it probably took 10B to launch bing. He said I was almost exactly on the nose.

Also this is a ridiculous thing to ask for. How much money do you think Google pays for the bandwidth to crawl the web? How much do you think it costs to run the machines that create indexes out of that? How do you value the IP involved in the process?

Google should give away the fruits of that labor for free, plus invest in a reasonable API to download that index? Plus the bandwidth of sharing that index with third parties? It’s probably not even feasible aside from putting disks or tapes on multiple semis to send to clients. The index is 100 petabytes according to [0]. With dual fiber lines, and no latency for mind bending numbers of API calls, that would take 12.6 YEARS to download a single snapshot.

[0] https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/crawling-indexi...
That may be with the recycling operation were you live, but everywhere I have lived it's been one bin type, one truck, dump the bin and go. The only time I have had to do more than separate paper from non-paper was back when I also had to hand-carry recyclables to a drop spot.
> No, the two strategies differ

That "No" is unwarranted - the strategies differ in the way you say, but they coincide in the way the post your responded to says.
Or I can donate to a church that is doing all of it for free. If the issue is efficiency then isn't it better to donate to individuals doing it for free.
European Supercomputer Will Be Located at Bulgaria’s Sofia Tech Park
At least as of 2009, no state housed death row inmates in private prisons: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/us/24prison.html. In Alabama, death row inmates are housed and executed in Holman, a public facility. Moreover, Alabama has just 1% of its prison population in private prisons. Many states that have the death penalty (Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, etc.) have no private prisons at all.
I'm going to write this, and it's going to fall on deaf ears. Not my bros here, but the public, in general.

Elections have consequences and the public does not hold elected officials accountable by the low voter turnout reported. I mean, what - 20% of eligible people vote in local elections, and 50% for presidentials?
> Most anybody is smart enough to understand anything

I don't think this is true. At least for me it's not. In general I pick things up pretty quickly, at least above average. But there are certain things I know I've tried extremely hard with but I really struggle to even be competent. I also know some people which I'd consider a little slow and not from a lack of effort, but they have amazing abilities in other areas which I suck at.
There was a time around 2016 when DDR prices went through the roof and didn't go down for quite some time. There were a lot of market factors: Samsung's massive Note recall meant they needed a lot of memory for their own devices, plus they had contractual burdens to meat for people who had already paid for RAM, so everyone else got screwed on chips (Samsung, Micron and SK make the majority of memory, and their pipelines all had shortages).

We even saw priced for old DDR3 chips go up as well as people were trying to reuse older board for non-CPU intensive stuff.

So tech prices don't always go down. They usually do, but sometimes market demands cause shortages and even non-vintage/collectable old tech can go up in price.
You're misrepresenting my claim.

1. I said "only for Clinton" in the contect of Trump vs Clinton. Then I compared to other U.S. politicians, where the example still holds. The intended meaning is perfectly clear.

2. Obviously the fact that Clinton was the topic of a scandal involving email is the assumed context here. That's why I said "if anything, we would not expect "email" to be autocompleted for trump" (implied: but for Clinton, email is a more relevant search term based on published news, etc.).
Epic are doing a great job improving fairness in the gaming industry, and the economic conditions for developers. I'm looking forward to their Epic Store opening up to more (high quality) Indie games.
Half the internet would be unusable, lol.
The language isn't specifically built for web assembly but the framework is. But it allows the writing C# a traditionally server side language to run in the browser.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/blazor-now-in-official...
I saw Peter Thiel on one of the networks this morning pushing this message. The problem with his message (and yours) is that Google doesn't work with the Chinese Government. Dragonfly was shut down, and for the most part, Google is not even available in China.

Thiel's criticism was that because Google wasn't working with the U.S. Government, and was operating in China, that Google isn't patriotic.

Not only is this rhetoric a false equivocation, but it's dangerously wrong.
This is pretty much equivalent to 'you can't learn from random noise', isn't it?
You can read more about Epic's MegaGrants here:

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/megagrants

It doesn't look like it has many (any?) strings. Aside from being split over three years in Blender's case.

It is worth considering that this is in Epic's best interests as Blender + Unreal Engine is a common platform for startups/indie devs.

Making Blender better may make the games that people develop using Unreal Engine better, which might mean higher license income for Epic. So it is a win for Epic and a win for Blender/the community.
I can't figure out how that relates to my point? We're operating under the assumption that people are donating something, which implies they worked, gained from it, and then decided to pass on their gain to someone else. My point is about the efficiency of that donation, and the expectations we should have of the people who enable that donation.
> In the UK, those companies all require a driving license, passport, credit card, many thousand pound deposit, credit check, 2 bank statements, and a code from the government showing driving offenses...

That may just be you. It is most certainly not the case in the US.
yeah, give money to the food banks..those food bank execs have mercedes payments to make...
That is what being a racist is like.
If China can continue this growth, this trend will continue. But China's financial system is a house of cards and it's unclear if they will make it out of the next recession without significant damage. There's serious strategic threats including opaque financial system, improper banking controls massive "market rigging" and government corruption. No one knows the true state of the Chinese economy, including China itself.

I wonder how many of these employees will make it back to the West eventually. Big if obviously as there are many unknowns.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2173461/c...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/03/08/china...

https://www.ft.com/content/961b4b32-3fce-11e9-b896-fe36ec32a...
Yep. And I have qualms over some of those things too.

I guess it's a tricky one as toys are not really much different despite having a physical manifestation. I would have happily spent every penny I could get my hands on on Star Wars figures when I was of that age. Is marketing a useless blob of plastic to kids any different to marketing a useless bunch of bytes?
There's a logical fallacy problem where everyone knows that people with (legal or illegal) addictions spend all their money on their addiction so giving money is just donating to the local liquor store or crack dealer. However the logical fallacy problem is, true, most addicts end up very poor as the addiction proceeds, but most poor people are not addicts.

So giving money to an alcoholic merely means they die of liver failure a little sooner which is "offensive" but giving money to people who are generally poor mostly helps non-addicts.

Note there are local issues. In big cities the working poor are too busy to take a monetary handout (panhandle) so virtually all opportunities for urbanites to hand out money, involve feeding an addiction, even if the vast majority of the poor people in the city are working poor.
Sufficiently advanced modeling is indistinguishable from reproduction.
The article is confusing, from what I can gather she is interested in praying for those about to be executed and wants their name.

There is lots of other text about drugs and such in their, but it doesn't seem to be the subject of her request. Instead I read it as a side discussion. Worth investigating - and thus worth the records, but the forms would be filled out differently if so.
Such small operations typically can't scale and have greater difficulty dealing with emergencies.
> A surge of can donations in 2019 can be used in a donation slump that occurs in 2025.

Sure. Where are you storing the cans in the interim? Who is paying for that warehouse space? Wouldn't it make more sense to just receive monetary donations which can be stored for free and converted into food when needed?
Corporate travel department that enforces the travel policies.
Most people make decisions based on how the environment affects them personally.

The type of Chinese immigrants who are likely to get Ph.Ds and work in high tech are generally not religious minorities (if they were, they likely wouldn't have gotten that far in the educational system). They're also not particularly interested in getting involved in politics or speaking out about human rights abuses. Usually if they get to that level of education and have the choice between staying in the U.S. to work for a tech company or research lab or going back to China, it's because they've devoted their life to mastering a specific scientific or technical subject. For someone in that position, likelihood of facing employment discrimination or being deported is generally a much bigger threat than lack of political freedoms.

Selection bias is the most powerful force in nature. The U.S. benefitted very significantly from dictatorships in the 1930-80s that actively repressed academics and educated people, because it forced all of them to move to the U.S, where we welcomed them with open arms. Most of these governments wised up (or rather, facing selection bias, they were overthrown by the consequences of raping their own nations), and now most of the rest of the world is quite welcoming of people with scientific and technical knowledge. The U.S. risks going down the same path if it adopts the same attitudes that didn't work for our competitors.
There is a large community of people here in the US who block every company that does bad things.

Yes I'm talking about the Amish. But even in Amish society, there is politics and people who do Bad Things. Fortunately there are plenty of uninhabited mountaintops left that one can go and live on to maintain a clean conscience. But if we do that, then aren't we turning our backs on the world by not helping it? So now we'd need to come back to civilization and live amongst the unwashed masses once more.

There's no way to live a perfectly good and blameless life.
Thank you! HN users are so good at remembering these things for me ;)
I've had similar thoughts but never felt great about articulating them. (So don't jump me as though I'm typing this with absolute certainty please!)

Like, maybe there's some kind of societal rot where our problems are all abstracted away.

- Some government program takes care of that, and payment for that was taken out of your paycheck before it got to you.

- Don't collect items, no need to volunteer, just cut a check and let the pros handle it.

- Don't talk to the homeless man, except to tell him that there's an agency who can fix all of his problems.

- Don't bake a loaf of bread for a family; we can't trust that the bread is safe, and that dollar of ingredients could have purchased two loaves of the cheaper stuff.

All while suburbs and cars physically insulate us from those problems. We don't have to meet or know those people; just drop a few bucks in the plate and don't think about it again.

Just seems like it all has a cumulative effect, turning real problems into abstract ideas. Maybe it's selfish to want to feel like you're doing something directly, but I wonder if there's a difficult-to-measure aspect here of dehumanization on the side of those in need? Is "maximum efficiency" some side effect of extreme capitalism, and not the be-all and end-all of charity?
I moved back home to India a couple months ago. Apart from the occasional mosquito bite and some customer service issues, there’s little difference.

No more nonsensical visa stuff to worry about; I live my current life and plan my future in peace.
This is great!

As a slighty OT aside, I really hope blender's UI changes sloooow down. I've been using it for 16 years. 2.8 versus 2.7 is so different, It almost feels like they're making changes for change sake.

I've been trying to use their various 2.8 RC's so I don't have to say I don't know how to use blender anymore when it pops.

They made the following things toggleable at launch, but man these are some muscle memory breaking changes that are now the default.

- Changed selecting objects from right to left click
- Space bar no longer opens up the function search. The search is like 50% of my workflow, so this one hit me in the gut until I changed the setting.

Then there's some other things that feel renamed for no discernible reason.

- I can't search for 'remove doubles' anymore. There are certain geometries that I've come to build by snapping to axis, extruding, snapping to vertices, remove doubles. Now it's buried in a menu at mesh->clean up->'merge by distance'. It also makes a GUI element pop with the distance argument, and there's no obvious way to "apply". So weird.
- Ambient occlusion in the view appears to have been renamed 'cavity'.
- The tool panel lost its words, it's now just icons. Functionality has to be discovered by hovering. This is the worst UX habit from mobile, I wish it would stay out of my desktop tooling.
- The view/selection/snap/etc settings bar has moved from the bottom of the screen to the top. Why?
- Properties tabs moved to the side from the top. I can see why.
- I can't make objects unselectable but visible in the outliner. Why?!
- Layers are gone, they're now "collections" but they don't do the same thing at all!

This is the stuff I've hit in a about 2 hours of messing. I'm willing to acclimate to about 90% of these changes. So far it's just the layers / merge doubles thing that really sucks. Eevee is really pretty, so it's got that going for it, which is nice.
Fascinating, alas in the timeline I live on all the headlines are about the crass racist in the White House or the one about to take residence in 10 Downing Street. In fact the latter explicitly models himself on Churchill. Still, I applaud the cultured people of GGP's timeline for their wokeness.
in TX if you get a run of the mill speeding ticket, you are inundated with law firms offering to represent you...not sure where the data is coming from, but its pretty annoying
How quaint: a comment in a post critical to Google, by an account created an hour ago, bashing not-Google.
Carol is also commonly used as the 'C' when a third agent is necessary.
Off topic, but a method to determine who sold your contact information.

Whenever I sign up for a service I'll add letters to the end of my first name. I've done this for over 15 years and all of my adult life.

Because of this, I've been able to determine the government is where most of my personal information is sold and used for market material against me.

Disney is also another large culprit of spam. Although, they've kept my information internal to the companies owned or affiliated by them.
That is one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen. As a PoC, I built an Android build on my pixel which played a video to any app that requested camera (instead of actual camera content)

It works and apps cannot tell the difference
> six years, which is about how long it takes to get a Green Card

Ha! Unless you're are an Indian or a Chinese, in which case it's more than 10 years (which is being quite optimistic)!!
New WestConnex Tunnel Missing from Google Maps, Causing Confusion in Sydney
Really looking forward to this, although I'm not a systems programmer I've always found OS internals/performance tuning fascinating.
No, what parent is saying is that there is a huge difference between a rich Chinese kid studying political science and a workin class Chinese kid studying computer science on a PhD stipend. The former has boomed in the last 10 years while the latter was pretty constant for the last 20+.
>"Indexing is the (relatively) easy part of building a search engine. CommonCrawl already indexes the top 3B+ pages on the web and makes it freely available on AWS."

Interesting I would have thought that crawling at this scale and finishing in a reasonable amount of time would still be somewhat challenging. Might you have any suggested reading for how this is done in practice?

>"It costs about $50 to grep over it, $800 or so to run a moderately complex Hadoop job."
Curious what type of Hadoop job you might referring to here. Would this be building smaller more specific indexes or simply sharding a master index?

>"Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006."
Wow that's a long time now. What did they replace it with? Might you have any links regarding this?
> Be careful to distinguish borrowings and substitutions. They are not the same.

They are the same. You're comparing substitutions that happened hundreds of years ago to substitutions that happen today. They follow different rules for obvious reasons, but they're not different things.
Really cool. So the doc has to be sent to the importdoc.com servers first? Is there anyway around that?
There is an acceptable rate of mortality for everything. In some cases it's very low, but not zero. You can't leave the house without taking a risk, and there are risks at home, too.
How to Install LAMP on Debian 10 (Buster)
Way back in 2007/2008, Google did a study on HDD failures not increasing when they had 80+ degree server rooms.

Someone at a company I used to work for, read that study in 2013, and removed the air conditioners from our server rooms.

We ran at almost 90 degrees from that point on, inside the racks it was much hotter. We lost a couple battery backups, internal fans, and power supplies before I could convince them to turn the air back on.
I hate New Reddit, frankly. I always use old on desktop. And on Android, I use a program called RedReader, from F-Droid. It's a (mostly) text-only reader - I can open pics and video of I tap it, but by default only text gets downloaded.
Not only is it work, but as you say, beyond a certain scale, it's really, really hard work that can only be done by a person who is perfectly able to earn that kind of salary working at a for-profit.

If you're not willing to pay for that ability, and you can't find someone with that ability who is already independently wealthy and willing to work their butt off for no compensation, then you're going to end up with someone who is absolutely not qualified, which in my opinion, amounts to saying that you don't believe charities should be large or efficient, which I suppose is a valid opinion, but doesn't seem like a better use of resources than paying a competent manager.
Sorry to digress but I've noticed a recent proliferation of “subscribe with” podcast app/service buttons.

Why not simply post the RSS and be done with it?
What if your favorite podcast app is not listed?

Why deliver your content on a silver plate to huge private companies?
Haven't we learned a thing?
If you're interested, you can find a more comprehensive cast of cryptographic characters on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob#Cast_of_characte...
> It's akin to the story (I can't find it) where a company stopped providing free soda

It's a memorable one, because it was "soda is now 50 cents".

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

Though free soda at work-place will probably sound like a cigarette tin at the receptionist, when a company switches from growth to cut-costs, it is a clear indication that there's a transition towards "dead wood" clearing layoffs.

And the more successful the first round of layoffs are (and they should be, because the hiring process isn't perfect), the more likely there will be more ... etc.
The Bay Area is pretty expensive, if you are talking about China’s Bay Area around Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong-Hong_Kong-Macau_Gr...

It took me awhile to get used to the Bay Area being used in Chinese news sources to mean something entirely different from in the USA.