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A lot of this isn't even true, especially in the US where Google is based.

Copyrights, trademarks, and patents are not censorship, they are actually designed to encourage the exposure of information (copyrighted/trademarked/patented information is free to view, that's the foundation of the concept) by promising restrictions on third party usage of the information, which is a concern for creators who avoid sharing their knowledge for fear of theft.

The US doesn't actually have any religious censorship laws (if you know of any, please link them) that cares about offence taken by religious believers. If private creators are modifying their own creations to sell better to a US audience, that has nothing to do with US censorship.

The US grants irrevocable protections to the press in publishing even sensitive and national security critical information. The US press voluntarily consults the government on the national security impact of publishing sensitive material, but the government has no legal avenue to actually prevent the press from publishing it. Demonstrations of this are pretty famous, like the Pentagon Papers. There are also whistleblower protections.

The US has no censorship laws on political symbols like the swastika, IIRC that's specifically a German thing.

Fictional child pornography such as the commercial Japanese manga/anime/games you mentioned is explicitly allowed under US law; US law specifically carves out an exception for fictional works, and the US Supreme Court has cemented this with precedent. Note: these exceptions have definitely been weakened in recent decades by the "PROTECT Act of 2003".

Feel free to correct me on details, but a lot of censorship you list here just isn't happening in the West, and definitely isn't happening in the US where Google is physically and culturally based. The level and breadth of censorship simply isn't comparable to China's.

Furthermore, "moral based on your culture" absolutely matters. To portray censorship as okay because it's based on differing morals based on differing cultures is ridiculous. Would you approve of US-committed atrocities if it was based on US culture?

Edit: removed references to whataboutism because after reconsidering the context, I think the parent comment is less of a deflection that I initially perceived.
The more I think about it, the more I convince myself that charitable food security benefits should not be distributed as a cash-equivalent.

Food stamps don't bring grocery stores into food deserts. And food stamps don't stop the corner store from charging $2/lb for bananas when a suburban grocery store is charging $0.60/lb for them.

If you pump more money into EBT/SNAP/WIC, the bananas go up to $3/lb, and the people still get fat while hungry. There's always a way for someone to siphon the value out of a cash entitlement benefit.

I think food security might be better served in the short term by using the funds to buy market baskets similar to those provided by farm shares, and deliver the food directly to the recipients, or at least to walkable distribution points. In the long term, the money has to be used to produce a surplus of food beyond what the cash market currently provides, to be put into a separate supply chain that is resistant to diversion or manipulation by middlemen.

This goes hand-in-hand with housing security, where the government builds new housing units, to rent or condo, then uses some percentage of them for housing-insecure people, at reduced cost to them. It doesn't do as much good to get a free (to you) 10# bag of government potatoes if you don't have anywhere to safely cook them.

You can't push a string. You can't pull sand.

Pumping more money into a community is not going to change anything when its defining characteristic is that the mechanisms to move money out are already limited by the amount of money left inside.
You can already use slow-acting insulin, it just requires planning your day out really well, which is hard and why slow-acting stuff sucks. The amount of data required to predict someone's glucose consumption/insulin requirements is massive, and needs to come from that individual. Then you'd need to build in overrides because people change their habits/behave spontaneously which puts them in danger. It isn't a simple problem.
Years ago, I honestly didn't see the streaming wars going down like this - Netflix was there and it just kind of ruled over the roost.

Then, slowly, HBO Go came along. I couldn't live without West World. Now, The Office is moving to NBC's service.

So years later, are we really any better off than what cable provided us, say, a decade ago? A mostly all in one solution. That's what I long for at this point.
> We take a 20% fee on each subscription.

Why did you choose to charge with a percentage model instead of a flat fee? If I'm a "hero" and offset double my footprint why should I be charged double for doing that? Is the cost to you as a business relative to the dollar amount I donate?
Some people will never care, and that's fine. They will care about other stuff that I don't but is still necessary to make the world function.
It's very dependent on the device. Enterprise/networking-class chips I work with are usually rated for long-term reliability up to 125C, more recently that's come down a little bit (particularly regarding memories) but still significantly over 100C.
This is a good article about a deep problem, but one side point up front jumped out at me:

> Once I began to see the schools, of course, I could not unsee them. I realized how much of life—and by life in this case I mean real estate—was organized around them.

It goes meta as well: JFK was shot by an assassin who had set up in a schoolbook depository. Yes, not only do the schools themselves take up a lot of space but simply looking after the textbooks requires a large physical plant!

Despite the fact that pretty much everyone attended a school and the majority of people have kids who did so at some point, school spending is a small percentage of overall GDP (and tiny proportion of federal spending), and is, as the article points out, distributed and spent in an ad hoc fashion.
can someone please advertise public transit to these deep-pocketed VC dumbasses as somehow being an artificially intelligent city network

something something we have a real bridge to sell you
But doesn't your assertion support his argument?

If unhealthy items are cheaper than healthy ones, then unrestricted food stamps will not work as intended. You must restrict them to only healthy items because unhealthy items are cheaper.

(Massive caveat: Big disagreements between people over what is healthy. But there is less disagreement over what things, e.g. soda, are unhealthy.)
I didn't watch the video, does it say how much of the perf gap is due to the unix API's they tried to replicate and how much is due to wasm actually being 'slower'?

50% the speed of native is really not bad, it's not like wasm is done being worked on. That's a very promising start.
>bullied international airlines

Airlines only remove Taiwanese paraphernalia when flights operates in China - you know complying to domestic Chinese laws. That's completely reasonable stuff that doesn't extend beyond Chinese borders. Has Bing exported censorship back to the West. Has EU right to be forgotten even made it's way to US and Canada? This is just fear mongering.
Total compensation for medical doctors can vary hugely. I suspect that the article was done using physician salaries -- that is, those employed by hospitals, clinics and private practices (i.e. the non-partners).

The way physicians make top dollar is private practice. While not as lucrative on average as it used to be, it can still generate outsized incomes. Many medical doctors make well over $500k as a partner in a private practice. Of course, the hours can be insane and the risks are higher as you're running a business and corporate hospital squeeze associated practices.

Finally, as odd as it may seem, smaller hospitals in second tier areas can sometimes pay more than top hospitals in tier one cities. Why? Simple, because few doctors want to go there.
> I believe this is mainly down to the FAT16/ FAT32 filesystem on the SD cards.

Well I lost some to power failure, and they all had ext4 on it. Anecdotal I know, but I'll be avoiding RPi for anything that needs to persist data in the future.
Looks like we should stop saying "comfort food" and just say "high calories/high carbohydrate unhealthy food"?
"Literally unthinkable" is too much. Here is a self-driving van back in 1993: https://youtu.be/JTnBiTIvGqY

Sure, it is an empty highway. I guess that is what you mean by "the level at which autonomous vehicles operate today". Still, people surely were thinking about Waymo like performance.
You are saying it's okay for ISPs to charge per packet rather than per pipe size. It is possible for ISPs to set up their network for guaranteed bandwidth (at least as far as the NOC you are connected to). But not doing so means they can continually squeeze more money out of their customers without added infrastructure costs.

Without firsthand experience, it's difficult to explain to someone that once I configure an access layer switch with 48 1gbps ports on it, and 4 10gbps SPF+ uplinks, it only costs me the price of electricity and physical storage to move 1 packet over it, or an infinite number of packets over it.

My problem with that is that once the pipe is installed and working, it only costs maintenance. I'm not sure what you are trying to say with your seedbox example.
The really frustrating part is that linked lists are actually bad practices in most instances nowadays [0]. And skiplists are better than trees for many in-memory uses [1].

Not that you would usually implement such a thing yourself anyway. So these leetcode style interviews are actively selecting for people who practice 40 year old CS solutions that don't work well on modern hardware, and selecting against folks with real-world experience.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo
[1] https://ticki.github.io/blog/skip-lists-done-right/
What I'm saying is that it helps, not that it's a silver bullet. But we seem to be stuck in a mindset that self-driving needs to be perfect within the current practice on the road. The more I drive the more it's obvious how human drivers are horrible and often in ways that are extremely easy to police automatically (e.g., tailgating can be checked for with the current toll infrastructure in some of the roads I use). If we want self-driving sooner we may very well have to attack it across the whole system and work on regulation, enforcement, road-design, etc, in parallel with working on the flashy technology bits. If instead we decide that self-driving has to work in the complete mess that are roads today then AGI is quite possibly a requirement.
> self-driving is here and soon would be common place.

Ehh, "soon" and "common place" are both hedge words large enough to represent any future. Heck, you could say it alraedy is common place—you can see them all over the place in SF.

My instinct is that this entire self driving hype is to distract from how direly we need to invest in public transit.
This assumes that someone values your unknown (to them) opinion enough to ask for it.
Pipes: bad.

Trains: worse.

Clean(er) energy generation and chemical manufacturing: mucho mucho better.
For carbon offsets, it is pretty different depending on the type of project. We do not invent these methodologies, we use methodologies from groups like Verra Carbon Standard (https://verra.org/project/vcs-program/methodologies/methodol...). https://projectwren.com/methodologies has more information about how we specifically choose projects.

It can be pretty down in the weeds to calculate the emissions from these projects and since it varies by type I can't summarize it all here. However if you have more specific questions I'd be happy to answer.

Re: carbon footprints, it's a little simpler. We use data + research from Berkeley's cool climate lab (https://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/publications) The main model is maintained by them, and is based on linear regression from a bunch of lifestyle variables that you input into the calculator. Our version is slightly different because we base it on country instead of zip code, so we scale most input variables by the country's per capita emissions to get a good estimate.
We have plenty of rules already. Rules get broken. The more enforcement approach is a road to China.
Insulin pumps are both.
Look up Brent Chapman's work on applying the principles of incident management to IT operations.
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> He is not professing to be a subject matter expert on anything.

I don't think much of your posts in this thread but I'll give you credit, that's probably the first time that particular sentence has ever been written about Elon Musk.
It's not like your going to delete `ls` - you can have both?

I have a `ll` alias which is use for 80% of my "what's in this folder" ls use - I just changed this alias (and a couple of others) to use exa. I left ls alone: I didn't alias ls to exa.

It's been a good QoL improvement for me, at ~zero cost.
I don't even understand the tax preparation system in general. As a newly-minted Adult, I find it rather frustrating that I collect all the documents that the government and I both have (or they've sent me) and fill out one big form that condenses all that info. Then if I mess it up/lie, the government comes after me. Ridiculously inefficient system.
California moves in dozens of places each year, in small amounts.. rely on it
But a skip list is an application of linked lists. If you can implement a skip list you can implement a linked list. If you can't implement a linked list I can't see how you'd implement a skip list.

> Not that you would usually implement such a thing yourself anyway.

Google has data structure libraries. They write low-level code like kernels that has no library of data structures. They implement programming languages where they need to implement data structures from scratch. Lots of need to do it.
They’ve published a whitepaper including pictures of the implanted electrodes on a rat’s brain: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6204648-Neuralink-Wh...

Summary: 3k+ electrodes in the test device, each thread is 1/10 of a human hair, they connect directly to custom chips that are bundled in a 4x4mm package. The test one has a USB-C port but in humans it would be implanted under the skin - a single 2mm incision with minimal bleeding - and communicate wirelessly.

Looks like their main technology is the surgery robot and the custom chips. This is truly out of science fiction and will be an incredible revolution if it works.
The selection is limited but they're around. Most recently I've listened to Robert Greene, Joseph Campbell, Walter Isaacson, Jan Swalford, Peter Frankopan, among others. My favorite in the last year was "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" by Robert J Gordon. There are a lot of classic philosophy texts as well, Seneca, Plato, etc. And various useful books on marketing and how to sell, since that's a skill I've been working on.

One of the ways I find books is to think of something I'm interested in then go to https://hackernewsbooks.com/ and search for recommendations. The best books I've read recently were ones I can across on HN. If I find recommendations then I'll go on audible and search for an audiobook version. I don't always find them, maybe 1/10 are available, but it's been a useful tactic in general.
It seems that they serve very different purposes. Graphblas is mostly focused on the processing of real-valued functions defined on the vertices and edges of large-scale sparse graphs, and is optimized for this use case (think graphs with thousands of millions of vertices). The boost graph library is not tailored to numeric functions and it will probably be less efficient for this use case.
"I'm from the area so I'm an expert. Here's a circular argument. Hopefully you don't notice but take my point to heart because I'm an expert. Oh by the way, anyone who disagrees with me is pretentious."

Commenter must be a Google employee.
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I just wanted to leave a comment saying that I thought this link is worth clicking.

I suspect people who regularly “cheat” in business for example are acutely aware of the necessity of finding a constant source new interactions.

I also suspect that the stereotype of people from small towns being more naive than people from cities is also related to this.

It all seems kind of obvious to me as I write this post but I don’t think I’ve actually consciously directly thought about things on those terms until just now.
It's not surprising, though, what with being told to not run in the hallways and sit down in your chair all throughout school.
a hiring manager, i.e. a team lead or senior engineer, can't confidently say "I know how to interview people well."

Isn't data a potential solution to this? One issue is that the best data would have to be gathered on timescales of years, and not just a few years.
Could you elaborate on why you think Pi 4 is "overpowered" for Kodi?

From what I've seen, there are still some kinks playing 4K HEVC videos. So hopefully, when software/firmware/etc. catches up, it should be "just powerful enough" for a Kodi box, all because of hardware decode.

Barely handling 4K does not scream "overpowered for a media center" to me.
The crypto is good

It's not. This is detailed in the piece. What do you think it gets wrong?

That's your replacement for pgp?

One of the key points is that by now we know PGP is a bad idea conceptually. There can't be a replacement for PGP. This is a bit like asking what what's to replace mummification now that we know it doesn't really grant access to the afterlife.
According to random unsourced claims I just found on an internet forum, which I've decided to trust:

NES: 9 watts
Super NES: 10 watts
Nintendo 64: 19 watts
GameCube: 39 watts
Wii: 45 watts
PlayStation: 17 watts
Game Boy: 0.7 watts
Game Boy Advance SP: 1.6 watts

The rasppi 4 is supposedly 4 watts when idle, and under 8 watts when loaded.

(So there is really no question that a machine like this can run with passive cooling, but obviously it's going to be a function of case size and design, as well as heatsink size and design.)
What I'm describing isn't reshaping your city to fit in self-driving cars. It's doing the things that we should be doing anyway to make road fatalities less embarrassingly huge and with that helping self-driving be an easier problem to tackle. Human drivers should be keeping much larger following distances and indicating properly. Road markings should be much clearer. Signage should be unambiguous. We should do all those things even if we don't care about self-driving cars just because they avoid accidents in general.
>> Just look at how the CCP bullied international airlines about Taiwan

> Airlines only remove Taiwanese paraphernalia when flights operates in China - you know complying to domestic Chinese laws. That's completely reasonable stuff that doesn't extend beyond Chinese borders.

Three biggest US airlines bow to China Taiwan demand as deadline passes https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44948599

Giving In to China, U.S. Airlines Drop Taiwan (in Name at Least) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/business/taiwan-american-...

Airlines switching to ‘Taiwan, China’
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21...
Associated Press found 20 carriers, including Air Canada, British Airways and Lufthansa, that now refer to Taiwan, the self-ruled island that Beijing considers Chinese territory, as a part of China on their global websites.
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But then you would need a "This Side Up ↑" label and you would only be able to orient the case in one way.
The same idea extended to the SNES too if I recall, a quick dig up on Wikipedia:

"The system was designed to accommodate the ongoing development of a variety of enhancement chips integrated in game cartridges to be competitive into the next generation."
I don't follow. This is developed and being run by Google, but it doesn't seem Google is attempting to use this to improve their own interviewing processes. Is it implied in this blog post somewhere? I would be really excited to see this in practice.
There's supposedly a 16" coming in the early fall, but rumors are just that. That's the only notable thing I'd consider waiting for.
If Apple decided they didn't want to support web assembly tomorrow, do you think that would kill the iPhone or WASM?

That's a good question, and it's certainly not one I'd want to bet on as Apple.

When they managed to kill off Flash and Java applets, they were getting rid of the two awkward technologies that almost everyone in web development disliked. There were useful replacements coming down the line with HTML5, ES6, and so on. It still took several years for the plugins to die out completely, during which time the browsing experience on Apple devices was noticeably inferior to everyone else's. Arguably it was only Chrome pulling support that finally put an end to the matter.

Today, Apple's reputation isn't what it used to be, with its normally loyal and enthusiastic fan base increasingly questioning the price of new devices, web developers increasingly questioning the lack of support for modern technologies in mobile Safari, native developers wary of Apple's policies around the App Store and how much of the money it's taking for its cut, and the walled garden ecosystem looking increasingly isolated in a world full of connected devices and data sharing. It's hard to see any of these trends changing in Apple's favour any time soon.

Right now, WASM is in its infancy, but if you stop and look at what is being attempted, it is arguably the most important new technology in web development. It's already reasonably well supported across almost every browser that matters, but not yet widely used. But give it a little time to establish it as a target for better languages than JS and to develop supporting tools and libraries, and it's not hard to imagine that in a decade's time we'll all be wondering what we were thinking using JS for so long.
Well after looking at yet another attempt at solving the 'broken hiring process', it seems like this one is going to end up like the same situation as this relevant xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/927/

Solving this hiring problem is probably more tougher than the leetcode puzzles that the candidates get. Surprisingly, not even Google can solve this.
Harvard Study: “Trigger warnings are not helpful for trauma survivors”
It seems like HN treads a lot of the same ground every time these things are discussed.

1. "Food deserts" are what happens when the demand for ideologically congenial explanations for socially inconvenient facts greatly exceeds the supply. There is an assumed causal directionality which turns out to not be supported. There's a lot of literature on food deserts (as typically stated) being more or less a meme since 2015, here's one example with a couple studies to back it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/upshot/giving-the-poor-ea...

> Another study, published this week as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, looked across the country and found that no more than a tenth of the variation in the food people bought could be explained by the availability of a nearby grocery store. The education level of the shoppers, for example, was far more predictive.

2.

> because you don't have the time

Almost all data we have suggests poor people have more time too cook than middle class people. Examples abound: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/the-fre...

They may not have the resources/tools though.
they should investigate on the fake sales where they increase the base price to get a big discount number on the page without changing the final sale price, most the item I monitor had the price doubled and a 50% discount on the last prime days