skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changing the User Agent might help to fool a HTTP server, but not the client side scripting, where every browser offers a different API. In web applications such as GMail, this is the relevant piece.

And I confirm OPs assumptions. I also feel this is a tricky way of Google to make Firefox users feel their browser of being "slow". It is basically power abuse. As Microsoft did it in the 90s.
Every company is "state directed when needed", to some degree. For instance, Google is not allowed to provide Android to Huawei (it is withheld now), even if there is no clear evidence that Huawei threatens national security. Admittedly, it would be harder for Huawei to push back on government directions. However, that still does not make Huawei "state-owned" or "state-directed" in the common sense.
Does it matter if a bot passes the Turing test?

What if I had a bot that merely said the following:

"Democratic candidate XYZ wants to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants with your tax dollars."

Such a bot would not pass the Turing test, but it would be speaking the truth (for many of the candidates) and that truth would be relevant to many voters' interest. So what?

I think people need to understand that the real problem from the media's point of view is that decades ago, they controlled 99 percent of the discourse. Now they control...95 percent. And they don't like it. So...Russia Russia Russia Squirrel! Russia Russia Russia Squirrel!
> Why can't I pay for a seat for my pet?

You can. Rent a private jet with a bunch of other exotic pet owners.

Or form an airline with this intent.

But for the love of everything that is holy, please don't sit next to me in a cramped tin can for 6 hours with your horse's behind in my face.

This is public transportation.

I can tolerate a small emotional support animal that fits in a container that will fit under your seat at take off or landing. That seems like a reasonable compromise. Larger animals can go underneath if they fit, or not join what is essential, a flying bus.
>By that premise, Norway controls Microsoft and Apple because they own part of the companies

Even so, Norway's political/ideological/moral objectives are in line with the west's. There is a difference between the Norwegians having some influence in something, as opposed to the Chinese.
What's the most recent info on large inline css for page speed? Google used to say not to inline everything [1], for size/dupes, and CSP issues.

1: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/OptimizeCS...
Completing and Debugging Ontologies: state of the art and challenges
Do you have a third-party source for this? Never heard of this behavior.
Proterra, the Tesla of electric buses, closes in on $1B valuation
I have never even heard of an internal site-wide pentest that failed.
> Also, owning some of Western popular culture is a decent geopolitical chip.

Tencent is co-producing the Top Gun sequel, and Maverick's jacket no longer has either the Japanese or Taiwanese flags on the back:

* https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28479683/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun:_Maverick

> Maybe it’s not as great as a nuke, but China can use popular video games to raise the next generation of kids to be more friendly to China.

K-pop seems to be helping Korea:

* https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/2/16/16915672/what-is-kpop-...

Though they're not a totalitarian state. I think if people get too friendly or sympathetic a couple of articles will bring reality back:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
Sounds like a P/NP-type problem. It's quite a hard problem to calculate all possible permutations of routings and schedules across 5 cities ("NP"), and United's system clearly isn't up to snuff for it, while Google's is.

But validating and pricing any single itinerary is a trivially easy problem ("P"), so United can handle that no problem. It can't come up with the itinerary, but given a particular one, it will sell it to you.
I'd also like to point out that the majority of software engineers nowadays lacks the mathematical background, so it's probably worth including theoretical books like Abstract Algebra by Dummit and Foote on the 'must read' list.
Most of these use docker.
This most most brought out to me in Beauty and the Beast. Mrs Potts in the cartoon felt warm and human. The CGI Mrs Potts in the new Beauty and the Beast felt creepy.

Much of the same applies to Lumeire.
That’s not the most realistic alternative to fossil energy. The most realistic option would be the cheapest, renewables and storage.
> ... overestimating the authoritarian.

Sure:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
I second this, read the book in a weekend. This guy financed the movie "The wolf of Wallstreet" while sugar coating Paris Hilton for every outrageous champagne party session he had. Jordan Belfort the main character played by DiCaprio ran out a party thrown by the main character of BDW in real life because of the obscene way cash was burned. Jordan Belfort could smell the corruption within an hour.
IMO the end state is way worse.

Imagine campaigns that:

Have a general idea of your life stage, interests, career, personality etc, based on advertising profile and commercial surveillance.

Can tailor each message to the recipient.

Can a/b test the crap out of every message for target groups, optimising for best response.

Can deliver fully customised messages in a natural voice (aka google duplex). Conversational ai not required, but can understand some stock phrases and responses.

The future is robots calling you, messaging you, infiltrating social media groups, probing your personality and beliefs, finding YOUR buttons and pushing them, repeatedly.
The problem, of course, is that modern technological base NEEDS a certain amount of consumers for mass production to makes sense.

We aren't living in an agricultural-trade system anymore.

Besides, we need fresh bodies to populate heavenly colonies.
This terminology also got carried on top the self replicating 3d printer world. Any part that cant be produced by a printer is a vitamin.
I've never been given the option to book directly through Google flights - I don't think they offer that option, so I'm not sure how they would charge a middleman fee.
Could we say both are realistic alternatives? We've ran out of time and really need to move away from coal, like yesterday, who cares which method we use, let's just stop burning fossil fuels.
It’s not up to us to prove you (the conspiracy theorist) wrong.

I look forward to your peer reviewed new science that will easily win you a Nobel prize, global fame, a million dollars.
Google would nearly certainly break the site in such a way that they have plausible deniability.
Not using it for much stuff like that. But considering everything I wrote above, I think I'll start checking the service once a day.
Also, by reading the classics/greats, you get the style of their thinking—something missed in a summary of the book, or someone else's re-presentation of it. In training, what you are taught is the important thing; but education is in being exposed to ways of thinking characteristic of a particular field, and the styles of thinking of particular teachers/writers.

The constant recommendation of successful scientists is to "Go to the masters, not the commentators." It is the master who, by definition, has the right style, and often the commentators give the results without the essence—style!

— Richard Hamming, Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics, Prologue
I think you're too much an optimist. If some of the most educated people can be anti-vaxx, which is something which affects their families intimately and in the utmost serious way... Moreso that one election cycle. I don't think there is hope for regularly educated people.
Wouldn't you have to deal with radiation that you are normally shielded from in Earth`s atmosphere? That may be more difficult to shield from than producing a normal clean room.
I've always wondered why performing a Google image search on Firefox for Android always yields low quality images, yet Bing or other search engines don't have this problem.
I think temporarily disabling JavaScript works in more cases.
First: I am not "my dude" to you.

Second: Things look ugly right now. You'd have to be blind not to see it. But the advantage of being 57 instead of 18 is that I've seen this before, and I've talked to people who've seen even more. I don't know that this looks blacker than the 1980s, when nuclear war looked like a very real possibility - not just sometime in the future, but tomorrow. I'm not sure it's blacker than the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'm not sure that it's blacker than World War II, especially for those living in Europe, Russia, or China. I'm not sure that it's blacker than the Great Depression, when it looked like society - or at least the economy - had broken permanently.

Yes, it looks bad. It is bad. It's not worse than it's ever been, though. We probably will make it through this, though it will be a bumpy ride.
> The people that believe climate change is real are more likely than not billionaires or wealthy individuals.

I'm not understanding this point. It seems people at many different economic levels believe that climate change is real. It's not only the wealthy who believe...
The crux of the difficulty at understanding Huawei's ownership system is because Ren Zhengfei modeled it as a Maoist collective ownership mechanism, an alien concept prone to misreading from a private ownership premise, and at the same time it is facilitated by existing private ownership laws.

Employees do indeed not own the company nor shares of the company in a private ownership sense because they cannot liquidate their shares if they wish to quit the company. But it is the very same design that makes the company immune to pressure from outside investors and the financial drive to capitalization, and enables it to fully reinvest all profits back to R&D and employee dividends, which is also a major reason for its explosive growth. It is reported some early employees got paid so much from their shares that they just stopped working and went on vacation indefinitely.

If all profits of the production activities of a collective go back to its members and the continuation of growth of the collective, can you meaningfully claim the members of the collective do not own the assets of the collective and not control it?

This profit returning scheme is legally possible only by being facilitated by the Company Law of the PRC. And the way the company ownership is structured by a "trade union committee" is also legally facilitated by the Trade Union Law of the PRC. It is a fatal error for the paper to claim the company is state-owned because the controlling trade union committee of Huawei operates under the aegis of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. In fact, all SOEs in China are governed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions is not legally sanctioned nor capable to manage private companies. Then the best reading of all the contradictions would be that Ren Zhengfei managed to carve out of a space for communist collective ownership by "hacking" the existing legal system of private companies.
Impressive work, but the end result is the worst of both worlds for me. If you want to make it cartoony, there's no need to keep the pretense of realism at all. Just go with Pixar or old Disney style animation.
Russia, according to famed Russian dissident Garry Kasparov, operates this way more as a mafia syndicate. Corruption allows the “oligarchs” to enrich themselves with the nation’s mineral resources so long as some of their power (and even money) remains at the beck and call of the don: Putin.

China is different. It’s not an oil and gas oligarchy like Russia or the Gulf states. It is somewhat like the US was during the Second World War—somewhat capitalist in form but almost entirely geared toward the strategic goals of the country, as dictated by the government. The main exceptions are that the US had elections intermittently and that the US was in the midst of total war. China isn’t at war though—it’s just a totalitarian society.
if you read one book of hofstadter's, make it "metamagical themas", a truly engaging collection of his columns for "scientific american". I also liked "le ton beau de marot", on the art of translation, but that's less of a general appeal book.

I have read geb, and it had some nice ideas, but i can't say I was motivated to reread it; it felt overly self indulgent somewhat in the manner of a friend telling you about how their rpg campaign played out without realising that half the interest lay in having been there.
The only reason it seems absurd is because the level of interconnectedness in today’s society and the various entities in it is simply unprecedented.

While there may not be a grand conspiracy, it isn’t too far-fetched to suggest that organizations that specialize in espionage, sabotage and propaganda can figure out, or may already have figured out, how to pull the various levers at their disposal to achieve their goals.
That just sounds like you work remotely for 8-10 weeks.
> Just having the idea “I like the things that come out of China” in billions of brains can increase China’s share of global GDP and power.

Also known as the Japan strategy. Many have tried to emulate it, it’s very hard.
Obsessed parent or not, the facial recognition is a huge time saver. Some of these camps post hundreds of pictures a day.
They would be broadly desirable if there were no downsides to them.

A $2500 used Toyota Corolla beats a Model 3 on purchase price, insurance, 5 year TCO, and on "how far and flexibly can I road trip it?"
I powered through reading most of the transcripts[0] a few years ago and watched some. I made notes along the way for the ideas that stuck with me.

[0] https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/resources/everything-i-know
Browser fingerprinting these days goes FAR beyond trivial user agent values.
Jack Dorsey: The enigmatic CEO who could save – or break – Western democracy
Parents: hanging out with your children is reasonably-priced and can actually be fun.

Non-parents: starting a family is fun and can actually be reasonably-priced.
The thing about voting is, the purpose is not to increase the quality of the decision. The practical purpose of voting is simply to avoid civil war. Without voting, a large group of people who are being acted against have no choice but to use force to get what they want. Democracy is a pressure release valve (same with free speech).

If I can't use the soapbox I use the ballot box. If I can't use the ballot box, I use the ammo box.

So it doesn't matter how dumb the voters are. What matters if is if they can generate violence.
Here is a PDF from 2017 from someone involved with a project wich seems to intend to use this in an (large scale?) innovation initiative in Japan.

[1] www.lip6.fr/public/2017-03-17_Shimizu.pdf

Mentioned are workflows, used tools, intendend audience and goals,
estimated prices, nda-freeness of spice models and design rule check, open source, open-cores, github, and so on.

If they really make this widely available, then my mind is blown...
That 4-4.5 weeks is less than the minimum amount of time I'm allowed to take off (not sure if it's strictly required but HR would start chasing me). Assuming weekends are taken off by default, 4.5 weeks is about 23 days, which is quite far down this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...
That's because most of them didn't have a cast that was made solely of animals, but they do have their share of cringey CGI mistakes.

The Little Mermaid will feature photorealistic sea creatures, but we don't know how they'll turn out yet. Christopher Robin's Winnie the Pooh was photorealistic and looked creepy. The slightly less recent Beauty and the Beast had a bad looking Beast. The Jungle Book remake had a god-awful Baloo.

Disney's track record is not good with these remakes.
Once I mentioned on a mailing list Chrome’s reaction to mouse driver bug on my computer, it would buffer JavaScript events, and process it even for pages on a different domain.

Later I told the EFF I had a suspicion that iOS didn’t rate limit input events to the lock screen, independently a research found out about it a month later.

Even if there are zero days, I don’t think finding them is a particularly noteworthy or rewarding task.
>There's no requirement to explain downvotes

I know this. I was annoyed and responded in juvenile fashion. I was wrong.

> the bit about hostility to noob accounts wasn't very kind

You know far better than I, that these green accounts are created with reckless abandon and they weigh-in to controversial topics without any credibility. I realize you have access to server logs, so I'm not questioning your superior knowledge WRT the topic.

I openly admit I have deficiencies in my self-discipline, but if it ever gets too much for you, just tell me I'm unwelcome and I will not comment. I'm no zealot even if I have a propensity to over-react.
>I think you are used to Western Companies where the default is private ownership.

From a continental European perspective I'd contest that. Quite a few of today's multinationals here began as either wholly or partly state owned and/or today have still significant state ownership - especially in infrastructure/utility/telecommunications, but also in "strategic" industries. This includes telcos like Deutsche Telekom (with its daughter T-Mobile), former state mail companies like DHL, Airbus (and its numerous predecessors), most of the state airlines (Lufthansa, Air France-KLM, SAS etc.), and others like Volkswagen, Renault, Peugeot/PSA, STMicro just to name a few.
What is the definition of "violence" for that chart? Specifically, does it include self-inflicted violence (suicide) and vehicular homicide (drunk driving)? If so, it is much less surprising.
I think I would be cool if it was an hiring agency or if it was a startup in the beginning, but being a developer community... They know it better.
OK, but I would've guessed that the reward for hijacking BCH's blockchain would be proportionally lower.

And please keep in mind the context of my first comment: I was replying to the assertion that the mere fact that Coinbase continues to let its customers trade in BCH is evidence that Coinbase is run by idiots.
They do exist, and you see them on working horses to prevent the horses from pooping on the roads.

It's not so much of a diaper, though, and more of a burlap sack that's suspended like a hammock underneath the "business end" as it were.

Note that this only works for poop; I haven't seen any solution for the voluminous amount of pee a horse can produce.
We can make things photorealistic and still very expressive. See Rango for a fantastic example.

Of course the Disney artists know that, but that decision was likely well above their paygrade.
There's only one known remedy and it costs 15 cents, so that mask is precious. It's a special gift to be able to see these things clearly, but it comes at the cost of close acquaintance, and you'll always be more watchful than the innocent of mind.

It's grimly amusing how common and relevant psychological aberrance is relative to the average person's perception of it (cf. downvotes). It's tiring and unpleasant to examine the world antagonistically from a place of comfort but luckily others on the fringes don't have an option and force us to pay for prisons and so forth.
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Every place of public accommodation, i.e. all businesses, are required to allow service animals. "Caring" isn't optional.
As I understand it the current model of the beginning of the universe starts with inflation and "the big bang" is the period that immediately follows. The two are distinct because the inflationary period is described as happening at a rate faster than the speed of light and the big bang is expansion constrained by this limit. The transition happened in a fraction of a second and very little is known about the structure of the universe during the inflationary period.
Being further away from killers that I'm equally likely to be victims of isn't any more comforting.
This makes sense. Russian economy is much less dependent on talented work force, they have vast resources in proportion to their population.
Maybe there's a multiverse--an infinite series of universes, containing all possibilities of existence, some with similar, slightly different constants, others completely unrecognizable as a universe at all. And life exists because we're in this one.
...Can you really not see the huge difference in the faces?
Which part of China is not a totalitarian state?
I just don't find the "New Lion King" all that visually enjoyable aside from purely the appreciation for the talent required to make something look so realistic. I just don't think the various animals are all that compelling to look at as animated, fictional characters.
Because who makes the telcos equipments (MSC, HLR, BSC, etc.) can spy a lot and at large scale.
There is a concern of allowing Huawei equipments in telco operator networks.
Except the term was created to reject the idea that restricting hour of labor will lead to reduction of unemployment. All I am trying to say is that there is restricted number of jobs, and people have to live longer given increased life expectancy plus poor social security in Korea so elder are becoming competitors from the perspective of youth.

I don't particularly disagree with what the term you've introduced me argues. Korea has been trying to actively reduce work hours and etc and it still gets all the problems.

My point in saying that "older people aren't retiring" is that there's limited number of jobs, and companies don't have the capacity to hire all the people (reducing work hour can lead to larger total employment, but the income per person will be reduced so not like it helps much). If companies kept growing, and was able to employ people of all age groups then things would look good. But with no new players expanding the economy it's mostly about older people trying to hang onto their job and younger ones trying to break into what exists.

I totally agree with the fact that economic growth isn't 100% zero-sum. But that's when economy grows and everyone is winning, not when almost everyone is about to lose.
The point is that you can't just let the market sort it out because the market doesn't care about negative externalities. There are legitimate reasons to artificially constrain the supply, i.e. implement a medallion system. This comment thread which you've wandered into is about the taxi medallion system.
Breaking out of a docker container with default settings is hard. You would be making the headlines if you could do so.

Now breaking out of a docker container with --privileged or even just CAP_SYS_ADMIN is much easier.
Parallel SGD in Spark on Kubernetes
You'd think with how much people shout about how they hate nazis today that they'd be immune to writing something as misguided as this.
> China isn’t at war though

Yet.
Check out https://dietpi.com/

Great for self hosting even on a single board computer or on traditional server hardware.
It's noteworthy that two people who worked on Dam Busters also worked on Star Wars 20 years later, as described in link [0] above.
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I’m convinced the last few years of ramped up concern about AWS “blast radius” is an admission by AWS professionals that NOBODY gets IAM right.