skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post states:

> This policy will not apply to taxpayer-funded entities, including independent public broadcasters.

So quite probably no, since the BBC is an independent public broadcaster (much like NPR in the US) - it is state funded but not directly controlled by the state; it maintains editorial independence.

Of course conclusively defining editorial independence seems like quite a non-trivial task. It's made even more confusing by the fact that it goes on to state:

> This policy will apply to news media entities that are either financially or editorially controlled by the state.

While the BBC and other taxpayer funded independent public broadcasters are not editorially controlled by the state, isn't being taxpayer funded synonymous with being controlled financially by the state?
I miss Compton 95 - it had PATRICK STEWART as the introduction narrator.

The multimedia was really really well done, and went a lot further than Wikipedia in a lot of articles. Better editorial and emphasis for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbP9jiWX08U
Do you have a link or reference to the core guidelines?
I absolutely love that they shared the dataset. Hopefully deters future bad actors as the raw data itself will be shared with the greater public and hopefully for greater analysis.
I don't think HN is immune to these kinds of CCP ops.
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What do they do in Germany? Their public toilets are amazing, but not free.

I suspect the answer is that they don't have that many people who have these sorts of issues in the first place, but at the same time more social spending doesn't seem to be the issue, as California spend a fortune on the homeless issue and gets relatively little for it, and the most common length of time to be homeless is one day.
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> Firstly, China has devalued the yuan to offset the rising tariffs that the United States has been imposing. In fact, China has devalued the yuan significantly since the Trump administration first placed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods – effectively negating the tariffs. And with the new 10% tariffs that Trump has promised to imposed on a wider range of goods China has in response devalued their currency further.

I keep seeing claims that China is devaluing without numbers or context.

Here's a 10-year chart of the USD/CNY exchange rate:

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=CNY&view=10Y

At the start of the current administration (Jan 2017), the rate stood at about 6.96. Today it stands at 7.04.

In the two years after the 2016 election (April 2018), the yuan had strengthened to 6.28.

According to this timeline, the first round of US tariffs hit on April 7, 2017.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-timeline/...

From the announcement of the first round of tariffs, the yuan actually strengthened. It has only "weakened" in the last year, and then only back to a level that slightly exceeds that of Jan 2016.

Yet to hear the president and others tell it, China is on a currency devaluation bender the likes of which the world has never seen. Well, I'm not seeing it at least.

It seems that the 7.0 level was broadly seen as a line in the sand. But like all psychological levels, they rarely mean anything in the long term.

The trend is clearly for more yuan weakness based on the chart alone. Perhaps we'll even see even massive devaluation.

But so far that's just speculation. The chart tells a story of a massive bowl formation (strongest yuan point in Jan 2014) hinting at severe weakness ahead, but we're nowhere close to that at the moment.
Not available anywhere I've lived (Bay area, Chicago, SF). In fact I've only heard about it from Wikipedia. Never heard of anyone who knows anyone who claims to have even seen this in person.
I see it as a Free Vs Paid Model, Wiki is Free, and it is good enough for most use cases. Encarta had a lot of licensing, and I doubt any of that will ever be free, but the quality of those articles inside Encarta or Britannica in many ways are still way ahead of Wiki.
I understand - fluoridation has been immensely helpful. However, should we re-visit our decisions every once in a while and see if we can do things differently?

Toothpaste production is now more streamlined. We know the immense benefits of fluoride, so getting it to people in a more concentrated and localized matter can be a next step in helping people with this.

Essentially I'm saying it was a potential risk we accepted because the benefits far outweighed the potential risk down the line, but now that we have alternative solutions with smaller potential risk should we discuss them or not?
Also, in NL - https://www.browniesanddownies.nl
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> "It's the employers bending and breaking the rules and regulators not enforcing them"

Those are serious accusations, coming with absolutely no proof whatsoever.

You can't possibly claim rules are being broken at scale when it comes to bringing in skilled migrants into the US. That just rings like xenophobic scaremongering.
My company (Big4) has 2 versions of part-time.

If >=50% time, you get full benefits, and salary/bonus/stock is pro-rated at whatever percentage you work. Due to the way the stock vests for part-time, I've heard this ends up being ~10% more pay cut than time cut (80% time == ~70% pay).

<50% you lose a lot of the core benefits (healthcare, 401k, etc.), but I doubt anyone really does this except people who are basically retired.

But +1, big fan of companies that support part-time. I think most companies view it as a benefit basically like parental leave, etc., so it's a way of recruiting/retaining talent and are willing to eat some of the fixed cost.
It's definitely more work to buy authentic products than it used to be. These days I find myself aborting purchases at the checkout phase, when I can review the actual shipper of the product. If it's "fulfilled by Amazon" or a shipper I already trust, then I consider it good to go, but otherwise, I back out and start over with the same product and a different product link. Now with Amazon fulfilling for other shippers it's going to be really hard unless Amazon can do the heavy lifting to ensure product authenticity on the way in to their warehouses. If they don't, I guess it'll be time to give up on Amazon entirely.

This book scanning junk is definitely a next level problem. Wow.
A lot more than I trust China.
Indeed. It was the best option back then. I've attended a conf. of Jimmy Wales and he mentioned the same problems that enciclopedias had.
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Things outside GCP e.g. G Suite integrations are also impacted. This is just the first status page to be updated.

EDIT: It's now posted to https://www.google.com/appsstatus
Last week I was tempted to post this article, but since you brought it up...

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/killer-narratives-...
So, if I go bankrupt it's basically worth nothing to anybody else because nobody could sell it for money? Even if it gets taken away and somebody else owns my shares they couldn't do anything with it when the board disagrees? Even if the state takes those shares and tries to force a selloff?
"Sources include Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, Freedom House, the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index, the European Journalism Centre’s Media Landscapes Report, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and UNESCO's framework to assess media development and independence."

But Freedom House is US government funded, a lot of studies have shown it's biased toward countries that are aligned with us foreign policy.
I got some downvotes, but it is true that wage levels for service jobs reflect the wealth of the people consuming those services. It is not more difficult to drive a taxi, cut hair, clean a house, or babysit in a rich country than a poor one, but those jobs pay better in real terms in a rich country, because the people paying for those services earn much more in rich countries and are willing to pay more to save time.
Perhaps not many, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for a bit better than internet default here.
The elephant left standing in the room is not the spam and bot accounts, but the official, state-actor accounts such as Xinhua News that pay for promoted tweets carrying the same message.

Granted this is likely beyond the scope of Twitter’s safety team, but this completely sidesteps the issues raised here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-chin...
It's funny to think of it but CD-ROMs ... really were where all the multimedia was.

Outside professionals, not many people stored videos or audio on their PC in the early day, so all the multimedia type stuff, and to some extent including video games ... was all centered around the CD-ROM.

I used to gobble up all the super cheap "multimedia collection" type disks available at the time.

To some extent what made computers the multimedia place to be was the good old CD-ROM, well before the internet took it over.
Their post about Hong Kong earlier today contradicts a US-centric interpretation of this new policy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740179

It may end up being relevant to the US elections, but that's unlikely the sole reason.
I miss Encarta, but most of all I miss Mindmaze.
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I think one factor is that in countries like China where the state has an effective monopoly on information there is no incentive to improve. In the West the government would be openly ridiculed but obviously this cannot happen in China.

Secondly, from my experience I feel that we detect propaganda more easily when it's foreign rather than in our own country. Perhaps because we are so used to "our own" that we cannot notice it anymore.

For example, as a European I find Captain America as unsubtle as Chinese propaganda. If you're an American and come to the UK perhaps you will find coverage of the Queen and the Monarchy equally unsubtle.
That is how supervised machine learning works. Give it know examples, and it extrapolates to identify other instances in new data.
If you pay for 300 you should get close the that. The fact that you don’t means you’re being throttled. If you don’t notice a difference it doesn’t really matter, but that wouldn’t be enough to stream multiple TVs at 4K for example, even though you pay for a service that should support that.
So this has become the norm now. Social media products who’s primary utility is to share information between people are now being used by governments to sow discord.
Good points. It's even more than 1 in 20 when you realize that studies does no get published with p > 0.05, so in the "published studies" sample this effect should be even larger.
So, the Chinese are evil. Maybe, but then, there is nothing exceptional about their evil.

If you are old enough you will remember when Japan were the evil one in the 80's.

Or we can go to the history books and see how all those tactics is what the USA used against Britain.
it's also worrisome that a single company has the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas

To be clear, that's not what Twitter is doing. They specifically state:

"Affected media entities are free to continue to use their Twitter account(s) to organically participate in public conversation"

What they're doing is blocking paid ads by governments and deceptive practices by everyone. But they're fine with governments spreading their ideas on Twitter the old-fashioned way, by tweeting things under their own name and getting lots of likes/retweets.

And, obviously, Twitter has no power whatsoever to shut down governments spreading their ideas the old-fashioned way off of Twitter.
Most of the pictures in the article aren't even JPEGs, they're PNG
Killer narratives: The real culprit of mass shootings in the US
For now. That's how all of ServiceStack used to be. They don't have any problem changing the license for all future versions whenever they feel like it.
authentic voice, not paid gov't troll armies.
Maybe one day our cyberpunk corporate overlords will be able to fine governments for this kind of shit.
You make it sound like these value judgements are obvious. There are plenty of people on HN and even inside Google that do not find anything objectionable about building weapons.

Do you think Richard Feynman was a bad person because he helped build the atom bomb?
If we're going to talk about net computational power per unit (neuron/transistor), we also need to note that single transistors do stuff a whole lot faster than biological neurons, too. If we had neurons that were 1,000x faster, could we use fewer of them for the same task?
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Feast your eyes on the Carrier Killer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-26

There is no known defense yet fielded against this missile.

Lasers might do it, but those aren't going to be ready for deployment for a few years yet .. none of your "rocket/free-falling bomb" defenses are relevant against this thing.

And, then there's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-tests-missiles-us-no-defense...

This is why the US desperately needs to complete its laser program ... until then, the Carriers are a complete and utter liability in all-out-war ..
> "provides me with 625 minutes of work, interspersed with 275 minutes of breaks (provided my workday is 15 hours)."

Why would you work for 15 hours? I aim for 6. No way that you can be productive for 15 hours.

And, do you really want to spend pretty much all your time working? I followed along and agreed with lots of the stuff, then a comment like this throws me off. I totally understand that you're having trouble focusing if that's a normal day.
That's great, but this:

> They will have 30 days to offboard from our advertising products, after which we will stringently enforce these policies.

Means it probably won't apply to the Hong Kong propaganda, which is what brought it to people's attention in the first place.
18GB is huge! An NVIDIA V100 has 6MB of L2 memory. HBM is off-chip, and vastly (~100x) slower.
See https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi..., which was posted to the Twitter blog at approximately the same time as this post.
You're correct about how I feel about drugs, but I think the general argument applies across the board. There are times that enforcement costs are too high, given the crimes they prevent.

One of the most common criticisms of airport security in the US is that the harm it is preventing is nowhere near commensurate with the burden it imposes on the populace. That may or may not be true, but it's not a belief about what the law should be, it's a belief that at some point, the price paid for additional safety is too high.

Likewise with children, as a father of 4, I also understand the desire to go to any lengths to keep our children safe, but keeping them in a bubble for their entire lives, while certainly protecting them from many tangible harms, will ultimately stunt their growth. Once again, the price paid for safety can be too high.

I happen to think that drug sniffing dogs are on the wrong side of the line. They probably do alert the police to drugs that would not have been found otherwise, but in my opinion, they allow the police to have far too much latitude when it comes to searches.
China is now not really a low cost labour source.

It is mainly a supply chain nexus.
It's the Nirvana fallacy, like the pro-gun argument requiring every gun control initiative to eliminate all gun crimes.
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Check the C-suite track record... a pattern of making quick selling companies on a "wow effect" which then quickly turn defunct and valueless after sale.
There were big red flags about Cerebras claims for a quite some time. Some say it is the Graphcore on steroids.

Not so much about the tech side, stuff like that been tried before (without good results: the more is your reticle fill, the poorer is the exposure,) but the business wise side of their claims don't make sense.

First, and the biggest one being the economics. It is completely impossible that a run as small as 100, or even 1000 wafers be more economical than that of mass market product, even if you deduct packaging costs.

On top of that, just any process modification or "tweak" for a low volume run will destroy just any economy of scale. And as I understood, they pretty much brag about doing so.

Lastly, some tech notes. Maybe they got the issue solved, maybe not: the bigger the chip, the more memory starved it is for a simple reason of geometry.

With the "chip" the size of a wafer, it is gonna be extremely memory starved unless it has more IO than computing devices.

Then, the thermal ceiling for CMOS is around 100W per cm², and it is a very hard limit. I see no point why they brag about beating it when they truly didn't: 20 watt per square cm² is quite low for HPC.

I suspect they are indeed quite limited by thermals, if they had to backpedal on their original claims.
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Link to incident on Google Cloud status:

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/developers-console/...
I would think of company corruption in the opposite direction. It's pretty stupid to steal from the company you work for, better use your position in the company to steal from others.

Corruption makes you more competitive (e.g. Uber ignoring local taxi laws) and the chicken shit judiciary is extraordinarily hesitant to charge companies (think of the jobs!).

The perfect crime in modern times is to think up some convoluted fraud with your company making sure that it's too difficult for a jury or layperson to explain in terms where it is obviously wrong (e.g creating derivatives several layers of abstraction away from mortgages and exaggerating their risk profile). The prosecutors just aren't pursuing cases which aren't easy wins.
When even Donald Trump thinks Fox News is conspiring against him, I don’t think there is even a fringe argument to made in support of Fox News being state media.
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Using an incognito session on Chrome worked for me.
Whacking your head with a hammer seems to take chunks of it away, though, which is a bit of an argument against it being immaterial. ;)
Wow, those posts. They are so unsubtle.
That's precisely the point, right?
Keep in mind that this doesn't apply to content in general, only to ads. Ads represent a financial investment in targeted content that's designed to sway specific people's opinions. That's pretty much the definition of propaganda. I'm okay with even trustworthy news sources being prohibited from doing that.
It sure feels like there have been quite a few big outages this summer (Google in particular). I wonder if they are getting sloppy or this is just bad luck?
HongKonger here. I have some friends in China posting similar anti-protest posts on WeChat social media. It's like the news they read has a completely different story than what it's being told in legitimate new sources. The problem of fake news does become very apparent, and I hope people in China can eventually gain awareness or at least start to question the validity of their news sources.
My brother-in-law went through that with a piece of property he bought in California; it was a house on top of a "hill" (or small mountain?).

Two "neighbors" colluded to shut off all easements to the property, hoping that in 7 years (or whatever) they'd get the right to the property and could fix it and resell it. It was originally owned by investors, who wanted to offload it because they were fighting the same fight, and one of them had a heart attack and was dying, and they just wanted out. Along comes my BIL and he gets it for a song.

And the issues to boot.

The neighbors - one was a known "a-hole" in the neighborhood who would sue anyone and everyone; indeed, if you looked up his name in California, he had a record of using the courts almost as if it were his job. The other guy, he owned a large avocado orchard which bordered the property; he had fenced over one of the plat map easements. The other easement was a road which led to the property, which the first guy lived next to, just down below from the house. He blocked it off with a metal gate. He also owned another house he used as a rental, which was just immediately below the house. So he'd leave the gate open sometimes, and would give a key to the renters, but otherwise it was closed off. He'd also let people in for maintenance and inspection of a water tank which served for water in the neighborhood.

The story is wild and long - they didn't count on the tenacity of the family I married into. They didn't count on my brother-in-law, who works construction - being willing to run his dump truck for 48 hours straight with little-to-no sleep to make money in any way possible so he could pay his lawyer bill every single month (which ran to insane levels). He didn't count on my sister-in-law being willing to live in the house, to establish residency, while her husband worked a state away.

We had to hike up to the house one, using machetes to cut thru the undergrowth. My brother-in-law later ran a bulldozer to cut a path up the side of it, to get past the gate (he came from the avocado side - which the sheriff allowed him to cut past the fence, because of the plat map, and thus had to fight that neighbor in court too) - they then used 4wd vehicles to get up the side to the house.

He never counted on any of this and more. My brother-in-law flew a pirate flag from the flagpole, just to give the other guy the finger during all this.

Eventually, after several years, my brother-in-law won the lawsuit, and got access to the road. The gate was removed. The entire neighborhood rejoiced, and my BIL became the "hero" of their area, because they had long suffered various indignities by that guy.

A few months after my BIL won the case, the guy ended up having a heart attack, and died. The other guy lived a few years longer, but also ended up dying of natural causes.

My brother-in-law's house, now that it has access, instantly shot up in value several times over. He and his wife are now thinking of selling it, and moving on to other things.
Section 230 of what code / title?

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/ECFR?page=browse
Because treating like family doesn't mean they're actually family, but that familial manners extend to them, among whatever their original reason for being part of the family is.
The problem is that calling someone a paid, or unpaid shill on HN is unproductive.

There's a world of difference (But little way for a third party to tell apart) between:

A paid shill.

An unpaid troll.

Someone who genuinely believes what they are posting, because they do not have the same information you do.

Someone who genuinely believes what they are posting, despite having the same information as you, because they prioritise different bits of that information differently. That is called a 'political opinion'.

For reference, I have been called a CCP shill at least once. I have never been to China, I have no affiliation with the CCP, I am not trolling, and I have not received a penny for posting nonsense here.
NPR is state run?