skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally likely!

1) Yeah, hard to say. If it's utility, building a product that can compete with _all_ of Facebook right out of the door seems quite difficult. You'd be constantly battling the network effect as you built up the software to match their use cases—worse, you'd be spreading yourself thin right when you should be focusing on your 'core' product.

2) I'd be more okay with it, if they were more upfront about it maybe? But again, like point one, probably something that I feel affinity towards. I do often have problems with "free" products that really are not... I suppose it's not like they're trumpeting the cost lead.

3) That's a valid question eh? It's difficult to know, when other large firms were broken up long ago it was under an entirely different environment. I'd like to think that the previous players, in order to continue to interoperate with eachother (because, advantages), would implement some kind of protocol to do so: essentially opening up the platform so pieces that don't overlap can still work together—or allow you to pick and choose those pieces. But, complex, and regulatory forcing of a business to 'do-work' is often a non-starter... so who knows how that'd end up.

All interesting...
The term "racism" includes both race-based as well as ethnicity-based stereotyping. See, for example, Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

The idea of Chinese companies/universities/etc. being uncreative and over-reliant on imitation and industrial espionage is quite obviously a somewhat tired cliché. I'm certain it makes an appearance in almost every single front page comment threat on the Chinese economy of the last five years or so.

There might even be a kernel of truth. But, as others have pointed out, the same was said of Japan and Taiwan before. In such a situation, you should be wary of repeating such stereotypes if you don't have first-hand experience, which I doubt many of those regurgitating that trope have.
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No, I'm saying that people from certain countries have a tough time getting visas because their co-nationals have a habit of overstaying their visa as a form of immigration. Thus making the host country clamp down on issuing visas.
> Partly that could be explained by lower population density.

I really don't think so. Look at e.g. Finland.

The simplest explanation is real competition via virtual operators.
>For starters, the dough preparation, sauce making and baking — the real art of pizza — is left in the capable, five-fingered hands of people.

So all of the stuff that actually takes time is still manual. All this thing does is throw down some toppings. And then takes all the time and more it "saves" to clean it properly and reload it.

Want to see how pizza making is actually automated? Try Totinos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqULgulLq3Q
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What's available for preorder now is the "final version" of the Skydio 2, and we expect to be shipping in November. We are limited in how fast we can assemble them, so if you want to get the drone by the holidays, preordering now is a very good idea.
It's worse than that -- you're making them suck exhaust fumes all day.
"So how do you make that right without continuing to use the buckets? "

2 wrongs don't make it right.
> Dump some file in a directory and hope something is treating that directory like a queue

Or it's unencrypted files on an FTP server containing literally the lifeblood of the American economy: https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers... -_-
It's perfect timing this gets brought up because with all this news about Xinjiang, HK, East Ukraine, etc. we need to make sure China, Russia and so on also let us examine their transparency and protocols so we can give a rigorous, thorough checkup for human rights abuses. This being all about fairness and truth and we need to make sure everyone else can be held accountable to the same standards.

I look forward to a new muckrock feature where FOIA can be sent to Iran, China, and Russia to open up like USA and other European countries.

Also since US journalists evangelize Snowden and Assange, I'm sure Russia/China/other countries targeting USA won't have any leakers themselves. Their people being so well treated and obedient, such great gentlemen, even if they feel flustered and out of place over there, no matter, they can just trust in the virtues of their system and everything will be just fine. :)

/s
This feels reminiscent of 'diversity hires' where females and/or members of the LGBT+ community are preferred not because of competency/merit but to improve a company's diversity metrics. Disclaimer: I haven't experienced this myself. I only read/heard of these complaints from other people.
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I don't think that's true, see: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/4.0_upgrade_guidelines

> Original contributions remain under prior version unless express permission to upgrade is obtained.
Asians should just boycott Harvard. Overall quality of Harvard grads will drop and Harvard will become nothing.
Why do the front props point down?
How is paying someone back for a crime a wrong?
Replace xylophone bars and wheels.

Watch out you guys we've got a unicorn
It's not as simple as more CO2 = better plant growth. In fact it is likely the opposite for C3 plants. [0] Things like Corn, which uses C4 photosynthesis will hardly be affected by more CO2 in the atmosphere. I could go on and on, but this thread is the wrong place for this discussion.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4036122/

https://science.gu.se/english/News/News_detail/increased-car...

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/effects-of...
I subtracted Jewish from white, since "Out of this 2,831,000 religious Jewish population, 92% are non-Hispanic white": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews#Assimilation_and...
This was a district trial court ruling so technically no binding legal precedent has been set. Presumably the plaintiffs will appeal to the First Circuit, and if they take the case they will eventually establish an actual precedent.
See, that's the problem: "nationalism" is more about considering one's nation superior, which "racism" is about considering some other race/ethnicity/nationality inferior.

As anyone willing to read the first paragraph on Wikipedia knows, "racism" includes ethnicity-based discrimination as well. But people will pretend not to know, meaning there really isn't a generally-accepted word for this concept. How convenient.
Replace xylophone bars and wheels.

Watch out guys we've got a unicorn over here
If the setup can support aptX, quality should be reasonable.
It "seems like"? Do you have any evidence for such a state law?
Ever wanted a database with all the operational complexity of Kafka, and more? Well now you can have it!

It’s exciting as someone more in the SRE side, because you’d need to pay be an obscene amount to support this.
How much of your product is manufactured here in the US: parts, software? I saw the hiring post and it appears you're Redwood city based.
I wholeheartedly agree. Society has it's fair share of flaws (and they absolutely should be fixed!) but all of the alternatives are way worse.
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That is a fine example of a straw man.
I'm not even talking about leaders on the level politburo, there is no chance they will move. People who reach this level are pretty much robots after 40+ year careers in the party.

People on level municipalities, and provinces may show some rare signs of common sense from time to time, but them moment any of them (yes, even a provincial governor) will rise a hand, they will instantly be politically terminated.

And you have a system where tops are incapable of integrating any input for plainly neurological-biological reasons, and anybody with a shade of influence on them is super duper afraid of getting politically railroaded by both higher ups, and peers contending for promotion.

This is modern China for you.
in casual japanese:

ガラスは食える。俺に傷つけないから
I don't think it's fair to hold a criticism of Facebook accountable to the terms that it be equally applicable to the abstract and more vast concept of "communication". Maybe the parent thinks Facebook had, or could have had with enough foresight, the technical capability to mitigate the issue more, but failed to act with such initiative or scale. That might reasonably be an argument for how Facebook is a "net negative", even though the concept of ever freer, wider, and frictionless communication is not necessarily a "net negative".
Oh, I see—you mean from the perspective of the voter/pundit/analyst/politician trying to understand what an election means and their mandate for action. Sort of like the debate over electoral vs popular vote.

I hadn’t thought about it that way or seen the word gerrymandering used in that way, but it makes sense.
I don't think the military uses too many small caliber semi-auto rifles. Any modern military rifle I can think of was banned for new sale in 1986.
I'd prefer a virgin birth, then selling the child a few years later
> but corporations are people, according to the law.

Except that's not really what the law says (in the US, anyway).
In case someone else is wondering about the math on the aside about how a gallon of gas (3.8kg) can emit 10kg of CO2: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/contentIncludes/co2_inc.htm
> they don't necessarily get there by being bad or totally irredeemable people, help is available to them and we should hope that they find it and stay "on the wagon", to use a metaphor from somewhere else.

I agree with that and I did worked with people who are on the spectrum.

My pet peeve in these discussion is the argument that boils down to "he is autistic therefore everyone else should bend over and take whatever abuse that person unleashes on them and be understanding back". This argument is present up thread.

That does not work and just makes situation worst for everyone.
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Is this because they can't sell that much, or because they can't make that much?
Its not about absolute numbers, it's about admitting people from historically underrepresented or oppressed groups.

I think the name 'Race Conscious' is not a great description where it actually means race and oppression.
Just so people are aware, this doesn't "set a bad precedent." It doesn't set any kind of precedent, because the precedent is extremely well established. This ruling is directly in line with numerous SCOTUS decisions: Fisher v. University of Texas (2016), Grutter v. Bollinger, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, etc... These cases are cited throughout the opinion. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that race is admissible as part of an admissions decision as long as that admissions process stands up to strict scrutiny.
As a Jewish person I feel weird seeing "whites" being broken into Jewish and non-Jewish. What about other religions? Why include religion at all?

In particular with respect to Harvard and Boston I'd think Catholicism might deserve a mention if we're going to bring religion into this.

In the end I think religious diversity is important but it doesn't belong in the same conversation. You can choose your religion and also turn it on/off at different phases of your life. You also can't see religion from the outside (with some exceptions for example a Sikh turban).

That's not true for race.
Some of those things are linked to the applicant pool, for example normal White people (non-legacy/athlete/deans list/faculty child) only make up 40% of the normal people applicants to Harvard. ( http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf page 42 Panel B: Racial Distribution of Applicants by ALDC Status)
>You shouldn't judge people by the groups they happen to belong to.

And yet, in this country we did just that for hundreds of years. You don't just wave your hand and erase that legacy. We are in a transitional period that will hopefully help ease us into a society where these measures will truly have no place. We are not there yet.
Are you trying to advocate here that it’s at all acceptable to police thought crimes?
Considering that a degree opens doors to employment, not giving them the degree (all other things being equal) is guaranteed to result to hiring discrimination
It isn't really a logical path of thinking - admissions policy at Harvard doesn't have anything to do with normal hiring policies nationwide
Yes, you could stream from the app to their speakers over wifi. I used it regularly.
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What I'm saying is they ought to be outraged, but we're so used to police violence that when we see a police officer choose to shoot a young person instead of leave the area, folks hem and haw and say, "Well they did have a pipe."

For what it's worth, I am saying you're right. But I also think that non-violent protests only rarely accomplish much of anything on their own when it comes to government change. Folks talk about a moral high ground in these cases, but I think its important to note that the status quo ultimately benefits the aggressors in cases like these.

You can call this rhetoric if you like. I think it's odd you're asking me to provide an address to a point I ultimately agree with? Folks who like police violence will like police violence. You can tell they like police violence because when presented with clear cases of police violence, they make excuses.
So, KarelDB makes use of KCache (among other OSS). Which so happens that Kafka uses. But KarelDB does not use Kafka and vice versa. Did I get that right?

EDIT: After reading the GitHub README, it does appear KarelDB makes use of Kafka. Its unclear to me if its running kafka brokers underneath, or depends on an existing cluster.
Uber is testing “Record Audio” in case the rider is uncomfortable with the ride
Maybe the question should be how long can it stay at $2/liter? That $0.50/liter advantage may be gone in a year or two but the $2/liter synthetic fue remains or maybe slightly more.
$0.10 per kWh for solar power is a really high figure.

There's non subsidized power plants now being built for southern california, in India and in the UAE where the price for power sold to the grid is 2 to 3 cents per kWh ($0.025 to $0.030 per kWH).
Who are you paying back to? The person who did the crime or some other people based on similarities with the criminal? How about putting on the death row everyone in the neighborhood of a murderer? This is your logic.
AWS does not touch your drives itself. (Apart from what you configure) It would be a drama on its own if they tried. And even if they did try, what about encrypted partitions, filesystems which they don't support, systems configured for a different seed location, etc?

For some hypervisors this is solved in a different way: https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/VirtIORNG but as far as I know AWS does not support it yet.
It's not though. Although you may disagree, in common usage when referring to policy that affects groups:

"Racism" is continuing to disadvantage a group that is already at a disadvantage -- blatantly unfair.

A "race-conscious" policy seeks to give advantage to a group that is at a disadvantage, which necessarily will disadvantage a group that is at an advantage. In this thinking, once the disadvantage goes away, then the policy can go away too.

Even if you disagree with race-conscious policies, conflating them with racism is disingenuous.
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>and yet facebook is deeply democratic/liberal.

Facebook is all about making billions for Facebook. It could not care less about democratic vs republican. If the wind turned republican it would turn republican in a heartbeat. If it paid to play it neutral, it would as well. At the moment these two don't align with its interests, so it stands somewhere between neutral and pro-democrat.
If you are going to make a decent pizza, you are going to need proper dough, not a preformed crust. The dough will need to be worked and tossed or rolled out. The time it takes to put on sauce cheese and toppings is inconsequential wrt the time it takes to work the dough.
Unlikely to be ruled unconstitutional with the current makeup of the Supreme Court. A case brought against the University of Texas in 2016 ruled 4-3 basically the same way, with one justice recusing and another justice had died and not yet been replaced.
While this iteration of the product seems like it is not ready for prime time, a couple more years of improvements and you could have a machine able to reliably do the work of 2- 3 employees. There are many other industries where the current version of automation is clumsy such as in trucking or fast food but could look completely different in 5 years.

We are rapidly approaching a future where the entry level jobs like fast food / picking crops / warehouses can be automated away and even well paying ones such as truck driving / taxis could disappear or scale down drastically. We really should be having an urgent conversation on how to handle this and what the responsibility of those that own the means of production will be (if any) when this occurs.

Yang is obviously speaking about this and suggesting a BI as a band-aid / solution but I do think this should be getting a lot more attention that it is.
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I think it's because Jews are also an ethnic group
Respectfully, I am not so sure that you are correct with your sentiment. I know a lot of privacy-concerned folks that are center of right who wouldn't mind FB being kneecapped. I view this as significant, as these are people who usually view government interference in business matters akin to messing with religion.
I see a lot of people publicly quiting facebook, then quietly rejoining because... well that one person they know only communicates via messenger.

When I finally stopped using Facebook, I didn't close the account. It's just there. It's no longer part of what I do. At some point I realized that the worst thing about the network is not that they do shady things, or trick you into staying, or meddle with politics. The worst thing is the person you gradually become.

The moment you meet someone, you check their facebook, look through their pictures, browse their posts. When you become friends with someone, everytime there is tension you check facebook to see if they haven't posted about it. If it's a lover, you base the status of the relationship on their posts and frequency of pictures. If it's an ex...

In 2015 I wrote [1]:

> On facebook, why would I give someone privacy when I have access to all this information. And I don't even need their permission. I can watch your private pictures because you made them available. It's not that I can find out where you work, where you live, where you eat, everything about you. It's that I actually do find out without ever hiring a private detective. It's not what I can do, it's what I do!

Facebook turns you into an insecure person.

[1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/facebook-and-me