skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they sure are not detained, because no one gets detained for religious belief in China. The freedom of religion is written in the Constitution of China, the government shall protect their belief (you can check it yourself, it's the No. 36 in Chapter 2).

I doubt the existence of the so-called "re-education camps", but I don't have enough evidence to prove it's a lie. (I think is hard to prove a thing don't exist, for example, I'm an atheist but I can't prove the absence of any god)

"杨永信" and "豫章书院" is never supported by the mainstream opinion, their existence only indicate there are a bunch of people don't know how to raise their kids, and blame their children's disobedience for so-called "Internet addiction". Many Chinese people hope the government put an end to "杨永信" and "豫章书院", but I don't know why they don't. However, this issue is not akin to Xinjiang and Tibet issues because there's no religious or minority involved.
SANE claimed in 2005 to support the Visioneer 7300, for whatever that's worth. Though VueScan seems very cool, especially supporting IR dist removal, which is not present in SANE (which tends against any processing whatsoever).
Do you think people only started having children after the invention of the motor car?
I think this is an issue that just doesn't have a solution anymore. No company wants to work with each other to create a platform/standards that benefits the end users, they all want to undercut each other, or lobby the shit of governments to create barriers of entry for competition.

Equally important: it doesn't help that working in the public sector pays less and is loaded with bureaucracy. All the smart minds go to the private sector because that's where the most immediate personal incentives lie.
This seems only tangentially relevant ... babies can be transported just as well in prams, pushchairs, on buses, trains, aircraft, hovercraft, or even specially adapted cargo bicycles. Some of my more eco-conscious acquaintances have "Bakfiets" bikes for this purpose.
This happens all the time in the US. I've personal made life decisions based on the the possibility I was going to piss off the wrong wealthy person who'd sue me without basis just to bankrupt me
Cool to see this. I saw a video of someone doing it before, but I didn't want to share it with co-workers because the person making the video used whatever the "paint" equivalent was on that version to draw genitalia before upgrading to the next version.
How about a repeater like TP-Link RE650? No PoE though.
Unfortunately, it seems to last 1-2 years, so I really only trust the news about 50-75% of the time, less if there's ongoing political drama. The less I hear from politicians in the news, the more I trust the news, which is sad...
Whatsapp Attributes Hack of 1,400 Users to NSO Group Technology
Non-profits are allowed to profit all they want.

The NFL is a non-profit org.
Objectively wrong:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114285/google-employee...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/technology/google-pentago...

This is just Google specifically, not all the other times which employees have successfully forced their employer to change course.
> has the content

You mean , attracts the content, because it's not their own. Youtube in the end is a service for submitting video, and other competitors may disrupt them if the p2p model works well in the future.
Why doesn’t Bezos do this to the Amazon Post?
Why would you give away any details, when each one of them might end up being a secret that is causing your firm to make millions of dollars?

The financial sector is many things, it's a lubricant of the economy, it is a prediction machine, it's a fascilitator of markets, but not least important it is setup as a game, where every player tries to outsmart the others. Why would you talk about how you are playing and give your opponents a chance to outplay you?
The largest growth Google had was under a pretty strict position. On the contrary, if you grow and mutate to a faceless corp, you begin to have problems attracting talent and in consequence innovate further. Wouldn't be the first time.
So, you agree and list a bunch of benefits to the centralization.
High level overview at LWN, https://lwn.net/Articles/794555/
It’s always easier to think someone else should do something [that won’t really affect you personally] so that you feel good about yourself vs taking the hard actions involved in making changes yourself.

In this case wanting their employer to do something - safe in the knowledge that google is so big it won’t show up in their paycheck. I would be shocked to learn (and this is conjecture on my part) that the typical google employee leads a truly low carbon lifestyle (petrochemical, electricity, transportation included)
You seem to be assuming they think they're a problem. Not everyone finds AMP or Google's search practices problematic.
The LaPlace transform is also isomorphic to the net present value problem in finance. The Wiki article on net present value even links to a paper pointing this out from a finance POV. (The problem of how the net present value of a flow varies with changes in the discount rate is also of some theoretical interest in finance, since it clarifies the conditions under which the so-called 'roundaboutness' of e.g. an investment is well defined.)
How many?

We hear these stories all the time and I'm not sure "googlers are protesting" means 10 or 10,000 employees.

We've seen googler's post here indicate that various employee initiatives have varying levels of support but as far as media reports go they report them all the same.
I wonder what the big secret idea is. Something visually obvious from the fact that they covered it up. An aerospike electric engine maybe? I guess you wouldn't have the same issues you have with cooling such an exit that you have with chemical propellant.
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What's really illuminating is that you equate quitting with "running away". Quitting isn't "running away" -- it's the correct course of action if you object to what the company is doing. Sure, make your case first, but when you don't get your way, quit. It's even more remarkable that you make this comparison (quitting = running away) while pushing an anti-corporate message. I can hardly think of anything "more corporate" than equating quitting with running away.

I suspect the actual reason you object to quitting is that it involves sacrifice. It's easy to sign a petition or hold up a billboard but it's hard to quit your job. The problem with this approach is that humans define virtue based on sacrifice. We are deeply suspicious of virtue that doesn't involve sacrifice and we should be because that kind of virtue is indistinguishable from self-aggrandizement.

If you really want to "question corporate power" then don't work for a coporation. Of course the reason people refuse to follow this advice isn't because "they want to change the corporations from the inside" -- it's because they want money and a lifestyle that comes from working for a coporation while also claiming the moral highground.
It's really nice to see an article on HN that shies away from the usual "the govt oughta do something about this" tack.
I think it's weird how family gets invoked to change the moral gravity of an issue. It suggests orphaned children, for instance, should care less about humanity.
We built network isolation for 1500 services
My favorite of these kind of stories is https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...

They introduced a special mode for the memory (de)allocator that allowed a (disallowed) pattern that SimCity used and that no longer worked with a new change, and used this mode when SimCity was running.
Some people own houses that they don't even intend to live in. Then they rent out those houses to other people who actually want to live there. Improper?
i just place some toy to support the ends. I wish manufacturers cared for wobbling more. Those tiny vibrations under heavy eye fixation for hours a day are tiring.
The Battlefield After the Battle
> uses it in all sorts of morally questionable ways

That's a subjective opinion. I happen to agree, but not everyone (even outside of Google) think their uses are morally questionable.
Such a website would likely be a bully itself, so the list of links to specific instances of bullying should include its list of bullyings. Use of infinite scroll would appropriate here.
I see Facebook as a net negative to society. If a clumsy breakup plan instead destroyed them entirely... good.

It absolutely does make it easy for me to propose plans to break them up as a result, yes, because no, I'm not worried about how the parts may be viable afterwards.

I will admit this is not necessarily an appropriate attitude for a bureaucrat in charge of the breakup to take, but it's a valid attitude for Congress to take.
I hadn’t even thought of certification costs, so thank you. How well/badly would that scale with the number of aircraft with the same design? I assume “certify design X for $X” is a separate cost to “certify aircraft Y of model X for $Y”?
Moscow is calling back from the 60s, they want their playbook back by next Monday.
I’m a climber / skier / runner etc based out of Colorado and between my wife and we’ve spent a small fortune with backcountry.com. I didn’t know about any of this. Suing a maker of backcountry skis? Well, fuck you too, private equity jerkoffs. I’m going to light up my rep on this and let them know my spend and my recommendations are going elsewhere.

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Edit3: GoFundMe for the legal costs of one of their targets:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-defense-to-fight-backcountr...

Edit2: A follow-up article with more details on just how predatory and unreasonable BC (by proxy through their attorneys) have become:
https://coloradosun.com/2019/11/05/backcountry-com-trademark...

Edit, @skierjerry, et, al, here's what I just sent my rep:

Heya <person>,

I read an article about Backcountry in the Colorado Sun that really disappointed me. Your employer has adopted ugly business tactics and begun using its size to attack smaller businesses who have the ubiquitous term “backcountry” in their name.

Please look at my lifetime spend with Backcountry as well as that of my wife. It is significant. It also stops now, and I’ll be making significant contributions to the legal funds of the boutique makes and businesses that your employer is assaulting.

I wish you nothing but the best on a personal level and hope that your employer chooses to take a better path."
Do you mean 1PC transaction?
Hype=everyone talks about it. Are there a lot of people believing in flying taxis?
Okay well, this "slacktivism" has led to real changes:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114285/google-employee...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/technology/google-pentago...

Given that this lever obviously works, why shouldn't employees use it?

I agree with you that the current actions being taken aren't exercising the full power available to employees, but absent a real union it's incredibly difficult to organize strike action (a much superior course of action to threatening to quit).
That's what cryptocurrencies allow, since Bitcoin. People can pick a dispute mediator who gets involved and can reverse the transaction only if there's a dispute. It's all done with OP_CHECKMULTISIG. The mediator is not an escrow service and can't steal the money. So you end up with a competitive market of tiny "courts".
Well looking at where the Microsoft ecosystem is now and where the Apple ecosystem is, I think Apple made the right choice. Apple alone sells more devices running macOS variants than all Windows PC makers combined.

As far as backwards compatibility though - MS’s new ARM based Surface won’t run 64 bit x86 Windows apps and run 32 bit x86 apps slowly and still gets half the advertised life of iPads.

Windows on Surface took 12GB of hard drive space compared to about 3GB for iOS on iPads.
We all are. Our entire human world comprises overlapping subjective realities built by group consensus. What is true and rational to me is anathema to another, and the inverse applies. From cradle to grave our realities are sculpted by our experiences and those surrounding us. Recognising this is the first step to understanding an awful lot of why people think and do what they do.
The rise of 'backcountry' into prominence roughly corresponded with the rise of Backcountry as a retailer.

In 2006, ski touring was called 'randonee' as often as it was called 'backcountry' (even moreso in prior years). Similarly, off-trail/rugged hiking was in the wilderness, not the backcountry, prior to the mid/late 2000s.

I'm not sure how germane that is in this case, as I understand Backcountry has only filed for the trademark recently.

I don't think the founding spirit of the company is in line with the current legal strategy -- Backcountry may feel that they must aggressively defend the trademark in order to have any sort of trademark. As an online retailer, a trademark seems sensible (a competitor named Backcountry.net seems uncouth). Suing Marquette Backcountry Skis is utterly inappropriate and absolutely out of line for the corporate culture I associate with Backcountry.com.
Exploring Matrices in Python
I was wondering: what if I am able to extract the firmware from a device, or download the firmware from their website? Should I then also be able to ask for the source? AFAICT, the answer to this question is: Yes.
I’m consistently amazed by how many people here dont understand inflation at all and are confident they need to throw out the financial system before they figure it out.

Inflation is an incentive to invest. If you invest in literally anything other than cash under your mattress inflation stops mattering completely to you, and all you have to think about is constant dollar returns. That’s why we have it. So long as your wages track inflation (broadly they do) you benefit from implicit depreciation in your debt obligations. It costs you nothing if you don’t hold cash like you’re supposed to, and it costs you effectively nothing if you hold money in a savings account as many offer 1.8% interest these days, matching inflation.

What nobody arguing for a deflationary currency can tell me is why they think money should be worth more later solely by virtue of them having gotten it first. A risk-free guaranteed return at the expense of the next generation! It makes no sense.

This is basic ECON 101. High school level home ec probably. Not some big conspiracy perpetrated by the central banking cabal.
A bunch of gadgets and stuff that worked fine with 95 and 98 mysteriously broke with ME. Because it was a dead end with a short life there was never any incentive to support or fix it. And what was the point of breaking everything for a year?
what if intelligence becomes something that "can be cured"
>> I wonder why central banks don't issue digital currencies themselves?

Because they already have one? And it comes with handy features such as being available in paper form, storable in a regular DB, relatively stable and manipulatable and easy for everyone to understand. And a whole host of other goodies gleaned out of 400 years of attempting to keep the gears moving while keeping economic implosion to the bare minimum.
I think you're neglecting to think about moving people around in rural and or remote areas. Where I grew up (eastern NC) the ability to travel as-the-crow-flies would massively cut down on time to get places, many roads take 30-45 miles of driving to go what might be 15 miles in the air.

In that kind of area, there's not the population density to support any kind of mass transit (or even really taxis) and the distances are too far for biking to be practical. Readily available electric VTOL would revolutionize rural America. Not much to worry about in terms of air congestion, either.
I'm not in the US, I also don't have children.

The bit about the car (which might change soon, but that would be a small EV, so still not oil-bound), within the context of all the other disclosures, was mostly to say that I'm not "pro oil" in any way, even when I seem to argue against Googlers asking Google to choose its customers in a certain way.
Illegitimate use:

It's all hype tbh, there are very few .onion sites and they are tiny, most are filled with fake woo foo info like "Leaked FBI Proof of UFO's", "How the Illuminati turned my cat gay" that sort of stuff.

As far as legit .onion sites there are maybe 10 of them they all sell drugs and credit cards.

Legitimate use:

It's used to protect you from anyone that might spy on you, hackers, advertisers, social media, governments whoever the bad actor is.

In the current sate of the internet you make too much money being a bad actor to not be a bad actor. I think there is far more legitimate use of tor than illegitimate use. I would say that tor has more legitimate uses than torrents.
Certainly Google employees would not be highly incentivized to do so.
> but your final paragraph seems to imply the formalism isn't key to end quality?

That's not what I said. I said that merely creating a verified formal specification of a language is not in itself a good path to increasing correctness, and I wouldn't focus on that as a significant cause for concern given all others. But even when you use formal methods in the development of your software -- and I'm certainly a proponent -- there are many formal methods with widely different guarantees and costs, and some of them don't require a formal specification of the programming language. Moreover, no system can be 100% error free, regardless of verification method used. Systems rely on hardware whose actual behavior can never be "proven" correct, and, at best, only probabilistically matches the spec.

I personally believe that some formal methods can greatly improve correctness, and do so affordably, but the question of which formal methods are worthwhile when and by how much each of them improves correctness is very much an open question.

> it's the only working implementation of the concept of perfectly secured data.

I strongly disagree. There is no such thing as "perfectly secure." Security is defined with respect to certain threats (e.g. a hazmat suit can protect you from poisonous gas but gives you no defense from bullets, whereas a bullet-proof vest is the opposite), and blockchain is rarely the most secure with respect to the most relevant threats in a monetary system.
> A lot of money and research has gone into this, and the tech is being tightened up all the time.

Yeah, but it's not being deployed at consumer level, nor are the savings being passed on.

> A much more expensive and more risky way to do basically anything

Risky, yeah. Like any new technology. But transaction cost is cheaper.

Sorry, I didn't mean to get involved in some holy war. I can see there's people with a lot vested in both sides of the debate. I'm neither. Just pointing out the obvious.
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While I agree I don't think AMP is a good example since it's not unanimously considered a bad thing. I like it and so do many other people in countries with bad internet connections.
Broadcast media platforms are not a contestable market, since e.g. broadcast frequencies, cable video capacity etc. are scarce and largely controlled by incumbents. New media is entirely different.
While I appreciate the audio codec discussion and bandwidth-to-accuracy tradeoffs, how much of the speech recognition could be done on-device rather than shipping it off to the cloud? It's my understanding that it's a matter of installing pattern files for analyzing the audio without needing to fail over to the cloud; how many GB are we talking to be able to cover normal daily speech, assuming a minimum of jargon? For the hearing impaired, not having to hit the cloud at all seems like the best option (and you don't need to compress the audio at all or worry about cloud-trip bandwidth).
You can register a trademark for a generic term if it is tied to a very specific category. It is what allows "Apple" to be trademarked when related to computers. The problem here is that "Backcountry" is a term that is too closely tied to what they are actually selling. It would be like allowing a phone company to trademark the term "Cell"
Laws and regulations in Europe have managed to make wire transfers and card payments cheap and efficient for both consumers and businesses.
See my other comment on this thread about that site. Most of those "myths" are actually cases where the press told the truth and the EC just didn't like it.
I don't believe their problem was that terms related to the previous definition of base camp were appearing above them, but that their competitors were appearing above. They were indexed well, but you can pay to be above your competitor when the user is searching for them.
It might just be nostalgia but I really liked the GUI for Windows XP. The Start Menu was a clean and intuitive interface to find things you've installed. Windows 10 seems to be a huge step backwards in terms of usability. I tend to use xfce or lxqt on all my Linux systems. These days, all the action is happening in the web browser and I want my operating system is just work.
Stop trying to put words in my mouth. I'm saying that the fact that a system produces unfair outcomes is not a reason to not make improvement that cause the system produce better outcomes across the board. No more, no less.
come on, all these "googlers protesting google" dramas are made by google itself for promotion.
I find this argument uncompelling insofar as "smart" is a crap proxy for "needs protection from bullying". And, insofar as kids who aren't particularly bright have every bit as much of a right to not be mistreated at school, if our key motivation here is keeping kids from being bullied, a solution that is only available to a select few kids who are sometimes perceived as having greater personal worth would be entirely missing the point. Bullying needs to be dealt with in a way that works for everyone.
The U2F protocol uses a master secret that signs a KDF. Essentiall you generate a keypair given a certain input and sign the output. You can produce virtually unlimited keys from a single source.
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You haven’t provided any data to show it doesn’t make sense to build a 300 mile long train link between SF and LA other than your gut telling you (wrongly) that travel time would be 2-3X longer when plenty of other examples all over the world show otherwise.
Comments like these are the reason we never see Google employees openly post here anymore. We used to get comments directly from the source whenever Google released something new.
> Regulations lead to lobbying. And lobbying leads to corruption. I think one of our biggest problems is we have tried for years to have a pseudo free market while tampering with it so much to create the situation we are in now.

I guess it all depends on how you define "pseudo free market" but the government has been intervening in the economy since the birth of the nation. It's just a bit of a myth that the market is a free market.
> I don't see why you criticise the employees that try to make their company better.

“better” is an entirely relative term.
I do work for a family owned company. A bit conservative at times, and the owners don't despise money, but there are honest attempts to become greener for example.

Still, I doubt you can make a rational argument that forgoing contract X is undermining shareholders in any honest court of justice if all factors are considered.

edit: And if employees are indeed protesting, the case will be much cleaner.
Current support works as a supplementary form of verification. This _will be_ your keypair, which is cooler