skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Twitter thread states that Google has blamed unspecified "data partners" for stealing the content. This is about the "knowledge-graph"-powered infoboxes that sometimes appear on a SERP page. But which "data partner" would be providing Google with lyrics data, and why didn't Google ban them from the platform after they were caught stealing 3rd-party content previously? (Wikidata is one example of a well-known source for Google's KG, but obviously they don't provide any copywritten lyrics. There was a fun instance though where Google would say someone who lived in Ancient Rome is still alive and thousands-of-years old, because Wikidata had no indication that they were dead. It was fixed there by putting in an "unknown value" death date.)
That's a semantic distinction. All major corporations have highly speculative projects that they aren't certain will succeed. With (relatively) minor investments most don't form an umbrella corporation to distinguish them.

In this case, I dont see anything else coming out of non-Google alphabet of meaningful significance, and this org change kind of highlights that.

In my personal opinion, the Google founders probably still DO have some radical plans, but I bet with the increased scrutiny in Congress and abroad they are thinking the Google vrand is more of a liability than an asset.
If I had to guess, I'd say that the JeIlyfish package is just here to wrap the malicious code since JeIlyfish is a dependancy of the compromised python3-dateutil package.
Which is why C# (and apparently other .NET constituents) has the excellent, but separate DebuggerDisplay API [0]. IIRC it also makes it possible to define a private implementation to communicate to clients that this pseudo-serialization is not part of the public API (like ToString() implicitly would be).

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/using...
You can do that even within a company. You certainly dont need separate share classes.
This is funny, downvoted for writing the truth...

It is impossible for anonymous readers to open dead comments.

If it is not, please explain me how to do it
There is a very big, and obvious, difference between using a plugin published by a well-known source, and a random code snippet posted by a random person.
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> Note that some countries have an underdeveloped ISP market, with large fractions of the population having no choice of broadband service provider. Regulation is then of the utmost importance to keep everyone honest, but in some of these countries the regulator has been captured by industry and is no longer very effective. This mostly goes for the US.

I think this is the key motivator for a move to DoH. Large US ISPs can’t be trusted.
You should always come with solutions, not just problems. Here is a solution: we move the stand up back to a reasonable time to better retain talent and we immediately stop the half pay dockage and retroactively repay all those affected to not be in violation of labor code, which could constitute serious fines. And I do recommend looking up the code.
Post offices may be many, but their opening hours make it essentially impossible to visit them if you're working. (Unless you want to visit during lunch break and take whatever your received home on your hour-long commute.)
That would be fantastic as long as there is good service all the way.

When I was in high school I took a train with my older brother from the the US border to the Guatemala border, about 3000 miles. That was in the late 1960s, that train does not run anymore.
The Occam's razor fallacy: the simplest solution is not always the correct one
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An Australian/British graphic designer who has been making graphic design resources in support of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for ~10 years[1].

[1]https://www.gofundme.com/f/aussies-bring-assange-home-poster...
Very nice. And the name actually fits, which is a rarity in itself.
>That's why we need political action.

Where? Political action int he U.S. or Europe doesn't do much to China and telling China "sorry, you can't have cheap electricity, your people don't get to have a lifestyle like ours as a result" isn't likely to make the Chinese go "oh, ok, we'll stop growing our middle class and go back to a basic village lifestyle to save the rest of you".

Unless we miraculously convert to a global government then reducing emissions just isn't likely to happen. Reduce in one place and it'll continue to increase in a few others.

The fact of the matter is, the only realistic solution out of this is a majority of the world's population goes "Ok we'll only drive to work/school/the grocery, we'll never take travelling vacations unless we walk or bicycle there, we'll stop eating all meat, we'll give up plastic packaging and we won't replace our electronics when they wear out".

Otherwise we have to hope and pray that a fleet of alien trade ships show up on orbit and are like "If you give us syndication rights to the galactic hegemony for Everybody Loves Raymond and I Love Lucy we'll go ahead and install a thousand of our zero point modules around the planet and tie them into your local grids to solve your energy needs. If you give us the syndication rights to The Simpsons we'll give you a few thousand of these solid state devices that attract carbon out of the air causing it to solidify into inert bricks that you can then fill your pit mines with".

We're seriously in that sort of state. You either outlaw electricity from fossil fuels in every country in the world or you hope for a true miracle.

Even if someone figures out cold fusion today and can start churning out the first power plants in January, replacing the 60,000~ power plants in the world it would take decades at best to replace them and making the concrete for pouring the foundations alone would create an insane amount of CO2 not to mention all of the structural steel.

Short of ET intervention, the best we can hope is that developing nations stop building fossil fuel power plants and that people start leaving coastal cities and building better designed, more eco-friendly, more distributed, with equally dispersed permaculture centers, with rail lines in grids to provide for efficient transportation of people and goods, cities far inland.
What definition of "uninterrupted" and "longest" are being used here?
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I find this… interesting. I mean, yes, think about your problems up front, but a computer will always be a better computer than a programmer would. How do slow feedback cycles make one a better programmer? In what ways do you find that these habits serve you well now? Is, for instance, painstakingly checking variable spelling an interesting (or valuable) use of a programmer's time, when it can be handled by automated tooling?
Any business person should see the most important action immediately. If you want to make a company profitable, lowering costs is almost always essential and more effective than raising revenues. Do both, of course, but keep costs down.

If you want to lower greenhouse gas concentrations, do everything, but lowering emissions is essential. The article barely mentioned it, but the most effective emissions reductions limit concentrations more than all capturing technologies combined.

The number one technologies to combat environmental problems such as climate change (but also all others -- extinctions, resource depletion, plastic, mercury, etc) are the pill, IUDs, vasectomies, condoms, and the like, combined with educating everyone on family planning. People knee-jerk respond with concerns about China's policy or eugenics, but many nations have reduced birth rates non-coercively, increasing prosperity -- Thailand, Costa Rica, Iran, and more.

A few generations of a global 1.5 children per woman average brings human population to sustainable levels with a reasonable level of material abundance, around 2 billion people -- for reference, the population before the Haber-Bosch process allowed us to turn oil into food. Any population more than sustainable only forestalls collapse. I'd like to say otherwise, and achieving on a global scale what a few nations did on a national scale is hard, but nature doesn't make allowances for something being hard. And we've known this for generations.

At the same time, probably everyone reading these words emits beyond the IPCC recommendations per person. Combining personal action by those willing to lead and set examples with education and legislation can reduce emissions per person. As ineffective as personal action is alone, it is a necessary first step to create role models and show that living sustainably is joyful and creates community and connection, not the burden and sacrifice people erroneously fear when they think of flying less or eating less meat. On the contrary, stewardship and taking responsibility for how our behavior affects others, especially those helpless to defend themselves, such as those breathing our jet fuel exhaust, creates some of the most joy, meaning, value, and purpose, as any parent will tell you.

We'll have to change our values to a steady-state economy based on increasing gross happiness and community from a growth economy based on increasing GDP. There are many examples of steady-state economies working for longer than our growth economy producing prosperous, stable communities, and one huge example of a growth economy wrecking the entire planet's biosphere, making it clear to all except economists that we have to stop growth or nature will do it for us.

Bottom line: 1) Reducing emissions is by far the most effective means to avert the worst disasters, even if some are inevitable. We can do a lot more and once we start we'll love it. 2) Personal action is not enough, but it's a necessary first step. It's also called leadership. Most don't want to lead, but those willing to will be the Mandelas, MLK's, Rosa Parks, etc of the environment.
That sounds like "magic key" cryptodenialist logic. Just because you really want something doesn't make it possible or viable.

They do support initiatives to help but realize it is essentially generational at this point.
It is indeed a cool project. However I am interested how they make money? Their apps seem to have IAPs, or how does their business-model work?
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Hmm, the long timeframe makes me wary of the comparison. The problem is, the comparison holds weaker and weaker over shorter timeframes:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_... Planned spending 2019 ~92mil

https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects/contributing/e... - ~130% page edits growth 2012-2019 (~35mil expenses, a 260% increase)

https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects/contributing/e... - ~80% page edits growth 2015-2019 (~65mil expenses, a 140% increase)

The rate of increased page edits is closer and closer to the rate of increased expenses. I personally don't think that's a convincing argument, because I haven't seen this massive improvement in tools to justify the extra costs(most of the extra expenditure doesn't seem to be on development, anyway), but I don't think the argument can be dismissed out of hand.
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That makes sense, thanks for pointing that out. I can see how it's related to the value system of collectivist (as opposed to individualist) cultures, and how they see intellectual property - as a common good, beyond personal/private ownership.
Elon Musk is not an AI expert. Just pointing this out. That's not true in anyway.
well thank you for ruining coral diving for me, one of most wonderful experiences in life...

more seriously though, it seems strange that a lot of things I wouldn't notice at all unless there was some really bad trigger, like photoshopped trypto images and then I start noticing this pattern more (especially if there is something sticking out of those holes...)

bee/wasp honey combs with their younglings, anybody?
Why so, what are the downsides? It's not like it introduces any meaningful overhead at all, and there are plenty of situations where it is useful even in production (eg for logging in catchall "can't happen" top level exception handlers). Adding yet another compiler flag seems like a worse solution to me.
Some forms of sequestered carbon, like compressed CO2 injected back into salt domes and magnesite, are much lower energy than the hydrocarbons and coal the humans burned. So it isn't necessary to put the energy back, necessarily. Just the carbon.

Even if it is, though, the Earth receives about 1000 years of world marketed energy consumption in the form of sunlight every year. So even energy-intensive carbon sequestration approaches like algal photosynthesis (promoted with iron sulfate, say) may be feasible.
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i've received many packages at the convenience store but not everything is shippable there. My local 7/11 just installed a set of shipping lockers so maybe I can receive more stuff without being home. On the hand it's one reason to opt for an apartment complex that has a way to receive packages.
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You're right, and not just rural areas.

Flagstaff, AZ (pop. ~70,000, and double that in the metro area) has colder average lows than NYC during the winter, and several times more snow.

It's the closest major(-ish) town to the Grand Canyon, which is about 75 miles away.
> they fully respect their users privacy

The data shows they do not.

Google Is Fined $57 Million Under Europe’s Data Privacy Law: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/technology/google-europe-...

Google Is Fined $170 Million for Violating Children’s Privacy on YouTube: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...

There is even a Wikipedia page about Google VS users privacy

Privacy concerns regarding Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_Goo...
I wasn’t talking about revolution, just about acknowledging critique. I highly agree that capitalism brought the most prosperous period for humanity but there’s still lots to do and we all _have_ to listen to the poor, the disenfranchised, the ones getting the short end of the stick (ie Gilets Jaunes).
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How does whistleblower imply neutrality? Neutrality on what? Does a lack of neutrality about an unrelated issue exclude one from being a whistleblower on all things?

If my new boss is an asshole, and he also orders me to lie to the government, am I not a whistleblower if my reasons for reporting the company are mostly to get revenge on my asshole boss?

Shouldn't it be what is reported that we care about, not what failings we can accuse the whistleblower of having (and as a human being, they will certainly have)?

Personally I've noticed with Snowden is that nobody really attacks what he said, they attack his perceived motivations, like that somehow matters worth a damn given the accuracy of his information.
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That assumes that those mediocore "fizzbuzz test failers" tiers would do better in the domain with another degree. The problem may be in their capabilities predegree.
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1) Claim in tweet: "This is the longest single uninterrupted train journey currently possible on Earth."

My counter claims:

1a) it is not a "single" journey (multiple transfers) which leads to 1b) it is not "uninterrupted" (multiple transfers). 1c) It is also not the longest journey possible because you can take many longer paths through Europe (mentioned in the comments of the tweet).

2) The submitted URL links to Twitter which in turn links to an article [1] with some numbers (cost estimations etc.)

[1] https://basementgeographer.com/the-longest-train-ride-in-the...
The carbon cycle you mention was an important realization to me, one I learned rather late compared to many I think.

We pull carbon out of the ground with no way to ever (relative to human life spans) put it back, and it doesn't just "dissolve into nothing" like so much of what we do seems too, it stays in various forms on the surface "forever". We also pull so much oil from the ground that running out world wide is a concern we give some thought too. It's going to have an effect.

If I seem stuck on first base, it's because I regularly deal with people who don't believe in climate change.
>if you train in something, you aren't playing. Training is actually the total opposite of play; you need to do things that are not fun but are beneficial for your goal, and it sucks. You have to do a lot of tedious study and memorization to get better at chess beyond a point, or spend a lot of time in a fighting game's training mode just to be able to consistently do moves and combos on demand.

I find training to be fun and engaging - i find bettering myself to be fun! There is a difference between going into practice mode and grinding combos, and just dueling someone with intent of 'i'll try to block each low mixup this game', or 'i'll try to pushing each wakeup'.

You are having fun, with a small extra goal added, and you don't mind losing - as long as you don't fail your extra goal.
If IBM is a "300ish year old vampire", Nintendo is basically God.
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Okay, I'll clarify with an example: Apple is a company, and they care about the growth and general value of themselves as a company. Let's say this can be measured as their NAV (simplistic I know, but it suffices) which is what the market will assess them on. Profits absolutely are the motivation for Apple, as with most other companies that make up the microeconomy of what I'm calling here a "game", or nation/jurisdiction (because each jurisdiction has a different set of rules for the game, called the jurisdictional law).

Unlike other companies, though, Apple has now grown to a size where we can say that they have a very strong advantage in this "game", the American market, but there exists a strategy such that they're able to maximise their reward output by switching "games". Since they're a rational player they do so, and switch their tax jurisdiction, or "game", to Ireland, who plays by a different set of rules.

This isn't a perfect example because I don't think the United States penalises companies based on their performance through tax, but if Apple is already doing this in such a situation what would happen if the United States did implement a progressive tax rate on companies [0]? Now consider how many individuals rely on the existence of Apple within the American "game", and how many may or may not be affected by a full move out of said "game" (again, a silly example I know, but I hope it makes the point clear).

[0] The US may actually do this already and I'm just not aware of it. If so, feel free to correct me.
> half the posts are just frustration in dealing with the drudgery of playing so many matches to even climb

This has nothing to do with skill floors or ceilings.

Then play newer or different games. Overwatch has been out for a while by now. Chess has been out for a rather long time by now.

> The issue is that when you play chess, all you can play against are wanna-be grandmasters who drive the skill floor up to the point where you need to make a heroic effort just to be mediocre.

On chess.com you start at 800 ELO, on lichess.org you start at 1500(?) ELO and rapidly decline if you lose many games, until you get around where you should be. You do not need to make "heroic effort" in order to start gaining ELO. You do need to learn basic chess theory like how much the pieces are worth, and some strategy, etc, but it's really not that bad if you genuinely like chess.

> It doesn't work that way; what happens over time is the better people raise the skill floor by driving weaker players out.

Alternatively, people who play push the game forward and make exciting breakthroughs, keeping the game fresh. No one is forcing you to play a game that you don't like. There's no point in shaking our fists at the sky because we didn't start playing a game right when it came out.

Games are fascinating when they -don't- explicitly cater to new players. TF2 is a hard game, yet it's one of my most played games at ~1700 hours. Why? Because I was able to improve and because it has a high skill ceiling (and floor) for certain playstyles.

Pressing Shift to rocket up as Pharah is totally boring compared to learning how to Rocket Jump as the soldier. Learning how to do that took me weeks, yet it's now one of my favorite aspects of TF2. I have hundreds of hours in tf2 just on jump maps- something that wouldn't be possible if TF2 were designed to have as little skill floor as possible (like overwatch).
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They count. But they aren't subject to network effects. There's no 'I can't moderate this site, because none of my friends use it' issues.
Pinging the lambda to keep it warm doesn’t do the same thing.

When you do that, it only keeps one instance warm. If you have 10 concurrent requests, even if one is warm, the other 9 requests will still experience a cold start.

The only way around this is to send a request that holds the connection open long enough to make sure concurrent requests start a new lambda instance. While you are keeping the request open, that lambda instance isn’t available for a real call.

If the entire purpose of lambda is to make things easier, once you start down the Rube Goldberg path of trying to keep enough instances warm, it kind of defeats the purpose. Just spend the money and the time to set up an autoscaling group of the smallest instances of EC2 or use Fargate if you don’t want the cold start times.
I don't doubt that the quality has gone up. I have rather more trouble believing that the quality has gone up 3200 times.

We can talk all we want about the nonlinearity of cost, but that's such an enormous jump that the idea that a, by your own suggestion, possibly unnoticeable increase in quality is worth the cost beggars belief.
That's why I mentioned 'with maybe some overhead'. You can also have the keep-alive handling take a second or 2 extra to complete, to have the lambda blocked for this time, so the burst calls get more spread.
It's not going to be a precise solution, but still, paying 2-3 seconds every minute instead of paying the whole minute is still a lot cheaper.
Is this related?

Merck has a new IT Head - joined on Nov 2018. The attack happened on Jun 2017 (i.e., 1.5 years earlier). Jim Scholefield - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimscholefield/ Great pedigree: Nike, Coca Cola etc.

[Edit]

Seems to be: He will also have oversight of cyber-security – a big issue for the company after a ransomware attack in June 2017 brought the company to a grinding halt. Scholefield will be part of the company’s executive committee, reflecting how integral the digital transformation drive is to the business.

http://www.pmlive.com/pharma_news/merck_and_co_picks_nike_ex...
> So even energy-intensive carbon sequestration approaches like algal photosynthesis (promoted with iron sulfate, say) may be feasible.

They aren't though, algae is more than carbon and pure water. They still need various minerals which you have to input into the system somehow. To do this at any scale it means mining massive amounts and feeding the system, that's just one of the reasons why YC's own idea to turn to Sahara into a bunch of shallow algae pools [1] is absurd.

[1] http://carbon.ycombinator.com/desert-flooding/
If Chinese characters in USA are not a sign of Chinese culture penetration, then we are on the same page.
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