skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It seems very unfair to paint Google as a prejudiced organization for carrying out a diversity exercise that is explicitly recommended by academics who work in this field."

Yeah and the guy who invented the lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize. Following the advice of academics is not a license to take off your ethics hat.
America Is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared
That’s basically the definition of refugees seeking refuge and legally protected rather than aggravating.
Fast and maintainable patterns for fetching from a database
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/more-100-hig... we have these in bristol now and they seem to be working great
I, for one, look forward to an old age where I slowly get more cyborg prosthetics to prevent injury.

There's no way it won't have a marketing budget. We're going to have a bunch of geriatric Millennials rocking retro-power armor modeled after video game characters. Best case, anyway, and I'll work for that future hard.
Do note that it is orders of magnitude simpler to reach the technological level necessary to create the means of causing the collapse of civilization than to create the means to colonize other worlds. There are places on our own planet far more hospitable than any other world in our system that we haven't yet colonized, yet we are potentially a few political incidents away from nuclear annihilation.
To be a little more constructive with my answer. The website needs javascript for our chat service, our newsletter service, our ability for users to purchase licenses for the app, the night/dark mode switch. The codebase also shares components with our desktop app as they are both Vue, but with the desktop app utilizing electron. We will look to make the site be html only at some point, but it is not a focus of our dev team. If you download the app, you will see that it is a first rate experience for managing many AWS services. The app itself probably has about 1,000 man hours or more put into it. Would love to hear insight into how we can make it even more powerful for the community.
Is the AUS government actively incentivizing people to burn down patches of forest to turn into economically viable land?
Me and a friend built https://xbuddy.app/ a website to help you keep track of your crossfit PRs (cause that is something you do apparently)
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If you like this sort of this, then I strongly recommed the Loop Habit Tracker app for Android users: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha...

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Mine are :-
1. More Video. Also, A Real Youtube Competitor will Emerge.
2. Rise of a Big Robotics Company.
3. More Extreme Weather Events.
4. US vs. China Trade War Intensifies.
5. More Nationalism
1) You selected one PDF from one organization, that has no visible attribution to anyone, generalized that to "recommended by academics", and based on that questioned the light of the rest of the post.

This is poor reasoning.

2) You uncritically examined the diversity activity.
There is a large difference between deftly running an activity like this and horribly running an activity like this. The undertones of the original post is that this was handled poorly.

I would hope that here on HN, people would recognize that uncritically accepting 'best practices' or making an 'appeal to authority' is insufficient.
Philosophy is dead. Dead words nothing else -- a therapy. Transformation only possible through meditation.
This: https://wizardofbits.tumblr.com/post/96856361060/rethinking-...
Dealing with this with an elderly family member.

We've moved them to all Apple devices. Locked down everything (the account on the Mac is "standard" not Administrator level). Set up a G Suite account with restricted access (cannot install apps, cannot install extensions into Chrome). Use 1Password for passwords, 2FA for all accounts that allow it. Removed Flash early on, removed Java runtime. Turned off auto–update on the Mac and iPhone/iPad.

I initially tried parental controls on the Mac but found it was a nightmare for even their limited use of apps outside of Chrome.

Still after 10+ years of “training” this person to call me for any technical issues I get surprises like yesterday when they wanted to install an “ad blocker that keeps popping up in Chrome”, which was, of course, malware.

Probably will ditch the Mac and switch to a Chromebook later this year.
This actually is the long division algorithm. Usually the positional system hides away the powers of 10 (or 2 in this case) so we can do it mechanically and fast. He is just going through the algorithm explicitly.
I found the comments here interesting/insightful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/eip9cr/japanese_medi...
>I presume this is to make it easier to spot explosives?

Open hoop style trash cans (bag holders really) are faster and more efficient for the janitor to assess the fullness of a bag from across the station (and for the supervisor to assess the quality of the janitor's assessment) and if needed to grab the full bag out of the hoop and toss on a new one. The hoop cans themselves are cheaper too. Any benefit to the police is likely secondary to the day to day cost savings from making it easier (and therefore faster and therefore cheaper) for the janitors to do their jobs.
Lol. Yeah it's those damn millenials that are ruining public debate again.

There's is an equally loud segment of older car drivers who complain about the so called "war on cars" everytime somebody wants an alternative to driving.
Thank you very much for offering probe credits. I don't know how to PM on HN, however. Perhaps you could email me? The address and Keybase URL are in my profile.

Rereading the commercial-use terms, I get that the rules for default permission all work for me.

I got approval to share the data. So I'll do a GitHub repository with that and complete explanation of how I collected and analyzed the data. Before doing more of this, I must get a MySQL instance up, and learn enough R and Python to do the final analysis and charting.
Israel doesn't stamp anymore (at least the last few times I was there). You now get a small slip of paper instead. I presume for this very reason.
Google chose to present itself as advocates for moral values, while MSFT/Apple are neural.

I am glad google is paying big money for this. Business could just be business, but virtue signaling is just too tempting to stop. Because it makes a cause for oneself, make it self-righteousness and tragically heroic. Now they are big enoguh and lost all that gold child status, they want the old style business back.

Don’t be evil, said the crowd. Your words are your liability.
that's not a real word, keep using it if you would like it to be
Agreed, with the exceptions being technical books or informational nonfiction. I've found that anything that requires taking notes is much easier with a physical book, as I can write in the book; taking notes and highlighting in my kindle just doesn't feel as good.
Still not sure why they don't have more pedestrian catwalks in cities directly above the roads. That's a whole lot less expensive than elevated roadways (you have to support ~200 pound pedestrians instead of 80,000 pound trucks), separates the pedestrians from the cars, and doesn't require any additional land.

And then you could have second story pedestrian entrances to buildings, which already have elevators in them, so it wouldn't even be an issue for people who have trouble with stairs.
Finally, he'll be held accountable for those JATCO transmissions.
Did you stop reading half way through the first sentence?

It is about suing countries because they do something that effects the profits of a company. An example is mandating graphic pictures on cigarette packaging.
On the Morality of Artificial Intelligence
I was assuming the NLP on the screening side could take advantage of things the scammers don't always know. Like "who are you trying to reach?", for example.
This is a very real issue. I shared my screen during a conference call with a browser tab open to a conservative news site. I had to cover with showing how i was opening a link someone sent me in an email to see what they were talking about vs. going there voluntarily. Even then, there was still grumbling on the call and later in Slack I was "casually" asked about what left-leaning causes i support outside of work.
Those big companies can simply be banned. Look at Huavei.
Google exec Ross LaJeunesse pushed the company to commit to human rights
Give the Quest a shot. No setup besides putting it on your head and tracing out the guardian area.

Controller tracking is nearly flawless, with some limitations like not being able to hold a controller behind your back or hidden behind your other arm, but I don't run into those limits in practice.

Probably won't help your glasses though. That's one of the Quest's bigger design oversights IMO, that wearing glasses can scratch the headset lenses even with the glasses spacer installed. There are 3d printed lens rim bumpers that will keep glasses from touching the headset lenses, but if your glasses don't physically fit that just trades smushing them into the headset lenses for smushing them into your face.
I just wanted to chime in with my experience visiting NYC in the past year; I have had several people approach at night to offer drugs in various locals.
Is EV = Enterprise Value? [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/enterprisevalue.asp
The techniques you're talking about, and others, have also been used in anonymous remailers[1] to resist traffic analysis[2].

The mixminion[3] remailer design document[4] goes in to details on those mitigations.

Of course, real time conversations require certain constraints that email messages don't have, so some of the mitigations techniques used in remailers might not be practical here.

Signal's designers must have been well aware of Tor and anonymous remailers, so if traffic analysis mitigation techniques were not used by Signal it was a deliberate design decision on their part.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixminion

[4] - https://www.mixminion.net/minion-design.pdf
Evo Morales commited fraud.
An agreement just facilitates things.

You can still be extradited without one.

But the odds are low if the country has an overall attitude not to ever extradite their own citizens.
A lot of companies are less subject to criticism by simply not having an arsenal of spying and censorship tools at their disposal, or China as a major target market.

If you're a senior executive at CVS or Verizon or Home Depot you don't need a stance on disputed borders in your maps or flags in your emoji set - making it much easier to avoid the kind of criticisms tech companies are vulnerable to.

Sure, you're vulnerable to criticism for selling products brought from (or containing components brought from) oppressive regimes, but Apple and Google and Microsoft all do that and the other stuff as well
The whole 'gaijin' side-story is hard to ignore, given all that's written in the western press about Japan, and it's attitude towards migrants. But there's surely no smoke without fire in a case like this, because it should be fairly easy to prove some degree of innocence in crimes of this nature.

It has been interesting to gain a little insight into how pernicious the Japanese judiciary can be though.

The story of the artist Megumi Igarashi is especially funny (yet also disturbingly sexist)...

Ghosn though, is far from funny. But fleeing the country is a pretty sketchy response to a criminal charge.
One might say Extinction Rebellion is still too young to be judged on lasting effects, isn't it? Also, getting arrested and going to prison is not something I would call a feel-good effort.
"Kidnap" is even simpler.
Google Engineering Practices: Code Reviews Should Be Fast
Why are corporate taxes necessary at all? Why is it not enough to tax profits when they’re distributed?
You're missing the most significant one, PID 1 itself:

$ du -hs /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
1,5M /usr/lib/systemd/systemd

And there's plenty more in /usr/lib/systemd (basically all the binaries that are not supposed to be in $PATH).
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You are aware the US federal criminal conviction rates are significantly >90%, too, right?

Like any number like this, it depends on how you count. But 94% is frequently used.

If you want to play with those numbers yourself, https://www.justice.gov/usao/file/831856/download .
The Reduced means that the instructions themselves are reduced, as in easier to implement and easier to implement in a pipelined implementation. As opposed to having instructions with plenty of addressing modes, you have a lot of register-register instructions and load and store opcodes: You compute the addresses explicitly, using the register-register opcodes, then load from that address using a load opcode which doesn't do much ALU work, then work on the loaded value in the registers.

Contrast this with a leading CISC design, the VAX, which had plenty of addressing modes which practically all opcodes could use. A single opcode could expand into a whole stream of micro-operations to compute the addresses being loaded from, actually perform the named opcode, and then compute the address being stored to, and possibly more. Doing that in the presence of virtual memory, where an opcode might have to be stopped and restarted so the OS could take a page fault, was rather nontrivial.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F0-387-27446-4_3
She grew up in a village where women rule and men are banned (2019)
He's actually in trouble in Lebanon now because of this. The article says he entered Israel in 2008, which is illegal in Lebanon since they are technically at war.
Good to see at end all were reported and acted upon before release.
reminds me of the cat scanning contest long ago https://thecatscan.tumblr.com/ http://www.cat-scan.com/cat-scan/
> Escaping state surveillance from Japan and then landing up in Lebanon via Turkey while the Japanese government has all three of one’s passports pretty much requires breaking lots of laws in at least three countries. (Likely more, e.g. money laundering.)

I don't see at all how that follows.

It's clear he broke the Japanese exit law (you have to show your passport to leave Japan by air, unlike, say, USA, France, Australia etc). Also he violated the terms of his house arrest. Likely some others.

But while I'm hardly an expert in Turkish or Lebanese law, in most if not all countries immigration authorities have wide discretion to admit or deny people on whatever basis they wish. And while it's easy to imagine someone in Turkey taking a bribe, that could very well be an unfair belief: it's just as easy to imagine the current Turkish government being happy to poke a finger in Japan's eye in some minor and deniable fashion. As for Lebanon, someone who is a national celebrity could easily make prior arrangement to be admitted with no bribe needed.
What we can all learn from tip employees
Custom Progress Bar with CSS and JavaScript
I assume you would want the computer to be locked if the watch signal dropped and being concerned enough to desire the feature in question. I'm doubtful one's heart rate isn't increasing in an event of theft and where it wouldn't lock a person out in time before for a person significantly uses the device. There are multiple variables but I can also see the wired approach being futile in situations where a person is pinned down by multiple people.
> I wonder why the EU increased the copyright terms Disney was the main lobbying force?

The EU increased their copyright terms mainly to harmonise them, and Germany won the argument that this harmonisation shouldn't make things any worse for their copyright owners, so it got harmonised at the length of Germany's existing duration which was life+70.

Germany has a pretty strong publication copyright lobby of it's own. Americans on HN seem obsessed with Disney, but generally most international copyright extensions are due to unions working in the publishing and photography sectors much more than any corporations.
A very interesting character he is
>Frameworks allow websites to be built faster, maintained with less expertise, and changed faster over time.

As someone that has done maintenance programming on an AngularJS application and a React application in the last couple of years I would say that is not true. Getting some simple changes made is a complete nightmare, there are loads of third party libraries that seem to be inconsistent in the way that they render and are next to useless if you don't use them in a particular way.
We don't know the full extent of Ghosn's passport collection. I briefly had two working U.S. passports a while ago because of a processing glitch. It wouldn't surprise me if a real Player like Ghosn had double French passports and more, as a matter of course.
You haven't demonstrated why theft is bad for society though? If Robin Hood steals from the rich to give to the poor, is that bad for society simply by virtue of theft being seen as generally wrong?

You really can't see how hate speech is bad for society? You don't think calling minorities racial slurs affects society negatively? The difficulty of separating it from "regular speech" or satire really isn't important for there to be laws against it, that is why there are courts and judges and juries to settle cases and set precedents.

I also think you're highly overestimating how easy it is to separate theft from non-theft. Again, not that the complexity in separating a crime from a non-crime should in any way be a deciding factor in whether a law against said crime exists.
He is not currently facing charges in France, they are investigating.
https://sociable.co/technology/cia-backed-pokemon-go-privacy...

> Prior to founding Niantic Labs, Hanke was the CEO of mapping company Keyhole, Inc. through funding from the CIA’s venture capital branch, In-Q-Tel in 2001. Keyhole was later bought by Google in 2004.

> The In-Q-Tel website clearly states its mission on the front page, so there is no doubt as to what interests the company serves:

> IQT identifies, adapts, and delivers innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and broader U.S. Intelligence Community.
Naively, you could train another network to correct the lighting on a mirrored beetle.

Although I’m sure there’s a smarter way.
> "Now"
Technically US has gone through two civil wars.
Twitter’s big bet on topics and lists is just getting started
Whereas every issue tracker ever has no abandoned or ignored pile of ancient tickets?

Must be a nice place to work! Because I've never seen anything like that before.
Funny, I just put in my notice at age 60 to retire. Gotta figure out what to do with my life.
No, it's expected value.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/expected-value.asp
Fascinating- I'd go watch the movie. Rags to Riches Hero becoming too successful- targeted by Big Foreign Govt on cooked up charges escaping persecution and going home to safety.
If you read the Apple product security announcements you'll find that they (as well as Qihoo 360) has been finding security vulnerabilities in unaffiliated companies' products for a long time. It's not unusual. They probably got the inspiration from Project Zero though.
At one point in Canada, it was possible to have three valid Passports. A regular one, one for travel to Israel, and one for travel to South Africa.

Israel would give you a very hard time if you had visas/stamps from neighbouring Arab states (and vice versa).

Under Apartheid, South African visas/stamps made it very difficult to enter other sub-saharan African countries.
I hear ya, that's about the time I was coming up too. While your colorful vernacular isn't exactly how I might have put it, I think that it illustrates the frustration felt by many, ever since the beginning of personal computing.

I also wish that HyperCard had been a bigger influence on the early web. It was written in human terms for techno-novices trying to get real work done. As HyperTalk evolved into AppleScript, it lost its original elegance and is now just another cryptic toy language that is difficult or impossible to write without a manual.

IMHO to fix all of this, we need to bring back ideas like research budgets of perhaps 5-25% and every company over say 50 employees or $5 million/yr gross having some form of 20% time for in-house projects. That can't happen as long as everyone is competing with each other just to survive though. And not when the leading internet companies plow most profits into share price and dividends instead of free and open source community tools.

I wish we had more stories of individuals and groups that made enough money to retire, but instead of just reinvesting into the status quo, went on to fund real innovation through philanthropy or alternative business structures like co ops.
Right, because the promise the developer is making(in most cases) isn't to to stakeholders or the users but to project managers. If the PM can't fulfill their promises on time, that's on them. Their responsibility is to better estimate what can be reasonably done in a time frame, provide buffers where possible, and shield developers from the business responsibilities that go above them. PMs and stakeholders need to be able to adjust their expectations to reality, not punish their developers by working longer or harder, or by changing the makeup of their development team, because it's not the minutes-spent or # of lines of code that make a good product.

Beyond that, working extra hours and weekends is a bad idea. It should only be done out of desperation because working overtime can quickly become the expectation.

Granted, the lines can be pretty blurred at some companies, namely startups that give lots of responsibilities to their developers. But most non-startups seem to have more refined command structures.