skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of Sony purposely crippling their MP3 players so they didn't cut too much into their CD player business and album sales.
> This is what I think is best for my society and country.

Could you be wrong? Perhaps Uber drivers chose the profession by choice. Perhaps before the company Uber existed, these drivers would be less content.

Perhaps you or I are not smart enough to calculate what each individual wants and needs.

Despite the fact that we commit the world's most powerful computers to the cause, weather prediction systems are incredibly inaccurate. Should those wearing inappropriate attire be fined?
I can't help but think that people are thinking about this the wrong way. Today, activists in China understand that the internet is not a safe place to engage in activist activities without extreme precautions. This was less well understood a decade ago and Yahoo really messed up when they handed over account information for an activist. I think Google entering China makes a lot of sense now, is an interesting technical and linguistic problem (how do you build an incredible search engines
in a radically different language) and a worthwhile business aim (getting a foothold into the most important economy in the world).

Also, to suggest, at this point, that US agencies haven't harmed an incredible number of people by co-opting information from tech companies and service providers would be absurd. Although companies sometimes contemplate how to protect their users (which doubtlessly Google would do in China), this essentially never blocks anyone from starting a company here.
I really hate that the screen is a different color from the chassis
Because I don't like gate keeping or tone policing.

I'm sorry we didn't participate in this conversation in the manner you wanted us to.
It's been that way for a while. Horsepower and torque numbers on mainstream vehicles - let alone "performance" cars regularly pushing out 500+hp now - lost much practical relevance to 99% of road driving situations even for "sporty" drivers about a decade ago.
Exactly, Iran had just launched attacks on several US air force bases in Iraq hours previously and their air defences would have been on high alert for any possible counter-attacks.

In the Vincennes incident the AEGIS tracking software at the time reused tracking IDs for targets, and re-assigned a tracking ID from the airliner to a fighter jet 110 miles away, leading to mistaken information being relayed about the flight's activities.

This goes to show until and unless we know what information the missile system operators had, and what orders they were under, we can't really say what happened and why.
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It does, yes. I always drive my electric Honda in its "eco mode", which only changes the response to throttle position. I get noticeably more range in that mode. In the "sport mode" it will just about rip the axles off at the slightest provocation, and the range is much worse.
Independence...
I'm not sure I understand - why is 28k over two years worse than over one year? That's cheaper per year.
:-) The macrology is a bit grody and my DO implementation doesn't extend past 3 args.
Please define hex bloat for use ignorants.
Bike chop shops that do that kind of volume do get prosecuted because it’s relatively easy to show that a place is selling a large volume of scrap metal from bikes.

It is much harder to prove that a thief is responsible for 1000 individual bike thefts, because you’d need evidence for each bike.
No one in the world _needs_ to do 0-60 in less than 5 seconds in a family car/public roads. These perfs aren't even sustainable more than a few times in a row so it 100% is a marketing thing.
That's only one concern. Another concern is not normalizing such policies to propagate back over here. When you as a decisionmaker make excuses as to why it's okay to cooperate with information suppression in another country, then there are no principles stopping you from doing the same things back home--just precedent and personal incentives.

For a cartoonish example let's say Adolf Hitler approaches you to buy large quantities of morphine as a substitute for Zyklon B. Surely this is an improvement for the victims of extermination over their current situation, but you're still participating in the Holocaust.

I think utilitarianism has a big problem with myopia. It's extremely hard to do a real global calculation for outcomes so faithful practitioners inevitably end up following local gradients. I think a solid ethical equilibrium requires a certain amount of deontology, a framework of things that We Do Not Do.
I think it's also crucial to ask who financed these endeavors.
> For regular people in China, does the addition of Google with some censorship make their life better? Does it improve information flow over existing domestic search engines? I think the answer is obvious.

What does that have to do with ethics, really? Your argument seems to be that utility should outweigh ethical concerns.

> I see a lot of people promoting sanctions on a country because of government. Who gets hurt in this case? Ordinary people living their life.

So do you think governments were wrong to sanction South Africa's apartheid regime? Do you not think that the ordinary people in South Africa have a better life today as a result of those sanctions and the collapse of the apartheid regime?
>economic growth is not a zero-sum game.

economic growth is an abstraction. i'm not talking about abstract notions of good and evil.

some people believe that there are systems where entropy decreases too. their mistake is the same as yours: the system you're looking at isn't big enough. someone, somewhere, pays for your growth. either it's the employees that you underpay or it's the commons that you trash or it's the competitors whose coattails you're riding on or etc and etc and etc.

you can't point to a single product that doesn't incur this kind of entropy increase somewhere along its supply chain.

edit: i'm getting downvoted. would love to know where i'm mistaken (other than that i'm assailing capitalism).
A lot of people don't use email as social media anymore, though, but rather mostly one-way communication with big entities like your bank, many of which aren't expected to reply back. As this is a marketing company, they may also have the distinction that social media marketing generally involves having people socially convince you that something is good; but email is not a good forum for that.
I'll just say it.

Google you are being run by fools. Godspeed.
Nobody who fat shames has shown me research about the efficacy of fat shaming on weight reduction. That's not necessarily because the research doesn't exist, it's because they just don't care.
Not entirely arbitrary. Don't get me wrong, I like responsiveness, but extreme acceleration is necessarily less safe. Slower acceleration makes a vehicle more predictable, not just for the driver but for other vehicles and pedestrians too.
I am not sure if I understood your comment correctly, in case not, feel free to correct.

A torque in an electric car is imo “a marketing ploy” only until a person thinking that actually tries one of those cars. I can assure you that even the cheapest model 3 has acceleration and torque that feels insane compared to any gas car I have ever tried (including stuff like a new Mustang GT with a V8).

You dont need to be into cars at all to feel the massive difference, it isn’t like an audiophile thing where you have to be into it to be able to tell the small differences. The best comparison i can give you is that if you press the pedal all the way, your head jerks back and your stomach gets that exact same physical feeling you would get on a dropping rollercoaster.

Sidenote: same thing with electric motorcycles btw. Even gas motorcycles already have really fast acceleration comparable to some electric cars, but an electric motorcycle is something else. Test drove a Zero recently, and the difference between it and a gas bike felt just as massive as going from a gas car to an electric car. Almost like a personal low-speed teleportation device.
Sounds like it's not slower overall but slower acceleration. Would be a good optional feature, since I'd imagine that the torque of an EV could feel like a sharp jerk, causing some discomfort or motion sickness. I have family that drive like that and I can't deal with their style.
If you think this is bad, it's going to get 1000x worse with WASM. A lot more rope there. You will see the Linux kernel being pulled in because someone used system threads.
I think that you're both right - under normal conditions XFS not CoW, but when using the reflink option it does use CoW => kind of a mix.
I just want to cite this, for those who have voiced on HN the thesis that conservative opinions will get you fired in tech, but liberal opinions are “safe”:

> Standing up for women, for the LGBTQ community, for colleagues of color, and for human rights — had cost me my career.

I would love if some other conservatives present, who care about free speech, could voice some support for this guy. It would help me feel unified with you, and want to support you more in “James Damore”-type situations.
Note that this proposal is not about changing the governance of Rust the language. That is and will remain the responsibility of an independent group. This is purely about handling administration of the Rust project and having a legal entity which can sign contracts, hold trademarks, own domain names, etc.
No, it's the same bug. From the article: "... advising users to update to Firefox 72.0.1, which fixes the vulnerability".
This list is awesome, but if it wants to function as a long lived archive or library, it should maybe point to the Internet Archive version? Many of the links are currently broken :\
The best analysis I’ve read is here: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31791/lets-talk-about-...

Summed up as: older technology, possibly manned by reservists on the final hours of the graveyard shift, nervously watching a radar screen for a counter attack from an enemy known to use electronic trickery resulted in a missile being launched at a misidentified target.
> For regular people in China, does the addition of Google with some censorship make their life better?

I don't think so. If Chinese people want to use Google, then they have to use a VPN. And if Chinese people use a VPN, their search results won't be censored.

If Google releases a censored search engine in China, then people will have less incentive to access an uncensored one.
This is one of the things that concerns me about things like CIWS/Phalanx, which is a short-range turret gun system for navy vessels.

It has a mode which, when enabled, says "if you show up on my radar and do not have a friendly beacon on you, you are going to get a kilo of tungsten through your center of mass and we're not going to bother asking questions of any human first."

The use case is to prevent another Cole incident, but configuring a weapons system in such an autonomous mode means that you're in a mode where unintended deaths are acceptable, and that makes me very, very concerned.
There's plenty. Here's one example [0]

> Convoys of Chinese patriots in Ferraris and other high-end sports cars have been revving up pro-Beijing demonstrations in Canada, home to tens of thousands of Chinese millionaire migrants.

[0] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3023499/wors...
They don't really care about user experience in Botswana. The focus on developing nation performance is an excuse to cover up the traditional computer science garbage mentality that everything has to be "optimized". Part ego enlargement and part fear of being totally ignorant of the real reason for things existing. Its the same people who don't know what tree-shaking is but are happy to write a blog article and announce to the world that javascript modules are too big.
I still have a few 8" floppy disks and you can more understand why they were called floppy disks when you hold one of those vs the 5 1/4" disks.
An addendum to this is that the government forced the companies to do this because the feds passed the insane 1942 Stabilization Act putting limits on wage hike capabilities of firms.

The problem is that we have good economists who say: here are the facts and history of what your choices will do and bad economists who say: if you have x, y, z, and the planets of Saturn and Uranus in alignment, you may be able to affect the economy to the way you wish despite all of the historical evidence to the contrary. The bad economists are hired into administrations to justify politically expedient proposals.
I thought he was going somewhere besides conspiracy theory-ville until he said "The trend is to poison us against the Japanese." By 1933 Japan needed no one to make them look bad. The invasion of Asia was well underway, and only those not paying attention were shocked by the Rape of Nanking.

If this guy was carrying water for the Imperial Japanese by 1933, he was making excuses for genocide, torture and horror on a scale impossible for a single person to take all in.
> lost much practical relevance to 99% of road driving situations

You don't buy a sports car to drive to the grocery store unless it's a status symbol (which is likely the great majority of sports car owners). But there are plenty of people that still like to actually take their cars to the track. I know because I'm one of them.

The majority of people that want a nicer car to drive around the suburbs will opt for luxury over sporty, because the Porsche GT2 RS is really not comfortable for daily driving. However, the Audi A8 is incredibly luxurious and very enjoyable for anyone that isn't in a hurry.

If you really think nobody buys a Tesla because of the acceleration, then you don't know that many Tesla drivers. I personally know at least 3 people who bought a Tesla because it was cheaper than buying a supercar for the same 0-60 time.
> ...at least not without "ok google" or "alexa" or "hey siri".

I think it was pretty clear that you had to press a button (or tap a badge) for the thing to start listening. Not sure how Android works, but Apple does have such a button, where you can talk to Siri without saying 'Hey Siri'.

> I can't just speak to communicator expecting it to... connect me to the right person.

I've been watching ST:OS on Netflix recently, and this seemed like something that was written by someone who obviously had never had anything like the technology they were working with. At any random time, Kirk just says, "Captain to medical. Bones, are you there?" And McCoy never says, "Sorry Jim, I'm in the can; I'll get back to you when I'm done." Or even, "Sorry Jim, I'm in the middle of removing this piece of shrapnel from a red-shirt's knee; I'll have to get back to you in an hour." Nobody is ever going to the bathroom, or eating, or sleeping, or having sex, or even just busy doing something else; they're immediately available to talk to you, 24/7, right where you expect them to be.

That's obviously an unworkable nightmare. One way or another, you're always going to have to request a connection, and wait for the person to accept or reject it.
I love cash.
it's a "look but don't touch" situation. open-source means giving freedom to the users.

there's nothing wrong with source-available, but source-available and open-source are not equivalent.
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When I was in my 20s, I weighed around 165 and never snored. By the time I was in my early 40s, I weighed about 225 and snored like a bandsaw and was diagnosed with sleep apnea. I improved my diet and started exercising 5 days a week. By the time I dropped back down to about 175 my snoring and apnea were both totally gone. At least in my case, the snoring and apnea were definitely weight related.
> I have family that drive like that and I can't deal with their style.

I've always called those people "digital drivers". It seems they're always either actively accelerating or actively braking, never anything in between.
Here’s the thing. You can spend your whole life searching the world for Ithaca and you will never find it, you will always have the feeling that something is missing, that you have not yet reached your true destination. All the while, the true Ithaca always was and is within you. When and if a person finally stopped running around and sits down quietly then this Ithaca becomes clear and the lotus eating can be paused or stopped.
After reading, I can't help but wonder if this dismissive attitude Google (and others) have towards social and political issues such as censorship, privacy, diversity, etc. has something to do with the hiring model. I can't speak for other departments but in terms of engineering, competency in algorithms and system design are the only things that are screened for. These aren't well rounded people. They aren't leaders. They're not screened to think beyond the immediate task at hand which shouldn't leave us surprised when they fail to see beyond the objective. In some ways, it would be akin to colleges looking exclusively at SAT scores instead of the whole person.

In this process though, what I believe might be getting lost is any sense of ethics, purpose or vision beyond code. One has to wonder if that's in these companies' long-term best interests to pursue the best leetcoders at the expense of other skills. I won't pretend to have an answer as to how those skills are screened for but it's evident from what I've experienced that there isn't any expectation beyond writing code at all.
I understand what you are saying but, economically, treating the symptom rather than the cause is expensive; somehow there needs to be some way to create a cost high enough to encourage people to attack the cause of the problem; and shame can be a useful way to increase the cost. So "fat shaming", although politically incorrect these days, should not be thrown out as a way to encourage behavior that benefits society as a whole and the person as whole. If there was a high enough cost to being fat then you would see it would become practical and maintainable.
Censorship is a red herring.

It's the Chinese firewall censoring the sites, so even if Google did link the site in the search results, users wouldn't be able to click and access it.

The bigger issue with project dragonfly was sharing user search queries with the government. This seems terrifying but pretty much every other tech company (Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) existing in China does this with their Chinese user data.
Not really, they were still £4000, its just that the government paid the full amount rather than 75% (20 years ago)
Shared this in my company slack. Everyone should read this
Unless I'm missing something that Electron adds to the equation, that's already possible (and common!) via standalone Flash player packages or Adobe AIR. There's a fair number of smaller indie games on Steam distributed that way, for example.
You can certainly be criticised for actions that are legal but harmful to others...
This article is very biased: the author clearly loves high torque that move to electric motor gives by default.

Mazda did something very smart here - emulate current days experience, so presumably ordinary people swap to ordinary EV, because "it's a thing now".*

* - it's a thing now - aka goverments give subsidiares, aka it may be less CO2, it's cleaner, etc... is it? I don't know. I don't care. I do understand Mazda's move though.
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Doesn't the system display aircraft types and friendly / enemy / unknown status?

Something like this -> https://imgur.com/a/kOkRAhd

Friendly aircraft have transponders to identify them. And even without a transponder, certainly a large, slow airliner looks very different on radar than a small, fast fighter or missile.

Seems like the system would require some kind of override to fire at a friendly target.
This is Omron, a legit Medical instrument company, but I checked the FDA web site for omron HeartGuide and for BP8000-M and found no premarital clearance. So despite saying “clinically accurate” (a risky statement for a legit medical company to make unless they’ve cleared the data with the FDA) this looks like simply an entertainment device like the Apple Watch 0-3 (FWIW I still have an Apple Watch 0 and love it).

IT looks like it’s been on the market a while so this isn’t a preannouncement.
Educational 501(c)(3) foundations meet that requirement.
I wonder what on earth could have prompted this to raise to #1 just now :)
Always profile before optimization.
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Could also be that common usage of words tend to change over time, maybe?
That's a very different social experience, though. You're still blocking yourself off from other people in the room with you.
I wonder if it's reasonable to donate that trademark to the 501(c)(3) Mozilla Foundation and to then formalize a charter laying out Rust governance.

For what it's worth I would have greater confidence in such an arrangement than I would in a 501(c)(6) Business League version of a Rust Foundation, which would in my view undermine independence.
Never used it, but my recollection was the most radical thing about Inferno was it was based on a high level, JIT, GC'd language runtime.

I don't think Inferno people themselves said this, but I remember one of the things that people said in favor of memory safe JIT language operating systems was that the JIT would be able to optimize across multiple programs, or between kernel and user mode, since it didn't need to care about MMU based protections like a language with arbitrary pointers. And indeed you wouldn't need the high cost of the context switch.

In light of Spectre and meltdown that now sounds like a bad idea to me.
That's an article about a car enthusiast club in Vancouver, not Google employees.
OP used “complement” correctly - as in, ease of use complements (goes well with) scihub being free.
If literally not being able to breathe isn’t enough, people being dickheads probably isn’t going to do it.

Please think harder.
This is mostly about the WWI era, and WWI was indeed a racket, fought for elites at the expense of everyone else.

I'm curious if he would write the same article after WWII.
I throw everything at devise. Open source, still being maintained actively, you run it on your own servers, and have had very minimal issues if any. Have had a hard time finding a better solution. Need payments? Slap on stripe.
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His spouse is an executive who is still working. He is not retiring on his income alone.
True, although unlike a taxi, I can see during the trip the route the driver should be taking and, after the trip, I can see the route the driver actuall took.

And, if the route taken is unreasonably different from the optimal route, I can complain to Uber and get a refund.

So yes, while drivers may be incentivised to take longer routes, they can’t do it without being exposed.
I still wonder if this is the form the author of the code uses to write the program.
I think platforms “mature”, and nothing important happens after that. The web was mature around the time WebGL was widely adopted. Bundles don’t do anything we can’t already do. They just make the web more brittle.

Which means: lovely for you, until something snaps.

For me that’s two cons: lost users, and a more complex data model. And no pros.
It’s really not that bizarre. The article just describes a pedal-response curve; these are set by engineers for every EV, even a Tesla. Some are more aggressive than others.

“Slower” here probably isn’t appreciably slower at all, practically. It’s probably the difference between accelerating fast and accelerating so fast you feel physically ill.

Mazda is very good at making cars that feel nice to drive.