skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment that started this subthread proposed using it to register for various services so needing to occasionally receive physical mail there is quite likely. For example, banks mail credit cards in my experience.

I'm not sure how you'd deal with vehicle licensing. In WA, all the paperwork I've received has been marked "Do Not Forward".
But the land based missiles will only do limited good. What if india with US understanding (india have had several wars with china) decides to intercept oil tankers in the indian ocean that are going to china?

Building a navy that can project power that far is no task that can be done quickly.
> if the transaction could not go through, it remains pending for 3-ish days while Google retries internally.

To be clear, the transaction isn't retried. The backend keeps trying to fetch the transaction status until it gets a definitive success/failure from the PSP/issuer.

I agree with your comment though; payments is a frustrating UX if the backend isn't nearly 100% reliable.

UPI in particularly has a dozen or so moving parts in the OLTP path each of which are 90-95% available at best.

From the insiders, I know that issuing banks aren't incentivised to invest in their UPI stack to make them highly available or reliable. That's because government has banned interchange fee on UPI transactions and it wants issuers to absorb the cost of maintaining their UPI stack. So the issuers let that tech stack languish doing their absolute minimum to keep it running.

This is a great example of forcing a party to participate in a transaction and at the same time not pay them to maintain the system. It ends up being counterproductive in terms of frustrating UX and more.
This is easy to answer, Taiwan exports many resources to the US. TSMC is just one company in Taiwan that not only the US but most other countries in the world depend on. It generates the vast majority of the silicon powering our machines and is sovereign neutral meaning not allied and special treatment to a specific country.

Don’t think the US will sit back quietly while China fucks up their economy
Your argument seems to hinge on the idea that you should not take action to help one disadvantaged group if that action excludes a different disadvantaged group. Is that a fair summary of your point?

Do you think this applies to all disadvantaged groups, or just when discussing issues of race?
That doesn't make it any better, not one single bit.
There's a difference between ensuring competition and effectively nationalizing a company's business practices because they happen to be successful. Declaring Google search results a "public space" is the latter and leads us down a pretty obvious path as to what's actually going to happen with that.

If we wanted to encourage competition it would be an idea to start thinking more carefully about which bits of infrastructure should be in competition: i.e. stop letting social media companys buy out other social media companies (there's no reason Facebook should've been allowed to acquire WhatsApp given that they also had Messenger), and maybe require Google to run Chrome as an open-source project to prevent them vertically integrating the experience of "web browsing" under related technologies.

This can, and probably should include, public funding for alternative open-source products under the foundation model for different web technologies and vital services.
Not really. The us's #1 trading partner is currently mexico, as of 2020. Why do you think all the techies are moving to Texas y aprendiendo español quien es el nuevo mandarín

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts...

The us also is generally less dependent on foreign trade than most other countries. Huge domestic market.
I wonder what the product manager hiring process and role is like at Google. Leet-code doesn't necessarily help you maintain a healthy product road map.
My complaints were just for my personal exposure to Google.
Sex is not harmless. While it is one of the great human joys, it is also the source of some of our deepest despairs, intractable conflicts, and personal tragedies.

A grand, sweeping statement that's true for quite a few things (wine, fashion, love, child rearing, freedom, your home). All the while nobody claimed that sex is harmless. Whatever that means.

This free-for-all free love ethic that you celebrate, which erased almost all of the previous social restrictions on sex, inevitably created the discontent that boiled over into the #metoo phenomenon.

You think that Western attitudes towards sexuality of the second half of the 20th century caused sexual harrassment and rape, or you think it empowered women to talk about and fight against it? There's plenty of evidence for the latter; rape within a marriage was legal until the 70s.
Bing is actually much better than DDG (for recent near real time results) and now it's in many cases better than Google (less SEO spam, probably due to its size). It is also more politically neutral than Google in its results - I started out using Bing for anything politics related, but now switched for many technical and financial searches too.
Google has a magic money fountain so they can afford to fail with new products. Besides a lot of the products were 'successful' for the employees who received pay rises and promotions
The most annoying thing about this is, that, in Germany, some standards are the law but you still have to pay for them.
Nothing remotely close. I'm simply asking, that given the situation, would I have made the same decision? That I could be such a hero.

But am I willing to stick my neck out? Risk my career, who will hire me? Maybe someone will, but I just put a huge black mark in many's eyes. I have 2 children, a wife, and myself who rely on my income stream. Am I willing to let that go? Do I have to sell my house to make ends meet if I can't get a job?

I want to be able to say I could do what McDonald or Snowden did, but if I'm honest, probably not.
Probably the only journal among this "top Elsevier journals" list that one might have difficulty finding pre-prints for is NeuroImage; I'll bet the other medical journals will have preprints on medrxiv:

https://blog.typeset.io/top-12-journals-in-elsevier-and-thei...
They've been building hundreds of thousands of kms of road per year. Although I don't know what the real numbers are.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1189387.shtml
this is HUGE, how can I invest in your NFT startup?!?
Sidebery for Firefox ís great.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
> Just blow up enough of the electrical infrastructure to keep the power off for a good long while

See: https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2766
I didn't think it worthy of a write up. The ML part that made it a bit more interesting was to keep the bees alive but to get the wasps (I'm allergic to wasps), and I couldn't get it to reliably differentiate between the two so it never hit 'production'.
China is not Japan. China is the 5th largest oil producer in the world, is banking the largest strategic oil reserve, has enough domestic resources and sufficient food security to operate on a self-sustaining war economy, forever. The imports are needed to maintain / grow, but in case of total war footing, there's more than enough production for the war machine even if civilians has to eat rice and ride bikes again. So the question is can PRC break USN blockade or sufficiently prosecute a war until US decide Taiwan is not worth it. If both navies are trading hulls in a shooting war how much loses before USN realizes any victory would be pyrrhic one in which they lose naval hegemony to pursue their global interests. The entirety of Chinese navy which is rapidly closing gap with USN has one goal - to deter / break a USN blockade and secure oil route to ME. All other purposes like Taiwan and SCS is automatically secured if it can do so. And even if China loses, it can still become a giant north korea that's sufficiently close to Taiwan to turn it into Yemen.
The New Legal AI Map
it's abit hard to imagine the domestic opinion in America...

also is it hard to imagine a government doing something against its people's will?
In all of my posts I made it very clear that ETERNALBLUE and other leaked zero-days are an extremely serious risk. In each post, I variously described them as "turn-key WMDs", "magic powers bestowed onto ordinary people", and "huge risks", and included zero-days as an important caveat for everything I was trying to say.

I don't at all mean to downplay the severity of the risk of leaked zero-days in the slightest. It's massive. ETERNALBLUE leaking was an unprecedented fuckup, not unlike a government bioweapons facility accidentally leaking a supervirus that causes a pandemic. (Not trying to say anything about COVID, here; just an apt analogy, I think.)

However, I'd also say that zero-days aren't tools or part of tooling. They're discovered vulnerabilities - privileged knowledge, basically. Intelligence agencies possess a lot of privileged information which could be very damaging if leaked.

If a software tool contains an exploit for a zero-day, thus leaking the zero-day, then, yes, the tools themselves are a huge threat.

But I'm thinking more about the typical hacking and engineering tools you'd see, which generally aren't very weaponizable by the general public and not that interesting besides the purpose of potentially detecting their past usage and discovering things an intelligence agency might have done. That's why I said "as long as the zero-days and backdoors stay private, I think there isn't that much concern".

I interpreted the poster as being concerned about the more ordinary things (they mentioned password cracking and botnets, for example), though I think I misunderstood them.
Please everyone don’t forget google search positioning too. This is massive. Google have pushed YouTube into their search for a long time, basically building YouTube doing it. That brought insane traffic to YouTube videos and makes YouTube the place for videos.

THIS is the antitrust of google, and where authorities should strike them. They built a video platform and destroyed others using their 90% market power in another market.
It doesn't make it any better or right, but it does answer the OP's question of "why".

Not to mention, the American Revolution was partially won because similar powers France and Spain backed the revolutionaries. The Confederacy courted both Britain and France and there was a chance that the former could have gotten involved in the Civil War over the Trent Affair. Great powers have been dipping their toes into regional conflicts since time immemorial. It's highly credulous to assume they'd do otherwise.
>Nudity in an unisex shower isn't about flirting and sex for a european.

VERY hard to make a sweeping generalization under "European" in this context. I'm from Scandinavia and I'm fine with it, but my SO that is from France, bordering to Germany, always tell me how horrified she (still) gets when she cross the border and end up in changing rooms. Heard similar story from Italians.
[Smirking in Person of Interest reference intensifies]
Trust me, you are unusual if you used the webspace. (Admittedly it was a marketing comparator - if you did not offer it you lost potential customers,) I cannot remember the numbers but vanishingly few people used it once and even less were regular uploaders. Even the power users (like my colleagues) would upload a nights photos from their digital cameras. At some point they must have moved to flicker et al.
Is it possible outside of the US? In Europe I need an ID card to get or replace a SIM card. Though that’s maybe different now that all stores are closed due to the pandemic.
Alliances.

I personally hope we help our friends in Taiwan.
> Ah yes. "Anti-features" like protecting your money.

they aren't protecting your money, they are protecting the financial system in which you're currently being fucked but it happens so slowly that you've fooled yourself into enjoying it.

> It's easy to "refute" the point and call the author "clueless" if you just call anything useful an anti-feature.

how can you not? bitcoin has transaction finality by design. that's the purpose of bitcoin. that's one of the core features. when somebody comes criticizing bitcoin for not having an opposite anti-feature - what are they if not clueless?

> > And yeah, fees today are higher than fees last year

quoting out of context should be bannable offence. also you're just displaying your own ignorance and inability to understand a trivial thing - fees in bitcoin denominated in bitcoin didn't change, price of bitcoin change.

> So, according to you, bitcoin is not a worthless payment system, but at the same time you're claiming that it's not supposed to handle the largest chunk of what payment systems routinely handle

nah, you just didn't understand words. i'll break it down: bitcoin is a system with limited on-chain settlement capacity due to reasons. this means that lower value settlements will get priced out by higher value settlements because higher value settlements can afford to include larger fee. on top of this system one can in context of single on-chain settlement execute billions microtransactions with micro-fees that in aggregate make the onchain settlement economically viable.

so bitcoin is very much capable of handling unlimited number of transactions per second, you just don't understand how it achieves that.

your understanding is on the level of "so your shipping containers with motors attached cant even cross the atlantic ? what's the points in that?", missing entirely the idea of container ships.
Actually at the same votation, Switzerland accepted a law which forbid women to wear Burka.
Which is not exactly let live.
Oil Trade Group Is Poised to Endorse Carbon Pricing
Funnily enough, I had the exact opposite experience: I played with computers all day long as a kid but somehow it never occured to me that I could be a programmer, I used Scream Tracker instead and wanted to be a film composer.

After my first internship in a sound production studio, it dawned on me that what I was watching was really cutthroat assembly line work where "composers" had about an hour per episode and were constantly recycling and taking shortcuts. Outside the top 1% of Hollywood composers, that life seemed to mostly suck (later on, I realized that's true for the bottom 99% of almost all art related jobs).

It was only when I took a random job to pay the bills and started automating my job away that I discovered the joy of automation with code. Was uphill from there.
Great for non-english results for me, I simply search with !ddgde which flips the "Germany"-switch to on.

You and others keep saying this, but you really need to mention which non-English languages you are talking about as at least some of them are pretty good.
I’d almost say the guy bought it so his desk looks nice.
Is that really correct?
This is dishonest. When you bought the Pixel 3a it was never advertised to feature unlimited storage so from that angle, nothing changed for you and Photos is still the same product.
Have you? Most people aren't like "yeah let's go slaughter a bunch of people" in general. It's basically the null hypothesis!

And the "common person" understands who will be on the frontlines in any war, and who will be completely out of danger.
> Should China or some similar power of the time have meddled in the US civil war? Or maybe the War for Independence?

You mean like France, Netherlands and Spain supported the insurgents against the UK?
I really miss the GPhotos / GDrive connection.

FWIW - I wrote this plugin[1] to recreate my workflow[2].

[1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/tree/master/elodie/plugins...

[2] https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go...
Character? Dominance? Those have nothing to do with hearing words correctly. What about visual attentiveness and reducing ambiguity?

In fact, the actual recent study finds a specific lexical stress effect, but this piece mixes it with different research about different movements.
Well, France meddled in the American Revolutionary War to hurt Britain. That's just the reality of what rival states do.
You can remove them, but it's a pain and you need to either be a developer or have technical knowledge
The video on their website won't load for me, but I found this launch video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTbuDQp_ano

I'm not super sold on it, especially because the color DPI is only 100.
No, I disagree. The notion that the US is doing anything other than trying to violently hang on to its attempts at a global, dictatorial, murderous empire, that only ever benefits the white west at best, is crazy.
I don't think you're in minority; unfortunately 6-inch devices became "standard", probably because of the Kindle, and 7.8 seem like "large", whereas in fact they're quite small and reading PDFs is still a pain - you either get minuscule text or use reflowing which makes a mess of scientific papers.
Your article seemed to be about economic inequality, but was attributed as racial inequality (most of the other comments here identified this too).

That misattribution is why I thought it might be an example of the "other racism tax" (which needs a better name.)

I'm glad you went on to find success. Onwards and upwards.
WindowGroomer: Arranges desktop application windows on a grid [win/linux]
There's two different aspects to be considered here: What you seem to be mostly worried about is direct legal consequences to speech, like being imprisoned for saying the wrong thing. Protecting people from that is important, but freedom of opinion and expression is more than just that.

But more important than that is the societal aspect: censorship is ultimately a propaganda tool. You don't have to imprison people to silence ideas; simply hiding them from the public is more than enough.

The reason this is the more important of the two is because it is what influences public opinion. Propaganda is an incredibly powerful political tool and freedom of expression is, also an opposing force to it.
Open question, but is it possible that China will become less nationalistic in the next few decades? What with globalization and all.
The result of this being a move towards giving up on their claims to Taiwan.

Certainly Europe has in many ways become less nationalistic with globalization. The idea of war in Western Europe now seems absurd. e.g. imagine the reaction to a UK politician wanting to invade Ireland again to reclaim territory.
Anything by Gaidai [1]. "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style" [2] is probably the most popular or try "Operation 'Y'" [3], a movie that consist from three short novels with the same protagonist. Or, may be a good fit, his rendering of three O'Henry novels [4]: the first is the more serious one, the second is funnier but mostly conversational, and the third is burlesque action.

An example of a modern Russian comedy would be the "Yolki" series with [5] as the first installment.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0301145/
[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060584/
[3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059550/
[4] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056982/
[5] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1782568/
I think there is something very wrong with that requirement. In the name of sexual liberation you would make sexual wage slavery common. In a world where this is normal or acceptable corporate lawyers and HR departments may write in such clauses into employment contracts just to cut down on the number of sexual harassment cases and issues.
Ancient Greek Technologies (illustrated, animated and sourced)
You’re a crackpot! What is an atomic field? Are you referring to the electromagnetic fields generated by subatomic and ionic particles? If so, they are indeed a linear superposition, whose constituents do have wavefunctions, which do include (spherical) harmonics.
This makes perfect sense given the market conditions. The real question is how quickly will the two drivers is this be resolved, namely:
- when will the eviction moratorium expire?
- when will rental demand in urban centers begin to rise again.

My forecast is that the eviction moratorium will be more predictable than the demand returning. Once vaccination rates get high enough in late spring / early summer, I don't think the eviction moratorium would hold up in court as the public health necessity will have gone away.

In contrast, the return of workers to in person work is TBD. Will finance jobs return to face time culture -- absolutely. I even know some hedge fund workers who are going into the office a few days a week now (in full PPE). But I'm less certain about marketing jobs, software jobs, etc. And throwing the supply / demand equilibrium out of wack by a significant permanent shift to remote work in some industries could be sufficient to cause rent to stay depressed in urban centers.

On the other hand, people are so starved for human interaction and the most lively place for that is a bustling city. Thus, I hope people pour back into cities when the pandemic is waning as an exuberante expression of a desire to convene with our fellow humans.
While many tiling window managers do a lot of things, this is refreshingly simple. Keyboard shortcut to invoke it, then drag to set where and how large the window should be. Can be seen as a replacement of dragging an application window to a location and then resizing it.
This is certainly important from a business perspective. For-profit publishing is a dead end. More and more venues are community-owned, and only the highest profile publications actually need the degree of professionalization that requires a large publishing house. By now, it is clear that the publishers cannot win this fight. And we see this in the concessions publishers make. IMHO, publishers can either milk the cow as long as it's possible and then die, or transform their business. My university just announced an Open Access agreement with Elsevier, and to me this looks like a confession on Elsevier's side that they will have to go OA in one way or another, or they'll lose their journals one by one. In my community, Elsevier has already lost journals to community-owned replacements.
Yep but DasBetterC isn't ten year old..
That is a myth.
These defenses you talk about were built partly with cheap material and therefore significantly less effective. This caused a major post-war corruption scandal.

Nazi Germany did not invade Switzerland, because Switzerland was actually more useful as a neutral state for Nazi Germany to exchange gold for commodities, for spying and Switzerland produced militiary equipment for Nazi Germany anyway.
Most of what you state about China doesn't mean anything in modern warfare. It's not about who has the bigger gun or most guns, but who can use their guns most effectively. Consider that China has no experience in modern warfare or large scale conflict. How effective do you think China will be against a highly experienced adversary?
Not true. It’s not uncommon for a toddler to find a private place to defecate without being told. There is an innate sense of a need for privacy for some things.
So, I'm never using this.

"Instead, you have to sign up for the new Google Pay using your carrier's phone number."

My preferred phone number lives in Google Voice, and I have a grandfathered T-mobile 'net30' plan, with a phone number I give to no one, prefer to never use, and only get junk calls and spam on. Which I'll probably use forever unless there's real competition again... or several cellphone technologies come out and they refuse to support newer connection types.
I also use Pixel 3a as my main phone, despite having an employer-provided iPhone.

The only killer app that still keeps me on Android is Firefox with uBlock Origin. If Apple allowed functional 3rd party browsers, I'll switch in a heartbeat.
Because most western speakers won't know what this is, so you could be searching for anything - nsfw or otherwise.
Many (not all) of those kids are great at playing the "getting credentials" games, not so good at the "let's make a great product" game. The objectives are not 100% aligned either.