skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another controversial idea might be: "Banks are interested in blockchain technology for the purpose of building unaccountable grey markets, dark pools, and black markets of derivatives and credit default swaps."
> I notice a distinct lack of car companies on here.

Perhaps the list differentiates between made and assembled in USA.
Very difficult to move with only a few hundred dollars in the bank. Also it's generally not recommended to move to a place where you know very few people or no people, without first having a job lined up.
You need enough drivers to get a ride on demand at any time/location and enough riders to keep them busy.

Too few drivers you get long waits or surge prices. Too few riders and the drivers start to disappear...
I've had the exact opposite reaction to the change. So many common actions seem needlessly difficult. Take –for example– joining a wifi network. In Unity, you'd click on the wifi icon in the upper-right, then click on the network you want to join. Two clicks. In Gnome, you click in the upper-right, then click on the wifi icon to expand options, then click on "Select Network", then click on the network you want to join, then click "Connect". Five clicks! It's absurd.

The story is similar for things like power settings or selecting sound input/output sources. I wish the Gnome team would imitate macOS or Windows instead of coming up with their own uniquely frustrating interfaces.
Turbo Pascal was an outstanding product.
This guy is just trolling right?
As I'm familiar with the labor laws in the US, it's the easiest rubrick for me to find products that don't employ sweatshop conditions. To be honest, I tend to stick more to "union made" lists like this one: http://getitunion.com/buyunion.asp because then I know that the price I pay is going toward protecting labor conditions... or at least it has a chance.

If you know of a better way to quickly filter out "made by kids," "made by people who are about to be killed in a factory collapse," and "made by indentured servants (or 'third party nationals' as the UAE styles them)" then I'd be interested to know what it is.
“An indictment was unsealed today against Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei, all of whom are Chinese nationals and residents of China, for computer hacking, theft of trade secrets, conspiracy and identity theft directed at U.S. and foreign employees and computers of three corporate victims in the financial, engineering and technology industries between 2011 and May 2017....”
Lewis AFAIK said at the beginning of the year that lower/wider rear wing would make passing way more difficult even with DRS, and that's what happened. If you remember, previous F1 style with narrower/higher rear wing was just fine, though he cars looked less "brutal". So I'd certainly blame current F1 cars as not fitting Yas Marina anymore.
If you expect someone to take your demand of payment seriously, you should do your best to make a serious request. Calling a customer service agent is almost the worst possible avenue, even an angry tweet could been more effective.
> Most of us accept some level of State interference in our lives for our own good.

The state is elected by the people and is - at least nominally - meant to serve them.

> Maybe we are going to have to have that discussion about involuntary interventions by corporations, too.

This is textbook Corporatocracy. I have neither the power to vote corporations in or out nor any recourse if they decide I need an "intervention". How is this not high-tech serfdom?
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Yes some said 'some' but the article refers to 'men' as a single, unthinking group. Men who refer to women this way are called misogynists and rightly so.
For those who aren't familiar, this is how it can play out:

1. Friend^H^H^H^H^H Facebook notices you said something that sounds suicidal to them.
2. They call the police.
3. The police show up and take you to an emergency psychiatric facility (you don't have as much choice in the matter as you think you do, and you can't anticipate the consequences).
4. The facility keeps you in their custody until your friends or relatives can convince them to release you. They are financially incentivized to keep you there. You have limited contact with the outside world. You are effectively a prisoner.
5. Once you get out,
a. You get to explain why you didn't show up for N days of work
b. You get a bill in the mail for thousands of dollars
c. The courts will not help you.

Based on a true story. Automating this is not acceptable.
I found this site while looking at GNU libmicrohttpd's announcement of a new version. As someone who gives very high importance to backwards compatibility, both from an API and an ABI perspective, this site gives me a quick look over which libraries i can expect to remain stable and which not (e.g. Cairo is fully backwards compatible back to 2006[1], so chances are it'll remain stable in the future. On the other hand imgui doesn't look very stable [2]...).

Also found some unexpected stuff, like this Mesa WTF... [3]

[1] https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/cairo/

[2] https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/imgui/

[3] https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/compat_report/mesa/10.5.9...
> AI will reach parity with humans before it exceeds them, agreed.

Intelligence is a hugely dimensional space, and AI constraints look very little like those on humans. It is unlikely there will ever be a time when AI is similarly smart, as much as differently smart to a similar context-dependent magnitude.
This list is about as useful as a list of 'great things still made in Albania'. Commerce is global, better get used to it. Products can be shipped halfway around the planet and 'great things' can be made just about anywhere.

In the early 90's in Poland there was a 'dobra bo Polskie' (good because it is Polish) effort to get people to buy local.

Only nobody did. Those that could would buy the best they could without giving any consideration about the country of origin, everybody else bought simply what they could afford.
By “things” they seem to mean something like “department store items.”

Aside from cars, as a list of great things made in the US, it’s missing important products like airliners, computer chips, and pharmaceuticals.
That's suboptimal; a fully realized human would suffer less than a lobotomized human.

Also, we don't need an AI that's ethically perfect, just equal or better to an average human.
Hmm, he included his contact @ Netflix's full name... that's no good.
Old article, should have a (2013) on it, BUT a great article, and in fact, this is adapted from an excellent book I can highly recommend called "Salt, Sugar, Fat"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00985E3UG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
How was it condescending? The parent comment:

1) Apologised upfront for giving bad news;

2) Pointed out the clearly unorthodox nature of contacting the wrong communication channel (tech support for a non-tech support problem);

3) Pointed out the correct communication channel;

4) Provided information of what to send to the channel in item 3); and

5) Gave the address of where to send the claim.

Can you tell me which part was condescending? As far as I see it, the parent commenter when above and beyond; they went out of their way to help.
How does that help them? Pretty sure those working under "cruel" conditions would rather keep their jobs.

Also, European regulations are the strictest and labor unions the loudest in the world, so it's unlikely any meaningful quantity of goods produced under cruel conditions make their way into the European market. At least we believe that.
The photographer can register his copyright at any time. [0]. You're right though that there is an advantage to registering before infringement occurs, since if it's registered the case will be eligible for statutory damages, which can be up to $150,000 in the case of willful infringement. 17 U.S.C. § 504. [1]. Otherwise, actual damages to a photographer who doesn't sell any images will likely be zero.

[0] https://eco.copyright.gov/
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/504
Just tested my Ipvanish and yes it looks fine except some servers eg when connected to Singapore, say Costa Mesa USA (i'm in Australia).
I suspect it complicates things further that the image creator presumably did not have permission from Netflix to use their copyrighted name and logo for his own work.

Edit: nvm, didn’t see that the logo work was not his own...
I wonder if in a few years people will be fondly writing articles like this about the 2013-16 Retina MacBook Pros. Mine is getting a bit long in the tooth, but what to replace it with?
There's no requirement to register copyright in Australia. Copyright vests in the creator immediately upon creation.

Given that this guy is an AU resident and I'm guessing that the works were created here, I'm pretty sure that means he's got more than just a moral right.
Yes... because the creator reserves all rights to copyrighted works (with some legal exceptions). If you cant find the creator, then you have no rights to use the image. To get such rights, you need to contact the creator and ask. That's the way it works.

Just because you don't know who to ask, doesnt mean you're magically granted rights you dont have to an asset you had no part in creating.
It is not difficult to avoid abusing power imbalances in your favor, nor is it difficult to set fair wages and labor practices.

It is also, apparently, not difficult to devalue people in a lesser position by reasoning that market forces have moral authority.

A society based on individuals devaluing everyone below them in the hierarchy has consequences.
I have been sitting on a startup idea in combination of use cases of something like meetup and similar to what WeWork does for a 2+ years. I have no business expertise so any hypothetical chance of success would have been very small, nevertheless I feel like it's been a missed opportunity for me. Would be interesting to see if they go into the route I was thinking of and manage to make something big.
I see a lot of anti-facebook sentiment here as if they are some sort of evil censor that prevents people from communicating.

On the contrary, all facebook does is connect people.

What we're seeing here is the result of rising political influence on social media. Every major website is being abused by governments because that's how you get your 'message' (i.e. propoganda) across. Like the major sites of yesterday figuring out how to deal with astroturfing, the major sites of today are figuring it out too. The real problem is that there is no solution yet. For all we know, facebook is correctly dealing with this and this post and article are propoganda.

If a communication mechanism is unavailable during anything major, the logical thing to do is to use a fallback method of communication. If facebook won't let you post video, upload it somewhere else and post a link. How hard is that to figure out?

The INTERNET is an INTERCONNECTED NETWORK of computers. There are free services all over the place. If you can't use one, use a different one. That's how this works.
Yes, political movements tend to be headed by the wealthy and successful. I was a member a pro remain group where the same charge could be made.

The authors point is that Brexit was supported by working class non metropolitan people more than remain was.
Yes. Absolutely. They should have legal’s contact info instantly available.

If your cs reps don’t have this, your organization is running a big risk. Consider one party recording laws.

Let me refer you to legal should be a first day training thing.
"While AMT gives an authenticated user a great deal of power, it's also designed with some degree of privacy protection in mind - for instance, when the remote console is enabled, an animated warning border is drawn on the user's screen to alert them."

Can someone point me to a picture, or screenshot, of this ?
In Australia, my debit card was stolen. My bank worked out this fact before I did, and sent me a text message. The charges were reversed within 3 days.
Ironically, if they charged more, the odds are there would be scores of articles about how they are making TOO MUCH profit and should give the money away to worthy causes instead of being "greedy" and keeping the money for themselves.

In truth, people will always complain about something when you are successful. This probably means Amazon is doing something right.
If this happens to me will you float me the cash for a lawyer?
Wow! Thanks for this. Just wondering--did you get your law degree from an ad on reddit?
I worked at a rather well known social media company for a bit. A good portion of our customer service was for password resets or general complaints. But we had well defined copyright escalation path that started with the lowest of the lowly customer service rep and ended with the general counsel. So yes, actually, I do expect that.
A customer service rep doesn’t have to have all the answers, but they should be equipped to find them, or at least find a next step (which they did, in this case).

The author didn’t handle this optimally and neither did the CSR. Should they need to? I’d prefer to live in a world where each party does their best to approach a happy resolution in spite of mistakes. In this case whoever reads the PR mailbox dropped the ball.
I meant only that the default behavior makes a non-trivial set of assumptions about the higher-level layers. Of course there are trade-offs, especially between usability/user expectations and security. Honestly I was just trying to shoe-horn a fun quote into the conversation. ;)
Is this a situation where (like dealing with management) going to them with a proposed solution is appropriate?

I'm sure that if you're trying to get as much as possible from them (based on the statutory fees/penalties, etc) then it makes sense to let lawyers handle it and negotiate, but if all you're looking for is an acknowledgement and a little something then I could easily see sending something to their General Counsel (as provided by donarb) saying something like "I propose that in return for a retroactive and unrestricted right to use the artwork on any Stranger Things packaging, advertising, promotional materials or products you will compensate me with two (2) physical copies of the currently-available Stranger Things release and a free subscription to the middle tier of Netflix service for (lifetime, 10 years, 5 years, 1 year, whatever)."

That's assuming that such would be something of interest to him and that he'd consider it adequate. The advantage is that by presenting it like that he gets something out of it and Netflix says "Oh hell yes, that's basically free for us, here you go!"
That's called a two-sided-marketplace. It quickly saturates (i.e. you need some minimum number of drivers and riders to bootstrap the marketplace).

Network effect is when each user brings additional users (or each user prevents other users from leaving).
Government can make locally made goods more affordable by applying tariffs on imported goods. Laissez faire globalization has utterly decimated the US middle class.
It looks like reading documentation, I doubt that will sell your tool very well.
To the people asking the point of this list: because it's perfectly fine to be proud of the place where you live.

The United States is something to be extremely proud of. The way we treat workers, our regard for human rights, our regard for individual freedom, and our willingness to overcome adversity.

I'm proud of my country. I think it's cool to buy products that support it's continued prosperity.

Yes, there are countries that are better at many of these things individually.

On a pragmatic level, pride in where you live translates into emotional investment in where you live, which benefits EVERYONE. In the case of the US, that everyone is a global term.
The assertion that all such labor is a voluntary choice on the part of laborers is... depressingly naive, to say the least.

And even in cases where it's true, ignores the fact that many may have preferred not to have had the choice imposed in the first place. E.g. subsistence farmers forced off their land and into cities, either by mandate or through unchecked externalities (aka the polluting plant next door). And purchasing from these manufacturing operations helps spread that misery.

I'm not saying it's an easy calculus, but your characterization is surely reductive.
If it’s front-end only, what purpose does it solve?
It's taking care of your own before taking care of others. Same reason I'd rather save my son's life rather than a million babies who are equally valuable and deserving of life.
You are free to reject diagnosis and medication unless you are determined a danger to yourself or others. HIPAA also gives you control over where your diagnoses travel.

Not with facebook, of course, which doesn’t qualify for hipaa protections yet.
'Bicycle manufacturer' often means 'someone with a garage, framebuilding jig, and TIG welder'.
> he should send a cease and desist letter to every store stocking these

He's just a regular guy. I don't think he's going to be able to pull that off.

I think you're probably lashing out a bit hard at something that was probably unintentional. They should absolutely pull it back now that they know they've infringed, but (as pointed out in the comments) there a quick reverse search reveals many mirrors of the image. The person who pulled it may have even gotten it off a site that offered "free use," though they didn't actually own the image.

As far as 10x punishment and them using IP systems for a profit? 10x what measurement? And when has Netflix used IP for profit? I wasn't able to find any relevant cases from a quick search.
> Prioritization is only necessary or useful when bandwidth is scarce and your endpoints would use more than you have if they could. The best solution for all of the applications listed is more capacity, not prioritization.

This doesn't make sense to me. Sometimes there can be large spikes in network traffic. In theory, if your network has enough capacity to handle _all_ the traffic at low latency during normal load, then the prioritization has no effect anyways. It's only there for when you are low on capacity.

I'd love for someone to correct my understanding here.
The primary argument in my mind is that the US has known standards for labor conditions. While they may not always be perfectly adhered to, the assumption is that labor standards (wherever set) are not adhered to worldwide. Therefore, the higher initial standard in the US (and other developed countries) leads to a better working conditions for that product.
> But if we're going to use AI in those fields anyway, we may as well extend it to trying to save lives.

Absolutely, but the incentives of the organization that does so need to be aligned with the people it's trying to help. Facebook's incentives are aligned with those of their advertisers not their users.

Even if this system is being conceived by well-meaning people with the best intentions the institutional pressure will be to monetize any information gathered and any conclusions arrived at from that information. It won't happen right away, but it's inevitable. For a contemporary example look at Google's transformation from "Don't be evil" to "we're going to gather tracking data on you wherever and whenever we can".
Regarding Amazon, I seem to recall reading similar accusations leveled at Wal-Mart around the turn of the millennium. Their low prices were going to destroy local small retail businesses, then they'd reap monopoly profits after the competition died.

It looks like the first thing happened but the second didn't. Prices might have rebounded a bit at a Wal-Mart after their initial arrival in a community, but they didn't rebound enough to match (much less surpass) the old prices of Bob's Local Hardware Store or Alice's Wine and Spirits.

It's hard to tell if Amazon's retail aim is genuinely predatory the way the author accuses it, or if Amazon's just planning to legitimately, sustainably live with lower margins than other retailers, by dint of huge scale and long term cost-containment efforts. They're investing in roboticized warehouses and have no brick-and-mortar retail locations apart from Whole Foods.
> Sorry buddy but Ceausescu was not killed by the people.

Yeah people on the street didn't get to fire at him and his wife, someone else who already had some authority did. There was nothing democratic about it, but there was also not much protesting and rioting following it. People in large supported the capture and execution, no?

Do you feel that if there was a prolonged trial that it would have been a fair trial and it would have somehow ended up better for the country? I am asking honestly as an outsider, I don't know much about it.

> That's more than a month of protests (18 Jan - 26 Feb).

Sorry, I was going by the NYT article which I linked to which said " After five straight days of spirited mass protests..."
From the PDF here, you'll note that the second and third dot points state very clearly that there is no registration system for copyright in Australia. It exists implicitly, is free and applies automatically.

https://www.copyright.org.au/acc_prod/ACC/Information_Sheets...
Huh? VPNs aren't SOCKS proxies.
Ask HN: Successfully resisted buying on BF/CM? What's your PoV?
Do graphics agencies (don't know the standard term) have some general solution to this problem? I imagine the legit ones that are serious about IP would have to be (and I'm surprised Netflix isn't run like that).

I'm guessing you'd have to do something like, require every artist to list the resources they used for their image with some link to the source and license rights. But I'm also not sure how expensive that solution is and how widely it's used.

Anyone know what measures big companies take to ensure they're not accidentally putting themselves on the hook for major IP infringement damages?
This could really use some better sorting, like by product category. It's currently a nice monument but not actually useful.
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Which is exactly why I mentioned Bridgeman-Corel, though I admit that's a bit of a legal leap.

I find it terribly amusing how HN consistently jumps on these stories to vent its outrage but the same people don't think independent filmmakers and musicians should be able to control distribution if people want to torrent/stream their stuff.
I'll tell you why I try to buy American when I can.

Not everyone is capable enough to work in the information world, its a cold, hard, sad truth, that for some the best they'll ever get in the world is a factory job, that is simply as high as they can rise.

I want all of my fellow countrymen to be productive and happy, so I'd rather spend my dollars at home, than send them overseas to pay someone sweatshop wages.
Globalists are killing the world. Companies making money at the expense of citizens being able to survive are the detriment of society.

Your assertion that we should just lie down and take it like sheep is bullshit.

Choosing to buy local and locally sourced goods is preferred by more people than you think.
That doesn't really sound like an ethical argument so much as the impetus for it.
I don't understand what you mean by "when expanded to include other countries," but historically, the US has had better wages and labor protections than the countries manufacturing many consumer goods. Those protections and wages were bought with blood (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre).
this is a great way of putting it.