skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, they targeted China, released in China, made money in China, but didn't register trademarks in China? I'm sorry, when in Rome.... If they were going so heavy into China, they should have researched Chinese trademark law. Why does the naive entrepreneur get to play the victim here? Yeah, China has bad optics, but this situation was avoidable. The buck should always stop with the entrepreneur, no?

edit: As I've written below: Right in the reddit post, he writes they were marketing it as 点击英雄 in 2014 on a Chinese website. It does look like they were targeting China. There is nothing on that post to indicate otherwise. If I am missing something, let me know. I'm going based off of what I read in the Reddit post.

What is likely happening here is that a peon at Apple is acting as a finite state machine in a faulty process without thinking. Marketing it as 点击英雄 would make that easy. Hopefully, Apple gets this right for the rest of the world and reverses their decision, but I mean... it's marketed as 点击英雄! In China! On a Chinese website!
> The idea of "artist" as a career, especially a prestigious and high-paying career, is one of many missteps of our modern world.

So you don't think there is anyone who is accomplished enough at being an artist that they should be able to make it a profession?

I want to experience the best artists being able to spend the time doing the best work they can possibly do, not a generation of office workers who can only afford to produce mediocre art for a maximum of a couple of hours per day, like me. :(
Don't the emissions from the home delivery and pickup offset any good done by re-using the containers?
That doesn't excuse the decline of their UX. They are adoptingany of the tactics and antipatterns used by other media companies that sow the seeds of discontent with their product.
They will have had it automatically.
Sure you can contract out the work, but paying for someone else to make a rocket you launch doesn't really qualify you to say that you did anything. It also doesn't teach you anything, so what's the point?

Most of what you work on in college is solved problems, because college is about learning and not about original research.
You're not wrong, companies can add as much security as they like but there will still be breaches, root cause is them having the data in the first place.
They’ve set the precedent that a Chinese trademark has worldwide effect. This move could come back to bite Apple if a Chinese company ever does the same thing to them directly.
Panasonic Scrutinises Relationship with Huawei
That there is a lot of crime in the US is a problem, but it's another thing to argue that such incarceration is not entirely warranted.

The US has cultural issues that don't remotely exist in the rest of the civilized world.

There are a few dozen 'violence zones' i.e. S. Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans that are extremely violent, to the point that such violence is unknown in the rest of the civilized world. Only S. America and Africa have spots that compare.
Same thing happened to Daria. All the official releases have had all the then-current songs replaced with sound-alikes, placeholder music, or silence.
Why do we tax individuals in the first place? It goes back to history, there was a time when kings got their money from their estates as well as from prize money. But, the wars were not paying well so they would get some poor souls to be taxmen and to demand hard currency from peasants that weren't even on the monetary system as they lived off the land. In the UK the minority who the king would bully into collecting the taxes would be the Jewish one.

There was a time when it was considered none of the government's business to know how much people earned, hence taxes on fireplaces and windows. If you had a fireplace then you were probably a family unit and needed to pay up, if you had two fireplaces then you were a bit rich and could pay up double.

We take for granted so much of the tax system that we do not question it, there are also entrenched left wing and right wing viewpoints.

When it comes to value added tax, a.k.a. sales tax, we let businesses off but make sure individuals pay. It is all skewed in favour of capitalism rather than the individual.

Clearly a company can move to wherever it wants to avoid taxes. Individuals don't have quite the same freedom unless they are of the capitalist company owning class.

So we need to stop confusing individuals - businessmen - with businesses. Bezos and Amazon are not one and the same. If Amazon paid all its taxes then Bezos the individual as well as all Amazon employees should be afforded zero income tax and have zero motivation to squirrel gains away in some tax haven.

We also have a slight problem of rents and property being too expensive with property being insufficiently taxed. The whole system is designed to screw the little guy over with the corporations getting a free ride.
What? NYT regularly publishes information unfavorable to the US government. WikiLeaks on the other hand participates directly in advancing Russian state aims.
How can we even be sure such a weapon exists or can exist if we can’t review the workings of it?

This whole “it’s for your own safety, let us protect you with it, trust us (no you can’t read it)” is not informed consent and no amount of mental gymnastics will make it informed consent.

The government requires the consent of the governed or it is illegitimate. Secrets preclude informed consent. There is nothing special or unique about the humans in the government that entitle them to access to secrets whilst denying the governed that same access.
Las Vegas Orders Up a Boring Company Loop
There's enough margin in premium consumables to cater to customer whims like this.

Until the value priced product lines and retailers start doing this it's not gonna make a dent whatsoever in plastic usage. This is a nice step but the model is not useful yet because it only works at the top of the market.
It is incredibly slow (20X), distro installs can't keep up, Docker doesn't work, systemd doesn't work, drive mounting has issues, and lack of a descent terminal.
>I imagine a lot of their activities aren't counted as revenue.

Pan handling, charitable services and governmental programs are not counted against that $1000 a year either.

>We don't have to talk hypotheticals - people living off $1000 a year around the globe are able to have children and families, whereas in the US, they are not (in any significant amount).

People who subsist solely on governmental benefits often have children. In fact the poor have more children than the wealthy. Compare Mexican birth rates per capita to the US, then compare African birth rates to Mexico if you don't believe me. Not having children is a sign of a wealthy society.

>And the economic opportunities in the US aren't relevant - we're trying to compare living on $1000 in the US vs. developing world, so adding 'economic opportunities' is saying "it's better to live on $1000 in the US because you'll be able to make more than $1000".

Any American who works more than 3 hours a week will be over that $1000 a year. Unemployment is virtually zero. Those who are unable to work get SSI.
The app was taken down worldwide, not in Rome.
Yes, it is very easy. Checkout the official Helm charts to get started quickly or the Docker image.
I highly recommend seveneves
> I find it hard to believe there was any sort of real “risk” to Bezos future ability to earn a more than average wage.

You are ignoring opportunity costs [0]. He quit a highly lucrative job in finance to attempt a startup where he probably payed himself like 1/10th the wages of his old job during the initial years while he established his business.

With like 90% of startups failing [1], that is a massive risk in the hope of future stock worth for decreased current wages.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

[1]: https://medium.com/swlh/why-90-of-startups-fail-and-what-to-...
As others are saying this is cool idea.

I wonder since the clutch or friction is reduced due to fewer pegs, why not consider null pegs, pegs which are like a hollow cylinder rather than solid cylinder. Maybe it would be too much of a compromise and distract learners or misinform learners what true Braille is like?
> I don't like paying taxes,nobody does.

I like paying taxes. I have absolutely no problem with the idea that if I (and others) contribute from what we earn, that we get collective benefits, such as education, infrastructure, and healthcare, which in turn improve our society.

I also have no problem with tax increases, as I am well aware that the overall benefit I receive from increased contribution greatly outweighs having that money in my bank account.

The money I pay in taxes contributes to a better educated society, who are more aware of the challenges we face together, and more capable of solving them.

The money I pay in taxes builds public transport, helping people move around, and removing the burden on our roads. It repairs those roads, so they are safer.

Where I live, the money I pay in taxes provides healthcare, so people who are ill or injured can be treated without going into life-ruining debt.

I am happy to pay taxes, because I believe a country where the population on the whole are smarter, safer, and healthier, and infrastructure is modern and maintained, is better than one in which I'd have a bit more money, but be surrounded by people who are less educated, sick, and in crippling debt, with crumbling infrastructure.
Zuckerberg dismisses calls to break up Facebook
The law often doesn't follow 'common sense' rules that laymen imagine.

You can think of it like a semantic error in your code. The computer/legal system does what it was programmed to do, not 'the right thing'
I thought Apple already settled something like that in China.
> our latest figures showing that 11.8% of video playback in Firefox Beta used AV1

It seems remarkably popular already.
When it is released it will likely be as buggy as WSL is today. WSL is over 20x slower due to Microsoft's crappy filesystem. They are still using a custom kernel even though it is a VM now. I don't have high hopes about their terminal either.
Really! People, quite rightly, do think that.

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/3492-kis...
Well actually Instagram is using the chimp because it's selling the chimp's metadata to advertisers. ;)
It's not geek jargon, or at least not in the pejorative way you use that phrase. It is simply language that is part of a particular field of study. It is only one tool in a tool chest, and I certainly never claimed my back of the envelope analysis was comprehensive. In fact I tend to agree with a lot of your comments in this sub thread, and upvoted all of them. But bear in mind that to do that I had to try real hard to push aside the condescending tone that dripped off a lot of what you wrote. I'm sure you couldn't care less about my miniscule addition to your karma, but you would be a more effective communicator if you stopped trying to belittle your partners in discourse.
Street Photography – A Photo for Every Year 1838-2019 [video]
Why isn't there a sample?
Seagulls drop crabs and shellfish all the time.
I am pretty sure the reason for this is that alternative designs for control flow cannot be implemented in linear time; Java, for example, has experienced epic denial of service attack issues on their verifier design, where code of specific forms leads to quadratic verification time.
Capitalism Summer Camp for Kids
Says a lot about how they think about privacy too.
> Could you explain the part of the desk being in the corner

That idea is continued in the rest of the quote:

> Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.

The desk isn’t at the center of the room because art (writing, in his case) shouldn’t be the center (the most important thing) of your life. You shouldn’t sacrifice your life to produce art, but create art to improve your life.

Zen Pencils has a short comic with the surrounding context for the quote: https://zenpencils.com/comic/king/
I am, using Patreon.

Doing this took ten years of operating as a commercial entity earning respect, and then ramping up my productivity hugely to compensate for earning about a quarter what I'd be making as a commercial entity. On the other hand, it's predictable and steady, whereas operating as the commercial entity proved wildly unpredictable and stressful in a whole different, darker way.

UX is fine but the platform will never give people a survivable income by itself. You need to build a business like any other, and then be able to take a MASSIVE hit to your income for the sake of your principles.

I'm happy with my choices but other people really can't do likewise. Certainly not from scratch: you wouldn't gain enough traction. I work in the music business. There's a saying, how do you earn a million dollars running a recording studio? Start with ten million. It's a lot like that, and no payment platform is really going to help.
newpipe is a foss program that does this for free
That hardware decoding is more important and will become prevalent sooner on mobile.

This will allow early adopters and video producers to validate their content.

It will also allow people in five years who have a 5-year-old desktop to enjoy the content.
Try a local food coop.
In the end Apple has the money to fight that, and they'll make more money falling in line with Chinese law, even if it hurts small developers...especially since they draw so much growth from that region. The US is on the back burner.
I read the Power Broker whenever I get promoted or things go really well. That transformation is tale worth reflecting on.
"I for one prefer the dmca evasion remix..."
What law? Aren't they primarily an American company? Does this mean that they will give up customer information to the Chinese government if required by law there?
because they do not care, nor are they required to. This is what you get when you decide to plant your seeds in their walled garden.
Well, also in Rome :P
You're talking about sideloading, that requires the game's IPA file and signing with Cydia Impactor (or building it yourself from source in Xcode). Unless you join Apple Dev Program for $99/yr you can only sign five apps for up to seven days each (same if you are developing your own apps).
Which wouldn't be upheld by any Paris Convention state. (And China agreed to the Paris Convention in 1984).

But yeah, international filing is a lot easier now, China is a member of the Madrid System, so it's relatively streamlined.
If you massively taxed outsized earnings and/or capped it, he probably would have never even started the company because why would you take the extreme risk of doing a startup when most of them fail?

What is the marginal utility of another billion dollars to someone who is already a billionaire? What motivates Jeff to get out of bed in the morning?

The answer: winning.

Guys like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are the business equivalent of professional athletes. The money they continue to make is only a trophy at this point. To them, the real prize is to enter new markets and succeed, challenging and disrupting the status quo.
This is my biggest complaint with Trump's tactics as well. If he didn't view EVERYTHING as a zero sum game, he and whatever coalition he could assemble would be much more credible when it comes to tariffs and threats. It's a shame that TPP wasn't passed because it would've really helped here.
AV1's been making good progress in Firefox. This 1080p60 video has gone from being essentially unplayable in AV1 to now being almost perfect on my 5-year old, AVX2 enabled laptop in Firefox 68 beta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmdb-KmlzD8

My system consistently drops frames at the point the jeep drives up the hill and then recovers for the remainder of the video. Other than that it's fine.

You can enable AV1 on YouTube via TestTube (https://www.youtube.com/testtube) and you can check if a video is in AV1 via right clicking on the video and selecting Stats for Nerds. If it's AV1 the codec will be "av01".
"A preliminary global temperature curve shows that marine life diversified in extreme heat (1) before land-based plants absorbed carbon dioxide (CO2) and polar ice caps formed (2). Volcanoes and erosion swung CO2 levels up and down (3), but mammals evolved in a warm period (4). Now, humans are rapidly warming the climate again (5)."

The chart explains that the human activity effect is at the magnitude of cataclysmic volcanoes, and other global geological/ecological effects. I sure vote that we don't accept the status quo that this stuff happens over millions of years already. We should care, since this time, we actually exist. Nevertheless, I understand how this makes the conversation harder, which is unfortunate but expected in any nuanced discussion. I, by no means, am an expert and I had a similar reaction in the beginning.

To put things in perspective, our current effect in some hundred years, used to take thousands, if not 10s/100s of thousands of years.
The funny thing is that you can’t see the event in real time. You have to wait for the scattered light from the pulse to reach the camera sensor, kind of like the trailing sound from an airliner passing overhead, and by that time the actual pulse is out of frame.
We take a more personalized approach to help you solve issues with your app, not to mention we are solely focused on mobile!
You don't really need to research Chinese IP law, as they're signed up to the WIPO Madrid system for international trademark filing.

https://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/

But instead of blaming the dev for missing a filing in China, why the hell is Apple taking down the app worldwide if it only violates IP law in China.
If more companies (tech as well as others) made decisions like this, we’d all be better off.

This should be a textbook case of good management and taught all over the place.
That's just a statistical artifact caused by the fact that things generally get passed as soon as they get past 50% support in the legislature, which is about the same time they have around 50% support in the population, and then half the time it happens to be 51% in the legislature but 49% in the population or vice versa.
We were just talking about VA on Linux. There is a chance for it to be enabled soon.
Any news regarding result set return in stored procedure in postgres 12?
AWS Resource Auto Cleanup
We have plenty of control over government. If you don't like who's in charge, you can vote them out.

If you think that's a ridiculous statement, then consider that every major television network around the world covers our political elections here in the US and the focus is always voter turnout and who we vote for. The only reason for that is: we have all the power.

Of course, if you don't like who gets elected all the time, perhaps you need to consider why your candidates never win because it seems far fewer people agree with your selections. Why is that?
I mean, that’s the thing though. Undergrad in state tuition plus R&B for NCSU and UTexas (programs I got in state tuition for) is at 9k and 10k per year with 5% interest for undergraduate, and more like 6-8% for MS students.

You can be employed in a high paying sector like tech after going to an in-state engineering school, and still l end up with $2k tacked on in your first year of employment. So then what is more rational: pay off the loan as fast as possible, or build up an emergency fund with a generous 2% ROI.
I know if no language or situation beyond the academically trivial where I would describe auditing source, open or otherwise, as easy.
They introduce a new IOCTL which you can use to discover the session id and then authenticate it however you like.

In particular, it is possible to use a zero knowledge protocol where a MITM attacker cannot determine if authentication were actually used or not except via changes in user behavior if there are any. For protocols which have a mixture of authed and non-authed usage, this can create a significant risk of discovery for an active attacker.

In any case, authentication is inherently tied up with "identity" which is significant UI and application specific considerations which simply do not exist for ephemeral encryption. TCPcrypt achieves an appropriate layering which separates these concerns while killing content observation by passive attack and increasing the risk of detection otherwise.

Re: stripping, again-- how to handle the absence of encryption is also an application relevant decision. TCPcrypt provides sufficient tools for applications to set appropriate policies.
Because there is a history of Sweden quietly allowing the US to perform extraordinary rendition there.
No, the 'odd quirk' was that it explicitly required that the tax money from each state be earmarked, held in a separate fund, and only spent in the same state that the tax was originally collected from. FWIW you could buy stuff in each state and send it to DC, but you couldn't use the money to pay salaries in DC. Partly it was intended to prevent a donor state / receiver state situation - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-s...
About 2% of downloads & revenue (out of a total of $2~ million revenue and 6.6~ million downloads) came from China.

I wonder if filing for a trademark in the US (where they could prove first use) and leaving the Chinese market would be a way to solve this.
AI can now animate the Mona Lisa's face or any other portrait you give it
Try it on YouTube. Turn on AV1 via TestTube: https://www.youtube.com/testtube

Try the AV1 test playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqf6gJt7KuHBmeVzZteZ...

And you'll find many other YouTube videos encoded in AV1 up to 720p. Try popular music videos or movie trailers for examples. Check that it's AV1 by right clicking on the video and selecting Stats for Nerds.
Charts show inequality is bad for your health – even if you are rich
Even better, haha! Seriously impressive work though - one of these projects that show just how absurdly bloated and slow mainstream OS development has become.

Also for reference for those unfamiliar with the difference in greys: http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/Display-95-thro...
I’d probably add the ps2pdf command before sending it to my non postscript printer. The output of pdf to a non postscript printer would be interesting.
Those who stand on principal make excellent stationary targets.
No inside info here, but my guess is this is a nuanced situation that broke Apple’s internal review process. This situation is thoroughly off script, requires a political and legal understanding of multiple countries trademark frameworks, with potential penalties for not complying quickly. They probably just messed up and someone internally will try to bring it back online outside of China now that this is getting wider coverage.
There are films that can be applied to glass that block infrared light, which would reduce thermal heating.
> So stuff set in the past, generally, isnt considered scifi unless it somehow describes a potential future.

This makes literally no sense to me. Any definition of the future that doesn't include the past is just fiction, and consequently, any past is a potential future.

What you're saying sounds more like "If it doesn't have greater than present levels of 'technology', then it's not science fiction."

Which seems incredibly limiting and ignoring of the central genesis of the genre, as you've pointed out -- science.

Science is a verb, not a noun.

The idea of pointing at something in a book and saying "That's science" (and correspondingly, pointing at something in other fiction and saying "That's not science") is odd.

Where do Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, or H.G. Wells fit in your definition?
>Why does the naive entrepreneur get to play the victim here?

Now I dunno, this might be a bit of a stretch, but it might perhaps just be because they are in actual fact, quite clearly, the victim here.
It seems to me like this is going to come up in the future "everyone who bought an iDevice" vs Apple antitrust lawsuit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/supreme-court...