skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This policy will not apply to taxpayer-funded entities, including independent public broadcasters" and "This policy will apply to news media entities that are either financially or editorially controlled by the state" seem a bit contradictory to me: state media and taxpayer-funded entity are exactly the same! They can be independant as much as the politics allowed them to be. Most of the time, the people working there for some times know when to shut up and look elsewhere to save their own career or get a promotion... but are considered independant !!!!

On the other side: how independant are journalists in a news group when the top boss is a friend of the president and helped him to get elected (true in every democracy)? No need for a direct (and obvious) control to control the press: money is enough

Lastly: it only shows that Twitter is just making rules to target some specific actors (China) without naming it. But, using these rules, Twitter is "weaponizing" informations as much as China.
Corporate propaganda is one of the great triumphs of the 20th century.

In “No Logo” Noami Klein writes about people getting Nike swoosh tatoos.
I see you haven't seen the IT projects I've been part of. ;)
In a truly free market, companies aren't supposed to do anything and are more than free enough to coordinate at any level they want if it is beneficial to them with the only checks on coordination and all being game theory situations about the value of the profits that come from breaking away from and undercutting the cartel versus the ensuing loss of profits from the price war or from "punishment" by other cartel members. In a regulated market though, sure, companies aren't supposed to coordinate at that level in ways that violate the law, but this doesn't violate the law.
As others have written, simply scaling based on hours (assuming part-time is somewhere between 2-4 days per week) is pretty defensible and most people would see it as fair.

Benefits are probably the hard thing. You're UK so health insurance is presumably not as big a deal as it would be in the US--although employers do offer supplementary private insurance. But a lot of benefits like disability probably don't scale with salary. So you'd have to look at those numbers or simply take some benefits for non-fulltime (or less than X%) employees off the table.
Citizen's Advice lists requiring all employees to work full time as an example of indirect sex discrimination, so by advertising part time jobs you may be protecting yourself.
First: thanks, this was exactly the kind of historic knowledge I hoped would show up in this thread!

Gene Amdahl ran this; geeze, no surprise they got funded.

Do you happen to know how many "compute units" this chip was designed to handle?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_Systems

> These techniques included wafer scale integration (WSI), with the goal of producing a computer chip that was 2.5 inch on one side. At the time, computer chips of only 0.25 inch on a side could be reliably manufactured. This giant chip was to be connected to the rest of the system using a package with 1200 pins, an enormous number at the time. Previously, mainframe computers were built from hundreds of computer chips due to the size of standard computer chips. These computer systems were hampered through chip-to-chip communication which both slowed down performance as well consumed much power.

> As with other WSI projects, Trilogy's chip design relied on redundancy, that is replication of functional units, to overcome the manufacturing defects that precluded such large chips. If one functional unit was not fabricated properly, it would be switched out through on-chip wiring and another correctly functioning copy would be used. By keeping most communication on-chip, the dual benefits of higher performance and lower power consumption were supposed to be achieved. Lower power consumption meant less expensive cooling systems, which would aid in lower system costs.

Edit: '"Triple Modular Redundancy" was employed systematically. Every logic gate and every flip-flop were triplicated with binary two-out-of-three voting at each flip-flop.' This seems like it should it should complicate things quite a bit more dramatically.. they were doing redundancy at a gate-level, rather than a a CPU-core level.
Disney broke the law when attempting to replace its IT department with guest workers. Proof enough?
Jackie Chan has, for a good few years now, become negative toward HK and Taiwan and highly nationalistic for Beijing.

The CPC has orchestrated media personalities to also produce similar/identical statements of pre-prepared condemnation. Chan's words are just another angle of CPC's propaganda and disinformation campaigns.
Says something that they know the what, where, when, and why, but the still don't (or won't) prevent it.
It's truly insane that after all of the water under the bridge in the past twenty years with buffer overflows that the default way to access an array in C++ is not bounds-checked. If there is a performance critical loop and you need to avoid the check, there should be a way to do it but for gods sake don't make that the default.
What does being “pro business” or “against regulation” have to do with the quality of public services? These cities and states spend a ton of money on public services—they just do a bad job running them.

Besides, Western European countries manage to have good public services even though they:

1) Are more “pro business” in key respects, especially from the point of view of taxation. Western European countries generally have lower reliance on corporate taxation than the US, and much higher reliance on consumption taxes (VAT). They also rely much more heavily on payroll taxes paid for by middle class individuals than on corporate taxes.

2) Are more deregulatory in key respects. There is an E.U.-wide directive that requires rail to be deregulated and opened up to competition. If we had something similar here, instead of having government departments operate commuter rail service in say Virginia, the state would have to separate ownership of the tracks and allow for-profit companies to bid to actually operate the service. In DC, the WMATA Union is fighting tooth and nail to prevent one part of one line from being operated under contract to a private company. By contrast, the entire Stockholm subway is operated by private companies (one being MRT, the Hong Kong rail operator).

In another example, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Sweden have school vouchers: https://www.edchoice.org/school_choice_faqs/how-does-school-...

> Scholar Charles Glenn noted that “governments in most Western democracies provide partial or full funding for nongovernment schools chosen by parents; the United States (apart from a few scattered and small-scale programs) is the great exception, along with Greece.”2 Or as Diane Ravitch pointed out in a 2001 article, “The proportion of students in government-funded private schools is sizable in countries such as Australia (25 percent), Belgium (58 percent), Denmark (11 percent), France (16.8 percent), South Korea (21 percent), the Netherlands (76 percent), Spain (24 percent), and the United Kingdom (30 percent).”

“Businesses” are a total red herring. Those nice public services in Europe aren’t paid for by “businesses” they’re paid for by taxes on the middle class. The middle class agrees to pay those extra taxes, because the government has proven it can run the public services effectively. Democrats would love to raise taxes and expand public services. (See, e.g., the Democratic primary.) They just can’t convince voters that voters would get their money’s worth.

Likewise, the idea that public services in US cities is bad because Democrats aren’t far left enough is totally absurd when in Germany you can ride around on a partially-privatized passenger rail system and send your kid to a private school 85% subsidized by the government.
I'd love a PICO-16: a fantasy console almost-but-not-quite like a GBA, extended in some ways (e.g. resolution, sound channels) and reduced in others (e.g. palette, maximum ROM size.)

There are tons of these little "retro console" devices lately—the Bittboy, LDK-game, etc.—that people just treat as emulation devices, when they actually have hidden potential for running native game software as well, with more power than you can get out of them through an emulator. (They're actually usually as powerful as the original PSP, but only have the GPU capabilities of the GBA, making these consoles into a sort of unique alternate-history blend of 2001-2004 era gaming.)

But no games are being written directly for these devices, because they're all slightly-differently specced: different screen-sizes; different amounts of RAM; etc.

A hypothetical PICO-16 "platform", in my mind, would basically be an abstraction over the cross-section of native capabilities of these devices (with maybe some additional tasteful constraints on top), while still allowing to take advantage of the full hardware in a way you can't by just e.g. writing SNES or GBA homebrew.

Maybe the "platform" could even come in a few separate "profiles", where games could be either targeted to a specific minimum profile, or could respec themselves to the highest profile supported (sort of like how Z-Machine games work in detecting the VM's multimedia capabilities.) Take it far enough and PICO-8 could just be the base PICO-16 profile!
Being a west coaster obviously biases me a bit, I guess if you were living in Detroit the sentiment would be different. Actually, our beef with japan back then was related to the, trying to export their real estate bubble abroad, which is exactly what the Chinese are doing today :) (stop overpaying us for our housing, dammit!). Japan was definitely not seen as a strategic competitor in the 80s, no one was afraid of an invasion coming from them.

Pacifism a actually popular sentiment in japan; right wingers in the USA wish japan would drift away from that.
This shit is goddamn terrifying. Since when are american corporations the arbiters of accurate, international, and political, information?

We just crossed the rubicon. Public, proactive action against a relatively hostile foreign power by a non-governmental entity. If this isnt proof positive we need to either bust these monopolies or completely overhaul our view of the power megacompanies wield, idk what is.
No they don't. Taking a picture or screenshot of such an image immortalizes it. Stopping people from taking screenshots is essentially rootkit or virus functionality. (Plus it doesn't stop anyone from taking a picture of the screen.)

You're trusting the person to not make this image permanent. Could be valid, could be a serious problem.

That's if they just don't make the revenge porn out of slightly enhanced deepfake cloth.
This article by an English barrister describes some worrying changes to law that have already happened in England and Wales, and some worrying proposals.

It mentions Carl Beech. If you haven't heard of that case he was a fantasist who claimed to have been sexually abused by a high profile paedophile ring, causing huge amounts of police investigation and arrests. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49048972

The article mentions the Sexual Offences Act 2003. That's here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/pdfs/ukpga_2003...

And the Crown Prosecution Service guidance is here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/rape-and-sexual-offenc...
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If China hadn't helped re-float the dollar after 2008, the American economy would've been in ruins.
Way back when, I yielded to temptation, as comrade Oscar advised, and at a fair bought a sealed Britannica CD-ROM box.

It came with a parallel port dongle -not mentioned in the box copy- to ensure that the precious was not shared.

It did not work right, and I was cured of buying that stuff.
Yeah. Fox News has been consistent to their own ideals throughout political changes. They hated Obama because he was a Democrat and love Trump because he's a Republican. If a Democrat is elected in 2020, I don't foresee them being a mouthpiece for her. They like their Republicans. The majority of electoral college members switch it up from time to time, but Fox News doesn't change at all.
Have you seen https://icculus.org/physfs/ ?

You could put everything inside a zip and that's it.
My employer does this in an unusual way that has some benefits.

Full time workers are able to reduce as low as 50%, but you basically buy leave credits with the prorata salary reduction. So if it was ok from an operational standpoint, you could work 85% and take the summer off. Or you could flex days as appropriate.

Below 50% is a transition to part-time which has other complexities.

Personally, I’d look to make a part time professional in the US a contractor, as the benefits of being a 1099 are probably better.
>in error rate

I dont have source at moment. But I remember reading a few years ago that wikipedia had fewer errors than most all encyclopedias on average.

There is definitely something to be said about consistency and clustering but on average I believe wikipedia is still the best in fewest errors.
So government or public-private partnerships are your options
They consider the User Stories + the code to be everything you need

Then they are Doing It Wrong™. Note that there's nothing in the Agile Manifesto OR the Scrum Guide that says "don't write documentation." The closest you get is in the AM where it says "We have come to value ... Working software over comprehensive documentation". But note that immediately after that it says "That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more." IOW, the Agile Manifesto explicitly endorses the value of documentation!

Remember this the next time somebody tries to tell you that "we don't do documentation because we're Agile." Anybody running that line is Full Of Shit™.
I'd agree with this, and emphasize the point that this stuff is really tricky to get right without GC. Fighting the borrow checker is somewhat expected when you're dealing with this level of inherent complexity in your memory management.

One of the key reasons for shipping async/await is that it erases almost all of this difficulty and lets you write straight-line code again.
Mom cried.

She used to be a librarian. Then she was a geographer. The old school kind, the one that actually drew actual maps. The librarian skills really came in handy when drawing real maps. Everything had to be right. People could get lost in the wilderness and be using your map, or countries could be drawing international borders based on your map, war could break out over your mistakes. The printers and early dot-matrix printers put her whole department out of business though. That was fine, my siblings and I came along about then anyway.

I was too young to remember, but I think it was Encarta 95. I remember standing there next to Mom as she fired up the new program, my sister sat on her lap. She wasn't very tech savy, still isn't. We helped her out a bit with the mouse and clicking into everything.

We looked up East Germany first thing. Mom wanted to make sure Encarta was correct, right, true. We knew East Germany wasn't a thing anymore, even though a lot of the maps in school and in our children's books were saying it still was a thing. It took a while back then for things to percolate. Mom wanted to make sure this thing was as up to date as possible.

She typed it in, it took us to an index page, Mom clicked on the top listing (I think). We read a bit about East Germany. It had an end date. Mom was happy. This resource will do for her family. Then there was a bit of text that was underlined. Mom hovered over the underlined text. It said to click on the underlined text to go to that page. My sister squirmed a bit.

Mom clicked and then the internet came crashing into our house like an asteroid or an artillery shell or an earthquake; the floor was left behind. Everything changed in an instant.

It took us, automatically, to the linked page. I think I was about unified Germany. But it did it instantly. Boom, there you were. Reading.

Mom cried.

It was at that moment that Mom understood. No more card catalogs. No more having to hunt the shelves. No more having to look in the index for the page numbers, jamming your fingers in the back while you flipped through the tome. No more walking and sitting back down. No more having to ask strangers to watch your bags while you went diving into the stacks. No more checked out books you were looking for.

Just. Click. And. Read.

I asked her what was wrong. My sister was not happy with Mom crying. Mom was a bit flabberghasted. She told me about all the effort that went into just getting the information, all the time you lost, all the excitment that drained. And how that was no more. How it was so easy to read and to learn, now. The world was going to be so good for her children, for me, for my sister and my other siblings.

Mom cried in joy.
In Britain, it's definitely something you need to watch out for.

> indirect discrimination - putting rules or arrangements in place that apply to everyone, but that put someone with a protected characteristic at an unfair disadvantage

(from https://www.gov.uk/discrimination-your-rights/how-you-can-be...).

There have definitely been cases around aspects of part-time working which have been held to be indirect discrimination because men are (were?) overwhelmingly full-time and women not.

It is also possible to make a justification defence for indirect discrimination, though I don't know 'how good' your justification would need to be.
the interactive elements and audio clips blew my mind. It changed how I thought about information

Same experience here. It was like having the computer from the Starship Enterprise but it was right here and now and I got to use it. It’s been a long time since I felt that sense of wonder from anything in computing.
Depends if you want to hold out for the rumored 16" MacBook Pro in Sept/Opt with scissor keyboard.
I do work at the BBC and the ‘budget’ isn’t controlled by the government to the degree you imply. Negotiations around the BBC’s funding situation and remit occur every 11 years [1], which somewhat transcends the political tit-for-tat you are alluding to.

https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Sum...
At least for George Lucas, he was self-funding to start Star Wars and did not want Hollywood to own a piece of the pie (source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416716/). I'd think that would count for something in that he'd want others to realize joy in a similar model of creation.
Very useful, in the context of this article, to see the details of the Eurozone trade balance, "Latest Eurostat data on international trade" [0]. The total surplus for the entire Eurozone is €20.6B.

Noteworthy to look at the top countries by trade surplus, where Germany represents the 900-pound gorilla:

Germany: +€111.9B

Ireland: +€33.9B

Netherlands: +€32.9B

Italy: +€22.1B

Czechia: +€10.8B

Everybody else is either close to zero, or negative. Here's the worst ones:

France: -€33.6B

Spain: -€15.8B

Greece: -€11.0B

Portugal: -€10.3B

[0]: https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2013/december/tradoc_...
Eh, I was stating a fact, don't understand why it got down voted.
We have an old encyclopedia set - not Britannica though, from the 1910s or 1920s. I think it was my grandfather's originally, bought for father and uncles. Perhaps the generation earlier.

Whilst it's not especially useful in today's world, it's a fascinating relic, especially on trades and skills that have declined or died out. On medicine, zoology and other sciences, it's occasionally surprising how we used to think. I'd periodically pick it up and read a few entries at random, and often disappear down a rabbit hole. At some point it stopped being obsolete and pointless to become fascinating history.

That's one thing Encarta could have been had it continued - a valuable snapshot of how thought and knowledge evolved. Always updated Wikipedia can and will never be that as sadly you can't snapshot a given date, and digging through edit histories is horribly unfriendly. We may have lost something there.
I think the problem is that the "Listen for debug connections" button doesn't look like a toggle (a slider that will move back and forth). If it looks like a toggle, then showing the current state is good because the button design is saying that it will toggle away from that current state, but if it's not a toggle, the user understands button icons as signifying what will happen.
This has been a long time coming. Short term profits as the only goal has been destroying the market rather than serving it. It's time to make lasting investments in pooling capital, human ingenuity, and goodwill to build corporations that can stand the test of time.

It remains to be seen how seriously this will be taken and how closely companies will follow it. However, giving any benefit of the doubt makes this likely the best news we'll hear about anything for some time.
I doubt I’ll have the money to buy it...
It certainly sounds a lot more interesting than the original version.
>a stylus will just get lost within the first day

Extremely relatable. Someone needs to come up with a stylus that is permanently attached to a laptop using a wire or some other sort of contraption, similar to writing pads with permanently attached pens. The slot (hole) for the stylus should still stay, so that it can be packed up/stored neatly.

The main reason it was not done yet, my guess, is because of the dangling cable from the tablet when the stylus is stored in the slot, but it could be retractable for storage or something like that.
Perhaps I'm just more incredulous. Many more people are just as sure that homeopathy works and that vaccines cause autism, so I'd just as soon assume it's psychology at work. But I think what you're saying is that we don't yet have beneficial techniques just ideas that could lead to them. I can't argue with that because I have no information one way or another. All I'm saying is, when someone does figure out how to develop software considerably better/faster, that achievement would be hard to hide.
Yup. The page becomes inactive (guessing that it's because of recursive exceptions happening in JS) after some playing around.

OP, I suggest ironing out these issues before it taints your product.

Also, the positions displayed are relative to the initial position of the object being moved...why?
> we're much harder to subvert.

Surely, "I'm confident I'm not gullible" is the primary risk factor for actually being gullible.
Required reading from our own PG:
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Now that China is using historically corporate channels of propaganda, I hope that we can all realize that we need to close them, not just to foreign states but also to the corporations who were abusing them originally.
While I appreciate the recommendations, the language/tone is a bit over the top. Nobody’s seriously suggesting you should dump offline slices of Google Maps, or Open Street Map (OsmAnd) in order to use an outdated virtual atlas. It’s more like we’re reminiscing on how National Geographic (and others) used to actually publish these very large world atlases, and how for it’s time, CD-ROM-delivered encyclopedias for the world’s primary platform of the day (Windows) were revolutionary.
Same on iPad
We should have listened to the Club of Rome in 1972, "The Limits to Growth". Now, it is too late.
I don't really understand why a 4 year old article about a fake chocolatier is relevant to this site.

I actually went to their store in Williamsburg before this drama unfolded, and I remember saying something along the lines to my wife 'Wow, I can't believe this is their only facility, it looks way too small to pump out so many bars'.
This is one of our favorite jokes internally, often invoked when new signage is put up to clarify how trashcans work or the like.