skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People seem to be really surprised that capitalism doesn’t equal freedom. Time to wake up. Free world is in decline. Democracies of today are mostly facades to a more-less controlled societies. Sure, people can vote, but what happens after that? The accountability and controlling mechanisms have been in erosion for years now. Even the EU legislation, once a model of democracy, is now so far from the individual citizen that it’s often difficult to understand why Brussels is voting on certain laws.

It used to be that free press kept close tabs on those in power. Well, thanks to the Internet it got very easy to attack the press and very hard for the press to stay profitable. We are heading towards a cliff and hopefully we will create a better system after that. But man, it will hurt to fall.
Yeah, how dare people want to sleep in a bed under a roof. So entitled.
Have you tried Darktable?
I truly doubt they would cave to any pressure at all.

Those two thrive on this kind of controversy, I can basically picture them sitting back and rubbing their nipples while watching this unfold.

We need more people like Trey Parker and Matt Stone who aren't afraid of starting some controversy to get a conversation started. They choose to do it through cartoons and satire, but I honestly believe they understand our society at a fundamental level.
Blue for boys, pink for girls? How quaint.
> Then there would be arguments that a certain symbol or action is political.

No because they would not allow anything.

> Like FIFA ludicrously deciding that a poppy on a Remembrance Sunday international is political

If you start allowing this sort of display to commemorate a war then you open the door to plenty of highly political displays because wars are obviously highly political and sensitive issues.

Even in the UK wearing a poppy or not is political.
While living in France I mucked around with the voice of Siri on the iPhone a bit, to find a setting that would allow the phone to understand both me (speaking English) and the names of streets and places in Paris.

After switching between French and English a couple times I ended up with a voice that spoke English but used the French voice synthesizer.

To me it sounded eerily like a French person with a very thick accent speaking English, but it was still quite understandable. Sadly the setting didn't survive moving to a new phone, it was a fun party trick.
> You're paid more because you are expected to provide a lot of value and are also hard to replace. Society is simply giving you back some of the value that you're creating for it

well, perhaps. your employer is giving you some of the value you are helping your employer generate/extract/appropriate.

depending on what your job or project is exactly, the net result of what you and your employer do may in fact be destroying a lot of value for society, but extracting a lot of wealth from others and reallocating it to your employer.

there is a lot of money to be made pushing profits onto owners of the business now and spreading costs over a large number of people in the future, in a way that's a net loss for society. if you can help a business owner optimise this process, there may be a good business case for the business owner to give you a cut of the spoils... but you're kidding yourself framing this in the language of "generating value". it depends on the details
And then you get sued for $100k over your "bare minimum". This just makes front end dev seem dangerous, because you can never be sure that you meet absolutely all the guidelines without being a lawyer.
To be honest, Domino’s pizza ain’t good. You probably better off this way.
This is why the NHS is permanently underfunded... because it is always called on to do additional things but it can never ditch any existing obligations. Any serious discussion of funding must start with stopping taking on more until the existing functions are budgeted for, then we can talk about extras.

Tobacco was taxed to cover the cost of healthcare associated with it, so games and social media should be taxed the same way.
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What exactly are you trying to say? Blizzard has indeed used pride flag in marketing materials and that is a VERY political statement
> While folks are thinking about CDs: I've not been able to get an F2/F3-frame CD image. If anyone has such a thing (not copyrighted, just a CD containing a text file or public domain music piece is fine), I'd love to get it so I can implement a CIRC encoder/decoder!

I don't know if you've already seen this, but I've heard of someone getting an image like this. They used it to discover what the AccurateRip drive offset values mean in terms of the physical location of the subchannel data and interleaved main channel data on the disc. There's a vague description of their process in there as well.

https://club.myce.com/t/offsets-handling-syncing-of-audio-da...

> Using my neat hardware setup I now have captured a precious 0.1 seconds worth of 588-bit channel data frames from a pristine audio CD, each frame containing, among other things, a subchannel byte and 24 bytes of audio data.

> I can reproduce the CIRC, get the de-interleaved audio data, and also do the Reed-Solomon C1/C2 stuff in software from my analog laser readouts - showing an error-free read, identical to what I get with my Plextor using somewhat more conventional methods.
Just read through the comments here and it's obvious why it got flagged off the front page. Grade A flamewar material.
Going off the Wikipedia plot summary of the episode, it looks like it makes fun of (a) Chinese-American people (not the Chinese government); and (b) paranoid fantasies of Westerners about China invading the U.S.; and ultimately "Cartman decides he'd rather be Chinese than "a nation of unethical dick shooters"".

My model of the Chinese government at the moment is that they primarily care about opposition/disrespect/criticism of the Chinese government. Does anyone have data points as to whether they care about, say, present-day racist insults of (a) Chinese-Americans; (b) Chinese living in China? Might be interesting to see where the lines are drawn.
(self-answer) Ok, Scott says yes https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317
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Gave actor Donnie Yen a starring role.
Of the four terrestrial planets, two have no moons, one has two tiny moons, and one (Earth) has a large moon. The jovian planets have lots of moons, but they are giant planets.

The question is more “why does Earth have a big moon” than “why doesn't Earth have a slew of moons like a jovian planet.”
I don't understand this comment. The result of this episode was the government of China banned the episode. That's censorship.

What am I missing?
What you're saying seems to be built on assumption that all "politics" is the same. It absolutely isn't. Evil (fascism, concentration camps, ehtnic cleansing, ...) and fighting against evil, are both political stances, but they are very different.

And "let's not interfere with evil because it would be politics (or affect our bottom line)" is definitely political stance - it's picking the evil side.
Made me laugh when Apple made a big stink about privacy BUT "chose" to headquarter their messaging servers in China under "Chinese oversight" basically compromising every iMessage user in China.This is of course labelled as "compliance"

Privacy and Encryption don't mean much when the government literally controls the servers
The problem is, you also take a political stance by removing him from your tournament. Intended or not, people will read this as 'shilling' for China. Now I don't follow Hearthstone, but it's quite common to ask players personal questions like "How did you prepare for this match?" and I could see someone answering that with how the HK situation has affected that (less time, extra stress etc.).

This is not automatically a political statement, but just by bringing that up they could have banned and DQ'ed him for the same reason and it would've looked just as bad if not even worse. It would still look political in that situation.
I m more concerned about the nepotism contained in the piece rather than the expose, which acts as a good promotion for his book
macOS was pushed back. Not a couple of months, mind you, but at least a couple of weeks.
To clarify, I am not critical of the language Haskell itself. I think it is great. It is mostly a criticism of the tutorials and general culture around the language.

For example Rust is another language which have a reputation for being hard to learn, due to novel and complex concepts like the borrow checker. But in my experience you see none of this "talking down" to the audience. They just explain how the stuff works with practical examples.
Spec is very useful, but please implement it without macros. Metosin did a great job to make it more usable, but we still struggle because specs could only exist in Namespaces. We want to use spec as EDN with pure functions. (+ recursive specs would be awesome)
I think the part that confused me was the idea of one side in the culture war forcing companies to bow to China, as a tactical manoeuvre. I just can’t see the “unwoke” segments siding with China.
A Chrome extension I've used is Siteimprove Accessibility Checker https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/siteimprove-access...
>>>No other American city has built as much affordable housing per capita, according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. From 2004 to 2014, the city spent $2 billion on nearly 3,000 new units of permanent supportive housing.

You’re conflating addressing “housing transience” with addressing “addiction, mental illness, and criminal antisocial behavior”. Additional housing units don’t resolve this problem.
Edinburgh has people living in tents. There was someone I used to see from the bus who lived on a park bench for months, surrounded by a pile of black bags of his stuff. Nicely situated park bench too, just far enough out to be away from the tourists but with a great view of the hills.

I hear reports of a used needle problem but haven't seen any myself.

The problem in northern Europe is not so much that the police will move on people in tents as the winters are colder than SF; Norway has zero long-term street homeless because the winter will kill them quickly.
New Google Pixel 4: it’s time to find out about the smartphones’ cost
Alright. How about:

"Then she received a letter from a lawyer in Florida,telling her that a) one image web site is not licensed; b) If she doesn't fix it, they'll file a law suit; and c) She needs to pay the lawyers $4,000 to "cover the unauthorised use of the single image without license"."

That happens all the time. Enough that it's fairly well known now. I think few would just lift an image off another site these days.

If this is required to get sites to give a shit about accessibility once again, great! A few headline cases of huge, crippling fines, and few would just put out a site without accessibility, or give a tender to developers without a contract section covering it.

So the only remaining issues are whether $4k is a reasonable sum or just a lawyer trying it on, and whether she can sue OpenCart for providing a non-accessible platform.
Which part of their constitution mentions the gulags they sent their muslims/protestors to?
Google will embed several modules in Pixel 4 and 4 XL, in addition to the front camera. The company called this system Soli – it can scan a person’s face and determine hand movements.
It's a simile, that it's a simile is obvious, and you know that that's the case. No-one is reasonably going to expect that the Canaanites literally built an NYC. Don't be persnickety.
> More than half of the world's population speaks more than one language - we need to get better at building software that accounts for that.

Yes please, can't I just setup a cookie or something that lets sites know which languages I speak? I'm so sick and tired of american sites forcing spanish on me because I log from a spanish IP...
So then the real question is how do we use Trumps ego and addiction to social media to get him to start caring about HK.

His "trade war" already puts him in an adversarial stance towards from the perspective of his base.
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Yeah, but claiming moral high ground for boycotting Georgia over transgender bathrooms is hard while simultaneously doing business with China with the Uygur and Hong Kong situations.
It's serendipitous all these events are happening now for me personally. I was recently burned by a piece of very useful and well crafted software (closed source). I did a fresh install on my machine and went to find their website which to my dismay had completely disappeared! I followed whatever breadcrumbs were left and found a whole thing had happened while I wasn't paying attention where the copyright for this software was now in complete limbo and noone who had recently purchased a license could redownload it.

This is allegedly where the software exists now.

https://audiofile.engineering/

Which contains absolutely no trace of the program Myriad Pro.

This is the discussion from kvr about it.

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=525534

On the plus side I doubled down and learned SoX which I wrap up in some python now and it's fast, open source and others can develop on my efforts.
What we need is a JS developer to take down an important package from NPM in protest, thus breaking the Internet again.
Ugh, is there no better way to patch that?
You won't necessarily have to use it directly to reap benefits from it. API authors can use it to provide you with excellent error messages which pinpoint the exact location something is wrong
There is nothing wrong with calls to hurt a Communist government politically and economically.
Hong Kong Stock Market Retracts Offer to Buy London Exchange
That's the best part, there is no correct choice.

Corporations love sitting the moral grey area on issues like this, but putting them in a position of having to choose between looking like Chinese stooges or getting banned from China will break their minds.
China Signals It Will Hit Back over U.S. Tech Blacklist
Hardly, it's a symbol of remembrance of dead, not of a war. It's a hell of a stretch to call the use of a white poppy political.

Most remembrance ceremonies have veterans of both sides attending, and are used for reconcilliation - unlike e.g. WW2 anniversaries such as the now comically overblown D Day fun days.
There actually has been enforcement: https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/mondelez-uk-ltd-a14-275018.ht...
Yesterday I tried to apply a soundtrack to a video (cut video, cut audio, join together). Latest blender allowed me to add two sources to the timeline, but stutters and freezes killed my i7-8700, so I was unable to match timecodes or do anything. I could not even find play button to preview any sensible result. Resorted to cli ffmpeg -ss -t, which did it well.

I don’t know blender (nor any adobe video editing sw), but as a power user noob in it I expected at least something.
Mars has two itty-bitty moons, and the other two terrestrial planets have zero moons. Earth’s moon has something like 99.99998% of the mass of all moons of terrestrial planets.
I don't quite get why people are mad at Schmidt and not the Guardian for shady reporting.

So a woman interned at SLC Elections (which later became Cambridge Analytica) and now works at Uber.

After reading the story I fail to see her significance to the story of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The author of that piece is trying to make a fact that she's the daughter of Eric Schmidt into some sinister "Silicon Valley elite" impugning that she's the mastermind behind Cambridge Analytica becoming the shady organization.

It's really shady, grasping at rhetorical straws journalism.

"A firm that belonged to someone she knew about through her father" is so much juicier and scandalous than "Palantir".

Strangely, I don't know Eric Schmidt and I do know about Palantir.

Yes, Schmidt can buy more justice than most of us, but in this case, the primary issue is the high cost of justice, not that some people are rich and can afford it.

The idea that rich can bully anyone with lawyers is seductive, but this is The Guardian, a newspaper with its own army of lawyers. Newspaper that published Snowden files and many other controversial things.

If there was no merit to the complaint, the Guardian would tell Schmidt to sod off.

After reading the article it seems to me that the "journalist" threw a completely innocent person under the bus, tried to implicate her into an international scandal only because she happened to be a daughter of a famous person.

It's appalling what Guardian did implicating her in this scandal. And sad because it was otherwise well researched.
The obvious, necessary solution would be to respond by aggressively doxing the executives of Blizzard and their large stockholders.

It's all about money until your wife and kids start getting calls at night and the cops kick in your door.

There's no reason to remain civil when fighting those who'd stand against human rights.
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It’s pronounced wuss-tu-shu.
>No, a forum is insufficient, it needs to actually be a business.

But this means that almost every forum does count.
How about Chinese owners?

Chinese Tencent owns 5 percent of Blizzard, if full owner of Riot Games, 48% of Epic Games, 11.5% of Bluehole (Fortnite and PUBG), 5% of Ubisoft. They are also investor in Discord. https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

AMC is fully owned by Chinese. The largest movie theater chain in the United States is fully owned by Chinese.

Legendary Entertainment Group is owned by Chinese.

Forbes Media sold majority stake to Chinese company.
Isn't that already true now? The problem is that most corporations seem to be picking the first option.
Article 36. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief.
https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles
I go to a JavaScript conference to learn about JavaScript.

I watch sports to watch sports.

I'm sick of other people thinking 'their' politics is ok to shove down my throat. They want to 'fight' for their cause, cool, but take the consequences.

The NBA for whatever reason has allowed published (aka public Twitter) political comments in the past so it's different to this case.
New deepfakes research finds they’re mainly used to degrade women
That's completely true, except for the fact that none of it is true.

Go to China and openly criticize the government, hand out fliers about Tienanmen square with Winnie the Pooh on it and see what happens.

God forbid you actually are a citizen of China, because as a foreigner you will be put in a detention center until deported. As a citizen you will disappear.
I mean, there was a reason for doing so: older Macs don’t support hardware H.265 decoding. It’s not like they disabled it just to spite people.
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> But communism isn't defined by that [central planning]

> Communism is ultimately about building a totalitarian system

I really don't want to be advocate of communism, but it seems to me you're cherry-picking the defining characteristics of communism to suit you. After all:

> Indeed Marx laid out almost nothing of how actual communist states were meant to operate

So why demand it must be totalitarian? Also

> Communism is ultimately about building a totalitarian system in which the ruling classes must be loyal devotees of Marxist social theory

Communist party in Poland at least certainly wasn't that. They were the first to become devote capitalists in 1989.
I have no advice, just a anecdata: Me and people I know got into consulting, because we were interested in certain technologies; really interested, researched all stuff, tried to answer all questions on those matters, engage with people online, organizing events.

And all of the sudden, people come to you with business cases, questions and consulting gigs. I see consulting for money an extension of something, that you are already passionate about (I mean professionally passionate, you don't have to pour your identity into it).

The idea is not that hard, it's just that you have to have enough energy and sitzfleisch to see these things through.
So a company does a shit move and you want to take it out on kids?

Doxing is never the answer. The answer is: stop using products from shit companies.
We use it extensively as a kind of "incremental typing" - that is, I can assert that what goes in to a function has a given shape and what goes out complies as well. Even in production, the overhead is quite low (think 5% in our use case).
I definitely did. There must have been a huge copyright strike a few months ago, and some brave channels started reuploading the classics recently.

But no sight of the tinny sketch yet.
In the US, in San Francisco specifically, many homeless get not just a free coffee, but free needles, methadone, and pretty much a blind eye to all drug circulation downtown. The city spends $300 million on homeless every year, yet in the other thread here they say that SF has more homeless than all of the UK, and that number keeps growing every year. There are people defecating every day in the street around my office in the Financial District, I guess I should start buying them coffee or some food and things will get back on track.
I think it also hinges on whether or not previous players have made “offensive” statements before.

If it’s only happened once and they’ve punished it once, I think that’s as consistent as possible.

Although of course there’s a lot wriggle room re definition of “offensive”, which muddies the waters.
There is no US-only restriction. Some locations might be restritcted, but I could watch the episode in Estonia. https://southpark.cc.com/
How do you suppose this would be implemented? These things only affect a very small niche audience. Most people don't care what is going on in HK and even less people will care about this incident.
Direct action against executives, even by tiny groups, is far more likely to have an impact than passive boycotts.

Eh, I guess virtue signalling is the priority on HN and not actual change. Think of the poor executives kids! Not Falun Gong, HKers or the Uyghurs.
We've recently had an ex-consultant join our team as a perm and one of the biggest challenges he's faced is reducing his ego. It's taken several months to adjust his working methods into a "team player" and realise he's not the only smart person it the room.
The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us
The animal barn is a pretty popular feature at state and county fairs.
Okay, assuming you are smart, skilled, work hard, lucky, organized etc this is the one piece of strategic advice that will deliver the most value if you start a consulting practice:

Define your niche as narrowly as possible.

I know it sounds counterintuitive but it works wonders. You can read crossing the chasm or just try it. You’re not a tech consultant, you’re not a crypto consultant, you’re not even a bitcoin consultant, you might be something like the best person to document the ICO process for the investment community in Europe.

Because there is a lot of competition for the former but you should basically own your market.
After reading further reply, I understand the idea as this: the "unwoke" side of the culture war sees a company proclaiming to be woke, and to expose them as hypocrites they do something that forces the company to either defy China or to reveal that their woke marketing is full of crap.
System helps smart devices find their position
Why Campaigns to Change Language Often Backfire
Also, I'm disappointed I missed the obvious "Softwars"
App Detects Eye Disease in Personal Photos IEEE Spectrum
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