skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the point is that these lawsuits are intended to raise public awareness of the issue which will ideally put pressure the companies being sued to institute voluntary policing of their supply chain.

Beyond the legal merits, tech companies have been talking about "conflict minerals" for a while. You could certainly doubt how seriously committed they are to resolving the minerals-sourcing issues, or even what their motivations are: my unconfirmed assumptions are that "conflict minerals" https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/policy/policy-confli... was conceived by Intel as an adaptation of the "conflict diamonds" campaign, and that the "conflict diamonds" campaign was in turn something contrived by De Beers as a marketing effort. But what's remarkable is how little consumers seem to have cared or responded even when manufacturers made the running on the issue. It seems it's much easier to get consumers on an ethical-sourcing bandwagon when the product is a luxury good bought for social-signaling purposes (like fur coats or diamonds) than when it's something they look on as a quotidian expense or something to get the most bang for the buck in. Which is unfortunate, I think: consumers probably should get off their arses and on the likely-somewhat-sleazy "conflict minerals" bandwagon, because it's likely the best chance to meet our responsibilities and effect real change in the sourcing of minerals for electronic devices.
Can someone please tell me what XR means? It's not defined in the article. I'm guessing something to do with VR but it's not clear.
Lately, my favorite comments about English as a second language come from Finnish comedian Ismo, regarding his take on the most complicated word in the English language: Ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGcDi0DRtU

(Reasonably SFW; the set is from a normal TV talk show.)
Related: what does "punishing" a company mean anyway, fines? Those are paid for by the consumer. So what's the difference? Same as corporate taxation. Taxing and "punishing" companies but pretending that the consumer is not affected is just a political game.
How do you measure/quantify over engineering?
Who would have thought building a country in a flood zone would be a bad idea? /s
You're telling me with 100 billion dollars in the bank you don't fully understand your supply chain and make an informed decision?
Yeah I guess I would focus on the base case of using it on the options, fixed income, etc that the bank has position information on (x100000000 positions). Just because all that data is clean.
From the article:

> I'd tell them that at the start, obviously. This isn't The Secret Rules For Getting Hired.

> "I know you've never used Blender*," I'd say, "And this job doesn't require it. But we want to see how quickly and accurately you can learn to use something unfamiliar while under pressure."
Investing in renewable energy doesn't mean that you'll drastically reduce your CO² emissions.

You have to take into account the capacity factor of what you install https://jancovici.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/load-factor...

You need to install 3 to 4 times more windmill and solar panel to approach the same output. You also need to install huge way to store your electricity (mostly using damns, hard to get in places where you don't have mountains such as NL) and you need to invest the double into the electricity infrastructure to transport this electricity (your windmill will produce most of the time at 10-20% of it capacity, but the day it produces 90% you still have to transport it, therefore your grid need to be oversized for the average usage).

Solar panels are mostly coming from China and need to be changed each 20-30 years (they are loosing efficiency after a few decades). Windmills need to be changed each 20 years (lots of mechanical stress involved), and are mostly impossible to recycle (https://www.livingcircular.veolia.com/en/industry/how-can-wi...). Also, to install windmills you need to put a lot of concrete in the fields as a base, concrete that is emitting also a lot of CO² to produce.

As a result you'll still have a non-controlled electricity production, where prices will vary a lot and where maintenance costs will stay really high decades after decades. It's not only about investing, it's also about maintaining something that works through the years.
Maybe just as a "trade secret" that you're not allowed to share outside the company. (Edit, yes...there's an NDA section that calls out recipies)
The hyphen to the rescue!

"third-world mining operation": a mining operation that is also a third-world operation.

VS

"third-world-mining operation": an operation for mining of the third world

VS

"third-world third-world-mining operation": a third-world operation for mining of the third world

VS

"first-world third-world-mining operation": a company headquartered in CH that mines in the deep backcountry of the DRC.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3177/3177-h/3177-h.htm#linkch...

for the days before hazmat suits.
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I remember X10! The whole "over powerline" thing was a real possibility back in the day but it required all transformers to have a small modification done to them and that killed it IIRC. You could certainly do it in your home though.
Depending on the constraints of your community, it can be quite effective just to go out and talk to people in the physical world and show them / get them to try your service.
You can use nearby meetups and similar events that already have your intended audience and a place which they will be happy to give you the time of day.
This gives you the benefit of immediate feedback and a local set of users that you've personally met and have built rapport with and will scale just fine to a few hundred users. I've been trying this approach with my London based events sharing community https://onlythebestevents.com and have been pleased with the results so far.
Information, and control.

All of the products I can buy may or may not contain this unthetical cobalt. I don't know which, and my personal buying choice doesn't effect anything.

What are you proposing, that everyone with a smartphone or a computer be sued? How will that work?
Corporations have far more resources than individuals, and a much smaller set of things to worry about, if this is limited to inputs or products the company themselves are responsible for creating or having created (not, say, office chairs and pens). Individuals can't just "put a person on it" (they are the person—perhaps there are a few in a household, but they still can't afford to make it any one person's job) and they consume a much wider variety of things from many more sources than your average business does (again, constrained to things core to its business).

"Well why can't they restrict themselves to a smaller set of products the supply chains of which they can verify?" well yes, they could, but this is plainly still vastly more burdensome than asking a company to simply make sure the much-smaller set of folks involved in its supply chain aren't killing kids, given the vast resource disparities between the two.

So, while pushing liability "to the end of the chain" may satisfactory complete some kind of line of ethical reasoning, practically speaking it's just a way of saying "I'd rather we do nothing". Pushing the liability to companies might actually accomplish something, without undue burden (as pushing the liability to consumers would, I think it's clear, surely have).

At any rate, isn't the market supposed to be great at sorting these things out? If we could let market-based solutions take over the role of things like food safety certification without massive increases in risk and decreases in convenience and wild inefficiency, as I've seen proposed, then surely these companies can figure out some way to organize a market for supplier validation and inspection that solve the problem more efficiently than government directly inspecting and certifying every part of every supply chain. Right?
What helped me the most was an app on my phone. I'd be sitting there waiting for something with a few minutes to spare, and I could fire up the app and run through sample questions. Huge huge help.
All of classical mathematics before 1930 can be formalized in the the theory Ordinals. However, formalizing digital computation requires the theory Actors, which is axiomatized here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3459566
>I mean, what other technologies should we deny ourselves? A tyrant can use tanks and troop transports to wage war on their citizens. Should we tear up the roads lest they be abused by tyranny?

As you have been overly fond of using tu quoque as a rhetorical device throughout this thread ─ in your earlier response, you trivialised the exercise of willingly handing-over the most precious of all and the pinnacle of personal data, whilst paying for the privilege, and compared it to just another transaction on Amazon: what about the fact, that almost all tyrants are enabled and empowered by somebody (usually the govt.); it would be conducive to conclude based upon your fervour, that you are equally complicit in creating yet another tyrannical corporation, which shares your disdain for privacy?
The last time I tried RSS again (I was a big reader user), every feed had a on paragraph summary and link to the full article on the website.

I couldn't actually read the news in it anymore.
Not sure if the distinction between accent and pronunciation is very relevant here? I have a particular/personal 'French' accent that heavily influences the way I pronounce words. As stated, it mainly comes from the way I learnt : I often straight up applied french pronunciation (but with some basic informed knowledge of what could be the proper way) to what I read. So, to answer your examples, I pronounce those exactly like the french "beau", "tire" and "rot".

For me, English has been a mostly literary language for years with most spoken forms coming to me with simultaneous subtiles. So, it's rare that I encounter a new spoken word that I haven't read before, but with time and familiarity you develop some kind of heuristics I guess (and enough of English comes from French that there is no need to be too lucky).

I now live in Japan and used to guide, in English, foreign tourists in Kyoto. Amusingly only native speakers seemed to sometimes have difficulties to understand my strange pronunciation/accent.
Fair point, but, I think we all can agree "proper regulation written by people who know what they're talking about" is extremely unlikely to happen.
I guess this is why startups exist because it it almost impossible for larger firms to execute good ideas even if they think of the idea themselves
Can python be used to make an "app"?
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It's all bout money encapsulated by "security" marketing buzzword. Yes, DoH is an improvement over old plaintext UDP DNS. But why should I used a nobody service over Cloudflare or Google that update their databases within seconds all over the world and rarely if ever faced a downtime?
Google doesn't have armies and police forces. It can't "force" anyone to do anything, unlike governments.

Deciding not to provide its services is not a use of force from google.
> These tech companies aren't direct buyers any more than you or me

Well, they're (a) further up the supply chain that we are, and (b) have the resources to understand and influence their supply chain. You can be pedantic about the word "direct" if you like but I don't think that's useful.
My experience is the opposite, basically every home I go to has an Alexa or a google home. It’s not doing too much typically managing lights/smart switches, and playing music.
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If it's free, you are the product. It's by Google for crying out loud.
That's nonsense. In Germany the default for contracts is that you need your employers permission to do side projects. Germany is in the EU.
I think the primary issue with interviews is that the interviewer doesn’t share expectations. I think it’s totally fine to evaluate how a person asks for help, as long as it’s clear they aren’t expected to solve the problem.

Further, you’d need some standardized way to evaluate how well someone asks for questions. Otherwise you’ll have interviewer bias.

Which is why designing interviews are very difficult.
I can recall something along the lines: used to be like that with Light Link but as of Zigbee 3 it’s really interoperable all round (Hue hub registering third party devices and Hue lamps working with generic hubs.)

I’m still looking for other devices to mesh into a ZB3 network: I’d love to see an Opentherm capable controller able to use any connected thermometer and heating element valves to modulate heat flux production and distribution around my flat. Might be overthinking though... it’s so well thermally insulated.
There is a great point here you haven’t made yet.

It may seem trivial for those of us on HN to block IP devices from the internet, but the average user will not know how to do that effectively. They are also the ones who’s devices probably remain on a botnet undetected by their owners.

That said, most hubs (required for these types of devices) connect to the internet by default anyway. It does reduce risk a bit as vulnerability in a node isn’t exploitable remotely.
ALWAYS upvote for Pumping Moms, Kudos!
I've stumbled upon a music teacher on Reddit and YT with a very different approach to music theory. He basically builds something like a framework around music theory that makes it more intuitive to learn.

Here one of his free videos that got me interested:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=v7l6Y6fTPDw

or

https://youtube.com/watch?v=v7l6Y6fTPDw
Personal insults are not allowed on Hacker News.
I hadn't seen this until recently. It seems to be pushed by VCs and the tech megacorps, so if you work at a VC-backed startup it's likely in your contract or if you work for one of the bigger tech companies. I believe IBM had this for a long time. If you're working for a company outside of "pure tech", it's much rarer
For someone who thinks Zigbee already is an open standard, well, it is NOT really open though. A standard being publicity available does not always make it open-source friendly.

Linux considers it a proprietary protocol [1] so Zigbee driver cannot be part of Linux kernel. Although Zigbee spec allows non-commercial individuals to freely use it, a commercial organization must be a member of the Zigbee Alliance in order to use Zigbee, which violates the GPL standard. [2]

At least the article speaks out "an open-source approach", let's see if things will get better.

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/ieee802154...

[2]: https://archive.freaklabs.org/index.php/blog/zigbee/zigbee-l...
My understanding is that he meant having a total of two ports, so that you can use one for WAN and one for LAN.
Out of curiosity what model do you use? The last phone I had with the capability to do so was an s4.
They probably do some of the time.

To the hackers, it's likely a cost of business.
Fwiw, I recently found this resource, which is pretty nice:

http://openmusictheory.com/
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How do you fake it while staying plausible? Did you just create a dozen sock puppet accounts and post yourself? Or pay/incentive for content?
a million sequential memory accesses should not take 5 seconds. Maybe 5 ms. Most likely the time is spent on VM /interpreter startup and shutdown, OS overhead, etc.
I have about 20 Z-Wave switches in my home, spread across 4 models and 2 brands. There were noticeable differences in response time, both from the physical button and over Z-Wave, when comparing brands. And even the most reliable brand for me (Aeotec) has had issues with the network being a little laggy. That's still a success in my books, though; I have bought Z-Wave devices that do not play nicely at all.

On the other hand, my Philips Hue lights have all been absolutely flawless. They fire on time, every time.

I think implementation of the standards matters a lot more than the standard itself, in practice.
Without a good concrete example, this sounds like a terrible idea.

Scale -> basis makes no sense to me. The scale climbs up and down, like how you scale a ladder. The basis… does not do that.

Tonic, dominant, subdominant are used mostly in discussions about functional harmony. The biggest reason why it would be a total disaster to rename tonic -> primary is because we already use the terms primary and secondary here! For example, V is the “primary dominant” but nobody actually says the word “primary”. Primary chords are taken from the scale of the tonic, and secondary chords are taken from a different scale. So V/V is a “secondary dominant”.
What are you proposing, that if your vendor is sued you don't pay for it?
I assume that's the windows 3.11 era? It was a simpler time, with small non-hostile networks, less critical software, and more humans in the loop. While 'workgroup' mostly means PC/DOS to me, the mainframes of the day had a comparable story unfolding.
What I was talking about the promises Uber made about traffic and car ownership and the future of transportation.

It didn't it literally did the opposite of everything promised.

It made traffic in cities worse: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/6/20756945/uber-lyft-tnc-vmt...

It made car ownership in cities even greater: https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/01/uber-lyft-make-t...
Allowing private access to healthcare is a slippery slope. Anyone paying for a service is someone who is also taking the place of someone using that service as a basic right.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be an option for blood tests in particular (as is your example) but there are multiple things to consider when you start opening those up to anyone willing/able to pay.
> Programming languages don't make people miserable.

JavaScript makes me miserable when I have to fix it.
The same SGX that was on the front page a couple of days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21759683
i wish the harder i pressed the trackpad the more votes you would get. I remember smart home standards being talked about and published around 1999. Like another poster mentioned, X10 was a big thing around then even though it came out in the 70s.
You're moving the goalposts. The comment above yours says (and quite rightly) that Google does not have the power of a government and shouldn't be considered as such. And your response is "but Microsoft!".
Every API they have ever released is eventually placed in WONTFIX. It's not like you have the source code.
Care to site some examples?
Extended reading on this? I found myself chuckling at the absurdity of this at first, and then kept reading finding out that this is actually quite a good idea. What topics would this come under? General compiler architecture?
Can confirm, it's all about the buy box. My company offers free 1 and 2 day shipping to all customers across all channels in as many zips as our fc network allows. SFP gets us the buy box with a way higher percentage and gives us a significant boost in our Amazon revenue.
There are consultancies that specialize in compensation benchmarking. One is Radford Consulting. They survey companies for pay info. Imagine they also get intel from clients.
Samsung $12 pay-as-you-go phone from Walmart. They don't have that model in the store any more, but there is a similar one for $29.
Yes! That also makes sense.
But even people going through formal CS education might miss a lot of things.

I learnt something called "Probabilistic Timed Automata". That was actually perfect for one problem we were trying to solve!

I consider Dictionary (Hash Maps) as well known. But bloom filters not so.
Well that shows that you are insane.
Whatever you do, don't give up on it until you have tried HF in a semi-serious way, at least by visiting a functioning HF station and tuning around. In my view, VHF local FM can be great or very boring depending on where you live and the local community, whereas HF reaches all over the world and feels a lot different than a phone call.

Anyone who wants a demo should post their location in this thread... My station can be demo'ed just via a laptop (remotely, such as from a bar or coffee shop) and I'm sure many of us who are hams would be happy to help any interested person from HN get familiar with what it's all about.
This is not the Sieve (despite its name). For just one reason, the Sieve does not ever require testing divisibility.
Hopefully that didn't come across as aggressive against Fairphone or your comment. I like Fairphone and might actually buy their phone next cycle.
This is just a topic that really matters to me, as I've witnessed what happens when someone goes down the environmental responsibility rabbit hole to the point of not being able to properly function because of feeling guilty about basically every part of modern society.
Making sacrifices to make up for other people's wrongdoing is never a good mentality. You shouldn't give away your money to people who got robbed. But you should definitely stop voting for the party that made robbery legal.
I'm not sure what you are expecting here. CHoIP would define messaging that certified products must implement, meaning that an Amazon device and an Apple device would send the same message to a Phillips light to turn it on, and that message would be carried over IP.

The messaging would be agnostic of where the source is. It could be a device in the local network, or it could be a cloud-based service (assuming you open up your network).

HomeKit, for example, works locally, either over BLE or WiFi.
> So, to answer your examples, I pronounce those exactly like the french "beau", "tire" and "rot".

That's where the problem comes in: You can't pronounce those words without context. "A row of people was watching the row". "A tear in the painting brought a tear to my eye", "I bow to your skills with the bow".
I created https://hubski.com, which has been around for 9 years. Hubski isn't big, but we have a quality community that brings joy.

To grow, my friends and I just started posting and chatting.

Personally, I think commercialization is antithetical to some types of communities. I wrote this post titled "The social aggregator is a terrible business model" a few years ago: https://hubski.com/pub/219234
Chaitin made the very good point that inferential undecidability (incompleteness) is too important a result to depend on the triviality of the existence of the proposition I'mUnprovable. Fortunately, inferential undecidability of strongly-typed theories can be proved without using the nonexistent I'mUnprovable.
In your time, how much has producthunt's platform evolved and iterated? I mean, has it been worthwhile and/or necessary to add new features – anything from new functionality to design tweaks to social/API integrations – to keep the platform healthy and audience engaged?
Most companies you know... For IT systems it is quite easy if you have money required. For OT-operational technology, I just got to know they keep infected machines running, they wall those off. Because you cannot just replace physical machine that is running some complicated chemical process just like that. Some factories also do not have money to replace some Win XP or they cannot replace Win XP because all the drivers for specific hardware are not working on new stuff. Life time of systems in OT is 20 years not like IT 5 years.
I finally got to watch the 1st season of this on Danish Netflix earlier in the summer, and enjoyed the hell out of it - the interplay between the detectives was amazing, and I loved the frequently comic moments in the bleak nastiness.

Can anyone tell me if subsequent seasons are worth trying to find here in the US?
This is the reason I left Amazon. Google has IARC, at least, which provides a path for employees to retain copyright. Amazon has no such avenue, and they furthermore restrict who you can work with -- want to make a game in your spare time? You cannot do it with people who are not Amazon employees.