skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who thinks that players' unions are suppressing athlete salaries doesn't remember how little athletes made before the unions negotiated higher scales.

Even the best NFL athletes used to have day jobs. The 2014 minimum base salary for MLS players was just $48,500 (which increased to $7x,xxx in 2019 as a result of the union renegotiating pay scales). On average (median or mode), a professional soccer player will make less than an entry-level programmer in the valley, despite a significantly smaller potential workforce.
It is not tyranny, when it involves terrorism. There were multiple demands for secession in the past across Punjab, assam and all were resolved through dialog. Problem with Kashmir is, it Foreign Funded terrorism and there were attempts for discussions in the past and which didn't work
Hah no. But the amount of exclamation points and softball questions is an easy red flag to find
I think the decade lists were a bit underwhelming considering not too many people were actually using Spotify all that much 10 years ago. I still got a ton of my music from CDs, iTunes downloads and other more nefarious places.
how has that silver been spent?
That's just Google in general. Apparently not a single human being still works in their support department. All androids I hear...
I wonder if there's already ML that can predict what a face will look like if given a set of photos of a person from a range of ages...
Ditto. I face the problem this solves every day and from time to time think about the fact someone must be trying to solve this problem.
If the fix was to make it signed, that might not be so far off!
I feel like this conversation got massively side-tracked. Are you arguing in good faith that the amount of value some snacks provide to an employee is meaningful when compared to the other things the GP mentioned?
Ideally however you deliver a mask to them before they very outside their home so they don't infect taxi drivers, bus drivers, uber drivers and other passengers.

Only people driving to the clinic in their own car are less likely to infect their compatriots
"Any fugitive status he may have had has been proven to be political in nature."

Proven you say?

Things asylum seekers typically say: "If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case"
Can't they whitelist VPN access to corporate IPs?
What would you hope to learn from telemetry on a video player? Stats on the use of specific features? Formats? Codecs? Errors? I'm wondering if it's worth the hassle. Each of these is nontrivial if you really want to be privacy-conscious. Data can easily identify porn watchers, pirates, possibly journalists in conflict zones... and police only has to say cheese pizza to get all the logs.
While the situation in India is getting worse as others say, it can't be compared to China at all...
Flyover country provides food, manufacturing and talent to many corporations that you don't know but interact with every day.

As a 20 year resident of California, this state is absolutely broke and barely survives as it is. It would be a failed nation-state if it was on its own.
Does Ogg Vorbis play on iOS? In my experience it has pretty good support across most other platforms. You do have to install Web Media Extensions on Windows, but that's little different from having to install libvorbis on Linux.
Hi smoyer!

We took your advice and are starting to accept fiat currencies donations. Made a PayPal page - https://www.paypal.me/freepn. Added the link to our website so that we can start collecting funds to pay for a security audit post-launch.

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Golang is a pretty much messed up language made by short-sighted and very, very, very stubborn designers. If you don't believe me, just look for instance at all the hacky code generation tools made by the Kubernetes guys. But even if generics are there, the language itself is still very lacking to an irritating level (e.g. no option types aka nil access, no enforcement of error checking aka no result types, no enums, no conditional compilation, no iterators, no immutables, etc...)

EDIT: HN upvote system has nothing to do with right or wrong or constructing a good discussion, it's based on fanboyism and political correctness. Really sad.
I was going to quote the whole "those who would give up essential liberty..." quote, but then I Googled it and realized that all the search results were spammed with the same false meme about how he was "misquoted". Since likely some hn commenter has been exposed to the meme, I need to preempt them posting it here by pointing out that yes, I am aware of it, I just think the meme is bullshit.
> People barely speak English already so if you remove the need for some English keyword to do development, you can be sure you are heading toward a generation that doesn't know how and doesn't care about speaking English.

So be it if it means more programmers in france, china, russia, etc.

> No because they are built from the ground up to use English.

Yeah, and you can do the same in other major languages. It should be easier since we already did most of the work for you.

> So if I understand your idea, by creating languages that are based on each local language we would not be able to share source code without having to translate it into our own language?

Yes. You'd be able to share the libraries and executables, but not the source unless you know the language.

> So I need to learn Chinese. And English. And Russian.

No. The chinese, english, russian, etc has to be translated into french. Have you ever read a book by a non-french author?

> Automatic translation is not really that good for books and websites from the experience I have.

That's my point. You are a worse programmer than you could be because you are coding in a foreign language. If you coded in french, you'd be a better programmer. After all, programming is an art, like literature.

> I agree with you that if we had a programming language in French of the quality of Java or C or Python it would allow some individuals

You completely missed my point. You could convert Java, C, Python, etc into french or any other language. It's simply updating the grammar where you could do a simple 1 to 1 conversion of the keywords. It's so simple that an ambitious and competent person could do it over a weekend. The hard part is translating the libraries and the executables - the actual code in the wild. But it's doable if given enough resources.

Like you said, people translate documents in many languages already. Why not take the extra step and translate the source as well?
There’s (probably) also way more people together. I doubt having a clean country helps if the virus is transmitted person to person.

I’m not saying the same number of people will die (because better and more prepared healthcare), but it’s a fantastic place for another outbreak.
Many of the most talented or hardest working engineers might rationally be opposed to equal pay measures.
> building a temple over a destroyed mosque

Wasn't this a Supreme Court order both parties accepted? The BJP isn't forcing this, although this has been their goal for decades and they will certainly claim credit for it.
The way I like to describe it from a systems or operations perspective is this:

Slow (or flaky) build processes create gamblers. You don't want people gambling with prod.

When it's expensive (time or attention) to verify your work, people start lying to themselves. They tell themselves they've done enough, or that red test or wrong data on the screen is "just a glitch", and you know they do this because when they get caught breaking stuff they will tell you the same thing they told themselves.

The progression that works is this:

You make the tool.

You make the tool reliable.

You make the tool straightforward.

You make the tool cheap.

You make the tool mandatory.

People keep skipping step 4 and thinking rhetoric (even verbal abuse) will save them. If you meet idiots all day...
The .org debacle is evidence that ICANN is corrupt, not dysfunctional. That's an important distinction.
There can't be evidence of unions increasing wages in the tech industry because, as this article points out, prior to today there were no unions in the tech industry. Ever.

However, there is significant evidence in blue-collar and white-collar industries, and in artistic and athletic fields, that unions increased members' earnings.
Old computer commercial of Univac (1956) [video]
"Within a week I was convinced Micfo encompassed more than just Micfo, but a handful of shell companies:

This was later proved to be true when the CEO(Amir), admitted in the ARIN(American Registry for Internet Numbers) trial, he was really behind these entities."
Not that I disagree with what you're saying but can you please clarify what you mean by "third-world approach"? It seems to imply some sort of inferiority compared to "first-world".
The wiring, as it is, is considered unsafe and violates regulation. Boeing is trying to push the false dichotomy between leaving the planes as they are and "fixing" them introducing more risks.

In fact, there is another possibility: that the planes were never airworthy and should have never be flown in the first place and, if they can't be made airworthy, then they should be scrapped.
Please don't use "third-world" as a generic insult for countries.

Even the wrong-yet-common definition of "poor" doesn't fit here, because internet censorship isn't a function of wealth: Saudi Arabia is rather rich yet unfree. Russia and China area also not "third world".

Russia, a leading internet censor, actually happens to be the (current version of) a country that used to be the definition of either "first" or "second" world.
Uighur whistleblower: China is 'arresting people without any reason'
It wasn't designed to do either of those things. The Electoral College makes sure each state has a say without being overruled by the majority. Countering the popular vote is the point.

Also corruption is a much deeper issue that has to do with popular perception and the vast amounts of money in politics. It needs to be solved starting in local elections and work its way up. There's nothing the EC can do about that.
Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22355263
If by "works" you mean "Results in the election of Donald Trump as President," then, yeah, it "works," I suppose.
For that matter, Tokyo may be one of the best places to be. I think the number of hospital beds per person in Japan is ridiculously high[0] at 13.1 per 1000, as opposed to 4.3 per 1000 for China.

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/283273/oecd-countries--h...
You can't get a job in a SAG affiliated production until enough SAG members are hired, but you can't become a SAG member until you've been in a SAG affiliated production.

I'm not an actor, but on the outside that Catch 22 stinks of Old Boy Network tactics.
You bury something and it's outside, there's no climate control, some random metal detectorist might find your thing, maybe someone will have spotted you finishing burying the thing, no saying. Just rent a storage unit or safety deposit box. Locks are better than dirt for protecting things.
Deepfake is the technology, not the intention. All those videos where someone replaces everyone in a movie scene with Nicholas Cage, or whatever, are deepfakes even though they're not intended to fool anyone.
> Worst of both worlds

I don't think that is remotely the case.
Not to detract from the rest of the comment, which is broadly correct (speaking as somebody who actually had to go through those 97 pages to get indefinite leave to remain, pre-2016), but the description of Windrush as "refugees [who] were admitted to the UK" is just wrong.

The Windrush migrants were not refugees - they were explicitly invited by the UK government, through a policy that promoted migration from "old colonies" (particularly the Caribbeans), in order to kickstart a postwar British economy dramatically short of manpower. The policy was so lax that there were no controls of any sort; on landing, people were barely handed a piece of paper that certified they had disembarked from a certain ship on that day. For all intents and purposes, these migrants were then treated like British citizens, but were not issued passports or other documents unless they demanded them (which was often a complex procedure). This was not seen as unusual, in a country that famously has no national ID scheme and where identification is still largely achieved through utility bills.

The Home Office kept a copy of the landing records for 50 years, which helped whenever someone from the Windrush years had to make his or her position official. In 2010, the HO decided these records took up too much space and just destroyed them, without even trying to digitize them. This happened a few months after the Tory-LibDem coalition government was installed, in October 2010, with Theresa May as Home Secretary. Anybody from Windrush subsequently found themselves unable to prove their citizenship status, resulting in deportations, lack of health assistance, and massive discrimination.

For the record, Mrs. May was also the inventor of the "hostile environment" policy, which was supposed to deliver on the Tory manifesto promise of pushing net migration under 100,000 a year. That indicator was around 250,000 at the time. After 10 years of "hostile environment", it's now around 280,000.
Ummm maybe folks are just using MVC when they shouldn't?

I don't really think most people understand how to do MVC. A LOT of people mostly pick a framework that incidentally has it slapped on the side and that's about it...

People seem to assume "view" has to mean template, "model" has to mean "database access," and controller means "anything else." When in reality, they're far simpler and more abstract and has nothing to do with the web or services:

Model - Data
View - Output
Controller - Takes input, fetches data for input(s), gives output

Do you have a part of your application that takes input and gives output? Well then MVC is probably great for that part of your application, maybe not.

I have not ever had anyone say "the adapter pattern is dead, don't use dat shit, my dear, brometheus" because most people, quite accurately, don't think it's some sort of philosophical statement it's just way to organize some shit to make your life easier when it applies.

/shrug

Use the right tool for the job; you can waste a ton of time trying to use a screwdriver on nail, or you could just get a hammer...
Bezos isn't a 1%er. He is 1.

Billionaires are way above the 1%.
What I mean is that you have to accept what the will of people, expressed by the system, votes into power - even if you don't like it.
But that's the thing: because the market spoke once a decade ago, does that mean there's no room for revisiting that discussion? Tastes change, technology changes, the economy changes, people change, everything changes.

It's much like the current 4k TV market. Once upon a time, The Market™ spoke in favor of putting "smart" functionality in TVs, and so manufacturers added computers with greater and greater complexity and visual pizazz and apps and such.

Then, the Chromecast and Roku and Fire TV and such became popular, and - better yet - ended up being much easier to upgrade as technology marched on (you only have to replace a $35-or-so dongle or box instead of having to replace a whole multi-hundred-or-thousand-dollar TV). On top of that, the cable companies started to dip their toes in offering these "smart" features in their own set top boxes, as did Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony with their gaming consoles, and there were and still are zero TVs able to replace either category of device. So now you have a bunch of TVs with smart features that go entirely unused (or, worse, actually break, taking the TV with it) because other devices offer better versions of those features and can actually be upgraded without replacing the entire TV.

Unfortunately, since The Market™ has already spoken, there is now to my knowledge exactly one 4k TV manufacturer that offers consumer-grade TVs without smart features (Sceptre), and certainly not on store shelves (I had to buy mine on Amazon, with all the risk of damage and theft that entails, and the only Prime-eligible one was the 50"). Literally every other 4k TV - including any at a brick-and-mortar store, be it Best Buy or Fry's or Wal-Mart or what have you - has smart features that cannot be removed and that are either 1) already outperformed by $20-100 devices on those same exact shelves or 2) going to be outperformed within a year because technology marches on and no TV offers a way to upgrade the computational hardware.
One of the reasons I suggest SFTP is that contractors in India are very often asked to transfer data to US and EU companies this way. It is often required for contractors to do their job. You can disable port forwarding on the SFTP server in the event that government officials want to verify it is not a proxy. If the VPS used is AWS, it is even less conspicuous. The admins of the account for the VM must be outside of India. The server can even contain work related files to make it legit.

This process is predicated on the idea that you want to get the word out about things occurring in your country and that you do not need to take credit for it.
This is completely false.

Union wage agreements are based on what union members want.

For blue-collar unions, this usually means seniority-based scales.

For white-collar unions, this usually means experience-based scales (which differs from seniority because it's not job-specific; any job in the field counts).

For talent-based unions like SAG or NFLPA, this means minimum scales with no cap on maximum potential earnings.
Thank you: a useful correction. I would edit the comment, if it were still within the editing window.
Salvage law isn't gonna stop some locals who don't like the particulars of how you scrapped it from bogging you down in a court room for a year. There's more parties involved here than just the owners (whoever they may be).
To some extend, you’d be able to sign up at city hall and still get a discount regardless of whether you’ve paid the premium (which would be like 6000 yen per year if you have no income).

I think city hall would come after you after about a year or so, and then you could call them and set up a deferred payment plan (or get the cost completely rescinded maybe).
This story came out yesterday:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/17/german-far-rig...
yes and here is the Actual News from the same article ----------- The FIR has been registered while taking cognisance of the social media posts by miscreants by using different VPNs, which are propagating rumours with regard to the current security scenario in the Kashmir valley, secessionist ideology and glorifying terrorists, the police said.
> - Discuss their changes beforehand (usually on the issue page)

Interesting. When I last looked at contributing to open source, some general advice was to offer up code even if its likely the wrong approach. The idea being that maintainers are busy, and there's lots of people that drag on their time without ever contributing anything. Showing you're actually willing to put in time and effort will make the maintainer more likely to guide you in the correct direction because you've already shown you're willing to spend time on the issue.
My Dad has Parkinson's and this is exactly how I intend on using it. Helping him get his papers in order, his recipes together while still making it look and feel _from him_.
Ask HN: Why do async communication channels become more synchronous over time?
The classic example would be email where expectations around response have rapidly shortened. Is it something that can be fixed with tooling or is it more of a cultural issue?
How North Korea is reporting on coronavirus (English subtitles) [video]
RIP Larry Tesler, I ran into him a few times at meetup events in Bay Area, few people knew who he was as he kept a very low profile.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360928.
Go has been amazing here at Stream. No way we would be able to power chat and feeds for 500 million end users with such as small team without Go. C++ would be a valid option in terms of raw performance, but the development overhead is just too large. Go hits a beautiful sweet spot between performance and developer productivity.
Oh, yeah. I think Corona patients get free care from the moment they test as positive.

Strangely enough you still need to pay for the test, but meh :P
You have edited your reply now and erased the stuff you said about BJP.
Stay safe! BJP or rather RSS is a Nazism driven platform and, like seen in any other country in recent years, people fell for the bait of 'development' and guerilla marketing from bigots of their major religion.

This is extremely sad and I am hoping things will correct before everything worsens further.

> Many people are upset, but there's nothing we can do.

I remember people (not to point to anyone in particular but generally) even the educated ones making fun of a new engineer politician on the rise. There was news about slapping the newbie on their roadshows and rallies where this politician was trying to connect personally with the people.

What do you think of that?

For someone like me with an outside-in view I feel that we have a 'karma problem' with the general citizenry of India. Not to come off as a prude American (this is also true now for my own country as well-–Trump nation) but democracy is so much like a mirror––and in the end we all get what we deserve.
If they can't afford the price of labor why should the business continue to exist? If the going rate for a plumber is $100 an hour, why should I be surprised if I get no responses when I'm only willing to pay $40?
Investor's Podcast: How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
Yeah, this pretty much sums up most freelancing sites
Why, What and How of Creating a Zettelkasten with Hugo
I think many ancient cultures seem empty because they wrote on things like paper that doesnt last that long. We know a fair bit about sumeria and mesopotamia thanks to cuneiform on tablets that can lie in a ground for millenia.

And since we use electrons and stuff like that we too, will seem an empty age.
I've lived in small towns most of my life, I know more farmers and ranchers than anyone, and in short there isn't much that can be done. They vote for politics that support large corporations and deregulation which allows them to be beat up by larger conglomorates. They fight innovation to the point that new technology isn't adopted till a son takes over. But most of all, the one thing that would likely make them more profitable would be to go towards a higher quality but lower quanity crop (like going organic) but they fight that too.

Right now rural america is basically subsidised by the cities and has 3x the voting power of those who live in them. This model isn't sustainable unless the three things listed above start to change. But they won't.
I'm not sure what communists wanted to do that. Care to shed some light?
Chrome Extension – A new way of sharing artilcles
> fake nihilism

Who would fake nihilism? And why?
I know what you mean, you mean the software for SDRs is mostly geared towards tuning to 1090 MHz and decoding ADS-B pulses there.

But to be clear: the SDR's tuners are rarely limited that way. Most can tune to 978 MHz even easier than 1090 MHz. Covering the entire VHF to UHF range is pretty typical.
This is just absurd. India has strong judicial system and no one, not even PM can abuse his power. This commenter has blind hatred against BJP. India is the country where you have freedom to criticize. To verify you can just search internet and YouTube. Regarding identify protestors, I think commenter is referring to recent protest where some people burned public property, who were identified through CCTVs and made them pay for the damage, which was right thing to do.