skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've known the conditions of workers for decades. Back home they'll talk about fairness and justice and progressive causes not so much because that is what they believe in (if they did their sourcing would be different) but because this is what their consumers want to _hear_. That's the only reason.

They also know that shipping semi skilled jobs overseas is hard and devastating to local communities, but again, they don't care. They promise they'll sell you things for cheap in the bargain.

If they don't care about the local communities, they're also not going to care about other communities.
I would happily contribute to the Patreon of anyone writing up their experiments in practical food science at home...
"The fact that governments can circumscribe the killings they do as “not murder” and have regular people believe them is the quintessential expression of the state monopoly on violence."

A state, and words and concepts, only exist insofar as people believe in them. You're only saying "murder is [defined]", not anything about governments. If you pretend you are making a statement about government or politics, it suggests that somehow a different system could achieve a better and different state. Everyone defining legal killing for themselves is not better or worse, it's a contradiction in terms - an absurdity.
I've traveled with smaller monitors before (Asus Zenscreen) and that might be a better compromise. Theyre basically the size of my MBP but thinner, so they're easy to stuff in a backpack. Only cables you need are one USB-C each. It's heavier than traveling with jib a laptop, but probably not much heavier than my MBP was by itself 10 years ago. And you can triple your screen real estate
This just reminded me of some older article on Numpy performance on Intel vs AMD [1].

I’m not posting this to bash AMD. Just trying to make point that the software side can matter a lot and from end customer point-of-view this can make a huge difference.

[1] https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/AMD-Ryzen-3900X-vs-Int...
Dan Price should run for political office.
As it built an armored truck empire, GardaWorld took dangerous shortcuts
The only logical explanation is that they are all the same parent company and/or all of these are made in the same factory with different labels slapped on in the end.

You are absolutely correct. No single company actually makes all the parts in one appliance, and even if all the brands are owned by the same company, it will tend to use the same designs from that companies that make the individual components. The same reason you see (the same!) Bosch parts in a lot of different European cars, for example.
"Slave wages" is hyperbole when compared to actual forced slave labor. I agree that it's tragic that lack of opportunity allows for foreign enterprises to pay extremely low wages, but it's a far cry from falsely imprisoning people and forcing them to work.
I don't think people who drive cars are "pro-car" in the sense your thinking of. They simply use cars because it's convenient for them, and in general public transport doesn't make much sense in their communities so they ignore it.

In big cities on the other hand many people don't have cars and you find people who both use public transportation and passionately advocate for it. They are "pro-public transit" in a political sense and have a deep seated dislike for cars for various reasons whereas the car people really don't have an opinion about public transport.
I'm not sure I'd opt to be teleported. Since you are copied then killed at the transmitting end. However, that's probably just my irrational brain, fixated on the idea that my specific atoms, rather than their structure, is what makes me me.

Being able to materialize anything we want would definitely make us god-like. Bending reality to our will. The question might then become how do we get enough energy to make the things we want.
There's a lot more at the actual source of the story: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51332811
I agree. Greg Hendershott apparently also agreed as he ported some Clojurisms to racket in the form of a language / loadable library:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/rackjure/index.html
Big discussion of original article 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22440922
it absolultely is. The parallelism is uncanny. Back then, it was Aryans who considered themselves to be superior and , now it's the Han.
It's always humoring to hear cries of the oppressed upper middle class in the Western world.
Alibaba AI Can Identify Coronavirus with 96% Accuracy
Everyone should be boycotting China if they can. This is disgusting. The pictures I’ve seen coming out of the Uighur concentration camps show people being starved to death and are startlingly close to images from the Holocaust.

*downvoters are disgusting. Google this. It’s a fact that it’s happening. This is what you’re defending: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/sep/23/footage-...

Here is a prisoner being starved to death: https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dt189h/picture_of... and was reported by FOX 11 L.A.
Thinking about this and going down the wikipedia rabbit hole of inventions scares me. I've heard the Dark Ages happened in part because society collectively forgot how to re-create the advanced technology from ancients, so once things inevitably broke, people just became that less efficient. Another area which strikes me as complex as metalworking is textiles. What if we forgot how to use the machines for harvesting cotton, spinning it into threads and then weaving it into clothes? I wouldn't be able to help at all in such a catastrophe, despite holding advanced degrees. I'm afraid I wouldn't even know how to fashion a spindle, or operate one. Hopefully the internet has enough information that this doesn't happen again?
The junky rusted refrigerator in my garage (that I got for $200 in 1995) has never failed me like this beautiful expensive one has.

Sometimes it just stops cooling. It reports inside temperatures 20+ degrees below what they are. They replaced the motherboard. They replaced the entire fridge. At least once a year I lose all of my food.
Viral Evolution
Just wanted to get the thingy into pkgsrc-wip earlier this afternoon before I had to leave (and before I got bored and ended-up not committing anything).

Also made a typo. I called it actor-model in the commit message and my post above, but its real name was actor-framework. Will probably find a better name for it later.
I interpreted it as a joke from somebody who is particularly focused on computers but also has a pretty good sense of humor about it
I have one laying around! Is it as easy as just soldering the wires on the pins just like the nano?
Agreed... would love to hear more about this as well....
The idea for using steam to create motion of some kind existed since the ancient Greeks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile

But you're right, to make it practically useful required better materials.
It's a pain to not have all the games in a single library. I put off buying Overwatch for a year or so because it was in a different launcher, and did the same for Forza Horizon 4; I'd be eagerly awaiting a sequel to Child of Light if it hadn't had some awkward double-launcher thing where playing it meant waiting 10 minutes for uplay to update every time. So I do think this ultimately affects customers enough to vote with their wallets, and that means it will affect developers where it matters. (Of course, if Epic is paying enough for its exclusives then developers will correctly decide that the tradeoff is worthwhile).
Google cloud print is not the only way to print from Android. Since 8.0 Oreo, Android supports printing via IPP, which a growing number of printers support. So at least in the printing domain, open standards are winning.
Yes, I believe that's the point the poster is trying to make. The restrictions google is putting on the service currently aren't necessary, and are hurting the product.
The default card issuing / banking-as-a-service platform will be developer-first
There’s a music making app called “isle of tune” which looks like a Sim City style builder game where you are placing roads, cars, houses and buildings. But in fact you are sequencing music. The idea is quite delightful.
"Don't bother with masks" is actually "There is insufficient evidence to show that wearing masks is effective at preventing spread of disease", coupled with "Please don't take away our supply of masks that are for health care workers".

If masks didn't stop the spread of disease, nobody, even doctors, would bother. The problem is that mask usage writ large does not have a cost/benefit point that warrants recommendation by CDC.
More data here [1] I'd encourage having a look.

I don't like the recent hyperbole in the press about the 'world resembling 1930's', it's overstated - but this artifact absolutely is worth comparison.

We have possibly a million people in concentration camps due entirely to their ethnicity and nobody will publicly say anything about it let alone do something.

Where are government leaders making this issue public?

The level of complicity by large Western brands is utterly shocking, to say the least, it lays the entirety of their ridiculous empathetic marketing attempts bare.

Building-sized pictures of Colin Kaepernick quotes, with shoes made by literal slaves (?) it's beyond hypocritical.

The other issue relates to the extent to which China will push for the suppression of this information. Any Western outlet that dares raise the issue, faces the wrath of China. Everyone unless otherwise under the protection of some kind as only some journalists may be accustomed to ... can be pressured to shut up.

The popular silence on this issue is shocking.

[1] https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale
Ok, so now we have a complaint that she shouldn’t have tried to join the program with a child? I think we’re done here.
This. "Don't bother with masks" is actually "There is insufficient evidence to show that wearing masks is effective at preventing spread of disease", coupled with "Please don't take away our supply of masks that are for health care workers".

If masks didn't stop the spread of disease, nobody, even doctors, would bother. The problem is that mask usage writ large does not have a cost/benefit point that warrants recommendation by CDC.
I'm curious what features of c++ you use and like if you would prefer it over c for this use case.
I'd check Consumer Reports. Probably the same quality in both countries.
Imgur is even more awful on mobile, with its infinitely loading interface. I wrote about a dozen rules for uBlock that try to get rid of everything but the image on Imgur's mobile site, and this seems to help quite a lot. Tends to break the page and require retooling pretty often though.
I'm looking forward to video feed wallpaper.
How to Fill a Klein Bottle [video]
My original post contained the suspicion that nobody was estimating cost. Although I never clicked the link, someone else ("def8cefe") posted as a response to me, that they indeed did not use cost but current value.

So, despite being downvoted, I think I made a substantive contribution in identifying the headline as misleading. This in turn would affect how a reasonable person interprets the meaning of the whole thing.

What is your point?
I try to get anything going as quick as possible so I'm not just looking at code without any reward for a long time:

I start by listing the data I will need to track, wire-frame sketch some screens for entry and management. This will get me a picture of what data I will need, I want to do with it, and what tools I need to look for. (Since you are aiming for mobile, it might be good to imagine with a phone in your hand and think how would I get X entered on this device and then do Y?)

Next, I would get an initial database up and running sorting out my data elements into relatable tables as needed, then get a few sample records input as a test (maybe even straight from the DB command line - if the entry is going to be complex, at least you will have something to work with as you jump around getting stuff figured out.)

Next start work on better entry (if entry is cumbersome), also reporting, etc...

That's the start, you know what you want as the result... how to get the data where you need it and how to make value from it, one bit at a time, don't be afraid to re-do/refactor as you get things figured out.
I think you're comparing bicycles to an idealized version of horses. Real horses get tired quickly, get hurt easily, and are quite expensive. Assuming decent roads, a bicycle would often be more convenient, and almost always cheaper.

From Wikipedia: "A stagecoach traveled at an average speed of about 5 miles per hour".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecoach
I also used to take a massive efficiency hit when I had to move away from my multi-monitor setup. I wanted to be more flexible so I invested some time in getting comfortable with a tiling window manager.

My weapon of choice is Xmonad on Linux but I've also used i3 and awesomewm and they've been good. I hear good things about
Amethyst on OSX these days too.
> People are hoarding supplies over the flu.

But it’s a new flu - how much is it worth to stop the spread and not have to deal with it forever
Edited my comment. I'm pretty sure at UCSC TAs were also responsible for assigning the final grades in a course.
> The camp that disagrees with this approach lumps these sorts of behaviours as seeking validation or neediness, particularly in the broadcast mode. Show, don't tell and all that. In the 1-1 mode, it's passable as long as there is some relationship and context where this exchange would make sense.

Sure, I guess my point was that this matter of taste (seeing the expression of pride in one's achievements as "seeking validation or neediness" in a bad way) is precisely the toxic cultural current that I was describing. In my anecdotal experience, it's usually driven by a heaping dose of self-hatred being externalized onto others by dragging them down.
> I also tried with a 54 MiB JPEG[1] just now. The brunsli coding is 49MiB so not even a 10% reduction on this particular file.

What about JPEG XL? That's the primary usefulness of brunsli IMO, it's built into JPEG XL as one of the ways it achieves much better compression (comparable to, or possibly better than, AVIF).
At the end of the day, I think it boils down to simple arrogance and entitlement.

When you’re the owner of a successful indie game company and you’ve got some partnerships exec treating you like “big me little you” because I work at Google and you’re an indie who needs me and will work for free, it’s a real turn off.
Not the OP.

Maybe the protests and the media coverage are an important part of spreading information and correcting the demand problem for academic positions. We need to tell the world that academia is not what it is presented as.

Your position is akin to opposing online restuarant reviews because why put reviews online if the market will put bad restaurants out of business..
Reminds me my old pet project.
I created android apps[1] for local herpetologist in Indonesia using iNaturalist API.
So, people can report every encounter of herpetofauna around them and saved as gallery for their portfolio.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.web.adiyatm...
Clojure seems like an odd choice for command line tools. I can see why a committed Clojure programmer would want to reuse their existing skills for a slightly mismatching domain. But Rust/Go (even C) would seem like a more obvious choice if you weren't setting off from Clojure as a starting point.
This is totally different.

'Conditions' for any group of Chinese working in Western factories have massively improved during that time, largely due to said 'factories', paradoxically.

'Trade and business' have pulled 100's of millions in China out of extreme poverty. We can argue about equality, but on the whole, things are getting significantly better.

The issue here is one of the people in concentration camps due to their ethnicity, and of forced labour. Which is altogether another level of oppression.
You couldn't actually read mail in Wave though, and it didn't use an email protocol.
You Can Succeed at Your First Engineering Job
Oh I agree. I guess I was approaching this from the angle of the use of long keys where it would be literally impossible to decrypt unless computers exist.

We could also get into the sub argument of math being a property of the universe. Does encryption exist if we don't discover it? Trying to imagine a universe where our concept of math is impossible to the universe just not working that way
I tried to throw the word ‘virtual’ in there. This stuff can always be boiled down to semantics. Anyway, possibly relevant Onion article on the semantics of it:

https://www.theonion.com/jeff-bezos-tables-latest-breakthrou...
> P.S. if you need to sort a huge file, just literally use the UNIX/Linux `sort` command. No, it does not load it all into RAM. It knows how to do chunked sorts, dump temp files into /tmp, and then merge them. Old school UNIX tools are smarter than you think.

This so much.

I’ve worked with many devs and admins that don’t understand the tools that they have at their disposal on their systems. They end up trying to reinvent the wheel and their solutions usually don’t consider all the edge cases
The usefulness of a skunkworks-type operation is that you can fund R&D that has no market need, thus unnaturally accelerating the progress of technological innovation.
No, have a look [1]

Wages have been massively improving, precisely because of said business operations.

'Buying stuff' from China doesn't make them poorer, it makes them richer.

Holding people in concentration camps is a different kind of activity.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/china/wages
That rather depends on who's right and who's wrong, doesn't it? If late stage VC and PE are by and large better at understanding the net present value of all future cash flows than the public markets, the best way forward is for them to find a way to provide liquidity for founders, employees, and earlier stage investors other than going public. Lowing valuations instead would be leaving money on the table for all those existing stakeholders.
I think to them it's a spectrum; the seas are wide and the consumer is far away. Do you think Nike and so on will balk? Is it a bridge too far?

In other words, I don't think the following ever entered mr Knight's calculus when he first closed down factories in the US and opened them in China "What are these American workers going to do, how will our closures affect the communities and what is our responsibility to workers in China in terms of work conditions and bringing them out of CCP perpetuated poverty? I don't one bit. It was more like, how many more shoes will we make and sell and how will our profits improve?
AirPlay mirrors your device, which means you can no longer use it during playback and will drain its battery fairly quickly. You're also subject to network lag.

Chromecast simply sends commands to the TV/speaker, which does the streaming directly from source. You can use your device for something else.
Being cheap with your chief investment officer doesn't sound like a good idea. Besides, a proper CIO's pay is tied to getting good investment returns.
I would summarise this post as:

"Public markets didn't like a few bad Softbank backed IPOs. This clearly is not because only Masayoshi Son loves giant bonfires they can shovel cash into, but instead means that public markets are just horribly broken, and everything we think we know about finance, economics, and the market is wrong."

After listing a bunch of loss-making stinkers (Uber, Lyft, Peloton, Pinterest, Caspar) we get the line:

> How is it that the hottest growth companies have stumbled out of the gate?

If you have to ask the question of why public markets might not think a company whose business strategy is mailing people mattresses below cost is worth a billion dollars, then really, you're not going to understand the answer.

Also, note this:

> And B2B player Zoom, the videoconferencing software company, which had a juicy pop of 72% on its first day of trading, has seen its fortunes seesaw, falling from a high of $102 to roughly $88 at press time, even as the broader market, especially the tech sector, has been on a tear.

Zoom is one of the only actual profitable companies discussed, but the author tosses them into the list of disasters like WeWork. But let's unpack that: They IPOed at $36 a share, and they're down to $88, and the lesson here is "oh man, public markets hate startups"? ...like, really?

The entire article is just one long "wow, profitable companies are valuable, I wonder what deeper lesson entirely unrelated to profitably we can draw from this if we ignore the obvious answer".

> But as they watch the public drubbing suffered by the likes of Adam Neumann [...] founders are more apt to see themselves as mistreated and even harassed by various gatekeepers

If you are a founder, and the person you feel the closest kinship too is Adam Neumann, you probably don't deserve to be treated very well by the markets. The issue is you.

What a infuriatingly obtuse article.
OpenJDK is also made (primarily) by Oracle [1]; in fact, OpenJDK is the name of Oracle's one and only Java implementation project, although Oracle builds both free and support subscription binaries from it. Both OpenJDK and Graal are open source, though. OpenJDK now includes a tool called jlink [2] that allows you to create a small, self-contained bundle that includes a custom runtime as well as your app.

[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/

[2]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/13/docs/specs/man/jli...
I guess China is trying to solve supply chain problems. Hope bad will it have to get for the spaces in China before they decide to go to war rather than pay back the debt owed?
Unfortunately, the cheapest legal product will dominate almost any market. Slave made products are de-facto legal on the world market so the market takes advantage of that.

And not to diminish the horror of China's practice here, but I imagine they would call these slave factories "penal servitude"
Gall–Peters Projection
I know you threw in the word 'virtual,' but that's just a way to weasel out of actually having said that we've been accustomed to slave wages for a long time, while still trying to make an emotional equivocation between captive, forced, slave labor, and paltry factory wages.
I can’t speak to GP’s situation, but TFA makes clear that the university grad student housing available at UCSC in this specific real-world case is in fact not sufficient for the graduate students to afford such a living situation on their stipends.
Pairing is supposed to slow you down, that’s a good thing. As in, a quality solution takes more time than a shitty one.

What’s dumb is to do it Kent beck style, both people on the same keyboard at the same time. Cargo cult. I bet that’s how y’all doing it, judging by the open office comment.
I don't think these are the "best" examples as they are probably not completely accurate, but there is probably a reason why the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Steel Ages exist as a concept.

Also I think it makes sense since materials science is more applied chemistry/physics/engineering, so naturally materials science is huge because it represents 3 fields of knowledge interacting.
Check out local used appliance stores. You can probably get something ~10 years old that will look new enough but still be somewhat reparable and non-smart. Shops that sell used appliances generally also repair them, so they'll know what's most reparable and you'll be able to go back to them for parts.

Support the repair and used-goods economy, otherwise we'll just have disposable options.
You could argue that Youtube breaks even.

But they pay peanuts to creators, $1k - $3k/million views per monetized video. And they own their own CDN, so bandwidth is a cost they can control or share with other properties.

And not operating Youtube would mean another advertising company would have a foothold to compete against them.