skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the absence of legislation, Walmart would pay their workers some wage $x. You have decided that, as a matter of decency, they should actually pay $z > $x. However, you and like-minded voters have only compelled Walmart to pay some intermediate sum $y.

Now, you're upset about the residual $z-$y coming out of your pocket. But you might instead be grateful that Walmart is kicking in $y-$x to support your extravagant political demands. That's the subsidy.

> it's much better for me to be making up the hidden costs of chronically underpaid workers

Those workers are only underpaid according to your notions of fairness. You think _Walmart_ should be tasked with implementing _your_ moral vision at _their_ expense. I think _you_ should be tasked with implementing _your_ moral vision at _your_ expense.
when the covid pandemic first hit and lockdown was looming it was impossible to find freezers, locally and online, even up to the $1K price point.
It also says that the author is open to discussing licensing for other cases.
Maybe because at the time they were modeling Covid for a few months.

We've been modeling climate change for something like 50 years and have seen our best models confirmed by reality.
Just to make it clear, this seems very much like Gates to me as an Indian. He has bank rolled several very problematic studies in India in collusion with the fascist (at least super right wing) government, including the very controversial biometric national ID (AADHAAR) project. They were quite literally holding newborns hostages[1].

[1]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/mps-largest-...
Or, "We are losing billions of dollars, please have more good will for us and also make it more difficult for other companies to enter our space plz."
The complexity of this protocol seems to match its needs. I don't really get the issue. FTP and the file format come off as old-sounding but so what?

Why can't this just be batched faster anyway? Improve the hardware, run the batches every 30 seconds, and it's just like instant systems? I know there must be a reason but I'm curious why it is.
The key this year is to _personally drop off your ballot_ at an official drop point rather than mailing it in. USPS can and will deprioritize mail in ballots for the fall elections.
They used to have "Kindle Underground" or whatever, for the Kindle Fire tablets, but they shut that down. Basically you'd get free upgrades to games and stuff at no cost. I used it to play games I'd have on Android for free without having to pay for upgrades. I also returned the same tablet two days later cause it had a dead pixel when I opened it.
A couple times per years sounds about right for California.
Heavy atom spills its guts in decade-long experiment
Hey, this is crazy! Did you make it?
They aren't renaming Twitch. This is a small feature that grants prime users one free subscription a month.
New EtherOops attack takes advantage of faulty Ethernet cables
YES, this is a great approach. The last class I taught was a flipped graduate level machine learning. The students loved it, learned the material exceptionally well, and we had near perfect attendance. We gave the providence and they responded with perseverance.
>The electron affinity of astatine

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17599-2
Why Travel? – A 21st Century Existential Crisis
Like all metrics, badges are just a model. However, for open source projects, optics matter, and failing badges are a hint that perhaps quality isn't the top priority.
> Although first we'd do well to do a better job at communicating with and respecting the many non-human sentient beings on this planet.
Hospitals tracking Covid-19 with badge sensors, SwipeSense technology
Seems to be nothing more. I don't see it ever picking up the Amazon name as if there are any issues on the platform, and an streaming platform is going to have them, they don't want a direct association.
China has already Balkanized their "Internet" for over 20 years now.
Electrical Engineers would determine the settings for the electrical protection of a generator. Mechanical Engineers would determine the settings for mechanical protection of a motor. To operate the equipment beyond thresholds would result in reduced lifespan or immediate and permanent damage to the equipment. If this is what the customer requires they have to specify that to the Engineer so that when the equipment blows up the Engineer is not liable.

Diesel generators for hospitals and water pumps for fire suppression systems are generally set up with very loose settings as it is clearly worse for a patient to die or a building to burn down than to destroy a machine, and this requirement is in the specifications.
Nagel's essay is mentioned explicitly.
It seems idiomatic C++ is recently changing much faster than before, as C++ feels the need to keep pace with competing languages. But you don't have to keep up with what's idiomatic.
Is it the devil we know though? Until the talks about TikTok started, I assumed nothing like this could ever happen in this country.
Some of the companies listed in the photo are only companies that do not (or have never) used Huawei equipment in their network infrastructure.

For instance, Rogers (Canadian telecom company) hasn't released any statements [as far as I'm aware—to date] following Pompeo's announcement. They've been set up to use Ericcson for their 5G rollout for several years.

It's misleading on the part of whoever drafted the document.
> it sounds like he would tolerate H.264 plus Theora, if the Theora version was always provided to people that the H.264 version was provided to.

I don't agree that this is a reasonable interpretation of the text. I really don't think he could have been much more clear: he is not ok with this.

For audio codecs, Stallman could not be more explicit. He's not OK with using non-Free codecs, and makes no exception for where multiple codecs are offered:

> I insist on using the formats of the free software community: Ogg Vorbis or Ogg Speex format for audio, and Matroska VP8 (Webm) or Ogg Theora for video. Please do not distribute my speech in any other format.

Clear and categorical. He is similarly explicit on the topic of video codecs:

> Please do not ever broadcast or publish my speeches in formats that are not good for free software.

There's no wiggle-room here, he uses the word 'ever'. From a little later in the document:

> you must use only Ogg format or Matroska VP8 (Webm).

Again, no wiggle-room. There is no implication of an exception permitting the use of non-Free codecs when multiple encodings are offered.

With all of that said, the FSF say here [0] that they're ok with H264 as a fallback. That page was published just 4 days ago, so perhaps they've reconsidered their position. See also the (currently empty) HN thread on that page. [1]

edit For what it's worth, in Feb 2016 Stallman was still going with the hard-line, see his 2016 talk in Switzerland at [2]

[0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-fsfs-approach-to-usi...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24087382

[2] https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/
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> weaponized version of the Java platform

That was really sad to read. Oracle is really hurting the java language and ecosystem.
There’s such a long list of this stuff from various companies. It’s not hard to research this at all.

In terms of an anecdotal evidence... My father used to work for molex, one of his biggest complaints were fixing the molds after they were sent to Chinese factories. They would try to deconstruct them and couldn’t put them back together (this was the 90’s, early 2000’s). So they would be shipped back to the US operations to fix.

Eventually, he ended up spending years training up Chinese to replace him (my father, in China). Molex moved much of its tool making shop to China and shut down most US tool and die making operations.

Anyway, China has people who are trained, on factory floors, who are there to reverse engineer processes.

This has been known for decades, companies don’t really seem to care or know (I guess that’s possible as they are outsourcing manufacturing).

I have no doubt this is designed across all their industries and systems. It’s in their interest to do this.

EDIT: I want to point out, there’s no longer a need for China to reverse engineer. US companies ship the designs straight to China. This is probably why we’ve seen China catch up so fast. We trained their workforce and now provide them all the IP before we build it.
Your second link is not real wages per capita, it's average real wages for workers (and only non-supervisory workers at that!). A true per capita figure would have to count wages of non-workers as 0. The distinction is important: One reason real individual wages haven't grown with GDP is that a much larger fraction of women are now working than in 1970, and basic microeconomics suggests that as supply (of workers) grows, prices (wages) drop.

There are a bunch of other problems with the implied claim that workers are no better off today than in the 1970's: There have been major demographic shifts. Non-wage benefits make up a much larger fraction of total compensation today. Comparing against the mid-'70s is effectively cherry-picking due to the massive (and unseen since) run-up in inflation over the next decade. Trying to compare inflation-adjusted figures over decades is perilous because even small errors in producing "equivalent" classes of goods to compare will compound over time: This is the "cars are safer / houses are bigger / phones are now SciFI devices" argument ...
https://www.politico.eu/article/huawei-germany-court-case-pr...

Of specific concern is a 2017 intelligence law that obliges companies to "support, assist and cooperate with state intelligence services in accordance with the law, and maintain secret all knowledge on the national intelligence services." Another is China's cybersecurity law, which contains similar requirements.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-...

Vodafone asked Huawei to remove backdoors in home internet routers in 2011 and received assurances from the supplier that the issues were fixed, but further testing revealed that the security vulnerabilities remained, the documents show. Vodafone also identified backdoors in parts of its fixed-access network known as optical service nodes, which are responsible for transporting internet traffic over optical fibers, and other parts called broadband network gateways, which handle subscriber authentication and access to the internet, the people said. The people asked not to be identified because the matter was confidential.
Nelson Rodrigues. The original in pt_BR is “Subdesenvolvimento não se improvisa; é obra de séculos.”
Hey there, I'm currently writing an alternative to music theory that is informed by my own self-taught composing. In the western system the 7 note system is used because of the diatonic scale (you may have heard it as the "Major scale", this is usually an inaccurate term and half the time "diatonic scale" is correct). This 7-note system is relied on for almost all the terminology in western theory, which means there is a lot of fudging to make the notes fit, as the diatonic scale is not actually equally spaced apart. That's the reason there is a "minor" and "major" third and not just one "third".

In addition all these terms are one-indexed because zero was not invented yet, so "unison" in western theory, which refers to two of the same note being played, gets the number 1 (uni-). The same goes for the minor/major second, and so on. This is what causes all the terrible addition problems.

The diatonic scale's strong relevance in music theory is not completely unjustified because almost all consonant (or "good sounding") music is made in it, but it's not very helpful to have to deconvert these terms to any other scale.

I visualize all scales as 12-note equally spaced scales and strongly recommend anyone else to do the same. It's known as the chromatic scale. In this system a unison is just 0, a minor second is 1, major second is 2... and so on. You'll see this system used in "music set theory" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)#Generic_and_s... - look at the semitone number to see the amount of equally-spaced spaces between the notes. Although, the word "semitone" is also a poorly thought out choice due to the diatonic scale (it implies a base unit of "2" instead of "1" since semitone corresponds to 1). Music set theory terminology is much better than western theory IMO, but I think a lot of music set theory buys into too many mathematics-based hypotheses (when it tries to draw equivocations between scales), so I find it has its own issues.
14 out of 34 of the writers in that list are from places other than US/UK [1]. Even the included works by US/UK authors like Shakespeare and Orwell and Huxley aren't merely Anglophone culture - I'd argue they're a part of human culture. Are films by Kurosawa like Ran (King Lear) and Throne of Blood (Macbeth) any less Japanese because he was inspired by Shakespeare? I'd argue not.

Could they have made a better list? Certainly, and perhaps even they would acknowledge it. Of course we can nitpick - I agree with almost none of the selections related to software. But I think "done" is better than "perfect".

[1] - Murasaki Shikibu (Japan), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia), Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), Salman Rushdie (India), Nadine Gordimer (South Africa), Ben Okri (Nigeria), Arundhati Roy (India), Umberto Eco (Italy), Haruki Murakami (Japan), Roberto Bolaño (Chile), Stanislaw Lem (Poland), Jung Chang (China)
It doesn't matter whether there's good evidence or not. The risk potential is there and that is what most of this is based on.
What is a better way to prevent mass IP theft the CCP is doing?
Break it down: A new way to address common computing problem
The nomenclature is thrown off quite a bit by this. Streamers say "Check and see if you have a free Twitch Prime and subscribe"
The M.C.Escher of Music? [video]
How is it conceptually different from using slack for the purpose?
As one example, Django's auth framework gives you a users table which it manages. You would set a foreign key column from customers to users.

I believe the point of GP was to say "use an auth framework". If you're rolling your own auth, then your approach is fine.
Like the parent poster, I've shipped systems that have to be in production and supported for 20+ years, so this isn't surprising.

That said, most of my career has been in embedded systems, so this kind of lifetime isn't really unusual.
Your distinction between "measure" and "estimate" seems meaningless to me, and probably to most scientists and engineers. All physical measurements have uncertainty, and many people are engaged as we speak in creative (in the colloquial sense of the word) work seeking to reduce that uncertainty. We tend to say "measurement" when the uncertainty is negligibly small for whatever purpose is at hand, and "estimate" when it's not; but that distinction is as much in how the number will be used as in the number itself.

As to specific examples, the speed of light and charge on an electron are tricky because they're both exact by definition in SI today; but considerable creativity was required to get those definitions. The mass of the Earth is uncertain in kg today, and creative work is ongoing to decrease that uncertainty. So does that make a new estimate of the mass of the Earth copyrightable? Perhaps just the last, previously-unknown digits would be copyrightable?

I'm not aware of case law on anything too closely resembling physical constants; but I'm near-certain the answer if litigated would be no, and I'd guess the argument would be something like "you're uncovering some preexisting truth, not creating something new (no matter how 'creative' your approach to the uncovering)". Returning to the original question, the CNW guy presumably got competent legal advice and concluded the copyright angle wasn't worth pursuing, and instead focused on the antitrust angle in his testimony.
Are there previews or short videos with this?
This shouldn't be downvoted - it's relevant to hackers here because the executive branch found an effective way to hack the electoral process. Socio-political engineering at its finest!
Arguably the number of transistors scales as the area, so 10002 == 1e6.
> Google took this approach internally using markdown files (If I remember correctly).

Yes: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
Bureaucracy is a lazy way to do this.
In a truly free market with no government fingers on the scale no worker would ever work for less than is required to live or at least they wouldn't work for long at such a wage.

People factor in the assistance they expect to receive when taking a job in terms of food, healthcare, and money when they take a job that will with assistance provide them the means to live. It is not unheard of at some low paying employers to guide new employees to benefit programs to help them meet their needs.

In effect such programs reduce the market clearing price for labor at the expense of other tax payers. Such program often require that the recipients work but not for how much. At the limit sufficiently generous benefits could inspire someone to work for $1 per year and you could subsidize taco bells entire workforce but the minimum wage and the limits of federal dollars both prevent this.
I clearly said 110,000 in this hypothetical, not 3.
I was curious about that too.

The img tag has a "srcset" attribute with resolutions from 85x48 to 1920x1080, but the "sizes" attribute is "(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px".
Oh, I didn't know about that at all -- the aspect of selling off lower "grade" bandwidth to others. Are there any stats about that? Does that apply to voice channels as well? Is there somewhere I can read more about this? Thanks!
You're setting up a simple relay, piggy backing off existing telecom infrastructure to provide for one home.

Reading the article I would guess that this project is bringing mobile broadband to the area

> The experimental Ch4lke Mobile, which runs over just five masts, can connect homes to a network capable of delivering broadband-like speeds, in an area that had been left behind by the digital revolution.

I imagine the vast majority of that cost went to digging and laying fiber for tower backhaul, something you don't need to worry about if you're just connecting one home to an existing mast with fiber backhaul.
Bear is good at producing nicely formatted PDFs from markdown. Styling options are (very) limited, but I like using it as the documents always look good.
Something that reveals no information to others is not a privacy violation by definition.

(Although, something that blocks communication (which I don't think I agree with anyway) based on local analysis is an autonomy violation. But not a privacy violation.)

Something that tells you when you've just received a well documented hoax is not malware, it's probably useful, and most people will probably keep it switched on if the quality is consistently good.

By your logic, spam filtering (outgoing and incoming) is also malware, and a privacy violation. (Even though it protects people against malware, and indirectly protects privacy.)

Do you believe spam filtering is bad? I doubt it.

Yes, people ask for certain kinds of anlysis based message blocking all the time. We begged and pleaded for better spam filtering 20 years ago because the vast majority of messages were pure spam and it had made email difficult to use. It's a major reason people switched to Gmail, because other providers' spam filters weren't good enough.

I think the key feature most people would want in any kind of alerting, tagging or filtering is that it does what they want, rather than what the enemy wants, as it were. As people's preferences differ, that can only happen if it's configurable by them rather than blanket imposed. Things like ad blockers work this way - you can change the defaults if you want - and people seem to like those.
This below my mind when I started using clang-format. There are only two options in all of clang-formats 100+ customization variables: move the star next to the type, or don't touch the star.
> Are you really telling me, and especially now, with revenue down in the middle of a global pandemic and economic crisis, that the best use of everybody's time is to trash our internal wiki and start it again rather than, oh, I don't know, work on projects that we can actually charge people money for?

I bet if you forced the managers to set everyone's OKRs or priorities for the quarter, none of them would include "Rewrite Wiki" in the written goals.

That's the real problem with these exercises: The intent may be good, but it's a massive amount of work that no one is willing to prioritize over other projects. So instead, the efforts stall out.

Furthermore, no one wants to contribute to a new Wiki if they think it will simply be discarded in a few years when the next up-and-coming manager wants to declare Wiki bankruptcy.

I worked at a company that was upset that too many people were relying on Slack backlog search to find answers to old questions. They decided to shut down the Slack workspace and start over new to encourage everyone to become less reliant on Slack. This solved nothing, but made everyone's jobs more difficult when they couldn't remember conversations from a few years ago.

Worse yet, many teams set up their own separate Slack workspaces, off the record, so they could have control over the destiny of their backlogs.

Nothing was solved, but many things became significantly worse.
Twitter Jumps into the Fray for TikTok
> a well-functioning court and jury should easily be able answer these questions,

I'm going to ignore the qualifier of 'well functioning' which obviously up for debate. The process of being charged with a crime, being put on trial, wondering at the consequences of the outcome etc., is no joke. It is a tremendously time-consuming, expensive, and stressful processes and even if you are acquitted there is no undoing the damage that has been done. There's a reason doctor's spend huge chunks of their income on malpractice insurance, and if we decide that engineers need the same protection in case they get sued than the biggest beneficiary is going to be the insurance companies.

If insurance companies also had to sigh oaths we might make some progress, but the nature of their game is to spread the risk - which is to say they take money from a lot of people and hope they never have to pay them back. There's only so much regulation can do about that.

It shouldn't just be thrown out as 'well if you make a decision in good faith then you are sure to win your court case'. It is not a reasonable burden to put on someone who cannot anticipate all the possible outcomes of decisions they make.
Some groups presumably would be much more likely to sabotage the war effort than others.
China already has their own internet.
Is it referencing something specific? It's an editorial referencing other editorials. Is there something direct like PRISM type wikileaks?

Considering the NSA hacked and had backdoors in Huawei servers for almost a decade, I imagine direct evidence shouldn't be difficult to produce.

https://mashable.com/2014/03/22/nsa-huawei/
I would say definitely better safe than sorry, especially if you're not sure how to identify pressure treated wood.
All I can think of is the story about how toothpaste was made popular.
For situations where a UPS is too expensive or impractical you can also buy pure voltage regulators that use some kind of autotransformer, like the APC Line-R. I worked for an institution for a while that had every laser printer on one, there had been some bad experiences with losing laser printers to overvoltage incidents but they generally draw too much current to go on a UPS. I've also seen them used for A/V equipment.