skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why did he need to lockdown the country other than because of this?"

Imagine for a moment that the current case number was entirely predictable. i.e. it is due to Boris ignoring scientific advice, believing he knows better. So the need to close for christmas is a result of not locking down sooner and harder. Now due to that failure to sell the hard truth, people wont be able to meet over christmas and he wants to find a way of shifting the blame.
Offering someone $6 an hour and paying them $1 is definitely exploitation, though.
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So you agree with Facebook that their revenue stream is more important than our privacy?

If you don’t agree, then how else do you propose Apple enforces said privacy?

I mean these third party apps are running on Apple’s platform and using Apple’s APIs to track Apple’s customers. Who else can fix this problem?
not an issue. i just crossed the 500 days of no high speed mobile internet so yeah, fuck tyrant governments
But it's not just about there being correlation between the variant appearing, and there being a new wave. That is a pretty weak data point by itself. We have more evidence and everything so far is pointing in the same direction.

The big deal to me is that this variant is muscling out others in sequencing (+ PCR tests which by coincidence can tell the difference between this variant and the previously dominant ones), despite there being a high prevalence.

And while the details are sparse, the NERVTAG minutes refer to evidence showing that the patients infected by the new variant have higher viral loads.
By definition a WASM runtime running within seccomp does not increase the attack surface. That's in fact the whole point of layering such systems. I'm not exactly sure what your point is or why you're talking about seccomp-bpf here.
But the total import of China in 2019 is $2.09 trillion. Which is 5 times the surplus you mentioned.

If your think that surplus is a lot, then 5 times that is definitely not "they don't import much"
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To be honest, Apple will simply blame Wistron suspend them. In the end these folks here will loose their jobs, and Apple will simply switch manufacturing suppliers.

The problem is the big corps have zero accountability when operating in developing nations. On the flip side, developing nations are desperate to attract big firms in order to bring profits in.

For a country the size of India, though they definitely can demand that Apple pay a hefty fine or face even more tariffs. If they can't guarantee workers pay, they deserve to be treated exactly like TikTok was.
I’ve never really understood why people object to me holding a gun to their head and telling them to give me all their money. I’m not reaching into their pocket and taking it, they are choosing to accept the deal I’m offering.

Absolutely nothing is making them their arm reach into their pocket and pull cash out, it’s their choice. They are free to say no and get shot in the head.
I know I'm less afraid of it. More contagious generally means less deadly.
I'm not sure I understand your point.
How is Apple crushing Facebook as a competitor by allowing users to give proper consent to tracking.

I could understand if there was really an overlap somewhere, but I don't really see it. They have different business models, Apple doesn't have any social media property that compete with Facebook or Instagram and if Apple really wanted iMessage to crush WhatsApp they should at least show their interest in dominance by having an Android version of it.

Maybe they are competing on resources? but I don't see it either. They don't seem to be going after the same acquisitions.

Maybe Apple is doing this because pleasing or pissing off ad-based companies has no effect on their bottom line and they see it as a good marketing campaign to woo the privacy conscious an earn some brownie points for practically zero expense.
> An expanded awareness of unavoidably repeated constructs remains useful.

yet it's irrelevant to the topic at hand. You can't just make up your own definition to suit your argument when the related article talks about something completely different, it's dishonest.
Before blaming Apple the important question is what is Apple paying? Are they paying $7 and ripping off the employees? Or are they paying $100 and Wistron is ripping off Apple?
Also you will end up fucking your reputation by sending out emails to bad mailboxes all day long
Germany:

1. Weed, to be honest. I'm not a heavy consumer, but I'd appreciate a safe, reliable source.

2. Old Dutch BBQ chips

3. Cheese curds
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Exchanges have cracked down on this sort of thing a lot this year.

From a letter from the CME to the CFTC dated July 24, 2020:

> On July 26, 2020, an enhancement to the Market Segment Gateway (“MSGW”) will be introduced to further safeguard the CME Globex electronic trading platform (“CME Globex”) infrastructure by introducing a delay of at least three microseconds if the MSGW receives a partial order message as a means of ensuring the stability of the platform. Certain participants intentionally submit partial order messages to reduce latency, and only complete the order message upon the happening of an event or trading signal. Implementation of the enhancement is expected to reduce the frequency of intentionally split order messages as the additional processing time will serve as a deterrent.

The letter is on the web, but it's a PDF; the Google search result has a redirect link to it, DuckDuckGo can't seem to find it, and Firefox on Android won't tell me the URL it downloads things from, so I'm afraid I can't link to it!

CME also made a more general change, where if they decide a participant is sending dodgy messages, they will reroute all their packets to a special gateway for "additional checks", but in practice, to impose a latency penalty. Can't find the documentation on that at all, though.
Ah yes, the "new" site that has been around since 2009...
So $7/month is about ten meals a month then. Sounds like it's not a living wage to me.
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Off-topic question: Has this story gotten permanently capped to rank #10 on the front page somehow? If so, why? As of this writing, it has far more points than any higher story on the front page (this is at 168 points, whereas the next-highest one is at 121 points [1]), and some of those were posted hours earlier than this one. (e.g. [2] is at 45 points and posted 5 hours ago, whereas this story is at 168 points posted 3 hours ago.)

I'm asking because I'm pretty darn upset by this news and I care that people actually see it. So this apparent (artificial?) deranking is very much bothering me. What is the basis for it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25492406

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25485541
Surely if you do it at scale the removed material can be recycled fairly cheaply?
>It's almost as if "somebody" doesn't want projects like this one to succeed. Who would benefit if PJON and others like it didn't exist? Who would benefit if users instead had no other option but to pay a for-profit company for the hardware, software, and (of course!) the recurring monthly subscription fee instead of just doing it themselves? Hmm... (see how easy that is)?

jlgaddis, probably there could not have been a better way to describe the situation.
>Construction companies seem to do fine even though building codes exist.

They're not the one's paying for it. The people wanting the building built are. And there's a lot of corruption in that. On top of that, there's a pretty clear housing crisis in big cities.

I'm unsure whether that's the industry to follow.
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John Pinette's comedy bit about the ubiquity of the BB&B coupon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in12THaZvss
> you DON'T get to pick the good parts of crazy

I used to rant a lot. At times it was perceived as an attack on someone's work, when it wasn't meant to be. Then, I'd apologize, assuming it was ok.

I was experienced, and I thought I was being paid to mentor and oversee as part of my work.

I thought that others would understand and sympathize that I ranted because I was under a lot of stress. They didn't.

They would tell others, and they would not confront me about it, which eventually resulted in a hellish working environment and semi-isolation. I believe at least one was even being unethical in their reaction to me speaking my mind, causing problems for me, probably with the best intention to wear me down, to get rid of the toxicity in their work environment "for the good of the whole".

I now try to think about what I say, even when being direct would solve a problem more quickly. Sometimes that means that when I'm on calls, others will run over me. To get over that, I also try to act and believe that the other person is more qualified. I don't do that with everyone, and it's not appropriate for speaking with young children, but it's usually good.
That link goes to 12:50 in browser local time, almost certainly not what you meant?
I definitely agree with that.
Mobile app revenue. Ads where Apple doesn't get a cut vs IAP where Apple gets 30%.
For those that need it, I'll point out the comment I disagreed with:

> but I don't know a single person that wanted a Windows phone

I only represent a single person, and I make no claims about anyone else!
An order of magnitude is 10x, this is 6x so within an order of magnitude. Specific numbers are meaningless. Calling it same order of magnitude seems an unfortunate (and technically incorrect) phrasing.

Still, the point stands - a 6x difference between normally-served dose and a harmful one is way too small to call it non-harmful. How do you even define a normally-served dose? This needs further clarification with better definitions.
Pros and cons in comparison to Lua? Or simply using "rlua"?
Although a friend of mine tried it out as a rental along with an R5. He was really wowed at first but after using it for a bit he wasn't as impressed with the results. Still, for a birder, at $1K coupled with the R5's eye autofocus it doesn't have any real competitors. Not everyone needs or can pay for the higher end and very heavy lenses. (And, with modern full frame digital cameras, the smaller fixed aperature doesn't matter nearly as much.)
Mutations are pervasive and not well flagged.
Operations like the FSF have a single goal - to promote Free Software.

If they can also promote equality at the same time, then great.

But the goal of promoting equality and free software are not equal - free software is the primary goal.

If the organisation is acting illegally, then it's a matter for the police. But if the organisation is focussing on it's primary goal rather than a 2ndary goal you think is more important, it's probably a sign it's time to quit and start your own organisation with different goals...
I bought a new SLR body probably every 5 years for the last 40. My newest smartphones are so good I've given up. Yes if you want crisp incredible detail, or if its your wedding you need an SLR, but no other reason.
In this case, the B.1.1.7 variant has shown to be highly abundant in recent COVID-19 cases in the UK. Much higher compared to other mutations which are tracked too. This is pretty clear evidence of an increased infection rate or evolutionary advantage as there has to be some driving force for this process. Take a look at this Report from the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium. The B.1.1.7 mutations N501Y + Δ69-70 and N501Y are very recent and mostly showed up during the last 28 days.

[1] https://www.cogconsortium.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Repo...
It bugs me, too. Nowadays, "An oral history of X" just means "We interviewed multiple people related to X, and here is a written article containing some of their quotes."

That's a lot different from what the Oral History Association describes in its principles and best practices, where the focus is on preserving sound recordings of interviews:

https://www.oralhistory.org/about/principles-and-practices-r...
Tuskagee is about the worst example you could pick. The subjects in the trial would have benefitted substantially from having other researchers contact them.
I hope you don't take this as an insult, you are just meaningless statistical patterns in a 100-billion-count neural processing machine. Sure, your neural network is hooked up to a basic chemical analyzer and a couple other nifty I/O devices, but they all just produce neural firing patterns. All that thought and feeling are meaningless statistical noise when looked at in a micro scale.

Who is to say what GPT3 feels when processing text about wine? Maybe it really likes the sensations of certain firing patterns triggered by symbols in particular orders. And maybe with enough complexity it will be able to describe the sensation of these firing patterns.

I don't see any reason to believe your firing patterns are more "real" than GPT[n]'s.

You do have access to better equipment than GPT3, however I'd hesitate to ascribe too much significance to this. A future machine intelligence with integrated gas chromatograph might conclude that humans don't really like or dislike wine itself; mostly they judge taste by the shape of the bottle and the price tag:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/you-are-n...

The symbol processing may be more important than you think.
> They're saying no to a company's revenue stream

They're saying no to certain privacy violations on their platform. This being detrimental to Facebook's revenue says a lot more about Facebook's business model than it says about Apple's policies.
> When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.

Third paragraph of the preamble at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.html. Still unchanged in v3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

GPL has always been about free-as-in-freedom, not free-as-in-beer.
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The Chromium web browser in Debian Buster hasn't been updated in more than six months. That is a problem.
Coincidentally the group of people who would fall for Herbalife is similar to the group of people who believe insane anti vaccine theories.
PicoLisp is such a nice concept. Really envy the creator for being able to deliver projects fully on his own stack.
Couldn’t Apple put it in the contract if they wanted?
NYT is still a notch above "You wont believe the history..." or "Your jaw will drop when you find out about...", but they need some hook to make you curious.
> A female colleague and me had dared to discuss wage transparency and gender pay gap in the office. […] Our boss Matthias was beyond furious. After that office meeting, he told my colleague “there will be consequences”.

Under German law you are not only allowed to talk about your salary with your colleagues, it is expressly illegal for your employer to try and stop you from doing this. I’m surprised a German boss would warn of “consequences” for doing that, and if FSFE had a union I doubt he would have gotten away with it.
There are cheap desktop CNC machines around but they probably aren't very good. That said, cheap 3d printed stuff isn't often very high fidelity either. https://www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Control-Engraving-Controller...
I meant the time period between starting going to sleep and actually falling asleep.
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It's like that fantasy about Uber and self driving cars. Exploiting humans will always be cheaper than maintaining robots in places where human life has very little value.
Is that how you think a free market works?
No, conspiracy theories are not a good way to describe the situation, and certainly don't help people believe you if they are doubting the legitimacy of a submission.
This Report from the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium gives a good summary of the prevalent genotypes with UK COVID-19 cases. You can see how the B.1.1.7 mutations N501Y + Δ69-70 and N501Y are very recent and mostly showed up during the last 28 days.

https://www.cogconsortium.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Repo...
Which brings up a more important question as most people keep old messages around, thus invalidating forward secrecy in practice.

Threema at least tries to protect the old messages using things like the the OS keystore (Signal also does this). On some platforms Threema actually allows a passphrase to protect the old messages which is arguably better than what Signal does. See the cryptography white paper for the details:

* https://threema.ch/press-files/2_documentation/cryptography_...
> I am unclear what would motivate the founding team or investors in a start-up to act otherwise

RSAs and RSUs are far less liquid than equity. They can typically only be sold into a company-wide liquidity event.
Between my Dad and I we have owned the D70, D200, D90, D40X, D2X, D3, D7100, D7500, D800, D850

I like all of them. Are any of them amazing? Sure, why not?

The D70 was just $1000 which was great. The D2X and D3 are built like tanks. I think my D850 is the best DSLR ever made.
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I don't think it prevents dilution. Hard to believe investors would agree to a scheme where new rounds pay a % fee directly to employees.
They’re not mutually exclusive. Political tensions are clearly also relevant to companies looking for a reliable partner.
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> This is why I hate Scrum where tasks are supposed to be broken down and shared between the team members

If that doesn't work, perhaps you could talk about it in sprint retrospective? In the last team we used SCRUM, but understood that each dev had the modules/parts they knew best (for me it was user-facing parts and installer), where they'd do most of the changes and bug fixes.
Has only Leica been able to kind of pivot into smartphone devices? Or is this also just a branding thing and the cameras and lenses are in fact made by the normal device manufacturers?
It's fortunate that Pfizer/BioNTech chose the whole spike protein mRNA as their vaccine candidate over the one that focused just on the receptor binding domain -- which the UK mutation changed. Wise choice, and hopefully it will work well against this new variant.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027906

Moderna's vaccine was focused on the whole spike protein too. So even though there are crucial mutations in this mutation, both leading vaccine candidates hopefully will still be effective.
No, full task scheduling today on any serious Unix system.
I believe donors have certain baseline expectations towards the organizations those days. Showing up at employee’s home after being told by her lawyer not to, is such a HUGE no-no, it borders on abuse.
We don't need these hipster webshit crap.
You can get the consumer 70-300 for even less refurbished assuming you mean the DX VR Nikon lens. I've had mine almost a year and it works perfectly.
The formula involves time, votes, and the 'busy-ness' of the comments. And, IIRC, the time component is tuned to prevent a story from being on the front page (and continuing to displace other stories) for a very long time. It certainly has no concept of moral outrage.

If admins think a story is worthy (and I suppose if enough folks contacted them expressing this viewpoint), they can certainly make adjustments to keep it around a bit longer.
Does anyone know where I can find any relevant court documents? Specifically the "The court basically says that even though they recognise my claims as true [...]".

If the court claim is affirming of her claims, and her story stands up, this is worth carrying forwards.

There are few organisations that can successfully promote and defend free software, for one of the major ones to be headed by a person who behaves like described is incredibly concerning - what other lies and manipulations does he partake in?
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Sigma used to be one of the brands you bought because you didn't have the money for the camera manufacturer's lens. Now, they have unique models in a number of cases. I still have mostly Canon glass but I have a couple Sigma models because Canon doesn't have the equivalent.
I like a free market economy. If you like a more planned economy, I think there are only a few examples left in the world. But I'm sure you can emigrate there and see how it works out.
That is the lamest excuse I have ever heard.

If my organizations goal is feeding the homeless, am I free to only hire white people because racism is not my organization's primary goal?

You can achieve your organisation's primary goal without being horrible human beings. That's allowed. In fact, it's basic human decency.
I get what you're trying to say, but specifically it's the US ongoing blockade putting their food supplies at risk, and more generally you are still punishing other countries for actions we engage in regularly. Start by prosecuting the CIA that plotted assassinating Assange.
Thanks for maintaining this list, it looks super interesting and it was exactly what I was looking for!
My worry is this: If you take a population where a virus is widespread and start vaccinating then the likelihood for a mutation that escapes the vaccination is much higher, had you instead taken a population where the virus not widespread and vaccinated there.

Is this correct?

UK has a widespread ongoing outbreak and is the first nation to deliver vaccinations at a big scale.
very different business models and markets.. apple could be gigantic without this kind of manufacturing model, though. it's probably the rat race of management looking for carreer progression based on metrics and/or bonus. disgusting
The elephant in the room are transfer restrictions. VCs demand their preferred stock trade in the secondary market. At the same time, common stock is locked down. If the common stock is sellable before the company exits, the risk-reward calculus for company equity shifts in employees’ favor.
Elon Musk is not CEO of SpaceX. He is CTO and is in the trenches building the rockets. He is fully cognizant of the whole machine and he expects his engineers to be also. That way the design can be changed without regard to departmental infighting, etc. The best part is no part and always trying to get little improvements. Not something NASA can do with specs fixed in place for manufacturing in 40 different states 5 years in advance.

Of course he does not "build" the whole thing, but he has a vision that inspires people and the technical chops to lead from the front lines. And the endurance to put in productive 80-100hr work weeks for decades.
Having a different primary goal than "act ethically" does not excuse unethical and illegal behavior.
This sounds scientifically rigorous.
As an individual is there anything we can do to support this case?
Firstly is you should really write down your long-term vision for your blog.
> This is not the first case of racism and sexisme in FOSS and probably won't.

The fish rots from the head down, and apart from Stallman (which is mentioned in the article) I for myself would personally add Torvalds to that same conversation (even though with a little less overt sexism, but definitely with more bullying).

But because Torvalds's project has had an incredible ROI, i.e. it has made lots of people lots of money (heck, I for myself only started learning Python 17 years ago because I had a Linux distro easily at hand) his position is pretty much safe for the time being.
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Why are we talking about good work? Whether the work is good isn't the employee's problem. I'd love to get $1m/yr for bad work, so I can put that money to good use.
I think it is ok to rant a bit without being super concrete. There is value in the rant, too.