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> I find all these slavery comparisons in poor taste. Across history you will find slaves that were treated well, accumulated wealth, were educated and held in high regard - yet they still legally were the property of another person. The fundamental distinction with slavery is not a bad paycheck.

"Poor taste"? Seriously? I didn't say this is slavery, did I? I compared 19th century slaves' wages with these factory workers' wages. Somehow I can't do that because... why, exactly? Because you don't like it when people compare the working conditions of slaves with those of modern workers?

And it's not like I cherry-picked some well-off slaves here. $100 is the minimum slave wage numbers I could find—even the page said it was for unskilled labor. And to add insult to injury, those numbers appear to be NOT adjusted for (15x?) inflation! (Probably worth double-checking this part, but see: http://lestweforget.hamptonu.edu/page.cfm?uuid=9FEC4E79-B361...)

> In this case, the distinction wasn't a bad paycheck either. The compensation was fine on paper,

The average Indian factory worker earns ₹330,000/year or $371/month. https://www.payscale.com/research/IN/Job=Factory_Worker/Hour...

The engineers here hired for $286/mo and had their pay "on paper" reduced to $163/month ($109/month for non-engineers).

I don't know what your standard for "a bad paycheck" is, but I suppose, given how you were fine with this being equal to actual slaves' wages, I shouldn't be surprised that less than half the average salary for a person who build products for the world's richest company isn't bad enough for you.
Nikon was the second biggest camera manufacturer until recently when Sony ate their market.

Even in the early 2010s Nikon was thought as the innovator and techically better than Canon but Sony stole that title. Nikon fumbled with the mirrorless market quite spectacularly and nowadays its mirrorless cameras like Z6 and Z7 are basically copies of what Sony published year or two earlier but with quite bad native lens line-up.

The funny thing here is that Nikon outsourced the sensor development to Sony in the 2000s.
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For comparison. 1 Iphone with full options would be >200 workers for a month.
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At this point, never trust a hardware wallet that stores your address. 270k people have become a target.

If you have brought a hardware wallet recently, request them to delete your info, they have no reason to store it.
There's a difference between scope creep and difficulty.
Can they not foresee Rocky Linux or one of many existing alternative distros? It’s an inconvenience to switch, but I don’t see that working.
So Apple does not show the GPLv3+ banner?
Agree. It doesn’t matter how much ammo you store in your little hut in the woods, the number of guns you buy, the amount of Tactical Toothbrushes in camouflage paint you squirrel away. The government doesn’t even have to use the army. It can simply declare you to be a terrorist (using one of the secret courts), and send in the local gun crazy SWAT guys to take you out. And if you as much as look at one of your Tactical Toothbrushes when they burst through your bedroom door at 4am, they will shoot you so full of holes that not even your mum will recognise you. Followed by a press conference where the government will proudly declare to the world that they have eliminated yet another terrorist and back slaps all around for the brave boys who pumped you full of lead.
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Man this is some not-so-good effect of globalization, how come those factory workers are okay with these?
Which is stupid, it’s just because you can’t. Most Nikon models don’t have a clean hdmi output and limit video recording to twenty minutes.
Unless you have an encyclopedic memory and copious leisure time, you'd probably be much better off writing perl scripts instead if you care about portability. There is an enormous amount of sometimes subtle divergence between behaviors of core tools you need for shell scripting (sed, tr, mktemp, readlink all behave very differently between different versions of unix,for example) and even if you manage to memorize exactly what's in posix (and accept the fairly severe limitiations in expressiveness this entails), few things are actually 100% posix conforming.
As someone in the spectrum, how could I improve my empathy?
Does that include actually paying them what they owe?
I'm a big fan of Jean-Louis Gassée and I wish there were more visionaries like him in the personal computing industry. He helped push the Mac further during his tenure at Apple, and his work at BeOS also pushed the state of the art of personal computing. There are two major standouts in his career that I greatly appreciate:

1. His transformation of the Mac from the non-expandable appliance it was in the original 1984 Macintosh to Macs that supported expansion slots, such as the Macintosh II and the Macintosh SE. The Macintosh II series led to other expandable Macs such as the Quadra, the Power Macintosh, and the Mac Pro. While the Mac Pro would lose its expansion slots when the 2013 Mac Pro was released, the latest Mac Pro has expansion slots again, and I hope Apple keeps them if it releases an ARM version of the Mac Pro.

2. His work at Be, Inc. after his departure from Apple. I never had the chance to use BeOS (I was in elementary school during the heyday of BeOS), but I've read a lot about it. In my opinion, one of BeOS's most interesting features is its searchable file system. Indeed, the creator of BeOS's file system, Dominic Giampaolo (who wrote a well-written, accessible introductory textbook on file system design), moved to Apple after Be's demise and worked on Spotlight, which is macOS's search tool.
Here's one side-by-side you can watch with the same games being played on the same Zen-based system, but with varying RAM clock speeds: https://youtu.be/8H0DEkpEDCE Generally, the highest-clocked RAM got the best average and min FPS in the games tested.

I'm having trouble finding it now, but IIRC I also once saw a side-by-side comparing different RAM latencies, and the differences were not enough to outweigh clock speeds; i.e. overclocking with worse latencies was better than lower latency but lower clock.

That being said I've seen non-gaming benchmarks that imply that there is a 3600mhz sweet spot. So it may vary based on workload. I haven't looked into that closely though — I was looking at benchmarks when building a gaming PC, so I had a specific focus :)
> One possibility is to replace early employee (first ~10 employees) stock options with the same Restricted Stock Agreements (RSAs) as the founders.

I am sure RSA are and will always be available to those with the skilleset that commands this level of compensation. I am unclear what would motivate the founding team or investors in a start-up to act otherwise.
It's interesting that "hui" has exactly the same meaning as in Chinese.

A quick search revealed this article:

https://fr-fr.facebook.com/NewZealandChinese/posts/when-hui-...
This is a dangerous oversimplification. Yes, you can increase the chances of getting rich faster by being dishonest, and in the cases it works, you can get spectacular results (like early Microsoft) or you can get caught and finish in jail. But many businesspeople get good results by a combination of already having some initial capital, the right idea in the right time, some talent and willingness to work and take some risks to make things happen. Many of these don't ever consider anything unethical. But of course only the worst cases get publicized.

I call this idea dangerous, because it stigmatizes all successful people, not just the bad ones. Accepting this kind of collective responsibility is as repulsive as racist statements.
BigBlueButton fits the bill and is open source too. You need to find a server that allows you to run the conference but there should be plenty.
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> How come when we hear about this stuff it is always Israeli companies involved? Is ethics not taught in Israeli Computer Science curricula?

Personal opinion, but I think the mandatory army service in Israel seems to teach that everything is 'defense' and Israel is always 'defending itself', no matter what, this sort of thinking then bleeds into the private sector as these guys leave the military and use the skills they learned there to establish businesses.

Having interacted with the Palestinians during their army service as 'the enemy', the victims of NSO undoubtedly fall into the same category, thus not worth loosing their sleep over.
Using a laptop for 10h is super useful for days where you have to travel somewhere, have an appointment, and travel another 5h by train back. Avoids having to constantly have it plugged in in the train, and allows using it even in trains without power sockets
> The natural JS leakiness gets amplified if a leaked part references any JS object.

* The natural JS leakiness gets amplified if a leaked part references any Java object.
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Quite a milestone for sure but let’s not paint it as if it was an unexpected shock. Only the high-end equipment were still made or assembled in Japan. A big part of Nikon products have been made in Thailand and China for years if not decades.
Cameras =!= Lenses.

I always found Nikon cameras more my taste than canon. But that is just taste, in terms of quality, in the sense of the pictures, I never saw a difference. Not back the day when we still developed our black and white pictures ourselves and not now with digital cameras.

Lenses on the other hand a different thing altogether. There I saw defferences between the "cheaper" Sigma and the premium Nikkor ones. Not always but sometimes. I would assume that the new mirrirless cameras are less complex to build, so maybe the Thailand based manufacturing facilities are best suited. After all, it's the lense and the person behind the camera that counts.
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Canon is much larger and more diverse company than Nikon. I don't know who is doing better in the DSLR space, but Canon is almost certainly doing better overall.
Yes, that is indeed the major pain. Unix-likes have an actual VFS as an API and it happens (at least on every unix-like I've worked on for any bit of time, which is mostly Linux but I expect BSD has it as well) to allow for comparatively wondrous workflows.

Windows programs also often only support 'CDs' (ISO9660 / UDF), FAT, NTFS, and maybe SMB/CIFS (Samba / CIFS) network shares. Since Windows lacks (or at least historically lacked) a general VFS they could target. That's why any actual VFS that ever gets made, due to all the legacy software, is either going to directly support one of those interfaces, or have a compatibility mode which does.
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Facebook's attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes
People is different skills can actually cooperate. It is pretty easy in fact, because they tend like different tasks.
Thanks, that explains it.
Wouldn't there be an element of cherry picking to this whole variant story? Like, don't viruses mutate constantly, we just don't analyze them in a disciplined manner most of the time, so if you start doing that you're bound to find something like this, but so would anyone else conducting a similar analysis anywhere else and at any other point in the pandemic?
More startup folks should read about Tomas Bata [0], he built about 2000 of houses for his workers.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Ba%C5%A5a
It's not, the comment's point is - don't do things you don't find particularly interesting just because other people suggest it.
Dont forget the 12 is first iPhone supporting fast charging, which none of the previous iPhone chargers supports. So if you want to utilize its full potential, you need to spend bucks.
Spoiler alert: not standard practice at all. A few pilot projects using slow and very expensive techniques have been completed successfully.
Yes, I tried to say that the difference is really minor.

There's a tendency to combine words out of existing fragments in German. Verschlimmbessern might be an example for this. In English I see this less often and there are many more words that come from Latin or Greek.
In the short term: The pandemic.

"Camera Sales in 2020 Have Plummeted As Much As 54%"

https://petapixel.com/2020/11/06/camera-sales-in-2020-have-p...
It’s not like Apple is an outlier and non-richest companies are any better. Electronics manufacturing, as well as many other kinds of manufacturing (e.g., clothing which is even more notorious), operate on razor thin margins. Guess how much you can realistically pay workers when you make a grand total of <$5[1] on a $1k device? Not gonna come close to U.S. minimum wage, that’s for sure.

Anyway, this kind of exploitation is part of how Western companies accumulate wealth and it partially funds your first world salaries and lifestyles.

[1] The higher estimates I’ve seen are always <$10, and lower estimates are way under.
Craig Murray with an absolute barn Stormer of a take under the linked tweet. Is he trying to the guardian are warmongering agitators now?
Not in the weapons industry, but in my experience statements like that struggle to hold up to the test of time. Seems like the places I wanted to work the least for offered the most, by a significant margin.
That paragraph explains why consumed electricity is ~equal to the heat that needs to be removed by coolers. I'm not advocating to heat space with computers.
One issue that always occurs to me in these situations is the intense research into automation and robotics. Obviously replacing these workers is not feasible now, but it seems like we should anticipate much more capable robots as the research progresses.

That will increase the problems that labour has dramatically.

Check out https://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation
Tho, there are quite a few pros in that category. Consider themselves great, believe that they have more passion then everyone else, but they are fast because other people have to finish their work and do all time consuming parts and do the hard parts.
I use zsh because of global aliases feature - allowing me to assign '| grep' to G, for example. AFAIK bash doesn't offer this functionality as yet.
> You can put different rooms on different servers. They don't have to aware of each other.

Yes. You could then use a reverse HTTPS proxy to route each client to the right instance of Galène.

For very large groups, that need to be split between multiple servers, you'll need to wait until we implement server federation (distributing a group over multiple, geographically distant servers). I know for a fact that Jitsi implements federation, not sure about Ion-SFU.
I am not sure I understand your argument. Are you saying that it was actually journalists that were running around shooting the kids, and not kids wanting to take revenge with guns they had easy access to? And that without easy access to guns the kinds would have killed the same number of people with, say, a kitchen knife? Really?
Yes, as of the iPhone 12 range. Here’s a report from October: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/10/13/iphone-12-ships-without...
Also the co-founder of Docker (lots of French people at Docker too, from what I know).
There's so many questions that this raises.

- Is it more infectious or just bypasses current immunities?

- Will the vaccines basically be voided by this?

- Is it less lethal? Could it create more general immunity in communities without killing?

- Has is spread yet? I've read the UK gov knew about this in october... seems like it's probably everywhere by now
Yes - Portacle is an amazing piece of software and also the way to go for someone who just wants to check Lisp out on Mac/Win/Linux, but it also has its issues, e.g. with some systems that depend on foreign libraries. Also, if someone already has emacs set up and preconfigured, there's no point in adding another emacs instance with a distinct configuration for long-term programming.
Aside, I really enjoy the stock image. Gotta love "<plist version="VIRUS"> front and center :)
> Hating on Israel specifically is a very cool and woke thing to do. Has been for decades.

And defenders of Israeli actions using the defense of people 'hating on Israel' instead of reflecting on the fact that people have genuine policy disagreements with what Israel does has been a popular deflection tactic for decades.

You can't divorce what Israel does on a daily basis from its image and then act surprised when it is being criticized.
By chance, do you happen to know of any program that will add (and enable / start / etc) a systemd entry based on a valid crontab line?

Extra bonus points if it yoinks things the other way and lets you edit them as a nice crontab file that makes sense before re-integrating it in to the nightmare syntax.
News article describing latest financial results for Nikon,
https://fstoppers.com/business/nikon-reports-better-expected...
Why would anyone want to work for your startup when they can get much higher salaries working for larger companies?

Stock options used to be that differentiator for startups... now it's just an empty promise in most places.
I'm not able to elaborate because I'm not a lawyer.

I am speaking in more general terms regarding the history of NSO and pegasus.

I am not certain if Jamal's phone itself was hacked but if it was then, in all likelihood, his phone was hacked while he was residing in the US.

His compatriot, who lives in Canada, was definitely hacked using pegasus and that happened in Canada.

I have no hope that the UK government would do anything about this unless the Qataris apply pressure.
Many of the comments, at the time of posting, aren't really grappling with what the article says.

It is about a company called Wistron, not a company called Apple. I would challenge the idea that Apple is doing something wrong in this given what I now about most of the supply chains producing goods in the advanced economies - everyone down to the consumer buys from the cheapest supplier. Apple is not fundamentally responsible for the labour relations of other companies, and this is a practice that literally everyone I know has engaged in to some degree. "Sweatshop labour" producing clothes isn't very concealing as euphemisms go. It is far more worrying that Apple does business in China period than that Apple has dodgy subcontractor arrangements in India. India is a democracy, they'll sort this stuff out in time.

There is also no need to express outrage on this one. Promising to pay one amount and then not paying it is an unpardonable sin in pretty much every value system anyone cares to name. Comparisons to slavery, however, are missing the point. This is fraud. Assuming an accurate article this is one of the few times that smashing someone else's stuff is justified.
Well, looks like HN broke the site.
He probably meant feature updates, security updates was at-least for us, 2-3 days of testing.
Traditional lens manufacturing is likely in its last days (which can easily take a decade or two, but ... the end is visible).

Modern lens are made with techniques perfected in semiconductor manufacturing, and use advances in material science (meta materials in particular). I don't know how close this is to mass market, but I've seen superthin flat lens, with a marginal cost of production around ~$2 in a university facility, that work better than some $500 lens -- and the latter are expensive because they are hard to make the traditional way.
This is a very generalized statement to make for a Linux distribution.
> I'd add an anonymous option to the login

Good idea. I'll check with Alain (the UI guy).

> if it's non-encrypted or encrypted

It's always encrypted (WebRTC doesn't support plaintext communcation). If we ever add an option for end-to-end encryption, we'll add an indicator.
Hah, thanks; I was about to note that I tried zsh in ~1993 and never looked back. I do my scripts in bash, though.
No GPLv3 software is shipped with macOS. And in the second monst recent version of macOS, bash was replaced with zsh
Booking are kind of an exception to the rule given their clout. They pay astronomical figures because nobody wants to touch Perl :) There's a huge startup ecosystem in Amsterdam and €100k is approaching CTO salary. Often the dev teams are full of expat "senior" 20-somethings on €55-60k under the 30% Ruling (€53k upwards I think?).
That ship has mostly sailed, and people seem to be OK with ‘made by a Japanese company’

For instance Sony products are not seen as ‘made in China’, just ‘made by Sony’
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What about all this microplastic which gets from this "boat" into water? This should be banned, I think.
The problem with ISIS is their beheadings, slaughter of innocents, destabilization of countries, piracy, and persecuting minorities. Not their support of Islam.

The problem with Iran is their development of nuclear weapons, their ballistic missile program which now extends in range to cover the Europe, their support in weapons, money and training of various paramilitary groups such as the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, their oppression of their own citizens, hanging gays from cranes, various bombing and attack operations (US forces, Saudi facilities), attacks against oil tankers and calls to annihilate Israel. Not their support of Palestine.
Huh, that doesn't sound like news. I'm pretty sure that my D70s, over 15 years old by now, was produced in Thailand too. Maybe they always built the cheaper models over there?
zsh's killer feature for me was "splat splat" and the extended shell globbing; `<splat><splat>/foo<splat>(.x)` type stuff. Replaced `find` for a lot of my interactive stuff, although I do use `find ... -print0 | xargs -0r ...` for a lot of things yet.

I do realize `bash` also has `splat splat`, now.

(curse HN's splat/star pseudo-markup)
Thailand is already a bit of a hot spot for camera and lense manufacturing. Sony has an absolute monster factory here.
No answers on most of those Qs, but the messaging on (2) "Will the vaccines basically be voided by this?" is that no, vaccines should still be effective.

I'm not sure how they can no that without restarting extensive trials, but as a sibling commenter points out, viruses mutate constantly so I guess dealing with variants is pretty common when it comes to vaccination.
Did this change as Apple got bigger and then fell on hard times?

Also are you adding those proper quotation marks by hand?
> regarding "modern C++", I have seen that moniker applied to even language features that were already available in pre-ISO C++98, like RAII, or type safe collections.

That's not surprising as modern C++ predates C++11. Newer standards "merely" make it more convenient to practice it.

At the end of the day, modern c++ is really about emphasizing value types, RAII and parametric polymorphism as opposed to OOP.

Anyway, these days we have it good conformance to new standards comes relatively quickly. It took forever for most compilers to be C+98 conformant (and technically most never reached it).