skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand it correctly, porn actors are adults, working under signed, legal contracts that specify, in extreme explicit details, exactly what they will be doing during a shoot. If they were actually forced to do it, then it would be a criminal act of rape, something that would very quickly bring down producers responsible for it. Do you have any evidence that porn actors in general are forced to work?
> NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) -Apple Inc has placed supplier Wistron Corp on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award the Taiwanese contract manufacturer new business until it addressed the way workers were treated at its southern India plant.

https://www.reuters.com/article/apple-india-idUSKBN28T0DW
"Error establishing a database connection"

In 2020, you would expect websites not to require a database connection for main views - or at least support a degraded mode (tracking off...).
Of course they do. Most mental/developmental conditions are nothing more than glorified personality quizzes created by PhDs. Unless you have the most boring personality in the world you're guaranteed to meet the diagnostic criteria for a whole slew of stuff they came up with. The only escape hatch to maintain some kind of legitimacy is to add a criterion of maladaptiveness - if you're doing well in every area of life you cannot be "diagnosed". That and you only consider "diagnoses" made by "professionals" to be valid.

This way anybody proving how ridiculous these conditions are is wrong by default.
> Somebody needs to do the dirty work that the "great hacker" does not care to complete because he has already set his eyes on another idea.

IMO if you are leaving stuff unfinished, you're probably not great and probably don't love the work. You're just chasing a high and not caring about the consequences.
I proposed a solution for consent fatigue phenomenon
This is great news. Direct link: https://github.com/threema-ch

One single large commit. From the README: "There will be one commit per released version."

They did leave Github pull requests open, for now, but I guess that is just a configuration mishap. README: "For the time being, we do not accept contributions via GitHub. If you want to make a contribution, first make sure that you have signed the CLA. You can then submit patches over email by following the instructions at threema.ch/open-source/contributions/."

Threema has by far the most responsive UI of all messengers on Android. It does not require phone numbers and has a sane security model. Unfortunately like most others it doesn't support multiple profiles, and it doesn't have message expiration, something that I really miss. Still my favorite messenger!
As long as that interval is less than ~24 days, IIRC.
That's not the way America treats other people around the world.
Then what do you make of this?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-...

The problem with discounting Pais’s work is that by doing so, UAP becomes left unexplained. From the news so far, the object was accelerating at a rate no human could withstand, with no detectable propulsion. Discounting UAP would be much more difficult.
The same thing happens in 1st world countries, as well. If they can get away with it, they'll do it.
Are you sure about that? Companies like Costco are doing well, they seem to be better in treating their employees than say, Walmart.
We're still a society that treats women very differently.

For instance, women have to be just the right level of assertive. Too little, and you're not respected nor listened to, you're passed for promotions... Too much, and you're viewed as aggressive.

You have all those articles about women leaving tech - they must have had the interest to get there, the opportunities, and yet they're leaving.
> The very term “raw format” is confusing.

That's why I didn't mention "raw format", only raw. :)

> Sony’s “raw” .arw files that in fact come lossy from some cameras

Yeah, had one of those. First gen ⍺7. To me raw denotes that data has not been demosaiced. But, as you note, mosaiced data can also be cooked and lossy compressed.

I'm not saying ProRAW (i.e. multi exposure linear DNG) is a bad thing. In fact, I've been waiting for something like this for years. The output from my Pixel cameras with their computational features like Night Sight has floored me. But still, there's almost no editing headroom in these overly contrasty JPEGs. The future is merged!
An interesting biologically-inspired alternative to backpropagation is STDP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike-timing-dependent_plastic...)

However, it's still quite hard to get useful results from it in practice.

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I personally believe that one component of intelligence is the ability to apply cognitive patterns created for a particular input to other inputs. (Very simplified example: A block of "neurons" which have learned to recognize the pattern "is hurt by" when given a subject (group of pixels in image) and object (other group of pixels in image), could be applied to another subject/object pair, for example coming from processed audio. But if the audio processing takes 10 layers, and the image processing 5, the connection has to run backwards)

To do this in a state of the art deep network, you need the ability to create backward connections. Backward connections imply loops, and loops break backprop (unlike loops in RNNs, which can be easily unrolled AFAIK). So with the current backprop-trained feedforward model, you have to create patterns multiple time instead of reusing them.

This is why I will pay attention to backprop alternatives which allow loops, despite their (currently many) disadvantages. This and modular training are the two aspects of learning I would personally focus on.
Is it? Sounds orthogonal to the population, as the city could just expand vertically (more highrises/scyscrapers) or horizontally (more land).
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.

In this case, the distinction wasn't a bad paycheck either. The compensation was fine on paper, it just wasn't actually paid out, which is plain fraud. If the response of these workers is to ransack the place, that just tells you how bad/corrupt the legal system must be.
Yes. No. Yes.
I don't see how pointing out incorrect predictions from the past is constructive or helps address the question. In the same line of thought you could have collected a list of correct skeptical predictions and listed a bunch of technologies that haven't worked out.
> > Self-hire _slaves_ [in the early 19th century U.S.]

Note that what you're referring to in that quote is what was called wage slavery. Today we just call it a job where we're not an owner. Back then such activity was considered a form of slavery and was frowned upon. It was semi-acceptable only because it was considered a temporary means to save up enough wealth to become a business/farm owner.
Believe it or not, it appears to have NOT been adjusted for inflation. (So, multiply it by 15x.) See the $249.60 per year figure here and the following paragraph.

http://lestweforget.hamptonu.edu/page.cfm?uuid=9FEC4E79-B361...
Tor is very easy to use, just download the bundle and there you go.
"Apple says preliminary findings show a violation of supplier code of conduct. Wistron had payment delays for some workers" [1]

"Wistron says the company is 'removing' vice president who oversees India business. Co also sets up a 24-hr grievance hotline." [2]

Makes we wonder how many other such contractors exist and whether Apple blissfully ignores enforcement, oversight of its PR-friendly supplier CoC.

[1] https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18Live/status/1340234632504205314

[2] https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18Live/status/1340217073763434496
If I understand it correctly, the sex workers are adults who has signed contracts to do a specific job for a specific amount of $ The same as a factory worker who might end up loosing their health or lives doing their job. What is the difference exactly?
You can get a Fairphone 3+ coming with a degoogled Android here:

https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-fairphone-3-plus/
If you take in account that the public company works in their shareholders best interest, i would say it is done with silent approval of shareholders. Ugly, mutated form of slavery.
Are there any startups that offer revenue sharing so you don’t have to rely on the mythical exit?
Plant trees while searching the web – More than 100M trees planted
Bythom seems to indicate nikon is fine. Hence it is not about survival but long term viability. But leaving japan totally behind ... does not make sense from Japanese industrial point of view. Is this real?
It's not right either. Bash was made-to-order by the FSF to get a shell free of the old BSD etc code.

But there's nothing extremely important about it being GPL3 and not GPL2 (except that it should follow the FSF dictums to the maximum).
Where one is on a spectrum is key here. When you have high functioning autism or ADHD, sure, you think outside a box and provide a unique perspective, and there's a workplace you can bring that to. When you're too low functioning to hold a job, it's hard to see an upside.
I used to think that way, but POSIX is not that well specified and there are tons of little behavior changes that makes the task difficult past 10 lines of code. Writing portable shell scripts is like writing portable JavaScript in the IE days.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible is a good example if you look at the issue tracker.

Once you accept Bash as a standard things become much easier. Basically Bash arrays, the `@Q` notation and ShellCheck combined solve all of the escaping issues that plague shell scripts.
Thanks.

I imagine that the complexity coming from implementing load/store pairs will
probably be dwarfed by RISCV's forthcoming SIMD and Vector extensions.
These terms are outdated. Please replace with ‘data scientist’.
> Right, but the replacement didn't functionally address the broad issue of consent of the governed. It replaced a government of wealthy white gentry with a wealthy white gentry in a different location. Your average American citizen didn't actually gain much, if anything, in terms of representation.

You're completely wrong about this. You just have to look at the constitutional changes in the states and the huge growth in participation in politics in the 1780s. The revolution was a mass movement, and it had a profound effect on how the general population viewed politics and on what sort of government they were willing to accept.

> And it was practically unique in that regard. The NJ constitution had a wealth requirement and, despite originally granting women and free black people the right to vote, it later rescinded those rights!

Pennsylvania wrote the most democratic state constitution, but it was not at all unique in overhauling its system of government to become much more participatory. New Jersey's 1776 state constitution lowered property requirements, replaced the royal governor with a governor selected by the elected legislature, and reduced his powers (e.g., no veto power), and as you point out, removed racial and gender restrictions to voting.

> But more importantly, while the US was busy regressing from the founding principles it only halfheartedly upheld, other nations were busy drafting and creating new constitutions that better uphold those ideals.

The US was one of the only democratic republics in the world well into the 19th century. That's the context for Lincoln's statement that the United States was "the last best hope of earth." The 1848 revolutions in Continental Europe had been crushed, and the US appeared to many to be the only major democratic country left standing.

> It only requires that it have been present.

If that's the extent of your argument, then your argument is fairly meaningless. Everyone knows that slavery existed in the South. What I and others object to is the claim that the US became wealthy because of slavery. It seems much more likely to me that the US was economically held back by slavery.
Millions of men and woman are exploited every day doing regular factory/office work. Factory workers risk their limbs and lives every day they go to work. So you obviously want to stop that as well right? Or if not: Why not?
as a matter of fact VC capital is just not thrown as much to startups as it is in the US (bay area). If you want to grow to become a de-facto monopolist then you usually need lots of money, because you have to survive a long phase of having to support a lot of users with almost no income.
I did say "almost".
> Why is there no public outrage towards Apple?

This may be because of the 250 million strong general strike and the farmer strike that has hit India in the last weeks (https://www.deccanherald.com/national/at-least-25-crore-work...). There has been almost zero reporting in Western media about that one, the only thing that drew a tiny bit of attention were the Apple riots.

Under normal circumstances I guess there would be many reports about what's going on, but media conglomerates don't want to give the population the idea that general strikes and riots work.

We need decoupling of media ownership and society's rich/elites, fast.
Anyone who tells you anything you do is a waste of time without a good foundational argument (as is implied here) is exhibiting abusive behaviour and should not be listened to.
Apple should pays the workers

Bad CEO

We know theres corona
But da company already rich even before der corona
You need pil21.
And what is the question here exactly? OC points out a couple of assumptions that are made (I agree for instance that I don’t see the QM replace classical computers anytime soon)

But then also makes a few assumptions that might prove to be true or not. That is to say : we don’t know.

The people who I quote in the past also had a delineated idea of what the future might entail, but it’s impossible to look very far ahead.
A dying man, a therapist and the ransom raid that shook the world
This coming from a company that charges 1000$+ for their devices is discusting...
Apple M1. I get it, but they're all backordered & ship from Asia right now, so it's like insult to injury..
I found The Serpent Power of fashioned and archaic. There are far better more recent introductions IMO, but an in depth knowledge isn't required. I'd recommend starting with something simple like the AYP lessons which are more experientially oriented and leave the details for another time. Too much knowledge, not to mention the discrepancies between authors, can be confusing.
React-super-cmd – the Superhuman-like command line for React
Well, Apple doesn’t include chargers on their new iPhones to protect the planet and their keynotes are feel-good orgy of virtuosity. Hard to believe they exploit people...
I could not agree more. Also, most textbooks and resources on compilers always spend a lot of time on grammars, lexing and parsing. Finding good stuff about intermediate representations, optimization passes and static analysis is harder than it should.
The next time you buy an apple product, keep this in mind. Along with that shiny new phone comes curse of thousands of poor people.

We are up in arms about climate change with govt, but when a TRILLION dollar private company screws people over - not a word. Wait in line to buy their products.

Its hard not to think that most Americans still prefer and like slavery. Just that a few black people managed to escape the publicly acceptable version of it.
If a woman tries to tell other woman how to live their lives, is she any better than a man trying to control how woman live their lives? I think not.
> junior web developer with no Lisp experience,
> and has basically been disowned by its author.

I see the comment at the top about not re-submitting to HN, but I don't see disownership or disavowal.

Is it posted somewhere?

Because asking not to resubmit (which GP didn't), is not the same thing as saying "my conclusions were wrong".
They love to export goods, so it's still easy enough.

That will have complications in the future, but that's the next generations issue, not the person making the decision today that wants a nice bonus.
I agree, but I feel it is a little sad that such a powerful programming concept as an iterator is hard to implement in C++ if you want to make full use of it. Other program languages have made better choices with respect to this and allow you to write cleaner, shorter code.
It's just a regular Wordpress website without caching nor CDN, it fails after 15 RPS
Parallels Desktop for Mac with Apple M1 Chip
Next time use privacy.com
I'm having a great time with the game, the bugs weren't such a big issue for me as they are explained everywhere.

I guess people are way too sensitive
First time I've encountered this opinion, and this makes so much sense. Thanks :)
They aren’t apple employees we don’t even know if these workers were working on apple products. They are Wistron employees, a company that works on everything from TVs to IoT devices. We just know that the factory was contracted to produce the iPhone SE 2 for Indian customers and that Apple did pay fairly and some management level at wistron pocketed it instead of paying the workers.
These companies that proselytize fairness and social justice are the ones that seek to keep modern slavery intact: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-coca-cola-nike-lobbying-on-c...

Imagine wanting to profit from forced labor. Disgusting
page 38

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

Edit: Ah I see Cult of Mac quoted Hauser. Well Hauser was a director of Acorn at the time. Also Robin Saxby talks about Apple and Acorn investing $1.5m and VLSI $250k so with some shares for staff that would be about 43%.
> If the response of these workers is to ransack the place, that just tells you how bad/corrupt the legal system must be.

This suggests that the legal system ideally ought to exist for the benefit of capital owners who commit fraud, so they don't suffer material loss. Is that what you mean?
Email, phone number and addresses of 230k Ledger customers leaked
Very cool project, great to see more s-expression based languages. I maintain a list of lisp-flavored languages [0], so I will add Cakelisp there.

How did you implement the macro expansion? Are you translating the macros to C/C++, then compile it with C/C++ compiler and execute the temporary binary or do you have an interpreter for that?

I work on a somewhat similar project called Liz, which is basically a lisp-flavored dialect of Zig [1]. I did not implement user-defined macros yet, planning to learn more about comptime and its limitations first. But the compiler itself uses macro-expansion to implement many features.

[0] https://github.com/dundalek/awesome-lisp-languages

[1] https://github.com/dundalek/liz
You are argumenting with a fallacy.

The OP argumentation might be incomplete, but is at least solid argument for why we won't need a quantum operating system.

If you believe there is or could be a need for a quantum operating system, _explain why_. If you don't know, that's ok.

But arguing that "The OP argument cannot be correct because other people made incorrect predictions about other stuff in the past" is pointless and useless.

Maybe some application of quantum computing appears in the future that requires a quantum operating system, or maybe there is one such application that already exists today and we don't know about. I don't know of any, and like the OP I also think of Quantum Computers as "accelerators" (like GPUs, FPGAs, Xeon Phis, ...) for certain class of problems.
I think that the harm, abuse, maiming and occasional deaths happening to millions of factory workers is well understood. However we are doing very little to seriously address it. I haven’t heard any stories of woman loosing their arms, legs, or lives shooting porn in the porn industry. Have you?
It's a race to the bottom...
> the reason why we cannot

> Your < reason maybe, not mine or the one of many others. The fear of death is tied to your culture/education, many people aren't anxious when they think about death
Heartbreaking, but they are a "survivor" company. They have lasted over 100 years, through a world war (including firestorm bombing), earthquakes, fires and tsunamis.

They had never been particularly big, until the 1990s, with the advent of point-and-shoot digital cameras.

That gravy train ended when the iPhone came out. They are probably contracting to their more traditional role, of Big Black Cameras, as well as some very good scientific optics.

They have some of the finest scientists and engineers in the world, as well as a gigantic portfolio of patents. They aren't going away.

From what I hear, the Thai do a great job, but it's still a big psychological shock to leave Japan. Their Japanese plants were considered the "top shelf" production facilities.
The article states:

> Don’t think this is enough to make them stay in the business. Troubling times for Nikon :(

Is there some context on this? Is Nikon facing trouble, and if yes, why?
Game had a bug in PC and Xbox Series X where it basically failed to save the game progress after 20 minutes. I had 10 operators even a hitman and lost all my progress.

Took Ubisoft a month to solve this bug and the game was advertised as next gen optimized and they couldn't even get this right...

But yeah, people apparently only get mad about Cyberpunk having lower performance on last gen consoles...

Someday people will get angry because their i3 + 1050 GTX can't run games on ultra.
I'm in awe of the effort Jim Mussared (https://twitter.com/jim_mussared), Vanessa Teague (https://twitter.com/VTeagueAus) and a few others have put into identifying serious issues with the COVIDSafe app (and making sensible, well-informed recommendations).

That ticket is incredibly damning of the Australian Government.

Highly-skilled technologists and cryptographers volunteer significant amounts of time in the hope critical digital infrastructure can be improved and everything is basically dismissed.
Saudi Arabia halts all travel over new COVID strain
Again, in my country criminals don’t carry guns and unlikely to be under drug influence = zero police shootings. Vs your country, where criminals do carry guns = lots of police shootings. No need to be American to connect the dots.
Don’t worry, though. It’s just Apple. /s
> Israel has no genuinely independent judiciary, nor genuinely free press.

That's just not true, where are you getting your information from?
Sing it, sister! I have used File/Edit/View menus since Win 3.11, please don't change that paradigm. I will not suffer the hamburger menu on desktop.
Define successful startup? Threema is making money and growing albeit slowly.

I would argue that many of the of these "successful" SV unicorns do more damage than any good. They make a few very rich very quickly and loot the rest of the population.

Swiss people tend to value a good work/life balance and that may not work for SV type startups.
Using Elixir and Crawly for price monitoring
Secret Code of Love
eBPF helps with kernel observability - an area that has been sorely lacking in the past. For the JVM or .NET, they give you virtually no insight at all into system calls - so eBPF is complementary to VM profilers, not a replacement. If you ever used Shark on OS X you will get a sense of how cool this is - this was a profiler for the OS X JVM which profiled the system calls as well and combined it all into a single trace tree. Maybe one day we'll get similar profilers on Linux for these systems - with eBPF it should be fairly straightforward.

OpenTelemetry is just a reference API. You could export metrics using eBPF as well. I'm pretty sure Sysdig does this for example.
My "you" followed grammatically from your own use of the word.
Is that new, I got a new iPhone in July and it came with a charger?