skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a good way to lose exceptional talent and be stuck with a bunch of mediocre or bad employees who will stick around as an easy way to get a raise.

Any self-respecting high-output employee is going to be offended at the fact that they're paid the same as someone who delivers 1/10 of the work. And yes, money is not the only factor in whether an employer is a good one. But for many it is the biggest factor.

This system is another push towards the ignorant idea that all people are the same. We're not all the same. Some people invest more in their careers. Those people will bring greater value to their employers, and they should be compensated in line with their abilities.

Good luck, though. Let us know in five years if all the virtue signaling actually pays off.
If I have the opportunity to buy something not made in China, I will take it. Unfortunately, it's essentially impossible to buy any consumer electronics not made there.

The set of things you can buy these days that isn't made in China is essentially restricted to luxury goods and safety-critical equipment (cars, guns, scuba gear, etc.); despite what they tend to say out loud, companies know that it's prohibitively expensive to get safety-critical reliability out of Chinese manufacturing. But if it's just your camera or power drill or whatever, they know you're not going to sue them when it breaks. Apple actually does a really good job on QC for Chinese manufacturing, but then you have all these accusations of forced labor to contend with.
Both my parents were licensed auto mechanics and worked to repair appliances and eventually installed garage door openers. They also bought a 2 bedroom house (fixer upper) in their mid twenties, raised three kids and paid it off in a timeline that wasn't todays 30 year mortgages.
It's kind of depressing how un-attainable all those things are. I managed to attain a small percentage of this after getting a college degree and working in STEM. It's kind of ridiculous.
The problem is that Europe has no appetite for any sort of confrontation. Their leadership in peace and climate initiatives mask how little they're willing to do to address issues which have a potential body-bag cost. They have poured hundreds of billions of dollars every year into a dictatorship with no accountability and its military. And shifting all that industrial capacity out of Europe certainly made it look greener, with all the smoke out of sight.

If China becomes militarily stronger and Xi's domestic position weakens, war will be his first resort. If Taiwan had to be defended, there will be very little help coming from Europe.
I would also echo this as well. I play quite a few violent video games, but not all. I do not necessarily seek out a video game because it is violent, but there are mechanics that I enjoy more than others. I like shooter games (Halo, COD) more than I enjoy fighting games (Mortal Kombat, Soulcalibur). Does that indicate that I have a violent desire is to go out and shoot people? Absolutely not.
When those regulations are about the exchange of information with other EU countries and everyone involved seems to have decided that it is absolutely, totally crucial for that exchange of information to continue uninterrupted? Absolutely.
press play on tape my friend... press play on tape
they -just- made a ruling that would overturn this, but this was not the case until -very-very-very- recently.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/20/california...
Clojure is an elegant language that gets ugly really fast as soon as you have to squeeze little performance out of it or use Java APIs. Both of which you will have to do for "real world" production applications.
I have yet to see any actual evidence of forced labor in China. Only claims, nothing more. Americans have been fed false propaganda against communist USSR for decades, and I have a gut feeling the same is happening against communist China. Maybe it has to do with China's plan to collapse the US petrodollar global monetary system [0] and the US is trying to rouse a new Red Scare and push us into a second Cold War.

EDIT: Okay I've found 1 source of evidence from the comments in this thread [1]. I wish clickbait headlines would point to these claims instead of claims from other journalist making claims based on other journalists claims.

[0] https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570485
I think StarCraft (2)'s pacing and focus on fast 1v1s is its downfall here. Personally, I find both Chess and Hearthstone very stressful because of how much thinking ahead is required. It's analysis paralysis, amplified and gamified. In an RTS, you're generally not working at that level of strategy and have a much smaller state space to search through at the tactical level.
The difference is that there is no such thing as a witch. You can't hunt them because they are imaginary, and everyone is innocent of witchcraft.

There are racists and racial slurs. It might be difficult to identify a racist, but it's easy to identify the oldest and most famous racial slur. It's also easy not to say it.
Aren't PlayStations made in Kisarazu, Japan? At least some of them are.
Huh? The G7 is Canada (0.14), France (no data), Germany (0.05), Italy (no data), Japan (no data), the United Kingdom (1.18) and the United States (0.59).

We only have data on 4/7 in the G7 (at least at [1] and in your comment) and Canada isn't even last amongst those 4.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
> Our current state is a big disappointment compared to where most programmers in the 80s believed we would be by now, and very much in line with Brooks's pouring of cold water

People not exposed to this era almost have a hard time believing it. My litmus test is this: how easy is it for any person to make a button in a given computing system? On a Mac in the late 90s this was so easy that non-programmers were doing it (Hypercard). Today where would one even begin?
I mention the Dreams in the passing - as it is such a special gem and special case that it would require much more care and analysis, probably material for multiple posts.
What makes Dreams special is that it is a platform for creativity and content creation by its players.
It's not a machine for making AAA products that cost 100s of millions of dollars and takes teams of hundreds people.
(Also - I don't have any data nor insider knowledge despite working at Sony, but I am almost sure this project lost Sony money because of never-ending production... Which only speaks great of Sony for supporting it)

Brilliant creators of Dreams didn't care if software like Maya or 3ds Max are not compatible with their approach - as it wasn't the target audience. They didn't care for scalability of the tools, pipelines, and the renderer in terms of business practices, parallelism, finishing on time, reusing existing technology, packing with certain features. If your core feature is something unique like this, many other constraints can just go away. Is it the future of rendering? I don't think so. Btw. Media Molecule's Alex Evans (amazing person, he used to create beautiful art for demoscene) has long history of innovative rendering tech - like LBP used lots of voxel and volumetric representations (look for "Voxels in LittleBigPlanet 2" Siggraph talk) on PS3 and it also didn't catch up. Different use-cases = different constraint.

See also another example I mentioned in the post - Claybook, it uses SDFs for rendering representation (and physics!), but is also a very unique and special case.
Show HN: We build a script engine to automate K8s tasks like bash for ur box
It's crazy the majority of this thread is arguing semantics.
I don't know why you're being downvoted

Here's a hint: the simplistic (I would even go as far as to say ignorant) argument that if you're not making it, you're just not responsible enough. It's just a talking point without having to actually talk about anything.
If you've ever been low on coffee and have a brain fart you get harassed too.
As the article points out we know Homer’s salary. Also he doesn’t have a degree and burns is a tightwad. There is no reason to think he’s making $100k.
They are kept in camps, monitored constantly, have no privacy, are searched constantly and on top of that, they are forced to work or go to detention. That is slavery. There's also the problem with them getting gutted for the organ transplants that China's own doctors have reported to be 4 times higher than they should be for the population size. So it is work, or go to detention and possibly get gutted.
Ok, I added a quick shortcut. You can now go to a specific date by just going to that page, for example, the page for exactly a month ago is https://hackerdaily.io/2020-11-29. My database goes back to roughly the start of October, so that's the furthest you can go back for now.

I haven't add anything to the UI for now. Do you have an idea how to add this nicely to the existing UI?
You know that the G7 also includes France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, right? Which are all below Canada's vaccination level so far.
That's my point. If you go search on YT for those videos, you're leaving a digital trail that can be easily traced back to you.
Exactly, this blog post missed the point completely. Unbelievable.
Gulf Cooperation Council - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar.
but somehow one gets a free pass to let anyone pretend to do it, but the other not.

I think you're operating under the false assumption that simulating sexual violence is taboo. I'm not sure that's a given: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_fantasy
I think they exist, but they don't appeal to younger people.

I actually tried to join a couple of those sorts of organizations, and I found them all very off-putting. Between the weird elitism, the arbitrary and time consuming hurdles for membership and the feeling that everybody there felt 20+ years older than me (even when they probably weren't) didn't make it seem like a good time.

I like the concept though, I just wish there was one that felt more up to date and actually felt like a sort of thing I'd want to join.
As long as there's a black market for drugs, there will be one for bitcoin and other crypto. People may be buying "jets, cars, watches, etc" and maybe even use it just to hoard, but that's not what is really driving bitcoin's value.
I think it's deliberately hyperbolic; I don't see any reason to read it as the author literally believing that.
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I would take Alberta's latest numbers with a giant grain of salt. Testing rates are awful there right now.

Too bad my family there used the numbers as an excuse to break quarantine. Enraging.
This is something that I'm seeing a lot as elementary school teacher in Germany. Kids exposed to excessive video game - Normally, parents that work full-time and sit the kid in front of the video game/tablet/etc to be able to get things done, - got specially worse after the first lockdown - are being diagnosed with ADHD and are starting to get Ritalin.

My kids play video-game, I play video-game, and I have nothing against it. However an excessive exposition is a pattern that i can relate to ADHD.
>> Again, how is that story a failure of AI/face recognition?

Because AI identified the wrong man. That a human also did, does not make the identification by AI any less wrong.
Is anyone studying how violent video games affect the mentally ill?

It seems like most of our mass shootings are perpetrated by people who are both mentally ill and obsessed with playing first person shooters.
Developing countries also tend to have faster economic growth than "vanguard" countries. This can be explained by the fact that for developing countries, productivity growth is driven in part by importing of existing technology and capital, whereas in countries at the forefront of labor productivity it's driven only by innovation.

(Some easily-viewed graphs here: https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/.... Note that while emerging economies have higher labor productivity growth than established economies, both have, somewhat surprisingly, experienced declines in growth over time.)
I don't understand what you're implying except that you think that there are violent video games that can affect behavior, something that the paper set out to test by comparing 789 games ranging from Boggle to Gears of War.

When I was a kid in the 90s, Oprah claims that Dungeons and Dragons caused Satanic worship and Grand Theft Auto groomed children for larceny. That's where our culture is coming from.
That sounds like too many cards for a single shipping container given the size of a single box
I have different idea about essential complexity and accidental complexity. I think examples in the article are all just accidental complexity.

Essential complexity from how I read Fred Brooks is a domain knowledge like what an accountant does and what features he is using. All frameworks, servers and doing scp or queries in that is accidental complexity.

Accountant does not need any React or Angular front end, they don't need a server.

Where angular brings in reduction in accidental complexity since by using it I don't have to build a lot of stuff from scratch, it does not make tax laws any simpler. Where tax laws are essential complexity that needs to be coded in accounting software.

The same with servers, going to cloud so reducing my accidental complexity by removing need to deal with servers is not making tax laws simpler or easier to grasp.

This way in my opinion, essential complexity and accidental complexity holds really well as general idea.
Examples of violent behavior by playing PUBG

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/belagavi-mo...

https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/india-boy-fakes-kidnap...

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2020/jan/2...

https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/gaming/three-p...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/boy-addicted...
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Manufacturing Consent (there's a documentary form of it too) changed my entire outlook on media. Highly recommend.

Short vid based on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
> instead of quietly consuming the products

The problem is the propertied capitalist class, not the working class.

The capitalist class has the power. I appreciate your intention, yet it's super important to be clear that the problem is the bourgeoisie and the capitalist system, as the means of production are monopolized in their hands. The most advanced form through which the bourgeoisie (in this case Apple) expropriates, creates enclosures and exploits/oppresses, is 1) through the use of trade secret laws [1], which steals away new inventions from the commons and stifles learning and innovation, as well as 2) through the means-of-exchange money system that obscures relationships between people and places [2].

"Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today. Using a rigorous political economic framework, he lays bare the vast ongoing transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest countries through the mechanisms of monopoly rent, unequal exchange, and colonial tribute. The result is a polarized international class structure with a relatively rich Global North and an impoverished, exploited Global South.

Cope makes the controversial claim that it is because of these conditions that workers in rich countries benefit from higher incomes and welfare systems with public health, education, pensions, and social security. As a result, the internationalism of populations in the Global North is weakened and transnational solidarity is compromised. The only way forward, Cope argues is through a renewed anti-imperialist politics rooted in a firm commitment to a radical labor internationalism." [3]

[1] https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/02/19/dont-fooled-patent-pur...

[2] http://mikorizal.org/Fromprivateownershipaccountingtocommons...

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43015121-the-wealth-of-s...
Have you tried intervening, together with some other similarly thinking parents?
"Figures don't lie but liars sometimes figure"
Ironically in Mexico, they have the same reputation. But yes, a small minority of smart kids play to be astronauts or businessmen in their free time.

What looks more exciting for a kid? Seeing your narco uncle on your birthday with a PS4 gift? Or your banker 8am-8pm uncle with a hot wheels as a gift?

If you are not from Mexico it will be hard for you to understand this issue.
What seems to be missing from this discussion is that this agreement was negotiated mind bogglingly quickly (9 months as opposed to the multi year / decade long process) and hasn't undergone the usual process of scrubbing which is where such technical and legal issues would normally be fixed.
This process would itself normally take longer than the entire period in which this has been negotiated. Of course it's a mess and is full of copy-pasta errors. Luckily however law isn't code, especially not at the international agreement level, and it is implemented by humans, not computers (or software developers).
The big problem with the Brexit deal is that it has essentially come straight from the hands of the politicians and civil servants who have negotiated it and is then being approved without proper scrutiny, at least from the UK parliament and the council of Europe. Let us hope that the only problems with it are a few embarrassing technical errors that in reality will be dealt with by secondary legislation and side agreements between the parties. If there are serious issues then they will likely be picked up before it is approved by the European Parliament (and it's not a shoe in that it will actually be approved by MEPs) and these will need to be dealt with, probably through a bunch of secondary legislation and agreements.
I'm guessing you've never been incarcerated? There's all sorts of volunteering: such as fixing the TV or coffee maker, teaching other inmates to read, helping another inmate file a frivolous appeal, and so on.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/20/538062911/wh... [What's It Really Like To Work In A Prison Goat Milk Farm? We Asked Inmates]

But what do the workers themselves think?

I find Jeremiah Pate in the milking barn, attaching milking machines to the goats' udders.

"This job, how do you feel about it?" I ask him. "A bad thing? Good thing?"

"It's a great thing," Pate tells me. "It beats the alternative. Rather than sitting in your tiny little cell, you get to come out here."

Every man I meet echoes that thought. They aren't thinking about what was fair on the outside. They were just thinking about their options in prison, and in that perspective, the farm looked pretty good.
One aspect of the article's chatty style that I liked was that it gave a glimpse into how "reporting" sausage gets made: calling experts up on the phone to try to get them to tell you a story, filing information requests, looking up publicly available (but obscure) information. Even though the author is self-deprecating, by the end I was impressed by her persistence and ability to dig up real new information. I sometimes wish more straight-laced reporting would be more forthcoming with these kinds of details.
Very good argument for having that in the python language, that is true. It’s an even bigger ask, though.

In Fortran you often need such data structures to keep track of results or to do IO. It’s a pain and I’ve so far not seen a usable library for it.
Sure...but I don't feel like we're comparing apples to apples here, since I explicitly mentioned text-light games and you brought up the most text-heavy, RPG like entries in the respective CV and Zelda series (of that generation).

To boot, Simon's Quest also had the atrociously bad idea that NPCs in the game can lie to you and give intentionally incorrect information, making the translation effort that much more confusing.
While there probably is an element of that, hard evidence that might paint the Chinese government negatively in general is much more difficult to obtain because of information and communications controls.
If someone hasn’t seen the Drum article, here it is.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
Yep, trades are huge and overlooked by media almost completely. Getting an education isn't the best way to get a non-career-oriented living anymore. I have several friends who are doing as good or better than I am (I'm a CS major with a decent sw job) doing trades related / entrepreneurial work. They actively invest their extra cash in equities and are arguably doing much better than me since I invest mostly in real estate.
A storage company can't burn my stuff because:

1. That's arson, a crime.

2. I have a contract with them (including consideration) to store my stuff.
An unsourced anecdote refutes nothing.
So I don't know how HN really works, but FWIW I posted it here 10mins after the post went live. Then it just went down into obscurity (almost always my submissions to HN do), so I just ignored it, later saw a repost and ignored it, "oh well, whatever".
Then I was really surprised next dat that it went back to life and with "posted 2 hours ago", I thought it was some bug or some mod interaction, but most likely I just don't understand how HN as a platform works...
Because Auschwitz-II took dehumanisation to a whole extra level of depravity, far beyond slavery.

While you could logically argue that people there were also slaves, it would be an injustice to leave it at that. Generally speaking, slaves had some kinds of rights that were far better than those in Auschwitz-II.

It's one thing to be treated as someone's property and forced labour, as a slave.

It's another thing to be subject to awful medical experimentation (often to death), torture of kinds that are barely imaginable, and mass killing with on-site factories literally built to murder the occupants and other occupants forced to dispose of the body parts of their friends afterwards. All of this in large numbers.

There's a reason Auschwitz-II had sections called "Crematoria I-IV".

Auschwitz-II makes almost every evil in the world look mild in comparison. It's that bad.
With every process running under the same security context, I can only imagine how horrific would modern through the web drive-by exploits be.

In reality, we don't need to imagine it. Windows 9x was like that and, unsurprisingly, easily pwned.
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Part of it is that I think people generally understand that Apple doesn't go into a supplier contract negotiation and say, "Ok, how many slaves do we get in this deal?"

While they ultimately bear responsibility for their supply chain, it's easy to see how this stuff can happen without direct knowledge. What we need to do is pay attention to Apple's response and then act accordingly.
"No, bullying cannot be solved by the victims, otherwise it would not be a problem in the first place."

How do you think that works if zero tolerance policies punish the aggressor and victim equally, essentially preventing the victim from defending themself? And by your reasoning, then bullying shouldn't exist today because the school policies should prevent it, yet it's more rampant than ever.

I was bullied once. Eventually I fought back and gave the kid a bloody nose. Guess what - he was nicer to me and to other kids too. Prior to that he had no empathy. That experience changed him. I know others with similar experiences too.
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