skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding, Jack Ma having these troubles recently because he's filing the Ant Group IPO. Everybody was talking about the stock because everybody believes it would be skyrocketing. Also combined with the fact that the Ant Group is abusing rules under fintech's cover (eg: Banks need to follow regulations on the interest rate but the Ant Group along with other financial companies can get away with it, or they lure graduates to lend money they can't afford to pay back). These caused concern from the government because it has potentially huge impacts on society (most likely reap shit ton of money from people). As the government see it, if they caused such problems it's the government that has to deal with the consequence.

PS: Some information about Guo from the video. According to Vice, He was rich because he was close to high ranking officials, and fled because the Government ally he linked to was under investigation because of accepting bribes [0]. Everybody would know in China, a close relationship comes from bribing at least from those times, and bribing is a crime in most countries especially in the US. It seems to me, he callout corruption issues only because he's out of the game.

[0] https://youtu.be/LkOsgh5kcgQ?t=92
If you are going down that route you could claim that assembly's use of a bios interrupt to print are not full programs either.
I think you're misunderstanding the paper. They are using multiple images in the learning phase to infer the 3d structure. At test time, it works on novel scenes with just a single image.
> Google workers announce plans to unionise

uh, are they still not unionised? weird.

what to say: I hope it is not just an announce.
She goes on to call these 'the boring stuff', so hopefully not.

I would go with 'other quality time' or 'exercising'. Of course she might be asexual or just not willing to log any time spent on that topic.

Personally, I would give it its own category, just because it's such an interesting data point with regards to frequency and seasonal variations. Higher libido during summer holidays? More advanced snuggling on cold winter days?
A minor's union has to make sure that all their members, thus more or less all miners, keep their work.

It doesn't neccissarily have to keep all mining companies alive, but if it would consolidate into a single mining company with (initially) good conditions it can't be in the union's interest as then all mining employment power is in one place.

They have to find the right balance.
Why not use some federated log in like Okta? Not as many issues as email on the delivery side.
I don’t think profit per employee entitles an employee to more salary, but it can justify or prove that the company can afford to pay more.

I think unions exist specifically to help employees in their struggle to be greedy against a greedy boss or shareholders.

Do you work harder in a partnership where you get 50% or as an employee making 1% of your value?

Has corporate greed harmed its own profits and innovation by failing to adequately pay its employees?

I think greed is good to a point, then it becomes detrimental to self and society.
Show HN: Googler – Google from the terminal
The only source of capital is labor.

All that money spent on automation paid for labor, who has an interest in the fruits of said labor.

Collective labor is one way to secure an equitable share of that fruit.

Also, someone has to pay for that output. How exactly does that happen when people lack income?

Fact is that company so automated needs sales, maintenance, innovation and all the stuff needed to endure and compete over time.

If they are not paying labor, their product would be devalued quickly, and or they would experience increasing trouble over time.

The ones who know how to deal with that have awesome position and would expect to be compensated handsomely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Arrest_Warrant#Specia...

> A state wishing to prosecute a surrendered person for offences committed before his or her surrender, or extradite a surrendered person to a third state, must, subject to certain exception, obtain the permission of the executing judicial authority. Such a request is made in the same form as a European Arrest Warrant, and granted or refused using the same rules which determine whether surrender would be granted or refused.
IANAL

In Germany there is a law against dishonest competition, called "Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb".
> I think this is a slight perversion of the truth. A union that relies entirely on industrial action (a.k.a. strikes) to get a company to change, isn't a good union. If a union walks into every negotiation with just an ultimatum, then very quickly the otherside is going to get fed up of their bullshit.

If those unionized googlers are worth their salt, can't they use more aggressive negotiation tactics, at least like a DDOS?
Show HN: Curated Summary of 2020 in Robotics
Discord mostly works for my friend group to play Jackbox games, though sometimes it's still noticeably slow, so OP's project is definitely an improvement.
4. Have a product of enough value that it spreads through word of mouth
Excellent points. As someone who has carried UUCP mail on floppies to computers not connected to the network at all, I can relate :-)
Not just more consistent, but also usually stronger. Currently, for example, wind speeds over the North Sea and the Baltic are stronger than over the adjacent land, and the change at the coastline is quite striking (I'm assuming that the model behind this map is reasonably accurate in that regard.)

https://www.windy.com/53.744/-0.339?53.372,-0.339,8
We'll set aside for a moment the fact that a country like Nigeria hasn't even HAD laws against hacking on their books:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-nigerian-law-means-seven-y...

There are countless examples of state sponsored hacking. There's no way the actor would be punished in the country of origin if their country of origin was not only OK with their actions but supporting them. Does that mean whoever did it should be free to travel anywhere they want without repercussions? You're essentially saying that countries are no longer allowed to enforce their laws on any foreign citizens... that seems EXTREMELY short sighted.

Furthermore, how would the country of origin even prosecute when the victim wasn't one of their citizens. What are the mental gymnastics to say that your citizens can't be prosecuted anywhere but their country of origin...b ut the victims have to what? Travel to your country to get justice? If a nigerian scammer is caught, you expect a US citizen to fly to nigeria on their own dime to try make their case?
Which is why credit appearance order and grouping is such a big deal and part of contract negotiation in films. Earlier appearances is supposed to signify importance (notice when a group of names isn't alphabetical), along with pre-title and marketing materials credits and the slideshow credits separate from the rolling credits.
I'm not implying that, nor do I believe that. I'm only trying to rationalize the union from their viewpoint.
It shouldn't be shocking that a site full of tech nerds is going to be rallying for meritocracy when these unions want 1% of salaries.

I don't see how a union would make my life better. When I hate my job, I leave my job and find a new one within a week. If I am swapping into a new role or looking for something specific, a month.

I just see this as creating an additional bureaucratic layer that steals my money and gives me the same rights I currently do.

What more could someone want? Foot massages? Even at a non-FAANG company, life as an SE is very comfortable.
> Specifically I write code in my editor, hit a keystroke and all the code at the cursor gets sent to my running python and evaluated. The editor needs to be aware of python's indenting rules so it can do this, but once again if you've worked out a nice way to do this please say. Minimal keystrokes required would be great =)...

...I call this "copy/paste". And since I use X clipboard and a tiled window manager, it's only a couple keystrokes and no mouse. Highlight the code in the editor, "super+<direction>" to switch windows, "shift+insert" to paste.
I mean, I get the same feeling from Apple events, everything is constantly the best ever.
Unfortunately, this only applies to systems that actually have this (i.e. they were updated after exFAT released or released after and included this update). There will be sadly many systems that will never receive this update.

But for a fun fact, if you see many embedded systems that say they can only support an SD card up to 32 GB, it is a soft limitation due to the fact that media over 32 GB are pre-formatted to exFAT (and the system lacks support for exFAT). FAT32 can go up to 2 TB. So I have found that reformatting a larger media back to FAT32 makes it recognizable to that system with all of the storage space.
You have to start some where, I was involved in successfully recovering collective representation for senior sales grades in BT a while back.

Also I believe in the USA has structural issues where each location has a union and not a whole company un ion
Thanks, that was a nice talk.

But the answer there is basically, "if you care about payload, don't use zig's built-in error handling." Which, obviously, you can do, but I'm not convinced it's a great answer!

Even for something as simple as parseInt, it would be nice, I would argue, if it returned, along with InvalidCharacter, which character was invalid. This would enable e.g. very precise indications in messages to the end user of what was wrong with the input.

In general, because currently it's super-ergonomic to return just error codes but more of a pain to return errors w/ payloads, what you'll get in practice is no error payload even when it would be useful, which will end up turning into less-helpful-than-ideal errors for end users, which is contrary to zig's goal of enabling the creation of perfect software. :-)

I found this thread interesting

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647
i am not concerned about who is doing the work, but when it needs to be done.

missing time means, that you need to work overtime to make up for it.

at work this is not normally the case. if the work can't be done by someone else, then it will simply be delayed. the timing changes. same with montessori learning. you will simply delay all your learning by a few days. which is not a problem at all because everyone is learning at their own pace anyways.

contrast that with traditional schooling where overtime is the only way to catch up with your classmates
Can't help but suspect the british security establishment decided it didn't want to extradite him because there was real risk he would be pardoned in the U.S. In their estimation, if they wait just 16 more days (post inauguration), that's no longer a risk, and even if something unprecedented in the U.S. happens, the british govt still has him.

Assange humiliated a generation of spies and officials and discredited the institutions they controlled at a key strategic moment, just as they were consolidating a lifetime of work toward their international alignment and control. It's zero sum for them, where if he survives, he's proven right. Historically, Wikileaks (among a few other projects) is how Gen-X unmoored the new establishment of the Boomer generation, and inspired Millennials like Snowden to surge into the breach.

It doesn't matter what they do to him now, he won.
For clarity: European Convention (and Court) of Human Rights law, not EU.

There's post-Brexit significance since the UK continues to be a signatory to the ECHR even though they've now left the EU. Being an ECHR signatory is a requirement of being in the EU, not vice versa. (Countries like Turkey and Russia are also ECHR signatories.)
>because they'll be "paid less", or less competent engineers will be promoted faster.

The first thing is strictly true. Every union takes dues. It is not strictly true that pay/compensation will increase in all cases.

The second thing is true a lot of the time. Unions tend to wind up using seniority as the primary metric for positions and compensations.

Why ignore those things?
A lot of the UK is on rated water supply so based on the house size/value. This means that water is essentially free past a certain point, pressure is terrible though! The most popular way of wasting it seems to be watering the garden excessively although I got through quite of water filling the paddling pool during the summer. Many people added portable hot tubs/pools during covid!
Mom Surveys
Continuous/Incremental improvements aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
> Basically these individuals grow with the hand of the CCP on their back, and when it's time to collect they are stripped off and put on tight leash, and at any moment they can easily be muffled.

That's the reason I never got why all the fanfare for Jack Ma. I don't know how much of his success can be attributed to CCP's belssings.
Hi, please don't do this. If the comments become just replies saying "I wrote about this on my blog!" with a link, they're unreadable. If you summarized your thoughts and posted it as its own comment, without a self-promotional link, I'm sure it would be very well received.
Building industry / real estate is a "bit like that" unfortunately.
> as there are thousands of tech companies hiring engineers in the valley -- engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better".

And we have court cases documenting that Google, Apple, etc. will do their worst to collectively reduce job mobility and artificially reduce wages. You can't use a better paying position at Apple to bargain for better wages at Google because they (and dozens others) agreed not to hire each others workers.
Why then, would they shut down a wind turbine rather than a gas turbine. There was no point in the last year where gas turbines were not supplying power.

If what you say is true, then the grid is being run in a more carbon intensive way than necessary. Why would this be?
I don't think your ideas are unreasonable, though this would have to be governed by any existing treaties, of course. In practice, however, I think that, to use your example, South Korea will act based on its relationship with China rather than your relationship with China. So, if KOR agrees with you that free speech is more important than how China might react to non-extradition, then KOR may not extradite you. However, if KOR thinks that they must turn you over to preserve their relationship, then they might. Again, all of this is of course hypothetical and in the real world should be defined by treaties.

I'll just note that in your example, if C is just trying to stay neutral and acting of its own accord, then the correct term would be that C would deport the suspect to A rather than extradite the suspect to A, unless A is seeking extradition in its own right.
I think most Lispers reckon REPL development the way it was described; analogous to editing code in a Smalltalk Browser and Doing/Inspecting it in a Smalltalk Workspace. WRT Smalltalk, you can Do/Inspect code in a Workspace and then create a class and copy it over but this typically isn't done that much.
Sell prepaid plans to preppers. For a small monthly fee, we’ll keep X gallons of water for you, stocked and ready for delivery via drone if/when the collapse happens.

(Mostly just joking, but this might be a decent idea...)
I have a 2011 car which has a USB port where I can plug a USB stick with MP3s (remember those, kids?) on them, I doubt it will ever be made ExFAT-compatible.

OTOH, I do have the Windows logo on my steering wheel, and somewhere inside the car there's a Windows CE system installed (it doesn't have a multi-color LCD screen and interacts using speech recognition, so it's not really obvious).
No such thing a throwaway account in New Normal. This is an automated public service notice.

You'll be happy to know that our AI now has a sarcasm module. You've been detected and will be cancelled. "An obedient population is a happy population" as all experts agree, and you are an obstable to universal happiness.
Show HN: ggwave – tiny data-over-sound library
Scots ordered to stay at home in new lockdown
https://genius.com/Queen-39-lyrics was helpful
Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web
Just to be clear, we are talking about "Steve Bannon War Room Pandemic" and "The New Federal State of China".

These people are not trustworthy at all.

They can be entertaining though.
> I suspect that there are many at Google that would happily join a union, just look at how high the attendance of Google's walk outs have been.

You're assuming a lot here. The Google Walkout had a huge attendance because it had zero teeth and zero commitment. People took their lunch break outside to say "I don't like sexual harassment". Then they went back to their desks and back to work. Google refused all but one of their demands, fired or drove out all of the organizers, and went on with it's day.

Essentially, very few people who walked out would put their cushy Google job on the line for what they believe in. The organizers did, they're gone. A handful of other people since then have also put their jobs on the line for their principals, they've also now been fired. Every time Google has fired organizers, it has made it much harder for the remaining workers to organize, both because the people who would organize are gone, and those left have a cautionary tale of what happens if they do.

Everyone at Google today is someone who had a chance to stand up for what's right in a manner that risks their employment, and has chosen not to do so.
1) COVID is a highly atypical situation. Other than during a once in a lifetime global pandemic, which benefits/drawbacks do you experience?

2) Most US companies had no problem going full remote some time during the spring of 2020, doesn't look like "unions" play a big role there.
> These days, nobody would ever want to be associated with such a site out of fear of press and social media jumping at them and ruining their career forever.

Or, er, maybe they wouldn't want to be associated with it out of other motivations, such as common decency?
I know some Googlers who make over $500k annual and in truth are fairly unskilled. Not sure they could survive at any other company. Don’t really see why they need a union to “protect” them from being fantastically wealthy?
Boomers often have a major advantage in democratised situations, simply because there are more of them.

As such, it's still in your own interest to join a union and be represented. And, with Boomers retiring, this power imbalance in unions can be lessened or reversed.
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stream. I've been having a lot of fun streaming the games I play anyway, and although I still don't have many viewers I do find great joy in the conversations that happen in chat.
The slow death of Flash continues as Google begins to remove it from search
His company is renovating buildings or building new ones, less frequently now.

There are recordings of one of the mob bosses discussing Trump buildings and their concrete. The likelihood that Trump never spoke to a mob boss is just about 0%, either willfully or accidently. But judging from his behavior the last 4 years, there is a decent chance Trump knew and liked it.
Disadvantages I can think of:

* requires app: This is the main killer. I'm not going to install some random SaaS vendor's app on my phone just so I can log in

* requires internet access on phone: sucks if your phone doesn't data, cell reception is spotty, or wifi isn't set up

* less phishing resistance: one time sign in links are impossible to phish, and passwords have mitigations that protect against phishing (eg. password managers that only auto-fill on the correct domain) and users are generally aware to "check the address bar before entering password". scanning a QR code has neither of these.
Right, it isn't authentication, it is only account control. If you have to login to your email anyway. We just need simpler 2FA options. FIDO is moving the ball forward in the right direction but they don't seem willing to push the final steps.
> I suspect that there are many at Google that would happily join a union, just look at how high the attendance of Google's walk outs have been.

I'm hopeful that you're right, but I also suspect that a lot of engineers will look at the fees and decide "hey, 1% of my total compensation is actually a hefty amount." The walkouts were free.
Tell HN: Proposal for Mod Strikes
I propose a notion of mod strikes to combat voting-related problems, to better address a problem in HN that so far has been addressed via a comment within the HN guidelines and FAQ:

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

With the ability for either a user or mod to "flag downvotes", a mod could more easily see problematic downvoting and do something about it via a new action called a "strike".

This would give users a way to react quietly to what may have been a negligent downvote and give the mods a way to address it.

Note that comments about voting that go against the existing guideline would still be flaggable as they are today.

Some additional thoughts on how this sort of downvote flagging could be handled:

Downvoting could only be flagged if the comment has zero points or less, and must happen within 13 days of the comment's last update.

When a downvote is flagged, a copy would be made of the original downvoted comment along with a link to the comment, unless one existed already for the same comment text at the time of downvoting, in which case the tally of downvote flags would be incremented.

This list could be made available for review by the mods for up to 13 days beyond the last downvote flag action. Mods could mark a flagged comment as addressed, which would move them to the bottom of the list with indication they were addressed by that mod.

Mod strike = loss of 13^N karma points, defining N as the total lifetime mod strikes for that user.
Corruption comes in many forms, yes. But a private sector union that can elect gives the people they elect incentive to grow the union membership and therefore consolidate power. You can’t elect the person you’re going to negotiate with. It’s pure corruption and a major conflict of interest.

Private money has major issues too but it doesn’t have a direct influence on votes. A company can lobby all day and give money and that might get you more ads. But aligning with a union gets you votes and will continue to.

Police unions do this with Republicans as Teachers do with Democrats.
Hi HN, this is a small C++ library for data-over-sound communication.
It utilizes a very simple FSK modulation approach for audible and ultrasound transmissions, aiming to achieve reliable data transfer over reasonable distances.

To showcase the library, I also implemented a free mobile app called "Waver: Data Over Sound" which you can easily install and try out (iOS and Android).
The app uses "ggwave" and allows you to send and receive text messages using the phone's speakers and microphone. There is also an option for file sharing where 2 or more devices connect with each other by emitting sounds and transmitting files peer-to-peer without any global server.

Here is a quick video demonstrating it's functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcgf77T71QM

Would love to hear what you think about this project and more importantly - what could be some interesting applications for this type of communication.
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USSR controlled half of Europe and had enough ground forces on hand to bust through Germany and be in France in a week(without nukes being involved).

PRC is nowhere close. It is a threat to Japan, India, Russia, Vietnam etc to US and Europe not so much