skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in the union organizers interest to pocket as many of the dues as possible. The union isn't an entity to itself, it's a whole other bureaucracy and is no more on your side than your government is in the first place.

In the best case scenario a union is now another level of government you're forced to participate in just to tread water, and at worst it's the literal mafia.

The legal climate has improved significantly since the unions of the early years were needed. Largely because those workers voted (governmentally) to give the benefits to everyone.

Dishonest fake flags. Imagine what the person who flagged this post would be like to work with. Imagine them having power over your career.
> Reminder: SMS 2FA adds only a negligible amount of security

I would disagree. Obviously, there are better approaches, but consider basic password auth on desktop, that is easily exploitable en masse by botnets. if you add 2FA via SMS, you would need to exploit both devices (or attack SS7, transfer number or some other trick) and match infos from these devices. Can be done in targetted attack, but harder in en masse botnet attacks.
Indeed, but five plus three does equal eight.
Someone from Latin America here.

Your impressions are correct. While some violence is greatly exagerated to paint a picture (For instance, Chicago, St Louis, Baltimore, Washington are more violent than São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro), it still is MUCH safer in Europe or Sillicon Valley/New York.
>The US Constitution set copyright originally

No, that's not correct. 14 years was the original term set by law not the Constitution, and the difference is important. Copyright and patents do not formally exist in the US Constitution, because IP was a contentious issue even then. Instead there is a clause that empowers Congress to decide to do so if they wish, but there is no requirement. Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8 says Congress shall have the power:

>"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

But there is nothing specific set out in the Constitution. If there was, it'd be near impossible to change at this point, for better or worse. On the one hand that might mean we'd have much shorter terms then now. On the other hand, it would also mean that if the courts had gone similarly badly in deciding stuff like software patents it'd be near totally hopeless, rather than merely very difficult, to reform. But since it's all down to "merely" legislation Congress could completely change things around on a dime through normal law if there was the political will for it. Though note another complexity is that the US has signed treaties around certain parts of IP as well, including minimum terms. While those too can be renegotiated, or revoked by Congress, it's a higher domestic political and geopolitical bar.

There are lots of interesting reform proposals, within various bounds of feasibility. Hopefully one of them can take off at some point and momentum can slowly start building to go in the other direction then the maximalist positions taken for the last few decades.
The places I'm looking show much, much lower numbers.

> Spotify generally pays between $.003 and $.005 per stream

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-does-spotify-pay-pe...

> Spotify paid the artists $0,0032 per stream

https://soundcharts.com/blog/music-streaming-rates-payouts

It's also worth noting, we're not talking about the total amount payed per stream, we're talking about the amount that makes it specifically to the artists. From the article being discussed

> To pay the median American monthly rent ($1,078) an artist needs to generate 283,684 recurring streams monthly.

Those number directly align with 0.38c per stream going to the artists (283,684 * 0.0038 = 1078). And since everywhere else seems to indicate that somewhere around 3-5/100th of that amount actually goes to artists, I'm curious what the disconnect it.
I grew up in Minnesota and commuted on the DC beltway (Bethesda to Reston) for about 18 months for my first job out of college.

Drivers panic on the D.C. beltway the second a snowflake hits the pavement.

Good all-weather tires probably give you better average traction than winter tires in D.C., even in Winter.
I've been using Citonhub for a while now (about eight months) and I must say Citonhub is amazing.

I love the fact that I can code with my phone, connect with different developers, create projects, discuss coding topics on a channel, document what anything I learn in a diary, get feedbacks on my projects and got a coding mentor.

Thank you for creating this platform .
The page returned a 500 for me, bad omen for Java 16? :)
Okay, so, as you can see in the first page, it is in fact not from 2001, but instead at least 2017.

This is like saying that Windows 10 is from 1985. Just because the first version came out then doesn't mean the latest version did.

Also, just because something is old does not make it bad. How old is `mv`?
> that would imply

No, it would not. There are more alternatives than "racist policy" and "racial superiority".

Also, we're most likely dealing with continuums between many variables, not discrete buckets.
So basically TikTok is saying "please take us off the app store" except the hard way. Apple still hasn't budged on Epic trying to get rid of their cut on all Fortnite Fun-Buxxx sales through iOS, what makes TikTok think announcing they are going to blatantly violate the spirit, and possibly the letter, of Apple's no-tracking rules isn't gonna result in their app getting pulled?

I guess maybe they're hoping for a decision in the Apple-Epic trial that leaves Apple hurting? Looks like the trial's coming in May. And maybe Facebook's suing them over being forced to reveal how much tracking they do, too.
New York’s Tech Sector Thrives During Pandemic
Site is dying with 500.
Not necessarily. The Constitution requires that all people get equal enforcement of the law. If you can demonstrate that the perjury components are never enforced against companies, you can argue that perjury charges would be unconstitutional selective enforcement.

I wouldn't want to be one of the people who have to prove that, though.
Java 16 released: new features
Stop. Buying. Stuff. Made. In. China.

Or does it not apply when it inconvenience you?
> Patrons. Sell merch. Sell tickets. Super chats.

None of those scale. I pointed this out elsewhere, but how much money would a creator on Patreon make if all creators were on Patreon, hoping to make at least $1 per month per follower? Musicians alone would push me into the hundreds of dollars (which really means a vast majority of musicians would make nothing from me; less than they're getting via Spotify).

How much are you willing to pay for tickets to the 20th tour in a week that's in your area? For their merch? As for myself, precious little. Probably not enough to even cover their tour costs, let alone the cost of producing the music (and merch) in the first place.

> Patents and copyrights are literally ideas put on paper that one is claiming legal dominion over.

Patents and copyrights make it practical to cover the costs of realizing those ideas in the first place. Ideas aren't worth anything until they're realized, be it in writing for a book, or a performance for a song.

Books often take a minimum of 6 months of full time effort to produce. There's multiple people involved - the writer, the editor, the proofreader, the typesetter. How do they pay for it if they can't make any money from actually selling the book?

Music takes weeks or months of effort in a studio to produce. How do you recoup those costs if you can't sell the output?
He is simply pointing out what others have as well - that using the crypto whose development was financed by the very people interested in breaking it, may not be that smart.

And is the story about from Jan about vulnerabilities in Signal that are absent in Telegram also planted by him? Want to see more incidents like that?
Another alternative would be to invest much more in rail-based transportation methods, because iirc they don't need salting. Also, they'd avoid the issue of needing to educate every driver on how to avoid slipping and sliding in the winter.
The site works great for me.
I'm not sure what the term for this is; maybe "quorum problem"?

If too few people sustain a boycott, then they suffer without accomplishing their goal, so a net negative.

If enough people sustain a boycott, they'll suffer but will also accomplish their goal, so a net positive.
I don't really see how selling facial recognition tech is "rather creepy". Facial recognition has legitimate uses, and the CIA/FBI using it to track criminals seems to be a legitimate use case to me. The article you linked seems to be making a hypothetical leap to "well what if they choose to use it nefariously in the future??" And to their credit, Amazon at least seems to be interested in trying to limit its use to good causes: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/amazon-bans-police-use-of-fa...

And of course, Microsoft, Google, and others have their own facial recognition software and they all have large contracts with government entities, too. This article mentions the CIA using AWS, but the CIA also has multi-billion dollar contracts with GCP, Azure, and even IBM and Oracle: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cia-awards-multib...
Hey!

Yeah I started blogging like this

To me it’s a combination of something between

- a haiku

- an equation

- & a quick way to take a note

Sometimes I think of something & want to stay focused on what I’m doing, but will kick myself later if I don’t write it down, so I’ve gotten in a habit of writing “quiknotes” in quantities of “3s”

(3 lines generally, but more specifically just 3 parts)

Maybe someone someday will make an App or even some form of RSS tech to aggregate ideas for the purpose of readily accessible form of “idea-share”

Maybe a newsletter is tech enough?

Could be cool for copyleft creativity .. i.e.:

- sharing ideas for essays

- characters/plots for short stories

- or just microblogging

Know essentially it’s nothing new but also seems like a beginning towards a “linux-style” form of writing

Also! I don’t mean / do not at all wish (0%) to come off as some savvy or wannabe-cool-coder dude

I don’t even code (I suck at coding) & really most things (have a very high low-success-rate generally speaking) but I’ve been doing creative writing like this for a bit & only type all this here to share

If this my last HN post because everyone hates it just want to say I much respect the moderators & the HN community as a whole

HN imo is the #1 best site on the web
Sorry, missed your reply to this. So this came out of the experience at my previous job where we were a big team working on a rapidly changing codebase and we reckon that resolving conflicts was taking anything from 5-10 engineer hours a week.

We tried quite a few processes to reduce it and they'd all work for a few weeks but inevitably we'd revert back to old behaviour pretty fast.

On your point about it being a procrastination tool, I'd love it if my team members took a minute to stop work and converse with the others if they're working on the same bit of code! Aside from time saved fixing a potential conflict it's probably indicative that a particular bit of the system needs to be refactored. Anything that can help guide the decision to refactor is probably a force for good but we'll see. H
Very cool to see that Scala continues to have a huge impact on Java’s roadmap.

Records and Sealed Classes are borrowed from Scala.

Could be not the best news for new Scala adoption, but good news for developers having better abstractions in Java

Edit: Kotlin, and other languages should also mentioned since they also include similar features. I still think Scala has had the most influence over the years.
Curious how many folks here experimented with the now depreciated Ahead-of-Time Compilation feature?
"Three people with knowledge of briefings between Apple and developers also said the Cupertino, California-based company would be wary of taking strong action, despite a clear violation of its stated rules, if CAID has the support of China’s tech giants as well as its government agencies."

That's chilling.

I tend to have a good opinion of Apple regarding privacy protection, even though I'm not an Apple user, but if even them bow down like this, I'm not sure which company would have the backbone to stand up to the CCP.
Google's SREs: Practical Guide to Cloud Migration [pdf]
v86: x86 virtualization in the browser, recompiling x86 to WASM on the fly
It's the same story in C++, co_await, co_yield. The sole purpose is not to break other people's code.
actually, I think this file just suffers from the eternal tabs/spaces war. looks like it was edited by people who have 4-character long tabs, using spaces in their editors. you can see it in the credits too. and of course, "var" + tab would show up the same as "var" + space if your tabs are 4-wide
They have really excellent products, blocked behind subscription fees and extremely high product costs.

The open source world is doing a really good job of creating free versions of the things that made their products great.
This game is so fun. My girlfriend and I play it pretty much every night. Sometimes the outcomes are kind of wacky - I've gotten last place with what I think is museum-quality art (well, at least my mom would like it) - but it's consistently hilarious
See page 12 of your link. Most of the cost in grid connected PV isn’t the cells; stuff like installation (e.g. safety while working at heights) is famously expensive. See pages 18-19 for their estimates.
We shift the burden to the government when we should just all have better tires and learn to drive properly. But our current legal and insurance regime probably forces municipalities to salt.
I made this argument before, but was informed that they have support for contextually distinguishing between names and keywords some time between Java 8 and 10. So while e.g. the introduction of enum did cause all these issues for variables named enum, "var" did not and a hypothetical "closed" would not.
I don't know where all that money went. I do know that I, along with several other thousand people, helped fund our local protests and events. I don't know of anyone who donated to "Black Lives Matter". The donations I was aware of went towards specific events or pre existing charity funds for specific causes, such as community centers or legal fee funds. Again this is all anecdotal.

I would assume it is fair to say this organization is representative of BLM, as I'm sure they have been under more scrutiny than I can provide and I would hope any bad intentions or funny things happening to the money would have been caught by now. So if I think it's fair to say that if this organization is representative of BLM, I think it would be fair to assume they would also be sending the money to the places they are stating.
We have those thanks to the increase of productivity and competition between employees, not some unions hundreds of years ago. Maybe that was the reason initially but time has passed and today's situation favours the employee in most fields.
By most metrics the US and UK have handled the pandemic horribly, yet are at the front of the pack by a mile in terms of vaccines.
I feel a bit foolish now. Not sure why I thought that percent encoding wasn't mapped before it was routed by the web server
I wonder how it would be possible to ... make someone know enough to make an informed choice and still allow more opportunities to invest.

I like the idea of opening things up more like this but worry that actual scams could be a problem.

It's not investing but similar to kickstarter and etc problems.
"Somewhat stupid"?

I don't know, he didn't call the person who had the idea stupid, he called the idea itself stupid. Sure, it's harsh, but so what? The idea isn't going to get offended.
I think what might make this tough for midwestern states is that the snow doesn't stick around all winter. It's not unheard of to have 4-5 big snows that melt relatively quickly and most of the winter you're just dealing with cold weather. If you won't have a reliable snow pack you can guarantee you'll be driving on for three or four months it's hard to justify swapping out for snow tires or chains.
No, because it may be possible that breaking a monolithic group into smaller blocks for analysis would show that some parts of that monolith do better than others, and even other parts of other monolithic blocks that were considered “superior”.

Sowell himself gives the example of West Indian immigrants in New York and how they fare far better than American born blacks even though they live in the same area and cannot be distinguished by sight. (From memory) Coleman Hughes, in critiquing Kendi’s position will contrast Russian whites living in the States with those of French whites in the States that show greater disparities than between whites and blacks as monolithic groups.
Amazon Alexa invests in privacy preserving AI company Inpher
People don't live in uniform distribution across the country, and different regions have different economic and social climates. The percentage of people born in Scranton, PA that grow up to become software engineers is going to be different than those who grew up in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, or Gary.

The geography variable is just one of many that can have a huge impact on outcomes.
Most crypto websites I’ve used have way better security than my banks. Can get into the bank with a password, crypto requires 2fa, email confirmation, captchas, all kinds of checks.
> "The places I'm looking show much, much lower numbers.
> Spotify generally pays between $.003 and $.005 per stream"

This seems consistent with the 0.38c suggested in the www.unionofmusicians.org website. "$.003" = 0.3c, right?
I don't know, the emphasis implied by such strong language can help in internalization, but I suppose it can be polarizing.
Unions have done their job. They were needed when Pinkertons beat up people trying to open new stores in a company town, etc.

Ironically, flagging a post without bad content is just the sort of passive aggressive crap you have to put up with in a union.
Stop with visual art nonsense. Read "20 years". If you have assumption that in this time I don't know the difference, I am sorry. It happens that some of us have managed and created real products, not some figma mockups.

Your design structure will be affected by dark patterns soon or a later. I think that you don't have enough experience to comment on the situation at all. Marketing will have access to your design process eventually. Then we will speak again.
Most government bidding processes are, in and of themselves, a high barrier to entry.

Much of this is by design because the companies with the government influence to fix the problem are the ones who created it.
I can go with a couple of my own experiences:

1. Ride hailing apps like Uber, Lyft

2. Wix.com and similar website builders
Aren't Spotify deals typically coming from the record companies themselves, not the musicians? Unless artists reject the current record company model, Spotify isn't going to be able to fix this problem for them.
I am a big curious, would the communities buying shares in the salt companies be an equivalent of storing salt for the winter?
Don't. Its child abuse
Survivor's bias.
How selfish and ignoble is it to oppose DC rights merely because they might benefit a political party you oppose?

There is nothing suspicious about the timing. DC has been fighting for statehood in earnest since the 1800s. There was a huge push in the 60s culminating in the 23rd Amendment, which for the first time allowed DC residents to vote for President. This was considered a matter of fairness and was broadly supported by both parties.

The slippery slope argument about Austin is ridiculous.
Puerto Rico deserves statehood.
There is already a problem in many places with deers licking salt of the road surface.
Nor experienced tire dust and winter tire grime.
Races are equal. However, some cultures are superior to others. Race != culture, although they often follow that line.

If races were evenly distributed to cultures there would be no racial disparity that you seek to "repair".

You can do the same thing with genders. Women and men (in general) value different things, which is why you don't see many women pumping septic tanks.

Value systems lead to outcomes...Gasp!

This is something nobody likes hearing these days, since extreme right racists insist their race is better and extreme left racists insist other races must need their help.
Xi Warns Against Tech Excess in Sign Crackdown Will Widen
When is it launching? Is there a way to try it out?
Yes, the thing in iOS that automatically clips SMS verification codes sent to you. It saves me from going to my messages and finding the code.
If you can't maintain your revenue by signing up new customers to replace those you lose, you have to keep those you already have, and better yet, achieve some growth by upselling them.
Frankly, the investors who set the initial valuation (presumably used to set the strike price of the employee options) and later the $0 valuation (rendering the options worthless) and then giving away the IP that they declared worthless (despite the company not fundamentally changing) deserve a lot of the scrutiny.

If the company had simply been left to make their own choices like laying off the employees and buying out investors, this would have been a different story.
I'm not saying that they used the money unwisely, but that clearly such a thing as "BLM" exists and is run by certain people, people who have supported things like "disrupt the nuclear family."
Meet your users where they are is great advice for consumer apps you want people to onboard to quickly and the users only interact with them periodiclly.

We're talking about the power tools of our profession. Nobody designs a band-saw to meet their users where they are either. These are apps we spend 8hrs+ per day living in, and frankly the buffer wording is superior because a buffer is not a file, but a file is in a buffer.

Meeting your users where they are is how we got everybody moving from Textmate to Atom and now to VSCode as the new hotness that would finally kill Emacs and vi. And yet that's the mentality that prevented those newer editors from having the legs to really last. Meanwhile other power tools like Eclipse which absolutely meet nobody where they are are going strong too.
Imo it's a rather cruel irony that the green parties (in Europe at least) were in big part getting their growth from and membership dedication from the Harrisburg and Chernobyl accidents.

So when we really need a "green" party they're filled with zealots who're unable see the harm reduction tradeoffs that needs to be done.