skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is currently, literally, providing user data to a regime engaged in forced labor and ethnic cleansing (China, Uyghers). Point isn't that human trafficking is OK, but that parent isn't incorrect about Apple playing the moral authority being laughable.
My understanding is Apple is also free to take their cut from that though. It's just harder for them to enforce.

This may be one of those things the little guy gets away with, but Epic can't.
> simply reciting tired anti-trust

That's the judge's job. They're not supposed to come up with novel solutions, they're supposed to apply the relevant case law.
Slow loading? They were reduced to around HD size (from larger), but probably should have used smaller thumbnails in the article. Noted. Also, the server is seeing some traffic so might be slower.
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pressing the number 2 button normally resulted in a B, holding the volume up and pressing 2 gave a C, and holding volume down and pressing 2 gave a D

The SonyEricsson M600 series had something similar. The keys were rockers. Press the left side of a key and it was an Q. Press the right side and it was a W.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Sony_Eri...

Interesting to use, and I wrote a lot of text on it while on buses and trains. But the keys were necessarily very hard and so your fingers would hurt after a while.
All you have to do is lase them.

Like handling security cameras... you can fire an artillery shell at a security camera, but most of the time security cameras are mission ineffective if you just shine a bright enough flashlight (or laser) at them.

There's no need to cause an international incident by blowing something up when all you need is a bright light for a couple easily predictable minutes.

On the other hand a stealthy hypersonic flyby is probably invisible.

Another military aspect civilians never want to talk about is photo analysis depends on illumination and rando satellite passes can't see into valleys and get messed up if the shadows are weird enough. Just because technically a satellite passed within range of Afghanistan as a whole country, doesn't mean you can see what's happening on the wrong side of a mountain with bad illumination and bad view angle. There's a lot of satellites but not THAT many. Afghanistan used to have boots on ground to launch UAVs but not so much anymore.
I am very happy to see linux gaming grow every year. I gave up pubg and star citizen to go exclusively native linux(kubuntu 20.04[c. 2019]). There are still plenty of titles out there to play that are entertaining. At the end of the day, gaming is just a way to entertain the brain and wind down before bed for me.

I have had some minor hiccups with steam, but they seem to have ironed out cs:go very well. A lot of the older games I've played through the years have open source versions that actually work better than their original counterpart.

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Switching clocks changes the schedule only by one hour, in a one-size-fits-all fashion. Even at 30deg north, summer and winter sunrises are multiple hours apart. This is why summer and winter schedules for businesses are multiple hours apart in far northern areas. Somehow enough coordination is managed organically.
Those games had a ton of bugs. Look into speed run tech. Super Mario World even has an arbitrary code execution bug you can trigger from controller input.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_KsonqcMv0
The human trafficers, in some cases, are just simply ignorant. Some are intentionally malicious, but some are just born into a way of thinking and operating (which is often supported by their society and government). They can, in theory, learn that what they are doing is arguably very wrong. And some can decide to stop doing that.

Meanwhile, we can make it less easy for them to do it by eliminating as many of the tools they use as possible.

As for stopping Facebook, I don't know if anyone can. The most we can do is stop using it. Like some people, I maintain an account out of necessity for the unfortunate times that the only way I can find or communicate with a business or person is on that platform. But my account can go months without me logging in.

If I were 20 years younger, I would be working on one of the open source community platforms or communication platforms in the hope of someday providing a an easy to use and ubiquitous product that would give normal people an alternative to FB. Maybe I still will now that I have quit my job.
I'll second the recommendation of Monk's biography of Wittgenstein. There's a fantastic clarity to his exposition of Wittgenstein's philosophy that made it very readable. Going to track down the Russell biography now...
What if the TV manufacturer could set a $0 retail price on the television and then charge the user on-device subscription fees to recoup a profit?

Would Walmart be interested in that? Seems like their retail cut would be sliced to $0 in that situation despite doing the retail work.
Nobody scales an app business just on Android. When you have to target both, you'll follow Apples rules.

Where are my PWA notifications on iPhone? Where is my replacement app launcher? Where are my programming apps? Where are my porn apps?
I knew what this would be before I clicked and still ended up watching the whole story again.

I think it makes up the crux of what makes Dwarf Fort great.

You don't need two massive hideously complex systems, when hundreds of smaller ones that all interact are so much more satisfying.

Dwarf Fortress seems to do both though, many large systems with hundreds of smaller interactions that build up to the whole.

I really look forward to seeing where it ends up in a few decades.
Is that a good reason to give them a pass? By that reasoning, you probably shouldn't mind if you're out eating and someone walks up to you and just takes your plate of food for themselves. Honestly, it's probably not in the top ten of problems you deal with in a month or week.
"I don't know why people keep comparing China to Japan"

Because they both went through hyper-growth periods after economic shock (war for Japan, and for China war then Mao).

During that period of hubris they took on a lot of debt.

They both had declining GDP growth and bad demographics.

The negative momentum overwhelms the positive moment at some point.

Your comment misses the bit were Real Estate is not a productive asset. Building new buildings on land is productive, but like Canada's housing bubble, when homes double in value quickly, it's just inflation.

" They'll just need to make sure they can properly incentivize more population growth to keep the positive feedback loop humming along."

I hope you realize the folly of this statement.

Imagine if we all just did the 'body count for GDP strategy'.
Firefox for Android is my daily driver. I really dig it; once you get used to the address bar being near your thumb there's no going back.
Benchmarks for a competent JS that does loop analysis, code emission, and the attendant warmup/dynamic compiling is tough. It's why Java JVMs are endlessly debated on performance vs compiled languages, fairly or not.
It gets worse: on top of things like cars and other consumer electronics, even the cheap chips you need to make a keyboard are hard to get! I wanted to build a mechanical keyboard from scratch but have put it on indefinite hold until it gets better.
Unnessecary electric waste. You could use one cable and charger for all your devices and wouldn't need a drawer full of cables.
It's not that simple, unfortunately. The AMD drivers are free, but rely on some blobs in the kernel that aren't there when using linux-libre.
1 cent charge seems a bit low? For fruits and vegetables I'll gladly pay that fee so I can see the quality of the product before buying.
It's even worse than that, because each of the stores are in different cities and if your customers want to patronize the other store they first have to move to the other city.
I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I'm somewhat familiar with the principles. In general, I think the article is correct in most of its claims, however, I also think it's a bit too pessimistic and narrow-minded.

I agree that the bioreactor model is probably not going to scale well, the requirents are simply too extreme for it to be affordable. However, there are other methods that could hypothetically be developed. As the article points out, contamination is a huge problem because cell cultures don't have immune systems. But who is to say we can't create an immune system.

I've never been too optimistic about the prospects of cell cultures for meat production. However, perhaps with more advanced cloning and genetic engineering techniques, we won't need to rely on cell cultures.

One greusome, but potentially workable, solution might be to create "deconstructed animals". That is to say, harvest entire organ systems from live animals, or clone artificial ones, and use them to support muscle tissue that is periodically harvested. This way, you have all the necessary biological functions, including an immune system. Certainly, developing such a system at an industrial scale would be incredibly difficult, but probably still easier than getting cultures to work.

Another potential model, which has already been explored somewhat, "meat doping" where you take a substrate derived from plant matter and dope it with animal stem cells. Getting this to produce a meaty texture would be tricky, but in terms of flavor and nutritional profile it should work. This gets around the problem of muscle cells growing too slowly, and reduces the duration for which the a given batch must be kept sterile.
The tokens are not intended to be servicable. Even if you replaced the battery, you couldn't set the time, so I don't think you could sync your token and your verifier.

And I don't know if these things had protections against being opened anyway.
> the EU is in favor of having a single charger for all popular gadgets in order to cut down on the environmental impact as well as make it easy for consumers to carry just a single charger for all their gadgets instead of using different proprietary connectors
Braille characters are formed by six dots/bumps in a 2×3 grid. On a Braille keyboard, each of the six main keys correspond to one dot, and for each character you press the keys for the dots you want simultaneously, then lift up and repeat. There's also a space key. My grandmother used to volunteer transcribing things into Braille, and she taught me how to use the machine as a kid.
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A judge makes judgements.
Murder is understandable if you're black and or poor. /s
1pm in India doesn't give you any useful information about when the local culture sets work hour. I work with people in India, and often get IMs from them and when I look at their time I wonder why they are still working at 1am. Some off the teams over there need to work with Americans enough that they have adjusted their work hours to meet ours, while others have not. Thus I need to ask each team what a reasonable time for a meeting is no matter what.
Oh you know the only approved replacement for plastic will be some eco-plastic that the rep sponsoring the bill just so happens to have already invested in and actually takes more energy to produce than plastic.
And you probably don’t really want Boston to be in a different time zone than NYC either.
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Most politicians have less power over their country than Zuckerberg has over Facebook. Degree of complicity adjusts a bit with knowledge & actual power to address.

But yes. People who have the power to fix something unjust and don't are complicit in that thing.
> So what? USA has more empty homes per capita (17 million for 330 million citizens, vs. 60 million in China for over 1.3 billion)

I have no horse in this game, but 17/300 = 5.2% and 90/1300 = 6.9%. (edit: wikipedia says population of China is 1.4 billion, which would give 6.4%).
> Make ownership of digital device mean something again.

Then just go buy from someone who actually is behind these values, and not someone who just greenwashes their products.

> US obsession

Sorry to spoil your ad hominem, but I am born in Brazil and have been living in Germany for 8 years.

> I want the problem fixed.

The problem is fixed already: I've been having this discussion while typing from a fairphone, which I was free to install /e/ OS without any Google services, and it cost less than an iPhone SE. I can open and replace not only the battery, but also the display and the camera.

I didn't have to wait any bureaucrat in Brussels to do this, and quite frankly I believe that if it were up to them they would find a way to screw this small Dutch company out of existence.

Stop buying Apple products. Stop buying anything from any company that is consumer hostile, even if the "ethical" alternatives are more expensive/less adequate for your needs. I can guarantee you this problem (and others that you don't even care about) will be fixed faster than by waiting for the EU.
At big supermarkets I pretty regularly see individually wrapped potatoes in plastic. Potatoes! Not especially fragile.
"It's bad enough that wall sockets haven't improved"

In what way, spesifically? What can you improve in a metal connector carrying current?
>had bio-degradable bags for almost everything

Are we talking "paper bags" or "bio-degradable plastics" here? The former is trivially compostable, whereas the latter requires industrial composting conditions, and depending on the polymer type, might just end up "composting" into microplastics.
Well put, this is a great summary. I’m starting to think how we scorn at oil companies for spilling oil in the gulf, give them a small slap on the wrist for environmental damage, and yet these adtech behemoths continue to erode society, mutual trust, democracy and social well-being while reaping enormous amount of profits. No slap on the wrist, but a mild stare at best.
I feel like you're missing the point... Nobody eats lunch at literally the same time, but 2pm for me is not the middle of the night for you. Those are two completely different times of day. In the current system, because we both have a common understanding of when 2pm is, it is easier for us to communicate.

The alternative you are proposing doesn't solve anything: I still have to convert from "my 2pm" to "your 2pm". I still need a lookup table, but now the actual time itself gives me no information. It's a downgrade.

Here's a question for you: in your system how do you communicate what "time of day" it is at your location? When you arrive in a new timezone, how do you know how much to adjust your schedule by?
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't that what UTC is for?
> "If these behaved like other forms of equity" I don't know what "behaved like" means in this context.

By behaved like, I actually mean't "taxed like".

You nailed it in your post. The employee is taking on increased risk with RSU's. Risk that is not rewarded with a more favourable tax rate, as other forms of stock (baring the same risk) are.

Yet, you're taxed as if the risk were the same as your salary. Which it isn't. (you'll probably still get paid even if the share price goes down, particularly in large companies).

I'm always wary of companies that try to explain away the relatively low basic salary with "look how many RSU's you're getting instead". Especially so, when they've already been though their initial growth phase. Amazon (AWS) is particularly bad for this in the UK.
If school times are going to shuffle around, then ther parents' schedules will also shuffle around. Then we have to shuffle schedules for a big chunk of economy every 6 months. How can we optimize that process? Oh wait, let's just move the time around. Aha - now everyone is synchronized automatically.
That was not the purpose of the Afghanistan war, but it did happen incidentally.
Agreed. But there is a very important difference. In China you don't have to be convicted of a crime to be sent to labor camps/re-education camps. I think that's an important difference.
In theory, yes, but in practice Microsoft Office favors its cloud service when you click "Open" or "Save". Didn't they break autosave to only work when a document is backed by the cloud?

In practice, I am continually having to disable cloud-related features (worded that I need them in the most patronizing way possible) every time Windows updates

In practice, common knowledge on desktop computing is atrophying because of an increasingly acute lack of knowledgeable users on the internet. As more and more of the young users who grew up in this gilded cage enter a level of expertise, their advice pollutes forums with cloud-backed solutions and knowledge of 'the old ways' becomes harder and harder to find.
Is Jim ok? Why is he yelling at his co-host for looking funny at him?

I watched Jim Cramer a decade ago. I remember his Lehman rant but I consider him entertainment - you might as well watch Netflix or read hn.
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The logic says yes, they are complicit to the extent that the government is powerful enough to intervene (granting this level of power is typically at odds with other values we hold) and to the extent that specifically politicians bear responsibility for the behavior of the government (as opposed to the people or organizations that empowered them).
Exactly, otherwise it's no different than saying you need to support IE8 because 0.05% of the world still use it. Very unreasonable imho.
I was wondering the same. I'll also note I went to the page to contribute and be a member since it looks like a non-profit supporting F/OSS. If they check out, I'd like to support them. Unfortunately in order to pay for a membership outside of the Eurozone it takes some extra steps.
I don't see BEAM and OTP as being synonymous with Kubernetes. They have some overlaps but they aren't drop-in replacements for each other. If anything, they are complimentary technologies.

The advantages of BEAM and OTP are that I can spawn new concurrent processes throughout a cluster and then use the actor model to send direct messages to those processes from any other processes, regardless of where the sender and receiver happen to be. I can also easily configure Behaviours so they automatically run on either a single node or every node in the cluster, depending on what they are doing.

In both cases, if a node goes down, Elixir will automatically restart any affected processes on another node. When a process has an issue, I can surgically handle that issue at the individual process level. Kubernetes doesn't handle problems that granularly.

One advantage of Kubernetes is autoscaling. OTP and BEAM don't do that.

By using libcluster, you can combine Kubernetes and BEAM/OTP and get the best of both worlds.
Ethics are only part of the equation. In terms of energy use and carbon emissions, such a system would not be a big improvement. Though I personally would find it valuable just for the ethical reasons.
Many forums are dominated by absolutists of one bent or the other. The world is black and white, no shades of gray.

For those who are teachers or parents, you notice a lot of that in the <12 age group. For those who are older, you notice that a lot in the elderly. It’s simply a cognitive thing that most kids eventually develop and perhaps old folks lose, but it may just be that older folks lose interest in complicated issues after a life of complicated things.
> For example, what kind of resources are required to break the disk encryption of a computer protected with tpm 2.0 + secureboot + luks w/tresor* ?

Intel ME and the equivalent AMD PSP.

> I'm of course not talking about social engineering or fooling the user into typing their password on a fake system, since this is preventable.

As other pointed out when the atacker has physical access it is game over. Also network access is insecure due to management engines.
Adding missing packages to the guix wishlist (on the libreplanet wiki), and maybe even helping package some things yourself is one way to help with that problem.
Yes, it had nuclear winter.

Global warming resulted from not cleaning up pollution. Then the tiles would change irreversibly.
Kids have started going back to schools and I don't want them to travel in the dark.
I mentioned the previous comment I am not well researched in this. I didn't even make the connection that the video is referring to the same study that this thread was talking about.

It doesn't matter, I don't care about Ivermectin or what you or anyone think about it, good or bad. I'm not planning to take it and never was.

My point was if something (ANYTHING) gets prescribed by a doctor, pharmacists should generally fill it barring those other reasons I mentioned above. I made my point, you made yours. Have a good day.
I roughly agree with your classification. Although last year it seemed to be quite mixed as any threat mentioning black people protesting seemed to almost invariably yield some looting based retort as if there is no possibility the two are done by different groups of people over different time periods.
Ask HN: Anybody working on personal data plumbing?
The majority of our online interactions with companies / institutions reduce to
us filling out and posting forms. This is much better than doing the same thing
with paper or email. But it can't be that way forever. Especially as the
volume of data increases, types of data become more varied, and frequency of
such interactions increases.

My vision for how it should be is more like payments. I give the company /
institution my card details, and they transact against it to get what they need.
This transaction is facilitated by a clever broker company (i.e. the company I
want to build) who knows how to fetch the data from me - but doesn't own or
control said data - at some small latency.

Why doesn't the VISA / MasterCard of personal data transactions exist yet? Is
anyone working on this? Does anyone want to?

I get that this sounds a bit crazy right now, but I think this is a huge
business in the next decade.
Some people have made builds with the whole thing immersed in some liquid no? Sounds...messy, but interesting.
huh, ok. Can you say more about where you think Reaper outshines Logic? I have to say that as a non-pro, I was really impressed by what Logic offers for the price, especially coming from Ableton which seems to offer considerably less for considerably more money. My main use cases these days are: 1) hooking up my electronic drum kit via midi and using Logic's built in drum kits (these sound pretty good); 2) recording and processing spoken word. For both of these use cases, Logic seems superior to Ableton, which is the software I am most familiar with. I think Ableton's interface and user experience are vastly superior to Logic's overall, but for these use cases that difference isn't worth paying for. Thoughts?
the court then has a limited understanding of what a fine line they are walking, both in legal and practical terms.

Many laws and tests - especially the one used to determine monopolistic practices - are horribly outdated and based on ideas and assumptions from before the internet age. That the court failed to see how an app store where an unregulated corporation makes rules without oversight, repercussions or much legal precents - is indeed skirting the line of what constitutes a monopoly is tragic.

Take a look at that judgement - not a single example exists there for digital monopolies. The insidious part of a digital monopoly - as already pointed out - is that there is no precedent and apple are now the digital equivalent of highwaymen.

Expect this to happen more often to the point where these laws and tests are updated for the modern age. One that i foresee is Amazon and their Basics line of products.