skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the old one child policy had a knock on effect, changing the societal norms and views of having multiple children? A knock on effect that didn't go away after the law was relaxed perhaps.
There is a fundamental difference between public sector unions and private unions. Public sector unions often have outsized power with management because, with such a large number of employees, politicians want to curry their favor to get re-elected. It's basically as if public sector unions can negotiate from both sides of the table.

That dynamic doesn't exist with private sector unions because management has much more independent goals than the union does.
> Canonical really tried to push the whole account login thing

And yet Ubuntu has no "account login thing", and Windows has one. If Ubuntu is doing thing you dislike, it can be easily forked (that's a bit what Pop does, and it works well).

> If it makes you feel better that your chosen distro doesn't have as many options enabled by default and that you can't have a common user account to sync settings across multiple desktops, that's awesome. But I think that ignores a fundamental way humans use computers and the web -- regardless of OS. You're being surveilled. Linux isn't going to save you.

I'm glad I'm not using Windows if that's the opinion of a developer advocate at Microsoft.
A VR world controlled by Facebook sounds dystopian enough already - now imagine the same with neural implants...
Louisiana Supreme Court:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/suspect-asks-for...
This looks great! Excited to see more pretrained models made easily accessible through Torchvision, and nn.Module parameterization seems like a really intuitive and neat way of tackling the 'parameterize the parameters' problem effectively. Kudos to the team at PyTorch, I can't wait to start playing with the new features!
> why wouldn't China attack Taiwan?

The US officially doesn't rule out escalating from conventional to nuclear war against other nuclear-armed countries. Even if the possibility is remote, I imagine that nobody is suicidal enough to want to test the possibility.
Could not agree more.

At the bare minimum a vendor should not be allowed to sell a device that has digital locks if the user is not also given a copy of the keys.

You can lock the device, but if I don't get a key at time of purchase, then I don't own the damn thing.
Well... setting off flares isn't the same as punching or shooting people. It's not directly violent. But it is kind of threatening, because they can point those flares at you, and it may hit you, and that's not going to feel very good (at best). So there's kind of a threat of violence, but not actual violence.

And, yes, I think that in their own mind the protesters were either completely innocent of violence, or else completely justified in the implicit threat of violence because the mere presence of the opponent was so threatening.

It's kind of like a guy with a gun on his hip, complaining that a gun control advocate is threatening him by wanting to take away his gun.
The government would have to allow that, not the port owners.
And yet, this book, along with The Count of Monte Cristo, Grapes of Wrath, and quite a number of other tomes are assigned in high schools by teachers/school districts. Those educators think they are providing some kind of service by trying to force feed young people books that cannot really be understood in a meaningful way by the vast majority of people with ~15 years of life.

It wasn't until a decade after college that I picked up another Steinbeck novel. and after finishing Cannery Row, the only question i could ask myself was, WTF were my teachers thinking assigning Grapes of Wrath vs some of his much shorter, less complex works that could be read in a couple days. The whole book is shorter than the section of Grapes that most people describe as being the slog you have to get through to enjoy the rest of the novel.

I read a lot, and I can say with a fair bit of confidence the one long lasting result of assigning these books in HS is to guarantee most people have a life long repulsion for long "classics".
Technical Debt Management
Your claim is fallacious. It is not rooted in any formal study of HN voters or voting outcomes. It is just a story HN members tell themselves to feel special. Reality is, HN is like every other social media platform, and feelings deeply influence voting around here. IMO it is obvious.
I have a vote if I'm in a union. I don't have a vote with my employer except to leave, and the process of finding a new job with a new employer is very long, painful, and uncertain.
Investing in startups is hard, as I am sure Y-Combinator would attest. The layperson is not prepared to invest in them. To vet the companies, their leadership, the feasibility of their ideas, etc... Especially with a low payout. I can understand the SEC's hesitation as this could easily lead to scams. Just look at kickstarter and all the things that have gone down there.

Really what the parent is proposing is something like -

Here is a savings account. You can throw chunks of money in it at startups that have a high chance of failing. But if they succeed you'll only earn bank level interest since it's not capital investment. So you have a small chance at earning bank level interest.

Where is the incentive?
Humans Are Exceptional
If your kids think it is something their kids will want to see, your kids will preserve it (or copy it) and pass it on.

I have old pictures from my great grandparents. I have them on my phone as jpegs. They took no steps to preserve the actual film for 120 years or otherwise figure out how their great grandchildren would see it.

In short, if it’s worth preserving, it will be preserved (or copied to whatever medium is currently in use) by your successive generations. If it’s not worth preserving, it will be tossed and ignored regardless of steps you take.
This is part of the reason I'm excited about Urbit - it's the only project I've seen that has a hope of resolving this.
do it with ethereum or some other blockchain in a single tx
The theory goes like this. The Patent Office keeps granting overly broad patents to your competitors, who then show up to sue you for unintentionally violating them. So you get your own overly broad patents, counter-sue them when this happens, and then they all cancel out.

The main problem with this strategy is patent trolls. Some company that doesn't make anything buys up some broad patents. Then there is nothing you can sue them over because they don't make anything so the strategy doesn't work.

It also makes the whole concept of software patents pretty useless, because the "defensive patents" could equally be used to counter anyone who tries to sue you for violating a "legitimate" patent. So the whole system becomes a bludgeon for larger companies to use against smaller companies, because they have more patents, even if most of them are low quality, which means they can tie up anyone who actually makes anything in court indefinitely.
> Accessing or using the unlockable software (“Software”) is subject to the Oculus Terms of Service or, if you use your Facebook account to access Oculus Products, the Supplemental Oculus Terms of Service and Facebook Terms of Service (the “Applicable TOS”). For clarity, Oculus Products (as described in the Applicable TOS) include the Software. We provide the Software to you for your personal and noncommercial use only on your personal Oculus Products. Installing the Software voids all warranties, express or implied, applicable to Oculus Products. In no event shall Facebook, its affiliates or any of their respective directors, officers, employees or agents have responsibility or liability arising out of or relating to making the Software available to you.

https://developer.oculus.com/licenses/go-unlock-tos

Free as in beer
> Someone living pay to pay check

Someone living pay to paycheck can not afford to be an owner in the first place. The structure being LLC or whatever makes no difference: the vast majority of business enterprises just fail.

You are effectively forcing everyone to be a business owner even when they might have no will, interest or ability to be one, something that disproportionately damages those who would putatively be helped by this system.

> You could pretty easily tweak contract law to get rid of this workaround.

Yes you can. You can do that in my world, where regulated employment, you know, exists, and you can easily show how an operation like that is fraudolent.

> And replacing them with power. They don't need those protections when they are in control. They can devise their own rules.

How would they be in control? Magic? The invisible hand? How would a law mandating that everyone be an owner, assuming for the sake of argument something like that is possible and enforceable, make a minimum wage worker in control of his own destiny?

It doesn't work, it's a pipe dream, and it's ironically the same argument used by hyper libertarian right-wing types.

> if you don't think anybody wants to get to a place with less inequality

Pointless rethoric. Literally everyone wants that, like everyone wants an extra million in their bank account.

I'm disagreeing that what you're proposing will get us there.
Leadership.

TSMC has competent leaders like Morris Chang and Mark Liu.

Intel had lost it's way after Andy Grove gave up the helm. Pat Gelsinger grew up under Gordon and Grove and the old guard is back.
It would appear that they were cut for violating hate speech policies. "We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies," said a YouTube spokesperson on the topic.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/29/21307303/youtube-bans-mol...
Wow uh.... hitting a bit hard there. This seems like a very strong reaction, to something that seems straightforward & accurate to me. So you've found a couple bones to pick to justify these insults you're gunning to fire... here's my view on them.

> No, Cory, that's not what happened and there was no "promise."

Borkism's "consumer harm" theory has, in almost all cases, been centered around hiking prices. Given the lack of interference we've seen for the past 40 years, whether or not there was this "promise" seems moot: there has been a pathetically low level of anti-trust enforcement. Whether promised or not, there has certainly been a delivery.

That you can cite a single 20 year old Microsoft case does little to convince me that there is efficient & active anti-trust regulation. It was a pretty heinous act, by Microsoft, at a time when there was only one mainstream consumer OS. But now that there's two OSes, there's no need for anti-trust, seemingly, and Apple is allowed to engage in far far far worse behaviors on iOS with regards to only permitting Safari technology to run, hampering the web. Social media companies have faced no scrutiny in their bonanza of competitor purchasing. The semiconductor market has undergone a radical vast wave of consolidation, again, seemingly entirely unchecked. Whatever the new Robert Bork "consumer harm" standard might grant it license to regulate, it certainly doesn't seem to be doing much. Proving those harms is much harder & more specific a task than what came before, and has, imo, been enormously clearly for the worse, as Cory continues to rightly argue.

> No, Cory, those are not "operating costs,"

The entire basis of this post is that the accounting doesn't reflect the truth of the matter. The accounting of acquisitions as a one time capital costs isn't really genuine or fair, when a constant ongoing stream of acquisitions is required to maintain the power & position of dominance. The dominant player has to keep feeding the meter to continue operating from a position of power. Each of those may be a one time cost, but the macro behavior is that this is not so different than the grid hookup keeping the data-centers running. It sustains the dominance of the entity. It's an operating cost, the cost of staying where they are.

Your point about patents is entirely besides the point. This isn't about companies using courts to try to destroy one another- something we haven't ever really seen at scale in the modern world. This is about Saturn Eating His Son. This is about the gigantic titaneous overlords of the planet insuring nothing new ever happens, preventing disruption. By acquiring all freshness & devouring it, bodily.
The only practical enough way I can think of is:

(1) create static documents in the simplest and most standard lossless (as far as possible) format.

(2) store them on a durable enough, yet simple enough medium. Today that would probably be something simple like an USB stick.

(3) transfer to new medium periodically, and take the opportunity to convert obsolete media files to new formats, if needed (you could keep the originals and each 'generation' as historical reference).

(4) train your children, grandchildren, etc to perform (3) and perhaps to rewrite the instruction in their own words (to cater for technology and language changes)

This also allows for multiple copies for easy backups and to entrust to each descendant individually.
If you're looking for something shorter and more readable about whaling, I'd recommend In the Heart of the Sea. The (nonfiction) story told there was used by Melville as inspiration for Moby Dick. Unlike Moby Dick, that was a book I could not put down, but my brain is also the size of a peanut.
that's not a valid reason for insulting somebody. if I've had to tone down my attitude to fit the tone this site aims for, then I think you should too.
> Unions' interests are not aligned with those of the company.

They are not aligned with those of management. They are aligned with those of the company almost by definition if the union is big enough, because a company is its workforce. If the CEO says the company wants to do something and 80% of the employees disagree, then in fact the CEO wants to do something and the company does not.

It's obviously not hard to find examples of unions causing negative impacts on society, just like it's not hard to find the same for corporate executives. The idea is to find the right balance. Is the the threat of inefficiency worse than the threat of worker abuse and inequality? At some point yes it will be, but I don't think we're anywhere close to that point yet.
This type of question is asked semi-frequently and the answers tend to be around physical preservation.

So here's a thought. Why not build a "Computational Knowledge Bootloader" that contained enough information to build a sequence of computational devices of increasing complexity starting with the absolute basics of math and language.

If we had that, then all of these types of questions of digital preservation could be answered with something like "Go to the website and upload your information into a Tier 20 CKB device. Enter your shipping address and payment information. A collection of etched titanium plates will arrive in 3-4 weeks. Put them in a safe."

500 years later, decoding might look like finding or building up to a Tier 20 CKB device and scanning the plates. If the instructions were standardized, there should be lots of lower tier devices scattered around.
I haven't done that once in 25 years of desktop Linux use. One of the reasons I use Linux is that I can actually understand and fix problems.

On my main desktop the image has been rolling forward since 2008 when I switched to 64 bit. Naturally the hardware has been replaced around it several times since then.
I assume you don't literally mean "working next to," but instead mean police unions prevent abusive and/or violent officers from being fired; but, as far as I'm aware, the bigger problem is that frequently arbitration hearings find in favor of officers that have been fired (and are obviously supported by their union) resulting in reinstatement. Police unions don't have direct control over arbitration though, so arbitration reform seems to be the more pressing concern.

Of course you could easily make the same hypothetical argument that police officers, accused of some type of misconduct, need support from somewhere merely in the name of due process (much in the same way that legal counsel is seen as a right).
Most of it written in OCaml, cool! What made you pick OCaml as the primary language to use for the business logic?
As a Minnesotan, I don't really understand the focus on Paul Bunyan in the design. Is that really what we're most known for? Looks like a great design for a craft beer label though.
Tell me an appeals court was unimpressed, dawg.
Corporations serve a purpose beyond just fighting with unions.
put the rest in an index fund , which helps pay future salary. there are probably ways to do it
PS4 has a PS specific graphics API.
> There is no credible economic theory of firm “power seeking”

How is the theory of market power combined with everything else we know not that? [1] It seems obviously in the firms interest even if their primary motive were still profit since it ensures increased rates of profit (modulo risk of a regulatory smackdown.)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_power
The Nazis and Imperial Japanese lost the war the minute they made strategic blunders like... pissing off USA + Soviets __simultaneously__.

It turns out that the human ability to make strategic blunders is very possible. So if your best argument is "it'd be a strategic mistake to do X". Well... history is filled with horrible strategic blunders.

It'd probably be against American interests and a strategic blunder to divert forces from Afghanistan into Iraq on an notion of WMDs for example. Everyone makes strategic blunders all the time. I don't fault people for making them, I just try and study them and understand why it happens.

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There's something fascinating about war machines, like carriers, hypersonic cruise missiles, and destroyers. You have to see them in action to understand the intoxicating effects of these machines.

Once you understand how these machines can hypnotize a person... how they can make you feel like you can accomplish anything... then, and ONLY then, will you understand why Wars get started.

China's got Hypersonic cruise missiles. They know it. We know it. China knows the USA doesn't have them (!!!). That knowledge is intoxicating. China sees that as a military advantage. Will they be intoxicated by that knowledge to the point where they attack Taiwan?

Well, no one knows for certain. But they've looked at those missiles and have __already decided__ to build more ships than the entirety of the US Navy. So what does that tell you?
Unfortunately, a lot of new releases need a 0-day patch to be playable. It's basically an anti-piracy/anti-early release measure.

So if you really want to preserve a game on disk, you pretty much have to pick up another copy stamped at a later date to include all of the patches.
Whenever I leave tabs open in FF, it'll consume 3GB+ of memory and slow my computer to a crawl. I do the same in Chrome and it'll consume maybe 2GB RAM and it's fine. I want to use FF and support Mozilla. In fact, I lived with FF and this type of behavior for years hoping it'll get better in the next update, but it never did. FF is just not usable for me anymore. I reluctantly switched to Chrome and haven't had issues.
It feels like North America hates unions enough that we got the very worst of them. In Europe, there isn't the same societal conflict over unionization, but at the same time they aren't any more in love with the idea of industrial labour monopolies like the UAW than we are.

Where unionization works well, it's been because the government regulated to create competitive unions. In Germany, once a company unionizes, the union has special rights and privileges within the company, including access to the company's books and executive meetings. And things like union-busting are illegal. There's a lot of legislation in place to prevent the sort of abuses that North America has always seen with "company unions". But they can't join together with workers at other companies to form industrial labour monopolies either, so you still get market competition.
My point was is the author didn't even provide any detail on where his claims (not mine) would lead or how they would work. Why does the burden keep being put on me to disprove his claims instead of him being required to prove that they do work?
Exactly, and during years two and three the culms are adding energy back into the rhizome/root system enabling future shoots to emerge.
It is amazing that you can transmit and receive 200 Mhz of bandwidth through a single chip, there are versions based on this that do 4 channels! You can phase sync all the clocks for a multi-chip system as well.

I hope to be around to play with these when they get down into my price range.
This is a very USian take. There are many countries in the world where people aren't scared to death when police come knock on their door. There are many countries where police officers are actually scared of using their weapon. In these countries it helps to know the law and how to deal with these situations.
yeah that could work too

same also for upload to wikimedia
RRD is a terrible format. It's not compact, quickly becomes a burden when you have lots of cardinality, there's no metadata, HA is a joke and visualisation tools are basically non-existent. You basically need a whole set of extra tooling for metadata, visualisation, HA, querying to come even close to anything usable.

If RRD wasn't so terrible there wouldn't have been a myriad of replacements.
Reuse has been a goal since the at least 70s, with the Shuttle project, Buran, later the DC-X, etc. It wasn't one guy maverick enough to attempt it. And it wasn't given up on and then revived by one guy. Blue Origin, Armadillo, Scaled Composites, etc. were all attempting it. It is the largest scale (comparing heavy vs shuttle, though heavy hasn't seen much use) and seemingly most successful, and several other firsts.

The upper stage still is discarded, but if they can pull off the Starshuttle it will be huge and the first operating at anywhere near that scale with full reuse.
Linux kernel is not a public API on Android, app developers don't care where ART + NDK (public APIs) run on.
Servile Wars
That's a very interesting way to do things, thank you for sharing that. Is there a "main topic" of the community, and if so would you mind sharing it?
>Well, if there's no money (because it's not necessary), there wouldn't be a UBI anyway? Communism is supposed to come after socialism and before anarchy, in theory. First you build an egalitarian society with a mindset of peaceful cooperation, then you get them to all work together for the greater good, and finally you dissolve the 'taskmaster' of the state, as society is perfect and no longer needs it.

Lets put capitalism vs communism aside.

I imagine a world where we have fully automated producing essential things. Why can't we have a factory farm fully automated using entirely robots producing food at cost. The same can be done for widgets. Robot arms can just do everything entirely. Someone just has to build this; I've been to one of those greenhouses. It picked thousands of pounds of tomatoes, delivered them to packaging, packaged, and shipped every day with only 3 people. The 3 people are for 2 functions. Q/A making sure its not picking rotten stuff and making sure the trucker doesnt do anything.

We can get to the point that the payment for your groceries is watching advertisements or whatever. Simply because the cost of those goods are that small.

If I could be assured my family was fed and such. Maybe I'd quit my job and entrepreneur and do something else. That's the appeal of communism. The idea that innovation and such takes off. The reality is that under communism you have societal collapse. Cuba hasn't built anything in forever. They have no factories, nobody would work in them. They also dont automate, their population has been stagnant and thermodynamics is wrecking their country. In order to have that upward push in communism, you need slaves. Gulags get shit done.