skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contracting is still alive, posing as a contractor while being an employee is dead. Tech pay is low compared to the US, but still very high compared to average salaries.
Article link without paywall: http://archive.today/UAYFP
They transmit the messages twice, once to relay to recipients via e2ee (signal), and the other to the storage backend using a different e2ee approach (labyrinth).
The US constitution actually allows slavery/involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime, as per the 13th amendment:

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

So it makes little sense to compare prison labour programs to "any other workplace".
> Maybe Nordic Semiconductors will make some nice risk-v chips and dev-boards soon.

They are, not as CPU necessarily but for exactly those auxiliary functions: https://blog.nordicsemi.com/getconnected/why-nordic-is-getti...
I can't speak for the whole country but having lived most of my life around dense parts of California I'd choose dealing with fighting traffic over the dregs on public transit every single time. I still distinctly remember back when I'd take the the bus to the local community college for my pre-transfer credits where a few times I had to intervene to help women who were being harassed. And that's just one problem type! It's not counting all the other enjoyable public transit experiences like when I'd stand for the entirety of my bus ride because the only open seats were beside some junkie mumbling erratically or even sometimes inaccessible because a hobo had brought a literal sack of trash to fill the space beside them.
Talent is very real. Any teacher will confirm this. Give some five year olds something new to do and some will get it immediately. Others will never get it, no matter much how effort they put in. In between those extremes most will get it eventually, but only after struggling with it.

Most domain have hard skill cut-offs. As in math - I've known otherwise intelligent people who just cannot get how basic algebra and trig work. At all. No amount of patient explanation made a difference. They just couldn't do it.

There's a very real natural ceiling on ability. For some people/skills it's pretty low, for others it's so high you can barely see it.

The problem in this culture isn't that talent is a discouraging myth, it's that most of the population doesn't get anywhere those limits.

A lot of native ability is wasted. Most people could do a lot more given the time and resources.
It's not much in the market at large, but you need to find some party or several that has $120M sitting around, and willing to exchange that for BTC.

I expect making that transaction isn't that easy.
When I read stuff like this: "...Hopin, a start-up that raised more than $1.6 billion and was once valued at $7.6 billion, sold its main business for just $15 million..." it becomes clear why other parts of the world can't compete with Silicon Valley. No infinite reserves of paper money and monopoly chips...
> No computer system, from the command line, has a command that allows you to "make_folder" but every system has a "make_directory" (mkdir) or "change_directory" (cd) and so on. If there is little to no difference, then why is this so?

But doesn't that prove the concept that they're the same thing? If they were different things, surely there would be a different command for creating a folder and versus creating a directory. But there's just one command, and nobody is going to make a command called `mkdirakafol` ("make directory a.k.a. folder"). Sometimes multiple names can mean the same thing.

Like, a "trunk" and a "boot" can refer to the same thing. So what you just said is like "my car has an Open Trunk button, not an Open Boot button, so surely those are different concepts."

I've fallen for xkcd 386...
PHP_CodeSniffer, a major PHP library, needs support
I recall that Xulrunner, similar to the Firefox UI back in the day, hesitates just a little bit before responding to events. Perhaps xulrunner was too early in relations to computer performance back in the day, or they simply made a technical error when designing Gecko.
Agreed. If you stick to the 'smart and gets things done' mantra when hiring, lots of things like 'better skills' are trumped by the idea that if they are smart, they'll pick up the skills they need.
> (eg. the slaughter house scandals in the EU that broke out during COVID)

And got forgotten about shortly after. At least that was my impression here in Germany, but I hope I’m wrong.
Great game. Really enjoyed my adventure. Is it completely free to play?
Yea if Gartner did one good thing is the hype curve which supports this thinking also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
I don't get your point. You are allowed to use those tools, but if you do, you need to get the user's consent.

What you are looking for is a way to use these tools, of which you don't really know what they're going to use this data for or how and why they are tracking me, without my consent.

I find it very strange that this is something you object to.
A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”
Nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
One of the few times in which I see Tengen brought up without painting them as saints while picturing Nintendo as some evil monster, so kudos for that really.

Not that that excuses any of the stuff Nintendo has done through the ages though, of course.
He is right though. The companies are accountable to the shareholders, and the shareholders (usually) don't care.

Companies are not sentient beings, they are made up of people. People that don't care.

Personally, I'm a consumer and I don't care either. I know where my t-shirts are made and I have a vague understanding under what conditions they are made.

This is not a problem that has to be fixed in the west. It's a problem that has to be fixed in China. But China doesn't want to fix it, because fixing it would make them less competitive globally.

Consumers WANT cheap goods. China OFFERS cheap goods. Companies offer the consumers exactly what they want. Simple as.

You really cannot blame only the companies without blaming the consumers too. And if you care, you can stop buying things manufactured in China.
'All-Screen' iPhone Under-Display Camera Enters Development
Maybe it could be called a non-productive asset in the broader sense?
I would guess that Bezos read this letter, shruged and said something along the lines of "sucks to be him" while ordering a solid gold toilet for his yacht, because the platinum one was "too flashy"
So the client basically transmits the messages twice - once to relay to recipients via e2ee a la signal which specifically prevents the decryption of historical messages (forward secrecy), and the other to the storage backend using a different e2ee approach which allows the recovery of history (labyrinth via epoch segmentation and back-chaining of secrets).
You can't just download random blocks until you get your data though, you might never download some blocks. So you need some kind of index of blocks. And your client can't generate that because the server stores all the data. So it's a server-sided index.

If you only download the index for specific users, that's no different than an inbox: if you pull the index for an inbox and don't pull all the associated blocks (including videos), that's obviously not your box.

The other alternative is downloading the entire index for every single block, which sounds even worse than just downloading random complete inboxes with videos. Especially if the blocks are going to be filled with trash inboxes filled with trash data to obfuscate the sender. Even my own blocks would get trash data including videos that I have to download to pretend it's real.
The companies respond mostly to what the public is willing to do about something. If the only thing people do is complaining on social networks then companies will not address the issue. If people will avoid a certain company based on their behavior then they will change it.
I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't further alter it.
Seeing AI – Talking Camera for the Blind
I encourage anyone interested in the consequences of whistleblowing to watch The Insider. A truly excellent film about a whistleblower at a tobacco company and the terrible things they did to try and stop him. Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Bruce McGill, Christopher Plummer, many others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Wigand

Trailer: https://youtu.be/MGOb29aePyc

The best scene: https://youtu.be/gNKmmA6_oTQ
Interesting though, that's not what the regulations say - DIRECTIVE 97/7/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 May 1997 on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A...

3. Unless the parties have agreed otherwise, the consumer may not exercise the right of withdrawal provided for in paragraph 1 in respect of contracts:

- for the provision of services if performance has begun, with the consumer's agreement, before the end of the seven working day period referred to in paragraph 1,
For music id, you have a static base doing that you're looking to compare to.

Bird sing varies by individual, however, so extracting peak frequencies doesn't stand a chance of working. For example, birds might song at a higher or lower pitch depending on body size or environmental noise. Depending on species, you may have regional, flock, or individual various in the songs themselves. There are also typically a number of different songs and calls per species.
Another huge problem is that most of the time there's really no other choice than to buy "Made in China". Even if you have the money and willing to spend more.
It's not nihilism. It is only nihilistic if you don't judge the corporate overlords to be morally inferiors to the average human.
eat the rich :)
That is a reasonable comparison. Bitcoin can do that much volume as well (without much change in water “usage”). The difference being that one is controlled by the US government and one is not.
I don’t much care that the BBC is too incompetent/lazy to do research on assets which are so insanely traceable and transparent and complains that a public body isn’t tracking things. All it says to me is I shouldn’t read the BBC and instead follow journalists like Coffeezilla who actually understand the subject they’re reporting on and spend time researching and expose the financial mismanagement related to crypto by doing actual blockchain analysis.

They didn’t even seem to try. They just got some important sounding experts to complain and called it a day.
> I recently read an article in the Economist arguing how income inequality has actually gotten better in the rich world. They argued that the wage gap between blue collar and white collar workers has been shrinking.

This is misleading. It's just the white collar workers are taxed even more and they earn less money than they used to. This has several negative effects. For instance why would you invest in your education and become an engineer or something if you won't make substantially more money than say warehouse worker who does not need to spend years on specialist education?

The wealth gap is widening, but between the rich and everyone else. Some call it asset stripping. People dip into their savings to make ends meet, sell their assets. Until they run out of money completely. Then they will own nothing.
> so you can't sign a binding arbitrage clause if you haven't been wronged yet.

This doesn't make sense to me.

Firstly, I take it that by "arbitrage" you mean "arbitration"; arbitrage is a kind of market trading, and "binding arbitrage clause" isn't a thing.

If we're talking about arbitration, many contracts contain binding arbitration clauses which are enforcible by either party from the outset; neither party has been wronged yet.
Didn't the US have a whistleblower bounty with the IRS? I heard it was one of the most successful programs they ever ran. Whistleblow on your company's tax evasion and you get paid a pretty good chunk of money from the IRS. IRS collects its due and you get paid proportional to the amount of tax revenue evaded (I remember a few cases where the whistleblower got tens of millions of dollars).

It is kind of bizarre, but the incentives are perfectly aligned, if the tax evasion sum is low you get paid less therefor it is not worth whistleblowing. The IRS doesn't want to catch the small fries, to some extent tax evasion is desired for smaller companies.
Intuitive Explanation of Arithmetic, Geometric, & Harmonic Mean
So that would require an authenticated program execution, a reboot, a reflash, and a reboot again. Hardly unnoticeable. I think EFI updates can be disabled in most UEFI setup programs by the administrators, so they only reenable them explicitly when doing the actual, you know, EFI updates.

I thought that was possible by mucking in a RAM region that would persist across warm reboots and UEFI would pick up the logo from there.
Western companies can't afford to care, as their consumers are buying based on price. Bad working conditions usually mean lower prices, and more success for the company using this.

You can't expect companies to fix this, this needs to come through politics and government. Unfortunately, these days governments who try to address it will be considered enemies of capitalism, considered leftish or communist. As prices will have to rise and consumers won't allow for that.
And, all this has to be compared with what could have been achieved with a more typical investment (which would likely have carried less risk) over the same period. If they can make 4.5% speculating on high-risk commodities and 4.3% with low-risk lending to stable businesses, it's much more responsible for a nation-state to choose the latter.
If you want to truly even out the playing field, just ban inheritance. You would think this would be a primary goal of pro-equality types but, oddly, even the poorer people in society are against this for various reasons.

We can't ban genetic inheritance, but we compound its effects by allowing wealth inheritance too.

I get that there's sentimentality and people would be against the family home being taken by the state upon death of a parent, but we could give family first dibs on buying the house. The difference being they actually have to buy it, they don't just get it.

But I also think it's important to focus on the thing that really matters which is happiness, not wealth. It seems to me that above a certain level of wealth people can be happy, and that level is way lower than even the median level of wealth in many Western countries. Unhappiness at high levels of wealth comes from the Hedonic treadmill which is driven by inequality. Basically people see others with "more" than them and it makes them unhappy. If they never saw that, they could be happy. So I would study what goods have this effect and massively tax them. Luxury/big cars are a good example.

Any action should not be just to even out wealth for the sake of it, it should be about achieving a happier society (and note I didn't say more productive society etc. that is also something that should only be pursued if it leads to more happiness).
Am I the only one who is more than tired of storytelling as panacea trope? Yes, it has value. Yes, it appeals to humans. No, it's not a substitute for substance. As a tool, it has its place. But please stop using it as a euphemism for "When you lack substance in the moment, then baffle'em with bullshit."
Nice app, but I can't see the bottom. Use svh as unit. PWA would also be nice.
> 'Abbot' ale was on special at £1.50 a pint and when the special price ran out, other beers were starting at £2.50

I would consider that to be very cheap, even when I lived in Bristol (before cost-of-living crisis). I don't recall pints being that cheap at Wetherspoons either. Even most beers at Tesco are more expensive than that. £1.50 is roughly the same price as Tesco[1] (£1.375 for a 500ml can).

[1]: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=abbot%20a...
The City of Lugano Accepts Payment of Taxes in Bitcoin (BTC) and Tether (USDT)
Never forget Bernie Madoff and the USD.
> Until your country actually implements laws like these and Hacker News starts complaining that it is "business hostile" and "stifling innovation".

Literally, so what? I don't understand your point. You can't be under the impression that all laws must be popular with all people, so what does it matter if some ancrap libertarians complain about it? This shouldn't stop the implementation of such laws.
Does constructive here mean that you can always find a new prime given a set of primes you "think" are all the ones that exist?
How is it, that after the fact (the hack), can the TOS be changed to mitigate damages from their lack of security? If this is the case, why worry about security then if all we need to do is change the TOS after the fact. No, I suspect a good lawyer or two can challenge this.
Good comms skills matter. But "storytelling" is not necessarily the same thing.
The Federal Reserve will cut interest rates 6 times in 2024
> and IT is a well-paid industry

IT in the UK is poorly paid. Sure people get more than average salaries, but they no longer afford you a comfortable living.

It's not poverty yet, but it is heading that way.

Governments make sure that skilled work doesn't pay.

Many people in the IT that I know, don't work for UK companies anymore, because they hit the ceiling (it's difficult to get paid more than £150k for a developer) and only way to get above it is to work with US companies.
Yes, in the following comparison, you will find comprehensive information about Zoom and Daily.

https://www.videosdk.live/zoom-vs-daily
Ask HN: Offer to start a data/AI division in a traditional software company
Hi folks, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been building AI related products for the last five years.

I had a meeting with the company owner (ex work colleague) some days ago, the company has like 30 employees and they develop traditional software products and they also do some outsourcing. He asked me if I was willing to join the company as a partner in order to build an AI division inside the company, focused on building data and AI products. None of their current employees have experience with this type of technologies.

I’m interested but I’m not quite sure that the company will be able to focus on two different lines of work, with different life cycles and different development metodologies.

Do you think that the proposal makes sense?

Do you have experience doing something like that or know a similar case from the web?

What would you do if you were in my position to approach this kind of job?
It's easy enough to repeat, but I'd be leaking sensitive info that way. Sorry :/
Maybe a better example might be wanting to use a smartphone as the always on sync endpoint. The phone can easily be stolen but with this feature it won't contain the valuable data.
Show HN: My related-posts finder script (with LLM and GPT4 enhancement)
I've open-sourced the script I use to find related blog posts (and to describe why they're similar).

Works on any set of markdown articles, so should fit into any SSG workflow.

Uses embeddings to calculate the similarities, and GPT4 to add descriptive text.
Education and healthcare are more expensive to provide over huge areas with low population density. Particularly with healthcare, the government has to pay professionals to live out there and those professionals serve fewer people than they could in high density areas.
Expressif also block some cool packet injection things like sending malformed packets in their firmware. Which is not illegal to offer. They probably are afraid of getting a bad reputation.

This is why open firmware can be really handy for the security community.
>Just tell me what to call that.

Just roll with Satoshi and call it "electronic cash".
Some online services simply ask you to wave your 14-day return right if you want to start using the service immediately. Not sure why they won't do this in this case.
1D arrays are usually used for 2D images
Having grown up in the US, my absolute favorite law in Czechia is the one that says the advertised price has to equal the price on the bill. In the US, you get a $20 cell phone plan and the bill is for $60 after fees. In Czechia the price is always exactly as advertised.
By her own admission she is supporting herself financially from “having bought crypto at the right time.” I’m guessing the vast majority of whistleblowers have that kind of financial cushion to risk it all like this.
Source:
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/10/25/facebook-whistl...
Are you reading all of this online or have you actually used any of those transportation methods recently? I have just had a trip for from the boondocks of baden würtenberg to the center of Berlin in said 4:30 hours.

As for your pieces of paper, that is because Berlin is at capacity. Which is also why housing is expensive. Its also -the city to be- for anyone under 50 and one of the top 10 cities for clubbing in the world.

Nothing is crumbling and your punctuality are mostly slight shifts in arrival times.

You are blowing this way out of proportion.
Thank you for linking that. It is worth reading.

I'm always amazed how cheap and well China can manufacture a wide variety of devices. There is ofc a lot of expertise and economies of scale at work, but the letter is a sad reminder that at least some part comes from exploitation.
Does the memory controller also bottom out at about half the bandwidth in practice, like on the MI250? Or is the full memory bandwidth finally available?

Theoretical numbers are nice, but they are just that, ethereal numbers on a piece of paper. And on a CUDA device, I know from practice that I can get at least 90% of the memory bandwidth.
This is no longer true, I believe (starting Dec 1 2023). You can buy the vignette online starting immediately.
Your menu as a passenger will likely include:

1. Algae

2. Fruiting Fungi specialized in direct human-waste conversion

3. Freshwater Shrimp

4. Worms

5. Fast growing Aquaponics plants

6. insect larva

Elon should reach the same conclusion eventually based on payload cost.

Which item looks like it won’t taste awful after awhile. =)
Yes, the code in the proof can produce a new prime from a given list (exceptionally slowly); but "constructive" in Lean's context means "does not depend on any Lean axioms" and I do depend on propositional extensionality which is an axiom.
Is that really why? I know many devices where I can just set whatever country I want :)

This is handy sometimes because in the EU it's the opposite, the 5 and 6 GHz bands are much smaller.
Except this has nothing to do with the west. The west is not responsible for working conditions in China in any way, shape or form. It's strictly a Chinese problem.
> translating stakeholders business problems.

To clarify a bit, cause it matters. This is more of a listening skill, and then an analytical skill. Mind you listening is half (or more?) of good comms. But evaluating listening is 10x more difficult than speaking or writing. The latter two are not a proxy for the former.
Whitsle blowing is fine. Just don't do it against government or corporations that control 70% of your country's capital
Encryption makes it practically impossible to transform messages between different protocols, since the cyphertext contains not only the text content of the message, but also formatting, some attributes (e.g. `reply_to`). Even if it were the same, E2EE algorithms also differ between protocols, and you can't reencrypt the message for other protocols server-side.
Technically you can make malformed messages visible: store them in spambox and display their metadata or maybe even as a source of randomness, like random.org
Another great on is that text size has legal meaning here. The larger/darker the text the greater the legal weight. So if the contract says two contradictory things, the larger text wins out...