skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but will China ever make a decent pair of pliers or crescent wrench for export? So far the answer is "No!". We've been inundated with one-time-use tool fluff/cruft for a decade now with no sign of it letting up. Good thing we're raising tariffs.

In contrast, Taiwan-made tools are excellent, on a par with USA-made and European tools. Too bad Taiwan is caught up in the tariffs. But I always look for the "made in Taiwan" label anyway. If its present then I know it will work well. And older tools from Taiwan on eBay are good too.
What exactly do you mean by a legitmate corporation, and how does IBM fit this definition?
Would you mind elaborating on the social sciences part of your comment, please?
I just checked my OnHub. It is the original, now over 3 years old. It got five updates this year, none of which I noticed. It's too bad that it's nearly guaranteed that they will kill this product line at some point in the future.
Maybe it's because people didn't take zillion photos a day to chose the "best" ones based on how much likes they would get on Instagram. The content is different, the dynamics is different, but grit is probably the first thing we notice.
Personality presupposes so many things working that you have basically won at that point.
You hold conversations with people, not dictionaries.
Semantics. see Ship of Theseus

If the plan is to change all the parts one by one until done, it's a rewrite. If the parts are changed one by one for independent reasons, it's just code evolution.
The AI model - built from past answers - concluded that indeed, Air is an element in the periodic table ;)
It would make sense that the opposite is true and when Sierra made their many sequels they copied from the LSL code as convenient too.

How does that mean that Activism violated his copyright? Since Sierra sold Leisure Suite Larry, they acquired at least some rights to it.

Without looking at the paperwork, a claim that Activism violated his copyright is pure, unadulterated FUD.

So it seems like the following.

Same delightful company that baked gambling into games for young audiences, for which they may yet face criminal charges.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-10-belgian-ga...

Off-topic ad hominem.

Hopefully the EFF and Al Lowe can get them for violating his copyright on some decades old code re-used in "their" games.

FUD.
> most people shouldn’t have parrots unless they can devote many hours a day to their care and playing with them

No one should have any pets (or kids) unless they can devote enough time to them. Otherwise you are just making your life and their lives a lot harder. Pets (and kids) are not toys.
Anecdotally, most esperantists at conventions are from europe, especially France. It's probably a combination of it being easier for europeans combined with europeans having more vacation days. There are a lot of japanese esperantists too but they don't go to conventions until after retirement, which I found quite sad.
Are you saying that definition is not in line with what that term means in practice? What do you think "forced" means, if something quite different that?
> Hiring highly competent people to build software does not scale as well as hiring (many) more less competent people.

This becomes less and less true as the size and complexity of the relevant software projects grows over time. If highly competent developers have anything going for them, it's their skill both in successfully coping with software complexity, and in preventing undue complexity/keeping it under check in the first place. See also The Mythical Man-Month, etc. etc.
Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
Fusion (once realized): steady energy regardless of weather conditions, from maybe a few installations per country

Renewables (solar, wind): dependent on weather conditions, would thus require battery farms for backup during wind-still nights or days with overcast etc.

In my mind the ideal future scenario is a compromise between both solutions:

Have fusion always on and provide a base level of energy production sufficient for need plus a few percent. Then have renewables lower the target for energy production through fusion when available. Then we would not need giant battery farms and renewables would get used to the best of their ability/availability while not restricting energy consumption due to them not being available 24/7.

Maybe even leave a select few coal/fission plants available but powered down as a sort of UPS for the energy infrastructure, just in case fusion is N/A and renewables aren't enough to cover the need.
Somehow, they seem far more "real" than the actual photos I have taken or seen from my relatives in the last decade. And no, it's not just the gritty analog fell, it's the content.

Edit:
Although, the lack of digital artifacts definitely helps. Digital smoothing or digital noise is something I can still see on a lot of photos from last-generation cameras. Maybe we should stop throwing so much procesing on top of "raw" images.

Edit 2:
It feels like these photos have a very distinct color palette. But do they, really? Honestly, I spend so much time looking at digital images, it's becoming hard to judge what's "realistic" anymore, especially when you can't look at the scene in real life.
As Siddhartha listens to the river:

Siddhartha listened.
[...]
Already, he could no
longer tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping
ones, not the ones of children from those of men, they all belonged
together, the lamentation of yearning and the laughter of the
knowledgeable one, the scream of rage and the moaning of the dying ones,
everything was one, everything was intertwined and connected, entangled
a thousand times. And everything together, all voices, all goals, all
yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all
of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of
events, was the music of life. And when Siddhartha was listening
attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he
neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie
his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but
when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great
song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om:
the perfection.

[...]

In this hour, Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate, stopped suffering.
On his face flourished the cheerfulness of a knowledge, which is no
longer opposed by any will, which knows perfection, which is in
agreement with the flow of events, with the current of life, full of
sympathy for the pain of others, full of sympathy for the pleasure of
others, devoted to the flow, belonging to the oneness.

-Herman Hesse, “Siddhartha”
Workers are network addressible which seems to directly respond to one of the complaints in the article. Beautifully, if you call one Worker from another they have a decent chance of running on not just the same server, but in the same process. When one Worker calls another its data doesn't even leave user-space, even if the two Workers are owned by different people. Imagine calling a third-party API and having your request never even need to leave the process to be handled.
This strategy works especially well if your product provides an API and your customers or partners are motivated to work with you. Then, besides your suite of tests, you can use the customers’ products as verification. That is, if the customers products still work, then you can be confident that your rewrite works.

I’ve done this several times with success. There was a period of about 10 years where I specialized in rewriting legacy code. The first case, I rewrote 200k lines of C++ (COM/OLE) code in Java. Then, I joined a startup that had to scrap its entire codebase because of scaling issues. Then, I worked for two other companies that had acquired other software companies (with crappy code), and I led the rewrite and integration efforts. These are the notable ones.

Believe me, rewrites can be successful. They must be done carefully. But, there are lots of ways to manage the process and mitigate risks. I’ve done it at least 10 times, and I’ve never had a failure or substantial cost or schedule overrun.
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Basically, even if you have an account, logging in to the site isn't enough. You can’t really save items or do anything without using Pinterest’s browser extension and doing everything through there. And this browser extension (like most browser extensions in general) can see the address and contents of every page you visit on the web, regardless of VPNs or incognito mode or HTTPs or anything like that, because it’s code that’s now built into the browser itself (which can also see all those things because that's its function).
Good point, hadn't thought about foundations.

I wonder if programming languages are different from infrastructure components, though. Programming languages tend to be harder to sell, while infrastructure components can be resold by providing them as a service. Think of Python as a service vs Jupyter as a service.
you make a fair argument, but i think it is worth distinguishing esperanto the language, and and the community of esperanto speakers. there is nothing in the language itself that enforces these political views.

it is for example conceivable that people could use esperanto as a communication language with foreigners to avoid english domination out of a conservative isolationist motivation.
far too often I have found rewrites, which in many cases involve moving to new hardware and possibly OS, tend to drag on because those involved do not know all the touch points of the current systems and also fail to properly count the investment other teams have in making connections to the original systems.

I have even seen them done to bypass a management/development team that was in disfavor with the company leadership. In effect, put together a new platform with new leadership.
The link in the article about native speakers is interesting.

1. All "native" speakers are actually raised bilingual. and
2. George Soros was raised learning esperanto. I am surprised that there isn't some conspiracy about Esperanto
Why is it not a good advice? Care to elaborate?
This a beautiful story, but the title is wrong. It wasn't "the best" advice, it was "the most important advice". Big difference. The advice itself is terrible, but getting the advice, particularly from the top boss, is incredibly valuable.
Great read, I just sent the link to some non-HN reading friends and my brother.

I am turning 68 in a few months and I try to do most of what he recommends. Enjoy younger family and acquaintances but also leave them to their lives, being satisfied to just enrich their lives materially and give them space. I had to think about the wording of his advice to persue ‘impersonal interests’ which for me is studying Go with a Korean Go master and learning those aspects of (general) artificial intelligence that most interest me, without much thought to practical considerations.
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Realistically accents are such a small hurdle that if a learner can't stomach it, they're probably not going to make it. It's something like complaining that Russian is written in Cyrillic, which is something you can get over much quicker than the myriad of crazy grammar.
APL has map embedded into language. And reduce is an operator in J. APL is conveniently used by those who don't describe themselves as programmers - let alone as computer scientists - but need to get the job done. In this aspect it's similar to Excel, I think.

I wonder if APL is that much different from Matlab by the concept.
It isn't the removed dereference that speeds it up though, it is placing the pointer into the local scope, which is searched before the global scope.
I'm reminded of the bit in Sneakers (1992; the other canonical hacker film) where the hackers have to produce a recording of their target saying "my voice is my passport, identify me" to defeat such a system. They do this by taping his conversation and pasting the words together.
The problem here is that there’s a limited pool of consumers (and thus money) for this content.

It used to be that the aforementioned magazines were sufficient to fill that gap of the market; as a result they were making decent money, could put out decent content that people were happy with and didn’t have to resort to scammy behaviour to make profit.

Nowadays the floodgates are open and everyone is a wannabe “influencer” except the pool of consumers & money remained the same, so they now have to resort to less than acceptable techniques to try and make money, and this article is one of the possible outcomes.

Text on the internet has the same problem by the way - there’s now a shit ton of garbage content written only to gain clicks and attention without actually delivering any value to the reader.
Yes, it really is simple to leave Facebook, their web and app tracking ecosystem, contact list scraping, purchase of information from data brokers, and creation of shadow profiles.

Simply "leaving Facebook" isn't as meaningful a choice as you're suggesting it to be.
Oh look a bunch of academics telling developers how to do their job, again.
> just like it is in Linux.

Quite the opposite: the only thing that is (hell arguable, of course) wrong with Linux is its kernel architecture.
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After a few years we started valuing friendships more and more. I don't have any solid tips other than making it a genuine priority and treat it like an ongoing project. Learn how to make contact, get better at approaching strangers, etc. That said, it is nice to eventually settle down and build longer lasting friendships, though those you build on travels don't have to disappear if you keep in touch and revisit each other. I think I've learned it's better to have a larger and wider variety of friends even if some are distant than a smaller homogenous group of friends.
They should have added a zoom to that picture. Where is reddit for example?
That’s a near tautology.

Cell division is one of those things you need or get right or you don’t get a pregnancy.

It’s not like the mother needs or do anything at that point, the result is just death by default.
Compared to other conlangs, esperanto is probably the most useful. Heck, compared to some natural languages, esperanto has a unique usecase of letting you join a very passionate language diaspora with members scattered around the world.
I was talking about software sales and apparently those hardware sales weren't enough to keep Sun in business.
"Waaa it's inconvenient waaa why can't it obey any voice it hears waaa my neighbour bought a lot of crap using my Alexa then got the packages off my porch waaa why didn't they do something?!"
So the same as if a scientist disagrees with global warming theory here, got it.
? I'm not quite a physicist, but I'm pretty sure this is wrong. The closed system under consideration here consists of both the solute (from the parts of the plumbing system the water has passed through) and the water. If hotter water dissolves more solute, then less solute remains in those parts. What part of this violates conservation of mass?
It's fair to define them that way if such people actually exist -- which they do. I've worked with some very smart people who don't have these ego problems. Some do, of course, but I wouldn't call them A people.
There are companies who specialize in this - they run the auctions, sell the office furniture, warehouse the goods, transfer the IP, etc.

When the company files for bankruptcy, the court appoints a bankruptcy trustee (Google this for more information). These are public employees of the DoJ, paid for by tax dollars. It's their responsibility to ensure that the assets get liquidated and the cash is distributed properly to creditors.

They will usually contract with one of the liquidation specialists mentioned above to handle the actual logistics of selling the assets. I'm not sure exactly how the liquidation house gets paid - I'd guess they take a commission on the sales. During recessions or bubble-bursts, you can often get great deals on office furniture and computers by looking for bankruptcy auction notifications. (In the absconding-to-China startup I mentioned, my boss called me up and said "Hey, if you want really cheap furniture, there's a liquidation auction going on in a couple weeks", but I was off at college at the time and didn't have space in my dorm room.)

This is all assuming you can't work something out amicably with all the parties involved. In many tiny tech startups - the ones that are a couple friends working out of their apartments with no investors - the founders just agree to put in job references for each other, split the company bank account evenly, let the IP & domain name die, and stop paying for any cloud services they're using. Sometimes if you have investors but the company clearly isn't going anywhere, you can arrange to return the remaining cash pro-rata and the investors will either fund your next venture or land you a job at one of their portfolio companies (Evan Williams famously did this with Odeo, and his next venture was Twitter.) You can avoid bankruptcy court and the whole liquidation process this way, you just need to have all your creditors & investors on board.
Isolating that "weird kid" with homeschooling is not going to have any kind of positive effect on their social integration.

How do you expect someone to even hope to learn about social norms if they aren't exposed to them? Especially when most of these wishy washy, unspoken social rules are learned entirely through observation and practice?

Yes, you need coaching, but the bottom line is that no one is going to pick up on social norms to the point of "passing" without being exposed to them regularly. Unfortunately that means lots of fruitless anxiety in those of us who cannot learn such norms, but one must understand that avoidance is not a valid solution to the core problem of social difficulty.
Facebook still tracks non users in photos. There are some benefits to getting especially you close friends and family to quit.
I was under the impression that a hyperloop would run mostly on pylons anyway, so just by varying their lengths it is possible to smooth the altitude however you want.
I don't know why you're insulting me when it sounds like you agree with me. You can compare different regions at the same time, and in the pre-industrial world, per-capita incomes didn't vary a whole lot -- maybe over a factor of 2. Whether you want to call this "mired in poverty" or not depends on your taste in adjectives, but India was not exceptional.

The huge differences (factors of 10, even 100) arose only later, because of some pulling ahead.
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I have a young daughter and the last year of walking around with her in the dark while I try to put her to sleep has lead to me thinking of and understanding things that always seemed a lot more complicated than they are.

If she’s crying I don’t get any thinking done but those 30 or so minutes after she’s fallen asleep and I’m still walking have become very productive in their own way.
Ah well you can get the same experience in Amish country today in the U.S. Midwest. I pass a horse and buggy every couple of weeks at least; rider on a horse less frequently but still occasionally. It's best to drive slower. Most people in cars are idiots though.
On the contrary, WASM brings us quite a few languages, and likely even more as compiler backends are developed and the platform’s capabilities are extended. It would actually be pretty terrible at running JS as it exists right now.
This isn’t necessarily the case. In my experience, the teams that want rewrites have built big monoliths with no design, lots of coupling, and lots of copy-and-paste code (basically a ‘big ball of mud’). So, what the rewrite does is introduce an architecture that decouples (often valuable) functionality into small, targeted functions and libraries. This enables easier maintenance and modification. It also fixes the brittleness and fragility.

So, the goal isn’t to keep the monolith as is. Instead, it’s to break up its functionality into small parts. Then, the parts may be joined so that the old interfaces work as they did before. But, they may also be used to build entirely new interfaces.
Your experience may serve as a rebuttal to the OP about lack of "practical use", but with your couple of posts here I feel you are being very disingenuous and leaving some key things out that would put Esperanto in a bad light. Yes, the Esperanto movement does have a network of proponents around the world that is close-knit and local Esperantists are often willing to show a foreigner around. However, among them are so many weirdos and eccentrics that a person might well be served better by learning either English or the local language and getting all his hospitality and local information through that instead.

When I was active in the Esperanto movement, it was common for my fellow Esperantists to joke or kvetch about how certain kinds of political movements or bizarre lifestyles would come out in force at congresses and make everyone else cringe, or how creepy or insufferable one's Pasporta Servo host turned out to be. Something as idealistic and unfashionable as Esperanto is bound to attract more odd people than when using a language like English that is more utilitarian and has less overt shared values.
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